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<.*«• m 5 a wiii
MSS* ota'M
tp. UntCFlEta. Funp;« f
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Another HMoriml Idol Broken
Mr. Emil Gorisweller, the Arabic schol¬
ar, of Basle, has been breaking in pieces
another of the idols of children In hw j
university and M> lectures literature Upegl he found , Arabian ... himself Jutre ’
guage t t j
face to face with » certain Harun Ar- i
of raschid, the whole who is world, no oth-i Haroun than al the Raschid. favorite |
i
of the " Arabian Nights.” The leane d j
Doctor sav% that the polished, sagacious
and kiiidM potentate of the " Ihotwand
and One .Nrgkte was by no means so
pleasant, actual history vn-v, and he amiable is token a character to he by
m as
ail the boys and girls in Ohmu-ndon
and Islam, who know him only from lua
panegyrical and inexhaustible portrait book. in that The great charming Cal
iph was neither such a lover of right ;
•ousness nor so beloved by hi* people a* ;
we used to fancy. He to the
full the ciiaractenstio fault* of those Or- |
featal despots whose humor is their only i
law. His far-famed generosity wae but
the reversed ride., like Robin Hood’s at a
boundless system of spoliation and rob
tBsult- bery, The very slightest preteuae of an
g an set of negligence on the part
ofwrvolbii, rich subject* was made by
Haroun al Raschid an excuse for whole
sale confleatum of the wealthy offender n
property. No Bmnaa <» Byxantate I’aisar
wa* ever more relentless in the execution
of his arbitrary decrees. It is easy
enoph, teiate, to however, djseover the Dr. Teascinwbyhiv Ooeswellcr fame con
and hw virtues arepainted in such glow •
tngeotor# to toe writer of legend*. First
ly, be was the^ last caliph who bad held
toe Empire together Uirtrogh genuine
wmtA 'pcmvt, and who possessed the%ae
os ^ oijm ru*m . Litder it eaiipliR
who him, oForvthaiig mt out of
punt. Beooudly, he fully utiffi>r»toxl the
*T! !!?P « ^ standing web will, the
poeta hrol and phasant scholar*, bir and wm»m he always
a manner ojwn purse.
*-ven in the Are bum Nights, howev.-r,
i.repikMtf JiHir jiiu,! g.’-Ti o !• u, i.
nUitvibio wfiil wlrnt reidv^di’ihilif sophist* Vv,a
crown L lawyers and casuistical of
in favor of the inclination* of tio* dcso-u
—London Globe
Tm Emoreian compkely^ mightv
hunter-thougf thj W.ush when he he, is up
account of day’s comparing ahobtiag his meager
a with the re
ga’ Knees, bags made by tbs Indian FeriugW Itejalisand
British Inrtte. or even These by the to
ica. exertion, and consequently may t* phy#- less
puyBicsI battue* of improvement, tL East in the monster
tear, in our more
homaiy tel and vigorous sports, lmt the to
deed is sbmcthifig Six very thirty-,!* magnificent in-
14fi tiger*,, 3.2(tb buffaloes,
Hteki pigs and detw»the aum of a
Ottoman', shading.
iie 8es«® frutmi
VOi, v.
arry.K xi umtmi.
Ommta)" m* H*rrv,tor.. * ui my
Ami 0ei«MiB« n* 4 , *nd l tw* mom were oomforuts.y _ j
rsi *t3i hTitl* » aa*t*r, *> I thoughtra t»
jo», friend, know, what m%i I d
> vmi, Aft » : you
better do.
Wml Mi Tarried,-eb ? TooV« &sm» too t»t* ! X wit-b
«’d called lx ms fore;
Tis uni^ee* wib m tb te horse has gone.to shu; the eist
bis door l hoy,
Wh«t cjm*t be cured, the proverb old as usl
.
I k»o w her temper ! QC‘ at one*, and get year life
O.Y THK RAILWAY BRIDGE.
" A letter for you, -ir !” I broke the
seal with real anbnishment ;
Mb. F.wuu> WoRtHtaorns—.Sir . I'ardon
t&m* iatruHive lines, and rest aaanred that they call
arc freru one who »i!l m« he proud tei
hsmaelf your wncere friend, Lucy A Am m isjif't
faithfai to you : t do not write fid: j-.to yon
for *uv base propose : for, since i know fu> weM
your generous and noble nature, I cannot hcsi
tate when I see that nature bi- ome the iuu o~
ee»t been dupe hasty of vile in dUaiiaalaiioa. s>.r have Mus
too eommtmi eatmg to vmi l
knowledge; assured that 1 all oriy I have fear said is is too late: d but rest
is true, an- can. be'
attested by one who has an uadonbted personal ......
kJMKw'.ettgo of all the facts. Arthur Wesley tee
singing-master, is year too-fortanate nvai.
Yourt;. A non.
mi' rhi» was not , me st first n v intimation * j• , -tp £ hm j
had of Lucy’s inconstancy. I liad seen
thinga with mv own eves “that made mo I
doubt her sincerity. For a long time i
the unwelcome suspicion bad been prey- |
ingnpon bring -me. and conviction—-stern, this fatal letter had
come to irrevo
cable, hopeless conviction.
