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THE PAULDING NEW ERA.
Wm. A. BREOKENRIDGE, Poblisher.
. “Onward anti Upward.”
SUBSCRIPTION i $1.50 Per Annum
VOLUME L
DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA.,THURSDAY, JUNK 11. 1883.
NUMBER 28.
GENERAL NEWS.
A tagging factory with a capital of
$2000,000 is about to Ihi started in Gal
veston, Tuxas,
Texas bluegi'uss sued is lieilig tiled in
AVest Tennessee. Tu the abacUce of lime
this griiss, it is thought, Mill thrive liest
in that section.
The largest sheep raiiuhe in the World
is the one nt Diniment and Webb oouu-
ties, Texas, where 300,000 head of sheep
sro pastured on 300,000 acres of land.
The State Capitol of Texas will pmls
ably he built of line granite instead of
limestone. It is claimed that this will
make it the liest St.it '-house on the con
tinent.
The ipteeu’s health is evidently u sub*
joct of grave fesr in England. Her dis
order is arjd to be of a (1)N>)isiual Uilturc,
and thr ]irobabilitirs are that she will he
a bod-ridden invalid.
About a year ago half a dozen colored
men, of St. Bernard parish, La., organ
ized a mutual benevolent association.
Now the association numbers fifty, and
they have accumulated a fund and begun
the eroytii u of a school-house for indi
gent children of their race.
Six tluvisml baby alligators’ an- sold
in Florida every year, and the amount of
ivorx, umnber uf skins and quantity of
oil obtained from thu older members of
tlto saurian fumily lire siltfieieut to enti
tle their. 11 a high piece among the pry-,
duet/, of the State,
r a;\>.gi,tting control of con
siderable lunl in Auturica. In Texas
311,000 aart s liavq JtiMt licen purchased
by Air. AA'litillcy, M. p, ; ,.j, English syn-
dica’c 111% 1,300,000 Hires of button
Natfil in Mississippi, and another compa
ny 2,000,000 a wes in Florida
A few days agoKnoxvilu finished Work
<m her water system at a cost of $150,000
The two reservoirs were hardly tilled
with wat *r when thu bottom of one drop
ped out. Now comes news tlmt the oili
er is in the same condition, the water
having suddenly disappeared into unfath
omable depths.
Savannah News: Joe Brown’s in:omu
is said tj bo $1,000 a day. Of this
amount In gets $533 it day from the
Hade county coal mines. There is no
doubt tliut ha is mnking money faster
tliun any other Southern man. His for
tune is niw i admitted at $2,030,000.
The Sena tor's sou denies the soft im-
i peach men t.
An industrious buzz-saw in New Or
leans rau iigaiust an obstruction ill a log
. tlurough which it was passing the other
1 day,'but held its t mpor and hixiu cut its
enemy in two. When the think dropped
oil the workmen found that the saw had
liidctod mi eight inch spherical Hindi,
doubtless a relic of the war. The exte
rior wound hud healed entirely, leaving
no trace of the pnssigq of til? sliell 11 its
resting pliicb.
The Now York Herald makes a calcu
lation from the traffic anil passengers
that crossed the great bridge to and
from Now York on Saturday, from which
it appeals that, deducting 40 per cent for
sight-seure, the receipts for toll will aver
age $2,500 each day, or $1,300,(MM) a year
Deducting interest at 0 per cent on the
outlay of $15,000,000, the cost of the
bridge, there -would remain a sinking
fund toward paying that debt, $400,000 a
year. - .
The agricultural laborers of Mississip
pi, 340,000 ’in round numbers, embracing
men, women anil children, including
trmldren from ten yearn of age up to men
and women of .threescore, manage to
wrO/g froTji’the bosom of mother earth
the magnificent aggregate of $03,701,844
,per ouniun, or nearly - 118 to every man,
woman and child engaged in stirring the
soil and gathering its fruits. The money-
value of thu farms in that State in 1880
was $93,841,815, agiflust $81,710,576 in
1870, which shows a wholesome increase
in value.
