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VOLUME V.
IN TYLER’S TIME.
PERLEY’S REMINISCENCES OF
NOTED PEOPLE.
Hospitality at the White House—Marri
age of Baron De Bodisco-Beau
Hickman—A Strange
Diplomat.
The following is taken, from “Pcrley’s
Reminiscences
John Tyler, who was fifty-one years of
age when he took possession of the Exec
utive Mansion, was somewhat above the
medium height and slender figure, with
long limbs and great activity of move
ment. llis thin, auburn hair turned
white during his term of office, his nose
was large and prominent, his eyes were of
a bluish gray, his lips were thin and his
cheeks sunken, llis manners were those
of the old school of Virginia gentlemen,
and be ivas very courteous to strangers.
The ceremonious etiquette established in
the White House by Van Buren vanished,
and the President lived precisely as he
had on his plantation, attended by his *ld
family slaves. He invariably invited vis
itors with whom he was acquainted, or
strangers who w T ere introduced to him, to
visit the family dining-room and “take
something” from a sideboard well gar
nished with decanters of ardent spirits
and wines, with a bowl of juleps in the
summer and of egg-nog in the winter.
He thus expended nearly all of his salary,
and used to regret that it was not larger,
that he might entertain his guests more
liberally.
A SECOND-HAND COAT-OF-AUMS.
One day President Tyler joked Mr.
Wise about liis little one-horse carriage,
which the President styled “a candle-box
on wheels,” to which the representative
from the Accomac district retorted by tell
ing Mr. Tyler that he had been riding for
a month in a second-hand carriage pur
chased at the sale of the effects of Mr,
Paulding, the Secretary of the Navy un
der Mr. Van Buren, and having the
Pauldings coat-of-arms emblazoned on
the door panels. The President laughed
at the sally, and gave orders at once to
have the armorial bearings of the Pauld
ings painted over. Economy also prompt
ed the purchase of some partly worn suits
of livery at the sale of the effects of a for
eign minister, and these were afterward
worn by the colored waiters at state din
ners.
“beau” iitckman,
as he called himself, made his appearance
at Washington toward the close of the
Tyler administration. He was of mifUlo
size, with long hair and an inoffensive, ca
daverous countenance. It was his boast
that lie was horn among the slashes of
Hanover county, Va., and he was to be
seen lounging about the hotels, fashion
ably, yet shabbily, dressed, generally
wearing soiled white kid gloves and a
white cravat. It was considered the.
proper thing to introduce strangers to
Beau, who thereupon unblushingly de
manded his initiation fee, and his impu
dence sometimes secured him a generous
sum. He was always ready to pilot his
victims to gambling houses and other
questionable resorts, and for a quarter of
n century he lived on the blackmail thus
levied upon strangers.
COLONEL BENTON AND IRS FAMILY.
One of the most agreeable homes in
Washington was that of Colonel Benton,
the veteran Senator from Missouri, whose
accomplished and graceful daughters had
been thoroughly educated under his su
pervision. He was not willing, however,
that one of them, Miss Jessie, should re
ceive the attentions of a young second
lieutenant in the corps of topographical
engineers, Mr. Fremont, and the young
couple, therefore, eloped and were married
clandestinely. The Colonel, although
terribly angry at first, accepted the situ
ation, and his poweiful support in Con
gress afterward enabled Mr. Fremont to
explore, under the patronage of the gener
al government, the vast central regions
beyond the Rocky Mountains, and to
plant the national flag on Wind River
Peak, upward of 13,000 feet above the
Gulf of Mexico.
IJARON DK BODISCO’S WEDDING.
Avery different wedding was that of
B iron Alexander de Bodisco, the Russian
Minister Plenipotentiary, and Miss Harri
et W illiams, a daughter of the chief clerk
in the office of the Adjutant-General.
The Baron was nearly fifty years of age,
with dyed hair, whiskers and moustache,
and she a blonde school girl of “sweet
sixteen,” celebrated for her clear complex
ion and robust beauty. The ceremony
was performed at her father’s house on
Georgetown Heights, and was a regular
May and. December affair throughout.
