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S MADNESS.
U i A
, FOB DEB CBIL-
heb Lire.
London, Dec. 88—Information
baa juat been received here from
who coaid do it wae probably
dabbed “you'll do," which ia as
much aa we will attempt on this
occasion.
The Origin of Ckrialmai 01 0*.
Cbrlstmaa gifts had their origin
Hanover confirming the report that; the Roman Paganalia, which was
Col. Henry’ IUlhbone, or Alhany,, instituted by Serviut Tullius B. 0.
N. Y.. who with hi* wife and coil- 5fto. On these festivals, celebrated
drcn were sojourning in that city,
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to kill fclt$ty|fi The tragedy took
place Monday moVnlog. Col. Rath,
bone, who was laboring under a fit
of melancholia, entered the bed
chamber of bis wife and shot her
dead, the bdl entering her boart.
He then stabbed himself. He is
still living, but =0 hopes are enter
tained that he will survive his
wounds.
London, Dec. 29, 1 a. m—Col.
Kathbone is the man who was in
the box with President Lincoln
at the beginning of the year, an
altar was erected in every village,
and to the box placed upon it every
man, woman and child was expect
ed to contribute a coin. Aubrey
s|>eake of a pot in which. Roman
coins were found, and supposed to
be one of these Paganalia vessels.
The Christmas box naturally arose
from this Pagan New Year’s box.
There is an impressive propriety
and tender beauty, however, in thus
commemorating the event which
gave a Divine Redeemer to man-
kind. It is, moreover, an equally
when be was killed oy Booth, appropriate custom which makes
Kathbone endeavored to stop Booth -
and received wounds from Booth’s
dagger. Col. Kathbone has shown
signs' of melancholia for the past
two months. On the night of the
tragedy he went to the room where
bis three ohtldren and their nurse
were sleeping, and asked to see bis
children. His wife appeared im
mediately afterward, and ordering
the mala to lock the door led her
husband back to their bedroom.
Directly afterwards shots were
beard, followed by cries for help.
Mrs. liathbone’s sister and a ser
vant rushed to the bedroom door,
and, finding it locked, broke it in.
They traf Mrs. Rathbone lying
on the .bM Weltering in blood, CoL
Rathbone lying on the floor bleed
ing front five different wounds. A
six shooter with three empty cham
bers end a dagger covered with
blood were found near by. Doc
tors were summoned Immediately,
but Mrs. Kathbone died without
being able to give any Account of
the deed. Col. Rathbone was able
to reach the bed, and Immediately
became insensible. When he after
ward became oonsoious he appear
ed not to cohneot himself with the
crime. He seemed to believe that
a stranger bad committed it.
Neighbors say that CoL Batbltone
lived on affectionate terms with bis
family.
London, Dec. 29,2 a. m.—A Ber
lin correspondent says that Mrs.
Rathbone was buried Friday, the
funeral being attended by many
Amerioan and English friends of
the family. The same eorresuond-
ent says that Ool. Rathbone may
recover.
Hanging Up the Stocking.
What a world of little stockings
will bo hung up. If they were
strung out in a line we reckon they
would reach Across the continent,
with a little heart palpitating to-
ward each one of them. “Ctcsar
nnd his fortunes’’ are as nought
when compared with tho freight of
joy whiob these little yarn pinnaces
wl>l waft Christmas night irom the
children's fairy land, the domain
of Santa Claus.
It is a somewhat sad era in child'
life when the illusion or,Santa Claus
is dlspeftedl'jmltof course {insthe
at some|lti|." [When the child di$
covert fof the first time that the
bluff old fellow in frosty whiskers,
whom they believed skipped over
the roof-tops witli his sledge and
reindeers, and came down tbu
chimney to fill their stockings, has
no actual existence, be learns to
doubt, and is prone to ask, os we
remember hearing a little fellow
once ask under similar circnm
stances, “Mother, Is anything t.-ue?”
A friend speaking of this matter
once remarked, “I was a firm be-
Ifever in Santa Claus, as all boys
are for a timo, and I don’t believe
I was ever more thoroughly dis
gusted Jn my life then 1 was on
stealthily leaviug my bed one
Christmas night to ascertain if
Santa OlAus bad been at the stock
ings banging in the old-fashioned
chimney corner in the kitchen, to
find my venerated dad, in an ab
breviated garment, filling the stock
ings by the light of the smoulder
ing embers I The Jig was up as far
as I was concerned. The nuta and
candles have parted with tbelr
mystic associations, lost half their
relish, and I found myself expelled,
ns it were, from fairy land never to
re-enter again.”
