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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. If. Whaley.
Counc—r. P. Littlefield, If. W.
Wha ey, B wni George, O. E. Littlefield,
Aiuie.ti.u / 1 am*.
esurer—O. F. Littlefield.
Maioha.—C. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—R ' ,: t? <1 R. Hopps.
Sheriff’—John N. (ioodbrean.
(Jerk Sape.io; (Vv\—Benj.O. Middleton
Tax Receive.*— I. C. Hatcher.
Tax ColJeCvOr—W. It. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasure*-—John Massey.
Coroner—D. McJDitha.
County Commissioners—J. F. King. G.
W. Haines, James Kik x, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish Regular meeting® of the Board.
31 Wednesday in January, April, July and
October. Jas. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Ruperiot Court, Wayne County—Jno. L.
Harris, Judge ; R'mon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. deld on second Mondy
ia March ana September.
Blactstar, Pieros County Geoi'nia.
TOWNIiiRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. G. Il’pgiut.
Counci'mpn—D. P. I\itterson ( .T. M. Downs,
J. M. Lee, B. D. ihantlv.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Pitrdom.
't own Treasurer—B. D. Brantly.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERB.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Suoev’lor Con i—Andrew M. Moore.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
County T *ea% t V —D. P. Pa Person.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
lax Receiver end Collector—J. M. Pur
dooi.
Chairman of Road Commissioners —llßl
District,G. M., Lew : s O, Wyllv; 12 0 Dis
tr et, G. M., Geo-ge T. Moo< J v ; 581 District,
G. M., Charles S. You.nanns; 590 District,
G. M., D. B. McK nnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace,
etc.—Black-shea* Pec ; nc 584 and sfr ci.G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. P.vluv soo; Justice
of the Pe'co ft. R. James; Con
stable E. Z Byrd.
Dickson?! Mill Precinct 1250 District, G
M , Notary Public,M.<t“ew Sweat; Justice *f
the Peaoe, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson.
Tatterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Not* y Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas ; Constables, 11.
Prescott anu A. L. Griuer.
S.hUtterville Precinct. 590 District, G. M
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon: Justice o
the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John W
Booth,
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
ti ry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshea*-, Ga., session
held second Saturday in f-acn Month. Police
court sessions everv Monday Morning at 9
•’•leak.
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Nonth,
On last Thursday Savannah received
6,071 bales of cotton.
The Virginia State fa received and
expended about $15,000.
There were shipped from Tampa the
last week in October 13,000 oranges.
The Liberian movement is creating
great excitment among the negroes about
Shreveport.
Texas now has over a thousand con
victs, and the fall courts are trying to
double the noble band.
A strong movement has been inaugu- j
rated in North and South Carolina in
favor of the whipping post.
An admission fee of twenty-five cents
to see the Lee monument models is swell
ing the funds of the society.
A fire broke out Friday at the Texas '
cotton press, in Galveston, where there
were stored 4,000 bales of cotton. About
600 hales were more or less injured ; loss
$20,000.
The legislature of Tennessee passed a
bill relieving butchers and huxters from
the payment of licenses, but the supreme
court at Knoxville has declared the act
unconstitutional.
A sixteen-year-old girl shot and killed
Samuel G. Henry in Columbia, S. C., for
attempting to violate her person. Henry
was twenty-five old years and married.
The girl was held in SI,OOO to answer.
Religious.
Pennsylvania has the largest number
of Sunday schools among the states—
-7,660.
The Church of Scotland has received
$*.715 toward its proposed mission in
China.
Nine thousand pupils demand admis
sion to the public schools of Kansas
City.
The last semi annual school-fund ap
portionment in Minnesota amounted to
$146,509 44.
Trie Free-will Baptists have in this
country 165 quarterly meetings, 1,343
churches, 1,13S ordained ministers, and
over 75 000 communicants, together with
a number of colleges, seminaries, and
newspapers.
The Church Extension and Freedmen
Aid societies of the Methodist Episcopal
church have expended, chiefly for the
colored people, $2,101,757. “We have
to aiiow for this,' 1 ear* the Christian Ad
vocate, “in the south thirteen institutions
for higher education, with twenty-six
professor s , 1,700 pupbs, and property
VOL. 11.
valued at $250,000. Sixty thousand
colored children are annually taught by
the teachers sent out from our schools
and colleges.”
Providence is a good place in which to
raise money. When the Baptists met
there in May they undertook to raise
$17,000 aud ended’with taking in s3fi,-
000; and when the American board .net
there last week with a debt of SII,OOO,
the meeting paid it all off in less than an
hour —“ SI,OOO a minute,” as our corre
spondent well puts it—and the enthusi
asm got so high that they went on rasing
money the next day after the debt was
all paid.
