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ET Liberal reductions made with parties
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in Mineral, others are valuable for Farming
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ANDREW
F E 31 A L E COLL EG E,
Cuthbert, Ga.
rSEV. A. L. HAMILTON would respect
fully annonnee to his friends generally,
that this old and popular Institution will be
re opened under his immediate supervision on
MONDAY, October 1, 1 877,
His former patrons and friends will please
take due notice, and govern themselves ac
cording! j’. The spacious and comfortable
hoarding House and College buildings are
now being repaired and re furnished in ele
gant "style, and two week? in advance of the
opening will he ready for business.
The Corps of Officers and Teachers
shall not be surpassed either North or South,
and will represent the principal branches of
the Chiii-tian Churches. JSgT The College
will be thoiunghly non-sectarian.
2'he Course of Study
Has been prepared with great care, and with
an especial eye to the requirements of the
age. It embraces equally the Physical, Men
tal and Moral cultivation of the pupils.
The Discipline
Shall he very mild, but thoroughly systemat
Ic and exacting.
TJ\e Terms
Have been reduced so far as possible to meet
the necessities of tbs times, as will appeur
from the following exhibit:
Per Session of Nine Months.
REGULAR COURSE.
Preparatory Department, §3O 00
Academic “ 45 00,
Collegiate “ 60 00.
HOARD—Furnished room, washing,
lights and fuel, 102 00
“ Washing not included, 144 00.
EXTRA COURSE.
[To be charged extra.]
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Drawing and Sketching, Painting, in Oil,
Pastel Grecian and Antique Painting, Orna
mental Needle-Work, Mantua Making in all
its varieties, Physical Gymnastics, tScc.
PAYMENTS
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quarterly in advance There can be no devi
at ion (rom this mie.
Cuthbert is the handsomest, little city in
Georgia, is approachable from all directions
by Railroad ; and lor good health, good mor
ale, and cultivated society, is unsurpassed iu
no United States.
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THE GEORGIA STATE FfeSR
W ill be held in ATLANTA, beginning
Monday, October 15th, 1877,
AND CONTINUING ONE WEEK.
IARGE and Liberal Premiums lor Stock.
J Manufactures, Machinery, Agricultural
Implements, Fancy Work of Ladias, Fine
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aug3l-td Atlanta, Ga.
The 3&otlei°s limitl.
A wandering, orphan child was I
But meanly at the best attired ;
For, oh, my mother scarce could buy
The common food each week required ;
But when the anxious day had fled,
It seemed to be her dearest joy
To pros 2 her pale hand on my head
And pray that God would guide her boy.
But more, each winter, more and more
Stern suffering brought her to decay ;
And then an angel passed her door.
And bore her lingering soul away !
And I —they know not what it; grief,
Who ne’er knelt by a dying bed ;
All other woe on earth is brief,
Save that which weeps a mother dead.
A sailor’s life was soon my lot,
’Mid reckless deeds and desperate men!
But still I never quite forgot
The prayer I ne'er should hear again !
And oft, when half induced to tread
Such paths a- unto sin decoy,
I’ve felt her fond hand pres3 my head,
And that soft touch hath saved her boy !
Though hard the mockery to receive,
Who ne’er themselves 'gainst sin bath
striven ;
Tier, who on earth I dared not grieve,
I could not—would not--grieve in heaven;
And thus from many an action dread,
Took dark for human eyes to scan,
The same fond hand upon my head
That blessed the boy—hath saved the man.
A Slight Touch of licli.
lire.
A young parson of the Universal
ist faith many years since, when
the Simon pure Universalism was
preached, started west ward to at
tend a convention of his brethren in
the faith. lie took the precaution
to carry a vial of cayenne peper in
his pocket to sprinkle his food with
as a preventive against ague and
fever. The convention met: and at
dinner a tall I lousier observed the
parson as he seasoned his meat, and
addressed him thus:
“Stranger, I’ll thank you for a
little of that ’ere red salt, for I’m
o’curious to try it.”
“Certainly.” returned the parson,
“but you will find it very powerful;
be careful how you use it.”
