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Waynesl>oro, Georgia, Friday, Jiily2()th, 188->.
pet
\ pill relieving disabled Confede-
l - t . soldiers from poll tux has pass-j
tlu- Legislature. If is right.
Legislature is hammering
si\> at the Jack Jones bonds. It
h'hopeless case—Colquitt fixed
lit job beyond undoing long ago.
Vc have no particular objections
p,,. counties recommended by
minority report for the tenth
ngrcssional district, but we pre-
counties proposed by the
ijority report.
omo ten or fifteen thousand dol-
, s xv ni be required to complete
• Wesleyan College at Macon.—
csident Hass says that it would
unreasonable and unmanly to
•t Mr. Seney to make any fur-
r donations, and appeals to Ma
li to make up the needed amount.
Vc fully endorse the following
itiinents from the New Era:
commissioner Orr wants the com-
:hool fund supplemented.—
bat the common school system
, 11 v needs is total abolition. It is
omf the greatest humbugs ever
rpetrated on the taxpayers of
y State.
flic bill authorizing the State to
rchaseoOO copies of the history
Georgia by Col. C. C. Jones was
jled. The “watch dogs of the
usury” are wide awake. The
site has no use for these books,
,1 to purchase them would be a
nton and criminal waste ofthe
epic’s money.
Augusta News: “The country
stmaster who has formed the
bit of reading other people’s news-
pers had better swear off. The
stmaster General has issued an
tier which tits such cases and af-
a fine opportunity for disap-
linteil office seekers to capture tlie
alps of unwary P. M’s.”
'flu 1 semi-annual report of the
eamhoat inspectors for the third
strict, which embraces the east
do of Georgia and Florida, just is-
icd, shows that 152,712 passengers
;ul traveled by steamers in this
strict during the six months, and
e number of steamers now em-
oyed is 237 as against 47 in 1874.—
remarkable fact is that no pas-
higcrs were lost in the district by
lesions, fires, accidents or other-
e while traveling.—Savannah
CIVS.
The following sensible talk comes
om the Macon Telegraph: "Wilkes
mnty has gone for no fence. It
on’t be a great while before the
hole State will fall into line.—
ugi/sta News.
The Legislature ought to put it
line before the end of the present
•mon. ’Phis thing of referring
w-making back to the people is a
■owing and expensive evil. It is
ic duty of the Legislature to enact
i and it ought not to be too
iwardly to discharge that duty—
clegraph.
Boston, Mass., July 17.—The first
•rest in this section under the new
liineselaw was made .this morning
’the United States Marshal. On
ie lt)th of June, the British bark,
me, Captain J. D. Douglas,
’ought from Manilla as a ship
irpenter, a Chinaman named Ah
hung, who was discharged, and al-
wed to go ashore. The captain
as arrested and held to answer on
hursday, the Chinaman being
eld as a witness. —
I’Tom the above dispatch, we eon-
ado that the Down East Yankee
no more love for the Chinese
am other people, and is moved to
anpathy for him only when he* is
ray down South.
Echols,Effingham, Emanuel, <llynn,
Liberty, McIntosh, Pierce, Scriven,
Tatnall, Ware and Wayne.
The Second Congressional district
shall be composed of the following
counties: Baker, Berrien, Brooks,
Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Decatur,
Dougherty, Early, Lowndes, Miller,
Mitchell, Randolph, Thomas, Ter
rell and Worth.
The Third Congressional district
shall be composed of the following
counties: Coffee, Dodge, Dooly,
Houston, Irwin, Laurens, Lee,
Macon, Montgomery, Pulaski Quit-
man, Schley, Stawart, Sumter, Tel
fair, Webster and Wilcox.
The Fourth Congressional district
shall be composed of the following
counties: Carroll, Chattahoochee,
Coweta, Harris, Heard, .Marion,
Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot, Tay
lor and Troup.
The Fifth Congressional district
shall be composed of the following
counties: Fulton, Dclvalb, Camp
bell, Clayton, Douglass, Fayette,
Henry, Newton, Rockdale, Spal
ding and Walton.
The Sixth Congressional district
shall he composed of the following
counties: Baldwin, Bibb, Butts,
Crawford, Jasper, Jones, Monroe,
Pike, Twiggs, Upson ajul Wilkin
son.
