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WOULDN'T LOOK AT A GIRL.
A BASHFUL MAS’S EXPERIENCE AS
RELATED BY H’MSELF.
Senator Sebastian of Arkansas,
says the Louisville Commercial,
a native of Hickman county,
On one occasion a member of
Congress was lamenting his bashful-
ness and awkwardness. ‘W by,’ said
the Senator from Arkansas, ‘You
don't know what basbfulnesi is. Let
me tell you a story, and when I get
through I will stand the bob if you
don't agree that you never knew
anything about basbfulness and its
baneful effects.. I was the most
bashful boy west of the Alleghanies,
1 wouldn’t look at a girl, much less
than speak to one; but for all that I
fell desperately in lose with a sweet
neighbor girl. It was a desirable
match on both sides, and the old
folks saw the drift, and fixed it up.
1 thought I should just die thinking
of it. 1 was a gawky, awkward
country lout, about nineteen years
old. She was an intelligent, refined,
and fairly well educated girl, in a
country, and at a time when the girls
had superior advantages, and were,
therefore, superior in culture to the
boys. I fixed the day as far as 1
could have it put off. I lay awake
in cold perspiration, as the time
drew near, aod shivered with agony
as I thought of the terrible ordeal*
‘The dreadful day came, I went
through the programme somehow in
a dazed, confused, mechanicaf sort
ol way, like an automaton booby
through a supper where I could eat
nothing, and through such games as
Jpossum pie/ ‘Sister Phoebe/ and all
that sort of thing. The guests one
by one departed and my hair began
to stand on end. Beyond the awful
curtain of Isis lay the terrible till
known. My blood grew cold and
boiled by turns, I was in a fever
ami then an ague, pale and flushed
by turns. 1 felt like fleeing to the
woods, spending the night in the
barn, leaving for the west never to
return. I "'as deeply denoted to
Sal lie. 1 loved her harder than a
mule can kick, but Unit dreadful
ordeal I could not, I dared not stand
it. Finally the last guest was gone,
the bride retired, the family gone to
bed, and l was left alone ,• horror ot
horrors, alone with the old rain.
».Iohn,’ said he, ‘you can take that
candle ; you will find your room just
over l hi6'. Good night, John, and
may the Lord have mercy on your
soul,’ and with a mischievous twinkle
of his fine grey eye, the old man left
the room, I mentally said ‘Amen,’
to his “Heaven help you,’ and when 1
heard him close a distant door stag-
gcred to 1113’ feet ami seized the
farthing dip with a nervous grasp. 1
stood for some minutes contemplating
my terrible fate and the inevitable
and speedy doom about to overwhelm
me. I knew it could not be avoided,
and 3 r et 1 hesitated to meet my fate
like a man. I stood so long that
three love letters had grown on the
wick of the tallow dip and a winding
sheet was decorating the side of the
brass candle stick.
*A happy thought strueA* me. I
hastily climbed the stair, marked the
position of the landing and the door
of the bridal chamber. I would have
died before I would have disrobed in
that holy chamber, where awaited me
a beautiful and trembling girl, a
blushing maiden,‘clothed upon’with
her own beauty aud modesty, and her
snowy robe do uoit. 1 would make
Uie usual preparations without, blow
out the light, open the door, and
frieudly night would shield my
shrinking modestv and bashfulness,
and grateful darkness at least mitigate
the horrors of the situation. It was
scon done. Preparations for rpiiriug
were few and simple in their charac-
ter in Hick man. altogether consisting
of disrobing, and owincr to a scarcity
of cloth in those days, man was
somewhere near the Adamic state
when he was prepared to woo sweet
sleep The dreadful hour had come ;
1 was ready. I blew out the liiiliL
cramped the door knob with a deathly
•Trip and nervous clutch ; one moment
and it would all be over. One moment
and it wasn’t over bv a d-n
Heaped within, and ‘there-around a
irl 0 win fT liicaorv fire, with candles
brightly burning on the mantel and
bureau, was the blushing bride,
rounded by six lovely bridesmaids
fjf it r- OCCOA NEWS
By Edw- SCHAEFER- r
y QJ\,^ J ^
WHITE AND BLACK.
THE YOUNG DAUGHTER OF A WEALTHY
RESIDENT OF HOf,YOKE MARRIES
THE WRONG MAN.
