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HERE’S YOUR HORSE.
On the 28th. of July, 1879, a negro man brought a
sorrel horse, with a light mane and tail, and a star
in his face, square built and about 12 or 14 years
old, to my house. He stated that he was going to
work on the Railroad, and wanted to leave the horse
with me to pasture until the Ist of September, 1879.
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By BENSON & McGILL.
VOL. IV—NO. 8.
A GEORGIA CAXDY-riLLIXU.
Anil flow It WnN KuilAml)' Uroken t'p
A party of Georgia girls had arrnuged
to have a candy-pulling at the residence
of Mr. Joues, the father of one of the
girls. Now, it happened that Mr. Jones
had a bachelor brother living with him,
a good-natured, kindly sort of a man,
but awfully bashful in the presence of
women particularly young women.
Uncle Dick, as our bachelor friend was
called, had not beeu notified of the
candy-pulling arrangements, the inten
tion of the girls being to monopolize all
the sweetness to themselves. Ou the
evening in question Uncle Dick was
busily engaged in the best room of the
house, changing his linen, preparatory
to a business visit to the village, little
dreaming of the calamity that awaited
him in the near future. He had already
doffed his clothes, and was iu the act of
crawling into a clean shirt, when a sound
smote on his ears that caused him to start
and shudder like an aspen. It was the
sound of the merry voices of r bevy of
young girls approaching thftlious? w ith
a steady tramp. Nearer, nearer they
came—this invading host, more terrible
to Bachelor Dick than any army with
ban lid's. In another moment the rustle
of their dresses fell upon his ears like a
death knell. They were at the very
threshold of the room and the defor was
unlocked. Oh, horror of horrors!
What was this bachelor forlorn to do to
be saved from the thte that seemed now
awaiting him. “He who hesitates is
lost,” thought Uncle Dick. There was
but one way out of the dilemma in which
he found himself placed. Quick as
thought the unclad man wildly seized
his clothes in his arms and jumped be
hind the wardrobe. Here fie perched
himself on top of a very high clothes
basket, thinking the unwelcome visitors
would be gone iu a few minutes. When
the girls made their entrance and com
menced making preparations for the
candy-pulling, Uuclo Dick groaued in
despair. It took his best balancing to
keep from being tumbled off in the very
midst of the girls, and the thought that
he would he kept a prisoner iu this un
comfortable position for two or three
hours was anything but pleasant to his
feelings.
“ Oh, wont we have a jolly time of it!”
exclaimed one of the girls. “ With no
men to bother us wo can pull candy
any way we want it. ' Why, these awful
men would want you to make the candy
and pull it for them to eat, and then
they would criticise your conduct and
actions as soon as their backs were turn
ed!”
“ You’re ri"lit, Jenny. True, every
word of it. lint ou the candy while I
grate a little nutmeg to season it,” said
another.
And at it they weut, busy as a hive
of bees.
Meantime, Uncle Dick, behind the
wardrobe, was growing more uncom
fortable every minute. The perspira
tion poured off of him in great drops as
lie soliloquized to himself:
“ Great Scott! Have I got to stay in
this awful position until them durned
gals make that candy and eat it? Con
found me, if I wouldn’t rather be tied
up by the thumbs tlie same length of
time than to hear them lick candy and
talk about sweethearts. I’ve a good
mind to jump right out o’ here and scare
them half to death in my shirt-tail.
Bless my soul! if I don’t believe this in
fernal basket will upset with me, any
how I But I’ll try and hold out a little
longer.”
The pot of sirup was placed on the
fire to boil; the girls drew up their
chairs and formed a semi-circle around
it, and were just ready to launch out in
to a regular old-fashioned gossiping
match, when one of them checked mat
ters by saying:
“ Ivaty, isn’t there rate in the ward
robe ! It appears to me that I hear
something rattling around in there.”
“So do I,” quoth another of the
party.
“Just you go and see,” said Katy,
“ There might be rats in there.”
She stealthily approached the ward
robe, opened it, and cautiously peered in.
But she failed to find any rata. Had
she listened a little more carefully she
would, in all probability, have heard
the beatings of Bachelor Dick’s heart,
which at that moment was thumping
against his chest at a rate that threat
ened to alarm the whole party.
“Perhaps it was another noise we
heard,” suggested one of the girls.
’‘Yes,” answered another, “it seemed
to be behind the wardrobe.”
