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TOWN DIRECTORY.
Mayor—Thomas G. Barnett
Ooumisswners—W. W. I’urnipseed, J. S
Vfvatt. K U. Harris, F,. R. James.
Clerk—K. G Harris.
Treasurer—W. S. Shell.
Marshals—S. A. Belding, Marshal.
J. V\ . Johnson, Deputy.
JUDICIARY.
A. M. HrEER, - Judge.
F. D. Dismi’kk, - Solicitor Genera!.
Butts—Second Mondays in March and
September.
Henry—Thin- Mondays in April and Oc
tober.
Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February,
aud August.
Newton—Third Mondays in March and
September.
Fike—Second Mondays in April and Octo
ber.
Rockdale—Monday after fourth Mondays in
March and September
Spalding—First Mondays in February
and August.
Upson First Mondays in May and No
▼amber.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
MsTHomsr Episcopal Church, (South.)
Msv. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor. Fourth
Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 3
p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
M*tuiu»tst Protestant Church. First
Sabbath in.,each month. Sun lay-school 9
A. M.
Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor.
Second Sabbath in each month.
Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lvon, Pas
tor. Third Sabbath in each month.
CIVIC SOCIETIES
Pink Grove Lodge, No. J 77. F. A. M
Stated communications, fourth Saturday in
•aeh month.
DOCTORS ..
I\R. J. C. TURNIPSEF.P wilt attend to
■*' all calls day or night. Office . resi
dence, Hampton, Ga.
"I\R. W. H PEEBLES treats all dis—
■i ' esses, and will attend to all calls day
and night. Office at the Drug Store.
Broad Street, Hampton, Ga.
DR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his profes
sional services to the citizens of Henry
and adjoining counties, and will answer calls
day or night. Treats all diseases, of what
•ver nature. Office nt Nipper’s Drug Store.
Hampton, Ga. Night calls can be made at
my residence, opposite Berea church. api26
JF PONDER. Dentist, has located in
• Hampton. Ga., and invites the public to
call at his tooji. upstairs in the Bivins
House, where he will be found at all hours
Warrants all Work for twelve montbE.
LAWYERS.
JXO. G. COLD WELL, Attorney nt I,aw.
Brooks Station, (in. Will praetire in
the counties composing the Coweta and Flint
River Circuits. Prompt attention given to
commercial and other collections.
TC. NOLAN Attorney at Law. Mc
• Donough, Georgia. Will practice in
the counties composing the Flint Circuit;
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
Uuited States District Court.
WM. T. DICKF>N, Attorney at Law, Lo
cust Grove, Georgia, (Henry county.)
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, the fmpieme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
GF.O. M NOLAN, Attorney at Law.
McDonough, Ga (Office in Court house )
Will practice in Henry and adjoining conn
ties, and in ti e Supreme and District Courts
of Georgia. Prompt attention given to col
lections. meh23-6m
JF. WALL. Attorney at Law. Wamp
. ton.Ga Will practice in the counties
composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
the Snpreme and District Courts of Georgia.
Prompt attention given to collections, oc-5
EDW \RD J. RF.AGAN, Attorney at
law. Office on Broad Street, opposite
the Railroad depot, Hampton. Georgia.
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections, and cases in Bankruptcy.
BF. McCOLLUM. Attorney and Coun
« sel ! or at L-iw, Hampton, Ga. Will
practice in Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta.
Pike, Meriwether, Spalding ami Butts Supe
rior Courts, and id the Supreme and United
States Coarts. Collecting claims a specialty.
fl#ee no gtairs to Subarffer’s antreboww.
“1 SHALL NOT FORGET
“I shall not forget you—the yean may be
tender,”
But vsin ere their efforts to Foften my
smart,
And tbe strong hands of Time are too feeble
and slender
To garland the grave that is made in *v
heart.
Tour image is ever about me—before me,
Your voice floats abroad on the voice of
th# wind ;
And the spell of your presence in absence is
o’er me,
And tbe dead of the past in the present I
find.
I cannot forget yon The one boon nngiren
The booa of your lota is the cross that I
bear ;
In ths midnight of sorrow I vainly have
striven
To cruah in my heart the sweet image hid
there.
