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VOLUME VII.
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1881,
NUMBER
11.
The Advertiser and Appeal.
rUBLUiMi) KvKUY SATVMUY AT
BRUNSWICK, GA.,
A-13Y—
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All letters nml communication* should he ad-
rcsatMl to the mulentignad.
T. «. STACY,
Urtmawlck, Georgia.
City Directory,
city orncKits.
Mayor- 3. F. Nelson.
AUUrmm- A. T. Putnam, W. W
CUrk d Treasurer—James Houston
Ckty Marshal—V. A. Fahm.
Assistant Marshal-J.L. Bcarh.
lUiccmcn—Vr. It. luliioy, T. W. Ha
>,rt Ihytirfan—A.' L Schlatter, Jr. M. 1)
Sty I’kytician—L H Dr vis, M. V.
tarbor Master-0 J Ilall.
-Matthew Shannon. Thor l
A CIIADLK IN T1IK IIOC^K.
We haro got a cradle in the bouse.
And we have aomethiug in it,.
A freakish, way want, winsome bairn,
Not biggor thau a minute.
Although no diadem bu wears.
But his ringlets, soft and brown.
Ills every amilc and frown we heed,
No sceptre in Ids hand* he bolds.
But then his pinky ll.itr. ho small.
He. like a myal monarch, wields.
And we are humble subjects all.
J'Ol
■. Jr, and A
STANDING COJOUTTWtS or i Oi:KUL.
FiNaMck—Couper, Watkins and Dunn.
Mtkkbts, Drains k Buiuokh- Iiuun. Watkins
aud Llttlefleld.
Koxton White (Vinetrty-C O Moore.
Sexton Gnlorod Cemetery—Jackie While.
Town commons—Harvey, Couper and H|x»rfl.
C’KMimtniitr—4ti»cars, lXeorllinger and Ooiijht.
HAUnon—Littlefield, Spears an<l l'utnaui.
FUBUC luutniNOH—Watkins, DoerHiuger and
Hai
lertliii
r.llai
1 Little llnld
rill' 1IONITOU ni!Klllitl.U .
Niory of tl»«? llrillinut Career of the
Noted Coufedernto Ironclad,
152 BROUGHTON St.,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,
Thanks the public thrnngh this wiilmm for tin
•--» »•••<-sks a continuance of tlieir patrouage, si
»rd his SPUING IMPOHTA1loN nfgomli
od his low prices on them
•ybody that is wilbli
7X3
this paper to avail thcnna-lvt* of *J
ulty. Ills
50c COLORED SILKS AND SATINS
t'annot be surpassed. His WHITE GOODS A.V
KMimolDKUlES, which he alme Imports, have t
•«|iui. Ut<* FANCY AHTICJU5» cannot be onntii*
THE DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
Is a sttccess. CAHIIMKUE tor Hummer at 75c
worth f 1 35 In New York. In fact, there is not a
article in Fancy or Staple Dry Goods that cannot 1
loiuid in Ida establishment, A lt»«». the newest gmn:
out, called NUN’S VEILING, for dresses. Is k. id I
152 BUOUGHTON STltEKT,
SAVANNAH, - GEORGIA.
Harnett House,
(FORMERLY PLANTERV IlGTFU.
M. L HARNETT & 00.,
I'ttOflt IKTOIIN,
RATES, • - $2.00 PER DAY.
City Tnx Notice.
J. H. Eggleston, in PniUdelpbia T!
Wllou tlio Federate iflmmlonofl tho
navy yard tit Norfolk in 1801 they
not lire to the vessels lying there.—
Among theHu was the Mfrritmu*, one
of n cltiHS of vessels which, when they
were bnilt, were considered the finest
specimens of naval arehiteeture afloat.
On the occasion in question, the Mer-
rininc was burnt to the waterline.—
Her machinery remuiued intact, and
it was duCcnnitied by the Confederate
authorities to make of what remained
of her an ironclad rum that would
some troublo to the enemy's ves
sels lying to in the waters of Virginia.
