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OLD SERIES—VOL. IX—NO 39
CEDARTOWN. GA., OCTOBER 26.1882.
NEW SERIES—VOL. LV-NO. 46:
W. M. PHILLIPS & CO.,
ABE MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS FOB THE
LATEST IMPROVED MACHINERY!
STATIONARY AND PORTABLE
Engines and Boilers, Complete,
Ranging from $50 to $80 a Horse Power.
SAW MILLS, COMPLETE,
From $300 to $600.
—■Cotton Gins, Feeder^and Condensers,
Brown’*, Gullet’s, and other leading mats, SCREWS and PRESSES. WHEAT THRESHERS a»*
Jf SEPARATORS,
SORGHUM Mills AND EVAPORATORS,
..Together with many other like article? too tedious to mention, all of which we will sell aa low as
the Manufacturers or any Agent, and have them put up and started free of expense to tbspnr-
- We are also sawing Lumber at the Cherokee iron Works, using uothing but TeUow BSOlt
Pine, which enables us to make
FINEST LUMBER IN THE 30OUNTRY.
Jl
All of which we will sell as low as the same grade can be bought for. We also keep in stock
PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
HARDWARE.
FAMILY GROCERIES.
DRY GOODS, 40.
Always keeping in mind the needs of Farmers, and will sell cheap for cash, or on tune to prompt
paying customers. Call and see us when in want of anything in our line.
Very Respectfully,
# W.®M. PHILLIPS & CO.
O
DESERTED.
A briery lane, where wild birds sing
All through the Summer day;
a beech-tree old, whose branches fling
Long shadows o'er the way.
A nest, buiit up in rustling toughs;
Linen solt with moss, so green,
A tiny dwelling—a woodland house,
With leaves for a sheltering sere. n.
Three delicate eggs, that pearl like lie
Beneath two brooding wings,
A mate that hovers all watchful by.
Or sits beside, aud sings.
A careless boy with a pitiless heart
That cares not for loving things;
A bird that rises with timid start,
On scared aud flattering wings.
A sorrowful note of plaint and woe
Rings out on the quiet air.
And the pear-like eggs lie crashed below,
On the beech roots, old and bare.
And still, in the boughs of the old beech-tree,
’Mid its rustling sprays of i
1 "The deserted nest, you still xnaj
Peep ont from its verdant screen. \
a.
But the bard on its gay and gladsome wing
Returns to the nest no more;
And the mate that would sit on the toughs and
mng,
His Summer songs are o’er.
And nought can bring from the happy Past
When light and love have fled
(Though the walls of the dear old home may last,)
The memories of the dead.
W. S. DAVIS,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,
Has charge of the Machine Shop of W. S. DAVIS & CO., and is now ready to
famish the citizens ot Cednrtown and surrounding country with anything that
pe t: i is to his line of business. He will dress and match yonr lumber, or sell
it to you iu any shapo you may want it. Will also do your turning, sawing of
Brackets or Balusters, or make you a Safe, Desk or Book Case. Waook
Bodies on short notice. Doors on hand or made to order.
And r ow remember well, and hear the fact in mind, that if yon want a house,
or any part of one built, he will do it for yon at rock bottom prices. So by
calling on hi n you will be sure to get the worth of your money when you put it
iu a building, for he has the facilities for doing work cheap and he defies honest
competition, Estimates made on Building and Plans furnished.
Thanking-the public for past favors he only asks the public to consult their
interest by seejng*him before contrac^ujg to have wjgkdgija^ , . iyH-ly
THE-WMTE SEWING MACHINE.
The Ladies’ Favorite!
BECAUSE IT IS
The Lightest Running,
The Most Quiet.
Makes a Prettier Stitch
sail lias more conveniences than any other Machine. It
is w aminted five years, and la the easiest to Mil, and
Gives the Best Satisfaction
of any machine on the market Intending purchasers
are solicited to examine it before buying. Responsible
dealers wanted in all unoccupied territory. mJMy
J. D. & T. E. SMITH,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers,
59 Broad Street, Atlanta- Ga.
“For sale by J. A. WYNN & BKO.. Cedabtowx. Ga.
ATLANTA MARBLE WORKS
WALSH 4 PATTERSON BROS.,
Successors to WM. ORAY.
Importers and Dealers in
Foreign and American Marbles.
MONUMENTS, TABLETS, HEADSTONES,
M All Kinds of Cemetery fori Done on Short Notice!
W* also have on hand all THAT BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY of STATUARY that was on exhibition
at the COTTON EXPOSITION. Designs furnished free on application.
Office and Works No. 77 East Alabama Street. ATLANTA, GA
h t trunk an 1 went to Violet Smith’s iu
New York, which was ail the pleasant^,
in that Marmaduke Bourne bad also be;
Old Jerry GrMmlag.
I b’lieve that th’ bread o’ repentance
in inai JuarmaauKe uoume nau »j»o ire; j we sometimrtjflat dunn’oldage is made
taken himself to this modem GotWpt out o’ th’ wild oats we hava sowed during
and gone to work studying law as if fie ! ^ , locd
«. W. FEATHERSTON.
W. S. FEATHERSTON.
NEW FIRM!
