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THE PAULDING NEW ERA.
Wm. A. BREOFJSNRIBGE, Publisher.
“Onward and Upward.”
SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 Per Annum-
VOLUME I:
DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA., MAY i. 1883.
NUMBER 22.
9ENEF.AL NEWS.
Charlotte, N < pays (our dollars
per thousand fq et f or jp, gas,
A goose fa ro, with f>00 birds has been
established Talladega, county, Ale.
A Balt' „ nore capitalist intends estab
lishing. A vegetable canning factory iD
Vicks' iurg.
G’nii mile from Monroe, Ga., 9tands n
Log cabin that was once the homo oi
'Gov. Lumpkin.
T'.ireo hundred dollars an acre was
pa'ad for fifteen acres o^ land in Volusia
Lounty, Fla., the other day.
A $15,000 stock of goods is the prizi
of a shooting match at Meridian, Miss.,
the chances being held at $100 a shot.
The Board of Health of Cedar Keys,
Fla., lias prohibited the sale of oystert
from now until the close of the warm
season.
There are said to be 2,200 convicts in
the Texas penitentiary. Of this num
ber three-fifths arc negroes and Mex
icans.
Since the railroad has been completed
to Anniston, efforts arc being made te
develop the gold and copper mines of
Cleburne county, Ala.
An arrangement is on foot in Augus
ta, Ga., to have cooking taught in the
public schools. Much troublo is ex peri
enccd with tho domestic servants.
' A new enterprise, the “ South Geor
gia Real Estate Guide,” Is now pub
lished at Americus, Ga. It is published
by W. J. Dibble, who is trying to iu-
duce immigration.
Many of the Northern tourists on
their way home from Florida carry with
them pet alligators. At tho Charleston
Hotel a waiter is detailed especially to
feed and water the aligators.
A* English company have purchased
00,000 acres iron lands in East Tennes
see. They supply a capital of $1,000,
000, and will erect furnaces at once,
giving employment to 800 men.
The past season in Jacksonville, Fla.,
though rather short, has been the most
prosperous in tho city’s history. A
careful investigation shows that -14,107
tourists have visited the city during the
past winter.
Gen. Levi I.awlor, of Mobile, and
others are forming a company with
$200,000 capital, to establish at an early
day a pig Iron furnace of 00 tons daily
capacity, at Alpine, on the Selma, Rome
& Dalton railroad.
Truck farmers of South Georgia an
said to be snipping cabbage and real
izing from five to (even cents a pound,
they make from $75 to $100 per acre
them. Tho seed were sown last sum
mer and the plants set out in the fall
The killing of sheep by dogs is distreB-
singjy on the increase throughout Ter
(lessee, where dogs are protected by law
and the bloodthirsty (lieep are permitted
to roam at pleasure. Tennessee will
presently be contesting with Georgi
for the prize mad-dog.
Albany, (Ga.) sp eia’ : Several Tex
► ana have been buying up cattle in the
wire-grass region around here for several
weeks for shipment to Fort Worth, 'lex
It is said they have thus far procured
about 4,000 head at an average or 17.50
per head. The rates of shipping will he
$80 per car load.
Tones OF THE OAT.
At a roeont stenographic exhibition in
Paris a postal card was exhibited which
boro 41,000 words.
The grocn three cent stamp will liavo
been iu use thirteen years, when tho new
rate goos into effeot next October.
A MURDERER, who was hanged by a
mob at Jacksonville, III., some time
ago, turns out to liavo boon a sou of
Juantrell, the Missouri guerrilla.
A story oornos from Canton, China,of
v woman who, to puuisli a female slave
-vlio lmd stolon some food, out a slice
rom tho girl's thigh and made her cook
ind cat it.
Undeii a law making vaccination com-
mlsory, there has been very little small-
iox iu Massachusetts. For this mid
it-her reasons tho Legislature does not
lud it expedient to repeal the law.
A Mississippi man has discovered
bat an excellent finality of sugar can
>o made from awe -t potatoes. If this
irovos true a new use lias been found
.'or ono of tho best and most prolific of
Amoricnu products.
| |At Reading, i’n., a disease similar to
lie pink-eye among horses lias brokou
mt among tho poople. It temporarily
lostroys the oyo-sight, and llio troublo
asts about ten days. No permanent in
jury follows the attack.
