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The Democrat.
A Lave Weekly Paper on Live Issues
Published Every Friday Morning,
at Crawfordville, Ga.
W-D-SULLIVAN. Proprietor
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to suit the times.
Tim’s Kit.
It surprised the shiners and news-boys
around the Post Office the other day to
see “Limpy Tim” come among them in
a quiet way, and to hear him say :
“Boys, 1 want to sell my kit. Here’s
two brushes, a hull box of blacking, a
good stout box, and the outfit goes for
two sbillin’s!”
“Goin’ away, Tim ?” querried one.
“Not ’zactlv, boys, but I want a
quarter the awfullest kind, just now.”
“(Join’ on a ’scursion ?” asked an¬
other.
“Not to-day, but I must have a 25
cents, ” he answered.
One of the lads passed over the change
and took the kit, and Tim went straight
to the counting room of a daily paper,
put down his money, and said :
“I guess I kin write if you’ll give me
a pencil.”
With slow-moving fingers he wrote a
death notice. It went into the paper
almost as lie wrote it, but you might not
have seen it. He wrote :
Died—Litul Ted—of scarlet fever;
aiged three yeres. Funeral to-morrer,
gon up to Ilevin ; left one bruther.
“Was it your brother ?” asked the
cashier.
Tim tried to brace up, but lie could
not. The big tears came up, his chin
quivered, and he pointed to the notice
ou tlie counter and gasped :
“—I had to sell my kit to do it, b—
but lie had his arms aroun’ my neck
when he d—died 1”
He hurried away home, but the news
went to the boys, and they gathered in
a group and talked. Tim had not been
home an hour before a barefooted boy
left the kit on the door-step, and in the
box was a bouquet of flowers, which bad
been purchased in the market by pennies
■contributed by the crowd of ragged, but
big-liearted urchins. Did God ever make
a heart which wouid not respond if the
C ^° id W ‘ lS ^ ouc l(id ? Detroit Free
Press
Never too Late to Learn.
ed Socrates, to play at an extreme old age, learn
on musical instruments.
Cato, at eighty years of age, began to
study the Greek language.
Plutarch, when between seventy and
■eighty, Boccaccio commenced the study of Latin.
when was thirty-five years of age
lie commenced his studies in light
literature; yet he became one of the
greatest masters of the Tuscan Dialect—
Dante and Plutarch being the other two.
sciences Sir Henry Spelman neglected the
in his youth, but commenced
the study of them when he was between
fifty and sixty years of age. After this
le “ rned
Uu-t.iv )u*Mutc U) toe
Dutch languages but a few years before
his death.
Ludovico Monaldesca, at the great age
of 115 years, wrote the memoirs of his
o\vn times.
, Yirgil, T y8'lby, the translator unacquainted of Homer with Latin and
was
and Greek till he was past fifty.
Franklin did not fully commence his
philosophical pursuits till he had reached
his fiftieth year.
Dryden, in his sixty-eigth year, com
menced the translation of the Iliad,
his most pleasing production.
Thousands of examples of men who
commenced a new study, either forliveli
hood or amusement, at an advanced age
with * the Individ a/cases 1 * £ a uVh ? ilillr
w il 1 recollect u enough en o to to
indolent to learn,” will ever- sayT “I am too ‘old
Coulda'fc Fool Her.
A nice young man employed in the
Kansas Pacific office, resolved the other
day to present his beloved girl with a
nice pair of shoes. He accordingly pro
cured her measure, and went into one of
thefashtoanbleboot stores on Main street,
abte,he shoes, marked ®5urKm Dm sol^of^he
and at hjs request the clerk put a
receipted bill for $a into one of the „ hn ii
The presentation was mttile and t he
lovers were happy, as loves could be
But mark the sequel. r ^' De „j j examined
tlle r
daylight and was not
Inver h - -« was convinced that her
, '-a been cheated in tlie purchase
2. such a pair of shoes at that price. She
decided to go and change the shoes and
obtain a better bargain Yesterday s hc
of^“wV n price 8t Sr50 ifcake^ack^thtfshoes nd and e Se a iv P re r
?or quested the clerk to
which she said her husband had paid
$5. The receipted bill was produced in
proof, and the boot man found it impos
aible to go “behind the returns.” The
smart girl tookJier §3.50 pair of shoes
and obtained 81.30 in money, and went
«rfW«in(f ,P promptlypakf a f Sat '|f] Cr ,' ,T difference*! he boot
man, who the
but he thinks that girl a little too smart
for him. Kansas CUy Times.