A sir net nre of oak, sloping like the
roof of a house, was built upon tho
old hulk, and this wood-work was cov
ered with plates of wrought irou two
inches thick. The ends of these plates,
where they rested upon the edgo of
the old hulk, extended about a foot
under water. Below that line tho ves
sel was as vulnerable as she hud ever
bet n. The rudder-chains, too, were
perfectly unprotected, lying exposed
on the “fnhtail," or that portion of
the hull which extended out abaft tho
shield. The wheel was uuder the for
ward part of the, shield and the pilot
was protected by a huge hollow cone
«»f east iron, perforated with holes for
him to see through. The buttery of
the Merrinme consisted of ten Dahl-
gren guns; one 11-inch pointing for
ward, mid another printing nft, and
gbt 9-inch guns on the sides.
At lust there is a sign of life on the
two frigates. Their swinging booms
go alongside; their boats aro rnu to
the davits; the Congress pipes “wash
clothes," and now we hoar the long
roll of our own drum and fife calling I we «;
us to quarters. There is no longer a | < r
doubt of our Captain’s intentions.—
He soon appear* on tin* gun deck,
makes a stirring appeal to tho crew,
and then takes his station near the
Minor had been done without the
knowledge of the offieers of tho Con
gress. Neverthel* ss we resumed our
firing, while the officers on the poop
dock of the doomed vessel were wav
ing their white haudxurcliittfs. But
we did not keep it up long, for it was
apparent that tiieCongross had already
been set on tire by our hot shot. —
About this time Buchanan was borne
below, wounded be a sharpshooter *n
shore.
We've do|ie # a t very goqd.djiy's
k,” I remarked to Catesby Jones,
mile time during the afternoon ho
paused at my division.
Yes,” lie replied, “but it isn't over.
The .Minnesota ami St. Lawrence are
joining up from Fortress Monr
Our crew was made up in a great
measure of green countrymen detailed
from tne different volunteer regiments
stationed about Norfolk, but there
were some trained seamen union;
them. From tho time of taking them
in hand till the*3av of going into ac
tion, an interval of about two weeks,
we drilled them incessantly at tho
guns of the receiving ship, the old
frigate United States.
On tho forenoon of the 8th day of
March, 1802, tho Merrimuc, or, as she
had been newly christened, the Vir
ginia, cast off' from the wharf at .tho
navy yard and started ou her trial
trip. Wo steamed straight for Hamp
ton Roads. Whatever was tho dosign
f our Captain, Franklin F. Buchan
an, he kept it to bimsolf. Years ijf-
torwards, I learned frern Catcsby, one
of tho executive officers, that he had
bcou taken into tho Captain’s confU
donee, but I am quite certain no one
else bad. We all thought we were
making an ordinary trial trip. And
yet we wore rapidly approaching the
P
tired out fvoiu working their guns
ucitrly two days. I think we have ful
tilled the mission on which wo ctira
and had bettor return,” which accord
ingly wu did, tpul Rie next day went
in dock to get ready for auothor raid.
We hml met and silenced upward
of one hundred and eighty guue
afloat, to say nothing of the shore but
teries. It is safe to say that never bo-
fore had; ten guns successfully en
countered such odds. If what I have
saiil be true, tho Noa^hfiin vcjrwon Qf.
our encounter with the Monitor is ut
terly false. And I am sustained not
only by nil who served on board the
Merritnao and tho woodon vessels of
our squadron, and tho thousands who
viewed tho battle from the noighbor-
iug shores, but also by the captain of
the Minnesota. In his report to the
department., he says in effect that,
seeing the Monitor silenced and with
drawn from the battle, and his own
vessel at the mercy of the Morrinmc,
he hnd nearly completed his prepara
tions for abandoning and burning tho
Minnesota, when, much to his joy, tho
Merrinme returned to Norfolk. It
may be as well to add that iu her on
counter with the Monitor the Murri
mac did not sustaiu any material iu
jury, while I think an inquiry into tho
reason for the withdrawal of tho Mon
itor will show that her turret would
not turn after she had been rammed
by the Merrimae.
