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The Cedartown Advertiser. Published every Thursday by D. B. FREEMAN. OLD SERIES—VOL. YII-JSO. 11. Terms: SI.50 per annum, in advance. CEDARTOWN, GA., MAY 27, 1880. NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 24. Bi? Your Dr© From F( Main St. Cedartown Ga., I? YOU WANT THEM PURS AND FRESH. C. G. JANE3~ attorney at x.aw, CEDARTOWN, GA. ;r omce In the court House. ^febl9-iy _ JOSEPH A. BLANCE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. CEDARTOWN, GA. 1r First Boom up Stairs over J. s. StiiBte & Co's Store. septic-1Y “BEAR TE ONE ANOTHER’S BORDENS I” at Mel FnMiii if Oar Loved Dies at Net Cost. The People's Mutual Relief Association Is issuing certificates of membership in amounts from $1,000 to $5,000 on strictly healthy persons, male and female. The plans are SAFE, CHEAP AND PERMANENT. Applications for membership will be received by JNO. W. RADLEY, Cedartown, Ga. Partial list ot members in and around Cedartown : F. M. flight, A. A. Read, John W. Bracken, P. J. Bracken, Wm. R. Craig, Geo. H. Leake, J. W. Barr, Dr. C. II. Harris, J. B. Crabb, W. H. II. Harris, D. It. Slonroe, Dr. W. G. England, Jno. W. Radley, J. W. Kilgore, Daniel Walker, D. B. Freeman, Mrs. Nancy Powell, Alex. Dougherty, Mrs. Francis Dougherty, Dr. E. H. Richardson, Captain N. S. Eaves. apt5 6in DRS. LIDDELL & SON, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OFFICE EAST SIDE OF MAIN ST. CEDARTOWN, GA. W. G. ENGLAND, Physician, and. Surgeon. CEDARTOWN, GA. OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where he may be found ready to attend calls either day or night* Janl5-iy A. J. YOUNG, DEALER IN Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, Gins and Brandies. Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ga. SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL & THOMPSON'S STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES in Cedartown. I keep such Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical DR. C. H. HARRIS, Physician and Surgeon, Cedartown, ----- Ga. Office at Bradford A Walker’s Drug Store. Residence at the Reece House. novi4-iy B. FISHER, Watchmaker & Jeweler* CEDARTOWN, GA Having lust opened out a shop at the store of a. D. Hogg A Co., respectfully requests the public to call on him when needing work in ms NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS ! Hew Goods and New Prices. W. F. TURNER, Attorney at Law. CEDARTOWN, GA. will practice In the Superior courts of Polk, Paulding, Harahon, Floyd and Carroll counties. Special attention given to collections and real DR. L. S. LEDBETTER, DENTIST, EDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA. All Dental work performed In the most skill- il manner. Office over J. S. Stubbs St Co.’s* febllMy F. M. SMITH. Attorney at Law and IEAL ESTATE AGENT CEDARTOWN, GA. Particular attention given to the selling or jutmg of city property. Buying and selling lid lands a specialty. Parties owning wild mds in Georgia would do well to correspond nth me, as I have app icatlons for thousands f acres whose owners are unknown. No tax fl. i. or other bogus title need apply. Look up our beeswax and write me. Terms: Ten per ent. commission on sales. For locating and scertalnlng probable value, $l per lot. For earchlng records for owners, bu cents per lot. ’or ascertaining If land 13 claimed or occupied y squatter. $1 per lob Always in advance. To a sure attent.on enclose a3-centstamp. Parties wning wild lands should look to their interests, s many of these wild lands are being stolen by quatters under a bogus title. All communlca- lons promptly answered. Satisfaction guar- nteetf to all honest meu. JanS»-ly H. C. CROWLEY, £ £ DEALER IN STOVES AND TIN-WARE, EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET, Opposite Piiilpot& Dodds, - - - CEDARTOWN, Ga. LIVERY FEED, AND SALE STABLE Wright A Johnson Prop’rs. CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA Being supplied with new Horses, New Vehi cles. Si we are prepared to meet the wants of the public In our line. Jan8-ly JAMES H. PRICE, CEDARTOWN, GA. Keeps on hand and manufactures to order MATTRESSES! My work recommends itself wherever used, and Is guaranteed to render the most peifect satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no work slighted. I ask a trial. JAMES* H. PRICE. iebl9-iy. CALHOUN Livery and Sale Stable FOSTER & HARLAN, Props CitHODli, GEORGIA Having lately purchased the above Stable and supplied It with good Horses and a splendid line of new Vehicles, we are prepared to meet the wants of the traveling public In our line. Parties wishing vehicles sent to any ot the trains on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad or to any other point, may telegraph us, and have their wants promptly and properly at tended to. „ FOSTER & HARLAN, Calhoun, Qa. janS-tf