FEATHERSTON & BRO.
Have on hand at their
New Brick Store, on Main Street,
A LARCER AND FINER ASSORTMENT OF
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
than they have ever before offered to their customers. With additional
room and improved facilities generally, they are prepared to give all old
•Q8tomer8, and as many new ones as may choose to favor them with a trial.
Haro bargains. Come at once, and see the inducements they offer.
We also keep First-Class Guanos and Phoephatea
FEATHERSTON & BRO.
BARBER SHOP!
<A» CKDAHTOWN HOTELJ
BY LEWIS BOND.
- - •
■AnMUJTTING, SHAMPOOING, SHAVING,
Mi M M m my line done in s sxtlsfaim'rv man-
M SMI f»H to five me m call
DR. G. W. STRICKLAND,
DENTIST.
Can be (bond at the Cedartowa Hotel, whata ha
haa secured permanent quartern, aad la randy to
give attention to the wants otnhtM im. at
dental wort. Satisfaction siren. Moat meda»
irscLK sABPirs WKumati.
Uncle Nahum Nixon was reading the
paper in hia back par.or. Nobody
would think, to lock at the simple sur
roundings of the unpretentious apart
ment, that Mr. Nahum Nixon was one
of the wealthiest men in town. The
carpet, it was true, was Axminister, but
it had seen twenty good years of ser
vice, and was worn down to the very
warp; the faded red curtains were of
moieen instead of satin damask; the
old clock on the mantel was no Parisian
affair of alabaster %nd gilt, but a sub
stantial Connecticut time-piece that
struck with a whirr, like a partridge
spring out of her nest; the chairs of
old-fashioned mahogany and haircloth
stood bolt upright against the wall; the
portraits of Gen. Washington on horse
back and the surrender of Cornwallis
ornamented the gray papered walls in
frames of sombre gilt, and the one ele
gance of the apartment was a casket of
preposterous wax flowers under a
cracked glass shade.
But Uncle Nixon had remembered
that furniture ever since he was a child,
and he wouldn’t have exchanged it for
the fittings of a Parisian boudoir, or the
choicest specimens of the modem East-
lake pattern. He was a rich num— that
was quite enough for him.
••If you please, Mr. Nixon,’’ said the
trim little maid servant, “Mr. Marmta-
duke Bourne wants to see you—if you
please, sir; if you are quite at leisure.”
“Mr. Marmaduke Bourne, eh?” The
old gentleman took of his spectac.es
and laid them upon the folded news
paper. ••Asa Inm in, Polly.”
An.i Hr. Marmaduke Bourne came
in—a tall, fresh-colored, young fellow
all iu a mat of curls, and a straight
Greek nose that seemed as if 1 it might
have been borrowed from some ancient
statue of Apollo.
Well, sir ?” said Mr. Nixon.
Well, sir,” counter-interrogated Mr,
Bourne, “did yon get my letter?”
'I got your letter,” said Uncle Na
hum “So you want to marry my
niece Faith?”
•Yes, sir,” valiantly acknowledged
Mr. Marmaduke Bourne,
*‘Ah 1” nodded Uncle Nahum. “But
pel Imps you don’t understand all the
tacts of the case. ”
The facta, sir ?”
I want my niece to marry CoL Ash
land’s sou,” slowly enunciated Uncle
Nahum.
“But, sir, she don’t love him.”
“Pshaw ! ’ snarled Uncle Nahum.
“And if she don’t marry Inin she’ll be a
beggar—I’ll give her no money ot mine.
Now you understand matters. Marry
tier or not, as you please.”
He took up the newspaper once more
—a tacit intimation that the interview
was at an end.
“Sir”—began Mr. Bourne.
“That’ll do,” said Mr, Nixon.
“I only wish to—”
“That 11 do !” thundered Mr. Nixon;
and so Marmaduke Bourne went away.
Little Faith Nixon came down stairs
presently—a blue-eyed blossom of a
girl, with yellow hair growing low on
her forehead, and a very little month,
exactly the shape to suggest tin nlaa of
kissing.
Uncle Nahum looked keenly np at
her as she fiuttersd about the room,
straightening a table cover there or
patting down a curtain fold here.
“Yes,” said he, with a curious twitch
ol the muscles around his eyes, “he
has been here.”
“I—1 didn’t ask any questions, Uncle
Nahum.”
“No, but jour eyes did,’’chuckled the
old man. He wants to marry yon—the
impiovident young donkey!”
Faith came to her uncle’s chair and
laid her hand lightly on his shoulder,
"That isn’t the worst of it, Uncle
Nahum—1 want to marry him.”
“Humph ! ’ snarled Mr. Nixon, in
high contempt. “And what do you ex
pect to live on, I should like to know?”
“We can both work,” said Faith,
bravely.
“You’re more likely to starve,” said
Mr. Nixon. “Mind—don’t count on
help Irom me. If you will get married,
you do it at your own risk,”
“Then you consent, Uncle Nahum?”
“No!” roared the old bachelor.
“Nothing of the sort.”
“But, Uncle Nahum, 1 should be
wretched without Duke 1” softly pleaded
Faith.