The Seventh Congressional dis
trict shall be composed of the fol
lowing counties: Bartow, Catoosa,
Chattooga, Cobb, Dade, Floyd, Gor
don, Haralson, Murray, Paulding,
Polk, Walker and Whitfield.
The Eighth Congressional district
shall be composed of the following
counties: Clark, Franklin, Elbert,
Greene, Hancock, Hart, Madison,
Morgan, Oconee, Oglethrope, Put
nam and Wilkes.
The Ninth Congressional district
shall be composed of the following
counties: Banks,Cherokee, Dawson,
Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gwinnett,
Hall, Habersham, Jackson, Lump
kin, Milton, Rabun, Pickens, Towns,
Union and White.
The Tenth Congressional district
shall be composed of the following
counties: Burke, Columbia, Glas
cock, Jefferson, Johnson, Lincoln,
McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro,
Warren and Washington.
2. And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That all laws
and parts of laws in conflict with
this act be and the same are hereby
repealed.
The First district remains the
same as under the old apportion
ment save that Burke county is
placed in the new Tenth district,
which is made up largely of the* old
Eighth district. The State is pretty
evenly divided under the new op-
portionmont, the population of the
several districts being as follows:
First district, 151,774; Second dis
trict, 155,503; Third district, 150,255,
Fourth district, 155,059; Fifth dis
trict, 157,020; Sixth district, 149,009;
Seventh district, 154,518; Eighth,
district, 154,037; Ninth district, 152,-
772; Tenth district 150,110.
The report will, doubtless, be
agreed to without material change.
At any rate, it is fair enough to ob
viate any protracted discussion.
Only ti Hi ll 15ufklt\
la
TIip Now Congressional District*.
As is generally known, Georgia,
' mg to her increase of population
o'ing the ten years, 1870-80, gained
1 additional Congressman. The
ate, however, was not redistricted
Bine for the last election, and
on. Thomas Hardeman, of Bibb,
is chosen Congressman at large.
General Assembly, elected last
'veinher, appointed a joint special
nuinitloo of twenty-seven, to
* loll ‘ was committed the task of
ipportloning the State.
1 fie committee has agreed upon
'■‘Tort, upon which asks favorable
'Iion, as follows:
fi tie it enacted by the (lenerat
"scinbly of this State, That from
'd alter the passage of this act, in
nlormity with the above recited
I ol Congress, there shall be in
N State ten Congressional dis-
to be known as the First,
'eond. Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
'\entfi, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth
aigressional districts, and to be
"Situted as follows, until changed
r j u 'i 1,1 the General Assembly, viz:
i fie First Congressional district
fie composed of the following
llllli,, s: Appling, Bryan, Bullock,
'aden, Charlton, Chatham, Clinch,
Mistaken Identity.
Mimical Journal. •
It is said that once upon a time,
when a circus was here, the man
who went up in a balloon, dressed
all in spangled clothing that fairly
glistened in its richness of gold and
silver, was carried in his air-ship by
a strong wind a distance of two or
three miles into the country. The
discending balloon was seen by an
old darkey, who was picking cotton
that day, (he not being a subscriber
to the Sun did not know of the cir
cus being in town) in a large field,
and as it lowered, bis first impulse
was to run and hide, but as no place
was near that he could successfully
secrete himself in, he finally decid
ed with fear and trembling to meet
his fate bravely, and make of it the
Mucon Telegraph.
During the recent Western trip
of Hie Volunteers, Captain Carnes
met Johnathan Gordi n, Esq., ofthe
law firm of Gordon <V Bailey, of
Indianapolis. In the course of the
conversation which followed, a few
incidents of the late Avar were re
cited, the occasion naturally suggest
ing them. That which made the
deepest impression on the mind of
Capt. Carnes was a brief recital of
how Mr. Gordon came into posses
sion of a belt buckle, one of the
oval shaped, with the coat of arms
embossed upon it. Air. Gordon
gavetho captain the souvenir, which
he had sacredly kept all these long
years, and promised to write in de
tail its history. There is no way
now to find out who the gallant boy
was, but as he was a Georgian, and
fell lighting for his country, we be
lieve the letter will be read with
interest by our readers, and here
present it:
Indiana coins, July 2.—Dear Sir:
—The evening on which 1 gave you
the belt buckle of the brave young
Georgian who fell at Garrick’s Ford,
West.Virginia, by the side of Gen.
