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The Jesiip Mel.
Office in the Jcsttjj HftWSt, fronting Bread on Cherry
street, two doers from St.
JTCBUSHEO EVEKY WEDNK8DAY,
BY
T P. LITTLEFIELD
S ub so r i p t i o n H ate s
(Postage Prepaid.)
One year........................ 12 00
Six mouth*.... ................................ 1 00
Three mouths................................. 50
A dverttori ng O a t < :*s
Per square, first insertion................... $1 qp
Per square, t-’ieh subst-ijucut, tast;riiou.
vertiwra. sfirtSpeeii al rates to yearly and targe mi
TOWN DIRECTORY.
sown omnetm.
M«r« -W. II. Wh*’*r
e.mit !li»,-<c i. n»,i Wii-i, aw <3. tV
J isiiwi*, W. a. Mtiiaiei Hi, Ht i (fcei..
Ci^tic ami Tr.-:!.,ur,-t - JVr yon. ts?»rx*
Mn?nR*l- J. I, T.-ai
couNtr ormotciis.
Sllvrsff-—.! Ordinary-— f> Rickard Rnhiawm. B Tlapps.
tfierk Bteerirw'-J Saperinr Oourt—BenJ. If.ueher. O Middlstcn
T«x C
Tji -V (NiUeci a- - AY R Causey.
County .Surveyor- •• W 'U Swift,
f’-justy Tru'tDu ■ leha Massey
Cnroai r • <. Ruteh*.
guperwr Court, Wayne romp t Martin I.
Yrrabmi, Judge ; Button W Uiteh Sul e,iu>i
(tenerftl. Ses» ions b«td tm fourth Monday
in Mareli nud Sspii'UJber.
BA XLE Y, < i El )RG1 a
AWLim Coi-.stY OM lCKiiP.
Sheri#—1. <>rdl«iwy—Sila* H, A. Crosby.
<Ta>k.
Oeuaty t.'htk-- W. W. Graham
Treasurer—N. Weatherly. *
Tax Receiver—J - J. Hr vis
Tax Oalleeior—Siiss itoberson.
CottBfr County Co Commistteners— rr.nre — i, Jutiitsc.fi
• B, McRachio
John O. Hart. Wm. G. Stewart, Jaui-s W i
aack, Jaiiam Carter.
t osuity i o« i ID iS* Oa'"TS-ss.f*?i I.Tf <X l
^lr.*c«v W. 6. Mi s -iriteri «< "Act'.. ( hitirG^a
R gui«r g (if ik* B ,..) thi l W<?4fie»i:ia
April July v
uAry, , ft 4 <
'X'it./Vl > PJJTS l I x i ,! (
CU4BLVOA WCSTV OfTiCSiSi
(iriisiiftfj — Ho) ert. liateher.
Sherifl—J oka Br acks.
I l*ris- - j. W. beaten.
Con vt Calc ncTn'p.
T>.’hol«—Seecuid Mteid.iys in March and
September. Appling—Third Monday in
March and
Sepleaiber. Wayne—Fourth Monday
in March and
P'ep ember.
Pierce—First Monday in April tmd
October.
Ware—Second Monday in April and, f>,
tober,
April Clinch—Tuesday October. after third Monday in
and
Coffee—Tuesday aftir fourth Monday in
April sod (o-t.iber.
May Oftin.len—Tuesday end Nov. after second Mosdar II
i.e < •.
Che risen —Third Monday hi May mul .No
venther.
Gijna—Fourth Monday in ti y end Nw
vew >.u»r.
TH!
JESUS’ HOUSE,
Verne Urea. iH, j »
1 liSUP, < » ho > R( i 1 \
,k 'tisn AUna’fe .tr.fi .I M e,:;-. »n,l Uraut.
wick LS.ii JvjSiJs,
f!i« »H«a >n oi Ui*? Iravi-Hag 4 .
itv- mduffr »l* « i (B> them id- * Hi-ae-,
Tie- iw:8|i<m <:<} l Mow* j* :n ?)<‘5a.«t r u«b
m<i tteo'.U; !*-5V|>t. It :
«i o ftvi: sr ren |
h ««i »!'•»».• *.»(! is ftOol :a
t. ,U« tw very i-ou.fdi t «) a iu-.e (,u t ? fist
Rwo’ .!«•« SI All Her S-Oigif .,»< , noti
(>< >... n s v * -. re, in. v*.. re v..
MHrtttl, IllMO) M ro riHlui: 1
H.Ttor, l'«*T*ij- * mu te a fa 'er iht' .h$*Uj
]>!- n< r: ir-:;.::-' if'f'f V S -...‘d
f ui K pvopi iatw, no iXlMn $tx|>m •*>! I- »pnr> d
it® ft iUVii Yi .il.
v@ haras e te and fr«m ai d tii*.«.
I- p. UmEPIElD. ft 4*
w
Throwing the Hatchet,
t.) f ‘ Fl '* lH X * ” lT? ' " H f tt ‘ f- 'V • m ee lt uf '
ap!,u _of consioeras a-cftic t .anent, thttre
were three candidates. A day was ap- -
pointotoor piihhc ms^ay o iheir^v
era! wnluies. Ihc .i&v candidate, with ;
» ft rate, eh -ve-r.y separated the bead of ;
tne victim from h» simuhiers lew
outdone by the rapid stroke of the see
ond, whme-glittering the broadsword struck
lerror mto hearts of the surrounding
multitiute. 1 he .ford und least prom
hda-m hn ha®i4- a shoit
and, when the victim was extended with
his head on the fata) block, approached
iiim, and in a low whisper jnq.t r. d if he
***** a swift runner, and if he could swim
well. On tieiug answered in the affirm
stive, he desired hun to spring ou his
f.-et and cross the river. Tlie esccu
tioner then put on a fierce look, swung
fos weapon round Im head, hot, m
Dto voted a.i creator** making it mek dttoiwitel *ime\ on it the with de
force t
great into the block ! Shoute of
**xmutM» rose from the crowd, and the
trembling wonderful wretch, astonished at
escape, had ra-nriy gamed the
opjutsite bank of th* met before any
steps were taken to pursue him Me
litid Bcarecly, however, gone ton yards
on dry land, when tiie executioner t«k
«uch effect that tlie hotly continued TOii
rang sometime alter the head was off!