“Fiddlestrings !” said the old man.
“And I’m sure he couldn’t live with
out me.”
“Trash 1” granted Mr. Nixon.
“And if yon please, uncle,” added
Faith, “perhaps I’d better go to my
friend Violet Smith's to make up my
wedding things, since you disapprove
so decidedly of my plans. She lives in
New York, you know, and it will be
convenient for shopping aud—”
“And for all the other tomfooleries
in general,” rudely interrupted the old
gentleman. “Yes, ga to your Violet
Smith’s, but don’t expect to oome back
here.”
“No, nncle,” said .Faith, meekly.
“But you’ll let me thank you for all
yonr kindness, and—”
“No, I won’t 1” said Unela Nahum,
so short that poor Faith fled up-stair*
in dismay and had a quiet little cry.
notwithstanding she was so very, very
happy.
For Uncle Nahum, brusque and crab
bed though he was, was ah the father
the had ever known. Bat she peeked
meant to take Coke and Blackstone fy
| storm. And Miss Violet Smith, woo
' was a sentimental young lady, sympa
thized intensely, and the young coujfle
were as unreasonably happy as malty
another couple has been before and will
again.
But one day Duke Bonne came -in
with a face full of tidings.
“Faith,’'■Raid he, “have you heard
the news?’
“What news?” asked Faith.
“Your nncle will get the start of
after all.”
“What do you mean, Duke ?”
"Why, he’s going to be married.'
“Uncle Nahum?” "cried f aith,
credulously.
'Yes, Uncle Nahum. That accounts
for his lieing so willing to get rid of
—eh, little one ?” -
And who is the bride ?” questioned
Faith.
“Why, that’s the mooted point yet.'
Nobody seems to know. Somesay ope,
and some say another, but the general
impression seems to be that it is the
rich widow wm> owns the brown stone
block on the corner.”
‘I’m sure I hope he will be happy,”
said Faith, with tremulous lips and
eyes suffused with tears. “But—but.I
think he might have said something to
ns about it,”
“People are not generally in a hurry
to proclaim the fact that they are about
to make fools of themselves,” said
Duke Bourne, bitterly.
“Why,” cried Faith, laughing tlirough
her tears, “that is pr cisely what bp
said about us.”
But the hext day a letter from Uncle
Nahum hunself settled the matter. As
wrote:
There is to be a wedding at mjf
house on the seventeenth; and 1 want
you and Duke to be there without fail. *
‘A wedding; At Ins house !” cried
Faith. “X supposed weddings were
celebrated at the bride's residence.”
“So tMywes dear,” said Miss Smith;
‘but yonr nncle was always so eccen
tric.”
“What shall we do ?” asked Faith. .
“Why go, of course,” said Marma-
duke Bourne. “To show that we bear
no malice at being disinherited, if for
no other reason.”
The seventieth of March arrived, a
cold, blustering night, and the old red
brick house was all in a glimmer of
lights as the young betrothed pair drey
up at the door. Uncle Nahum met
them on the threshold, in his old-faahr.
ioned swallow tailed coat, with a huge
white camelia iu his button-hole, and a
pair of surprisingly white kid gloves.
• ‘Have you brought your white frock ?”
was his first question to his niece.
£ffio, uncle, I—” '
- **lhat won’t do,” said Uncle Nahum,
No one must come to my Wtxli
without a marriage garment. It’sli
X—ouo Afr you; m
stairs, quick, and put it on, tor the
son is wailing and the company are
here.”
‘But, uncle, the bride?”
-Yon shall see her by-and-by,” said
Uncle Nahum, despotically. “Come
up-stairs now and change your dress.”
“But, uncle, a white silk!*’ cried
Faith, looking in dismay at tha.gliston
ing dress laid out for her use. *.
What then I Isn’t white silk - the
thing for a wedding ? Put it on quick,
and Pll send some one up to bring you
down in five minutes,”
And so, with a doubting heart, Faith
Nixon robed herself in the white dress,
with its trimmings of vapory blonde and
long trail.
“Where's your veil?” said Uncle Na
hum, when he came liimsel), alow min
utes later, to the door.
“Uncle, I can’t wear a veil,” pleaded
Faith.
But you must!” said Uncle Nahum.
“Nobody comes to my wedding without
a veil.” And he placed the wreath
lightly on her head. '
But, Uncle Nahum, they will take
me for the bride.”
“Let em,” said the old gentleman.
Take my arm. Now come down stairs,
and i’ll show you the bride. There she
Lifting her bewildered eyes, Faith
Nixon beheld her own figure reflected
in a fall length mirror at the stairway.
“Here’s the bride,” chuckled Uncle
Nahum, leading her up to Duke Bourne,
and here’s the groom,” touching
Bourne’s shoulder. “And here’s the
parson, all ready _ and waiting. Now,
reverend sir,” to the clergyman, “marry
em as fast as ever you can.” And, be
fore either of the astonished young
people could remonstrate, they were
made man and wife.
Duke,” cried the bride, as soon as
the ceremony was over, “did you knaw
of this ?”
