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ALL SORTS.
Canned fruits are sealed proposals for
future lunches.
A had lot—The iotyoi have to pay taxes
on and can’t sell.
‘Tis an “nil” wind that blo*3 nowhere.—
New York N *ws. *
The ap t n- ,, arv clerk a b] th * bartender
mix in all kinds of company.—-Boston
Tran* cript.
A relic hunt r—a fellow endeavoring to
cupture a widow, Fast trains—stuck in the
snow wit u no provision-! aboard.—Balt ra jre
News.
Sometbing new in woolens—a baby iu its
first flannel shirt.—Folio, Something < Id
in woolens—Mary’s Little Lamb.—Salem
Mas*., Contributor.
The railway passenger agents are dis-
cussing the subject of transportation <f
corpses This will, no doubt, be ot interest
to dead-heads—Boston Transcript.
Mme. Modjeska says her name proper‘y
spelled is Modezejewska. But what of that.!
Our Emma Aboou's real name is Bjemm: j
Bjabbottj—Denver Tribune.
A Londoner advertises a powder which
will prevent cats running around and mak-
iag a noise at night. It is black and is put
into a gun and makes a noise itself. Phil-*
adelphia Press.
The Arizona papers are bewailing the
death of Wagner because, they say, he was
the only man who ever bad the neive to
start an opposition to the Pullman Car
Company.—Denver Tribune.
“Yes, s’r,” said the wood dealer, “I pre¬
fer to sell wood to men who do their own
sawing. You can’t convince a man who
has woik* d all day at a wood pile that
there isn’t a full cord of it.’ —Boston Post
The indifference Which reaches sublimity
was exhibited by the prisoner ox trial for
murder in Connecticut who fell asleep in
the court room.—Yonkers Gazette. It was
indeed an nod spectacle.—New York
News.
A Boston woman has lust completed a
$20,000 mansion entirely out of the proceeds
from the sale of doughnuts. Our slangy
contrii uter thinks she must have bad the
kind of customers that “took the. cake.
Norristown Herald.
A hen pecked hesband read an account
of an Illinois clergyman who dropped dead
as he was about to unite a couple in mar-
riage. “Ah," ho sighed, heavily, “the mir.-
ister who married Sallie and me postponed
his death until after the ceremony, —Brook¬
lyn Eagle.
The Chinese have no word that is equiva¬
lent to hell, ai d no conception of such a
place. A mi*sionary in an agricultural dis¬
trict of China states that when he tried to
explain it, ihe people asked it it. wes any¬
thing that could be raised. We trust he
answered that it was.— Boston Post.
Why Washington is Roma inhered.
Ttvs is essentially an ieonoel istic age and
an alarming number of idoi- of history have
bseu knocked down from their pedestals of
late and found to be only common clay.
It is a ootab'e thine that neither th j philo¬
sophic historian on the ooe hand nor the
digger up of secret memoir* on the other
hus in any way dimmed the lustre that for
near a century has surrounded the figure
of Washington. There was a time when an
arificial and exaggerated idealism threaten¬
ed to ratse the character of W ashing on.
so far above all human sympathy or inter
est as to make it practiaa'ly valueless for
influence or example. W e have found out
now th t our hero was not hedged by any
such divinity as should exempt him from
ever} day scrutiny; but being only a man
of ordinary human impulses and endow¬
ments he maintained a character so pure
aud a purpose so true that he wili stand for
all times as a type of honorable manhood
and devoted citizenship. ^
The great importance of Washington’s
place in history l es in the very tact that
he was not a phenomenal man, except as
ive may regard as phenomenal so rare a
combination ot those qualities of human ex¬
cellence that in most men are mingled
sparing'}' with baser qualities, Beaeath
and above his military skill and his politi¬
cal judgment was the noble character—the
marvelous equipose, the unselfish devotion
the unswerving integrity—that gave victory
(o th- -oldierand to the statesman influence
and power.