1 here were eight groomsmen, six of
whom were well advanced in life, and as
many bridesmaids, all of them young
giLs from fourteen to sixteen years of
age, wearing long dresses of white satin !
damask, donated by the bridegroom. The
question of precedence gave the Baron
much trouble, as he could not determine
v*h tin i Mi. I ox, then the British Minis
sw r, ean 0f the Di Plomatic Corps, or
ter to R i u p llanan , who had been Miuis
nvm Tv la ’ s k° u M be tbe first grooms
was set.
bridesmaids stand i!! 2 gloomsruen an( l
either side of the bruWm UPICS ’ lom '. on
The ceremony was ° m anc * bride.
, ~ , .. ‘ witnessed at thp
bride’s residence by a dmingu is vJ
pauy, and tbe bridal party u K ;n ' C ° f m '
carriages to the Russian Up m
where au elegant entertainment • on
them and where some of the many
got gloriously drunk in drinking the
health of the happy couple.
A STRANGE DIPLOMAT.
Queen Victoria’s diplomatic representa
tive at Washington, the Honorable Henry
Stephen Fox, was a son of General Fox,
of the British army, who fought at the
battle of Lexington in 1775, and a neph
ew of the eminent statesman, Charles
James Fox. He had served in the British
Diplomatic Corps for several years, and
was thoroughly acquainted with his du
ties, but be held the least possible inter
course with the department of State and
rarely entered a private house. lie used
to rise about 3 o’clock in the afternoon
and take bis morning walk on Pennsyl
vania avenue an hour or two later. Miss
Seaton says that a gentleman on one oc
casion, meeting him at dusk in the Capitol
grounds, urged him to rsturn with him to
dinner, to which Mr. Fox replied that “he
would willingly do so, but his people
were waiting breakfast for him.” On the
occasion of a funeral of a member of the
Diplomatic Corps, Rifling to the wife of
the Spanish Minister, he said : “How very
edd we all look by daylight!” it being the
first time he had seen his colleagues ex
cept by candlelight. He went to bed at
daybreak, after watering his plants, of
which lie was passionately fond.
A WEDDING IN COURT.
A Youth of If) Gets Out of Jail by Mar
rying a Widow of 17.
A romance was consummated a short
while ago in St. Louis by a wedding in
the Court of Criminal Correction. Tbe
parties were Bryan Coyan, 19 years of
age, and Mrs. Ella Kimmerly, a widow of
17. Young Coyan was born in St. Louis
of respectable parents, but fell into evil
ways and, at an early age, made a record
in police circles. lie had a sweetheart,
but something over two years ago they
quarrelled and the girl, through pique,
married another. Young Coyan has been
arrested more times than he can remem
ber. About six months ago he was fined
SSOO. A stay was granted during good
behavor, Meantime tbe girl who had
married when only 15 years old, became a
widow, and Coyan resumed his old friend
ly relations. About the same time the
lad got into another snarl with the police
which landed him in jail.
After a few weeks in jail he got a law
yer to intercede for him. II:’ said that if
the police judge would combine the old
SSOO with the penalty for his last offense
and giye him a stay of execution, he
would marry the girl and leave the oity
forever. This was agreed to, and the girl
was happy until the discovery Was made
that Coyan was-under age, and that his
mother’s consent would have to be ob
tained before he could get a marriage li
cense. His mother had married a second
time and lived near Pevely, Mo. The girl
telegraphed but got no answer, and on
Wednesday last took a train for Pevely.
On reaching there she learned that Coy
an’s mother lived nine miles distant’and
there was no conveyance. It was 8
o’clock at night, dark and raining, but the
girl went afoot that night and reached the
home of her lover’s mother at about mid
uight. \ esterday the old lady accohipan
ed the girl to the city and to-day the w< d
ding took place. The newly-married
pair departed immediately for the young
husband’s mother’s house. He says if be
ever comes back to St. Louis it will be as
an honorable man.
1115 HAD NO USE FOR KIDS.
“I hate kids,” he said.
“Why ?”
