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A Legal Complication.
The first legal complication arising
from the change of time occurred in
Boston. On the 13th a notice for the
examinatibn of a poor debtor was is
sued from the office of the Commissioner
of Insolvency. It was returnable on
the 20th inst. at nine o’clock in the fore
noon. According to custom the poor
debtor is allowed one hour’s grace. He
appeared before the Commissioner at
forty-eight minutes past nine o’clock,
standard time, but the Commissioner
ruled that it was after ten o’clock, and
di faulted him. The case will probably
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VOL X.
A !jCUOOL-I)AY.
•*Now, John,” the <liuti a let teacher wiya,
With frown that scarce can hida
The dimpling Rinile* around her mouth,
Where C’upid’h hoata abide,
<4 What have you done to Mary Ann,
Tliat ahe is crying ho V
Don’t say *twaa ‘nothing’ - don’t, I Bay,
For, John, that can’t be ho;
“For Mary Ann would never cry
At nothing, I am sure;
Anti if you’ve wounded justice, John,
You know the only cure
la punishment 1 80, come, stand up.
Transgression must abide
Tbe pain attendant ou the scheme
That makes it justiliod.”
So John step* forth, with sun-burnt face,
And hair ail in u tumble,
His laughing oyes a cont rant to
Ilia di'ooping mouth sohiunble.
“Now, Mnry, you must tell me all-
I see that John will not,
And if he's been unkiud or rude,
I’ll whip him on the spot.”
“W—we wero p playin’ p—pria’tier's b—-
base.
An’ h—he is s -such a t -/tease,
An’ w—when I w—wasn’t I—lookin’, ra—
ma’am,
II he kr- Jciweti mu -If you please 1”
Upon the teacher’s face the smile*
Have triumphed o’er the frown,
A pkasant thought runs through her mind,
The stick comes harmless down.
But outraged law must be avenged I
Begone, ye smUcs, begone I
Away, y e little dreams of love,
Come on, ye frowns, come on]!
“i think I'll have to whip you, John,
Such conduct breaks the rule;
No boy, except a naughty one,
Would kiss a girl—at school.”
Aghiu the teacher's rod is raised,
A Nemesis she stand*—
A prt miiun Were put ou sin,
If punished by such hands {
As when the bee explores the rose
We see the petals tremble,
So trembled Mary’s rose-bud lip*—
ller heart wouhl not dissemble.
“T u ouhln’t w hip him uerjv hard”
Hit* stick stops in its fall—
“It wasn’t right to do it, bui
lt didn’t hurt at all I”
“What made you cry, then, Mary Ann?”—
The* school’s noise makes a pause.
And out upon the listening air,
From Mary comes— I “Because I”
• Will F. Mc&parran, in Our Continent.
FIELD, FORI' AND FLEET.
THK msMON or FIKt.D ARTILf.KRY,
Home Hiritiina I'xnn.i'lefi of “drain* iiml
(.'iiiaier M
“Bring lip the guns I”
Let the order bo hoard by a regiment
of infantry crowding to tlio rear in a
panic and it will bait the men in their
tracks and make fighters of them again.
There is something in tho companion
ship of a field bat I cry that makes a foot
so'dicr braver than when his regiment
fights alone. The guns may be wasting
ammunition ns they roar and crash, but
it seems to the regimouts on flank or in
rear tliat every discharge Is driving
great gaps through the enemy’s lines.
So long ns tho battery remains the tmi>-
ports will remain. Even when tho order
is given to double-shot tho guns and the
infantry can see tliat half the horses
have been shot down he still carries the
feeling that grape and canister will win
the victory. The loss of horses, wagrms
and small arms is lightly mentioned in
official reports and ttio losers feel no
degradation, but. let a brigade lose a
single gun from one of its batteries,
and every soldier feols tho shame. It
is next to losing the flag presented to
a regiment as it marched from home.
AT MECHANICSVILLB.