Garnett, I promised to send you a
brief account of liny circumstance
of his fall. They were as follows:
Soon after noon, July 13, 18(51, our
forces came up with the rear guard
of General Garnett’s little army at
a ford of Cheat river, and a s|ririted
contest of from forty minutes to
an hour ensued. This was ended,
by one of our regiments turning
Garnett’s right flank upon which he
retreated across a field to the next
ford. I was acting at the time as
aid to General T. A. Morris, who
commanded the Union forces, and
dashed forward after the retreating
foe ahead of our forces, When I
reached the next ford, 1 discovered
that the further bank of the river
was a low, gravel bed, covered with
many trees, and that there were
lodged against these a great many
logs.and much drift. Each drift
thus formed became a breastwork
and shelter to those who might de
sire to defend the ford; and 1 at
once passed rapidly round the bend
ofthe river, which was there very
abrupt, in order to flank these drift
piles, and thus see what was behind
th'em. As I was running around
the bend a volley was fired toward
me, which riddled the log upon
which I was, and cut my coat across
the back. Gaining the bend of the
river, I perceived General Garnett
and 1 Should think from fifty to
seventy soldiers behind the first
drift pile in front of the ford.—
His men were loading, and by his
gestures he was stimulating them
in the act. lie was standing with
his back down the stream, and al
most directly toward me, and im
mediately to the right of him, and
as near to me as the general, stood
the brave Georgia lad whose belt-
buckle 1 gave you. I knew that
Colonel Dumont, of the Union ar
my, would come out of the bushes
in front of the ford and its drift pile
in a moment, and apprehending
that he would he killed by General
Garnett’s party if it was not dis
persed before his arrival, 1 called
to a part of a company then in
sight to hurry up. They came to
the bend of tbe river near where I
was, and fired along the drift pile
at General Garnett’s party, two of
whom fell dead on the spot—one
being the general and .the other
the brave boy by his side.—
Garnett was shot in the back, the
ball striking him between the
shoulders and breaking his back
bone; and the gallant Georgian was
struck fair in the breast. 1 hast
ened to where they lay, and as 1
passed the lad jerked open his belt
so as to give air, if he still had life.
The buckle flew off, and I picked it
up and afterwards brought it home.
This young lad was honorably men
tioned by the Northern Press at the
the balloon lowered, be moved a
few steps to where he saw it would
land. Just before reaching land,
the man of spangles came out of the
basket, and lowered himself oh the
ropes, so as to get from under the
balloon when it struck terra fir mu.
When the crisis was over, the old
darkey walked carefully up to the
circus man, who he thought had
come on some mission from the
realms above, and with the air and
mien ofthe most perfect reverence,
with bared head and an unusual
amount of gusto in his courtesy,
and in a frightened tone, said:
“Good morn in’, Mars Jesus; how’s
your pa?” The circus mini, grasp
ing the old man’s Idea, and after
getting out of the old darkey a re
cital of all the misdeeds of a year
back, assured him that his accounts
in the other world stood fair, and
left him in the greatest possible
glory that his “Mars Jesus” had
visited him. Such is the supersti
tion of our dark lined brothers.
A liiirgc Koivartl Won.
San Francisco, July 13.— Frede
rick 51. Kerr, the assistant cashier
of Brest on, Keane A Co., of Chicago,
who defaulted wil l !ji 150,000, reached
this city this evening in the steamer
City of Sidney, having been cap
tured in Lima Bern,by H. G. Julian,
of Binkerton’s agency. ’The au
thorities of this city took kindly
charge of him, and with lhi* assist
ance of F. Warner, of Chicago, kept
him safe from the habeas corpus
fiends so numerous in this city.
lie was not taken to prison but to
a private house, where he was se
curely watched over by Detective
Julian.
He was taken from Lima, owing
to the disturbance in that country,
and placed on board the United
States war vessel, Essex, in which
he was brought to Honolulu and
transferred to the City of Sidney,
which vessel brought him here.
He was taken from the steamer
in the bay before she touched the
wharf and hurried to the shore to
avoid a possible writ of habeas cor
pus.