“I think they ought to be locked up in
asylums till they’re old enough to take
Care of themselves. If it hadn’t been for
a kid—well—it might have been—”
“What v”
“1 loved this kid’s mother. She was
a rich and beautiful widow, and I was
madly in love with her. I was actually
contemplating—in fact I had just got to
the point of putting the delicate question.
We were in the drawing room. The kid
was playing in the corner. Forgetting all
about that I put my arms fervently around
the widow’s waist and implanted a pas
sionate kiss upon her lips, when the kid
started up and rushed at me. ‘Don’t you
kill my mamma,’ and ran screaming into
the kitchen calling for the servants.”
“That needn’t have —”
“What? Marry a widoxv with a child
like that ! But the worst came a few
nights after. I calleu at the house. There
were several ladies there, and the kid
was being petted all around. Of course
the widow was all right, but that con
founded child deliberately turned her
back. I didn’t mind that, but the mother,
to be nice, said :
“You darling child, don’t you know
Mr. ?”
“Ob, yes,” said the imp, very pertly;
“oh yes. I know you ; you are the man
that bited my mamma.” I need not —
could not describe the effect.—San Fran
cisco Chreoic.le.
AN ELECTRIC SWORD.
A gentleman of Shanghai has, after
considerable experimenting, invented
anew and deadly weapon. This is an
electric sword, which, wlien the point
touches the party’ attacked, sends a
poweiful shock through him, and if not
immediately killing, will at least put
him hors de combat. Tiie sword is an
ordinary military sabre, but along its
whole length is let in a file plantinum
wire, which ends at the foil of the
weapon. A small but very powerful*
storage battery is carried strapped
about the waist,, much the same as a
cartridge box. lusolated wire connect
the battery to the sword, and by pres
sing a button the holder can complete
circuit at once.—Shanghai (China)
, Courier.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1886.
A FAMOUS HUNTER.
The Slayer of Two Hundred and Seventy
five Moose—A Rim for Life.
One day this week Mr. Nathan B.
Moore, of Bingham, came into the Journal
office in company with one of his old
friends, a Lewiston amateur hunter, and
remained long enough to spin a few yarns
*of the moose hunt and leave behind him
an envious lodging for the woods.
Mr. Moore is ouc of the most celebrated
moose hunters in Main. He is 68 years
old. He is thin and p6or, with gray hair
and beard, and walks as though he had
carried many a burden. He is, however,
as active to-day as he was thirty years
ago, and as much at home in the woods as
ever.
His days ol steady hunting are over
now, for his boys have grown up and have
scattered, and his good wife doesn’t want
him to be alone in the woods or attending
the traps. He has been at it 60 years.
Mr. Moore related a good story of a
narrow escape in the forest neare the forks
of the Kennebec,
“I was out moose hunting once, several
years ago,” said he. “I had a companion,
and just before night we tracked two
moose on the light snow into a yard well
up the mountain. It was getting too dark
to hunt, so we went back and camped for
the night.
“Tbe morning was excellent, for a light
snow had fallen. We started out us soon
as we could and came up to them rn about
an hour or two. Both of them were up
hill from us when we first saw them, one
being about 50 rods from the other. They
saw us about as soon as we sai* them.
“The bull moos started straight down
the hillside, when the cow moose made an
as to meet him about at the foot
of the hill. I never saw any animal go
as the bull moose did.
“Half down the side of the hill was a
big spruce that had been felled across the
edge ol.a rock, so that between the edge
of the rock and the tree there was a space
of several inches. The moose was going
lastcst at this point, and just here I saw
him catch and go over in the air and strike
broadside on the snow.
“He got up quick and made for tbe foot
of the hill, leaping a rod at a leap. Twen
tv-five rods further he went into the yard
and turned. I fired and he fell, thrashing
his head. •
On going up to him I saw that his fore
leg WU3 as big as a teakettle and all
smashed to flinders, with pieces- of bone
sticking out.’ 1 then saw what made him
jump and leaji .so-coming'dmvrt hill.' Hr'
had caught'his leg in tbe spruce and had
broken it.
