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Over in Florida.
—Gov. Drew lias gono north.
—Palatka has instituted a rigid
quarrantine against “Savannah and
any other locality where the fever ex
ists.”
—The Fernandina A Cedar Keys
Railroad will transport goods for the
Savanah sufferers free of charge.
—The Jacksonvillians burn tar for
disonfecting purposes.
—Hunter Pope, Mayor of Madison,
was shot by John Cason on the 20th
inst, and died on the 22nd. Full par
ticulars will be found on the inside.
—Some six thousand catt'e have
been shipped from the Caloosahatcheo
to Havana and Key West, this season.
—A car, containing twenty-five
bales of cotton, was burned on tho J.
P. A M. R, It. last week.
—The Conservative mass meeting
at Lake City, on Tuesday, is reported
to have been enthusiastic and largely
attended, both by white and colored
people. It was in session from eleven
o’clock in the morning till four in tho
evening, and was addressed by Gen.
Finley, Col. Davidson, Wilk Call, and
others.
-—A would bo chicken thief in Tal
lahassee, got hold of a tame eagle in a
gentleman’s yard, the other night.
The eagle gave him a peck on the
head with his bill, which brought out
a few exclamations of surprise. He
made a second attempt to capture the
bird, but the eagle had just got down
to business, and wont to work with
its tallons, wings and beak. The man
fell upon the ground and was com
pelled to defend himself, but the eagle
was too lively for him, and lascerated
his face, shoulders and arms to a ter
rible extent.
—"Brigham and the Eighteen Mrs.
Young Coming to Jacksonville.—
Joseph W. White. General Western
Passenger Agent of the Magnolia
Route via Atlanta, Augusta and Yein
assee, received a dispatch yesterday
aud will leave on or about the 15 inst.
for Salt Lake City, for the purpose of
arranging transportation by tiro Mnp.
■ nolia Route for Brigham Young and
his wives (eighteen in number), to
Jacksonville, Fla. They will be
brought through in Magnolia Route
palace cars. When Mr. White starts
from Salt Lake City with them, our
readers will be notified by telegraph.
—Augusta Constitutionalist.
—Mrs. Mcßae, wife of Mr. Daniel
Mcßae, of Bradford county, handed
us a letter some days since from her
son who has not been hoard from till
the receipt of that letter in 14 years.
In 01 Norman H. Mcßae, her son,
joined the Ist Florida Cavalry and
continued with them till the battle of
Misionary Ridge in ’O3, where he was
taken prisoner by tlie Federal army,
and carried to Rock Island prison,
Illinois. In November 1804, lie was
released and went Went to fight the
Indians, where he was taken sick, aud
placed in a hospital. After his recov
ery, he left Kaunas and moved to Tex
as. He is now living in Cooke coun
ty, Texas, has married, and is the fa
ther of one child. Prior to the re
ceipt of thin letter his parents thought
he was dead, and consequently it is
hard for them to realize that their son
is yet alive.— Gainesville Times.
The Worth or a Dollar. —A Farm
er came down into our ofiiee on Mon
day and paid us a dollar on subscrip
tion, and we observed that it was the
same old ragged dollar that we had
received from another person on the
day before. So we put a detective on
the back track of the dollar to see
what it had been doing since Satur
day.
\Ve remembered having paid it out
to a printer, and learned through the
detective that he bad paid it out for
board; the hash house market-woman
had paid it to a butcher for beef; the
butcher had paid it to a farmer as
part payment on a fat steer; the far
mer had paid it. to a merchant for a
calico dress; the merchant had depos
ited it in a bank; the bank had paid
it out on a cheek drawn by another
merchant to pay a teamster for haul
ing goods; the teamster had paid it
to a miller for a sack of flour; the
miller had paid it to a farmer on a
load of wheat; the farmer had paid it
to a book store for school books; the
! book store bad paid it to a grocer for
sugar and coffee; the grocer had paid
it to a farmer for butter and eggs, and
the farmer who last received it, paid
it to us on subscription as above sta
ted.
