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BI,jL A P’S COGITATIONS.
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* lulosoplier.
|I rom the Atlanta Constitution.]
M hen a man begins to turn yallcr
and fade like a gum tree in the early
fall he is about the most convenient
thing that a family of girls and boys
with a likely mother can have about
the house. It’s “papa do this,” and,
papa do that,” or “wont you put the
children to bed, or wash their little
footsy tootsies, or tell cm some stories,
or bring a bucket of fresh water,” or do
something or other, all the livelong day
and a good part of the night.
lin all alone for a season—for the
two little chaps are off at last to the
land of dreams, and the maltese cat is
asleep in the work-basket, and all the
rest are off ou a night’s frolic three
miles away—gone to a little Episcopa
lian dance at a nahor’s, and left me
here like a faithful wateli dog to look
after things and take care of the eliil
dren and chew the cud of solitude. I
was right proud of em when they got
all fixed up with their best rigging and
so kindly let me look at em in the par
lor and invited my opinion on tarlton
and muslin and ribbons and gipsy lace
and jewelry that had gone out of fash
ion and come in again three or four
times since it was bought. They looked
splendid, I tell you, considcrin their di
minished chances, and I wouldn’t be
ashamed of cm nowhere. Well, I was
invited too, I thought; but it was look
ed upon as a sort of friendly formality
and I soon found out my proper posi
tion was the family convenience on such
occasions, for you know that somebody
is just obleeged to stay at home with
the children. One thing about Moses
has always bothered me how came him
to be called the meekest man ? Didn’t
he interfere in a quarrel and slay an
Egyptian? Didn’t lie get mad and break
up the ten commandments? What was
lie so meek about? Don’t you reckon it
was his connubial discipline—liis sub
dued and accommodating disposition in
the family circle? I’ve always thought
so, and it’s a source of sympathetic com
fort to me iu my hours of soli tilde.
Well, I suppose by this time they are
dancing away—that is the young folks
—and my wife, Mrs. Arp, she keeps
her sweet little foot a patting to the
music and watches all the movements,
an l by and by she will consent to take
a little saltatory round herself just to
be obliging and make out the sett. It
does me good to think what a good old
fashioned time she is having and how it
will renew her youth like the eaguls,
and when she comes home she will kiss
the sleeping angels and pat me tender
ly on my appreciative jaw and ask if
they cried any, and was I lonesome,
and declare they just made her dance
whether she wanted to or not. Mighty
poor chance to convict Brother Block
with them sort of jurors, aint it? But
then you see this was an Episcopalian
dance and that transfers the responsi
bility. As the lawyers say, “it shifts
the onus” over onto the bishop,
And now is a good time osay to you
what I’ve been wanting to say a long
time. I’ve just been perusin in your
far-spreadin paper another apology
anout that Yazoo matter, which you
copied from a Southern journal—and
not long ago some of our editors were
apologizing about that Mormon aflair.
Well, if I wasent as meek as Moses the
like of that would make me mad. The
fact is, I’m mad anyhow—who are they
apologizing to? Can’t we build a wall
around our State some way? Is there
no way to keep impertinent people from
overlookin and interferin with our pri
vate affabs? What’s them howlin Rad
icals got to do with our quarrel? We
can’t have a little Democratic split-up,
nor a little suspicion against an office
holder, kill a vagabond Mormon, nor
find a dead nigger in the woods, but
what five hundred sanctified editors get
on a Radical stump and blow a horn—
“toot, toot, wc told you ro, ruffians,
banditti—Ku-klux rebels—toot, toot,
t-o-o-t.” Why, the impudence of the
thing is exasperatin. If we was to re
taliate in kind it would take every col
umn in every paper in the land to keep
up with ’em, aud it would be “toot,
toot” all the time without any recess
for dinner.
And yet some of the milky editors
sorter want to explain and apologize
and put on penitential airs as though
there was somebody away ofi who had
a right to held us responsible for our
conduct. Well, it's none of their fuss
nor funeral. We lire in a suvrin State,
we do, and are runnin our own masheen.
They sent a horde of hungry devils
down here ftnd the military to back ’em
to plunder aud humiliate out people
aud took sides with the nigger and
made a fcol of him, and some of our
own people were wean enough to follow
THE DAWSON JOURNAL.
their example, and run for office on Ihe
strength of the nigger vote, and are
keeping up the fuss and the strife be
tween the races, and if one of ’em hap
pens to be killed its just awful, horri
ble, terrible—“toot, toot, tooooot.”