“We then left him and went after the
cow. We found herjwere she had slipped,
but from the yard to where the moose lies
down there is a hard-beaten road which
the moose makes. She had left no track
on this, but a little further we found where
she had gone on, and we followed. A
little ahead of us we heard the dogs bark,
ami we knew they were on the moose.
“We found her in an open place, two
rods wide, surrounded by thick cedars and
pines. Near here was the moose’s beds.
They never lie in the same place but once-
The snow being soft, their w rm bodies
melt it and after they rise the melted snow
freezes into ice and is too hard for a com
fortable bed after that. Beyond the icy
places where they had lain was an “open”
with the snow from 8 to 10 inches thick,
“We went into the thicket and threw
down our gnu cases and made for her. I
settled myself along the road that led into
the open place where the moose stood at
bay. The dogs made for her and she
came out.
“I never saw a cow moose so ugly be
fore. She was terrible mad. Her eyes
were glared, her bristles were all on end,
her ears were laid back. It is not often
that you see such a sight.
‘“Bad business,’ said Ito myself,‘if that
critter gets at us.’
“A funny thing now happened. Instead
of making lor the dogs, as in nine c.ises
out ol ten a moose does, she made for me.
“I was in the middle ot the road, wear
ing snow shoes, and had dropped on one
knee with my rifle over my arm, waiting.
I knew if I got a sight at her and my gun
went she was as good as dead, for in those
days I missed nothing. I waited until she
got where I could see the little mark to
shoot at on her breast and I pulled the
trigger.
“There was no report! The hammer
fell with a dull sound, and the next min
ute I had risen to my teet and was going
down the hard road with the moose com
ing a rod at a jump.
“Just then the other mm fired and
broke the Jmoose’s fore leg. It didn’t stop
her even for a minute. She jumped wild
er than ever after me.
“Between me and the opening were the
moose beds. If I could cross them and
reach the snow I could run away from
her ou my snowshoes, but there was
great danger in crossing the icy beds,
where the moose had been lying,Jof being
tripped and ot falling. It would have
been death to fall under the moose’s fore
feet.
“I made for the opening, though, ’and
it Was the awfulest run I ever made. I
could touch the critter’s nose once just as
I struck the snow. Once her fore loot hit
my snowshoe behind and almost tripped
me. I won by six inches, and once in the
snow she gave up the chase and turned
back.
“I looked at my rifle and found that a
dry twig had caught over the tube and
had broken the force of the hammer, and
had made it fall me. We killed the moose
liye minutes afterward.”—Lewiston
(Me.) Journal.
A SHOT IN A DUEL.
A STRANGE WAY OF FIGHTING A
DUEL.
The Manner in Which a Cuban Bully
Was Killed in a Duel -The Grit
of an American in Cuba.
Soon after the Cubans were compelled
to surrender the Virginus to Uncle Sam
I landed in Havana oa the agent for an
American Agricultural works. Fortu
nately for me in this case I could chat
ter away in Spanish with any of them,
and though I was bora and reared iu
Ohio I was supposed to beau English
man. Had I given out that I was a
straight-haired Yankee the chances of
being mobbed or knifed or shot would
have been excellent. The feeling against
Americans was so Very bitter that one
from the States was liable to insult and
violence on the public streets.
I had been there about a week when
an American named Chas. Whitley,
from Michigan, arrived with liis wifr.
Whitley was au invalid, and he had
come to Cuba by the advice of his phy
sician. I rembered lum as a tall pale
faced and extremely courteous gentle
man, while she was a little bit of a
women who was all hope and sunshine.
It so happened that I made their ac
quaintance the first*! ay they landed and
1 felt it my duty to,warn Whitley of the
feelings entertained against our nation
ality. My advice to him was to keep
close for a time and to carefully avoid
being mixed up m any discussion of a
public nature. He had been there a
week without anything being said to
him, wken one day as we sat in the
hotel reading room a couple of Cubans
who spoke,very good English came in
and took seats near us. There was no
doubt in my mind from the first that
they meant to draw Whitley into a trap.
They began by abusing and mangling
Americans aud wishing for war, and
when he persistently refused to take
notice of them one oi tjiem turned de
liberately upon him and said:
“Havana is no place for such as you.”
