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ornvble. sep 6,6 m.
J. n GUFRKY, JAS, G PAKKB.
• GUERRY & PARKS,
/.ttorney? and Cobjisßlor? at LaVr,
DAWSON, - GEORGIA.
—:o:
PRACTICE in the State atid Federal
Courts. Collections made a specialty.—
Promptness and dispatch guarantied and
ineured. Nov 1 if
R. P. SIMMONS,
at La'S & Seal tjlate fe’t.
Dawson, Terrell County, Ga
SPEJIAL a tention given to collections,
conveyancing and investigating titles to
Real E<tate. Oct. 18, tf
'JAMES 1C BE 1..
ATTORNBy AT LHV7,
MORGAIP, Calhoitn'Co., Georgia.
OUSINE3S. intrusted to my cite will b
-it prommly attended to. Special a-teat inn
will be given to collections.
T. 11 . PICKETT,
Alfy A Counselor al Law,
OKHCE with Oidinsry in Court Hoc■ >■.
All business ent.listed tc hiscarewill
receive prompt and efficient attention. Jalrt
J. J. BECK,
Attorney a t Law,
Morgan. CnlSioini roniil^Ga*
Will practice in the Alb ty Circuit and else
wlicre in the State, by Contract. Pi ompt at'
tention to all business entrusted to Lis
care. Collections a specialty. Will also in
vestigate titles and buv or sell real Estate in
Uaihaun, Baker aud fiarly Conniies.
march 21—tf
L. G C A R T LEDGE,
Attorney at Law
morgax, - - Georgia.
tV T ILL give close attention to all busi
' * ness entrusted to his care in Albany
Circuit. 4-Iv
j,. c. I lOYLI
-Attorney at Law.
Dawson. Georgia.
D. H. FILLER,
AT LAW,
Morgan, <*a.
E3f~ office in Ordinary’s Office. 030,8 m
j. T 2 /an
attorney at law,
DA ws OV, - GEOli GIA .
Olfipp over J tv'. J .hnston’s store. Janl
medical card
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MOllGAfr, ,: GEORGIA,
OFFERS bis eerfices to the
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<4 'ro. Sept 80,
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should consult Dr. J. A. SHERMAN, ?58
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book, with Photograph liked*sses of bad
cases before and after core. Beware of
cheats who preteud to furnish Dr. Sher
man’s tieatment. ,
One of these fellows, a German clerk,
now calling himself Dr. VV. G Crarapien, is
indicted on complaint o! Dr. S., and.awaits
trial lor foigery and embezzlernont.
/ffo J'X That Siinford’s Radical
B Cure for Catarrh nil) net in
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cure. R-ffrences, Henry
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Piano and Organ Playing
IjuarsieiJ in si P.iy !
MvSON’3 CHARTS, which recently ere
atf and such a eeua io in Boston and
eisawlqfre, ill ernbl any-person, of any
age) to Ma t* fee Piano or Organ’ in a day,
ever though they have no knowledge of notes
etc. The Boston Globe says :
“You can learn to play on the piano or
organ in a day, even 'I you never played
before and have no. the slightest knowledge
of notes, by the use of Mason’s Charts. A
child ten years old ca le irn easily. They
are endorsed by he best musical people in
Bos'ou, and are the grand culmination of
the inventive genius of the nineteenth cen
tarry. Circulars giving full particulars and
many testimonials will be sent Iree on a pli
cation. Ouc set of Mason’s Quart,s, and a
ra.e book of great ,va ue, entitled “Singing
Made Easy,” both tabled, post paid, to any
address for only $2 Worth more than SIOO
spent on music lessons. ’ .Address
A. C. .v. ORTON,
Gene - al Agent, At auta, Ga.
_ Agents wanted at once everywhere. Best
chance ever off-red. Secure territory before
too late. Terms free. dec B,tf
UX ST'VT'T'Q should send 25 cts.
X Ilf IN I O to H. M. Crider of
York, Pa, for as.m/ie copy of his beauti
ful Photograph Memorial Record.
This is anew invention. au4 will find many
anxious 'purchasersan everv neighborhood.
Write for terms to agents of the grand
picture entitled ‘The Illustrated Lord’s
Prayer. H. M. CRIDER, Pub . York, P\.