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The Turquoise. .
The beautiful gem known as the tur
quoise is so celebrated for its peculiar
tint of blue that it has given a descrip
^tur^ffiMhhfe nof ^rSent bS
changes and fades out bv age and ex
posure to the light. It is said that the
color can be restored by keeping the gem
a long time in the dark. There are two
kinds of the turquoise stone, known as
lhe former is the best and has the mS
permanent color. It is found in Turkey
and Persia, also m Siberia, and ha 8 a
££“■ jt “SSTtST tSSto is
found in Lower Languedoc, in the south
east of France, and is a fossil ivorv
colored with the phosphate of iron. The
other is a tri-pbosphate of alumnia, and
derives its color from the oxides of iron
and copper.
-
Job M ork promptly and cheaply exe
cuted at this office.
The Democrat
Vol. 2.
Poetry.
Don’t Stay Late To-Night.
The hearth of home is beaming,
With rays so rosy light,
And lovely eyes shadows are gleaming,
As falls the of night;
And while thy steps and are bright, leaving
The circle pure
A tender voice half grieving,
Says, “Don’t stay late to-night."
The world in which thou movest
Is busy, brave and wide ;
The world of her thou lovest,
Is in the ingle side.
She waits for the warm greeting—
Thy smile is her delight.
Her gentle voice entreating
Says, “Don’t stay late to-night."
The world is inhuman.
Will spurn thee in thy fall,
The love of one pure woman
Outlasts and shames them all.
Thy Let children dark will cling round thee,
fate be or bright,
At home no shaft will wound thee—
Then. “Don’t stay late to-night.”
rrrrrs
Miscellaneous.
LILLIAS WAYLAND
“Oh, Charley, Charley, how could you
do such a thing ?”
Lillias Wayland’s round cheek was
blanched to an unwonted whiteness, as she
stood before her brother in the close
cramped room which constituted her sole
home.
Charles Wayland, a handsome, dissipated
youth of two or three and twenty, with
hold, black eyes, ami a merry mouth that
seemed made only to smile, stood opposite
her, looking half-repentant, half-defiant, as
she spoke.
“Lilly, I couldn’t help it. I tell you I
was hard up . A fellow must have money.
You women doift know anything about the
temptations and necessities of the world."
“But, Charley,” sho faltered, “do you
knoij^niow this same world, as you phrase
it, lowts at the deed you have just cominlt
t 'od*' Oh, Charley, it is forgery, and her
voree grew low and tremulous.
“Nonsense, Lil!! its only borrowing a
part of old Glencross’ unused riches to aid
my needs. I wrote and asked him for cash,
and he, the unmannerly lout refused.
Well, what could he expect after this, but
that 1 should help myself?”
Lillias wrung her slender hands.
“How dare you, Charley ? That a Way
land should come to tills ?” she wailed
“Dare !” he echoed recklessly Ji'S «it
< ile f crcjd W "“ w ‘ paltrier miser than
1 takc llim t0 b <! > 1,0 makes a fuss about a
matter of a hundred pounds.”
“Its the right aud justice of the thing,”
cried Lillias, almost frantically. “If wc
could pay him in any way. but I have sold
everything that remains of our former
wealth . See how I live. Last night I sat ",
„„ U ti]1 “ mMn *f 1 se v,n S , to , hav ? a llttle
™l )nei pay thc ronti 1 have not a J ,!wel
11 °*- a trinket."