From this rather improbable incident
the common phrow of throwing the
hatehe* is said to be derived.
The Wrong Bemedr.
Barker read one il v <>«.
.
wa, who was lieing' choked to death
ith a peach atone which hod Wn
r,.lodged i Dreiective m his O’Connor, threat, who being saved bv
■‘blow gare him h
between tho shoulders thus fore-
1R the: atone from the wind-pira- Hte
’ miail still the
war. on atorv » he went
down town, and jnst as be reached th«
comer of Bovlston and Tremout streets
w Haw a Wretch
holding evfdentlv a half-eaten ehokini fV .*i 'n-" iiiui.l
and stoi- ^ii vere^.* . «i
the thv'nJa
Barker r»hod up to rave life
Druwimr the'akott off ho tin* • Mou
tehma Wmith*t sent him U*n
feet, aud, following lmn, Barker asked
if the atone liad eomo out. In less than
ten minutes from that time ihu would
be Good Samaritan was as well-whipped
a man as could have been found iu a
Hatfoath-dayViournev. Both tves were
blackened, reposed—uwt two teerii grac-follv were eou* | and his
nose left cheek. There,'"sanl -on hi*
“ the Granger,
m ft satisfied sort ot v.„y, “that will
tench you to let a man alone when he
feels sick at his stomach. I guess,” mid
Barker says that the stranger was per
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THK ilt’Slb\ YIPS Sgt'KKlh
Dinah “ Not a word. Blind, to I) ail Attn ! ’
Ann hcrkelf, t! di. r’s wife
having strolled down the g , T X, • to in tie
sweet stdlih-s i>f the snrumsr night,
heard these enggestive words as the gig
pulled up at til'’ gate, arid her husband
descended from it was a pjcasmg
little woman of seven or eight mu! thirty
with dark brown eyes, a 1 lit. fresh
face, and a natural propensity and to take j
her own way, in the house out of it. j
Drawing well-kept back hawthorn from the gate behind the ■
hedge, site waited >
for what was to come next.
Dinah “ Not Ann a nurd, ! for your life, mind, to j
“ No f.’in replied ft voice, which she
recognized as that of hot brother. Harry
Le-i* ‘ I know what women are. Blio'd
be f.<r—for revolution!;- u* house.
ft; el r It i nee let r got i.u ttk
ling of fiiis, No foar, Jan 1 Take care,
on let your side, that j t don’t lose that--■
or 1 to. ah Aim fiad it
“ ratal 8P When are yon com- i
ihg to mv, >k print pipe with me? i
shall want voui advice
“ Oi f these evenings,” interrupted
the lawyer,'as he drove i p tin IftJiC,
“ Gwa-uight 1 ”
James Harbury, subsS.; nt-lal farmer
and agriculturist, came through i gat . j
and tunmd to fasten it. Hmi 1 fill 1 :
the othei v. to the lef) hrete-ii-i i-S t 1 |
the right, lie would Itave gee u his wi
staading against tine hedge r is close as
fthe could stand, Ahnost iut > it. He did I
not path *e«' to th»’ her, hou and went When strai i edit toot-ate-v up the i
s J
had died a wa v, Mrs. Harlmry onndh.-r i
light summer gown, tv ver her black silk \
apron,caught.hold of herlilaceajrerrings.
hast the cap should fly off, madnui swiitlj
up back, the narrow through sidewalk, got roumlto tie
went l he house, Set droj
her gown, and entered the sitting-room,
all calmly, nearly as soon as her bus
baud.
“Got back!” sle exclaimed, with
quite a look of stnrjjri
“Just come r. r .... pLi a: .t i tfo. lam-, ,. , s ;
u “’wf-frap • Tu m
-
ri.rJtHttte 1, ' ? you Ju mit - ,; 1 ; j
rang and the end - f cv • vthing | j
- who Harry seemed had to come,” walking K .id the farm
* r ^ to be 4 * about. tov 1
m v r(sU «l, m l :
thought of such £ thing as r.,fo -in n to ....
salsify his wife’s the qnast- rts. “ He got- a
message from Down Farm, to go 1
there without 1 o,h of tim i
I might a, w,U conic up with ;
him,' Dinah Am-, a ; to 11. M ‘j ’ >q I
'
him stack in tie Up-owm of the Taw
uy Lion; he didn't enter his 0 gig 0 to be
-t 5 'p Ff ltv _
1 H ,f‘. You’d have
t tue reiIis y<»u.i o1 , =ed, k James, I re«c
°".’. op ’• s he < *V„ 11 t '^ not n } get *f‘ f ba 11 ! 1 rd. ’ that!
as u .us
p n , ’./tot ? T 1 ®' 1 A nll s ’* Hung
l ^ >
V*^ Ut artn < ' “ < ' the 1 Down 1- iirm. A
nvikers-^amf ^ V^k von lie'Ac'ti kii.rv 'vd ^ *'V *
whe* .q / ‘
- * *
ffi *{ { int tl 1 r ' { 1- . . : l 4 4 .