In every tobacco factory nt Key West-
hero is a “reader.” Cubans eau not
alk without gesticulation, aud in or
ler to keep' them from talking a per
<on in employed to read aloud to tho
‘hands” during working hours.
' A Wasiiinoton, I). C., man named
King, lias invented a suicide pellet.
I'lioy aro tho size of a capsule, and aro
flavored to suit any taste. When swal
owed by the victim tlio moisture of tho
stomach causos them to explode, aud
tho umu is blown to atoms.
Statistics of crime in pevon of tho
largest cities of tho Uuitod .States, aud
basod upon population, show that San
Kranoisco loads in tho number of liomi
sides, followed in tho order of monlion
by Cincinnati, Baltimore, Now York,
Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston.
tor high treason in 1801, and who for
many years stood at tho head of tho Vir-
nia bar.
Russell’ S.von, tho famous dealer in
puts and oalis” on tho Now York Stock
Exchange, is regarded as tho most phe
nomenal lender tho stroot lias ovor had—
natural, almost womanly, with mind
avorso to violeneo or sinister tilings; aud
feeling niso prevails that ho lias n
classical education, whioh ho does not
claim for himself. IIo was in Congress
thirty years ago, was tho Treasurer of
Troy City nnd County many years, aud
possessed popularity then ns now,
A company is terming in the Htato of
Ohio, known as the "Time Telegraph
Company,” tho object of which is to put
in business and dwelling liousos clocks
run and regulated by eleotrioity. It is a
branch of a company in Now York. The
idea is tliat a subscriber may liavo plnoid
iu his house, for tho sum of $8 per year,
a clock that will neod no wiudiug or
ithcr attention. but will bo couuootod
by wire with a central oJlleo, from whioh
every pendulum in tho grand system of
-locks will he made to swiug with ono
lommon impulse.
Alexander F. Vioueuh, who died at
Philadelphia a few days ago, left tliis
odd will, which was drawn up in July
last: “My last will aud testament: I
leave my body to tlio University of
Pennsylvania for dissecting purposes,
nml wisli to be cromntod at the same in
stitntion. In ease I should liavo any
money or property nt tho time of my
dentil, I leave the whole to the doctor nt
tending me. In case I am cremated, I
wish my ashes to b) thrown away and
not given to or viewed by anybody that
bad boon acquainted with mo.”
among some of the disadvantages ot
royalty is the lack of privacy accorded to
it, and tho royal personages aro frequent
ly in tlio habit of soouring this privacy
when on a journey, by traveling incog
uito. Tlio King and Queen of the Noth
crlnnds are now passing through England
: n this way, aud aro sni l t > In enjoying
themselves lilio two children lot out of
sohool. Though it in perfectly well
known who they aro, by a convenient
lletion this knowledge is not utilized
and oven Queen Viotorlla has given no
olliciitl recognition of their visit to her
dominions.
MAKING A REPUTATION.
A Western paper tells of a scene that
took place In a Texas frontier town, ns
follows:—As Dusenbery walked into Cal-
Lilian's Retreat, the habitues saw at n
glauoo that something was about to hap
pen, and something did happen) for m
nhout half a minute thoro entered four oi
tho most ferocious-looking ruffians who
hod over licen seen in Fort Worth. They
come with clanking spurs and fierce
hoards, two revolvers to each Ition and n
largo bowio knife for logninppo, olid they
sat down to a table aud colled for wliiHky
around. A tremor ran through tho
assembly. Fort Worth's host citizoiiH
wore for a moment staggered. But
Dusoubory novor quailed. On the con
trary ho almost snorted with joy as ho
his opportunity to make a reputation
James Lick left $150,000 to ostablisl
aud maintain free baths in San Francis-
One of tlio trustees, Dr. Stillman
now proposes to iuerouso (ho fund by
popular subscription to $250,000, aud to
erect salt wator butli3 largo enough for
tho accommodation of tlio whole city,
A movement is on foot in Now York
and elsewhere to rniso a fund for tlio
erection of a monument Over tlio grave
of Charlotte Cushman, tho actress, nt
Mount Auburn, Boston. The gravo is
in a lot selected and paid for by Miss
Cushman only a few months before her
death.
