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X 8*4 Scene. A CHILD DYINQ IN ITS MOTHER a AlllttS WHILE IilS FATHER IS BEING THI¬ RD TOW MURDER Reraoii* who wirt pre«*ut in the *0»rt house lMt Thursday moruiug just ft* the case of the State ts. James Robinson and James Lucas, charged with murder, was eallod, witnessed one of the saddest scenes that ever oc- curcd iu this county,. The morning in question had been set for the trial of the above-named prisoners—Jas. Robinson being charged in the in¬ dictment with the murder of Moses Lucas on the 9th of August last, and Jas Lucas as the accomplice, Rob inson’s wife had come to town to be present at the trial. She brought her four children alon</. the youngest of whom was an infant. This little thing had been quite ill for some time, but the mother did not thin's it was dangerously so. On the day sta ted 'Mrs. Robinson was present in th® courtroom, and at her side sat her three little bare-foot children and her pale faced, sad looking husband, whilst in her arms, wrapped in a red woolen shawl, she held close up to her bosom the frail body of her infant —its face as pale asehal-' and its eyes ‘set’ as if in death. The woman her¬ self. weighted down with sorrow and distress—for her infant was dying in her arms and her husband was about to be tried for his life presented a sad, sad spectacle to those who looked up on her tear stained face, as she sat nursing Her dying baby. The while the Court was unaware of the scene in his presence. The Judge turned over the leaves of’ the calendar and called the case of ‘The State against James Roberson and Janies l^-as— indictment, murder.’ The poor moth¬ er looked up agonizingly and heaved the deepest sigh we ever heard, and her little children, seated, at her side sobbed audibly. It was a moment of extreme sadness. Colonel Wylie, flushed with emotion, arose and in tones husky and faltering, stated that he had a sad duty to perform— to as the indulgence of the Court for a while, as the the infant child of one of the prisoners was thought to be d ••'.ux in tits mother sarins the cour. room. ■ The Judge leaned from his chair and resting his fa e in his hands, loo eri at the mother, Wc hear 1 not a word, for we had turne d our head an 1 walked off ; but the prisoner-father, pale and wan, with his little three year old girl in his arms •and his three other children at his -led . the the •side way horn eourt-roou ,followed *>y the stricken wife with her infant. They were accompanied by 'Depot? Sheriff Hunter. They re¬ turned to the jr.il, where the child was given every attention but at nine o’clock /hat night the flickering spark -of the frail little life went out find the baby passed front the harrowing by which it had been sur¬ rounded that day. The case had been called after the recess that morning and the prisoner having plead ‘not gulty’ to the ar¬ raignment, the empanneling of a jury was begun- Mrs. Robinson left her dying baby to the kind attention of otli ers and was present in the courtroom during the evening. After adjourn¬ ment she returned to her infant and gave it every attention possible, but 'k no avail. Upon the opening of the court the next morning Mrs Robinson and her children went to their places— the mother had left the dead body of her infant in keeping of friends at the jail - another and strong proof of woman’s devotion in the Ik nr of dig- tress. The bereaved woman sat as near to her husband as possible' morning, her face swollen with tt r ’ t ‘^and her stricken heart heaving -fee deepest sighs. At the hour of ad¬ journment for dinner the recess was prolonged and the father and mother, followed by a few sympathising friends, accompanied the dead body of their baby to the village cemetery and saw it laid away, safe from the sorrows and troubles incident to a life here. Our heart never went out iSNlgeper sympathy than to this wc- fully afflicted mother and wife, and we ( certainly hope that God will pity her in her sorrow and that the world will treat her most kindly .