To banish the beautiful dreams that are
thronging
The halls of my memory—dreams worse
than vain ;
For the one drop withheld, I am thirsting
and longing,
For the one joy denied me, I’m weeping in
pain.
I wonld not forget yon. I live to remember
The beautilnl hopes that bloomed but to
decay,
And brighter than June glows the bleaker
December
When peopled with ghosts of the dream?
passed away.
Once loving you truly, 1 love you foiever ;
I motirn not in weak, idie grief for the
past;
But tbe love in my bosom can never, oh,
never,
Pass out. or another puss in, first or last.
El- l-JJ
Our Baby.
A BACHKLOI’s EXPERIENCE WITH IT
It was a very pretty little babr—'bat is,
for a baby. I bad no fault to find with it,
a? far a? its individual identity was ron
cerned. It babies must exist—and I sup
pose there is a necessity for the thing, nr
else where would all the grown people cmne
from T—this baby was as well as any other
baby.
I mention these facts merelv to prove that
lamin no wnv prejudiced As far as mortal
man can b-, I am an entirely impartial wit
ness
It was fast asleep in it* cradle—a liltle
white-headed doll, with long, dark eye
lashes, and a crimsnn dot of a mouth against
which lay its tinv fist, with five well-defined
dimples in the five joints thereof It was
fast asleep, I say, when Bertha came airily
into the room.
“I am going over to the depot to see
mother off, Joseph ; I’ll be back in half a*
bonr Just keep an eye to baby while I’m
gone, will you T”
1 locked blankly at my sister. But while
I was considering how to express mv total
d'ssent from her audacious proposition *he
tiipped out of the room, her ribbons flutter
ing in the soft Spring air.
Silence doesn’t always give consent, but
Bertha bad taken it for granted, in this
matter, and I was left an unwilling guardian
of my little nephew.
However, he wa« fast asleep, that was one
eirenmetance in my favor. Mortal baby
couldn’t present a more innocent and
cherubic aspect than he did. 8o I calmly
went on with my writing, soon becoming
oblivions to his infantile presence.
.“Talk abont tending to babies,” qnotb I
to myself, dipping my goose-qn ill triamph
antly into the ink, “why it’s the easiest bnsi
nes* in life. I should never spend my money
hiring nurses. If that little one was mine—
hot women never do know how to econo
mize properly.”
As these fancies passed through my mind,
tbe baby woke op and sneezed.
I gave the cradle aa oscillatory kick, and
then burst forth into the well-known melody
of “Bye a baby hunting,” hot the little vil
lain absolutely declined to *hut bia eye*
again. He opened them wider (ban two
miniature moons, stating at me with an air
of malevolence that has made me a firm be
liever in homan depravity ever since, and
deliberately began to cry. And the harder
i rocked tbe cradle and tbe louder I sang
tbe more resoluteiy did that baby cry.
“He’a hungry,” thought I to myself.
“Babiea must be fed, and it’s highly repre
hensible of Bertha to stay away K) long.”
So I went down int# the pantry and insti
tuted a search for seme milk, which 1 had a
vague idea was the diet generally preferred
by toothless tofanay: Bat milk therj^nr',
HAMPTON, GEORGIA, APRIL ii, 1879.
none. Lamp oil; Stewart’s syrup; vine
gar ; kerosene ; brandy ; everything but
milk was there ; every known nr conceivable
fluid, in aggravating profusion—but not a
drop of milk.
All thia time, meanwhile, the roar of nay
infuriated nephew, but'slightly softened by
distance, followed me abont like a Nemesis.
I rushed frantically upstair*, armed with
a lump of sngar, the first soothing expedient
that suggeeted itself ta me.
“Bless its dear little heart, there, there!
(Confound yonr racket, erm’t yon keep still!)
Take it* sngar from it* own, own uncle,
that’* a little darling !’’
But the little darling resolutely rejected
the sugar, seresming louder than ever, aa if
its lungs were foTty bisby-pow<*r, and war
ranted never to tire ont It kicked, it strug
gled, it pawfd the air, it grew purple in the
face. Ashes of King Herod and all the
Kgrypt ians ! whnt was a man to do?