ISAAC T. MEB CEDARTOWN, GA., —DEALER IN— STOVES TINWARE Hardware and Hollow-Ware OF ALL KINDS. House-Furnishing Goods A SPECIALTY. Every variety of Job work in my line naatly done. I respectfully solicit the patronage ot '•the public, and would be pleased to have all my friends and customers call and see me when f" town. ■ I. T. MEE Jan8-ly CEDARTOWN SCHOOL, J. C. HARRIS, Principal The Spring Term commences the first Mon day In January and will continue 534 months. Fall Term opens 3rd Monday in August and continues 4# months. Rates of tuition as cus tomary. The school-room is convenient and comfort able : training thorough and discipline firm. The Principal offers his thanks for past favors, and confidently ash for a liberal share of patron age In the future. Reference as to discipline, etc., Is made to the former patrons oIUU* SsheoL wvn-m purposes with perfect safety, guaranteed. Give me a call. Good treatment mr!8-ly A. D. HOGG & CO., MAIN Street, CEDARTOWN, Georgia, Have just opened a select 3teck of General Merchandise in their new store, and want all their friends and the public generally to call and let them show their goods and prices. Their stock was bought before the recent rise in prices, and they feel confident of having goods at bottom figures. They have beautiful Dress Goods, Calicoes, Cornets, new styles; Ble&cli- ings, Flannels, Cassimeres, Kerseys, Kentucky v Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves, Hardware, Notlous, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentlemen’s Underwear Very Low. Remember the place—last Brick ktorc on South MAIN Street, west side. novG-ly OLD AGS. I often think each tottering form That limps along in life's decline. Once wore a heart as young, as warm, Ae full ofjidle thought as mine ! And each has had its dream of joy. His own unequ&led pure romance, Commencing when the blushing boy First thrilled at lovely woman’s glance. And each could tell his tale of youth ; Would think its scenes of love evince More passion, more unearthly truths, Than any tale before or since ; Yes, they could tell of tender days. At midnight penned in classic shades ; Of days more bright than modern days, Of maids more fair than modern maids. In Hard Straits. Keeps constantly in stock the LATEST and BES T brands of STOVES and can now supply customers with the uuequalcil Times, Southern Baker and Iron City. Keeps at all times a full line of TINWARE, and docs ail kinds of tinner’s work—Roofing, Guttering, etc. mh25-ly ED. E. BRANNON, Dealer In Staple and Fancy Groceries, Chickens, Eggs ami Butler a Speeiilty. I HAVE ALSO ♦ A FIRST-CLASS BAH. In connection with the Store, which is stocked with the finsst Liquors in town. jan8-tf “Nine o’clock, sor, an’ the hot watlier, an 1 is it the rest of the baoou ye’d be after havin’ for breakfast ?” “Will it not be too much, Bridget!’’ “Sorra a bit, sor.” “Very well.’’ And with a half groan, I, Basil Hatha way, sprang out of bed, and proceeded to array myself in unexceptional costume— trowsers, vest and frock-coat. My only ones, alas! an accommodating retative some twenty doors off had taken charge of shabbier garments, one by one, kindly ad vancing sundry moneys thereon. Three of us were in the same plight—and school-fellows and old chums, now thrown together in manhood by the caprice of Dame Fortune, and fighting shoulder to shoulder the great battle of life in the great city. As I dressed,one of the trio,Hal Trevour, came bounding by three at a time up the worm-eaten stairs. He was fresh from morning lecture at the liospital, and hungry as a hunter, I thought with a shudder. I heard his cheer ful greeting of Jack Hornsey, hard at work since daylight on “Coke on Little ton.” “Well, old bookworm, ready for break fast I Where is the captain ?” “The captain 1” How the old title, be stowed, set me dreaming. 1 was roused by the dull thuds of a poker hammering violently at the intervening wall. “All right,” I shouted. Ring for the bacon.” In a minute there were three of us gaz ing with rueful looks at the breakfast ar rangement. A loaf of stale bread, a piece of butter about the size of a walnut, and three tiny rashers, that either could have put out of sight with ease. “Is that all, Bridget?” Every line of the girl’s honest Irish face was eloquent with sympathy. -,Not a bit more, sor.” Hal laughed. “Turn out your pockets, lads. There is my last coin.” And ho produced an exceedingi." ' liLU J sixpence. Jack, after much rum>”aging, showed a quantity of fluff and a brace button. I had three-pence half-penny in coppers. “Odd man out for the bacon,” quoth Hal. “No, divide it between yon,” said I. “A man has been rash enough to invite me to dinner. Hand over the loaf.” Jack gave me one keen glance. I think he suspected the pious falsehood. Hal— bless the boy—was quite unconscious, as happy as though