No, I didn’t,” said Mr. BooMe/with
his arm very tight around his little wife's
waist. “But i must say 1 approve
very highly of the whole proceeding^”
Uncle Nahum stood by, rubbing his
hands, with his whole face wreathed in”
one prodigious smile.
“So you supposed it was I who was
to be married, eh ?” said he. “Not a
bit of it—not a bit of it. I’m too old a
bird to be caught with.such chaff as
that. No. no, little Faith. Did you
think I was going to turn my wee birdie
out of her nest, after all the -years she
has been cherished there ? No, X only
wanted to assure myself that your fancy
was a real fancy, aud that this young
rascal, here,” smiting Bourne on the
shoulder once more, “loved you for
yourself alone, and not for the money
he thought the old man was going to
leave yon. And yon’r* to live here,
both of yon, and we’ll be happy ever
after. Strike np yonr harps and fiddles.
Let's have a danoe—let’s all be merry
together.”
Uncle Nahum Nixon himself led off
the bridal quadrille, danoing in the
good old style of fifty yearn ago.
"I don’t have a wedding every day,”
said Uncle Nahum, breathlessly, as he
cut one last pigeon wing, “and X mean
to make the most of it."
Necessity is like a good many law
yers I km call t’ mind, ’cause it knows
no law.
1 Dead loads o’ men talk by tb’ yard
and think by th’ inch.
Doctors have th’ best o’ all th’ per-
fessions in th’ world; ef they make a
care th’ earth proclaims it, an’ ef they
make a failure th’ earth covers it.
Don’t eyer fish fer compliment ;
they’re alien found in mighty shaller
waters.
‘Nothing ain’t certain’ is an old sayin’,
bnt ef nothing ain’t oertain, I’d like t’
know how under th’ bine canteloupe o’
heaven anybody kin be certain that
nothing ain’t certain.
This yere peaky dueling ain’t nothing
mor» ’r less than Folly tamperin’ with
Murder. Fist fights it a deal more
sensibler and less deadlier.
Good wages is th’ sweet oil thet lu-
bereates th’ hull human machinery o’
Ameriky, an’ poor wages is like thick
tar—not only disagreeable, bnt ’t clogs
up the hull machinery.
A man ’thout a ch’racter is jist ’bout
es safe t’ hev ’round es a steam-injun
’thout no safety-valve.
Ev’ry man may be jedged ’cordin’ t’
his works, bnt I’ll be switched ef every
fool is served accordin’ t’ his folly.
Mister Ellis Filipps is like a man
stab bin’ at a shadder; be sticks at noth
ing.
When a woman and a man ’a married
they are made one, by th’ dominie—now
th’ question is which is th’ o e? I’ve
observed, from my infancy np, that
they’s generally a tumble scrimmage
afore th’ matter’s settled.
Matin’ a arter dinner speech is hotter
work than makin’ love to a country gal
in July.
Bleepin’ foxes ketches no fat geese.
Never bet on a man’s own game; ye’ll
get- took in ev’ry time ef ye do. Yon
can't beat any(pller at a game o’,his
own inventin’, no matter how smart j’e
be.
The Jedge has obsarved that a fire
I jits hotter an’ hotter the more it gits
cooled.
Th’ way t’ git credit is by aHers payin’
when ye say ye will, and by not askin’
fer it too much.
Ef I coaid bny some men for wbat
they arc worth, an’ sell ’em for what,
they think they’re worth, th’ profits’d
be so big thet I could retire from biz
afore I got ha'f way through my list o’
acquaintances.
A Uhinyman’s idea o’ ambition is
lustrated by a rat-eater tryin’.t-’ ketch
a comet by pnttiu’ Balt on its tail.
The best gold comes from tH’ rough
est country, and th’ best hearts beat
auder th’ roughest feces.
Poverty oaghter be considered a man’s
best friend, fer it allers sticks to him
when all otlier friends desart him.
They hoin’t very many men that kin
a dark-room an’, arter barkin’
• tii'i rockin’ chain hold a
, squirmin’ baby for two hours
aii’ kin say at th’ same time “they’s no
place like home.”
Th’ button on th’ back o’ the neck
band o’ a shirt prob’ly gits more talkin’
to than any inau’mate object in crea
tion.
A av’ncions man’s like a flee a tryin’
t’ swalier a sawmill.
Th’ best def’nition o’ th’ word book
is “brains presarved in ink,”
I’m not ez strong ea I usety be, ez
th’ onion said t’ th’ cook arter it bed
been b’iled.
X hold that good speech is merely the
harvest that follows th’ flowenn’ o'
thought.
The pious be allers a great deal slower
t' help right then th’ profane an’ wnth-
less be t’ hinder it.
’Tain’t safe never t’ molest a mole
and a editor.
Friends is th’ only valuables a 'man
kin hev nowadavs ’thout. nayin’ tax on.
Tbffi Law of Conrtahip.
The Supreme Court of Pei nsyl vania
lately expounded, in an elaborate opinion^
the law governing courtship. The opinion
was rendered in a criminal case which
turned on the question whether a valid
marriage engagement had been made be
tween the fjfir complainant and the faith
less defendant. This P ’irit wa3 left to be
determined by circumstantial evidence
afforded by the Incidents of the courlship.