Hartford, June 16.-To day
Adolphus Hal!, a lull b.ooued negro,
was arrested here for bigamy. On
May 13 he married Mamie Grover?
a white girl, daughter of Win. Grover.
su p er i u te n dent of a mill in Holyoke,
y. lsg ^ | le being already married to
Jennie Chase Ilall, colored. Two
years ago Hall and liis wife were
employed in the stewards' depart¬
ment of Trinity College in this city.
They quarreled frequently, and in the
fall of 1881 Hall abandoned her and
fled the town. In the early part of
the present year he went to Holyoke
Mass., and found employment on the
place of a wealthy resident of that
town. Adjoining the premises is the
Young Ladies’ High School. Miss
Grover was a pupil there, and had
opportunity of frequently seeing Hall
at ids work.
At length tlmy met, and the girl
became infatuated with him. Her
father's commands and threats were
unheeded, and at es r ery opportunity
she had clandestine meetings with
Hall. Soon afterward the couple fled
to Springfield, Mass., and were mar¬
ried by tiie Rev, Mr. Garrett, a retired
white clergyman, Mamie falsely
swearing that she was over 18 years
of age, Her father learned of this
clandestine marriage the next day?
ftnJ l(>cked up his daughter and used
ever y efiort to bring about a divorce,
but he was stoutly opposed by Ma
mic, who would not consent to a sep¬
aration. Hall fled. Recently Mr
Grover heard of Hall s first marriage,
and steps were taken to arrest him
for bigamy- He was arrested this
morning on arriving here from .Vie-
riden, and on refusing to go to Mas¬
sachusetts without a requisition he
was locked up here, lie professed a
will ngness to do anything which
may be necessary for a legal separa¬
tion from A/amic. Hall is 30 years
of age. quick wilted and cautious.
Mamie is 17, a blonde, handsome and
accomplished Her father is rich.
DE LONG’S PARTY,
particulars of the finding of
THE BODIES.
[By Telegraph.]
New York, June 20.—The Herald
has the following particulars of the
discovery' of DeLong’s party .* A fter
Aielville readied the neighborhood
where Ninderman and Noros left
DcLong, he found the wicek of a
scow, and soon came upon a rifle
barrel supported b\ r a few sticks.
Digging near these sticks they found
two bodies undcr 8 feet of tine snow,
4
Exploring further, Melville found a
tent, camp kettle and remains, and
approaching, nearly stumbled upon
DeL ng’s baud, sticking cut of the
snow about thirty feet fr 9 m the edge
ofthebank. Here, under a foot of
snow, they found the bodies of Do-
Long and Ambler, about three feet
apart, with Fam lying at their feet.
All were partially covered by pieces
of the tent and a few pieces of blank-
et. All the others, except. Alexia.
they found at the place where the
tent was pitched. Lee and Koch
were close by in a cleft in a bank
toward the west. None of the dead
had boots. Their feet were covered
with rags tied on. In the pockets of
all were pieces of burnt skin clothing.
which thev had been eating. The
hands of all were more crlegs burned,
and looked as if when dying they had
into the fire. Bovd was lying
over the fire, his clothing being
burned through to the sUn, which
was not burned. Collins' face was
covered with a cloth. All of the
bodies were carried to the top of a
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TOCCOA, GA., JULY l,
hill 3C0 feet high, about forty versts
to the southwest from where they
were found, and there interred in a
mausoleum constructed of wood from
the scow, built in the form of a
pyramid, twenty two. feet long and
seven feet high, surmounted by
cross twenty two feet high and a
toot square, hewn out ol driftwood,
and conspicuous at a distance of
twenty versts.
COL. MAROLLLUS E. THORN
TON.
Sunny South.
No doubt many good hearts were
touched by a recent card in the
Constitution, over the signature of
•A Friend,’ writing in behalf of Col.
Thoreton, and in which it was said
that all he wanted or asked lor was
that the proscription be removed
from him personally. We do not
thine Col. Thornton has any good
grounds for believing that he is in
any way proscribed in this communi¬
ty, for the people regard him as an
exceedingly cleyer, obliging uud
progressive young man, and in evi¬
dence of their appreciation of his
energy and moral worth they are
giving his excellent paper, the Lost-
Appeal, a large and paying patronage.
