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CHEROKEE ADVANCE.
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“We had rather be right than to be President.”
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VOLUME V.
CANTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 6, 1883.
NUMBER 4.
THE CHEROKEE ADVANCE.
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Professional and Itusinoss Cards.
BEN P. PERRY,
LOCAL AGENT
FntE AND LIFE INSUR ANCE CO.
Office in store of J. M. MeAFEE,
J. W. JARVIS,
JEWELER AND PHOTOGRAPHER,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Can lie found at his Gallery, at any
time where he is always rtaiy to do good
work at a low price. [JulylGtf
W. A. & G. I. TEASLY,
ATTORNEYS at LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will give prirapt attention to all bus
idess intrusted to them. Will practice
in all the courts’of the county, and in
the Superior courts of the Blue Ridge
circuit. [j an7 ly *
B. F. PAYNE,
P, P. Dir PR EE.
PAYNE &DuPREE
Attorneys at Law,
CANTON,
GEORGIA.
JL. J. GARTRELL,
Attorney at Law,
3} Whitehall Sc., Atlanta, Georgia.
Will practice in the U. 8. Circuit and
District Courts of Atlanta, and the Su
premo and Superior Court of the State.
DR. J. H. TURK,
Offico on Main Street—Fronting
Church Street.
Will attend cells at all hours. If I am
not at my office wheu you oill for me, look
•t the slate in window, or call on Holland
A Hardin, or enquire at my residence.
In connection with the practice, I'have
Print* to suit this section of country, which
I will sell cheap.
I ask my friends to call and tee me.
Canton, July 22, 1882.
II. W. NKWMAN.
.INO. T. ATTAWAY.
NEWMAN & ATTAWAY,
Attorneys at Law,
CANTON, : : GEORGIA.
^ Will practice in the Superior Court of
Cherokee and adjoining counties. Prompt
attention given to all business placed in
their hands. Office in the Court House.
H. H. McENTYRE,
I3riclf, Plastering,
AND STONE WORKMAN,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
lam fully prepared to do any kind of
Masonry or Plasterine at the lowest possible
rates, and solicit the patronage of those de»
siring work in my line. H. H. McENTYRE.
G. W. EVANS,
Gainesville Street, : CANTON, GA
Near the Railroad Depot.
Horses and Buggies at reasonable
prices.
Carriages and Horses always ready.
Will send to any pan of the country
with careful drivers and gentle teams.
All kinds of stock fed and well cared
for.
|HAULING AND DRAYING
done at low rates.
Customers will be politely waited on
at all hours, day or night.
G. W. EVANS,
nov26 81 til Proprietor.
JOHN H. BELL,
Carpenter,
Having permanently located in Can-
tin—He in now prepared to do all kinds
of carpenter’s work. Building and re
pairing prom ply done at satisfactory
prices. Parties contemplating building,
will find it to their interest to get my
prices before closing contrscts with oth«
er workmen. J. H. BELL.
TIN SHOP.
J. H. STEADMAN,
Manufacturer ol all Tinware, roofing,
guttering, stove pipes, gas pipes, steam
pipes and anything made of tin, etc.
Repairing.— Will repair any and ev-
crvthing from a tin cup to a forty horse
engine at short notice. All charges low
and work warranted. Marietta street,
Csnton, Ga. [mar25 '82 ly
MEDICAL CAliD,
DR. N. SEWELL returns thanks to the
citizens of Canton and vicinity, for their lib
eral patronage.
Being permanently located, will continue
to practice medicine, surgery and midwifery.
Hoping by industry, energy and strict ap
plication to business, to merit an increased
patronage and confidence.
Office in Dr. W. A. Green’s Drug Store.
Residence adjoining W. H. Warlick.[nov9
J. M . BURTZ,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Offioi in the Court House. [mar25 ly
C. D, M ADDOX,
ATTORNEY at LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
J. M. HARDIN,
House, Sign, Carriage
—AND —
Ornanental Painter.
FRESCO & SCENIC ARTIST.
