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O A-ZELELOLLTOItT, GEORGIA, FiRTHD-AY, JAUUARE18,1884.
CARROLL FREE PRESS,
From (lie f’aile rsville Free Press.
MASTERY OF MYSTERIES.
I cognized, appears on a picture in
the room. A hat known to have
PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY Z'f'i been placed in a bureau drawer, in
h. i-^iss Lula Fiarst of Polk County is -all j one room, and the drawer locked,
that is Claimed for Ker. j s found in a careless position in a
Our readers, as well as the pub- closet in another room across the
hie generally, have heard of the hall. A tap from a bolt came from
EDWIN Tv. SHARPE. PrnifsR
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('OllB A COBB,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
CARROLLTON, GEORG IA v
rr-p rompt attention given to all bus
iness intrusted tons. Collections a spe
cialty. Office in court house.
Du .L W. 1 lALLl'M,
- - - GEORGIA.
number '2, Maudo-
lle makes a specialty
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G. W. GUTHREY,
Boot and Shoe Maker,
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA.
Thanking the public for flic liberal pat
ronage which they have bestowed upon
him in the past, would-solicit A
ant e of the same. Home made shoes for
women and children always oy hand.
ggp-Sliop in the back room of the post-
office building. _
JOHN 1L.STEWART
Wishes to say to the public that he is
still prepared to do all kinds of
PHOTOGRAPHING- and FERROTYPING
in the latest style and at reasonable pri
ces. Also keeps oil hand a fair stock of
Frames, Oases, Albums, Etc,
Copying and enlarging a specialty—
can make all sizes from locket to 8x10
inches. Remember that two dollars will
buy a line., large picture framed ready
for vour parlor, at my gallery, Newnan
street, Carrollton, Ga.
Evans, The Jeweler,
Is now 111 the southeast corner of the
public square,' where he will be glad to
see his friends and the public generally.
He keeps on hand a full line of goods,
consisting of plated ware of all kinds,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
.a specialty.
\11 kinds of repairing; in his line,
done promptly and in good style.
3t *i'~\ wonderful powers of a young lady, a room from which there was no
I Uiss Lula JTui st, who lives five mi- entrance from the room which she
from Cedar town. Being one of occupied, and tapping Hiss Wim-
i the skeptics that did not believe the j'berfy lightly on the cheek, fell on
stories told of her, we went over to the lloor. Some small mineral spe-
1 Cedartown last Friday evening to cimens start from the mantle they
810.00 j see w jth our own eyes the trutnful- occupy in the room and scatter vi-
§20.00 ! ness of these reports. She gave an oleiitly over tlie floor, startling tlie
exhibition at the academy on that
evening; to a very large audience,
who, when they had seen the per
formance, left fully convinced that
tlie girl possessed unaccountable
wonderful powers. Miss Lula is a
pretty brunette, fifteen years of age,
and weighs, we suppose, about 120
pounds, She was first given a good
sized hickory cane and then five or
six stout .men grabbed it, endeavor- hand,
ing to hold it still. Miss Lula, sim
ply putting three fingers on tlie
cane, managed the men as if they
were so many dolls. Several canes
were broken in several pieces dur
ing the performance. A chair was
produced and
asked to hold it
course they could not do. We went
we heard
about th.is wonderful' young lady
was true, feeling very well satisfied
with the money invested as admit
tance fee. We learn that she has
been engaged for two nights toper-
form in Rome at $000 a night. Mr. i fiew from tliey knew not where and
D. B. Freeman, editor of the 1 edar-j struck the person of Miss Wirn-
town Advertiser, than whom there j berlv, then bounding struck that of
contiim- I ls uot a mon “ truthful man, lnffirim; Miss Lula. A few minutes, later
w
CARROLLTON -
I la.® his office, i
▼ illc brink building
of OSTETRK’S and DISEASES
WOMEN and CHILDREN. Call
him. Consultation free.
ID Ft. JT IF- COLE,
CARROLLTON, GA.
