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Volume 2.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, August 3d, 1883.
Number 12.
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.Spaiii and Mexico are showing l '’ <)| ' Tll|;< 'i' || zi
tlu'irtoolli t<> oai'li other, us if theyj
wished to 1 i*_>;lit. The ‘‘powers” do
iiiit seem to he much disturbed at
I he prospect of war.
The Tax Itaceiver of Irwin conn-1
(v closed his hooks the other day, i
mi,| upon investigation found that
there was hut one defaulter. That
is a pround record for Irwin county, j
After 23 days of arduous la-
1,or by the Legislature, Governor
.McDaniel has been called upon to
sign two hills, which are now laws.
Taking into consideration the time,
trouble, expense', and tin* force at
work upon them, these laws ought
to he good ones.
During the past week, Postmas
ter Holden, of Augusta, has been
severely investigated by Special
Agent Lanier. If we are to credit
the Xt icti, the whole furor was rais
ed by certain colored aspirants who
wanted to get possession of the
(Mice. None of the charges were
sustained.
The bill for redistricting the State
came up as a special order before
tlu 1 Senate on Tuesday, when the
majority report was adopted with
out nrnendmont. The bill will like-1
ly pass the House as it leaves the j
Senate. This places Ilurke county j
back in the eighth district, where I
she originally was, and where she of
right ought to he. Richmond,
Ilurke sends greeting.
It seems that the dogs are to he
allowed to run free and depridate
upon the docks of sheep at will.—
All the hills before the Legislature
looking to tlu 1 taxation of dogs
have been withdrawn for Constitu
tional defects. It is a little curious
that the members of the Legislature
are not able to draw a Constitu
tional bill on this subject, when any
town council in any second rate vil
lage in the State can accomplish
this difficult task.
“A teacher,” says an exchange,
“gives a pupil fourteen paragraphs
in the science of government, thir
teen examples in arithmetic, three
pages in history, one page of gram
mar, one of orthography, and half
an hour of writing as a daily lesson,
juul expects him to pass To per
cent.” Before a boy who under
goes the above course is twenty-live
years old he will be an old man, in
his wane. The ambition of parents
to drive their children beyond the
natural capacity of their minds has
done more to ruin them than all
other causes together.
Mr. B. II. Richardson, Esq., has be
come the sole editor and proprietor
of that brightest of evening dailies,
the Savannah Timm. Air. Rich
ardson is making the Times a gem;
indeed, every inch of its space is
tilled with consumate skill, Its cor
respondence and special telegrams
are fresh, newsy and reliable. Air.
jtisburdson has made his paper a
necessity, to the people of Savan
nah, and its circulation and area
of influence widens with each is
sue. The Times and its polite edi
tor have our best wishes for that
abundant success which they so
much deserve.
Will'll Hie Woeful Cliimls :ire Itifleil.
\ TVI'K Al. kl:\Tt 1 KIA.V.
A Sketfli of tlic (tuiriietor of Jolm II. Morirnii.
■hlvtl.
Colonel Jack Brown, the notori
ous (ieorgia Radical, was terribly
snubbed by Postmaster (tenoral
(Irosham a few days ago. Colonel
Jack visited the Postmaster (teno
ral and demanded a recognition of
the Southern Republicans, and re
ceived the tierce reply that “they,
(the Southern Republicans) are
tlieil—dost scoundrels 1 have met
since my advent into oftleo.” Colo
nel Jack stood completely dazed
for a moment, and upon the repeti
tion of the tierce reply, siezed his
hat and cane and dashed off to
seek the solitude of his own room.
When there he brooded over the
insult until he could bear it no lon-
g*T, and seizing his pen, he wrote
the postmaster (leneral a terrible
note, .concluding with the following
.ferocious words: “An inute respect
viv.r ilunatics, idiots and dudes pre
vented me from slapping your Jaws
yesterday when you expressed the
hoosier and contemptible idea that
all Southern Republicans were
scoundrels. Had (Irant or any
other man for whom 1 entertain
respect manifested the same spirit,
1 should have downed him oil the
spot.” It is to be observed that the
doughty colonel cannot llnd the
limn whom he will tight. When
1‘icusunts openly insulted him, by
telegraph, he “vauntlngly swore”
that if Pleasants had been a white
man he would have shot him dead.