he had not a care. The frugal meal had just been disposed of when we heard a great puffing and blowing on the third floor. That had but one possible meaning—a creditor. “Whose turn?” asked Jack, laconically. It was an ancient arrangement now that on the advent of a dun only one of us should receive him, the others being in the city—that is, in the adjacent bedroom. Your own,” cried Hal, as we decamped leaving the door ajar to watch the course of events. “I wish you joy, Jack; it is old Blunderson, snorting like a grampus,as, an(J began tQ speak incoher entIy . Old Blunderson was a general provision “Delirious, said I. It was a great re merchant, who had let himself be beguiled' l^e to hear Hal’s springing step. He gave into supplying miscellaneous 'goods until! »lowwhistleof astonishment as he entered, his bills really frightened me. He was the felt the patient’s pulse, while I gave a CHEAP GOODS! J. S. STUBBS & CO., Have just moved into their elegant new Store Rooms on East Side of MAIN Street! Where they are now opening an extensive atonk of GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Their goods were selected witli great care and with an eye to the needs of their customers, and were bought for Cash. They will he sold at the lowest figures. Go and examine their stock and prices bafors miking your purchases. steps toward us. Better not,” said Jack. “Eh?” “Typhoid fever—had case—contagious,” fibbed Jack between his puffs. We saw old Blunderson’s face turn a ghastly green with fear. Still he looked incredulous ; we had played so many tricks before. “Gammon!” he gasped at length. Jack rose slowly walked to the corner, and produced the shovel. “Fumigating the room,” said he. “Bet ter have a pipe.” And old Blunderson fairly turned and fled wilh such celerity that he gained the next floor m seconds instead of minutes. We were laughing at his discomfiture, when Bridget’s head appeared at the door. “I thought I’d tell ye, gentlemen, the miBtress is just cornin’. The saints purtect ye, for sh» has been rampagin' like a hay- then ail^ is blessed mornin’!” Our ‘aces fell. Sirs. Callaghan, our worthy landlady, was not a foe to be so readily dislodged, and her powers of invec tive were simply unrivaled. Hal was the only one who could soothe her, and he came to the rescue. “3Iy turn,” he said, with a look of comic disgust. “You fellows get into my room and clear out of the house as soon as she is seated. As we did, seeing Hal hand a chair (as we glided by) with the deepest of mock reverences, and an expression of extreme devotion on his handsome features. “Slak ing violent love to the old beast I” as he would have elegantly expressed it. It was evening of the same day—a dull November evening, much in harmony with my thoughts, as I leaned against the door post of our house, and recalled the good old times when life was a merry farce for us all. I had no heart to work. All that day I had hawked my manuscripts from one publisher to another, vainly hoping to get a loan upon them. Sly threepence half penny had been carefully invested at a dirty cook shop, and I was glad to think there must have been just enough cold meat to satisfy the boys at dinner and tea. Presently I would go in and hunt for any fragments that remained, for 1 was desperately hungry. Through the fog came a slender female figure disguised in a waterproof. She did not notice me until quite abreast, when the light fell upon her face. Then as she ;ave‘ one frightened glance, I saw two things—how pale and beautiful it was, and what a depth of misery lay in the startled eyes. It was a low neighborhood in which we lived, though separated by but a long alley from a fashionable West End street —& dangerous locality for a young girl at that hour, f crossed the road in order to accompany her unobserved, and had hardly done so ere I saw her brought ud by some man, looming unsteadily in the mist. “Come here, my pretty dear!” said he She gave a faint scream and tried to slip by him, but the drunken wretch caught her by the loose waterproof. In another sec ond he measured his length on the pave ment ; but, strange to say, the girl sank down also insensible, droping something that looked like a jewel case. Sly prostrate friend was relieving his feelings by a round volley of obscene abuse. Slot daring to await the arrival of a police man, 1 caught up his victim and her case, and made a hasty retreat. At the foot of the dilapidated stairs I hesitated. Should 1 carry my fair burden into Sirs. Callag han’s little parlor ? The sight of Bridget in full flight pursued by shrill invective, de cided the point. “Bridget,” said I, this lady has fainted. Come and help me. ” ■ “Ah, sure, sor, poor dear!” We carried the stranger to the common sitting room, and essayed to bring her round. Presently she opened her eyes, Hathaway. I am deeply grateful