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THE LON = FAST.
DEATH OF MISS HEl.MAN, THE STARV¬
ING WOMAN OF INDIANA.
Jeffersonville, 7nd., March 16—
Miss Anna Maria Hermann, who was
sent from this place to the county
poor asylum, sixty days ago, died in
that institution yesterday of starva¬
tion. Mias Hermann was a lady of
superior intelligence, a native of
German}', and for a long time taught
the language in this city to a few
young ladies. One day in January
last she suddenly became violently
insane and was arrested. She re-
quested the arresting officer to kill
her, as she desired to go to heaven
without delay.
a resort to starving.
When this was refused her, she
determined to die by starving herself.
She was sent to the insane depart¬
ment of the Clark county poor asy¬
lum, near Charlestown. The visLing
physician and superintendent used
every effort in their power to induce
her to partake of food, but to no pur¬
pose. One day shortly after her
arrival at the asylum, she ,e a por¬
tion of an apple but since that time,
the superintendent avers, she has
partook of no food whatever. She
would drinA a little water once a day
for a while, but lately had been unable
to retain water on her stomach.
SIXTY .WO DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.
Many persons have doubted the
statement of Superintendent Baldock
to the effect that she had fasted
during the time stated, but as he is a
responsible and truthful gentleman,
bis statement canqot be successfully
contradicted He said to a reporter,
7 am certain she has not taken a drop
of water or a morsel of food without
piy knowledge. Frequently we would
place food beside her at night, and it
vvould remain nnd stqrbcd; some¬
times we would put some nourish¬
ment in the water but she won hi spit
it out as soon as it touched her lips.
She would drink nothing but pure
water, and I am positive that during
the sixty two days she remained in
the asylum, nothing was given herbu
what I have stated.’
rkDuced from 2)0 to 80 pounds.
For two weeks past Miss Hermann
has been greatly reduced in strength,
but retained her senses up to the Iasi.
She conversed intelligently on 7’ues
day, and when a doctor called to se«.
her she remarked, ‘I did not send for
you, and as you are intruding 7 wis
you would retire.’ From a very stoui
person weighing mure than 200
pounds she was reduced to hO, ann
the little flesh which clung to her
bones was almost mortified, having
turned blue in the last few days.
Hundreds of persons have called at
the asylum to see her, many of them
living far away It is probably the
longest fast oyer accomplished by any
person in this country. She was 54
years of age
A SEA WAIF.
A very curious anecdote is told
concerning Admiral Bythesea, V. C..
C. B., who retired from the service,
after having for many years filled the
post of onsulting Naval Officer to
the Government of India. 7t is stated
that the Admiral was picked up, when
an infant, far out at sea, lashed to a
bale of goods. A lady—presumably
bis mother— was with him, but she
was dead, and there was no evidence
of any kind by which the name of the
waif could be traced. 2’he officers
of the man-of-war which picked up
the poor little infant aid all they
could by advertisement and inquiry
to discover his relatives, and, finding
all their attempts futile, they deter¬
mined to adopt the child, to which
they gave the name of *Ry the Sea.’
He was sent to a naval school, and.
when old enough, joined the navy
By a happy coincidence the first ship
in which he served was the one which
had saved his life as an infant. He
tooA to his profession, and during the
Crimean war distinguished himself at
the Island of Wardo, where he earned
the Victoria Cross and the decoration
of C. B. Later on his services in
India gave him the Companionship of
the Order oi the Indian Empire, and
he retired from the service with the
ran/c of Admiral-a consummation
little dreamed of by the kind-hearted
officers who rescued and educated
Rim.
z' FOCCOA NEWS
By Edw SCHEAFER* [
VOL. IX.
A FORSYTH INDIAN FIGHTER.
recollections of a veteran of the
PIONRFR DAYS IN GEORGIA.
Atlanta Poet-Appeal.
Mr. S. A. Wasson, of Forsyth
oounty, an old Indian fighter, has
been stopping at the Air Line House
for two or three days. His reminis¬
cences of the early struggles of the
settlers of this country arc intensely
interesting.
