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i From ilie Franklin News.
A FAMILY ROW.
BY SANDY HIGGINS.
Somewhere in the course of my
varied and extensive reading I have
met with something like this:
‘ 1 When m trrlecl folks fall out,
If I poke in my snout,
1 nr sura to get it tweaked for my pains.”
Now that may not be much in the
way of poetry, but its blamed good
sense, which is much more to the
purpose. Women are curious insti
tulions, any way. They and their
husbands will fall out and fight like
cals, but if a stranger takes her pan
she’ll forget everything and give him
a dig in the l ibs with the first thing
that comes handy, from a bodkin to
a fire shovel. I think they do this,
partly to be contrary, and partly to
show their husband’s that they are
some themselves. Be that as it may,
the fact is just as I’ve stated ii, and
if you don’t like my explanation you
can fix up one to suit yourself. I’m
not particular.
I set out to tell how my habit of
making a fool of myself and inter
fering in matters that didn’t concern
me once got me imo a pretty fair
scrape, and from which I learned a
very useful lesson.
There lived an old man and his
wife in Walton county, Georgia, by
the n..rae of lira .-. i!, who were ns
complete cases as were ever seen out
side of a menagerie. Although they
were both about seventy-five years
old, they were as wiry and spiteful
as two mud wasps. My private
opinion was that nothing but their
quarrels and spats kept them on card),
for neither one was willing to go off
and leave the other on earth to enjoy
anything, so they kept on living for
spite. I couldn’t blame (hern much
either, lor they had nobody to live
with them’, and what wars life worth
if they couldn’t make it lively !
I happened lobe passing their log
cabin one day, when I heard some
very loving words passing between
them, so I stepped to the side of the
house and (’peeped through j a crack
hoping to see some fun. The old
lady was hovering about ’ the fire
place while the old man sat in one
corner and kept up a running fire of
sharp words at her which she only
noticed by an occasional reply that
burnt like bo! pitch- There was a
little pot simmering by the fire which
I found contained hominy, while the
old lady was frying some meat in
a sma'l pan of the short baudled per
suasion.
“Old ’omen, ain’*thal hominy dun
yit, for God’s Kike!” snarled the
old man.
“It’ll he dun when I fry it,” was
snapped out in reply.
“ We’ll not have it fried,” said he.
“ I’ll fry it anyhow,” was the com
posed answer.
“ You’ll not fry narry grain,” he
growled. “Do you spose I’ll wait
till kingdom cum for my dinner, you
confounded old witch!”
“ Ef you want to cat raw corn,
like anyother l og, go to the crib,”
she retorted, “I’ll lry this ef you
starve in a mitiii!” and she com
posedly went on with her frying,
“Yon will, hey?” he stormed out,
and before she knew what was com
ing he gathered the pot and sitting
fiat down on the iloor, he placed the
pot between his legs.
“Now lets see you fry it,” he ex
claimed in triumph, as he shoveled a
ladle full of the hot corn into his
toothless mouth.
The old lady, though taken by sur
prise was equal to the emergency.
“I'll fry you you bald headed old
spider!” she yelled, and dexterously
turning the pan tother side up, she
brought it down meat gravy and all
on his turnip looking head. It sizzed
like pouring water into hot grease,
for the gravy was boiling hot and
there was no hair in the way to catch
it. With a veil like a Mohan k he
sprang to his feet and danced around
like a young fox with a split stick on
his tail, all the time claiming at. his
head like I’ve seen cats do with ho'
mush in their teeth, and sputtering .
a terrible rate w ith the hot corn in
his mouth, and the hot gravy all ov- r
his head he seated to be fixing u; £
firstrate case of hysterics. Then he
dove down and lifted Dp a loose
plank from the floor, and I concluded
he was going down into the cellar to
cool off, but I was mistaken, lie
made a dash at his v e, like a blue
HAMILTON HARRIS 00., GA„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1875.
tailed hawk at a spring chicken, and
before she could dodge, lie picked
her up and jammed her neck cud
heels through the hole,
“Now, you old confounded Egyp
tian,” said he, “stay thar til the
house blows from over you, will
you ?”
So saying lie deliberately replaced
the plank, and sealing him-clf on it,
drew the pot to him and went to eat
ing again. “You’ve got the dead
wood on her now old eorn-cracker,”
thought I; but wo had both mistaken
the old woman’s strength and p! e\.