to you. Where is my child ?” The most renowned physician in town, was quickly summoned but in vain. Mr. Bullion begged him to devise means to re move his daughter. At present she must not leave her bed. In a few days, per haps, with returning strength, she might lie for two or three hours at a time on a sofa in our sitting-room. Further change was imperatively forbidden. So Mr. Bullion, with many apologies, begged that some of his daughter’s favorite pictures, and a few chairs, etc., from her boudoir, might be brought; and we could not refuse. A few hours transformed our bachelor den into a kind of fairy palace. Sir. Bullion was naturally a constant vis itor, and I had to receive him in the tat tered dressing gown. Twice he found me writing with manuscripts littered around. “You are an author ?” he queried with a smile. “A would-be one.” “Pray do not desist from writing on myac- count. Slay I .amuse myself for a time with your papers ?” He borrowed a bulk} - one at leaving—to submit it, he said, to a publisher he knew : Next day 1 received a letter from a well- known firm, offering $250 for the copy right and an additional $250 if a second edition were called for. In my youth and inexperience, it did not occur to me for months the money came front the banker’s pocket. Of course I eagerly assented, and took my coat and vest out of pawn—not a day too soon, for Sliss Bullion was pronounced convalescent, and that afternoon her fath er's strong arms conveyed her from one room to the other. I lived in fairyland for a week till our guests departed. She explained the visit to our obscure street—it was to pawn jewelry foj her brother’s benefit, a wild lad, whose excesses had driven him from home, and who had recently been writing her letter after letter, hinting at frightful consequen ces if she did not furnish him with money. “Mr. Hathway,” she said, “will you be my friend, and try to reclaim him ?” She put a transparent little hand in mine, as she spoke, and I promised. Her friend —I would have promised her anything for such a title. Then an eventful conversation took place between me and the banker. “You have abandoned the idea af becom ing a barrister, Sir. Hathway, and the pro- fesaion of an author is a precarious one. Unite it with another pursuit. S’ou are a good linguist, and I badly need a foreign correspondent. The hours and duties will be light enough; cast in your lot with me —I will take care you have no cause to re gret it I thought ofmv “friend,” and consented. The firm is Bullion & Hathaway now. the junior partner having married the oenio’rs or. John Hornsev is their lawyer, a man much resaw' 0 ' 1 in the profbo-:on. nai Trevor is j ust begi nningtomakeastiras a fashionable physician. A Cave Mystery. A Rattlesnake Concert. While chasing a rabbit recently near Slar- shall township, Ohio, a gentleman found a hole at the base of a hill, and proceeded to make a search. Reaching in, he grasped something in his hand which proved to be the long bone of a human being. His curi osity being now very much excited he pro cured assistance, and began digging. Peo ple flocked out from the village, and came pouring in from the surrounding country, as the news rapidly spread. The locality is but a short distance from the notorious Bob SIcKimie’s old headquarters, and with in the range of his once noted gang, nearly all of whom are now in prison under long Talk about snakes,” remarked an old frontiersman in conversation a few evenings ago, “there are more snakes in Arizona than ever existed in Ireland before good old St. Patrick came along and gave them the grand bounce. Why, I have been every where ; waded southern swamps when I would have to stop a minute, with the water up to my chin, to allow a drove or school of water-moccasins or cotton-mouths to go by; up in the far northwest and British America I have lived like a fighting- cock and to the queen’s taste for weeks at a time on snake steak, but I saw more rat- snakes down in Arizona, last summer was a year ago than ever before in my life, all put together. Down there they don’t go in pairs, clusters or droves, but in columns, just for the world like the children of Israel got up and tramped out of Egypt with Sloses, and Aaron in the van, and Joseph, with his circus coat, bringing up the rear. I and a friend were over in the Tombstone county, among the hills on a prospecting expedition. There were rattlesnakes ail around us, but they did not seem to be very savage. We would scare them up riding along, and they would sneak away from our track like coyotes. One day about 2 o’clock in the afternoon we were taking a hill, and, as the ascent was very sharp, our horses would stop every few minutes to blow. Long before we got to the sum mit we heard a strange noise, or rather jargon of noises, apparently on the other side, and if we had