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Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, June 15th, 1883.
Number 0.
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remllnir, .1 cents per line each Insertion.
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m Ittc It not specially ordered otherwise. h
1‘or terms npplv at tblsotHcc.
\ visitation from the yellow fe-
vpr by our seaport cities is greatly
f,uirt'd, anti now comes the report
II,.,) the fever is almost epidemic
in 1 Invantin, Cuba, with which our
cities have close connection. The
ilanger to our cities is certainly
imminent, and nothing should be
left undone to ward it off.
(tenoral Beauregard thinks that
tin 1 negro race in the South is
rapidly decreasing, the census re
turns to the contrary notwithstand
ing. ]Uit (tenoral Beauregard has
thought so many wild things that
his opinion is not worth a great
deal. Just after the war, he thought
that miscegination was the proper
thing for the Southern people to
adopt.
The Atlanta Constitution, says the
trial of 1 liman for the murder of his
wife will take place this week in
Waynesboro. We have had
to correct this statement several
times already, and now say again
that Inman was not a citizen of
Hurke, neither was the crime com
mitted in this county. The trial
took place this week in Swainsboro,
Emanuel county.
The Macon Telegraph and Sylva-
nia Teh phone have combined their
forces, ami entered upon a crusade
(against the dogs. Record us on
that line,gentlemen; we have been
solid against the eur of whatever
size or shape for years. A little,
shaggy flee, manipulated by a hun
gry colored citizen, can worry down
a fat ling more effectually, in a
shorter space of time, and with
less noise than any other known
method.
Swainsboro ftemizer: Our im
mediate able (?) Representative in
the United States Congress, ITon.
John (A Nichoils, prefers the lion.
Samuel J. Randall for Speaker of
the next House. Does the lion. J. C.
X. propose to become one of the
I foil. S. J.,R’s. henchmen ? There
arc already too many pages in the
Democratic party of the South.
Hon. J. Nicholls was elected
to represent the people of the first
District, and if he votes for Randall
(besides his vote we don’t think him
dangerous) he will misrepresent
his people, and it will be remem
bered against him in the future.
Savannah Times: Did you ever
now of a monopoly which has
continued for years in any special
line of business but what would
lVoth, chafe and grow cross if an op
position was started, and wiw hack
ed by the public in opposition to that
monopoly.
You have that down fine, brother
llichardson. We know of a case
exactly in point, Where the monop
olists have not only fretted and fum
ed, hut have nearly kicked them
selves to death against the wind,
all to no purpose—for like that old
ghost we read of, the opposition will
neither “down” nor die.
Florida Dispatch: It is very an
noying after having set out a nice
lot of plants, to see them cut down,
one by one, by cut worms. We
have tried ashes, lime, soot, and, in
fact, everything wo ever heard of,
hut never found anything effectual
until by accident we found three or
four of the worms one morning
gathered under n small board,
which had been left by some chil
dren on a sweet potato hill. Act
ing upon the hint, we placed small
pieces of hoard, large chips, etc., all
through the patch, and we trapped
them by hundreds. The boards
must be lifted early in the morning
and every warm day again about
noon. A little euro fora few days
will clear these pests out of the gar
den. One trial will satisfy any per
son of the merits of this plan.
The Savannah Times of last Fri
day contained a special dispatch
concerning the elopement of Airs.
Folds, of Dooly county. The I7/i-
dieator, speaking on the subject,
si'.vs; The sudden and secret de
parture of Mrs. Annie Folds, wife
ot Air.Thomas J. Folds, on last Fri
day night, has given rise to a little
sensation here. Mr. Folds had been
okay from home for several days
011 business, ho returned on Satur
day, finding his home wifeless.—
Ai rs, Folds left sometime during the
"ight, but it is not known at what
hmir. she took her entire wnrd-
rolit' along. She leaves five chil
dren, one of them a grown claugh-
hT,tuul a small child three or four
yours old. Mrs, Folds mortgaged
a |>i('ci> of i u .|‘ real estate the day
before she left, and raised $50 on it.
Shi> is, perhaps 155 years old. She
anil her husband have not lived
peaceably together part of the
,n ne. s. ({, Flemming who had
l,0t ‘n living with Mr. Folds for a
ll ‘k months, left at the same time,
•"ul the two are supposed to have
Fit together. The husband seems
distressed, and desirous of ascer-
taiinng her location, for which pur*
]>ose he publishes a card asking Ibr
mi >' information concerning her.
