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—TT-i-M l K AN ’>l i> SOLDIER
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j 111 jMNUt be twenty years since the
Iir i-Kr'v |,„t 2,1111 of August, 1S82, tile
, Dover, N.J.. lav still a* the
vilW'".' while Elijah Sharp, < f
j'lil"* ' Iv ami sotllv spoke Of
lii.-it Ves," he sahl, "I was in tlie
[saw many of the sights of
f 'riiil veins. • was finally ilis-
!',ir!>in Jisiihilitv, resulting from
ilisT-** | Iiome, iniseralilo in
“■‘ r *i .i.irils: so enfeeble** that I
raj 11 'j |lie slightest exposure.
■’ k '!.',,,| wortlilesato me; l lived
pin memory "
-f ui
'in-’ i*
i’Mlt ' ■
U* I V"'
“tlv. V
,, tskins
illli eon
ol enough,” I sai*l, ili-
|„sl I wo eigars.
responilml Mr. Sharp;
,oer ii. Oulgreiv it? Not
Vi,, n in that eomlition I be-
Parker's Tome, an.l nty
nenoe.1 to improve right
I ,.:oni.lie,l at it. an.l so
„ ... | piled on tin* llesh and
i muiiing. .M\ mnhition blint-
| ,-oiihl attend to business, and
, , |,nng Ilia: I have to take care
P sing myself to the In*' sun—I
. 1 ,s 1 was the day I enlisted,
ilei'eiiees there are in things—
I I. ivonets kill; Parker's Tonic
I.reiiaration, whiel: has been
Parser’s OingerTonie, will
.ri.ei ■ . .si simply Parker’s Ton-
nnprineipled dealers are con-
deeeiving their eiistomers by
ring .nierior articles ttmler the
i guT.vt • and as giuger is really
„.riant ingredient, we drop tlie
idll g
•J.
however, ill tile
‘'"riiioti itself, and all hollies re
amin''m the hands of dealers, wrap-
r the mime of Darter's Oinger
- ,'ontnin tlie genuine tnedieine if
, |;„ -simile signature of ilisenx ,x t o.
is at lb*' tlie outside wrapper.
Savannah has hail another ware
house hi
a'v.rdi* Hrn%d l*r««i»ur*Uo
Huporlor And
of. .I.C.
booth, of Philadelphia, tin*
I chemist, ‘.ays: “We have
, ;i ,t.ta!ioii in recommending your
;l ,j |'r«-|>:iiation as a new and valua-
, 0 i,i in h'liiehold economy, and us
,,,|„ ritir substitute for cream tartar in
',n pI'ation of bread, and in many
(mvs in which the latter lias been
i,|..\ej.”
Tin
it.ll
on meets on
Col. Augustus H. Trippe to Miss
Julia Grogan or Thanksgiving clay.
1 he happy couple left on a hridal
trip to Center.
BADLY HURT.
We are sorry to learn that our
young friend George Grogan, of El-
oerton. was thrown out of his bug
gy and his shoulder dislocated.
GONE.
Mr. Guy Ilodgson, of our city,
lias gone to Washington, I). C., for
the purpose of getting a position in
some of the departments. We trust
lie may he successful.
THE BOTTOM OUT.
Matches aie now selling at fifteen
cents per dozen boxes. The mo
nopoly has been broke in this arti
cle, and we arc listening to hear of
other articles tumbling to the racket.
AN OLD SOLD'ER.
Mr. James Fulcher, of Jackson,
came into our office yesterday and
paid up his forty-eighth annual
subscription to this paper. He is
vet hale and hearty fora gentleman
of 7-, and we trust long vears arc
yet in store for him.
THE CHAMPIONS.
Capt. Oliver, Son, Brother and
Joe Fleming, brought in yesterday
trom the vicinity of Maysville S4
partridges, 2 larks, i squirrels and 2
raliliits. They went and came sober,
had a good dinner and a good time
generally. This is the best result
we have heard. We are waiting to
bear from others.
A DASTARD.
is thong!
decide l!
si,ip
•liarlir Pills, gi
, l.-s.'lv a | *| n't itpi
ik Niii" liv
- bitten b\
near L ov-
Wc learn from reliable authority
that a young man of Oglethorpe
has, within two weeks past, left his
wife and two children, takingevery-
thing, even his wife’s bed. and left
for parts unknown, accompanied
by his sister-in-law. The good peo
ple are justly indignant at the out-
s in rageous conduct of this man, and
the sympathies of the people are ex
tended the voungwife.
BASE P.ALL.
The University nine played the
New Town nine, from Madison
county, a match game of base hall
yesterday morning. The game was
played hack of the l.ucv Cobh In
stitute. and a large crowd were out
to see it well done. The result was
as follows: I'nivcrsity nine, 14;
New Town nine. at. The result
was a little surprising to the stu
dent'. as they thought they were
the champions of any club in the
state.
THE KALE MINE
1:2 pr..|
II"II. lb
an.l all l
ig' inVYife j
ilnahie lor ]
uni' pros-
,ll liehilit v : |
■ns, whet Ii- |
is.-a-e. par- j
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Pb'l"
The trial of Patrick C)
u the murder of lames
Pulp!,i
1 hull
Carv
iell
Tlie
Kxpies
a polic,
TO.
ot the Fayetteville
L-II knocked down 1>V
nth
m tin
x lug i]ueslion to
ihutghler of one of our inereliaiit
at a I'r.iiilclitiul l.-vee: “Jly
i mill before 1 visited Anieri-
ir. I x
It,at vo
in.likable
i were not
I find it
nr ow n for
fine teeth,
y. Take vo
w lint (lenlilrice «lo you
used So/o loiit (or years
ny oilier,” was the re-
, tolioxv her tier exam-
Windy Dick, tin
fnlence man lias hi
•liana hv an officer.
Atlanta con-
n taken to In-
.ig’s I.apiixl Kxir;
ol,lei,
Itos
ve used Colden’s l.ie-
■t of Iteef and Tonie
lire than a yx-itr. It
m s of food and tonie in
nv, and I am satisfied
hen no oil ,-r medicine
. Ih-tnenihi-r the name.
Washington Gazette: "Capt. I>.
I>. Cade a few days since showed
us another piece id' gold bullion jii't
molded from the diggings in the
Sale mine. It was worth $760.00.
lie also showed us several nuggets
of virgin gold taken from the point
in the vein where the miners are
now working. Some of these nug
gets had as much as two dollar's
worth of gold in them. They arc
not run through the mill at all, lint
simply converted into bullion.
A CARD FROM ONE OT OUR BEST MEN
After having seen and used the
only combined lire ami water proof
cement paint in the world on his
roof, addresses the inventor, paten
tee, manufacturer and sole propri
etor:
Coving kin, G.\., Nov. 22, 1SS3.
W. Jav McDonald, Gainesville,
Ga.—Dear Sir:—I am very much
pleased with your combined lire
and water proof cement paint for
roofs, and believe it to he a most ex
cellent roof paint. Respectfully,
J. 1*. Simms.
TRUE TO NATURE-
Mr. J. J. Baldwin's young dog.