I did not doubt the ^fwith truth of ii hlrfnre • and
yet how it writhed my
to think a! it to admit cruS it« truth It did 1
notit could not should mo l>^n l bravedt Ethan
to tha I othSS? have
man to do I reperused the ,
letter calmlv-no not calmlv—n-t to- '
differently *' * hut stendy as though ' r \ it i I
were dLto v e tho°l)u£ i t e L i\ SSt’should r \
only cup *’ i
”
swallow the very dregs. j
And Vet I loved the wayward ‘woufi tori
and glwliv, oh how gladly X t !
have torgiven her iinpnulcncc! To her w,’
1 went toseek an interview. L: -
pmml-too proud to be W to herself; I
yet she was generous and noble, in spite 1
of all her fickleness i ’
Obstinately convinced that she had
preferred am'dher to me, I did not ask I
or J expect any explanations horn per; 1 j
gh w> mt aL , v hesitetir-n. the '
hm letter to I return had just received, mch letters and requested l\uu\ j
me
previously written to her. and anv oti.< r i
little keepsake which Slight in future !
prove annoying look which to her, shall Blw liestowod !
on me a I never forgot
"Do you believe thw, Edward S' sh
«*ke*L hlitarion!
“T What do.” I replied, without j
retorted, ” with unimpeachable iiit fim imtwiise evidence of ?” pride, she j
tamed “I do in not this rely letter,” ou the 1 information said. I have eon- j
«
■ a h myself without asking anv I
advice opinion.” ‘
person's or !
Blie immediately left the room, and
returned in a fe* momeutu with a pack
age of letters and a small box of jewels. ;
mv former presents, eayinggavi f v. as she
placed them iu mv hands
"By will, these I absolve tokens, then, since it is
yoiu lu spite of the smile you.” that played
s35 «'™ njion
la a moment the thought flashed upon
my mind that she might, after all, be
true. Impulsively I was about to speak
to her, to ask her d it was not so; but
the thought had come upon are hke a
flash, it vanished as it ha*i come, leaving oour^
noaltoniativchuttopureua I had adopted. tha
“ Farewell then ! ” I said, with appar
ent be indifference. lighted with "May the your future life
ever sunshine of
happiness I ”
" Lhauk you,” she replied. “I treat
n© act of my own will ever bring misery
upon me.”
Conscience, Mias Ames—-con
mienos I ” i said.
" Will never reproach me,”sherepfie«.
“Heaven grant it!” said I " ’lhe
step you have taken may, iu your opto
ion, be just, but let me assure you oth
ers do not think so. We do not always
see ourselves as-others see ns.”
** 1 have done nothing, Mr. Worthing
ton to merit this.” add Lucv - " v **h
arc not only deceived lmt im'nertincnt
sir; and von cautiously avoidany ext^um- uu**»
tious that might lead to an
tion—”
"la&kno explanation;” I hnrriedly
replied, and immediateiv amiable took mood' mv do
yarture In no verv no*
|__I d i d j w i«> » to humble myself sufBoienttv
to auk her ^ anv ouwtbns •* ’ _ thrt satislhetorv adfd’t :fS ’ as
ah# * had ■ * suggested, * lead m
to a
explanation, '
What a victory oride had woo* its How
parfeot iliimmin and complete botheidite had been nitre
mate cm !
I I hurried hurried from from the th# door door a a I I turned turned
my «ny "took stem step# homeward homeward again again. InHttertiv.-Sy Instinctive! v
I I took the the usual usual course course in in returning returning
home home (for < for Lucy Lucv lived lived nearly nearlv a a mile miic out <» u t of of
town),’ and walked along.'so so busy bnsv with.
aay thoughts anvthiiiK m toba qtlerlv
and everv<-hinc: ek‘
There was a high railway bridge that
; lay between me and the town, jnrt wide
| enough for the hues, Um middle of
I which was planted over for the con
: wa «nioe of ped^trian*, as there wa-. no
! 0 y iw bridge over the riv.-r ire
le the line* ir «a, .
: J .Pf® hlck ^ of heavy, th ® plank#, bad been which partly was raised very
I u la eu ^“'p TI5i g to pass it, 1
'' 1 truck * ’o my foot against it, stumbled, rmd,
j i S myself, forced Mnk one leg
Milfiibvhim ' W“- v
| iSiB.Whi m.nJ r»p.«t.«d the
1
i ! Lv foot k„¥ or .trudina Icon* tor mtof t> f y Wt
j threw J 1
'
i Sglhe tJf o5X ti,*, 7 “ ^
k/,.„ f , 1,-8 • th,nk 1 , v how eunouriy 1 T I , hda ,
S^£?S5kS ao^an^^a f 00 ^, n< %J *
aolriK? ^ eamly perfed aa l had '¥* imag- ’ w “*
' 1 P*^k was ^ wedged la, mia in
could *
tenures it. I r strove with my ut-
. 1 ESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER I, 1880 .
nearer came the train. The rising, moon
disclosed to me the white column of
amoke ana steam, rising above the hul
lievond the curve; and now the regnlar
b Wting puff ami the cough gloating of the engine
steock my ear, hke chuckle
ot victim. some terrible How like monster frenzy regarding thought Ins
a tu«
came on me that it was now too late for
assistance i No human being would
venture on the bridge when the train
was within hearing distance, when it
«u too dark tbs to distinguish impetuous fire-horse; objects in
time to stop
and yet, furious and frantic at the
thought of such a death, l stretched my
shrieked trembling again limbs and to again their utmost, 1 and
until grew
hoarse, drowned and tha efforts limnderuig train
tha feeble of my voice.