“°* 1 , brother, Lil. If old Glencross cuts
U P rough, its only taking a run across the
water. I know lots of ship captains who
would stow me away in their holds almost
any moonlight night,”
Lillias looked despairingly at him. TVas
it then, impossible to make him comprehend
‘be moral obliquity of the deed he had just
comoleted ?
“ But 1 can,t stay f<wlin g here,” observed
the young man, with a toss of his black
curls. “1 must he off about my business.
Good-bye, Lil. Give us a kiss, my girl
Exccpt that you re uncommon f^nd of
lecturin g a you are nor a bad sister
in the main”
After he had gone, Lillias sat down to
try and realize the new situation in which
she and her brother were spirts placed All now
"P« ih.
Glenf '‘” ss ^>ould receive this new en
croach,n<;nt Ui)0n his purs0 and patience,
Lilly had never seen this distant relation,
ye t she had formed an opinion of him in
ber inmost mind, as we are al! apt to do of
unseen persons whom we hear a great deal
about; and whenever she thought of Mr.
Glencross the image of a hook-nosed old
man, yellow-skinned and cadaverous, en
gaged in sorting over piles of mortgages
0 r handling bags of gold, suggested itself to
her mental eve.
“ But he mnst be human > at least,”
thou K ht Lilly, in the agony of her distress.
“If 1 go to him myself, and tell him what
P° or Charley’s necessities were, and how
good natured he really is, in spite of all his
thoughtlessness—if I say frankly to him
that I have no money or jewels to reim
I burse, but that I will stay and work for
bim in the kitchen until I have discharged
the h »" lbl e d ebt, sureiy oh surely be
® an ”°„ the b( ;“ rt to r use ; 1 can d “
f and^I can^make , ^Jf'^read
embroider
urA and cake, and poor mamma always said . I
"as a good ousekeeper, and if Mr. Glen
cross is so miserly as Charley thinks, he
would look at the economy of the thing,
> ing
m iX^e^rtv n w >
thfa 1 ?’ Dr ? aclled ln “ er sore extremit y ,
tbat • days fro the whlch
ln “ evenln «? m
S r ®ckless e , , ac brother, ' ,^ n ^^-bye she stepped to her from handsome the train
at the \ ictoriai Station, dressed in a sober
s^WnStlemouT snrinxjng nine mouse.
A little inquiry sufficed to bring her to
West End, where Mr. Giencross resided—
a strefct ^ on eitber side P-l“-•
the llke of whlch LlUlas ha<1 cever seen in
tbe P Iainer country town where she had
been born and bred. Her heart sank within
ber, as she stood on the broad steps leading
up to the front door.
Then coloring deeply at her own cowardly
i tremuiousness, and utter lack of all
tion and enterprise, she rang the bell to
settle tbe matter at once and definitely.
Crawfordville, Georgia, j^ugust 16, 1878.
“Is Mr. Glencross at home ?” she asked
of the maid servant who answered the
summons.
Yes, Mr. Glencross was at home, would
the lady enter? And Lillias was shown
into an apartment curtained with heavy
folds of purple satin and carpeted with
velvet of the same rich color-an apartment
whose dusky splendor made her think of all
the stories she had read of enchanted
palaces in the realms of fairy land.
As Lillias sat on the silken sofa, waiting
with a throbbing heart for the appearance
of her unknown cousin, the thought stole
upon her mind that lie was not so much of
a miser after all; then a sort of misgiving
came that her mission was all in vain.
“For surely,*’ she thought,
tremblingly around the elegant apartment,
"he will not want any one to make bread or
look after the kitchen expenditures ! I
wish—oh, 1 wish that I were safe at home
aKa Tlie j n ! thought had scarcely framed itself
in her mind when n door st thc fsrtlicr end
Of the room was opened, and a tall, hand
some man, scarcely thirty years of age,
1 JT , 8 y T Purd0n ’ sir ’’’ faltcred
, Lillias, all in a flutter, “but 1 wish to see
i Ir. Glencross. ’
I am Mr. Glencross.”