Acting on this hint, one of the girls
was just preparing to extend her re
searches in that direction, when another
one yelled that the candy was burning,
They all, as one girl, rushed to the res
cue of the burning pot of sweets, and
for the moment forgot all about the rat,
greatly to the relief of Uncle Dick.
“Thank the Lord—thank the Lord!”
exclaimed the old bachelor to himself,
as he breathed a mighty sigh of relief.
“If that gal hadn't said the candy was
burnin’, she was a goin’ to stick her
head right behind here. Just like a
woman —always a-peepin’ about in every
HARTWELL, GA., WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 22. 1879.
place.”
The candy was stirred a little, turned
around a couple of times, and some of
the file was taken from under it, when
the girls began to talk about pretty
feet —a subject of uo small interest to
the feminine mind.
“ There is the handsomest foot in the
party,” exclaimed one of the girls, as
she held up her skirts just enough to ex
pose her pedal extremities to the view
of .her companions.
Now, if there is any ono thing Uncle
Dick dotes on more than another, it is
a pretty foot, especially if it is joined to
a handsome woman, as was the case in
this instance, lie uo longer felt the
uncomfortableness of his position beliiud
the wardrobe, so absorbed was he to get
a look at the prettiest foot in the party.
In stretching his neck to get a view
of the auatotny on exhibition, he leaned
over a little too far, lost his balance,
and tumbled heels over head into the
middle of the room, the basket over his
head and the shirt aroumf his neck.
The scene that followed can be more
easily imagined than described. With
a simultaneous yell and a screech that
nearly lifted the roof off the top of the
house, the terrified girls shot oat of the
room as rf they had been propelled
from a caunon —some making their exit
through the doors and others disappear
ing like shadows through the windows,
leaving Unele Dick master of the field,
and it was an hour ortwo ere they fully
realized what had happened.
Dick was not a whit less frightened
than the girls. He had the courage,
however, to bolt the doors and hold the
fort until he completed his toilet. He
vows that this episode, in which he was
made to play the leading role, has made
an ending to candy-pullings in that set
tlement for many years to come.
THE SNAKE lIANCE.
A Wonderful Story Told by an Agent of
the Koqiils Inditin'*.
Si. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr. W. R. Mateer, Indian agent of
the Moquis Pueblos, of Arizona, gave
our reporter, a day or so ago, a thrill
ing account of a strange ceremony
practiced by that tribe, called the
“ Snake Dance.” The Moquis regard
the serpent as a sacred reptile, possess
ed of the power of controlling the ele
ments, and disposed to be friendly to
naan. They never kill a snake, and
frequently handle the most poisonous
serpent with impunity. The rattle
snake is regarded with special venera
tion, and their bite is no more dreaded
than the scratch of a mosquifc thorn or
the pricking of a cactus. They have
an antidote for the bite of a rattle
snake which is infallible, and never,
fails to effect a cure in a few minutes
when administered immediately. An
Indian of this tribe, when bitten by a
rattler, swallows the antidote at once,
and after being stupefied for a moment,
becomes entirely restored, and never
feels any pain or inconvenience after
ward. All attempts of white men to
learn the ingredients of this antidote
have proved futile, as the secret is
guarded with religious fidelity, and an
Indian would lay down his life rather
than communicate the recipe for snake
bites to a pale-face. If a white man is
bitten by a rattlesnake, the Indians
will not hesitate to give him the anti
dote, but he must not inquire what it
is composed of.
THE SNAKE DANCE.
Is performed by the Moquis every two
years, and is resorted to as a means of
propitiating the Spirit of the Summer
Rain to send abundant showers to fruc
tify the earth and make the crops grow.
The corn is planted in the moist sand
of the mesa, without previous prepara
tion of the ground, for the plow is un
known to the tribe, and after it has
grown to a certain height, and needs
moistening from the clouds, prepara
tions are made for the grand snake
dance. A deep and wide excavation
is made in the dirt floor of one of the
largest houses in the village, and the
whole tribe goes out to hunt snakes.
These they catch with their hands, and
bring them in twined aronnd their
hands, and bring them in twined around
their necks, coiled in their bosoms, or
wrapped around their legs and arms.