Of the five field generals of the confed
erate army, J. E. Johnston and Beaure-
gurd survive. General Johnston is the
.. general agent of a prominent New Y'ork
insurance compuny, and General Beauri -
gnrd is the adjutant general of the state
of Louisiana—where he has created the
finest body of militia for its numbers in
America. He is also one of the commis
sioners for the liquidation of one of the
old Louisiana state banks, besides which
he bus other important business connec
tions. There were twenty-one lieuten
ant generals in the confederate army
from first to last, anil of these all were
from the United States army but four,
viz: Richard Taylor, _N. B. Forest,
AVade Hampton and John B. Gordon.
Of them the following are living: D. H.
Lee, Eurlv, Buckner, Wheeler and A, P.
Stewart, besides the two «u>t fhim the old
United State* ttfltoy mentioned aliove.
OustaVbfi W. Smith is the ranking major
general living, and is Htato commissioner
of insurance in Kentucky. W. T. Mar
tin lives ill Nnteller,., Hint is a railroad
president, 0. \V. Field and L. L. Lo-
lliuX nre in Florida, and both lire in the
employ of the Unit'd States corps of en
gineers. Mnriniidiike Johnson is ill St.
Louis mid is wealthy, William Preston
lives ill kelitUoky and lias a fortune lie
inherited. Humes lives in Memphis,
Tonn. Wirt Adams is iui agent for Mis
sissippi, and lives in Jackson, Frank
Armstrong lives in Ht, Lotlis, and is con
nected with Bill ftolltd system of railroads
in (lie Southwest. Churchill was Gover
nor of Arkansas, and lives at Little Rock.
Colquitt was governor ot Georgia, and is
United States senator-elect from that
statu. Colston has returned from Egypt,
and is living somewhere in Virginia. l)i-
brell is a member of Congress frotn Ten
nessee. Lyon, who commanded one of
Forest’s divisions awhile, lives ill Edtly-
ville, Ky. I do hot know what Maeknll,
who was a brigadier-general mid chief of
General Brawg’s staff, is doing, but 1 be
lieve lie lives in Georgia. MeGoWuh is a
member of tile supreme court of South
Carolina. Miles, AV. R., is a cotton-
planting magnate on the Ya»oo vifcrr, in
Missisaiy.-jii, ft. A. Pryor is apitsper-
e-.'S lawyer in Now York, mid mirabilc
0tct.li. T hear that he is mi enthusiastic
advocate of Governor B. F. Butler for
the presidency. Ripley, “Old Hip," us
he was called, is ill Lotldott, the agent of
all nuicricon rillu company, and Hotly is
them with him, ..Jehu i i. Walker is in
Mexico, and is getting rich in silver mi
ning, and Holmes is his partner. Wil
liam C. Wickham is a prominent railroad
man and republican in Virginia, Of t)ic
throe Lees who wore generals, Contis,
who was Air. Davis’ chief of staff, is tin
president of tint Washington and Leo
college in Virginia; AVillimu Henry
Fitzhugh Lee, generally colled "Rnny,”
is a planter mid is prosperous oil a fine
estate. Fitzhugh Leo, u cousin of the
others, and a famous cavalry officer, owns
the “Baveuwood” estate, on the Pub. linn
about fifty miles below AVasliiiij. ton,
where he is living like a fine Virginia
planter of the olden time, Robert Li
tint Ham- mTh yolUlK«*Ht H< 11, who HI*TV'
Western Stock Raising.