And now delirium seized me. I fancied
some giant fiend hold down the plank
which T vainly tried to wrench from its
firm position—I could hear the chuckle
>? satisfaction that it gave to think it
had me there so safely in its power.,
The loud rear that now reached mv
car announced that the train had struck
the bridge—th-wa came an end to hope
..«« power could avert the death tfiat
stared me m the , For an instent T
saw countless demons saperbuoulb liovering through
the air. I made a effort to
move my body off the the line, fire and
smoke enwloned me~the» was a
cnishing blow, a convulsion, a dim
recollection of keen pains shooting all
through darkness my imprisoned limb, ami
was '* '* 1 knew no more ‘ V
* *
^ I 1 returned again to coMcioos. !
ness dimly'light- was lying oi. an easv coach, onifti.lily in a > !
room furnished. d, but neat lv \ \
While wondering where
whs. and tn-iug to recall what had !
passed, Lucy the door wss slowlv rodm. opeued, and i
Ames entered the In a mo
xr^nt a?-i.* 'wsi^ hv mv h v4pb> v-ifdimB i
the motions and the expre-ri, ns of my
countenance, still delirious. doubtless imagining that I |
was :
She " Lucy- started Miss back Ames?” I I said. uttered the j
as
«. ih-.-h >, G, l? ! , •
discover her red thoughts; but, in n
she moment looked recovering calmly nil self-possession, ;
aifectetl toward no . mid asked,
with a tone of indifference:
Do .
“ yon fed easier now?”
" imtewl, I scarcely know how l do
feel,” 1 replied, “ but there is a pain and
soreness* in my 1 head, and, in fact, m all
hiy must have been badlv
hart
I had a dim recollection of the occur i
reive above narrated, and I felt h ur.
'
prised that I should have again awaken-.« '
*„ «' fir,. JrJZ?, tk„ „ w i *rI . f»:T' ... .
mentally/ d, b at’hand,
and A phvdchu, I
every effort was made by him. us
web m the merntew of Mr. Ames' fnmi
ly weed), (iu who* Ivu*, 1 was then lying, in '
ato,, Lucy aud Mr. Wesi-v
joined, to alleviate Wv sufferings. ‘ I
In spite of all their attentions mv ,
pains rapidly augmented, and m a short
d-kriLd time I was again C lost in the vST uncomu-ious
L'X«aS, W SxTnlK :
l..iw“ V e?v dTort and i««i> sUmnui ‘ evfrv
nerve to remove the *.f wixM U.at
bound me there. A: win i was cliauvd
to the huge rook, in which uuconswous } i
hideous, ffi w about me, chattering in
glee—detwm, danced on the sharp edges
nl “*e reck, chuckling'again hke the 1
f 1 ****** P»^ of the engine; and at In
v.*, v fi. ,h. and turned m v btood togail l£en
with the Wms poison iu which thev had
d. yawned on orere side
t„ reeeiv me AH or.ee was i
the long Miril! wh. - tie of the engine and
,1,-pair, that s.-m-d i he very agon’v o^mc of
sm earned <m every side
Uh. train } the train !" ’
But all this passed away. I was well
again, and could walkabout th- house
with the aid of a crutch for I had left
one fi*ot Muqw*ml>*d in the l>ri<U;e where
I had so luaimulou dv im- u , -d death '
Lucy indeed had tenured me of her love, noj.
Long by words, but bv her m-t om
and ]>ati,-irt! v *1,.- hud watched bv
mv-al. ; and to 1,', , n.. . e tl.an anv oth
-rdo I ow- the rvateu of mv life
No words had i.a --.d between us in re
Utiou to the subject winch had so « arh
M'n . Us .’i * I’ , 1 n V* . ^ , to . , 1ks
!' l ‘rt :nowl ”>hrm-n» -*t tne cm«ro.u my
£ 4 ' * clwwrful torgivenesaon hers,
1 " But ut one ou< ’ day, day, when when we we chanced chanced to tone be
• alone, I I recurred m-umd to to tha the folly fofiy of «.i which which I I
had |*»to been ”< eii guilty, gouty, and and more more formally formally asked asked
j her her forgiveneiss. forgiven .-,n
T’ m rf ‘* dy *•'' do 1 I forgiw forgive yon,” you,” she she said, said,
“ “ if !t indeed lu ‘-' 1 a you v, -‘ l? have.been ih,v, ‘ guilty guilty of of any anv
t'! ^ hl< ire 7*‘ m *'i- re< l ,dpe Jt
You doubtless -
............ acted according .......*' to vonr
earnest e Wish w%-h * r “ est to iudmatiou, iuclinatem. which winch I I would would' not uot
to Opjt.iSe. opp. ,-c. I aupi><j#cd your onh
; object w w »a as to te stature wenre the the hand hand of of another another
j .to Laving me, and that--”
‘ ‘ Lucv, Jretcy i exclaimed, "it was
: ^ -Two* ®vi ; I. wire a fool! I be
b«J> rashly, but now J will believe
i will not even credit what i
1 8 ^ a * >ut %t} ^ x ?u "• ‘-d-t, 1k:w it hap*
period that, on ore- -.*r two occasions, after
I «*<*«««« yours-d frero_ accompanying
! I should B ® e afterward l!i v.s.t or party,!
home in ,th t Mr. you Wesley?” returning
! company *•
" btill jealous. I ■ • id Lnoy.
