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Dear ;';r— D'jrinv this Ivor 1 v uiinui hundr. and
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Dannie a pr.ctico of twenty years. 1 have never
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THE DAWSON JOURNAL.
■x J. and. hoyl & co.
Hill Arp on (lie Press.
\c9 the Dixie Farmer—llu
\silage—Honor to Whom
\ —A Door Man’s Cel
lar—Etc.
YoUf 2fl x | e Farmer.
in every grcat co mfortto me;
put away in g n( j something to
thing that I u,d memory ; some
wliich wilLbepnnw before, and
’ time to conffVantage to me in
can get a man can read ho
good paper ; heion by taking one
world, and inake\p up with the
ing member of soc\ an entertain
a little on most a. can talk up
learning is a very goqect. Book
know a man who has ag, but I
but he never reads tho p©f that,
passes for a foal in hiSfTd he
Some papers are not much rhood.
appearances, but I nevy toolt to
did’nt pay me in some way a ghat
more than I paid it. One time \1
friend started a little paper
Southwest Georgia and sent it to
and I subscribed just to encourage h
and so after a while it published ano
tiee that an administrator had an order
to sell several lots of land at public
outcry, and one of the lots was in my
county. So I inquired about the lot,
and wrote down to my friend to attend
the sale, and run it up to fifty dollars.
He did so, aud bid off the lot for 1110 at
thirty dollars, and I sold it in a month
to the man it joined for a hundred, and
so I made sixty-eight dollars clear by
taking that paper. Mj father told me
that when he was a young man he saw
a uotice in a paper that a school teach
er was wanted away off in a distant
county, and he went down there and
got the situation, and a littlq girl was
sent to him, and after a while she grew
up mighty sweet and pretty ./and he fell
in love with her and mipried her.
Now, if he liad’nt took tjat paper,
what do you reckon would hive become
of me ? AVouldent I b'e sone other fel-
ler, or maybe not be at all?
Your article, by Prof, irown, on
“Ensilage,” has put me toj thinking.
If I wasent always on mygalfd again.s*
now inventions and new difoveries, I
would say this new process f preserv
ing green vegetable matter t wonder
ful theory, and will prove agreat bles
sing to the farmers. If ai aero of
green corn forage or red elder weighs
forty thousaud pounds, am can be
saved green with all its juice) just like
it was cut, why, an acre or two will
run my stock all winter and "keep the
cows fat and the buttei eliow. I
found a pit on my farm wherl bought
it. It is sixty feet long and ten wide,
and was dug to compost ded horses
and cows and such things—l think I
will fill it this summer with born-fod
der and clover, and pack it dwn and
cover it with earth, just as the Profes
sor did at Vaudeibilt. I’m gpiug to
put in a lot of roasting cars and; garden
vegetables, and see if they won’t keep
fresh and green, for itkeftas that the
only secret about it is jo keep the air
out of anything to preserve it—on the
principle of canning fruYs and vegeta
bles and fresh fish and iwsters. Every
thing wants air tp grow by, hut as soon
as you stop the growth the air becomes
a poison, and makes it deeay. It is no
new thing to preserve animal and vege
table matter by burying it in the
ground. If you give a dog a chunk of
fresh meat he will go off and bury it.
I used to think ho buried it to hide it,
but he don’t—he buries It to keep it
fresh and sweet. My poor nabor,
Guyton, showed’me some very fine po
tatoes the other day, and when I asked
him how he kept then so sound and
fresh-looking, he said he kept them in'
a big hollow' stump that held about five
bushels, and covered them with straw
and then filled up with dirt. He says
a hollow stump is the best cellar a poor
man can dig. I’ve read about frogs
being found alive in the cavities of
rocks and trees, where no air could get
to them—maybe a mail wouldent die il
he was buried alive, who knows ? Won
der if we can’t get some philanthropic
gentleman to try it for the good of his
race ? Maybe he would just go into a*
torpid state like a bear does in wintc’-,
and we could unbury him at any time,
and take him out all fresh and green,
and set the clock to running again. If
that can be done it would he a big thing
in many respects. It would stop all
suicides, for if a man was tired of life
and not exactly ready for heaven, he
woul£ compromise in retiring for a
year or ten years or maybe fifty, and
then be waked up and try it again.
We would have to have a special grave
yard in every community for all such,
and keep a register, and label the time
to wake them up, just like the hotels
do their customers, who are going off
DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1880.
on the night train. If a young lady
wouldent marry a man because he was
a little too old for her, why, he could
go dead until she caught up with him.