For Tin: Citizen.
“Ill'HY ME WITH SI Y l’KOPI.K.” -
iiy ltiiv. ,t. Howard caig'Enteii.
On a modest licmlstonc by tin? grave of a
Georgia patriot, f'onfederate section, “Cave
Hill” Cometry, l.ouisville, Ky., Is Ibis in
scription: ♦
“EUZA.UKTH TE.AIMH,
< 'nllioun, (loorr la;
1 )!i'd October 1st, 1st!".
'Bury me taith my People.’ ”
When martial roused from sloop
Our country, near and far;
When virtue linwcd her bead to weep
O’er honors fallen star:
Our Southern soldiers donii'd the “Grey,"
Spun by their mother’s hands;
Ami followed duty day, by day,
And honored her commands.
When every hill was shaken, by
The booming cannon’s Jar;
When bloody mist obscured our sky—
I lashed from l be wings of war:
When cv’ry breeze which southward
moved,
llore on Its fitful breath,
The groans of thousands whom wo loved,
Who died a hero's death:
Our Southern women left their ease,
And thro’ the cold and damp,
Like angels, went amidst disease,
And cheered them in the camp.
Of many others I would tell,
Of one, whose noble heart,
With consecrated love did swell;
Who did a woman’s part.
She was a woman—sueli an one,
As Georgia’s daughters are—
As genial as our Southern sun,
Her face divinely fair.
She had n lover—such an one
As Georgia’s sons reveal;
No path of duty would he x’ltin—
Ills purpose strong as steel.
No cloud lu her brief twenty years,
Had lower'd round her path;
Her eyes had strangers been to tears,
Of bitterness or wrath.
Hut summer’s brightest, sweetest flowers,
Must fade at winter’s blast;
And happiest days, and sunniest hours,
Give*place to night at last.
And so her culm of twenty years,
All suddenly was broke;
Hy storm clouds formed of women’s I ears,
And cannon’s blinding smoke.
Her only brother—young and gay,
Marched at the first alarm-
lie looked a “boy” In the “grey”
The day lie left the farm!
And at (lie closing of the day;
Of First Manassas’ fight;
Among the noblest dend ho lay—
So young, so fair; so white.
Her lover rode with Morgan’s men
’Till wounded “unto death,”
And In a green Kentucky glen,
lie breathed Ids latest breath.
She did not sink In deep despair
As even men have done,
Hut finding strength In secret prayer,.
A noble work begun.
With true devotion to the cause
For which her lover died—
Discarding fickle Fashion’s laws,
And vain bombastic pride;
She sought the wounded soldier's side
Where ere he might bo found;
And with her loving hands applied
The balm to many a wound.
In Louisville she labored, till
The fearful strife was o’er;
And then—forgetting self, she still
Assisted weak and poor.
My story ends:—her money spent
Her lajme and loved ones gone,
She to Kentucky's “I’oor-House” sent
Left friendless and alone;
Sinks 'neatli reaction’s heavy wave—
In years, just I wenty-sev’n—
Her body carried to the grave—
Her soul gone home to Ileav’n.
Hut ere she died she made request
of strangers round her bed;
That,“she might with her people rest,
When she was cold and dead.”
Sleep on dear “sister,” young and fair!
Tho’on Kentucky’s breast;
Yet seems to me thy dying prayer,
Is answered liltest, best.
For Georgia’s sons are lying round
To guard thy hallow’d sleep:
And one is close beside thee found,
Still closer watoh to keep;
And one, at least not underground,
Will think of thoenud weep.
Waynesboro, t in., Juno 0th, 1883.
Dummies for Property Stolen on a Pullman Car.
CI1U I MSTAXTIAI, EVIDENCE.
Cases in kldrli Innoeent Parties Have Siill'ereil
for Others’ Crimes.
Washington nopublic.
Iii 171-a gentleman on his way to
Hull was robbed hy highwayman,
lie slopped at the next inn, and in
describing his loss slated that he al
ways marked his coins. Shortly
after retiring to a private parlor he
was Availed on by the landlord, who,
informing him he had heard of his
(the traveler’s) adventure, asked the
time of the robbery, and said lie
suspected his hostlerj who of late
had had plenty of money. Continu
ing he said that shortly before he
had sent the hostler to change a
guinea, Avho returned after dark,
spying he could not change it. The
landlord noticed the coin was not
the one he gave him, but before be
heard of the robbery lie had paid it
to a countryman, lie suggested
that the hostler who was then asleep
under the influence of liquor be
searched, which being done, the
marked coins, minus one, were
found in his pockets. lie was tried
and hanged, hut years afterward
the landlord, being at the point of
death confessed he did the robbery,
managing to reach his inn by a short
cut, and, having paid out one of the
coins before finding they were mark
ed, he took advantage of an errand
he had sent the hostler on and his
drunken condition to place the
marked coin in his pockets, and the
evidence of the countryman hanged
him.