“The gentleman is rm invalid,” I re
plied.
“But he is also a y.mkee,” continued
the Cuban. “Oja. Government should
not permit them to even land on the
island.” .
win t ley’s face grew paler, and lie bit
his lips to keep back the hot words
which wanted to come, but he made no
reply. The larger one of the two men
who appe .red to boa native fire-eater,
waited for a moment, and then rose up
auel said to the Michigander:
“Ail Yankees are cowards! 1 insult
you! Demand satisfaction if you dare! ’
“Idemand it!” answered Whitley in
a low voice. “You evidently want a
duel! You shall have ii!”
“Good!” hissed the other. “My friend
here will arrange the details with your
friend. You have more courage thau I
thought for.”
He walked away with a uod at me and
was followed by liis friend, who promis
ed to return m half an hour.
“You can’t mean to fight him?” 1
inquired of Wiiiiley when we were alone.
“But I do. He insulted me as an
American, hoping to provoke a duel,
aud as au American I will fight him.”
“But your health?”
“Never mind my health. All I want
is to keep the affair from my wile un
til it is over with. Arrange to tight him
to-morrow morning.”
“With what weapons?”
“I never had a sword in my hand and
I have never had any experience with
pistols. Choose pistols, however, 1
know enough to sight aud fire one and I
must take my chances.
There was no doubt that the man was
an experienced duelist, but the more I
argued with Whitley the. more deter
mined he was to tight. Under all the
circumstances it would have been no
disgrace for him to refuse, but from the
very first his mind was made up. Such
affairs are easily and quietly arranged in
Cuba. When the Second returned we
settled ou pistols for weapons, and lie
was kind enough to say that he would
arrange for a surgeon to be present. We
were to be at a certain spot about four
miles distant at a certain hour iu the
morning. The fellow was a pink of po
liteness, and I carried the idea that he
had been mixed up iu several affairs of
the sort, and that my principal was not
a greeu baud on the held of honor.
I did not see Whitley again until we
took a carriage in the morning to drive
to the grouuds. He was calm and self
possessed, and on the way out arranged
with me about sending his wife home in
case of his death, and provided for
other emergencies. The little woman
had not received the slightest hint of
what was on the tapis. We found the
other parties waiting for us, and the de
tails were speedily arranged. The men
were placed lifteen paces apart that they
were to tire until one of them was killed
or wouuded. In case either was
wounded and continue the light the
duel should go on. The two p'stols
were loaded aud handed to the princi
pals, and the awkward manner in which
\\ liitley held his made the Cubans
smile. I had told him how to stand so
as to present the smallest possiblu tar
get to his opponent, but as they took
their places I was horrified to see him
present his full front. It seemed as if
anyone who could sighta pistol could bore
him through at the first fire. He was a tri
fle paler thau usual, but he stood firm on
his f#et and was in good nerve.
The word was finally given—one. two,
three, fire—and both pistols wore dis
charged at once. I was looking at
Whitley. I saw a piece of cloth fly from
his shoulder into the air, and as I turned
my gaze toward the Cuban I saw the
latter sink down iu a heap, as if he had
been Struck on the head. We ran to
tiirn to find a builethole in the center ot
his forehead, aud he was stoue dead.
His bullet had chipped Whitley’s right
shoulder but without drawing blood. 1
never saw two men so dumfounded as
the surgeon and the Cuban’s second.
It was a minute before they could re
alize the disaster. Everything had
been fair and according to the code, and
nothing remained for us except to re
turn to the city. Whitley was very
calm and self-posessed, neither astonish
ed nor exultant.
“What spot- did you aim for?” I
asked as we rode homeward.
“Noue at all;” he replied “I had my
eyes shut when I pulled .the trigger.”
A KANSAS LEGEND.
“There is no doubt,” said the truthful
man from Kansas, “that Missouri is a
great country, but it will not compare for
a moment with Kansas.
“Think of the Kansas pumpkins ! Gen
tlemen, when I was on a farm in that glo
rious country I once lost three valuable
cows. For three weeks I searched for
them in vain aud was returning home in
disgust when I suddenly heard the tinkle
of a cow bell.