The trial judge ruled that in order to es
tablish a promise of marriage it was not
necessary to show “the making of presents,
writra; of love letters and all of such
things that pass between young people.”
“We have long passed that day,” fife said,
“so far as courtship is concdMffiaOne
man may desire to court the guUffifT wants
to make his wife in a secluded place, or
he may dgsge to keep it quietanother
may be In the habit of keeping company
with a young, lady -ejad appear up in the
public highway from time to time so that
all may see him. Hence there is no
standard ; each case must stand on its
four legs as the party built it up,”
The Supreme Court thinks that this is
altogether too lax a view as to the legal es
sentials of a proper courtship. It viewed
with snrprise not unmmglcd with iudigua
tion the fact that the jury had found that
a promise of marriage had been made
when it appeared that the alleged wooer
bad been m the house of the wooed one
only four times, but had “met her out in
the evenings, some'imes at church,walked
home with her and left her at the gate.”
The court then proceeds to define the
true legal standard of such a courtship as
will warrant the inference of a matri
momal engagement. “Circumslanci 1
evidence of an engagement of marriage,”
it says, “is to be found in file proof of such
facts as usually accompany that relation.
Among them may be mentioned
letters, preseats, social attentions of vari
ous kinds, visiting together in company,
preparation for housekeeping and the tike.
Those and similar circumstances, especial
ly when the attentions are exclusive and
continued a long time, may well justify a
jury in finding a promise of marriage. Snl
the court below ignored all these matters
as being no longer essential or rather as
belonging to a past age. and virtually in
structed the jury that attentions paid to a
woman in a secluded place arc quite as
satisfactory evidence of such promise.
la a staid community where the court
ship is protracted through extended peri
ods, not (infrequently from 10 to 15 years,
and where the wooing proceeds with mark
ed regularity, propriety and recognized
conventionalities, this may be very satis
factory iaw. But how will it work in the
case of those ucromantic, go-ahead spirits
who contract their ■ matrimonial alliances
on principles of business rather than senti
ment and often on such short notice as
puts love letters, "visiting together in com
pany, preparations for housekeeping and
the like” out of the question?
Two Adventurea.
MlohUanierk
There were three or tour ot us Miellgan
ders at the same hotel in Montgomery and
all were amazed at the sight of so many col
ored men loafing their time away on the
street. The man from Ionia county finally
thought he’d make a few inquiries, and
beckoning to a stalwart black who had
spent the last two hours on the curbstone,
he asked : “Have you any work to do I”
“Not jist now, sab.” “Have you ever
tried fanning I” “Oh, yes.” “And how
did you come out ?” “Mighty slim, sah.
De white folks down heahdoan’ encourage
de black folks ’tall.” ‘How’s that ?”
“Wall, in de fust place, dar’s de rent, of
de lani Dey might fist as well lrow off
de rent, but dey won’t do it, den If 1 git
de land an’ sot out to bony a mule nobody
will lend me one.” “Suppose 1 had a
mule ?” “Den whar would I bony a
plow I Can’t raise craps onless ye plow.
Den when 1 got de plow an’ went ober to
Kurnel White’s to bony a harness de Kur-
nel wouldn’t be home, or he’d be nsin' all
de straps he had.” ‘ Conldn t you make
it go if you had land, seed, mole, an’
harness?’’ asked the Wolverine. “I
reckon I ought, but 1 dunno. ’Sposin’ de
mule expired or de harness broku, or some
Digger stole my plow I” “That’s so.”
‘An’ de ole woman might die, or one of
de cbil’en git snake-bit, or it might rain
to’ weeks widout a break. Tell yon what,
boeo. yon men from the Norf think it looks
hard to see so many of us lyin’ ’loan’ de
towns widout work, butyou doan know
nuffln ’bout de perils oUgitting right down
to hard work an’ takin’ all de chances.
My ole woman says it seems like Ilyin’ in
de face of de Lawd, an’ I recokon she’s
mighty ni$h k’rect.”
Tne Webster FamllT.
The surviving members of the family of
Daniel Webster nave informed the Webster
Historical Society, Massachusetts, through
Careline S. Webster, that they will be
heartily welcomed at Marshfield whenev
er they shall choose to make a public de
monstration at that home of the statesman
in his honor.
Ir is not considered good form to ask
a young gentleman with a fob ribbon if
he is aware that the end of his suspend
er is hanging below his vest.
\
Tne Music Bird.
The OHm hold that much of their
music wJnrought to them from heaven
by a bird which they named the ‘Foang-
Hoang.’ This was supposed to be a very
fortunate bird, which never appeared any
where else bat in Chinn, and, whenever it
came, it brought good lack with it. It
appeared whenever a good emperor was
horn, and its nest was wrapped m mys
tery, for no one knew where it dwelt.
Their is a resemblance in this to the
Greek Pbcsnjx. perhaps the Greeks bor
rowed their bird from the Chinese one.
This bird appeared with its male, when
Ling Lun, by the order of the Emperor
Hoasg-Ti, was T"^' n g bis first inventions
in music, it sang to bim in six tones,
while its mite also used six 'different ones,
making a scsle containing twelve notes,
just like our chromatic scale. But the
Chinese only ure five of these, end call
the others ‘female tones.’ la China,
everything female is he’d to be nselesa.