In Edinburgh, in the year 1721,
lived William Shaw, an upholster
er, Avitb an only daughter, named
Catharine. The girl was to lie mar
ried to one John Lawson, a jeweler,
toward whom her father bore all the
hearty, honest aversion known as
“Scotch hate.” John had been a
wild lad, a little too fond of “hot-
Scotches” and tho lasses, but was
entirely devoted to one lass since
his engagement to Catharine Shaw.
Old Shaw had sworn that Lawson
should never enter ids family, and
with violence forbade him to come
near the house. There was the son
of a friend of the family, named
Robertson, however, whom the fath
er urged his daughter to marry. The
girl’s lot was hard enough, what
with her love for Lawson and the
harsh treatment nfeted out to her
in order to bring about her consent
to wed her parent’s choice.
This state of affairs had existed for
some weeks, when one evening
Shaw returned home in wrath, and
peremptorily order Catharine to ac
cept of young Robertson without
further delay, and prepare for mar
riage at an early day. The girl an
grily refused to comply, prefering
death to the alternative of saerifle-
happiness. The quarrel waxed
so violent that it was heard by sev
eral neighbors, and when Shaw left
the room one named Morrison heard
him shut and lock the door and go
downstairs to tho street. All was
still in Shaw’s room after this for
a while, but soon the sound of low
groans fell upon Morrison’s startled
ear. In terror he ran to the neigh
bors, giving the alarm, and telling
them of the previous furious alter
cation. A crowd assembled about
the upholsterer’s door, and Cathe
rine’s voice was distinctly hoard to
murmur:
“Cruel father, you are tho cause
of my death. You have killed me!”
The door was then broken in by
a constable who had been summon
ed, and Catharine Shaw was dis
covered lying upon the floor bathed
in blood, and with a bloody knife
beside her, and in a moment died
without another word. At this
critical instant Shaw himself came
up the stairs and into the room.—
Eyes were fixed upon him. lie
trembled when he beheld the hor
ror at bis feet, grew deadly pale,
and scorned as if about to faint.
Ills guilty consternation was appa
rent.
“To prison with the murderer!
Off with him to Jail!” shouted the
threatening throng, and William
Shaw was hurried before a Magis
trate, and at once committed to a
•cell, charged with the slaying of
his child. At the trial alt was plain
enough. Tho quarrel, the ill-feel
ing the broken words of Catharine
(“barbarity, brutality, death”) over
heard hy Morrison, and the ante
mortem declaration of the victim
(“Cruel father, you are the cause of
my death. You havo killed me!”)
all these proofs left no doubt as to
the guilt of the unnatural parent,
lie was convicted, sentenced and
hanged in chains at Leith Walk in
November 1721.
Sometime after, however, work
men discovered a letter thrust in a
in the girl’s bedroom, in
talk of the excited town; the magis
tracy of Edinburg, after a close and
cautious scrutiny of Catharine
Shaw’s posthumous let for, perfectly
satisfied of its authenticity, straight-
Avay directed that the bleached
bones of the executed Shaw should
be cut down from the gallows, where
the chains still held them, and
given to his friends and family for
decent sepulture, while a pair of the
town colors were to be waved above
grave in token of restitution. But
it was never known that the per
formance of those repentant cere
monies brought back the breath to
the body of the poor wretch hanged
by mistake.
Pittsburg Special, 8th.
A case of interest to every travel
er on railroads was tried before
Judge Stowe in Common Pleas, No.
1, to-day. William (iardner had
entered suit to recover damages
from the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany for property lost while on one
of the company’s cars. Ho was
coming from Philadelphia, and
while asleep his watch and purse
was taken from him. Tho Pullman
Company tried to compromise, but
Gardner was obdurate, because he
had three times been robbed on
sleeping ears.
