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HTII.I-Y COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
A. J! HARP, Publisher.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL,
HAPPENINGS ______ OF INTEREST __
FROM ALL POINTS.
I \STl;U\ AM* 111 |>|>|,|: states,
j he recent flooded unusually .... about severe and , prolonged .
J ain storm twenty colierics in
the Schuylkill (I enu.) anthracite coal basin,
uni compelled and l«>.vs a cessation being temporarily of work, thrown nearly
b,OX) men employment^
X ut of
In an interview at Scranton, Penn., Gener-
id Master Workman Powderly says that in
Iview of tho railroad officials’ refusal to sub-
pint the difficulties in the Bouth west to arbi-
itration, the Knights of Labor were justified
tin continuing would the be strike. He was confident
|that (strike this the last great railroad
in this country, and thought it would
fifth both sides a Useful lesson.
hue A fire in the Pennsylvania destroyed Academy of
northern Arts picture at Philadelphia gallery and of the
je some the fin-
t paintings and statuary in the collection.
I illiam H. Miller, another of the Notv
[York h been ex-aldermen ted. charged lie found with bribery, Pa-
is arre was near
pawn, Ha., by two New York detectives,
1 TFvw'r, the metropolis.
rENbod.es n bad been recovered from the
J abroad wreck, near Deerfield, Mis*., on tho
Mli, and sevo al persons we-e then KtiII miss-
in ;. Abou' thirty persons were injured.
The Rhode Is’and election bat resulted in
tl'-s ■ c-ess of Govern.r Wetmore and nil the
rest of (iencral the Republican Colt The ticket except was^defeated Attar-
nev Lv aif. l itter
Edwin Met- candidate of the Demo-
i l ets and Prohibitionists. The const tutionai
b in n of Iment iutoxl.-atin; prohibiting liquors th ■ manufa: turo and
sale was carried.
son’ll AM) WEST.
[ L Newberry While plowing (S. U.) in farm his field -r, unearthed Joe Coughmen it
a p
•f mi dent gold coin worth $12,(XX). This
la ky lin 1 has s. t La!f the county to plowing
[or I tn a ui o pots. Knights
The striking of Labor in the
P ultimo-’ issue 1 a bitter manifesto against
lav Gould on the (>th. It was addressed to
tic "AV< r sin -men of tha .World,” and de-
Baiol thit Gou'd must be overthrown.
Ilr. Arthur, chief of the Botber-
»ood Louis of Kail way Engineers, has been in St.
in consultation with the Knights. Vice
President (laiined 1 toxic, of the Missouri I’n-ifie,
regu'aritv. to bo running Tho trains with considera¬
ble company has brought
hire suits again destroyed J. persons allege i to have in-
1 and its property, te.cra
kmsjs notified the company; that.theywould
j-a\ at! dauia m Ucted within their limits.
Cincinnati’s i municipal in ole tion, just
pl- RcpiiWl -au restate h;ket by the success majorities of the ranging ontiro
U " 1 •' 1 to •
\ fiidv of 2,(K)0st: iUiiig.railroa 1 employes
Ictoic It I tli yards of the various comjianios
|:e- Ea-t St. ism is on the 7th and eo'nnellel
(hot nn i at wi«-k tv stop and ;o‘n them.' The
iil's deputies w.ioro hustled a i io, but
lually the strikers were halt--1 by a number
dc-s'tiei with leveled Winchester rifles.
(ftrinc (he railroad 1 men arrived companies, by every and train to nil protort
In were sworn
('cjilltl .'.N,
r dazed with drink, William Ellis, of Ft.
Inuu-is, Ark., shot ills wife and two-year-old
phdd I! i fit death, his arrest following the mal
Mrs. Lars- Gindhal, residing n • - r
F an Claire, U is., lias just given birth to four
[Bole K'uud babies, and weighing altogether twenty
, ail alive and healthy.
Hv the capsizing of the steamer Mountain
R iy at Owensboro, Ky,, three men were
hwned.
A pitched baf t] - between members of tw *
x lifi- al factious Rt Laredo, Texas, respite 1
r fir- death of five men and the wounding of
•toeral others. Noirlv 2.0IM men, 200 on
i<-is -La -k, engaged in the fight.
I he Farmers’ Alliance, of Hopkins county
vn uras, at a meeting a f- w days ago, passed
solutions refusing thr invitation of the
? nights of Labor to boycott, and d -nounci ig
Ku<-itting cal, moral, as “detriment il to the financial,
t - nnd jiolitical interests ef all
ihsse i.”
WASlitxeTnv u AaiiLHisTOn*
| There sraseven Knights of Laboi ii Con-
ss -
lx the Iowa conteste l election case of
.'?:?){)(ell vs. Weave:* the House election
[ommittee has decided by a party vote in
lavor of Weaver, (he bitting member.
The Henato has confirmed Mr. Trenholm’s
I-nnmition to bj comptroller of the currency.
Tin: Mexican thi pen ion bill St passed by the
LftHcdiracti to-rotary the interior
I'la, e trie names of all the surviving offi-
:ei s, soldiers and sailors who enlisted and ,
cn cd in the war with Mexico for aav period ;
urmg tho years 184.5, 1M0, 1847 and 1848,
md were honorably discharged, and their
*5 ie ^ e ,! 5 IOI A r0 fc ‘ 10 !