“You !” Lillias rose up and sat down
again, coloring vivid scarlet. This, then,
was their “far off cousin,” and how widely
different from their dreams and fancies !
'Apparently the gentleman saw and pitied
her painful confusion, for he said, politely :
“May I ask in what manner I can be
useful to you ?”
“I am Lillias Wayland,” she answered
in a tone scarcely audible.
“Wayland.”
A shadow, faint yet distinct by percept ible,
overspread his face at that word, and Lillias
saw with a failing heart. She forgot that
he was no silver-haired patriarch, but a
handsome young man surrounded with all
the adjuncts of wealth and luxury. She
remembered only poor Charley and het own
sickening idea of debt, disgrace and ruin,
sinking on her knees at his fett, slio sobbed
out her pitiful story.
“IIo is so youne,” she wailed, “so young ;
surely you will not refuse to give him
another chance for name and fame! I will
work and toil for you until the hundred
pounds are paid. I will be a servant, a
seamstress—what you please, only promise
mo that you will not visit him with the
penalties of the law !”
Her voice died into quivering silence,
hut her eyes still annealed.
r’Kisc. Mis* Wa-.vlw.u, :
man, after a moment of grave considera¬
tion. “I promise that this offense of your
brother’s shall be overlooked for tlie sake
of his excellent sister who has pleaded so
eloquently for him.”
“And I—what can I do for you ? What
must I do ? For if I cannot repay tho
money in some shape or other I shall die of
shame and mortification !”
“I will take tnu matter into considera¬
tion,” said Mr. Giencross, gruvely, yet not
without a certain gleam of amusement in
the corners of his mouth at the idea of that
1>r<!tty > slender creature rendering up to
him the equivalent of a hundred pounds,
“ An<1 now cousin Lillias—for I believe
>
we lnly clai,u relationship, although it is
«°»ewhat dKtant-I shall insist upon you
remaining as my guest for a while. Let
m ® ring and sond for my mother 1”
Mrs. Glencros^ a stately old lady in black
Ys.tenciennes iacc, 'welcomed Lillias Way
' an '» with a smiling hospitality which be
to tno ancler >t regime ; and almost
before slie kncw lt * the 8* rl found herself
chatting innocently away with the hostess,
as if she bad livod a11 ,ler life iH sun
shlne o£ that P lcasa,lt smile, while Paul
Glencross, busy among some papers at a
«•.««. ctan,!,,
countenance with a new interest.
I n hI!uoueht UC ^ m V
llf „ fe , ’ .. he thought. “Th« Ihe nrofil profile is as purely
Grecian . as the face of Ilero on my mother's
cameo < and the eyes are as full of shifting
iigbts as a diamond. Upon my word, this
'ittle new cousin is an acquisition. » '
When Lillias wrote her happy letter home
£ba£ night, Mr. Glencross added a pleasant
postscript, and Charley Wayland knew
that his season of perii was over -
Lillias had been nearly a month the guest
the stately old lady in black silk and
Valenciennes lace when one day Paul,
coming suddeniy ,uto the purple twilight
of t ^ ie drawing-rooms, found her sitting all
a * onc > ^ith teardrops glittering on her
Pearly cheek.
“Why, Lillias, what is the matter ?”
“Nothing, Paul,’’—they had grown to be
good friends by this time—“only I have
been dreaming very pleasantly, and the
time of wakin 8 ^ come at last.”
“You mysterious little spinx, what on
earth doyou mean ?
She colored, and cast down her eyes.
“The hundred pounds, Paul—they are
yet to be paid. No—don’t interrupt four Jmc, I
cannot consent to indulge generous
irapulses. I must r«.y you ; and there is no
otber wa ^or me than to ^k a situation
as governess, bo Paul, I have written an
advertisement, and if you will be so kind
as send it to the office of one of the daily
pape»-”
“Give it to me !” he interrupted.
confidingly in his hand; he
t tore it deliberately into strips.