“Investigation showed that the cows
were in a pumpkin, eating calmly and
enjoying their commodious quarters.
How did they get in, you say ? Weil, the
pumpkin vines grew rapidly there, and
dragged the pumpkin over the rough
ground until a hole was worn in the side,
through Which the cows entered. I after
wards had it cured and used it for a wag
on shed.
“Is it a good country for corn, you ask ?
Stranger, you’ll never know what acorn
country is until you go to Kansas.
“When thy husking is done in the fall
the men go out with mallets and wedges
and split up the corn stalks for shipment
to the East as telegraph poles or saw
them off in lengths to be used as car
wheels.
“When the men are husking they carry
along step-ladders, which they place near
the corn stalk. Two men then climb up
and cut off the ear with a cross-cut saw,
letting them fall to _ the ground. Four
horses are then hitched to each ear, and it
is dragged to the crib.
“Big farms there ? I should say so.
Why, when I started one spring to plow a
furrow the entire length of the farm, I had
a boy to follow’ me to plant the corn, and
when I got to the end of the furrow and
started home, I found that the corn the
boy had planted was ripe, so I just husk
ed my way home and got there just in
time to spend New Years.”—St. Louis
Whip.
IRON villi: notes.
The warm weather has come, and peo
pic are changing around to find a cool
place.
This country comes in for a full share
of visitors.
There was a Betsy Hamilton party at
Col. Saxon’s last week. The young ladies
and gentlemen were dressed in cracker
style. All together it was quite a pleas
ant affair.
Judge Jones and lady, with their two
children, are visiting Mr. T. N. Pittard.
Misses Nagle, of Atlanta, are visiting
M isses Marion and Stella Smith. The
young ladies have visited here before and
many of the young men are delighted by
their return.
Mr. David Pittard and daughter, of
Oglethorpe county, came up to the Agri
cultural Convention, and spent a few
days with relatives here.
The delegates to tlie Agricultural Con
vention came out to sec the Buford ore
banks on Thursday.
The Iron Valley Literary Club met mi
Friday night at Mr. J. C. Ilerriug’s.
There was a good attendance, and all
were made to feci at home by the clever
host and hostess.
Mr. L. S. Munford and family have
been visiting Mrs. Munford's father in
Chattooga county.
Miss Lula Eakin, ef Chattanooga, is
visiting her grandmother. Mrs. A, W.
Buford.
Dr. K. 11. Kinabun, of Alabama, spent a
few days last week with his sister, Mrs. A.
J. Buford,
Miss Minnie Weems, of Rome, is visit
ing Misses Lula and Beatrice Weems.
Misses Lidie Rowland and Lidie Saxon
have been spending a few days with Mrs.
Rebecca Sproull.
A thrifty housewife thinks that men
ought to be useful. They might as
well be smoking hams as cigars.
“Man proposes, but (says Rose
Cleveland) it sometimes takes a great
deal of encouragement to get him to
do so.”
White mountain resorts boast of col
lege student waiters who can parse
Greek. We prefer waiters who can pass
the fried chicken.
A STRANGE STORY.
A Man Moots His Wife Whom he Thought
De. (I.
A romance, almost without parallel,
came to light in this city to-day, au so
intricately is the plot interwoven that
it would make truth appear stranger
than fiction. Thirty years ago there re-
I sided near this city, then a straggling
village, James Starns, a sturdy young
I farmer, with his wife and two little boys.
; Iu 1854 Starnes concluded to try his
fortune in the West, aud went to Cali
fornia. A month after, having fouud
a pleasant settlement, he sent his wife
money with which to join him. Mm.
Stains wrote, saying that she would
start iu two months, but at the end of
that time she had received no reply.
Starns wrote letter after letter to liis
wife and relatives, and she wrote to him,
but neither ever received a word of the
other.
Ten years afterwards Starns sent his
wife SSOO, but the money went back to
him as no one called for it. By this
time both the husband and wife sup
posed each other dead.. Mr. Starns
went to Michigan and from thence to
Wisconsin, where, six years ago, he
married the daughter of a wealthy
farmer. By some strange fate he drifted
to Chattanooga last week. Not even
the oldest inhabitant remembered him,
and he could not find a trace of any of
liis relatives.