No Chance To Shoot.
ncTcim drawn or rr bt a niAcmcAi, . 1 °- , *« ftfLimoon. at a hotel in
wrsrvnv mav I AJabrtilUi, talking about how
gtoat luftnppointlkients flotuetlftlcfi fioitrod
, who him had a lengthy ! " c,m fi 1 wl,0 .V“ d l ,T'" C ' l °,"
lock-raising, says -tlmt ! '« l '»K ‘ohaeco all l.y Ionise f over 1.;
„ ..fit i,b..the window turned around and said:
A Westelii man
oxp.-riouco in stock-
the picture drawn of it by many nows-, .. , ,
j ... ri> *.5t a. a ; s;,? 1 ™ *a xra:
.lied Hollars 11, money, invest in sheep, Po]kll llll ; v cn „ mld u lv , m ? d r
out then s,t down expee . ,g to bo rich kin , mrd , , „ t() drink m0 ."
m a few years. Ho concluded Us letter j " Xlu „/y 0 B u lmvo „ ufforod a grt!Ai diMp .
1.
1 have. Ten years
town cleaned mo
ut on a mortgage, sold mo out oil mi ex-
cutiou, mid chuckled at mo when I took
the dirt road for Tennessee, I otter have
raising should have at least *5,000. Of , a n.alt in this very
course ho COttld start on less Two mn ,t-n-e, sol
thousand dollars Would buy hit,1 botecs L cu , j( , <f « k ' |od
anil wagon, fix up Ins i much, W hw ' t , 1B ,UH roa.1 for Tentit
ordinary expenses, mid btrir hhn 900 him, bat somehow 1 didn’t doit,
! IT 1 I' c'i T m , l IT k M V 2 and artor I got to Tennessee Uiings bd
hard, save all he could, anil really ought u mind. Day and
o have a partner to lie n do the work. , |t * j h ,f voi ,, 0 Haying: 'Go
Even with $..,000 it would be slew work | „ m , ,, lunk . ’ im f j , (wt
for several years, I would advise a young
man of limited mentis Who wanted to
*o west I.U raise Btoek to got Up a parly
if three or four and “ peel their Issues ”
in- a few Veal's, till they could afford to
branch on alone, At any rate, I think
i mini ought to liiro himself out to a Htock-
mnn for a year lioforo he Invests. He
ivill thus have n chance to learn the
itminess mid Can look iil'mind for a suit-
ilile Investment, and perhaps at the end
J a your ho may not like the life and
oonelude to return. For the life is a hard
mo, full of exposure and discomforts.
He may lniVo to do his own cooking mid
.rushing unless ho is fortunate enough to : . :
'.avc a better half to do it for him. But $,!„ j ^ ftml wnitoll and
er. sleen ns In, . ’ . , -
flesh mid came powerful licnr going into
a decline.”
“Yes?”
“ Well, that voice kept talking and t
kept waiting, but in about three years I
shouldered my rille and turned my steps
this ivav. my mind fully made tip to
shoot old Brown oil sight. Ho had a
patch o’ land out west o' liuro, anil used
to ride out every day. I made for that
spot, ealkcrluHng to niff him as ho drovo
Up to llio gate. Nobody hint Been mo,
and nobody would know who did the
shooting.”
“ Yes,’’some one answorodos ho mndo
lover slept before, bis ohocks will lie
lissod so red Hint his mother would not
mow him from an Indian. Hu will have
to work hard, perhaps, day and night,
for which ho will bo Well repaid by the
ncrciiacil Comfort of his lloeks mid
i.-rds, and by their increase till they
'over a thousand hills. But this talk of
i man who has no means going west,
'nking cattle anil sheep on shares, put-
iing up n log house on tli« upon prairie,
loing his own work, and making his
fortune In a few years, is nil nonsense.
It Is a very risky business to say the
least, and careful managers will not give
dock on shares to anybody who is not
veil prepared to take care of them or
■oncerning whom they know nothing.
The expenses of raising stock are much
heavier than supposed. Tho cost of
living is higher than it is hero; wages
high, fencing is expensive, corrals
in the ranks a greater part of the war,
lives on the James river mid owns a
handsome estate there. Longstreet lives
ut Gainesville, Georgia, and is United
Stub's marshal. General Early practices
law at Lynchburg. Lieutenant-General
A. I’. Stewart is president of the Un'ver-
sity of Mississippi, at Oxford, and Lieu
tenmit-Geuel-al is prisident of am flier
AlissisHippi institution of learning. R.
