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IIIUII, LOW, JACK AM) THK (JAKE.
Ifon a \n\ .lerscj Jury U Amacd ol
Hinliis Ikrirird I ;><m a A'Prdlrl.
On Monday lust, while summing up
the ease of Frederick Clark, indicted in
Elizabeth, N. J., for a robbery in West-
Held. I'nion county, Counsellor Holton
said lie hoped that the jury would not
arrive at a verdict in the same manner
that another jury had recently don/.
Then Mr. Holton, seeing the inquiring
looks in the face of Judge and jury,
explained that he had heard a member
of the jury in question say that the ver
dict was reached through the instru
mentality of a game of seven up. Al
ter the Clark trial was over Prosecuting
Attorney Fay moved that Mr. Holton
be put upon the stand to testify as to
his knowledge of the seven up verdict.
Judge Dnlrymple acceded to the mo
tion. saying that the charge Mr. Holton
had made was one of the gravest that
could be brought against a jury, and
t lie lawyer was sworn.
lie said that just, after a recent trial,
in which tike jury was out for several
hours, he went into a restaurant near
the Court Ilonso. and there heard Mr.
Peter Eller say that the jury, of which
he was a member, having failed to agree
upon a verdict, had decided to settle
their ditf'erences bv a game of seven up.
The game was played. Mr. Eller's side
won, and the jury brought in a verdict
of guilty. Mr. Aaron E. Clark and Mr.
George N. Pierson corroborated the
testimony of Mr. Fay, and the Court
ordered that Mr. Peter Eller and Mr.
Theodore Reeves, members of the jury,
and Constable Samson, who had the
jury in charge, be summoned to answer
the charges.
Mr. Peter Eller owns a brewery on
Pearl street, and runs a lager beer
s;ds*n in Elizabeth avenue, lie is an
ex-Free holder, and has been spoken of
for higherofliees. lie is a portly, good
lmmored Ixmiface. and treats tlie mat
ter as a joke.
*• I tell you how it was," he said, to
a friend. •• We did play high. low. jack,
and the game to get ov.r the time, but
it was not to fix the verdict. It was
the ease of Andrew Brown, who was
indicted for an attempt to commit an
assault. The jury stood fl to .'! for con
vict ion when we went out. but soon two
came over to our side (I was for con
viction.) and we were 11 to 1. The
obstinate man stood out for hours, and
so we played cards to kill time. I
jdayed four games, and lost them all.
I suppose every time (meof those coun
try jurors comes to my place lie'll say,
"“Come, Peter, set 'em up! You know
you lost four games up in the jury
room." Well, alter a while the obsti
nate man gave iu., and we rendered our
verdict. After the trial I was in a
restaurant, and was telling a few friends
about that jury. I told t-bein that when
I saw that obstinate man 1 was re
minded of a story I read some years
ago of a jury that stood six to six. and
wouldn’t move a peg either way. Fi
nally they agreed to p!av a game of
seven up, the winning side to declare
the verdict. I said, in a joke, that we
ought to have adopted that plan in this
case. Mr. Holton, I suppose heard the
last part of my story, and thought that
T referred to the lirown case. That is
Jill there is to it."
Public opinion in Elizabeth is divi
ded. but the other jurors, who were to
be found, unite in saying that the card
playing was for fun, and not to decide
the verdict.
Mr. Eller is to appear before the
Court on Wednesday next.
Josh Billings* Items.
I lmv often known the toe ova cow
hide hoot, located in the rite spot, to he
ov more value to a young man than the
legacy of a rich tinkle.
The man who expeckts in his old
age to he taken care ov hi the world,
bekase his life haz been spent in their
amusements or instruekshnns, reasons
like a phool and will starve like one too.
I notiss that when a man runs his lied
agin a post, lie busses the post. fust, all
kreaslum and something else last, and
never busses himself.
One quart of cheap whisky, the
cheaper the better, judiciously applied
will do more bizziness for the devil
than tiie smartest deacon he has got.
Young man, learn to wait, if you un
dertake to sett a hen before she is
readdy yu will lose your time and con
fuse tiie lien besides.
