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HERE S YQI'R HORSE.
On tbe2Sth of .fulv, 1879, anagro roan brought a
sorrel horse, with a light mane and tail, and a star
in his fare, square built and alamt 12 r It years
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The Hartwell Sun.
By BENSON & McGILL.
VOL. IV—NO. 9.
FARO BILL’S EXHORTATION.
■’rH<'hlnx nut! I’l.lol. In l.rinl. lllv'n
flMpcl.Tent.
Carbon Journal.
Of course I went to Leadville, that
wonderful mushroom city, which can
boost of the most rascally gamblers,
hardest drinkers, cheekiest bummers
and vilest prostitutes in creation. One’s
first impulse upon arriving in the town
is to start out and see the sights—to
gaze upon the many gambling hells,
where money is ever changing hands
upon the turn of a card. Above the
sharp clicking of thejivory checks can
be heard the voices of dealers calling
upon the players[to “ Make your bets,
gentlemen,” while notes of exultation
and cursing come forth in strange cho
rus, uttered by those who lose and those
who win. But it is not of gambling I
would tell you. The scenes are hut du
plicates of those so familiar to every
pioneer in the early days"of the Union
Pacific railroad.
I was standing in front of the hotel
when my attention was attracted by a
dilapidated, antiquated-looking speci
men of a saloon bummer, who was pass
ing along the street ringing a hell. At
intervals lie would cease ringing aud
shout:
“ Religious racket right away at the
big tent! Roll up, tumble up, or slide
up on yer y-ears, for we’ll have a bang
up dish o’ Gospel talk from Faro Bill
—and d-o-n’t you forget it!”
Turning to a dapper little gambler
who stood near, I asked :
“ Who is Faro Bill ?”
“ Who is he? Well, now, if that ain’t
the boss play fur high. You kin break
me right here if I thought there was a
bloke in the mines that didn’t know Bill.
He used to he one o’ the boys, hut got
capped into a religious game by a slick
tongued gospel sharp about two months
ago. lie’s chopped on all his old rack
ets, and don’t stand in with nothin’ now
that don’t show up a Bible or prayer
book in the lay-out. Billy used to be
the boss gambier of the camp, and warn
’t afeard to sit in a game with the flyest
sport that ever flung a card; hut he’s
clean gone on the pious lay now, and
seems to have lost all the good there
was in him. The boss mouthpiece of
the heavenly mill has gone down to
Denver, an’ Bill is a goin’ to stand in
an’ sling gospel to the hoys as well as he
can.”
The explanation, given in the most
earnest tones, started me instanter for
the big tent. It was used at night tor a
variety theater, where artists (?) of a
question ablecharacter performed acts of
still more questionable decency, and
was rented for religious services every
Sunday morning, 1 found the tent
filled to its utmost capacity. Many had,
no doubt, come through curiosity to
see how Bill would deport hitnself in
this his initial sermon. Upon the stage
sat a burly, red-faced man, witli arms
folded in a careless manner, who looked
over the large audience with an air of
the most decided independence. This
was Faro Bill, the speaker of the occa
sion. When he arose, he glanced
around the tent for a moment, evident
ly collecting his thoughts, and began :
“ Feller citizens, the preacher bein'
absent, it falls on me to take his hand
and play it fur all it’s worth. You all
know that I’m just learnin’ the game,
an’ of course I may be expected to make
wild breaks, but I don’t believe thar’s a
rooster in the camp mean enough to
take advantage o’ my ignorance and
cold deck me right on the first deal,
I’m sincere in this new departure, an’
I believe I’ve struck a game I can play
clear through without copperin’ a bet,
for when a man tackles such a lay-out
as this he plays every card to win, and
if he goes through the deal as he orter
do, when he lays down to die, an’ the
last case is ready to slide from the box,
he can tell the turn every time.
