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VOLUME V.
Atlanta Medical College,
ATLANTA. QA.
The Twenty-First Annual Course of Lectures
will commence Oct. 15th. 1878, and close March
4th, 1879.
Faculty—J. G. Westmoreland. W. F. West
moreland, W. A. Love, V. H. Taliaferro, Juo.
Thad. Johnson, A. W. Calhoun, J. H. Logan, J.
T. Banks: Demonstrator, C. W. Nutting.
Send for Announcement, giving full informa
tion. JNO. THAI). JOHNSON, M. D., Dean.
Alheuutrle Female Institute, Charlottes
ville, Virginia. S2OO for Board and Literary
Tuition for Nine months, beginning October Ist.
Music, Drawing, and Fainting extra. For Cata*
loguesaddress R. H. RAWLINGS, M. A., Prest.
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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY.
FOURTH SESSION opens Sept. 1, 1878, and
closes June 1, 1879.
Fees iu Literary and Scientific Department,
s<ift; Law. $100; Medicine, $65; Theology. sls.
Board and lodging per u onth, $lB to s2l.
Professors. 27; Instructors, 8; Students last
year, 405. For Catalogues address
L. C. GARLAND, Chancellor.
Nashville, Teun.
GAYLESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.
I 'HE Ninth Annual Session of this very popular
school will open on Monday, September 80th.
The prospects of the school were never so flat
tering.
There were kivk teachers employed In this
school last term, and from present prospects
there will be more required next term. A com
petent teacher is already employed for drawing
and painting.
Our course is now equal to that in our best
colleges.
Rates in all departments very low.
Board only $8 per month.
For further particulars address the principal,
REV. S. L. RUSSELL, A M
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IHth, 1878. For Circular and further particulars
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SUMMERVILLE MALE
AND
FEMALE INSTITUTE.
The next Session of this Institution of learning
will begin on
MONDAY, JULY Bth, 1878,
and continue flye months.
Summerville is a quiet and healthy place, and
presents as few temptations to vice a* any vil
lage in the State.
Pupils can obtain board on reasonable terms.
I have been teaching in Georgia and Alabama
for thirty years, and will prepare boys or girls to
enter any class in college. I will exert myself to
the utmost to advance my pupil* as rapidly as
possible, and hope to receive a liberal patronage.
The government of the school will be mild,
but llrm. I shall aim to treat my pupils as if they
were my own children, requiring them to do
right, but depending as far as may be upon moral
suasion. , . ~ . .
attention will be paid t|any who
may wish to prepare themselves to teaffn.
Kate* of Tuition per month of 4 week*:
Spelling, Reading, or Writing S 1 50
Oral Arithmetic or Primary Geography . . 200
Written Arithmetic, Intermediate Geogra
phy. English Grammar, Composition . 250
Algebra, Geometry, Philosophy, Chemistry,
Rhetoric, Latin, Greek or any other
branch not mentioned 3 50
Each patron will be charged with his share of
the incidental expenses.
The patrons will receive the benefit of the
public money. .
Unless special contract is made, no deduction
will be made, except for unavoidable absence of
a week or more. j c LOO ,„ s> A . M „
Principal.
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For the Gazette.']
THE WAY IT CAME AIIOUT.
Old Adam mounted his lonely walk,
And nothing found to please him:
lie sadly needed one to talk.
So tickle and to tease him.
Tojwhen the Lord a rib besought,
To make another human,
“Yes, Lord,” said he, “take all I’ve got.
And fix me up a woman. “
Teloga Springs, Ga. W. 11. Casey.
MY FIRST LOVE.
I remember
Meeting you
In September
Sixty-two.
We were eating,
Both of us;
And the meeting
Happened thus:
Accidental,
Ou the road,
[Sentimental
Episode.]
I was gushing,
You were shy;
You were blushing—
So was I;
1 was smitten,
So were you;
[All that’s written
Here is true.]
% And money?
Not a bit,
Rather funny,
Wasn’t it?
Vows were plighted—
Happy pair!
llow delighted
People were I
But your father—
To be su re—
Thought it rather
Premature;
And your mother—
Strange to say—
Was another
In the way.