The greatest quantity of stamps over
sent from Washington nt ono time were
shipped on the 23d of April by tlio Inter
nal Revenue Bureau. They wero tlio
rebato tobacco stamps for uso after Muy
1. They weighed lifteon tons, and rep-
represented a great many hundred
thousands of dollars in value.
The Star Business.
The nearest of tho fixed stars is twenty
trillions(20,000,000,000,000) of miles dis
tant from us. The next in distance is
four times farther removed. If wo at
tempt to fix an average distnneo for the
surrounding group of fixed stars nearest
our system, wo could not safely' give it n
radius of less than 400 trillions of miles.
Yet wlint does this involve? Light,
which reaches us from the sun in eiglil
and a half minutes, would take seventy
years in its journey across this vast
‘domain of space. If the volume of space
included within our solnr system were oc
cupied with one huge sphere of 5,000,000 -
000 miles diameter, even siteii a mighty
mass would be but ns a floating feather in
tlio marvelous spread of empty spnc
surrounding. This space would contain
twenty-seven hundred trillions of such
spheres, and would contain tlio ma
terial contents of our solar system
a number of times indicated by tlio figure
6 with twenty-two ciphers annexed.
An undertaker in Philadelphia re
cently advertisod for a full bearded man
of middlo age and of good address, and
explained tliat he wanted him to visit
families which deatli had entered to
take instructions regarding the funeral,
etc.., aud that there is something aliont a
boarded man that inspires respect and
confidence.
Boon alter the (J'ituovj,lagiHon was
established in its presiiit quarters nt
Washington n lioggxr c filed on prof
uiouul businoss. To liis amazement he
was ushered witli elaborate bows and
gestures into a luxurious room, where
ail attache kindly asked how lie. might
serve him. A collection was then taken
up for his benefit among tho members
of the embassy, and ho was invited to
refresh himself with a luucli of delicate
confections. As a matter of courso his
singular experience was known to every
beggar in town within twenty-four hours,
ami tlio legation has been besieged over
sinco by unprepossessing visitors.
A correspondent of The Boston Pott,
writing about tho remnants of Indian
tribes surviving in Massachusetts, says
"It is believed by those who have an op
portunity to know, that no Indian of
pure aboriginal blood, is now a resident
tlio commonwealth, they having from
time to tiino intermarried with tlio
whites and those of African descent
Counting all those who liavo Indian
blood iu their veins in the State, iu tho
vestiges of tribes remaining, there
to-day not far from 1,000 persons, em
braced in 225 families, and it must bo
borne ill mind that tlio numbers con
tained in tlicso tribes have been in
creased for ovor 200 years. ft is a very
significant fact Unit no tribe now exist
ing is increasing numerically in tlio com
monwealth.”
for courage. Those men were strangers,
lie was hacked by a large number of Fort
Worth’s sharpshooters | yea, lio would
lick a fuss with them, and henceforth be
mown as a terror, lie had not long to
ait. Tlio strangers empt ied their glasses,
called for more, and then, glancing ma
lignantly around, they launched forth in
furious ifi mso of Texas and Texans, their
language being garnished with that pro
fusion and ornamentation of profanity
poculior to tho guileless cattle-droVcf.
As they ceased, Dusenbery,having taken
iu tho situation at a glance, arose aud
advanced toward tlio strangers. Tlio
Fort Wortli men put up their pistols aud
sunk back in breathless anmzemont ns
Dusimhery marched up to the table at
which the strangers sat. His flashing
eyes, his heaving breast, ids live feet of
towering form reduced the spectators to
spccchlcsnucHS. Even tlio strangers
paused and seemed Impressed,
“Gentlemen,” said Dusenbery, diving
into his trousers and bringing up an
ancient silver watch, “you liavo wounded
tho finest feelings of my nnturo in your
remarks about Texas, and you must re-
trnct thorn, or—but nover mind. I give
you llvo minutes to retract it. Five min
utes to soouro your Hate return to homo
anil friends. Five minutes to avoid a
grave upon tho loncsomo plaiiiH. Five
minutes I"
An awful silence fell upon tlio crowd
Tho blood curdled ill tlio vein of every
Fort Worttiiiui present. What i lnul they
boon treating this fire-eating Terror with
ftoarcoly veiled contempt? Hiui they
boon absolutely courting dealh for yearn
But just then ono of the strangers re
covered his power of speech nnd suid :
“Why, stranger, if you feel that wav
about it, of course we’ll out it short. We
didn’t mean it for you or any of your
friends, but was just talking oil loose
liko. **
And with that they all four got up and
slunk out, their six-shooters flopping
feebly against their hips, and their spurs
looking drooped and weedy tut they went.
