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INTRODUCED, 1865.
I TORPID LIVER
i, the fruitful source of many diseases, promi
nent among which are
dyspepsia, sick-headache, costiveness,
dysentery, bilious fever, ague and fever,
jaundice, piles, rheumatism, kioney com-
PLAINT, COLIC, ETC.
SYMPTOMS OF A
torpid liver.
las of Appetite and Nausea, the bowels
costive, but sometimes alternate with
looseness, gain, in the Head, accompanied
with a Dull sensation in thoback part, Pain
In the right side and undor the shoulder
blade, fullness after eating, with a rtisin
clination to exertion, of body cr mind, Irri
tability of temper, I>ow spirits, Loss of
memory, with a feeling of having neglected
some duty, General weariness; Dizziness,
Fluttering at the Heart. Dots before the
eyes, Yellow Skin, Headache generally
over the right eye, H'-Ktles:;nes3 at night
with litful dreams, highly colored Urine.
IF THESE WARNINGS ARE UNHEEDED,
SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SGON BE DEVELOPED.
TUTFS FILLS
are especially adapted to such
cases, a single dose effects
such a change of feeling as to
astonish the sufferer.
TUTFS PILLS
are conipouuded from unbstmicefltlint are
free from any properliethat can injure
l hr most delicate organization. They
Hrarch, Cleanse, Purify, and Invigorate
the entire System. Hv relieving lit?-en
gorged I.iver, they clennie the blood
from poisonous humors, and thug impart
health and vitality to the body, causing
the bowels to net naturally, without
which no one can fuel v. el!.
A Noted Divine says:
Dr. TUTTDear Sir; For ten yenrs I have been
a martyr to Pysi>epsirt, Constipation and Piles. Last
Spring your Pills were recommended to ine; I usod
them ( but with little faitli). I aru now a Weil man,
bavM good appetite,digestion perfect, regular sfoolc,
5 ilea b'nne. and 1 have gained forty poandasolid flesh,
’bey are worth tlu*ir weight in gold.
Kev. R. L. SIMPS; N, Louisville, Ky,
TUTFS FILLS.
Their first effect is to Increase the Appetite,
and cause the body to Take on Flesh) thus the
system is nourished, aud by their Tonic Ac
tion on the liigestive Organs, Itc&uior
Hloulm are produced.
DR. J. F, HAYWOOD,
OF NEW YOrlK, SAYS.—
"Few diseases exist that cannot be relieved by re
storing the Liver to its normal functions, an 1 for
thin purjoß no remedy has * ver been invented that
lifih ns happy an effect us TQTT’S PILLS.”
SOLD EVERYWHERE, PRICE 25 CENTS.
Office 35 Murray Street, New York.
I*- Dr. TI'TT’S MANUAL of Valuable Infor
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on application.
TUTFS HAIR BYE,
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Black by a single .{*piicuii nof this Dye- It im
paita a Natural Color, acts liiNrenosaeousty, and is
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WORM SPECIFIC
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
fpilE countenance is pale and leaden
-*- colored, with occasional flushes, or
a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu
pils dilate; an azure semicircle runs
along the lower eye-lid; the nose is ir
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds;
a swelling of the upper lip; occasional
headache, with humming or throbbing
Of the ears; an unusual secretion of
saliva; slimy or furred tongue; breath
Very foul, particularly in the morning;
appetite variable, sometimes voracious,
with a gnawing sensation of the stom
ach, at others, entirely gone; fleeting
pains in the stomach; occasional
nausea and vomiting; violent pains
throughout the abdomen; bowels ir
regular, at times costive; stools slimy;
not unfrequently tinged with blood;
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid;
respiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy
and disturbed sleep, with grinding of
the teeth ; temper variable, but gener
ally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR. c. McLANE’S vermifuge
will certainly effect a cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form ; it is an innocent prepara
tion, not capable of doing the slightest
injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine Dr. McLane’s Y er
mifuge bears the signatures of C. Mc-
Lane and Fleming Bros, on the
Wrapper. :0:
DR. C. MeLANE'S
LIVER PILLS
&re not recommended as a remedy “for all
the ills that flesh is heir to,” but in affections
of the liver, and in all Bilious Complaints,
Dyspepsia and Sick Headache, or diseases of
that character, they stand without a rnal.