"No. no,” ( r- ‘but-”
” Lister To ' s l-.- sad -no rn , r - • ■
j j m,ght have done **!,„% hml von re
quested it. I was anxious this^pre^ to improve
mv the singing, and, as
• 1 hatl only oj-i«>rtunitv take I should ever have. oi
* Mr. Wesley. engaged to private lessons
I did not think it neees
i *«*? to tell* every one wh • 1 was *0 often
H( ’f n ln the company of ft at gentleman,
who, I must assure you, is not only a
I very amiable young nun, but is engageil
to my cousin, with whom 110 inducement
«>old cause him to break bis compact” ling
: "But why did he delay so to
! come to my ass.'.tancc, when I was about
i to be crashed by the firain V
“ He did, in.toed, make all the haste
* his power,” replied Lucy; "but, m
company with my brother, arrived a
’been moment too late, when it would have
madness to have gone ?r on the
fall bridge In toe dim light th «w ran
into the water, which ! fortuna*;- v
•’
to •-•{ power, but H was in vain ; nor I
could 1 extricate my foot which was
lm>rated and smarting with pain m its
0 j uge eouhnemsat.
At first 1 did not consider the extent
of ceive''the mv peril, but T soon situation; began to and per l j
shuddered danger with of my think that
honor to I 1 ;
should crashed las obliged death to remain the there train and 1
be to by next ! j
U was a cold day in December, and yet
the beaded drops burst Dorn every pore. .
A moment of frenzied delirium succeed- ;
i d, and when 1 rallied again I found etil my- j
self lying on. the rail, my of foot delivery a ]
prisoner, and no prospect
I looked at my watch ; it was half-past I
I The express wouldgo up at half-past 1
r,; and at half-past 1 it would be dark,
it whs possible, nav prot.*ble, that i
sks»wm«IF would pass by More it should i i
T>«> t.x, Lite. This way was irnaror to
the town than by the bridge I have men- *
tinned, dangerous though account always of regarded its as more i
on narrowness, 1
from which there would be no possibili¬ j
ty of escape in ease a train should come ;
in si ght while had passing been killed, over it. «ndcuvor- Already j
me person by )
mg to cross at a tune when the train was •
im a V°A tllere? “^should How i the be the thought second tortuml to per
-
aIi d . once . ag*ni , r I togged A at the re
e*»tvng planJL \X i.h all niy strength I
r *cd to withdraw my foot and leave the
^ >0 ? t * hnt impossible i
it was 4 o clock, m half an hour it
watl s ^ tM; ‘- lar ^ another hour, and death
would lal be certain. T I ahooted , , for aid, but u j .
habitation was within hidf aanle, and
5°, Again TT? and a^ain I shrteaed, white the .
fespumug echoes reverWted through
the distant wood, as though they would :
flU ff’^ne tJ l e «cumnlated ui my mist-ry strength And then, of mad- wtlh | ;
uess . 1 Pl*uk, but could
not 1 XMW& i% ftoWi. its &1&C&. «boulI H rrjr p»W it '
conl<1 uot be P«» iW ® tbftt 1 be
obliged to sit there and be crushed to
****“♦ when human aid was so near,
Mu ^ someisolated forest, some
depth of oountay, uistant from town or
‘ "ttiute. my d-.x-m might have been more
wrtiUU : Om* ag*>“ I shrieked with .
* e> *“)* Jr - ’ A1 ll J. desperately, the
««»» of ®y voice rang out on the chill-
5 while fiotliing but the mocking
«*»*» 1«» had reply. and
«un Bet, the darkness was
puthenng fast over the valley below.
Already the gleaming last reddening glow of sun
was on the tops of the
f° re «t trees. My irrevocable destiny be
came every moment more and more ap
Hark! It is the train. No, no l I
stretched forward, and listened with
breathless eagerness. There was not a
«otmd to break the sUence ; I must lmve
>*«& deceived. But list! A voice, a
voice ! Thank Heave u!
"Help! help! help!” I cried, and
bme I shouted the word* I seemed,
*“ of speech, despair, nerved called up to greater .power
and louder and louder
each time. Did he hear me? There
was no answer—all was still. Oh, merci
^ Heaven I was this last chance for
We denied me ?
"Hall-oo!” shouted some one
The voice was distant, but. oh, how
my blood leaped with joy at the sound !
Again I oaltod with all the strength of
ready SSSS 5=3H
so dark I could not recognize him,
nor c<ur » to do so; but when he
“mf *f? <*c*« *? K lance 8hoWed |
i re :
approached he asked :
“ Is that you, Mr. Worthington?
Blare me are you hurt?”
No, thank you, not much hurt.” „ I
here ; " I butsec, I am so nicely trapped ..tone,
that could not free myself
and I think it is nearly time for the ex
P«*train to be due.”
j - u *«» growing dark very fast; so
. d «rk, indeed, was it that I found it im
possible watch. to discover what time it was by
my Ha never hesitated anus
xnent, but seixed the detested plank with
heth hands, aud at the same instant I
I mutated bu movements. These
cursed thing resisted all our efforts, and
remained obstinately immovable. Wliat
1 coul<i be done? Iu half an hour the
train would be duo. Would there he
time to go for assistanc^-to bring an
I »kand liberate my foot? He would trv.