Thus we see the work of one dollar
had paid thirteen dollars of debts be
tween Saturday night and Monday
afternoon, without a cent of silver or
gold to back it. In the proper under
standing of tho work of this . dollar
lies tho secret of prosperity. Keep
your money moving and there will lie
no hard timo and no money panics.
Only three members of Abraham
Lincoln’s cabinot—Simon Cameron,
Secretary of War, Gideon Wells, Sec
retary of Navy, aud Montgomery
Blair, Postmaster General—are now
living, and the two latter of these are
supporting Tilden.
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 1878-
Free Love in a Sleeping Cur.
Theodore Tilton in the Wrong Berth—
llow an Outraged Husband Conducts
Himself Under the Circumstances.
[From tlic New York Times.]
About two o'clock Saturday Morn
ing a young man, whose name is said
to be Wood, boarded the first Atlan
tic express car on the Hudson River
Road, at East Albany, and asked the
porter if a lady whom ho described
was on the car. The stranger said
that the lady was his wife, and that
he bail come from New York to meet
her. The porter gave tho stranger
the number of the lady’s berth on the
sleeping car l’lattsburg, and entering
the ear, which was dimly’ lighted,
Wood groped his way along till he
came to tho berth indicated, and
drawiugaside the curtains, put his
hands in to awaken his wife. They
however, struck a man, and the stran
ger thinking the porter might have
made a mistake, hurried back to him,
and told him there was a man in that
beith instead of woman. The porter
said there was a woman in tho berth
when he left the car, and then tho
two wont back. The stranger found
his wife in the berth, lint it is alleged
that he also found Theodore Tilton
there.
A scene followed, the stranger
threatened to shoot Tilton. Mr. Til
ton motioned him away, and excused
his predicament by saying that he
had been very sleepy, and having oc
casion to leave his berth must have
got into the wrong berth on his re
turn by mistake. Suddenly the Jius
band of the woman struck Tiltou a
blow in the face, and then a brake
man interfered and parted the two
men, and Tilton got into the upper
berth, the husband sitting on the
edge of the lower one. All of the
parties concerned came on to this
city, and parted at the Grand Central
depot, Mr. Wood walking away arm
in arm with his wife, Mr. Tilton, it is
said, bidding them a polite good
morning.
A 2 imes reporter called upon Mr.
Tilton at his residence in Brooklyn,
Saturday, and asked if he desired to
make any statement contradictory of
the charge made against him or ex
planatory of it. “I am very much
obliged to you,” said Mr. Tilton in
reply, “for affording mo an opportu
nity of speaking, but I prefer not to
-peak. 1 pnr-i>-'\l n,W rmpvent lli AC
you do not make the slightest effort to
interview me.”
The following is another account of
the affair, as telegraphed to the Cin
cinnati Commercial:
New York, Sept. 16.— The sleeping
car Plattsburg was at;ached to the
Atlantic express train which was due
in the Grand Union Depot at 6:45
o’clock this morning. At Albany, at
about 2 o’clock in tho night, a man of
about middle age entered, as though
expecting to meet somebody.
His entrance disturbed no one. Ev
idently ho had not been looked for at
Albany. He seemed pleased by that
thought, as though anticipating the
surprise of a person whom he sought.
He advanced down the aisle between
the closed curtains and then returned
to the end of the car, and, addressing
Charles Bell, the negro porter, said:
“Can you tell me in which berth Mrs.
Wood, my wife, is?” “Yes, sir; No.
2, top berth, sir,” replied the porter.
Mr. Wood went eagerly to No. 2, and
threw aside the curtains. His eyes
met a man’s startled gaze, and by the
man’s side was a woman, whose face
he could not see. He returned to the
porter, whose account of the event is
as follows:
Mr. Wood came to me and he said:
“There must be some mistake; there
is a man in that berth..” “Yes, sir,”
1 said, “there is a man in that berth
—Mr. Theodore Tilton; but the lady
—Mrs. Wood she said her name was
when she bought her berth—is in the
top berth.” Mr. Wood went back to
No. 2 and looked into the top berth,
but the lady was not there. Some of
her clothes were. Then Mr. Wood
looked in tho bottom berth and saw
.iirs. M ood there with Mr. Tiltou.
