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DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1G 1877.
Buiijjsiy’s I xpciinu ni.
Bungay, the re A estate agent at
Peneador, suspected that Mrs. Bun
gay didn’t care as much for him as
she ought to. 80 one day he wont
up to the city alter leaving wo;d that
lie would he gone two or ihree days.
hilethere he arranged with afiiend
to send a telegram to hie wife, at a
certain hour, announcing that he had
been run over on the railroad and
killed. Then Bungay came borne,
nml slipping into the house unpciceiv
ed, lie seerbted himself in the closet
in the silting 100 m, to await the arri
val ol the telegram and see how Mrs
Bungay took it. After a while it
cau.e, and he saw the seivant girl
give it to his wife. Bhe opened it,
and as she lead it she gave one little
‘tart. Then Bungay saw a smile
gradually ove-spread her features.—
She rang for the girl, and when the
sei vnnt came Mis. Bungay said to her:
“Mary, Mr. Bungay has been Kill
ed. I've just got the news. I reckon
I’ll have to put on black for him
though I Suite to give up my new
bonnet for moiitniug You just go
round to the millit er’s and ask her to
fetch me Up some ol the latest styles
of widow’s bonne s, and tie a bunch
1
of crape on the door, and then bring
the undertaker here.”
W bile Mrs. Bungay was waiting
she smiled conti- ually, and once or
twice 6he pranced around the room
and stood iu front of the looking-T-lass,
and Bungay be, rd her murmur to
hersell:
“1 ain’t such a bad looking woman,
eittier. I wonder what James will
think ol me?”
“James!” thought Bungay, as his
widow took her Boat and sang softly
as if she felt paiticularly happy:
“Wtio’n the thundei’s Jatr.es? Shu
certainly can not mean that infamous
old undeitakei, Toombs? His name’s
James, ami he’s a widower; t ut it’s
prej osteroUs to suppose that she cares
for him, or is going to prowl after any
man fora husband as quick as this”
While he brooded, in borrow over
the thought, Mr. Toombs arrived —-
The widow said:
“Mr Toon*l s, Bungay is dead; run
over by a loeomotit aud chopped all
up”
“Very sorry to hear it, madam; I
sympathize with your affliction.”
“Thank you; is pretty sad—But 1
don’t worry much. Bungty was a
poor sort of a man to get along with,
and now that he’s gone I’m going to
stand it without crying my eysa out.
V\ e’U have to bury him, I spose,
though ?”
“That is the usual thing to do in
such cases.”
“Well, 1 want you to ’tend to It for
me. 1 recon the Coroner ’ill have to
sit on him first. But when they get
through, il you’ll just collect the pie
cps and shake him into 60me kind of
a hug and pack him into a coffin, I’ll
be obliged.”
“Certain y, Mrs. Bungay. When
do you want the funeral tcf occur ?”
“Oh, ’most any day, P’rhaps the
sooner the het'er, so’s we can hate it
over. It’ll save ex; ettses, too, by tak
ing less ice. I don’t want to spend
much on it, Mr. Toombs. Rig him up
some kind of a cheap coffin, and mark
hie name on it with a brush, and bury
him witli as little fuss a poseib e.—
i’ll come along with a couple of
friends; and we ll walk. No carria
ges. Times are too hard.”
“i will attend to it.”
“And, Mr. Toombs, there is another
matter. Mr. Bungay’s life wasinsur
ed lor about twenty thousand dollars,
and I want to get it assoonas possible,
and wheu I get it I shall think of
marrying again.”
“Indeed, madnm?” *
“Yes; aud can you think of any
body who’ll suit met'”
“I dunno. I might. Twenty thou
sand you say he lei ?”
“Twenty thousand; yes. Now, J r
Toombs, you’ll think me hold, but I
ouly tell the hones! truth when 1 say I
that 1 prefer a widowm, and a tnaa
who is about middle age, aud in some
business connected with cemeteries.”
‘ Bow would arr undertaker suit
you ?”
“1 think very well, if I could find
one; I often told Bungay that I
wished he was an undertaker.”
“Well, Mrs. Bungay, it’s a little
kinder sudden; I haven’t thought
much about it; and old Bungay’s
hardly got lairly settled in the world
of the hereafter; but buaiueea is busi-
ness, and if you must have an under
taker to love you and look after that
life insurance money, it appears to
me that I am just about that kind of
a man. Will you take me?”
