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XKWSPAPKR DKOTSIONS.
1. Any person who takes a pappr regu
larly from the post office —whether directed
to bis name or another’s, or whether he has
aubucribed or not —is responsible for the
payment.
2. If a person orders his pnpor discontin
ued, he must pay all arrearages, or the pub
lisher may continue to send it until payment
it made, and collect the whole amount,
whether the paper Is taken from the office or
D*t.
3. The courts have decided that refusing''
to take newspapers and periodicals from the
post office, or removing and leaving them un
called for, ia prima facie evidence of inten
tional frond.
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TOWS DIRECTORY.
Mayor—Thomas Q. Barnett.
Com mission f. rh—m it. Bivins, E; R.
panics, G. P. Bivina. W. B. Pierce.
Ct.iißK —fl. P. Bivins.
Trkasurkr —W. 3. Shell.
Marshal*—3. A. Belding, Marshal.
B. H. McKneely, Deputy.
JUDICIARY.
A. M. Spkkr, - Judge.
F. D. Disxexrc, - - Solicitor General.
Butts—Second Mondays in March and
September
Henry—Third Mondays in January and
July.
Monroe —Fourth . Mondays in February,
and August.
New’ou—Third Mondays in March and
September.
Pike—First Mondays in April and Octo
b*A *
ltoßdMb—TWro Motnfays in February and
and Auy ust.
Spalding—First Mondays in February
and fiugust,.
Upsou—First Mondays In May and No
vember.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Mkthodist Kpiscopai. Church, (South. 1
Rav. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor Fourth
Sabbath in each mouth. Sunday-school 3
p. x. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
Mwtmudist Pkotkstant Church. First
Sabbath in.each month. Sunday-school 9
a. x.
Ohbi*tia« Church, W. 8. Fears, Pastor.
Seoond Sabbath in each month.
Bap-mst Cmjßcn, Rev. J. P. I.von, Pas
tor. Third Sabbath in each month.
CIVIC SOCIETIES.
PIXK GrOVK LoDflK, No. 177. F. A. M
Bt«tod communications, fourth Saturdays in
each wenth.
DOCTORS
T\R. J. 0. TURNIPSRKD will nttend to
if all call* day or night. Office i resi
dence, Hampton, Ga.
I\R. W. H PEEBLES treats nil dis-
I * eases, end will attend to all calls day
and night. Office at the Drug Store,
ltroad Street, Hampton, Ga.
DR. D. F. KNOTT having permanently
losated in Hampton, offers his profes
sional service* tn the citizen* of Hampton
and vicinity. All orders left at Mclntosh’s
store will receive prompt attention. sp26
TvR. N. T, BARNETT tenders his profes
-1-f pionml •evviee* ttf tire citizens of Henry
and adjoining comities, and will answer calls
day or night. Treats all diseases, of what
ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drug Store.
Hampton, Ga. Night calls can be made at
my residence, opposite Berea church. apr26
JF PONDER, Dentist, has located in
■ Hampton, Ga.,and invites the public to
call at his rooai. upstairs in the Bivins
House, where he will be found at all hours
Warrants all work for twelve months.
LAWYERS.
CW, HODNETT. Attorney and Godn
• sellor at Law, Jonesboro, Ga. Prompt
attention given toaii business.
GKORGE P BIVINS. Attorney at Law.
Will practice in the State and Federal
Ouarts. Collection promptly attended to.
Office op stairs io the Mclntosh building
Hampton, Ga. mail2if
TO. NOLAN Attorney at Law. Mc
• Donoagh, Georgia: Will practice in
the Bounties composing the Flint Circuit ;
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
Uidled States District Court.
WM. T. DICK.EN, Attorney at Law, Lo
cust Grave, Ga. Will practice in the
oouuties composing the Flint Judicial Cir
cuit, the Supreme Ooart of Georgia, and the
United States District Court. opr27-ly
GEO. M. NOLAN, Attornkt at Law.
McDonough,Ga. (Office in Court bouse )
Will practice In Henry and adjoining conn
tie«, and in the Supreme and District Courts
of Georgia. Prompt attention given to col
ectious. mch23-6m
JF. W ALL, Attorney at Law, Hamp
ton, Ga Will practice In the counties
composing the Flint Jadicia! Circuit, and
the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia
Prompt attention given to collections. ocs
EDWARD J. REAGAN, Attorney at
low. Office up stairs io the Mclntosh
building. Hampton. Ga. Special attention
given to commercial and other collect ions.