Sank, while out limiting on thanks
giving dav, ran into a large hornet's
nest. They covered him at once
and commenced stinging him very
hadlv. Sank commenced to run as
fast as possible to get away from
the* hornets, and while running
came on a covey of birds which he
pointed beautifully and stood as
firm as a post while a hundred hor
nets were stinging him. Mr. Bald
win went 11)1, Hushed the birds
and killed one which Sank brought
to him, and then proceeded to get
away from the hornets.
IN.
November 30.—The
mates place the loss on the
lot,
hunted woolen mills at Saxonville
a: $300,1x10. The mills, machinery
and stock had partial insurance of
$ 103,(XXI.
P.irnii
■tili.s.
ill 1 v .
1 Pul
ler mi
. ulfei-tions. Isc
'- t'lipeinv Porous
•• kidneys.
The grand jury of I-owndes county
has recommended liquor license to
he put up to $10,(xio.
Tho l>oi»t Offlcti on Artvortlolnff Bureau.
1 treat cure is shown hv the otlieinls
hic'li in nut to liri'nir before the
public on its merits, the uniinpciu'li.ihle
reputation of The Louisiana Suite Lot
tery, fur'tm-t inli-unty and honesty
Us III:
next
(lit
III,
ill Semi-Annual Drawing of
the Louisiana State Lottery will tak
pi n e.Ill Tuesday. Ile, emlsT the IStli,
a-u lias xx itti regularity Ilk! times lie-
lure, and M A. I'.uipliin, New Orleans,
I.H.. xx ill give any inixirimition.
OB Thirty Day's Trial.
The Voltaic Kelt Co., Marshall Midi.,
xx ill send 111. 1 lye's (Vlehratexi Electro
Voltaie licit - ali i Electro- Appliniiceson
trial (or thirty dax s to men (}•<>""•; or
old xtho arc alike!cd with nervous xle-
hilily, lost vitality and kindred trouble*
glia I aliteei llg speedy and complete res
toration of health and manly vigor.
Address us alaive.—N. II.—No risk is
le ui red, as tliii tv < lax s’ trial is a I lotted.
SiiKi.nv, (>, Noveinlier 30.—An
attempt to arrest four burglars this
morning resulted in the shooting ol
a man named Marshall, and a bag
gage master, and the killing of two
ot the burglars. The other two
were attested. Marshall and the
baggage master were severely
wounded, but may recover
SUDDEN DEATH.
On Sunday morning last Mr. S.
C. Arnold, of the lower pat of Ogle
thorpe countv, arose in his usual
health seemingly, and seated himself
by the fire. In a few minutes he
called for a d ink of water, hut when
it was handed him he remarked that
he could not drink it. and fell over
and expired with something like a
spasm. It will he remembered that
this was the gentleman bitten by a
mad dog last year, and who sought
the efficacy of a mad stone. While
this bite might have caused his
death, it is thought that heart dis
ease was his ailment, as he had
been slightly complaining with his
heart tor two weeks previous.—
Echo.
THE REAL AUTHOR.
Sheriff Earl Overby, of Oconee,
came in to see us yesterday, his I
handsome lace suffused with blush
es like a young girl with her first
love letter. Earl complained that
our little si.uib about him being the
most popular man in Oconee, etc.,
had been laid at his door, and cer
tain parties accused him of being
its author. Now in justice to our
friend we will say that the High
Sheriff of Oconee is as guiltless as a
child unborn, for ye editor, wilfully
and maliciously, penned the said
paragraph after due consultation
with many of the best citizens in
that county. We have no apology
to make, however, and if any one
doubts our word all he has to do is
to trot out Earl for any office with-
... the gift of his friends, from coro
ner to President of the U. S-, and
he will lead the van.
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KENTUCKY
lUrw" of wlint may Ik* culled the
•Mrauhi \VlU«k.*y Iui,*rf*l." making whiskies
which hr.itg tin* highest prim, »H**nl to the
in .*1 ctiUitsled UnIc** tin*! develop the only true
d*\ur ami bouquet that identifies and distill-
uinlu** the ft*it 11 ntrul “Oil «t Corn.” J. W\ liar
per’* .NYbam County tHiistey ii a sta infant Km
•mm * hiaky. hold by J. II. D. BEU8SK, Athens
Leavenworth, Kan., Nov. 30.
The elevator of the Kansas Central
railroad was burned last night, and
about $.)o,ooo bushels of wheat and
barley were consumed. The build
ings cost $.|o,ooo. The contents
were insured for about one-third of
their value.
PROLirtC COTTON.
To Rspxlr Dxm.g..:
liear lailv, there Is prolmbly no use
telling you that fashionable) life iu a
ureal city is a rough one on your beauty.
Late hi-iirs, loss of a'e *p and mental ex*
citeuient will leave you by arid by shorn
of ilioae beautiful crease* which drew
lovers around you iu other ytara. Arti
ficial substitutes can never pass for those
rich and glossy locks. Parker’s Hair
Balsam will atop your hair from falling
out, re (tore its natural color and soft
ness, and prove cleansing end beneficial
to the scalp.
It always affords us pleasure to
note any evidence of tliritt and en
terprise in our colored population,
and we will cheerfully give the race
a helping hand when they are found
working in the right channel. Yes
terday we were shown by Seaborn
Cole." a worthy-colored man farm
ing on Mr. loc Comer s place, near
Athens, a sample of the spur-lock
cotton, which is a new variety, with
a tine lint and of superior quality.
This year, in spite of the drought,
Seaborn made five heavy bales on
six acres of upland. It is very pro
lific and matures early. Seaborn
has about too bushels of seed for
sale at $ 1 per bushel. He obtained
j this cotton from Jeflerson county,
Miss., and paid $5 per bushel for
the seed. Those of our farmers
who wish to test this cotton would
do well to address Seaborn Cole,
col., Athens, Ga. His cotton is en
dorsed by the Athens buyers, and
there is no humbug about it.
Mrs. M. Singleton, Savannah, Ga.,
lay,; <»I became very bilious from ma
laria. Brown’* Iron Bitters relieved me
completely."
AS OLD BATTLEFIELD.
▲ Visit V> 11 After a Lap* of Maay Years—Tho
First Battle of Bull Run and What Joaquin
Miller Has to Say About It.
“manassas! manassas!”
The words rang out strangely to
me from the swarthy conductor's
lips us the cars slowed up at a little
v illage in an open and half barren
land. There Was a memory, a sense
of history, a sound of war, a scent
of Waterloo color about this name,
a roar of cannon, which can never
be quite disassociated from “Man
assas!”
I wonder if Biblical old Mannas-
sah, who kept the wayside inn at
Manassas Gap a hundred years ago,
and gaae lis name to the place, was
a man of v ar or a man of peace, or
felt the weight of cannon on his
shoulders is he bore about this
great battle name.
This railway station is about thir
ty miles from Washington City,
through the city of Jackson, which
was laid out—and buried, too—dur
ing Jacksons administration; also
through Alexandria, a storied town,
where Washington went to church
after he had buried the hatchet and
that cherry tr;e episode. We got a
good dinner it Manassas, and hiring
a team and d'iver we set out for the
battle-field of Bull Run, four miles
distant, over the same rdad which
Beauregard traveled to meet Mc
Dowell on tht 21st of July, 1S61.