Detective J ulian says he recovered
a £2,000 draft, upon which £20 had
been advanced.
The correspondent of the World
interviewed him in his secluded
retreat this evening. The remains
of a repast were on a table and Air.
Kerr was found complacently
smoking a postprandial cigar. He
refused to talk of his affairs, how
ever. The desire that he would
not talk appeared to be that of the
detectives present. He will be
taken to Chicago in a day or tw®.
[Kerr was for many years a con
fidential clerk with Messrs. Preston,
Keane & Co., and enjoyed the un
limited confidence of the firm. He
not only robbed his employers, but
their clients, and his peculations
covered a long period of time. • De
falcations amounting to nearly
#150,000 were discovered after Kerr’s
flight early in the present year,
and a reward of #10,000 was offered
for his arrest.]
Pinkerton’s detectives discovered
that the defaulting clerk bad sailed
for Aspimvall in the City of Para.
G’ho fugitive was traced to the
Grand hotel in Panama, and was
finally located in Lima. Detective
Julian, in the disguise of a wealthy
tourist, warmed himself into the re
gard of Kerr, who made him his
confidant. In the meantime, extra
dition papers had been secured, and
in April the detective arrested the
fugitive.
Julian will get the largest share
of the #10,000 reward offered for
Kerr’s capture.
L. Allen, J. S. McLendon, A. \V.
1 loner, G. S. Sutlive and J. \V. Sul-
live, began an investigation. They
soon spotted Speight as the guilty
person, lie then called for a legal
investigation, when arbitration
was agreed upon, the arbitrators to
be parties outside of the city. ’The
arbitrators chosen were Janies N.
Number 10.
(TllKKNT DLKAMNUS.
Tin*) Don’t llunkor lor It.
1 mliamipoiis Sentinel.
Republican organs do not like the
Democratic motto, “Turn the ras
cals out.” * It is a kind of civil ser
vice reform they don’t lean up to.
Hid Tree.
A traveler in North Carolina saw
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HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS:
Bigbee, R. M. Brown, J. E. Buultii,j near Wnvnesvilh) a church 28x44
iieer Scamlal Case.
best ho could for himself. So as'ttimc, and has not been forgotten in
Macon, tin. Special to the N. V. Times.
Fort Gaines, Gn., is in the midst of
a social sensation. Mrs. E. Hill, her
daughter, Miss Benlay, and an old
maid sister, Miss Indler Brooks,
compose one family, moving in the
best circles. Air. \Y. M. Speight,
one ofthe best known business men
of South West Georgia, is tin inti
mate friend of the family, and has
a latch key. One night, six years
ago, the ladies saw a man peeping
through a window at them, but he
disappeared too quickly for recog
nition. IIis tracks corresponded
with Speight’s. The second night
afterwards a missel struck the
dOor. ()n picking it up a letter was
found attached, warning Airs. Hill
that her daughter-was in the habit
of meeting young men. From that
day to this these letters have con
tinued, over 1,001) having been writ
ten, all ofthe most obscene charac
ter, and always coupling Speight’s
name with that of Miss Benlay.
Mrs. Hill appealed to Speight for
j directions what to do, He always
l insisted on her keeping the matter
secret. Its publication, he said,
would ruin her, and her daughter
should not marry nor keep compa
ny with other young men. From
time to time he would, in conver
sation with Mrs. Hill, throw suspi
cion upon loading young men of
the city, until at last there was
scarcely one who was not brought
under suspicion. Whenever Speight
visited the house a letter followed
the next day, detailing the conver
sation which Speight would clear
away by saying young men must
have listened under the house to
his talk. Thus the women were
shut out from other society, and
confined to that of Speight alone.—
Miss Benlay made several visits to
distant portions of the State, and
whenever she went letters followed
her. She once visited Columbia,
at the house of J. T. Walker, and
was no sooner there than an anony
mous letter was received by Dick
1 trust that as a Walker, containing aspersions on
past, it may he her character,
of Fort
conclusion that
C. R. Narremore and W. M. Tunilin,
who heard evidence under oath.—
As Speights connection with the
affair could only be proven circum
stantially, the arbitration found
him not guilty, except in one in
stance, which hi 1 acknowledged,
and for which they censured him.