All kinds of snakes are captured-—the
rattler, the viper, the moccasin, the
blue racer, the black, the garter, the
green and spotted—in fact, every vari
ety existing in the country. These, to
the number of several hundred, are
placed in the pit in the floor, and the
mouth is covered over with a buffalo
robe, the hairy side down to prevent
the reptiles from crawling out and
escaping. Then a certain number of
the old men dance around the pit,
chanting monotonous songs, and call
ing upon the imprisoned serpents to in
tercede with the Spirit of the Clouds
to send rain upon the thirsting corn
fields. A body of younger men next
form a circle around the pit, and go
through a similar ceremony. Then
come the old women, who have a differ
ent chant, then the young married wo
men, then the boys, and finally the vir-
Devoted to Hart County.
gins with their hair done up in loops,
and then for a few momenta a solemn
silence prevails, during which the hiss
ing of the serpents and the shrill sound
of their rattles is heard under the buf
falo robe. These sounds are taken as
favorable tokens that the incantations
have been successful, and that a copi
ous fall of rain will follow. Then the
butralo robe is removed, and the men
and boys jump into the pit, and each
one brings forth a snake, which he
holds in his mouth. Sometimes a man
will emerge with two or three small
snakes in his mouth. As each man
emerges from the pit with his mouth
full of snakes, he runs at full speed
down the almost perpendicular side of
the mesa until he comes to the pfain
and there gently releases his captives,
who at once take to the grass and
quickly disappear. After the pit has
been emptied, the men examine the
wounds on their arms, breast and faces,
and if Wood has been drawn they
know that the fangs of a rattler have
entered their flesh, and they lose no
time in applying the antidote.
The wounds inlicted by the rattle
snakes are very painful. The rattler,
when provoked, is the most savage of
all serpents, and will continue to strike
and lacerate an enemy as long as he is
within reach. Sometimes an old snake
with full-grown fangs, will fasten upon
the cheek or arm of an Indian and hold
on until the fangs are torn from his
jaws. Mr. Matcer witnessed one of
these snake dances of the Moquis re
cently, and was horrified at the sight,
lie saw the blood streaming from the
arms and breasts of the Indians, who
bore the pain with stoic indifference,
and seemed to take pleasure in the in
fliction. They believed that the more
savage the snakes became and the
deeper the wounds inflicted, the more
certain and more copious would be
the shower. On the occasion of the
last snake dance the Indians of one of
the villages refused to participate. For
some reason, they believed the rain
would come without the dance, and
while the other villages were engaged
in the ceremony, they sat idly in their
houses listening to the noise and smil
ing at the unnecessary trouble their
neighbors were taking. Subsequently
they had good cause to repent, for when
the rain came sweeping down from the
mountains it poured a copious Hood
upon the snake-worshiping villages
and their fields, and passed around the
heretic village and their parched corn
fields, leaving them as dry as a powder
horn. The result was that six of the
seven villages raised abundant crops,
and the other had to call on the agent
for government rations.
Mr. Mateer was formerly a resident
of this city, and appears to be a truth
ful man. lie was a spectator of the
strange snake dance, but witnessed it
from a safe distance, sitting on a wall
overlooking the scene.
A Romantic Loye Story Which May Pos
sibly bo True.
The Couut de St. Croix, belonging to
one of the noblest and wealthiest fami
lies of France, became engaged after a
very long and assiduous courtship to a
lady, his equal in position and fortune,
and famous for her beauty. Shortly af
ter the happy day was appointed, which
was to render two loving hearts one, the
Count was ordered immediately to the
siege of Sebastopol; so he girded on his
sabre, and at the head of his regiment
marched to the battle-field.
During the Count’s absence it happen
ed that his beautiful fiance had the
small-pox. After hovering between life
and death for many days, she recovered
her health but found her beauty hope
lessly lost. The disease had assumed in
her case the most virulcut character,
and left her not only disfigured, but
seamed and scarred to such a frightful
extent that she became hideous to her
self, and resolved to pass the remainder
of her days in the strictest seclusion.
A year passed away, when one day
the Count, immediately on his return to
France, accompanied by his valet, pre
sented .himself at the residence of his
betrothed and solicited an interview.
This was refused. He, however, with
the persistence of a lover, pressed his
suit, and finally the lady made her ap
pearance, closely muffed in a double
veil. At the sound of her voice the
Count rushed forward to embrace her,
but stepping aside she tremblingly told
him the story of her sorrows and burst
into tears. A heavenly smile passed
over the Count’s features, as raising liis
hands above, he exclaimed :
“ It is God’s work ; I am blind.”
It was even so. When gallantly
leading his regiment to the attack, a
cannon ball passed so closely to his eyes
that, while it left their expression un
changed and his countenance unmarked,
it robbed him forever of sight. It is
almost unnecessary to add that their
marriage was shortly after solemnized.