“a.’» Jd 1 Hmt U ^ *-' wlt 1 < m,lkt hw bls
a dn ted, *ulfnl tb-tew ('* i
Dinah ten <’« ..... » ' ’^h , „ " ,ta
.dfomr cm *" p
.. . , \,V c'Slf . *
“ tia 'fTb. y U1 >iu “ 4 " hm V1U1 . ih tnongn ifte it i« tau. htl
!t, N .and missetl 1 my tea, so i v., foul .
siHee « c.. »-k dinner. V, he-
1 F 1 1 ' ls !t \ J Ust and tasc a
,
Ti tuc* Bcre , H ngltt, - .. m-.vi Mr- .
Harbury. thinks r , “ Ho mneh tenter that F.v:m
No yon might have ridden her iu .to
««y. weed to go and w-e her now.”
*? * lu;? 1 should like to
^ ■ }l ‘; r ** look.
H f IT which still la* ■•..
„ t,J<: -**«»» out. M- Maroun
,u 7 ? er *‘ of
Briber inind, .ib ■*.
I ^on te-jmve _h« w gone to lorik at
rt .Ti’ »W«Iu«H.'d she. “ Hod not
^«rb ngbt And h. r now no.v absent he tenirs and, fi.jg. ate is ty ml he
Tlioro ia scorn mystery agate,
n ‘l 1 -should like to know what it is. I
^•“fo r whcUuu - f should not think
oat ^ to meet aomeboay, she eutjeludfid, en
***** ° f **
i-iew stem l uFrai k,tc, ,< ' n .*?* 1
c !r bre ^ to Ihotbe , almnt , the
P 1 *^ V"K that bnug m the back pas
**««, tlrrew it«m to hideber light dress,
re* l< Ji ?’*?
pf -
’ tlJfine ntobtoof^ 1 re T eHiW ^ ft " U1
iwlto- “ F*w inm tl fw n^n' re* hui - **£ , „ rnn ¥ , r
1 \ som^ iScoi^iSv Js^ » * to‘forelo 1 ^, , t to iS$7»£
induce a
iranu, i kind t T ao do ironaet w**nder what «W secret *k' they «
.!ESl’P, i iHOHGI A, WEDNKSHAY, OCTOBER 13, 1S80.
have between them, Dinah ‘Not ft word, ha for
your life, mind, to Ann,’cries
‘ No tear,' answers Harry. ‘ l know what
m«m-a art;, and she’d im for revolution
v-ing . no Iiooko and herself, too,’ Yes,
that I should, but it’s them I should
revolutionize, not uiyse-lf," she omphati
••ally pronounced. “ It may lw that old
love affair cropped up again ; that worn
ais who threatened to bring an action for
breach of promise when .Tame* married
i: Perhaps she had been writing let
tors to bun. ‘ ..Mind you don’t let. Dinah
Ann find it,’ says Marry,; or perhaps—
perhaps James ha* been foolish enough,
to let her meet hmi. Harry, not a mar
Tied man himself, and a lawyer, would
loud himself to any earthly thing without
sepipk-, All lawyer* do,’’
This mrnl district, remote from the
haunts of wily men of the world, was
given over ntire.lv to farmers and fa * :.i
mg interests; simple-minded and simple
in.au a l people, who live out their tm
event) i! lives iu the routine of daily dn
ties Tim small market town of Northaro,
four miles distant, was sleepy and
primitive*, never awakening weekly from its
TO — we on the market
dm It had its par son, its doctor, and
its lawyer-—IL utv Leeb all three of
tlimn being nearly as simple, fi.s flu
SVnrlt:) Not simple in the point of in
hi.’ami telleet, it must, lie underatood ; but as to
manners.
This Thnrsdn v waft market dftV. James
hr-itlier Harbury had tenner. gone Peter to it in the hi« gig of a
wbicU eitiier ixt&e Hall, drove own
mie he or
.Tally, bemg sick He was a tall,
del' man of 31) years, very fair with
'Xi A.dingly bund-, me features and mild
bin. looking as unlike the popular
notion of a tanner as a man could look,
and presenting a marked contrast, k> his
asrieiiltnral neighbors to. far «s tip
p. amnee. went i of tb.l psxxr o '
rich , could, vie with Jainea Harbury, and i
temper and Jus bearing were alike
itl
Ho :had one fault, though, jwrhajis,
til people would n ill it a fault, love
m t. That he was on. of the
earn -re” fanners in the district was
aim 'idly believed, and the most sav
tug of men Tuo saving, his wife Mould
tell lata, and where was the us
she would rek., considering she had
uoiUier chick nor child? And evsry
1 “ » tid then -h. wonl.i make the money
fly, for sdu'was a dear lover of smart at
re, and of having pretty things aliont
s' i,, r. Jam* - would w'ince, and bid her
re-red; but ho never went the
ieurfh ■ Selling her she had spent too
He was fond of her. and she of
him.
“ Neither lick liar i.ild Ill that
fact had h n a sharp sting. They hml
iHaut Hiamod eight yeaTs now, aiui tl
sting vre.h wearing its.. If away Tune
HoUeaia all thin lb. d never given
T C, >r an imhapjiy though) until
ht He hod never had any secrets
f •in her ore- pt that lu never could lie
i ight: to tell her what the exact sum
Waft tbfvt 1 iC was i mil,led to put by o’ the
end of h year Dinah Ann Harbury
did not <• for that; she knew that,
however much it might be, it was all for
her.
t she did care for this.....tills lavs
•)< ls secret which had come to her
la ring to-night. Sin- knew how good
ftinws was ; how universally ho
was liked bv man and by woman, and
bat I kind heart l.e had - she put it
‘‘ son something like jealousy
began to torment her spirit,
AVheu J mm - came in again the mip
i>,,, ih was at one end of the table, j,/ and
, Vm at! wmmA 4 ht , her
^ ^ !->■ near the
hoop, having _ knitting.
taken up her
The. farmer’s general manner was easy
and placid, though he had certainly
'' coined restless after leaving the gig, hut
now he was ealu* agsiin.