“Paul!” she cried in amazement.
“Lillias, this is all nonsense. If
to pay me, you can.”
“ But| Paul you know 1 hav(! nothing in
>
the world!”
“You have yourself—to me the most
precious gift the aforesaid world contains.”
“I don’t understand you.”
“Must I speak plainer? Well, then,
Lillias, give me yourself. I love you,
darling, and would fain make you my wife.
Are you content to pav me in this coin?”
“Oh, Pa,!." she faltered, “I never dream
cd of so ascii happiness."
And so Lillias Wayland’» indebtedness
was settled most satisfactorily.
A Mar Had Claims On Texas.
A few <] ; ys ago a rough looking customer
entered tf,|office of the Sunset Route and
approach!-.* Col. H. B. Andrews, the Viee
Presided >f the road, asked, “Be you thc
(free p» «nmn?”
Co! . adjusted his eye-glasses in'
threw kfaf*»d frrD heul back, and mustered the
truder to foot, and at last asked
j .
“Cler$ . i y *'i ?"
I <‘H_— "I was the response,
“Rep* y^Osean ,y 'h»/tive of the press ?"
“Do to insult me because I’m
I poor ?" fowled the applicant for a free
pass. ? ”
.. If ll0t a preaclu , r nor a repor(or
i do n’t He what obligation the Sunset
Route i 5under to the public to help you out
o[ tb is --antry,” retorted Col. Andrews
with um> pessary severity
Tim , * uder struck a position and said
“I’ve wooglit more men to Texas than
any otli." xAn in th* state, I’ve got claims
on Texiv. There are hundreds of people
jiving in-Texas to-dBy who would be living
in Kansi • II it hadn’t been for me.”
»’ 1 1 ‘
Welt sitq i responded , the applicant, "I
was ilviig in Kansas, and the whole
neigliboitiood was over-run with horse
thieves, (ayhawkers, and all that kind of
riffraff. The courts couldn’t do nothing
with then, so I thought I would get about
tion tion'cknnpany Company. 6 wTlmdnotTnH Wo had not much '"'"'qT capital,
but after_w» had hung about 25, the way
the rest skinned out was a caution. They
had the Texas fever had. In less than
three Wt. ks there was not a liorsethief left
in all tWt section. I was a kind of an out
side imuigration agent, ami as mighty few
of ’em iftine out this far west I think 1
omrht t.) have a 1 nass over v n... !, c road. ro..,i ••
v \ our correspondent «r, > was not present at
tlie bjterview, but afterwards bo saw
serontl Pi, employees of the road running out
Col, ,ee s private palace car, and dusting
it off eiit'enUy for the special use of the
“outsh • immigration agent.’’— Graham
leader
An Arkansas Cow.
T’is ; i d of milk from northern dairy
cow* j .edible to the people in regions
whefe attic are raised mostly for beef
an,!
vas In Little Rock,- At>k a n
Stt j, l. ttmdatico oil the United States
Court. One morning he saw a farmer with
a slouch hut and a genuine butternut suit,
trying to sell a cow in tlie market there.
It was a large, long horned animal, and the
planter was Informing a man that the cow
would give four quart’s of milk a day, if
fed well.
Up stepped the Judge. “What do you
ask for that cow?”
“About 830. She'll give five quarts of
milk, if you feed her well,” replied tlie
planter, and he proceeded to describe her
good qualities.
Said the Judge : “I have cows on my
farm, not much more than half as big as
your cow, which give twenty to twenty-five
quarts of milk a day.”
The planter eyed tho Judge sharply for a
moment, as 1C trying to remember whether
ho had ever seen him before or not, and
then asked: “Stranger, where do you
live?”
“My home is in Iowa.”