It fa a guiltless deception though,
and bssmsde hosts of children hap
py whilo it lasted. The stern reali
ties of life come soon enough; then
let the infant mind revel in the
fairy world while it may.
In reading of the sports and fes
tivities with which our forefathers
were wont to cel brate Christmas
we find that \he children figured to
a great extent, while for the time
being grown people endeavored to
appear as much like children as
possible, uniting heartily with them
in all their sports. The Christmas
tree for children originated in Ger
many, centuries ago, and is now a
prominent feature wherever the
Christmas festival is celebrated.
The “yule log,” however, huroe-i
long after the children bad been
put to bed, to light and warm the
sturdy wassailers of the olden time,
as they drained huge flagons oi
generous punch. It required a
strong hesd, as well as stomach, to
stay by that yulo log, and the ma:
the season one, not only of com
posing and forgetting old quarrels,
and renewing and confirming
friendships, but for a universal
manifestation of generosity and
charity from the rich to the poor
—in olden times this beneficence
extended even to the lower ani
main, a practice to which Burns
alludes in “The Auld Farmer’s
Address to his Maro.”
A Noble Charily.
While partaking of the Christmas
dinner let us seek to relieve the
misery of earth’s unfortunate ones.
No better lorm to do this can be
found than to support the world-
famed Charity Hospital at New
Orleans, La., and invest $5 or$l in
the IG4th Grand Monthly Distribu
tion* of The Louiaianna State Lot
tery, on the 15th of January, 1884,
under the sole care and supervision
of Gen'ls G. T. Beauregard, oi La.,
and Jubal A. Early, of Va., when
over $265,000 will be scattered
broadcast in sums of $75,000 down
to $25. The full details of which
can be bad from M. A. Dauphin,
New Orleans, La.
Captain J. Cross Burrell, of the
British army, asserts that the re
cent telegrams picturing Manitoba
as dissatisfied with Britain’s rule
are misleading, if not absolutely
untruo. To a Missouri Republican
reporter he said: “The mercury
has been 50 degress below zero at
times when I have been under can
vas. Tho winter in that climate
continues seven months, and the
summers, though fine, are not veiy
hot. In the winter milk is delivered
in blocks of ice, the same ns water
in blocks of ice in the summer sea
son. In November all meats arc
bought in frozen joints. They are
thrown into the woodshed and ie-
main fresh all winter.”
The Night After Christmas.
Twits llie night after Cbrislnnu; the hoys
were nwuko.
After Mulling with tnrk»y, and pudding,
nnd cake,
And duiiKlinut*, and oyMcru, nml plums,
nnd mince pies.
There wrre meanings and groaning* and
pitennx cilea:
"O tny stomach !" “O Most a !*' -O help!”
“1 shall die !"
"Row I wish that I hadn't had half as
much pief
“0 mother!" "Come, .hurry!" "O what
shall ] do r"
‘-tiring something to rure We!” -'lioo-
liou" und “Bito-hoo!"
And mother, nlatmed by the racket und
noise,
Han in to see what she conld do for the
boys.
Panttv Davis's 1’ain Kn.i.t:usbe brought
fur relief.
And soon made an end of their noi.c and
their grief;
And then there was qaiet and joy in the
bonse,
And each of the lads was as, still u> a
■noose.
An inquirer asketi what he aliouM
1I0 with a horse that was troubled
with periodical dizziness, and the
editor answered in these words:
“Our advise, based on a perusal of
the valuable book, ‘1Cvery Man His
Own Horse Doctor,’ would be to
take the horse some day when be
is not dizzy, and sell him to a
stranger.”
Iowa’s new capitol, which is built
of Missouri yellow and grav stone
on a granite ioundatlon, is 363 feet
in length by 246 feet in width and
92 feet in height to the top of tbe
cornice; to tbe top of tbe ltall over
tbe main dome, 295 feet. Tbe edi
fice cost $1,362,531.
A twelve-year-old boy in Savan
nah joined himself unto two tramps,
with a view of going to Texas, to
join the Buffalo Bill combination..
The police restored the hard case
to his widowed mother, and tbe
tramps were arrested.
[Cor. Boston Herald.]
One might almost nut fay and noties
^nothing unusual. Bnt on looking closer
the rocks are found to be tbe trunks
of fallen trees toned to stone. They
lie about you here, there and every
where. some preserving their shape and
outlines, others broken or cracked.