Well, its a wonder to me and Mr. Beech
er that all of ’em liavent been killed.
He sajs that we have borne more op
pression since the war than any people
ever before since tne world was nade,
and we are bearin it yet, but I want
them slanderin Ilads to know we dont
apologize to them for nothin, and we
aint no more afraid of the next war
than they are. Conding em, what have
they got to do with us anyhow ? Are
they our parents or brothers or sisters
or uncles or aunts or cousins or guar
deens or school teachers or trustees or
next friends ? Have they got any in
terest in our estate, or are they con
cerned about our immortal souls, or
thinking about moving down here to
live with us that makes em take such
a lively interest in our affairs ? Well,
they neednt come. We can populate
this country fast enough without any
Mermans or Conklings to help us.
No, sir, they are just howling to have
them 5,000 supervisors and 11,000
deputy marshals put, in office again at
the next election. It is just as Bon
Hill says. It aint finance, nor who
shall he the next Governor, nor Inde
pendent candidates, nor a little split up
in the State politics thats the momen
tous question, hut its freedum and
State rights against federalism and the
military. Thats wiiats the matter.
Yours, Bill Arp.
Training a Pack ot Thirteen
Hounds.
The Augusta News says: “Mr. Rob
ert Butler, who has a national reputa
tion for fine hounds, and who made
many successful ‘runs' in the Southern
States before ‘freedom,’ has" now in
training a pack of thirteen hounds, the
supposition being that the training is
for the purpose of exhibiting tlio dogs
somewhere in the North. He has a
negro boy whom he takes along for the
purpose of the training, and Mr. But
ler says the boy likes the sport fully
as well as do the dogs. In tlie training
the negro is given about one mile the
start on horseback, and then dismounts
and takes any course he wishes. The
boy is a splendid runner, and'can aver
age five miles an hour through brush
and woods, and often makes it difficult
for the dogs to take him. The dogs
never loose the scent, and Mr. Butler
says if a thousand men were to cross
the track it would not interfere with
them. After the dogs coiqe up with
the boy, lie dexteriously keeps them off
with a short but heavy stick, which he
carries along with him for the purpose
and when the dogs crowd him too closely
they are called off by the blowing of a
horn, which they recognize and instant
ly obey. Mr. Butler is accompanied by
his son, who is said to be one of the
finest horseback riders in the country
and of himself will be quite an exhi
bition. lie can vault from the saddle
and regain his position with the horse
at full speed, can pick up a hat or a
piece of paper on the ground while at a
brisk gallop, and pteform many wonder
ful feats on horseback.”
Figlit liotw oen a I log aiul a
ltlack Snake.
KisOSToh, N. Y. Sept, 4.—A terri
ble fight between a hog and black snake,
about seven feet long, Iris just been
seen near Stone Ridge, in this county.
A drove of bogs were pasturing in a
lot owned by Cornelius Hardenbxrgli.
Most of the lot is swampy land. The
ling had been wallowing in the mire,
where the snake found him. Instantan
eously the snake wound itself three or
four times around the hog's neck, and
tried to throw the hog,but failed. Gain
ing firm ground after some trouble, the
hog started on a run toward the drove,
the snake then lengthened himself out,
and rearing his bead directly in front
of the hog’s eye, drew back as though
to strike. As he did so the hog open
ed wide his mouth, and instead of
striking where it intended, the snake
popped its head between the hog’s jaws,
which immediately closed. The result
was that the head and a part of the
body of the snake were bitten off. The
remainder of the snake wliieh had en
circled the hog’s throat, loosened its
hold and dropped to the ground.
— •
Fetter Bain of Bourgeval, France,
gained the consent of his sweetheart to
marry, and started for Home, singing
joyously as he went. The girl listened
to his voice as he crossed a field, and
noted that it stopped suddenly in the
middle of the song. This odd breaking
off excited her wonder. She went to
learn the cause, and fouud her lover
murdered. A rival had overheard him,
followed him, and struck him down
from behind.
DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1871).
3lrs. Chisholm Testifying.
The Trial of Gully on the Charge of
Killing Her Daughter.
DeKalb, Miss, Sept. B.— The taking
of evidence in the trial of Henry.).