“ I was readin’ in the Bible to-day that
yarn about the Prodigal Son, an’ I want
to tell yer the story. The book don’t
give no dates, but it happened long,
long ago. This Prodigal Son had an
old "man that put up the coin every time
the kid struck him for a stake, an’
never kicked at the size of the pile
either. I reckon the old man was pur
ty well fixed, an’ when he died he in
tended to give all his wealth to his kid
an’ the brother. Prod give the old man
a little game o’ talk one day, and in
juced him to whack up in advance o’
the death racket. He’d no sooner got
his divy in his fist than he shook the
old man an’ struck out to take in some
o’ the other camps. He hed a way up
time for a while, an’ slung his cash to
the front like he owned the best payin'
lead on earth ; but hard luck hit him a
lick at last, an’ left him fiat. Ihe hook
don’t state what lie went broke on, but
I reckon he got steered up agin some
brace game. But any how, he got left
without a ohip, an’ a Granger then tuck
him home an’ set him to herdin’ hogs,
an’ here he got so hard up an’ hungry
that he piped otf the swine while they
1 were feedin’, an’ he stood in with ’em
on a husk lunch. He soon weakened
lon such plain provender, an’ says to
1 himself, says he : * Even the old mans
HARTWELL, GA., WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29, 1879.
hired hands are livin’ on square grub,
while I’m worryin’ along here on corn
husks straight. I’ll just take a grand
tumble to myself an’ chop on this rac
ket at once. I’ll skip hack to the gov
ernor an’ try to fix tilings up, an’ call
for anew deal,’ so off he started.
*• The old man seed the kid a com
ing, and what do you reckon he did?
Did he pull his gun and lay for him,
intending to wipe him ns soon as he
got into range ? Did he call the dogs
to chase him off the ranche ? Did he
hustle around for a club and give him
a stand-off at the front gate ? Eh ?
Not to anj r alarming extent he didn’t.
No, sir! The Scripture hook says lie
waltzed out to meet him and froze to
him on the spot, and then marched him
off to a clothing store and fitted him
out in the nobbiest rig to he had for
coin. Then the old gent invited all the
neighbors, and killed a fatted calf, and
gave ttie biggest blowout the camp ever
seed.”
At the conclusion of the narrative the
speaker paused, evidently framing in
his mind a proper application of the
story. Before lie could resume a tall,
blear-eyed gambler with fierce mustache,
rising, said :
“ ’Taint me as would try ter break up
a meeting, or do anj'thing disreligious.
No, sir; I am not that sort of a citizen.
But in all public hoodoos it is a parlia
mentary rule for anybody as wants to
ax questions to rise up and fire them
otr. Ido not want ter fool away time
a questioning the works of religion ; oh,
no. As long as it is kept in proper
hounds and does not interfere with the
boys in their games, I do not see it can
do any harm. 1 just want ter ax the
honorable speaker if lie has not given
himself dead away ? Does it stand to
reason that a bloke would feed upon
corn husks when there w\as hash facto
ries in the camp ? Would anybody hev
refused him the price of a square meal
if he had struck them for it ? Would
any of the dealers that heat him out of
his coin see him starve ? As I remark
ed afore, I do not want to make any
disrespectable breaks, but I must say
that I have got it put up that the speak
er has been trying to feed us on cussed
thin taffy, and no one but a silly would
take it in.”
Bill glared upon the speaker, and
fairly hissed:
“Do von mean to say that I am a
liar ?”
“ Wal, you can take it just as you
choose. Some would swallow it in that
shape.”
Bill pulled his revolver, and in an
instant the bright barrels of numerous
weapons flashed in the air as the friends
of each party prepared for active duty.
The brevet preacher was the first to
fire, and the rash doubter of spiritual
truths fell dead on the ground. Shot
followed shot in quick succession, and
when quiet was again restored a score
or more of dead and wounded men were
carried from the tent. Having secured
attention Bill said:
“ Further proceedings are adjourned
for the day. Yon will receive the dox
ology.”
The audience arose.
“ May grace, mercy, and peace be
with you now and forever, amen ; and
I want it distinctly understood, that I
am going to maintain a proper respect
for tiie Gospel if I have to croak every
son-of-a-gun of a sinner in the miues.