CANTON, GEORGIA.
DR. W. A. GREENE.
O FFERS hia professional services to
to the citlaens of Canton—and will
practice out of the Village in Surgery
and Consultation.
FEES same as other Physicians,
N. B.—The old Reliable Cherokeo
Drug Store will continue to keep a
full stock of Drugs and Medicines and
sell them cheap for cash. 1 [sep7 ’82 2m
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NEW
ENTERP RISE!
TRIPP & TOLBERT,
Now have their New Steam Machin
ery in full operation in Canton.
Plaining Lumber,
Jointing and Matching,
Moulding and preparing all
Lumber for building purposes.
SPECIAL ATTENTION
To ginning and packing cotton.
1 I
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On the afternoon of Tuesdays and Fri
days of each wetk. we will grind all corn
brought to our mill.
Canton, Ga., Sept. 30, 1882.
COME
A.1STD
SEE- ME.
I HAVE just opened a Complete Stock
direct from the manufactory of Fancy
Gaudies, Mixed Candies, Plain Candies,
Crackers of all sortB, Also Fresh Raisins,
3N uts, Oysters, Canned Goods, and every
thing wanted in this line. I respectful
ly ask patronage of my friends, both in
the store and job work. Blanks, Deeds,
&c. always on hand.
CLAUDE F. EDGE.
Nov. 18,1882.
Till NO 8 THAT NEVER DIE.
It never dies—a mother's holv lore
StreiiKthens with every III that may bctlrte;
In every phase of life Ita waters move
With current strong, ami fathomless, and
wide.
From the heart’s altar other flames may rise,
Ami while they seem as warm, ami K’-and.
and hlffh,
The incense of one lives to reaeh the ski
A mother's tender love can never die.
They never die—tho song* of other days,
The unstrung harps all covered o'er with
dust.
Are In some rambling store-house laid away
With many othor wrecks of love and- trust.
At eventide, when all around Is stl I,
Each harp throws off the dust with gentle
sigh,
And videos long alnoo hushed our chamber.?
All
With songs of other days that never dlo.
It never dies—tho memory of a wrong
Done to an Innocent ana trusting heart:
Though outwardly it seemoth well and strong,
A pain Is there which never can depart;
Time o'er the spot mav weave a lair new skin,
And every trace lie hidden from the eye.
But all tho agony is elosod within,
And wounds thus healed are nevor known
to die.
They never die—the kindly deed and word
Given to the needy without pomp or pride:
Sooner or later they reap their reward
Who pass not over to the otln-r side;
And eruinbs thus east upon the son of llfo
May not return as man Is -nllintr o'er,
But wni'ii he rests from agony and strife,
Ho'11 llnd tho loaves upon the other shore.
It never dies—the bow of promise set
In every landseape, be II bleak or Talr.
There's linpu lor all upon life's billow yet,
For God s own hand bad placed the token
there;
Though overwhelming storms of wind and
min
Chase overy sunbeam from tho pilgrim's
Sky,
After much peril 'twill gleam forth aValn.
ror rainbows ooino and go, but never die.
They never dlo— the moon, nnd stars, and sun
Have shone upon the wicked nnd Ih • Just
"Ineo^God's most glorious handiwork was
And men arose so mighty from tho dust;
lor when we close our eyes upon this world,
Io open them In Heaven by and l.y,
1 he snme blue liannor thero will lie unfurled,
With sun, and moon, and slurs, tuat never
dlo.
—Mrs. K.O. Jewell, in Camhrldit (Mass.) 'l'rth-
uim.
HOW WE BOYS TRIED IT. *
“Bill llrayton’s father ennio one
spring and rented a farm near us.
hither said wo’d bettor not havo
much to do with ’em at first, till
wo found out what sort they
were, but they got so neighborly all at
onco wo couldn’t help it very well.
They came ’most evcTy day to borrow
something, and then if they didn’t bring
it back—and they’most always didn’t
—1 used to havo to go for it, so 1 saw a
good deal of Ned and Boll.