AGUE AND FEVER.
N o better cathartic can be used preparatory
to, or after taking Quinine.
Asa simple purgative they are unequaled.
HEW AUK OF IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Each box has a red wax seal on the lid with
the impression Dr. McLane’s Liver I’ills.
Each wrapper bears the signatures of C.
McLane and Fleming Bros.
Insist upon having the genuine Pr. L. Me-
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Bros., of Pittsburgh. 1 a., the market being
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spelled differently but same pronunciation.
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THE DAWSON JOURNAL
BY J. D. IIOYL& CO.
A YOUTHFUL MURDERESS.
I><-tails of tlie >lost Remarkable
< rime on Record.
Shooting of Ella llearn—A Woman
who Wanted to Marry One of
Her Own Sex—Bringing
a Modest Companion
to a Halt by Pistol
Shots.
Killing Hf.r “Dearest Friend’,
Because She Would not ‘Return
to the Woods.
[New York Herald.]
The trial of Miss Lilly Duer on an
indictment for fatally shooting her once
intimate friend and associate, Miss Ella
Hearn, is fixed for to-morrow at Snow
Hill, Worchester county, Md. The ease
excites extraordinary comment, which is
not alone confined to that section of the
State. The wide-spread publicity given
to the startling tragedy at the time of
its occurrence through the press, com
bined with the remarkable features of
the distressing affair, will lend to the
trial a remarkable interest that will ex
tend throughout the entire country.
DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY
The sad tragedy of last November, in
which Miss Ella Hearn, a beautiful
young girl, just blooming into woman
hood. lost her life, by the hand of Miss
Lillie Duer, is again the paramount in
terest in this quaint little Eastern Shore
town. Miss Duer, who gave bail for her
appearance at Court, will on Tuesday
be summoned before the grand jury of
the county, and over twenty young la
dies of the town and neighborhood have
been subpoenaed in the case, which pro
mises to be one of the most remarkable
in the annals of criminal trials, the
circumstances surrounding it being
stranger in many respects than a French
romance. Miss Ella Hearn, the victim,
rests peacefully in the old Episcopal
churchyard, her grave, as yet, unmark
ed save by the green sod and a bunch
of roses and sweet violets placed there
this bright Spring morning by the lov
ing hand of an old schoolmate and friend,
Miss Hearn was originally from Laurel,
Del., where she spent most of her youth
ful days, and where her pretty face and
sweet ways are remembered by a large
number of friends and acquainteces.
That she was the fairest and most love
ly girl in all the country about is the
testimony of all who knew her, and her
photographs, which are now preserved
as interesting mementoes, with all the
defects a country artist could make,
warrants one in believing that she was
really beautiful. Somewhat below the
medium height, she possessed a slight,
graceful but well-developed figure, and
there is a sweet smile lingering about
the mouth in the pictures, which is said
to have been habitual to her. At the
time of her death she was scarcely 17.
She was a girl of high spirits and was
gay, cheerful and dashing in her dispo
sition. She was highly esteemed among
her friends and those who knew her as
a young girl of sweet and pure disposi
tion. Although her education was lim
ited to the acquirements possible at the
high school at Newton she was fairly
accomplished, without any brilliant at
tainments or pretentions.
MEETING WITH MtSG DUER.
For some years during the last of her
school days she had permitted father
than encouraged a growing intimacy
with Miss Lillie Duer, whose affections
and passion at last resulted in her death.
Miss I.illic Duer is about twenty or
twenty-one years of age and has lived
all of her life in Newtown. She is by
no means pretty, and is somewhat awk
ward in her movements, as though her
female habiliments trammeled her, and
she would be better able to get about
in male attire. She meets your gaze
with a steady, firm, somewhat distant
stare. The face is rather thin and clear
ly cut, and her forehead is strikingly
high and broad. Her thin lips close
tightly, which causes the firmness of her
expression to strike the observer at once.
With short and very dark hair parted
at the side, she wears a roll at top of
her head. Although, the face is one
which would not fail to excise interest
anywhere. She talks quite intelligent
ly and with ease, appears to have entire
confidence in herself, auct as though
she would much prefere to be a man
rather than a woman. Her intimacy
with Miss Ilearu began some years ago,
and during last Spring and Summer the
two girls were constantly together, mue
like sisters. Miss Duer appears to have
obtained a mastery over her more wo
manly but weaker minded companion,
and it was an affection more mixed with
fear than love that controlled Miss
Hearn s actions.
loved women hetter than MAN.
