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THE NEWS AND FARMER.
hQUISYIIXE. JEFRERSON COUNTY. GA., NOVEMBER 2, 1875.
THE RINGS
the swindlers with tk,eir rings,
Whisky rings!
What a world of slush their nice manip
ulation brings!
Iley? thtey swindle, swin<Se > swindle,
’’ And so silently they steal!
1 AYhile the whisky taxes dwindle,
And the people’s anger kindle,
As to justice they appeal;
Telling Gffttrtk.
An example’s wh,at they want,
Ana they would fain* piii an end to all
the wicked tliat springs
From the rings,
From the. swindling and the stealing of
the rings. ' *
Hear the, clinking ojC the r’ngs,
Golden rings !‘
i Ob, vhat pockets full of money their
manipulation brings!
How each swindler %r.d stjelij,
As his future he foretells,
And each bloated rascal gloats
O’er his swag,
All the pockets., cf their coats
Stuffed with bopds and coupons and
i svitk notes,
. Like a bag!
Oh, as rich as any king.
Is the. happy man who joins a whisky
ing!
llow he. flings,
As vain things,
Cash apd what money brings,,
le he jubilantly sings
i Of the rieimess and thp*rarenxss
Of the rings
Of tlie gre.itness and the glory of the
rings*!
Mark, the vengeance on-, the rings,
Whisky rings !
What a tale of terror, now, the exigen
cy brings!
llow the frightened wretches slide,
And in vaine they try to hide !
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek and shriek.
Qjft of tune;
Clothed, with curses as with garments,
■ for their wraths must find a vent; ;
Each one threatening in his fury, tbpfifh
about the President;
Pleading guilt} - , guilty, guilty,
Wishing that his blood was spilt, he
! Sees bis fate and tries to face it,
| Knowing nothing cap, era.se it,
Bpt it comes, apd* comes right soon ;
Oh. the rings!
JFiiat a tale their capture brings
Of despair!
TERRIFIC BALLOON A* CENSION
PARING, ApppNAITT fl* IN A BLAZE OF
FLUE.
[Buwling Greeu (lvy.) Pantagrapli J
To make the Fair successful,. inviting.;
and attractive as possible,.thp directors
ami managers of‘the McLean county
Fair last week advertised ajit'and balloon
ascenpipp, 'lJhe (services of Prof. S. D,
Atchison, a daring aeronaut of Cincin
nati,, and Mr. G. C. Grady as manager,
With a largo and hapdsonie' balloon,equal
to tiie dimensions of an ordinary cottage
house, were procured. Thursday''was,
the day, and four o'clock iii the after
noon the hour, for the grand sensation.
The bold and dauntless aeronaut step
ped gracefully fpr#ard and grasped the.
trapeze. Ife was cocii. c ivlu VCollected
and full of : nerve, as though enjoying
the commonest-every-day pastime. Ilis
appearance *wss quite attractive, • He
is apparently young in years, and.ha's
the macular, wiry elasticity of the tri
umphant athlete, And form and mould
That would have done credit to the an
tiqiie WfftStlers when the Olympic games
were in their palmiest splendors, and
when a laurel wreath won there was
next in honor to a victorious battle y(pp
on the field. As he grasped, the trap-!
•eze, by order of Mr. Grady the stays
were cut, and up, up shot the airship
straight as an arrow, swift and graceful,
in feathcryljghfnpss. As he ascended,
the guy-ropes were dropped, and on he
spend amid tumultuous and deafening
applause of the people, to whom he
.waived his hand from,a, distance be
yond where the clouds and thunder
make their home. Higher and higher
went tiie balloon, amid the unrestrained
admiration and ethusiasm of the people..
When lie had reached an altitude of.
nearly half a mile, dense smoke wa? seen
'issuingTfpm the balloon, curling toward
the blue skies, when, horror of horrors !
the balloon wasdisco\e.-cd to be on,fire,!
as some thought it was before it ascend
ed. Tongues of red flame would pierce
through and dart, from its sides. She
was soon enveloped in empire and flame,
and instantly collapsed. The sceue
now beggared description. Down, with
the velocity of the eaglet stretched upon
the wing, down came the aeronaut in a
ball of tire and smoke. The sight was
sickening and painful. The shouts of
enthusiasm were changed into wild wails
of despair. Every cheek was blanqed
'with terror. Women shrieked.‘and
screamed and fainted away ; children
uttered piercing cries, and ran to
fro; old ifl,groans and stifled sol's,
turned away them gaze, only to look
again.and.find,terrible reality all
too real; horses champed
snapped their reins and ran riderless
and impurseed in all directing; men
on horses galfopcji with the sp/ijpfl of.