H devoting most of his time a ud at ton- j away satisfied that what
lion to Surgery and surgical diseases, and ‘
is prepared for most any operation . llis
charges are reasonable.
senses of those who observe them.
On an evening embraced in the-
period covering these manifesta
tions,Mrs. I furst had washed a tum
bler and left it sitting on the dining
room table. While sitting in an
other room the family hear
a noisy in the hail, enter it and ob
serve the tumbler lying in the corn
er, as if hurled forcibly by some
M. Wood one morning cur
ried Ids mule, and laying his curry
comb and brush on a hack veran
dah, oAUcd the attention of the fe
males of the house to the'
fact, and rode off. They re
member the fact, and very sliort-
everal men were j j v after, the ladies, while sitting
down which ol . around the family lire, observed
the former implement pendant
from an ornamental projection over
mantle. Late one evening recently,
after it portion of tlie family had
retired, and while Miss Hurst and
her cousin were sitting about the
lire in the ir room, a hickorynut
well as every-
well satisfied
*atest, wonder
>w, v
Mr.
pen
quite interes
believe to he i |
i
itnessing examples of tlie reputed , fore stated, the family of Mr. Hitrkt,
ctraonllnury and inexplicable as well as the other near relatives
I ed us that lie was, as
| body in the section,
i that the girl is the g:
j
of the IOth century.
I pend an article from
■ which will lie found
j ting, and which we
the truth :
“In a recent issue of the A dverti
ser we give an account of the visi
to the home of Mr. Wm. E. Hurst
in this county, for tlie purpose o
\v' 1
extraonlli
powers posesed by his daugh
ter, Miss Lula We told
what our eyes had witnes
sed—how by the touch of her hands
a chair or other objects became vio
lently restless and ungovernable.—
We have reports now of mysteri
ous manifestations about the Hurst
household beside which those pre
viously told smack of rather the di
minutive wonder. We would be
slow to record a statement of those
mysterious occurences i f we were
not assured of their truthfulness by
as respectable and trustworthy peo
ple as dwell in whole section, the
young lady herself, her father and
mother, her cousin, MBs Wimberly
and her uncle, Mr. Clarence Wood,
being witnesses. We are told that
recently while Miss Lula was en
gaged washing dishes she heard a
rattling noise among some knives
and forks lying on the table at her
hack. On turning around she ob
served a knife moving restlesly
among the other cutlery. She
watched it, and saw it ascend from
the table, whirl Mn the air
she uttered a scream that sent
a thrill of terror over tlie entire
household, and brought her father
' fip-'i excited and amazed from his own
' room to her side. She informed
him that something had pulled her
air twice in succession, and she
knew not what it was. Other
minor experiences of a mysterious
nature have been related to us, hut
we will end now with what we
have mentioned. As we have he-
To Those Interested.
You have been indulged twelve months,
mid surely can pay what you owe the old
tirm of Stewart & Son. The estate
must he settled. I greatly prefer settling
mv njvii business. Suit w ill have to put
the claims belonging to t lie estate of J.
\V. Stewart & Son, in the hands of an at
torney, if not settled soon.
W. J. STEWART.
TURNER and CHAMBERS,
■ CARROLLTON, G EOKGIA
—Dealers in—
General Merchandise,
Are still at tlyii old stand on Rome
street, ready to sell you goods as cheap
or cheaper than anybody. H yen want
anything in their line, give them atrial
and they think you will trade.
We would say to those owing us that
’WE MUST'HAVE
who have been mystified witness
es of these oceurrencees, are among
the most trustworthy, intelligent,
honorable and respectable of the
country. They tried for a time to
reconcile what they.had; seen with
the powers of some known law
when the reason failed untangling
a single mysrery until at last they
accept what they have seen as facts
without explanation, as any other
intelligent persons with like ex
periences and after like considerat
ions would do. They are naturally
much torn up in mind from having
witnessed these harassing not to
say, harrowing sights.