Most of the great men of the world have
bad some darker side, in their public or in
their private lives, that we must agrse to
forget; but we may turn the full light ot in¬
quiry upon Washington, as a soldier, as a
statesman or as a man, and find nothing
that we need to cover up, nothing that les¬
sens our respect for cue who holds a place
in the hearts of his countrymen—in the
hearts of all enlightened people— such as
no other man, however ardently admired,
has ever held. And this, alter all, is the
test of eudunng houor, the secret oi eudur-
ing influence It is th s that will make it
always worth our while to keep the birth-
day *t Washington as a holiday, for our-
selves and our children, whatever other days
of patriotic commemoration may fail into
ae nect. H» was not alone a great man in
bis ntsurne, time ■ he *3 was a type iv of public r and pri- f
vate virtues, tbe patriotis m, tbe integrity,
strength of lolty purpose, that make men
really great in evrey time.—Philadelphia
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VOLUME X.
te Modem Deluge.
The future scientist from timbuctoo, trac-
growth of centuries, would write out the story
0 f thedu’geof 1883. At first the inhabitants
w9 | corne( ] the rise of the Ohio as a promise
eoa | aft< j irrigation. As it kept on
they thought it a sensation, and began to
| »!um- than,selves on the prospect of as high
w*ier as the flood of 1817 and even ot 1832
T> ey looked on the calamity of the poor
ptopic who were driven from habitations
n -ar the river, ar.d on the hurry of mer-
c i, Rnl8 \ u lifting heavy goods out of their
cfc jj arg j n “ t bottom.” It kept oo, and
merchants had to move again, and were
driven out of the first stcry, and a multi¬
tude of poor peop’e were homeless, leaving
their all in the rising waters.
Then the Gas Works were submerged, and
the city left in darkness; then the Water
Works, leaving the great city without water
in a flood. The coal yards were in the
midst of a sea. The railroad stations and
tracks were drowned. The whole people
began to realize that, a great calaranity was
upou them. Yet they thought that when
the flood had reached the hight of 1832 it
would be satified, and recede; but it kept
on. Communication with the country was
cut off, and the flood was the same in the
country. A famine for food came on top
of a light famine, a water famine, and with
inhabitants driven from their houses by the
continually advancing waters Churches
*nd all public buildings were crowded, and
every house that was still above water was
invaded by all it could hold, until these in
turn had to fly tc higer ground.
The mind cannot conceive the anguish
and terror of ihi*, when the population of a
great city was all in the same terror and
suffering. It was a pandemonium of hunger
cold and desperation. Many iu their des¬
pair refused to leave their dwellings, and
these were found, centuries after, by the
excavations of discoverers, man and wife,
p .rents and children, loVt-r and maiden,
mother and the babe at her breast, in
mutual embrace, buried in the yellow earth
i brought down by the river flood, The
semi crime of hills was crowded with hun¬
dreds of thousands of shelterless, starving
people, fast dying of want, exposure terror
anq despair. Since the flood must be, it
was m> reiful that its rise was at an accel
erating rate. It surrounded the Hills and
climbed on over the highest parts, until at
last only one spot, a narrow knoll, stood
above the dreadful wilderness of waters.
Here, upon a pile ot stones which had
heaped, sit the last survivor of the inhabi¬
tants of Cincinnati. Even his portrait, in
a painting of the scene, was found, strangley
preserved. The last man’s wife has died of
want and terror in his arms, aud now lies
float!> g on the r sing waters by the rocks
He sits on the rock, almost destitute of ap
parel, contemplating the dreadful waters
with, countenance in which a fine conception
has mnrtgbd with wonderful art the expres¬
sion of tendernei 8, suffering, hopeless, des*
pair, plucky determination and defiance,
which tell the story of the dreadful tragedy,
and express an heroic soul that feels as a
man and, as a man that has suffered the
worst, defies all that ean yet come to him.
A picture of all the calamities of the
deluge is concentrated in this single figure.
An idea is entertained by many that crea
lion is ever repeating itself in great cycles;
that what now is has been thousands of
years before, and will be again. If this
brief narrative is not the history of the
deluge of 1883, it is of the former deluge,
aud of that which will be. And as the de¬
luge is a moral suasion, to be sent at times
when the wickedness of the world has
overcome all the ordinary instrumentalities,
an extraordinary rise in the rivers is to
every one a loud call for moral intrcspec
tion.