THE IDEAL.
[ think the song that’s sweetest
Is the one that’s never sung ;
That lies at the heart of the singer
'Poo grand for mortal tongue,
And sometimes in the silence
B- tween the day and night,
He fancies that its measures
Bid farewell to the light.
A picture that is fairer
Thao all that have a part
Among the master-pieces
In the marble halls of art.
Is the one that hnnnts the painter
In all his golden dieann,
And to the painter only
A real picture seems.
The noblest, grandest poem
Lies not in blae and gold
Among the treasured volumes
That rosewood bookshelves hold ;
Bui in bright, flowing visions
It comes to the poet’s brain,
And when he tries to grasp it
He finds his effort vain.
A fairy band from dreamland
Beckons us here and there.
And when we strive to grnsp it
It vanishes into air.
And thus onr fa it y Ideal
Floats always just before,
And we, with longing spirits,
Reach for it evermore.
Am Editor’s Affecting Note of
tiraiitndr.
A Philadelphia editor thus relieves his
mind on a subject familiar to all newspaper
officeg—the inevitable i üblic ducmnent:
•‘We owe our thuiks to Judge Kelley for
ibe latest patent office reports. W<■ already
have 1,600 of thrse interesting volumes in
our little librarv, but they have been read
and re-reud so many times that we know
• vrry page °f them by heart. This new
volume came opportunely and gratefully
on Christmas morning, and we gathered our
little family around the fire and read it
through to them. The affecting little tale en
titled, ‘lmprovement in Monkey Wrenches,’
seemed to touch every hea't, and wienwe
came to the climax of the littlo story about
‘Rr-versibl- Pieboards,’ there was not a dry
eye between the front door and the stable.
During the reading of the piteous narrative
entitl'd ‘Gum Washers for Carriage Axles,’
the whole family gave expression to bois
terous emotion, and the hired girl was so
much excited that she lost her presence of
mind, and went around to her mother’s in
advertently wilh six pounds of sugar and a
batter kettle full of floor, and came home
at midnight intoxicated. We can never
sufficiently thank Judge Kelley for the in
nocent amusements thus furnished ns. The
memory of that happy evening will linger
in our minds very much longer than the
hired giil lingers when she lights on a lot
of substance which she thinks will suit the
constitution of her aged parent.”
The Pascinsitiona of Chess.
There are curious, but well authenticated
anecdotes showing what fascinations chess
posesses for some minds. We have heard
of one of her Majesty’s ships being nearly
run ashore through the captain, absorbed
in bis combinations, not heeding the repeat
ed representations of his lieutenant that
they were getting uncommonly near the
land There was onoe a Caliph of Bagdad,
who would not be distuibed in his game,
though his city was being carried by assault.
And Charles XlI., of Swtden, when hardly
beset by the Turks at Bender, was at least
as much in'erested in I eating his antago
nisi across the board as in beating off the
Turks. Agao, an Eli ctor of Saxony, taken
prisoner at the battle of Mublberg by the
Emperor Charles V., Was playing chess with
a fellow prisoner when tidings were brought
to him that be hud b-en sentenced to dealh.
He looked up (or a moment to remark upon
the irregularity of the proceeding, and then
resumed the game, which to his great de
light, he won When we add that Freder
ick the Great and Marshal Saxe were
enthusiastic lor the game, who will say it
is oot a pastime in which it is worth while
to excel T Though many persons are de
barred by other occupations from devoting
to it sufficient atten'ion, those who have the
leisure may remember the dictum of the Duke
of Wellington, which is applicable to all
pursuits, that “what is worth doing at all is
worth do ng well.”
It was a colored pro cher who said to
his flock : “We have a collection to rn k<-
this morning, and for de glo»y of heaven,
whichever of you stole Mr. Jones’ turkeys
don’t put anything on de plate.” One
who was there says, “Eveiy blesed niggah
in de ebureh cum down with de rock*.’’
HAMPTON, GA., Fiji DAY, JUNE 25, 1880.
Women’s Pockets.
One of those popular journals which nro
the organs of feminine clothing has recently
began to agitate with much earnestness and.
eloquence in behalf of (be r-ght of women to
Lave and erjoy pockets. It points out the!
tact that while man is provided with from
nine to fifteen pockets—exclusive of overcoat
pockets—woman has either one solitary
pocket or Done at all. This is undoubtedly
a grievance, and the demand for female
pcckets will commend itself to the world
wi'h much more force than did the demand
for fpmnie trousers. Earnest ns has been th«<
agitation in favor of the latter, it has proved
« failure. Men could not, by any argument,
be brought to admit that it is the right and.
duty of women to wear trousers, and though j
a few fearless and determined women pro
vided themselves with the garment in ques
tion, their appearance therein was so start
ling that their personal victory has beeu the
defeat of their e-mse.