As a new year will be ushered in
next week, there is one thing which
no intelligent citizen should forget,
that is to place his name on the
list of his county paper, with a paid
up subscription of one year The
home papyr fills, a field which no
city journal pretends to reach, he-,
side it is the part of partiotism to
support home industries. For all
for a i matters of county and municipal
number of times, and descend with ’ politics, local improvements, the
force to ihe floor, roiling and lying thousand local matters which are
in the corner of the room. This is | of great moment to each locality’
not to bo accounted for The occur- j the home paper is the advocate and
rence excited much wonder among ; the organ. No village or town can
the members of the household, but 1 hope to he included in the list of
was only to he followed by others ! prosperous communities in which a
stiii more mysterious. Miss Wim- j local paper does JJOt, exist, whose
berly is the constant room-mate of columns are not filled with adver-
Miss Lula. She missed a garment tisements and whose subscription
from among her clothing, and sup-; list docs not show the names of all
posed it to he stolen. A number j the intelligent citizens.—Atlanta
other garments were subsequently ; Constitution.
of
The" Convicts.
The con vict^pestion in our State
savs the Dalton Citizen, is one that
a great deal 1ms been said about,
| and as yet the~problem as to what
f is best to he ({ope with them lias
| not been satisfactorily solved. The
I farming out system is objected to
: by many, and.. . not without some
| show of reastm: Now, what should
j he done with them if the way they
i are now disposed of will not do?
is the question to be solved. North
Carolina’s disposition of her con
victs strikes ifiVas tlie best solution
of this question. The convicts in
that state for .’several years past
have been employed in construc
ting railroads under the supervis
ion of oversedn? appointed by the
state, and what- has been tlie eon-
sequence? Why the state.Jms se
cured a large interest iuJ; some
important railway lines, tlftTprofits
of-which it is'said pay the- entire
state taxes. TJ;.e roads qolistrac
ted through her mountains and
connecting with important lines
outside, havcjsiul the effect' W de
veloping the hitherto hidden min
eral and other" resources -«f the
Old North state, and property
which but A_few years""' since
was of little Value, comparatively
speaking, has been enhanced ten
fold. What North Carolina has
done with hyr convicts to such
great advantage Georgia might do
to still greate£\advantag<ii-2f not
in building railroads, tlieyTmight
he employed in macadanyjffng all
the principal dipt hr wagnrr roads
if!'the state, which would add vast
ly to Gerogia’s material wetmh.
=== ? === V^
A lady saiiLtu, me the oftjTv day:
‘f Let me give you a lesson £mhouse-
hoid economy?-" I have a QTftiily of
three, and keepviouse. Uirjjl a few
months since I bought my own pro
visions and employed a ‘cook, I
how have a cahcref, a negro .Woman
who furnishhs nie two meals a day
fair $3 a week for each person. This
ik‘$9a week wr-say $40 a nUuith for
my family. Aty cook costC.-u.ie $10
under the okTmrangemenfyDesides
food for hershUfand daughter and
fuel to cook wij:h. With mycaterer
save at least $i0 a month ifi.money,
have no trouble, or worry, Atnd get
very much better fare <hfin I had
ibefore. The liliuse my coolVfornier-
ly occupied and the kitchetj I rent
for $o a month,” —>
” Is this sort:.6f living piopular ?”
”It is in our neighborhood. Our
woman started with five ojSfix pa-
trons. She now has forty-fh o. She
is prospcringfUpdlias her blinds full
Slie furhislves meals hot, trnd they
are really botttftiful and excellent.
I understan<3“there are cqtifyors in
other neighboHioods who are doing
well.” The above scheme'^ based
bn 21 cents a v meal. Tlicceaterer
doubtless has. a cheep lnaufee,does
her own cooking, marketC'closely
and sends tht*s«feals out with cheap
help. I have eaten at Bnuiilette’s
English kitchen, in an expensive
Whitehall street restaurant, with
high-priced cooks hired, aty2f> cents
meal as follp^yg:soup, turktb', ham,
beef, mutton, lrasii of chicken livers,
-bacon and grgpns, tomatoes- sweet
and Irish potatoes, riccy/turnipis,
corn bread, light bread, butter, pick
les, sauces, mince pie, applFpie and
clieese.-rAliaAta t’onstittttton.