The trouble now not what to say,
but what to sty in a single letter.
Briefly, then, he south was missing
for battle on this point. You can
to-day see rriles of earthworks
here. Fort Btauregard is still an
Imposing fortification, earthwork,
with peach trees, pear trees, wil
lows, and, in fa:t, all kinds of wild
as well as tame woods climbing
over. It is too heavy to level down
ar d restore again to the dominion
of the plow. Bit nearly all the other
iines and carth forts have quietly
surrendered to the husbandmen, and
mounting there to-day the tall corn
stands in regiments, flashing its
green, bent sabres in the sun.
The first battle of Bull Run stands
first in the alphabet »f great Amer
ican battles. Greater battles have
been fought hereabouts; a greater
battle indeed; on this same ground.
But the first has fastened itsclt upon
us. There is a savage fascination
about it which we who lived on
that day cannot escape. And yet
it was not yesterday. I saw
lounging against a lamp-post here
at Manassas, not an hour ago.
a handsome young Southerner pull
ing at his moustache. I approach
ed and asked him of the battle. He
had been born since it was fought!
So you sec it was not fought yester
day, this tattle of Bull Run, when
the cannon shook the earth even to
the shores of Oregon. And do you
know the North played the air of
“Dixie" in this first battle? It is so.
The South had not yet learned it.
but played the “Girl I Left Behind
Me.” Let us look back tipon this
battle-field is we look upon the face
of one whom we knew well nearly
a quarter of a century ago. By
wide, wel.-kept country road
through cornfields and clumps of
oak. chestnut, walnut, hickory and
half a dozen other kinds of scrub
trees, some of them badly shot to
pieces, we were driven to the mud
dy, sluggish, crooked and ugly lit
tie stream of Bull Run. In this
drive of four miles we met one man
on horseback; we passed one man
on a horse and a barefoot negro boy
on foot, driving a little flock of
sheep. Overhead I saw a singl
raven; not a bird, not a squirrel on
cither hand; hut the crickets and
grasshoppers, in the cornfields and
clumps of wood on either side of us,
chirped and sang incessantly,
At the end of four miles we turn
ed through a gate to the right into
field. Cows were scattered here
and there around the cresent of the
hill. On the crest of the hill stood
a long frame farm house; back of
this house, a little brown ston mon
ument to the dead soldiers, in front
of it, in the door yard, a grave stone
The house which fomerly stood
here had been torn to splinters dur
ing the battle. The lady buried in
the grave in the door yard was kill
ed here. She was the mother of the
kind old gentleman who now in her
its this place. This battlefield was
his mother’s farm. It is now his,
and he shows you about over it. he
was teaching sedool down at Alex
andria at the the time his mother
was killed here; a school teacher for
40 years. He and his sister live in
this old gray house together.no one
but these two old deaf people for
maybe a mile about. The peach
trees are breaking down under loads
of fruit in the heart of the battlefield
a little way down the slope of the
hill below the grave in the door
yard. Long strings of fat turkeys
tread the tangle-grass through the
orchard chasing the grasshoperi
Below the orchard, half a mile away
and curving around in a muddy ere
sent, hut quiet hidden by a young
growth of trees, creeps Bull Run.
On the morning of the battle tlie
broad cornfields on the other side
and away out yonder miles aw
over the foothills the Federal hay
nets gleam by tens of thousands.
They were marching for Bearcgard’s
rear, or rather for the Midland line
1 by which they had come up from
! the South. He had came out from
Manassas, four miles away to stop
I this movement, as all the world
I knows. The north was not to 1 e
stopped. Hence the battle here.
But this is trenching on history, and
we must draw the line. You can
see where the South retreated to
where stoodjackson “like a stone
wall.”
Back of this house, where the old
schoolmaster lives with his older
sister, about a hundred yards, and
almost at the top ot the gently slop
ing hill, on the outer edge of the tall,
rank corn, and against a young
growth of pines, is the place where
lackson got down from his horse
to pray. And here it was he sat on
his horse, was wounded, held his
men in stubborn line that day,
while the storm of battle beat
against them, and so won his singu
lar name. On the front of this slop
ing hill that lies here, between this
house and the place where Jackson
sat on his horse during the battle,
the dead lay thickest when the fight
was done. The corn is rank and
tall, but I do not see, as some pre
tend to when looking over the field
of Waterloo, that the blood of brave
men has put any particular mark of
vitality upon it. The truth is, if
some one did not point out to you
all this, yon would know nothing
whatever of the battle field of Bull
Run. Nature cover* up all such
scars; time heals the wounds on the
breast of our common mother, as
well as our own. Wander about
here for a week, as I have done,
and save for one little brown stone
monument here, the old earthworks
at Manassas, and some scarred, old
trees, you would not know there
had ever been any battle here. I
have picked up one bullet and one
button from a soldier’s coat; that is
all. But on the earthworks near
Manassas, under a peach tree, while
picking up peaches, I found an In
dian arrow-head. Think of it, and
follow these two facts. What other
battles, what other races had fought
for the fields of Virginia ages and
j ages before?
Not many people come to visit
this battle field. I have seen a
thousand at Waterloo for a single
visitor here.
The great trench where the dead
were buried on this sloping hill im
mediately under where Stonewall
Jackson sat on his horse during the
battle, is still a trench. This is a sore
that refuses to heal. It has become
little drain or rivulet' The bones
the dead were mostly taken away
the close of the war; and this
pened the trench anew. This por
tion of the battle field is a pasture
now. A little line of trees has
grown along the hanks of this
trench. Under these rank young
trees a good many sleek-spotted cat
tle stood yesterday chewing the cud
and lazily switching flies. You
never hear a sound of any kind
around here at all, no coming and
going of carriages ns at Waterloo
and other great battle fields of Eu
rope. The trees are turning a little
red in the blush of early autumn.
There is a hazy gray atmosphere
overall here which makes the still
ness seem more still; a weary ghost
'the smoke of war. In the cor
ners of the old Virginia worm tences
the wild berry grows rank and red,
if dripping with blood. The very
earth is red, as if the bosom of moth-
earth bleeds perpetually for her
brave dead who fell in the battle
here. Joaqjjin Miller.
LIGHTWEIGHTS.
How ths Busy Ltttlo Grocer Boom Hli Business
and Gets Rich.
IIow doth the busy little grocer?
Oh, he doth veev, very well, thank
ou. When he soaked the dried
. eas, they closely resembled the
green fresh pea of the garden, ratli-
than the buckshot of the hoarding
house. Moreover, he boilcth the
orange, and straightway its shrivel-
lincss and wrinkledness departeth
from it; so does its juice, but it
looks round and plump and large.
And your butcher, how docs it hap
pen that he nearly always
gives you overweight? Is
he not good and generous? Indeed
he is, because he has learned that
by tossing a three pound roast up
to the ceiling of his shop and so lett-
ng it drop upon the scales, or by
holding it as high as his head and
hurling it with great force upon the
scales,he can bounce the indicator
around to the 3.V pound notch, and
then say carelessly, "Oh, well, call it
ve pounds,” and switch it away
be fore the scales can spring hack
to their normal condition. Oh,
keep your eye 011 all the boys. They
are good citizens, hut this world is
such a fleeting show we are all of
us liable to get drawn into the hip-
jodrome business once in awhile,
ilawkeyc.