He served under the celebrated
Indian fighter, iWajor Dick Simpson,
of South Carolina, in the Florida war,
and, receiving a wound in the right
shoulder, was sent home. As soon
as his wound healed, he heard that
the Indians had risen against the
whites in the Georgia settlements^
and his love for adventure induced
him to try the fortunes of war again
in this section.
Shortly after his arrival he was
placed on Gen. B. Rush .Montgom¬
ery's staff, who then commanded the
port at Ross' Landing, so called
because the old Indian chief, John
Ross, lived near there. After the
railroad was surveyed to that point
ihe name was changed to Chattanoo-
g a *
In his own words lie s?id ; After
the Indians had been quieted, 7 en¬
gaged as a wagoner in a train of
wagons that used to run between
Augusta ami Ross’ Landing, and was
accustomed to stop at Humphrey’s
spring, oyer w.Jeh the Markham
House now stands, to feed my team
and stay all night. There was not a
house within several miles except a
I.ttie ten by twelve doggery, about
two miles from the spring, where the
wagoners were accustomed to stop
and get their liquor- I stopped at
the spring the night that the party
who were surveying the route lor the
Georgia railroad reached the spot
As tiic engineer was driving a staki
near the spring he remarked to the
teamsters who had gathertd around,
Boys I would not be surprised u
there was a right snJart village here
some day.’
A Little before this a man offered
iiim five hundred acres of land, lying
along what is now Peachtree street,
upon which are now some of the most
valuable residences in the city, for
sixty-five cents an acre, and his rec
ollection is that Mr. Richard Peters
bought it for that sum. ‘i’ve wished
a hunured times since that 7 had
bought it,’ he added.
•While I was in Tennessee,’ hi
resumed, ‘I was a member of the part}
who attempted to capture the cele¬
brated brigand, John A. iliurrell.
When we surrounded the cave where
Murrel's party had their headquarters
and where they did their counterfeit¬
ing, we had a desperate fight in whic?
five of the robbers were killed afid the
rest wounded and captured. 3/urrel.
was not there. To my astonishment
a ro an whom I Allied in tie melee
proved to be the very man with whom
1 had been boarding for some time,
and whom I had alwa}s regarded as
an u] r ght, hontst, clever gentleman
Mis wifes was nearly broken b}
the terrible news, and she declared
that he was innocent and had been
found among the robbers by accident.
Some time since she visited me and
reiterated her belief in his innocence,
but i am fully convinced that fie was
one of them.
Help Yourself. People who
have been bolstered up and leavered
all their lives are seldom good for
anything in a crisis When misfor-
tune comes they look around for
something to cling to or lean upon,
7fthepropis aot there, down they
go.
Once down, they are as helpless as
capsized turtles, or unhorsed men in
armor, and cannot find their feet
again without assistance.
Devoted to News. Politics. Ag.'iculture and General progress-
TOCCOA, GA„ MARCH 25. 1882,
valuable hints.
When ice is required at night for a
sick person, break it into small
pieces, and if it be scarce and care
must be taken^to prevent its melting,
put it into a soup plate, cover with
another plate, and put between two
feather pillows.
Never wear a good woollen dress
into the kitchen without the protec-
t-ion of a large apron.
No flannel that has not been care-
fully washed, and is not perfectly soft
and fleecy, should ever touch the skin
of an infant.
We never had any patience with a
mother or a nurse who would stick
pins carelessly into her dress, cellar,
or ribbon, thereby inflicting painful
wounds upon her innocent victim.
Not a pin, excepting a safety pin,
should be used about a child, and
when buttons will perform the office
of pins they should be made to do so.
To mothers, aunties, or sisters who
do up the school luncheon for the
youngsters; pray make it as attrac¬
tive as possible. There is truly
nothing very attractive about a thick
piece of dry bread and butter and a
cookie, all rolled in a piece of coarse
brown paper, washed down by a drinA
from the cup that ‘goes the rounds.’
Such a luncheon will often impair the
appetite of a fastidious or delicate
child, and he will go without rather
than eat it. A little care in the
cutting of the bread ; the doing up of
the cookies on crullers in tissue or
whitepaper; the sauce or custard
put into a pretty cup, and all wrapped
ina clean white napkin within a
bright tin pail, or, better still, a pretty
lurjch basket, will, by the pleasure it
gives the child, well repay the extra
care and thought.—Rural New
YorAer.