“For Heaven's sake, Mr. Weslev'”
«oid I, as he started to go, "be expe
} ditious. It is too terrible to lie obliged
• to sit here and face death unwillinglv ”
I was alone again. The wintte sighed
’• mournfully 1 forgot about me, hut I felt relief.
, »ven attention my danger, the and turned
tn J which 1 :Y- once hail ____|_______ been more to thoughts
* ^ 1 * ...... unwittingly ——’ occupied when ______ ^ i
stumbled - " ' into • my pres
] ‘ ent^difficulty. Nevertheless Nevertheless I I apprehensive apprehensive that that
was was
f he he might might be be delayed delayed until until the the train train
i should should pass. pass. Di In fact, fact, I I had had uo no assmr- assure
i 1 »*«« Mw t!ml tlurt h» he had had time time to to go go to to Mr, Mr,
I ' Am*.*’ Ames’ . and and return return before before it it would would be bo too too
I j laCo - ^antio trtm.Uo Another Another brain. brain. thought thought Had Had rushed rushed he hadeceived deceived through through mi
j : m ®T J mu t ♦
1 Would Would be be not not be he only only too too happy happv in in be- U-
1 ■: tag 3iig tlm» thus eaftily easily I rid rid never'would of of my my unwelcome \m welcome
j ' presence? again—he felt would he never would oome come
to me leave me to the
mercy *»f such a cruel death. Heaven*'
there is no mistaking that sound—the
whistle at the Forest station, only five
milw distant 1 ‘
How well do I remember the thoughts
d trer.cireh oy ui: : . 1 - Ire
[ Wesley; for, although I hatl every rea
son to tielieve he would not come, still l
oh, hoped h,m. Old Icprei,
how I lie would return!
Nearlv {was two hours had I sat there, and
now still waiting and vibrating be
tween the hope of delivery and the al*
52P rt *? ertain of destruction.
The fearful chill of despair was creep
“* 0Ter me ! my tremliling limbs d
^ that my nerves were
: Hlnk exhaustion. At every reuftnig mo-
1 r kept a watch tor his
footsteps, but no welcome sound fell on
my ear.
Hark ! it is the train ! The low, die
‘ ht3 nd « c « in < rt deceive me now. It
h® here L in a few minutes.
" Help ! help |” I cried.
The wailing cry faded lSS awav and S
there was no answer.
louder came the thunder nearer and
.
was deep and rapid and consequently the
free from ice. They hastened to
bank of the stream, and in a few mo¬
ments succeeded in rescuing yon from
this second danger and bore you to the
house,”
“ Friends, thank God; all friends !” I
coaid I racy’s not help uttering all after that listening hatl to
explanation of trans
pired. f was happy again, though
me ton in less tlian a month after my
perfect convalescence.
Dueling in St. Louis,
Tile first duel in St. Louis was that of
Thomas H. Benton and Charles Lucas,
The difficulty between the parties orig¬
inated during a trial in which bofu were
engaged hi as counsel. Col. Benton, be
ving Mr. Lucas himself insulted, sent the glove Mr.
to as a challenge. But
Lucas, having no taste for such sport, de
dined on the ground that statements
considered made to a jury by gentleman could not properly for be
a a cause
such meeting, and furthermore Col.
Benton was an excellent shot. They
controversy, ami CoL Bcn
branded him as a coward. Lucas
" »«f uI the would oh «“ inset <*. hun on equal terns
>J T Lucas; they Mug shot-guns, to ixs
fi’^cd w'lth twelve No. 4 buckshot at «x
]^ this ces wofd ’ Of - msure .Benton, sure well death knowing to both that
parties, threw up the sponge. But it
was not long until a cloud passed their
^ftiSs - 1 - L uas, to"S-Cto in orin r to iSLrthtebcSf protect his honor,
J" for< *f to challenge Col. Benton.
SSiWlriSTbi feting took place on Bloody
J* H,rnin K Aug. 12, IMi, pistols being
Ul, ‘ u«md. Mr. Lucas fell, so
varoiv womnled iu the neck, aud was
rithilrawn.from u tl followed, tt»e field. and Atemporary another
r ,', < l c< ‘ ** « n
*'«& P 1 "*®® ® hhe same grounds by
f a same which parties, resulted as the m feud the broke tolling out of
' ' ' of ‘“f.