In presenting tho ease, Gardner’s
counsel took the ground that the
company was responsible as bailee,
Just as the driver of an express
wagon is responsible. Tho com
pany’s defense, in part, was that
valuables should he placed in tho
safe provided for that purpose.—
Tho Assistant Superintendent
acknowledged, while on tho stand,
that a professional thief could
reach through and rob a passenger
in nil adjoining berth without being
detected, in the way the ears are
now arranged.
The Jury brought in a verdict for j cavity
the full claim with interest. An I which she announced that she would
appeal Avill be taken to the Supreme commit suicide since she was de-
Court and the matter finally tleeid- nled the man of her choice,
ed, but In the meantime the suits
will pile up another having been
brought to-day.
Strong
official efforts were made to sot
matters right. The hanging of an
entirely innoeent imm became the
An 1 nfiiI mill'll I.ovcr.
Lieutenant, Bcttini, of i’.r> Italian
army, who shot himself in New
York tho other evening, was infat
uated with the daughter of the late
“Cherry Pectoral” Ayer. At the
Windsor Hotel he was considered
very good company, though his
jewelry and extraordinary talk
brought him into ridicule. To the
guests of the house he said lie in
tended to kill himself; had come to
America with a certain amount of
money, that gone he would go. At
first these threats were regarded
with horror, hut as day after day he
turned up regularly with a good
appetite, he Avas looked upon as a
harmless eccentric. About a Aveek
ago he called upon Miss Ayer an
remarked that Avere he seriously
tliAvarted in any desire he Avould
consider suicide a proper remedy.
She avus inclined to laugh. Bcttini,
not roleshing this, shoAved his pistol
and said; “With this pistol I shall
some day take my life,” and hand
ed three photographs to the young
lady. Tho first slioAved him seated
at a table, left hand supporting his
head, body stretched out at full
length and right hand over the arm
of the chair grasping a pistol. This
Avas despair. Second showed him
sitting bolt upright, left hand press
ed to His heart, right hand raised,
pistol pointed at right side of the
body. Third slioAved him standing,
muzzle of pistol pressed against
rigid temple, finger pressing trig
ger, eyes upturned, face calm.—
Alone Avith Miss Ayer, a foAV even
ings after Bcttini vigorously pressed
his suit. The young lady’s fright
had reached a painful point, Avhen
Bcttini suddenly leaned fonvanl
Avith his hand on his pistol and
said: “Will you be myAvife?” For
a moment her fear almost overcame
her. She said: “Ihave not knoAvn
you very long, Mr. Bcttini; hardly
long enough to ansAvcr so serious a
question. Yon must give me time.”
“No, I will give you no time. You
must ansAvcr me, yes or no, iioav.”
Miss Ayer replied that she could
not give a definite ansAvcr, and after
a feav more Avords Bcttini left the
house. In a feAv moments two pis
tol shots Avere heard outside. The
front door was opened and Bcttini
Avas staggering up the steps. “He
lias put his threat into execution,”
said Mr. TroAvhridge.
A ltuniiirkalilo Occurence.
Dooly Vindicator.
About 1 o’clock in the afternoon
of the 25th inst., a rumbling avus
heard in the direction of Mr. James
O. Farncll’s place on South Prong
creek. This noise was found to
proceed from tho “Big Red lime
sink,” near Mr. Farnell’s house. It
continued for a time, when a tre
mendous tlnid caused a perceptible
tremor of the earth for some dis
tance around. Tt avus found that
the water in this huge sink had pre
cipitated nearly a hundred feet.
Some idea can be formed of the
quantity of Avater in this sink, Avhen
it is stated that it occupied nearly
half an acre of ground and Avas
filled with Avater, whose depth Avas
supposed to be unfathomable. The
sink is a complete circle in form
Avith perpendicular sides, It has
enjoyed an undisturbed quietus
from tiino immemorial until this
sudden precipitation. Many theo
ries are advanced as to the probable
cause of tho occurrence, the most
plausible-one being that ail immense
vacum existed underneath the sink,
Avhicli avus seperated from the
Avater by a thick, impervious sub
stratum of clay, and by some inex
plicable cause this substance gave
A\ay, and the Avater disappeared
through tho orifice. About half a
mile away a monster spring bursts
from a steep hillside, and by some
subterraneous connection, this huge
reservoir of Avater avus conveyed
into the channel of the spring.