To-day he learned that a family
named Stains resided near the city,
and procuring a carriage, he took liis
wife to ascertain whether or not they
were his relatives. Arriving at the
house Si urns was leinitied to find the
aged, white haired lady who received
him was :io other than his first wife,
and he realized ihe fact that he had two
wifes. An explanation followed, aud
and the two wives were introduced, but
exhibited a marked coldness. The par
ties refused to taik, and it is not known
what they will do.
A TOUCHING SIGHT.
Two Children Hurled in the Hume Casket
Last Friday.
Two weeks ago Friday the wife of Cap
tain I. J. Dunn was buried at Smyrna.
Friday two daughters in tbe same cas*
ket were buried near her.
Before Mrs. Dunn died she called her
two daughters, Mattie and Lester, aged
rrßpffctft(W ten and eight years, to her
bedside and told them that she knew she
was going to die and that she wanted
them to take charge ot the twin babies
and care for them like mothers. Lester,
the eight year old daughter and the moth
er’s favorite, told her mother that she
would take the smallest child. Mattie
took the largest and by the bedside of the
dying mother they promised to care for
the little wee babes. The mother died
and was laid in the silent tomb. The
father and little girls returned to the des
olate home with sad hearts. The little
babes were tenderly cared for by the old
er sister. Lester took the death of her
mother very hard and would weep at the
mention of her name. Sunday last she
was taken sick, and when her father or
sister would ask her if she wanted any
thing, she would reply by saying that
she wanted to go to mother. The little
sufferer would talk of going to mother all
the time when she was awake. She
grew worse day by day till Friday, with
the words “I am going to mother” on her
lips, the little heart ceased to throb and
her soul took its flight to the spirit land
where the dear mother was watching and
waiting. The father’s grief cannot be ex
pressed when, a few hours later,
the little babe which had been given into
tiie keeping of her sister Lester died. Mr.
J. F. Barclay, the undertaker, placed the
two bodies in the same casket. The babe
was placed on the left arm of the sister,
with her face looking up. Mr. Barclay
says it was the most touching picture lie
ever looked upon, and that none were
present who did not shed tears.
A Western exchange tells its readers
how to mind their P’s,” in the fol
lowing paragraph : “Persons who patron
ize papers should pay promptly, for the
pecuniary prospects.of the press have a
peculiar power in pushing forward public
prosperity. If the printer is paid prompt
ly, and his pocket-book kept pletoric by
prompt paying patrons he puts his pen to
his pen to his paper in peace ; his para
graphs are more pointed ; lie paints his
pictures of passing events in more pleas
ing colors, and the perusal of his paper is
a pleasure to the people. Paste this piece
of proverbial philosophy in some place
where ail persons can perceive it.”
Old Maid: “Dear friend, tlio hap
piest days of my life were spent under
the broad limbs of the aged oak.'
X often sit under its foliage and muse.
It is my favorite spot.” Dear" friend:
Ah 1 understand. You planted it
with your own hands!”
A tipsy fellow, who mistook a globe
lamp wita letters on it, for the queen of
night, exclaimed: “Well, I’ll lie (hie)
blest, if somebody hasn’t struck an
advertisement on the (hie) moon?”
A New Li.itain (Conn.) man lias been
sentenced to six mouths imprisonment
for kissing a Massachusetts girl. Many
i man has been made a life long pris
oner just by kissing a girl.
“Aral now, Sarah, what kind of an
engagement ring shall I get yon?”
“Solid gold, I "uess, Henry. I’m io
ti < ii of wearing Imitation gold for en
gagements. ”
NUMBER 15
SKJNS OF KAIN.
The hollow winds begin to blow,
The clouds fire black, the grass is low,
lhe s*ot falls down, the spaniels sleep,
And spiders from their cobwebs peep.
Last night the sun went pale to bed,
The moon in halos hid her head;
lhe boding shepherd heaves a sigh,
For, see! a rainbow spans the sky.