In a sermon at New York, Bishop Lay,
of the eastern diocese of Maryland, told
an interesting story of General Lee, who
wrote to him immediately after the war
earnestly urging him to oppose all at
tempts at maintaining a separation be
tween the northern . nurt southern
churches, and insisting ltpon the ditty of
all Christian men to cooperate actively
in restoring unity, peace, and concord
throughout the whole country.
George William Curtis for the past i
two years has conducted services in the I
church of the Redeemer, at New Brigh- 1
tan, Staten Island, N. Y. He reads each
Sunday a selected sermon from the pro
duction of famous theologians. The
church Unitarian. Mr. Curtis receives
n..thing for his services, though the
church formerly employed a pastor at a
salary of $3,000 per annum.
The religious press having taken Dr.
McCosh to task lor his remarks on Amer
ican preaehers and preaching before the
Edinburg, council, he replies in thiir
latest issue that what they commented
upon was but a caricature of what he
said, and that he means to abide by what
he did say ; and whether the press ap
proves or disapproves he will advocate
bibical exposition rather than national
exhortations in the pulpit. God’s
thought, not man’s, is what the world
wants.
Science anil Industry.
Nearly every lumber-mill on the Sag
inaw river is also a salt-mill, the brine
being boiled by the exhausted or waste
steam from the saw-mill.
They have been successful in complet
ing a paper chimney fifty feet high in
Breslau. A chemical solution prevents
any chance of fire.
Rancid butter is liked iu Iceland, and
a commission of Icelanders are in this
country to establish an agency for for
warding the article in largo quantities.
The novel Bilierica and Bedford rail
road, in Massachusetts, whose gauge is
but twenty-four inches, and the rolling
stock, almost like toy-cars, has been
opened for public travel.
Vermont has lately sent the first
powder-mill machinery ever exported
from this country to Russia. It is to be
erected near the city of hit. Betersburg.
Russia has long been a good customer for
our locomotives.
A wash composed of lime, salt and fine ■
sand or wood-ashes, put on in the ordi
nary way of whitewash, renders a single j
roof much safer against fire from sparks
and falling cinder- 1 , in case of fire in the I
vicinity.
A French chemist is said to have sue- 1
ceeded in producing a paint with which
to illuminate the numbers on street
doors at nigh'-. Figures traced with it
are so lustrous as to be read even on a
dark night, and the preparation of the
compound is said to be simple, in ex
pensive, and not injurious.
It has often been attempted to measure
the speed of the electric current. The
return of the current, in an experiment,
to the very place whence it started,
having been to Persia and back, a dis
tance of 7,400 miles, was instantaneous.
Electricians have endeavored to give a
measure to the speed of the electric cur- j
rent, and the best thing that they have
been able to do is to say that, at least, it j
travels at the rate of 200,000 miles a;
second.
Anew invention—a torpedo balloon— -
is being experimented w ith in Bridge- j
port, Conn. It is designed to convey j
torpedoes by means of a balloon above a j
hostile army or city, when, by an auto-1
matic arrangement, they are detached,
and exploded by gauge fuse. It has ;
attracted much attention, and an agent |
of the Russian government is observing i
the experiments.
Washington.
The annual report of the superinten- j
dent oi special agents show that during!
the past year five hundred and forty-1
three persons were arrested for offenses I
against the po3ta! laws, one hundred and j
four in excess of the preceeding year.
The finance bill introduced by Senator
Matthews provides that when United
States, legal tender notes are returned to
| the treasury or shall have been redeemed
:in coin under the specie resumption act
i of 1875, they may be reissued from time
I to time, as exigences of public service
may require, or otherwise, provided the ;
amount at any timeoutstanding shall not j
exceed $350,000,000 and the secretary of !
the treasury shall not make any reduc
tion of the authorized currency by retir
ing United States, notes below that sum.
The bill also requires the secretary, for
the purpose of redeeming the legal tender
notes as prescribed by law, to acquire
and maintain a reserve fund in coin of
not less than $100,000,000, to be provided
by the use of the surplus revenues and
by sales of bonds. Jf the coin reserve be
reduced to $50,000,000, the redemption
of legal tender notes shall be suspended
until the reserve fund is restored to SIOO,-
000,000, hut, in that event, holders of
legal tenders may exchange them for
Unind fctstes, fctir {cr cent. Icr-ds
sums of not less than SSO. Notes thus
tedeemed shall not be reissued or replaced
; by others until the reserve fund is re
j stored to $100,000,000. The bill also
authorizes the secretary of the treasury
to receive, in payment of any bonds
j which he may sell under the refunding
: actor 1870, the legal tender notes in lieu
j of coin, but at not less than the par value
j of said bonds in coin, less an allowance
I not exceeding one-half of one per cent, of
said bonds tor expenses; and he is re
quired to use the legal tender notes so
; received, or such other notes as may be
issued in lieu thereof, in the purchase ot
any outstanding 5 20 bonds at a price not
exceeding their par value in c'dn, or in
purcLia-imr coin for the redemption or
such bonds.