This is what Robt. G. Ingersoll says
of women: “ I tell you women are
more prudent than men. I tell you as
a rule, women are more faithful than
men—ten times as faithful as men. I
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never saw a man pursue bis wife into
the very ditch and dust of degradation
and take her in his arms. I never saw
a man stand at the shore where she lias
been morally wrecked waiting for the
waves to bring back her corpse to his
arms, Imt I have seen woman with her
white arms lift man from the mire of
degradation, and hold him to her bosom
as though he wero an angel.”
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Colorado Miner.
If there is one thing that more than
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nervously sensitive to all that is gross
and ill-timed, it is the habit some hus
bands have of using profane language
in their homes. In many cases this is
thoughtlessness on the part of the good
man, who never gives a thought to the
liner sensibilities of his better half, and
even should she mildly remonstrate,
lie pays uo attention the rebuke.
We Lave just had a case in point,
which happened in one of the thriving
Missouri cities on the banks of the
Mississippi, which the ladies of George
town should know something about.
A lady whose husband was addicted
to tiie bad practices we have alluded to,
came to her family physician, laid her
griev uices before him, and said:
“ Now, Dr. N , won’t yon re
monstrate with him, and try to break
him of this habit ? I know he will
listen to you.”
“ Why, madam,” said the doctor, he
would pay no attention to anything I
could say to him; but as you come to
me, although somewhat out of my line,
I will recommend a prescription, to bo
administered by you, that will certain
ly cure him. It is an Infallible remedy."
“Ob, what is it doctor ?”
“ Well, when .John comes home again
and swears, do you swear back at him.
Of course, I don’t want you to take the
name of the Lord in vain, but d—n
tilings a little for his benefi*
“ Doctor, for the sake of the final re
sult, I’ll do it ?”
And she did.
The next day John came in and in
quired whether dinner was ready, and
was told it was not.
“ Well, why the d—l isn’t it ?” said
lie.
“ Because,” she coolly replied, “ the
wood was so d—d wet the fire wouldn’t
hurn.”
“ Why Mary, what is the matter with
you ? Arc you crazy or have you boon
drinking ?”
“ Neither,” she said, and quietly
proceeded to put on the dinner.
The beef didn't melt like butter be
tween the teeth—it rather resisted all
efforts at mastication, like so much in
dia rubber; and finally John blurted
out:
“ What makes the beef so d—d in
fernal tough ?”
Mary looked up archly and replied :
“ Well, John, I suppose you went
down to the butcher’s and, without
knowing the difference, picked out a
piece of some d—n old stag that hadn’t
been fed far a month.”
John jumped up, looked at his wife
in dismay, and wanted to know what
such language from her lips meant.
“It means just this, John: you aro
the head of this family, and just as
long as you think it manly to swear in
my presence I intend to do the same.
If you don’t like to hear it, you know
how to prevent it.”
The cure was radical, and to this
date Mary lias never been compelled
to adminster another dose of Dr. N.’s
prescription.
The Fire that 014 Nick Built,
An imitation of the “) House that
Jack built,”
“ Intemperance,” This is the fire
that Old Nick built.
“Moderate Drinking.” This is the
futd that feeds the fire that old Nick
built.
“ Rum Belling.” This is the axe that
cuts the wood that feeds the fire that
Old Nick built.
“Love of Money.” This is the stone
that grinds the axe that cuts the wood
that feeds the fire that Old Nick built.
“ Public Opinion.” This is the sledge
with its face of steel that batters the j
stone that grinds the axe that cuts the
wood that feeds the fire that Old Nick
built.
“A Temperance Meeting.” This is
one of the ulowb that we quietly deul to
fashion the sledge with its edge of steel
that batters the stone that grinds the axe
that cute the wood that feeds the fire
that Old Nick built.
“ A Temperance Pledge.” This isthe
smith that works with a will to give
force to the the blow that we quietly
deal to fashion the sledge with its face
of steel that batters the stone that
grinds the axe that cuts the wood that
feeds the fire that Old Nick built.
“ Eternal Truth.” This is the spirit
so gentle and still that nerves the smith
to work with a will to give force to the
blows which we quietly deal to fashion
the sledge with its edge of steel that
batters the stone that grinds the axe
that cuts the wood that feeds the fire
that Old Nick built.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
[The following letter, through some
fault of the mails, did not arrive in
time for insertion last week.]
Atlanta, Ga., October 12, 18791
Editors ok Thb Sun : As your able
representative and correspondent has
been for some time absent from your
columns in giving legislative news, per
haps a letter, though inferior it is from
my pen, would not be amiss.