—Lancaster Re- ' view. IFhen he is twenty-one the boy is * said to have outgrown the switch, but that's just the age when a girl begins to need one. TOCCOA NEWS By Edw SCHAEFER- i VOL. VIII. Accidentally Innocent. No lawyer likes going to court with a thoroughly had case, yet how can he help it sometimes 1 I should have more patience with the question,‘Do you ever think it right to defend a man whom you be¬ lieve to be guilty ? were it less fre¬ quently put by people who spend six days in the week seeking to get the upper hand of their neighbors, and the seventh trying to circumvent their Maker. To the honest inquirer I commend the answer Dr. Johnson once made to Boswell: ‘Sir, the lawyer is not the judge. Was it my place when George Gil¬ bert’s little careworn wife cable with tears glistening in her eyes to beseech me to do what I could for her impris¬ oned husband, virtually to turn my back and leave her tired, troubled heart to break or not as it might? I was neither a priest nor a Levite to find a ready excuse for passing by on the other side. Yet what could I do? George Gilbert had been sent on a collecting tour and had gambjed away money received for his ernploy- ers. It was a plain case ot embezzle¬ ment, and the penalty was a term of years in the State prison. ‘I am sure he never meant to be dishonest ’ pleaded the loyal little woman ; ‘he was tempted by a crafty and designing man, but instead of running away, as others would have done, he came back and confessed his fault, offering to let his whole sal¬ ary go toward making up the lost money till every cent was paid. Mr. Meek, the junior partner, was willing to be merciful, but Mr. Mangle, the head of the house, who had just tun ed then after a year’s abs^isCc; insisted-that the law should takedte course.’ j 1 gave her what poor consolation I could, for lawyers, like doctors, must keep their patients’ courage up times. ‘In the first place, I’ll sec Messrs, Mangle & Meek, T said, Mr. Mangle may be brought to hear reason, after all—if he can only be made to see his interest in it.’ Tli* pale, despondent face cheered up a little- My words seemed to have inspired a sort of undefined hope that I was far from feeling. Mr. Mangle received me with sto¬ ny politeness. ‘Young man,’ his manner said, ‘don’t waste time in appeals to senti¬ ment ; you won’t, if you’ll only look at me.’ I took the hint and came at once to business, repeated Gilbert’s offer and put it as strongly as possible that more was to be gained by le¬ niency than harshness—all of which Mr. Mangle listened to with a con¬ scientious scowl. ‘I cannot be a party to a compoun¬ ding a felony,’ he answerd, with a solemn intonation. ‘Nor have I asked you to,’ I re¬ plied, not a little nettled. ‘I have merely mentioned a plan of paying bach your own, leaving it to your gen¬ erosity to press or not to press this prosecution.’ ‘Oil, it is all the same,’ was the contemptuous rejoinder—‘any body but a lawyer with his head full of quibs and quiblcts could sec that Besides there is some-tiling rather cool to retain your friend in onr em¬ ploy under pretence of working out the money he has stolen, with the op¬ portunity of filching twice as much in the meantime.’ I felt my temper rising, and m„ caring to imperil my client’s interest by an outright quarrel, I took a hasty leave. Had I been in the prisoner’s place on the morning fixed for the trial I could hardly have ascended the court house steps with more reluctance than 1 did. And when 1 entered the court room and found Gilbert and his wife already there,{and noted the hopeful look with which the latter greeted my Devoted to News, Politics. Agrii aturg and General Progress- coming, I sickened at the thought of the bitter disappointment coming. ‘The people vs. Gilbert,’ called out the judge, after disposing of some formal matters. A jury was immediately impanelled and the case'opened by the district attorney. Mr. Meek was the first witnees. The nervous, hesitating manner in which he gave his evidence would have greatly damaged the effect if it had not evidently arisen from a dis¬ position to do the prisoner as little hurt as possible. But no softening could break the terrible force of facts he was compelled to relate. In the partner's absence he