H. anil Patterson Anderson are dead.
General B. Frank Cheatham is the super
intending coinmishiouer of tho Tennessee
penitentiary. General Bate is governor
of Tennessee, and AV. H. or “Bed,
Jackson, one of Forest’s division com-
mmiders, is living near Nashville on
magnificent plantation. General AY' 11
ler, who eommandud all of General John
ston’s cavalry, is a planter in north Ala
bama. General Lawton, the quarter
master-general of the confederacy, is a
leading member of the Savannah, Geor
gia, bar, and General Gorgaa, the confed
erate chief of ordnance, died in Alai iiimi
the other day. Cockrell, the ranking
confederate general from Alissonri, is it
United Stab’s senator.
A Barricade.
On the anniversary iff the Paris Com
mune the inhabitants of Stuttgart were
surprised by a large blood-red Hag
hoisted on a tower in the middle of tho
town. It seems that this llag remained
there until noon, when tho police suc
ceeded in removing it. The-Socialists,
who hail hoisted it the night before,
had done everything to render the re
moval of the revolu unary banner as
difficult as possible. The tower gate
was found to be barricaded, as well as
the windows of the first story, nnd the
police had to scale the tower by a high
ladder and enter throngh tho windows
of the second floor. The flag bore the
inscription: “Liberty, Equality, Fra
ternity,” nnd “In memory of the Paris
Commune, 18th of March, 1871.” At
the entrance -was posted a placard, “Be
ware of dynamite.” About five pounds
of gunpowder whs found strewn about at
the inner gate,
An elder of the kirk having found a
little hoy and his sister playing marbles
on Sunday, put his reproof in this form
—not a judicious one for a child: “Boy,
mil buildings take milch time, lalair mid
uonoyi but to olio who is u tiling to work,
mil wants to got ahead, I say, “Go
West,” mid boo for yourself..
Bisinarek Saving a Soldier.
A good BiHmnrek nnoedoto, showing
the prince to have been a good comrado
from his youth up, is the following :
III 1838 ho entered the Potsdam bat
talion of "Qardo Jaeger” ns u olio year
volunteer, and six months later, at his
request, ho was transferred to tho “Sec
ond Jaegers" at Greifswold, in order to
be able to profit by the loctures in the
Agricultural School of Fidelia. Olio of
his comrades in the battalion was
three years when I hoard hoofs anil
looked out for the old man. It wasn't
him, True ns you sot them tho old skiu-
lliut had gone nnd died only a week be
fore, giving mo a tramp of 200 miles to
say 1 howdy 7’to his executor I Gentle
men, I can't doscrilM! my feelings 1 Just
think of one white mail playing such a
trick on miotlicr ! It was wuss than Ar-
kefisaw swamp mud warmed over for
llext senson. I was took with shakos
mid cliills and a cough, and hero 1 am,
sour, cross, mulish, ugly and realizing
that 1 don't stand no more sliowof going
lo Heaven when I din than that tlinr'
dog does of swallowing a postoffiec with
out any preliminary chawin'I”— M.
(Jo AD.
Preserve the Forests.
Olio of tho encouraging signs of the
tfinoH is tho fact that tho Bonth is wak
ing up to the valuo of its timber lands,
“Tho lumber interests of tho United
States, mid in fact of the wiiolo world,"
says The Southern Lumberman, "have
assumed such important proportions
that it is due to the people that our State
Governments each establish a series of
surveys and investigations, with a view
of dulurmiuitig the exact amount of llioir
fun st wealth, and that in lime thu gen
eral Government, through ils pro|H:r ile
pnrlmeiit, should publish in statistical
form tho result i f ouch State’s timlier
resources.