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.
Proverbs.
—
Faint heart never helped fair-
Father, of all ! in even - age.
; ladv.
In every clime ador'd.
: By saint, by savage, and by sage.
She would if slie could, and she
•Jehovah. Jove, or T.ord.
can.
j Tliou Great First ('ause. le.ast understood.
The woman who hesitates is a
AYho all 111 v sense confined
; goose.
To know but this, that Thou art good.
Behold! ho boht! But not too
And that myself am blind:
hold!
missed, the (lissappaerence
which could not he reasonably ac
counted for. Finally, Miss Wimber
ly looked for some garment-she had
lust placed in a trunk among other
clothing and securely, shut the lid.
It was not to ho found. No human
hand having been about the trunk
The New York Herald says, the
cold wave now gliding over the
country seems to threaten us with
abnormally rigorous weather;
Temperatures ’as.j low as thirty
degrees below zero were yesterday
reported from Minnesota and from
im-o «bo hml placed it there, she thirty-seven to forty-five below zero
from the extreme Northwest. But
these figures represent less intense
cold than that registered in Decem
ber, 1880, when the thermometer
fell to fil'ty-nine degrees below zero
in Montana—the same minimum
observed in Dakota on December
24, 1877’ and the lowest ever record
ed in the United States?. The im-
pending change will not, therefore,
be a thermal anomaly. It will he
sufficiently severe, however, to
give the Middle States a .second .ice
crop of a good * thickness for har-
siie was naturally much mystified.
Wondering in their own minds
in what new way their visions
should he startled and their reas
ons tazed, the members of the hous-
hold are taken severely aback by
the discovery by some one
of a missed hanltercheif,
hanging over a pic
ture in the room. This might he
accounted for by attributing its ap
pearance thci*e to some unknown
hidden hand, and the members of
the household so believe, and, all
'What i due a-
you as long ns wo <
.uio mooev.
Wo have indulged
and we now want
leaving the room, securely lock it. | vesting.
Returning very shortly another j ~ 77“ L■..■■■. nnf : nvJ
missed garment is seen hanging A Toronto nian wait 1
from the cornice of the window.— was 83 years old before \c go niar-
Three persons sit in the roo.n, and | Bed. That is l.ko rannmg Onto
instiuitlv api»enrs before their ‘ 14 mth
’ . ' , , . i jump,
ion a missing garment-hanging ov- ...
or the headboard of the bed. An-j old papers for sale at this office
other not missed, hut instantly re- [ u t .31) cents per hundred.
Yet gave me in this dark estate,
To see tlie good from ill:
And, binding nature fast, in fate.
Left free the human will.
What eonsciene dictates to be done,
Or warns me not to do.
This teach me more than hell to shun.
'That more than heaven pursue.
What blessing thy free bouuty gives ;
Let me not cast away;
For God is paid when man receives
To enjoy is to obey.
Yet nor to earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound,
Or think the Lord alone of man.
When thousand worlds are round.
Let not Ibis weak unknowing hand
Presume thy holts to throw.
And deal damnation round the land
On each [judge thy foe.
[f I am right thy grace impart
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, oh! teach my heart
To find that better way.
Save me alike from foolish pride,
Or impious discontent,
At aught thy wisdom has denied,
Or aught thy gooduess lent.
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide tlie fault .1. sec;. .
That; pi.erc,y. I to others show,
That mercy show to me.
Meaii though I aiii, not wholly so,
Since quickened by Riv breath;
O lead me, wheresoYr I go,
Through this day's life, or death.
This; ilaylbd bread and. peaxa* my lot;
All else beneath thei sun
Thou know'st if best bestowed or not.