—Thus far 1882 has been an extraor-
A Jluel witli Horsewhip*.
A novel duel took place iu H ::rmo:jy
Grove, Jackson county, Georgia, be
tween-Mr. Hill and W. I. Goss. Hill
was ri' 11 riosa said -fie
xrttri care “to ‘fight Trim witfi deadly
weapons, but if Hill would not be satis
fied in any other way he would fight
him with buggy whips. The distance
and other rules to govern the fight were
procured and the parties toed the mark,
about five feet apart, and operations
commenced. The battle-ground was in
front of^ Freeman's livery stable, in the
heart of the towD, and it was not long
until the most of the citizens of the
place were looking on at a safe distance.
No one had interfered and the combat
ants were making steady and regular
licks npon each other without flinching,
and the strokes of the wliip3 could be
heard several blocks away, as they
went whizzing throush the air and upon
the backs of the two men.
Occasionally one or the other would
back a little from his line, but he would
soon come np again to the scratch.
Whenever they got tired one would call
out to hold up for a while aud they
would take a blowing spell, and when
rested they would go at it again. The
light continued for over three hours,
with short intervals for rest. After
the second round Hill, who had no
covering on his back except a shiit, in
sisted that Goss should pull off h s
coat, which he did, and they t lok both
hands to their whips and went to work.
By this time the news of the fight had
spread all over th: town; some of the
merchants closed their stores and busi
ness was generally suspended to see
what would be the result of the encoun
ter. After they had worn out seven
dollars’ worth of buggy whips and
were completely tired d iwu they agreed
to qnlt, and HU1 told Goss that he was
satisfied.
From parties who saw H ill’s back
wo learn that there was not a place on
it that yon could place a silver quarter
without touching the welts that the
whip had made and he was marked all
over, iu the same way. We learn that
Goes was not finrt quite so bad and was
able to be out the next duj-, but Hill
had to lay up, and it was rumored over
this way that he was seriously sick.
Nearly four years ago, 1 was in the
' :t, during my school holidays, of
spending a long time at certain intervals
with my grandfather, who was an eminent
surgeon living in a small town in Suffolk.
I was a great favorite of his, and conse
quently began to look on his house as a
sort of second nome.
One day, I regret to say the old gentle
man whilst going his rounds caught a se
vere cold, which confined him to bed, but
from which he anticipated nothing seriqfis.
Unfortunately, however, to our great
sorrow, his illness proved more serious
than at first expected, and in a few days
the poor old gentleman was no more.
1 went from home with my parents, a
distance of thiriy-two miles, to attend the
funeral.
The distance vtT those days being too
great to admit or our'returnlng the same
day, we were compelled to slay the night
after the funeral at the house.
As the space in the house was rather
limited, 1 was asked it I would be afraid
to sleep m the bed in which my grand
father died; an idea which 1 indignantly
repudiated.
It was forthwith arranged that 1 should
pass the night in that room. . .
In justice to those who suggested the
idea of my being afraid, I ought to say
that that part of Suffolk was intensely
superstitious, and that, considering I was
only a boy of fourteen,. my-consenting to
sleep in the room was, under the circum
stances, somewhat courageous.
I retired to rest at the usual time, no
doubt with my thoughts full of stories I
had heard or read about ghosts and ghostly
visitants.
1 turned my attention to the bed on
which 1 was to spend the ensuing hours,
as fondly hoped, in sweet ob.ivion.
It was a hugs old-fashioned four-poster,
with heavy curtains hung on rings, which
rattled with every movement of the bed,
and was, at the lime of which X am writ
ing, a highly aristocratic bedstead; but
consideripg all the attendant circum
stances, its funereal appearance was not
calculated to inspire my youthful breast
with any but the most dismal sensations.
I undressed and got into bed, devoutly
hoping that my slumbers might not be
disturbed by the appearance of any spir
itual visitor.
Tne curtains near the head of the bed
stead being partially drawn, by turning
my head in either direction, my gaze
resled on them.
At that time, there was nothing equiv
alent to our modern night-lights, and save
for the reflection of the fire in the grate,
my room was in darkness.
These curtains seemed, to my already
half-terrified fancier, to be hiding places
for any number-of ghosts, ail ready to
confront me, the moment 1 should bedash
enough to throw off my earthly carefand
commit myself to the arms ot Morpheus.
However, 1 at last fell aa'eip
My-repose was of a tronbled nature.
I fancied I heard strange noises in the
r joai^but at any rate I awoke after being
asieep'JfshoH tune—1 suppose about two
or mtj&tfjqStei in the morning, fancying
. Sleeping Cara.
dinary year for fires. Tfio estimated.
Having aa inveterate objection to
sleeping cars aud finding it also cheaper
to pay for a night’s iodgiug in a first-
class hotel than for one iu a sleeping
car, as well as beyond measure more
comfortable, 1 make it a rale always
says Mrs Grundy to stop over night
when on a long journey if practicable.