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1577.
THE BEST uirr.
I
BY KATK UILLAKD.
I
j Around the cradle that thy childhood bare
! Came Ood’B own angels with their pitying eyes,
j And gared upon thee in a still surprise
i To see iieyond heaven’s portal aught so fair,
j They brought thee precious gifts. One gave to thee
I he gift of beauty lor thy body’s grace,
Deep-smiling eyes to light a dreamy face..
And perfect limbs as young Apollo’s be.
One set the crown of genius on thy head.
Acd one bestowed a heart like woman’s own,
•Strong as the sea, and trembling at a i.
List, a veiled figure bent above the bed,
And said, “ I give thee everything in one.
In heaven I ani named Love; men call me Death,
n.
S shalt thou never tread the weary ways
I hat iea l men up the dusty slope of life.
Nor teel the fiereene-s of the noonday strife,
Knowing alone the morning of the days.
For thee the dew shall linger on the flower ;
The light that never was on lund or sea
Shall have no momentary gleam fo. thee,
Rut brighten into love’s immortal hour.
Thy beauty’s grace shall never know decay,
Nor borrow lay her hand upon thy heart;
i Nei.her shall chill mistrust thy spirit slay,
i Bu? liken star thr life sh.iil pc.a aw at,
fts light still shining, though itself depart,
Until all stars nreloct in one eternal day.”
lfnrjier's Magazine,
-J'i-’L JLI .. -Lill-Lil
Uncle Remus as a Rebel.
THE STORY AS TOLD BY HIMSELF.
For several months old Uncle Remus
has been in the country raising, as he
modestly expresses it a “han’ful o’ con’n
an’ a piller case full o’ cotton.” He was
in town yesterday with some chickens to
sell, and after disposing of his poultry
called around to see us.
“ Howdy, Uncle Remus.”
“ Po’ly, boss, po’ly. Dese here sudden
coolnesses in de weddor makes de ele nig.
ger feel like dere’s sump’n outer gear in
bis bones. Hit sorter wakens up de
roomatiz.”.
“ How are crops, Uncle Remus?”
“ Oh, craps is middiin. Ole Master
’membered de ole niggar \Wen he wuz
’stributin’de wedder. I ain’t complain
in’, boss. But I’m done wid farmin arter
dis, I is fer a fac’. De niggers don’t
gimme no peace. I can’t res’ fer urn.
Dey steal my shotes, an’ dey steal my
chickens. No longerin las’ week I wuz
bleedzd to fling a hau’full uv squill shot
inter a nigger what wuz runnin’ off wid
fo’ pullets an’ a rooster. I’m a gwine ter
drap farmin’ sho. I’m gwine down inter
ole Putmon county an’ live alonger Mars.
Jeeuis.”
“ Somebody was telling me the other
day, Uncle Remus, that you saved your
young master’s life during the war.
How was that ? ”
“ Well, I dunno, boss, with a grin that
showed that lie was both pleased and
embarrassed, “ 1 dunno boas. Mrs.
Jeems an’ Miss Emily, dey say I did.”
“ Tell me about it.”
“ You ain’t got no time fer to set dar
an’ hear de ole nigger run on wid ’is
mouf, is you?”
“ Oh, plenty of time. ”
Boss, is you ever bin down fo Putmon
county ?”
“ Often. ”
“ Den you know whar de Brad Slaugh
ter place is?”
“ Perfectly well. ”
“ An’ Harmony ?”
“ Yes. ”
“Well, hit wuz right ’long in dere
whar Mars. Jeems lived. W’en de war
came ’long, lie wuz livin’ dere wid ole
Miss and Mias Sally. Ole Miss was his
ma, an’ Miss Sally wuz his sister. Mars
Jeems wasjust eatchin’ fer ter go off an’
fight, but ole Miss and Miss Sally, dey
took on so dat he couldn’t get off de fus
year. Bimeby times ’gun to git putty
hot, an’ Mars Jeems begot up an’ sed ho
jes bad to go, an’ go he did. He got a
overseer to look arter de place, an’ he
went an’ jined de ahmy. An’ he wuz a
fighter, too. Mars JeemH wuz one er de
wuz kine. Ole Miss useter call be to and
big house on Sundays, and read what th
papers say ’bout Mars Jeems. ”
“ Remus,’ sez she, ‘here’s w’at de pa
pers say'bout my baby,’ an’ den she’d
go on an' read ontwell she couldn’t read
i for cryin ’.