Gully, charged with the murder of Cor
nelia Chisholm, on April 29, 1877, be
gan at 9 o’clock this morning. Seventy
witnesses—thirty-two for the State and
thirty-eight for the defence—were sworn
and put under the rule.
Mrs. Chisholm was the first witness.
She testified that an excited crowd of
men entered De Kalb on the evening of
April 28, 1877. The crowd was large
ly increased on the following morning.
Sinclair, then Sheriff, then arrested her
husband on the morning of the 29th.—
He asked to be placed under guard at
his own house, and besought an instant
investigation of the charges against
him. Armed men kept coming around
the house. Sheriff Sinclair conversed
with them and then talked with Chis
holm. Chisholm said to one of the
crowd : “You area cowardly scoundrel.
You will kill me before evening ; hut
before you do it will make some of you
bite the dust.” Sinclair came to Mr.
Chisholm at about ll o’clock and said :
“They say you must go to jail.” The
witness continued : “McLellan, my son,
Clay, Johnnie, and Willie, and my
daughter Conelia accompanied my hus
band to jail. We were clinging to him
to shield his body. Mr. Mosely and
Mr. Overstreet went inside the jail with
the party, and the door of tiie lower
floor of the jail was locked behind
them. The family went up stairs, and
the door was locked on the inside. I
was sent home by my husband on an
errand. I heard the firing as I came
back toward the jail, and I saw the old
man McLellan, fall pierced hy several
buckshot. I rushed inside the jail and
found the stairway crowded with men.
Rosser was at the top of the stairs, and
William Gulley was trying to break
the lock of the upper door with axes.
My daughter Conelia, son Johnnie, and
Mr. Overstreet were holding the door
on the inside. My daughter’s face was
bleeding. Rosser said to my daughter,
‘D -n your soul, I will blow your
brains out if you don’t get out of the
way.’ Rosser fired the first shot through
the broken lock, severing my son’s
hand from his arm.
The door was here broken open, and
my little boy fell, shot through the
heart. Some men caught him hy the
heels and dragged him down stairs.
My husband was bewildered, at the
death of Johnie. I and lriy son Clay
carried the dead hoy down stairs. Cor
nelia and her father came down stairs
Henry came up and raised his gun. I
closed the grated door at the bottom of
the stairway. My daughter clasped my
husband around the neck. Gully fired
through the grates in the door, and my
daughter screamed “I am shot!” Judge
Chisholm opened the door, and as he
stepped out Henry Gully came out of
an adjoining room with another gun and
fired again at him, and lie fell. Clay
and I assisted my husband in reaching
home. My daughter was bleeding in
the face. Her eye was blackened by a
blow. She was shot in the wrist, in tlib
ankle, and in the heel. She was shot
by Henry Gully. She died on the 15th
of May. She died from the effects of
her wounds.”
Mrs. Chisholm produced Cornelia’s
bracelet which was broken and driven
into her arm. Five buckshot were ta
ken out of her body.
On cross-examination Mrs. Chisholm
said that she begged Rosser by the
God that made him, the mother who
bore him, and the wife whom he loved
to be satisfied with the blood of Gilmer
and McCellan. lie replied: “John
Gully had a wife, an<C he would shoot
any woman who stood between himself
and Judge Chisholm.”
The defense asked if she did not
know Cornelia died from the effects of
the operation. The witness replied
that she did not know it.
While describing the scene of her
son Johny’s death, Mrs Chisholm faint
ed. When asked if Sheriff Sinclair
was not overpowered by the mob, she
could not tell whether the sheriff com
manded the mob or th mob command
ed the sheriff".
Dr. Chamberlin, who attended Cor
nelia Chesholm, testified that she died
of the effects of her wounds; that one
of the bones of her leg wasnnjurcd, and
two of the bones of her arm were bro
ken by buckshot: and that she was
wounded in. the face by some blunt in
strument. The witness thought that no
treatment could have saved her life.
A Fatal Red Shvvl.
[Lexington (Ky.) Gazette, AugustSO.]
The danger from wearing red in
the presence of bullocks, as well as
bulls, was illustrated in the fate of a
negro woman who lived in this coun
ty, on the Russell road, about seven
miles from Lexington. While pass
ing through a pasture near her home
she attracted the attention of a herd
of cattle, who seemed to be enraged
at the sight of a red sliwl which she
was wearing. She became alarmed
and started to run away, when the
whole herd gave chase. After run
ning a short distance she fell ex
hausted. I’arties who witnessed the
chase hurried to the rescue of the
woman, and even in time to prevent
the cattle from running over her af
ter she fell, but she died from the ef
fects of her fright while being taken
to her home.