“Oh, James! fold me to your bosom !”
James was just about to fold her,
when Bungay, white with rage, burst
from the closet, and exclaimed:
“Unhand her, villian ! Touch that
woman and you die! Leave this
house at once, or I’ll brain you with
the poker ! And as for you, Mrs. Bun
gay, you can pack up your duds and
quit- I’ve done with you; I know
that you are a cold-hearted, faithless,
abominable wretch! Go, and go at
once! I did this to try you, and my!
eyes are opened.”
“I know you did and 1 concluded to
pay you in your own coin.”
“That’s too awful thin. It won’t
hold water.”
“It’s trum auywhow. You told j
Mr. McGill you were going to do it’ j
and he told me.”
“He did, bey? I'll bust tbe.head off
of him ”
“When you are really dead I will
be a good deal in,.re sorry, provided
you don’t make such a fool of yourself
while you’re aliVe.”
“You will? You will really be sorry.”
“Of course.”
“And you won’t mairy Toombs?
By George, I’ll go for him now! He
was mighty hungry for that life insu
rance money! I’ll step nronnd and
kick him at once While I’m mad.-
We’ll talk this matter over when I
come back.”
Then Bungay left to call upon
Toomhs, and when he returned he
dropped the nubjee . He has drawn
up his will so that bis wife is cut off
with a shilling il she employs Toombs
as the undertaker.
Irwinton Souther nor and Appeal ;
One day last week Mr. Fiank Mere
dith, living in tbe lower part of this
county, rode to a field where a negro
man named Joe Butke was hoeing
some cotton for him Mr. Meredith
complained nb 'iit the qu ntily and
quality of the work, whereupon the
negro violently abused him. Mr.
Meredith advanced Upon the negro to
punish bis impudence, when tho negro
assaulted him with bis hoe, breaking
his arm between the elbow and shol
der, and cutting a terrible gash in the
arm near the shoulder and stiiking
him a severe blow upon the bead, ren
dering him insesetisiblc, and it was at
firs', thought fracturing li s skull. The
negro then robbed Mr. Meredith’s
poison of his pistol and nr uuting his
borse, fled to his house, took his
clothes, leaving the horse fled and has
not eince been seen, althouglit eflorts
hate been made to ajprehend him.
Houston Home Journal: We are in
formed from a source of Undoubted
authority of a peculiar cour.ship that
took place recently in Houston county.
The parties were a youth of sixtem
summers and a maidon of forty-five
winters. The young man by deceit
ful arts gained tier affection and con
fidence, and then, for reasons satisfac
tory only to himself —certainly not so
to the party of the second part—de
clined to proceed to the consummation
so devoutly contemplated by her.—
What arguments weie uaed on either
sidelinewn we know not, but the la
dy resorted to a species of diplomacy
rather rare under our present coneti
tuion, namely: a four-foot hoard judi
ciously administered by the young
lady where it would do the most good,
backed by an effort ot fifty acres ot
land. It was so effectually that con
viction was followed by coinplian 0. —
They procured the necessary commis
sion, and the liymenia. and Gordian
knot was tied by a worthy magistrate
according to law and the most approv
ed ritual- “They that sow iu tears
shall reap in joy,” and we trust that
this union, so inauspiciously begun,
mayprtve tne of lasting happiness.
By special request we unit the men
tion ol names.
There are two men of Noithern
birth iu the convention; lion. Porter
Ingram, of Columbu , bom in Ver
mout, and (Job w . T. Thompson, edi
tor of the Morning News who was
horn in Ohio. Two are Scotch Gy
biith: Hon. Hu ft h Buchanan, ami
Hon. Adam Johnson, ot Augusta.—
Six are from North Cat oil ua, niue
jrom South Carolina, four from Ten
nessee and one each lrom Florida,
Maryland, Virginia ami Alabama,
Full Crops—Turnips.
In view of the partial failure of the
, corn crop in a large portion of the
State as well as the intrinsic value of
tui nips, they should be largely sown on
well prepared land, highly fertilized
with a good ammoniated superphos
phate. They are net to be relied ou
! ns a fattening food, hut when fed to
1 milch cows, they increase largely the
flow of milk, and as a hog food tl.ey
furnish considerably nutriment, and
in connexion with more condensed
food aid largely in inducing a good
appetite and healthy digestion.