The withholding of pockets from women
has undoubtedly had its origin in the fact;
that among girls of tender years there has
beeu no apparent desire for pockets. The
boy is eminently a string-consuming animal
In his sports and occupations he Las a con
sinnt need of strings, i<nd hence he is prop
erly provided with pockets in which to carry
kite-string*, shoe-strings, top-strings and.
general strings. The girl never ues strings,
in any form and therefore does not fetl the.
need of pockets. As the boy grows to bo a
man hie pockets expand and increase with
constant use, so tbnt he finally is able to use
ten or fifteen all at once. The girl, on Ibe
other hind, growing np without pockets.
reaches womanhood without them, and as
much as she may then desire pi ckets, custom
is against the gratification of her desire.
The one pocket with which an occasional
woman is provided, and in which she carries
her keys, her handkerchief, her smelling
salts, her pin-cushion, nnd a quantity of
miscellaneous articles, is nothing inure than
a makc-.-bift. It has no precise locality
prescribed for it. Its owner, although she
knows that she has a pocket somewhere
beneath her skirt, can seldom ffmt it wiihnttl
u prolonged and irritating search. To some
women direct access to the pocket by means
of a slit in the skirt is denied, and in such
case the woman who wants to get at her
thimble is compelled to seek the isolation of
a corner of the room, where she goes through
a mysterious and p'otructed process by
which her pocket is finally reached and
exhumed. It is obvious that this inconve
nient substitute for the free and open pocket
of the male si x is by no means sufficient to
satisfy the deep wants of the ft minine nature,
and that its existence is no answer to «he
complaint that women are virtually packet
less.
It has beco urged that womea have a
mysterious receptacle vagu -ly described as
the “front of the driss,” the carrying
capacity of wldch is us large as that of the
combined pocke's nf a mm. I bis is a gross
exaggeration. The capacity of the recepta
cle in question varies greatly. In seme cases
it is undoubtedly large, and there are won
derful stories told ol the large quantities of
bulky goods that New England school
teachers frequently cirry about 'hem with
out presenting to the public aay appearance
of being overloaded, but, us a iu!e, the
average woman curries nothing larger lhau
n small purse in this receptacle. Io any
cose, it corresponds, not to the pockets ol
men, but to the hat of the Western slates
man, in wdiich the latter usually cairies hi- 1
bandana handkerchief, his chewing tobacco,
his buckskin gloves, and a collection of
documents. If we offset the Western siat-fi
man'* h't against the “front of the dftiss,’
. s «
the vast superiority of the tnen iu pout of
pockets still remains
'There is not only no reason why woman
should be deprived of pockets, but there is
abundant reason why her pockets should bo
even larger and more numerous than those
of mao. Nature seems to have designed her
to blossom into innumerable pockets. Man’s
clothing, with the solitary exception of bis
coit-taila, fits closely to bis person, and
affords no room for really capacious pockete
'The skirts of women may, however, he huug
with pockets within and without, and the
Capacity of each oue may be threefold that
of the largest tioflsers or coat packet. In
the concealed pockets she may carry a week's
supply of clothing and hair pins, and the
visible pockats might he put to uses of which
the masculine pocket is totally ineapable.
A large pocket, for example, might be
placed outside the skirt, with an opening in
the region of the belt buckle, and in this
pocket a rood'rate-s zed in'ant might be
carried, thi s avoiding the fatigue of filling
the arms with a burden that must behaudled
with the utmost ca e, aod, at the same time,
I leaving the hands free. Io case of twins,
j t|io capacity of the pocket might be enlarger!,
|l>i a rear pocket of like pattern might he
lived, so that the weight of one twin would
lance the weight of the other. This is
thrown out as,a more suggestion of one of
Blie uses to which feminine pockets in'ght be
put. and » hundred other like suggestions
input easily be made.