“ Hit went on dis way year in an’ year
out, an, dey wuz mighty lonesome times,
boss, sho’s you bo’n. De conscription
man come ’long one day, an’ he ever
lastin’lv scooped up dat overseer, an’ den
ole miss, she sont arter me an’ she say:
' Remus, I aint not nobody fer ter look
arter de place but you :’ an’ I say Mistis,
I you kin jes ’pen’ ondeole nigger,—(I wus
j ole den, boss, let alone what I is now)—
| an’ you better believe I bossed dem
I han’s. I had dem niggers up ’fo’ dav,
i an’ de way dey did wuk wuz a caution,
! Dey had plenty bread and meal, an’ good
| cloze ter w’ar, an’ dey was de fattes’ nig
| gers in de whole settlement.
“ Bimeby, one day ole Mbs she call me j
up an’ tole me dat de yankees done gone j
and took Atlanty, and den present’y I
bear dat dey wuz marchin’ down to’rds
Putmon, an’ de fus’ thing I knows, Mars
Jeems he rid up one day wid a whole ■
company uv men. He jes’ stop longer
nuff ter change bosses an’ snatch up a
moufull uv sump'n t’cat. Ole MBs tole
’im dat I wuz kinder bossin’ roun’, an’ he
call me up an’ say :
“‘Daddy’—all ole Miss’s chillun call
me daddy— ‘ Daddy,’ he say, ‘ ’pears like
i dere'a goin’ ter be mighty rough times
| roun’ here. De yankees is done down
j ter Madigon, an’ ’twont be many days
befo’ dey’ll be all thu here. Hit ain’t
likely dat dev’!! bodder mother er sis;
but, daddy, e"de wus comes ter de wus,
I spec’ you to takekeer un ’em.’
“ Dn, 1 say, 1 You bin knowin’ me a
long time, ain’t you, Mars Jeems V
“ ‘ Sence I wuz a baby, daddy,’ sez he.
“ * Well, den, Mars. Jeems,’ sez I,
‘you know’d ’twaut no use fer ter ax me
ler look arter ole Miss and Mies Sally.’
“ Den de tears came in Mara Jecms’s
eyes an’ he squeeze my han’ an’ jump on
de filly I bin savin’ fer ’im an’ gallop off
1 know’d by de way he talk an’ de way
he look dat dere wuz gwineter be sho’
miff trouble’ an’ so I begun fer ter put de
house in order, as de scripter sez. I got
all de cattle an’ de bosses togedder an’ 1
diiv’em over to de fo’ mile place. I
made a pen in de swamp an’ dar I put de
hogs, an’ I haul nine waggtn loads uv
oo’n an’ w’eat an’ fodder to de crib on de
fo’ mile place, an’ den I groun’ my ax.
“ Bimeby, one day here come de yan
kees. Dey jes’ swarmed all over Lera
tion. De woods wuz full un urn an’ de
road wuz full un um, an’ de yard wuz
full un urn. L done heerd dey wuz
cornin’ ’fore dey got in sight, an’ i went
to de well an’ washed my face an’ bans,
an’ den I went an’ put en my Sunday
cloze, an’ by de time de yankees hed
arrove, 1 wuz settin’ in ole Miss’s room
wid my ax ’tween my knees.
“ Dem yankees, dey jes’ ransacked de
whole place, but they didn’t come in de
house, an’ ole Miss, she sed she hoped dey
wouldn’t, w’en jes’ den we hear steps on
de po’ch’ an’ hear come two young fellers
wid strops on dere shoulders nn s’ords
draggin’ on de Ho’ an’ dere spurs rattlin’.
I won’t say I was skeered, boss, ‘cause I
wnzent but I had a mighty funny feelin’
in de naberhood uv de gizzard.”
“ Hello, ole man ! ” sez one. ‘ W’at
you doin’ in here?’ Ole miss didn’t
turn her head, an’ Miss Hally look
straight at the fier.
Well, boss,” sez I, ‘ I bin cultin’
some wood for ole miss, an’ I jes stop fer
ter worn my han’s a little.’
“ Hit is cole, dat’s a fac,’ sez he. Den
I got up and went and stood belline ole
Miss and Miss Hally, a loanin’ on my ax.
De udder feller he wuz standin’ over by
the side-bode lookin’ at de dishes an’ de
silver mugs au’ pitchers. De man w’at
wuz talkin’ ter me, he went up ter de
fier, au’ lean over an’ worn his ban's.
Eus’ thing you know he raise up sudden
like an’ say :
“ ‘ W’at dat on yo’ ax ? ’
“ ‘Dat’s defier shinin’ on it,’ sez L.
“ ‘ I thought it wuz blood, sez he, an’
den he laft.