Great boulders Avere washed out
and immense sand bars formed at
the mouth of the spring. South
Prong creek, into which the spring
empties, was greatly swollen bv the
influx of water. Hundreds have
visited the sink and all express
wonder at the unnatural phoneme
non. That immediate locality Is
dotted with sinks of greater or' less
dimensions, and it would amply rt
r any lover of the weird to visit
(’litllmr a Conductor's Throat.
**
The north bound accommodation
train, on the E. T. V. & G. railroad,
yesterday afternoon, Avhen near
Burnsville, was the scene of a fear
ful encounter. A passenger by the
name of La-Avrence, from about
Randolph, Avas aboard hi a consider
ably intoxicated condition.* He
Avas approached in the aisle by the
conductor, Mr. E. I. Nelson, of this
place, who asked for Lawrence's
ticket or his fare. Without any
further provocation, the drink mad
dened man laid one hand on the
conductor’s shoulder, and as he
laughingly said: “You don’t Avant
any fare from me, do you ?” lie
drcAV his knife across the astounded
train official’s neck. Conductor Nel
son was terribly Avounded, but bad
strength and courage to draAV His
pistol. LuAvrencc AvitlidroAV along
the aislo and did the same. Both
began firing at each other, and
kept it up until their Avoapons Avere
emptied of cartridges. At least ten
shots were fired, but tho train Avas
running rapidly and tlio jostling
avus such that the aim of nei
ther availed anything. What is
more Avonderful, no one of the pas
sengers avus Hit by one of the many
random balls. Engineer Sit-ton
was apprised by the ringing of his
bell that something Avas wrong,
stopped Ids train and came back to
the passenger car. Conductor
Nelson Avas then such an aAvful
sight to behold, recking as he Avas
Avith his own blood, that Mr. Sitton
fainted, Fortunately for thewound-
od man, a down freight* train was
met at Burnsville, by the accom
modation, and heAvasbrought back
to the city, reaching here at 7 p. m.
Dr. C. J. Clark Avas summoned, and
did all in his poAver for the injured
man. It is not thought that ho is
dangerously hurt, though his
Avound’s results cannot be accu
rately predicted.
Tills man LaAvrence is a noted
bad etiaracter, and this is not the
first time he has attempted to play
tho assassin’s role, Only a foAV days
ago he stabbed a peaceable colored
man. Hemp is the best medicine
for His case.—Selma, (Ala.) Times.
Xot Forced to Take Them.
Mr. W. II. Harrison, iioav execu
tive secretary, Avritos the Lumpkin
Independent as folloAvs: Your last
Aveek’s issue contains an editorial
complaining of the conduct of a
uard sent to Lumpkin to convey
tAvo convicts to the penitentiary.—
One, sentenced to thechaingang for
six months, Avas left in jail there,
the guard declining to take him.
The penitentiary convict lessees
cannot be forced to take prisoners
sentenced for a shorter period than
tAvolvo months, They may take
them, if they choose, but they can
not be compelled to take them.—
The only way that I know to save
tho county the expense of short
term convicts is to organize a
eliaingang and Avork them; or
hire them to some county hav-
ing such a gang already organized.
As it would not pay to organize a
chain gang and work the small num
ber of short term convicts convicted
in StcAvart county, there remains no
alternative but to find some chain
gang to Avhom the convicts can be
hired or turned over for work. Mr.
Nelms, the principal keeper of the
penitentiary, has but one guard, Mr.
William Turner. There are other
guards employed by the lessees, and
for Avhose conduct the principal
keeper is not, and ought not to he
held responsible. It is unfortunate
ly a fact that some of them have be
haved disgracefully Avhile on duty.
These facts should bo made known
that no injustice he done anyone,
and that the blame for such cause
of complaint be lodged Avliere it be
longs.
r
A VmuiK 1,ally’s Hare for l.lfo with a Locomotive.
A Danbury, Conn., special says;
“Miss Henrietta Dodson, of this
place, avus out walking on the rail
road track yesterday, and was soon
in tho middle of the bridge opposite
White’s fur factory. She Avas look
ing round and did not notice the ap
proach of tho Waterbary freight
train of the Ncav England Road, and
avus first apprised of the danger by
the shrill shrieking of the locomo
tive’s whistle. For a moment she
was transfixed avHIi horror, but sum
moning her Avits she turned to flee
and fell between tho ties, Engineer
Allen did Ids best to stop the train,
but as it Avas on a down grade it was
impossible, and the fate of the girl
Avas-apparently sealed. The girl,
however, regained her feet Just as
the locomotive reached the end of
the bridge, and then ensued a eliaso
for life. Persons who witnessed the
occurrence Avere horror stricken as
the girl, realizing the danger she
avus in, flashed across the bridge at
break neck speed. She reached tho
end ot the bridge with the locomo
tive at her heels, and just as she
throw herself to the ground at the
side the locomotive dashed by her.” ing,"
(TUltENT OLKAXIXflS.