Tluirr is 2 men prowling around who j
want close watching, the one that iz
allwuz praising and the one that iz all
wuz kondcming himself.
Those people who are trying to git
tu lieven on ther kreed will find out at
last that they don’t hav a thru tickit.
It takes a live man to do bizziness
novv-a-days. I don’t care ef yu hav got
a copj’ of the bible til sell 311 hav tu
talk it up party strong.
I am willing tu admit that man iz my
brother, hut I kontend at the same time
that 1 hay got a lot of kussed scaly re
lations.
I hav never known a second wife but
what waz Im>3S of the situation.
Whiskey iz a hard thing tu konvince,
tharefore I never argy with a dmnkken
man.
Experience is a good teacher, but she
iz a dreadful slo one ; before we get half
thru her lesson the bell rings and we
arc summoned to judgment.
A rumor reaches us from Charleston
that (lov. Wade Hampton, induced by
certain political considerations, will re
commend to the Legislature, at its ap
proaching session, the passage of a gen
al bill of amnesty for nil the public
thieves in South Carolina. (lov. Hamp
ton should my. do /). The bargain t M
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VOL ]I —NO. in.
which lie lias already assented have
done much to damage his reputation as
an honest politician, and anything fur
ther in the same line will ruin his repu
tation beyond recovery. A general
amnesty for the South Carolina rascals
would no doubt be satisfactory to Hon
est John Patterson and others, who
would regard it as a gratifying evidence
of the truly conciliatory attitude of po
litical parties. It would also spare Mr.
Hayes a good deal of anxiety, and
would relieve in South Carolina many
Democratic hearts that now ache with
apprehension. Vet it will he a costly
experiment for Hampton if lie tries it,—
X. r. Sun.
The Senate Democratic.
-W ir York Sun.
When Conover of Florida voted with
the Democrats on Wednesday, a shiver
ran along the Republican side of the
Senate Chamber and was quickly com
municated to the Republican press.
The ominous significance of that vote,
coupled with the evident anxiety of
1 )cmocratie Senators for the appearance
m the Chamber of the absent and un
paired Patterson of South Carolina,
was instantly recognized. Indeed, it
could not be misunderstood. It was
handwriting on the wall.
When the Senate met yesterday
morning. Patterson was in his seat.
The first vote was on Mr. Hoar's mo
tion to table Mr. Thurmon’s resolution
taking the credentials of M. C. Butler
of South Carolina from the Committee
on Privileges and Elections. Conover
and Patterson voted with the Demo
crats, and the motion was lost—2!t to
J 2. Successive attempts to amend Mr.
Thurman's resolution were voted down.
Finally, an adjournment to Monday was
carried, Conover voting yea. by the
casting Itoth of William A. V heeler.
Whatever may be the real history of
tiie defection of Conover and Patterson,
the fact remains that the Senate is no
longer a Republican body. After near
ly a score of years of abused power
and misused opportunity, that party
sees its stronghold wrenched from its
possession. Patterson and Conover
iiave gone too far to recede. A Demo
crat will be seated, by the help of their
votes, from South Carolina. The Dem
ocrats will be seated from Louisiana.
As only one Republican. Sharon of .Ne
vada. is absent and unpaired, this
will shift the majority to the Demo
cratic side.
It is only another illustration of retri
butive justice that the carpet-bag mem
bers whom the Republican party has
fostered should prove to he the ap
pointed instrument of its destruction.
The .New Coachman.
Detroit Free Pros*.
The bov should have known better at
his age than to let out family secrets,
but lie felt too grateful to the otherbov
for the use of his stilts, and lie softly
remarked:
•• Father wasn't at Itome all last night,
and he hasn't come home yet."
•• Gone off?" queried the owner of the
stilts.
•• He's down town somewhere, we ex
pect, and ma says she ain't going to run
after him if he don't come home for a
month.
•• Did they have a fuss?’
•• Kinder. You see we bad to let the
coachman go, 'cause its hard times.
Yesterday afternoon ma wanted pa to
black up and drive her out in style. He
kicked at first, but when she got mad
he caved in and fixed himself up so you
couldn't tell him from a regular darkey.