Till the foremiiu
He’ll reulize the
Ami an editor h
At the home of the bride in the
Pertcet neighborhood, Oglethorpe
county, last night, Mr. Charlie Stew
art, of Macon, and Miss Alice Sue
Wynn. Mr. Stewart was once a
resident of this county, and is one
of nature's noblemen, a perfect gen
tleman, full of energy and enterprise,
with a bright prospect. The bride
is one of Oglethorpe's acknowledged
belles—beautiful and lovely.—Echo
LOVE AND STRYCHNINE.
Maria Angella Perazzo di Gia
como. a very beautiful Italian cigar
girl of San Francisco, loved and
was loved bv Gluseppi Giannatti, a
handsome young Italian musician of
the military band at the Presidio.
Her parents, who were poor, did not
favor his suit, and ordered Maria to
to-do saloon keeper. She obeyed,
but her heart was Giuseppi's who,
after her marriage,frequently visited
her. Her husband’s business kept
him away from home all night. On
the morning of November 7, when
he returned home, he found his wife
dead on the floor of her room. She
left a letter saying that she could
not put up with a cursed marriage
to one she did not love. “I die
contented in the love of Giuseppi
Giannatti,” she wrote. The lover
was arrested, and the San Fnncisco
Chronicle thus relates his story:
During the past three (lays, her
lover says, she has been feverish and ‘ et hlm 3r '
excited, and has continually talked
about death, asking him ii he was
afraid to die, and if it would not be
the proper thing for them to die to
gether. When he visited her Tues
day night it was nearly 9:30 o clock,
and he had been drinking heavily.
As the door was opened she bound
ed forward with a glad cry, and
clasped her arms about his neck
with a force that caused him to reel
and almost fall. Then she led him
to her room and caressed him with
an energy that almost amounted to
ferocity, only occasionally leaving
him to pour out whisky from the
large bottle for both. Finally they
both retired. After several minutes
the woman said: “Joe, let me give
you a drink with sonle hitters in it.
You like hitters, don’t you, ]oe?”
Giannatti acquiesced with drunk
en gravity, and she filled the wine
glasses to the brim from a small bot
tle. Handing him one she drained
the other, and then coaxed him to
follow her example. But “Joe”
was drunk and obstinate, and did
not like the liqut r bitter taste. In
a moment he spat out what he had
taken into his mouth, but she per
sisted and held the glass to his
mouth, hut his overtaxed stomach
refused to accept the burden, and
again it went tojthe floor. The ago
nized woman turned to reach tor
the bottle.and fairly screamed: “Oh
mv God, Joe! don’t you love nicr
Drink, Joe; drink with me. It will
make you alive and loving, dearest;
please drink.” But Gionnati could
not drink, and half the contents ot
the ’-ottle were spilled ill an endeav
or on his part to pour out the liquor
By this time the deaply strychnine
began its terrible work on the wo
man, and she could scarcely speak
as she staggered toward him once
more, faintly calling: ‘-Drink Joe,
drink just one. Oh, God, Joe. you
must drink if you love me. Dpn't
you see I'm not afraid to die.”
These were her last words, and
THE EDITOR'S THANKSGIVING.
He *cr«u*he<] hi* he*«1. ami he bit hit nails;
1I« sweat like a farmer »i»l it tin* rniU—
Till at last hi* head dropped down «m his breast.
’Twtu plain that his writs much needed re.-t.
Oh. ye who toil in the open field.
With the sun above like a glorious «liicld,
< Hi. |»ity this man in his attic dim.
Where no ray of sunshine falls on him.
Hi* atixio ...
His Itony hands now were no longer thin;
His stomach, so plump, wouldn't buttomin.
His heavy pockets were full of cash:
His landlady wanted to trust for “hash:”
Ills wife walked lieside him in seal-skin sacque,
And a fur-irim:ned overcoat covered his hauk.
mean this wonderful change?
•If delightfully strange!
I haven’t had feelings of this description
educe old Tom Kippener paid his subscription.
And the
Who said he would advertise
Ami the other patrons 1 should ha
Have eacn come iu with a column
who keeps the clothing store,
had,
OCONEE MONITOR.
; he’d better not wake
calls for “another take.”
i that lif *'s uot worth living,
is slim cause for Thanksgiving.
A DIME NOVEL DESPERADO
RABBITS PLENTIFUL.
Enitor Banner-Watchman;—On
Thanksgiving day a squad ot men
and boys hunted on a space of coun
try about a mile long and about
one-third of a mile wide, in the low
er portion of Clarkesboro district,
in Jackson county, and killed Sj
rabbits. We don’t know how many
tlie dogs killed, but there are plenty-
left. The partridges also are as
plentiful as the “leaves in Valam- as a
brosia. Come out and hunt with us.
Nimrod.
OANT PLAT.
We think that the students of the
University should give up baseball,
as they get beat by every club that
comes up. Madison county picked
up a few of her plow boys and sent
them over here, just to feel the stu
dents and see if they could play,
and the Madison boys just wiped
them clean oil’of the field. Madison
county is hard to handle when it
comes to base ball, and we advise
the students not to play with them
again, or they will get the worst of
with them she fell on the floor
writhing in tlie most terrible cou-
vul ions antil death relieved her
some ten minutes later. Sobered
in an instant, the dead woman lov
er smoothed her dress took from
her throat a pin containing his pic
ture, which she always wore and
fled, he traveled rapidly, and long
ere Dcmanucls discoverev was en-
sconsed in his own quarters.
DUEL WITH A FISH.
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
Echo: The county commission
ers are thinking of a new court
house. The jovial face of Congress
man Reese was missed this week.
The press is represented in Lexing
ton this week by O. E. Kinnehrew,
the agent of the Banner-Watchman.
The Slayor called the Council to
gether last Friday night for their
first meeting. John Knox was
elected Marshal, and J. T. M. Ilaire
Recorder. The liar this week is
not very large, hut it is a good one.
It is P. W. Davis, J. P. Shannon, J.
J. Strickland. M. P. Reese, J. B.
Poyner, Solicitor Pierce, II. C.
Tuck and J. C. Reid.
OGLETHORPE DOTS.
Court still in session.
About forty more true hills.
Court well attended for an
journed term.
Dr. Howard speaks of goin
Mexico.
J. 3. Poyner, Esq., has bought an
interest in the Crawford News-
Monitor. We expect to see consid
erable improvement now.
Mr. M. H. Arnold has the fat pig
of this country, it being only 11
months old. and weighing over 300
pounds. How is this for Ogle
thorpe?
VVe are under many obligations
to the editor of the Echo, for favors
shown.
The woman who was tried for
murdering her child, on Capt. Do
zier’s place, was found guilty, and
sentenced to three years in the pen
itentiary.
An mtutntlon of Dlflorenc, without Distinction.
“Miriah, I am shocked that you
should even think of having those
Simpkins girls as bridesmaids at
your wedding.”
“WJiy, mamma, they are two ol
the sweetest, nicest, most highly-
cultivated young ladies in the citf.