Not llpudy to Howl.
SI. Louis Globe•Democrat.
We sympathize Avith Mr. Barnum
on account of His loss at Chicago,
but as he got $10,000 Avorth of ad
vertising for a tent which cost $5,000
several years ago, and avus Avorn
out, our sympathy is not up to the
howling point,
A Perfectly Juki Observation.
Evening Journal.
Tite Macon Telegraph objects to
taxing John Doe for the education
of Richard Roe’s children. If that
is not done Doe will have still,
heavier taxes to pay for tho expense
incident to the police force neces
sary to keep Roc’s children in order,
A Dili Tarn,
Hamilton Journal.
The Reams brothers raised last
year a Avatermolon vine 1,700 feet
| long, from AA’hicli they gathered
over 400 pounds of melons. The
vine AA’as measured and the state
ment vouched for by Mr. J. II. Farr,
as reliable a gentleman as Harris
county contains.
.Judge (lillinm Kvcn.
i Ijilcthorp Echo.
Wo see in the Banner-Watchman
that Dr. E. S. Lyndon, of Athens,
has registered a fine Jersey bull
and named him after Gantt. Judge
Gilliam Avunts to know if he ain’t
sorter wrong? The Judge says
Avouldn’t it have been better for the
Doctor to have registered Gantt
and named him after tHe bull?
Forty Acres mid a Mule,
Now York Herald,
The original name of the aspiring
Mr. Foraker, who is running for
Governor, in Ohio, was Fouracres.
When lie reformed it Avas changed
to Foraker. The colored voters are
rallying to him under the impres
sion that lie is related in some way
to the Forty acres and a mule that
they used to hear so much about.
A It 1 eh Ileimsit.
Crawford Monitor.
There is a grave in this county in
which lies a somewhat miser, aa Iio
died not long ago. lie made his.
will, giving his property to friends
and relatives, leaving tlie amount
of $1,500 in cash, Avhich lie requested
to be put under his head and buried
Avitli his body. It was done as re
quested, and the grave lies uninter
rupted, containing the specie, not
ten miles from Crawford.
A Hawk Story.
Grccncsboro Home-Journal.
Mr. R. J. Strozer gives us a hawk
story, new to us, but not of recent
occurrence. Mr. Strozer says that
one day last summer, while lie was
hoeing cotton, a hawk Acav down
and made a lick at his hoe; think
ing this a game Iaa'o could play at,
Mr. S. raised his hoe and brought
doAAU the crazy hawk. But that
cotton must have been pretty grassy
to hide the hoe so aa'oII that a hawk
should make such a blunder.
Dialer the llathnnil.
Gentlemen should never fail to
investigate beneath the sweat bands
of their ucav hats. These bands are
stitched in by girls, and it has come
to be quite a common thing for
them to either write their name and
address on the inside of the band,
or to write it, sometimes including
a little note, upon a slip of paper
stitched in. If a girl is of an aspir
ing nature she honors only the most
expensive lints Avith her name; but
oftentimes the name of a don’t-care
girl may be found in the plainest
kind of a felt slouch. It is authori
tatively stated that several good
matches have been cemented upon
the basis of a hatband note.
All Klitlil-Ycar-Old Hoy Suicides.
A Canton correspondent narrates
the story of a boy’s suicide, as fol-
Ioavs: “A little eight-year-old son
of Mnllolen M. Donald, living about
twelve miles northwest of this
place, on the Etowah river, suicided
last Monday by jumping in the
river. The deceased, a younger
and an older brother, at Avork in
the field, became thirsty and start
ed to tho Jug that contained the
Avater. In their hurry and glee, the
younger brother outran the others
and drank first. This made the
deceased mad, and ho drew his
knife, unbuttoned his shirt collar,
and said that he would cut his
throat. The older brother stopped
1dm and told him he would tell his
father. The boy then said he was
‘tired of living anyhow, and would
go and drown himself,’ and started
toward the river. Ills brothers
watched him until begot about fifty
yards aAvay, and then, thinking per
haps he did not moan to carry out
his threats, ran after him, and when
they arrived at the river saw noth
ing of their brother only his hat
floating down tho river. They ran
to the house after help, and in about
two hours afterward the lifeless
body of their young brother was
found at the bottom of the river,
lie avus burled last Tuesday even-
HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS.