IRISH POTATOES.
For a full crop these may now hs
planted in M.ddle and Southern Geor
gia. If the soil is well prepared, and
the tubers planted without cutting,
not less than six , inches deep wit'i
good seasons a finejvield may he se
emed, especially, if they are well
mulched. Thesejwill keep much bet
ter during winier, than the summer
crop. Extreme Northern Georgia,
cun and ought to supply the whole
State with winter potatoes.
OATS.
This important Cereal, ban occupied
a large space in the publications of
the Department, siuce its establish
ment, and it is highly gratifying to
note the greatly increusee area, auiial
ly devoted tojt.
The crcp just harvested was not a
full one—chiefly owing to the late
sowing of the fall crop and the unpre
cedented eiid of the past winter; but
the result, has not been at all disccut
aging. The rust proof oat which ha 9
become so popular, is not strictly
winter oat, pioof against winter rill
ing, hut is practically so if sown early
m fall. The winter grazing is
strictly a winter oat, hut not rust
proof.
Sowing should commence in North
Georgia the latter of August, and la
ter !he further South, und extending
through September and October. Far
mers ure again urged to show a large
crop n oats. If the same coi.d tions he
complied with in both crops, oats are
much more reliable than corn ; with
the exercise of the same judgmeut
ns to the time of sowing oats, as to
planting corn—not consulting mere
convenience, as was once the univer
sal practice —the samecaie in select
ir.g approved seed, and in preparing
and manuring and sowing,the oatirop
will fnore uniformly succoed than will
the corn.
What would be'said of the farmer,
Who should plant his corn crop any
time between Ist of March, and the Ist
of June, as mere convenience and oth
er demands upon his tin e might de
termine? And yet such a system or
want of system, in re
gaid to sowing oats for many years
and very often the sowing has been
postponed to November or December
or to March—ar.d indeed,often entire
ly neglected.
WnEAT.
The large rrop harvested the past
neason will enduce largely increased
cowing this fall. This is as it should
be. But caution should ho used to
comply with the conditions known to
bo necrfsßßiy to success.
First, in point of time, end in im
portance, is securing approve! se^d.
If possible procure seed from a re
liab'e grower. Early ripening is an
all-itnporfiiiif (joa ity. Hardiness to
resist diseases is nsxh Color or size of
the grain are minor considerations
lied wheatsare general y more hardy.
The early Bed May is an old and very
popular'tariety, and general y hardi
ness. The early red purple straw, is
another good variety. TheNicarauga,
anew variety seeded for thiee years
by Mr. 0 D. Black# Campbeiiton,
Ga., is believed to be peculiary rust
proof, hit. is somewhat objectionable
on account ot its exceedingly long
rougli beard.
Select, if passible, high rolling land
with clay subsoil# not too rich, and
after thorough preparation cf the soil
by deep plowing and harrowing,
sow 15th Octobei to Ist December,
according to latitude—using, if con
venient, the fo lowing compost, which
will answer also for outs:
FoKMCLA FOE WHEAT OB MTINTKtt OATS
ON CLAY LAND.
Cotton seed ("reen) 25 bu., oi 7so pound*.
Stable manure fiat) pound*.
Superphosphate SCO pounds.
bnlphate of ammonia lUO pounds,
Making a ton of 2,000 pounds.
ON FINE /.AND.
Cotton seed (greeu) 25 bu., or 750 pounds.
.-table manure 55 ) pounds
j Superphosphate 500 pounds.
I Sulphate ammonia 00 pouuds.
, Muriate of potash 100 pounds.
Making a ton of 2,ooopounds.
Prepare as directed iu circular No.
42. After the land has been thoiough
iy broken, apply 400 pounds of the
compost per acre# an! harrow or plow
in lightly with the grain For winter
crops, the fertilizers should be applied
near the suiface, and should contain a
latger por cent, of ammonia thau those
used on suu.mer crops.
Ileler to the circular No. 41, whore
tho su' ject is discussed mote at large,
'and some valuable experiments detail
!.
SNAKES.
A Blne-Riici’r Over Twimlf
Feel l.ong—Two ©ills
Evillo<l by Kiillleis.
A'rom the Grand Rapids Knglc.