Tbe scene is a strange one. It smacks
of enchantment. Perhaps some potent
magician blew upon this forest in the
vigor of its prime, and before his chill
ing breath the stout trees bowed them
selves and feU, and froze into flint and
agate. Still yon hardly ace why you
came, but after tbs coffee bad beat
boiled and breakfast eaten your Mexi
cans slowly enlighten you. They bring
ont hammers and drill*, and selecting a
likely spot in a stone trank endeavot
to form a way into it. The stone is
like adamsnt. Again and again the
drill bounds awsy, but finally pieces
are shivered off the cracks made, so
that you am what the petrified forest
lias ludden within it Emeralds, sap
phires, and diamonds arc convenient
names, bnt alas, our discoveries would
hardly be counted as snob by Tiffany.
Yet they are singularly beautiful. Yon
find blocks of stone, there aides bristling
with great hexagonal . crystals, some
green, others purple, sud others a pure
white. You out through geodes whose
hollows are lined with prismatic crys
tals sparkling with all the colors of the
rainbow. Much of tbe stone is beauti
fully marked flint. Often yon find
pieces with a brown corrugatedcoating,
which. I fancy, it the petrified bark.
A11 the stone abounds in the most deli
cate shadings of gray and white, with
dark lines, bnt tbe crystals, lining fis
sures or gathered in tbe nests of geodes,
are the especial delight of seekers.
Here, too, there are moss agates, sud
exceptionally large and clear garnets,
which masquerade nndcr tbe name of
rabies. And of tho ordinary forms of
petrified wood there is no end.
Beating Brass.
[Philadelphia Ledger.]
-Do you beat brass?” is tbe initial
catechism of tbe latest fashionable
handicraft in Philadelphia. It isspar-
ticular pot with feminine fingers, and
requires thorough and practical knowl
edge of hammers and tracing tools,
brass and blook. A class of ladies, un
der the patronage of the Scandinavian
Thor, have produced some beautiful
and lasting work. The instructor
teaches them the way of using and
bolding their tools, and tbe proper kind
of stroke to make upon tbe steel die*.
The method is simple. On a block
of wood a brass plate of sheet is fast
ened. The design is than drawn upon it;
the outline hammered by a die, which
bass row of dots. Other dies give
the groundwork a frosted or mottled
appearance. Everything depends on
the skill of tbe workwoman. Keslly
valuable articles in repousse brass can
bo made from a piece of brass costing
but a small sum. Card-receivers, ps-
por-weights and plaques can be made.
The brass beating eduoatee the hands
and develops the muscles. It is worthy
of note how much interest in tho me
chanical arts is publicly shown. Home-
times the hammering of brass is com
bined with tlio nse of tbe paint brash.
A brass tray lately seen Las a loose
spray of pnrple pansies, apparently
flung down carelessly upon it.
Vaele Remus ea the Art *t Court
ship.
[Joel Chandler Harris in Atlanta Constitu
tion.)
“I ktmw’d a nigger one time," said
t’nelo lfemns, after pondering a mo
ment, “w'at tuck a notion dot ho wantu
bait er ’simmons, cn do 1110’ w'at de me
tion tuck'm do mo* w'at he want mu.
cn bhnrhy. hit look lak ho dee natnlly
crhlcudz ter have tun. Ho want do 'aim-
1 nous, en dnr dry is in tie tree. He moni
water, cn dnr hung do simmons. Now.
don w’at do dat nigger do? Wen you
cn mo en dish ver chile yer wants ’sim
mons, wo goes out on shakos do treo, on
ef deyor good oil ripo. down duy conics,
cn cf deyor good an green, dsr dev
stays. Bnt die yer ynthor nigger, ho too
smart fer dat. ' Hu des tnck’n tnck lie
stan’ und’ do tree, en he open de
tuonf, be did, wait for do simmons fer
tor drap in dar. Dry aiu’t none drap
in yit," continued Undo Itcmns, gently
knocking tho cold ashes out of his pipe,
“cn w’st's mo’, doy ain't none gwine ter
drap in dar. Dat den zackly do way
wid Brer Jock yor’bout marry in'; he
stan dar he do, en he hoi’ Imfe ban’s
wide open, en he speck do gal gwine
ter drap right spang in 'uni. Man want
gal, he des got ter grab ’er—dot's w'at.
Dey may squall on day may flutter, but
flattor'n an' squaUin' ain't done no dam
ago yit as I knows an’ cn ’taint gwine
ter. Young chaps kin make groat ’mira
tion 'bout gals, hut w'en dey gits ole oz
I is dey 'all know dat folks is folks, cn
w’en it conio ter bain’ folks de wimmeii
ain't got none de 'vantage or der men.
Now dat’s des do plain up en
down tale I’m a tailin’ an yon.”