•ito cd J® iiioafcli fiom and a^tci the pas-
axe;; f this -t during their Hve^ Persons ^
a
Tmvfr disa ^ ,it es S f ! u ?f '" cluded -
Additional \nii nominatwns bythe Prestdent:
unite nte i •toi'rT' (states (or 0 the district ftornay of New Jersey; of the
Laleb \V. \\ est, of Kentucky, Consuls^Louis to be governor
t I tali Territory. D. Bey-
bnd, of Pennsylvania, nt Kingston, Jnmai-
L. J. Dupre, of Alabama, at San Salva-
or; J. Cecil Legave, of Louisiana, at Tam- !
fieo; ,
Moses H. Sawyer, of Connecti-
tut, at Trinidad. Postmasters—Andrew
Shanahan, dham at Rockland, Massachusetts;
[' F‘1- Fcnn.atJ.ee, iiuttriek, at Conec Jins.; rdia, Jeremiah Mass.; Theo- Mur-
Ihy. To at Beverly. Mai.; Lemuel A. Keith, at
1 1 u 1 'dm .Mass.: Itollin C. Ward, at
soithii,-(i. frneeuia Mass.; Hartford I). Nelson, at
X.Y.; Benjamin F. Ya 1, at War-
•> hrederiek P. Newkirk, at Ox-
.-'to.5.' fi',’, 'Li;, ’ V, Crabtree, V 11 ; ' • Moses, at Belmont, at Auburn, N. \ N
[homas Hill, at Ha IdoOfield, N. J.; Charles |
’■ »oimg, ut Columbii, Penn.
I he Senate lias confirmed (he nominations
!* J"hu I). (Jberly, of Illinois, and Charles -
Mmni^-LSSjfrk lama, to b osirt BtorivsDger, S ot of :V the ito
il laud i mt commissioner
ft-llc i-Y r office. j
number of nominations for internal
pvenne collectors having been reported l
porabiy by the Senate finance committee
pon receiving notice from Secretary Man- i
(matemajority. I
The President has nominated Obndiah ,
;
to 1,9 sm-veyorof ctutomatorthe ,-ort
I [nitcd Baltimore, States Md.; Thomas G. Hayes, district to be j !
(m attorney for the of |
yiand; Georgs tt Cairn*?, to be United |
fates (aryland; marshal Cyrus for P. the -Shepard. disti'ict of to
f onmugton, register Minn.; 0 f the Edmund laud James, office to bo at j I
f«v 1V 0f moneys- at Carson City,
M
iS bsg s Esr 1 ” " im, “ In th °
fc*hitt a r v t ,, , on^and^enteies^^r * 1 1 t *
fcipentfin^flnarart’on Barge
section of Nebraska, nearly all of
lgu>n territory ra & ta * Maho. Utah- Wash-
|y°mm?’Nevada New Mixico, Montana,
and Northern Minnesota,
decision to revoke the order was made ut
aomet meeting.
*V,T FOREIGN.
HtkR A E ' Forster, a member of the
I ,)? pari n lament and formerly chief
s r Irelaud, is deftd seere-
)tt bis fcixty-nintJ
The Canadian government is fitting out
cruisers for the protection of tho fisheries.
The American movement fishermen. is directed mainly against
i Heavy snowstorms in Southern Michigan impeded
and Northern traffic. Ohio havo greatly
travel and
The Italian ministry, formed in June,
18*5, have resigned.
I Mahometan fanatics attacked an l de
stroyed a mission house and other buildings
j n the Philippine islands. A force was sent
t( , chastise the fanatica, twelve of whom were
killed and several wounded. The and H[anish four of
captain in charge wounded, of tho force of the
hig WPro davsVter and one men
wus kil’cd Three tho first out-
■ ! rage the sinio band burned tho village of
Amadco and the naval coal depot. Tin
i los es are heavy.
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iinQipii niUOIVHL flIUl iijn BP ImMIftllb. A Ml! TIP
i Mr. Boccicault’s ----- play, “The Jilt,’
new
! i«« Rreat success.
j A erdi is reported to be engaged in the
composition of a new opera.
Camillo Urso, the distinguished violin-
ist, has been concerting in the South.
Emma Nevada, the singer, has become the
guest of Mrs. Senator Jones, in Washington
Miss Anna Dickinson is writing a histori
( . al play to show 1 nlan s inhumanity J to
' '
^FWaw/™ Princess . CifRrsrr a\ re ently plaved V . Jt the
9 ^° P ® t ‘ OUC ‘ ,rl ut *' md ‘
Gilmore will lead the iiand at Man-
*' a ' tlln Beach, for Coney Island, this summer, as
he has done years past.
The roof of the theatre at Huromal,Japan,
gave way not long ago, and fell upon the
spectators, 150 of whom were killed or scri-
o s'y injured
SIR Arthur Sullivan is turning his at-
tention from l ght opera ami is again es-
sayiug more serious works. He is now en-
gaged in composing a cantata.