"AA’liile tliisnutlieiilie report would bo
of great value to commerce, tho presence
ias a ; (l { fliu bolsnists and llioir assistants
young man, who nt tho present day still ,, V( .,.y portion of fin- Slates and Tcr-
oounts among tho great landed propri- ritories would arouse the people to
etors of the province of Pomerania. He
then stood ill tho second rank immedi
ately behind Bisinarek. In spite of
stringent orders to the contrary, the
Jaegers persisted In frequently firing a
shot at the numerous storks on the
meadows near Grcifswald while out on a
march, drilling or exorcising. One day
on tho march homo to the barracks, Uis-
mnrek’s hinil-man brought down a bird
with a bullet. The officers, although
marching a good way ahead, heard tlm
report, saw tho stork falling down, or
dered the battalion to halt nnd forthwith
began to examine the gut s. Everything
ivns as it should be m tho lust rank
The culprit in tho second rank began to
tremble all the more for Ids safety, inas
much ns his promotion to a lieulenantey
wan at stnko in ease lie should ho found
out. This Bismarek realized, and while
his friend was on the point of voluntari
ly denouncing himself in order to clear
the rest of the men from an unjust sus
picion, he whispered to him:
“Look sharp ! tnko your gun in your
left arm; I’ll throw you mine.”
No sooner said than done—so quickly,
in fact, that tho inspecting officer did
not notice it, and the case of the kill' d
stork remained an unexplained mystery.
Over a mug of beer that night Private
Bismarck declined to receive tho thanks
of his comrade for a service “which was
not worth talking about." To this day
tho two lire pleasant neighbors anil
sworn friends.
An Author’s Offence.
sense of the wealth contained in their
forest possessions, anil would perhaps
stimulate them to a more econoAiical two
of the. timber, nnd malic them mure care
ful about preserving it; nt any rate, the
timber, its extent, variety and value,
should bo mndo known ut as early a
date ns possible.”
The Cleveland JleraJd says:—Few,
indeed, aril the people who can keep up
llu round of AVualiington gnyoty without
■.si'll v showing their weariness. An ex
ception to this rule is n young daughter
I nu army officer stationed in that city.
Ul winter she has been busy with re
ceptions and dinners, kettledrums nnd
mermans, and on Wednesday, ns she
• nne into Airs. Chandler’s parlors she was
In sli anil rosy as if it were her first day,
'ly curiosity was aroused, and presently
[ (mil an opportunity to inquire of her
how it was that she was able to endure
that to which stronger women yielded.
•‘Oh,” she replied, laughing, “mamma
is almost a crank on tlmt subject. She
, hound I shall not look passe at the
end of this my second winter. Every
fight when T get home, no matter how
tired linn, a worm hath is given mo,
; ,rtiT which I drink a bowl of bullion,
•id am put to bed m tho guest chamber,
ihicli is more quiet than my own. In
: ho morning I am not called, but arise
•• lieu I awake, which is not often before
lunch time. It grows monotonous, I
• sure you, but if l go, I have to submit,
I tell mamma sbe treats mo as if I was a
Maud S. or a prize fighter.”
Shelling it Village.
The shelling of an Alaskan village, of
which so tragic an account was current
some months ago, is described by Contdr.
Atorriman of (lie navy, wito did it, ns a
wholly justifiable piooecding. Ho says
that ho is represented iih wantonly burn
ing tho Indians’ houses, bedding and
winter’s food, anil turning their women
and children to ]Huisli in the pitiless cold
of the Arotio night, simply beenuse they
had made a vague throat to destroy
property.
The t’ruo history, ns ho narrates it, is
as follows:
A medicine man of the Ilootsnoo
tribe, 80 miles from Sitka, was acciden
tally killed while whaling with two
wlnto men, whereupon tho tribe seized
tho whites, demanded 203 blankets as
ransom, and finally waited to goi a third
white man (as one of the two captured
had Imt ouo eye), intending thou to put
two of them to death—otic for the medi
cine man, and another for tlm death i f
an Indian while felling timber, some
time before.