Lucky and Unlucky Names.
The superstition with which human na¬
ture is unfortunately so largely endowed, is
manifest in names as clearly as in habits.
The ancients were very much more strong
ly inclined to this branch of superstition
than ourselves, and among them it rose
eveu to the dignity of a science. Casting
up the numerals in a name was a common
means of prognostication, and the fortune-
tellers set great store by it. When there
j was a eaU for troops among the Romans, it
j was particularly deyred that the first vol-
uuteer should have a lucky name, such as
Fe ix, Fortunatus o- the like. If by any
! chance the name should be unlucky, the
troops went forth with feartul f ood mgs of
defeat. One Roman historian hints tnat
the defeat of Cannae was owning to the fact
that the first volunteer was a wretch gui.ty
of the crime of being named Cain, which
was an n nnmp ' Thf> nimp
Hauuibal, Grace Aaal wa* coustaere , ,
or 0
have some maJe power, and more credit
was considered due to it for its owner’s
Devoted to News, Politics, Agriculture and General Progress,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, MARCH 17, 1883.
victories than t he Gartha>'enian arms
When the ceosus was taken, the enumera¬
tors .!«»>-„ wtth a tarty name, aud
prise. The name Julia was unlucky, but
Julian and Jovlin were fortunate. Cai-
dinal-% when elected to the papacy, have
usually changed their names, it is said, from
superstition that if the change weie not
made the new pope would die in less than a
tw ive month. Ag.'.es is believed to be an
unlucky name, but Blanch is fortunate. In
general, all names are lucky which are
indicative of some pleasing emotion or con-
nected with some fortunate historical indi¬
vidual. Alexander is lucky, so is Julius,
so also is David, but John is bad, Judas is
worse, and Ananias and Lucifer the worst
of all. Jezebel is unlucky, together with
Sophia and Julia, while Mary, the name of
the virgin, is the most fortunate in the list.
There are extant several books which have
been written to show in what consists the
good or evil fortune of a name, and most of
them derive the reason from incidents
connected with some individual who has
been either singularly blessed or cursed in
bis career, and has thus attracted attention
to his uame.
Woman’s Bangs.
Nature has given woman a forehead,
which is one of her chief adornments. The
Flathead Indians think the forehead a mis-
take, ana mash it out of all decent shape
by pressing the heads of their infants be-
tween cruel boards. This gives the heads
thus mashed an idiotic and inelegant ap-
pearanee. We do not permanently deprive
woman of her forehead by flattening out
her skull; but the caprice of the hair-fash-
ioner has put the forehead info temporary
retirement. - The lady t> ims her hair so that
a considerable portion of it falls over in
front toward the eyes. The curtain of hair
thus hiding the best part of the forehead
is known by the came of ‘bang.” No
satisfactory account is given either of the
origin of the name or the invention of the
fashion. There are fashions wh'ch have
some reasonable apology for their existence,
in intrinsie beauty, physical healtbfulness
or beneficent moral effect. The “bang” is
uot one of these. It spoils a high brow and
is of no advantage to a low one. It reduces
the' appearance of an intellectual young
lady to something like very ordinary medi-
ocrity. If it appears in the style of a few
graceful curls airily and saucily playing
about the top of the forehead, there maybe
a degree of beauty in it. The curly bang is
sometimes seen, but it has of late largely
*,ven way to that whioa , . » cut on a .tratght
iiue and brushed down m the direction ot
the eyes and nose.—Philadelphia Press.
Th8 Slow Growth of Christian Clnrac‘or.