The Iloosier took the proffered
vial, and feeling himself proof
against any quantity of raw whisky,
thought he could stand the “red
salt” with impunity. Accordingly
he sprinkled the chunk of beef rath
cr bountifully with it, and forthwith
introduced it into his capacious
mouth. It soon began to take
hold, lie shut his eyes, and his fea
tures began to writhe, denoting a
very inharmonious condition, phys
ically. Finally he could stand it
no longer. lie opened his mouth
and screamed “fire.’’
“Take a drink of cold water
from the jug,” said the parson.
“Will that put it out?” asked
the martyr, suiting the action to the
word. In a short time the unfortu
nate man began to recover, and
turning to the person, his eyes yet
swimming in water, exclaimed :
“Stranger, you call yourself a
‘Versalist,’ i believe?”
“1 do,” mildly answered the par
son.
“Wal, I want to know if it is
consistent with your belief to go
about with hell-fire in your pock
ets ?”
When a woman makes up her
mind that a lien shall not set, and
the hen makes up her mind that
she will, the irresistible meets the
immovable, and every law of nature
is broken or prevented.
“Bob,can you tell me why I’m like
the moon when it is twenty-three
days old?” Bob couldn’t tell,and the
questioner explained: “Because I’ve
passed my last quarter.” A small
loan was advanced immediately’.
A woman was offered a thousand
dollars if she would remain silent
for two hours. At the end of fifteen
minutes she asked : “Isn’t the time
nearly up ?” And thus lost.
Anew question is presented for
philosophers. Abale of cotton tight
ly’ pressed and iron tied, which orig
inally weighed 460 pounds, was re
covered from the steamer Clifford,
recently sunk near Shreveport, and
without bursting its ties or being
any larger, it was found to weigh
80Q pounds.
There are moments of desponden
cy’ in every life, moments when
Shakespeare thought himself no po
et, Rapheal no painter; when the
greatest wits have doubted the
excellence of their happiest efforts.
There is more rejoicing in a well
regulated printing office, over one
subscriber who takes the paper and
pays for it in advance, than there is
over niuty-and-nine persons who
want the paper at dead head rates.
—S dam.
CUTHBERT, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1877.
The Man With the lie<l
Eve.
About eight years ago, when I
had not railroaded it as long as 1
have now, I was employed as mes
senger on a Western railway. I
don’t know as it is necessary for me
to say just what line it was, but I
will call it the R. T. &G. 11. 11,
just to save myself the trouble of
pronouncing the whole name.
I had not been on the run more
than a month previous to the date of
the occurrence of which I am going
to tell you. I had been running on
a branch route for more than a year,
and I might of stayed there a good
deal longer, if I had not been chosen
to takePaxson’s place when he went
off. You see two or three attempts
had been made to rob the express
car, and last, at the end of a long
night run, Paxson was found dead
in the car with a bullet hole in bis
head. But the safe was closed
tight and secure, though an at
tempt had been made to blow it
open, which had proved ineffectual.
But the strangest part of it all was
that the key was missing from Pax
son’s pockets, and it was not found
till a good six weeks afterward.—
Then it was discovered at the side
of the track, with a card tied to it
on which it was written that rob
bers were in the car, and he expect
ed they would murder him if he
refused to give up the key. He
was true to the last ! Well, you
may suppose that 1 felt just a little
bit squannsh about accepting such
an uninviting berth ; but the supers
intendant gave me my orders, and I
aLvays meant to do my duty, howev
er disagreeable it might lie. Then
the pay was larger than I had ever
received before ; and as I was ac
quainted with a good girl who was
ready to help me inhabit a house
whenever I should be able to own
one, that was quite an object to me,
I can assure you.
Well ,everything passed off smooth
ly enough for several weeks, and 1
had become accustomed to the
route, and made a dozen or so of
very pleasant acquaintances, and 1
was growing to be pretty well con
tented with my life. I bad almost
begun to think the robbers, w hoe vs
er they might be, had given up
all thought of ever making any
thing out of my car, and had sought
another field of operations.