The truth is, his success is remarka¬
ble, and only in one thing has he
displayed finer judgment than in the
character of the men vvitfi whom lie
has surrounded himself. In Mr.
DeWitt, his chief editor, he has
secured an able and thorough news-
paper man and a strong and versatile
writer, and in Mr Reid, the chief
associate of Mr. DeWitt, he has an
amiable, cultured and brilliant para-
graphist whose place could not be
easily tilled, while Mr. Bran nan, his
chief roustabout seems to be ubiqui.
tons. He is everywhere at the same
time with his sharpened Faber, and
takes iu all there is a going. Mr.
Crenshaw, his chief business mana-
ger, and Mr. Pal suer, his assistant,
are excellent gentlemen with large
experience and agreeable manners-,
These are some of the men with
whom Col. Thornton has surrounded
himself, and as before remarked he
has displayed better judgment in
only one selection, and that is in the
chief copartnership of his business
generally. As all will testify who
have met Mrs. Marcellus Thornton,
she is a most excellent, highly
cultured and agreeable lady. She is
regarded by all as a most valuable
acquisition to Atlanta society, and
we only trust she is as much pleased
with her new home as her numerous
friends and admirers are with her.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
We understand that the Supreme
Lodge K. of II., at their annual
session in Baltimore, made it a law
of the order that on and after July
1, 1882, no person over fifty years old
shall be admitted to its membership
the law ns it now stands takes in
those up to afty five years. The rates
ol assessments remain unchanged.
They alsp provide for a reserve fund,
created through assessments at first.
and left in the hands of Grand
Lodges, which is to prevent the regu-
lar assessments cf its members in-
creasing annually over a certain
amount. This, while not yet a law,
will be held over till the next session
of the Supreme Lodge, in order that
the subordinate lodges may have
time to examine its provisions.
The question of a change of ritual.
which has been up for three years or
more, as the matter of separate State
juris Jictions, was not approved by
the Supreme Lodge, it being con3id-
ered unwise to make any change at
present. Everything of a legislative
character that was passed was with a
view of a perpetuity and permanency
of the order, which i3 now an assured
fact,---Sayan pah News,
SOMETHING INTERESTING
ABOUT THE EVERDAY
LIFE OF UNCLE SAM’S
WASHINGTON
EM PLOT ES.
Tb*government and its employes
bear a> relation to our city
similar to that of a college and its
students to the little Now England
village where it is located. There arc
enough office-holders who are resi*
dents of Washington to make a good
sized city of themselves, in the
various departments the work goes
on the same from one year's cud to
another, and one would scarcely
realize how great the number of
employes in the various departments
is. The number is about 10,008.
This is exclusive of the capital, city
P ost offi ce and district government
offices. This body of government
employes forms not only a large but
a very intelligent and agreeable
element of the population of Washing-
ton. A large proportion of them
are people of thought, education and
refinement, and their presence would
be an acquisition to any community.
The remuneration ot’ the employes
in the departments varies somewhat
but generally the salaries range from
$900 to $2,000 for clerical work, the
latter being given to those who occupy
responsible or particularly
positions, and the first generally
to copyists, a great many of whom
are ladies, The latter are hard-
worked and they wor/; well and
receive the smallest remuneration, but
the wqlf is ept from the door of many
a family by their eafuest endeavors.
A great many of them once belonged
to families' of wealth, bnt reverse
came and they arc glad to be able to
work for a living. In the Treasury
Department there are over five
hundred lady clerks and in the bureau
or engraving and printing as many
more, /a the Treasury and interior
Departments changes are most fre-
quent, and it is in these mostly that
women are employed, aud every now
and then there arc rumors of pending
changes which set their hearts flutter-
ing with dread until the danger
over.
A. position iq the State Department
is considered a permanent thing. It
U run on a plan similar to our army and
navy. When some one dies promo-
tions take place, and there is a chance
for an appointment. In the M ar and
jVqyy Departments, also, changes dp
not often occur, and many a clerk
whose hair is now white entere 1 the
service when a young man. Employes
perform their labors in a remarkably
satisfactory manner. In fact it is
apparent that the government cler*,
taken on the average, has greatly
improved in many respects w it hip
the past dozen years.