And let thy will be done.
To thee whose temple is all space; .
Whose altar, earth, sea, skies;
One chorus let all beings raise!
All nature's incense rise!
•'? —Ai.f.xaxdf.i; I’opk, ,
Gongresmeii don’t gamble these
days, hut they Avin and lose large
sums of money in stock specular
tions, futures, etc. Other specula
tion*! of a better class are also he-
gUtnifig to win favor in Washing
ton; A genuine .southern develop
ment boom is being started. Rail
way;' mining, timber, agricultural
and manufacturing projects in the
south- are originating and being
pushed at the national capital.—
Gordon, of Georgia, Morgan, of Ala
bama, Maxey, of Texas, Davis, of
Wbst Virginia, Maiming, ofMissisi-
ppi, Vance, of North Carolina, and
other notable southeners, represent
a class of men who care more for
business than for politics, men who
j have pushed the past out of sight
behind them, and set tlveir faces
hopefully and resolutely in the di
rection t>f sunrise. Another good
thing about the business pursuits
of our public men is the change
wrought in their drinking habits.—
Not many years ago drinking was
tlieTide among our congressmen,
now'it is the exception. During
the recent canvass for the speak
ership, not a-single-glass of liquor
was set out by any of tlie candi
dates. The.-three leiiding eandi-
To-day the mountain comes to
Mahomet.
Love is the life of a man.—.Swed
enborg.
IsTO. 9.
r ■*-: ■ -ui * .(!
k J-V.7'-11'! ut*»
A Slave’s Devotion.
“The most thorougly and effec
tive speeches ever made in the
Texas Legislature,” says the Fort
Worth Gazette; “were pronounced
by two negroes, and both were of
the same general import—n slave’s,
devotion to ‘old marster and misst-
iss.” The following is an extract
from one of these speeches. ‘There
can be no great race enmity, be-/
tween us. This cannot come white *
my old marster and misstiss live.— .
No, nor while their children and
They
? Be-,
(*ves.—
soothinest.—Artenias Ward.
Why is love like a potatoe
cause it shoots from the
Joseph Medili.
“1’iue not exactly engaged,”
Tilda Squeers, “but I’me going to
he.”—Dickens.
were kind' -a
and generous to me. I knew no
want of to-day or care for the’.mor
row when I was their jiroiM'Tt.v-—
Look at Jhese wrinkled, rei5;h
! h ands. They tel! how I toRed for
aid Biern. And the story is not ended.
They are old and helpless now, and
live as I once (lid, in a little cabin,
In the month of May apple trees and I stiii toil tor them, L send
go a courting. Love is evermore them half of every dollar I.draw •
father of poetry.—Beecher. from the state treasury, and when ....
Love is never lost. If not recip- j their (laughter.a beautiful and-good •.
rocatcd it will flow hack and soften i girt, whom A used to carry whun.
and purify the heart.—Irving. -he was a child in tiu'se st rang aims, ,
There is- in the heart of woman ! ''’as married, not long ago, l mnt ,
such a deed well of love that no age 1,01 11 check for $l(ihy.. Have I not
j the right to ask you, gentjeip^u .of .
i-tho majority, to deal gyiie^owsly. .
j with iny i*ace.?” ...
v( fti/r
It is knowwrom expertence in
England, said Erskine, that mere
education doAs not tend tp” lessen
crime; while D’Angevillf^said, in
France, editwrted populations ex
hibit a largef-amount of crime than
•ignorant one#.-. Wisely, ’ tRerefore,
does’ the Freejnan’s Jouflfial an
swer the question, what dp’ we, as a
people needta save us from social
ehaos ? C ill Lire ? Th e G rdhks li a d
culture, ami they hecamej^corrupt.
Art? Tliey-had also art^Poetry ?
it flourished tpost In the reign of
Augustus. High literature? George
Elliot and George Sand broke
through the divine law that makes
marriage indissoluble. No; all
these have Jailed. Culture and the
most bestial‘passion exis together.