•They had a cousin t>.n' camejout for
a week in harvest time. He was in bus
iness in New York, and wore light-col
ored plaid clothes. Ho was v ery socia
ble, too, and would come around about
lunch time in tho hayfield, and would
oat with us as freo as anything, which
scorned very good of him when you’d
hear him talk of his hotel in tho city.
Ho was very fond of tin plums and
harvest applos, too, and praised up
everything vve offered him, but did say
that as for him ho had no taste for
farming. Tho city was tho place for
boys of spirit. And tho Drayton boys
thought so, loo, and said they had no
asto for farming, and they meant lo
got into tho city as soon as it hoy could.
And when 1 came to think it over, I
really began Iosco that I had no tasto
for farming either. And 1 tho gin il
strange that lather and mother had
ae er concerned themselv es to lind out
w hat my tastes were, for I had read in
bo k that it is a solemn duly for pa-
cuts lo study the tastes of their chil
dren, and that their success in life de
pends a g cat deal on such things.
“Tom Blv — that vva< tht city chap’s
flume- had a lot of splendid little books
he lent ilie Brayton boys, nnd they lent
'em to me and told mo not to tell. They
were regular rip-roaring store s, / h i'
yon ’—all ab ut lights, and scouts, and
death struggles, and dark mysteries,
nnd bold adventures. The fellows in
them wore so brave that <>no of'em
would ihink no more of riding up to a
lot of fellows, and stabbing one and
shooting two or three with his revolver,
and knocking down another with it.
and putting spurs to his horse and gal-
lopi g olf in a perfect hailstorm of bul
let-. tlnn of eating breakfast.
“ Bill iirayton thought he'd try being
one of those heroes out the plains,
and come back in a few years rich-
owning a cattle-ranch and no end of
go d mines and things. But Ned Br v-
ton and 1 thought we d go into business
in the city, like Tom Blv.
“I spoke to father about it. lie
laughed vvlien I toid him of my ta-P's,
and said I didn’t know when I w as well
off. 1'hat is just the way tin fathers in
the books did — ‘ keeping your iv es
crushed down by uncongenial surround
ing ’ they called it. And Bi 1 and
'Ned s father said he hoped thev’d
grow up to something better than such
a hand-tP- iionth life as Tom Bly’s.
“ho it was very easy to see how the
hoys in ihe books had been driven lo
run away from I heir homes. We talked
a gr. at deal about it. and made up our
min Is that if we wanted to havo any
thing of a career, we must run away.
“It was an August morning very
early when I tiptoed down stairs in my
stocking-feet. As I passed mother's
door I did wish I could have wi-hed tier
good-bye, and told her how I d remem
ber my promise to her never to smoke
or drink a glass of beer till I’m twenty-
one. (She thinks, you see, that if a
tel low lets it alone I hat long, lie'll have
sense enough to keep >>n letting it
alone.) 1 almost felt like giving it up
" hen I knew she d feel badly about it;
tut I’d lelt her a note telling her I was
just going to New York to make my
fortune, and I’d wiiteto her. And I
thought of all tlie splendid things I’d
do for her when I got to be agreat mer
chant, and so 1 stole into the parlor and
got a card picture of my two little sis
ters and wrapped it up (there wasn't
any of mother) and went on. W'e had
three miles to walk to the railroad sta
tic,
“ •No more milking cows or piling
wood or dropping corn oq, plowing
Hu trail!' says Bill, ns wo rattled alone
In the ears.
“Each of us bail money enough to
take us to New York, nnd a little over.
“ 0 found It a sight better to bo flying
along that way in ihe fine morning
thau to be turning out fora day’s work.
WoAvoro going uj look for Tom Bly—
lie had told us nil to I c suro to odio
rigid to him if ever vve came to wu
nnd we thought it likely ho could lind
places for us at once either in his own
busin gs or among his friends. As wo
wallfdd along the handsome streets, wo
couldn’t help wondering how* soon soino
such splendid stores might belong to us.