It seems strange that she could love
such an unsexed being -Miss Duer ap
pears, from what is told of her, be.
DAWSON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JUNE 12, 187!).
See would smoke with the sangfroid of
a Frenchman, and even was fond of to
bacco in its other forms. Her dresses
were always worn short, and a little
jacket with inside pockets, like a boy’s
filled with tobacco or licorice, with a
boy’s hat, which she always tipped when
acknowledging a salute, composed tho
most striking articlts of her usual cos
tume. The young girls with whom she
associated tell numerous stories of her
curious idiosyncrasies. She never
cared for the society of the sterner sex,
and would make hot love like a Romeo
toher female friends. Sometimes they
would laugh these strange fancies away,
at others she would frighten them with
her vehemence and they would run away
from her. She was always a mystery,
and a young lady who knew her well
says that it was a favorite theory of
lier’s tliat two women could be quite as
happy and get along quite as well raar
ied as a woman and a man. In all out
door sports she excelled all her lady
friends, and could jump, shout and play
base ball as well as any young man in
the town. She always carried a pistol,
and was an expert shot. I have the fol
lowing story from a lady who was a
party to the affair, and which illustrates
the peculiarity of Miss Duer's charac
ter :
WANTED TO MARRY MISS HEARN
Miss Hearn began to be seriously
alarmed when in company with her
friend, and on one occasion it is related
when she, with strange vehemence, ask
ed Miss Hearn if she did not love her
and went so far as to actually propose
that they should get married, she fled
from the parlor, where they had been
talking, and locked herself in her room.
These little difficulties were gotten over
finally, however, and tho intimacy was
renewed, but not so warmly as before.
Miss Duer was constantly complaining
that “her passionate love was not re
turned” and sighing over her “lost hopes
of bliss with her dearest friend when
they would be always together.” There
was a young man of the town who about
this time began to pay marked attention
to Miss Hearn, about which Miss Duer
remonstrated with her in the most pas
sionate manner, telling her that she
would shoot the man that took her
friend from her. A Miss Foster was
also a triend whom Miss Hearn was
very fond of, and the two began to be
very close friends. In the morning of
the 4th of November Miss Foster and
M iss llearn had taken a walk together,
and upon her return home she found a
note from Miss Duer requesting her to
call at her house, as she wished to see
her urgently. Late in the afternoon
she went with her little sister, and when
the two met Miss Duer asked Miss
llearn to lake a walk with her the next
day in the woods. With the fear of a
possible repetition of the former shoot
ing in her mind, she very decidedly re
fused. This appeared to arouse all the
fire of jealousy of Miss Duer’s nature,
and she passionately and npon her knees
begged that her request might be com
plied with, but in vain.
LILLIE SHOOTS ELLA.
The next day, at an early hour, Miss
Duer called at Miss Hearn’s house and
was shown into the sitting room where
the latter was sitting with her mother.
The conversation that occurred in the
room w r as of a general nature, and noth
ing was said there of the walk. A\ hen
Mis Duer was about to go Mrs. Hearn
requested her daughter to accompany
her to the door, and the two girls pass
ed out in the passage. After a few
moments had elapsed a shot was heard
and Miss Hearn rushed back into the
room with the blood streaming from a
pistol shot in the mouth. She was im
mediately placed under medical treat
ment, when it was discovered that the
ball had entered the mouth and lodged
about an inch deep near the right upper
jaw. Miss Duer had followed her in
with smoking pistol in her hand, but did
not remain long. A young man named
Clark was near the house and heard the
shot and when he appeared Miss Hearn
way lying upon the sofa in the sitting
room, while Miss Duer, in a frantic
manner, was rushing about, crying
wildly, “I have shot her; oh, my God,
she will die ” M iss Hearn lingered for
a long time between life rnd death, be
ing at times delirious and raving. She
wruld hold up her right arm before her
face iu her moments of mental derange
ments, calling out nervously, “Lillie,
don’t shoot, please don’t shoot me: I
will go with you and always love you.”