Mr. Wood jumped back, as if lie
could not believe his eyes. Then he
said something very mad-like to Mr.
Tiltou, aud struck him. I did not see
exactly where, but I think it was on
the nose. Then there was a sort of
scramble, and I heard the lady tell
Wood to bo quiet. Mr. Tilton came
out from behind the curtain and went
into the smoking car. Mr. Wood
tried to follow him, but Mrs. Wood,
I think, held on him. Some of the
passengers must have been woke up,
but I did not notice in the excitement
whether any of them looked out.
Soon the brakeman came in and asked
for Mr. Tilton’s things, and I picked
them up and sent them to him. Mr.
Wood sat up all the rest of the wav,
and as soon as we got into the depot
here Mr. and Mrs. Wood hurried off
together. Mr. Tilton then came into
the sleeping car and washed, combed
bis hair and brushed his clothes, aud
made himself neat. When he was
going out of the cars he asked my
name and where I lived, and said,
“Bell, try and remember all you saw
and heard a while ago, Because I may
want you as a witness.” Then he
walked out of the depot vevy quiet
like, as if he didn’t want to bo seen
much or known.
The conductor and brakeman con
firm the story, and say that the hus
band tried to shoot Tiltou.
Hon. H. R. Harris, in the 4tli dis
trict was renominated for Congress,
go the 128th ballot.
The Presiding Eldership.
.V New Excitement in the Methodist
E; iseopnl t’hnreh,
[From tlioNuW York Herald.)
The presiding eldership in tho
Methodist Episcopal Church is likely
to prove ns troublesome as did lay
representation. After discussing it
for a year in all its aspects, it came
before the last General Conference, in
Baltimore, for action thereon. One
party in the church, large, but still a
minority, asks that the annual con
ferences shall have the right to say
how many districts they will have and
who Hindi bo their presiding elders.
The other party, comprising a small
majority, don’t want any change. The
districts are now fixed by the bishops
in annual conferences and the elders
are appointed by them also. The
General Conference found itself una
ble to change this form because of the
constitutional rules of the Methodist
Episcopal church. It therefore sent
a proposition to the eighty-nine an
nual conferences to change the re
strictive rule. If three-fourts of the
conferences vote for the change then
two-thirds of the next General Con
ference must do the same ere it can
become a law. Drs. Cummings, Jer
vis and Curry, representing the re
formers, seeing the hopelessness of
their cause, have issued an address to
their brethren in the ministry to lay
the present proposition on the table
or to vote solidly against it until, by
correspondence, the sentiment of the
itinerancy shall be brought to the re
form point. They think the Episco
pacy has too much power already,
and the bishops in their address to
tho General Conference, concede, says
this committee, that appointments to
the presiding eldership are sometimes
made of men who are not called for
in the regular pastorate, and for the ; r
own (the appointees’) personal ac
commodation. The committee aud
the minority which they represent ask
that tho districts shall be greatly en
larged in size, so as to reduce expen
ses of maintain" an army of sub-bish
ops looking after quarterly conferen
ces anti asking a formal set of ques
tions every time; or that the number
of districts shall be increaced and
their size considerably reduced and
the elders be regular pastors, who
shall, if occasion requires, have the
, oversight of the districts near their
! charge. The editor ot the Christian
Advocate evidently has no sympathy
: whatever with this address of the com
mittee, for ho scalps it in a column
and a half editorial. He divides it into
two heads, as the colored preacher did
bis sermon, and tells first, “what de
text does not mean.” There is, says
Dr. Fowler, a bird of some kind in this
egg—it may be an eagle, or it may be
a buzzard. But the way to get the
egg out is to keep the egg warm and
not break it, as he thinks this com
mittee have done. The fall conferen
ces are now, and for the next few
months, to convene, and this subject
is to come before them and be discuss
ed in all its bearings, so that the wave
of excitement will roll over the church
for the next year.