When McClellan, in Ida change of
base, took position at Mcchanicsville,
his left rooted neap Ellison’s mill. For
three hundred yards in front the ground
was ojion, u part of it being a plowed
field. Two hundred feet in front of the
Federal lines ran the mill-race, which
then hni perpendionlar banks and con
tained four feet of water. Thirty feet
back from the race the Federals had
made an abattis of rails, tree- tops, limbs
and sharpened stakes. Then came more
than thirty field-pieces in lino, and be
hind them ou the slopes wero infantry
supports three lines deep.
Pender's brigade, of IX H. Hill’s com
mand, advanced alone to assault this
position, intending it as a flank move
ment to turn the Federal left. They
had no sooner moved out into the open
ground than tho artillery hail a fall
sweep at. them. Or.ipe, canister and
short-fused shell were hurled at them
almost by tho ton, and in five minntes
the fonr regiments which had left cover
in beautiful order were little lxitter than
a mob. However, instead of retreating
in a panic, tho moil dropped to the
ground, and liegan a sharp musketry
fire. This was answered by volleys
from lveyond the mill-race, which liter
ally plowed the ground.
Pender hung until the assault became
a butchery, and then the order was given
to retire. Pender’s brigade numbered
less than 8,000 men, and yet in twenty
five minutes its loss was nearly one-sixth
of its strength. It was an exception to find
a man who could not show bullet holes
through his clothing, and some of tho
wounded were hit threo and four times.
Those who buried tbe dead said that of
the 200 or more killed by tbe artillery
fire at least 175 were so torn and muti
lated as to be little better than a bloody
mass.
As Pender waa driven back he mat
Ripley’s brigade, of thsHime command
i 'btniug to his support, Lee knew the
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY LIVENING. DECEMBER ‘26, 1883.
position, bat he must curry it to turn
the Federal left. This second brigade
had less than, two thoinaml four huu
dred men. and, united with Ponder, the
total strength was not over five thou
sand. Four times that numlier oould
not liave made an. upon that
position."
When Pender had rallied his men, the
two brigades advanoed in column of as
sault, breaking oover with a cheer and
on tho double quick. The federal guns
were worked with terrible energy, but
under cover of the snntco, and by crawl
ing upon bands and kisaes, the Oonfod
ates reaoked the miß raoe. Indeed,
several hundred of tbom crossed it.
Then, for forty minutes, there was a ter
rific struggle. Ho fierce was the Federal
infantry fire over and through tho
abattis that it was gradually whittled
away. Limbs as largo os a man’s arm
were barked, chipped and splintered as
if lightning had played over them, and
the surface of tho mill-race was covered
with splinters, twigs and leaves.
Pender and Ripley oould. not advance
beyond the canal in foreo. They oould
uot long maiutuiu their lint's where they
were. The fire from the Federals
searched every foot of ground, and
every miniito their lines were melting
away. When the under vtas given to
fall baok, the artillery raked them again
as they crossed the open ground, and
when tho men finally reached oover, the
loss of each regiment had become amaz
ing. For instance, the Forty-fourth
Georgia, which numbered only about
700 men, lost 338 officers and men.
Every field officer was killed, and of the
ten captains and twenty lieutenants,
only twelve remained. It was the same
with tho Third North Carolina and other
regiments.
AT FllAZmil's FARM.
At Frazier’s Farm, dining this same
eventful week, Randall’s battery of six
pieces was ou McClellan's right, and
supported by tho Fourth Pennsylvania.
Tho front was an oil field, devoid of
shelter, and the l>ntt“iy was playing into
the woods holt a milt) beyond. This
battery so annoyed ihe Confederates
that n brigade was ordered to charge it.
The Eleventh Alabama had the lead,
and was to be closely supported by tho
other tlmee regiments. Through some
blunder the A laluiifliaiiß, numbering
about seven hundred and fifty, were per
mitted to advance alone.
They wese Been as soon os they broko
cover, and raoro than one hundred of
them were klled by the artillery as they
advanced across the field. The men
were thrown iaito disorder one moment
to be rallied thu next, and, finally, with
muskets ut a tmil and oaps swinging in
the air, they lnwlo a rush straight upon
the guns. As tloey came tarar tho Penn
(ylvaniaus rose up and delivered two
or three vo'ieys right into (horn. These
were returned, and then tie final rush
was made. In a minute a wild mob was
swirling ’round and ’round the guns—
bayonets drinking blood—iflubbed mus
kets felling men—the wouipled stagger
ing up to clutch an enemy (uni pull him
down.