There can be no instantaneous blossom-
ing of a human soul. God’s work in it must
be gradual. ____ The regular sequence
changes always take place. They cannot
be marked by times aud hours. Few men
b ive a chronologic disclosure of the stages
of conversion Many of the steps were be-
fore there vva3 any outward appaearance
All family training, all right knowledge ot
the truth, the cultivation ot sweet disposi¬
tions and all amenities of life help to forma
Christian character. It is wrong to say that
ihe minor morals are of no benefit b fo e
^ feHgious life Bnt th ^ re is a point of
in(Jtalltane0U8 change , when tbe balance
turns Tbe preliminary sta g es , to the
Christ _ Hfe are Uke the prPpavator y s{eps t0
a coUeg ; ate education. There must be root
work. Morality is good as a foundation, but
it must be built upon. All tl at tended to
teach restraint must be good. There is no
sharp line between the children of God and
the children of the devil called conversion,
for after the balauce is struck, one may no?
know it. Many in this congregation are
converted aud do not know it.—H. W-
Beecher.
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A Ranch Dinner.
Have you ever taken your midday meal
at a comfortable ranch ? You all sit down
t< gether, men—the “boys,” as they are
always called—boss, and visitors, and the
species of provisions that you see piled on
the 'able is to an inexperienced mind simply
appalling Huge dishes full of great chunks
of smoking beef, masses of steaming pota-
toes, small mountains of bread, slaw (raw
cab bage salad), pickles, mush green corn,
stewed apples, pie, fresh butter, jugs of
milk, and the inevitable jorum of molasses
are ail there to tempt the appetite already
whetted by the keen bracing air. Tea and
coffee are the 1 quids used to wash down the
solids. It is wonderful wkat ihe boys will
eat. I saw one with my own eyes not long
ago en{ three huse helpings of vemsou
stew, and tb*n fid up the crevices with the
I’ghter uelicscies, alter which P beaming
smile stole across his featur-s, a C_
b j g p i pe he softly murmured . *‘Wal, I'll
blamed if I don’t feel kmder crowded.”
—Loudon Field.
Caring Consumption.
A good story is told of a well kuown
^ ^ ^ much Iedto
that i—
the disease was unknown among the
lumbermen of Maine, he instituted an in¬
quiry as to the < iet aud habits of the wood-
choppers. To his surprise he found that
their chief diet was salt pork, and that their
principal drink was whisky, whereupon he
prescribed pork aud whisky for his Boston
consumptive patients not, however, with
happy results. The, real secret of immun¬
ity of tne lumberman was that he lived in
the pine woods and luid abundant exercise
in the open air. Two Paris physicians,
MM. de Bore and Beaumetz, h ive invented
a system of treating consumption which is
said to be quite successful. It consists in
a practice styled superalimentation, which
is not only overfeeding but forced feeding
by means of pumps and other appliances.
It is found that patients who cannot retain
food in their stomachs in the ordinary way
are not inconvenienced when literally
immense quantities of food are introduced
into the system by a pump. The diet is a
composition of minced lean meat, which is
dried and then pounded into a powder. It
is then mixed with milk or bouillon and
sometimes raw eggs are added This is
found to be highly nutritious and easily
digested, and has proved to be as efficacious
in hysteria and other wasting diseases as in
consumption, for which it was first devised,
The first dose given is not more than twen-
ty five gramme's per meal, but the quantity
is gradually and rapidly increased until the
large portion of GOO grammes is daily given,
which is equivalent to about four pounds of
lean meat. How large this quantity really is
is shown by the fact that one pound of meat
is quite sufficient for an ordinary working
man, and two litres of milk and several eggs
are required in the administration of the
dose. The report ’13 that the consumptives,
if not too tar gone, have rapidly gained in
weight under this process, their daily aver-
age having ranged from eighty to one
hundred grammes. The cough is less
frequent, and the lungs begin to heal under
this .forced feeding, which, it is added,
works as well in dyspepsia as iu phthisis,
never producing nausea or vomiting, the
food being passed down the throat without
any objection on the part of even hysteri-
cal women. No doubt the experiments of
these French physician will soon be tested
in this country.— Demorest’s Monthly,
About Clocks.