Thfey have travelled all over t\e
globe and are received every
where.” _
“But just think, Miriah, o' the
stigma which attaches to them Be
fore the war their father, who af
terward got rich on an arms con
tract, lived on a farm and ictually
made and sold butter. Justthink ot
it!"
“But does not my fatter make
and sell butter, too?”
“No, indeed. Why, you shock
me! How could you thitil of such a
thing? Your father is a manufact
ure! , and the product he manufact
ures is not vulgar butter but olco-
ma garine—a highly pazed and
very important article of com
merce.”—Philadelphia Call,
It la certain that the lougtr ajspeecli,
the weaker it Is, but Hot so vith a cold—
the longer It runs, the worm it becomes.
A cold, be it ever so alight,la no trifle,
it should be checked in ita <arly stages.
Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup la tie “Balm of
Gilead.’* that millions say is divine In
itaerigin.
A Kanaka Kill* a stxaik In a Hand-to-Month En
counter.
Every soul on board crowded to
the side to witness the duel. It was
bound to be a war to the death.
One or both of the combatants must
die. The brute was what is known
right shark, and was about
thirteen feet long. His black and
shining back, set with sharp fins,
made me shudder and grow deathly
sick.
Ubukia met the first rush of the
monster by darting aside and letting
the huge bulk goby him. lie made
a lunge with his sword at the tail
as it whisked past, and a thin line of
blood on the clear water told that
his aim had been a good one. While
the shark was near he swam with
half his body out of water, taking
good care that his legs were never
much below the surface, but when
it went by lie dropped to the neck,
and looked up at us with a grin on
his coffee-colored face.
“Me kill um!” he shouted.
The next rush was similar to the
first, but, this time, when the white
belly «f the fish showed itself, Ubu-
kia was beskla it. We saw the
point of his sword blade enter its
right eye. and then the native dived,
coming up thirty yards away.
1 began to breathe easier now.
The fellow carried himself iu the
wate r with as much ease as tie fish
was itself, and the sword gave him an
advantage, while the shark’s inabili
ty to use its jaws, without turning
over, was another point in life favor.
The fiish seemed to be fairiy mad
dened l>v the last wound, And we
could see its dorsal fin ripping
throng’ll the water, fora setondj and
then it went down out of sight,
leaving nothing but the Kanaka vis
ible on the wide stretcti of water.
If the sight of the monster was hor
rihle. how much worse was its dis
appearance. We did not know
now upon side of the tie voted swim
mer it would come up and we held
our breath, waiting as one waits
when a diver has hern under water
for a long time, ami every minute
seemed an hour.
The grin had left the native’s
face, and ne kept whirling around
like a tee-to-tnm, ready to meet the
attack at any point.
After the fopse of a few minutes
the familiar fin came in sight again,
and Ubukix s body rested with his
eyes on the enemy. There was no
rushing in the shark’s part now. It
advancidjslotvly, ready to swerved
w-tth the slightest motion of the na
tive. It seemed determined to ap
proach so slowly that its moment
um tould not possibly carry it past
hinv He waited until its muzzle
wrsnot ten feet from him, and then
assuming the aggressive, he darted
forward, buried the blade of his
iword to the hilt in its eye, and then
swam leisurely to the ship.
For ten minutes the water within
a adius of many yards was lashed
into a white foam by the dying
struggles of the monster. At times
he would throw himself complet-
ly out of the water showing us
the whole of his round tapering bo
dy and ugly mouth. Finally, how-
every, he rested belly upward, with
out a motion, and Ubukia’s glisten
ed wilh pride.
Good,” said he, climbing into his
canoe, “me kill ’um.”
An a bany Boy who Astontibes Injpoctot Bryces
A stolid-looking hoy, apparently
a German, called at police headquar
ters on Sunday evening and asked
for Inspector Byrnes, saying that he
must see him immediately on very
important business. When shown
into the Inspector’s office he unbut
toned his coat and took from a belt
he had on a carving knife about 12
inches long, but of a razor-like
sharpness. The Inspector jumped
up from his chair, but as the boy
laid the knife down on the table he
resumed his seat.
“Don’t be afraid,” said the hoy
piteously; “it is not my intention to
harm you in any way.”
Reaching around towards his
hack he pulled out a revolver and
laid it by the knife. Inspector
Byrnes found it was loaded. He
looked at the boy in astonishment
as lie silently produced one hundred
cartridges of various sizes. Then
followed a pair of tweezers, a large
bunch of keys, a wrench, two pock
et knives and a pawn ticket for
another revolver lie had pawned
for 23 cents.
He toid the inspector that his
name was Arnold Wagner and that
he had just arrived from Albany
from which place he had started
out to he a highwayman. He had
been employed on the canal boat
Curtis Parke, and he said that he
had stolen the articles he had with
him, together with a valise and $25
from Captain Benjamin, the owner
of the canal boat.
The inspector decided to lock the
boy up until he was able to find out
a little more about him. Chief of
Police Mollov of Albany was tele
graphed to, and he replied that he
knew nothing of him. Later in the
evening Sergeant Kellher received
word that Wagener had some more
information to divulge. He went
to him and Wagner told him that
he secreted a valise and some valu
able papers at Pine Woods, near
Albany. He also said that in Pat
erson. N. J., he had met a man
whom he compelled at the point of
a pistol to give up five dollars, all
he had. The police decided that
the boy was insane from reading
dime novels.
Wagner was arraigned at the Jef-
farson Market Police Court yester
day, where he said to Justice Patter
son: I hope some day to become
a great highwaymen.” He was
committed to the care of County
Physician for examination as to his
sanity.
A pretty little church is built at
Princeton.
Mr. Griffeth now lives at the
house across the creek.
Watkinsville is improving up and
the town takes on new life.
Toon Powell has one of the finest
blooded stallions in the south.
The cholera is still playing havoc
with hogs in portions of the county.
There are not a half dozen men
in the county that are habitual
drunkards.
Oats are looking well, and unu
sual pains were taken in putting
them in.
The old fair buildings are turned
into a dwelling and the grounds un
der cnltivation.
There is a lady in Oconee who
was married at 11 and was a moth
er before her iztlt year.
The legislative race will proba
bly be between Messrs. Weldon
Price and Frank Griffeth.
Sheriff Overby is the most popu
lar man in Oconee and can he elect-
dd to any office he wants.
Judge Lyle, Ordinary, has one of
the most brilliant minds in Georgia,
and if he would cultivate his talent
could to-day be in congress.
An old gin-house in Watkinsville
now used as a distillery. This
lacks a great deal of turning the
sword into a plow-share.
Oconee will soon have an election
on the prohibition question. The
darkeys in the lower part of the
county have a strong temperance
society.
Mr. Terrell is surveying a rail
road from Athens to Barnett’s
shoals, and has a large sum already
subscribed for it. He is hopeful of
success.
Two hunters nearthe Appalachee
make a living for their families by
catching beavers. They have
caught 30 this fall, and will soon
proceed down the river to Milledgo-
illc. They get $2 tortile skin, and
cents a pound for the meat.
THE RELEASED SERGEANT.
ad-
to
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Covington- is eating eels by the
bushel.