It seems that it is either a lifo for a
life, or a hundred blankets—that being
the native valuation of an Indian, in
their current money. They also took
possession of a steam-lnnnoli and other
property to tho valuo of several thousand
dollars. Gomdr. Atorriman arrived at
tho scone on tho day whoso evening
would havu soon the prisoners put In
death. Ho rescued them and immedi
ately demanded of the Tudiaiis 400
blankets, told them if ho did not receive
the blankets hu should burn the town,
and gavo them till the next day to com
ply. They at first said they would, and
tlii’ii, sending him only 80 I'laiiiiels, and
those stolen from the house of mi absent
chief—they took their winter provisions,
bedding and blankets into tlm woods and
defied tlm officer.
AVhereupon lie was iih good iih his
word, and, though ho says lie spared a
number of dwellings to Hlmlter them,
they were left under tho Impression Hint
ho meant to destroy everything they
hail, and ho “ivnntoif them to think so."
lie adds that “tlm property-holders and
missionaries agree with me, and I lio-
lievo tho lesson will Inst tho Indians for
a generation, although they rebuilt their
houses in a month.”
Ho gives thu Alaskans a good charac
ter in the ntniti, ami declares that, if tlm
presont prohibition of distilled liquors
wero extended to limit liquors, and
schools established for tho children, tlm
Alaska Indians would bo n valuable
population, for they aro “ut all timi’H
willing to givo an 'holiest day's work for
ruasonablu pay,' an attrihulo not pos-
sessoil by any other tribo within my
knowledge."
fining Into Exile.
Capt. Thomas Osborne of (ho steam
ship which took Aiubi Pasha and his
companions in exile to Ceylon, and ar
rived at Bombay on January 10, has fur
nished the following acoount of the voy
age : "AVe took Arab! Pasha and his
associates mid their families on board at
Suez, anil sailed from that port on De
cember 27, bound for Colombo. They
were seasick for the first two or threo
days, and after tlmt they brightened up
mill wore always more or less cheerful.
Eventually, in fact, they become as
happy as if they wero going to paradise,
"Tho dullest of tho lot was Arabi.
The exiled parly wont ashore in four
squads. In tho last onewiut Arabi, On
landing tlm people crowded round him.
[ should call it, fairly mobbing ouo.
Some kissed his clothes, sumo got down
on their knees and kissed his boots, Tlm
parly wero driven away in carriages to
the Cinnamon Gardens, where they wore
local'll in some handsome bungalows.
On the whole, I don’t think any of them
regretted his lot. They never exhibited
any symptoms of fear, and believed a
happy future to be before them."
Heavy License.
The most recent example of the work-
tug of a high license system for bar
rooms is in Bloomington, III. There aro
thirty-two saloons in tlm place, and a
population of nearly 20,000. The fee is
$50 a month, or $000 a year, and this
brings into tho city $10,200 a year, or
nearly one-third tlm whole revenue.
Tlm saloons aro said to he orderly, anil
generally in tlm hands of substantial
men, who own tho buildings in which
limy aro kept, und who would stubborn
ly resist a return to low license. The
present arrangement 1ms prevailed
nearly twenty years, and is, therefore,
no longer an experiment.