A WASTED OPPORTUNITY.
A few weeAs ago a young servant
girl in Salt Lake received an offer of
marriage from a iWormon who already
had four wives. The offer was made
through a mutual friend, and thegiil
did not even have an opportunity of
seeing her future husband. Suffice
to know that he owned considerable
property in Salt Lake and was other¬
wise well fixed in the world. She
thought the matter over, concluded to
call it a go, and sent word that he
might name the day. He did so, and
on a foggy Thursday morning he
came round to the house with two
wives, and announced that he was
ready to take his young bride away.
7 he servant girl was upstairs getting
ready to be married, and the lady of
the house met the polygamous party
at the door. She noticed, somewhat
to her astonishment, that the man
was being led by his wives for the
very simple reason that he was as
blind as a bat and also over sixty
years of age. Rushing to the stairs
she called to the girl,
‘Sally, your sweetheart has come
to marry you.’
‘2’ell him 111 be right down,’ said
the girl adjusting a fresh hair pin and
throwing on a few extra dashes of
carmine powder,
‘He's sixty five years old and as
blind as a bat.’
‘What’s that!’ inquired the girl,
anxiously leaning over the banister
The starting information was
peated.
‘Tell him tq clear out,’ was the
response, The lady of the house
communicated the command to move
onto the old polygamist and his
wives, and the party stole sorrowful-
ly away.
The inexperienced girl thought she
had m^de alucky escape, but wflen
some married woman heard Qf it and
told her what a good thing she had
missed, she began to regret the hasty
decision, and now pines for the blind
man to return. There are hundreds
ofjwomcn in Salt Lake who would
give almost anything for a genuine
blind husband. The girl may never
get another such an offer in a lifetime.
horrible ENDING OF A JOKE.
A terrible warning to practical
jokers is offered in the result of one
played on a young Ohio man, already
demoralised by reading light litera-
* ure °f a ‘blood and thunder kind,
1 and ready to believe in manifes¬
any
I a ti° ns °1 a supernatural and ghostly
character. He believed in ghosts and
nightly visitors, and always slept
with a revolver under his pillow for
the purpose of giving them a suita¬
ble reception.
Knowing his weakness, some of his
young companions, after drawing the
c harges from the pistol, prepared to
frighten him. One of them, clad in
ghostly wakened attire, entered his room and
him, slowly muttering. The
boy sat upright, trembling with fear.
*4s the mutterings continued, he
drew his weapon, and said :
‘If you arc a man, 7 shall kill you.
If you are a ghost, this won’t hurt
you.’
lie then fired the weapon. There
was a quick motion ot the shrouded
arm, and the bullet was thrown back,
striking the head-board. He fired
the remaining barrels-^iq every case
the arm pretending to catch the
bullet and throw it against the head-
board—the ‘ghost’ having previously
supplied himself with bullets for this
purpose.
Then, for a moment he sat gazing
at the ’ghost,’ and with a wild shriek
of terror, fired the last blank cart,
ridge and hurled the pistol at the
object, With a laugh the visitor
threw off his garments anil in came
his comrades, when, to their horror,
they saw on the young man’s face an
expression which told the story.’
His mind could not stand the strain.
He was a raving maniac, and has not
yet recovered.
SECRETARY LINCOLN.
Philadelphia Press.
The present Secretary of JFar.
Lincoln is a very small man. He is
pre-eminently a snob, whose only
distinction is a beard upon which he
devotes a great portion of his time.
He has, however, got a boy who has
a good deal of the stuff in him which
made his grandfather the man that he
was. The boy, by the way, is also
named Ahraham. He is about twelve
years old, plump and muscular for
iiis age. He is a boy all over. He
is full of fun and play. In my daily
^alks to business I pass by his house,
flie youngster does not know my
name but alwat/s greets me with a
ueartt/ ‘Hello, newspaper man !’ Ho
is always out. 7 don’t think he spends
an hour indoors during the day. He
will walk with me half a square busi¬
ly talking about wrestling, ball play
and all sports dear to the mind of
the youngster, When I turn the
corner he says a hearty good-by and
runs back to his pl^y. He shows a
remarkably bright mind. / call him
my ‘adhesivel composition,’ from
which there in time will grow a
‘perfect bripk,' His face is as bright
as a dollar, and the healthy laugh of
the boy is good to the ear. Young
Abe is not at all ohqice in his eom-
pan ions, lie is always very prettily
dressed by his estimable mother, and
generally makes a very prominent
figure among his playmates who
gather in the vacant lot near Lis
home, His playmates I notice are
dirtv and ragged white boys, or more
dirty and more ragged young ne-
groes. To this there is no objection
whatever on the part of my young
friend. He plays and romps with
them fully, and the thought of his
superiority over them never enters
his mind. Like his simple but no
less great presidential ancestor, he
goes it without regard to race, color
\ TERMS— $1 50 A YEAR.