What a heaven
Vanished then—
[You were seven,
I was t en.]
That was many
Years ago—
Don’t let any-
Body know.
ROMANCE ON THE RAIL.
It was at Jim Larnigan's wedding; and
the occasion suggested the story. Jim
had “set ’em up handsome for the boys;’’
and the generous wine had warmed Cap's
blood until he felt that every man was a
brother; or he might have been more re
served about this episode in his checkered
life. For Cap seldom spoke of his wife
to the boys; and when he did it was with
a deferential air unusual in one of his
class.
There was a legend current that a “green
band’’ on the road had once hailed him
with:
“Well, Cap, how's the old woman and
the babies?”
The story ran that, without deigning an
answer in words, Cap struck straight from
the shoulder, and his would-be friend went
to grass with a shanty over his eye for
his undue fan iliarity. The chivalrous
spirit of the act appealed to those rude
natures mi re foicihly than a volume of
sermons could have done, and all along
the line Cap Lollard’s wife was invested
with a sort of halo of romance.
“Wal, gentlemen,” began Cap, in re
spon.se to the solicitations of the crowd,
“if nothin’ else ’ll do ye, I suppose you
must have yer way; so hyer goes:
“In the summer of ’OS 1 was haulin' a
construction train, though I was put on
to a passenger that fall. There wa'n’t
much business on the road; an’ we was
ordered to ballast up a long stretch o’
track, dodgin’ out o’ the grand pit an’
back ag'in between the reg’lar trains.
“All 'long the road thar was some mighty
fine farm houses; and one struck my eye
in partie'lar. It was the reg’lar old stylo—
low an’ spreadin’ out over the ground so’s
to be comfortable an’ roomy. A lot o’
clamberin' vines an’ half a dozen wide
spreadiu’ oaks made it a mighty cool
lookin place on a hot summer afternoon;
and an old fashioned well-sweep to one
side made you think that water was a
pretty choice article after all.
“Wal, boss, you bet it was n ighty slow
work setriii’ on the box in the sun, with
that home in sight, while the men was
unloadin’ the fiats; and it didn’t take me
long to make up my mind that I was
powerful thirsty whan we got jest about
opposite that partie’lar place. So down
I jumps, leaving the fireman in charge,
an’ makes fur the house, all legs an’ no
ceremony.
“I was jest fetchin’ up at the well when
Iturried, an’—Jerusha Jane!—tharin the
doo-way stood about the trimmest hit of
female flesh ari' blood that 1 ever sot eyes
on —you hear me! Lord love ye! I allow
thar couldn’t no two-legged man critter
look at her without its tnakin' his mouth
water!
“Fellers, I felt jest like a sshoolboy
caught in a melon patch! My breeches
was in my boots; I had only one gallus —
no vest —no coat —no collar, and an old
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1878.
felt hat with three-quarters of the rim
torn away, leavin’ the rest stickeu' out
like the visor of a cap. An’ thar she
stood a lookin' an’ hillin' a little, I
thought, because I was so all struck in
a heap! 1 had waltzed up thar as brash
as a sky-terrier; but one blink o' hor
roguish eyes, an’ you could have
knocked mo clean out o' time with a
feather.
“ ‘Hem! Kin I git a drink, madam, if
you please? said I kind o’ stammerin’.
“ ‘Y.es, sir,’ says she, as chipper as a
bird. ‘Jest wait, an’ I’ll bring you a
dipper.”
“She skipped into the house and out
ag’in before you could toss up fur the
beer, briugin’ a dipper that you could 'a'
shaved by a deuced sight better than ary
three-cornered piece of lookin'-glass.
“ ‘lt's hot work rulin’ on a locomotive
this weather, ain’t it?’ says she, droppin'
her eyes, modest-like; but I knowed slic’d
took me in from top to toe, one gallus an’
all.
“ ‘lt’s all-fired hot,’ says I; an’ fur the
first time in my life 1 lost my tongue flat!
—faetl dummer’n a wooden man with his
mouth shut!