been shot the next minute we could not have told from whence it emanated. Why, it was worse than the average church choir. Well, we get to the top after a while, the noise mcreasiDg every step we took up. By the time we had got there it had become a little short of terrific, and looking down over the side we saw a sight that took the cake. On a little plateau of perhaps fifty yards dimensions, about seventy-five feet below us, was a regular rattlesnake reunion and concert. The ground and stones were just yellow with them, and if there was one there were at least ten thousand snakes in the gang. They were of ail ages and sizes, and how they enjoyed themselves. The two oldest king-pins of the crowd were in the centre, and the other snakes were all gathered about them. Each and every snake had coiled himself up in such a man ner as to allow their tails and rattles good play, and they were rattling awav as if for wages, and their wicked tongues were darting out and in, keeping up an accom paniment to their tails. We looked at the racket for about a minute, and then with an awful flourish the rattling stopped. The two old snakes reared their heads at least three feet off the ground, and looked all around over the field in a manner in dicative of a general on a battle-ground. After serveying the situation and apparent ly seeing that every member of the snake combination was ready for business, they sounded a note by way of tuning up, and the whole crowd commenced their concert again. It took them about ten minutes to finish one tune, and we must have watched them there through at least a half dozen. After a while I got tired of the business, and rolled a rock down in the crowd. This broke up the meeting without delay* and, as several of the snakes were crushed to death, the others set up an awful rat tling, and crawled away to their respective dens. I have been among snakes ail my life, hut that was the first snake concert I ever wttucsscrf ’’ Stranger than Fiction; Not long ago Matilda Boelter, a step daughter of Michael Boelter, who lives in the town of Holden, Goodhue county, Minn., came to her death by the accidental discharge of a gun. The painful accident recalls other tragic events in the history of the family to which she belonged, and which, we believe, have never been pub- . 1*1 -J TO t C - rtacoaort-rx rtf LUC * about, liis face describing the most painful contortions, and his toe in the mare’s mouth. The more he struggled, the harder she pulled at what, through some misad venture, she mistook for the girth-straps. J. P. DUFFEY, MANUFACTURER AJil) DEALER IN BUGGY AD WAGON SADNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, LG. Doughertj's^Cld Stand,! CEDARTOWTV, G-eorgia. All Work Guaranteed to give satisfaction. All lie asks is a trial. jan8ly exception that proved that old rule, “Laugh find grow tatas crusty, ill-comlitioned a wretch as ever read one particular portion tion of the Lord’s Prayer backward. A modem FaliBtaff, minus the wit, he always ascended slowly, restibg on each stair. We were safe for about five minutes, Jaca employed them in preparing for his reception, and we watched the proceedings with amused curiosity. The first was to produce a huge tobacco pouch, taking from it about half an ounce of tobacco. From this he filled a long clay pipe—Jack’s merschaum had preceded our clothes to the pawnbroker’s—depositing the remainder carefully on the table. ‘An alarming sacrifice!” murmored Jack shaking Ms head over it with a re gretful sigh. The next move was to grasp the fire shovel and tongs. “Weapons of offense,” whispered Harry. He meditates assault and battery—” Hal stopped abruptly in sheer amaze ment. Jack was deliberately removing live coals from the fire to the shovel, and upon these he swept his cherished tobacco. Then he placed the shovel upon the bot tom ledges of two chairs at the further comer of the room, threw himself into the one nearest the fire, and complacently lighted his long clay. Of course the room filled fast with smoke and a most pnngant odor. “Old Blunderson hates tobacco as a cer tain personage hates holy water 1” grinned Hal. Bad policy, though, to irritate him,” grumbled L By this time our enemy was in the door way gasping for breath, and shaking a great hairy fist at Jack by way of filling the interval till speech returned. “You abandoned young profligate 1 ” Jack removed his pipe, nodded and quietly resumed it. “Where are the other scamps?’ “One gone for the doctor; the other— and a jerk of the speaker’a thumb toward the door behind which be Btood completed the sentence. Old Blunderson made two uawieldly gave i brief explanation. “Feverish—very. She must he put to bed at once, Where does she live ? “I have not an idea. Search her pock ets.” 1862, the young lady’s mother and her step father lived in one of the counties border ing on the Slinnesota river, she having a husband (who was a brother of her present husband) and two children, the youngest but a few months old, and he having a wife ; I . erhaps als0 she mistook his shouts for and two young children.. The Indians Ruled j vociferous cheers of a pleased audience, his wife, while he and his children escaped ; and th ht it was « all right,” and at it and succeeded in making their way to t ort anra j Q s jj e wen t with redoubled vigor. By , _ Ridgely, afl d afterward went to bt. Paul, ^ )me means he * must have made some sentences. In fact it was supposed that we believe. His brother was killed, but j sli(rht movemC nt, which the mare thought McKimic was hid in one of the numerous hj s sister-in-law and her two children lied j tQ be her sigQal t0 p er f orm the trick, and to the woods near her home, where she se- j we[lt lQ w0 = k accordingIy . However, the creted herself, hoping to find a place of - - ... But the search was fruitless. “Call a cab, and I will take her to the hospital,” suggested Harry. 1 looked at the flushed face and the bright beautiful eyes, and my heart gave a great senseless throb of disapproval. “No, we cannot turn her away. Fetch a nurse, Hal, and she shall have my room. You will take mein for a night or two ?” “Of course, old man,” and Hal flew off. Then I thought of our landlady. “Bridget,” said I, “how about Sirs. Cal lahan!” ’’I am the misthress, sor! Sure, I’ll tell her you’ve got the faver, an’ devil a bit will she come nigh ye.” One more difficulty remained, and that the greatest—the money problem. Well, my coat and vest might go. So for three days I patted about the apartment in an old tattered dressing- gown, being supposed to he down with fever; meanwhile the real patient had careful attention and strengthing nourish ment. The third day a notable event happened. A high-class monthly sent me a guinea for a contribution, and requested a similar one. I worked cheerfully after that till the cri sis came, and the nurse gleefully reported that the young lady was conscious, and asking for her father. “May I see her ?” said I, eagerly. “Dear, dear, no, sir. The excitement would throw he* back. Besdes she must not talk. Her father is Sir. Bullicn of street. Bullion, the great fcreign banker. 'What brought his dauglter unattended; into this vile side street ? Time would ex plain, perhaps. Meanwlile Jack put on his hat and departed inquest of the great banker. In an hour he vaswith us, his usual imposing air and magisterial demeanor lost in the agitation of themoment. He shook me warmly by the bald. “Yaur friend ba» explained all, Mr. caves that exist in the eastern parts of the county, after he had made Ms escape from jail about three years ago. After digging some distance they came to a large stone slab on edge, closing the mouth of a cavern about ten by twelve feet square and six feet high. On the floor lay bones in large number, some human, but the larger por tion were bones of different species ot ani mals. Some of them were in a good state ot preservation, and could easily be named and classified, while others crumbled to dust on being exposed to the air. Bones of wildcats, of rabbits and dogs were found, while bones ot some larger animal could not be classified, though they are supposed to belong to the larger species of wild ani mals, such as panthers, catamounts, bears, etc. There were also found some large bodies of charred wood or charcoal. One of these is as large as an ordinary base burner stove. Close search was made for metal ornaments, but none was found, though several articles of flint and stone were discovered such as are generally found in mounds and ancient fortifications. Hie Irishman and the Bear. An Irishman of Slontana was working a place mine a few miles from Bear Gulch, and visited that place one day to get Ms tools sharpened. Just as he was about to start hack, some one told him that if he would go home by way of Sour Kraut Gulch he would not miss his way, and would save several miles of walking.—Pat started out, but after traveling several miles the sun was almost dowD, and he had seen nothing that looked familiar.