In Dresden, Julian Hawthorne, the nu-
tlior. is credited with the following ex- A odkroyman at Cambridge prencliod
ploit: He had been driven from the side- a sermon which one of his auditors com-
ivalk many and many n time by the Get-1 mended. “Yes,” said the gentleman to
man oflici-rs, till finally one day coming | whom it was mentioned, “ it was n good
over the Elbe on one of the bridges with- \ sermon, but he stole it.” This was told
out a friend, ho vowed that the next j to tho j,readier. He resented it, and
German officer lie met should at least I called the gentleman to retract what he
give him half of the sidewalk. Ho soon j bad said. “ I am not,” replied the ag-
met one, mid neither being willing togive | gressor, “very apt to retract my words,
way, they walked directly into one an- 1 but in this instance I will. I said you
other. Hawthorne did not budge, neitli-1 biul stolen tlm sermon. I find I was
er would the German; they glared at i wrong; for on returning home, und ro-
•acli other for a few moments when tlm \ furring to tho book whence I thought it
German drew his sword nnd attempted
Hill, who is in North Carolina; Stephen ing awfully, "—Doan Ramsey
do you know where children go to who | 0 H ti-ike Hawthorne with the fiat of the
play marbles on the Sabbath day 7” blade. In a twinkling Hawthorne
“Ay,” said the boy, “they gang down to knocked tho c
the’field by the water la-low the brig." ovay from hil
“NoI” roared out tlm elder, “they go tolaud threw it
hell anil are burned." The little fellow, '
really shocked, called to his sister:
Come awa, Jeanie; here s a mail swear-
knocked the officer down, took his sword
him, broke it across his knee
into tlm Ellas. The dis-
rner of having lost Ins sword was so
great that the officer never dared to men
tion the cireumstane •; so Hawthorne
lscaped without fine or punishment,
was taken, I found it there.”—Exchange.
esiilent
A Snow Decision.—'Tho Supremo
Court of Illinois decides that no nmu Is
obliged to clean the sidewalk opposite Ins
bouse Tlm case was that of
of Bloomington, who let 'he
ululate ij. front of hispiop it.v
lined muter the city orillnioii.
to the court,
A Heroins.—Reporting the death of
a Mrs. Baker, at Fort Fairfield, Ale.,
recently, at the ago of 97 years and 11
months, a correspondent of tho Lewiston
Journal savs: “Aliniy years ago she
came, with her hnslmndmid three small
children to tlm Upper St. John, where
she made for themselves a homo in tho
wilderness. They settled on wliat was
afterward the disputed territory. Mrs,
Baker, being a patriotic woman, manu
factured an American flng, which her
husband flung to tho breeze on a Fourth
of July morning, for this display of Yan
kee patriotism on wlmt was claimed as
— ,. - T - British soil, Air. Baker was arrested anil
l nnu J. was , j odged j n j a jl u t Fredericton, where lie
remained for more than a year, while his
heroic wife managed the farm and kept
everything in good order nt home.”
Tire Chinese have no word that is
equivalent to hell, noil no conception of
siieli a place. A missionary in an agri
cultural district of China states that
when he tried to explain it, tho people
asked if it was anything that could lie
raised. AV« trust he answered that it
was.—Bouton Boat,
and, I"
i *>1*1’'
AMERICAN FABLES.
lncrntilw<lc«~Tlir It nek r I Mhop-Tha Piirnep
mill thi* Fox.
Sown SPECIMRNS OP r.NOJtATITIinK.—A
Burglar who had risen to tlioHcmlof
Ids i’lufi ssiuii olio day ealleil upon a
Lawyer nml said:
"I have come to demand tho Prot: o-
(ion of tho Law.”
“Y’ou shall have if, mv Friend—foe
live dollars,”
"Last night a limn mimed Jones, liv
ing on Seventeenth street, eliot at me,”
continued tho burglar.
"And what were you doing?”
"I was about to crawl into one nf his
Windows lo pack up bis Silver ami take
it down to tlm Safe Di posit Company's
vaullH for safely.”
“Truly, such Ingratitude must lie Re
buked nml l'uuisbed,” said llio Lawyer,
“AVe will have him Arrested forthwith,
nml though he may Defend his Silver
agaiiisl Burglars bo cannot Defend his
(iri'enbaoks against tho Law."
Tur. Buckut Shop. -A simple-minded
jYnsiiiit. who hail heard a gnat deal
about Bucket Shops, .entered ouo of
them one day and asked:
"AVlmt will it cost me to get, a bucket ?"
"Five dollars is our lowest Figure."
was the reply,
Tlm JViiMuiit handed over his cash and
was told to wateli tho Ticker anil the
man who olmikcd on the Blackboard,
lie watched milfl weary of tho Occupa
tion, and llieii said:
"I gneas I’ll take n,y Bucket and jog
along Imnn', as it is about timu to feed
llio i'igs."