“ Well ebe said, as he cut himself a
sli f the cold tested beef Ui.i how
did you find White B.*ss
“Ob. she seems comfortable,” he re
I#* I*1 mh 1, looking round for the mustard
“Ton deceitful villain ! You know
yon did not go near the stable,” thought
hi* trite. “ You are sure you tinuk so?”
she added, aloud.
Aye White Boss will be all herself
ftg; to-morrow, Dinali Ann
it T mam than 1 shall 1>. thought
Dlufth Ann, “unless I can come to the
bottom of
He ; to his supper nearly in silence,
d !i: -1 h 1 :.-oi -nj*o.-i win ^ .s mentally" preoccupied,
• it, Ux> f for ho wm very
} »Ui«rv
«lo you ever hear anything
now of thatEintea Land ? ”
James Harburv laid down his knife
•* j i surprise it th. question, and
fook-.-ri acre.-, at Jus wife, whose face w
b> r i-e- kr-dtino
“ Hid 1 h.-ur anything % of Emma
ever
Land > ” he reiM*iit.*d “ WlVni m n ms " iAc u
•
.* \ybat am make n.e uak it? r don’t
]. !t<nv Tie: query happened to come
into my J mind.* Whv Why should should 1 I not not aak ■ sk
»”
“ There’s T no seise in it tint that I 1 sc.*” 8Ct -
,, flown, ,
Do I what ?
I.-w.-i hear ot h-r ;
V ny, you know she went out to
"‘..-re wes it? - the Most Indies, .1 t-hrak
•- o, her tnends tl.er. -ever so long og;o.
) hnm. ! u D’nf*ght years ,t must be. Yon
>!«• did, Dinah Ann.
bat die may write from the West
write to you lerhaps r abe doeo. Does she
He shook his hind to imply a nega
Dve, and occupied himself with bio aop
per again, .rimma Land had once upon
«* time !jd!w fn-eu a aouiewhalHiore A subjortW
“" “’**
lli to foe oKl H *
^ 'T who? ^ ^ ' h ™ C * r '
„ l f ou t think Eo what ? raft has Hand.” all
j lto can put this
“ How V0 P it?” r Haight. Dinah Ann.
is
“ But do you?”
“ D..» I what?”
5l « ?
“ Why, K how could I we her r re
T*? that hw wife, iu fully a sort thought uf put to »N
* was oo.
! hi ” *« Hie West Indies, and f
^ he fffo
! ^ “ ** West Indi *
i-* m.w” 1 '.,’,
■£ don’t .... know where , sb« , », She’s
there for all I know; and I’m sure it does
not matter.”
“ ‘ Ask no questions, and wile, you’ll hoar
no stories,’ " thought her his school-girl quoting
the line familiar to in her
days,
“ I should not at all wonder, Janus,
but Emma Land has come back again.”
“May she tw. Two or three years.ago
we heard was married out there........’’
“ Who heard it? Who said it?”
“I know I heard it; J. remember it
quite that- well. But as to who said it. I for
hhe get -v..ur brother, I think That
had married, a cousin.”
“Oh! not that that’s unlikely, for
she was ready to marry anybody, Hfae'd
have married you, you know. She laid
item ter you.”
That’s a trout true, 1 believe; but I
did not f»U into'them, Dinah Ann.”' '
And, laughing good-naturedly, James
Harbury turned from his supper-tray to
reach his pipe Dinah Ann rang the bell,
resumed her knitting, and tell into an
unpleasant, reverie,
* * * * *
A few days passed awstv, tilings going
on smoothly at she farm. Dinah' Atm
had recovered her feinj>er—nt least, dh«*
'
dispi.iy.al ... no signs of . ,ts hung ruffled ,,,, .
^ /I
thoughtful One afternoon he went up
sfoustech^ Vm- " 5
U-tter
.. W „.re quicklv, are von going? ” cried Mrs
Hwbnrv, us he came down
Only into Xortham, I shall he home
arh
Into North.mi ! It’* not market
day
“ No; but I've got a little business
tilCTf out tii Hi. of,, you know,
Dimih Ann l shall get them st mv
own pri after all.
“Of mse you will, I told you m
all ite m, But, I do w.iiider vou could
not wait until e morrow,
“ Oh market-day’« always a bustling
lav: one forgets half eme’s btismess , ,,,.
has lot tNile to do If Ail’- Vre ** ,
'
tlmuffht Fd <us in this afteriMum'”
" I should like to go with you,
- lam -
Hr. Harburv ved tho imptiteive
wish with a blank look, and had no
ready I answer at hand,
“ want to buv i new -dk gown, ami
to things. order Yes. n host Tap, ■ and ev.-r .-.many -I.
I will go with you, Jaui.
I won’t be five minutes getting r.mlv ”
“But-Dinah hot '
Amt- - to-dtw ’ i
can't fake vou thi- nfo rtxam. You'shnll
go to-morrow, umfeud. '
Why ui t you take me?”
“ B isiness,’’li,. slu rtiy replied. And,
his gig being just then brought round
White Bess in the shaft lie gut into it
.
without more ado, ind drove away, call
ing out “ G Hhl-l.v to his wife.
“ I’d be even, with % i, Mr. James,
nodded she.