NO. 37
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or previous condition of servitude.
To illustrate the grit of the youngster,
7 will subscribe an example, Yester¬
day when walking home my attention
was called to an unusual commotion
on the vacant lot where young Abe
and his heterogeneous associates play.
I croseed the street and found a fight
in progress. It was a fight between
Abe and a negro boy much larger
than he. I started forward to inter¬
fere but was stopped by the young¬
ster saying : ‘Don’t you do nothing ;
I’ll lick him*’ True to his promise,
young Abe soon had the negro boy
down and yelling for quarter. In my
opinion, young Abe Lincoln is to day
a much greater man than his father,
aHd every boy who reads this and
knows the two will say the same.
HOW THE FRENCH
LIVES.
The French laborer probably gets
more for his wages than any other.
His food is cheaper and more nour¬
ishing. Ilis bouillon is the liquid
essence of beef, at a penny per bowl.
His bread, at the restauraut, is thrown
in without any charge, and is the best
in the world. His hot coffee and milk
is peddled about the streets in the
morning at a sou per cup. It is coff
ee, not slops. His half bottle of claret
is thrown in at a meal coating 12
cents. For a few cents he may enjoy
an evening atone of the minor thea¬
ters, with his coffee free. Sixpence
pays for a nicely-cushioned seat at the
theatre. No gallery gods, no pea¬
nuts, pipe-smoking, drunkenness,
yelling or howling. The Jaydin des
Plantes, the vast galleries and muse¬
ums of the Louvre, Hotel Cluny,
palace of the Luxembourg and Versail¬
les are free to him to enter. Art and
science hold out to him their choicest
treasures at a small cost, or no cost
at all. French economy and frugal¬
ity do not mean the constant re
trenchment and self-denial which
would deprive life of everything worth
living for. Economy in France, more
than any other country, means a
utilization of what America throws
away ; but it docs not mean a pinch-,
in i process of reducing life to a barren
existence of worA and bread and
water.—Brooklyn Eagle.
A TOUCHING INCIDENT.
A touching incident occurred at the
Midlothian mines, Virginia. Super¬
intendent Djdds mounted a coal car
and addressing the wailing throng
of women and childcn said t ‘My poor
friends, it grieves me to have to state
to you that for the present our search
for the bodies of those you knew and
loved will have to be abandoned.
Yon know what fire in a cual mine
means, and it rnay take months of
watching to subdue it. We will close
the pit now.’ The speaker’s voice
quivered with emotion. When he
finished, a beautiful little girl of four¬
teen years, Annie Crowder, the only
daughter of one of the victims, uttered
a piercing scream and rushed to the
mouth of the pit. crying: Oh, do
not leave my dear papa to burn down
there. Let me get into the cage logo
down after him. Let me save him.
Tue strong arms of the miners held
her back as the fragile thing tried to
make her way to the cage, and more
than one blacAened face was made
blacker as the hand went up to wipe
away the tears. Men sobbed aloud
and turned away to conceal their
emotion. The little girl, finding her
p ro ^ res3 Darred, swooned, at th© mouth
of the pit,
‘Mr. Brown, do you eat mush?’
asked a four year old fiend of bis
sisters beau- ‘Why, Johnnie?’ re-
sponded Mr, Brown. ‘Cos sister says
she wishes you wouldn’t talk like you
had a mouthful of mush.’ Sister
faints and Brown remembers that he
has an engagement iu Australia.—
Keokuk Gate City.