A musical museum has been organized at
Milan, and is to have au exhibition of antique
and rare musi at Instruments, accompanied
by a series of so c-tiled historical concerts
Adelina Patti is said to know perfectly
forty-seven complete operas, having actually
appearel wbi h she in has public in in forty-two, French several
of sung as well as
Italian.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett adds to his
repertory “Harold, next season a five-ax t tragedy en¬
titled the Last of the -Saxons,”
adapted from the German of Herr Ernst von
Wilderbrucb.
Mb. B. B. Valentine, who originate 1
ru ,. h - s “Fitznoodle” papers, in association
with Mr. John G. Wilson, the author of
“Nordock,” is preparing a comedy in which
Fitznoodle is t i be the ccutral figure,
Miss May L. Tifft, the daughter of Hen-
ry B. Tifft of New York, who recently made
her debut in the opera of “Lucia” at her
don Majesty's in London, the is spoken of by a Lon-
pqier as most successful debutante of
the season.
A writer in the St. Paul Pioneer-Press
say3 that Salviui. the Italian tragedian, ran
never remember his lines, and is compelled to
constantly have a prompter in attendance,
Po claims that lie cannot do a part justice
when he devotes his attention to remember-
ing the words.
A VICTIM OF HYDROPHOBIA.
Teuible t nltrriiig and Death iif n Yonn*
Baltimore Physician.
Dr. Brintou H. Warner, a young physician
of Baltimore, w!io had established a good
pra -li -e an 1 wa ; making rapid progres; in
ah profession, died the other ui turning of hy-
clrophotyjL Dr. Warrior was bitten on
Christmas day. He was passing aiong the
• tract when bosawalapdog, which had been
run over by a hoi so car, and h id dragged it-
ielf. bruise 1 ,ri 1 bleel ng, ovir the cobble-
•vono <. Ho was very fond of -logs, an l with
thj n. kindly foiling thought ho would convey
tiny an mal home, nurse it and make
a pet of it Taking out his handkerchief be
tie 1 it around the dog’s neck and trio l
to induce the animal to follow, him
h is hon i°’ i> Iock westward, on
, araboga . ft’eo,. He ma le thros at-
iornate to in iu v Jh • dog to foil >w him, wh?u
1 tniuenly it turn ;d its li a cl an \ bit him on
annual exhibited !^ s right band symptoms Although the
no of hv
drophobia, It. Warner at 0 : 1*0 eautuized
wounds, three or four teeth mark'-, and a
T 4 " 1 * ihot a : ,f }, kn ‘ r(i
'f ' a l ™? s . ura: **y °J *
’
“ver ...
^ the TtakyhStl^htly bit- 'although it Iff i
to his oflice but I
went as usual. Tho next dav he
fell upon the kitchen floor, and when ni--ked
„p was veiy nervous and excited Saturday
he went to bn 1 and th 9 delirium becau Tho !
symptoms of rabies had 1 e ome pronounced
There wa* a wili look about tho eyes. IIo
could not swallow water, and in Ids delirium
ho taagiuei bed. Ro there were dogs under
tho vividly was this
tea impressed bed and on hia mmd that he sprang
from Ins rushed to another part of
t ic room, but the animals seemo i to pursue i
him wherever he went, an t he moved rest-
l.sdy about ;ain from effort side to side of the apart-
inant in « tj e ea?K j . A number of
leading mode physicians were in attendance: every 1
of treatment was tried, including the j
Buss’an bath, but instead of getting !
be I tor he grew worse. At midnight an
Episcopal lied .ide. After minister the Clergyman was summoned to Ins
ha-1 departe I
another paroxysm si-.d the convulsions young man,
and one after another those re-
imrel until in one of them, in which he
frothed at the mouth during suffering the intensity of
th-spasm, hoi r.hlo he died Dr. after the most
agomis. Warner left a wife
and three tbildien. J
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BASE BALL NOTES.
The American association used up 1,242
base balls during last reason.
The Metropolitans will have the finest
grounds in the world on Staten Island.
The Detroit league (alters club have the strong-
est colleatioii of that was ever known,
,*h)a civimr credit in the summarv
.....- the
squander the snug sum of *..0,000 toi
> tnis season.
herraml hL ,S Sri>,Po-d beautiful P itrgcDeral'favor of la-rosse.
tbe national and game
St. Louis lias no less than Philadelphia seventy-six um-
formed amateur clubs. tops
thorn with a total of 312 fully equipped or-
ganizations. Yale college
Dann, the uew catcher of the
team ii a!soa fine pitcher, but so speedy in
llis c jeij very that no ono could lie found in the
c3 ]w e who could bold him.
$s^ , sigf£8$!2£r the
a Nfw York Duoidhot predicts that
York? ^'^ChS, Phikdeiphia.^sT. and Kansas
Louis, Ditroit, Washington
City. captamid
The National league teams nr > New York
a; follows: Philadelphia by Irwin, Mor-
by Ward, Detroit by Hamun, Bo-ton by
rill, Chicago by Anson, Ht. Louis by by Dun’ap, Baker.
Kansas City by Roe, Washington
The six club 3 which now compose tho Pena -
svlvauia State leagua are WUkeJbarra, Lock
Haven, Altoona, Williamsport, Lowistown
and Lancaster. A permanent organization
ha> been effected and tiic rule^ of i-h? Ameri-
can association adopted-
ELLAV1LLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1886.