The last demonstration by the Mer
rimuc was against a Federal fleet of
oight or ten vessels, tho Monitor
among them They wore bombardiug
Sowell’s Point, under the eye, an we
heard, of Mr. Lincolu himself, then ou
isit to Fortress Monroe. Wo
steamed down from Norfolk and of
fered battle, when the whole licet
Tim Pleat Terrible Experience Iu the
Lire of n Mariner Who Ilaa t'lreum-
tiavlimlrd the CJlebe Twenty-Three
Time*.
enemy’s vessels—the Cumberland audj made haste to huddle under the guns
Congress frigates—that lay at anchor of the fortress. We sent in and cut
off* Newport’s Nows. As a midship- out two transport brigs muter their
man I had served iu both vessels, the very noses, lmt tho Monitor let slip
Cumberland, iu which I had served the splendid opportunity of driviug us
briefly, being the first vessel I had ev- back to Norfolk a second time,
or boarded, while the Congress had We aro much blamod by our own
been my floating homo for Hourly. p^opUj for destroying the* Merrimae
three years. How natural they look- / wliou wo did. After tho evacuation
od, the boats at tho swinging booms, L f N( , rfo ] k ,, v OIjr j nrul f orc ,. H no otb-
the Congress with their wash clothes cl . romained to us. We could
between the main and info ton rigging; no f j»o to flc ,| nor up the James river.
How many of the poor fellows who Unless tho vesse! had I.con destroyed,
scrubbed their blue shirts on the deck }icr HUr ,- fjnt ter woul 1 have been a mere
that morning never had need again ( pn. K fjon of time. With the enemy in
for shirts after that day! j possession of Norfolk wo would have
These vessels fired on us at long j | )oen 8 peedily starved into submis-
range, us with the approach of night
we steamed over to Stewell’s Point t«»
send on shore our dead and wounded
With early dawu the next morning.
tw the St. Lawrence back under
nns of Fortress Monroe, the Min-
a apparently aground near the
I tilt? city of Bronx
day at MifHi.
titu ftr»t >|uatt' rly
ml will 1*.? I*UA«1 «
li'-n rt«mioM will
JAMKS HOUSTON. CSrk auA iowt-ur^r.
.*/. y. cmvxTT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
nnryswicK, Georgia
Oi B-MW Vn^At ‘.BiUMig.
rhcel.
I cotonmiiilcd the third division of
;uns, and was stationed amidships of
the shield. From that station my
view of what was going on outside the
essel was restricted to the gun port,
riiich was m arly filled by tho gun.
■or a time I could see only tho rim of
the horizon oi tho distant shore, but
suddenly the side of« great ship, close
aboard, eniue iu view. I saw her but
for a moment, for the smoke from her
broadside of twenty-five guns,
promptly answered by our own, soon
enveloped her and us. A few mo
ments of the thunder of buttle, of sul
phurous smoko, of tho passing below
of the wounded, and then there is a
thud ns if the vessel had run aground.
There i.s a cheering torward, and soon
Flag-Lieutenant Minor passes aft,
and cries out:
“We’ve sunk the Cumheiland!”
The next time I saw the Congress
she was aground with some of her
sails set We had taken up a raking
(xosition under the stern, and a few
shots from our broadside guus
brought down her flag. Lieutenant
Minor was sent in a ship’s cutter to
receive her surrender, and at tho
wi«h* time two tugs that had been im
provised ns gunboats ran alongside to
take off prisoners. The tugs were
driven off by sharp-shooters on shore,
and Minor and one of his boat’s crew
were wounded by musket balls tired
nut of th** gun deck jxorts of the Con
gress. Buchanun, then on the upper
deck, on top of the shield, shouted
down tho hatch way:
“ Destroy that- ship! They arc kill
ing our men under a flag of truce!”
Sadly we proceeded to obey the or
der, for we believed that the firing on
seem* of yesterday’s buttle, and u cu
rious looking cr.ift, which proved to
he the Monitor, lying near her.
We steamed over toward the Min
nesota, and the Monitor boldly set
forth to meet us half
and hours and hours \v
each oth. r without any
jury ♦•» either vessel.
S<sing that every p
struck our -t range etien
tered into frag
ret. I ordered i
■ bomk
app*i
nt
■tile that
•as shnt-
against her tm -:
istoii to reuse fir-
II< nItli) uittl I’lilicalth)- CltlcK.
The “tabled of mortality statistirs’ 1
iu the United .Staton and foroign
countries, deduced from the latest
weekly returns, as they appear in the
Sanitarian for September, lead to the
following conclusions, viz:
Tho* six healthiest cities in the
United Stntea, as measured by the
above and most, recent authentic re
ports, up to the time of going to press
with the number, were in the order
named: Lawrence. Worcester, San
Francisco, Lynn, Urnvideti'*» and Boi
tion
niton-
1: " Will,
tber plan.