A STOOP ED-SHOULDERER*
countryman
WHO DIDN’T BELIEVE JN ^HRKMOXRTLT*
PANTS.
Aew Orleans Times.
Hoffenstcin was busily engaged
scolding Hermann lor not polishing a
lot of brass jewelry there was in a
show-case, when a thin, stooped-
shouldered countryman entered the
store and inquired:
‘77ave you got any good jean pants
here?’
•Certainly, rny Trent,’ replied Hoff-
enstein, ‘ve maAes a specialty uf
goods in dot line, und ve defy comps*
tition. If ve sells anyding und you
don’t like it, you get9 your money
back or someding else m exchange,
you know. Vas you a farmer?’
•Fes, sir, I live up on Red River.*
‘Vel, den, you need a pair uf bants
like dose,’ said Hoffcnstein, pulling
out a sky blue pair from a pile of
clothing on the counter. ‘Dey vas de
genervine doeskin, and will last de
whole year oud, you know.’
The countryman took the pants to
the light, examining the texture of
the cloth, and then shaking hi9 head
knowingly said i
‘There is too muoh cotton in them }
they will shrink.*
‘Of course my Trent dey villshrink,
but vait und I tells you soineding. 7f
a man vat owne3 a panfc or keeps a
store comes here, I don’t sell him dem
kind uf pants. Vy? Recause dey
vas made ’exbrcssly for de farming
pisiness. Dey vas de dermometer
pants, and aplessing to every farmer
vat rears a bair uf dem. Do you
know, my frcnt, dcsc pants vill dell
you exactly vat de vedder vill be. Van
it vas going to be vet und cold dose
pants vill 6egin to shrink up, und ven
it vas going to be dry und varm dcu
dey comes right down, you know.
Dree years ago I sells a bair uf dem
to a man vat vas name Vilkins, und
ever since den he makes good crops
ven de Oder beople don’t make nod-
ing, because he alrays knows py hia
dermometer bants vat de vedder vill
be. After ayile de beople in de
neighborhood finds out dc segret uf
Vilkin s success, und at de beginning
uf de blanting season, you know, dey
comes for dirty miles around, nnd if
dey see Vilkin’s bants crawling up
his leg dey holds off and vaits f >r a
change, but if h ; pants vas down
dey goes right ba k home, und puts
in de crop. DinA* of it, my Trent,
Mit de dermometer bants, you can dell
exactly ven to put in cabbage seed,
und plant corn dwiee as better as mit
any almanac, besides yen de vedder
gets so cold und yet dot de bants goes
up under your arms, yuu can sew
buttons on dc frunt und vear dem as
a vest.’
When Hotfenstein finished his yarn
concerning the pants, the countryman
smiled, and turning abruptly on hit
heel leftNfche store.
‘Did you see de vaj' dot roan acted,
Herman?’ said Hoffenstcin, angry.
‘Yes, sir,’ replied his clerfc,
‘Veil, it sliust shows dot de more
you dry to help some beople along,
de more, py dam, you don’t get any
tanks for it. —N. O, Times,
INGERSOLL’S EOSITION SOUND,
In his recent lecture ia New York
city Rqh Burdette, the Burlington
[Iowa] journalist, made a sensation
by his allusions to Bob Jngersoll.
The latter’s success, Burdette thought,
was owing to his overwhelming hu¬
mor, which made bis audience laugh
at their own dearest creeds. “And
I believe,’ continued Mr. Burdette,
seriously, while his audience was
hushed—“7 believe Colonel Inger-
soll’s position is sound.” There was
a moment s hesitation, and all the
tittering stopped, “I know,” continued
the speaAer, “it isn’t the thing to say
in this hall and to this audience; but
7 have said it, and won’t go back on
anything I have said.” It appeared
for a moment that Mr. Burdette’s can-,
dor had got the hetter of his discre¬
tion. He continued; ‘‘Rut that is
the trouble with Ingersoll, it is ali
sound, li£e a bass drum, and no sense.”
Then a good orthodox roar went up,
and everybody felt relieved.
Fatal Modesty.—A very mo lest
young Iadv. who was a passenger on
board a packet-ship, it is said, sprang
out of her berth and jumped over-
board, on hearing the captain, during
a storm, order the mate to haul down
the sheets.