With the closing of tho dour, Dusenbery’s
ev<> reeled in its sockot. The excitement
which lnul tlins far held him tip gave
way and bo collapsed, a flabby little
heap upon tlio floor. Tho assembled
citizens crowded round him, eager to
offer attention to tho hero of tho hour,
and lit lust ho wiih rehabilitated sufllei-
tly to admit of his being sent homo in
argo of a special and coiiiidontiifi friend.
SPOTTING THE SPOTTERS.
, Herrin Mritns St Whlrh ltnllrea* D»»
Irrllvr* ere I'minil 0*1.
•The present system of spotting is a
pretty clover Way of liemL'ng oil dishon-
osty, 1 ’ said tho reporter to a s.oopmg ear
porter who was brushing him. 1 pre
sume it Works like a charm ?’
“Oh, ocrtailily it worliH like a charm.
That is, it costs tlio company thousands
of dollars wero it saves tlio company
thousands of cents. We just sit still
and lot those fellows get on to us—wo
do,” ami tho sleek mulatto chuckled
audibly iih lie ngun applied the brush to
the roportdfial overcoat. “Every spot
ter iH known to us tho moment lie sets
his foot upon the platform, and it is sel
dom one of tho bloodhounds has an op-
lortunltv to do any spotting. A) e turn-
do to him In a minute, and if any stent
ing look place ordinarily, it would cer
tainly slop short while the spotter was
Insight." „
“Do tho porters stand iu with tlio eon-
duetnrs ?”
The porter 1h tho dishonest conduc
tor's best bower, If it were not for us
tlio spotter system would lie, to some ex
tent, a success."
How do you help tlio conductor?
Why, wo spot tho spotters, so to
speak. ‘ Wo have a way of marking
every mother's hoii of them, anil tliat is
how I know Hint that man I pointed out
to you is a detective. I slimed his boots
awhile ago and discovered who lie was.
I’ve got his boots in hero now, ami II
you will cmno ini’ll show you
eliavgo ,
“AVliy, Doozoy, my boy, you took ns
all by surprise. Wo uover thought you
wore a fighter.”
“Didn't you?”
“No. Why, don’t you know those are
four of tlio worst men in tlio cattle busi
ness ? And we expected every minute to
see them go to shooting. AViro you
armed?” . . , , , ,
“Well, I lmd a pistol for show, but I
don’t believe it was loaded, ond I couldn’t
have fired it, anyhow.”
“Gent heavens, man, suppose tlioy had
refused to retract, wlint oil earth would
you liavo done ?"
Dusenbery stopped, looked all around
to see if any ono wero passing, pulled his
friend’s ear close down to bis lips, and
whispered: , r
I’d have extondod tho time.’ —New
them and you can easily, guess how I
know him to bo a spotter."
Tlio porter led the way to ono of the
apartments of tho ear, and picking up
one of tlio hoots hold tlio solo upper
most, allowing three X's cut on tlio heel
of tho hoot.
"That's the way we size ’em up, said
tha porter with a triumphant smile. “It
was a close call, and if I hiuln t shined
his bools lie might have gone through
unobserved. Of oourso everything
would liavo been nil right, anyway, for
my conductor in a Bcjiuiro man, out J
lilin to ini on to tlicso follows who pry
into our IiUhIuchh. It’w a cold dn,v "Iu n
they got ahead of tho conductor and
porters, I can tell you."
“AVhat do these three X s out on Ihu
hen) of tlio boot mean ?"