And we
Tin* most finlcmltliy: Dayton, Wil
mington. ImliiumpoliH, Memphis,Cleve
land and Louisville. Cincinnati is
not mimed in thi* category, Ixecause
the mortality «»f the ’.v«*« k was espe-
cirtliy exceptional by sunstroke
The healthiest foreign cities were
of whutlChViwtiunn. Edinburgh. Bristol am
«ac could I Clifton, Bucharest, Bremen and Bob
u!l j I® 8 *
was our! The mihcnltlliest cities ih the world
engines wore stopp'd just before weJ’Acro* Dayton, Ohio, St. Petersburg,
struekdier. If they had not la on wo Wilmington, Indiamipolis, Malaga and
would undoubtedly have mu her uu-1 Clevelnnd
dcr. As it was after that gentle push!
she never lir-.l nnotlu-r shot ,.t tho | A " " IJ Vrnbwn l ,ro ™ r1 *- ,tBel y
Morrinmc. Will..Irawinu ciitiroljr out ™i.ls fallows: When n
of unr r..»:;o, oho «n» » silent s|«ctn-1 mn " u '*‘ »* k,,ow *.
tor for fully an hon. of m.r practice at : bl -' K 11 wiw ,nn "- Wl,nn '* ' ,on ' t
Ion*, run uu will, the Mimiucolu for » ' ,U1 ‘' k, “" vs Umt h " k,,0 " r '
Culling Oittesby J.»ne
my idle gun*, he said:
we’re just about to try m
We nr« going to mm her
did.
But for a inihConce.pt
the momentum of the Mm
accomplish, it would lm
over \vi*h ’lie Monitor A
target.
When we finally ceased firing air
turned to Norf« !k. it was for the
following reasons, as stated bv Cap-
ti Jones uadi «»f his tlivision ofl't*
•s: “ Wc can’t get nearer the Min
nesota than wo are, for our draft is
same as hers, and we’ll get
aground if we try to get nearer. She
is now apparently reduced to a mere
uk, und I don’t think she will ever
get aflont again. Wc have done all
that we can do, for the enemy’s iron*
dud keeps out of mu range. Our
ship is baking, probably from the
loss of her prow when she rammed
he Cumbellund, and uni erov are
i hu'a^a sensible
! thinks he knows
man. Whoa a man
and don’t know, he’s
vroy, Htt v’nrt Q#., (fa.
i)ti«; with giNwl effect for
kcfnluPMn ui*«t dysjH'ps
r lidly recommeml it
rom th»»sc trontiles.
- resiHH*tfifl]y, L. I
dl who
UrsinF.it
< rnm|> llmditrhr,
Taokson Co., Ga., Jan. 16, 1880.
My wife has suffered greatly for years
with cramp in the lower limbs, which
latterly fmd extrude*! up tlie laxly. Bbe
lineal a little of your Nenrotic, which
gave her s|H>e»ly relief, mid ^ho bn* not
had any return »»f the piin .since. It him
gfveii equal satiMbictinii when nsod t«»r
hemlachiv Wc think it the grcaUwt rein-
(tlf for finin In tl«- w>»rM.
Yours trfly, W H. Wiutltxpad
Sxvxnuxh Now*.
Tho rescue of the captain and five
of tho crow of tho bark Brunswick,
which wont down in tho gate forty-five
miles north of Tybeo, by tho pilot
boat Bello, No. 5, Captain James S.