HOW GARFIELD LOOKS.
q H ^ v , v of Iowa Visits the
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C ’ ev0ian ' t4a ‘ a -
Gov. Sherman, of Iowa, who is
visiting at Elmira, N. Y., said to a
reporter there the other day: T saw
President Garfield a day or two ago
in Cleveland. You need not look
astonished; I really saw him—not
his spirit, b it his own form and
features. I had visited his tomb to do
homage to the spot where the martyr-
President was sleeping. The watch-
man iu charge, on learning whence I
came and who I was, asked me if I
would lile to see the President. I was
greatly surprised as you can be. He
simply showed me he was in earnest,
invited me into the tomb, unscrewed
and removed the lid from the sacred
casket, and there lay General Garfield
before me, just as he looked the day
of ills funeral as if in a veary.-uflre-
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freshing sleep. 1 was surprised, for
despite the emaciation of those noble
features, I was at once struck with their
likeness to the General as I had seen
him alive, I presume that years will
pass ere the preserving traces of the
embalmer’s work will have been
removed from all that is left qn earth
Garfield.
A reporter of the Herald, with the
above extract in hand, visited Lake
View cemetery to make an inquiry in
regard to the matter and learn if it
was true that the remains of the dead
Presided had been exposed to view
even to satisfy the curiosity of the
Governor of Iowa. The sexton being
interviewed about the matter, said it
was true that Governor Sherman had
been allowed to view the remains ol
the dead, but that he bad nothing to
say or do in the case, The 7tcys_ of
the vault were in possession of
Lieutenant Van Yliet, of the Tenth
United States Infantry, the officer in
charge ol the detail ot soldiei* guards
Lig the tomb, aqd the lieutenant
unlocked the gate ot the \au.t,
unscrewed the lid that covers the glass
plate set into the top of the coffin,
and allowed Governor Gherman and
party to view the remains.
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COL. CASH AGAIN AT HIS
LAWLESSNESS.
Special lo the News and Courier.
Columbia, Juno 20-Thc absorb-
lug topic of conversation in Columbia
to day has been the serious personal
difficulty which is said to have taken
place in Cheraw on last Saturday
between Col. 15. 13. C. Cash and Capt.
I heodore . ,, h. Malloy.. ,, ,,
The story it ., . v here, for <•
as is given .
the truth of which, however, 1 do not
vouch, teas follows: On last Satur-
day , Col. ,, , Cash i went «. to v Uie.aw, and „ n q : m n
company with Mr. \\ e ls and several
other ■ friends went lo the store o. Mi.
()a aching t the store Col.
1 w Cttp MttH oy. who
was present, and , asked , . him , . it ... be bud . ,
said that Col. Blair, of Kershaw, was
no better than Whiltemore. Malloy
replied that he had said so ; where-
upou Col Cash called him a damned
liar ; Malloy at once struck Cash,
and Cash falling over a plough that
was Ending iu the store Malloy
S p ran g ° on tt>p of him. Several
bloW3 wcrc struck by each of the
parties, but friends interfered and
jq ie y ^ere separated.
On Sunday, as the story goes, Mr.
B. Cash, Col. Cash’s son, went
tQ Cheraw, carrying with him a
c i ia llenge to fight a duel Irom his
fl , ther to Capt. Malloy. Capt.
jialloy declined to receive the
on the ground that the day was
Sunday and not the proper time for
ma king arrangements for a hostile
meeting,
On Moadav (vostcflnv) Col. C»»b
aud hie son went to Cheraw,
Cash on horseback and Col. Cash on
the train. [Then the train reached
Cheraw Cob Cash was arrested as
soon as be . got oii Ike tra:n, and , was
£ * aired lum “ t>nc a o“ ’ cr'e
thousand debars to , keep the , peace.
Through the influence of his counsel
Gen. W. L. T. Prince, the amount o
bond was afterwards reduced to
hundred dollars- This ionc was
given by Co). Cash m this a, “ OUDt
and he returned to his borne a Casas
Depot m the afternoon.
Efforts were made to arrest young
Cash, but the of cer, were e
and up to the time my informant left
Cheraw he bad no„ been biou^ i
before the magistrate.
An efiort was made by tne vev. E.