Land. For Sal© !
rg 'RE uodgrsig'iyd off-'S for sale his ya'u
-1 able plantation, (9) uine miles north of
Dav. sou, near Bear creek, containing about
750 acres—3so cleai-d and under cultiva
tion—the balance well timbered. Good
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bu 'd Bgsl For terms, etc , add ess
novlS, lm J. W LAGAN,
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400 Arres B.Situl, 5 miles from Daw
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_p W r of the MuKeliir place About one
third newlv cleared and under cultivation,
balance well timbered. .Apply to
J. R. SCHOFIELD, Macon, Ga., or
JAS. G. PARKS, Dawson,Ga.
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known to bi fellow sufferers ihe means of
cure. To ail who desire it, he will send a
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and using the same, which thev will find a
surn cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bron
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DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEE RE ARY 7 1878.
H:rSi Twain’s .liiinpiiig I’rtig
:titd ‘ii* .fliiii Smiley.
Smiley, who was in the habit tf
. Letting on t verythingthot came along,
kept a pet frog in a little lattice box,
' and he us.d to fetch him down towu
! sometimes and lay for a bet. One
! day a feller —a straDger in the camp,
he was—come across him with his
box, and says:
'‘What might it be that you’ve got
in the box *?”
And Smiley says, sorter iod fferent
like:
“It might be a parrot, or it might
be a canary, may be, bu*. it ain’t —it’s
only just a frog.”
And the teller took it, and looked
at it carefully, and turned it around
this way and that, and says :
“H;tu —so ’tis Well, what’s he |
good for?”
“Weil,” says Sruiley, easy and care
less, “ho’sgoodenough for one thing, I
should judge; lip can out jump ary
frog iu Caiaveras county.” The,
feller took the box again, and took
another long, particular look, and give j
it back to Smiley, and says, very '
deliborate;
“Well, I don’t see no pints about
that frotr that’s any bettor’n any other
frog.”
“Maybe you don’t,” Smiley says,
“maybe you understand frogs, and
maybe you don’t understand ’em;—
maybe you’ve had experience, and
may be you are only a amature, as it
were. Anyways I’ve got tuy opinion,
and I’ll risk forty dollars that he can
ou jump any frog iti Oai ,voras county.”
And the feller studied a minute, and
then soya, kinder sad-like:
“Well, I’m only a stranger here >
and 1 ain’t got no frog; tut if I had
a frog, I’d bet you.”
Ami then Smiley says :
“That’s all tight—that’s all right;
if you’ll hold my frog a minute, I'.l
go and get you a frog.”
And so the feller took the bos, and
put his lorty dollars along with Smiley’s
and set down to wait.
So he set there a good while think
ing and thinking to liisselt, and then
he got the frog out and prtzd his
mouth open hntf tfcok a teaspoon'and
filled him full of shot— fi led him
pretty near up to the chin—and set
him on the floor, Smi'ey he went to
the swamp and slopped around in the
mud fer a long t me, and fitvaly he
ketched a frog, and fetched him in,
and give to the feller, and *ays:
“Now, if you’te ready, st him
alongside of Dan”, w>'h his fore paw
just even with Dan’ls, and I’ll give the
word.” Then he says, “One —two
three—jump!” And bin and the fel
ler touched up the In gs from behind
and the new frog hopped of), lut
Dan’l gave a heave, and Itisted up his
shoulders— 6o —lik a Frenchm m.but
it wasn’t no use —be couldn’t bulge ;
he was p'anted as solid as an anvil,
and lie couldn’t no more stir than if he
was anchoiedout. Smiley was a good
deal surprised, and he was disgustrf,
too, but he didr/thave no idea what
was the matter, of course.
The feller took the money and star
ted away; and when he was going
out at the door, he aortei j rkod his
thumb over his shoulders at Dan’l t
and says again, very deliberate;
“ Well, I don’t see no pints about
that frog that’s any better’n any other
frog.”
Smiley lie stood scratching his he id
and looking at Dan’! a long time, and
at lust he saya;
“I do wonder what iu the nation
that frog tltiowed off for—l wonder
jf the r a ain’t something the matter
with him—he ’peers to look mighty
baggy, somehow.”