When he drove around ma called him
Peter, and ordered him to hack up and
go ahead and haw and gee around, and
he got up on his ear and drove back to
the ham. Them dud's came off'n him
like lightning, and he was so mad that
he didn't stay long enough to wash the
black off his ears.
••And what did your mother say?"
asked the other.
“ Nothing. She looked a little sad
around the mouth, but she'll fetch him
to it if it takes all winter. He might
as well come home and begin to learn
how to burn cork/’
Dangerous Defender.
From the Fittxburg Commercial.
At the Criminal Court yesterday a
colored man stoutly pleaded not guilty
to a charge of burglary, and. as lie had
no money, Judge Jones beckoned to
ward one of the young and rising coun
sellors present and remarked :
“Mr. . 1 appoint 3011 to defend
the prisoner.’’
The colored burglar rolled his eyes
with horror when he heard the name of
the hero of a hundred convictions men
tioned in connection with his case, and
eagerh’ cried:
•• No, Jej. no. I guess not. 1 pleads
guilty if ver don’t make it morn two
j ears in the pen.”
The prisoner was sentenced accord
ingly, and the young lawyer tallied one
more lost case.
What next? Before the war the fash
ionable styles in ladies' dresses re
minded us of an umbrella hoisted. Now
the remind us of au umbrella bt down
and buttoned.
HARTWELL, (!A„ WEDNESDAY. DEC EM HER 1877.
He Wanted the Doctor,
Hurliuritiui liiiirk+fi*.
One night last week a jolly old Her
man farmer rode to Cheannt hill from
White marsh after a physician for his
wife, who was very sick, lie dismounted
from his horse in front of a saloon just
as the boys inside had begun to make
merry over the first, keg of beer. He
approached and looked very cautiously
around the screen. The foaming glasses
were held high above the heads of the
revelers, as one of the number pro
nounced a toast appropriate to the oc
casion.
The silent watcher licked Ids lips and
wished his errand lmd been one not re
quiring so much dispatch. He was
turning reluctantly away, when the
crowd saw him.
••llallo!" they shouted, “there's
Fritz. Rriug him in !”
lie* was laid hold upon and hauled
up to the liar, all the while protesting.
“ Roys, 1 was in a quick hurry. Ole
voonmn sick like dor tilyval. 1 vos
come mitdertoctor, sooner as lightnin !"
- Well, you can take some beer while
you're here, and kill two birds with one
stone." was the reply.
•• Vans. I kill von chicken mit. a coo
ple of stones, nnd der ole voomnn die
mitout der toctor. I ton't forget myself
of it. eh?"
••Oh. she won't, die. You don't get
beer often, and you’ve got the ole wo
man all the time. Fill 'em up again."
•• Yaas. I got her all der time, but ex
poses’ she go dade. 1 don’t get her any
more somedimes. It's better to go nut
der toctor, seldom right away."
Hut he didn’t go. As one glass after
another was forced upon him by the
reckless crew, the object of his errand
was floated further and further from bis
vision, until it was carried out of his
mind, altogether, and bis voice, un
tinged with anxiety, joined in the drink
ing songs, and arose above all others.
Tims he was found by his son, late
that night. The hoy grasped him by
the sleeve, and said :
*• Fader, ooom home."
Fritz turned, at the sight of his boy
a great fear arose in bis mind, swept
away the fumes of the beer and brought
him to a sense of the situation. In an
awe-struck tone be asked :
*• Ynwcub, liow you was ooom here;
Vas soniedings der matter?"
•• Yaw." replied the boy.
•• Veil, spoke up abotid it. Vas der
ole vooman—was your madder—is she
dado? I can shtnnd dem best. Don’t
keep your ladder in expense, poy.
Nlipid it out. Yas ve a cixiple or or
phanses. Ynwcub?"
“ Neill," answered the boy. " you vas
amuler. A leedle baby ooom mit ter
house."
Fritz was overcome for a moment,
but finally stammered out:
*■ Vos dot so! Veil—veil, in der
middle of life, we don't know vat's to
turn next lip. Man exposes ltnd Cott
supposes. Fill up der glasses.”