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for the negotiation of Loans on improved farm
ing lands in the Counties of Sumter, Webster
and Lee. The short crops have made it nec
essary that some should borrow money to set
tle their past due papers. To those we would
say, make no arrangements until you have
seen us, as wc are now prepared to serve you
at low rates and expeditiously.
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(Detroit Frte Preaa.)
1884. THE 1884.
“CONSTITUTION.”
TV. Tril, C-in-lltotlon he. cnm.'o !■*•»»
•Iiy la i-nry lutcllljent nan la lb. luftd Its
eir»«tailo«i.
For lb* oral year II will •» briWrlbaamr.
N8.Hr f 100.880 n • ow brio* lavmraby Ua»*•*
l.rlrtorm la a m i.uildios, pram Md osISL la
wirf-fc sod WMH which a ntn be ran-fed I. BMft
Ik* demand, or ita jiwwln* toarillo.ncy.
Tk. I tally and fianday Ccaoltatln. «8» ISM
win tmbettornad taltarlbaa rut,aad la ayary
nan lb# hM pep* lathe nacb at lb# peeple of
Ik* Suthnal.
On* r*ar $ to. « 1T.nI*. M, 3 Month*
S SHI Cl, 1 Month 314
The Weekly Constitution
■tan. Ih. arw y,ar with 13,000 aubwrlhns who
prnnoonor It Cl* larfset, kHdangSpaper
wllhla Ikrir roar*.
U cooriri. of M0 or U r»m (»• tb. -l-mand .f
lie lo.loraa or ibo new. my direct) filled with
miliar at Ibo sraritri lnt.if.Uo IIm fanner.
At Uaa than 3 Casta a Week
Ih't grrat bwdfi-t of naws and pwalp will ka MSI
in yoMMlj.ildr io entertain en IT mrmt.r cf J.nr
Oa. Year. II M
SU Month. 1 **
la flint. •[ Tro. etch I SI
In Clab. •< Twn.iy, rarit IS* .
With aa sales ;aper la tht priter ip .rCtab.
THE YEAR’OF 1084
will he on* of the moat Imr-ariant In ear history.
A Pwldente Omgmm* n« ftenatere, Coventor,
ldTtUlatnrr—are *U to he electNl.
Very Important teeneo are to b* triad In the
National and Ht*tr efertkm*. The CoaMUnlkn In
lu duly or weekly edition will *«rry f
and fattbeet new* In heal shop* U lb*
will »tand aa an earnrat ehamplun ~~
principle*.
irry the fallen
the nubile, and
of Democratic
and twgln with thonewyear.
THIS CONdTITUTlOB.
Atlanta, Ua.
Agent* Wonted for llio New Book,
Deedsof Daring
—BT
BLUE AND GRAY.
Tho areale«»l)?ctkm of the wu»t tbrilllnjrperson
al adventure* in. Doth ride* during l»*• GreatCw I
W«r. InU’Wdy Inteerellnt *erount of exploit*
(•fwx’Ute and *plr*. lorforn bute#, heroic bravery,
UniirUoninent* aad hairbreadth t*cap»*. nanantir
.ncid-nta, band to harri Mraggte*. hMujoiwa* arid
tragic event*, perilous Joninet*. 1-old darker, ball-
Unfit raoiv** and magti ui’m* arUuue *• e*eh ride
t'mliae TOehaHerr. PHOri’IKLYILLVIU
TRATKO to Ibo w* Koo.brr tobjit all Mb*
1$. Ouirell* every UiIwl. Add a m 80 AM MID* A
Co., Philadelphia, Da. aogSlwfcn
THE BLATCHLEY
PUMP!
BU? THE_BEST.
BLATCHLEYS
TRIPLE ENAMEL
PORCELAIN-LINED
THE DAVIS PATENT WROUGHT IRON WAGON
ed. It la not affected by heat. fro*t. or «
*embier the woodga wagon,
eaeent that it I* fkr mrie
iiniMirome nnd better b*lIt
In It* jirojortioris. It l.*e
■trrmrth. bnjtiN> lu iron l»
K i lugether in the rttongrrt
m. It h** duiNldllty bo
eau»c IU mnnlog gear U
eon.|-lately conifORrd of |lw
double refined wniugbt
and malleable iron, with th«
estwmion o» thf tongMe aad
reach, which are weed, and
•4 the beet kind. It need*
. only to be eeen lobe admir*
— ed, amt only tw be appreciate
condition of climate, wet er dry. There Ueo ehrlnkiag,
A. J. BUCIfAXAN. Ag*t, Aniericus, Go.
In sccorilanco with the eternal
fitness cf things, the now Chairman j moutiTof"siaryi
of the Republican National Com- j
tnittec is a prison contractor. He ;
is supposed to know all about bow i
to work tbe wires.
wrnn. dry eMUiitric*.