£‘ 1 d o^°T«i 7 T
yarned . ff biu l “f tour ~ J oung months. wa«, Hewas naving men wed- _
,l " d JlUM; i4 * "
During the following year another
do,A occurred, the combatants being
&
m Fort Bell Fountain, ou the Minsk*
nvcr ,> B ^oody island being the scat
,lf war - Ramsey was wounded, and died
s;i » afterword, and was burisd
M’^oomc and military honors on
,,u ‘“ :!,) * 18 '23. Another honorable
IwreS^oatoSu^rt iCql n DiKtrStTtom^
i" ' i-iu ' > * V''te . Vi " ’
‘Si «1 mortte’v woXfi^Au' •“ artu u
i ’ II ...the i Republican
p* ,i ®\ M. ’."'“n 1 ,am H^ ctOT <ben
1 *
il t ^> 1 s *«b'» Surveyor with eorruptum
t ‘ ^mcral w® in Washmgton ^ at the
hw h ^iher, Thomas C.,
«»' hS f , SSIfTe
r.'railtod .,- *•' Jut ^ toni w * ,-hall« ^ ^ whf-h 1 U
so Litallv
Ver of nromiL was a camtldab. for Con
' 'i u ,.. . pt being David Bid
dl.. Maj. Biddle made some severe
criticisms on Mr. Pettis through the
lH>th* five ,'.c.-s distot *a^ at tL firrt fire
PeL dhll fell KbSt morUUv wounded Young ffig
At. m,ui, ,,i ,, T ,t„ .
partis bSSb’s hml jnst gained £seeninSA his el
Mai teimb my
Lonia i ^te at Biddle uTtom. Souare Thkenited
the of honor
Larire Crops of Corn Fodder.
Several , corresjamduuts . ia a late issue
G>nU,,nan seem^to have
• l mu»U patches
on
^ ir n. Ids pietty reliable estimates
«».* amotmte wluen were prown per
In" !‘ r ’’w to tlm curing of the corn,
1 hey stale these wciglit* ut 28,35,36,
lu,: ■*” ,,,tlS ' resp.** tiv.-ly, per ecre. I he
' ; " ‘ ; T “ r .“‘ s ttev.-f-.d apart
three ;•* = Ju ..i f -«>r and
tine sc.-t.son w •. 5 p*itV<t in every respect
for its growth, 'limy d<» not state what
the weather m wh-.. the com was out,
or or the the time tame of of ffiiy davit- it was was done. done. Tube To lie
. fair fair in re sucli weii a a trial, trial, the t he weather weather ought, ought to to
be be-um.v sunny two two’days 'days bcfor«», before, and iuu! the the stalka stalks
not not cut cut till till all all the tlm mori'ting morning dew dew was was dried dried
off. oft Dr. Ur. Bailey, Bailey, of of Massachusetts, Massachusetts, as¬ as
serts. S'-rte. that that he he can can grow grow 75 75 tons ton# of of corn¬ corn
stalks per acre. If he does, we think h»
will have to resort to the Otfitoo sort, of
Peru, which grows there 25 feet high or
more, aud is three inch* in diameter, or
■ so, at the mitt. This would be about a#
eatable and digestible as cord E«wf, un
Ices his method of ensfiage can transform
it to palatable fishier. He w now culti
vatregamimimoth ensilage com, of which
• be thinks highly. We hope when his
: crop oi this lias been gathered aud fed to
bia aniuuds, he will give not only its
yield der per acre, but the value of its fod
to hia stock in comparison with the
• smaller sweet corn,—«ttrufxVeu» Yorker
A forest of , Lightning. ,, t
The "St. Elmo's Fire," or electrioitv
th- i-sv.-n.--ts of march
u ‘‘ u ' t8 of shipe, comes from the presence
a r) "ud in the air, from
- ***** objeete
draw the
I *1 S 1‘'‘ “f - tu u instance of , this ...
Phcnoiuonon ,1 same
was witnessed in the Jura
1 jj Vjk.^- a ' vht>ie , foy ” "tt* s *
{ rd. '’.ji*hiireacent ag ° W
' sea in the
i * 1 ‘'hjr-rttmn was regiug at
, q!. ‘o' ,'Lt" ^ ***?£%*?£ hghtmng
i^S^ ‘ ’ 1 f “ rth ™ ^ ««
,, , ,’ r t appearance of . this St.
r ’ , ^7 ^t ? and
,h,‘.7 flT’iw V % nd a 1l ^
■',1 v * !,VL' ^ ”'^t]y '•’ d charged V 16 that,cla wito ^
i "* •'* ia< induce*! an opposite
”7^’-n the , grenml helow, wbrnl. die
^rt- d ii** if into the air bv the point
tK.tjgh* sn-i neclles of the pm* trees,
NO. I.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Gbokoia hue 2,372 whisky dealer*
Mast Bveicw are settling in Arkansas.
There art: sixteen colored schools now
open in Tensas parisli, La.
More than one-half of the population
of Aiken County, 8. O., is colored.
4 «t^pS£; county i !!::
Unite 1 States.
Two Georgia fanners grew 500 bushels
of truth potatoes on one acre of land and
sold them for $10.
A mtut. at Ponnsaexda, Fla., has clos.-d
a oofetraet with a firm in France to fur
ni«h 2,O0O,fkY) feet of pine, hunWr.
The soft blue-stone rock which under
) lies a wide part of the prairie region of
i Texas is 600 feet thick in manv places,
s !>*;»«« the last ten the ,,, I
| xteorgia has collected years $8,000,000 reasnror
I j cash °* from the lessees of the Slate Road, m
With a population of 26,560, there are
only forty-seven white men iu Newberry
County, B. 0., who are seventy years
The first cotton factory in the South
was built on Mill Branch, in Lincoln
County, S, in the year IB 15, by
{ Michael Kchenek
i HaJraterosr, Anusst A Co., have teased
5 Mississippi Btete Penitential for a
, . term f f • for (w «in »l0,4-0 Drt
m yiars. t»r per nnmmi annum
,
and all expenses
The taxable property in Bibb County,
G ., in which is situated the city i f
Macon, has increased in value nearlv
ten j>er cent within a year.)