The arm had been bandaged on ac
count of a severe burn, supposed to
have been caused by the flash of pow
der when she was shot. Much lias been
saie and written about what really oc
curred at the time of the shooting.
statement of ella’s father.
The following testimony of Mr. Hearn
before the coroner’s inquest throws
some light upon it: He asked his
daughter if the shooting was accidental ;
she declined to answer; the next day he
asked her again. She again declined,
and turning away began to weep bitter
ly. A few days afterward slie volunta
rily said she followed Miss Duer to the
door, where Miss Duer accused her of
loving Miss Ella Foster better than
she did her. Miss Duer tried to kiss
witnesses’ daughter, and- in doing so
fell, and then jumped to her feet in an
excited manner and fired ; Ella said she
did not expect to recover, and there"
fore wished witness to know tlic circum
stances.
The following circumstances comes
from a lady well known here, and who
attended Miss Hearn duringlier illness.
Tho story lias never been told before
with So much fulness as coming from
Miss Hearn herself, and will be repeat
ed before the grand jury of tho country
for the first time. During a long lucid
interval Miss Hearn talked to the lady
a good deal about the shooting, and re
lated how it all came about.
A TRAGIC GOOBBY AT THE DOOR.
As soon as the door of the sitting
room had been closed Miss Duer, turning
about, looked at her intensely for a mo
ment and said, “Ella, why will you not
walk out with me ? Do you not love
met” “Oh, yes, I love you,” said Miss
Hearn, “but I am afraid of you.” “Do
you love Mr. V’ To this ques
tion she received no reply, when she
became very much excited and spoke
again quickly, “Do you love Miss Fos
ter better than you do me V’ The an
swer was, “Yes!” This appeared to
terribly excite Miss Duer, and she
rushed wildly about in a terrible state
of excitement. “Don't say that, Ella ;
don’t say that,” she kept repeating,
while Miss Hearn stood rooted to the
spot by the vehemence of her manner.
Presently Miss Duer came close to her
and said. “If you say that again I will
shoot you,” and took out her pistol and
cocked it. Then she appeared to be
come more calm and seemed to want to
“make up” with her now thoroughly
frightened friend. She attempted to
kiss her, but was repulsed by Miss
llearn, who put out her arms to warn
her off. This caused her to slip and
fall upon her knees. “She was then
furious and gave me such a fearful look
that I shall never forget in my dying
day,” said Miss Hearn in relating the
circumstances “She pointed the pistol
right at my head. I held up my arm
to warn it off, and I cried out, ‘Oh,
don’t shoot me, please, Lillie; don t
shoot me, I will go with you, I will
love you.’ ” But it was too late, and
the next second the pistol was filed and
the ball had done its deadly work. Miss
Hearn lingered between life and death
for a month, and at one time seemed in
a fair way for recovery, when, on De
cember Pi, she became rapidly worse,
and died peacefully and quietly from
nervous prostration caused by the shock
to her system by the shooting. The
coroner’s jury returned a verdict that
“Miss llearn came to her death from
nervous depression caused by a shot
from a pistol in the hands of Miss Lil
lie Duer.” Miss Duer gave bail iu
$2,500 for trial. *
Three romantic Kentucky girls have
hit upon a better method of securing
husbands than by advertising or through
‘matrimonial agencies.’ They lived on
the banks of the Ohio l iver, some dis
tance above Louisville, and it occurred
to them one fine day that it would be a
good piece of fun for each to write her
full name and address on a slip of pa
per, saying she would marry the person
who found it, and enclose the notice in
a bottle and throw it into the river. They
carried their project outjand marked the
wisdom of the girls in the medium se
lected to float their missives down the
river. They did not choose oyster cans
or cheese boxes, but bottles, feeling sure
the latter would be picked up and open
ed, when other small objects afloat would
be let alone. The sequel proves they
were right. One of the girls has marri
ried recently to the man who found her
bottle far down the river, the second
is engaged to him who found hers at
Natchez, of Grand Gulf, and the 3d is
in correspondence with the finder of
hers, who also lives a great distance
from the point where the bottles were
launched.
Augusta Chronicle: “Yesterday a
gentleman in this city desiring to have
the bodies of two of his children who
were buried a number of years ago, re
moved from one section in the cemetery
to another, had the grave in which both
were interred opened. lie expected to
fiud nothing but the coffins, but to his
surprise the vault was filled with a black
moss, which had become thickly matted.