This new country needs mostly
the culture of the heart, not of the
intellect. It.'X needs faith. Faith
saved and regenerated Rome,
Man that is married to woman is
of many dayfe and full of trouble.
In the morning he draws his sal
ary, and in -the evening it is gone.
It is a tale that is told; it yanisheth
and no one Enfows whither it goetli
Jlle raiseth up clothed in the ehil-’
ly garments - ^ the night and see-
keth the sonmamhulent paregoric
.wherewith tQhoothe the colicy bow
els of his inftept posterity. He be-
cometh as a horse or ox and draw-
efh the chariot of his offspring.
He speiulethUiis shekels in the pur
chase of fine linen to cover the bo
som of his family, yet himself is
sfeen in tlie glites of the city with
one suspender. Yea, he is altogeher
wreteUpd —City Tribune.
dates were-formerly in the habit of Tare
using stimulants totaxcess. Two of
them arrnow total abstainers,and •_
have been for years, while the third;
only uses a moderate quantity 0/
wine fit dinner. At sociable enter
tainments leSs wine is used than
formerly. The truth is, our lead
ing men-are becoming so much in
terested in business that they find
niQre enjoyment and a”greater ex-
citemont in it than they ever ex-
petteriCeih in getting drunk and
pickling themselves with whisky.
Business is a powerful temperance
rofiinnpr.^-Atlanta Consrtitution.
*>di
Bill Arp’s Musing.
“It looks like there are aheap of
folk.*? who don’t want anybody to
have an office or climb up in the
world? They pick and hawk at the
Governors and the members of
Coaigress and the Judges and some
of ’’em fire always complaining
about their preachers. If the prea
cher stays at home and studies
hard,they say he don’t visit his
flock enough; and if he Tuns about
and visits his flock, tliey
say he don’t study his sermons
enough. All this kind of abuse
wears itself out after awhile and a
good man is generally appreciated
in the long run, for character is not
made in a day or a year, and It can’t
he destroyed any quicker than it is
made—unles the man. destroys it
himself. So a well balanced man
can just go along and let the dogs
hark at him, These barking dogs
make a heap of fuss but they don’t
bite much.
can freeze it.—Bulwer Lyfton.
Oh. love, love, love!
Love s like a dizziness,
It wiinia let a poor body
Go about ills biziness.—llog
It is lies
hut to love
not to he-able
eray.
Bird's song and bird's love,
Passing v.dtb the weather;
Man's song and man's love,
To love once and forever.
—Tennyson;
He Made Ehiluth.
Gambling Legally Defined.
The Supreme court of Michigan
holds pool selling on games of base
hall to he gambling within the
meaning- of tlie statutes of that
State against keeping gaming
rooms. The fact that the games
upon which the wagers are laid do
not take place in the room, hut at a
distance, is unimportant.
he was present when Kiiott made
his famous Duluth speech in
i Congress, and that he will remem
ber the scene ns long, as he irvesv
The house was all broke up, : he
says, by the ;speech, and aji the
members rose to their fc**t exeept
two—Cobb, of Wisconsin, and
' Washburne, of .Massachusetts^ two
■of the.coldest anil most impassive
men imaginable—ami applauded
i and cheered. The .Speaker vainly
| endeavored to maintain , order,
I and finally threw dovyn the gay el,
laid over on the desk acted tire
j monkey with the* rest., Ben
j Butler came up and stood directly
i in front of the Duluth orator and
liis sides, with Iqughter.