Bliss, aud thoir arrival at Savannah,
qjx Tuesday uight, tbo.JOth ulL r boa
beau noted. We pablished recently
an interesting account from Captain
Higgins, the commander of tho vessel,
of his experience. Among tho rescued
was James Fisher, u native of Phila
delphia, who reached his homo on
Monday night, aud tells the following
story in the Philadelphia Times, which
is of thrilling interest:
Mr. Fisbor is a tall, slender man, of
about fifty-five years of ago, grizzled
and wrinkled and bowed with tho la
bor of forty years passed upon tho
soas. llo has made tho circuit of the
globe twouty-tbrec times, aud has
been wherovor a ship could go
Speaking of tho wreck, he said, last
night:
“I have faced death upon the ocean
many a time, but never before under
such terrible circumstances I have
been in gales in all parts of tho world,
but I don’t believe there ever was n
blow that could comparo to that cy
clone. After leaving Now Orloaus wo
sail od for Pascagoula, Mississippi, aud
took on a cargo of pitch pine. Wc
left there on our home voyago August
10, and had delightful weather until
the 15th, when wo oxporionccd
heavy northeast gale. After that the
elements wore kind to us until tho 23d
■f tho month, when wc canglit a vio
lent northeast squall, which kept in
crooning in forco until it eliminated
in tho disastrous cyclone of tho 27th
“Wo wore about sevonty-lire miles
off Charleston, just a little to tli-
north, perhaps, and apparently in the
very vortex of the cyclone. We soon
discovered that we wore admitting
water. Our waterways split at huff-
past tivo iu tho morning, and the
wind blowing so furiously that
conhl not lmnr a word nt a distance
of five feet. Onr skipper, Oupt. Dan
iel Higgins, a prince among men, aud
I consulted as to what to do. We
decided to throw the deck load, com
prising some 35,000 feet of timber,
ovorboard. Well, over it went. Wo
went along better for awhile, but only
for awhile. Tho wind seemed to grow
stronger every ftoeotnl. The vessel
lay over on her leeside, and the water Half an hour before the Pacific ex-
ponrod iu. At 11 o’clock tho lee yard j press left ter the West yesterday
arms were dipping and the vchm! wuh[morning, a big gmnt of a chap, lug-
iu danger of capsizing. We Im.l to ging a satchel in one hand ami load-
cut down the masts to keep h r from j ing a big dog with the othor, entorod
going over. Sho righted, hut the sea j the ilcqail, followed by a clean-faced,
pourod over her in torrents a roar-! tidy Idoking man with a grub-bag and
ing, rushing, irresistible avalanche. -- J umbrella. Both reached the ticket
Our hold was rapidly filling. W<* fi It'office fit the same time, and white the
that the vessel must sink, and wc 'giant inquired the price of r ticket to
threw over everything that wo couid [some jH»int in Kansas, the othor laid
Wc were on nothing bnt a raft com
posed of a part of tho deck. When
wc counted heads there wore but six
of ns. The rest bad floated off and
were drowned, we scarcely know how.
Wo didn’t see or honr them go. It
was pitch dark and wo could hear
nothing bnt tho roar of (ho ofemonts.
“So wo six lay there all night, fight
ing tho sou aud wreck. The cargo
and broken timber floated up around
us, and we had all wo could do to
keep our frail raft from bciug broken
to pieces by it and sank. Tho wind
sent the send flying with cutting forco
againc* our faces. Heavy logs forty
foot long were whipped up and twirled
around like shingles. I got just a
little tap of ouc- it knocked all my
teeth down my throat. Iu the morn
ing we banded ourselvos together so
that tho wind could strike ns—made
a sail of ourselvos—and we slowly
workod ourselves free from thcdcbiis.
Wo lmd one euemy only to contend
with then—the sea. The wind blow
all that day, aud tho waters poured
down upon us. Wo saw a vessel
some ten miles off, but it boro away
from ns. Wo saw another vessel, buk
none of them seemed to sight us. So
we drifted that day and the next,
hungry, thirsty aud despairing. Throe
of onr men, who hud been driuking
salt water, began to lose tbeir minds.
One—the negro steward—wanted to
eat his hands. The two others, sail
ors, imagined they were still in tho
forecastle of the vessel nnd engaged
in a quarrel over an imaginary theft
of tobaoco, aud wanted to gut each
other with their knives. Wo could
scarcely control them, but wo man
ed it somehow* We had drifted
down noar Savannah, ufter vainly
striving to signal passing vessels. Wo
a weak aud helpless, and had al
most given up hope when tho pilot boat
Belle No. 5, Captain James Bliss,
sighted us aud took us up. Perhaps
weren’t glad. Wo would bavo
ohecrod, but we wore two weak. But
I want to thauk him and hoiuo others
now We were made as cowfortnklo
as possible in Savannah. Tho Savan
nah Steamship Company gave free
passage to all of us who wanted to
•ome North, and tho Boston owners
»f the Brunswick tulographcd our
laptnin to tnko good caro of tho men.