" Why, that's just (lie point. It iH a
private mark by wliioli 1 recognized the
man an a spotter. Ho was probably
marked Horne time ago, and ho lias been
wearing tlicae hoot a around junt tho
name, nover dreaming that howuh giving
hiniBolf away right along. It could not
iio plainer if he wore a Him bearing tho
word 'Hpottor.’"
“How do you And out thcHo mou to
Btnrt with ?”
That’H enay enough. Do you think
We have no frienda at all to tell iih about
these tilings? Well, we have, iu the
company and outside, too. For instance,
a spotter gets on ut. HI. Louis, or Chi
cago, or Kansas City, <>r New York.
Homebody goes to the conductor and
stiyH ‘You've got a spotter on board to
night., wateli out for him.’ A descrip
tion iH furnished and 1 go in, and in
blacking his bools mark ono of the Holes
with my throe X’s. That ends his use
fulness ns n detective until lie buys a new
pair of boots or shoes. That is one way
to gel on to tlicm, but there are others.
A conductor sometimes receives a note
something like Huh:, 'A spotter will go
out witli you to-night, lie is a Ini
man, with sandy motistaeho and w< II
dressed. Yours, J .' r llie writer i(
sometimes an employee of the company,
and stands in with thu men. This is not
The Firm Appearance of ihe Notable Is.
Trillions nl Iho Caanlrx.
Envelopes were first. UHod in 1839.
Aniesthesia was discovered in 1844.
Tlio first steel pen was made in 1830.
Tim first air pump Was made in 1054.
Tho first lueifor mutch was mndo in
1798.
Mohammed was born at Mooca about
570
Tho first iron steamship was built in
1830. , ,
Tho first balloon asoent was made in
1708. , , .
Coaches wero first used in Eugland in
1500.
Tho first steel plato waa ilisoovorcd iu
1830.
The first horso railroad waa built in
1820-27.
Tho Franoiscans arrivod in England in
1224.
The first steamboat plied tlio lludson
ill 1807.
The entire Hebrew Tfiblo was printed
iu 1488.
Ships wore first “ copper bottomed ” in
1783.
fluid was first discovered in California
in 1818.
Tim first telesoopo wns usod in England
in 1008.
Christianity waa introduced into Japan
in 1519.
The first watohos wero modo at Nuron-
hurg in 1477.
First, saw maker's anvil brought to
America in 1810.
First almanac printed by Goo. Voll
Fnrimcli in 1400.
Tim first nowspupor advertisement ap
peared in 1052.
Percussion arms wero usod in tho U.
H. Army in 1830.
T'lm first uso of a locomotive in tlua
country was in 1820.
Omnibuses wero first introduced in
New York in 1830.
Kerosene was first usod for llghtiug
Orleans Times.
purposes ill 1820.
Tlio first ooppor oout was coined In
New Haven iu 1087.
J'ho first glass factory in tho United
States was built in 1780.
Tlio first printing press in tho United
Stales was worked in 1020.
Glass windows wero first introduced
into England ill tlio eighth century.
Tho first steam engine on this conti
nent was brought from England in 1763.
The first complete sowing machine was
patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1840.
Tlio first Society for tlio Fromotion of
Christian Knowledge wus organized in
1008. . ,
The first attempt to manufacture pins
in this country wns made soon after tho
war of 1812.
Tim first prayer book of Edward VI.
runic into uso by authority of I'nrliiimont
on AATiit Hiuiday, 15-19.
The first temperance society in this
country was organized in Saratoga County,
Nnw Vork, in March, 1808.
The first couch in Scot,land waa brought
I,hither in 1501, when Queon Mary came
from Franco. It belonged to Alexander
Lord Seaton.
The first daily nowspupor appeared in
1702, Tlio first newspaper printed in tho
United States was published iu Boston cn
Bopt. 25, 1700.
Tim manufacture of porcelain was In-
I reduced into the province of Hczin,
fapiui, from China in 1513, and llczin
ware still bears Chinese nmrks.
The iirut. society for Iho exclusive pur
pose of circulating tho Biblo wus organ
ized in 1306, under tho liamo of the
British and Foreign Biblo Society.