“ Bill lind Tom Bly’s address— he was
a grocer - and we soon began to look
for Id m. The street they told us to go
to didn't look so nice as vve thought it
would. But at last vve found Tom Bly’s
store, and that didn't look nice nt all.
We went in and looked for him. I was
lookhig lor the plaid clothes; for I’d a
known ’em anywhere, but 1 couldn’t
see ’em nnd nobody seemed to know
a! out Mr. Bly. But soon Bill sung out,
‘ Hello Tom’—and 1 saw a wagon drivo
np and Toni was driving it. He hadn't
on the plaid clothes, and he hadn't any
coat, or collar on, and ho didn’t seem so
very glad to tmo. us.
“‘Well Tom,' Bill said, ‘hern vve
are, you see. We’ro in for it. Ready
to hav e you get us into something right
oil'—Mcs as you said, you know.’
“‘The old scratch you are!’ said
Tom. ‘ You haven’t been such fools as
to eoine 'way down hero for work, have
your
“ ‘Isn’t that, what you told usF’
“'Well -limy ho I did. just to Lo po-
lite, but i m It cssod if 1 thought boys
ns well kept as you’d ’a’ come pokin’
down here whore there’s more folks
a’ready tlian’s wanted. Whore there’s
one situation there’s ten follows after it.’
“ Ibis was a wonderful take down.
Wo thought he’d ask us to go to his
hotel, but he didn't. Wo said wo’d
stroll ’round a little, and wo strolled
Tvtrtld; and we asked In some places if
they wanted a bov, but nobody soemed
to want any hoys.' Wo wont into a park
to eat all we bad left of tiie lunch wo’d
brought from homo.
“Be oil' thero—you rascals!” some
one shouted, ami the first tli tig wo knew
a big ooliceman was hustling us out,
and tf jpg us If wo ever set a foot there
krdup.
“ An for going on the grass!
“ • There’s lots o’ grass to homo,’
whimpered Noil. Ned was smaller'u
mo rvnd Bill. ‘Lot’s go homo, / say!’
“ Wo laughed at him, but not very
hard. Bill said ho was going to start
for tho plains to-morrow, going lo work
Ins way om somehow. We went back
to Tom Bly ami asked him if lie know
where we could sleep, and lie s’posed
they’d tako us in where ho slept, if wo
had any money.
“Wo all thought it would bo very
grand to put up at a city hotel, hut it
wasn’t. Thuro wasn’t half enough
supper, nnd tho beds were awfully
crowded up in ono room. In the morn
ing a man came along and said we wore
to pay thirty cents each for <ftir supper
and our beds.
Mo and Ned had given Bill our
money to take care of, all hut a few
cents, because lie was the biggest. And
now he fell in his pockets and it was
gone! He felt and felt, and then lie
hollered out:
•I've boon robbed! Thieves!’
The man swore at him. and asked
him if lie meant he’d been robbed there,
lie look nil the money mound Ned had,
and then ho gave Bill a kick and told
him lo be oil.
“Tom Bly gave us a lot of crackers
at his store, and sa.d we'd belter go
home. But 1 was too much ashamed,
and thought I’d try yet to get work, i
walked till I was footsore, and ail the
work I found was carrying a parcel, and
1 got ten cents for it and bought a loaf
of broad. Bill said ho was going to the
depot lo go West No I went with him,
and when night came 1 waited till it was
dark, ami then I sneaked into a pretty
yard where there was trees, and crawled
into a hammock there and loll asleep.
“I wok • very early, nnd saw a gen
tleman in the yard locking at me. I
was a ra d he was going to have me
taken up lor going on his grass, and I
jumped up. The hammock stuck lo one
oi m buttons, and 1 didn't wait, hut
tore a way from it and. ran away without
my hat. I ho gentleman called me to
stop, but I jumped over the fence and
ran as Imrd as I could a great way, till I
was (dear out of breath.
“ When 1 stopped to see where I was,
a boy came rushing up to me and ssv s
he: “Isn't this your pocket-book!’”