Woman is undoubtedly made to be a
packet-wearing person. Now, that she has
a wrkened to the fact that she is unreasonably
1 prived of pockets, let n» hope that she will
«,jist upon her rights, and that in a short
A*e a woman without pockets will become
aPtj-vrc mo pocket less man.— N. Y. Tunes.-
lit
Ifc’ Tuombsand Senator Mor
ton, of liidtnua
I have heard General Robert Toombs tell
a good story that will bear repetition, us
Illustrating his peculiar and excepti >n«l
feeling of alleged hostility to the Federal
Government. In hi« lively moods the Gen
eral is a good story teller, and has a great
jfuml of apt ones that he can use effectively,
i lie said lie was in Washington, and din
er! with the late famous Senator Morton, of
Epdiana. the great lender of the Republican
iiiiity. This was since the war, nnd the sub
ject of amnesty was diseased, and Morton
■urged Toombs to make tvs application for
whe removal of his disabilities* Toombs re
plied to him that he would illustrute his
ijositien in this amnesty matter by an unec
■jfote of an old fellow that lived in Georgia,
haunted i’eavy. In his .settlement there livud
i.qld maid named Rachel, who had a squint
pn one of her eyr-<, ami us she was an acri
monious old spinster, of sharp tongue, and
quart-lied a good deal, the superstitious in
tfce neighborhood got np the story that she
possessed an ‘‘evil eye,” and that said “evil
eye” did a good deal of duuinge in making
Stock die, and the children sick and misfor
tunes happen to people. Old Wn»v tapec
ially disliked the old maid, and believed re
ligiously m her evil eye. He had one of his
cat tie to the when she wns a boot h>» house,
and the old chap felt outraged, and told her
she hud done him enough harm, nnd kicked
her ont of hia house. The enraged spinster
’tj'rffnght the inaiter before their church, of
which both he and she weie members, and
nearly every Saturday for a year the church
council had this it-inurkable cose for trial.
This, of course, did not make old Peuvy any
belter disposed to Miss Rachel. Peavv
was n good churchra-oi in tin; main, and n
liberal fellow, and his cl.nreh did not want
to losp him. So, ifiort was made time and
ngnin to make him express regret and oon
trition for whnt he had done, nnd they would
forgive him and drop the matter. But
Pcavy was inexorable, and the more the
thing was pressed the more implacable old
Heavy became, and the more lie hated the
“evil-eyed” gplns’er for her Bpparcnt perse
cution of turn.
Al length nr.e good old hro'hcr wrought
noon him bo effectually by earnegt appiuls
that he got him to conv nt to gpt np nnd
use the simple expression that he was “sor
ry,” without saying what he was sorry for,
or u c ing any further explanations. It was
difficult to gel him to go even this far, but
be finally consented. And lie did get np,
and in a peculiar snappy and curt way be
sntd the single words, 1 I am sorry.”
The preacher, a venerable, pious brother
named icer, was not altogether satisfied
with the manner nor the words of old Broth
er Peavy, so he told him with great solem
nity that he fell ‘t his duty to ask Brother
Peavy what sort of sorrow he felt for his
unchristian action, and desired to know if it
was snch godly sorrow as a child ol the
church hke him should (eel and express.
This knocked the fat in the fire The broth
er who had-induced old Peavy to say be was
sorry groaned in spirit over the unreason
able severity of Parson Mercer, Old Pea
vy’g last scrap of patience was goe, and tbe
repressed fire of the old man broke oat un
governably. L/> king around defiantly, ha
shot out the words that he wished to put the
church upon notice that he wis going to da
what he hadn’t done in forty years, since bs
first joined the church. He was going to
curse. At this the women screamed on* in
horr- r, and begged him not to do it. Un
moved, old P avy tnrned to the preacher,
Mercer, and with iodescribabla emphasis,
said :
«I'll tell you what lam sorry for. lam
sorry I didn’t brnk her d—d old neck, d—n
her 1” and stalked out of church in a roar
ing fury. And it i* said the oi<d 'el'uw from
that day couldn’t find corses enough to heap
on his once beloved cboicb.and finally died
»n incurable swearer.
To< mbs told Morton tb it old Peavy a
sorrow in connection with the old woman
wus hi- sort of sorrow for tbe Federal Gov
ernment.
Senator Morton nod bis companion broke
into a storm of laughter, and General
Toombs said that Senator Morton told him
if he would make his application for pardon
and let him tel! that story es coming from
Toombs, as itlu-troiing his repentance, he
would guarantee that every- Republican
Senator would vote for his amnesty.
Toombs liked Morton very much, and
speaks of him with groat kindness.
That Hnt.