The guns wero won. Th<Fourth was
pushed slowly back, but as the cheers
of the Alabamians drowned the noise
of tho battle to the right and left, the
Seventh Pennsylvania came to the sup
port of the Fourth. Tho tight which
now took place was witnessed by at
leant two generals anil half a dozen
colonels, outside of the liimdrcds in
the ranks. It was two regiments to one,
but the Alabamians had won tho guns
and were determined to hold them.
Not a single company formed in line—
uot nn officer had a command. Two
thousand mad and infuriated mon
rushed at eaoli other with murder in
their hearts. No one askod for quarter
—no one gave it.
At tho end of twenty minutes tho
Pennsylvanians gave way, not overpow
ered by numbers but pressed back by
such dare devil fighting as nol*>dy had
ever witnessed before. The gnns had
been taken, but there wero no horses to
draw them away. The captors were
making arrangements to draw them
away when there was a rally on the part
of the Federals. The smallness of tho
Confederate force suddenly became
plain as the smoko lifted, and before a
gnu could tie moved hot fire was opened
from a whole brigade, followed by a
charge. The Alabamians were picked
up and hurled back in a broken mass,
and the last of them had not readied
the woods before the guns were again
playing upon them. The loss of the
Confederate regiment was over 150 men,
100 of whom, including l ight company
oommanders. died around tho battery.
THE REPtmSE AT KBNNEBAW.
The day after the repulse of the Fif
teenth Corps at Kennesaw Mountain
the Fortieth and Fifty-seventh Indiana,
Ninety-seventh and Twenty-sixth Ohio,
Twenty-eigtli Kentucky, and One
hundreth Illinois regiments, each num
bering about 800 men, were selected to
make an assault on a ridge 800 yards in
their front. Tho lines were formed in
regimental divisions, and while the
front was only the width of two com
panies the depth was thirty lines of men
in open order. It was in fact a giant
wedge of flesh and blood and steel
which was to drive itself through the
Confederate lines.
Ab the men stood in line their officers
explained to them iu low and earnest
tone* what was planned and what was
hoped for. It was a forlorn hope indeed.
Every man must have realized that there
would l>e a terrible loss of life even be
fore tho salient was reached, but each
oue seemed to nerve himself for what
was to come. During tho twenty min
utes’ interval between forming and tho
order to advanco there was almost dead
silence iu the ranks. Tho men leaned
upon their muskets and peered through
the forest in their front which hid the
Confederate position, and the supports
ou the ilauks moved up and into position
as if fearing that their footsteps M ould
disturb tho dead of the dav before.
It was uot positively known to tbe
Federals that the salient was defended
by cannon. Tho hope that it was not
gave the men more spirit, as tho lay of
the ground—forest, thicket and ridge—
furnished fair shelter from musketry
fire.
Soon after 8 o'clock a single low
spoken order brought every man to a
front face. Tho moment had come.
As tho column had formed under cover
it was hoped to take the defenders of
the salient by surprise. Tho Huoh were
dressed, and in a moment more were
moving through the woods. From the
valleys at the base of the Kennesaw,
Lost or Fine Mountains to their crests
there is seoroely a level spot. Tho
sides are oovered with forests and
thicket, and the ground is almost a suc
cession of rooky terraces. Over this
difficult ground tho great blue wedge
forced its way at a rapid pace, lint no
cheer was heard—no shouts were given.
“OraoM 1 crock I crack!’’
It is the alarm from tho Confederate
skirmishers, who have crept down al
most '/o tho base of tho mountain. They
are posted behind great rooks and hid
den behind ledges. They cannot retreat;
they must surrender or fight it out.
They olioose the latter course. Nino
out of every ten hold their positions un
til the point of the blue wedge reaches
them and brings a savago dejitli with it.
All along the sides of the grim moun
tain the skirmishers bar the nay, seek
ing to detain tho wedgo and alarm tho
defenders of the salient. Here and
there a Federal throws up his hands and
falls back, hut the column makes no
halt. Up, up, up, anil now an officer in
front waves his sword as tho slopes of
the parapot come, into sight. Here the
cover suddenly ends. From the hushes
to tho salient, a distance of 200 feet, tho
ground bus been swept bare of tree and
bush, and rocks have been rolled aside.