The Worst Master in the World.
The Arabs have a fable from which
we may learn a lesson:
Once upon a time a miller, shortly
after he had lain down for his after
noon’s nap, was startled at a camel’s
nose being thrust in at the door of
his house.
“It is very cold outside,” said the
camel; “I only wish to get my nose
in.”
The miller was an easy kind of a
man, and so the nose was let in.
“The wind is very sharp,” sighed
the camel; “pray allow mo to get my
neck inside.”
This request was also assented to,
and tho neck was thrust inside.
“How fast the rain begins to fall!
I shall get wet through. Will you
let mo place my shoulders under
cover ?”
This, too, was granted, and so the
camel asked for a little and a little
more, until he had pushed his
whole body into the house.
Tho miller soon began to be put to
much trouble by the rude companion
he had got into his room, which was
not, Jarge enough for both, and, as
the rain was over, civilly asked him to
depart.
“If you don’t like it you may
leave,” saucily replied the beast. “As
for myself I know when I am well off,
and shall stay where I am.”
This is a very good story, and we
hope the Arabs are all the wiser and
better for it, but *let us also try to
turn it to as good account.
There is a camel knocking at tho
heart of us all, young and old, seek
ing to be let in; its name is Sin. It
comes silently and craftily, and
knocks, “let me in”—only a very
small part at first. So in comes the
nose, and ho it is not long before, lit
tle by little, it gains entire possession.
Once in possession, the master soon
becomes the tyrant. Thus it is that
bad wishes arise; then wrong deeds,
•until evil habits rule us.
A Teruiule Apprehension.— An in
fidel said, “Thoro is one thing that
mars all the pleasure of my life.”
“Indeed,” I replied; “what is that?”
He answered, “I am afraid tho Bi
ble is true. If I could knuw for cer
tain that death is eternal sleep, I
could bo happy! My joy would bo
complete! But here is tho thorn
that stings mo; if the Bible is true,
then I uni lost forever !”
“A lLifi-s and Wheeler Kx ( on
federate” A Bit of Radical
Claptrap,
[Correspondence ot tho Courier-Journal.]
Babdstown, Ky., Sept. 13, 1876.
Tn the Louisville Commercial of the
Isth inst. I notice a letter from one
J. YV. Leo, of Aberdeen, Miss., to Col.
L. E. Dudley, secretary of the “Boys
in Blue,” which is paraded with all
the conspieuousness that a glaring
head-lino and leads can give it. It
seems that Col. Dudley, the secretary
referred to, had written to Lee invit
ing him to attend a meeting of the
above-named organization. Lee in
bis letter declines on the ground that,
while his sympathies are with the
Radicals, he unfortunately fought up
on the other side. This is all very
nice. I happen to know this same J.
W. Lee. He is an ex-Confederate I
will admit. But he is socially ostra
cised, and his own father-in-law will
neither speak to him nor suffer him to
enter his home. When he first re
turned from the army he was as loud
mouthed a Democrat as Monroe
county, Mississippi, contained, butlie
subsequently sold himself for the of
fice of sheriff of the county, and has
been for years the leading Radical
scallawag of Monroe county. The
j Commercial might as well get excited
over Longstreet. Lee came back
from tho army’ as poor as a church
| mouse, but lias wrung enough from
the people of Monroe county to make
him one of the wealthiest men in the
place. He is well-known throughout
Eastern Mississippi as an ex-Confed
ornte, and therefore the letter of Col.
L. E. Dudley, “secretary of the Boys
in Blue,” and ,T. W. Lee’s answer, are
nothing but a contemptible bit of
Radical clap-trap to create an impres
sion abroad.
J. C. AY., Jr.
Tho Ohio Campaign.
From the Chicago Times Editorial.]