—At last he made up his mind that he was lost, and, to use his own words, feared that he “would be robbedand murthered entirely all alone.” While he was in this state of mind he spied a cinnamon bear on the side of the moun tain, and was almost ready to fall to the ground with fright. Recovering Ms self- possession a little, he said: “I thought it wouldn’t do to let the bear tMnk I was afraid of Mm, and concluded I might inti midate him by making him tMnk that there were several with me. So, walking a little faster, I called out as loud as tver I could, ‘Mikel Oh! say, Slike. hould on till I catch up wid ye and the rest o’ the b’ys. When the bear heard that he walk ed away and said not a word. Cat and Mona*. When to l*lant Garden Seeds. A greater difference of time is required in sowing seeds in the garden than in the field. Thera is no month when frost is out of the ground in wMeh the seed of some kind of vegetable may not be profitably sown. The value of most vegetables de pend on the time of sowing their seed. Many things raised in the garden are only seasonable a very short time. Spinach is not in demand after lettuce is sufficiently large to eat, wMle lettuce loses its value when green peas appear. Radishes are wanted as early in the season as it is possi ble to produce them, hut the appetite for thorn disappears after cucumbers become plenty. An effort should accordingly be made to raise a crop of spinach, radishes, and lettuce as early in the season as pos sible. Among the other vegetables seeds that should be sown very early in the sea- sou, are those of cress, kale, endive and parsley, as they are wanted as soon as they can Dc produced. The seeds of onions, beets, carrots, parsnips, celery, cabbage and cauliflowers should also be sown early, because it takes considerable time for the plants to mature. Onion sets should also be put out as early as possible, as the ob ject of planting is to secure a crop in ad vance of that produced by planting seed. The seed of all varieties of gourds should be planted very early. It is a good plan to start them in beds or small boxes in the house, and to place the plants with the earth about them in the ground where they are to grow, when the weather becomes sufficiently warm. Gound vines are highly ornamental as well as useful, and they are worthy of a place in every garden and yard. The shells of gourds are easily converted into dippers, and drinking-cups and other useful articles, and are much in use in ail parts of the South. Gourd vines require some support They may he trained over a trellis so as to make a very fine appear ance, or be made to attach themselves to strings, brush, or the branches of trees. The seeds of nearly all other vines, as pumpkins, squashes, cucumbers, citrons, and all kinds of melons, should be planted quite late in the season. There is nothing gained by planting them in the open ground till the weather is quite warm. Their growth may be hastened by planting the seeds in Mils and covering them with small boxes having glass on top. The soil may be moistened from time to time by remov ing the boxes. The boxes protect the young plant from the cold when they are quite small, and from the insects that are very certain to make thoir appearance a little later in the season. The young plants may be gradually hardened by removing the boxes during warm days and by re placing them at night and on the approach of cold rains and winds. Nasturtians, pep pers, okra, tomatoes, sweet com and all kinds of beans should be planted quite late in the season. Sweet potato plants should not be put in the open ground, in this lati tude, before the first of June. As a rule all vegetables having a southern origin should ho planted late. If planted early they become stunted .and never make a vigorous growth. Sweet William. On one occasion said a Circus manager, we were preparing for our promenade through the streets, when a kind of “hang er-on” to our company, who, through Ms invariable politeness of manner, had been nicknamed “Sweet William,” was deputed whose ‘tncKs v ' traincd bIack raare ’ one of girths with her saddle. Sweet William was the last to leave the stables the others having passed out before he had mounted. Suddenly loud cries of ‘ ‘Murder I ” were heard to pro ceed from the stable, and I shouted out as I went toward the spot: “What’s the matter? Who is it?” “It’s me,” replied the agomzed voice of Sweet William. Make haste—the mare’s got hold of my - „ ■ , „ , ..oe!” And sure enough I found the man fished. I revious to the Sioux massacre of j Qn (be mare . s j,ack, writhing and twisting safety when the fiendish Sioux had com pleted thrir work, hut, to her dismay, the savages went into camp near her hiding place. During the daytime she could see all their movements, as they rode about on the prairies and often passed near her in going through the woods: and at night she could watch them in their dances and hear their horrid yells. Sometimes after they had gone to sleep she would steal back in the darkness to her house and get a little food, as long as it lasted, but for the most part of the Mne long, weary, dreadful weeks, whose every moment must have been filled with a terror worse than death, she subsisted on the scanty supply of wild grapes, roots, leaves and the hark of trees, that her limited range afforded. At length the Indians went away, the frost had c >me and destroyed her subsistence, her frame refused to yield nourishment and her babe died of gradual starvation. Then she and the remaining child