Buist to sett.e the difficulty
between Col. Cash an 1 Capt. Mallov
but wichout success.
A great deal of excitement
vails in Cheraw oier the
and unfortunate consequences are
expected to result from it.
J. C. H.
A PARTICULAR ADVERTISER.
‘llow much will this cost in your
paper?’ asked a quiet looking man,
as he handed in the following advcr-
tisement a few days since :
Smith —Rusted a trace in this city,
Friday, jest after dinner, Mary wife
of the undersigned and daughter of
old Sam Pratt, the leading black-
smith of Denver, Colorado, The
corpse was highly respected l>y the
high-tond’est families, but death got
the drop on her, and she kicked^the
bucket with perfect confidence that she
would have a square show the other side
of the Divide. The plant transpires
this afternoon at her boarding house
on Willow Street. Come one, come
all.
Dearest Mary thou hast left ns,
For you on earth there wasn't room;
But ’tis Heaven that has bereft us,
-dad suatyhed our darling up the
Hume.
Denver papers please copy and
end bill, or draw on sight.
By her late husband.
P. Smith.
T don’t believe you want it just
that way do you? asked the clerk,
rubbing his chin dubiously. "■*
4 Why nqt, stranger?’ asked the
quiet man.
‘It don't read quite right, dogs it?*
asfced the cler/r. *
‘M as you acquainted with the
corpse, stranger?’ demanded the mau,
*\\ as you aware of the late lamented
while she was bustling around iq
society down at that boarding
house?’
-I don’t know that I ever met her,’
responded the clerk.
‘So 1 reckoned, Judge ; you wasn’t
up to the deceased when she was in
the living business. Now judge, the
deceased wrote that cralion herself
afore she died, and 1 want it published*
Do you hook on parduer?’
‘But it isn’t our style of notice?’
objected the clerL'
mine, neither,’ acquiesced the
picture ““'t and a /, lot Wa more * ft tali, '“ but V, “ 8 sire , ‘
wanted to be quiet and modest, so
that up. bay stranger,
»* gomsmU. yo»r valuable space
without difficulty? J
T don t know, ’ said the clerk, , ,
1
do eiu ^
’I know, pardner. lhm . colcbra-
tion conies off to-morrow afternoon
^ ^ , g iu in Ul0 morlung if
, lu of „ caDuoas mouth
.
Oe got gnet . „ enough , on my v brums .
now stranger, iv .thout erectmg a fort
on the sidewalk, but if you want war
^ ^ ijp nU rigIlt in tbo
back part of these mourning clothes,
*** tW Uk
Docs it maAe . any difference where
lt . fiCS? aske 4 th clerk.
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I want u iu the paper, said the
niomner, ,in ' ' ^ 111,1 114 a es
ApiiCtiimu lin ^ I ou caa
my racket stranger?’
‘All right, replied the clerfc, ‘I U
pu« it in among t e mourn u lemar's.
1 °m dollais, it 3 on please,
^ , usiuess ’ an< ^ ie
$uaq paid the | money. ‘It . you ain t
come aiound to monow. 1 in
going to give the old woman a good
3cnd atu.it the gospeller don’t
w0 ^ a l )iet ‘T L r ° od programme
be tore he gets to the < oxo logy his
folks will think fee s been doiug con¬
siderable business with a saw mill.
She w» «good one, jud^e, and she
pious from the back of her neck
^ »“ ker heel; you can
tell that irom the notice/ and the
mourning widower wiped hU eyes on
the sK, apd later in the day was
fined ben dollars for thrashing the
undertaker, who had put silver ban-
on the cas/cet instead of gold.
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The last legislature appointed a
committee to investigate the State
ro ad lease and tuat committee
recommended to the governor to
require the lessees to make a new
bond, ana in the event ot their fail
ure, to Ring suit ,o recover the *_tate
road and set aside the lease. Gpv-
Coiquiti notified bov. Brown
that he must ma*e a new bond, No
steps were taken to comply with the
order, so the governor has taken legal
steps to set aside the lease. Attorney
General Anderson has filed the
papers. The governor has employed
Capt. Ilarrv Jackson to assist the
attorney general. This will be the
most important suit commenced m
Georgia in many a year, and no doubt
will be stubbornly resisted.—Augus T
ra News.