And he ketched Dan’l by rhenapof
the ueck, and lifted him up and says,
“Why, blame my cats if he don't
weigh five pounds”’ and turned him
upside down, and he beLhed out a
double handful of shot. And then he
saw bow it was, and he wes the mad
dest man—ho set the frog down and
took after that leflow, but he never
knetebed him.
“The sentence of the Court is,” said
Judge Poiler, a popu’ar Irish magii
trate to a notorious drunkard, “that
you be confined in jail for ths longest
period the law allows; and I hope you
you will spend the time in cursing
whiskey- 1 ’ “I will, sir, and Porf.e^
too.”
“Simnce in the couit!” thundered a
Kentucky Judge the other morning.
“Half a dozen men have been convict
ed already without the court’s having
beeiv able to hear a w.'id of the testi
mony?”
15 il'ltnin s<i Saukey.
At the meeting in the booth Bablist
Church Thursday night, Mr Moody
approached Mr. P. T Barnutn with
the usual question: “Are you a Cht'E*
tint,?”
“I think a man is very unwise who
don’t believe in Christ and the principle
of Christianity,” replied* Mr. Barnutn.
Moody—You believe that is the only
true road to sa'vation?
Barnutn—Yes, I believe no rain
can be saved from sin except by turnin r
away from it and practising theprecepts
of C rist and nobody uau cheat the
Almighty. The fulfilment of His laws
brit gs peace, while the infringement
ol them brings trouble and sorrow.
‘‘That is what I believe,” said Mr.
Moody, and he passed ou.
Soou afteiward Mr. Sank-y asked a
yonug lady sitting n-xt to sir. Barnutn
whether she thought her works would
save he". She replied phe thought
good works would count semetowatds
her salvation.
Sankey—There is where you are
mistaken If your works were piled
as high as this church they would be
cfntr service to you. Hire is my bible!
Justshow me, if you can, wlysre works
are ever counted as of any’ avail.
“ Every man shall lie rewarded ac
according to bis works,’ ” said Mr.
Barnnm.
Sattkey—“He that believes not is
condemed already.”
| Barnum—“And this is the condem
-1 nation, that light hath entered into
the world and men choose darkness
rather than light ”
Sank“v —Do you believe all sinners
will he saved?
Bu nun: —Dare you prsy that any
shall be damned?
Sankey—l pray that all mey repent
and he saved
Barnum -Do the angels rejoice over
the sa'vation of that very fnsCost sheep
that you sing so sweetly about iu
“Ninety -ndNine?”
Sankey—Of course they do.
Barnum —Well, if you end the an
gels and ail good people pnv for the
ultimate r< peutaoco and salvation from
sin of all sinners, will not their prayers
be answered? I)o you not “p ay in
faith” without “doubting,” as you are
commanded?
Here another gentleman asked Mr.
Barnum if he did not beliuva anybody
would go to hell.
Btrnum—N tto a heP olendless tor
men’s,sit - f>rnosuch hell ver existed -
St. Paul in all hisepia les and preaching
never used the word *’he 1 in his liie
so far as the New Tes'iment testifies
and yet St, Paul said lie had “npt
failed to decUro the who'e counsel of
God”; and that “he had kept back noth
ing thtt was profitable” to men. Ther
will be no childless mothers in the para
disc of Cod. D>a h and hell are to be
fina lydestroyed; t very knee must bend
and t very tongue confess. Christ will
put all things under his feet and He
has promised to draw all men unto
Him. He will render up all to G->d
and G"1 will be all in all. The way
c ft e rat sgr, ssoi ishmdjand those who
persist in “riotous living” will be
brought to the husks aid the sw.ne,
but the Good Father, whose mercy
endureth forever and extends over a'l
Ilis works, will wi' with open arms
tintill that last wandering, bruised
and battered sheep, slowly, wemblingle
wends its way hack tt the fold and
then the poor mother who had so long
prayed and wept for tbo return of her
wayward son vill join all other
reunited families and the choir of holy
angels in singing anthems of piaise
and thanksgiving to God, the S. vior
of the world (not a part of the world)
for at last overcoming evil with good
and establishing everlasting righteous
ness.
At this point the gentleman w o
eccompanied Mr. Barnum reminded
| him that it was tune to go .—Hartford
Evening Post.