The sun was setting when he drove iu
again liOftving and round to the stable Evan, yard.
his horse trend gig with
he was crossing to the house when Ms*
attention was caught by a huge wilurn
of black smoke pufHiig imtof t‘ it* chim
b“.y of a narrow building that was foi¬
merly mrnle to serve as brew-! ise and
wash-house until the lari one was built
** i ' ' iS Ml *t of use now, was not in fact
UH °d for any purpose whatever, oi •'■to
u ' n ‘ d by anybody from mouth’s end t a
month’s end, Mr. Harburv naturally
thought at tire He rushed to it like a
madman.
In tho fire-place under the furnace a
five Have,! aw ay, upon which more o •; d
bad recently been thrown. Whiter than „
death, James Harbury while made one frantic
move toward it, a veil of what
really seene'd like terror broke fr .
him. Another yell succeeded, and still
another ; then he colhq.-. d utterly, and
fell upon » low wocalea stool in wild
despair
As n, <h^l who had heavens!” been stooping exclaimed Dinali
over some
blankets in the far corner, “what m
the world is the matter ? Is it spu-ms,
Juraef.? Let me. run for tho camphor.”
unhappy “ Camplior, indeed 1" exclaimed tire
Poison. man. You’ve “Bring ruined poison rather,
me.”
“He's Off Ills iiead,” was her
suggestion. “ Let me nil) you, James.
Where is tho pain ? In the chest ?*'
He flung his arms around in all direc¬
tions, so that she could not get to his
chest, or to any other port of hh tt.
“Who lighted this fire. ?” he giusjari.
"Phceb© lighted it. 1 ordered her.
The flue in the proper wash-house has
SSuhT “"J <« "»«*<«« 0 U T <l U, \ In ° n Tlie \T'
A 1 ' 1 111 Konk to-nwbt. * t But
what n* the me , to you, ■huncs, that you
should te put out about it ?
swerul. N ^red HW rue hundred .‘te’? pounds 0 has
been burnt up in it.”
Rising up from the stool—-and Dinah
wondered the creaky oJd thing had
not come down with bus weiglit^—he f»y haste
C ned in-door?, sat down the table,
f** 11 huried lirn face upon it.. She found
ton so, his face hidden in iiin hands
this “ Now, James, just tell me what all
means—-if vou are not quit, out <•;
your senres. Come! 1 intend to know.”
»Yes, you may know despair.’ it now,” he said,
lifting his im-.- and it, “ I had
placed in the fireplace ..f that old fur
nsre.in my old green P <«-ketlsmk, £500 in
bunk notes. And and-thev are
burned! Thoyare burned, Dinah Ann!’
Dinah Ann paused.
“ Where did th* notes come from > w
•• e-rem v-.nr i.r..tt--r ... vmT'l
* kni-w
wl ,jj before 1
font t' ,1/ a fnend 1‘ ov< 1 r fia jiarai .tr iS rr ,'J ?-?
a H
‘
‘ ** down « a ro-uu 'Buthete
not no «« r 'there, Eim andl . i,
ha, mnde his fortune out
'back again in Loudon now, and bust
week he traaamitted the debt and inter
cut to your brother for me—£500. I
! brought the notes home the night Harry
drove me here ” ‘
“And now lust tell me Jvnes ’notea how
i you ir.*o could think of putting bank
! M.ch a place as a furnace fire
hole?’
! 1 » (or safety. Nobody ever
j went in there, aud the furnace *«i never
uscl.”
! 'Kf&TJ* "Safely! Was there not your bureau
the
1 ' inat s never locked.
« Why, it’s always locked,”
of “ it Any way, the key is never taken out
“ Ah! I see what it is. You wore
afraid I should see the money and want
tO h). lend it.”
And ao yon would, Dinah Ann—-a
sum like that coming unexpectedly,” and*frills, ho
meekly rejoined. chairs “Bonnet-, tables—-you’d
and fresh and not
have known where to stop. ”
“ Well. T must say, James, you have
been rightly served for your want of
confidence. No husband ever lias neon
eeuhueni from his wife, if ahTs a good
wife, but he’s sure to Vie. paid out. It is
a loss, He though, £500. ”,
groaned.
1 ‘ My btriinews in North&m Ibis after¬
noon was to consult with your brother
about a good investment for it.”
“What’s this?” asked she, placing
before him the identical green case
with the bank, notes inside it
James gasped.
“Dinah Ann ! My dear Dinah Aunt’
“Ah! it‘» my dear Dinah Ann now—
and where would you lai without mu? I
have given yon. a good fright, however.
Don’t you conceal a tiling from mo
a 8 au, » James.
“ I don’t, think I. will,” he said, “How
ha8 it ail winie ftboatf -
“ Why, J have just been playing a lit
tV m T el1 **■ ’V' U ' 1 ?'T at lu ' P^ 0 ,;ist
Jh \ l> ^ h S m « ht * mi i > on
s„ul to Hurry as you got ont.of the gig.
\ l nclUd m * M,s I‘ lcloUH and n ‘*v curios
Hut what did I «v?’ asked the
farmer, really not rernemSiering between
the excitement cl the past misery and
the present ‘Not happines:-. miud, Dinah
“ a word, to Ann,
Not « word, for your life, mind, to
Dinah Ann!
Short Snake Stories,
At Aim i man named Schulz
fell dead of heart die. uised
fright The at a snake.
lif t,! i; of Henry Leals, o f Fat
bwuburg, rattlesnake. Kan died from the bite of a
A son of Jofieph Thompson of Butler
‘‘"“'iY. Kan., died a horrible death from
tiiG Luo of a ooppernritn Muak^.