While be was pitching the hominy
down bis throat with amazing rap
idity—for there were no tecih in die
way—and while I was lirnk'ug the
fun was over, the flooi’ suddenly
bulged up as if there were a young
earthquake under it, sending the old
man, pol and corn into the ashes, and
out she c. me, spilling like a m and c. I,
her hair down, and her eyes winking
forty times a minute. It was easy
to see that the old boy was going to
be to pay, and I eitled myself to en
joy it. Before (he old man had lime
lo light himself, she lit on Irm like a
catamount, and the wav her nails
played around his earswa deligb fid.
He was game to the centre, how
ever, for he was up and at it in lea
than two seconds, and ihen the fun
commenced in good eurne t. First
he would try to close in and trip her
up but she danced around too glib
for him, occasionally making a rake
across his face that left wolf signs
wherever her nails struck. Then lie
stooped and went at hc-r head ff ~
evidently intending to bait the breath
out of her, but she yawed to the right,
and he ran his greasy pate full till
against the table, turning it over
and knocking the crockery into
smkhareues. Of course that m ;de
him madder than ever, and he next
tried to tip her over with pieces of
crockery, but it was like throwing a;
a bat, and every shot was a clear
mi s. .She was too quick on the
wing for his targe; practice, and then
he made another dash at her.
It w; s decidedly rich, ...id nobody
there to see it. but me. P. . I w.i li
eu for somebody thee to help mo
enjoy it, but I was air .id to hol er
for anybody, for fear I’d break tip
the show'. Round and pound they
had it, puffing and snarling and
growling, whilst their eyes f.iiiiy
turned green in their wrath. It was
the f..sre-t light I ever saw, and I
was evenly balanced who wou'd
wlrp. At length, however, she irip
ped over the table and tumbled
down, and bel'oro sbe cou’d pick
herself np he pounced on her with a
yell, and grabbing her by The hair,
commenced beating the long roll on
the floor with her head.
Now, I had been enjoying the fun
very well up to this time, but when
I saw that he was in a fair way to
churn her brains iuto bulfennilk, I
began to get excited. If I had held
. >till like any sensible m u wou’d
have done, he wou'd soon have let
her up; but my gallantry, or my nat
ural disposition 10 make a fool of my
self, got the belter of me, and I ran
into the ho.ic, and taking the o’d
Turk' by the co t collar ;urned him a
summerset among the no sand ! <•_
ties in the corner. Thinking there
w s no danger in the old woman, I
laced the old in in and was jus! be
ginning to deliver a lectire. on the
sweets of peace and domes lc bli ,
w hen -omedipg : bout the size of a
fire shovel—a red-hot one, at that!
i —struck me on the back of the head,
! which sent me spiimin : across the
hou-e, feeling like I’d just been shot
out of a volcano, and gi\i ' me a
lively impression of how a man leels
when his head lrw been carried off
bv a bombshell. VVI ile I was pranc
ing around, looking (or a good p'aee
to have fi:s in, the old man, who h and
got to his feet again, made ad ish at
me with the pot-hooks yelling:
“Git oul’n hoc, you sneakin’
cn=s! ”
“ Let me git one more lick at him !
I'!! larn him to interfere between a
man and wife!” screaehed (ho ohl
ladv, still holding the shovel up like
a flog staff. Just then I b gan to
fee! 1 !,e I’d gone to a funeral, or had
happened w here I w r;n’t invited, and
S' I • .ood just between tb ri .'. I sud
denly remembered that I w-.s needed
at Lome, and with one jump 1 lit in
the yard, just getting out of the m
time enough for them to strike e.i.h
ry. Iter with their fire arms. JJv neck
ii lined me a heap, and ! made tr icks
pretty thick fay hot.";, h :iiy wish
ing 1 had let him b< ih v devil’s tat
too on the floor with her head, if h
wanted to.
That little incident decided me h
the belief that a man and his wife can
usually settle their liule affairs much
better without help. At :,.f events
I’ve always refused to volunteer it
anolebr war of the kind!
From tho Nj i >nal Tump, rum c Advocate ]
Better,ii {file's Distillery.