Probably the meanest trick that was ev'-r
played on a white man was played last Week
in this city, and the fact that there is
no vigilance committee here la the only
«... tl .. <>f ih.i 1 .-Ulr h»a alltNi
It itwill tilt? pt;i • t»*u> O **• »«»* «<KI» wtb wy - »
A business man h»d jut purchased n 'lew
stiff hut, nnd he went into a saloon with
half a deZ'Ui friends lo fit the hat oa his
heal. They all took heer, and passed the
hut around ro all could see it. One of the
meanest men that over held a country office
went to the bar tender and had n thin slice
of lintberger cheese cut off, and when the
party were looking at the frescoed ceiling
through beer glasses, this wicked person
slipped the cheese under the sweat leather
of the Imt, nnd the man put it on and walk*
ed out.
The rami who on-nod the hnt in one ol
your nervous people, who is always com
plaining of being 'lnk. and who feels ns
thoutrh some dreadful disease was going to
tuke poßSiHsion ol him and carry him rfl
He went back to bis place oi business, tools
off l>i» hot and laid it on the table and pro
ceeded to answer some hittere. lie thought
he detected a smell, and when bis partner
asked him if he didn't (eel sick he said lie
believed he d'd. A clerk said it wns cvi
dent that somebody’s feet needed waahing
Die rann turned pale und eoid be guessed lie
would go h^mo.
He met n man on the sidewalk who said
the air was fnll of mitttiua, mid in the street
car a man who snt next to him moved away
to the end of tho ear, and naked Inm if he
Imd just come from Chicago The man
with the hat said he had not, when 1 lie stran
ger snht they were having u great deal oi
I onnll-pox, and he guessed he would get ont
| and walk, und bo pulled the bell and jumped
I off. The cold perspitntion broko out on
| the forehead of the man with the new hat.
I and he took it off to wipe his forehead when
the whole piece of cherso seemed to roll
over and breathe, ami the man got the full
benefit of it, and he came near fainting
away He got home, and his wife met him
and arksl him what was tho mutter. He
said lot helirved mortification lutd set In,
and she took off his hat, and said she should
think it had “Where did you get Into It ?”
said she. “Hot into it ?’ said 'he man, “I
have not got into anything lint some deadly
disease has got hold of mo, ami I shnll not
live'' She told him if any dleaaso that
smelled like that had got hold of him, and
was going tu bo chronic ehe fait as though
he would bo a burden to hirm-clf if he lived
very long* Shi- got his c’o'bci off, soaked
his feel in musturd water, and he slept. The
hat was lying on the centre table, and
the children would come in and get a smell
of it and look at each othe* with reproach
ful glances, and go out and play. Ihe mm
slept and dreamed that a wimll pox flag
wns hung in front of his house, und that he
wus rid ng in a butcher wagon to tho p'St
hon e The wile seat for a doctor, and
when the man of pill* ariivui shu toij him
all about (he case.
The doctor picked up the patient's new
tint, tried it on and got a sold, lie said the
hat was picked before it was ripe. Tbe
d -ctor and the wife held a po«t mortem ex
amination of the hut, and found lbs limber
ger. • Few and Hbort were tbe prayers they
said.” They woke the patient, and to pre
pare his mind for tbe revelation *hat was
about to be ai >de, the doctor asked him if
his wordly effiirs were in a euiiafuctory eon
dition. Me gasped and said they were. The
doctor asked him if be bad made his will.
He said that he hail not, bait that he
wanted a lawyer sent for al once. The doc.
tor asked him him if he fell at though be
was prepared to shuffle off. The man said
be had alwuys tried to lead a different life,
and had tried to ba done by the same as he
wuald do it himsell, but that bo might h.ve
imde a misdeul some way,and he would like
to have a awufeter seat tor to take an ac
count of stock
Tbca tbe doctor brought to the bedside
! the hat, opened up tbe sw«st leather and
j ihiaud the dying mao what it was that
smelled so, and told him lie wa-as well as any
man in the city The put iso i pinched him
self tc see if lie was alive, and jumped out
I ot bid ami called tor his revolver, and the
| doc'or couldn’t keep up with him on the
way down town. The last we saw ol tbe
odoriferous citizen be was trying to biihe
the bir-t- nder to teil him which out ol thorn
pelicans it was that put the slice of cheese
in bis bat lining.
Naming the Baby.