Mamelukes to where tfiq ,ecj*i} .
was falling^.
Downward, still-downward, with ac*
rowy swiftness came the.,.interpid aero
■naut, a sea,of fire hissing ans roaring
above his head, and clouds of smoke
enveloping him. Nearer and nearer lie
approaches, his face to the fire his feet
to the earth. On he comes, till his feet
strike plumb against a projecting green I
lmb of a tree larger than a man’s leg,
which was stripped from the body s,s
though it had bp£p a blade of fodder
1 upon a corn stalk, do great vms-the force
of the concussion, A second more and
his feet struck the ground with such force
as to make qmte an excavation. 1 l,e iiy
stantly feU sejpseless, and was
by all to hayebpen kllleil outright. lie
was boppe. ftwa under the
burning balloop, wlpcb was destroyed.
Restoratives apd proper medical appli
ances were* resorted to, and spp.n, the
pprilo.uA vbyager through njy and fire
was brought to consciousness. I lis left
thigh, between the knee and hip-joint,
was shattered to splinters; his other
leg was bruised and hurt; his light hand
was badly lacerated, and ableeding and
painful abrasion appeared on the left
temple. Besides these, iiii, breast was
mashed in, add it was IhSjnSt 'that he
sustained fatal internal injuries. He
manifested the utmost coolness aud for
titude, and was taken to tlie Lucas Hotel
of that town, where he was kindly cared
for. He was still alive when we left
Cajhofih oil Friday, though little hopes
were entertained for his recovery.,
P. S.—Just before going to press, we
received special dispatch from Cal
houn stating that Prof. Atchison, idji,
likely survive.
A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION
WHAT ARE WE DRIFT
ING TO?
Editor CgL^iVAroit.—
Being engaged in two occupations, my
time is, so completely occupied, that 1
have always to, write in a hurry—l shall
condense as much a^ ; possible.
The negroes were set free and turned
loose among us without any prelimi
nary training for fr,efidpm. We had con
tented that the negro left fiee to.dir,ect
and control himself, could not liva to
any advantage in a Temperate Zpne,
where long winters prevail', and subsis
tence must necessarily be dug out of,
the earth by patient, persevering toil,
backened, by judgement and, economy.
Of the truth of this proposition, I am
npw. as fujly convinced as ever. But
he is hear with us and free at tliat.—
But those who know nothing about Sam
bo, may prate as much as they please
about his excellent qualities; they are
at a safe d/staupe from, him, and know
i nothing of the subject that they, pretend
to discuss so sapiently ; but one thing
is certain—l speak most emphatically—
we must control the negro or ruin is in
evitable, both to them and to us. Tlie
sooner we understand, this, the better it
will be for the welfare of our country. I
do not menu by this startling declara
tion, that we should deprive them of a
solitary right that legitimately belongs
to them as freeman; but tbe general
laws of Nature declares iu divers ways
too clearly to be misunderstood, that
“knowledge is power,” and that within
the grand circle that it sweeps, are to be
found wisdom,, peape, safety, apd pros
perity,, Yhis law, also, declares jujit as
clearly, that ignprapee. enthroned,, is a
power for evil!
Knowledge to,
the white race, aud must have full sway
aud scope, in all the grand departments
of business, or else prosperity an,l prog
ress will ever be a mere phantasm of
the coveted goal that will never
be reached. The negroes are the best
laborers that we have or can get ; but
they 1 are liable to undergo great changes
in* the - future, unless we control them
and keep' them,fn',tbp.right channel. If
left to float at will, they will zing-zang
in every direction; along the cross anti
complex currents of a boundless swamp.
As tor White laborers, it is nonsense.to,
talk about them where land is cheap
and farming very unprofitable. They
ato bnly adapted to sections where land
is scarce and rich.