I The first telegraphic instrument was
icessfully operated byS. F. B. Morse,
often the ease, lint, at any rate, we don’t tho inventor, iu 1835, though its utility
not demonstrated to tho world until
Silver-Gray Foxes.
Punished Hoi.—St. Louis society is
agitated by the fact that a beau got into
a carriage with ft belle to escort her home
from a ball, at which time his face was
smooth and fair, but when he emerged
his eye was blackened, as though by the
A Pittsbchoh clergyman thinks that
Bhakxpeare was a great man but over
rated. Ho contends that the principal
characters of “Mucbeth" are to be found
iu the Book of Kings iu the Bible, and
remarks that Dr. Halses, iu his lecture
on “Shakspearo” at Princeton College,
stated that Shakspearo’s regular prac
tico was to study tho Bible seven hours
a day.
Col. Rockwell is engaged in the task
of editing and compiling tin; speeches
delivered by Gon. Garfield during the
last year or so of his life, including his
utterances at tlio Chicago Convention,
iiis responses to tho numerous delega
tions tliat visited him at Mentor, and
others delivered at the Williams College
Alumni meeting at Cincinnati, and on
other occasions after his inauguration.
Mrs. Julia AVtckham Leigh, who died
in New York City a few days ago, was
onco a notable woman. She was tlio
widow of Benjamin Watkins Leigh, who
was a United States Senator from A ir*
ginia from 1835 to 1841, and who died
ia 1819. She was also the daughter of
I'low'from a fist, and the girl walked up I John AViekham, ono of tlio counsel for
the steps of her home alone, j tho defense in the trial of Aaron Bure
The Old Chart.
A good story is told of Capt. William
Poor, who took out the Midas, propeller,
to China early in tlio eighteen hundred
anil forties. All who knew Poor were
sure of his good seamanship, his pluck,
and his good intentions. After dis
posing of tile Midas he was appointed to
(lie command of tho ship Great Britain,
belonging to myself and others. Tliat
ship was chartered to Admiral Bigault
de Grcnouily to take homo tlio crews of
tlio Magieienno and tho Capriccnsc,
frigate s, which laid been lost_on some
shoal near the coast of China. Going
down the China Sen, the anxious Admiral
asked Capt. Poor by what chart he was
navigating. Poor opened his chnrt
locker and pulled out a chart of Areow-
emith’s dated 1798. Tho Admiral was
astonished and exclaimed, “ Mein Got,
Captain, wo. shall nil again bo wrecked;
I liavo ono late chart showing all the
dangers, and I give it to you to sail by.”
Poor answered, “Tliat is just tlio worst
chart I could sail by; I should nover get
any rest if I sailed through all thcBe new
shoals; whereas by my old chart there is
nothing to prevent my getting my natural
i-est, for it is all plain sailing.”
■Tn New Yoek ono set of thieves
plunder the harbo and another harbor
tho plunder.
A communication in tlio Rutland (Yt.)
Herald says: “In a recent issue I notice
an item referring to a silver-gray fox
that lias lately been killed in tins vicin
ity. It iH a gcnernl belief that tins fox
is a distinct species from tho red fox, but
this belief is wrong. Tlio silver-gray or
black fox belongs to tlio ordinary roil fox
family, and its color is simply a freak of
nature, which, however, occurs more
frequently in wooded districts than in
tlio settled portions of tlio country. I
liavo often lieen informed by Northern
trappers that where the dam or slie-fox
was silver-gray or black her offspring
wuh invariably red in color, and J Lave
known but ono instance where more
than ono silver-grey fox 1ms been found
among a Utter of young foxes. One of
them was presented to mo by the trap
per who found it. I sent this fox to a
relativo of mine in Sheldon, where ho
remained untfi two years of age anil was
one of tlio most beautiful animals I ever
saw He wns afterward purchased 1 iy nn
an agent of Lord Eglington and if alive is
now in that nobleman’s park m Scotland.
Where tho ends of tho majority of the
long hairs of this fox are tipped with
white it is called silver-gray, but if the
hairs aro tipped with block it is then
known ns a black fox. I once saw a lot
of several dozen of these skins that were
of all shades from nearly white to jet
block. Mr. E. AV. Geer, of She don,
somo years ago killed a very fine colored
liavo ranch trouble in tumbling to tho
dotcotives. "—Kansus City Times.