In vain I exemted a war dance around its
cradle, in rain I rang the
jingled the China ornaments, and waved the
feather-duster, and swung my gold repeater,
and bawled nursery bolluds nt the top of my
lungs Talk about perseverance Robert
Bruce’s spinner was nothing to ibat atro
cioas little lump o! mortality.
“There’s nothing for it but to capitulate,”
said I to myself, as I jammed my hat on my
head, viciously thrust my arms into my
overcoat, aid seized the baby out of it*
cradle.
Leave if atone I dared not, and
ibe nearest grocery where milk was procur
able lay full three blooks off ! 'Thus, in a
sort of stony despair 1 issued forth from the
house, carrying my prosecutor like a bundle
under one arm.
I thought he would stop crying when he
got into the open air, but not he; oxygen
only seemed to increase the shrill power of
hi« villainous little pipes I People turned
to stsre at me, as if I were an escaped lana
tie, or an abductor ol infantile innocence.
Women look'd indignantly at the baby.
HI up worsted socks and little pink leg? kick
ing blindly from beneath my arms. Chil
dren ran after me, dog* burked, but I kept
doggedlv on ray way. walking into the gro
cery with a resolution second only to that
of the Roman fellow who jumped into a
crater, nobody knows bow many hundred
years ago I
“A pint of milk, if you please.”
“Milk, sir? Have you brought anything
to put it in ?”
I thought of my tabneeo-box, my pocket
hano'kerehicf. the corner of my hat. all of
these impracticable places for the deposit of
the lacteal fluid
“I never thought of that !” I said, right
ing the baby, who came head uppermost
with a very crimpon countenance, and eyes
locking defiantly into mine; eyes that said
as if they had spoken in so many syllables,
“I won’/ stop crying ; I’ll die first 1”
The storekeeper looked on sympatheti
cally.
“I could sell yon a nice little pitcher, sir.
if ”
“The very idea,” I interrupted “A
pitcher of milk ! and please take the change
out of this porte-monaie, for if I had three
pair of bands I couldn’t more than bold this
kicking little demon with ’em !’’
“Well. *ir ” said the storekeeper, “he does
seem a rare ’un for usin’ hi* legs, let alone
his longs. Yes, sir thank’ee, sir 1”
Now, I have always since laid it up as a
grudge against human nature that that un
principled grocery-man took a five-dollar
bill out of my porte-monaie. knowing that I
should not discover it anti I too late torectifv
tbe error I
(I wouldn’t have treated a Turk eo !)
I took up the pitcher of milk with my
right hand, still balancing the baby skillfully
against mv left arm and side, and started
for home.
“Now, I’ll settle your business, my fine
yoong friend !” I thought. “I* it possible
that I was ever such an incotrigible nuisance
as this ?”
But my trinmnh was speedily reduced to
tbe lowest pitch of humiliation !
“Dear me. Mr. Beverley, is it possible
that this is yon ?”
It was Knte Mi’ton’s self, rsdiant in
Spring bonnet, lilac silk walking-dress,
close-fringed parasol, and the daintiest of
lilac kid glove* ! K te Milton, with ao air
of astonishment that served to make her one
degree prettier than ever !
Mv first instinct was to turn and flee
ignomintouslymv second was to drop roy
nephew and bis milk into tbe gutter and
resolutely deny all connection whatever with
them ; my third prompted me resolutely to
stand roy ground.
“Yea, it is I, Mina Milton—a—a fine
day!”
"Very fine.”
wc
One sock, curling and twisting ns if a ssrp-nt
were inside of it instead of a baby’s toot,
a ope*red beneath my cost-skirts, flanked
by about a quarter of a yard of Kwiss em
broidery Hnd tucks, wofullv crumpled bv the
fiery ordeal through which we had both
passed- the ntilk (confound it 1) had dropped
ndown the full length of mv pearl-colored
pantaloons, and mv hat, bent nnd bruised,
was llirnst rakishly on the side of mv head.
I w»s glovele**. flu-lied and disheveled, nnd
t«ke roe for “all in all,” must have appeared
considerably like a pickpocket or an old
clo’hesman out for a walk !
I passed on, followed by the sound of faint,
subdued laughter—a sound Hint slung me to
tbe quick.