“Yes, stranger, 1 don’t dispute it. There
was heaps of sogers from Iowa down here
during the war, and stranger, they was the
all firedest liars in the whole Yankee army.
Mebbe yon mougbt be an officer in some of
theta regiments?”
The Judge slid for tho court house.
“#—*
A Hard Test.
Ten or a dozen men were enjoying the
hot weather, when a stranger stalked in
and Inquired of the bar tender :
"Have you any mint?”
“Yea, sir,” was the reply.
“And you have sugar, lemons, gin,
brandy, and so forth ?”
"I have.”
The stranger turned around to the crowd,
noted the sudden increase of interest in
each fa,:e, and kindly said :
“Gentlemen, I'm going to treat every liar
in this ’oop. Let the liars—tbe monstrous
liars—dime forward.”
Not a foot moved.
“Gentlemen,” continued tho stranger in
a plaintive tone, don’t be backward. Juleps
wait for all. Every one of you who is
known as a liar will please stand up.”
Not a man stood. The stranger's face
betrayed keen disappointment, as he ordered
a rousing big “mint” for himself, and not a
word was spoken in the place while ho
slowly sipped the cooling liquor through a
straw. When he had finished he wiped off
his mouth and said :
“Well, every truth-teller In the crowd
will now stand up.”
Each man rose up with the promptness of
a soldier.
“And sit down again," softly said the
man as he made tor the door.
They would have sat down en him, but
great truth-teilers are poor runners.
Detroit Frm Prm.
■ ----
ani° “If one could p^asS change S himself ^m^ius into anv
he ” a
young man, “I think I should prefer to
.
change myself into an ass.” ‘Ibat
wouldn’t lie much of a change,” sneered
a satirical young lady,
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“One hour to-day is worth two to
morrow,” because there may be a base
ball match that will occupy all your
time.
No. 32.
Poetry. j
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[Published by Request.]
People Will Talk.
You may get through the world, but "twill
be very slow',
If you listen to all that is said as yon go
‘ ou 11 lM worried, and fretted, ,
J aud kept in
W ‘
c. V or miMWlesome ij| tongues . will ... . have
some
ruing w>uo, For
people will talk.
If quiet and modest, you'll have it pro
suoed F
That your humble position is only
l ou re a wolf In sheep's clothing, or else
- ' -
pe i lew ill talk.
If generous and noble, they'll vent on their
You'll spleen, hear some loud hints that
fallland mean; you're self,
They honest and fair as the day.
n call you a rogue in a sly, sneaking
way, For
people will talk.
And then if you show the least boldness of
Or heart,
a slight inclination to take your own
t„„- «■«!.«..
■
If threadbare your dress, or old-fashioned
your hat,
‘v > ™. e " n !' "i 1 1 f,ur ‘* lv take notic# of th at,
l , "’"* that you ran t pay
But don’t you™
get For excited, whatever will they say,
people talk.
If you ,lr, ‘ ss in «>° fashion, don’t think to
For they escape, criticise
then in a different shape ;
You re ahead of your means, or your tailor'*
But mimf’youV he made, own business, there's naught
to
For people will talk
Now, tlie best way to do is to do as you
l ,lcas ''.
For .. your mind, if you have one, will then
be at case;
of cou «' > . Jf®« will meet with all sorfa of
u ut dim'Uhlnk to .top them, it ain't any 3
use.
For people will talk.
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MJimnlln,, Miscellaneous. , ,,
An Incident in Naples,
[UorretjMMl.nee Columbia Rrgitter.)
Naples, Italv, July 10, 1878.—The wide
circulation of your valuable paper fa such
that it has been considered proper by a
number of American now In this city tr
give your readers nn account of tho shame
rid treatment of a distinguished American
lady by one of the proprietors of
the Hotel Royal des Strangers, ono of the
largest hotels In this city, and of tho Just
punishment which he received at the hands
of gentlemen who were ready to peril their
lives in the cause of right and truth against
SoZ protected l ^"i,L" lady. d ° m ™' ou upon an Hn -
Miss Mary Custis Lee, a daugter of Gon.