Then lie ran away. I thought at first
it might 'a' been mine that was tolen
but in a second I saw ’tvvasn't. and I
hollered after him to tell him. But he
didn’t stop, and while I was looking at
it and seeing ’tvvas a very handsome
one, two men ran up and took hold of
my arms. 1 says:
“‘You le’ go me, now!’
“But they says: ‘Come along, my
fine fellow,’ and they snatched the
pocket-book and went to hauling me
along. There was a crowd ’round me
in a m'nute. I kicked and fought at
’em. but they held ire tight, and they
slipped some iron things on my wrists,
and there 1 was—jerked along that
wa' , and it big lot of hois hollering
after n o! They took n e into a grea'
building and locked mo up, and I
didn't know what ’twas for more’n the
dead.
“I lay down in a er-rner and won
dered it I’d ever get o it, and if I’d
ever see home again. I wondered what
mother’d say if she could see me. I
wondered what they were doing on the
qilOS-
says;
f #
farm. After a great while they took
nte out.
“ ‘Whomyou going to take mo?’ I
said.
“ ‘Before the magistrate.'
“ Then folks came ami told how last
night I d stole a pocket-book tt'om a
lady, and iltov’d boon tracking me ever
since, an I just found me with the
pockot-liook ill luv hands. 1 broke
right out. and told how the follow'd
given it to mo, but thoy made me stop
till they'd ox mined a lot o’ witnesses,
and they all said I’d stole It. Then
they let mo toll how I’d slept ail night
Sail evvhero else, but they wanted n o
to bring some ono to say if it was so,
and wouldn't believe me when 1 told
’em it was tho solemn truth. Just then
1 snw the gentleman standing in the
door that had seen mo in his hammock.
1 hoped he wouldn’t sou me, for I was
afraid he d come to see about getting
mo punished. But ho did seo me, and
( a ue up to mo. Ho took a button out
of h s pocket, and laid it ngaimt my
coat, if had a hit of tho coat hanging
to it that I had tore out when I ju nped
from the hnmmock, and it just fitted in.
“ ‘This boy was in my grounds all
night,’ ho says. ‘I was up preparing
important papers, nnd waiting lor tele
grams. 1 saw him soveral times,’
“They asked him some more
lions, and tlien the magistrate
• J lie prisoner is discharged.’
“Tlie gentleman took my arm, and
led me out. I says to him:
“ ‘I'll never do it again, sir. What
you going to do to me?’ Ho laughed,
nnd says:
“ ‘Haven’t you got astray, my hoyP’
“I thought, I luid tlie worst, way.
you’d hottoi believe! And 1 told him so,
and 1 told him all about it and lie
thought I’d bettor go borne. I’d given
my eyes to get thero that moment, but
I hated to tell h m 1 had no money to
go on, so 1 told him as I'd cotno I'd like
to try doing something, if I had a
chance. He took a long look at me,
and said perhaps that would lie tlie
best, ami said he'd write to jny father.
“Ho was a real good friend tome,
Ho talked lots to nte, and got mo a
situation. They told me thoy never
paid much to groen hands. I slept tin
der a counter, ami got enough to pay my
board ami a little over. 1 ran errands,
and swept nnd scrubbed floors, and
worked nnrdcr’n ever-I’d done in my
life. My clot lies got shabby, but I
saved up every cent
“And on Tliwnksgivitig-sJjvy I got a
holiday, and th'i r told the loss 1 had
no taste for tho city. And I took ilia
early train for home.
“As I got oil’the cars to walk home a
train en^nc in from the other way, and 1
saw a Innky-looking chap get. oil'. I
didn't know him at lust, ami lliun 1 snvv
it was Bill.
“•Just get tin’ homo?” said ho.
“Yes,’ said I.
“I'aid ) our wavP”
“Yes.’
“ ‘You’v 9 done bettor’n mo,’ says lie.