An old colored preacher was lectur
ing a youth of his fold about the sin
of dancing, when the latter protested
that the Bible plainly said: ‘There is
a time to dance.’ ‘Yes, dar ant a time
to dance,' said the dark divine, ,and
jt s when a boy gits a whippin’ for
gwine to a ball.’
A New York clothing merchant
has excited considerable curiosity’ "by
having a large apple painted on his
■ B i on. When asked for an ex plana,
tion, he quickly inquired; ‘lf it hadn t
been for an apple, where would the
I ready-made clothing stores bef
A Vision
On the 15th of Febnary, 1874, at
10 a, uj., on a clear sunshiny day, as j
was standing in the field, I saw a small
hole breaking in the eaith to my right-
I saw water in the hole and tire sand
from the sides commenced tutu 1 ling
into it. I felt the e.uth moving undei
my feet, and looked down and saw
the earth rising up I looked in tiro
hole and saw a beast lifting the eirth
up out of the water. The boas!
reached from east to west. I could
not imagine where that beast was
going to stand. Ha came up slowlv
and when his feet came to the top of
the wa’er the earth which he had
lif ed up out of the water broke in
the midd'e and fell into tho water
with a mighty crash. As it broke and
fell iuto the water, it was sifted and
consumed by fire. The waves came
back leaving the surface of the water
perfec ly smooth. The sun was Mown
out. the moon turned to Mood aud the
r.tars disappeared. Tho water then
commenced sinking down and a
new earth came in sight without a
spot, speck or b emish. As this new
eaith made its appe,.ranee, the wato*
rolling over the emth to tho east, in
one mighty roll, and the ear h open
ing upon the east side swallowed it
up leaving nothing hut the purified
eaith to be seen. This eaith was
perfectly white and spotless. Every
human being that had ever been horn
appeared standing upon the surface
of this new earth tight where they
fell on the oid oue, except two. Enoch
and E ij ih.
The almighty then came down with
all the angels—that wete with Him
before this wot Id was made-around
Hm. Enoch and Elijah were with
Him, one on etch side,. He had a
hook in His hand. AH the inhabi
tants of the earth stood, every one
facing God, to he judged out of tnc
book. When He had judged a man
lie turned the b >ok. Every one was
in plain sigh'. I saw thousands upon
thousands of little infants, all stand
ing up Multiplied millions of people
were there, and the farthest off seemed
as nea. as the nearest. The light was
brighter than any that I bad ever
seen. Every one was in plain sight.
As the leaves of the book were turned
I saw thousands fall. As they fell
they slid over to the left into an aw
ful lake, where they rolled over and
over amid the flnnes and smoke.—
with all that were in it, rollel over
•nd over, with nothing to ca cti hold
to. Aftr this was ov r those that
remained were ail blight and glori
ous. Every li(to child stood, Gut
thousands and millions of grown per
sons fill into ti e lake. When the
vision was over, I heard a loud vi ico
saying : “Go tell it—go ted it to the
world ” I thought I would say noth
ing about ir; but hat night a voice
again said; “Go tell it to the world.”
I believe if I had not told it I would
have died. I feel that I
shsi 1 not be able to “stand” if I fail
to let it be known as far as I possibly
can - George J. Braswell.
Killing His Sister's Betrayer.—
The trial of Eirnotid J. flopping for
the murder of Phillip Proudfit at Ster
ling Valley, on Friday, the lJJtb of
Ju'y last, took p ace at Auburn, N
Y‘, on Monday las*, resulting in a
verdict of arciuittal. Proudfit having
seduced Iloppitie’s rioter fled the
country, f u' afterwards returned, and
going into the store uheie Hopping
was employed taunted him witli the
remark: You’ve lived through it,
haven’t you?” Hoppins seized a base
ball fiat and stru k Proudfit over the
head, the latter dying from the effects
ot the blow on the following Sunday.
Intense interest prevailed throughout
the tria , the court being thronged
Iron’ day to day. The vet diet was in
accordance with the public expectation.
r he Jury were out between th e
and four fiours. Within half an hour
after his acquittal, Hopping was mar
ried to Mi s Amy E. Turner, to whom
he was to have been married in Octo
ber last. The jury were present as
witnesses. The officiating clergyman
came from Sterling to perform the
ceremony in anticipation of the ver
dict. Hr. Hugh Proudfit, an uncle of
Phillip, and who attended him after
the fatal blow, and was u witness at
the trial, died suddenly at Auburn on
tne morning of ti e 25th, th“ disease
trom whioh he suffned b ing aggra
varrd, it is thought, by rnxietylegt he
might he charged with malpractice in
the case.