had employed George Gilbert as clerk; had found him competent and trust¬ worthy ; had senthimona trip to make collections ; after receiving n considerable sum, he was induced by a respectable looking gentleman, with whom he had casually fallen to join a social game of cards : at first they played for amusement , then for money, and after losing all his own, in the hope of retrieving his loss, with the fatal infatuation of that dreadful vice whose end is destruc¬ tion, he had hazarded and lost the last dollar he had in trust for his employers. Mr. Meek’s voice faltered as he closed his narrative. He was about to volunteer something to the prison¬ er's good character, when a disap¬ proving glance from Mr. Mangle brought him to a halt. Just then the prisoner chanced to turn his head, and catching a glimpse of the senior partner, who M j» t entered, and was standing among crowd, ho started ,*ckly. then pered hurriedly in m j car. * •Turn Abide your i<- ’ > whispere ed-bwteiC. And the ca-e for the pros- ecution being closed the justice in- quired : ‘Have you any witness for the defense?’ ‘I will call Hezekiah Mangle,' I replied. A buzz of surprise greeted the an¬ nouncement, in the midst of which Mr. Mangle stepped forward and was sworn. ‘You have been absent for the past year, Mr, Mangle ?’ I began. ‘I have.’ ‘Traveling in foreign parts?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘The prisoner was employed by your partner in your absence, and was arrested about the time of your return ?’ ‘Such was the case.’ ‘Have you ever seen him?’ ‘Not to my knowledge.' •Or met him in your travels ?’ ‘If he will turn his head this way I can tell better.’ At my bidding Gilbert turned and faced the witness. The effect was electrical, Mr. Mangle turned red and pale by turns. ‘One other question, Mr. Mangle I resumed. ‘Do you recognize in this prisoner a young man from whom you won a thousand dollars at ‘poker’ while On your travels ?’ and* I named the time and place at which the young man had met with the misfortune. Cowardice performed the office of conscience, and the truth came out. The firm’s money, which George Gil¬ bert had lost, had been won by the senior partner; and the court instruc¬ ted the jury that, as the sum in ques¬ tion had actually been delivered to one of the joint owners, who was bound to account to his associate, the prisoner could not be convicted. ‘God bless you Mr. Barker !’ falter¬ ed the happy little wife. ‘I knew you woirid bring us out all right.’ It was evident the truthful wo¬ man's nature gave me all the credit of the result in whose achievement my share had been next to nothing. The lesson was not lost on George Gilbert. His first false step was the last, and the richest fee / ever re¬ ceived was the heartfelt gratitude his noble, faithful wife. NOVEMBER 6, 1880. A Valher Who Melted, The of .'JTevening a citizen of De¬ troit beckoned to his 12 year old son to iollov ibn to the woodshed, and when had arrived there he be- gan: ^ ‘Now. < oifng man, you have been fighting again! How many times have I f >Id you that it is disgraceful to fight f ‘Oh, 1' her, this wasn’t about mar¬ bles or , aing of the kind,’ replied the boy. t telp it. As a Christiaii man cbildr itjf?my ‘V<> fear duty the to Lord. bring Take up my off your coat !’ ‘He ud I was the son of a wire¬ puller.’ ‘\\ lu ! what’s that ?’ ‘Awfit rid yon was an offlee-hun- ter ‘W1 vhat loafer dared make . fl ,nafb *‘ ,,t * didn’t say anything. Then he called you'a hireling.’ ‘Called me i .Hireling! Why, I’d like to get my hands on him ?’ puffed the old gent. ‘Yes, and he said you was a politi¬ cal Hck-spi le !’ '"■“LggA 6 gracious! but wouldn't]; like to have the training of that boy for about five minutes !’ wheezed the old manias he hopped around ‘I put up with that,’ continued the boy. ‘.-up then lie said you laid your pipes foi office and got left by a large joritd, ! couldn’t stand that h “ m d ^ “Y r * bc n .‘ ^ e!s cnco ” ' p ,ras 1 ' 1* b,lt 1 CooM ” 1 s *“ 1 11 you abused by one of the * f opposition!’ ‘MyNv ?.’ said t-ba_ father*^ for ’ If a dollar with one hand and wiped his eyes with the other, •you m.v go out aud buy you two pounds of candy. The Bible says it is wrong to fight, but the Bible must make allowance for political cam- paigns and the vile slanders of the other jfariy. I only brought you out here to talk to you, and now you can put on your coat and run along ’— Detroit Free Press. An Elopement. A WEALTHY SOCIETY WOMAN, OF NEW YOltK CITY, RUNS AWAY WITH A ELDING SCHOOL TEACHER. FoT.-aquie time past the .aristocrat¬ ic neighborhood of Central Park has been agog with excitement over the elopement of a well- known society woman with a riding master attached to the Fifth Avenue Riding Academy, No. 9 East Fifty- eight street. The !ady in question is Mrs. Jennie Ward, grand-daughter of the late Admiral Degrasse, once Commander of the French naval for¬ ces. Her friends say that she is dashing in appearance, of medium height, with bewitching eyes and jet hlacA hair. It is presumed that she is worth in her own right about $100- 000 The man with whom she eloped is Frederick Keighley, who for nine months prior to the 25th of August taught the art of equestrianism in the Fifth Avenue Riding Academy. He is about 35 years of age, just one year the senior of Mrs. Ward, meas¬ ures six feet in his stocking, and car¬ ries the map of England on his face, He is described as being a perfect Chesterfield in his manner and eon- versation. For his services as riding master, he was paid the munificent salary of $65 per month, i; e lady was a pupil ji equestrianism of Keighleys, and he was observed to pay more attention to her than to any other of his female scholars. 1 he guilty pair have sailed for Knglaud, an 1 Ward Las begun procce lings for a divorce. -{ TERMS— NO. 17 He Couldn't Cornu in, A few days ago & gaunt, shabby, genteel-looking tramp undertook to saunter carelessly into the private grounds of the Galveston Garten Vo- rien when the man at the gate put in his Veto sayilig: ‘You can’t come in here.’ ‘Yes, 1 can ; just you step to one side and watch me sail in. I could get through a gate only half that wide You don’t take me for David Davis, do you ?’ ‘You aint a member and'you can’t in-' ‘Now my friend, 1 said the tramp, persuasively, ‘you are an American citizen, and so am I. I know you are proud of our common country and its historic associations to some entent, ain’t you T The man at the gate owned up that he was guilty tor'So me extent, al- though he was bothered about discov¬ ering t'hejrelevaney of the remark. ‘Suppose,’ said the tramp, ‘that I wa3 to tell you as an American pa¬ triot that 1 am descended from the great American patriot, Gen. Benedict Arnold, wouldn’t you bog me to come in for a little while, any¬ how, and sit down with you and talk about Hancock and Garfield ?’ The janitor said he had read some¬ thing of Benedict Arnold; that he mas a man every American should teach his children to honor and re- speet, but if Ben. himself were to try to get into the garden, he (the janitor) woul have to ask'for his ticket- •But suppose I fold you I was a member of the Sam Bass gang of stage robbers—I see you look like a mili¬ tary man—wouldn’t you, out of re¬ gard for my military career, let me ini” He shoots Ids head. ‘ v ” ,t suppose that, besides, I was * o1i e ,m I was a member of the sixteenth Legislature, and moreover, if 1WCT0 to register an oath to set up ^ ie ,10er ^ or ,,s wouldn’t you come out here and push mein any- bow ? Don’t you want me to come in and tell you all about how the camp fires are blazing in Indiana?' The janitor said it would be all right if the tramp was a member. ‘But you let Gen. Grant in here when he was in Galveston, and ma le him eat two plates of chowder and a lot of oysters, and he wasn t a member ?’ ■Yes, but that was before he was defeated at Chicago for the Presi¬ dency ’ •Well, I have not been defeated at Chcago either, for that matter, and I'll agree to stay twice as long, and do without the chowder and the mu¬ sic.’ ‘Can’t help it; you ean't come in,’ ‘That’s all right. I don’t want to come in. I am expecting my private yacht here in tv few days, and was strolling about seeing the sights. I saw you at the gate, and knowing the associttion would discharge you if you let me pass without inviting me in, I though I would give you a chance to save yourself. I only want you to understand if you are thrown out of employment, and obliged to be¬ come a tramp, that I did what I could to save you. Do you know what parallel of latitude Galveston is in?’ The janitor hunted around for a board, aud the tramp sauntered off toward th* gulf of Mexico. A Chapter on Bald Heads. A bald headed man is refined and he always shows his s’ nil sure, It has never been decided what caus- es bald heads ; but most people think it is lan d rough, A good novel for ball heads to read—‘The Lost Heir.’ What does a bald headed man say to his comb ? Wo meet to part no more, Motto for a, ball head—Bare and furb are. However high a position a bald headed man holds, he will never comb-dowu in the w rid 1 . The bald headed man never dyes. A J vice* to bald header*—Join tiu- Indians, wh* are only successful hair-raisers. What does every Laid headed rac it put on his head ? His hat. You never saw a bald headed twsu with a low fore-head. Shakespeare says : There is a di- vinity that shapes our ends. Bald men are the coldest headed men in the world. Some bald men have heirs,— Boston Transcript. Seme Leading ■ A young man who ’ookel as if he had a heap of things on his mind, but who struggled hard to anpear out¬ wardly calm, put a five dollar bill on the desk of a Detroi: lawyer, recent ly, and said: ‘I want to ask a few leading ques¬ tions ?’ ‘Go ahead,’wag the reply, as the money was quickly thrust out of sight. ‘If I am engaged to a girl mhJ back "on her, what can she do ?' ‘Sue you for breath of promise rj ‘ ‘But if she goes back on me, what can I do?' ‘Hunt up another.’ ‘Urn! Suppose I have prese ’ her with a two-dollar fan, a pair of bracelets, a'parasol and a ring.* 'Then she’s so much ahead,* ‘If I believe that her infatuation for another is but a passing whim, and I flourish a revolver and talk of of suicide, what then ?’ ‘Her father will probably pick you up and drop you into the first mui- puddle.’ ‘Um ! Suppose Jhal presented her mother with a twenty shilli g Um¬ brella ?’ •Then she’ll keep dry.’ ‘And her brother with tn accor- deon ?’ ‘Then he’ll worry the neighbor*-’ ‘Suppose, sir, I had for the sake of making myself solid with the old man, presented him with sixteen dollars worth of watch d®g ?’ ‘He’ll set him upon you if you have any trouble.’ ‘Uni! Have I no .-dre ¬ ‘Yes, sir; go and » . t ho prairie ranger who has stolenNi way your girl’s affections.’ ‘I’ll do it.’ ‘Glad to hear it. I’ll defend your ease for twenty dollars,’ ‘Um I’ ‘Um!* ‘Come to think of it, ha's a bigger man than I am.* ‘Then let him lick yon, and 111 make it cost him $50.’ ‘Um! I’ll think of it.' ‘Um ! Office hours from 8 a. in. to 6 p. m. And the voting man troubled with inward agitation took himself oat.— Detroit Free Press. The Cast of a Boy. It will be a good thing for all boys, and girls, too, to get some idea—in real figures —of what their parents do for them. The Rev. F. B. Fisk gives a leeture on the cost of a boy. He computes that at the agj of 16 a good boy receiving the advantages of city life will cost, counting com¬ pound interest on the amount invest¬ ed. not less than $5,000. At 21 he will not cost any more unless he goes to college, when be, will cost nearly twice as much. A bad boy costs about $10,000 at 21, provided lie does not go to college, If he does go. he costs as much more. Mr. Fisk thinks that girls are near¬ ly as expensive as boys. The com¬ putation, however, comprises on¬ ly to pecuniary costs of raising a boy The value of the mother’s tears and! the father’s gray hairs arc beyond the reach of figures to express. The money side is by far the lesser of the two. A farmer’s wife, in speaking of the smartness, aptness aud intelligence of her son, a lad six years old, to a lady- acquaintance, said : ‘He can read flu¬ ently iu any part of the Bible, repeat, the whole catechism, an 1 weed onions as well as his father.’ ‘Yes mother.' added the young hopeful,‘and yester¬ day I licked Ned liawson, throwed the cat into the well, an i stole o’. I ’’in‘k ev’s gimlet.’