Instead of Chinese, and to replace tlu*
. negroes who have, left Louisiana as exo
dusters, the planters of that State are
irnvKirting Spanish Wxirers,
\ woman in Stanley County, N. C.,
ulv thirty years old. Inis Won married
'
three tunes and has sixteen living chib
dren. They were all twins
Twkntt-fivr dollars are offered for a
| specimen of the three-eeuf, stamps issued
' " !Ui " b ■>« for the Southern Coated- ^
«'«*y,
Far webs in the western part of Dallas
County. Texas, secure artesian wells.
; f '^ U f ^ f ^ + , ft ! H K , . ^
’
^ *k seen sixty • » aud
seventy feet
'
e HE o * „ Cotton Factoty - at Char
G > will be ready to work up the
; «ewCotton crep. Ten machines of tldrtr
. , , -
, H . . have .
• • ' ' 1 • >
1 *A
A Fi.AN-r*«s' temST. Cotton Seed Photbctivv ^
Ov., ^ stow-the v tlw beginnrag of snorgauwed
, movement against the sale of cotton in
‘ ***“ or b'«hxed at FMge
•
b” 1 ’! Uourt-house, 8. C.
More than 300,000 acres of laud alone
the i° r next ^ two ut Um stetl °nary
I A years.
yotou lady in Covington, Oa. who
i is worth of $20,000, broke an engagement
be ‘f«« he doUars ft m a horse
wul bu 887 to give her a ride. She argued
**»“»« who wonld b. «> foolish m. to
nay that much fora few , i,.. T . ' ..
was not the the kind kmd sh. she wanted want I fora t hue
W] 4
Hv.vksvx officers have s,. entirely de
st roved the business of il’.i ’ ‘ -it ‘ 1. f ' nil., U ' K
m tlie Fifth (sillection ... . District . . of ten- ,
ncssee, that scarcely a wild-cat concern
am f <m „a anvwhere. As Deputy
Collectors have been stationed in the
j ‘ a ‘ , it where whisk v has hewn di.
'
tilled . defiance , « of . law, it not , likely , ,
m is
that it will be revived.
j The Mississippi ' Yallev / Cotton Plant
j . V8)K . iatum , iai . de< ‘* ded u w , in bold ia a „
. , mter-State , ... . lairs Memphis,
j wrua in
Iuttle lhs-k, New Orleans and Mont
gomery, to create a fund for the encour
agmnent of inventors of improved planta
tion machinery /’ aud to * nut several tee
. .
J 3 ? ' M! cspf'cia] dntv
lt «hall lie to travel over the cotton Htutei
and form branch associations
Tm Tennessee Historical Society ha«
been presented with a copy of the "Con
federate States Almanac and Repository
of Useful Knowledge, for 1864 ” It was
published by H. G. Clarke, of Mobile,
Ala., »l« and devotes i„„,, almost , ... its entire .pages
matters of interest to the late Oonfed
eracy, including the Constitution and
Government of the late Confcdrato
States, and also a chronology from the
tS^viTT: ..... > ^ a ’ September .rvh* JftbJ.
’Pub botanical depot at StatesviHe, N
Th# aJwiS^coSkiri /uM> yari^ta^ of root*, Zwi .herbw,
^
bark, seeds, flowers and mosses, ami all
sorts of plants far herbariums, in ouauti,
ties of from fifty pounds te»3fi,000 pounds
of each kind. They pay the collectors,
who are mainly Cherokees, eitiier in cash
or goods, and last year disposed of in this
way $400,000 worth of meichandiso.
shipping 1,000,000 pounds of roots ami
varbs.
Bo* Macon (Om.) Oast-Ught aud
Water Company it h« undertaken to fur- iL
uish that v with
snrmlv A P*. ot * water water will ocme about ,.re one ,,,*.., mil* 1 .
dncto!d f! *° mt th { * hm,t ™mtvou *’ M ’ d by wlU aqiwducls, b l° on -
will give 750,300 gallous per day.
Mix per cent bonds to the extent of *75,
<w > ,, ^ , ZXfJl ■ ? , re, ^ , tfu ,
,
necessary to build the works. The bomb
will be secured by a first mortgage upon
the gas- work*. a« •well a« on the •water¬
works, themselves.
Obskhu. Bubkht Toosrtw is not the
only Georgian who is entitled to the dis¬
tinction of not being a citizen of the
United States, General Henry R, Jack
s< ■’], of Savannah, keeps General Toombs
company in this regard. General Jack
eon was a Colonel in the United Status
Army at the age of twenty-three, then a
Federal Judge, Minister to Austria, and
afterward Judge of a Confederate State*
Court, and on that, account is among
those excepted from the general amnesty
bill
la Triutv County, Texas, a little white
boy, aged about twelve years, the son of
Mr. Dwire, was hoeing in the field iu
company with two negroes, w hen a third
boy, Bud .Evans, sixto years old, ap
proarhed the parties at work, armed
with an Enfield gun, and one of the ue
groes remarked Here’s Bud. I f he’d
a been the Sheriff he could a ’rested
every one o us. rhe negro Evans re
plied, "Yes, and here's the way I’d a
done it,” raised the gun, took deliberate
r* T*
child » laxly, and he dux! from the ef¬
fects of the wound about three hours
afterward. The negro claims to have
done the deed by accident, and says
there was no cap on the gun, but invest!
gallon prows hie assertion to be false,
The negro h»s Ixxiit arrested.