What should we do without our time
pieces? Yet the world wagged on for con-
turies and knew not , he , uxuriaa of a watch
or clock. It was net till the middle of tne
fourteenth century that clocks were invent
ed. Or rather, the oldest clock in existence
bear 3 that date. The first time measurer
Wf ts probably a post set in the ground. The
sun dial was an improvement on this. Lhe
Egyptians ha 1 an instrument called a
Clepsydra, which was merely a vessel full
of water with a hole in the bottom by which
the liquid escaped, Two hundred years be-
■ ore Christ an Egyptian made improvement
on this, by causing the escaping water to
turn wheels which raised a rod, marked so
;s to po’nt to the hour. Then sand was
used instead of water. The hour glass was
a time measurer for many centuries of Eu-
r0 P e - In IG58 Huggen, the famous Dutch
philosopher, first applied the pendulum to
the clock, and thus led directly to those
subtle improvements which renders our pre-
sent clocks the most perfect of human con
trivancea.—The Eye,
Caster and a Thoroughbred.
Buffalo Bill tells a new story about his
fi r3 t ride with Custer. “In 1867,” he says, “I
was post guide ani scout at Fort Hays, Kan.
Befors that time I had met General Custer
,vhen he was stationed at old Fort Fletcher,
but I was not well acquainted with him.
One evening early in June he came into
Hays with only a little escort and was on a
forced march to Fort Larned which is 65
miles from the fortner place. At that time
there were, of course no railroad connec-
tions. When the General expressed a wish
for some guide to accompany him, the com
manaingofficer detailed me, and orders *ere
given to start at daylight the following morn-
ing. At the time my best long-distance
horse was a big, mouse colored mule, and as
I had heard what a lightning ‘traveler
Custer wa3, I knew that only my best run*
ner would do to keep ahead of the 'Whirl-
wind,’ as the Indians ca led him, I thought
I would be prompt and ahead of the Gener-
al at daylight, but wuen I arrived he was
already on the ground with his staff and or-
deriies. Wnen I rode up I noticed him
eyeing tbe animal I was riding, aud when
I announced that I was to be his guide he
assented, bat said I would have to get a bet¬
ter horse. It would, I would find, take
something better than an old mule to keep
ahead ot him. I vigorously maintained
that the mule would get over the 65 miles
TERMS—$1.50 A YEAR.
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as qui< k a^a y horse be had, and he st-em-
ea to be satisfied, when ihe post comtnan-
der spoke up and confirmed what I had
said. For the fir>t ten miles I nad to use
the spurs lively to keep the General from
riding over me, but after crossing the Smoky
Hill river and getting oa into the sand hill-,
the , mule , a , his . second ,
got wind. , We
menced , to , leave Custers „ , Kentucky r „ , thor-
. , , the . soldier ...
m time acknonl , .
.clged that I n. ..dm* a pretty good horse.
L-or a long t.me we Kept up ,h« rapid trav
eon*, his escort being scattered ou, lor miles
hehmd. and « the country was dangerous
tne general called a halt to let his men close
up and become less convenient targets for
vagrant bands of Indians. When we start¬
ed again I made up my mind to show him
what a good mule could do, and I struck a
gait which astonished him so much that he
did not call for another halt. We left the
escort to follow as best they could, and
f ire noon the General and myself rode into
Fort Larned. The escort straggled in for
hours during the day. The next day I re¬
turned to Hays, w \ile he took command of
bis regimeot and soon after hud his big
fight at Pawuee Fork creek. I met him
frequently after that, and guided him in
expeditions.
“Pull up a Punkiu an Help us Skin a Tater l” I
-
The roasted yam is intimately connected i
with the history ot Georgian hospitality a
hospitality asgenialandaspatientas the Vir
gima variety; 1 here is a legend to the ef-
feet that a stranger wandering over the red
roads of Middle Georgia on a winter’s night,
saw a light gleaming ahead and soon heard
the welcome barking of dogs. A eomfor-
table looking cabin stood by the roadside,
and this the wayfarer saluted with a “Hello”
at once peremptory and plaintive. The
stranger’s horse was turned loose in ti e
yard, and a piggin full of corn placed at his
disposal. Ihe stranger himself was pulled
into the house, and implored to make him-
self at home. Huge logs blazed on the
hearth and upon one side underneath a
massive bow— ieged andiron wa3 a pyrrnid
of embers. An appetizing tragrance filled
ihe air. Around the fire a number of rosy
cheeked, brigh:-eyed children were
squatting Mother, fat and contented,
smoked her pipe in the corner, and au enor-
mous cat sat by her, lazily watch'ng the
sparks as they disappeared in the black
cavern of the chimney. There was not a
chair to be seen, but the genial host wa3
equal to the emergency, “Pull up a pun-
kin, strainger, an’ help us skin a tater.”