So Kate and her companion were laugh
ing at me j this wns. Indeed, the nnkindot
cut of all. I resolved never to dance th n
German with Kate Milton again I
The honse was quiet ord dpserted ea I
inserted my night-kev ir. the little circular
lock. What could have become ol Berthn ?
The cold dew oojed out upon mv brow as I.
for one instant, eontemidated the horrible
possibility of my being lett. a sort of m»d
ern Robinson Crusoe, with that diabolical
little man Friday on my hands
Nonsense! there was no probability of
that. I sat down on Bertha’s low rocking
chair and. planting the-baby firmly on my
knee, applied the spout of the pitcher to hi*
m>’Uth
V\ cnld yon believe it? he wouldn’t drink
n drop. He screwed his month aa tightly
shat as if he never intended to open it again,
and doubled himself over hackward* with a
strength of will that wonld have been re
markable in a full-grown man, hut waa
simply marvelous in n ten months old baby
I persevered, and he persevered. I poured
the milk down his neck, his embroidered
dress waist, nnd his coral amulets ; he would
have been drowned sooner tl an to open his
month half a quarter of an inch. Probably
of such stnff were our Revolutionary fall) r«
made; and this baby had, through some
inscrutable blunder of Dame Nature, come
into the world just a century too Intel
I put him back in the cradle, flat on his
spinal column, and looked at him more in
sorrow than in anger.
“My youngster!” I addressed him, “cry
nwav, cry your Inngs out —bre k a blood
vessel or two if agreeable to yon—fracture
your trachea ! I ean’t be held legally
responsible for it, thank Providence 1”
1 took up a book and sat down by the
cradle, rocking it lecklessly backward* and
forwards, regardless of the screams which
still rent the air. I wasn’t going to waste
any more time in trying to quiet him. Let
him cry ! This is a free esuntry 1
“Why Joe ! what is the matter?”
It was Bertha's voice. I jumped up as il
a cannon hall had smitten me, and dashed
iny book upon the floor.
“Matter, ma’am ! matter ? The matter is
that I'm going rood 1 I shall be a fit subject
for a Inna'ie asylim in just about fifteen
minutes more I ’
But I might as well have wasted my
despairing elrqueoee on a blank wall! She
didn’t hear nor heed me I She was loading
that little wretch with caresses, pity and
blandishment*. And—l shouldn’t have cred
ited the sudden turn of affairs, if I hadn’t
witnessed it with my own eyee—the hßby
ab“o!o!ely laughed up in her face, as il to
aay : “I’ve given my uncle a pretty time of
it I”
Ye*—laughed and crowed, and held up
his hands, and behaved exactly as if be had
never in his small life known what it was to
shed a tear I The hypocrites are not all
grown np.
“Has he been good, uncle Joe ?”
1 looked volume-' at my sister.
“Bertha, if ever you leave me sgafn, in
charge of tha f —that little atrocity. I'll com
mit suicide!”
“You needn’t speak so looit.” said mv
sister, in sn injured voice ; “I intended to
bare heea home before, but tbe train was
delayed, snd—bless its little heart, did it
want to pome to its mamma’s arm* —and
was uncle Joe croseer thao an old bear, and
wasn’t it tbe sweetest little rose-bud that
ever—”
l waited to hear no more, but rushed
precipitately ont of tbe room, convinced that
of all fools, a young mother was the most
hopeless specimen !
That’s the last timp I have had the heir
of tbe family confided to my guardianship.
1 think Bertha's a little afraid io leave me
alone io tbe room with him. “So mote it
be!”
Home one aer.t me a comic valentioe this
fourteenth day of February—a pictare of a
booked-nosed old bachelor—(my nose is a
fine Romanesque curved) in a blue coat and
red trousers, dandling tbe baby upside
down; I solemnly beliavg. Jt
I detest comic valentines. I ab'or babies
—and I believe in a Hfe of old hiche'or-
Imnd ! That’s my platform 1 Do you won
der at it ?
The Highest Inhabited Point.
The United Htstes Signal Service station
at Bike's Peak is the highest signal Sturt ion
in the world ; it is also the highest inhabited
portion of the-globe It watt opened in the
montli of September,'B73 That it was a
win* provision of the government in estab
lishing a signal sta'inn at this point is no
longer quest toned, the facts having already
di monatrated jt s practicability, and the pres
ent success promises that Pike’s Peak Signal
s'a'ion is yet to stand at the head of all as
tronornical and meteorological stations in
the world. This point is wondetfully favored
by nature for the study of astronomy and
meteorology. The rarity of the atmosphere
brmgs out a remarkable brilliancy and clear
ness to the Sim'S and all the heavenly fa< dies.