'
HURLED INTO ETERNITY.
1
4 yRlGHTFI l.ItAll.ItO.il) WltECK
IX MASSACIIVSETTS.
A Trnln riniiu<-« Down nn Rnibnnluiirnt
200 Feet lliffh.
A . Gieenfleld ,,,. - ,, (Mass.) J dispatch of the . th
gives the following particulars of the fright-
ful railroad disaitor which occurred that
niirht '"gm, , mi.U'ai ni lvvav i I H sew , tw ., ecu „. Rard uardwell well’s s rerry ferrv and ami
" ost Deerfield station, the east bound pnssen-
ger train from North Adarns, due at Ureen-
l ehl at 0:05 P. m. going over au embankment
.'uor.ot no f. at in i,..i„ic height •
The traui was the Eastern express, and cou*
sfct-d of a baggage car, a mnok-r, a slerpiug
car, a mail car. ami two ordinary pas<eiigei-
Th* train was in charge of C m-
‘iuctor Poster, with Herbert.Littlejohn as
I D th^rncTdan ed*4 mnms' on’tWM,.ad'
The track runs on the of an embankment
:'() ) feet above Deerfield river The bank is
J steep and is shale covered with huge which boulders r,tad-bed anti
masses of rock with the
! bad been filled. When the train arrrived at
I this point the track began to settle under
!* tor a ^ nc « <7 wri ''K eut ire 1 « n « th ;
1 ‘•oaolieS broke frwi. their trucks L an 1 went
rolling The engine over broke and over from the down tender, the tearing precipice.
the Below rolled th up
track for twenty feet. s
I*erfleid river on the very edge of which
the cars were thrown. As soon as they strack
they caught fire from the stoves. The shrieks
of the wounde 1 anil dying filled the air, ami
for a time the sceue was terrible. The sle ep-
tug car, oecupie wreck. I by several girl pas lengers, picke was
an entire One little was t
up dead.
As soon as the news reached Greenfield a
^1^1“U-ivVn“on a^d ^ C“rd
“ tLens bus ^in arriving ■tioi men an a few
oflhe “k ‘a horrible at the s 8 -e e
wr sight was
witnessed. The dari-n-ss of night
had s -tiled over the sjsit. Far down on the
embers river bank of the could train. be It sc -n impossible the smouldering t toll
was j
who was hurt and who was killed. .Stout¬
hearted trackmen were lowere l the cautiously
down tlie began. treacherous height, and work of
rescue
Merritt Seely, superintendent of th s Na-
tional Express comiiany, of Boston, was
found iu tho wreck and taken to the relief
<a.\ He had a wound four inches long and
half nn in- h wide over his left temple. His
left thigh was broken, and also his left leg at
the knee, beside whi h he sustained fatal
The Fitchburg coach was the only one that
escap’d Bryant, the Greenfield, conflagration. Deputy this Sheriff
of who was iu car,
res-ufri th 3 bodies of two children from th?
fiaiues, but or.e was dea l and the other dy
ing. I). C. Wells, of Andover, had his shout
der hurt and his head cut. The car in which
he was riding was broken in two, and stood
on end within a few feet of the river bank.
Nicko'a; Dorgau, of Greenfield, l>a 1 his left
arm and ankle broken, and was seriously iu-
jnred internally. A little gild who was a
passenger on the train d e<l iu his arms from
injur let received. J. E. Priest, of Littleton,
N. H., had his face and head cut. Adams, Engineer
Herbert- Littlejohn, of believed, North fat illy was A
badly scalded it was
k.AVarner, chairman of tbe Greenfield board
of selectmen, was l a ily hurt.
At midnight four more bodies were taken
from the wreck, inolud ng that of Brakeman
Spencer. This made six jiersous found dead
up to that time; several were fatally injured,
and many others more or less seriously hurt.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Harvard university will bo 250 years old
next October.
Costly living is given as the cause of tbe
loss of students at Yale college.
Europe is stated to have an available mili¬
tary force of fi,00 »,0(X) soldiers.
Vermont exp-, to to produce 10.00.1,000
pounds of maple sugar this your.
About *:iJ 0 ),O00 worth of American made
locomotives are sent abroad yearly.
of The Labor next will general bn hsld assembly Richmond, of the Knights Va., in
in
October.
Tiie Ind-an population of this country is
tma year. mitliSl ' inS ^ the mt0 °' 3 *°' W or
Four grau l hotels ace to be ready by tbe
1st the of July aetloB'stons for the a commo lation of visitors
to t a"k.
One-third of the cirn crop ofl8S5of
Iowa is still in the farmers'haatta and unsold
“that is, *0,**,<**) l»u iheis.
The value of the hard wa e produced about iu the
United States each year is now $60,-
OOO.OWJ, and nearly half of it is m ide in
Connecticut
The wife of oi» of tho clergymen at Sar-
ana% Mich., supplements h«t' h jshaud'« vnea-
cie salary bv driving a wa ^ tr m and noddiiii ‘ " <r
the Washington palatial is becoming residents.* pre-eminently Iiflem
Bto city have of erected magnificent domiciles Hen-
rs
within the nas‘, twelve months ''
« Certain wine dealers , , of , _ han Francisco . m .
order to bnug ab ut wme instead ol whisky
drinking, ha ye op me 1 an e tablniiment where
native wme is sold tor live cents a glass.