Two hunters near Lawrenceville
killed sixty pounds of rabbits in
two hours.
Rev. H. C. David, who lived near
Columbus, has committed suicide
by cutting his throat.
The residence and barn of Mr.
J. P. Watson, of Douglassville, lias
been destroyed by fire.
Atlanta is boiling over in muoic-
pal politics. Their meetings are
worse than pandemonium.
The electric light company will
soon begin to rebuild their works
that were destroyed by the recent
fire in Savannah.
Dahlonega is a prohibition town
and it is often a difficult job for the
thirsty ones” to get something to
satisfy their appetites. They resort
to Jamaica ginger, camphor and
every article that will intoxicate or
have a tendency to doit. We are
told that a man purchased a bottle
of what he considered Jamaica gin
ger, at a store in the town last week
drank it all down without investi
gating its merits, and immediately
repented of it, for the stuff came
near putting an end to him. It was
very strong preparation of eye
water sold him by mistake. He
threatens to drink nothing but the
Dure corn hereafter.
GENERAL NEWS.
The striking cigar makers of
New York have unconditionally
surrendered.
The new pasture of Captain
King, in Coleman county, Texas, is
to contain 650,000 acres, and will
he tlie largest tract of land in the
world under one fence.
Toronto, Nov. 27.—The wife
and daughter of John Coombs, a
prominent druggist here, were sent
to an insane asylum to-day. Their
insanity is due to religious excite
ment.
History ot Mudstones.
*Vf» Orleans Tirrur-lkmocrat.
An inquiry into the history of
these stones made by one who has
devoted much study to the subject
of hydrophobia says that they are
very numerous. He said: “There
are about a dozen of them in the
United States. Many thousands
of intelligent people are ready
trust them in preference to all other
remedies. Many thousands hav
trusted them, and I shall be happy
to refer you to cases in which they
have been successfully used.
“There arc two other theories
to their origin. One is that they
are chemically formed in the stom
ach of the deer, aftei the manner of
calculi in the bladder and kidneys.
Another, and I think more plausi
ble, and supported by their history
and appearance, is that they are
mineral products. Both kinds may
exist, however.
“There is a tradition among the
owners of these gems, more valua
ble than the koh-i-noor, that they
are found in Italy on the shores of
the Mediterranean. Some have
come from Germany, others from
South America. In India similar
stones are kept in the temples of
the priests for the benefit of persons
bitten by venomous serpent and are
called by them snake stones.
“Over 200 years ago they were
spoken of by the French medical
authorities. I’rideaux, an old French
medical authority, says of their dis
covery that the best and most re
liable information is that the mad-
stone was discovered many years
ago in Switzerland by some young
men herding stock. One of them
was bitten by a poisonous reptile.
A porous stone, which they were
throwing for amusement, was laid
on the swollen and painful spot. To
their amazement it afforded imme
diate relief. This led to the discov
ery of a number of similar stones,
which have been scattered all over
the world. This adds one more to
the accidental discoveries which
have benefited the world.”
Van Estes, U. S. Deputy Mar
shal, captured a still and 3,000 gal
lons of beer yesterday morning be
fore breakfast, one mile from Rabun
Gap Junction, and within 200 yards
of the N. E. R. R., belonging to un
known parties.
It disease haa entered the system the
only way to drive it out is to purify and
enrich the blood.. To this end, as is
acknowledged by all medical men, noth
ing is better adapted than iron. The
fault hitherto has been that iron could
not be prepared as to be absolutely
to the teeth. This difficulty has been
overcome by the Brown Chemical Com-
Mtnr of Baltimore, Md., who offer their
Brown’s Iron Bitters as a faultless iron
preparation, a positive cure for dyspep
sia, indigestion, kidney troubles, etc.
We will now say that we are au
thorized to tell the people at large,
that if there is any one who would
like to have an improvement made
upon their roofs, and that, too, with
a combined fire and water proof ce
ment paint, they have but to address
W. Jay McDonald, at Gainesville,
Ga., who is the inventor of this
most wonderful paint, and allow
him to make tests of all he claims
for it, before he puts one drop on
your roofs. He don’t want to do
any work until the party having it
done is convinced that he is getting
a fire proof, a water proof and a ce
ment, in one elastic body. There
have been several attempts to imi
tate this most excellent and unequal
led paint, because this has coal tar
in it, but they have failed because of
the carbolic acid being in coal tar
eating up tin, iron, felt, and even
the body of any compound. Mr,
McDonald having overcome this, is
one of the reasons why he got his
patent on this grand and excellent
paint. Our people ought to try it,
as well as others do, in other parts.
Mason Tells the Story of Hts Attempt to Shoot
Oulteau and Hts Life Since.
New York, November 2S.—A
Sun reporter interveiwed Sergeant
Mason in Albany to-day. He
seemed to be in good health, al
though his cheeks are somewhat
pinched, and there was no rotundi
ty to his form. His hands showed
the effect of prison work in the shoe
shop, and where somewhat begrim
ed and horny though he tried hard
to conseal it. He was evidently la
boring under considerable mental
excitement but was cheerful and
happy.
‘Yes, I am glad to get out,” he
said. I’ll tell you how it was I got
word of pardon having been grant
ed me, yesterday afternoon a little
fellow, the son of one of the attach
es of the penitentiary, happened to
be over to my cell where I was en
gaged in reading, and said: “Mr.
Alason you have been pardoned by
the president.” You can imagine
I was suprised, and could hardly
beleive the news. At first itnatur
ally made me nervous, and
couldn’t eat nor sleep until this morn
ing when I was informed after k
arrival of the pardon of my good
fortune. •
“Yes, I had pretty near given
all hope of being pardoned at least
by President Arthur, Now that
youask me, I will acknowledge hav
ing said I would not except anv fa
vor fronVa Guiteau president; hut
guess I won’t stand on ceremony,
did expect to he pardoned when
another president came into office,
hut, being closely confined in prison
1 natually got to thinking that little
if any thing was being done for me
by my friends, outside.
“I tell you it took some nerve to
face an eight years imprisonment
but I believe I have acted like
man. Did I intend to kill Guiteau
No I did not. I only wanted to
wound him when I fired. I heard
the news of the assination of Presi
dent Garfield while I was in Texas,
on my way to Washington, where
I had been ordered transferred, and
I made up my mind there and then
that if I was ordered on guard du
ty over the assassin I would shoot
him.
“When I aimed through the win
dow the night was very dark, ac
companied by thunder and lightn
ing, or else I should certainly have
hit him, for I consider myself a
pretty good marksman. My object
was to shoot him in the side, about
where he hit the president, and give
him a spinal-column pain. I knew
if I killed him I would be guilty of
murder. In that case I would have
been tried by a jury, and I would
rather be tried by a dozen juries than
by one court martial. I don’t be
lieve any jury would have convict
ed me, even if I bad killed him. Of
course I knew it was wrong, and I
am satisfied that it was proper I
should be punished as a warning to
others; but it was not as though I
was guarding an innocent person.
If I had so acted under such circum
stances. I should have expected to
be court martialed and shot.”
Being questioned as to his report
ed quarrel by letter with his wife.