>1 Twaig'i Customer.
Gen. Charier Clarke, ex-G .vtrnor
of Mi sissippi, died a few days ago at
(he age of sixty-eight. lie served in the
Mexican war as a volunteer, but was
i-ent home invalided.as a eoiittump’ivo,
by the suigenus Their verdict Dr.
Warreu Stone, the highest authority
of the Southern faculty, confirmed, one
lung having j orished completely, and
the Lieutenant was advised to go home
and lead the quia: fife of a planter,
avoiding all excitement, wheiqby he
might prolong his life for eighteen
months, or j et'haps evenfortwo years,
j He weut borne, but did not die; indeed,
I utter serving in the Legislature and
several public offices, he was alive to
head a Confederate f.iigade at Shiloh*
As ho took a patting gln-s with Col.
VV. H. McArdle, a vetrau Mississippi
journalist, he said;
“I think you will have a good cbnace
of publishing that obituary whit h you
promised me thirteen years ago. I
have outlived nil the doctors,hut lam
not so confident that I shall escapt the
Yankee balls aud shells whitch I shall
be co*npel:ed to face to-day.”
After the first day’s battle General.
Clmke was betne to the rear wrapped
in a b'anketsaturated with blo-d.
“You can publish that obitua.'y now,
he basinet with a soldier’sdeath,” was
ti e remark of one of those who bore
him, and theohituary wasshoitlyafter
wa'ds published in ‘he New Or'eans
papers.
Shortly afer tho battle of Baton
Rouge, however, General. Clarke was
seen again at New Or'eans. He had
been shot through the body at Shiloh
and left on the field, to be taken pris
oner, to recover and to be exchanged,
and at Baton Rouge a minie ball
broke his thigh, near the socket 1
Dr Stone wav the surgeon who now
brought around the man he condemn
ed to a sprudy death in 1848, and
though his leg V. as shortened several
inc es, Gen. Gla'ke lived to be Govern
or of Mississippi and to die fifteen
yearr later, quietly in his bed, having
buried sever til generations of doctors,
gone through two wats witbonolurig,
been twice left for dead on the fra'doi
battle,and seen Ifisobitnary published
Petard by u l>vil Fish.
Early last Augusta party of Cape
Flattery or Makaw Indiana, return
ing from n visit to their fri< nd (the
Songish of V'.ctoiia), rncftniped the
first afternoon out on the beau'iful
Hay of A l 'etchosen, V. I, The weather
Being very fine, most of tho party
went bathing, and among the number
a maiden of perhaps eighteen sum
mers, who had accompanied her
grandfather on the trip. Desiring
seclusion, she went round a joint
atv.iv from the other Lathers, and be
ing known as h bold twi turner, is sup
posed to have tn 1 en a header into
deep water. However taken, it prov
es! to hove been a plunge into the
arms of death, for when the swim
mers reassembled around the camp
fire the girl was missed, and, notwith
standing a diligent search that even
ing, could not 1 e found. The follow
ing morning with sad hearts the par
ty left; bui'very soon those in the fore,
came, oti rounding the fiist
point, saw (the water being calm r.nd
clear) a human body as it seated on
the sandy sea bottom, with what
seemed like a flout bag immediately
bell tid it. The natives knew what
this meant. As soon as the canoes
got together, two of the most active.—
jouug msn managed wifi. daggers so
to di.-able the mounter (for it was a
gigantic devil fuh) that the octopue
with its vic‘im was brought to the
suiface The loregoing tacts have
been communicated to our informant
by an intelligent find respectabie hull
breed woman from M.-tobosnn who
saw the body of the drowned girl with
some of tbe prphenslies of the moltisk
still adhering to it. £he> compared
the hea 1 of the octopus in size to that
of a fifty-pound Hiur sack, lull; ami
.-aid that the tentacles were tielve in
numbor, ot different sizes, and the
largest ah ut tho circumference of a
man’s aro".