Betting upon-a game of billiard.*
which is being played in New York j .shook
says Judge Cooley, can as readily j Luke Poland, in his famous old blue
be carried on in a distant city as in CO at, stood at his.side, while all tire
the very room where the playing is house crowded around amid .the
wildest excitement. Duluth was all
the talk that day apd night, said ,
Mr. Groom, aml| for weefes after
Tlie oldest members pronounced it
incomparably tlie best they had.
ever heard. I saw Jay Cooke a few
days ago, and lie.said that speech
themseles. Betting is thus equiv-! W as tlie making of Duluth, uiultliat
alent to gambling whenever the they had a street named J. Proctor >
bet is to he determined by the re- j Knott.
suit of a game, but there may be —— ——' .’ A
betting whichis not gaming, as for i A Subscriber Lost,
example, in the case of an election The Ricliuiond (Va.) Religious
wager. Horse races, however, as , Herald says.' A melancholy young
well as (log fights, foot races and, man came in a few ninrnirfgs ago
cock fights have been held to be , to ask us to discohtmueTlie Herald,
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»fl)!K*s within the terms of the Lay- which lie had been sending a young
Not wishing to lose even one *
going on; and if the latter is a gam
ing room so must the other be.
The court considers it to he gam
ing or gambling to bet upon any
game, although the game may. be
perfectly innocent and there may
he no wager between the players
games within the terms of the Eng
lish statute on the subject, • in the
lady.
time of Queen Anne, which is the , subscriber, and feeling a convpas-
basis of much of the American leg- j sion for the young woman wlip was'
islation, • | about to he deprived of such iin ex- ?
■ ■ ... j cellent journal, we ventured to ask
Fare, said a railway conductor to the young man why he proposed to
i j. x. j.x ri.
id
an old negro.
Sah?
I .say fare..
Yes, a id we’s needin’ rain, too.
I say, I want your ticket or your
perpetrate so rash an act
itated a moment, and
ife hes-
reniarked
v
with a jerking emphasis of manner,
why, siie is going to marry another
fellow. AYe excused him.
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Oli, you wants money.?
Where are you going ?
Sah ?
How far arc you going?
Don’t you know how many miles
it is.
What is the name of the station?
Jones’ wood yard.
Fifty cents.
I ain’t got no money.
Well, what made you get on ?
Eased wanted to ; hut stop de
car an’ I’ll git ofl, fur it ’pears like
I ain’t welcome lieah, nohow. Good j
day, boss. Dis is de wood yard.— |
Arkansas Traveler.
A petition is circulating among
the Workingmen of Reading, Pjf
asking Congress for a law to prohib- ;
! it the importation of laborers from
j the overcrowded populations of
' Europe.
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In Kansas, as in Maine they fell ‘
“sea foam,” which a traveler knys ~
looks like beer, smells like it, and "
makes drunk like beeri and is the
! same stuff called beer in other
| Statest
The Spanish proverb says, “felwr
man who stumbles on the same*
stone is a fool.” Democrats engaged
ii.i; in formulating the policy for the
“Human labor,” says Dr. Zell tier, coming campaign should note
of Ashviile, Ala., “is the most costly j this. q
factor which enter into the produc* m~—nr——r- . *>«
ti.m of cotton, and every consistent; As they who, tor every slight
means should he adopted to dis- j infirmity, take physic to repair
pense with it.” And the doctor the j their health, do rather impair it; so
Scientific American says, who have j they, who for every trifle, are. ,
the reputation of liaviug raised the j eager to vindicate their character,
finest sample cotton ever grown in j do rather weaken it.
the South, describes how, by plant- j
ing at the proper distances, in
checks 5 by 3 feet apart, one half
of tlie after labor of cultivation may
be saved. About the same amount
of plow work 1* said to be necessary
but not one-fourth as much work
with tlie hoe as is required by cot
ton in tlie drill.
There is no policy like politeness;
and a good manner is the best thing
in the World either to get a good
name or supply the want of it.
“You can’t teach an old dog nc\V
tricks.” Blit then you don’t want-
to. What you want is to break him
of some of fhe infernally mean ones
he has learned.
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A pert little girl in Troy boasted
to one of her young friends that
her father kept a carriage.” U A&,
hut,” was the triumphant reply;
“mv father drives a street car.”
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Coinage of Mexican nickies has
ceased. Five hundred and sixty
tons of metal have been converted,
into 190,000,000 coins.
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