“ But boss, dat young feller wouldn’t
a laft dat day, ef tie’ll a knowd hu .-r nigh
unto eternity he wuz. Ef he’d jes laid
deweight uv his ban’ on old Miss or Miss
Sally in dar dat day, boss, he’d never
iuiowd w’at hit ’mer whar he was hit at,
an’ my onliest grief would a bin de
needeessily of spilin ole Miss’s kyarpit.
But dey didn’t bodder nobody ner mi thin,
and dey bowed derself out like dey had
real good breedin’—dey did dat.
“ Well, de yankees dey kep’ pas-tin’ all
de inornin’ an’ it’peered to me dat dere
wuz a string uv ’em ten miles long. Den
dey commence gitting thinner and thin
ner—scacer an’ scacer, an’ bimeby I hear
skirmishin’ goin’ on, an’ ole miss she say
iiow it wuz Wheeler’s colerlry a followin’
uv ’em up. I knowd dat ef Wheeler’s
boys wuz dat close I wnzent doin’ no
good settin’ roun’ de house, so I jes took
Mars Jeem’s rifle and started out to look
arter my stock. Hit was a mighty raw
day, dat day wuz, and de leaves on de
groun’ wuz wet so (ley didn’t make no
us-, an’ w’enever 1 heerd a yankee
ridin’ by I jes stop in my tracks and let
’im pass. I wuz a stannin’ dat way in de
nidge uv de woods, w’en all of a sudden
I see a little ring uv blue smoke
bust outen de top uv a pine
tree ’bout half a mile off, an’
den mos, ’fo’ I could gedder up
my idees, here come de noise—bang! 1 >at
pine, boss, wuz de biggest and de highest
on de plantash’n, and dere wasn’t a lim'
on it fer mighty nigh a hundred feel up,
an’ den dey all branched out an’ made
de top look sorter like a umberill.
“Hez 1 to myself, ‘ honey, you er right
on my route, an’ I’ll sec what kinder
bird is a roostin’ in you 1’ W’ile I wuz
a takin’, de smoke bus’ out agin, and (ten
bang! I jes drap back inter de woods an’
skearted roun’ so’sto fetch (le pine ’tween
me and de road. I slid up putty close
ter de tree, an’ boss, wat you reckon I
see?”
“I have no idea, Uncle Itemus. ”
“ Well, jes sho ez your settin’ dar
lissenin to de ole nigger, dere was a live
yankee way up dar in dat pine, an’ he
had a spy-glass, an’ he wuz a loadin’ an’
a shootin at de boys jes as cool tz a cow
. cumber, an’ he had his hoss lied out in de
bushes, ’caze I heerd de creeter trompin’
rouo’. While I wuz a watchin un ’im,
I see ’im raise dat spy glass, look fru ’em
; a minnit, and den put ’em down sudden
an’ fix hissef fer to shoot. I sorter shifted
reun’ so I could see de road, an’ I had
putty good eyes in dem days, too. 1
waited a minnit, an’ den who should I
see cornin’ down de road but Mars Jeems !
I didn’t see his face, but, boss, I knowd
de fillv dat I hail raised fer ’im, an’ she
was a prancin’ an’ dancin’ like a school
gal. I knowd dat man in de tree wuz
gwineter shoot Mars Jeems, ef he could,
an’ dat I couldn't stan’. I had nussed
dat boy in my arms many an’ many a
day, an’ I hed toted ’im on my back,
an’ I larnt ’im how ter ride
an’ how ter swim, an’ how ter
rastle, an’ I couldn’t b’ardeidee ov stan
nin’ dere an’ see dat man shoot ’im. I
knowd dat de yaukees wus gwine ter free
de niggers, caze ole miss done tole me so
an’ I didn’t want ter hurt dis man in de
tree. But, boss, w’en 1 see him lay dat
gun ’cross a lim’ au' settle hisse’f hack,
an’ Mars. Jeems goin’ home ter ole Miss
an’ Miss Hally, I disvemembered all ’bout
freedom, an’ I jes raise up wid de rifle I
had, an’ let de man have all she had.
liis gun drapptd down an’ come mighty
nigh shootin’ deole nigger w’en hit struck
de ground. Mars Jeems, he hee’ed de
racket, an’ rid over, an’ w’en 1 tell ’un
’bout it, you never seed a man take on
so. Ho come mighty nigh cryin’ over de
ole nigger, 1 declar’ ter grashes ef he
didn’t. An’ ole Miss—w’y ole miss f arly
hugged me, an’ w’en I see how glad dev
wuz my conshuns bin restin’ easy ever
sence.”
“ How about the soldier you killed ?”
“ We had ter cut down do tree fer ter
bury ’im.”
“ How did he get up there ?”
“ W’y, boss, he had on a pa’r ov dese
telegraf spurs—de kino w’at de fellers
clime poles wid.”