Meetin’ is out.” .
The crowd filed from the tent as
coolly as if nothing had occurred, and
as I gained the sidewalk I heard a man
remark:
“ Bill has got the sand to make a
bang-up preacher, and I would not won
der if he made a big mark in the world
yet.”
A Hawk’s Instinct.
An engine driver on a French railway
gives some singular details concerning
an old hawk which is accustomed to
profit by the fear excited in young birds
by the noise of the locomotives on that
line. The little bird of prey displays an
instinct closely bordering on reason.
“He is,” says our informant, “ accus
tomed to fly beside the trains passing be
tween Mesgrigay and Romilly, and has
been known to the officials for more than
fifteen years. Having learnt from ex
perience that the terror inspired by the
trains drives such birds as may be near
the railway out of the hedges an either
side of the line, the hawk soars evenly
a few yards above the carriages, and
carefully keeps himself hidden in the
cloud of steam emerging from the fun
nel. So soon a3 a suitable victim ap
pears, he is iucontineutly pounced upon
and devoured. Should, however, the
piratical bird fail of his object, he re
turns to his place amid the steam, from
which even missies cannot dislodge him,
a slight turn of the wing always enables
him to evade them. The bird’s flight
is extremely rapid.as, indeed, that of all
hawks is well known to be. If the train
is say from 150 to 200 yards ahead, and
going at express speed, a few seconds
suffice to place him in turn the same dis
tance in front, even after chasing a bird
along the hedges,”
Devoted to Hart County.
The yelliu injuu is on the war path,
Dennis Kearney is a tearin around,
Conkling is waving the bloody shirt,
Cox and Kelly have bolted the track,
and there’s right smart mutiny on board
! our good old ship of state.
Nevertheless notwithstanding I am
trying to be reconciled. Wliat is to he,
will be, whether it happens or not.
Whom the Lord lovetli he chasteneth
and I’m afeenl them Radicals don’t have
much chance for heaven, for they’ve
got all the power and money aud offices
aud sinecures and sine que nous and ev
ery good thing you can think of. We
haven’t got much of anything down
here outside of children and cats and
yaller dogs that’s always hungry. Our
“ great exertions ” have vanished. The
prospect for a good time is on the other
side of Jordan, and if them rads whip
us out next year wc may lmng up our
fiddles and the bow for there’s no use
hoping against hope.
I was in Rome yesterday, aud above
the rumbling of drays and cracking of
whips, the hissing of locomotives, and
the awful breathing of cotton compress
es, I heard my friend Newt Tumlin hail
me about 200 yards up street. He talk
ed at the top of his voice until lie got to
me, and says I, “ All hail my sweet
and gentle friend ! Thy whispering ac
eoute remind me of the sweet south
wind that breathes upon a bank of vio
lets. Is it well with thee? Art thee all
sanguine and sereen?”
“ Not by a dingnation sight, Bill Arp,
I’m a busted individual —a dead horse in
the woods, and the buzzards are a sail
ing round hunting for my devoted car
cass. Sold my cotton yesterday for !)i
cents, and here it is ten and a half this
morning. Lost a goodjhundred dollars
iu one day, and I’ll never get it back
in the round world. I’m now going
round taking up a contribution for my
poor orfin children. Give me ten dol
lars. The last four are gals, and all
come in a litter like rabbits and I never
expect to see ’em grown, for I’m a wear
in’ out, Bill Arp. I’m a wearin’ out.
I’m as weak in the back as Billy Ra
mey —broke down in the lines, and my
lungs are as hollow as an empty bee
gum. The infernal astma has attacked
my eserpagus, and I cant talk above a
whisper. It all come from my hollerin
around last fall for Gordon and Lester,
and I didn’t do ’em a durn bit of good.
I’ve quit now, Bill Arp, for wc are all
busted. These yankees have got us for
the next hundred years to come, ami
there’s no chance but to jinc ’em. I’m
tired of totin wood and water —tired of
these cverlastin minorities. Let’s do
like Dr. Miller said when he quit the
old Whig party, let’s hunt for a party
of size. Let’s jine ’em Biil, for they
make a powerful fuss over new converts.