The arbitration also found that the
Hill family were of the highest
character and worthy the deepest
sympathy. The Fort Gaines Trib
une is hot against Speight, as are
most of the people. Speight is su
perintendent of a Sunday school.—
The end is not yet.
Aii Inelilcnl lit Antlotiim.
Oath in the Cincinnati Knquivor.
The ex-Confederate General Gor
don told me an interesting story
about two interviews lie held with
General Barlow. At Sharpsburg
Barlow was apparently mortally
wounded, and fell into Gordon’s
hands. Gordon took a liking to
him, and asked if he could not
do something for Barlow. “I
think not, General,” said the young
man. “I shall be buried here, no
doubt. I do not expect to live; but
you can do one thing for me. Here
is a package of letters from my
wife, which I wish you to destroy
before my eyes.” Gordon, who was
then a young man also, took the let
ters and was about to destroy them,
when Barlow with a bubble at his
throat, murmured: “Would you
take the t rouble to read me one of
them first. Any one will do.”—
Gordon opened one of the letters
and read it to the dying man, his
last friendly words, perhaps, from
home. Then the letters were de
stroyed. But the incident touched
Gordon so that he made a special
exertion to have Barlow sent
through the lines, or to have his
wife admitted to him. This being-
done, the two armies fell apart, and
these men saw each other no more.
Gordon considered Barlow to be
dead. Barlow had also seen that
General Gordon had been killed
somewhere. They met again at a
friendly table in Washington, but
did not known each other through
change of time.
After some lapse Gordon said:
“General Barlow, are you a relative
of that Barlow who was killed at
Antiotam ?”
“No,” said the General, “I hinthe
man. Are you a relative,” inqui
red Barlow in turn, “of that Gene
ral Gordon who was recently killed
on the Confederate side?”
“That was my cousin. 1 am John
B. Gordon.” Then, at the request
of those who over heard, Barlow
told tln> tale amid tears and (-mo
tion on every side.
and 18 feet high, with a pine steeple
all made from one tree, and there
was enough lumber left over to
fence the churchyard.
some accounts of the battle by au
thors whose works may Survive.—
There was nothing so far as I
learned about him to give us his
name, but it is known in the cir
cles where he is missed, and he will
be remembered without a name by
me, as a gallant and heroic boy as
long as 1 remember anything in
nature or life. “Bossing’s Field
Book ofthe Civil War,” vol. 1, page
535, gives the following account of
the affair: “Garnett tried to rally
them to make another stand, and
while trying to do so he was shot
dead. A youthful Georgian who
was among the few around the gen
eral at the moment, fell dead by
his side.”
You have my only tropin-, and I
kept that that I might restore it,—
All others were returned on the
first opportunity,
memento of tin
held forever sacred, and become til At last tl* youn<>- men
means of binding and holding our I u nllu , s came to t,u °
whole great country in one equal, | ,, ,
just and free union forever. 1 am, sol ." l ' t 1 "" to
dear Captain, yours truly, . j this scandal at rest
J. \Y. Coupon. | tee consisting of L
he* done to set
and a commit-
L. Sutlive, J. B.
State- School Commissioner Gus-
tavus J. Orr has sent out a circular
to the teachers of Georgia which,
among other things, says: “There
will be six Teacher’s Institutes held
in Georgia this year. The locations
will be Albany, Wayeross, Sanders-
ville, Barnesviilo, Dalton and Cov
ington. 'The instructors will be as
follows: At Albany, John Neely,
Superintendent of the Public
Schools of Amerieus, Brincipal;
Professor B. T. Hunter, of Albany,
Associate; at Wayeross, W. If.
Baker, Superintendent 6f the Pub
lic Schools of Savannah, Principal;
John 51. Gannon, teacher in the
same schools, Associate; at Sanders-
ville, B. 51. Zettler, Superintendent
of the Public Schools of 51 aeon,
Principal; Professor John '1'. 51c-
Laughlin, of Tnlbotton, Associate;
at Barnesville, W. J. McKemie,
Superintendent of Public Schools
of West Point, Principal; Professor
S. (’. Caldwell, of tin- Rome Female
College, Associate; at Dalton,
Rufus W. Smith, President Dalton
Female College, Principal; E. G.