The nights are almost hlwikr c.londless, and
cloudy days are the exception. Nine-tenths
of the steins aie helow the peak. 'I lie best
and most complete report of the last total
eclipse of the sun, received at Washington
was the report of Prof. Loud, ol Colorado
College, from observations taken at Pike’?
Peak.
The signal station is now under charge of
Hergts. Choate, Blake and Sweeney The-e
officers src detailed from the army because
of their peculiar adaptability and, special
quuliftoatons for the accurate execution »f
the nice duties of taking astronomical nu te
orological observations. To Sergt. Rufus
Choate 1 am greatly indebted for the pur -
ticulars embodied in this article.
The summit of Pike's Peuk contains sixty
ucres. It is 14,336 feet above the level of
the sen. On the highest point of the summit
stands the signal station, a rough ston' 1
building, twenty-four by thirty, one story in
height. It i* divided into four rooms—
'officers’ room, kitchen, store-room and wood
room And here in this bleak spot, nearly
twenty miles from the bnhiiation of man,
these men live the larger part of tbe year
The station is three miles from the timber
line, where Ibe greater port of vegetation
ceases. Short grass, tolled with delicate
Alpine flowers, struggle for an existence
against the frigidity of the atmosphere, and
creeps toward the mountain top; but there
are hundreds of aeres of cold gray rocks
where not a vestige of verdnre ex sts.
Like the dwellers of the Artic regions, the
inhabitants of Pike’s Peak have but two
seasons—summer nnd winter. Two moftths
of summer—August and Septetnhei and
ten long, cold months of winter, The sum
mer season passes quickly The atmosphere
is congenial; the many visitors nt the peak
enhance its social life with joy. wonderment
and mirth. During the summer of 1878.
upwards of nine hundred people, in parties of
from five to thirtv, visited the peak, among
them many ladies. They registered from
the (our quarters of the globe, and they all
expressed admiration and astnnbhrrirnt at
the grandeur and sublimity of the' wonderful
views as §ren from Ihe peak. To behold a
sunrise from the pp*k is an event of a life
time, and for this purpose visitors often re
main over night at the station, to bp ready
to catch the first glimpse of the sun as it
appears above the horizon, gilding with its
bright ray* the mountains, hills, valley* and
plains, to the wonder and delight of the
amazed beholders.
The duties of the officers are various
Seven observations are taken daily; all
storms are closely watched and each special
and distinctive characteristic duly recorded.
Sunrise 3nd sunset demand close attention.
Every peculiarity of the heavenly regions is
viewed and a record made #f the same ;
monthly reports are made of these and sent
to headquarter* at VVa-hington. The pres
ent year has hperi unusually prolific in sun
dogs which are said to prognosticate earth
quakes, aud subterranean explosions, im
mense freshets, and tionblous times. A
government office at Pike’s Peak is no sine
cure, for the officer must bullet all storms
and brave all weatbrrs. Sergeant Choate
was at the springs in D< comber, and on De
cember 21 he left for the Peak, westing
Norwegian snow shoes twelve feet in length
The summer months are also occupied in
preparing for the long siege of winter. Dar
ing the month* of August and Hepfember
upwards of 3,000 pounds of 'he usual variety
of family stores, and about 20 cord* of fire
wood, are snugly stowed away. Ttose are
ail carried to the Peak iu small quantities,
on tbe back of the poor, despised burro,
whose bead has ,! e appearance of being in
cased in cloth, and whose ears are nearly the
length of his legs, and who walks at tbe
pace of a snail, and a very slow snail at
that. *
. ...m nn/tnvokutn n n/1 A out
Nearly Broke up a Festival.
BY (JKOROK w. t» eg.
Not many vesrs ago there was a church
f stivul in Milwaukee, ip raise fund- 1 for pay*
ing one of 'lie many deb's of nature that
churches always owe. Th° festival had been
extensively advertised fiv.-rvthing had
been arranged turd the women of the church
were In the basement working like beavers.