“AVIiv, sir," replied the owner of the
Cooper Simp, “tlm Bottom dropped out
of your Bucket Imlf iih hour ago.
"Then I will take tho hoiqM home lo
show my AVifo that I speculated nml
lost.”
“Base ingrntc I" slnmlcd tho proprie
tor, “is it not enough Hint you have not
Imd your pookois picked and your hunt!
mushed with a club? After having put
us to the trouble of taking your money
you would 1101V squeal! Go luuieo I
Como here no more! Hereafter get
yourself robbed on the highway or buy
Alining Storks I”
This Faumrh andtiirFux.—A Farmer
having missed a number of bis fine, fat
Fowls, planed bimselt lo watch for the
Deprecatin', mid ere long lie lmd the
I’lensiiro of Sending a bullet into a Fox.
“And so it was you who gave mo this
Fatal AVounil ?" gasped the Fox ns ho
fell.
"Bat you worn taking my Chickens,”
plot listed tlm Farmer.
“Tlmt is true,'out I was also nursing
a litter of Foxes for you to kill. Tho
/•kin of one Fox is worth four times Illy
price of a C'liiokon, and f was raising
Family of five. Sen what you have hen.
by slaying me, and Behold wlmt base
Ingratitude has repaid mv efforts '(
bnngyou AVeultli I”—Detroit ErcePrtf
A lliijrtiun Duke.
M. Toussniiit-Liigorillo, n fttll-bkssxvl
negro, ouoo tho “ Duo do liiGrand-T'orrn,”
and fiiinriciul agent in Franco of the
Emperor Soulmiquo, has just died in
Furls, Hu was successful in securing
a consiilcrablo loan for tho black Ctnsar,
by promising to pay tho most incredible
percentage—aeunrding to ouo account,
cVfm going so far as 2,000 per ooi't. He
also bought up an enormous quautity of
old military uniforms of all European
nationalities, second-hand generals’ hats,
anil other adornments, for tho decora
tion of Sonlouquc’s soldiers, generals,
nml officers of stuto. lie did not forget
to procure, also, a considerable quantity
of French brandy. Soulouquo was so
delighted witli tho hiiooohs of bis agent
that liu sent word to him that ho hud
i lcvutoil him to thu dignity of a Duke.
TIiIh made tho man ,a butt for French
wit, nnd ruined his credit. Then Sou-
louqiin became angty at the decrease of
supplies, mid, fancying that his agent
was growing careless, lie degraded him
into a Marquis, then to a Count, next to
a Baron, afterward to a mens Chovulier,
nnd ultimately deprived him evon of
tlmt remnant of aristocratic distinction.
Mcunwhilo M. Toussaiut-Lagorillo hod
also lost faith in his imperial master,
mid began to carry on his business on his
own account. AVIien tho Emperor was
dethroned, and (led to Paris, ho sum
moned thncx-Duko to uppear before him;
but Logorille refused to obey the sum
mons. Ho bail managed to build up for
himself a property of some 00,000 francs,
upon tho interest of which he lived with
comfort mid great self-complacency to
extreme old age.
A London AIvstehy.—A lonilon pap< r
says: “A sad story of lifo will tic found
this morning among the reports of in
quests. Seventeen years ago a baby was
found oil the ateps of a workhouse.
There the child was kept three yours
till it was time to send her to Hunwell
School, mill from school the girl passed
into employment as a domestic servant.
She was, her muster says, cheerful and
happy. But a few days ago Bhe sud
denly disappeared from tho house, anil
next day her lifeless body was found ill
a pond close by. There was nothing to
show, liotliiug'to suggest, a reason for
suicide. No one cun tell of whom she
was born; no one knows tho manner of
her death. From darkness to darkness,
with a little spuce of happy life between."
Caucuses for town meetings will soon
oe in order. A caucus is whore thirty or
forty men got together anil vote as one
man tills them to,—Marathon fndfr
pe/ick nt,