During the war, Mr.-. Terry, of North
Adams, Mass., nurs'd back to life a stranger
who was prostrated with fever. The man,
who was a brother of ex (love -nor L-dnnl
Stanford. o f ''a'ifo.nin, die 1 io • ntly, leav-
lag her *15,(100.
It is state 1 that up to tin- present-lute .VX)
uers-ms ft.'ob'b, have ‘ ^.. he ,V. -n "tour inocnl ib-1 .ra-oiy a nil in t hvdro-
t lal, tl, - R,,c
d’Ulin, four-fifth■; of whom were bitten hy
dogs whose rabid condition was ascertained
b, postmortem examinations.
PERSONAL MENTION.
--
General Logan will address the Grand <
Army posts at Grant’s tomb on Decoration
Postmaster General Vilas will de-
liver the M anorial Day oration at tho Acad
emy of Music.
fZZrstJ. (-e.xkral vy illiam R w r„«v iLRn. °°
The wealthiest resident of Reading ,Veun
^ k ' 1! cl e 5f 1,1 n °»> m e accldeut a eSnttoh^mill u 111 '
^King _ Kalakaua has entered the lecture ,
field. He retently delivered a lecture on the
geologic origin and history of Hawaii.
H. M. H >xie, vice-president of the Mis-
souri I’a-iti-: l ailroa l, and Jay Gonl-1 s W e.t-
ern lieutenant, was once a stab.e b >y.
Queen Victoria will visit Liver
v««Jf ^ illiam Penn in this counti>.
sCendant of
»Sc ycato trAntog ismp.bed oftbS
who sae.i positions under the government.
Rotert Mary fc. f-ee, Lee,_ ts now the in Portugal, Jij “Ser^iste** her sister
Mildred being among friends in hew Oi-
leans,
His wife is the only nur.-e Mr. Gladstone
has when his health is broken, an! he gives
himself into her hands with the docility Of an
infant.
Mrs. Secretary Whitney will give no
more large entertainments this season in con-
s quence of the recent death of b^r grand-
mother.
Tour Coming.
I know not, love, how first you found mo,
UVhat instinct led you here;
I know tho world lias changed around mo
Since once you came so near.
I yield n thousand claims to nourish this,
At last tho dearest hope, the nearest tie;
And looking but to you for happiness,
Happy ami.
How lightly passed the maiden leisure
That youth and freedom chose,
The careless day* of jieace and pleasure,
The nights of pure repose 1
So swift a touch could set the tune ainisst
So brief n shadow blot the morning sky!
Yet if the heart, be made for happiness,
Happy am I.
O love, your coming taught me trouble;
Your parting taught me pain.
My breath grew quick, my blood ran double-
It lcaiml in every vein.
Yet, ah! 1ms Time outdone the lover's kiss,
The look—-the burning look—the low reply?
If these lx- all Ik* holds of happiness,
Happy am I.
You lend to earth a vague motion;
Myself a stranger seems;
Your glance is mixed with sky and ocean;
Your voice is heard in dreams.
The gcxxl I choose is weighed with that I miss,
My idlest laughter mated with a sigh,
And moving only in your happiness,
Happy am I.
—Dorn Read Goodale. in Harper's.
THE MAJOR'S FARM,
A TAT.E OF A FICKLE RIVER.
Whatever soil is washed up on a shore
of the old Missouri River belongs by law
to the owner of the shore. Sometimes a
whole farm gradually changes hands hy
crossing the wicked river in solution.
Then the put little crook .
surveyors a in
the Missouri on their maps and sny that
if has shifted its course.
Major Dugro Buckhingc was born on a
little farm not far below Omaha, and the
pretty white farm-house in which he first
saw light was not over nvc hundred feet
from the river. Until two years ago the
Major . had lived happily on ... the farm,
Ilis father and mother were buried on
the , side of hill close by. and he could , ,
a
sr , P the red roof of the school, ’ where mor-
,. , modern , ideas . , . , ,
Biity and were wnacKen
into him m ’ from his doorstep ' 1 When " the
^Major . not out . his . cornfield
was in swear-
; at the hired man, he was at home
reading , the Bible playing . with his
or
wife and little ones. lie was rough, but
he w.is good.
When he was nt home he complained
that the Missouri was the crookcdest and
dirtiest and the snagiest stream in crea¬
tion, but when he paid a visit to New
York he knocked a man down and jump¬
ed on liis chest for denying that it was
fhe most glorious waterway in the world.
On Sundays the Major taught in the Sun¬
day-school near his place.
It was two years ago that the river be¬
gan to wash away the farm and cast up
the soil on the opposite shore, which be¬
longed to Lawyer Deeming, of New Or¬
leans. The Major had not lived there all
his life not to know what that meant.