At the foot of tiro parapet is a palisade
—outside of that an abattis. Behind the
works are a thousand muskets—a thou
sand Confederates with fingers on i .rig
gers. At regular intervals along this
line—2so feet front—are six field pieces,
each one loaded with grape and canister.
The men within are waiting, Not an
order is give n nor n head appears in
sight until tho first line of blue is out of
oover.
Now, as if onu finger had pressed the
thousand triggers, a great sheet of flame
leaps fortli and scorohes and blisters
'and shrivels the advance. The second
hue crowds up over tho dead and dying,
the third and fourth cheer as they come.
Now, with a crash as if a volcano was
breaking through tho crest of the moun
tain, the six guns belch their contents
into tliat mass of men sixty deep.
The effect was horrible. What wore
men a moment ago are now bloody
shreds blown against tho rooks and scat
tered far over the ground. ' Some of the
gory fragments fall upon the lines yet
half-way up the slope.
The advance halts in confusion—tlif
roar lines crowd up. There is another
bloody feast ready as soon os the oanuon
can lie ohargeil. Then comes the order
to break lines and divide to the right and
left to get out of range of the artillery.
The men rusli forward to the ulmttis—
some lie flat down—others take oover
liehind rocks.
For fifteen minutes heroic carnage
holds them Ixiforo the salient. The Con
federates have them at their mercy. Men
take deliberate aim and send a bullet
through tho heads of the living targets.
When the burial party comes to do its
work it will find that seven out of every
ten Federals lying before that abattis
has lieen killed stone dead by a single
bullet.
Tho lire of musketry might have
checked the assault, but aided by artil
lery the oheck bocamo a butchery.
Grape and canister searched out spots
secure from bullets, and men in the
very rear ranks, who did not even catoh
sight of the abattis wero struck down by
the iron missiles. No assault could
have brought out more nerve and hero
ism, hut it was tho wave dashing against
a rocky clifl.
When the men had fallen back to their
original positions tire roll of dead and
wounded was a shock to those who had
escaped. No one had blundered. John
ston’s lines were there, and they must
be carried by assault. Sherman was
looking for a weak spot to drive a wedgo
into. That salient was one of tho
strongest points on the Confederate line.
M. Quad.
A Brigand. —Black Bart has robbed
more than a score of stages in California
single handed. He had a habit of writ
ing doggerel verses and pinning them
to rifled express boxes. Tho rewards
offered for his capture amounted to
nearly $15,000, and a stray bit of his
versification finally betrayed Irina,
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WK FIND IN TIIBM TO IAr|UI
OTKK*
THAT DANOEItOUfI mMn.lt.
But oh, that dimple in your chin !
I'm sure my heart lies buried there.
In such a pit 'twere sooth no sin
To fall. Your eyes were bssoons fair;
I drank the fragranoo of your hair;
You digged the pit, I tumbled in,
And then you did not seem to care.
lint oil, tliat dimple in your chiu !
I'm sure my heart lies bulled there;
Nor prinoe, nor peer, nor paladin
Had o'er a tomb so rosy rare—
So white without, so pink within—
To kiss that sepulchre I dare ?
But oh, that dimple in your chin !
—Curie.
AT Tim STAMP WINDOW.
‘Has postage boon reduced to two
cents?’’ “Yes’m."
"For letter?” “Yes'm.”
“Then a two Cent stamp will, actually
carry a letter ?" "It will.”
“And there’s no need of (Pitting on
three cents ?’’ "Not a bit. ”
"Do you know Mrs. Blank ?"
"No’m."
“She says it's two oents iu the city.”
"It is two cents anywhere iu tho coun
try.”
“She says she sent a lettor to tier hus
band ill Chicago with a turn cent stamp
on it and he never got it.” “I can’t
help that, ma’am.”
"Then two oouts is enough?"
"Plenty.”
* ‘And her husband probably got the
letter and didn’t answer it?” “Prob
ably.”