“Hut I didn’t lose my eyes, boss, you
bet! Lord love ye! she looked like as if
she’d jest stepped out of a fairy book,
with her sleeves rolled up almost to the
shoulders, an’ apron-strings circlin’ a
waist that Queen Victoria herselfcouldn’t
’a’ matched. An’ trim as a pin, an’ as
neat as wax!—fellers, t felt as if I’d jest
drop down on my marrow bones in the
grass an’ worship herl
“Hut all the time I knowed she must be
a thinking that 1 looked like a slouch;
an’ that made me sweat, you bet! So I
said:
“Thankee, ma’am!’
“An’ givin’ her back the nipper, I jest
humped myself fur that engine, cussin’
my luck at every breath.
“Wal, you bet yourself, the next day I
was tricked out like a drill sargent!—boots
shiny—black pants, with a roll at the
bottom, so’s to show the stiff nin ’ —b’ilcd
shirt, with a ruffled front—red butterfly
—an’ a crush hat that seven dollars and
ninety-nine cents wouldn’t buy! [1 that
cut didn’t take her eye, thou I’d throw up
my hand!
“she come to the door, but whirled
round like a flash, makin’ an excuse o’
goin’ after the dipper again. But I seen
the corner of her mouth go up, and
knowed she was a lafin’ at ray sudden
blow-out. Shu was a cute one, an’ knew
a thing or two. I could see that plain
enough.
"Hut with my store clo’s on I kin face
anything that wears calico; and I done
myself proud that time, 1 know. Before
I come away, 1 had a bouncin’ bowl o’
milk. It was a mighty thin drink; but
I’d ’a’ swilled dishwater if she’d offered it.
“After that my fireman run the train
mostly, while I lay in the shade under the
trees and heard her singiu’ about her
work, once in a while cornin’ to the door
to give me a pleasant word. Of course
I’d a’ got a double bounce if tiio tiling
bad got to headquarters; but my fireman
liked to learn, arid as long as bo didn’t
find no fault at his double work it. wasn't
no one else’s funeral. So the thing lasted
two weeks —such a soft job couldn’t run
long—and the bottom fell out.
“But Mary an’ me bad come to be
right smart friends by that time; an’
when 1 was put on the passenger I blowed
a signal jest before I came to the house,
an’ she’d stand in the door an’ swing her
sun-bonnet at me as we passed.
“Of course you all know that most o’
the Western roads was built on a bogus
plan. The farmers along the proposed
line was persuaded to give mortgages on
their farms, to be used as collateral to
borrow money on, the railroad companies
guaranteein’ to pay the interest on tho
mortgages and pay the farmers handsome
dividends on the stock they took in ex
change for the mortgages, so’s it ’u’d be
all in pocket with them, an’ never cost'em
a cent. All went lovely till the mortgages
fell duo. Then the companies bu’sted;
the stock wa'n’t woith a cuss; an’ thu
farmers had to clear off their mortgages
themselves, or git kicked out o’ house an’
home- Twa’n’t more'n human natur' that
they should rile at that; an' fur awhile
they pulled up tracks an' dumped trains
into the ditch kinder permiscuous, you
bet!
“Wal, as the fall passed, the ev'nin’s
got shorter, un:il I didn’t git to Mary’s
house until after dark. Then she used to
stand in the open doorway, with the light
behind her, or, when it stormed, at a
winder.
“One night L pulled out dead ag’in’ a
tearin’ north wester. It was blacker’n
lhe inside of a stone ink bottle, out; an’
the rain lashed ag’in’ the cab winder
so’s I couldn’t see through tho glass any
way.
“Just by Mary’s house there was quite a
down grade, an’ at tho end o' that grade a
curve round the face of a bluff, with a
thirty-foot fall on the outside of it —a
mighty nasty place to git ketched, old
boss, or I’m a liar! 1 thought about it
before I got thar, but l says to myself
says I:
“ ‘A man that's born to be hung 'll never
git drowned!’
“So I pushed ahead, as usual.
