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About Schley County enterprise. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1886-1??? | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1886)
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. ------—-—- 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 ...... ------ 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 „ ‘‘ - 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 . . . . , . ,• ‘ * 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 " 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. ___ - 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. ' '