Got us Have a Change.
[Columbus Enquirer.]
There comes affairs in the region of
men in which it is important to change
the men. They may be honest, hut
they aro covered all over with scandal.
The departments have been overlooked
errors and trangessions of law have
been detected. The governor, no mat
ter if lie be a saint iu the world's ac
ceptance, must be responsible to a de
gree for the men that are under him.
If a secretary of state is at fault, if a
secretary of the treasury is at fault for
thousands, who must we blaiue? Is
not the governor responsible to an ex
tent ? If every department of state is
rotten and corrupt, to whom must the
people look for redress? Is the gover
nor a mere ornamental head piece?
lias lie not a duty to perform as well as
others? Must he lie supinely on his
back, let citizens pay $7,000 to a clerk
in a department to obtain their rights,
let the whole state he covered with
scandal and yet the governor not share
in it ? Has the proud state of Georgia,
the empire state of the south, reached
that point that none are responsible
and a public officer can gain money for
himself by putting it in certain banks
that \iis depositors may name that they
may get the benefit of it ? Money is
collected from the state, gathered to
Atlanta, and then the treasurer of the
state and his securities pocket the inter
est for the benefit of liis own resources
and that of an individual section and of
course, gain from the whole state that
certain banks and officeholders may be
benefited. That is the business. Noth
ing wrong about that. All the securi
ties say so. Of course it is all right.
The state owes the treasurer and liis se
curities a living. They only demand a
legitimate use of the money. Of course
there’s nothing wrong in that. The
stale has a depository. It has an iron
safe. She can secure very cheaply po
licemen to guard that treasure. The
state should have a care for its officers.
Not being able to give the bond like
men, they offer advantages. You go
on my bond and I’ll give a percentage.
I'll make the state pay. Let anew
rule be established. If a public officer
cannot live on his sallary let us have
one who will. Honesty is a forced
quality. If a treasurer expects to live
on the payment of interest he expects
to get from the deposit of State funds
lie is not honest. If lie gets bondsmen
under the promise they will get interest
on said deposits he is not honest. lie
is entitled to his salary, only this and
nothing more. If lie cannot give bond
without such privilieges let him state
it. Ho lias no more right to be sup
ported by the state than anv one else.
Let us demand that no public officer
shall receive nothing more than his sal
ary calls for. The state can care for
her own money.
Stealing—Negro Vs. White Man.
Daring the recent colored camp
meeting near this city, presiding elder
Drown was discoursing on the depravi
ty of human nature. He introduced
the following comparison. He said he
was recently conversing with a respect
able white man in his town, Madison,
who owned a tan-yard hard by. Said
the latter, “Brctfrn, I tell you they all
steal, both white and black; but I'll
tell you the difference between a negro
and a white man when they
steal. If a negro steals from me, he
takes only leather enough to half-sole
his boots or shoes, but if it’s a white
man, he takes the whole hide.”
Judge 11., who paid us a visit a short
time ago, on our telling him the above
he gave us another one. He said there
was a negro in his section who had the
fortune, or misfortune, to have a whole
hog hung up in his smoke-house, one
night. Next morning, he found one of
the hind quarters missing. Now, said
he, some infernal democrat nigger stole
that meat. Why do yon say it was a
democrat nigger, querried a bystander.
Because, said the owner of the meat, if
it had been a radical mger he would
have stole the whole hog.
- -
A Drawback on Bright 11 opes.
[Court Circular, August B.]
A clergyman of my acquaintance told
me that lie once visited a lady of his
parish who had just lost her husband,
in order to offer consolation, and upon
her earnest inquiries as to the reunion
of families in heaven, lie stongly assert
ed his belief in that fact; and when
she asked with anxiety whether any
time must elapse before friends would
be able to fiud each other in the next
world emphatically said, “No 1 they
will be united at once.’’ He was think
ing of the happiness of being able to
offer the relief of such faith, when she
broke in upon such meditations by ex
claiming sadly, -‘Well, his first wife has
got him then t>y this tim®.
VOL. 16-NO 27
A WILD WOMAN.