"Well, I’ll tako a two-cent stamp, but
if there is any doubt about the matter,
I’d as soon pay more. It will go, will
it?”
"Yes’m.”
"Go right out to-day?"
"Yes’m.”
"Well, I hope so, for it's a very im
portant letter. You know Mrs. D ,
who lives on street ?”
“No’m.”
“Well, it s for her. She lives in Buf
falo now. She asked mo for tho best
way to piokle mixed——.” Tho woman
had to stand aside for two or threo min
utes, but ns soon us tho window was
clear she returned to say: I‘l’ve got the
stump ou.”
“Yes’m.”
"Two oents.”
"I HOC.”
"Ami it’ll go?”
"It will”
"If it don’t 1”
And she probably didn’t Bleep a wink
lost night. —Detroit Free J'rens.
AU FAIT IN EVERYTHING.
"What kind of a man is he ?” asked a
gentleman about a young society man.
"Ob, lie’s mighty popular with the
women.”
“Is ho intelligent?”
“No, not particularly. You see,
there’s not much demand for intelligence
in society.”
“Does he danco?”
“Of course.”
"Knows what’s going on in theatricals,
music, etc. ?”
“Of course.”
“Au fait iu everything, I presume ?”
“Well, I don't know whether he owes
Fay or not, but I know he owes about
every man of my acquaintance. Who
is Fay? I’ll look him up mid see if he
doesn't owe him too. I’ll bet he does.”
—Merchant Traveler.
Modem Courtship Scene.
“Anil you really love mo dearly?” he
asked, as lie coiled his arm about her
wasp-like system. “And you'll always
love roe so ?”
“Always, Frederick; ever so.”
"And you pledge me to sew but—”
"Sir!”
“ You pledge me to so beautify my
lifo that it will always l>e as happy os
now ?”
“ With my last breath, Frederick.”
“ And, darling, you will mend my
stock—”
"Your what, sir?”
“ You will mend my stock of knowl
edge nud draw mo upward and onward
to a better existence?”
“ ft will be the pride of my lifo so to
do, Frederick. I will sacrifice all for
your complete happiness.”
“ I know that, sweetheart. But sup
pose in tho fullness of time some acci
dents should happen to—to—say the
Iron—”
“ You forgot yourself, sir. To tht
what?”
"To the trousseau; would it defer tho
hour that makes you mine?”
“Never, Frederick. lam yours, minn
and heart, and naught can separate us.”
“And vou will care for me ever, my
soul, and I for you; for though I may
never have a shir ”
“Enough 1 Leave me forever.”
“But listen. Though I may never
have a shirking disposition, I shall some
times, perhaps, in the struggle of lifo,
ivget the plain duty ”
And so on. That’s modern courtship.
Lots of abstract swnsh, but a manifest
disinclination to contemplate such con
veniences as buttons, socks, trowsers
and shirts. —Chicago Tribune.
Innocent.— A doctor oharged with
malpractice has committed suioide in
England. What renders the matter
peculiarly melancholy is that the evi
dence seems to point to )iia innocence.
no. m
The Work of I’aviUrj mcii. ft
Colonel A. G. Brackett, Third Cav
alry, read a paper before tbe Military
Service Institute on "Onr Cavalry: Ita
Duties, Hardships and Necessities at
Our Frontier Posts." “This nrm of the
service,” he said, “had grown apace of
late years, and though it is very costly,
may bo safely said to have paid for itself
over and over again iu the safety it lias
furnished to tho frontier settlers and tho
immense benefit it has been to the
nation in opening the highways and by
ways of the interior of the North Ameri
can oontiuont. The duties are some
what changed of late, in that the trooper
is oalled upon to shield the red men
from tho cupidity of the border settlers,
instead of orowding him, as formerly,
to the wall; and it is, after all, only a
question of time when tho wave of civil
ization will awell over the boundary lines
and occupy tho lauds which tho red men
now cali their own. Asa general thing
our soldiers wear their futiguo uniform
and work at almost anything except sol
diering. They build houses, make
roads, cut wood, burn brush, clear up
land, and, in fact, do pretty much every
thing except attend to the duties they
are supposed to have enlisted to perform.