It would be a splendid thing to preserve
the truth of history, for some would go
dead maybe for a hunclred years or a
thousand, and they could tell positively
all about what happened in the olden
times I think on the whole we would
like this sort of a business. In fact, I
would go dead right now for a month,
for Mrs. Arp has departed these coasts
for that time, and everything seems so
desolate and lonely. If a mail slept
for fifty years and over I suppose we
would "call them “Old llips” when they
come back, in honor of Rip Van \V in
kle. Wouldent it be a spendid way
for a man to get out of debt, for lie
could sleep until his debts all run out
of date, or his relentless creditors were
all dead, and theu step forth solvent and
free, like a man steps forth from the
bankrupt law ?
But I reckon we had better learn all
about ensilaging fodder and plants be-
fore we begin on humanity. Its best
■go slow on these things, and await
manifest destiny. I was only ru-
ting ou what might happen, and
e \ielp thinking that while I would
anybody for the world, I
f or £ mind ensilaging some folks
out o £ ft y y ears > J ust t 0 get tbein
perenni; a y> and Preserve them in
Sherman, 11 *■ lf Gen ' Grant ’ a "?
will not pu ßlain e were—however, I
any further Glis interest,n g sub J ec£
mark that if >- time ’ except t 0 r<? ;
this branch of ever
I would likcfor ”rofessor’s business
who was the first , be * embered
give honor to who.n U^e al \
iii/. or is due. 1
may be dead for goo ,
i , but let my
memory be ensilaged \ . ,
1 . - ver m the
hearts of my countryn?* , T
J 1 ours,
Cartersville, Ga., Feb. 20, i^ RP '
Gainesville Eagle : A few o
ago, while in Jackson county, a * a ®°
ter of the Eagle met two beaver i
pers from near Rome, Ga. They lu a
trapped for the varmints in Alabam
I lorida and 1 ennessee, and on this
trip have set their traps on all the
streams from Rome down as far as the
lower edge of Jackson county. They
had caught sixteen beavers in one week
in Jackson county alone !
five one night and four another, weigh-
ing from thiity to one hundred and ten
pounds each. Some of the finest skins
were five feet wide. One of the men
informed us that he had been trapping
beavers for ten years, and found it very
profitable and to possess quite a charm
for him. ' He uses a gum which he says
will draw a beaver more than a mile.
The same family, he says, will use for
ten miles up and down a stream, and
that the current report that a beaver
will cut its own leg jff to get out of a
trap is a mistake. He says that a large
beaver will cut a smaller one loose, but
it is impossible for one to cut itself
loose, their neck joints being only about
tlyee-eighths to one-half inch long
He packs the meat in salt and sells it
when he returns to Rome, where the
people pay him ten cents per pound,
lie says a heaver always cuts a tree,
corn, stalk, or anything they cut, so it
will fall towards the stream, and one
never cuts a bad ear of corn down. He
sets out twenty traps at a time, and
has caught during his career as trapper
more than six hundred beavers. He
said that his gum was so attractive to
beavers that he would catch the same
beaver in another trap the same night
if it should get away. He puts his
trap in the water, chained to a small
pole, which floats on the water, and
wh3n the beavers get caught they fight
the trap till they" are drowned if it
catches a foreleg, hut, if it catches a
hindleg it runs und;r a log and Some
times gets out on the bank with float,
trap and all. Beavers never eat fish,
as is supposed by some, but eat bark,
roots, corn, wheat, oats, etc. The
sweetgum is their favorite. They have
four front teeth that are very strong,
about an inch and a half long and one
half inch thick. Their tails, with which
they fight, and use also for trowels in
making their dams, are boiled and
make the very finest oil, the oil from
the tail of a common sized beaver be
ing Worth from sixty cents to one dol
lar.
Fi.our From Chestnuts. —ln a re- j
port to the State Department by Mr. J. |
Schuyler Crosby, United States Consul j
at Florence,is an interesting account of j
the u-'e made of chestnuts for making j
flour in Tuscany and Lucca, aud other i
parts of southern Europe. The writer
says: "The number of trees in Tuscany
and Lucca is estimated at, several mill
ions, and the nut and wood have done
more to maintain the population of some
of these districts than any other produc
tion. Indeed, in some places wheat
Sour and corn meal are entirely super
seded by the chestnut flour, which is
very nourishing and much cheaper as
iu article ofTood.