One day I was infomed by the
agent at R that sometime with
in a week I would have £to take
charge of eighty thousand dollars in
specie in its transit over the road,
on its way from Washington to San
Francisco. The officers of the ex
press company had been advised of
this intended important shipment,
in order that they might exercise re
doubled vigilance in view of the
great risk incurred in the transpor
tation of such a valuable consign
ment.
The evening alter my conversa
tion with the agent he called me in
to the office, and told ine the specie
was to go over the road the next
day but one. He produced an en
velope, and banded it to me, saying
as fie did so :
“There, are your .orders, di
rect from the superintendent, with
his own signature attached. Read
them carefully,and obey them to the
letter ; for a little missmove might
cause a great loss to the company’,
and cost y r ou your position.”
“I shall do my duty to the very
letter,” I replied.
“I am sure you mean to do so,”
returned the agent, “but you can’t
he too careful. Some members ot
the light fingered profession are as
smart as lightning. The plans they
can’t devise ain’t worth thinking of,
and they are as fertile in expedients
as the evil one himsell. I thought
I’d just put you on your guard in a
friendly way, and—”
There was a slight sound at the
door. If the depot haden’t been de
serted by every one except us two
and the switch engine hadn’t been
up at the head of the yard, where
we couldn't hear its incessant puf
fing, I don’t believe we would have
heard the sound at all. But we
both noticed it at once, and as I
looked out of the office into the large
room beyond, I saw a man stand
ing just inside the outer door, with
his head inclined toward us as if he
was trying to overhear our conver
sation. He saw me about the time
I first noticed him. I knew it
from the little start of surprise he
gave as his eyes met mine.
He was all over bis awkwardness
in a minute, for he drew his face
down into an expression of the ut
most unconcern, and came boldly
for ward to the window of the office,
through which the agent always
transacted any business lie might
have with persons without.
lie was a very fair appearing man
apparently about forty, though he
might have been a little older. lie
was dressed in black, and wearing
a high hat, lie might have passed
for one of the cloth, if his nose had
not been just a trifle luminous. The
only other peculiarity I noticed about
the man was that ho had a queer
sort of a red-looking eye. It ap
peared fixed and staring, and, as
he came nearer, I concluded that
it was glass. It was so strange and
unnatural in its expression that I
thought I should know it if I should
see it peering at me over the top of
the great wall of China.
“Is there a small package here
for Isaac G. Van Scoter ?” he ask
ed in u business like way, in an
swer to the inquiring glance of the
agent.
The agent referred to one of the
big registers on the desk, and an
swered in the negative.
“Queer,” said the man with the
red eye. “It ought to have come
yesterday. Have you read the Eve
ning Chronicle ?”
And after this abrupt interroga
tion, the stranger stood quite mo
tionless, eyeing the agent intently,
for as much as a minute.
We both answered “No.”
The man took a [taper out of his
pocket, and spreading it open be
fore us, put one of his slender fore
fingers upon the following paras
graph :
“Fatal Accident. —This after
noon, as two men,named respestivc
ly Henry Van Scoter and C, 11.
Giiggs, were at work chopping tim
ber in the pineries near Scranton, a
tree fell upon them, killing Van
Scoter instantly, and inflicting inju
ries upon the person of Griggs from
the effects of which he died in less
than an hour. They are residents
of G •, and it is understood
that their remains will be taken to
that place for burial.”
“Ilenry Van Scoter was my only
brother—my twin brother—who re
sembled me very much,” said the
strange, “and Charley Gi iggs was
my sister’s husband. It’s a gad
blow ! a sad blow 1 I don’t
know how my poor sister will bear
it. It’s about this sad affair that
I came here, chiefly. I want to
send the two bodies through to
G by express, Thursday, by
the 11:40 train. What will be the
charges ?”
“The charge will be twenty five
dollars,” answered the agent.
The stranger only bowed solemn
ly in recognition of the reply. Then
be was silent for a minute or two,
during which time he appeared to
be struggling with his grief.
‘‘The bodies will be here Thurs
day morninghe said. “I hope
you will make all arrangements to
prevent any delay. I guess my
package won’t come this week.”
The agent assured him that there
would be no delay, and he might de
pend on having the bodies go
through to G with the greatest
possible expedition.