It is with great pleasure that war
learn our Representative, who was at
one time thought to be very low, is now
recovering. Georgia cannot at this
time well spare such men. Modest and
quiet in his seat, yet attentive, able
and ever ready to defend and uphold
justice, with industry and evenness of
temper, ho was well suited to sit in the
councils of his State, and wo trust the
day will come when not only Hart
county, but Georgia, will be proud to
honor him.
This long session of the General
Assembly will soon adjourn. Wednes
day, 15th Inst., is the day set for ad
journment. Future ages will read tho
transaction of this Legislature. The
historic page is written. Some of the
letters are plain and easily read —oth-
ers are blotched, strangely written.
They can never be revised—not an i
can be dotted nor a t crossed. There
it is. The Ist paragraph shows how
Goldsmith was tried, found guilty and
punished to the extremity of tho law.
The 2nd, how Renfroc, who confessed
his guilt and swore to it, was, as some
say, victoriously and honorably acquit
ted. Why this discrepancy ? We are
not prepared to say. It seems strange
—foreign to the Democracy of Georgia,
to And one official guilty of a high
crime and misdemeanor for charging
fifty cents costs on ft. fas., and upon
the other hand to acquit another official
who even admits that he charged $227
for signing railroad bonds, with which
ho is charged. These are only two of
the articlos. We could mention them
all. There is very little difference in
principle between the Kenfroc case and
the Goldsmith case.
The vote upon tho articles in the
Renfroc case was as follows: upon tho
first three nrticlcs the vote stood—
guilty. 25 ; not guilty, 17. Those vot
ing- not guilty were Messrs. Boyd,
Bryan, Casey, Cabaniss, Gumming,
Dubose, Fain, Hamilton of the 21st,
Harrison, Hawkins, Howell, McLeod,
l’reston, T’ison of the 10th, Troutman,
Turner, Wellbornc—l7. Mr. Speer
was absent, and Wall, the new member,
declined to vote. Upon the last arti
cles some of tho Senators who voted
guilty changed to not guilty. There
was some applause when the first vote
was announced, but was immediately
checked by the Chiet Justice and was
not repented.
Soon after the verdict of the Court
wns learned in the House, Mr. Rankin
offered a resolution requiring the Gov
ernor to issue at once an execution
against J. W. Renfroe and his sureties
for money illegally, wrongfully and
corruptly taken by him. The resolu
tion was submitted to the Finance
Committee, who made a report review
ing the charges made against Renfroe
in several strongly worded preambles,
and requiring the Governor to issue li.
fas. against John W. Renfroe for the
several sums of money which "lie ille
gally and corruptly received. The res
olutions were passed and immediately
transmitted to the Senate, where they
were passed, after some hot speeches,
by a vote of 22 yeas to 10 nays—sev
eral Senators being absent and paired
off—with the amendment that nothing
therein contained reflects upon the ver
dict of the Court. Thus the matter
ends for the present.
Considerable criticism is being in
dulged in by reason of the neglect of
the Governor to take any action in re
ference to the Nelms matter. It is
very probablo that a resolution of cen
sure on the Governor will lie passed in
the House for countenancing the illegal
conduct complained of.
Goldsmith is gaining sympathy by
verdict of the Senate in the Renfroe
case, and his friends are strong in their
convictions that it is nothing but jus
tice, in the face of these facts, for a
bill to be passed by the Legislature to
relieve him of the penalty. It is
thought by able lawyers that a hill can
he passed recommending it, to be rati
fied at the next election. If Gold
smith is to siifi'er for the shortcoming?
of the balance of the administration,
we say relievo him of the penalty at
once.
The Garrard-Brown controversy
created but little attention. It being
rather a personal attack by Mr. Gar-
rard, and the facts being well known
to the people that Joe Brown has re
ceived the condemnation of the people
in regard to the Asliburn trial and
failed to clear himself of them at the
time while all the persons who knew
anything about the affair were alive,
The Legislature is applying itself
closely to winding up the business of
the present session. A number of bills
aro being passed on which would be
uninteresting to your readers, even if
I had space in my already too lengthy
letter to mention.
A good many short-horned candi
dates are being brought out for Gov
ernor—the Legislature having devel
oped a number of investigating minds.
Colquitt’s chances are very, very slen
der. Gnrtrell is generally spoken of
as being the most competent to fill the
position, and his strength is not doubt
ed before the people. If he is nomi
nated, which is very likely, the Inde
pendents will have their funeral dirge
sung to them in a very imposing
manner. T. T. H.