Bringing Them to Time.
There is no foolishness about some of
the tat hers of I)u biupw county, Iowa, who
have marring! abb* daughters, and they
know how to precipitate business when
the fruit is ripe for plucking, and hangs,
wasting its sweetness, when it should be
plucked. Matters were brought to n
climax with », rush at a certain farmer’s
residence in Vernon township, recently,
A young tiller of the soil had for montfi*
berm pay ing most assiduous attentions to
one bashful, of his modest daughters, but he was such a
much hi the chap, never having been
this that company he had of girls, except
one, never been able to
raise his courage sufficiently high topop
the question.
He had gone to the house in which the
lady lived at least on twenty different
(S '-aaions resolved to know his fate, but
when ushered into the presence of the
fair one, in whose keeping he had
placed his heart, his courage would in¬
variably would "go back on him,” and he
return to than his lonely More, room Upon in great¬
er suspense the
ev»>ning that, in question l.c hml determined
come what would, he would tell
his Marv that he loved her. He would,
once for all, decide the matter, but, ax
upon each former occasion, he could not
get the proposal further than liia throat
There it stuck, and ho determined to
( *?*P when if the down door and opened give and up the in walked siege
the girl’s father, who advanced to where
they were sitting and thus addressed
them :
I'm lookin’ at, for coal oil is .cheap, and
waod can be had for the haulin’, but I’m
sick aud tired of this billin’and cooin*
lik «,» P^r of sick chores, keepia’ ma
awake of nights, W and its got to be
stoi'*i«d Henry well right Do you love John
enough tc-many *1^??** him?
.« *.;«»>p that sfily toolisiun ““iT* yelled *a the
ol ‘\ “Answer ,
yes or no and
Jt s ® ot to U settled now
or never,
* Well—hut, li father, don’t you know
if you only wait, and—”
" Dry up ; answer yes or no. Spoakl”
" Well, ^ then, <*d gent, yes! There, now,” and
Mary That again hid her face.
" s busmess : that’s the way to
‘* IK ' ***"• ^ obn < look here—look up
****' '* l “ U ' 1 ^
JS5e~“ ain't this rather i, »
von'd mimfte’ Lag*/" hid torem?«t or out - of rwf2S this houea
a a'hkSier There’s the gal and
there ain’t gat m the Htote an*
,-o« ; Now, John, I won t stand a bit of
"iir‘ fo J aU * 7 C 8 or n £ ?
, U(ll 1 1us p t i^onXto „ enougn wi ho^ttuST noinj , mat x— ***
8toi> ^. ,ur J 0 ^ *” ^ > fh® thing •
settled now. You two fools would have
te"-u six months more at the job that I
d /‘ U f-“ «ve minutes. I never saw
“'‘ l b foolrn as there is among young
•towadaya. Am t like when I
was talk young the thing on now, good-night. You
ecu ohu to over, an’you an’ an’me,
” ’ “ g« up town get the
h *' 11 ‘"'u ,Oood-J««ht, 'i i! smod-nigh*; for love-makm I hope
'
I wasn t too rough, but I was determined
to fix the thing one way or t other, and
Die old man went back to bed.
iNow that the u» was broken the
young future, people laid all their plans for the
and John felt just a little bad at
the comfort he had lost, when Mary
*«*ed up at him shyly, aud said
“This would have been all right
ago, I knowed John, if you hadn’t lawn eu
sk eery. all the time that you
wanted to ask me, but it wasn't my
place to say anything, you know.”
New Kaflroiid Brake,
A railroad brake, which is instantly
applied wlli, h th,) and inventor cruitiuncne in its action, render and
' propewes to
»Hbunatic, La is A dem> attire. n| KHl It by M. orked HomM- by
»«> *n is w
means of two of the secondary batterwM
of M. I’laute, each of these being charged,
by three Daniel) cells The aot&oo of
the apparatus is depend** opon the ad
rrt' an elmtn--magnet to the axle
£
tion blocks, are wound upon n drum. In
some Sto^2*tao^rir* experiments upon a tram of thir¬
teen carriages, traveling at- the rate of
p i£Sbi l ii
twcnfy-onu distance moving thjroogh a
of two hundred and fifteen
tneter* after the brake was applied,
11 h* Partner fur Ufc
Many a man has sees his choice for a
pwfner in life in the bumble girl far be
^ f h him in the opinion of the world,
^7 witL Linx'* Lri ITwhil™ Mt pnde
triumphed, higher and besought one from th#
walks of life. In all the vieiwi*
tudw of social existence, there is nothing
capable than in of inflicting follow mow such ctsrtam misery It
#nre to » course.
dirtrecte the general harmony of oar days,
mi.*- -,hft{« *>i*r * iui.v. .shorten* the length
of life, lc*8#n# the stature of manhood,
and is contrary to the flivine instruction*
<* «>'“ Bibfr - fw « where love
1 , tier* is m-acc, plenty and thriftineea.
Evc-v thing is follow a bamy this
not pride interfere in
matter