The political situation in Ohio is
rather novel. At first sight Republi
cans and Democrats made no doubt
that Hayes would give stimulus to tho
vote, and tifflt, it would give a majority
for his cause in October and Novem
ber.’ On looking over the ground,
however, the fallacy of this concession
is apparent. In 1875, on the fullest
vote ever polled, Hayes was elected by
!>ut 5,644 majority—the total vote
standing at the enormous figures
590,090. This was more than 60,000
L.igr.v than any vol.fi ever [lolled. To
gain his victory, Hayes had the help
' of
ALL THE GERMANS,
but few of whom support him now.
He also had tho support of hard mon
ey Democrats aud all tiie Liberal Re
publicans. There is, therefore, no
such margin for him to calculate on
(as in Maine, where no matter how
much the gain on tho part of the
Democrats, unless a revolution, tho
i Republican majority is
SUFFICIENT TO CLOCK IT.
The Ohio Republicans have not shared
the general delusion about the State.
The contest waged there is less noisy
but more intense than in Indiana, and
the Hayes papers are doing some of
the most amusing somersaulting ever
seen in politics. Indeed, the whole
business of partisanship of the vile
kind seems to have gone by common
consent into the hands of
THE GRANT PRESSES,
the supporters of Tilden acting like
men so assured of their cause that
they can afford unlimited good nature.
This has told incalculably in Ohio, and
the resultis perfectly clear, as any un
prejudiced looker-on may attest.
Hnyes will, from present appearances,
not only be beaten in Ohio, but beaten
by 20,000 votes.
Law for the People.
Money paid under a misapprehen
sion of facts, may he recovered back.
Money voluntarily paid with a full
knowledge of the facts and circum
stances of tlie case, though in igno
rance of legal rights, cannot be recov
ered back.
The assignment of a note, the pay
ment of which is secured by mort
gage, carries tho mortgage with it.
Payment to one partner is a pay
ment to both, unless strictly forbid
den.
A debtor has the right, at the time
of making a payment, to direct as to
what debt it shall be applied.
If a debtor fails to make such appli
cation, tho creditor may apply tho
money paid upon any demand against
the debtor which he may choose.
Where there is no place of payment
agreed upon, the debtor must seek
the creditor at his domicil or place of
business.
Upon the sale of an article, pay
ment is to be made on delivery, un
less some other time be specified.
Allowing time for payment will not,
however, vitiate the contract.
In case of two sales of personal
property, both equally valid, his is
tho better right who first gets pos
session ol the property.
No man can, by his sale, transfer
to another the right of ownership in
a thing wherein 1 he himself has not
tho right of property.
amm ♦
A Hardshell Baptist preached in
Washington lately, and took for his
toxt: “God made man in his own
image.” He then commenced: “An
honest man is the noblest work of
God.” Then made a long pause, and
looking searcliingly around the audi
ence, exclaimed: “But I opine God
Almighty hasn’t had a job in this city
for nigh onto fifteen years.”
The Independent.
Who ever read a better description
of Mr. “Independent,” tho apostate,
than tho following, given forth by
Bridges Smith in the Sunday Her
ald:
The crop of independents promises
a giant harvest of demoralization.
Th ■ seeds of discord are being sown
in every quarter.
This independent candidate for of
fice is a conscienceless. He looks nei
ther to the right nor left, but cuts
across the field for home in a lone
some run. Ho is a bigoted, self-con
ceited jackass, imagining that his ad
mirable qualities entitle him to (he
support of the entire people, without
regard to party lines. He is a self
constituted golden calf at whose
shrine everybody will bend the knee
and worship.
He considers himself the superior
of regular nominees, and the very man
the people want.
Ho loves office better than his sal
vation. He is willing to stake his
character, his money and his shrivel
led soul in the greedy grab for the
bauble of fame.
Ho is prodigal in his promises to
serve the people, but he wants the of
fice to serve himself. After he is elect
ed, hang tho people! He wins the
race by a hard ride of their shoulders,
and when he is finally settled in the
cushiony seat of the co leted office, lie
wiggles his fingers from the point of
his nose at those who were fools
enough to elect nirn.