An Expert AVitli the Pistol.
The late Recorder Hackett, of New
York, was an enthusiastic sportsman,
one of his diversions being the shooting
of grasshoppers with a revolver. A
more critical aud dangerous practice
was the shooting of coins held in the
fingers of a person at a proper distance,
and shooting an apple placed upon the
head of another person, in which the
deceased Judge was an expert who
never failed. Thc'following is vouched
for by an eye witness of the affair:
At the Mission Dolores, close to San
Francisco, a western lad of twcut.y
years of age had often supported apples
and held coins for Mr. Hackett to
practice upon in this perilous fashion,
and one day, on the occasion of a little
dinner party, a special exhibition was
to be had. The marksman was to
cleave ail apple on the youth’s head at
ten jiaces. Before tho time came,
however, an ingenious gentleman, cele
brated in the East as well as the West
for his practical jokes, bribed the lad
to go through a carefully rehearsed
scene. He was provided with a clot
of blood-colored paint, and instructed
to secrete this in his hand just before
the show. At tho report of the pistol
he was to spin -around, clap the paint
to his forehead as he turned his back
to Mr. Hackett, give a yell, vault high
in air and fall to the ground. All this
was actually and carefully done in the
presence of the five or six persons who
had dined together. The expectation,
of course, was that Mr. Hackett would
be stricken with renorse and horror,
and rush forward instantly to his wel
tering victim ; but when, instead, the
marksman quietly sat down where he
stood, aud, with his own peculiar smile,
proceeded to light a cigar, a tale was
told that the amused witnesses have
never forgotten. .
The editor of a Kentucky paper re
cently got into trouble in a singular
way. He was at church one Sunday
night and sat near a young lady who
had a cough. The noxt issue of his
paper happenened to have an advertise
ment of a cough medicine which read
something like this:
j “The young lady who was at church
’-xiday night with that annoying cough
slf.jld go and buy a bottle of cough
syrtq.” The above mentioned young
i tady r#ad it, and, not knowing it was
■nn jinia/uxv 1V ua tu itviuwf
and forthwith pounced upon the editor
for so cruelly mistreating her. It was
only after a heroic explanation that she
was convinced that she was not intend
ed in the paragraph.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
Washington, March 3. —The Na
tional Republican of this morning pub
lishes the details of a suit filed by Mrs.
Belva A. Lockwood, attorney on behalf
of Miss Jessie Raymond, ot Atlanta,
against Senator Ren Hill for seduction
and support of the child—damages laid
at ten thousand dollars. Senator Hill
denies iu to all connection with her,
and since her arrival here halt refused
to see her or deal with her. lie will
derclop the conspiracy as blackmail
and cause the arrest and indictment of
all parties concerned, including, it is
charged, Mrs. Lickwood, Lawyer Pel
ham, of Alabama, and a Georgian iu
office here ; also a mediant and his
book-keeper in Atlanta, whom, she says,
have been her friends in the matter.
It will develop one dfilie most start
ling cases of blackmail on record. The
woman is here at the Washington house
after being turned out of a respectable
boarding house. S. W. S.
Dooly Correspondent Montezuma
Weekly : This has been one of the
warmest winters since 1849. We hope
that the weather will not be as cold as
it was from the 16th to the 20th. of
April of that year. In 1835, we had
the coldest February ever known in
Georgia. On the 18th of that month,
•in ’35 was the cold Saturday that old
men and women remember so well.
On the 6th day of March, of the same
year, snow fell to the depth of six inch
es. On the 16th day of March, 1828,
there was - frost so severe that it killed
hickory trees large enough to make
mauls of. Good crops were made that
year, except small grain crops. In
1842 was the warmest February over
known in Georgia for the last forty
| years There was not a frost and but
One rain in that month. In 1839. the
! farmers made the best cotton crop ever
grown in middle Georgia. There was
but one rain in July (#n the 27th) of
that year.
How big is a man, anyway? Well,
he is smaller than an elephant, and a.,
elephant is smaller than a mountain,
and a mountain is smaller than the
world, and the world is a mustard seed
compared with the sun itself is a mere
motein the dust-cloud of spheres that
stretches out through the universe be
yond the reach of thought.
“Who Struck Billy Patterson ?”
A cot respondent of the Carnesville
(Ga.) Register, who is writing a
series of “historical sketches, remin
iscences and legends of Franklin
county,” gives the following expla
nation as to the origin of the above
query:
Many persons have beard the ques
tion, “who struck Billy Patterson 1 ?”
without ever know ing the origin of it.