When the old Whigs come over to us
the Democrats took ’em up like the
prodigal son and killed all the calves
and give Stephens and Toombs and
Jenkins and Miller and Underwood all
the best offices. That’s the way they do
it. Don’t you"! see how they tie onto
Stephens and Felton and Speer and they
didn’t flop clean over either, hut just
slipped through the crack of the fence
and left their tails hanging out on our
side. And Gus Wright he’s a slippbi’
and slidin’ along preparin’ to flop, lie’s
for Grant right now, and that shows his
political sagacity. Let’s jine ’em Bill.
1 wish I had a voice to talk to you.
Lord help us all. A hundred dollars
fone betwixt sunset and sunrise. Thud
luvall has jined ’em and now he comes
to town every day for a great big letter
from Washington City, tellin’ him to
put two hundred lighten’ rods on the
custom-house in Atlanta at fifty dollars a
rod. That’s all right and I hope he’ll
git it. We needn’t make a blowgun
about goin’ over for the cussed editors
like Dick Harris will be a pitch in into
us, but just quietly get the password
from the old doctor and then set down
and wait for an offis. Offis and money
will make anybody respectable. Ding
nation take that cotton. Why didn’t
somebody tell me it was a goin’ up. A
hundred dollars gone and my poor chil
dren suflerin for the luxuries of life.
Good by, Arp; if I hadn’t lost my
voice I’d talk to you, I must swindle
somebody before I leave this town. Bam
i Morgan thinks he played Julius Caesar
!in putting cotton up this morning. I’ll
t swap horses with him some of these days
CRAWLING OVER
WITH HIM TAIL OS THE OTH It SI lit'..
Hill Arp Ip Wit It II In 01.1 Friuml,
Xt'wt Ttimlln, IVlihi tlt<> ■•ulittrnl
Sllimtlon In HlN<-nnl-<l I'piui
—A Ouli.'f Slipping
•vrr to Omni.
Atlanta Constitution.
Ohio has gone, and they say New
York is going. The Grant boom grows
bigger, aud ever and anon it seems to
me 1 hear the thunders of our subjuga
tion reverberating in mournful mutter
iugs from the cloud capped pinnacles of
the Rocky Mountains to the pine clad
peaks of Keunesaw. There’s no com
fort when we look abroad and the spark
of political peace grows mortal dim at
home. Our golden opportunity is lost.
“ Hope for a season liade the south farewell
And freedom shrieked when Sammy Tildou fell."
$1.50 Per Annum.
WHOLE NO. 165.
j and he’ll think, thunder and lightnin
! struek him. He’d better see Thad T)n
--j val and get a rod on his hat. Farewell
Bill —Hurrah for Gordon and Lester.
Tell Henry Gradv if ho wants anything
to draw on mo. I love Jleitry though
lie was for Sneer. He smells the bottle
from a fur. I tell you, William Arp,
this Democratic party is going to tlmu
(lcratiou. It’s too dingnation unanimous
lat the South. You see the Republican
I party at the North is the respectable
j party, rich and smart and high strung
and their Democracy is weighted down
with rag-tag and bob tail and every vag
abond in the country. If we could just
mix our Democracy with their respecta
ble Republicans it would he all right.
Let’s jino ’em and do it, and if they
don’t divide out and tote fair, we’ll bust
up the concern. lam tired out awaitin
for the rewards of my patriotism. We
can’t do nothing from the outside, I’m
for myself now. A hundred dollars is
a power of money. Good-by, William,
I wish I could talk to you. Hurrah for.
Gordon and Lester,"
1 like Newt Tumlin. He’s a good
shot. He can kill more game with a
scattering gun than any other man with
a rifle. The last I seen of him Jimmy
Smith was trying to hire him ns a tele
phone from Rome to Kingston, hut Newt
insisted lie was losing his voice and he
shouted to me in tones that shook the
depot: “ Bill Arp, don’t you put me in
the Constitution and 1 won’t
Yours, Bill Aiu*.