It had also penetrated the coffins, and
one of the bodies was completely envel
oded in it The vault was double brick
ed when built.”
THE LAND IM RATES.
A Gigantic N\\ in<llc in the State.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
For ten years past there has been a
species of rascality in successful opera
tion in many parts of Georgia. Wo re
fer to the forging of Wild land Certfica
tes, to which are attached counterfeits
of the great seal of the state. This
business has gone on so long that there
is no teiling llow many otj these bogus
certificates have gone out to swindle in
nocent purchasers. 11 is said that t here
have been several organised gangs of
these swindlers who have pushed their
villainous schemes with remarkable
success.
About two years ago a gentleman in
formed the secretary of state that in a
printing office in Atlanta, sever hundred
land grants had been printed for the use
of one of these gangs In other places
in the state there have been frequent
operations of the same kind. The shar
pers have bogus land grants printed.
They learn the names of justices of the
peace in various counties and somehow
they procure their signatures. These
are artfully counterfeited and signed to
the certificates. To make the bogus
instrument coinple a fac simile of the
great seal of the state is attached there*
to, and the swindler disposes of his
homemade certificate for a paltry sum
to anybody he can take in. Us
ually these fraudulent papers are offer
ed for $2 each. It is said that many
of them first go into the hands of what
are known as land-sharks or speculators
in wild lands. They in turn dispose of
them to honest men for a mule or any
thing they can get. Frequently lands
with perfect titles arc exchanged for
these bogus certificates. While this
crooked business has been in vogue for
at least ten years it appears that all ef
forts to suppress it and to catch the
criminals have been unavailing. The
fault has been mainly with the local
authorities. There is no way to stop
this rascality except for the autorities
of each county where it is practiced to
take hold of the matter and search it
to the bottom. There are suuh large
quantities of wild lands in Georgia that
these counterfeiters have had ample
material on which to operate. Their
business has boon particularly lively
during the past two years. Frequently
parties have brought these bogus land
grants to the secretary of state for veri
fication. They are instantly detected.
The imitation of the seal is usually very
good, but sometimes is a little rough in
finish and in nearly every ease larger
than the genuine.
Recently there have been very bold
and successful operations in this line in
northwestern Georgia on the Alabama
line. There is said to be a regularly
organized gang in ths traffic, which has
proved disastr >us to the hopes of many
a poor fellow. In April, 1878, a man
named Lambert, who is said to have
been one of the gang, was assassinated
in Polk county by unknown parties.
It has always been the b lief there that
he was killed by two men named J. M.
Rowe and Horatio Chisolm, his part
ners in the wild land frauds. They had
a difficulty, and to prevent Lambert
from disclosing the secrets of the gang
his former confederates are said to have
put him out of the way. Rowe and
Chisolm have disappeared from Polk
county. The governor offered a reward
for the apprehension of the murderer
of Lambert, but as yet the matter re
mains in bloody mystery. It is said
that this same man Chisolm, about two
years ago, went into the office of the
secretary of state and asked to see the
wild land books for several of the north
ern counties. lie was shown the pa
pers he wished to see and was soon ob
served copying off the diagrams of the
wild land plots, lie was informed that
it was against the rules of the office to
allow anyone such a liberty, whereupon
he apologized very politely and retired.
He was a man of very pleasing address.
At the time refered to he was probably
in Atlanta arranging some scheme of
swindling, such as he has since carried
out so boldly. Both he and ltowe are
said to be desperate mn who have defi
ed the authorities of I’olk county more
than once. There are true bills against
both in that county for forgery. It is
said that Chisolm lias vowed vengeance
against some of the attorneys and wit
nesses against him in Cedar!own. Just
before the recent fire he was seen near
that place. AY bile this seems to be
the boldest gang in the land forgery
business, yet there are doubtless in
other parts of the state similar organ
izations who work by slyei but not less
successful methods.
There is absolutely no te ling how
many bogus land grants there are now
in Georgia. Whether the investigations
of the wild laud committee, now going
VOL. 16--NO 14.
on, will touch this particular part of
the subject or not cannot be ascertain
ed just yet. It is probable, however,
that the more light that is thrown on
the general subject of wild land specu
lations, the more apparent will become
all such frauds as those described above.