For a short tig-e after the negroes
were (sgt iree) they were hired mostly for
wages,, and working under the control
and direotion bf the whites, botli racei
bid fair to prb3per; blit a great change
has come o’er the spirit of our dream. —
In the mind of the negro a grfcatdeal of
idle time is the sine qua non of happfi
ness. He can grasp the present; but
all. the powers of his intellect combined
into Que'jirlghty (?) focus, fail to illumi
nate thejdafrk t'utureoije 1119 thin advahee
'of h;s nose : never did, any 1 ever will,
bating a few, . Since being set free, he
has taxed his limited intellect to the ut
most to discoveyscc'eplay,by which,he
can give a large portion of Fus,tim9 to.
fishing, hunting, meetings, visiting, cold
weather and general idleness ; but how
to make money, accumulate property,
and to secure the solid comforts of life,
are questiou with him of minor impor
tance.
They settle down finally upon,the
plan of renting land, ayd. Raying said
rent in cotton. This is now the negroes’
plan, originated by themselves, and i$
fast bringing hpth races to temporal
ruin, as I williclearly show. The white
man argues thus : “a half loaf is better
than none -/''the negro is .fres any how,
so if he pays his .rent, Ldon’t care how
he works, or what hs does, or how it's
done.. The negro,on his part reason*
thus: my rent must be paid in cotton,
so.I will plant the myst of my crop in
that aiftiqle, that wfic-h the rent has been
paid, I may have empsgh.leftr.to fill my,
pockets with then calico,
flour, whisky, tobacco, nnil,e and buggy
will be mine,..and I shall bq elevated to
the highest plane of my ambitious .aspi
rations. The negroes have no more
judgeinent ebout the proportion of cory.
and cotton they should plant than chil
dren. Remember, whites, that the ne
groes are among us. They must live.
If they starve, so will you., bqn’t flatter
yourself for a moment, that the negro
race can starve in your midst without
dragging you down in tlie fall! Tlie
course that has been pursued, has fur
nished the world with more cotton than
i,t needs, and luvn raised the price of all
the necessaries of life, plunging the
whites into bankruptcy an/1 ruin ! And
has brought the negroes to the’ brink of
starvation. We may toil day and night
to make cotton, but tlie more we make,
tlie lower the price and the higher are
provisions : upon this line we may work
until we become walking skeletons,. and,
remain all tlie while miserably poor and
lmlf-starved ! —while all the world out
side of us, is laughing at our folly, and
grossing fat and saucy upon tlie unremu
moraied, sweat that issues fromourevery
pore..
But to, the negro again. We dp. not
control -him—he controls us. He idles
away one third of every year, counting
from Christmas to Christinas ; and his
sorry farming is equivalent to another
third. He makes no manure; an/i but
little more than a half a crop upon tlie
land that lie pretends to cultivate.—
Soon the land will be so poor that he
can not support himself and pay rent —
whatthenl 1 You will take the land from
him and let it rest, or sow it in grain.—
Bp£, what will become of the negro?
lie w.ilj, be compelled to emigrate to Af
rica or thp, \N(estor they will go about
in gangs like prowling wolves, plunde
ring the eo mtry and killing the whites !
You may call all this sensational, or the
riiere phantasm of a sensitive brain; but
consider if you please the signs of the
present tiinp,. an l the causes now
in full operation, in connection with
their legitimate effects. The seasons
for the last two or three years preced
ing this, were almost perfect; yet star
vation is now at our doors! I have seen
nearly all the renters in a neighborhood,,
gaUier abound one farmer, that happen
ed to be so, fortunate as to have a little
money, corn and meat, yjfering V> gath
er his whole crop in one day for a little
something to keep soul and body togeth-
er! When, you see a dozen buzzards
gathered, arogjid on,e dead snake, or as
many Qtpws, or hear the black birds
chattering in the cracks of your corn- '
crib,, know. ve,. that starvation, i* not far
off!
And. wliat is the cause of all this? Va
rious reasons, have been assigned ; but
the real cause is, the negroes have tiie,
agriculture of the South pretty much in
their own hands, and they are just about
as well qualified to manage it,.as so,
many childi en. If we give them-a farm,
upon their own hook, they can’t run it,
unless we advance to them; if we do
that, they can not pay back, unless wc
unsettle them, and leave them right
where we found them. Many a white
man has brought himself to grief, oil ac-.
count of allowing the negro the pleas
ure of running a farm, af his—wpite
man's—expense ; vainly supposing that
Sambo could support himself, pay rent
and debts, and do it all by skinning
only a half crop out of the land.