1 he walls are damp, the ditches smell;
Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel.
Hark, how tjho chairs and tables crackl
Old Betty’s nerves are on the rack.
Loud quacks the duck, the peacocks cry;
The distant lulls are seeming nigh.
How restless are the snorting swine!
The busy Hies disturb the kine.
Low o’er the grass the swallow wings;
I he cricket, too, how sharp lie sings!
Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws,
Sits wiping o’er her whiskered jaws,
Through the clear streams the fishes rise,
And nimbly catch the incautious flies.
The glow worms, numerous and light,
Illumed the dewy dell last night.
At dusk the squalid toad was seen
Hopping and crawling o’er the green.
The whirling dust the wind obeys,
And in the rapid eddy pla3 r s.
The frog has changed his yellow r vest,
And in a russet coat is dressed.
Though summer, the air is cold and still,
The mellow blackbird’s voice is shrill.
My dog, so altered in his taste,
Quits mutton bones on grass to feast.
And see yon rooks, bow odd their flight!
They imitate the gliding kite,
And seem precipitate to fall,
As if they felt the piercing ball.
SUCCESSFUL. COLORED MEN.
A Washington letter to the Chicago
Journal says. A good many colored
men who have been prominent in public
life have managed to accumulate more or
less fortunes during their careers since the
slave days. Fred Douglass is worth, per
haps, from $30,000 to $40,000. Lynch,
who was a memberJof Congress from Miss
issippi, and who was a temporary Chair
man oi the last Republican National Con
vention, is one of the wealthiest colored
men in the country, perhaps the wealthiest.
He has a large plantation in Mississippi,
owns a good deal of property in Washing
ton, and has some fine farming lands in
the West. Ex-Senator Bruce is another
wealthy colored man, and, like Linch and
Douglass, lias made all his money by bis
own exertions since living in a state of
freedom. Congressman Smalls, of South
Carolina, is another wealthy citizen. He
owns a -great den! of valuable land in
South Carolina, and is entirely indipen
dent in a financial way. Smalls, wh
was a slave before the war, assisted in
capturing the Confederate vessel of which
he had been made temporary pilot, and
received tor that service a cosiderable sum
in prizn mom y. The money he put in
South Carolina farming lands, when that
was sold at tax sale during the war, ob
taining the lands at a very low liigure.
When the question of title was raised,one
of his cases were brought into the Supreme
Court and made a test case. The decision
was in favor and made him a wealthy
man. He lives in a very plain unpretent
ious style here, although quite able to oc
cupy a handsome establishment. He has
an elegant home in South Carolina. He
evinces great regard for his old mistress,
and it is related that he took her one time,
after the vicis-dudes of war had made her
penniless, to his own home, gave her the
best apartments in the house, placed Ins
horses and carriages at her disposal, and,
with his wife, w.qted upon and cared for
her as tendcly as lie ever did when con
strained by slave laws.
* •*•
A servant who prided on living in a
genteel family, being asked to define the
term said: “Why, they keep a carriage,
have three or four kinds of wine ami
never pay a bill the first time it is called
for.”
About this time.if is the proper thing
for the candidate t > be in the hands of
his friends. With the nomination
secured he is then in the hands of his
enemies, so to speak.
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Market Street School.
MISS MAMJE WARE
Will begin her school on the
23ni) OF AUGUST,
At the GARRET HOUSE ON MARKET
bl RLL P, next the Baptist Church.
The rooms are very comfortable and
pleasantly located, i'he line grove be
tVhe,eilJllJt 1>l!lGC a,ul the Baptist Church
will afford a line shade and ample play
ground for the children during tile bouts
of recreation.
MRS. \\ ARE will teach any music pu
pils connects! with this school, or any do
siring MUSIC LESSONS ALONE at her
residence, only a few steps distant.
Having accepted the music class in the
East Carte rsville Shod, Mr. Carney
President, I will begin teaching a’ the
“New School Home” on ill 23rd of
August. The music patronage of the
friends and patrons ot lids scnool and the
town of Carters \it it- is most, respectfully
solicited. MRS. S. J. WARE.
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