As to sleeping ccrs, I always wonder
why tlieir owners have not before now
brought their rates nearir to those for
lodging iu a good room in a first- class
hotei. At even a four-dollar-per-day
house two persons occupying the same
room can have as elegant a one as the
hotel contains, and pay forsupper, lodg
ing and breakfast for both $6, or at
most $7, while in the sleeping car for
lodging alone tor two (aud a most un
comfortable lodging it always is to one)
$4 must be paid, and tor each me il not
less than $1 tor each person, making
the bill for supper, lodging anil break-
last for two $8, however inferior the
meais may be. My mother aud 1 in a
day’s ri e in a palace and sleeping car,
taking two meals each ouly, ha 1 to spend
$10 exclusive of railroad tare. Once,
merely for the use of a compartment
only six hours during the day wheu I
was ill and obliged to have a sofa to lie
upon at full length, we were charged
$10. We could have spent twenty-four
hours in any of the best New York
hotels and had a luxurious room and
three meals each for that price. Where
fore I cut parlor and sleeping ears.
1 oasoa in the United States for the eight
months foot up more than $61,000,000,
or $7,000,000 men than th* average for
f oar jeers.
Ax old lady, hearing that Jolin Bright
contemplated visiting this country,
hoped that he wouldn’t bring Ins “dis
ease” with, him.
when 1 saw, by the' faint*'gfiAner of the
now expiring tire, £bat the curtain on one
side of the bed was. being forcibly jerked
aside by some unseen hand.
i trembled from head to foot, and cow
ered beneath the blankets, expecting 1
hardly knew what.
Again and again did this unseen hand
jerk the curtain.
It could not have been a trick of the
imagination.
X was unable to cry out even if I had
been inclined to do so.
At lust, after having given absut half-a-
dozen angry jerks, ineffectually as regards
pulling the curtain aside, X was left to en
joy such rest as I could reasonably expect
to get before morning.
Never was daylight more eagerly wel
comed by anybody than it was by me that
morning.
With the earliest dawn 1 sprang out of
bed—feeling braver than J hail done a few
hours before—and proceeded first to dress,
and then to examine my room, m order to
ascertain il possible by what means my
ghostly visitor had made his entrance and
exit.
The door, being hidden from my view
when in bed by the curtain, presented it
self as the most probable means.
X examined it as well os my agitated
state of mind would permit.
Nothing, however, appeared to show
any signs of my visitor’s entrance.
It was securely locked, as I left it the
night before; and there was no sliding
panel or anything of the sort which
could have admitted anybody.
X then turned towards the window;
but that too was fastened; and 1 confess
1 gave the affair up as incomprehensible.
I went downstairs more thoroughly im
pressed with regard to eerie visitants
than I remember ever to have been before.
3Iy preoccupied air—for 1 was debat
ing whether or not n/inenlion my adven
ture— attiacted attention, and drew forth
many questions, to all of which I replied
with very guarded answers.
At last I told the whole story, adling
that I had never believed iu gbos's be
fore, aud should like do find out the
truth of this one.
My story seemed to them incredible.
But at lust, iu spite of the solemn
proceedings we had witnessed the day
before, a smile stoic over the face of my
grandmother.
It was quickly suppressed, and she said:
“I think I can expiain the mystery,
young gentleman; let us come and try,”
We ail fclowed the old lady upstairs
into the room where I had passed the
night.
She went to the side of the bed and
pointed to the curtain rings.
We then saw the explanation of the
whole matter, which was as follows:
My grandfather was, as I have said,
very celebrated in his day, aDd conse
quently had a large practice.
His night-beli, in order not to disturb
ihe other inmates of tbe house, was bung
ia bis room by his side.
When the old gentleman-was taken ill,
absolute silence was enjoined.
This net!, therefore, was take* down,
and the wire fastened to the curtain rings.
On the night in question, some young
men, strangers in the place, and conse
quently ignorant of my grandlatber’s ill
ness aad death, were going home rather
noisily at the somewhat early hour at
which my adventure took place.
Being bent cn mischief, they commenced
pulling tbe night-bell handle, in order, a-
they no donut observed, ‘ to rouse the old
gentleman.”
Every pull, therefore, gave a correspond
ing tog at the curtains; hence my terror
and fright in thinking that some unearthly
visitor was in my room trying to pull them
aside. #
My mind was set completely at rest by
this simple explanation; and X went borne
hat day folly convinced that there is a..
reason to be found, if one will only trj,|m*de a
for the specious ghost stones which foolish hea(Mb ;
mm
people constantly publish f<
of 1 he ignorant and creduh
My other adventure,
some years before the
lated, was not.of so stag
At the came time
young as L was to &
able amount of uueasiififss.
1 was staying at tbeSlame house daring
my grandfather’s lifetime
Being a mere child,*! of course not
permitted to stay np late by my worthy
grandmother, who used to send me to
bed about seven o’clock.
One night I had gone to bed in the room
I usually occupied; and' on waking in the
morning, I found that everything in the
room had changed!
I could not account for it.
I was not a sleep-walker; bat here I was
ensconced in another bed, with my clothes
neatly,folded np at ihe foot.
X triad to run over the events of the pre-
ceding dky; but though l remembered
everything that had occurred, 1 could think
of nothing which might account for this
extraordinary metamorphosis.