Frightened Away From Memphis, She
ltoams Through the Woods—Sad
Lack of Humanity Among
Christian People.
[Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette.]
Mr. J. Handlio, who has just arrived
in the city from Crittenden county, re
lates rather a sad story in regard to a
woman who is now roaming around in
(he woods of the Mississippi river bot
tom. Shortly after the yellow fever ap
peared in Memphis, the woman, whose
name is Mrs. Annie Harper, left the
city, crossing in a skiff to the Arkansas
shore. She lost her husband and two
children last year, and when the fever
appeared again she became wild in her
manor, and declared that she would die
unless she left the city. But leaving
an infected city is not a perfect assur
ance against trouble, if it does some
times prove a safeguard against disease.
Mrs. Harper wandered around in the
dense forest almost crazed. The bot
toms are very sparsely settled, houses
in many instances being several miles
apart. When the woman applied at
the first house a man came out with a
gun and demanded her immediate
change of scene. In vein the woman
pleaded. The man explained that it
was better for one person to die than to
be the cause of the death of a dozen.
Ploddling to another hoiue the woman
was just entering the gate when a man
came out and said that coming in would
be more disastrous than a case of yel
low fever. The poor woman wailed
aloud, declaring that she bore the mark
similar to that worn by Cain. At the
next house a man gave her something
to eat, but advised her to move on.—
Thus she has been wandering around,
getting a morse* tomcat, here and being
spurned there. Bhe turned toward
M emphis, but lost her way in the woods,
almost tropically dense. When she
went to the next house, where a Mr.
Woodson lives, she declared that she
had the fever, and wanted to spread it.
This, of course, excited the inmates of
the house, and the womans hasty de
parture was demanded.
Mr. Handlie saw the woman near
Blackball. The woman had been wan
dering aimlessly and had at last reached
the railroad. Having hoard of the wo
man. Air. Handlie asked her several
questions.
“I’m wild,” the woman said. “Yel
low fever is chasing me. Like a blood
hound it follows my footsteps.”
Then, in a quiet manner, the woman
related her sad experience, and then,
in a moment, she became wild again,
and, with a wild shriek, she dashed off
into the woods. Mr. Ilandlie followed
her, but she paid no attention tojiirn,
wildly exclaiming that she was dying
with the fever. Mr. Ilandlie says that
from what he can learn Mrs. Harper
belongs to a respectable family, and
that her husband was quite a prominent
plumber and gas-fitter of Memphis.
Something should be done for the wo
man, as to continue in this way will
only prove to be her death or total des
truction of her mind.
The Lovers of the Double-Head
eel Woman.
[Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle.]
Millie Christine, the double-headed
woman, although not a partieularly at
tractive person, has had five offers of
marriage during her life, and all from
white persons. Count llosebud, one of
the midgets, is in love with the Night
ingale on account of her winning ways
and accomplishments, and would marry
her to morrow if she would consent.
One head is willing, but the other is
not, and the two heads have been dis
puting about this matter for the last
two years. It is, in fact, about the on
ly subject about which they are not ful
ly agreed. A man who would marry a
woman with two heads and subject
himself to the raking fire from such a
double-barreled gun as that whenever
lie came home late at night, might elicit
admiration for his valor, but not for his
discretion.
A Yellow Fever Incident.
At Memphis, Tcnn., Friday night,
a young man known as an active worker
during the present epidemic called to
see a lady acquaintance. He passed a
very agreeable evening and at ten
o’c’ock took his leave, after an affec
tionate farewell at the garden gate.—
Two hours afterward, while in his room
he was aroused by a furious knocking
at his door. The young lady whom he
had parted with only a short time pre
vious had been stricken with the
fever and had sent a servant in hot
baste to her friend, with instructions to
bring a physician and nurse.
A “Hinted” Question.*
From an exchange we clip the follow
ing “pinteif’ anecdote:
Not long since, being upon one of
my piscatorial preambulations, I came
across a man and brother, one of the
nation’s wards, who, like myself, was
vainly endeavoring to entice from tlio
placid waters of the Witblacoocbec, fish
enough to make a frying pan feel like
it had a mission.
Now, I, that have fished from the
blue tipped mountains of West Virgin
ia, away down to the “S’wanee Ribber,’’
am somewhat inclined to be hypercrit
ical when fish won’t bite.