Moore, Principal Fair Street School,
Atlanta, Associate; at Covington,
W. 15. Bonnell, President Georgia
Methodist Female College, Princi
pal; II. C. Mitchell, Principal Ma
rietta Street School, Atlanta, Asso
ciate-.
The institutes will all ho kept up
just four weeks. Theoneat Barnes
ville will begin on 5Ionday, (he
(ith of August; all the others on
Wednesday, the first of the same
month,
The subjects of instruction will
lie Spelling, Reading, Penmanship,
Geography, Grammar and Arith
metic. The true idea of Institute
instruction Is to make the teaching
of methods tin- main design. This
idea will be acted upon as far as
practicable; but instruction in sub
ject matter will he given wlu-li
necessary,
’Tin' white and colored teachers of
the State are Invited to lx- present.
Tin-races will be taught in separate
schools, but by tin- same instructors.
Tuition will be free to all teachers
who may choose to attend."
Nemoes for Mucrlii.
New York, July 1(5.—The bark
Monrovia sailed this morning for
Liberia, having on board fifteen ne
gro colonists. All ofthem are from
the .southern states and propose
making their future homes in Li
beria.
Portraits on the Now Postatrr Stamps.
The portraits on the m-w postage
stamps that come in use October I
are: 1-cent, Franklin; 2-eent, Jack-
son;* 3-cent, "Washington; 5-cent,
Garfield; (5-ccnt, Lincoln; 7-cont,
Stanton; 10-cent, Jefferson; 12-rent,
Clay; 15-eent,Scott; 3()-eent, Hamil
ton ; 90-cent, Perry.
Tin- Express l’rince.
Oath.
Mr. O’Brien, the manager of the
Southern Express Company, who is
much of the time in New York,
said to me on the third day of July:
“It is just twenty-five years this day
since 1 entered the service of Adams
Express as the driver of a wagon.
Mr. Adams, the founder of the com
pany, kept a bar .in early life.” I
inquired about Mr. II. B. Plant, the
president of the Southern Express
Company, and Mr. O’Brien said:
“ILe came originally from the Eas
tern States, but has lived very
many years at Augusta, Ga., and is
one ofthe chief railroad builders in
the South. He owns the railroad|
south of Savannah, not only to
Jacksonville and the Appalachicola
river, but he has built a line to
Tampa Bay in South Florida, and
will put on steamers next winter to
make the run across to Havana in
twenty-three hours, so that less
than one day and night of sea voy
age will divide the people in New
York from Cuba, which 1 think will
become the most popular resort of
Americans.”
A .New Esc for Postage Stamps.
.Savannah News.
Several weeks ago an advertise
ments appeared in our columns
over, the signature of one of our en
terprising business firms, offering to
pay at the rate of 15 cents per hun
dred for two thousand cancelled 3-
cent postage stamps. In the inter
view with one of the partners it
was learned that the stamps thus
purchased will be used for the edu
cation of a young Chinaman now
under the protection of a lady in
Washington, 1). C. Through friends
here this order was placed in the
hands of the firm. The stamps are
converted into cash in China where
a pertain coloring is greatly in de
mand. This coloring the Chinese
cannot obtain except from our 3-
cent stamp. Tin- stamps are sub
jected to a boiling process which
extracts the desired color. The
proceeds of their sale are applied
upon the fund for the education of
the youth. 5Iany charitably inclin
ed people in this country are thus
collecting stamps and transmitting
them to our missionaries in China,
who derive considerable revenue
from their sale, which is used for
the promotion of their missionary
work.
A Sad Death.
Albany News mul Advertiser, July 1.
Saturday morning Miss Emma
5iorgan, daughter of 51 r. James
-Morgan, of Lee- county, in company
with her brother-in-law and sister,
51 r. and Mrs. John Irwin, of this
city, boarded the 12 o’clock train to
go home, and soon after taking her
seat in the car she fell dead—with
out a word or act of warning to
those around her.
5liss 51 organ had been on a visit
to 51r. and Mrs. Irwin, and, while
she had been in rather bad health
for some time past, nothing had oc
curred to warn her or the family of
the sad event of Saturday. She
was apparently as well as usual,
and conversed with her sister and
others lip to the very moment of
her death. 51 r. and Mrs. Irwin had
started home with their sister to
spend Sunday at the parental home,
little thinking that she would be a
corpse before their short Journey
was fairly begun,
The train left very soon after the
young lady died, and perhaps the
first intimation that her family had 1
that all was not well with her, was
the arrival of her lifeless remains.