The boy ventured to ask the old man
why he had not seen the doctor.
•• Vv did she want a toetor? Fetter
she told me so. I got him pooty quick.
Navare mind, I safe more as ten dollar
toetor bill on dat, baby. Dotvos agoot
child. Fill up der glasses. Whoo ray
for dat little buck baby ! Ve von't go
home till yesterday.”
Fritz got home at last, and was in
Chesnnt Hill again after a couple of
days after some medicine. The hoys
couldn’t get him back again, though he
said to them
" Yon hate I ten, to my peesness
now.”
The heathen arc organizing foreign
missions for the conversion of Chris
tians. Tiie Hindus of the sacred City
of Benares have founded a society for
the propagation of Brahminism among
the Christians of Australia. An emin
ent Brahmin of the mime of Suradsehi,
a man of great authority, has recently
been visiting some of the English colo
nies, and while traveling in Australia,
was appalled and grieved at the fearful
prevalence of drunkenness among the
Christians. On returning to India lie
called together a number of thoughtful
Brahmins, to whom he communicated
his glowing zeal to do something for
the salvation of their degraded fellow
men and fellow-subjects in Australia.
The only perfect remedy, be considered,
would he the conversion of these Chris
tians to a better and purer faith. A
large sum was collected for the pious
and benevolent enterprise, and some of
the Brahmins declared their willingness
to devote themselves to the work, and
to spend and he spent in this humane
and holy cause. Suradsehi is now en
gaged in translating fitting passages
from the Vedas into the English tongue
for the use of the missionaries.
“Mu." said a thoughtful lmv, “I
don't think Solomon was so rich as
they say he was.” “ Why, iny dear,
what could have put that into your
head?" “ Why. the Bible says he slept
with his father's : and 1 t hink if he had
been so rich, he would have had a bed
of his own."
Often at'Drlll.
ri'tvnrdtf oj Vhrintiun Holinc**
Runyan's pilgrim prayed himself out
ol the giant's dungeon. 11 is devotion
. <>'i him the key that unlocked tho wav
to liberty. A story of similar divine
rescue from a situation that would have
brought despair to a wicked man, is told
in the writings of Hugh Miller, who
probably heard it from the descendants
of the chief actor in the scene.
A highlander in the Finish army,
during the war of the revolution, was
caught one evening creeping out of the
thicket just beyond the lines, evidently
returning from some secret errand. The
American outposts (along the Hudson)
were tin n quite near those of the Frit-
Mi, and being concealed in the forest,
their exact number and distance were
always uncertain. I'nder the circum
stances the highbinder was suspected of
being an informer ife., in communica
tion with the enemy. It was shortlv
after the execution of Major Andre, and
the enraged British were in no mood to
let ft man go who was accused of being
in sympathy with tin* Americans. The
soldier was taken before his colonel,nnd
the witnesses of his presumed guilt told
their story.
“ What have you to say for you vs •ll'. "
demanded the colonel, with a threaten
ing frown.
“Only this, sir: I had got away slyly
from my comrades to pray a bit while
in the bush, and was cotning'hark when
the soldiers took me."
“Are you in the habit of praying?"
demanded the officer.
" Yes, sir."
“ Then pray now. You never needed
it more in your life.” And the colonel
took out bis watch. Fully believing
that lie had but a few minutes to live,
the Christian soldier knelt and poured
out bis soul in such language as only it
friend of God can use. All who heard
it were astonished, the commander him
self among ho rest.
“Go," said lie, “you have fold the
truth. It’ you had not been often to
drill you could not have done so well at
review.”
How to bet Rich.
A practical fanner being asked what
the farmers most needed to increase the
value of their binds, crops nnd herds,
replied: "They want just what the
merchants, the numiifacturers and the
mechanics want, just what the railroad
men, the lumber men. and the mining
men want, they want lalMir, capital and
brains. There is not a farmer in the
State but will stand an application of
this trio—work, money and thought."