THE KATE OK THE OKA DC ATE.
“I have coiiu',” remarked tlio graduate,
As lie stood with smiling face
Within the open doorway
On his features all the grace.
Of n Bclvldere Appollo,
And of base ball loro a traeo
In the broken Jointed lingers,
That Avere won on second base—
“To say to tho biggest editor—
He that Klght against Wrong mnlnlalns
And weapons of cold logic
On the ranks of the Sophism trains—
That, to help his worthy paper,
I have loosed my seething brains
And evolved therefrom a paper
On the subject, ‘Why It Rains,”’
There was ne’er a larger funeral
Went from out tho city’s gale
Than that which followed slowly
Tho corpse of tho graduate.
He was laid beneath tho avIUoavs,
O'er tils grave tho daises nod,
And tho essay on the rainfall
Rests beside him ’neath the sod.
Reef-former—-The coral worm.
Dlnner-mite—'Thingumbob in the
ebee.se.
Boarding-house song—“We never
speak as Ave pass pie.”
A woman can make no mistake
in marrying an editor. She is sure
to get the write man.
Oscar Wilde says that lie feeds on
himself. He must be fond of wind-
put til ing.—Troy Times.
When a dumb photographer wants
to say “yes” to a customer he mere
ly displays two negatives.
Ho said her Hair was dyed, and
when she indignantly said, “’Tis
false!” lie said he presumed so.
“Gracious, wife,” said a father as
he looked at his son William’s torn
trousers, “get that Bill reseated.”
One of the easiest things to be
lieve in and one of the hardest
things to practice is common
honesty.
We frequently hear the expres
sion, “Bee in a bonnet.” Who ever
siiaa’ bonnet without a B in it ?—Bos
ton Star.
The errand hoy of the future will
go by electricity. At present he
doesn’t go by anything without
stopping.
The czar keeps his crown on a
shelf in the pantry. Thus he lays
up something for a reigny day.—N.
Y. Advertiser.
Next we shall have a coat-tail
flirtation code. Having the coat
tails covered with mud will mean,
“I don’t like her father.”
“Remember, young man,” said
Uncle Mose, “dat de best fren’ yor’s
got on dis earth is a better frien’ ter
himself den he is to you.”
A man writes that he first met his
wife in a storm, took her to the first
ball in storm, popped the question in
a storm, and has lived in a storm
ever since.
“John, did Mrs. Green get the
medicine I ordered ?” said a doctor
to his hired man. “I guess so for I
sivav the crape on the door this
morning.”
“Lie still, Bridget,” said Pat to his
wife, when the burglars got into his
house; “an’of the spalpeens foiml
anything, bejabers, we’ll get up and
take it aAvay from ’em,”
“Hadn’t I better pray for rain to
day, deacon ?” said a Binghampton
minister, Sunday. “Not to-day,
dominie, I think,” was the prudent
reply; “the wind isn’t right.”
A correspondent wants to know
“Iioav we pronounce ‘Ras-el-tin?’”
We don’t pronounce it at all; we
only write it. Do you suppose we
read the papers to the subscribers?
A Rockville, Conn., young lady
Avho aa’iis examining some hats in
one of the millinery shops there
lately, innocently inquired, “Do the
crushed strawberry hats have the
odor of tho fruit?”
A servant applying for a situation
was asked tho reason of her having
left tho last place. “Please, ma’am,
it avus because I were too good-
lookin’, an’ visitors was always mis
taking mo for the missus.”
The ruling passion st rong in death:
“John,” feebly moaned a society
lady, who was«bout shuffling off
this mortal coil: “John, if the news
papers say anything about my debut
into another world, just send me a
dozen marked copies.”
A savage Illinois woman says
that for every young wife that can
not cook there is a young husband
who will not make fires, carry ashes,
split kindling, or shovel snow, and
cannot market because he does not
kiioav a hawk from a hen.
Coming episode: The gothic style
of hanil-wrlting, now so popular
among young ladles, may have its
disadvantages. It is said that a
young man who received a speci
men of it could not tell, for the life
of him, whether it was, “Yes, with
pleasure,” “No, thank you,” or a
sketch of a picket fence.