I’- S. —Tell Mr. “Lounger” 1 surren
der and won’t misunderstand him any
more. As General Lee said at Gettys
burg, “It was all my fault.” Tell him
when lie comes to sco us just give us
three days grace oil a postal card and we
will honor his coming with “all hail to
the chief.” B. A.
Not Sinitji’s Cow.
Lenriston (Me.) ClazrAte.
There is a certain man in Water
ford whom wo will call R., who is quite
a man for practical jokes. He pastures
his cow, together with several of his
neighbors, in a pasture about half a
mile above his house. There is a man
whom we will call Hiulib (a name per
haps familiar to all) who lives about a
quarter of a mile below, who also pas
tures his cow there. R.’s and Smith’s
cows resemble cacli other very much,
both being red and about the same size.
One day last June about six o’clock, R.
went up and got his cow, and it being
rather early, he let her feed a little in
front of the house. Pretty soon Smith
came along, and seeing, as he supposed,
his cow standing in front of the house,
he said : “Isn’t that cow intruding a
little neighbor It.?” “Oh, no,” said
It., “ not at all; let her cat. Sit down
and tell us what you think of the elec
tion.” So Smith sat down and they
talked quite a while, then he started to
go, but It. wouldn’t hear of it, and
made him talk on, and so lie kept him
until about dark. Pretty soon Smith
jumped up and said he guessed lie must
go, and started driving the cow down
the street. He got her down a few
rods, when she dodged , him and back
she came. Smith swore a little at her
and again headed her down the street.
This time ho got tier down a little way
further when she again wheeled past
him and came rushing back to the
house. Again he came back, pretty
mad this time, and by the help of a
club ami some well assorted profanity,
got her considerably further toward
home; but in an unguarded moment
she got past him and came prancing
homo. This time Smith was in a white
heat, and as he reached the house
almost in tears, U., who had been
calmly watching his operations, stop
ped him and said lie had a civil ques
tion to ask him, which was this:
“ What in thunder are you trying to do
with my cow ?” Smith took in tiie sit
uation at a glance, and handed out the
cigars, borrowed a lantern, and went up
to the pasture after his own beast, who
had been patiently waiting at the bars
for him for two hours or more, if you
want to see him get on his muscle just
ask him if he wasn’t the man who tried
to steal R.’s cow.
“Good afternoon, my dear friend; I
am delightee to see you. And to what
am I indebted for tiie pleasure of this i
visit?”
“ I’ll tell that presently ; hut first per
mit me to embrace your charming child.
Can't I, my little man?”
“Yes sir, if you’ll promise not to cut
into papa.”
“Gut into your papa?”
“Yes, cause papa said when he saw
you coming, * i lere comes that fellow
to bore me again !’ ”
F. T. Barntim says he will sell his
show at tiie close of tiie present tent
ing season, to accept the management
of a combined winter garden, museum,
menagerie and aquarium to be establish
ed in New York by a number of capi
talists, who ltave formed a stock com
pany for tiie purpose. He says he will
take $150,000 worth of tiie stock.
Why is a flea like a railway ? Be-
I cause it travels over sleepers.
ON A 150011 ?
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III.: Sinyhiiiinil lUvrr n n MtnlwaM
M mum.
Auijusta Kerning Sties, 'ibth instant.
At 11 o'clock Saturday night the depth
of water at the bridge across the river
in this city measured only 5J feet. At
10 o'clock yesterday morning it showed
22 feet—show ing a rise of nearly 17‘
feet in less than twelve hours. it
was raging, anil one could see ft bulging
up in the center, spreading out at the*
sides and carrying übwn with its almost
resistless current, everything before It.
This sudden, unexpected and nil heard of
rise in the Savannah was of course caus
ed by heavy rains in the lip country na
the only ruin which fell in this immediate
section for several weeks was the hard
shower of Saturday, and that of courSQ,
did not effect the rise.