Ho is the pride and glory of mal
contents. In voting for him they re
lieve themselves of tho obstreperous
bile, and wreak their vengeance on
regular nominees for whom they have
personal dislike. Those misguided
wretches flock like so many bloating
sheep to a black rani, and follow his
leading until he turns and rauts them
with his horns.
Beware of the independent.. A man
who cuts himself loose from party
ties and sets himself up as combining
the wants of both parties, can t be
trusted.
It is true that it sometimes occurs
that an incompetent or otherwise ob
jectionable man is nominated, but
this is, in every case in fault of the
people. No good man can refuse a
position if tendered him on the spon
taneous wave of unanimity (and that’s
the only true method of nominating.)
If these conceited pimps of pompos
ity persist in running on the odious
| independent schedule, wo trust the
i people will rise up and crush them
into eternal insignificance. This done,
tho country is safe.
Something Quite Soft.
“Why, your hands feel so soft as
! silk,” said I, as I shook hands with
the widow.
“.Nonsense, doctor,” she replied.
“Here with some more ot .your flat
tery, are you ? My hands are not as
soft as your own this minute.”
“Why, your hand, said 1, feel so
soft, I’d be afraid to squeeze it. I nev
er felt anything so soft.”
“Now, Doctor, just listen at you
again. If you never felt anything as
soft as inv baud, and even softer—
you know it has bean your own fault,”
and I thought the widow blushed as
though sorry she had said it.
“Pray,” said I, becoming deeply in
terested, “what might I have felt that
is softer than your hand ?”
“Hush, now ! You know of course.
You are very innocent;” and then I
could have sworn the widow was
blushing.
“Upon my honor I don’t know,”
was my still more interested reply,
“won’t you tell me or show me?”
“No, you know I won’t tell you.”
“Then show me, won’t you ?”
“I don’t like to. But you are such
a tease and such a dunce, one must
do almost anything to get rid of you.”
“Certainly.”
And she took my hand mincingly in
hers.
“Now shut your eyes, doctor.”
I closed my eyes in an instant. She
lifted up my hand up and up. I
held my breath, and, dear reader, be
fore I suspected what she was about,
she had placed it gently upon —my
head.
A private letter to the editor of tho
Ohio State Journal, written from Mar
tinsburg, West Virginia, relates this
incident: The Tildenites had a meet
ing and torchlight procession here on
last Friday evening. Patterson of
Colorado, Harrison of Illinois, and
Hardenbergli of New Jersey, all
M. C.’s addressed the unterrified.
During Patterson's remarks ho bawl
ed out, ‘Who is Governor Hayes-?
Who knows him 1’ A Johnny sitting
on a tree near by yelled out, ‘I do; I
shot at him during tho war !’”
It is a pity to spoil a good tiling,
hut the beauty of the above is, wo aro
forced to say, somewhat disarranged.
That Johuny who sat so complacently
in that tree became tipsy in a bar
room after the mooting was over. Ho
treated “all hands” sovorul times, and
he insisted in doing so, “for,” said ho,
“I made my money as easy as rolling
off a log. For that little speech of
mine from the tree, I got thirty dol
lars from the Hayes and Wheeler
Club. That Club’s got tho stamps,
and I’ll stick by it till it bursts.” —
Jersey City Herald.
Tilt* Snipe Hunters.
Last Monday night, a snipe hunt
was made, and a young German, ea
ger for frolicsome sport, was mndo
the hero of the occasion.
Tho preliminaries having all been
arranged, our young friend with light
heart led the wav to the Gormley
branch swamp, with a bird sack across
his shoulder, and a short tallow dip
in his hand. In tho middle of tho
swamp lie was stationed with open
sack and lighted candle. Left thus •
alone in this dismal swamp, lie hal
loed for his comrades, and hearing no
responsive echoes, his fears began to
rise, and as the light of tho dim can
dle began to fade away, his eyes be
gan to resemble two rising moons.