Well, what is the remedy? Is it to be
fpUiul in sowing more grain, or planting
more corn,.or making less cotton? AU
these are generally pointed out by the
savant3 of the South as constituting an
effectual remedy : but they are not the
remedy,, only the would be effects of
a proper remedy applied. The true rem
edy is—and there is no other—for the
whites to take the great business of ag
riculture into their own hands; then
the reins will be held strong aud steady,
and the “world's backbone’’ kept in the
proper position. A course.will be pur
sued, adapted to secure the permanent
welfare of both races for the present
and, future. It is generally admitted
that the whites must have,poetical su
premacy, or the country, ruined, lie
not deceived; it is just' as necessary
that the whites should have agricultural
supremacy, to save the country from
riiin.
Finally, ail sorry hands must be hired
for wages. Renters must be able to
support themselves; must be directed
in pitching their crops- and' working
thCidmu-it be compelled to make ma
nure and keep up fences. The land
they work must not be allowed, at least,
to become any p6q^„. The
vagrancy must be rigidly enforced
aguiut both blacks and whites ; drones
must be kicked out of tiie hive and put
011 the under an overseer.—
Ri'jkl ecqtyQWy, vuist 'be the order of the
d s ty r . Living upon the credit system
must stop ; it is badj. ccjv/, bad policy to
allow the prpsynjt. to steal both principal
and interest from,.the future. .More grain
and [less cotf oa. Barnyard manure an u*t.
receive-nupije,.attention, aud guano less.
The lovwpi'ice of cotton and high price
of provisions furnish an argument that
will convince farmers ,by aspdtbv, that
they have been pursuing a wroipg course.
The tyrant nkcessit,y, i* tliQ only aigu.,
meat that the Southern, farmers will
listen ,to. This old tyrant is now march
ing.every where through the South, aijd,
I,discovera growing disposition iip-our
people to pull off their hats and make
him a bow. I now hear much talk about
sowing more grain, planting more corn,
and less cotton, and msj lf log. more ma
il are, &0., &c. Many- -of the whites have
a little farm of their awn that they are
trying to make rich; but outside of this,
they rent the balance of their land, to
the lid ter slcelter r.qgw,wh<> is fast wear
ing it out.! I again ask the question,
if this course is pursued much longer,
what will become of Sambo? I am not:
by enemy, but a better friend to . him
than he is practically to himself. lie
must be compelled in soino way to im
prove .the land \he tills ; .or else after a
while, we shall be coinpolle 1 to ship him
or to do worse. ITlicn the black mau
shall hqve worn out the land allotted ,to
hini, he will not be allowed to fall back
upon the white man’s few “bale acres,"
that lie has nursed as carefully as his
own children.
Let a wise course he pursued in due
time, and sopai,qur country will resemble
a garden; pr<(,visions will be cheap
and cotton bring a remunerative price ;
our wives will be’ happy and our chil
dren merry , Sambo wifi again look sleek
and oily, and will Tjdiistle audi jjijg, as
he was wont t0,d0,, in tlie good old days
of yore ; but in order to reach this happy
state-, the white, man must h/jhi the reins,
both poiitieal and agricultural—and not
the negro.
JAS-. 11. OLIPIIAXT.
Stellaville, (la., s e P f 1875.
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PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Statistics , of the Order — A Reform
movement liayiyurateiL
Thy Njiticnal Grange is now in ses
sion in Louisville. A correspondent
writing in regard to. tlie meeting, gives
some statistics of tin, Grder, as fol
lows : •
At present,, in, the Order there is a
total of forty-two State ajyl Territorial
Granges, and more, tlipje twenty-four
thousand sub-Grangee* <*n/opri.sing a
membership of about one-, million four
hundred and fifty thousand! gcus.eyis.
This is an increase of two thousand
Granges, and in the neighborhood of;
one hundred and thirty thousand mem
bers, over 1874. The work o‘‘the Or
der in the future will consist more in
consolidating and strengthening those
Granges already in existence than in
organizing new ones, inasmuch as the
territory in this country is pretty well
covered. The following is a list
of the number of Granges in each State
in 1875, as copied from tlie official re
turns :
Alnb.tm, I IT.‘I I Mississippi...... 663
Arkansas 03u h Mi550uri..........203/
California 26-i Montana 26
Colorado 611 Nebraska 62n
Cotinectkut. ... 11l Nevada'. 15
Dakota.. 56 Ne,v Hampshire.. 64
Deleware . ..... 2 1 New Jersey |)J
Florida 14, New York.. 3is !