T* ve been as turns indian.v, and I’ve
been down with tho chills nnd-fover six
weeks, and some one wroto to father lor
money to sornl me home. ’
“ ‘Where’s Nod?’ says I.
“•Home. He started to walk back
that day I started West. Footed it all
tho seventy miles ’cepfc liftH lie got!’ I
found father just putting up the horses
af:or they’d got homo from church. I
vvout in* to him and sa>s I.
“ To you want to hire a boy, sir?’
“Ilo dropped tlie halter on ihe barn
floor, and grabbed hold o’ botli my
hands and looked into my eyes. •
*■ ‘The Lord bless you, Sammy.’ says
he, ‘we’ve all been looking for you.
Well—yes, I do want a boy—if I can
get one that has a taste for farming.’
“I shouted out: ‘I’m the hoy!’ and
then I rushed in and got my arms
around mother’s neck, and nearly made
her drop the groat big turkey she wa
ust getting out of tin.' oven. I goes-
(was some time before sl’3 or the hit
g rls knew whether they wi re laughing
or crying, and then father came in and
if l hadn't been a hoy I’d alurdly
known either when I told ’em how
sorry I was i’d given ’em so much
trouble, and how glad 1 was to get back.
“ I tell you, boys, if there’s anything
lo he lhaiikfuller for on ’1 lianksgiving
than anything else, it’s for having a
In me and having a chance losta Ihe r.
•• Me ;n d B II and Ned Minks tin re's
!ols o' worse work Ilian ; low ng or
feeding slock or di rging | otatoes, oi
doing anything we’re likely to do on
any farm.”—Sidney Dai/re, in N. Y.
Examiner.
—It seems somewhat hard to mulct a
defendant in damages for breach of
promise of marriage when in open court
he offers to fulfill his contract, but is re
fused by the plaintiff. Such, however,
has been the fate of a London constable,
who was ordered to pay a domestic-
servant £25 damages for breach of
promise. “I am willing to marry you
now,” he declared to the plaintiff, who
responded, amid laughter. “But I. am
not willing to marry you.” Whatever
may have taken place before, it was the
woman, not the man, who prevented the
completion of the contract. Yet, ae
cording to the decision of tho undoi
dieriffr'-he man and not tho woman
was compelled to pay damages foi
breach of promise.
A curious problem has suggested
itself in Winnepcg. There are about
G0U cows in and around the city, and
these produce 1,200 gallons of milk per
day. Yet 4,000 gallons of milk are sold.
The question is, how do the miikmen
perform tho mirae’e of selling 4,000 gal
lons of milk out of tlie 1,200 they get
from the cows? The answer is said to
be, “chalk, lime, salt, and Red River
water. "-—Chicago Herald.
FACTS AND FIflUIli.S.
— Rncont’v-compiled statistics place
the death rate from the administration
of chloroform at one per 1,00<1. — N. Y,
8 an.
—The provincial immigration agent
slates that $ ',500,000 was brought into
Manitoba by Europeans only. He esti
mates that Americans brought $2,800,-
000 and Canadians $5,000,000.
— A German arithmetician lias been
calculating tlie aggregate number of
combinations in the game of dominoes,
and has shown them to ho 284,528,-
211,810! Two players, playing four
games in a minute, would only exhaust
those combinations in 1!8,000,000 years.
—A year ago a Laramie plains cattle
man was oTored a Utah herd and ranch
lor $70,000, which o'ler was rejected.
S ure that tho Utah man sold $15,000
worth out of the herd, then sold tho
ranch for *4,500. afterward put $9,000
more into the herd, and then sold it for
$110,000. — Chicago Kars.
—Boston is tho largest markot for
hoots ami shoes in tho world. There
were shipped during 1HM0 over 2,250,000
cases of bools, shoes nnd rubbers to in
terior and ooa-tw’se ports, tho casos
holding from tvvolvo lo seveaty-tivo
pairs per case, but containing, nt a low
estimate, over 50,000, O'to pairs liostou
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-—The latest Russian census shows St.