‘•My wife her j -»’ presented me wid de
linos' boy in dis country,” said Black Bill,
entering a magistrate’s offi - e, taking off his
hat and slinging pc spiral ion tro'n his brow
. . ■ « • a ..«r » t M
with n crocked forefinger. “Yes, geu’elmen.”
be went on, “de G chfle I ober see-l. Aid
I'so j'*s’ got n twenly-dollar gold piece right
lisidi to gin ter de m m what Can guess
wlmt 1 he* named him. Ter keep
yer from spreadiid ober de whole universe
iob names, I’ll state dal hit’s u Bible
I name.”
I “Abralnm ” guessed some one.
j “Nor
"Nor sub,”
“Job.”
“fine*" ngnin.”
“Nioodomns ”
‘ Keep or coinin’.”
“ Abcmleiclr"
“Try mo agin.”
The gnessing cen«ed after a time, and
finally Bill remarked :
“I'se name I dot boy Jmlas E“cnrut.”
“What I” saitl the magistrate. “Jades be*
trayed our Savior.’’
“Can’t help hit. Dut’s de boy’s nome.
Judas he* been slighted. Nobody h<x eber
had de immoral courage to name a chile fur
dit m«n. Bat dat ain't de main reason why
I names him Judas I’se got de Bible ter
'stain inn in gibm de chile dat name.”
“Ilrw does the Biole sustain you In de*
siring to perpetuate Hint name," asked the
magistrate.
‘ Hits di» fack : Chris’ in rer..arkin’ of
Judas, said, dat hit would hub bin better
far dat m«n ef he hadn’t bin bom.”
“Well.”
“An consider in' how many moufs is ispen
ed at de doo’ when I gi>es home wirl « side
ob meat, it would hub bin better far dat boy
ob mine ef he had neber seen do daylight.
1 knows wlmt I’se tnlkin about. 1 takes do
Wcriptnr from de references. In de futnr'.
ef 1 finds dat de boy h- * made Hny itnprovn
mont on hissef. dan I’ll ebungo his name *er
Jiui."— Jjillle Rock Gazette.
A yiielitinz Etlt'm’s Work..
A Western edhorrwbase siyie of wriiing
was cnlcti In ltd to arouse people to deeds of
gore, being himself not much on the muscle,
found it necessary to keep n fighting editor,
nnd he had a speaking tube connected with
the heeler’s ro in to call him when danger
required. One day a gentleman, whom the
editor hud referred to as ‘a cross-eyed
dromedary," cmne In to r quest n correction,
nnd as the fighting editor was out, he did
not respond to the signal of dial roes ; and
while th • editor nnd his visitor were on the
floor under the tick. th« former agreed to
correct tho oi'slnke, nn I the irute min left.
I’relty soon, u gen'lemon from the rural dis
tricts came in to give the editor a big squash
and get a notice, and about that lime the
fighting editor returned, nnd a buy in his
room told hon thaf the boas wonted help. .
The man of war was qivck to respond, and,
dashing into the chief’s room and seeing the
UMer in a somewhat disordered condition,
the result of his previous vw*it, he thought
the com try man was the cause of it, nnd
clutched him, and after stnvlng up soiuo
furniture, f»u the victim across the street, to
where an empty he<rse was standing in front
of an undertaker's shop. Into the vehicle
he ]jturned the farmer and shut the door.
The commotion he had cr.ated reared the
horses attached to the hearse, and they
started off on a <lead ran People soon
noticed th* runaway, and ron alter it. and
were shocked at beholding the hearse collide
with a post nt'd b> come a complete wreck ;
and their horror at seeing a human body
precipitated to the sidewalk was only
equaled bv tbeir amaiement at seeing it
spring nimbly to its feet and toko off across
the country, yelling murder. They thong t
it was «a attempt to bary a man alive, and
part ol them weut and got the undertaker to
lynch him, while ihe rest pursued the farmer,
who wm found hiding in a swamp. And,
alter he wus brought in, it took over three
boors to get matters explained ; aud then
t e farmer weut before a Justice of tha
Peuce and mad- affidavit that he hoped *o
be struck by . lightning if he ever entered u
newspaper office again.— Boston Post.
Oili.V a woman’s hair,
Binding now to the past,
Only a -male thread
To ’ hail to last
Only a woman’s hair
Threading a tear and a jjigb.
Ority a woman’s hair
Found to day in the pie
Whto spelling is “reformed” she’ll write :
‘■l'm sailing on me oshau ;
The se i« hi. no sale in sti'e,
■ It ti.z me Wile emosoun.”
j Bat one “spell” will tint change its name,
i For she’ll oe srk just the aaiui !
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