“Just before coinin’ to the Lockworth
farm I blowed u\y signal an' stepped back
outo’ the cab, to see the light in the win
der. Tho trees was jest more'n lashin’
an’ tossin', as I could seo by the flashes
o’ lightnin' bat thar wa’n'tno light,
“l was agoin’ to step back into the cab
mighty disappointed, considerin' it was
such a lectio thing, when crash! come
somethin' through the cab winder. By
a flash of lightnin’ I caught a glimpse
of a woman standin' beside the track,
bareheaded, an’ with her hair an’ clo’s
Mowin' wild, an’ heard a shrill voice
scream:
“ ‘Cap! Cap! Cap!!’
“A glance showed me tho frame of a
lantern rollin’ on tho cab floor. That
was enough- I knowed it meant dan
ger.
“To whistle fur brakes like mad —to re
verse the lever—to throw tho throttle
wide—to sand tho track —didn’t take no
time at all. An’ then I swung out on the
step an' looked ahead, while my fireman
was strainin’ the tender-brake to the lust
notch.
“It seemed an ago before she begun to
s'ack up; and when she corno to a stand
still the nose o’ tho pilot was within ten
feet of as dev’lish a device as you ever
seen- Half way round the curve, an’ in
the very worst place, a crosspiece was
spiked to the (rack an’ on this an' incline
p’intin’ our way, fur the pilot to run
up on.
“I reckon thar was some white faces,
when the passengers piled out o’ the car
an’ seen that they had eouie within ten
feet o' kingdom come! Someone asked
me how I found it out in time to stop her.
1 didn’t aniwer him nary a word; but,
jumpin’ on that engine again, I left the
boys to remove the obstruction while
1 backed that train to the Lockworth
farm.
“I found her beside the track, jest whar
she stoed when we passed her, the wind
a-blowin’ so’s she could hardly keep her
feet, an’ the rain a-blindin’ other almost.
When l jumped down, she nabbed me by
both arms, and screamed, hysterical-like:
'“Oh, Cap! Oh, Cap!’
“Then everything seemed to give way;
and she was as limp as an empty sack.
“Shu had overheard a farmer, what
had seen his family sot out of doors,
threaten to dump a train for the railroad
swindlers, and waichin’—because that
was my run, boys!—bad discovered the
plan to pile my train over the bank.
Knowing that 1 wouldn’t be likely to see
her signal, and remembering some stories
I’d told her, she stood close to the track
and threw a lantern through the cab
window.
“But now it was all over she wilted,
and 1 had her on my hands.
“I reckon, fellers, thar wasa queer, all
overish feeling about me, and a mighty
big lump in my throat. All dripping wet
as she was, I took her up in my arms and
straddled it off toward the house. And
thinking—mighty solemn, J kin tell ye!
as how slie’<l saved my life (not to mention
the hull train) and what a dainty leetle
thing she was to be out there alone in the
rain arid wind, waiting for me to come
along, I fell to kissing of her wet cheeks
and lips and hair, all the way up to the
house; and she let me, clinging to my
rieek, and sobbing, and saying, nowand
then:
“ ‘Oh, Cap! Oh, Cap!’
“And that, gents, is the how yer hum
ble servant popped the question.”
A man who is very rich now, was very
poor when ho was a boy. When asked
how he got his riches, he replied, “My
father taught me never to play till all my
wo.k for the day was finished, arid never
to spend money till I had earned it. If I
had but half an hour’s work to do in a
day, I must do that the first thing, and in
half an hour. After this was done I was
allowed to play. I early formed the habit
of doing everything in its time, arid soon
it became perfectly easy to do so. It is
to this habit I uow owe my prosperity.”
A party of Alabama regulators were
thrashing a man in the woods for stealing
a heg, when he owned up to three mur
ders. Don’t despise trifles.
Tilt: VILIAdI! AUTOCHAT.
Recently, in looking over an old vo'ume
of Parliamentary reports, l came across a
speech made by a member from Liverpool
named Wallace. With a degree of self
complacency that was truly refreshing ho
propounded the following bit of logic by
way of proving the general superiority of
England:—
“It lias been truly said that lie wliocom
mands the sea commands the commerce of
the world; that he who commands the com
merce of the world commands the wealth
of the world; and, surely, ho who can com
mand tho wealth of the world must com
mand the world itself. I venture to say no
man will dispute that England commands
the sea."