A gigantic blue-racer, twenty feet
eight and three-fourths incites in
length, and ten inche* : n circumfer
ence in the largest place, was killed
in the southwestern part of the town
ship of Cannon hy a citizen of good
repute. He had a terrible nnc unt
er with it. On going from his work
to a neighboring spring to get a drink
of water he saw the grass wave a few
rods from him, when lo ! the blue
devil came toward him with lightning
velocity and head uplifted about three
or (our feet high from the ground.—
When within about ten feet from the
man lie halted, as if to look his prey
over. lie ventured nearer and near
er, and finally attacted the man. The
snake twined itself several times
around the man’s legs, and foiled him
to the ground. The man took his
knife out cf his pocket, and with a
few desperato strokes completely
served the monster’s head from its
body. It lied previously been hurt,
or it probably would have crushed the
man, there being a large hunch on
its side. Since thou the man’s hair
has turned gray.
From the Osborn County Farmer.
A daughter of Mr. J. O. Btiery of
Twin creek, Osborn county, Kansas,
aged scuie BJ or 14 years, went with
hr brother las Saturday morn ng to
his claim, some five jiffies distant,
where he was anding som6 work, and
the two expected to return together in
the afternoon. Theyjchanged their
plans, however, anff about 8 o'clock
the girl set out for heme on loot end
aloue, carrying a pail in wli ch to
gather some’w Id berries on the way.
Later in the evening her brother n
- home, and great was t e sur
prise to find that the girl was still
abseut. Search was immediately in
stituted, but went on without any
avail until 2 o’clock on Sunday. The
pail she carried was found by the
roadside about two miles from home,
partly filled. This’seettied to con fir on
beyond a doubt the great fear tha'
some awful fate had delayed her re
turn Mr. Ward and another party,
who were engaged .in the search, at
last beard a call, and proceeded in the
direction Whence it Came. There, sit
ting on the gound in a nearly denud
ei state, they found the poor girljfiv
a pool to which she had found her
way. She was trying to extract the
poison which the fangs of a rattle
suake had hurried in hor foot, by
burying it in soft mud.
All this time she had remained
there alone, and experienced the
symptoms of a horrible death ap
proaching, for the venuni wac work
ing iu her system. Although suffici
ently conscious to call for help when
it was near, her denuded state indica
cated that her Bufferings had, at times
at least, driven her to frenzy. She
died.
This touching obituary is from the
Thomnsvilie Twits : “Afiothef gone to
his rest. It bn] pened in the usual
way--with a slight variation, howev
er. T.Se'fntlle was standing near the
lot gate, ears gently drooping nnd eyes
appearently close!. He had just
“chambered” a full “bait” of West
ern corn, aud was, to appearance?,
“dreaming the happy hours away.”
But lie wasn’t. He was watching a
darkey from out one corner of his eye.
The negro attempted to “pass,” when
the hybrid beast “ordered him up,”
holding a pair (of hind feet) triumph
antly in the air. iSambo “threw up
his baud” and “passed in liia checks.’
“Tne funeral was notveiy numerously
attended.”
The sun is the oldest aud best lan
cet.
The poor man’s summer regort—a
palm leaf fan.
To a hungry fly, a bald orchestra is
an osis.
The weather struck for higher teiu
peratuie and got it.
Id lowa a good dancer is said to
“throw a hefty 6cck.”
Some people read the Eleventh
Cc'tnoiaudinent, “Do liotand fear not.
Twenty-live thousand watorrr.elors
arrived in Dos'on Monday. Comment
i is not so necessaiy us a iiitte tincture
of rhubarb. —Lowell i onr.'tr.
A mosquito is a very free-and-easy
sort of a creature. He visits you at!
all hours of the night and generally ,
makes 1 iraself to bum. —Pkihdtlfthw
JB'd let in.
VOL. 111. —NO. 27.
A Loving Couple.
“Midas! I want to ’sposen a case to
you, au’ I want you to gim me the
Gospel truth cb you 'pinion 'bout tha
matter.*’
That’s the manner in which one of
Washington’s dusky damsels put it to
her sdorer one evening recently.
“Now Midas, you knows yon’se tola
me more times 'an you’se got fingers
an’ toes, as you tubbed me harder ’an
a marble top wnsiistand* an’ ’at I’sa
sweeter to you ’an buckwheat cakes
and laseea ioreber. Midne, die am
otily a ’sposen case, but I want you lo
’sposen jas as if’n ’twssnshonutf one.”