“ Your Mars Jeems must be very
grateful?”
“ Lor,’ chile, dey ain’t nothin Mars
Jeems is gat. data too good fer me. Dat’s
w’at make me say w’at 1 do. I ain’t
gwine ter be working/roun’ here ’mong
dese chain-gang niggers w’en 1 got a good
home down yonder in Putmon. Boss,
can’t cive de ole nigger a thrip fer to git
’im some soda water wid ?”
And the faithful old darkey went his
way. J. C. 11.
IMtESIDENTIAL POISONING.
The Terrible TrnKed.v ol lliietiannii'n
I limit; it ml ion llmj -Tlurt.v or More
Bend Vlcllmi of Poison.
Among the most prominent of the
National’s late arrivals are Henafor Ben
Hill and wife, of Georgia. They occupy
the suite of rooms known as the Presi
dential parlors. If the walls had tongues
they might discourse of people promi
nent in the past, and, perchance, tell
tales of private life never suspicioned.
But the tall mantel looks blank under
its modern ornaments, the brass mount
ings of the fender reflect new faces, the
heavy curtains shut in the secrets never
voiced, and in the room sits a little,
dark-eyed, prim woman and a bine-eyed
man, “ fro u away down south in Geor
gia”—a man mild as May, velvety,
broad-faced, and unassuming as a field
dandelion. These rooms where Henator
Hill now lives, on that fatal fourth of
March whicli witnessed Buchanan’s in
auguration, were occupied by the new
president. Twelve hundred guests were
crowded in the house. In the evening
ricaily ail were seized by similar symp
toms of poisoning, and thirty or more
died. The dead bodies lay in rows in the
parlors, the sick and dying were moan
ing in the balls ; a gloom hung over the
city, and extended to distant homes,
from whence had come guests to witness
the inauguration. The house had just
previous to thin been entirely refurnished,
it was the grand hotel of the capital,
and built in a style of magnificence
rare in those times. The National
hotel poisoning is remembered
witli horror by eld people, but
many of the younger ones have never
heard of it. The aflairs was investigated
and the house examined. No jmsitive
clue has ever been found. Home said
defective drainage, some |>oisoned rats in
the well, some that the sugar was poisoned
to ruin the business of the hotel. It is
generally, I think, believed now that the
poison was mineral poison, and was in the
sugar—for the reason that persons not
stopping at the house, who took fancy
drinks at the bar, were also seized by
cramps. Doubtless the new president’s
death was meditated, hut Mr. Buchanan
never touched sugar, nor ate it in any
thing, so that he almost alone escaped
the peril. Home of those beside his ex
cellency, who escaped, have been inter
rogated, and all those whose address
could be found after the lapse of years,
replied that they did not partake of sugar,
even in coflee. The house was closed,
the splendid furniture was sold at auction.
For years the hotel was uninhabited.
I’eople leaked at the barred windows
something as visitors now pause Is-tore
| Ford's theater, where President Lincoln
was assasinated. .Strangers stood in front
of it and related to each other sad inci- |
dents of the inexplicable death which had j
overtaken thirty persons in a night, i
Twenty years ago a gentleman from New
Hampshire, visiting in Washington, asked
to go through the house. People had
been afraid to enter the walls after the
! panic. The gentleman, upon examina
tion, immediately leased the building
thre'v open the windows, had the bouse
cleansed, one hundred and fifty loads of
dirt taken from the cellar, put one hun
dred thousand dollars’ worth of funiture
in the hotel, and was called crazy by his
friends. In December every corner was
filled by guests, and the quiant, low
rooms, where bad danced the belles of a
quarter of a century before, were azain
filled with life and beauty.— Washington
Cor. Chicago 7 ititci.
Times of general calamity and con
fusion have ever been productive of great
minds. The purest ore is produced from
the hottest furnace, aud the hrighest
thunderboldt is elicited from the darkest
orm
The Man-Hater's Meal.
Prof. It. C. Tapp, the celebrated Amer
ican horse-tamer, commenced, a week ago,
to tame the Petaluma Man-eater, as de
scribed in lsst Sunday’s Chtonicle, and
has, every day since, given public exhibi
tions of his process and progress in a tem
porary amphitheater iu the rear of the
Record stables, on Market street, opposite
Seventh. Yesterday, however, the Man
eater changed the programme, and at
tempted to tame Tapp in so effective a
way that Tapp emerged sorely wounded,
and only by a miracle with his life. The
Man-eater, whose other name is Cogniac,
is a dark dapple gray Norman stallion,
seven years old, weighing in fighting
■ J'.L’KLpomvK foe.Vsd In yi/fm.sc'j,"
France; imported two years ago to
Illinois, and subsequently Iwuglit by
Joseph Wooden, the Norman horse
breeder of Petaluma, and brought, to this
state, and declared by horsemen to be the
finest horse of the breed ever brought to
America. Until brought to Illinois he
had been an exceptionally gentle animal,
but, having indiscreetly, and probably
playfully, bitten out a couple of pounds
of an Illinois groom, he was so injudi
ciously and
BRUTALLY BEATEN
that, as Deacon Duncan would say, he
experienced a change of heart, all his
atent deviltry was developed, and he lias
ever since been the terror of all whom
necessity has thrown into his company.