What a shock it must have been!
’The family and friends were antici
pating a happy reunion, but their
joyous anticipations were changed
to mourning, and the funeral will
to-day take the place of a happy
family gathering. “Man proposes,
but God disposes.”
“A dream of fair women—rich
men.”
“I am going to turn over a new'
leaf,” as the caterpillar said when
la 1 had successfully ruined the one
lie was on.
’The soldier expects to face the
music w hen he goes into battle, but
when he gets in he finds the music
has gone to the rear.
Precocious boy (munching the
fruit of the date tree—“Mama, if I
oat dates e lough will 1 grow up to
be an almanac?”
Cutting off a hen’s head will make
her a chicken. 'There is no other
way to account for the fact that
broiled hens are never found on
restaurant bills of fare.
“1 have been present at many re
ligious awakenings,” said the fly, as
he passed from one bald spot to
another in a neighboring pew.
A New York Ice company has
cut 3000,000 tons of ice on the Hud
son—the biggest cold feat on record.
— Boston Commercial Advertiser.
A South End landlady says she
doesn’t understand the keyhole of
51rs. Jones’ door. It is a mystery
to her. She can’t see through it.”
A fence rail was blown right
through the body of a mule by the
Mississippi cyclone, so the story
goes. Even a cyclone has to ap
proach a mule sideways to get the
better of him.
'The meanest we have heard of
this season is the fellow' who tele
graphed bis sympathy to a friend
who had just lost everything in
speculation and made him pay for
the message.
That chap understood human
nature quite well when he remark
ed: “When your pocket book is
empty, and everybody knows it,
you put all your friends in it and it
won’t budge out worth a cent.”
“I suppose you have heard of our
dudes, 5Iiss Clara?” observed a
New York swell to a Jacksonville
girl. “Oh, yes,” she answered, “they
are becoming very popular in Flor
ida. We use them for alligator
bait.”
A Yale student who swallowed
his diamond pin and called in a
doctor to see wlmt could be done,
had to submit to the insulting in
quiry: “Was it white or yellow
glass and was the pin washed or
rolled ?”
Yes, energy and strict attention
to business are the true guides to
success. Thirty years ago a friend
less boy went to Chicago and began
life in a coal yard, working for #20
a month. To-day he is driving a
horse-car.
A merchant was playing caVds
with a railroad official, who was
rather sleepy at the time. “I pass,”
said the merchant. The railroad
man was awake in an instant. “No
you don’t,” said he, “noton this line.
You pay your fare or walk.”
Tint Teachers who Tearta in Illinois.
It is by some persons considered
an open question whether educa
tion educates. 'There is no ques
tion that educational machinery
properly lubricated with cash,
moves smoothly, taking in at one
end of its curriculum thousands of
bright-eyed urchins, and turning
them out only at the other end af
ter five or six years, with more or
less knowledge. But the machine
seems to be out of gear in Illinois,
and tlu> urchins will have a poor
show, as the following answers giv
en at an examination by several
teachers in Adams county Illinois,
holding first grade certificates
would indicate:
One named as three living Amer
ican poets—Shakespeare, Byron
and Longfellow.
One teacher thought that Shake
speare was dead—thought that he
died in Indiana about twenty years
ago.
Another said “Pilgrim’s Progress”
was written by Shakespeare.
Another said “Uncle 'Tom’s Cab
in” was written by Byron.
Another thought that a byciclo
was a musical instrument.
Another did not know what a tel
ephone was.
Another did not know that Con
gress was in session the past winter.
Another thought that Freling-
huysen was a machine.
Several had not heard of the Vi
enna or United States floods, or of
the star route trial. 51ost ofthem
arenu'ii teachers, and these are on
ly part of the answers.
| And yet wo will wager that ev
ery one of these teachers has all
the Radical epithets of abuse of
the South at his tongue’s end, and
could have repented all the hloody-
shlrt stories ever invented by scal
awag or carpet-bagger without tho
miss of a word.—Ed, Cit.J