Mason said “Yes, I know what
you’re driving at When Betty
came here to see me last May she
was togged up in great style, with
jewelry, watch, chains, etc., and I
told her plainly the next time I
wrote to her she was somewhat ex
travagant. She wrote me a hot let
ter in reply, but I guess she and the
baby will he glad enough to see me,
I can’t say what I shall do after
getting home. One thing is certain
however, I have had all the army I
want. I had rather work in old
Virginia, where Betty and the baby
are, $1 a day than in the army at $5
Besides, I think seventeen years of
military life is enough for one man
I shall go home to Locust Grove,
Va„ as soon as I can get there,
though I would very much like to
look around Albany a little, and es
pecialty to go through the Capitol.”
Mason took the4:45 train for New
York this afternoon. He speaks in
high terms of the treatment at the
penitentiary, declaring the food bet
ter than the average received in the
army. The impression left in the
reporter’s mind was that Mason be
longed to a species of individuals
classed in modern nomenclature ns
cranks.” His conversation, volu
bility, egotism and many manner
isms seemed to bear this out.
Prairie nu Ciiien, Wis., Nov
ember 2S.—The cyclone which
passed to the southeast of this place
Sunday night, completely wrecked
three farm houses and a number ot
outbuildings. A woman named
Mary Melvin was crushed to death
in the ruins of her house.
The convention of the Cotton
Planters’ Association, which has
been in session in Vicksburg, Miss.,
has adjourned. The proceedings
have been of universal interest, and
have been of great benefit not only
to this section, not only to the south,
but to the whole country.
Peoria, III., November 2S.—Joe
Jeflerson, who was to play here
ast night, was prevented by the
fact that at four o'clock yesterday
morning he was stricken with a
sudden and complete change of
voice, supposed to lie caused by
playing at Rockford when suflering
from a severe cold, llis physicians
say he may possible he able to talk
again within a week or ten days,
possibly not before a month.
WASHINGTON.
Tho Situation Last Night—The Illinois and Ooor-
Gta Delegations Almost Solid for Carllslo—
Gordon*s Advlco of no Weight.
Charleston, November 30.—A
special to the News and Courier
from Washington late last night
says: There is more encourage
ment for Carlisle to-night. The
Illinois delegation held a confer
ence, Springer having withdrawn.
The delegation has gone solidly,
with one exception to Carlisle.
There may be two from Illinois for
Randall. The Georgia delegation
has arrived and Randall’s six votes
have been whittled down to
three. The Carlisle men are jubil
ant and Carlisle is the selling favor
ite to-night among the sporting men.
Blount, of Georgia, says that Ran
dall will get hut two from his State
Gordon didn’t turn up. Georgia’s
representatives are mad at his pre
sumptuous claims to influence the
delegation for Randall. The latter’s
forces keep a still' upper lip. They
have only a good fighting chance.
There is a good deal of excitement
about town. The hotels are full to
night and more anxious members
coming on the trains; the general
impression is that Carlisle will win,
and if his strength holds at the pres
ent status, this impression is sure to
materialize in victory.
ELBERT COUNTY DOTS.
New South:—Elberton has the
vonngest Mayor in the State. Revs.
J. H. Grogan and II. J. Ellis left for
Conference Monday. Hon. A. G
McCurry, of Hartwell, was on :
professional trip to Elberton Mon
day. Elbcrton’s correspondent to
the Atlanta Constitution says there
is a probability ot a large hotel lie-
erected here soon. We wrote
an article relative to this sometime
ago, and we hope some enterprising
man will consider his interest atul
conclude to make such an invest
ment. It would certainly prove a
lucrative one. Died—On the 23rd
inst., Mrs. Francis Clark, wife of
James A. Clark. For a long time
Mrs. Clark has been a sull'erer, and
her death was not unexpected. She
bore her sufferings with Christian
fortitude. Her funeral was preach
ed by Rev. J. II. Grogan, at Bethle
hem church where her remains
were interred. At the time of her
death she was about 66 years old.
On the same day W. A. Anderson
breathed his last. He, too, had suf
fered a longtime with cancer. 11 is
age was near 50 years. His re
mains were interred at Harmony
church. Dr. Jim Eberhart, ofPaoli,
Madison county, has been in El
berton part of this week, attending
to the sale of some property. lie is
one of Madison’s best citizens.
Our generous young Mayor, I. G.
Swift has presented the three
churches of our town with lamps to
be erected in front of each church.
This act is certainly praiseworthy,
and our people will not forget it.
A Granger's Dream.
A granger dreamed that he died.
He went straight to the spirit-world;
he knocked at the gate of the New
Jerusalem, and it was opened unto
him. The books were opened; he
was asked, “Did you ever belong
to any secret society?” to which he
replied, “I did; to the Grangers.”
“Then, sir, you can’t be admitted;
depart.” He then went to the
door of the bottomless pit
where the same questions were
again asked by the devil, and
again he was told to depart. After
he had gone a little way off, he was
accosted by the homely ruler of the
Jamb. But Not Rachst.
Salem, N. C., N o vent lie r 30.-
Jaines Buck, an old man with
small farm near here, needing help,
contracted with Richard Turney to
give him his daughter, twenty-two
years old, and a double-barreled
shot-gun for a year’s work. Turn- pit, when "the following proposit
ey’s term of service expired yes- inne worst “StranffO.” Rfllf
•Most Hoartlly.”
Wilmington, N. C., Feby. 4,1881,
H. H. Warner & Co.: Sirs—■!_ most
heartily recommend yeur Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure for kidney and liver
diseases, and shall be glad to answer all
questions regarding the same in eon*
nection with my case that enquiring
friends may aslc, Jas. A. Lowrey,
terday and he asked for a settle
ment. Buck handed him the shot
gun and called his daughter and
asked her to agree to become Turn
ey’s wife. She refused and an
nounced that she was to-night to be
come the bride of another. Turney
threatens to sue the old man for
$5,000 damages and to get an in
junction restraining the girl from
marrying his rival.
Mr. H. Tamm, Savannah, Ga., sava:
“I have been greatly benefited by using
Brown’s Iron Bitters for kidney disease*
tons were made: “Strange,” said
Nick, “I will not admit you here;
they do not want you in heaven; but
I will sell vou two hundred barrels
of brimstone for cash, ten per cent,
ofl, and you can start a little hell of
your own, with no agents or middle
men,”
UP IN a balloon;
Loulrrille Courier-Journal, .
“I have not been In a balloon for ten
years, and the very sight of one almost
makes me sick.” He was a little dried-
up fellow, in a great shaggy coat and a
queer felt hat, and he spoke to a little
group who were watching the manowre*
of Prof, Warner with his balloon at the
Kxpositinn yesterday,. He waaaqulYK,
nervous little man, and although his
language was refined, llis slight French
accent proclaimed his nationality* The
crowd gathered closer to the little uion,
and ceased to watch the big rolling mass
of canvas that was tilling with gas so
slowly.
“I was an. nYonaut from my child
hood. My father was the confidential
friend of Dr. Josan, the great French
aeronaut, and had me in a balloon before
' could walk. I don’t know how many
ascensions I have made. X have been
up so often that I used to feel as easy
live miles above the earth as if I were
walking on solid ground. I was twen
ty-two years old when the Franco-Frus-
sian war broke out, and was then in
Paris. My father had just died and left
me a few thousand francs, and I was ^
spending it as foolishly as most boys do “
who have never been used to money and
who suddenly come into a little fortune.