The trooper often steals food for his
horse, and iu many eases shares his
scant ration of bread with him.
"There are very few cavalry mon who
have served any considerable length of
time ou the frontier who have not been
turned out by au alarm of Indians.
Usually some farmer comes riding in on
horseback iu his shirt sleeves, laboring
under the greatest excitement, hallooing
‘lndians 1 Indians!' and, alter he has
become sufficiently cooled down to toll
his story, uufolds a sickening tale of the
manner in which some of liis relatives
have been butchered in cold blood by
the savages, or his horses ami cows
killed so as to leave him completely im.
poverished. Thou there is hurrying to
and fro in the little fort—rations have to
bo drawn and put up iu bundles, the
pack mules saddled mid loaded, and tkea
the cavalry horses themselves have to
be saddled and made ready for the field.
Just at nightfall, perhaps, the motley
cavalcade moves out over hill and dale
iu search of tho trail of the savages.
After scouting l. om seven to ten days
no enemy is seen, no trail discovered
and the Indians themselves have van
ished like the veriest phantoms of the
mountains. Not one scouting party iu
twenty finds Indians, the greater num
ber of scouts rendering unsatisfactory
results.
"There is au ever increasing desire ou
tho part of young officers to carry the
luxuries of the ago to tho frontier post,
and this gives liso to many so-called
hardships. We sec tho most incongru
ous things at times, and many a young
bride has been taken to a frontier fort
who pines for the beautiful things she
left in her father’s home in tiie East.
Still she holds on to some things, and a
Turkish rug frequently covers a dirt
floor and a grand piano becomes soiled
by tho mud of sun-dried bricks. I pre
sumo most old officers have seen a man
put on a good many airs because lie was
the fortunate possessor of a cabbage ora
mess of potatoes, wliile others had none
of these toothsome comestibles. It
does not tako much to make an aristo
crat.”
Fancy the Bride’s Feelings.
At the Church of St. John Nepomuk
there was an ocourronco of singular, and,
to most people, awful solemnity, says tho
St. Louis Republican. At eight o’clock
there wis a high mass celebrated, at
which were married a young couple.
When the ceremony was nearing its
close, tho bride and groom, with their
attending bridesmaids and groomsmen
kneeling ou the steps of the altar, and
tlio church crowded with frieuilH and
relatives, the church hell pealed forth,
not tlio merry marriage chime, but the
slow and dolorous toll for tho dead. To
tho door of tho church there aims a
hearse, and into tho middle aisle, down
which the newly-wedded ones Mere
compelled to pass, there was brought
tho long bier with all its somber display.
When they had received the blessing
of the priest, tlio bride and groom
turned, and iu moving to the door of the
church, had to separate and pass one on
either side of death’s pedestal. In the,
choir the organ trembled with tho joy
ous strains of the “Wedding March;” in
the belfry the iron throats belched forth
the monody of death; nt the door, in
place of the coach whicli was to convey
those, who had just been made one to
tho festive joys of a wedding breakfast,
there stood tho vehicle which conveys
all that is left of man after dissolution
to the durk and narrow house.
"1 believe I’ll have to reduoo your
wages, John,” said a miserly employer
to one of his help the other day. “What
for?” was tho query. "Because things
are coming down. The necessaries of
life are cheai>er, and you can afford to
get along on smaller pay.” “I should
like to know what necessaries of life are
cheaper,” said John ; “beef is as high
as ever, flour hasn’t dropped a cent, and
coal is as dear as ever.” “Well,” said
the employer, as he turned away, “at
any rate, the price of postage stamps
has been reduced one-third. ”
England is the mistress of the seas,
but the numerous forests in this ooun
try leave America mistress of Ihe saws,
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ing full well that if ho ever saw
rise a prisoner it would be his last day
mi earth, I was only 17 years old and a
little reckless, but strict to oliey orders.
I .’ ad no pity for him, and perhaps lie
realized Ibis and was silent. The pris
oner sa( beside n post or stump, some
times leaning agaiiißt it, and tho distance
between us was not over eight feet.