IVtordiurg and its suburbs possessed of
a population of !I27,‘1G7 in 10,02!' stone
houses. I),:II8 that, aru of wood, and 018
that are partly both. Tho city has 76
hotels, (125 rostaurunls, 1,41G beer rooms,
17o grog shops, 703 wine rooms, (>45
schools and 109,000 children between
tlie ages of 7 and 18.
Ground lias been broken fur tho new
Pension Ollicn on Judiciary Square,
Washington. Tlie building is to lie 400
by 2o() icet and 7.5 foot high, and will
accommodate 1,500 clerks and cost
$400,000. General M. C. Meigs think#
it will bo finished in twrv years, ft will
rosomhlo ono of the old /taiian palaces,
but will lie built of buck ,uid iron.
—It is said Hint tho old post-office,
which was sold in New York recently
for $050,000, is probably tho largest
block ol down-town property ever sold
in this city nt public sale. 'J’lm lot
comprises 10,800 squnro foot. The
property lias changed hands but throe
times in 155 years. In 1727 it was pur
chased by ihe oonsisto/y of tho Re
formed Hutch Church, for $2,875, and
it remained- their prouerty -I860,
when il was bought by tlio Federal
Government for $250,000.—N. Y. Inde
pendent.
Inilinn .Marriage Gustoiiih.
Among tho Northwestern tribes of In
dians innoconoo is as marked among
tho girls as their color. Tlie impression
that tho red maiden -Joes not entertain
a high standard of morality is an error,
for she is taught ;i< other girls aro, and
grows up witli well-dovolopod ideas of
li/o and a firm resolution to discharge
its duties. Educated in tho faith that she
was ordained to work, she trains herself
to hard labor, and at sixteen years of
ago is sturdy and strong, orave against
fatiguo and a perfect housewife. Sho
may not possess New England notion#
of cleanliness, but she takes not a little
pride in iter personal appearance, and
in the arrangement of her lodge she di#-
plays sumo crude ideas of taste and a
certain amount of no itnoss. If sho mar
ries a white man she makes him a good
wife as long as she lives with him. Ill#
homo is her whole comfort and his com
fort her solo ambition. She thinks of
him and for him, and makes ither study
to please him, and makes him respect
and love her. She recognizes in him
one of a superior race, and by her dig
nity and devotion endears herself to him
and struggles to make him happy. At
the agencies of tho upper frontier thous
ands of men tire employed, and it is not
an exaggeration to say that the majority
of them havo Indian wives and live hap
pily. They are not sought after by th«
maidens, for tho Indian girl’s custom i#
to remain quiet until after tho marriage
contract is made and the marriage por
tion paid over. Tho husband must hava
the dowry, with vlJeh lie must invest
liis prospective mother-in-law before the
eeioniony takes plae'i.
The aspiring bridegroom must be
well known in the tribe before he can
hope to win a wK- : her people want to
thoroughly understand him, and know
if he can support, not only her, but all
her relatives in the event of a pinch. He
must be a kind-hearted man, with a
temper warranted to keep in any do
mestic climax; and he must have a good
lodge, and at least a half dozen horses.
If lie be and have all these, he can a-
wooing go. Then, selecting a lady, he
makes application to the mother, and at
a council the price is fixed upon. If the
girl is especially pretty her mother will
demand a gun, two Gorses, and a lot of
provisions.’blanketf and cloth. A gun
is valued at $50. jud he must furnish
tlie material to bring the amount up
from $100 to $150 Then he tries to
beat the dame down, and if he succeed#
he knows there is somo reason for let
ting tho girl go; if not, he understand#
that he is making a good choice. The
courtship is left entirely to the mother.
—Montreal Star.
—The horse-shot, .uv.iua has had Its
nn, and the next thing will lie some-
liing else. Toy mules with glass eye#
■vould be a sweet mania.—Detroit Fret
Cress.
Six medical experts examined a man
as to his sanity ana were evenly di
vided. After they had wrangled about
it for a week it was discovered that they
had examined tho wrong person alto
gether.