In response to lnquent calls for
“De con Gilo’s Distillery,” not now
in print, we publish the following,
w hich has lost, none of its peculiar in
terest in the years which have inter
vened since it was written:
The Rev. Geo. B. Choever, a young
gent'eman of decided talent and a
very fearless di-posh.ion, h .ving but
lately commenced his ministry in Sa
lem, determined not to content him-
s .df with waging a distant war with a
monster, but to engage it in close
anil deadly combat, which should re
sull’e' her in it; f ill or his own ruin,
lie accordingly prepared (or the
press, and shortly afterward publish
ed it) the Salem Landmark new: pa
per, an attack upon the distilleries,of
a nature so singular as to attract, ex
i aoidinary attention.
It was w. it ten in an allegorical
style, and purported to be “ A True
Bis ory of Do.icon Gdc’s Distillery.”
The author commences by draw
ing a picture of Deacon Giles: A
hard-hearted, money-loving, rum-sel
ler, who iulietiled his distillery and
bis disposition from his father, to
whom, also, both had been transmit
ted through a long line o rum-sellers,
reaching b ek almost to the day of
t lie I’ilgt im Fat hers.
The other points by which the
Dc.,c ii w s distinguished were: His
li ivVg had a relative drowned in one
of his va s of liquid fire ; his having
■o.st another bv drunkenness: bis
■ ’ ,
no ing all day Sunday, and soiling
Bibles ia one corner of hi- establish
ment. He was treasurer 10 a Bible
Society and generally paid off his
men in rum and in Bibles. On a cer
ium Saturday night the hands refused
to work the next day, and the deacon
wisina sid quandary. He was re
lieved, however, by ihe ppe,ranee
of a number of wild, id range-looking
fellows, who volunleercd to do hi
wink for noililng.p’ nvided (hey might
be allowed to 1 bar by night. The
deacon closed the ba ga.ii, and well
plot cl with the tir.u ,ho went io
church the next and ty to hear a man
pre irh (fie uceuuie ol uie salvation
of all men.
In the meantime, lib workmen who
were demons, carried on their opera
tions at an astounding pace. All the
materi .1 of the pi .ee we.o worked np
in two nights—Saturday and that of
Sabbath.
By a devilish contrivance of their
own they wrote upon each barrel of
the “good creatuic,” certain labels,
invi-ible at first, and which cou'd
| only be perceptible alter they were
sold to the tetailers, and mounted
uponheir destined stands. The dea
con returned on Monday, and was
hi lily delighted with the work that j
had been done. The whole array of
rum casks were immediately sold off
to the deputy rum-venders.
As each barrel v.a put upon its
destined stand in the different grog -
erie , the de\i’isi) labels blazed out in
1 . .
! l ing ,Is. One was ire-cubed :
I “ Kj IVp-y sold here! inquire at Amos
. Gill's di lillory;” another, “Cho’er:!
inco’lapsc! inquire at Amos 'Gilo’s
distillery;” a third, “Insanity and
Murder;” a fourth, “Dropsy and
Rheum..lism;” many bore as an in
scription a part of Robert Hall’s fa
mous definition, “ Di- ihed Death and
Liquid Damn uon.” The direction
for finding till these things was at
“Deacon Gile’s Distillery.” Some
j of the hogsheads were also marked
' with texts of Scripture; for instance,
| Who hut h woe ? ’ inquire at Dea
-1 eon Gile’s Di-li'lery;” “Who hath
redness of eyes? inquire at Deacon
Gile’ Distillery.” Others were in
scribed, “ A portion from tlie lake of
fire and brimstone, inquire at Deacon
Gile’s Distillery;” “ Weeping and
gna-king of teeth, inquire at Deacon
Gile’s Distillery.”
When these terrible inscriptions
blazed out in a “still and awful red,”
the rum-sellers shifted the liquid into
other hogsheads, hut immediately the
same willing became visible on the
new vessels. In a rage they sent it
ill back to a man, and the deacon
burnt the whole of it. It left a strong
smell nf brimstone behind.
A certain Deacon Stone who wrm
a di filer, sold Bibles at his distil,
lery, had had a relation drowned m
i vai, and a son who had been very
'iiieniperafm, thought the cap, fitted
him s o we! that he determined to wear
it. ITo can-, 1 Mr. Cheever to be in
dicted for a false, scandalous and in
iccent and malicious libel on John
Stone; charging him with knowingly,
wilfully, and designedly preparing in
league with evil spirits and demons,
tl-o means of pestilence and disease
to "the bodies, and condemnation and
ruin to the -ouls of his Yellow-being®.