“That reminds toe of my mo tl. ei
law’s moult,” said to a friend
as lie pointed to a saloon on vineshett
with a familiar bulletin in the window
‘ How e‘> Jck?”quei ied ihe companion
with muc surpr>e “Bocals ■ its open
at all hours.” An l then they both
laughed aud went io, an 1 winkel at
a man with a diamond pin, who set
out a >hiack bo tie, aud said it aas a
fine day.
VOL. 1111.--NO 50.
j f bead tVafte* f n Time for
I be Wedding.
Near Boston, there happened sonirv
I thing exceedingly singular and highly
dramatic. At the house of a certain
good citizen, preparations were going
busily forward for a wedding. The
hippy day was only forty-eight hours
"ff, and a gay p ar ty of brides-maida
were expediting the preparations for
(he festival down stairs, when sud
denly, while she sat at her sewing up
sluirs, the grandmother of the bride
(eh dead. Nobody saw it except her
ami and his wife, wno were sitting by
her, and their exclamations of horror
and sm prise were not heard down
staiis. They then determined to keep
the tnisloriu;iu|to themselves until alter
the marriage, as it would necessarily
postpone the happiness of the ycung
people for soma mentis, and be a bit
of disappoinunen*. So they shroud
ed the corpse and laid it out iu *i
lance.
The wiiTdows were thrown open to the
ohiil night air, the door locked and
(tie corpse left to the cold and dark
ness while down stairs music and
jest went on, and the bride expec
tants, and tho frosted cakes for the
wedding supper were t.itnmed with
busy fingers. A bright sun streamed
next morning into the respective
rooms where lay the bride in her rosy
s’eep, and tho corpse cold aDd stark
on tbe stretcher. Into (ho chill room
came tho son and his wife for the
pnrpose of measuring the body that
a coffin might be secretly got ready.
Sudenly the wife gave a wild start
and clutched her husband’s arm,
pnin ing to the body. It was stirring
under the sli.oud; it threw up its
hands; then sat up, and looked about,
and called for water. The seeming
death had been a sudden fiance; the
old lady declared that she had ‘ueveir
slept better in her life.’ Sbe was then
dressed in her usual costume, and
nobody down stairs was the wiser for
what had occurred. The wedding
took place, and the nice old dame in
her black and starched cap enjoyed
the occasion as heartily as anybody,
chirruped as n.enily and ate charlotte
russe with as keen a zest as if she
had not worn a shroud and lay on a
stretchar a few hours before.
Extehminatino the Buffaloes.—
The Te>as GnelU says : “The buffa
loes coioei in counless herds for wa
ter, and it is at the water holes they
re captured. Tho leader is first shot
by a long range gun, and this demor
alizes tho herd, and tho shooting
may be cont’nued at pleasure. They
ate killed lor the value of their pelts,
nay eighty or ninety cents, and the
carcasses are left to perieh. Two
hundred thousand head have already
bean slaughteied, and it is estimated
there will he three hundred and fifty
thousand before the season is over.”
The govert went should adopt some
means to put a 6top to this prodigal
extermination of the wild eattleof the
prairies.
The El 'Orton Gazette sßya that in
that place Mr. J S. Hammond, who
has been in jail frr some time on
charge of assault and cattery with in
tent to murder, has a rooster with
him in his cell that in said to be train
ed or educated to an astonishing de
gree. The chicken is of the game
• pecies, at and is said to be a fighter of
no mean repute. Hammond calls bis
pet by the euj honious name of “Dick,”
and by signs and words makes the
fow l perform many tricks that are tru
ly rem irk able. Hammond and Dick
occupy a cell by themselves, and the
Liid seems i-flVctionat-ly fond of his
master, w bile the master says he de
rives groat pleasure from the society
of the chicken.
How Sue Got a. Husband —The
following little uovel in a nutshell is
furnished by a Maine exchange: A
Biddeford girl has just got a husband
by means of her graduation essay. It
wa - published in on© of the papers of
that ciiy, and au extract from it iu
which ti e lady declared her in
tention of eaitii' g her own living was
widely c pled and met the eye of a
Cincinnati iron met chant, who was
so much taken with it that he sought
the authoi’s name and address* A
correspondence ensued, and theyonng
lady was persuaded to abandon the
ietermi' ati n announsed iu her e
uy. '