I smiled as I read, not so much at tho
bold logic of Mr. Wallace as at the
memory of an incident which his argu
ment recalled to my mind.
Years ago, an old pedagogue named
Kelly, kept the village school at Yagger,
a thriving manufacturing settlement on a
tributary of the Androscoggin River, in
Maine. In the village was a large new
hall, of which the citizens were very proud,
and which they were determined to pre
serve trorn rough and wearing uses. The
time came when a Thespian club wished
very much to use the hall for a series of
dramatic entertainments —to erect a stage
and put up scenery, &o.; but their propo
sition to the trustees met a stern and un
compromising refusal. Said old Kelly,
when lie heard of it: —
“J think I could get the hall for you,
that is if you will promise not to drive
nails into tho wall or to otherwise mar or
disfigure the property.” This the com
mute of the club promised most solemnly.
But they had little faith in the ability
of the simple-minded pedagogue to ac
complish tho end lie had undertaken.
What influence could lie have with the
stiff-necked trustees?
Attending tho village school was a cer
tain little “Bobby" Shafiwell, so called,
a bright-faced, forward, precocious lieio
of six years, whose mother literally wor
shiped him, and this boy regarded his
teacher as a very m march. Hy olio of
those peculiar pyscbologieal affinities for
which there is no accounting, Mule Hobby
bad come to worship bis kind old teacher
almost as ardently as bis mamma wor
shiped him.
TolittleHobby the pcdagogueappealed.
“Really, my dear boy,” he said, “I
should like to have you see the club per
form the drama of ‘William Tell.’ I
know it would please you to witness the
performance, and 1 believe your good
mother would enjoy not only pleasing pm
but. also tho play itself.”
He ventured no farther, and there wu
no need. Two days later the chairman ol
tho Thespian Club Comroiltee was in
formed that lie could have the u.-e of ihe
hall; and two weeks la’et still tho club
performed “William Tell, the Hero ol
Switzerland,” upon a spacious stage in
tho grand village hall.
“Goodness, mercy, Mr. Kelly, how did
you do it?” asked one of the Thespians.
Upon (lie promise of strict seeiecy ihe
ped igogue elucidated as follows:
“My dear young friend, the who ! e
thing is very simple. I govern the vil
lage school, and in doing that I govern
an only son who completely governs his
mother. The mother, iri turn, as with a
iod of iron, governs her husband; anil
this husband, being the wealthiest man
in the place—the leading spirit in fact
regulates anil controls the iiffa.rs of
tho town and of tho parish. Eryo 1
am Autocrat of the Village! Don’t yint
sec?”
The Thespian saw, and was thu jkful it
was so.— li'cai/ift'/ Ear,le.
•
IIUIXICR’S PRACTICES.
Butler boasts that he is the friend of
thopoorand the tax-payer, and i lie foe of
monopolists and nabobs. Who has been
tho attorney of the chief rui'ruad rings
of the country? General Bul!e \ Who
is reputed to he the am hor of l no f .nous
Credit Mobilicr scheme? Gen. Bei'e-,
as the counsel of tlio.>e engaged in ihe
enterprise, at a time when ho wan a mem
ber of Congress. Win) was one of ine
two members of the Hoe .o in. t vri.h’n
four months objected to ihe pi-.-a.j >i' a
bill compelling the Baeiiio Rai'rusd
companies to make p ovi .ion to pay r e
$64,000,000 of bonds spoil wiiicii the
govern meet has gua. intend the imeicsi,
and already paid out of rim taxes col
lected from the p oplo 0,000,000 of
interest? Gen. B. F. Bailor, the man
whose professed platform embraces a
declaration for equal taxation and equal
burdens. Who was the in in in Congre s
that, more that) any other Representative,
jorced through the Hours; til-- infamous
NUMBER 40.
salary grab 'oil! by which a member of
Congress was enabled to receive the wages
which at least a dozen mechanic* at that
time could earn? General Butler, the
champion of equal privileges, who is now
going about the country, disgustii g
intelligent people with his pathetic
declaration that ho loves the laboring mar.