It was a great surprise to all. Thou
j sands of cords of wood went floating
down, and all day yesterday hundred:*
of negroes and whites were ont in the
stream capturing it, and. beft >re night
the banks from the Haw k’s Gully to the
lower bridge were literally covered with
| piles of wood. Flats, boats, gates, hen
| coops, rails, fencing, fish baskets and fish
traps, formed no inconsiderable amount
Jof the captured property. Hundred* of
i pumpkins and a good many watermelons
were brought on shore, giving evidence
that the low grounds of the upper vaL
1 have suffered severely. These arti
| cles were piled up along the hank in
great profusion.
On the lower wharf fifty barrda of
syrup, which had been landed on Friday
from one of the river steamers, were
covered with water, and may at this mo
ment be used ns sweetening for the cat
fish of the lower river. The watchman
who had been left to guard the syrup
went to sleep and came near being wash
ed away. After lie saw the water had
covered the barrels he quietly went oft”
and Jet the fact be known.
A number of wood boats moored to
the wharf wore upset and soon lost.
Corn on the bottoms in many places is
washed away. Wc learn that several
planters below the oily had just pulled
their crops and had them piled up rewdy
for housing, when this unexpected flood
ruips, them. Indeed the oldest inhabi
tant cannot recollect a more sudden rise
in the river.
A Brother at.tl Sister Marry.
A young and respectablo-looking
couple, brother and sister, named Fred
and lxmi.se Kuuckmunn, son and daugh
ter of quite a respectable farmer, re
siding iu Bone Grove township, about
twenty miles from Vandalia, Illinois,
boarded the train a few days ago, went
to al. Boms ana were made man anti
wife. They remained in the city a day
or two, then returned liomeward, get
ting off the train at Brownston, and
for fear of being detected, wandered
out in tine woods near the town, and rr
tnained there until found and arrested.
The man is about twenty-one years of
age arid of good appearance, and his
sister nineteen and rather good-looking.
When asked why he was induced to
commit such an act lie said : “ My sis
ter loved me so well we thought the
best tiling we could do would be to get
married.” lie w r ns further asked if he
did not know it was wrong and against
the law to do so, and also why they hid
themselves in the woods and kept away
from their parents. This ho answered
by saying : “ We did not know it was
wrong, and only hid in the woods for
fear of being discovered by our folks,
as they were very much opposed to oar
marrying.” Their parents are very re
spectable people, and are sadly grieved
over the unparalleled act of their chil
dren. They were tried, found guilty,
and were bound over, the man’s bond
being fixed at SSOO and the woman's
at S3OO, in default of which they were
committed to the county jail. The af
fair has created great excitement in
that section.
Hut it Cured Her.
A young lady well known in fashion
able circles of Edinburgh was accustom
ed to use her eye-glass in the street in a
a way that often bordered on imperti
nence. One day she received a stinging
rebuke, which made her drop the impu
dent habit. While walking in the street
w ith several other fashionable ladies blio
met a conn try clergyman, a man of em
inence and keen wit, but ungainly in
appearance and rough in attire, rut
ting her glass to her eye she w atched him
very intently.
The clergyman w as quite equal to the
emergency. Walking directly to her ho
took her hand and said :
‘•My dear Marie, how do you do?
How are your w orthy father and vener
able mother? and when did you come
to town?”
Overwhelmed with surprise, she said,
with some alarm : ‘‘You are mistaken,
sir!”
“What! Is it possible,” he replied,
“ that you do not know me?”
“ Indeed 1 do not, sir !”
“Neither do I you,” said the minister,
“ Good morning, madam.”
Making a ceremonious bow, be walk
ed away, while her companions laughed
at the bold girl for the rebuff she had re
ceived. Her eyo-glass was never used
again to quiz strangers.
“Ma,” said said an inquisitive little
girl, “ will rich and poor folks live to
gether when they go to heaven?” “ Yes,
my dear, they will be all alike there?”
•‘Then, ma, why don’t rich and poor
Christians associate together here?” The
mother did not answer.
1 This will be a severe winter.