Georgia 705 North Carolina .. 535
• 16 Ohio 12115
Illinois. —.....1581) Oieo-m ]ss
Indiana .....2033 • Pennsdvauin. .. 591
I Ipifieu 'lJqtfttory. 14 South Carolina.. 350
lowa .20 4 i Tennessee....,.,,. 1991
I ly* usas 1391 Tops 1990
I Kentucky 1 <iwi Vermont 207
j Louisian .114 Virginia 663
31 iip'*. .. 18.1 Wa-h njrton Try 66
Maryland,.' 157 1 Wear Vii-iuia... 293
Massachusetts... 99 V\ sin.. 513
Michigan 604 ~ '
Minnesota 546 Total 23,923
1 lie totiil number of Granges in ex*
istencc in 1871 was twenty-one thous
iti.d one hundred,ap(l,eighty-three.
'ijie rccepts of tlie National Grange
for 1878 were two hundred aud twenty
nine thousand s x hundred and thirty
three dollars, and the expenditures cue
hundred :i;ul eighty thousand nine
| hundred adi ninety-flye dollars. It is
estimated that the Batrons liayp eigli
| teen, million dollars cash capital inypst
je l in* thyir various enterprises, which,
i include railroad and, steamboat lines,
I banks,fire and life insurance companies,
j cotton gins and mills, packing houses,
I flouring mills, elevators, grain ware
houses, machinery manufactories, ship
| ping associations, foundries, tanneries,
j cheese factories, etc.
I The correspondent says :
Among the rank and tile a powerful
j reform movement has been initiated,
j whose objects are as follows: Limita
, tion of the power of tlie higher Granges,
j reduction of dues atyl fees, and the re
turn to members .of all dangerous sur
pluses; abolition of the higher degrees,
or their throwing open to all members ;
simplification of tlie ritual. There-are
some men in the Order, like the Grand
Master, Adams, and Master Allen, of
Miss mri, wiio desire to make tlie most
of their class privileges, and to coerce
into silence and submission all people
aiul papers wily, do.net thjnand say
precisely what they wish. "They have
set themselves againat the people,,and
will be smashed. The Order is Anti-
American in its Constitution. Thus the
National Grange was first of
some Government clerk*.at Washing
ton, and, as the Order widened, the same
little ring kept, itself in the place to
which.it had elected.itself. The last
dodge (was, when too many elective and
representative! members began, to gpt
into,the National Grange, to, create,, a
Senate (Seveutii ( lifgree bf Ceres).—,.
Thus wficu t a member of the ring was re
pci,ii'atel and retired from ( th* National
Grange, instead of stepping down and
out, he stepped up and. beeonTng a
! member of the Senate, without whose
(approval the action of tiie National
j Grange was void. TJiis wa* coming it
| adittlC-itoo strong even, for the simple
1 and,long suljferiug A-pipricsu j':ujmer. and
■now the reformers insist*,that all de
[ grees above the fourth (tiie equivalent
| of Master Mason) be abolished,tir.thrpwn
[open, so that :>iiy member of the Cadet'
will be eligible pi any office and can at
tend apy of its deliberations. This they
will surely carry.. Last year the State
Granges almost unanlinousljvrejected a
very cheeky amendment proposing to
make certain founders members of the
NatioqalGrange for life ; and so strong
is , the.- feeling that Master Allen, of
Missouri, the hottest advocate or Gran
ger aristocracy, has been instructed by
liis Grange to vote for Grange reform.
The dues and fees will also lie reduced,
and the surplus returned, so that the
National Grange will have no dangerous
funds 011 lnnd. No simplification, of
the ritual is expected presen, but ul
timately there ayU be but one degree in
the Order, t he feature of secrecy—which
| shuts out the Catholics, Baptists, Qua
le t.s, and all who arc conscientiously
opposed to membership in secret socie
| tics—removed, and thu Grange practi
i cally resolved Into, a series of indepen
! dent country co-operative organizations,
J having a State Grange* merely for con
sultation and uniformity, aud a Nation?
i al Grange, wholly inexpensive, and lim
! ited in its functions to being a mere
! bureau of record. Indeed, plans for in
i'dependent and simplified Granges have
| already been made public in Michigan.