With exception of occasionally eating a
hostler lie is an invaluable brute, and
Mr. Wooden consigns him to Mr. Tapp
to have him cured of this solo little foli
ble. Yesterday at 2 o’clock the exhibi
tion commenced in the presence of about
two hundred spectators, and progressed
till half-past 3, during which time the
horse had been handled by the professor,
and even driven to a buggy, and appeared
perfectly tractable and to have kind of
lost his appetite for stablemen. After
being unhitched he was cross hobbled by
making a stout rope fast from the fetlock
of his uigli foreleg to that of his off hind
leg, an arrangement which permitted
him to trot, but prevented his galloping
as also his kneeling down, and which is
why Tapp still lives to again try conclu- j
sions with him. The horse stood near
the center of the inclosed circle, and the
professor alsmt midway between liim
and the inclosed high barricade, the
borne -perfectly subdued under the eye
of the commander. Home person on a seat
in the rear of Tapp asked him a question,
and for on# instant Tapp removed his
eye and half turned his head to answer.
In that instant the craft bruto
HI’BANO UPON IIIM LIKE A TIOER.
There was a yell of horror from the spec
tators, as the horse caught the man up
by the clothes at the small of his hack,
shook him as a terrier dog does a rat , and
flung him through the air against the
inclosing planking. Before Tapp could
regain his feet, the ferocious monster was
again upon him, seizing him with his
teeth by the left shoulder and endeavor
ing to kneel down upon him, which is
his last and most approved way ot
K 11,1.1 NO MIS KEEPERS.
This the cross hobble prevented him
from doing, and tiie cool professor, with
his shoulder still in the cruel grip of the
monster’s jaws, struggling to his feet,
and with his right hand so held the hit
as to prevent, as far as jmssiblo, the suc
cessful working of the horse’s jaws. The
crowd was intensely excited. Mr. Wooden
seized a long pole, and poked it between
the halter and the horse’s lower jaw,
and still further retarded the biting.
The friends of 'lapp called for a gun,
but there was no gun, and what is
remarkable in a collection of two hun
dred Californians, no one had a
revolver, or the murderous brute would
have been shot dead instantly. The
horse and Tapp continued fighting half
way around the ring, Wooden, on the
seats out side, still hampering the for
mer’s efforts with the pole. The spec
tators on the front seats also did all they
could to detract the man eater’s atten
tion, one lady seizing the crutch of a man
sitting next to her, and beating the horse
over the head with it By the aid of
these distractions, Tapp was enabled by
degrees, to draw bis arm through the
horse’s jaws, the horse
f'UEWINU 11 IMI'ABTIAI.LY
as it slipped away from him, until finally
it was entirely withdrawn. The crowd
shouted to Tapp to jump for his life, but
the plucky trainer called for his whip,
and with his mangled left arm dangling
by his side, so tickled the fetlocks of
Cogniac that that enterprising animal
was again in what Tapp fondly calls sub
jection. Last evening tin trainer wasin
the stable office with a friend pouring an
odorous liniment over his bandaged arm,
| and the man-eater, with all bis evil pas
j sions inflamed with the taste of blood,
t W as romping around his prison and
eagerly reaching up for a mouthful of
any timid s(>ectator that ventured near
i enough to look down at him. The peo
ple will continue to look forward with
interest to the solution of the problem
whether Tapp will tame the man-eater
or the man-eater tame Tapp. —San Fran
ri'o Chronicle.
.Neve* irefcn on me bunions of a man
who lias a boil on bis neck, ft is un
Christian, careless and dangerous.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
APPEAL TO THE AWF.RT SIKOEK OF MICHIGAN ; IM
WHICH THE NOISE Op TH * HA PIPS 18 IMITATJHL
Hwppt Mmrer of the rapids
I hat tunihirth on the Grand .'
7hr harp hath touched a nation,
Thy notes hath swept the land.
O Michigan! *
We wih again
To hear thy nightingale;
Tor rns i, ler risb,
Ke whash, ke whisb,
Ker roar omore owale !
Thou pootkerof the widows
Hrighnm’R blighted home !
O Hf-nd iiH fiotn fJrand Rapid*
.List one more sighsonie pome.