As tlie tallow dip fell into the mud,
he alarmed the natives of the swamp
with one loud and distressing wail,
and an owl perched in the bows of a
tree close by replied with:
“Who-boo! Whoo-hoo! Who-ar
yer 1”
“It ish only me, i Oh, Lordy 1) vat
keeps von stlioro u-up-up town, (havo
mercy 1) sliust cum sinking.”
The King bird of the swamp, not
understanding German, flew near
with an angry snap of his bill.
“Mine Got 1 vat ish dat!” said tho
snipo hunter, as lie broke to run.
“Oh, Mishter Sprown 1 Rnshell 1
Ridgspiu 1 ish all dean fellows done*
been cal up vid de snipes 1”
About this time he went head-fore
most into a muddy slough, and as ha
( rose a hideous roar greeted his ears.
“Py sbiminy, vat sort a vinimous
i varmint vas dat, eh 1 murder 1 mur
der 1”
His comrades now arrived just in
time to save him from his perilous
condition. Cuthherl Messenger.
Situation in Louisiana. —The New
Orleans Democrat says the negroes
are leaving the Republican party in
that State by hundreds, and that tho
Democrats will carry that State in
November, soldiers or no soldiers,
by at least 30,000 majority. It adds:
Here in Louisiana the desertion is
j a perfect avalanche. In Natchitoches
| there are over one thousand Dotno-
I cratic colored men enroll in clubs. In
Morehouse, Richmond, Rapides,
Madison, East Baton Rouge, Pointo '
: Coupe, East and West Feliciana, they
j are equally numerous. In St. Mary's
1 thoro is’a 'Democratic'Colored club iu
each ward, aud so in many other
parishes. Phis desertion of tho Rad
ical party, by tlie negroes, comes not
from intimidation or coercion, but
from their disgust at the profligacy,
corruption aud sconndrelism of the
1 carpet-baggers and scalawags who
have led them only to delude, and*
rob, and blackmail and swindle them;
only to plunder their school fund,
and wrong and injure them every
way, until suffering and poverty are
their portion; and iu their distress,
they, like the honest Republican
masses of the North, “want a change."
Tho Democratic party is willing to
go before the country, holding up the
record of the Democratic House-of
Representatives. It is gathering
commendation from all quarters. The
Nalinn, a cultured, deliberative journ
al that never says anything in favor
of tho Democratic party unless it
seems to be absolutely convenient,
says of the record of this House:
Wo confess we think this a very
fair showing, and that in a good many
other respects the “record” of this
Democratic House ot Representatives
will bear comparison very well with
that ot most of its predecessors. It is
the first House since tho war which
has shown the slightest appreciation
of tho demand of tho country for re
trenchment in the extravagant ex
penditures of tho Government, and
the fiist Congress for a long time that
has brought its labors to a close de
cently and in order, without tue long
rolling chaos.
A Preference. —“If you prefer tho
keg of lager or the bottlo of wino to
me just take them down to the mag
istrate and get married to them.”
“What do you mean,” said John.
“Just what I say. I don’t want a
vouug man to come here in the eve
ning chewing cloves to hide his
breath and his habits of drinking. If
you like lager more than you love mo
just marry it at ou.ee, and don’t di
vide your affections betwen women
and wine, for a woman and lager,
love and liquor have no affinity.
“Why, Mary, how do you talk,”
exclaimed John.”
“Yes, I mean what I say; unless you
sign the pledge and keep it, you had
better not come back here again.”
John did sign tho pledge, aud lio
married Mary.
A Providence boy went to a birth
day party, aud describes it as follows:
“First, wo all had somo bread and
blitter; then wo had somo lemonade,
cold enough to freeze us; then wc had
a piece of birthday cake; then
we all had lots of ice cream; and then
we all had tho stomach ache; then wo
all lay down, and the big girls gave
us some peppermint; then wo all went
out to play.” *
No. 31.