I landed barefooted and barchcocd,
and had nothing on but iny shirt nnd
rousers. I arrived hero lost night
vith just, what I have ou.”
it l-lli: K IIUIl WHO WO|i|,OS*T.
the ciihIi for a trip to Jackson
Thunder and blazes nnd wild-
•uk .-niter, feats!” shouted the giant as he lenrnod
iw him .ui the price of a ticket—“why I liaiu’t
L>eh) trl tin, 'got no such money!'
-regiilu
rates,'
get rid of, iu the hope of savii
In trying t» break the michoi
Theodore Slmddm k, a Greek
was swept overboard. I saw !
the crest of a mighty
and I thought he would U- n\vt
back. Ilo seeiuud to think mo, ti
ter he called out, ' All lighter. Mir.
But a moment after he threw up i
arms and disappeared. Thai whs i
beginning- Death had ooiiu*.
“One tend had already been swe
away; the other an.I the terwa
house went inn, and we were l.-f»
the mercy of tho wave*. Ii whs ev<
man ter himself, and so l toll t
men. They blubbered for iwii.lr,
course; death's a terriote thiiijr win
it comes and laughs right in vo
face. No «*„. men.' said 1; Vve
man's got to g » mime tinu If an>
yon can pray, why pray - now is t,
tune. But don’t let us bo w omen 1
us die !ik«- mull.' ‘Six of tin lash
onrsohes to tho stump of the tuizzo
Mint I thru., t„ tliu sp.ml.ur Imom. | “ W '* 11 ' )"'» orlur ." •'« W»<l. U*
There ,*• «.werwl, the » hLutn,;; " utoll > '“*» '»“> »“f k etl
us. until »t Inst tho oabin lirokei tku c . v l* ,, 'l‘ )r srunnrt. “ Times is very
up, stiil thu stump ot the mizzenmast | seruiupshus jist now, m..l every mnn
shot up into the sir. We .linom.mg.nl urter "* protect Uw life. I'll give yon
our«clv«» us rapidly oaposaibU*. Am
brose Munnelli, a Spanish sailor, who
■ptj “Can’t help
/•», .sai«l the ticket seller.
— ! “Aud extra ter the dog V"
ii;* i ■* Yes.”
In | “ I’ll la? hanged if I pay it!”
' “ Very well." and down went the
pi ;
r _l | " Hnv, Mister,” cnlksl thu gim,t us
(ll , hu buelitmetl to the luun tieketoil fur
'.f.ickHun- -‘‘sny, s.u huru.”
I. . ' Wbnt .‘nit I <!u fur you nske.1 the
,: ..I In r ns hu enure up.
, n | - Snv, [ iv.nt tu go to Knnwm. ”
ur, “ l’es."
rv ‘ Ami I hnvell’t got .piitu 'uulT mon-
.(■ tty. Ami I'n. bouml lo go, fur I’ve
l H ,; left home nml not out, nn.l I must
)>t ; rain*, noine muiiey Sny, ilo v*ut uvur
w | 'uarry n revolver V
hnd climbeil to the mnntlio.nl, was
ilrownetl. Thu broken innst llontn.t
oftnu.l tlm after bonne nml the sky-
this ul.l barker fur seven Oollurs. I’ll
warrant it tu sbnot blnzns out of n
buHH-tliivf twenty-six rods away.”
"’ My friend, I'm a minister of tbe
gusp.il, nnd I never have any use for
light went a’ong nil It it. Weerawle.l nu.*h vonpons.
for onr lives lo . beam that sevvu.1 loj I'rur.uhur, eh ? Say, 111 knoek off
fasten the skylight and lushed onr-1 a dollar on Die price. Say si* and
selvea to that. Tbe hull broke up! take it.”
1 tlie cargo tloiled tip around ns. It would be useless to me.” ]
"Useless? Say, suppose yon aro
going home from prayer-meeting and
some rough tackles yon? Click I
click I biff! bang 1 and where’s yoor
rongh ? Yon may get into a diapnte
ovor at tbe cbnrcb with one of tbe
deacons. He thinks he bas tho dead-
wood on .yon as bo peels bis coat, but
yon kcerlcssly draw this ont and wipe
your noso on the barrel, and wbar’s
yenr deacon.”