THE BOOMERANG,
I 1
'.lnteresting Fiicts About the Singular
IVeagon Us' and by the Natives of Aus
traliai
A traveler tdb-us something of the
singular weapon used by the natives of
Australia,, the boomerang. lie saw
them used by the natives. They ranged
from twq, feet to thirty-eight inches in
length, and were of various shapes, all
curved a little l*iul looking, as he de
scribes them, something like a wooden
.new moon. They were made of a dark,
; heavy lyqpil an i weighed from one to.
three pounds. In thickness they vary
from half an inch agd taper to a point
at Cach end. One of the natives picked
up the piece, of woo*', and, poising it an
:instant, threw it, giving it a rotary mo
tion. For the first hundred feet or more
•it went straight ahead, Then it tacked
! o trfut left and arose slightly, still rota
ting rapid I} - . It kept this latter course
for a hundred feet more perhaps,, but
soon veered the* left, again,, describing a,
broader curve, and a moment latter fell
to tlie earth six or eight feet in front of
the thrower, having described nearly a
circle in the air. Another native then
took tlie same boomerang and cast it,
holding it with the same grip. It took
the same course, but made broader
curves, and as it came round the black
caught it handsomely in,his right hand.
Another nat'.yethen threw it aud lodged
it on the- ground aborg twenty feet be.
hind him, after it had described a circle
of 2DO, yards or, upwards. After him
they all tried, it and but one failed to
bring the. weapon back to the spot
where they stood. Carn boo, a native
then selected from tlio: iipnp of boome
rangs another one*, apd east it with a
sort of jerk. It, flew for forty or fifty
,yards, whirling ljke ati p. Then it da”'-,
ed into the air. mounting fully 100 feet,
and Cain;! over our heads, wlier.e iu„
seernpd, tin hang stationery, for a mo
ment, then settled slowly. still whirling,
till he caught it,_ Two others of the
blacks then did the same thing.
Meanwhile 1 had shaved a little of
the wood from the convex side of one
of the boomerangs. This was now ol'-.
feretl to them, to throw. One took it
withpnfi noticing what 1 1 done, por
ed it, but stopped short., but with a con
temptous glance at my improvement
threw it down and exclaimed: “Hale
bu lgory !’’ (no good). The others then
looked at it cautiously, but it was also
a.bale badger to them. No one could
be induced to,throw it. Meyers asked
them,why.they did not use it, but they
could not give a delicate answer. It
was plain they did not like the way it.
prised, when held in the hand, yet 1
could not distinguish any difference
whatever, between this and tiie other
weapon *.
liurleigh then .walked to a distanceof
two hundred feet or more from tin;
baleks and bid Carboo to .throw at him.
The native looked at him a moment,
rather curiously, then comprehending
what was wanted, he selected onaof tiie
heaviest of the missiles, and tnrning.
half around, threw it with great force
in a direction almost opposite from that
where Burleigh stood. The weapon
sped smartly for sixty or seventy feet,
then tacked in an instant and flew di
rectly at Burleigh, and had he not most
expeditiously ducked, he would have re
ceived a hard thump, if nothing worse.
It struck the ground twenty or thirty
paces .beyond.. This feat brought out a
broad grin and .something like a chuckle
from tiie whole °f them. Carboo even
intimated that he would like to try it
i smother, cast, but Burleigh expressed
himself fully satisfied. Mr.—— (an
other of our party), however, offered to
“take a shot,” but not at too short a
range. We were standing in front of
I one of the'Storehouses., Carboo placetl
I I in front of the do r, and stood
I !with his back to him, .with ’s hand
- )>ttt his shoulder. None of us knew
Iwjsat sorb of a manceuvre he had in mind,
not even Myers., Standing m this posi
tion, the black.- threw the boomerang
Straight alien l. Immediately it curved
jn the air. Tjicn it disappeared
jarouud the corner of the building, and
before he had time to guess what was
meant it came around the other end
(having passed completely around the
storehouse) and gave him a sound slap
pu.the back, which made his eyes snap.
A VntoisiA widow, having recently
contracted a marriage engagement, fur
nished the bridegroom with the follow
ing ni<iue certificate, which she evident
ly thought necessary iu order to enable
him to get the license. fVe suppress
the names : “This is to certify that i
hereby give Tom leaf to get li
cense to marry me, 1 be ng full grone,
and of age, forty-five years old, my pa
rents being w| ling lb.- to marry. Lu*
cindy —r , daughter of , Nov
-34, in7or
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