Etch week afoot or two of land was
gone. Then the water seemed to double
its thievish energy and, as it undermined
so j| sometimes ten feet would cave in
at once and disappear. The Major’s farm
was a long, narrow strip of land, and be¬
fore a year had passed there was nothing
le’'t but the house and about thirty feet
of the farm
The Major knew nothing . about . tl law,
but lie hud a wry lonu; head. One day
. he fastened f , -> ropes around h.shouse, hired i*i
all the horses in the neighborhood and
had the De house liousc hauled lauicu out out in into o me the stream stream,
Ills wife waded out with the little ones
and , then , the ,, Major ,, . poled . . the , house . into .
the deep water and let it drift. Mrs.
Buckhingc and the children sat in the
parlor 1 looking ” li.'tck at the dim Nebraska
shore and . the old , red-topped , school- . .
liotI«(‘ wliile the Mil jor stood in the hack
door . of the kitchen and kept his eye o:i
the .’, great and growing ' State of Iowa, to
' vll , "' h >‘ , IS . f!,,m , h ‘" ■, ] , b '"'» , , b , v ,h „ ‘‘
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river.
“Wherever th? house lands I'm a-gj'm’
to settle," Ik- said, “for I’m drifting just
as my property did and I’m hound to
strike the same place.”
I« an hour the little house grounded
on a point which had been newly made
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hous-liold to forage, while he bustled
aroun( j f or j lors -, g Before night the
li -use was hauled high and dry, nnd the
Major marked off with stakes the amount
of land which he considered was his own.
Then he bail bis farming implements
brought over, and in a little while < rout¬
ed a good stout fence around his wayward
farm. Then the Major got out his rifle
and declared that he was prepared to de¬
fend his property against all comers.
During the winter the Major made
friends with his neighbors, and swore
that of all the States in the Union Iowa
was the idol of his heart. He worked
his way into the village Sunday-school
and was elected as an elder in the church,
and, on the strength of that, borrowed
seed for next year’s crop. In the spring
the Major worked hard. He ploughed
up * hls'land, sowed his early crop and got
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things iu good shape,
A lawyer came down from Omaha in
May and hunted for the ... Major. The two ,
mct ; n t be viikge.
“Are j’ou Mr. Buckhingc?” a‘■Hod
lawyer.
“1 am,” said the Major, f
' ‘Well, I Irani V-.t jou h.vo *quatt«d
upon some land owned by one of my
clients.”
4 « Oh, you hove, have you?” The Maj¬
or became frm.ingly polite. A little
party of church friends who were with
him drew away.
« 4 Yes, I ha?f; and what's more, I now
hand you a notice to quit.”
The Major crumpled up the bit of
white paper which was handed to him
and stamped on it.
“I’m a man of peace, nnd I have deep
religious feelings,” lie suid, “but if I
ketch you around my house I’ll till you
so full of lead that it'll take two horses
to draw your hearse."
Then they parted. The Major went
home and cleaned his rifle. After the
family prayers hi* wife sat up until mid¬
night moulding bullets, while lie himself
sharpened the old use on tin- grindstone.
In the morning two marshals came out to
the farm and ordered tin- Btiekliinge
family to leave. The Major got out his
rifle, hut before lie could make :i move
he was thrown on his back and disarmed.
Then lie was handcuffed and taken away
to jail. Mrs. Burkhinge vowed that she
would be true to tier husband, nnd she
made a loophole in the door of the house,
and when the marshals came back she
poked the muzzle of (lie rifle out and
sai<l that she would die rather than give
up her home. The marshals retreated,
but in the afternoon they came back and
opened lire on the house with rifles. The
mother .. at ,, last . crept out of ,,, the , house
poor 1
with ... her children ,, and wandered , , away
holf niked
Kind neighbors fed the family for
awhile, and the Major was at last set
free* when he promised that lie would
abandon the farm. The first tiling lie
did was to hire horses and haul the old
home up the shallows until he had taken
it far enough to float over to tho thirty
feet of the old farm which the Missouri
had spared. The house was dragged up
to its old foundation.
As there was no farm left the Major
told his family to take care of the house
until he came back. When lie started
away to search for a living the Major
cried for the first time in his life. He
earned a little money here and there at
odd jobs and sent all he could to his
wife and children. All last winter he
worked in St. Jo, heart hungry for home,
but afraid to go back to the farm-house
lest he might lose a dollar and thus de¬
prive the children of some little comfort
or luxury.
One morning last spring he got this
letter:
r»FAit Husband: Come home at once. Lei
notliiiii; del#)’ you. Your wife, Jean.
With a quaking heart the Major hurri¬
ed hack to the farm house with his rifle
over his shoulder. What was his sur¬
prise to find that the Missouri had chang-
cd its course a half mile above and had
washed the old farm hack again with an
addition of twenty acres. The neighbors
had joined together to surprise the absent
man. They contributed seed, ploughed
the land and sowed the early crop.
The Major wept as lie embraced his
little wife and then lie knelt down and
offered up a thankful prayer, lie now
lives n life of contentment and true hap-
pi ness.— Xnr Tori World.
Two.