With that he rolled a pumpkin from under
the bed, the stranger seated himself as
gracefully as possible, the pyramid of ashes
was torn down, the smoking yams were
drawn forth, and just such another delight-
ful meal a3 that—where hospitality cheered
on the appetite that yearned for the savory
sweets of the roasted yam has never been
chronicled.
This legend has given Georgia hospitality
its watchword and motto, “Come fight in
stranger! Pull up a punkin an’ help us
skin a tater 1” And it may be said here
that hospitality could no more completely
justify itself than by making the roasted
yam the basis of its offering.
An Old. Man’s Grief.
He stopped before Louisa Bradenburgh
a little girl with light golden hair, and re¬
cognized her as his granddaughter; he wept
bitterly, and bending down kissed her fore¬
head. “She was all I had in the world,”
j he w ith tears streaming down his face
Poor Lou, poor, poor little girl.” Then
unmindful of the presence of everyone, he
knelt down by the ehiid’sside. and pressing
one hand to his forehead, with the other he
smoothered back the golden hair of the lit*
tie giri, which the wind had tossed in mass
es across her face. When the policeman
approached to raise the body to carry it to
the wagon whid'h was to convey it to hie
home, he turned towards them
au appealing look in his face and bs-
sought them not to touch the chi hi. “You
would not carry her from me would you ?”
he asked. “Dou’t take her away ; you don’t
know how I love h*-r ” “Go away,” said
Commsisioner Brennan to the officer*, “and
get a private coach,” then turning to the
old man he asked him if he could help him
to carry out the child ” “Carry her,” said
he; “why, kind man, I have carried her in
my arms a hundred times while she wa
alive, and why should I not do it now when
she is d«ad? Come, come, Lou,” be contin¬
ued, “iet us go home.” And he lifted the
cnild in his arms. A little ribbon tell from
her dress a3 he was lifting her and a police
man placed it on a her breast. “Oh, don’t j
let me leave anything; give maall she has,
They wili be ail I wilt have to love,” he ex- j
claimed, looking down at the floor where j
the child had been. He then started to-j
wards the door still crying, and with his
,
long white bear! pressed down on the child’s
face and kiss- d her lips.—An incident of |
the late New York fire.
Tje maa who Strnck WiiL*ia Patterson.
A correspot dent ot the Franklin Regis—
; ter, ever the p-eudonym of “Antiquary,”
has been giving some interesting remiuis-
cences concerning the early history of
franklin county. In the last issue of the
Regisier he gives some curious lacts of
recent development ch hove a bearing
upon the remmiset nces already printed.
Or, rather, we should say, he gives one
carious fact of recent development. He
announces, in fine, that the man who struck
Billy Patterson has at last avowed himself
t iroukih a rela ive.
It will be remembered that at one time,
William Pa terson, the rich merchant of
Baltimore, tamous as the father of Madame
Bonaparte, owned considerable land in
Franklin county, and his will is on record
there Upon one occasion, while Mr. Pat*
terson was in Franklin lookiug after his
property, a general row occurred among
the ■ oo\s in • winch , • , , he , became involved. . , . , In
.. the contusion, „ , • indeed, • , , struck , Mr. , r
some one
, tremcudous blo . v ailJ , tu e0
angmd him , Ut he walked lUrol „ lLe
uo , d h ^ iu „ muriao !oue3t -Who
,„ utk miy l> aller30 „ r Mr . , Wson wa8
a large aod powerlul mua and , under the
circumstances, no one among the fighters
appeared desirous of holding himself re
sponsible. The inquiry passed into a by¬
word, and even to this day the inquiry can
be heard, “Who struck Billy Patterson ?”