The tiial came off, on the 24th of
is3s, in the Court of Common
Plea®, Essex county. The TTonorn-
• bio Solomon Strong, (judge) presided.
The m .in object of the evidence, on
the side of the commonwealth, was
the ostnb'i .'onent of the identity be
tween A-uo Giles and Deacon Slone,
w hich was done by showing the in
! indents recorded above of the former;
the loss of bis relation in the vat ;
his having a drunken son ; being n
member of a Bible Society, and sell
ing Bibles in his distillery, were ap
plicable a’so to Ihe latter.
Anot her,” strong point to establish
the identity was also insisted upon.
The writer represented (lie impres
sion, w hich pn duood his dream, to
havc’becn made by "a train of reflec
tions consequent upon seeing fre
quently in public prints, when notice
w s given of anything, “Inquire at
Amos Gilo’s Distillery.”
Stub notices had frequently ap
peared, in fact, the name of John
S'.onc being substilwcd for Amos
G'le’s. In spite of aide counsel (the
Hon- Ruhr- Choate and the lion. Pe
ieg Sprague being both employed by
Mr. Cheever,) lie war,convicted, fined
f 1,000, and sentonc and to an impris
onment of one month’s duration. The
d;■fondant, when called up for sen
tence, made an ablo defense, but it
did nothing to mitigate his punish
ment.
A fatal blow, however, had been
: truck at the distilling bus'ncss. The
appearance of the dream had created
tremendous excitement; the trial had
excited universal attention. Every
word of e\ idenco was drunk in by ft
crowd so great that the courthouse
con! 1 sc irce’y cent "in them. Tho
public voice, at first decidedly against
Air. Cheever, become as decidedly in
hi! favor, as dly after day facts were
■ Hob e,l, in evidence lo prove the dia
bolical nature of the rum-makers traf
fic. The pre-s caught up the echo,
and spread it far and wide. Far
Iroin being considered an officious
meddler in affairs with which he had
no concern, Mr. Cheever began to be
regarded ns a martyr to truth. Far
from injuring tbe cause of temper
ance as many “moderate drinkers”
a fleeted to fear ho would, it was soon
found that lie had affixed a stigma to
the trade of distilling which nothing
I con’d erase.
When men thought of enriching
themselves by speculating on the vices
of their neighbors, Deacon Gile’s
burning hog.-heads rose np before
them like the ghost of Banquo. Eight
years after, in that very distillery,
converted by anew cold water pro
prietor into a saw mill, a temperance
tea party was given to a crowd so
large that the like had never been
seen in the town of Salem.
So mighty, so irresistable is trnth,
so certain is she to trumph at last
over all impediments which passion,
prejudice, and interest combine to
throw in her way.
O”W.A. Mansell, of Roswell,
has never tasted liquor of any kind,
drank a drop of milk, coffee, or used
tobacco in any shape. ,
i ♦ l in
2JET 1 A little child was torn to
pieces by hogs in Cherokee county.
'uzr i’ weiity-five Georgia towns
have driven out retail liquor dealers.
B®* An insane woman in New
Orleans, burned herself to death, the
other day, by setting fire to her
clothes with matches.
Sick Headache. —Two teaspoon
fuls of finely-powdered charcoal, drank
in a half-tumbler of water, will often
give relief to the sick headache, when
caused, as in most cases it is, by a
superabundance of acid on the stom
ach.
Jdgf" “Ef county fairs is goird to
do agrieultui-’ enny good,” says a
Long Island farmer, “ keep out the
wimmin. Them ere pull-back’s get’s
a man’s eyes so sot that he can’t sec
nothin’ else.”
i A friend called on the histo
rian Ranke, in Berlin ciiy, and ob
served, “ Well, professor, I suppose
you w ork as hard as ever in your old
age?” “Yes,” replied the veteran,
tenderly, “my wife is dead now, you
see, and 1 have less annoyance, and
can accompli-h more.”
BS?* An lodianuu maiden who wears
omy pants and chews tobacco, goes
by tne pretty name of “Falling Wa
ter.”