“’Sposen me an’ you was goin’ on a
’scursion down the ribber?"
“Yes,” broke in Midas, “down to
Moun’ Werr.on.”
“Any whar’a 'tail, down de libber.
Midas, kin you swinji”’
“No, Luce, I’se sorry to form you
dat de only drerkshou what 1 can cif
ciunstanshinte frii de water, am de
bottom.”
“Well, den, as I was ’lating. 'Spo*
sen we was on de boat, glidin’ Jubbin’-
ly an’ harmunly down de biiS'Um ot
de libber’s stream, de moon was look
in’ shin n inly do .v n ’pnnde emoekstark,
and you was soilin’ rite up to me,
(slide up here closer an’ lem’me show
you hew) dat’e de way.”
“Yah! yah! hut wouldn’t dat be
pcumptuous,” interrupted Midas.
“’Sposen,” entinued Luce, ‘‘you
had jes put your arm inun’ my wal’
(dat’s it) dey wasn't nobidy ’bout, you
was a squeezed me up, an’ was jes
gwine to gim’me de lubbnnuess kind
oh a kiss* an’-*—i.n’ —an ile tiler would
bust?”
“Oh, de debhil!’’ esc’aimed the dis
appointed Midas.
“Now, Midas,-1 is a ’sposen dis case
an’ 1 want you to mind de words
what Icm a speakin.’ ’Sposen when
dat hiler busted we bof went up in de
air, coma down in de ribbei, and
when we arrived in de water we found
de only thin’ ief’ oh dat boat was one
piece o’ board, wasn't big et.ufT to
hole us bof, but we bof grab it; now,
Midas wild you let go datjboard, or
wud you put n.e off an’ took it all
y’sell? Dat’s de question what I’m a
sposen.”
“Luce, kin you swim?” he asked,
after hesitating a few moments.
“No, Midas* obcourse not. iTou
know i can’t swim.”
“Well, den Luce, my conshenslnu
pinion ob de whole matter am, dat
we won t go on no ’sctirsiona.”
A llitin>tt Mt;j|csilou,
Jim Brown, a worthy German, died
in Franklin recently, and his next
friend, also a worthy German, was ap
poir ted administrator to settle up tha
affairs of jft is estate. The admistrator
called at a printing office the other
day to havepos ers printed announcing
that the goods of the late Brown
wou'd be sold at public auction,
“I vaDt you to write up dose bills in
some kind of a sthyle,” said the ad
ministrator, whose mi.id runs much to
bu itiess, ‘ I vant somding dat vill ad
drect der public, eye, mid pring in der
beoples from der koundry.”
The printer asked for a suggestion
or two.
’ Mrs. Brown tifid tuinesell hafdalk
ed it over," continued the business
man, “und we vant you to head dos*
bills] somdings this way,”—and he
marked on the wall with his cans to
show “that he wanted big letters—
“Hoor-iaw! hoor-raw ! Jim Brown is
Oil City Derrick.
Homicide In Crawford County.
The Macon Tdettrctph, of the 7th
insb,says:
A sad a flail 1 took place at Brice's,
mill in Crawford county, last Satur
day evening, in which Mr. James It.
Mathews was shot and killed by Mr.
F. M. Abbott. It seems they bad a
previous altercation in reference to
some land and Mathews on going to
the mill to carry some corn was told
by Abbott not to enter. Mathews
persisted and was shot. As the mat
ter is to be investigated judicially it
would be improper to publish any of
the rumors in circulation.
Mo ISe for Ileus.
Tho Berrien County News relates
the following:
Mrs. John C-osby, living in th
eastern portion of the county’, placed
sum s lien eggs several weeks ago in
the crack of the house, (formed by
the space between the logs,) and after
remaining thero some four weeks she
noticed that several of them Wet* pip
ed and contained live chickeus. Tab*
irg the eggs aud carefully wrapping
them up and putting in a warm place
she soon had a fine lot of chickens
: hatched out without th assistance of
a heti.
The oldest mmoher of the Conven
tion is Gen. Eli Warren, who wae
born in 1801. Gen. Warren is one
of the truest sons Georgia has- He is
from Houston, and is one of the meu
whom his constituents dshght to hon
or. His son Hon. J. L. Warren, of
1 Savannah, is bBo a m tuber cl 'lie
Convention dbiy were both mem
bers of the Convention of 18fi5.