Robert E. lxic, arrived here a few days
since in company with some lady friends
from Malta, who registered at the above
named hotel. It appears that during the
night of tho 8th Inst., the raosquttor bar
round the bed ignited accidentally from a
candle, which Miss Lee had lighted. In a
few moments the flames spread and caught
the lace curtains, and the room was soon
enveloped in flames, which Mils Leu
herolcally endeavored to suppress but with
out success, and fearing that the hotel might
bo burned, she gave the alarm of fire,
whlch soon was heard by some gentlemen,
who were occupying rooms on the same
and :ri,: Mr. W. w A. rrr Clark, tz of Columbia, ' i r? S. C.
were the first who came to the rescue of
Miss Lee, and succeeded in saving her
money and valuable jewelry from the
flames. Tho morning following tho fire,
Miss Lee expressed her willingness to pay
all damages, though the fire had occurred
from accident. Tho proprietor taking
advantage, of the lady, demanded 2,000
francs, which was a preposterous and
enormous charge for the damage. A gen¬
tleman from Ohio, a Mt. Poland, a guest cf
the hotel, who has been Vice-President of
an insurance company for a number af
years, estimated the damage at 870. The
friends of Miss Leo at once demurred to
this enormous charge. The American
Consul Lonsu!, Mr. Mr Duncan, Duncan at at this this nlaea place was was ox- ox
ccedingly kind, and protested against the
payment of any such sum. The proprietor
now being foiled in his disgraceful effort to
overcharge for damage aecurring from
dent, become insolent and spoke in a man
ner which reflected upon Miss Lee. The
insult was quickly resented. Mr. Clark, of
Columbia S. C., struck him over the head
with an umbrella. In a few moments the
proprietor was surrounded by a number of
Italians who were clerks, waiter and at
tachecs of the hotel, but they were met by
Judge Melton, Col. John T. Sloan, Jr. Mr.
D. A. P. Jordan of South Carolina, and
Dr. J. B. Roberts, of Georgia, who by their
courage and determination caused them to
stampede and call for the police. A large
crowd soon assembled about the hotel.
The proprietor was denounced by Col. Sloan
for his conduct towards Miss Lee; who
challenged him to go into the garden anil
answer for the same with swords or pistols,
which the proprietor declined, to accept.
Ua.i„
“What I object to,” said a Texas
horse thief, as he was al-out to in be drawn
up, “is your hanging me here the sun,
when there’s plenty of shade close by.—
However, go ahead.”
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What is the difference between
tenant and the son of a widow? The
tenant has to pay rents; the son of a
' widow has not two parents.
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The Partition of Turkey.
An eminent Russian, according to a
Paris letter published in the Pall Mall
with Gazette, lias expressed his discontent
the work accomplished in the Cou
S”* 8 in the following terms : “A hun
dred years after the last partition of I’o
land, the Congress of Berlin has pro
nounced the partition of Turkey. That
Empire, founded by valiant conquerors,
but ill-governed by their successors, has
succumbed, not to the blows struck by
Russia, but to those struck by England.
11 !T'! S Ij ° ,d Beaeousfieid who, by his
perfidious counseLs, encouraged the
Turks to accept war with Russia—a war
which lias forever broken their power in
of s®. aixswwwss
vassalage. It is England who will
’ ru,e ?y er -Anatolia, ns slie already rules
over the Khedive of Egypt. Without
seized having fired a single cartridge she has
on the lion’s share, the isle of
Cyprus ; and, to the rowers great astonishment
of the world, the which have
vital interests in tlie Mediterranean per¬
mit England, by the fortification of
Lamaca, to dictate the law at once in
the East and in the West. And what
has been the conduct of England toward
iasrsTrStariK
Russian victorious ss
arms were On his
side Lord Beaconsfield has obtained ail
he desired. He hindered the Russians
from taking Constantinople and from
forming Ibilgaiia, a powerful and Imlependeut
lie ceded to us Batoum, only
as a Tree port; he forced us to restore
iarv he prevented Indemnity us from from Turkey, ohtaininga pieun
had to which
we aright. In fact Lord Beacons
field has damaged the interests of
position England J ta ' y *T‘ has assumed Austria ’ in by Cyprus, 11,0
S,M ' ,ia8 anu >hUated Turkey, and has bin
dared Greece from claiming the prov
ibc** Inhabited by their compatriots.”