Thotaan Bherlwk of Bedford, Tml,
ft'hed a spotfeu snake m his gardea that
: urcdti feet 7 inches in length and A
inches in diameter, "
Five Italian woodeiittei's near Chero
k C, New M. X -< l a lot of wire uoosca
d , and
^ to cat 1 rnrreb found in oxu trap
n imnious..- rattlesnake with sixteen
rattles.
I: it. adiii Fa. co]>|K>rhcad snake
Uia -t v., it inches long was found to
con bun igat young sunk all
aliv % and four to six incht s in length,
when it was killed
Mrs. AVi-siman. I Walk, item, Ind
Will Hacked by an enormous t U .h
snake. B1 seiswd the reptile t
id >out thh ncek and hch ‘
n ereai 1 for
The snake was 7 feet in length
If. L. Fatty while ruling im letM
k in tin-. Santa* iiion, came upon
rat. ke ui the road and had just
taken Ins Coot from t he stirrup when the
snake struck, imhedding its fangs in the
stirrup lent ho Mr. Patty killed the
Hiinice, win was one of the largest of
ite spec les, its body being as thick m a
man’s Williioa leg.
Y., Drake, of Warteborough, N.
while m the mountain near the vil
iage, came uj a rattlesnake, who ini
mediately chance eftofijie showed fight Th--r.* was no
of for Mr. Drake, Keep¬
ing up an incessant rattling, the snakr
struck at Drake rejieiitcdly, but iu every
iustance he managed to avoid its stroke
and in hull an hour killed tl reptile. It
measured six foot five and one-half
inches in lemrth 'K' 1 *.
While pi eking blackberries on the
Miire Hill mountains, Mary O’Brien
Black valley. Fa , f.-lt something rub
fong against, one < f her Btoekingg. Slie
continued picking berries, and next felt
springing #F ar P and aud.ten from pain tlie in that lies, limb, she
out : Sts
** eopfs’r h. ad snake over a yard
«* without length curled instant’s about loss her teg; "and,
an of self-control,
s he t.sik tire snake by the tail, nnd, after
unwrapping raid then it, .iushtsl it to the earth,
beat it to death with a chib.
John Geer, of Basket, station, Pa,, has
killed over 100 rattlesnakes witliiii tho
past three months He always carries a
erotehed stick When ho comes ujh.h a
snake ho carefully places the crotch
over the reptile’s neck, just back of the
I--ad fhcji, if he desires to keep the
snake* alive, he remov th poison by
instnimenta made for Hie purpose, He
he very valuable, an.l sella readily for
si Wtl.. lt is said to have great
curative powers,
.......... ................
Surprised to Death,
()ld John , . M, ,, m a T Lnthre .... „ .
hit. .ii«m to. id«a ot l.tnmj auti-hihous
compounded as luuteclarcd, accord
J"* t0 \, rt ‘ cl |T ‘’“f uned of ,oe long
He s.fo a.,me to a woman who
dud m*h attoi foaing < *>-m. John was
urrehb-d and taken to the court, where
tire following did dialogue look place;
“ IV here you get tne medicine you
s;*v.- the ucuuui > ! made hit- from
d/^ri«iw ^ utbr me by Dr. Tanner
Hit s made » r { out... "* <*™l***»\ route from the !«««? gronn
Wul leil v, ' s £ ™ra do treos. Does yer
• - wanter . l.uy a teatle, Jedge? “No, sir,
H*'<teu*» against yon is a
serious one.. VI hat, made your nre.lic.nc
: k “ “ TTn”)'n > V5l v - de
kill th© m .
nnabeine , dub-1 cum “What
killed died ol.* her?” de surprise. “Why, Yer Jedge, de’oinan she
• see bad
h ”’ u <^in’ eberyvhing in the medical
siTdntehdi oh e man bal> much Sb oonniieiiee ±ffe * ™ in if** to 1 y
? ,fo‘V h ftntV m t ? n< V ht Vn ,‘ rk t \ >rtIlu at
! * If ‘’J ?f . r .’L** . i il tor ,I lV )IU 2^* R u Mn f*
f dtath '
pn oman to , ker can ., t hole ,
8ur Pl^{ a U> dvAt \
I: ' f 1 oom<> au tells you a good piece . ob
n<5 " s - an you falls dead, do law can’t
, “ >W s ! KH!S!l>!e - Au eordin ter do
■ s ftm« stouomy, if I gins , a woman a dose
«»b medi«...e ,a»d hit murpru-- her mr
* -P ut de T' 1 W ««
.
m "‘
jkc its . of John s argument, but John is
" Uil 111 Jal! l___________
________
test time Smythekins went to sen
Ifisgir! betook some oranges. H»<«Ued
it sudL-it court,
NO. 7.
SOFT HERN .NEWS,
Geoboia has 016 li- used distilleries
Tutans is a hair oil spring at Eureka,
Vvk
An, * sun has $95,000 worth of public
school property
Pk'.s.vohv has two tek-grapk lines
and two express com pas lies.
Thu persimmon crop is the biggest
thing in DlngluM County, Ga.
Nr.w OiUitivN-s e\p ; t.s f.o Ajip 30,000
OOo bushels of grain thi )ir.
Bcukven Cm (hi, in voted
against lit tig the sate of whisky
In 1 iiisisuia good huiidi (ike frem
$2.60 to $3.i>0 per day pinking eoUon,
Tub completion of the Mississippi
River improvements will require $1,200,
oqq
MtSStNNIJPl has had twe y-six Gov
rnurs aid <t whom twenty-two wen
lawyers
Texas expacts to jirodni •fourth
of the entire eoth •r.>p of the South
tliix year.
Gronoi.t has only .500 Univ< rsalists
lint they claim, to lx; increasing in nma
hers of late.