1 propose to enlighten them a little
on the subject. William Patterson
was a very wealthy tradesman or
merchant of Baltimore in the State
of Maryland. In the early days of
Franklin county, he bought,tip a great
many tracts of land in the county,
and spent a good portion of his time
in Franklin looking alter his inter
ests here. He was said to boas
strong as a bear and as brave as a
lion; but like all bravo men, be was
a lover of peace, and indeed a good,
pious mau. Nevertheless, his wrath
could be excited to the fighting pitch.
On one occasion he attended a public
gathering in the lower part of Frank
lin county at some district court
ground. During the day two oppos
in'* bullies and their friends raised a
O.
row, and a general fight was the con
sequence.—At the beginning of the
affray and before the fighting began
Billy Patterson ran into the crowd
and tried to persuade them not to.
fi<dit, but to make peace and be
friends. But his efforts for peace
were unavailing, and while making
them some of the crowd in the gener
al melee struck Billy Patterson a
sever blow from behind. Billy at
once became fighting mad and cried
out at the top of his voice. “Who
struck Billy Patterson?” No one
could or would tell him who was the
guilty party. He then proposed to
irive any man a hundred dollars who
would tell him ‘"Who struck Billy
Patterson?” From a hundred debars
lie rose to a thousand dollars But
not a thousand ‘dollars would induce
any man to tell him “Who struck
Billy Patterson?” And years after
wards m liis will he related the above
facts and bequeathed one thousand
dollars to be paid by his executors to
the man that would tell tliAn “Who
struck Billy Patterson?” His will
is recorded in the Ordinary s ofiico at
yai ucav mvj x** aouuty, Gunv
gia, and any one curious about the
matter can there find and verify the
the preceeding statements.
The Largest Words.
‘Rob,’ said Tom, which is the most
dangerous word in all the English lan
guage to pronounce V
‘Don’t know,’ said Rob, ‘uuless it’s
a swearing word.’
. ‘Pooh !’ said Torn; ‘it is stumbled,
because you are sure to get a tumble
between the first and the last letter.’
Uia ha !’ said Rob ; ‘now I’ve one for
you. I found it one day in reading
the paper. Which is the longest word
in all the English language ?”
‘Valetudinarianism,’ said Tom,
promptly.
‘No, sir,’ ‘it’s smiles; because
there’s a whole mile between the first
and last letter.’
‘Ho, ho !’ cried Tom, ‘that’s nothing.
I know a word that has over tnree
miles between its beginning and end
ing.’
‘Now what’s that ?’ asked Rob faint
ly'
. ‘Beleaguered,’ exclaimed Tom, tri
umphantly.
A Hawk Trap.
Augusta News.
It is said that the following method
of getting rid of hawks has beeu em
ployed with the most remarkable suc
cess, and as the subject of chicken
raising is one which is engaging many
persons, it cannot but be of interest :
‘Kiect a pole about ten or fifteen feet
high in an open field ; saw otf the top
square, and put thereon a steel trap,
set for execution, fastening the same
tightly to the slab. The hawk will be
sure to light on the top of the pole if he
comes anywhere in the neighborhood,
and is equally sure to be captured
One who has tried it says the snare re
sulted in the entire destruction of all
hawks in his neighborhood, and thus
gave safety and immunity to all bis
fowls.
A young man who had just returned
from a long journey, clasping his adored
one in a loving embrace in dimly
lighted parlor, was seized with a great
■error that, for an instant, paralyzed all
Lis energies. ‘Oh. my darling,’ said
he wildly, ‘why didn’t you write me of
this?—What is it—spinal disease? or
have you dislocated some of your ribs,
that you are obliged to wear this broad
leather bandage ? ‘Oh, love,’ she gent
ly murmured, ‘this is only my new belt,
I would hav~ got a broader one. but it
would not go under my arms.”
VOL. 16--NO. 51.
A Significant Incident.
none of (he battles of the aile wary
young Doctor D—, then a volunteer
Captain in the Union Army, led his
men upto a hand-to-hand light with
a Confederate regiment
“I never,” said the Captain, “had
killed a man before. It was a mass
of men I fought—an idea, the whole
South—not tne individual.
“When I found myself, therefore,
slashing away at a stout, blue eyed
fellow, who might be some waman's
husband, or some child s father, I
confess my courage gave way. I
actually shut my eyes as I hacked
desperately at him with my sword.