Says the man and brother:
“Mars’ Billy, ain’t you one ov dem
furriners ?’’
“Well, Sam, I am not ‘native and to
the manor born.’ I am from old Vir
ginia.’’
“Ole Ferginny! I didn’t think you
growed dat ar muffstash in dis here
pinoy woods country. Fo’ God, it’s
mos’ long as my fishin’ pole ! Sum good
land in Ole Ferginny, Mars’ Billy 1
“Yes, Sam, some of the very best
land in the world.”
“Heap better dan ’tis here in Geor
gy 1”
“A great deal better, Sam.’’
“Fokes up dar is got Leap mo’ mun
ny dan we’uns ?”
“Oh, yes, money is far more plenti
ful in Virginia.”
“Be atmousfear is mo’ slewbrus
“Much, more so, Sam.”
“Well, look a’yar, Mars’ Billy, I’m
gwine to ax you a pinted queshun. Ef
de lan’ is better in Ole Ferginny, an’
de mutiny is heap mo’, and de atmous
fear is mo’ slewbrus, den what do deb
bil did you cum to Georgy fur, enny
how,” Mars’ Billy ? I ax yer. lie!
he' be!”
“Hold on, Sam,, I've got a bite,” and
out upon the green sward was landed
that sweetest of all South Georgia fish,
a noble “sucker.” I had no more time
to talk to Sam.
A Woudortul Horse.
“Sleepy Tom,” the dark hay pacing
horse, went around the mile track in
Chicago 2.12i, the fastest mile time
ever made by any (rotter or pacer in the
world. ‘Tom’ is blind as a bat, is about
fourteen years old, fifteen bands high,
and lias afforded as much amusement
to turfmen as any other animal in Amer
ica to-day. One of the most remarka
ble sights ever soon at a horse race is
the picture of ‘Tom’ and his driver in
the heat of a race. The driver leans
far over ‘Tom’s’ body and talks to him
the same as he would to a human being.
In the height of the race, when the
contest is at it highest pitch with ‘Tom’
; lightly on the lead, the driver will
lean over and shout: “Now, you’ve
got him, Tom “Now you’re ahead
“Go it, Tom,’’ and other exclamations,
which the old horse seemed to under
stand and appreciate at once, and which
encourages him to do great deed.,.—<
When the driver is silent the old tiorso
will raise and turn his head around, as
much as to ask for ‘further information’
on the matter in hand. Between dri
ver and horse is a perfect understanding,
and when they l ush down the home
stretch in a big race they conic like a
whirlwind, and their record tells tlio
remainder of the story.
A .Judge's Idea.
In a divorce case in Georgia the
Judge concluded his opinion in these
words: “Without intending to reflect
upon the wife in this case, for I take it
for granted that the libelant is to blame,
still I warn al! plain men against mar
rying women by the euphonious names
of Dulcinea, Felixiana, etc. These
mellifluous names will do fornovols, but
not for everyday life.”
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A Nurse Poisens Two Children.
At Springfield, Massachusetts, Lizzie
Sheppard, a mulatto woman, is in cus
tody charged with killing the little son
of J. W. Smith, by giving it arsenic.
After the death of the child she was
employed in the family of Mr. D. Far
rell, where she gave a little boy, six
years old, a glass of milk. The child
was taken sick, but prompt treatment
saved his life. The contents of (ho
stomach of the Smith child having
been analyzed, arsenic was found to be
die cause of death. The murderess is
a large, active, bright-looking woman,
but at times, when taken unawares, a
demoniac light shines in her eye. She
claims to be a prophet, and had pre
dicted a deeth in the Smith family.
An old gentleman of Wilkes coun
ty says that lie noticed i heavy fog
on the 4th of August, and is satisfied
from his observations for the last
quarter of a century, that there will
be a heavy frost two months later,
which would bring it on the 4th of
October. The Washington Gazette
hopes, however, that th : s prognosti
cation will fail tliis time. It thinks
his reputation of a quarter of a centu
ry’a standing could bear one failure.
“Darn a fool!” said Wilkins to bis
wife. “Certainly,’’ replied Mrs. Wil
kins, flourishing a darning-needle,
“whereabouts are you worn out 1” ‘Some
people are too smart to live loug,’ re
torted he. “My dear,” she answered,
sweetly, “let me congratulate you upon
| your fair prospect for a long life.”