Neakta' one hundred a Tu ultura] en
gim-s are* iu use, iu Ami. IXOB (' -ill'v.
South Caredhia.
SomiRnN plauteps l»oj to lind Uu
English sparrow in efhcient reim* Iv
fur th vages of cotton worms.
A teuiv at Ctilnaibus, Ga , on taking
a plant from a flower pot, found nine
smdios in the earth at. the bottom, of tin
rrox budoru's m the Sonin save
freight sind iusurat e, and the profits of
middle men id avoid th inroxsion
J cotton,
lH:VT \ Miss “ Kivs a malarial epid •mu
Ihovo ih haitJlv a man, woman or ohi!<l
i n the town thkt has not faiteii a prev to
jfo ing,teuc«
Gim, (edmore s estimate o f the cost of
the 1 rida ship canal, So-l.CKKi.fijil, i-,
k 1 by maav inf t pari; • to
be too high.
JfrMiunft merehaufo an .orally at
t.lelll r steam ji«nver to their eh vators
to t.l • the place of the water piuver
form. v in use.
A ot, watch ha:* 1 •ii plowed >n
thi Ilattle field at Chiekarmui) ft, am)
with slight repairs will 1 ft c d tinn
keepe tgaiii.
The St. f,.ouis cotton oxcha; offer a
prei itm of fo.QOO to th »k;
f H*r euil m from Texas to that market
this season
Thk tobacco g •wm of Virginia elnira
the adoption •f tlic Barnett n of
ouriog totem, will save §5fil),fKX) a.u
mmuy to that .State
It is es timated there are 500 en *s of
l.ireftk-boue fev in Savannah bet) in
August*, and 2,(K.HI in Charleston, and it
is epidemic in New < h i ana.
The i J National Bank lew been es
tnblishod in 1’ensacola. Du» makes the
* Be0Iul vuufotud bank in Florida the
other being iu Jacksonville,
Each citizen of Edward Mins,, iff,
sesst-l fill annuallv for th, improvement
"* ^streets, lc * and wor in oti default tho streets ot pay- for
*
teu davs
Thbur is prospect of m abundant
v j,,].i ' " rfcla tns Y ear I’he
-
,UVi ‘ l,evwtetl , *’» 1! ‘ f ’ cultivation . of this
w*H douhtJess be largely » ami
iu the future,
Thomas Poutk, the Mayor v 1 of in Macon f
'
- -
,uitt»., gives ... notice that lie will
strictlv
eMoreo tile law of the State against pro
time swearing in piibli Tire penalty «
SIO for each offense.
At Mollohon, ' S. C., ; Young Jacks K > and <MUt
x los . wife , I.-it their . infant , in charge of
s
negro l>oy, who fell asleep, when n dog
attacked the child and was eating its
vitals when discovored. The child m not
expected to ' Hvc ‘‘ "
J irREe t.ungs have recently given New
Orleans a “ bopm ” which promises to be
jjornianent: The jetties have proven to
bo successful, the Texas railroad has
been completed, and She National Quar
antine has kept out the yellow ft;ver.
Tire (Joorgia law that no license to re
tad liquors shall Is* granted without the
written consent of tw*-thirds of the free
holders living within three miles of the
place in w hich the liquor is to be sold
will probably close every saloon ill Ogle¬
thorpe G>unty.
MECKXEvBttKa (Vsontv, N. ha*
seventy-fir* churches, of which twenty
four arc composed of colored jieojde,
The leading denominations are the Moth
odist Kpiscopftl, which has thirty-thres,
and the, Presbyterian, with tw«iity-two,
churches.
Bince tho salt* of liquor was prohibited
in Cio-roHton, Go., five years ago, the an¬
nual trade of that place has Increased
from f'itKt.OOO to foiKi.iMM), and it is sail
.hut there is not one merchant of tho
thirty in that towu who would not vote
.,*.*«*» against »u tho whiskey .. . traffic * ,n on purely
business principles.
A cKNsua enumerator of Bedford
County, Va., traveled nearly * two day*
without xt , Hr seeing a pair of shoes on a nmn
<*r Woman. An enumerator iu Dmwiddie
Gotisty eui«m<ni.t.e.l two persons, in
-•rah of which instances ire found them
.1,..,.,. oc.iup.uK tu.-ir
md fduij .d them alone and dead. He
enumerated them and shronnded them
iuiiisvit
At Nagogdnohes, Texas, Mrs. Burke
died, and while the body was being in
terred in Ure graveyard a thornier-storm
aro*e As tire group of friends stood
around th.' grave a bolt of lightning d*«
!• d iu their midst, and struck fttnl in¬
stantly killed Bov. Air, Hearn, who wan
in the act of praying It, also knocked
his broth the ground, senseless, and
knocked down (5. If. Weaver, Tames
Shaw and Guoj Roger*
Tv Mississippi during the year ending
It i.-<vrubor hi, 1879, there were 201 oaa
vietion# for murder, Of this number
thirty-nine were ox, tented by hanging,
white 162 were punished by imprison¬
ment ter lit in the penitentiary. I hiring
the ;-tme t ime there were 121 convictions
for the crime of manslaughter, punished
by imprisonment in the penitentiary for
terras varying from tw to fifty year*,
Aboat ten 'ears would be a. fair average.
Tolitie- In the Hall-Boom.
“ Well, y.” said one of our best
yotuig men at i North Hill hop tin.
other ink Hancock eveoiltg, Weil. you know 'limit this tel
? « y, he ain't same
Do that’s Pre-side til i an insurance
,, ompanv, is he? Writes awfully cuirsi
baud, you know ?”
“ Naw.' replicti the best young man
addressed lie nhn that signed OR
rtitution of I'uitcd Ht.ates; great poii
lifian, 1 reckon. Had a row with Get).