According U> the same authority, the
Congress: following will be the conseqences of the
Roumelias “Bulgaria and the two
will declare their freedom •
»“ and Herzegovina will become
Austrian ; Albania may possibly fall to
1 tidy ; the isles will sooner or later be
united with Greece ; Egypt, Tunis and
1 ripoli will detach themselves from the
Porte, and England, by promises of rail¬
ways, etc., will establish herself in those
countries. As for the 6ultan, lie may
he able to hang ou for another century
at the Staroboul, various European thanks to the jealousies of
powers who will
maintain him there.”
Just the Same.
Yesterday Jook inonilng a man whose
every proved how hungry and |>eri
niless he Was, halted Wore an eating
st ' a,ld tlie Central Market to let his
rrujut.fi water for awhile. The woman
worth «uu! called uut:
Eh” , yL>,n, J> “V along I V ou won't
* y ° U ^ th ®
dear woman.” he confidentially
began huugry , as he I drew nearer, “I am not
; just left the breakfast table,
after the heartiest meal I ever ate. I
not looking at your beautiful meals,
your lovely cakes, or your rich and Juicy
Pi®**, but at yourself.”
j* hat you looking at rao for V”
W J ™ y YmSave'th^aatn^brow”! r®
Ell({lfttld
eyes, same beautiful hair-same sweet
accent.”
“I never knew her,” replied the wo
man, as her face begau to clear up.
“Didn’t, eh ? Well, I never saw two
faces nearer alike in tlieir sweet ex
P ress mn. I wish I had your portrait
0n j'y, 0 ^ y f’cally wish I had.”
,
gan mirror. hunting around for a piece of brokon
Tomato Catsup.
As the time is at hand for enjoying
this favorite sauce, we give the follow¬
ing good receipt for preparing it for
table use. To a half bushel of skinned
tomatoes, add one quart of good vine¬
gar, one pound of salt, h quarter of a
pound of allspice, six onions, one ounce
of cloves and two pounds of brown
sugar. Boil this mass for three hours,
constantly stirring it to keep it from
burning. When cool, strain it through
a fine or coarse cloth and bottie corked
tight for use. Many persons omit vine
^ 1D tlim P re l’» rat, on. A smaller
qnan tity can be made by using a duo
proportion of tho materials.
Ah there is some trouble in skinning
the tomatoes, they may be merely wash
ed before commencing the boiling, ln
this case it is best to strain twice, first
with a coarse cloth, and then a fine one.
» dantrerous one hundred dollar conn,
forfeit note on the Pittsfield National
Bank, Pittsfield, Mass., has Just boon
discovered by the national redemption
division of tho Treasurer’s office. No
notice of any kind has appeared of thia
counterfeit. It in evidently ovide from
the same plate as the recent one hundred
dollar counterfeit, but is better printed,
Two diatinguished arrivals from Afri
ca are noted at the New York aquarium*.
are hlwjopotami from
wei K hin ^ aiwut t wo hundred and
KStalfiof dozen S J, 2cb
into which half a eggs are brokon.
“A soft answer tirrnetb away wrath, 1»
yet a man caught by his wife dealing
out soft answers to a pretty young
widow next door, says that he can show
scars to prove that the proverb didn’t
work well in his case.
A man out West, who offered bail for
a friend, was ashed by the Judge if he
had any incurnorauce on his farm.—
“Oh, yes,” said he, “my wife.”