In several of the counties where such
villainy has been most common the au
thorities have a number of suspected
parties spotted and will bring them to
justice If the same vigilance were
adopted wherever the rascals ply their
game they would soon bo brought to a
stop and further frauds upon the gov
ernment and innocent prevented
A few days ago Womb well, s mena
gerie visited Tenbu r y, in England.
Among the animals is a very fine female
elephant, ‘ Lizzie.” This animal was
attacked With a violent fit of colic. A
local apothecary of considerable skill
as an animal doctoi was called into the
menagerie when the life of the animal
was all but despaired jf. P>y his vig
orous efforts and skillful treatment the
valuable beast was saved. The ele
phat. “Lizzie,” did uot forget her
doctor, for on the procession coming
down Seme street three days later she
immediately recognized the chemist at
the door of his shop, and, going (o him,
gracefully placed her trunk in his hand.
The chemist visited the exhibition at
night, and met with an unexpeced re
ception from his former patient. Gent
ly seizing the “doctor” with her trunk,
the elephant encircled him with it, to
tho teirow of the audience, who expect
ed to see him crushed to death. It
was some time before the animal could
be induced to go away from the doc
tor.
Willard Brown was deeply in love
with Louisa Parrott, a servant girl in
his father’s family at Martinsville, Ind.
She asked him to make for her a mould
of a silver dollar, as she intended to go
into business as a counterfeiter, and he
Consented; but her clumsy efforts to
produce bogus coin that would pass
proved a failure. Her next plan for
acquiring wealth was to murder and rob
old Mr. and Mrs. Brown, and she cool
ly requested Willard to aid her. Al
though her influence over him was very
great, he declined to help her kill his
parents. yet he promised never to d:-
vulge her proposal. One night he sus
pected that she was about to carry out
her project and watched her. He saw
her chloroform the old folks and let in
Joe Greer, a desperado, who killed
Brown with an iron bar and badly in
jured Mrs. Brown. The crime was at
tributed to tramps, until Willard jeal
ous of Joe Greer’s int'macy with Louisa,
spoke out.
Dkatii Following a Bov’s Kick.
At Elizabeth, N. J , a week ago a
boy named Movhart, aged six, was
spinning tops rvilli a companion nam
ed Kinder, of the same age.” The
boys quarrelled, and Kinder kicked
bis playmate twice in I lie abdomen.
Morhart did not feel any immediate
effects from the kick, and went home.
Last Monday afternoon be began to
complain of severe pains in the abdo
men. A physician was called, but
too late, and at five o’clock Tuesday
morning the boy died. Kinder has
been arrested.
Fishes have no eyelids, and neces
sarily sleep with their eyes open. They
swallow their food whole. Frogs, toads,
and serpents never take food but that
which they arc satisfied is alive. When
a bee stings.it is often at the expense
of its life. Serp juts are so tenacious of
life that they will live for six months or
longer without food.
Nothing is so painful at this season
of the year as the disheartening specta
cle of a nine-year-old hen looking
through the fence at a man digging a
garden, while she exercises her rugged
legs and incisive claws on the plank
walk, just keeping in practice until the
garden is ready.— Hawk eye.
My heart is sick, my heart is sad,
But O, the cause I dare not tell;
I am not grieved, I am not glad,
I am not ill. I am not well !
I’m not myself —I am not the same,
I am indeed, I know not what!
I’m changed in all, except in name,
O, when shall I be changed in that ?
Mrs. Kate Southern is at Mr. C. B.
Howard’s camp near Reynolds. Seven
prisoners escaped from this camp last
week, among them Collins (white), who
had been sentenced at the last term of
the Superior Court of Muscogee county
for a number of years fur committing
rape on a white woman.
The best religion is that which will
make a color*d man sit down content
to eat corn bread for supper, knowing
at the same time that a neighbor has
fat chickens and no deg in his yard.
The Athens Watchman, speaks of a
two year old and a half Jersey cow
which yields 104 pounds of butter per
week.
A MASTERLY STOKB OF <*E*
NIL'S.
How to Get Off With the Old Lot*
Without Getting Into Court.
Detroit Free PreSs-.