Washington til hatl.lc of Monmouth.”
“ Haw, no," interposed a third U;st
man,” 'tftin’t that feiinh, (ted, he’s dead,
Bum ; ’(ton mv soul be is.”
“ Well, sav , exclaimed the first bent
young man 1 when’ll he dit
“Can’t >av, ‘ni sut replied the third
cst young man, who appeared to be a
young uni { brood information on gen
This end Hnm topi. “ but 1 know he’s dead,
M t miUtsny man : Colonel
fa thi army, arid (.overnor of some island
a. r; New Y,«fc.”
Tin oilier best young men gathered
around him with iv common expression
.if tlic liveliest interest. Finally one of
/hem asked:
“ Well, *ay, w!eit’s he want to run for
President for, if he’s Governor of an
id
Don’t know,” said the well-informed
it nig man, “but guesi he has to.
bl-v ifter u. fellah’s been Governor of
. ftU retire laud ter if bout he ftdjbng can’t a« he has im
.tent y hete an hasti't get to be Fresi
de know 1. got nothing to
on don’t know just how
i t is
“ Well. y, wb tltis (iroacher fob
.rev, O.irf'u'ld, that’s rimnin* th Demo
iwats for Ft lent ?” asked the first best
young uuui, after much im intelligent pause
know ’bout hii mud
tlie we]l-ri,:foruied young man; lias
u IV. suleut oiice, I know,”
T in’ man or dancin’ man?” naked
tl: 1,1,.,I text young man.
'Ohio man, I b’licve they cull him,"
, in. well-iiitormed best young man.
\V hat s that ked tl ititer best
men in intelligent chorun.
T m I don’t know,’ 1 replied
tl: ;!!- f. s'lised best young man,
t iki Borne kind of a er, ah—e.r
kind of a man- 1 don't know 'm
-m*
Viol jitsl then the 1 >aml struck up.
t 1 best waltrerH in the room
1 talking pel it ind al -aadoucd
l study of statecraft to loin
1 id.lv m a of the datum. Th*
glory of the land of freedom ami th<*
piido “f suciety is .its young men.—
i a
The Old Header Farm,
The surrounding of the old Bender
place have cliMUge fantili d so since 1874 that
one who was with tho farm and
h i much v I d j if . j ml sen then would not rre.
Ogti them mv Instead of being situ,
sited lit the into 'etion of two highways,
the plae. where tin.* murderers lived i«
now near a ren country road. The
nmiti rood is i.- ariy a mite, distant- from
the site: of the l.ovwo. Bender entered
1 re) acres of land. He broke part of it.
He set out a few apple trees near the
j; , After the family took their de¬
parture tiic farm lay idle till days and
months became years. Then a man
named Hi Ycazcl took possession of it
and lures since operated part of it, A tract
of about ten. acres, comprising the old
yard, has never been tonehed by the
point of the plow since the day when the.
fugitives with last tilled, it. There it lies, over
grown rank fields grass tout weeds, bat
surrounded by of grain. On ac¬
count of its uncultivated state the land
as if » lion had been sent upon
it. Bupersti'iou.s people* w ill not go in
that vicinity after dark. Colored people
who live about (flierryvale neglected tell frightful
st ones about the, spot and do
not liket it even in daylight. It is
^ noticeable fact that no darkeys live
iinywiiore in H the Bender th<) neighborhood, the
la tili ? T T™? 'r "?'' tho *
ory ot those wk> beheve ihitt no»«uft .
nl nte arc a vegetable form of evil is
verified. Tlie site of the,-stable is slightly
elevated above the prairie. On 'thismot
there is so t hick a growth the great stalks
*5 S u,i ' lt f T !!“' to P
mien of the vl^VHfion till then? is not
room enough for ft snake so crawl Ixv
tween the stems. I |kju On* ph*'« where
flowers «to<xl the dwelling tho thick. weeds Tiny and sun
are not so grow
around a great l»ote flint was once the
death .cavity, into which victims were
put The through tho trap door in the Hoot
writer dismounted from liis buggy,
and largo jiu.sliiug cornstalks, aside the woods, mad* life i-hat were
as as way to
the edge of the holt Fite place makes
one feel “shaky.” The words of the
poet, luxuriance “Those crowned, poisoned fields with rank
where the dark
scorpion gathers death around , came
vividly tl«s to the writer’s mind, Into the
: hole sides h»ve caved The cavity is
still about month, five feet deep and seven fret ha*
wide. Its once rot-angular,
now, circular. by reason of the caving, yard become al¬
most In the south of the
house and stables urn three gaping botes,
from which bodies have lieon dug. -Kan
City Mail.
The Story Disproved.
A leading officer in one of the courts
wna bed sob charged Of with never he inoiguftsitly going to
* t nine
denied tho soft impeachment, nnd he
gave the particulars of a ptirt icuhu- night
1 m props'. Wo quote bis own words:
j. Boon after 1. got in laid, my wife said;
“Why, husband, what’s the mutter with
i you? Yon act so strangely.” with" “Thereis
nothing tho matter mo,” said 1;
eaij "nothing »he; at all.” don “ I'm sure natural there is all. ”
“you t act it,
, SWt £ up aud get something for
Vl>u 'y ,\Tid she got up. lighted look the can
dt<; imd came to the bedside to at mo “t
^raling the fight with one hand.
knew tlie re wm tomethuig soberP’-W* mm.% you/
wiu! flb(; . » w i:y, ' you are
f a io Krpn-nt.
orchard of John H, Par
land, and will He probably yield $70,000
this year. owner ia a near relative
of Charles rite wart Eanieli, M, I*.