Die crowd hegan to arrive and thpii there
was bustle We do not mean tbe kind of
bn-tle that you do, gentle reader. We meat!
business. There whs bu«ines* going on.
A committee of ladies were engaged it)
“plitting tli ' oysters, before cooking, so they
would go further, and another committee
wns thinning the milk, so it wouldn’t give
anybody the dyspepsia Another committee
WBs freezing tire ice-cream, the wom'-n look*-
ing on. whiie the men turned the freerr.
They had been freezing the cream since 4
o’clock in the afternoon, and here it was 7
o’clock, and the cream was as thin as a linen
duster, and ns free from frigidity as when if
came from the cow, or the lien., as the case
may be The deacons put in suit and ice,
and the more th>y turned the concern, the
warmer the ice cream seemed to get. The
deacons perspired, and said words that
wouldn’t sound well tn history. Time pass
ed, and the cteam would not freez 1 . Girl
waiter* were coming down s'airs with orders
lor iee-rream, and the wild-eyed men would
take ofl the cover and look into the chnra
and find it thinner than befnra. A conncil
of wur was held in the basement, and the
matter was discussed, hut no nng could give
nny information that wonld freeae the cream
Finally one old deacon, who had been work
ing the freeier for three hours, until every
bonp in his body ached, and who sut on the
bottom step of the stairs with a coflee-=ack
thrown over his shoulders to keep from tak
ing cold, and mopping tbe perspiration from
his brow, arose and said that desperate die-*-
ea“e* require desperate remedies. He said
il that cream conldn’t he induced to freeze,
the church wa* heat ont ol at least S2O. He
an id that there was only one way. “Send
for my wife!” said he, as he »Hnk back,
weeping. The man’s wife was up-stairs
waiting on table, and a sister ru«hed sp to
her and told her to come down sUi'ra at
once, as her husband was in a terrible state.
Die good woman dropped a lot of soup
plate-', and ruslud do;?r. stairs, and found her
hu-ba id looking as though he hud beeo
paying a ba-e ball match.
“For liph van’s soke Hennery, what is thd
matter?” said the darling wife, ap she knelt
at his feet, and took his blistered baud in
her own soft' palm.
“Harriet,” said he, ns he put her hand on
her auburn hair to get it warm, “have I al
wavs been a good husband to you ?”
She admitted that lie hnd as far as she
kn<-w, though he lwd a reprehensible habit
ol going down town at nights.
‘Then," said he, “I have only one favor
to ask We have been trying for three hour*
to freeze that cussed ice-cream. If it wasn’t
for the church, i wouldn’t it, but Har
riet, something has got to be dune. Now, if
you will take off yg*r shoe* and stocking*
and pot your teet jn that ice-cream frfczer,
you cun freeze that cream in two miuute*,
und we are saved !”
There was a none as of a ward caucus
breaking up >n a row, and a wild-eyed dea
con might have been seen going around that
room in the baserc-nt, trying to dodge chairs,,
and plates, arid cups and saucers, and when,
he got to the door, and a soup tareen took
him on the head, he went out into the wide
world and went home in his shirt sleeves,
and a young man that sings in the choir
went borne with the deacon's wife later, and
the ice cream did not freeze.
PaNOZR or Ot-TCBBtNO > SI.KBPINQ
Rtuurr— An exchange relates that a lady
was .sleeping in a berth on a Hudson Kiver
Railroad train a lew evenings since, with
one hand hanging peacefully but ov»r a loop
in the curtain A Troy drummer thought
he would have some fun, and seized hold of
the hand and shook it most cordially*!
“Good-bye, old boy, good-bye; can’t up.
wiih you always, you know ; give my love
to the folks, and don’t fail to call and see os
when you coiue to town ” Here the face
tious drummer was knocked clear across the
car by u stalwart blow from the disengaged
hand of the occupant of the berth. After
picking himself up und pulling his none
around to its proper place, he offered to bet
a week's salary that the fellow in the berth
was a prize fighter. This excited some ca
riosity on that point, and the berth waa
closely watched. Susan B Anthony turned
out Oi it in the morning.— Troy Slw.ulard.
W« know not, G we care not,
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