The man bowed again politely;
then he said:
“Is the telegraph office near ? I
must break the sorrowful news to
my poor sister, I suppose, through
it’s anything but a pleasant duty.”
I told him how to reach the place
he sought, and, with a polite “Thank
you,” the sad man with the red eye
walked out of the office, and in a
couple of inmates the sound of his
footsteps died away in the distance.
“A queer sort of a chap,” said I.
“A little odd,” answered the
agent.
“I wonder if he heard us talking
about the specie?” I queried.
“lie seems honest enough.”
“Yes,” said I; “but I’m sure he
was listening to our talk when I
first saw him.”
“Are you certain of it?” the agent
asked, eagerly.
“Well—no,” I replied, “not alto
gether certain, beyond all mistake;
but it looked mightily like it, I can
tell you.”
“Suppose you go to the telegraph
office, and see what sort of a mes
sage he sends,” suggested the agent.
No sooner said than done. I
hastened around to the telegraph of
fice, and as I went in tqe man came
out. He didn’t seem to remember
me —at least, he didn’t look at me —
and I thought it prudent not to ap
pear to notice him.
“Did that preacher looking chap
send a message to G ?” I asked
of the operator, when I fiad ®?- ,? in
to the little office and closed the
door after me.
“Yes. Why do you ask?”
“Oh, only out of curiosity,” I
replied. “Was it anything of im
portance. The man said his brother
and brother in-law were both killed
this afternoon.”
The operator took a copy of the
message from a file on the table and
laid it before me. It was address
ed to Mrs. C. 11, Griggs, G ,
and signed Isaac G. Van Scoter.—
It read:
* Henry and Charles are both dead
They will bo sent home Thursday.”
Everytcing seemed consistent,
and any doubts which I had enter
tained of the good intentions of the
stranger were speedily dispelled.-
I didn’t go back to the express of
fice, but turned my steps toward my
boarding place, thinking, as I walk
eu along, that Thursday would be an
uncommon day with me, with two
corpses anil eighty thousands dollars
in specie in my car.
The money was safely deposited
m the car an hour before the time
for the train to leave, Thursday
morning. It was securely locked
in two strong iron-bound chests,
and when they were stowed away
in the large safe and the heavy
doors made fast, I thought every
thing was pretty well fixed. A
few minutes before we pulled out
two wagons paused by the car, one
of them containing two coffins and
the other six men, who were evi
dently acting as pall bearers. I
looked around for the bereaved
brother with peculiar eye, but he
was nowhere to be seen. I thought
it a little strange that he should be
absent at such a time, but I forgot
all about it in a moment.
The coffins were placed in one
end ot the car, and it had been ar
ranged that one of the men should
come into the car, and take a look at
Redwood, he shook hands with the
others and entered one of the coach
es. As the door closed on him, the
bell rang and vve went steaming
away.
I was pretty busy for an hour or
more, and we had passed three or
four stations before I had time to
cast more than a casual glance to
ward the quiet passengers at the
end of the car. But after a little,
when I had more leisure, an unoon
trolable wish took possession of me
to look at the faces of the two
dead men. It was not mere
morbid curiosity, and I can’t de
scribe it in any way better than to
say it was a sort of a vague desire
which I could not quiet without
satisfying it.
I noticed that the lids were not
fastened down. My next discove
ry was that the screws were gone.
This struck me as being strange, for
1 was sure I had noticed them when
the coffins were lifted into the car.
I remembered that I had given the
attendants permission to arrange the
caskets to their own satisfaction,
and that they had been a long time
doing it. If they had removed the
screws unobserved at that time,what
possible object could they have had
in doing so ? With this question
in rny mind, I raised the upper por
tion of the lid of the coffin nearest
me, and took a good look at the
face of the occupant. lie was a
young man with a full face and
square features. His cheeks w'ere
not sunken, and lie had a decided
ly fresh appearance for a man who
had been dead nearly two' days, I
thought.
Replacing the lid, I passed away
to the other coffin. Here anew
and startling surprise met me. The
man in the coffin was the man whom
I had seen in the express office !