The other day a muscular young fel*
low, having an odoi of the stables about
him, entered a Detroit photographer’s
establishment and explained that h*
would like to have about one photo*
graph taken, DUt on learning the price
he concluded to invest in a tin-type.
After taking his seat in the chair he
shut up one eye, drew his month around
one side, stuck Up his noee and patient
ly waited for the operator, whose as*
tonishment caused him to exclaim :
“Good gracious! but you dont want
to look that way tc get ft picture. No*
body will know you from Sitting Bull!”
“You go ahead,” was the reply.
“Do you want me to take such ft phi*
as that ?’’
“I do.”
The artist took it. It beat Sol Smith
Russell all to pieces and Was highly
satisfactory to the sitter, who paid fot
it and said:
“You see, I had a soft of object in
this. Come hero from Allcgah eottft*
ty six months ago—engaged to a gal
out there—found a gal here I like bel
ter—got to sever old ties—see 1”
“But what has that picture got to do
with old ties ?” asked the artists.
“Lots—heaps ! I’ve writ to her that
I Wi.s blode op here on a boat and din*
figered for life. She’s awful proud.
When she gits this and sOCshoW that
explosion wrecked me, .she’ll hunt an
other lover quickcr’n wink—see 1 How
do you like the plot? Just gaze on
this picture once and then tell me that
Mary Ann won't send back my loVU
lctters by the first train Y*
He posted the picture. The letter
was brief, but explained all. It said:
‘My ewer dear gurl—l inoloze my pic
ture that you might see how offtil bad
1 was hurt, tho’ I know you will luv mft
just the same.
“Ever see that game worked before*
he asked of the ar i tas he licked thft
stamp on the lettcl'.
‘ No—never did.”
“ Course you nev.r did. It’s mihe.
It struck me tho oilier day while I was
greasin' a wagon, and I tliinh it’s boss,
Blode up—see? Disfiggered for life—*
see ? Picture right here to prove it,
and she’ll write back that she has at
last concluded to yield to her pareht’s
wishes and marry a young man out thertt
who owns eleven steers, a hundred sheep
and an eighty-acre lot ”
—•••<►
How His Trousers got Shorten*
< il.
A certain gentleman purchased ft
pair of pants a few days ago, which
being tiied on at home, he found to
be too long. That night he remark
ed to his wife that he wished her ttt
take off about an inch from each leg,
which would make them the desired
length. Being fond of tensing heL
husband, she told him that sheshouldni
do anything of the kind, and he re*
tired without having obtained ft
promise from her that she w'ould at*
tend to the matter.
Soon after he had left for his room,
however, she, Us a matter of course,
clipped oft’ the superfluous inch, as
she had been asked to do. The Fani-
t’y is composed of six female members,
and each one of the five, who were iu
adjoining rooms, heard the dispute
between man md wife, and after tho
latter had taken off the required inch,
and retired, the old lady, desiring to
‘keep peace in the family,’ and not
knowing what her dnughter-in-lawt
bad done, cautiously slipped into the
room and cut off another inch.
In this way did each of the five la*
dies, unknown to the other, and all
with the praiseworthy object l>f pre*
venting any misunderstanding be*
tween the couple, clip an inch from
the legs of llie gentleman’s trousCrS,
The following morning, all uncon
scious of had taken place during
the night, lie rolled up his pants in a
piece of paper, and took them to the
tailor to be shortened to the desired
length. ITpot. a hasty glance thft
latter ventured the opinion that they
were already short; but the owner
insisted that they were fully an inch
too long. The tailor had no more ta
say, and our friend retired.
On the following Saturday be call*
ed for the pants and took them home*
and was supremely disgusted at find*
ing that the legs reached .only a trifle
below the knee. He straightway ac
cused the tailor, but his wife beard
him, and came to the rescue, explain-*
ing that she had taken nti inch from
each of the legs, and her ackuowl*
ment was followed by that of each
of the other five ladies, when it was
discovered that altogether the legs
had been shortened to the extent of
seven inches.
The business of nailing lies has com*
rnenced. A good sized orator will nail
about a bund red a day, and he will make
during the same period about- five hun
dred tor somebody else to nail. The
weakness is that it creates no demand
for nails.
The Rev Mr. Tucker, of Colquitt
county, is the father of thirty-two chil
dren, thirty of whom are now living. li
ought to have a pension.