Instead of lighting for my own country,
l was squandering my father’s hard-
earned francs in the cafes of Paris. L
got up one morning and they told me
Paris was surrounded—that we would
all have to starve or surrender. Tho
several attempts that had been made to
break through the lines had failed, ami
the city was full of gloomy faces and
sad hearts. Then l happened to remem
ber what my father lmtl -said about the
means hv which Ueneral Joudan gained
his knowledge of the position of the
Austrians at the battle of the Fleurus in
1794, ami how the French ha<l used them
successfully at the sieges of Manbenge,
Charleroi, Manheim and Khrenbrelstein.
Why not use them now?”
“It was toward the end of September,
IS70, that I went to l»ambetta, the lead
er of our Provisional Government, ami
laid tho matter before him. He made
immediate inquiries among scientific
men of the practicability of the scheme,
and found that it would work. We
started two balloon factories. I hud
charge of one in St. Denis. In a month
we had over forty balloons. We used to
make the envelope of calico, varnished
with a mixture of linseed oil and oxide
of lead, while the net-work, ear .ami oth
er arrangements were after the ordinary
fashion. All the balloons that l super
intended hail a capacity of sev* nty thous
and cubic feet of gas. Wc lined to have
them manned by sailors, and they were
mainly used to carry ru v-ages from
Paris to Marseilles, to Evreux, to Tunis,
and other points. It grew to he quite a
common mode of sending letters during
the long months of tho seige. Most of
the balloons used to carry with them
carrier-pigeons. Letters would be sent
hack into Paris in.this way. The con
tents of the letter would be photograph
ed. This would reduce its size to with
in an area of one or two square inches of
the thinnest kind of pa,u*r. This paper
would h«* enclosed in a quill and fastened
to tlie central tail feather of the pigeon.
The enemy began to often Union our bal
loons at last, and several of them wore
lost or fell into the hands of the Ger
mans. To avoid thi« we us<*d to send
them out in the night, and iiie Govern
ment forbid the use of Jigiit*' to keep tho
enemy from seeing the balloon. I had
been busy in the factory for a month or
more, when it suddenly occurred to me
that 1 would like to take a trip myself.
1 made all tlie arrangements, and on tlie
ght of the 25th of November, 1 got into
e ‘City of Paris,* capacity 75,000 cu
bic feet," with two hundred pounds of
tersfor Kvreux. 1 left. aV it nine
lock. The air was cold ami damp. I
took one of the workim 11 with me. a
dcst little fellow named Lofebre
who lived at Kvreux and wanted to get
out of Paris. The wind was in the
ht direction, and we lmd no difficulty
getting off. In a few minutes the city
lay below me. ! could secthetwink-
g lights gleaming like serpent eyes
out of the ubyssma) darkness. All about
me the :dr was so black that I could al-
t feel it like a visible, palpable reali
ty. Dark masses of clouds that I guess
ed to he twenty thousand feet in thick
ness lay like an ebon wall above me and
sides. The stillness was some
thing dreadful. I had been up a thous
and times Indore, but in daylight, and
never under such circumstances. I
d oyer the enemy’s camps till 1
saw the last of their camp fires fade
iw.’iy in the night.
“You can never tell by the ufttion of
the car how fast you are going. I have
‘ een swept along by a whirlwind and a
lass full of water by my side never spill*
d a drop. It is only by comparison that
you know you are moving. Some in
stinct told me that we were being driven
forward with a fearful velocity. We
tried to keep up a conversation, but the
awful sublimity of the occasion and tlie
vague ft*4rs that filled us both kept us
from talking. I bad an idea that we
were about four miles above the earth’s
surface. For the first time 1 began to
think of the immeasurable abyss that lay
below me. Sometimes In dreams you
have all felt that you were falling into
depths never sounded by plummet, or
hanging on the verge of a precipice over
an eternity of space that rolled below.
“Iftltsoine of this leeling of horror
unutterable stealing over me. Sudden
ly l felt the car give an ominous creak.
The bottom was oi wicker-work, fasten
ed by ropes to the sides of the car. We
both felt this floor giving way under us.
The horror of the scene is beyond all
conception. A sailor who saw the hull
of the vessel falling away from under
him in the midst of a storm was fortu
nate compared with us. I sprang for
the ropes which connected with the
valve in the top and gave it .a strong
jerk. There was no perceptible fall in
the balloon. I gave another and a stron
ger pull. The cord gave way and I
found half of it in my hand. I sprang
into the network, and yelled for Lcfebre
to do likewise. The balloon lurched
over, and 1 noticed a few moments later
that the force with which Lcfebre had
jumped from the ear had detached one
side of it and hung down by only a few
cords. Tde balloon now rolled from
side to side. We were banging by the
network that enveloped it and did not
know how long we could remain or bow
soon the cords would break. The air, it
seemed to me, was becoming colder. My
hands weqc becoming numbed. Could
it be that we were entering a higher
and rarer stratum of air? Were we
still ascending? I looked down and
shuddered. 1 called to Lefebre but lie
failed to answer me. My blood almost
froze in mv veins as the thought flashed
on me. lie had slipped oH and been
precipitated into that frightf ul void. I
determim d to cling on .as long as I
could. I tried to tie myself up in the
network that 1 couldn’t fall, hut this was
impossible on account ot my almost fro
zen hands. 1 wrapped my hands up as
well as I could and then waited for day
light. It would be impossible for me to
try and toll you of my sufferings, mental
and physical. I knew that death stared
me iu the face, and the most awful of
deaths. I knew that I would be found
an unrecognizable mass of bones and
111 sli. I felt n»y bands slowly loosening
and the cords slipping away from me.
The cold began to overcome mind and
body, and the intense struggle for life
began to die away into a languid acqui
escence. I knew I could hold up but a
little while longer; hut the thought fail
ed to give aught but a faint feeding of
unrest, as though I were being told that
another man in a far-otl country was suf
fering. All my thoughts were imper
sonal. 1 felt the air grow warmer, and
a new and vivid sense of my danger
dawned upon me. I dung to the rftpes
with all my strength, and trembled as 1
thought this strength would not last
me longer. My arms ached, and there
was a dull pain in my head that was
fast deepening into a rapid throbbing of
the temples, tlie blood seemed to rush
and whirl and roar about my ears.
There cornea a time when a hunted man
drops,when the swimmer fails to raise
his arm, and I never felt before what
feeling must come over such a.mau till
then. The last minute that I could cling
to the ropes was reached. I felt that
even for my life could 1 hold longer.
With a prayer oh my lips, my palsied fin
gers slipped from the cords and I began to
tall. When I became conscious the bal
loon was lying a few yards off in ulieap,
and taugledln the cordage was Lefebre.
My first attempt to pull open the valve
had been successful, and when I loosen
ed all holds I was only half a dozen feet
from the ground. Lefebre hail become
entangled in the network and fainted. I
never wentin a balloon again, and my
nerves aro so completely shattered that I
can never see one without the old feeling
of horror creeping over me.* *
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