11 is arm fell helplessly and he drop
ped from his horse.
“An hour later, I saw him in the
surgeon’s tent. The arm had been
amputated and lay upon the floor.
As the nan was carried away I saw
on one of the fingers a ling carved
out of cannel coal. It looked to me
like a child's work, and I drew it ofl
and followed the wounded soldier,
determining to restore it. But in the
confusion of the battle-field I lost
sight of him.”
The sequel to this story is as follows:
In the summer of 1878, when the
yellow fever was raging in the South,
Dr. D—was one of the Noilhern phy
sicians who answered the call for
aid.
He went to Memphis and labored
for weeks among the sick and dying.
Among the the patients brought, to
the hospital was a Colonel C—, a
man with but one arm.
Something familiar in the man’s
honest face troubled our doctor. lie
gave his constant care to him, both
nursed and prescribed for him, and
finally saw him recover. The two
men became warmly attached.
One evening when the Colonel was
able to leave his bed, they took sup
per together. Dr. D-suddenly drew
from his pocket a black ring and laid
it on the table.
“Why, this is mine!” exclaimed
the colonel. “My boy Dick cut that
for me thirteen years ago.”
“Then it was I who cut off your
arm,” said D
The men arose and faced each
other silently a moment, and then
their hands met in a hearty clasp
TV>. strife was over, and the true men
were true brothers again.
Whin to Pray for Rais. —“Yes,”
said my clerical friend, as be helped
himself to another cigar, and adjust
ed his footstool more comfortably, “I
could give you even a better instance
than John Stewart Mill, of the con
fusion produced in people,s minds by
the conflict of soaring faith and down
pulling rationalism. Theje was the
late Bishop Strahan, of Toronto, now,
as firm a believer as ever endured
cmcifixion, and as level beaded a
Scotchman as ever ate oatmeal. One
hot Sunday August, during the
continuance of a long drought, the
clergyman of the church where lie
was officiating requested him to use
the prayer “for rain,” which you will
find in the English prayer book.
The Bishop promised to do so, but
did not. On being reminded of bis
forgetfulness after the service, “Iloot,
mon!'' said lie with a contemptuous
snort (glancing at the dark blue sky
and blazing sun above), “Hoot, mon !
wba’ should I ha’ used the prayer for
rain? There were no indications!”
Nixie Points ok the Law.—“ You
see, boss, dar’s a nigger libin’ up my
way who otter be tooken car’ of,”
said an old darkey to the Captain at
the Central station in Detroit.
“What’s he been doing now?”
“Waal, sab, las’ fall I lent him my
axe, and when I wanted it back lie
braced right up and tole me dat pos
session! was nine pints of the law, an,
refused to gib it up.”
“Yes ”
“Waal, de odder day I sent de ole
woman ober an’ she borrowed bis
buck saw, and when Julius cum for
it I tole him jist like be answered me,
an’ stood on my dignity.”
“Well?”
‘ I ban nine pints o’ law, didn’t I?”
“Yes.”
“An’ how many pints am de law
composed of?”
‘ I don’t know exactly.”
“Well, dot’s what bodders mo, fur
dat nigger saw deni nine pints shet
up dis let’ eye fur me, pitched de ole
woman ober a bar’l and walked off
wid his saw an’ my snow shovel to
boot! If I had nine pints be inns'
’riev had ober twenty, an’ ebeu den lie
didn’t half let himself cut!”
Killed by the Stick of aJPiii.
The Williamsport Banner says:
“Mr. George Rose, better known as
the iee cream man, about a month ago
accidentally ran a large brass piu
through the thumb of bis right hand,
and ever since that time lie has suffered
terrible pain, so much so that it lias
been impossible for him to sleep. It
finally produced congestion of the brain,,
from which lie died yesterday forenoon.
For several days before bis death he
was entirely deranged.”