We asked him again, what simple and
easy methods lie would recommend to
the farmers from which they could get
the quickest returns, nnd he replied :
•• First. I would recommend that ev
ery cow in the State he crossed by a
thoroughbred bull. I calculate that
would add jjil.sUo.ooo to the wealth of
the State in two years, and t hat, would
double the cattle of the State in four
years. Second, I would cross every
breeding ewe in the State with a thor
oughbred ram of approved pedigree,
and I calculate that would add one
pound of wool to every shearing in two
years, besides improving the flocks in
many respects. You can calculate the
gain yourself. Third. I would have
every farmer select his seeds of every
grain, especially of wheat and corn—
that is to |iek out the best and discard
the inferior. The profit would be im
mense, for there is no telling how much
can he gained I>y the select ion of seeds.”
Now here are three tilings within the
reach of almost every farmer. They
require a little money, some work and
a good deal of nerve and will power.
Was the old man right? i>et every
farmer adopt these precepts and then
contradict them—if he can,
Old Si on “ Remonetization.”
Atlanta Count it ution.
()ld Si was reading the paper Sunday,
when he suddenly knocked the ashes
out of his pipe and remarked :
“ Dis heal) nmonetizashun of silver
purly nigh gits away wid me !”
•• Don't yon understand it?" we asked
“Well. Imiss, sometimes hit ‘pears tor
me (hit 1 does, an’ den agin I don’t.”
*• And how is that?"
“ Ise bin read in' ’bout hit lieali—lse
red dis pees troo fo' times now—an’ de
fack is when I goes hack ter grapple
wid de qnesehin, I 'pears ter he stand
in’ by cr bank on fiah. Ebery now an’
den de smoke clars otr an’ fokes all
holler “ Dar hit is—dar's de safe wid
de mummy in hit!” I)at'B de way wid
dis moneytizashun—when I see de
p'int Ise ez bad off ez ef I didn't kno'
hit wuz dar at all!”
“The point is that silver aint money
and the demand of tiie times is that it
shall he remonetized—made money
again
•• Aw. 'sliaw ! Silver aint munny, eh?”
“ No. it is .”
“I’ll! oh! Dat won't do! What's
dat you'se tumlin in yo' pockit?—
what's dis qunhter dat I hoi's in my
hand? 'Taint munny? Aw, go 'long ail’
lb >1 who?"
*■ 1 was going to explain •”
•; I don’t want no 'aplainin' ’limit
dat! Mutiny's mutiny, slio's yon born,
an' when 1 gits silver an’ sets dese teef
on hit 1 kno’s whebW u ’g good er
not ! Rf dal's all dat ittbrietlzation nr’
dat lets me out! Dev mouglit fill dat
nusepsper elmck lull oh printin’ but dis
nigger's gwine ter take all de silver he
kin git. Hit’s monevtized 'nutf ter mo
so long's hit passes fur bred an' bacon,
ver lienh me?"
And the old man threw down the
paper nnd would listen no longer.
A Rond Dog,
ht i'klil < ').-/ ihltioU.
linin' took a whitewashing contract a
week or two ago, nnd agreed to receive ns
part pay n dog. a pup. which its ownei
said could out limit any dog on cnrtli.
*• Am it good on do possum ?" asked
t Jnhc.
Possum?" was the reply : "you just
try that dog on u possum or a coon cither
nnd see."
" Den de contrack mny he sidercil set
tled." snid tinbe. mid he went to work,
finished the job. received the dog and.
yesterday, ns tin re was no church h!
(inbe's place uf worship liu took the pup
nnd went out to try it.
This morning when ti e man who former
ly owned the dog mine out of the front
door just after breakfast, he found tiabe
seuted on the sidewalk, the dog with him.
" Hello, tiabe," said the gentleman,
*• Mornin*, sail," replied tiabe, ** Esc
lotelied de dog back, sail."
" What's the matter ?"
" <Hi, nntliii, I doesn't link I kin 'ford
to keep him."
" Why, isn't lie a good dog?"
" (lood mill' for de kine, but it ain't my
kino. Von say lie am a good coon dog !’’
•• Certainly."
“ Well, yum see him and me went limit
in' de coon last night, nnd finally lie raise
n trcmeiiiu.s racket at a tree, and I (ink he
got a coon dead shnali. What you link I
find ?"