crawled to their old home to die. Some soldiers, who were out burying the victims of the massacre, found them, and they were sent to St. Paul, or some other point, where her brother-in-law, who-supposed her to have been killed, found her, and at length married her. They set tled on East Prarie, where, we believe, they lived until the present time. The young woman whose sad fate we are called upon to record was the little three-year-oid child whose eseape from the bloody Sioux was so marvelous. Casts from Uvlng Forms. Dr. Abernethy did not like to he dis turbed in the night. Once when he had got to bed at one in the morning in a very bad humor, because he had been woke up at midnight, he heard his .bell ring. “What is it?” he exclaimed angrily. “Oh doctor, doctor; quick, quick; my son has just swallowed a mouse.” “Very well, tell him to swallow a cat, and leave ms in quiet 1 ’ said th© doctor, jfjlng to bed again. 5Ve were taken by a friend to see the wonderful plaster casts of living human be ings wMch are among the curiosities of the Russian capital. How the thing is done is impossible to imagine, hut there the two statues are, recumbent female figures, undoubtedly taken from living women. One lies slightly turned upon her side, her lips parted in a smile, as though she was trying to suppress a laugh. The other, who was much the finer form of the two, lies face downward, her feet crossed and her head pillftwed on herfolded arms, as though she had thrown herself down to sleep. Th* minutest detail of the texture of .the skin, nails, etc., are very perfectly reproduced, the “gooseflesh” with wMch the skin is covered being amusingly noticeable, and showing that the preparation used for these casts, the composition whereof is a secret, must be applied cold. Then all the little indentations in the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands, and the curve cf the nails and their rimmings of skin and flesh are produced with startling accuracy. The process by which these figures are produced is still a secret, out it is certainly a wonder ful and curious discovery. —A boy in Kenny county, Texas, has killed forty-three bears the past winter. man was speedily released from his awk ward predicament, and the cavalcade pro ceeded on its ways hut it was a long time before the incident itself ceased to excite a good-natured laugh at the expense of Sweet William. Diamond Ba>er». Buying diamonds for retail is said to be a delicate and difficult task. The buyer sits down at a table with a large sheet of white paper spread before him. On the paper are poured the contents of certain packages re ceived by the wholesale dealer. The keen eye of the buyer, an expert, of.course, picks out at once the shallow, flawed and all de fective stones, wMch are defimtely rejected, and swept into a bag. The accepted stones must next be paired, and to tMs end a tin plate, mounted on four feet and pierced with holes of different size, is employed. On this the diamonds are laid, and shifted to and fro until each diamond has been fit ted into a proportionate hole. Then the gems undergo a second and final examina tion, the buyer examining them most rigor ously, and rejecting some wMch may at first have escaped his attention. Any ir regularity of form, lack of brilliancy, dull ness of water or yellowness of tint is suffi cient to condemn them. The matched stones are then put up in pairs m papers or small cases, and the others are sold to in ferior jewelers. In Paris the latter are rea dily purchased and set in the flowers, stare, crosses and other ornaments which make such a display in the windows of the Palais Royal. The French, as a ruie, like showy things, and are less fastidious in diamonds than Americans are. They care more for general effect than purity or perfection, and olten sell to *ur people inferior gems that will not bear resetting. Paris is not a good place to buy diamonds. A Telegraphic Blunder. A noble Lord, as proud and fond as a man should be of Ms beautiful young wife, was just about rising to speak iu a debate when a telegram was put in Ms hands. He read it, left the house, jumped into a cab, drove to Charing Cross and took a train to Dover. Next day he returned home, rushed into his wife’s room, and finding her there upbraided the astonished lady in no measured terms. She protested her ignorance of having done anything to of fend him. ‘Then what did you mean by your telegram?’’ he asked. “Mean ? What l said, of course. What are you ’talking abojit ?” “Read it for yourself,” said he. She read; “I flee with Mr. to Dover straight. Pray for me.” For a moment words would not come; then after a merry fit of laughter, the suspected wife quietly remarked: ‘O those dreadful telegraph people! No wonder you are out of your mind, dear. I telegraphed simply: “I tea with Mrs. in Dover street. Stay for