, m It I* no heavier thin the ordinary wooden wagon ».f *he mb**- rapacity, hut l« euperler in strength,
i \'*v York Timm nrnnow tlm duraW ,lty and w*»v draeghr. !* U n»o«r »lm|4c In t«n«»iee*loe; It being Lnilt in aneh a way i
- A f- .5 proposes tno . m| ,i' u , h -,h.Mlo.,tlrVT.v-ov ,.n u> time,mril Ml. **n I.
organization of “a new party in favor of j m.d. by mc-in. 'l daplir.lt!Th<! wheel. m»d» with -lonhlr or >lpgl« lira; .bnaid
spelling 'Orgnat’ with an ‘r,’ nnd tlms j pwlbnliy ih« tin break, ihe
enabling American ‘citizens to rat eye \ ,bo mh ” u ’
ters thirty-one dava aariisr in the season j . n
I than is now possible.” The Times does j
not know, perhapa—but it ia a fact—
that The Chicago Tribune has inaugu
rated a system of spelling which, if
faithfully followed, would give as iast
inch a bad spell of August ns The
Times wants. There is an easier way,
however, to lengthen the ovster season
by thirty-ono days. Let tho month of
May be called by ita trua name, the
It contaiaa illtntmioM, prices, deacrii
dirtetam* fer pbrntuig all Vrgrtabla m
Seed*. Plant*, etc. Invaluable i
D. M. FERRY & CO. 1
THE BEST 111 THE
A SI03.000 OreMN.
(Cor. Iloetmr Herald, j •
7b* ■lost noticeable feature of a re
ef t evening at Saratoga was (lie mag
nificence of the costnmcH of the ladies.
I’priisiis the most costly of these was
worn by Mrs. Moore, the wife of a I’lliI-
I’hiladelphia consumes over 3,000
tuba of bogus butter daily. No
wonder that city goes Republican adelphia millionaire. Oiin who pro-
at every election. Nothing can turn fesaed to Imvo accurate information on
tho stomach of the average I’hila- the subject told me that she wore laeez
de'nhi-tn ! nnd silks which cost 930,000, anil also
' - ra- . m diamonds that were valned' at $75,000. I
If you are auff.riog from a .ease of ei- j This makes $105,000 for one evening
truar irrarine**. trr one bottle of Avrr'o ! outfit. Whatever the coat, tbe toilet (
Sarsaparilla. It will cost yon bnt one was certainly superb, and I doubt ii , ■
dollar, sod will do you incalculable coo-t. anything more expeoaive or elaborate-!
It will do away with that tired feeling, has over been aeon in this country. •
and give you new life aad energy. . . .
cH “EXCELSIOR”
COOK STOVES
LEADING FEATURES:
Drnil>!«: Won. 1.Door- ntrat Wood Clr*l*
Iflumtastod flrw-Doon, eta
XAjrcriCTtUU MX
_ A SHEPPAEDftCO.a
ft iBImhmdt FrlfCS tc n-t i - r&xu. And fcrssle bvf.w. SHEFFIELD & CO., AsurfccSsGb
CO. Rochetter, N.Y.Chicago, IU
ri/wetata. E. I. KNOWLTON, Asa Arbee. I
U rlfil I UilCOU I utk-is. AUjM* hb r,
FOU PHYSICIANS ANE FAUIUES
N»wto». Cbc«p«t, Real.
**Clettilines« ii next to GodUaess. ’
o.il* ly
A RARE CHANCE.
I nli-r f.?r **!»• four ni<‘8>hmne*of l*marra**at h;
to Nsacvra rlranwl on taab plra*. *alancr la
tfOud ll-nltrr. On «-*cH |iUn ;.rr dtri ll ngn O9 frwn
X !*• four roo.na, kitchen, ou;-i ulWitmr>
Ml 1 tiff well«. find itafh vrrhfinl" ir»m» f tnl
acraa. ©»'». lod W and » o<-k a ll lw RirnMn -I
no t-ach I'bcr anfKnkrttt to r»in it. I TW
daairaide Unnaa Ik trnn Art and a liai-wrix gad
a kail fullc* N’-rth nr Anurcua. Pur tcraa and
otn* r p.r-Lalara, addr***
deck ml Z. T. BAWDKS, Anurias* «a.