•• What?"
" NufHn. Den lie harked up anoder
tree. What you tmk I find dis time?”
*• A coon ?"
•• . s ’ame ns afore. Den de dog jus’ wont
crazy rulin' anudder tree an 1 I link lie bh ■
I didn't vestignte the odder ones iiuft, so 1
climb up dis one and look all rouii’ and de
dog lie fly roun’ like u mule in n hailstorm.
I link niebbr its possum an f took a dead
limb an’ I' tlilashed away. What you
link I find?”
“ Nothing again ?” •
“ Mistake agin. When I pick myself up
01l 'n do groun, dnr was 'bout fifty hornets
takin de census ob tie ole man's body an'
I nobber felt so ligious iu my life as I did
jes' bout dat time, but I didn't have time
to stop and pray, as Ii bought it was nec
essary for dc ole man to git back to de
bouse, an" I took a good many callers wid
me what wasn’t imvited, an' de ole woman
and Tilly, and de hoy won’t ho out for a
week.”
•" Hut wlmt became of the dog?”
" Ob, be war huntin'.”
“ 110 did hunt, did be ?”
” Yes sir, (bit's what saved him.”
•• What did he find ?”
*• Foun’ a hole under dc ham wliar I
couldn't git him. I don't speck I kin af
ford to keep de dog. sail, an' I came to ax
datdc contrast might he rewoked.”
Tramp.
Abbe title Medium.
A tramp in town last week. The poor
fellow was on crutches, got his leg shot off
at Chancellors!illo while lighting under
Jackson, had no money or friends, was
out of employment hut couldn’t get a job.
He was one of the forgotten heroes of the
" lost cause.” His rcspeetiblity ended
when his leg was taken off -lie Ims been
useless ever since and why should Chris
tians in their comfortable, cosy homes turn
upon their heels to help a pensioner upon
the bounties of Providence? Nevermind,
some of these days the old trump will reap
his reward. Oh ! the hollow-hearted char
ity of such a world as this.
Cooing in the far West.
They were leaning on the balustrade of
the bridge, looking into the water. lie
had a hand like a palm leaf fan, and ears
like a pickle-dish, and no collur. Site had
a foot like a centre table and no teeth.
They were cooiug. He cooed first, and in
a tone as gentle and musical as a Kansas
zephya he said : “ Nancy, ji-st cs soon cs 1
sell my putators, I'm goin' to claim you
fur better or fur was.” Then she cooed,
and with the customary shrewdness that
women are wont to display in emergen
cies, she queried in a soft sweet monotone,
“ Buck, what are taters futchin' in the
stores now And thus did they coo
'till it got too cool.
A young minister was preaching in Sea
brook, N. H., a short time since from “1
am the light of the world," and made
poor work of it stammering and stuttering
Hiid almost stopping when an indignant
huckleberry picker, a sort of masculine
I woman, shouted out, "If you arc the
I light of tla world- you need mm'tia ."
WHOLE NO. <7.
1* ARMY STORY.
Tlif Tale of Hie Mule ol Muralcr.
The Hartford Thnr* says: "When
Dnhlgren's irmt-elnrts begun ojxmtion*
in Charleston harbor, the Tenth Armv
corns made a sudden dash ami drove in
the thin line ol pickets which the rebels
had posp*d oil tin* eastern end of Morris
island. Wlirn daylight came, every
gun which Bcinirogurd could bring to
bear upon the new work began to ruin
shot ami shell, ami from daylight till
noon there wore lively times m and
about Charleston bay. Shortly alter
noon Fort Sumter opined furiously, and
it was feared that an attempt was about
to he tniide by the enemy to advance.
There were enough men there it was
thought to hold it, but there was a do
licicncv of ammunition, and so a mule
driver volunteered to deliver the ammu
nition. The only road was the smooth
nnd sandy beach along the bay, and the
distal c- between the two points about a
mile and a half. Half that distance
was within easy range of Fort Sumter,
and Battery Wagner's guns covered nil
die way to the sand hills, behind which
was the federal camp.