B«-n Maddox, who for some time car¬
ries! tho mail between the towns of Hills¬
boro and Whitney, Texas, is tilt* posses¬
sor of a variegated voice, lie usually be¬
gins speaking in n very high, asperate
voice, and when about half through the
sentence falls to a very deep bass, in
which he finishes. One day in returning
from Whitney his team ran away, threw
Ben out in the mud mid turned the light
covered hack which he was driving, over
on him in sneh a manner that, although
uninjilivil, . In 1 was unable to get from llll-
,l«r r it " • While ' lie ‘ w-is ' there a stramrei ?
by, when the following rouvrisntion
took nlaee-
Ben (in Ills fine ,, voice)— . , <llT llello, .. mister, . .
"ill you please got down an raise
back up so as I cm git out:
Stranger— \es, 1 guess I can, but
bow did jouget under theie?
lien (iu liis coarse bass voice)— ihe
horses ran away and turned the bnek over
on me.”
Stranger—“Lookee here; if there are
arc t wo or three of you under there you
nro able to raise that hack up yourself,
and I am not going to get down in the
mud to help you.” And nway he rode,
leaving poor Ben to get out the best way
he could.—Detroit Free, Press.
The Wrong Date.
The widow of a German army officer
went to the pension office for the purpose
of drawing her pension. She presented
tlic usual certificate of the mayor of her
villagc to the effect that she was still
alive.
“This certificate is not right,” said the
official.
“What is the matter with it?”
‘ ‘Because it bears the date of December
21st, but your pension was due December
15th.”
“What kind of a certificate do you
want?”
“We must have a certificate that you
were alivt on tho 15th day of December.
of what use is this one that says you
were alive on the 21st day of December—
six days later?"— Siftings,
TWO MALLARD DUCKS
Bocruso Ono was Bnd the
Other was Given Away.
But the Ono Given Away Provod to be a
Toothsome Ti Ibit.
Tlie other day I purchased a pair of mal¬
lard ducks, nnd looked forw ard to a feast
with the eyes nnd soul of nn alderman. I
concluded they could lie nothing but
mallards when my setter pup proved his
good breeding hy barking himself al¬
most into a lit when the express man
brought them.
Tito cook had a great time with them.
It took her, she says, two hours to get
the feathers off the lint one. She says
she never saw fettliers before that could
hold on so tight. It was her opinion
that t hey must have been riveted in, be¬
cause,, after scalding the duck, she could
not pull them out without taking the
flealx along. She observed, after the first
one was plucked that she would like to
have a pair of forceps, to remove the fo-
liag-e front tho other.
4 4 Never mind about the other,” I said;
“We will try that one first.”
So on the following day we tried it. I
am not sure yet whether it was a shell-
drake, a coot, or an old wife, but it was
certainly the strongest and fishiest thing I
ever saw in the image of a duck.
It was ns fishy ns the advertised eireu-
, lation of , morning . paper, and, , as far as
a ‘ ’
strensgth , , I will simply that .
goes, sav we
: '
couicln , . touch ,, the duck, , , except with . ,
t a
fork.
There is no use of plucking the other
duck, is there?” I asked.
4 4 >To, ” came from the other end of the
“Then, as it is of no use whatever,
suppose wc give it to the poor?” I asked.
‘ ‘Capital idea,” came from my vis-a-vis.
So the cook was ordered to give the
remaining duck to tho poor woman over
the lxill, and when the poor woman’s lit¬
tle Ixoy came with the milk in the morn¬
ing-, the duck was presented.
On the following afternoon I looked
out of tbe back window, and saw the
husband of the poor woman bounding
down the hill.
“Ho has probably eaten some of that
duck,” I observed: “and is now coming
for revenge. Tell him I shall be absent
on business for several days.”
I felt ruther queer ns 1 hoard his great
cowhide boots rattling on the stoop.
, < You sent up a duck yesterday,” he
said.
‘ ‘Yes,” replied the cook.
4 4 My little boy is sick,” he said: “and
I have come to—"
Probably fhe hoy is dying:, I thought,
and he is coming to kill me.
“What is the matter with the boy?’’
asked the cook.
ITe simply replied:
“The duck."
I crawled up tho garret steps, got
through the scuttle, sat on the roof, and
listened.
‘ ‘How did the duck come to make him
»ick?” I heard the cook ask.
“He ate too much of it: and I have
come to bring the milk.”
Then I hurriedly descended, and
learned, to my horror, that the market-
man had given me a plump domestic
duck and a scrawny slielldrake, and,
having been sold on the latter, I had
gone and given the former to the poor
woman just over the hill.— Puck.
Au Embarrassment of Riches.
‘ ‘Where are you going?” asked Knick¬
erbocker Jones of Boii Van Slyck, as
they met near the Grand Central Depot
last Thursday.
“I am going off for a dny or so,” re-
plied Bob, who was rnrrying a valise.
"
4 4 What’s up?"
4- - Nothing, except to-morrow is my
birthday, and the young lady to xvhom I
am engaged is going to call at the house
to congratulate me and make me some
little present. I don’t care to be there
vv Ren she calls.”
“I don’t understand you, Van Slyek.
j j- p was engaged to a young lady, and
she was going to call and see me upon my
birthday, Vork.” I should be the happiest
. New
Q
“Yes, but the other two are going to
rail also—all three of them are going to
c^t 11 on me, and if I am there, don’t you
anderstand?” and lie hurried into the
depot to catch the 8 o’clock train.— Texas
Siftings.