A!iiit 9 o’clock a comrade, who hud
been out foraging, returned and emptied
a bag of apples just behind mo. I turned
partly around to piok up one and as I
turned bjjck I did uot look directly at tho
for I was certain he was all
right, i having heard no sound to arouse
my suspicions to tho contrary. As my
side was to him when I picked up the
apples, ho must have stolen away as
noiselessly as a shadow, as soon as ho
caught my eyes off of him. I can now
imagine t hat he went on n 2:40 gait. I
went on eating my apples, certain that
Ihe jiost ho ivati sitting by was the pris
oner himself and all right.
I suppose fifteen minutes had passed
whilst eating apples. About this time
our captain hud occasion to get up. He
noticed that tho prisoner wus not there
and asked me whore ho was. I almost
jumped out of my boots—mHte with as
tonishment—when I realized what had
happened, anil my tongue almost became
paralyzed. The captain motioned me to
lie still. I finally asked him what on
earth I would do, knowing full well what
a stern general we had when duty called
for it, notwithstanding he carried a great
big heart and none of ns but would have
died for him in a moment. Tho enptaia.
was satisfied that I had not purposely let
the prisoner esca(>e, so he told mo to
tako opt a pair of my pistols and go up
a creek that run through the lot and
away from the house, and fire as fast as
I could, yelling halt! halt I halt I You
may believe I obeyed orders promptly
that time. The prisoner had been gone,
I suppose, at least twenty minutes. Tho
tiring raised Old Harry; all were up and
iu arms in nn instant, thinking the Fed
erals were in camp. The general came
out half dressed, anil when I came back
he asked me if I thought I hit him. I
told him I was almost sure I hail filled
him with pistol shots, and while ho
looked a bit doubtful I escaped oensure.
'Hie Indian Corn Crop.
The November report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture gives the total yield
of the Indian corn crop this year as ap
proximately 1,577,000,000 bushels. If
this estimate is correct the product this
year falls about 40,000,000 bushels short
of the crop of 1882, notwithstanding a
large increase of acreage. This is the
third crop “insuccession,” we are told,
“below an average, following six succes
sive crops above an average yield, or
twenty-six bushels per acre,” and the
i|unlity of the crop in the frosted belt is
said to be very poor. The report is not
flattering, but it will bo well if tho pres
ent deficiency of the corn harvest turns
out to be no greater than tho depart
ment estimates it. The Chicago corre
spondent of the Journal of Commerce
evidently fears that the crop is gen
erally overestimated, and slates that
“lowa has not enough com forborne
consumption,” while Minnesota, Wis
consin and Michigan are virtually in the
Hamo predicament.
Though it is not likely that there will
be any scarcity of corn in the country
before the crop of 1884 is seenred, the
fact that for three successive years this
most important of all onr cereal crops
should have been cut short by untimely
Northwestern frosts emphasizes the ex
pediency of extending its cultivation
south of the thirty-eighth parallel. Un
less the spring opens early in the North
west and tho corn can get a good start so
as to mature before the middle of Sep
tember, it is always liable to injurious
frosts. The great stream of tropical va
por traversing tho United States in sum
mer (under which alone can be found
the temperature and rainfall necessary
for the perfection of this tropical plant)
is projected from the Gulf coast, and
after reaching tlie Missouri and Ohio
valleys is deflected eastwardlv to the
west end of Lake Erie. Within the area
overspread by tbis “vapor plane,” and a
small rain belt Southwest of Lake Mich
igan, we must look hereafter for our
chiof supply of corn. Next year espe
cially it is to be greatly desired that the
acreage of corn within this area will be
largely increased.
The New Time.
In order to give its readers an idea of
Iho proposed system of reckoning time
by enumerating the hours from 1 to 24
without regard to a. m. and p. m.,the
Detroit Evening Journal printed its is
sue of November 17th, throughout as if
that system had been actually adopted.
Accordingly the readers of that journal
were somewhat startled at the headlines,
“14 o’clock edition,” “15 o’olock edi
tion,” and “17 o’clock alltion,” and to
observe that matinees at theatres would
begin at 14 o’clock, that- the musical en
tertainmout on the preceding day be
ginning at 20:30 was a delightful affair,
that a furious fire broke out in South
Chicago that day at 16 o’slock, eta