I am describing this incident as it ap
(Mailed from the shipping in the bay,
and what called attention to it was tit :
sudden waking Up of every gun on the
southeast angle of Sumter. Looking to
sec. the cause of the furious cannonading,
everybody was surprised to see a mule
team tearing up the beach in the direc
ti mof the now work. The driver was
laying the lash on, and that mule had
his ears laid straight back, nnd was
making its legs go. Occasionally a
shell would touch the beach, bound up,
and explode, and the mule would then
hesitate and try to turn buck. Hut the
driver would lay the cowhide on with
renewed vigor; then the ninlc would
put on another spurt, until at last it be
came entirely demoralized by the ex
plosion of a ten-iueh shell almost under
its Im'llv. Every glass in the squadron
was leveled at the spectacle. The driver
got off his seat, took the animal by the
head, whirled it around once or twice,
and started it up the beach once more.
Fort Sumter flushed and flamed, But
tery Wagner belched and thundered,
and still that daring driver urged his
mule along, though the way was swept
by at least thirty guns.
At last lie reached his destination,but
lie could not stay there, and in a mo
ment he was turned around, and exhort
ing that animal to do its level best.
The mule did not need to lie told to step
out, for in its rear there was roar and
racket, and about its ears were flying
sand and scrap-iron, which seemed to
stimulate its fleetness. Down that hard
beach flew the nude, the light cart bob
bing nnd swaying, and the driver's arm
rising and fulling as lie dealt lash after
lash. At Inst they neared the friendly
shelter of the sand hills. In another
minute they w ill be safe, but just as they
near the place to turn aside, n shell
came screaming from Sumter. Every
body could see the huge mass of iron as
it roared tlirough the air. It struck tho
beach directly in the rear of the mule,
and with a hound it overtook it and ex
ploded with terrific violence. A gene
ral exclamation is heard from Dalgren’s
llag-ship, where the Admiral and his
stull" are earnestly gazing at the adven
turous mule and his daring driver.
Fort Sumter’s ramparts are black with
men, they, too, willing witnesses of Yan
kee pluck. Along the swell of Morris
Island, and covering every elevation,
can lie seen the l i’nion soldiers, who
stand with bated breath, anxious and
full of suspense, and every eye intently
taking in the scene. Y\ hen the shell
exploded a circle of smoke hid the mule
for a moment, but when the smoko
cleared away Mr. Mule had his ears
laid back, and, with head down and legs
lashing wildly out lie was making kin
ling wood of tin; cart, which had been
Imdl v demoralized by a fragment of tho
shell. Presently the driver is seen limp
ing to the mule; in a second the mule
is free from the cart, and, with tho
driver on his hack, and a farewell whisk
of his tail, disappeared behind the cover
of the hills.
The thousands of boys in blue unite
in 11 long and hearty hurrah ; the sail
ors wave their hats and shout themselves
hoarse, and hark ! the rebels have caught
the infection mid are cheering, too.’’
A “(.round Hog.”
Kvcryltody who lias visited San
Francisco knows Woodward's Gardens,
with its fine collection of animals, birds,
etc. The proprietor is famous for
catching at every rarity that comes in
his wn3’. and it. was with emotions of
intense delight that he recently re
ceived a note from a friend just re
turned front the Most, stating that lie
Imd brought with him for the gardens
•• a fine specimen of ground hog.” An
expressman was sent for the animal
and returned witii a large box : a com
pany of scientific men assembled in the
proprietor's room to view the prodigy ;
the lid of the l>ox was carefully raised,
and there was disclosed to view—a
huge sausage.
O O
A boy tried his first pipe the other
day. When his father came home to
dinner lie found him braced against a
barrel, with his legs spread apart, his
hands and lower jaw drooping listless
ly, and a deathly pallor over-spreading
his face. “ What is the matter with
von?” inquired the amazed parent.
’ My —teacher is—sick.” gasped the
boy. “ Well, you musn't feel so badly
about it, Tommy,” said the father, kind
ly. “ She will get well again, without
a doubt.” And then, stepping into the
house, ho observed to his wife that ha
was (he most sy l lV * IC c ' cr