Madstones for Hydrophobia.
ZsTorth Carolina boasts of no less than
four madstones each of which is alleged
to have certain specific virtues, making
each the great and only mad stone.
derful apparent cures have been effected
by the uso of these madstones during the
past half a century. Home of them art
even older than that, but faith in the J i
efficacy has never diminished. There if
a famous stone in Halifax County, and
people bitten by rabid dogs have been
t aken to the stone or the stone has beeD
taken to them for years.
Another stone is know far and near as
the Painter madstone, and is owned by
Mr. Painter, of Person County. It is ir
demand by both Virginians and North
Carolinians, and there are cases known oi
persons having been taken hundreds oi
miles to be touched by this stone.—„Vet/
Jfker k World,
VOL. I. NO. 29.
The Wonderful Wearer.
There's a wondorful weaver
High up In the nir,
And lie weave* ft white mantle
Tor cold earth to wee.r.
With the wind for his shuttle,
Tho cloud for his loom,
How' ho weaves, how he vr-vivos,
In tho light, in tho glocntl
Oh! with the finest of lacoe
He dorks bust, and tree;
On tho bare, flinty meadow*
A cover lays ho.
Then a quaint rap ho place*
On pillar and post :
A nd he changes tho pump
To a grim, silent ghost 1
Cut this wonderful weaver
Grows weary at last;
And the shuttle lies idlo i
That once flow so fast.
Then the sun peeps abroad
On the work that is done;
And he smiles: "I’ll unravel
It nil, just for fun!"
HUMOROUS.
The sigh of the seamstress—A-hem.
'Hie spring-time of life—When you
discover a Lent pin tinder you.
Ciut a man be called a temperance man
of long standing who wears tight shoes?
“Struck down," as the barber said
when he shaved the first crop of fuzz
from a youth’s chin.
“Sny, waiter, this bee/stead looks as if
it. had been hammered on an anvil.”
“Yes, sir, we buy it by the pound.”
A soft answer turns away no wrath
from a girl when she is serious on the
popping question and means business.
“If I cannot have the fat of the land I
can take a little lean,” said a tramp, as
lie rested bis shoulder against a lamp-
| lost.
pi aywrig ht-Do you think my new
tragedy will survive a first performance?
Critic—Your tragedy—may be; the spec-
tutors—hardly.
It is said that a person who eats onions
will keeji a seerrt. But such a person
cannot keep secret the fact that he has
been eating onions.
Uncle George—“And so you go to
school now, Johnny? What part of the
exercises do you like best?” Johuny—
“The exercises we get at recess.”
Farmers ase pouring into Western
Texas so fast that ranchmen have just
time enough to move their cattle out and
prevent their tails being chopped off by
the advancing hoe.
“What do these letters stand for?'
asked a curious wife of her husband, as
she looked at his Masonic seal, “Why,
really, my love," lie replied encourag¬
ingly, “I presume it is because they can’t
sit down.” She postponed further ques¬
tioning.
“Oil, mamma, you'd be surprised to
know how dumb Bessie Barton is 1 She
took me into what she said was the
apiary. What do you think I saw
there?” “I don’t know, dear.” “Why
nothing but a lot of beehives, There
were no apes there; not even a monkey.”
Exercise for Aged People.
M. Bouchardat, professor of hygiene at
the Paris faculty of medicine, protested
in strong terms at a recent lecture against
the advice given by some hygienists who
recommend almost complete rest to the
aged, in the following terms: “I protest
ngainst the oft repeated adage that old
age is the age of rest.” This sentence
has led to a very great error in hygiene.
The regular general exercise of all organs
of nutrition and of locomotion is necessa-
ry to persons of all ages. The greatest
attention on this point is all tho more
necessary that the tendency to rest brings
on a gradual deminution of the strength,
K the old man does not resist, his
strength will visibly nnd progressively
diminish, ami the few days he may bavo
to live may be transformed into just so
many hours. In proof that regular daily
exercise is beneficial to the aged ono has
only to observe the results in some of the
handsomest old men, who take little or no
rest. Moderate exercise, particularly
walking, should lie the leading precept
of, tho hygiene of the aged, without
which longevity is well nigh impossible."
Professor Bouchardat also recommends
that old people should maintain their in-
tellectual faculties, or otherwise they will
get into a state of incurable torpor. This
is best accomplished by having somo
steady intellectual pursuit, and by taking
an active interest in the events and pro¬
gress of the day. In our boyhood wo re¬
member a very old man, who told us he
kept in as perfect health as an old man
can he by chopping wood for an hour or
two every day. This he regarded os uuf-
ticicnt exercise for him. Another old
man we know finds his health greatly
benefited by sawing wood with the ordi-
iary buck saw.— Herald of Health.
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A Superfluous Female*
The surplusage of females in tho pop¬
ulation of Massachusetts is constantly tho
cause for annoyance. It was at a juven¬
ile party the other day that a mother
noticed her five-year-old daughter had
not joined the march to the refreshment
room.
“Why did you not go in with th'
other children, my dear?”
“Because I could not find any little
boy to hold on to,” was the wail of tho
ingenious unfortunate.— Lowell Qitiitm.
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