A Blockade Story.
Late in tlio full of 1802, says M. Quad
in his stories of blockade running, the
British schooner Francis loaded ul
Niimmu and made for the count of r lorida.
Just as sho had sighted tho const n fish
boat gavo her tlio information tliat a
Federal gun-boat was cruising in those
waters. The schooner kept on her way
until night foil, and was then becalmed.
Presently a curious incident occurred.
Tlio gun-boat hud been looking into
some of tlio inlets and had not seen the
schooner. Two hours after dark she
steamed slowly out to within a quarter
of a inilo of tho schooner anil then shut
off steam and extinguished her lights.
Those on tho schooner could nt first
nko her out with n night-glass, but
presently a fog arose and shut out the
Tlio first Union flag wns unfurled on
e )s|, of January, 1770, over tho camp at
.imbridgo. It had thirteen stripes of
bite and rod, and retained tho English
oss iu one corner.
AA'hou Capt. Cook first visited Tallin,
tlio natives were using nails of wood,
mm-, shell, and stone. AVlieu they saw
ii nils they fancied them to bo shoots
■jf Homu very hard wood, aud doaironft ot
curing hiu'h a valuable commodity,
they planted them in their gardens.
A Parson’* Text.
Tho Bev. Brooko Hereford, of Boston,
doesn’t like to lie interrupted when lie
i busy writing a sermon, and bo tho
other day, finding himself somowhat
behindhand witli his preparation for the
coming Sunday, ho retired to hia study,
riving implicit orders tliat ho was not to
je disturbed by visitors, no matter who
might call. Pretty soon came along tlio
autograph iio—, that is, a lady who was
collecting autographs and favorite texts
of Boston preachers, for a choritiiblo ob
ject. She was so importunate that Mrs.
Hereford at last went to tho study door
and tapped. "Brooko?” “Fes?
There’s a lady down stairs, and
‘But, my denr ” “I know, Brooke,
but siio only wishes your autograph
and favorite text, for dear charity’s
sake.” Hereford yielded, and dashed
dowu liis namo and the reference, 1st
Timothy, v., 13, on a shoot of paper.
There was a grim smile on his face as
ho handed it to his wife. Sho took it
down to tlio visitor, and. she, in turn,
went away rejoicing. But when, in ro-
viewing her treasure, bIio looked up Mr.
Hereford’s text, she read : “And withal
they learn to bo idle, wandering about
from house to house; and not only idlo,
but tattlers also, and busybodies,^speak
ing things which they ought not.
j When a colored man gits ter b6 so
Hudson Bay agent. The more inferior | sense tow* Sible^lTh^taft li^XiUty as a nig-
, s sweetheart as I l r . but vet ain’t fitten ter bo classed
Tlio night waB Htill aud tlio sea
perfectly smooth, and those on the
homier could only wait anil hope Unit
breeze would spring up during tho
night and enable her to creep away.
In a calm ono vessel is a magnet to
draw another. They wilt slowly drift
toward each other in every case, instead
of separating. In Uiis instance those
on the schooner soon discovered that tlio
crafts were drawing together, but they
were powerless to prevent. At midnight
they could hear tlm talk of the men on
the gun-boat, though the fog was too
thick to see anything. At one o clock
tlio vessels softly rubbed cacli other, auil
remained broadside on, as if lashed
together. Tho Federala lnul simply to
clamber over the rail to capture tho
schooner, and tho chagrin of her crew
o«n bo imagined, but not described, jl 11
half an hour after her capture a breeze
sprang up which would have carried tier
thirty miles before daybreak.
812.
bl£k-fox; wLich was purchased by a j An old bachelor Bays: -It to all^non-
Hudson Bay agent. Tho more mfenor jense to say that lovo “ b ,., ’ .
grades of these colored foxes aro known knew a man in love that did not bo
i retard, and tho next grade above, I times as much in lus sweetheart
cross foxes," could.
cer, but yet ,
wid do white folks.—Arkansaw Iraveler.