•' Ob, bnt I don't wnnt it at any
price. I should never sleep cosy if
it traain tbo boose, even.”
" Then tako this ’are,” said tbo
man, an ho draw ont n buck-handled
knife with a blade a foot long. " Sbo
don't bnrn any powder nor mako any
noise, bnt she’s chnck fall of busi
ness.”
” My friend, n preacher does not
want such a weapon as that.”
’ They don’t oh ? S'poacn yon wore
over to tho boss-race and a crook
smashod your plug bat down on yonr
shoulders ? S'posen somo feller
comes ulong and spits on your bootts ?
Say, I will part with this 'oro home-
defender for live dollars, though sho
cost eleven dollars, and I never stubb
ed bnt one mnn with ’or.”
I couldn’t—I couldn't think of it
As I told you before, I am a clergy-
man and have no nse for weapons.”
" Say, tako tho dog! A preaoher
can’t bo tbrode ovor tbo bar for hoop
ing a dog, and if you’re looking for
suutbin' about four timos os wicked
as n b’ar trap, here's tbo animilo.—
Say—”
I don't wnnt n dog.,’
Don’t I Great hooks I But do
yon lot trams git outor yor yard with
two bull logs ? Do you drivo hogs out
of yet garden with switches ? Say,
I’U part with old Typhoon for eigh
teen dollars, and I'll swear on fonr bi-
blcs that I've boon offored twonty-fivo
dollars moro'n n dozon timos.”
“ No—no. I should not know wbat
to do with bim. I hope you’ll got to
ICnnBns, bnt—”
“ I'll Bay fifteen dollars though its a
bnrnin’ shame."
“No.”
"I'll say two!vo, if you agroo to
keep still about it.”
" No; that's my train and I must
bo going. I hope—”
” Say, I'll soil you a recipe to tamo
a b'ar. I'vo triod it, nnd if it don’t
tame bim bigbor’n a kite iu a week,
I’ll chaw sand.”
“ No—no; good day.”
’’ Say, gimmo two dollars fnr a rec
ipe to pizon wolves ?”
“No.”
" I'll lam you how to pick a inker
bsnd for n dollar aud a bald Say—’’
But the clergyman bad passed tbo
gate, nnd after a hungry look round
him the stranger gavo tbo dog a kick
nnd growlod ont:
" flit ready to enrry tbis ’oro sach
et, old feller, fnr wo'ro going os fur as
Chicago on tbe dirt road. Hang
these 'ero prenehers— they reckon on
making their mnsclo pull ’em
tli rongh I”
A. r. Stewart's Gar Widow.
H.n!of» Letter* ”
It' has bcou very truly remarked
that Mrs. Stowart’s style of dressing
bus changed greatly since ten yoars
ago, when sho used to congratulate
herself that she was woaltby enough
to afford to dress with simplicity. Now
nhe wears nil Unit tbe most stylish and
exacting of dress-makers could de
mand, in fabric and cat, and her toi
lets aro os many as a belle can boast
of in bor first season. At this garden
party she wore a white brocaded sat
in, thick onongb to stand alone, as
onr grandfathers pat it It was
tlounced with dcop point lnco, over
plain ‘ white satin plaitings, and tbo
coraago was cat with a narrow Y to
fit a broad collarette of tbe immo lace.
A large cluster of white lilacs woro
fastened nt one side with a diamond
buckle, and diamond buckles wero on
the sleeves and noshes of the over-
skirt. Youthful as this toilet was, it
was not unbecoming, for, like ber late
husband, Mrs Stewart looks remark
ably young for her age, and ber slight
triin lignre and auburn bair woulddo
for a woman of forty.
TbntimmU have been cored of dnmb
utuc, billion* disorders, jatmdicc, dys-
Mnta and all diseases of the Unr. Wood
ana stomach, when all other remedies
have failed, by niton Prof. Oufloettos
French Liver Pod, which is a quick and
ncnmaSnt care for those disorders. Auk
roar druggist for tbe gnat remedy, and
eke no other, and if be dm not keep It
send*! Mina letter to tbe French Tad
Co., Toledo, O., and receive one by mail
postpaid. A