The original Billy pursued the inquiry
w " h as ' on,shm K vigor, but without avail,
and at bis death, curiously enough, inserted
a clause in his will setting apart $1,000 to
be paid to the person who should give to his
heirs or executor the name ot the man who
struck him. The fight in which Billy Pat¬
terson was struck occurred in 1783, and it
is passing strange that just one hundred
years after a claim should be put in for the
reward. And yet, the correspondent of the
R S 5 ' ter sa y 3 that such is the case.
A Mrs Jenny G, Covely, of Athol, New
York, daughter of George W. Tillertou, has
written to the ordinary of Franklin county,
claiming this le^a :y ot $1,000. She states
that she is an invalid, aged and infirm, and
i u great need ot' the money. In 1783, her
father was quite a young man, and being in
great fear oi Mr. Patterson, fled the country
at once aud never heard of the reward or
legacy. She says she has often speak of
he fight and of. the blow he gave Mr. Pat-
terson, and the fierce anger of the latter,
The^bumb of Tillerton’s hand was disjoint-
by the blow, and was so se /erely injured
that it remained a useless member to the
day of his death. As the facts^she gives
corresponds so exactly with the facts of the
case, the correspondent presumes that Mrs.
Covely will receive the legacy without d§—
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There is another curious tact in relation
to Mr. Patterson’s remarkable will, which
ti ;, e correspondent of the Register relates,
[t appears that for a long time Mr. Patter-
8on j u hi g employ a man named Toney
D’Halle. He was in very humble circum-
stances, and chopped wood for a living,
His tools were frequently stolen from him,
and he formed the habit of hiding them at
night. One evening after the day’s work
was done Mr. Patterson directed Toney to
hide a wedge which had been borrowed
from a neighboring farmer. Before morn-
ing ToDey was stricken with paralysis, and
in a few days he died,
Meantime, no one knew where Toney had
hid the and it was never found,
p en non tij S afterwards the neighbor from
which the wedge had been borrowed, Hiram
Grayson by name, was arrested for a mur-
der committed eighteen months previ¬
ously. A stranger had been found dead
by the roadside. His pockets were rifled,
and a bloody iron wedge was lying by him.
It was supposed that the murder bad haen
committed with this wedge. After the
alarm had been given, and a crowd had as¬
sembled, it was dicovered that the wedge
was no clue to the critunal, but circumstan¬
tial evidence finally pointed to Hiram Gray¬
son, and he was arrested and brought to
trial.
The chief witness for the State was the
man who first found the body. In his tes¬
timony, he recognized the wedge as belong¬
ing to Hiram Grayson, and described it
with great particularity. Tbe wedge itself
was still missing, and great search was made
tor it, but to no purpose. William Patter¬
son, the only witness for the defenc *, testi¬
fied that he had borrowed and used Grayson’s
wedge eight months after the murder, and
that it was strikingly different from the one
described by the State’s witness. Grayson
was finally acquitted, but a cloud hung
over hi* name, and the shadow of a sus¬
picion attached to Mr. Patterson on the
ground that he was over zealous in his ef¬
forts in behalf of hi3 friend.
Patterson still continued to search for tbe
wedge, and the circumstance became em¬
bodied in a saying as popular and as wide¬
spread as “who struck Billy Paterson?”
namely: “Where Tony hid the wedge.”
When his circumstances improved, Mr.
Patterson offered a reward for the wedge,
and there is a clause in his will directing
his execu'or to pay $1 000 to tbe person
who could shcw where ToD *y hid the wedge.
Thus one hundred years after the occur-
rence, an inquiring public learns who struck
Bidy Paterson, but it wou'd be too much to
expect that the world will ever know where
Toney hid the Wedge. —Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
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Thirty-one thousand dollars were contri-
buted lor the relief of the yellow fevef suf¬
ferers at Pensacola, last f al l .
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