That red eye staring straight at me,
and I was not mistaken ! For a
moment my consternation was too
great for words. 1 could not have
uttered a sound, had my life depend
ed on it.
This man, who was alive after the
accident which the paper said
caused the death of Van Scoten
and Griggs, and who had made ar
rangements for the transportation
of their remains, was now here in
this coffin, to all appearance !
Then I remembered the be
reaved stranger said that his dead
brother resembled himself very
closely. But two brothers are not
apt to both have red glass-eyes 1
Such a coincident as this was be
yond the pale of a reasonable proba
bility.
While I yet gazed at the supposed
corpse, the other eye opened a lit
tle, and I was sure it was looking at
me ! I was convinced there
was fraud here, but to show that I
bad discovered it might cost me my
life. So I very quietly replaced
the coffin, and took a moment’s
time to think the matter all over.
I remembered my conversation
with the express agent, which we
feared had been overheard by the
clerical appearing stranger, and
could only come to the conclusion
that the whole thing was a deliber
ate plan to murder me and gain
possession of the eighty thousand
dollars in my charge. There was
no denying that the man with the
eye was alive, and 1 had no doubt
the other man was also.—
Kneeling down, I placed my ear
close by the side of the coffin, and
could hear him breathe quite dis
tinctly. I remember that it was the
intention of the attendant, who had
boarded the train, to enter the car
at Redwood, ostensible for the pur
pose of seeing to the bodies ; and
1 could not doubtthat the three men
intended to attack mo after the train
pulled out of the station, and rob
the car before our arrival at the
next stopping place. There was
but one station between us and Red
wood and I knew we would be
there iu ten minutes more. I had
no time for hesitation. Instant ac
tion was my only chance, for safe
ty. Il l could secure myself against
an attack until we reached the next
station, I felt that all would be well.
In one instant I had decided upon
a plan of action. As quietly as
possible, I piled several heavy boxes
of merchandise on top of the two
coffins, and then I knew I was safe.
Scarcely was this accomplished
when we ran into the station.
I immediately found two or three
officers. First the man in the coach
was secured. He was highly indig
nant that he should be disturbed on
such a solemn mission. But it was
no go. He was hancuffed in less
than two minutes and marched out
on the platform.
It was ari easy matter to secure
the two quondam dead men. They
were taken greatly at a disadvan
tage, and were deprived of all pow
er to icsist almost before they be
came aware how their nice little
scheme had terminated. All three
had been well armed.
Bound and guarded, tho three
miscreants were taken to Redwood
and lodged in the county jail.
Before 1 left, I took a good look
at them through the grated doors
of their cells. When I paid my re
spects to the man with the red eye,
ho smiled a little and remarked pa
tronizeingly :
“You’re a pretty sharp young
man. It takes middling sharp
boy to outwit us.”
“Permit me to sympathise with
you in your sorrow at the loss of
your dear brother,just a little,” I
said, “and more at your failure to
get that eighty thousand dollars.”
They all broke jail in less than a
week, but not before one of them,
the young corpse, was recognized as
the notorious Jessie James !
There is no doubt it was the
James boys, or some of their crew,
who killed poor, honest, brave Pax
son.
A. Mean Iff an.
Some gentlemen were talking about
meanness, yesterday, writes “Eli
Perkins,” when one said he knew a
man on Lexington avenue who was
the meanest man in New Y'ork.
“How mean is that?” I asked.
“Why, Eli,” he said, ‘lie is so
mean that he keeps a five ceDt piece
with a string lied to it to give to
beggars, and when their hacks are
turned lie jerks it out of their pock
ets!” “Why, this man is so confound
ed mean,” continued the gentleman,
“that he gave his children ten cents
a piece every night for going to bed
without their supper, but during the
night, when they were asleep, lie
went up stairs, took the money out
of their clothes, and then whipped
them in the morning for loosing it.”
“Does ho do anything else?”
“Yes, tho other day I dined with
him and I noticed the poor little ser
vant girl whistled all the way up
stairs with the desert, and when I
asked the mean old scamp what
made her whistle so happily, he
said:
“Why, I keep her whistling so
she can’t eat the raisins out of the
cake.”