A Mississippi Negro’s Sermon.
“Now, bredren and sister’s, we
wants mounahs lieah to-night. No
foolin’. Ef you can’t moulm for you’
sins, don’t come foolin’ roun’ dis al
tah. I knows ye. You’s tryin’ miiy
hard to oe convuted Vhout bein’
hurt. The Lord ’spises mockery.
Sometimes you -inuahs comes foh’rd
and holds yoar head to high a-comin’.
You come foah you’s ready. You
Marts too soon. You don’t repent.
You’s no mounah.
You’s foolin’ wid do Lord. Y r ou
come strutlin’ up to da allali; you
flops down on your knees, mid you
peeps frn your fingahs, dis way', an’
you cocks up your cahs to seo who’s
tuakin’ de best pray’r. Yon's ’tirely
too pert for penitents. You is no
mounah. Ef yon comes heah to fool,
you bettah stay away. Bettah go to
hell from do pew asleepin’, or from
your cabin a swenrin’, dan from de
monnah’s bench a foolin’.
Ef you’s not in almost, keep away
from heah; don’t bodder us. Do yon
want us to make ouhselves lioaso and
weah out onah lungs a-prayin, for
you when you know’s you’s only
foolin’ wid de Lord ? I tells you to
be mity cahful. I want to see you a
coinin’ so burdened by de weight ob
your sins dat, you can’t hold up your
beads I want to see you so heart
broke dat your knees knock togeder
when you walk. Yon must be low
minded. De Bible lays great stress
ond de low. You’s got to get low
in do dusk De good book says,
’Low (Lo!) in de vollem of the Book
it is writ. Now, min’ dat an’ be
low.”
Then addressing the members of
the church more particularly, he said:
“Brederen in do Lord, you inns’ bo
airncs’ prayin’ foil dos>~ pore sinnrdis.
You must wake up. In dis spring
time ob do yeah, when de leaves is
coinin’, and de flowahs is a twinklin’
an’ bloomin’, what does de leaves an’
do flowahs say? Dey says, “Get
up.’ [“Amen, dal’s so,” from an old
brother in the corner.] “It is noth
in’; de day is lireakink Git up.
Wake np in do mornin’.” [“Amen !
wake ’em up, Brudder Clinton,” from
the corner.]
“Too many ob you’fesahs ob ’lig
ion has been de wheels ob
lime. Get up and put your shouldnh
to de wheels. Den when you kneel
aronn’ dis nltah tocomfoit do m n
alls, don’t holler.” [“Amen, hallelu
yuh !” yelled a sister from the wom
en’s side.] “Every time you hollers
de debble he put another thought in
your heart. You’d bctlah whspnli
to de Lord dan to holler at do debble.
Talk low r . Let de mounahs pray for
demselvcs. You bodder dcin wid
your hollerin’. Get down, long s : do
of dem, an ’struct dem when dey ax,
but don’t waste bred after any wlio
is peepin’ around and listening for
nice talk. Don’t tell do mounali to
watch for wi-ions and wait for mir
ac’es. Jnst show dem how to rest
ond do wohd and resk de promises,”
Smothered uy a Cat. —Rccenf’y a
cat played the following prank upon
a Syracuse gentleman: The person
had retired to bed, and had lain thero
some time, when his wife, in the next
room, heard a singular noise. She
inferred from the sound that her hus
band was sleeping soundly, but the
noise grew more intense, and she
concluded to find out wfiiat it might
be. She went into tho sleeping-room
and found the family cat, with its
nose thrust into her husband’s mouth
and its paws tightly clasped about his
throat. It required considerable ex
ertion to remove the animal, as it
clung tightly to its position. The
gentleman was nearly suffocated, and
but lor the timely interference of his
wife would have been killed.
J 57" Hard, horuey hands, embrow
ned by the sun, and roughened by
labor, are more honorable than white
ones, that never reached out, to help
a fellow creature, or added a dollar to
the world’s wealth.
C2T* A Detroit mother cannot un
derstand bow it is that her girls can
play croquet for half a day and not
feel tired, and yet if one of them
were asked to wash the dishes she
reaches for the camphor bottle.
User A few more of these snappy
mornings and no housefly will care a
copper whether the family ho lives
with means to run in debt for their
coal or pay cash.