On going fmt of my room, X perceived
(hat I bad been removed during my sleep.
However, the mastery was soon ex
plained.'
After I had gone to bed, an old friend
of my grandfather's had arrived unex
pectedly withtis wife.
They had calculated on stopping tbe
night, and the only room available for the
worthy couple was that in which I was
asleep.
After much deliberation, it wa3 arranged
that 1 should be turned out, to make room
for them.
My grandmother, a kindly old dame,
proposed removing me, if possible, with
out awaking me, which was, as she said,
a pity.
Forgetful, therefore, of the probable
consequences, the old indy took me in her
arms, and deposited me safely in the bed
in which I found myself in tbe morning.
Although this was done with tile best
intentions, yet it was, I thiak, a rash pro
ceeding. as the results ia tiie case of a
sensitive child might have keen serious.
X think that these two adventures serve
to show that however improbable an event
may be at tbe time, there is generally an
explanation to be found for it, without
ignorantly and foolishly attributing it to
supernatural ageucy.
X consider that the present mama for so
doing is calculated to do an immense
amount of harm, especially to the young
and ignorant.
XlKi-rlMge m China. —
Among the pure Chinese, aud espe
cially among tile higher classes, the affair
is a much longer aud more serious one.
From the almost Turkish strictness
with which females are secluded, it is
comparatively rare that a couple see
each other previous to betrothal, and still,
more s3 that there should be any ac-
between them. This has
le necessary employment
equivalent to the bazalan
■oker of anoiont Brittany,
- Parisian Matrimonial.
or the daily marriage in
o bicker will find yon a
" Ksfcer after. If jyuSe Ft-ss purely
philosophical, and wish to consult your
own tastes as well as the interests aud
increase of the nation, you are only to
name the party, and the broker becomes
your accredited embassador. There is,
however, one preliminary point to be
ascertained. Has your intended the
same surname as yourself ? If so, it is
a fatal difficulty, as the laws of China
would not permit the marriage. If,
however, she is Clmm and yon are Le,
or she is Kwan or Yu, and you rejoice
in any other patronymic monvsyllable,
the next step is for tne broker to obtain
from each a tablet containing the name,
age, date and honrof birth, etc. These
are then taken to a diviner and compared,
to see if the union promises happiness ;
if the answer is favoraole (and crossing
the p dm with silver is found to be as
effectual with fortune-tellers in China
as it is elsewhere), and the gates are
equal, that is if tne station and wealth
of the two families ure similiar, the
proposal is made in due form. The
Avedding-presents are then sent, and, if
accepted, the young couple is consider
a3 legally betrothed. A lucky day must
be fixed for the wedding, and hero our
friend the diviner is called npon. Prev
ious to the great day the bridegroom
gets a new hat and takes a new name,
while the lady, whose hair has hitherto -
hung down to her heels iu a single heavy-. }
plait, at the time becomes initated into*
the style of hair-dressing prevalent
among Chinese married ladies, which
consists in twisting the hair into the
form of an exaggerated tea-pot, and”
supporting it m that shape with a nar-
iow plate of gold or jade over the fore
head, and a whole system of bodkins
behind it. On the wedding morning,
presents aud congratulations are sent
to the bridegroom, and among the rest
a pair of geese; not sent, as we might
imagine, by some wicked wag or irre
claimable bachelor as a personal reflec
tion ou the intellectual state of Iris friend,
but as an emblem of domestic unity and
affection. The ladies, too, in China as
well as elsewhere, indulge in a little fash
ionable ciying on the occasion, and so
tbe relatives of the bride spend the
morning with her, weeping over her
impending departure, or, mere probably,
their own spiusterhood. ‘
An Internal Machine.
A rather sod aff air took place on one of
our sheets tbe other day. A young lady
with her arms full of bundles emerged
from a dry goods store, when one of them
fell on the sidewalk without her noticing
Just behind her wss a young man,and
a Belfast young man who is not polite ia
not anything, and he quickly stepped for
ward to pick it up. Now a handle done
up in a piece ot paper with a dry goods
advertisement on it is apparently as harm
less as a mother's spanking,'and there it
lay as guileless as an aDgleworm on a side
walk after a rain. Just as he stooped to
pick it up there was a rustling of the
paper, the twist began to come out of the
ends, and l-j another instant a bright red
thing, a sort of a cross between a balloon
and a devil fish, flew into tbe air before
bis eyes, and a number ten, 36 inch.-dou
ble jointed, duplex, elliptic, steel bowed,
bustle attachment, dollar and a half, red
headed hoopakirt, waltzed around and gy
rated and opened and stmt and fell on the
walk as fiat and tbm as a restaurant pie;
and the young man straightened himrelf
up, looking as if be wished the tail of
comet No. 2 would sweep him from this
fair land; and the young lady came back
with a face that resembled a subset on a
fltty-cent chromo, and sbe picked up the
wire contrivance,and then she went toward
tbe east and be went toward the west, ami
me sun ducked his bead behind-* cloud to
hide a smile, and three or four looked on,
laidalown and laughed and doubled them-
erives up m a manner that would have
of green' apples hang their