“Landlord, you have done me too
much honor—you let me sleep I
among the ‘big bugs’ last night.”
“Oil dont he too modest, my dear
lodger, I doubt not they have some
of your blood in their veins.”
§ii£gc§(ioßis to Farmers.
Farmers are advised not to buy
any fertilizer, or chemical for com
pounding or composting the same,
unless it has both the manufactur
er’s guaranteed analysis and the in
spector’s tag upon and attached to
it; and all farmers are requested to
inform the Commissioner of Agri
culture of any case where a fertili
zer is sold or offered for sale, with
out having both the guaranteed
analysis and the Inspector’s tag at
tached.
A fanner may safely purchase a
fertilizer that has the manufacture’s
guaranteed analysis and the In
spectors tag attached, but if any
farmer wi.-hes to be further assured
and made secure from imposition iu
purchasing a fertilizer, lie can savo
a fair sample of it, aud have it an
alyzed at the Department Laborato
ry. Let such sample be fairly ta
ken—a small quantity from every
sack or barrel of the same brand, or
if a large quantity is puichased
from a sufficient number of tho
packages to fairly represent the
whole lot. Then thoroughly mix,
(but not grind triturate) these
small quantities taken from differ
ent sacks, aud from the mixture fill
a common quinine bottle, or any
bottle holding a like amount; cork
it closely and sea! it with wax, and
correctly label it. Let this be done
in the presence of witnesses and
place it in the hands of a disinterest
ed party for safe keeping. Lot a cor
rect and certified copy of the guar
anteed analysis, and the Inspector’s
tag which was attached to it, be al
so carefully preserved by the same
party.
Then, after the crop is made, if
the fanner has reason to believe
that the fertilizer was not such as it
was represented to be, let the sam
ple be sent to the Department, eith
er by the hand of some reliable
disinterested party, or by express,
and it will be analyzed without
charge.
Section 2, of the Act of 2Gth Feb
ruary, 1877, provides tiiat that tho
manufacturer’s guarantied analysis
“shall be binding on said manufac
turer, agent or dealer, aud may be
pleaded in any action or suit at law
to show total or partial failure of
consideration in the contract for
the said fertilizer.”
A clause in Brigham Young’s
will directs that lie shall be burned,
in a rosewood coffiu three inches
wider than his body so that if lie
had a disposition to tun over he
could do so; that lie be laid, it! je
tstone vault, a stone slab to be placed
over the top. lie requests that
none of the male members of the
family should wear crape or emb
lems of mourning and that the fe
males should no- purchase mourning
dresses, though they might wear
them if they had them.
The corn husk are thin, indicating
a mild winter; the woods are full of
masts; there are myriads of spiders,
mild winter; acres of caterpillars
hard winter; the squirrels are idle
and listless, mild winter; the squir
rels noisy and buisy, Jhard winter;
the goose bone is white and gray,
mild and hard winter; the wood
chuck has gone in; mild winter; tho
W'oodchuck stays out, hard winter.
It is indeed, only a question of
lime when the system of weather
prognostication will become one of
tho exact sciences.
Men are made to be eternally sha
ken about, but women are flowers
that lose their beautiful colors in the
noise and tumult of life.
“Ma,” said a little boy, returning
from Sunday School, to his nn-iher:
“ain’t there no kitten chisms for the
little boys?—this catechisms is too
hard.”
“My son, hold up your head ancf
tell me who was the strongest man.”
“Jonah.” “Why so?” “’Cause the
whale couldn’t hold him after he'd
got him down.”
A man’s w’ite is his best lawyer,
his best counsel, bis best judge, bis
best advisor, also the cheapest and
most reasonable.
Let us not judge a character hasti
ly, for in the W’eb of life a golden
thread twincth, unseen by mortal
eye, but which in the upper world
shall be woven into a crown of glory’.
The paper shirt has had its day.—.
It was good enough to go to a pi c .
nic in, but wouldn’t stand a Baptist
Association worth a cent.
Be firm in every foitune, be bon*
est in every cause.
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