CrA tourist who was asked in
what part of Switzerland he felt the
heat most, replied “ Wheu I was go
ing to iJerue,”
$2.00 A YEAR.
WIT and HUMOR.
A young merchant called on a lady,
and was shown into the parlor. The
lamps were unlit, and just before the
lady’s appearance he removed a large
quid of tobacco from his mouth and
threw it out of the window, as ho
supposed. The lady appeared with
the lamp, and tho most prominent
object in tbe room was a very embar
rassed young man gazing at a big
chunk of tobacco pinning the lace
curtain to the unopened window.
A young man, very conceited and
vain, with a face much pitted by the
small-pox, was addressed by a friend,
who, after admiring him for some
lime, said: “When carved work
comes- into fashion, you’ll be tho
handsomest man I ever put my eyes
on!”
“As to being conflicted with tho
gout,’’ said Mrs. Partington, “high
living don’t bring it on. It is inco
herent in some families, and is handed
down from father to'son. Mr. Ham
mer, poor soul, who has been so long
ill with it, disinherits it from his wife’s
grandmother.”
“ I haven’t eaten a mouthful in two
days,” said a tramp, “and my wife
and children are starving at home.”
“I would give you something,” the
philanthropist replied, “hut I havo
nothing smaller than a five-dollar
bill.” “I will change it for you,”
said the tramp.
A Chicago vagrant was about to
be condemned to imprisonment f< r
that he had no visible means of sup
port. “Wisible!” cried the aston
ished defendant, as he pulled from
his pocket a piece of mouldy sausage
and a hard old crust of bread—“Wis
iblo, Judge f Ain’t them w idble ? ”
“ Puts ” and “ Calls ” may be prop
erly defined thus: You put your
money in tho hands of a broker for
the purpose of sppcnlation, and call
for the profits in vain.
A ragged little urchin came to a
lady’s door, asking for old clothe-.
She brought him a vest and a . pair
of trowsers, which she thought would
be a comfortable fit. 1h • yout g
senpt -grace took the garments and
examined each: then, with a discon
solate look, siad, “There ain’t no
watch pocket.”
A Missouri family 1 istory rnns
“Sallio Wbito ran away some years
ago with her brother-in-law, Aaron
Davis, he, however, returned to his
wife, and she married a Mr. Neely,
who eloped mid left her. Two years
ago her cousin, Ezekiel, ran away
with a Mrs. Windland, both parties
leaving families. Last month Aaron
Davis’s son, Marion, a boy of nine
teen, ran away with his mother's sis
ter, a woman of thirty, and to com
plete matters his father again eloped
with his uister-in law, Sadie.’’
A Western, Vt. farmer says “ho
don’t want the darned kers <omiu’
through thin ’ere place, aa ho baa
heard that the smoke from the en
gine will cause the potatoe rot.”
He doesn’t take any newspaper.
“How much for that broad-faced
chicken on tho fence,” inquired an
Irishman of a farmer on Staten Island
the other day. “ That’s not a chick
en it’s an owl,” replied the farmer,
“ I don’t care how ould he is, I would
like to buy him,” says the It iemaD.
It is related that a New Hamp
shire minister recently portrayed tho
history of Jonah after the following
style: “I seem to see Jonah passing
along the road to Nincvah; I seem
to sec him enter the ticket office, buy
his ticket and pay for It; I seem to
sec him walk upon the vessel, I seem
to see them lift their anchor, and tho
stately ship moves grandly out upon
the broad Atlantic.”
“How are yon Smith?” said
Jones. Smith pretended not to
know him, and answered hesitatingly,
“ Sir, you have the advantage of me.”
“Yes, I suppose so, everybody has
•that’s got common sense.”
John Green, of Minnesota, has shot
three men fer calling his sister “stub
nosed,” and yet public opinion in that
neighborhood is still against her nose.
“ I told him he would have a jury
to suit him for five dollars, but he
wouldn’t give it; so I got up a jury
for the other side,” is the testimony
of a constable iu Chicago,
In the Bois de Vincennes near Par
is, a practical joker hanged himself
to a tree, with a rope under his anus,
but arranged-so that it appeared to
to be around his neck. He did it for
the pleasure of kicking the peopla
Woo came to cut him down.