Judge Bleckley’s Bust Declaim •
Logan B. Blackley, one of the As
sociate J isticcs of the Supreme Court
of Georgia, resigned his seat on the
bench on the ‘2d inst. “In many re
spects,” writes our regular Georgia
correspondent, “he was the most extra
ordinary judge that ever sat upon tin
Supreme Bench in our State. His de
cisions evince great learning ;nl re
search, and are clothed with a quaint
ness of phraseology which has made
them favorite sources of quotation every
where. He was born in the mountains
of North Georgia, and still retains
about his appearance something of the
backwoodsman ; but he is a true . poet
and a profound meta-physician as well
as a great lawyer, In the language of
Hallam, ho “scatters the powers of po
lite literature over the thorny brakes
of jurisprudence.’ On the morning he
delivered his lust decision on retiring
from the bench, he read the following
lines. It may be added that in his
letter to the 'iovernor, Judge Bleckley
based his resignation upon the ground
(dictated by genuine modesty) of ina
bility to discharge the duties ot the
office satisfactorily to himself, and of
his failing health uuder the stress of
the laoors impysed by his position.
The following are the lines referred
to :
IN THE MATTER Of REST.
BLECKLEY, J>
1. Rest for hand and brow and breast,
For fingers, heart and brian !
Rest and peace ! a long release
From labor and from pain
Pain of doubt, fatigue, despair—
Pain of darkness everywhere,
And seeking light in vain !
2. Peace and rest! Are they the best
For mortals here below ?
Is soft repose from work and woes
A bliss for men to know 1
Bliss of time is bliss of toil;
No bliss but this, from sun and soil,
Does God permit to grow.
They were ordered to bo spread upon
the minutes of the court.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
VYiiat They Say in Their Si.eep.—
Don Cameron —If Grant will not o
ept 1 will take it myself, by gracious
Secretary Shevmau— lain undoubt
edly ibo greatest person this country
lias produced.
Ex-Governor Seymour —Gentle-
men, your—(snorescalmly, but firmly.)
Senator Conkling—What a rebuke
my election would be to that plebian
Sprague!
Senator Blaine—Mr. Ingersoli; is
right, l am, indeed, a plumed knight.
I am also a sea horse on wheels.
General Grant—Do I look like a
person who would decline a thing al
ter going around the world to get it?
Senator Sharon —I am the rose of
myself; I am the lilly of the valley,
I am, for a fact. _ .
Hendricks —Once for all, I will play
second fiddle to nobody. (Kicks
Mrs. 11. out of bed.)
Colonel Ingei-soll—l am sure
Blaine would do the handsome thing
by me I am strongly in favor ot that
excellent person.
Mr. TUden —It is not good for a
man to be alone. If I cannot find a
wife I will at least buy a dog.
Terrible Weather in the North
west—A Snow- Blockade.
A dispatch dated February 28,
from Fargo, Dakota Territory, gives
an astonisniug account of the cold
weathqf in that region. Only a half
dozen trains were able to reach that
point during the whole month of Feb
ruary. All the railroad cuts are fil
led with snow and the rails covered
with ice. Five or s ; x locomotives
have been used in banking up the
snow. Two others are lying at '.lie
foot of a high embankment and will
probably remain there until spr'-ng.
The account states that the railroad
company refused to pay their bills at
the farmhouse on the prairaie, and
permitted newsboys to sell poor bis
cuits for twenty cents a piece. There
has been no suffering, but con-ideri
ble roughing it. The contractors on
the extentiou are idle with several
hundred teams, because of the non
arrival of supplies. They have seven
ty cars in the blockade. XUe unpre
cedented weather continues.
New York, March 3—A Colum
bia, S C., special states that' yester
day afternoon at Silver Street, New
berry county, W. Sperrman, a re
spectable and successful farmer, en
tered his house, accosted his younger
brother, who was just rising from the
table, saying: “I want to Speak to
you, brother,” and simultaneously
drew a large knife, made a ..slash at
bis brother's throat, eti ting a terible
gash, severing the jugnbir vein and
causing death in- a few moments.
The slajer then rushed into an ad
joining room and cut bis wife’s throat
from ear to ear. lie then fitted the
bloody knife and deliberately cut bis
own throat. It is supposed be was
laboring under temporary mental ab
erration, as he was a sober, kind
hearted man, anti on most affection
ate terms with bis wife and brother.
A Father’s IJlessing.
Take my child, with blessings take her,
Keep her from the storms ef life ;
May she prove, in joy or sorrow,
An unselfish, goodly wife,
I will sadly miss my daughter,
Home will lose its light and mirth;
But she's gone to fill God’s ealling,
V* Oman's mission here ou earth.
Nobly keep thy wife and guard her,
From the storms and ills of life.
Let her actions by thy teachings
Make her worth the name of wife.
A Western s'eeping ear was recently
entertained with the sight of a man beat
ing his wife. Some men have the rare
faculty of making themselves at home
anywhere.