Can Gen. Butler or any champion of
his, point out a single important solieme
for plundering the public treasury (rebel
claims excepted), any corrupt piece o l '
legislation proposed or advocated, any
scheme to enrich individuals like tho
Sanborn contracts and the Ju.vne moiety
robbery, or the Credit Mobißer dis ace,
which Gen. Butler, the champion of equal
privileges and equal burdens, has not
effected? In his whole public career, in the
army or in Congress, is there any one so
familiar with his practices ns to point out
wherehis labors as attorney for monopolies
and plotters have ended and .where his
services ns a representative of the people
have begun?— Huston Journal.
THU PARIS MORGUE.
One of the noteworthy institutions of
Paris is tho Morgue. All the bodies of
persons found dead within the limits of
the city, if it is not known who they are,
are sent to the Morgue to lie there until
claimed by friends, or until putrefaction
renders it necessary to bury them. Their
photographs, and a statement of their
sex, apparent age, and any peculiarity
which might enable friends to identify
them, are hung up in the outer room.
Between the second and third rooms is a
glass partition, through which those who
are iu search of friends, or who are at
tracted by curiosity, may see tho corpses.
They are laid, naked, upon tables of wood
covered with sheet lead, which slopo to
wards the partition, so that their features
may be seen. Their clothing is hung on
a hook immediately behind tho body.
Cold water isjjoutinually sprinkled upon
them to retard decomposition. If not
identified, they are buried at the public
expense, but the description is kept hang
ing up as long as it is thought likely that
any one may identify them, and recorded
in a book and laid away for reference, it
necessary.
All the associations of such a placo
would seem to be repulsive rather than
attractive: yet we are told that crowds of
both sexes, a ndofall conditions in life, may
bo seen at any time of the nay passing in
and out. The same love of the terrible
and mysterious which collects crowds in
this country to see a mad hung, finds its
manilcstatiou in visiting this ghastly
i place. The bodies mangled by murderous
! bands, expressing in thuir countenances
the frenzy of the suicide, or partly de
voured by fishes, present so shocking a
spectacle that it is no wonder that women
faint every day, and arc carried out by
the attendants.
1.1 III.E JOHN N V AND TIIE IMG EON
My sister says no man wicli shoots
pidgin matches slial marry her, but no
man wud want to marry her I guess, as
long as the pidgin slioolio held out, ccs
that wud be l'un ciiufl. Won she said it
her yurig man got rod !i t- a beat, but
didn't say nothin. Next day beast my
Uncle Ned did bo kno anybody v/ieh wud
like to hi a jarn-up good shot-gun. Uncle
Ned he said; “Ido like to hi it my own
soil' if it was a good pidgin gun, but I
ge.-s it aiut, cos it has como mity ni spilin
a match.” Some pidgins carry,-: letters,
same as the post office, undone time wen
my sist- rs yurig mail went away lie cot
one of our pidgins and took it along for lo
letch back a letter to her, jest for a flier.
Next day wenever that girl herd the
dore bel l iug she was jest wild, cos she
tliot it was her letter come, for hei ideo
was that tho pidgin wud leave it at the
post office, for to be delivered by a letter
carryer- But wen my mo her tole her
the pidgin must come thru the winder, she
went and thru up evry winder in tho hous,
and it was a cole day, and Frunky, thats
the baby, took cole and come mity neor
peterin out.
*• -ay
A young girl discovered her young
brother out behind the shod the other day
pulling away at a cigar. “There, young
man!” she exclaimed, as the cigar hastily
disappeared behind the boy’s back, “I’ll
tell your fattier on you —see if I don’t.”
“Yes, tell him,” retorted the brother,
suddenly recovering himself; “you tell
’itu, an’ see how quick that lollei o' yourri
’ll ship. I’ll tell lather how you an’ ’im
was siltin’ on the parlor sofa, an’ ’im a
buggin’ you. You just go an’ toll, that’s
1 all I ask.” The sister very discreetly
withdrew, while the young statesman
1 finished hi- si-iuki ill tiauqu.i'ity.