Tor riiKh, ter Hsh.
Ke whash, ke whhh,
Ker roar omo'e owßlel
() Michigau!
WewWi again
To hear thy nightingaio.
- Cm trier-JourvnJ.
lhiflw.nd id pronounced Mih\an t not Mihh
igan.
. .Hixty persons die every minute.
*■* *
a j/rr people live longer than short
ones.
Married men are longer lived thau
the single.
The reputation of a man is like hi*
shadow—gigantic when it preceeds him,
and pigmy in its proportions when it
follows hint.
NO. 13.
..The total number of human beings
on the earth is computed at 3,000,000,-
000, and speak three thousand and sixty
three known tong uo.s
i .. The faults of,Christiana are watched
with mere rigid scrutiny than their vir
tues; hence the importance of sustain
ing an unblemished character.
. The English Nautical Magazine ad
vocates the utilization of rats as lood,
and declares, from actual experiment,
that they are exceedingly palatable.
..A little boy iu Hpringfteld, Mass.,
after his customary evening prayer a
night or two ago continued, “ and bless
mamma and Jenny and uncle Benny,"
adding, after a moment’s pause, the ex
planatory remark, “ his name is Hop
kins.”
..Laugh about Turkish and Russian
names, if you will ; hut remembor the
United Htales have Orodelfan, Ni Wot,
East I’aw Paw, Teutopolis, Wild Cat,
Verdigris Valley, .Slaughter, Wagon
Wheel Gap, and similar specimens of
purely American.
.. Lucy Stone has returned from Colo
rado, where she found a grievance of her
sex in the fact that, while intelligent
women could not vote, the Mexican men
living there had the right of franchise.
These voters, she says, live like hogs iu
mud huts, can not read or write, and arc
iii every way brutish.
. The following bon mot is credited to
Henry W. Paine, of Boston : Recently,
in the supremo court, he was interrupted
from the bench with the somewhat
abrupt comment: “Mr. I’aine, that
isn’t the law.” Mr. Paine instantly re
plied: “I think, your honor, it was the
law until this moment.”
Avery tall, thin Highlander said
that he “ had a cold in his head, origina
ting in wet feet.” Hhe looked at him
slowly from head to foot and back again,
as if measuring the distance the cold had
to travel, and then ejaculated : "Gra
cious mol you must have got your feet
wet some time last year.”
, Why farming does not pay in New
Hampshire, says a Nashuan who is fond
of wandering about the back districts
with his fish-rod, is evident from this
specimen conversation with a granger:
“ I said to him, ‘ That spotted hog is just
like one 1 saw in the same pen when 1
was this way seven years ago,' and he
answered, ‘Of course. It’s the snme
animal.’ I asked him why he had not
killed and raised other hogs, and lie
answered, ‘ Why, bless ye, man, that hog
ats all the swill we make, and conse
quently there ain’t no sense in killin’
him an’ buying another.”
,11 takes a medical student fo prove
that black is white. In Shoreditch,
England, a gentleman recently drove up
to a public house and left liis [winy, which
was a milk-white steed, in charge of a
hoy while lie went indoors for five min
utes. When he reappeared the hoy was
there and tho buggy was there, but in
place of the milk while steed was a pony
as black as a beetle. The boy insisted
that it was the same pony, and fcould
give no explanation of the change of
complexion, save that a young medical
gentleman had examined the animal
during the owner's absence. The truth
was,that the mischievous medical student
had daubed the pony from head to tail
with a coat of lampblack. The English
man’s astonishment was only equaled by
the dismay of an American in a cemetery
near Buffalo. Alter leaving bis horse at
a hitching ;>ost (or half an hour, he had
resumed his seat arid attempted to make
a start, when lo! the post appeared plump
under the tail, between breeching and
hind-quarters. “ Bless me ! ” exclaimed
the dazed gentleman, “did I hitch the
i orse at the wrong end ? ”
\ TanintiilH’M Nest.
The nest of a tarantus (spider) has
been found in California of the most
singular construction. It is about three
inches in length by two in diameter,
built in adobes, the wall being nearly
half an inch thick. Inside of this is a
projection, which nearly devides it into
two apartments, al>out an inch in diame
j ter. The inside is lined with a white
1 downy substance, not unlike velvet, and
I presents one of the cleanest and most
| tidy little households imaginable. But
I the most curious part of it is a door,
which fits into an aperture, and closes it
hermetically. The door is secured by a
hinge, formed of a like fiberous substance
as the lining of the house, and upon
which it swings with freedom. The nest
is occupied by a dozen little tarantulas,
which seem to subsist on a yellow secre
ted substance, that appears upon the
walls of the front apartment. The ar
rangement of the floor tor the protection
of th' little inmates indicates great in
stinctive architectural knowledge.