And now (leneral (Jresham, not
only openly but to h s teeth, insults
him, he won’t tight because he is
not (leneral (Irani. The question
seems pertinent—who would Colo
nel Jack Brown light ?
Siihscriptioiis are positively cash
When nnon the lovely morning,
Touch'd by hands unseen and hold,
<»i’eelx the eye, the Kast adorning,
Melting silver Inin gold:
Then, oh, then sweet Hope transcendent,
lioth by Love and Mercy gifted,
O’er the heart will break resplendent,
When the woeful clouds arc rifted.
('Hours:
Then our loves will he united,
And the years of sorrow lifted,
When the blooms no more are I»1
And the woeful clouds are rilled.
II
Soon will smile the heaving ocean,
Torn by winds both tierce and warm,
And the waves in crested motion
Asleep’ll rock tlu* tropic storm;
Then upon tuc snowy billows
Will return the sails that drifted,
And tin 1 storms will seek their pillows
When the woeful clouds art* rifled.
(’Hours:
III
lly and by the brow of twilight
Will he swept of frowns that mar,
And the gloom of angry midnight
Will he bright’nd by a star.
Thou our loves will he united,
And t he years of sorrow lifted,
When the blooms no more arc blighted,
And the woeful clouds arc rifled.
C Hours:
Hurled Treasure.
LkaVKNWOKTii, Kan., July 27.—
The country near Ottawa, Franklin
county, this State, is in a great slate
of excitement over the report that
$">(),( )(»> in gold was buried there by
a man present serving a term of
twenty-live years in tlu
ary south of this city for murder.— j
The people are reported to be dig
ging in every place where it is
thought possible for the money to
he, but as yet unsuccessfully. The
convict is in hopes that the knowl
edge of tlic burial place of the mon
ey will enable him to get out of pris
on, and will not tell the place with
out some chance of this, lie has
been visited at the prison by resi
dents of that section, but would not
say whore the money is buried.—
When told that the people were dig
ging for it lie exhibited little inter
est until Ids visitor described one
place where search had been made
—on a bluff, lie then asked many
questions, which direction they
were digging, etc., and spoke ner
vously of a clump of ash trees not
far from a cave where the convict’s
name is cut in the stone. People
who have known something of the
facts for years think the money is
undoubtedly buried there. The
story is that when that part of the
State was inhabited by Indians,
there was a trader among theOsages
who had amassed quite a little for
tune, which he kept about him in
gold. lie became sick, and shortly
before lie died lie buried his treas
ure, amounting to $50,000. His
wealth had been greatly magnified,
and stories of its fabulous amount
were told after Ids death, but these
soon died out, and the trader and
his money were forgotten in the ex
citing evoiits»of those days. Years
afterward in ids rambles tin* man
wlio is at present serving a long
term in our State prison discovered
it, but, being afraid to use it, lie
took it up and buried it in a new
place. Not long after that he got
into trouble, which ended in his be
ing sent to tlie penitentiary, where
lie still is, so that the money lias re
mained undisturbed. The people
have a great deal of faith that they
will be able to find the money.
Money Cmler till' I’illmv.
St. AmrsTlXF, Fla., July 23.—
For several days, Air. John
\V. Shipp, son of Rev. Dr. Shipp, of
Vanderbilt l'Diversity, Nashville,
'Penn., lias been in the city, during
which time lie lias had a novel ex
perience. He was assigned a room
at the Edwards House. Happening
to raise one of the pillows of the
lied, he was surprised to see lying
cosily before Ids eyes, a plump
looking pocket-book. He picked it
up and opened it. Ho drew out a
Pill—n,onu. Determined to find the
bottom, he took all out, and counted
thirty-one of the same denomina
tion. Air. Shipp for n brief season
of two minutes enjoyed the funny
sensation which the possession of
j(i:ll,()0l) naturally conferred, lie
then went down stairs and turned
tin' wallet and contents over to Mr.
John Edwards, the proprietor, d<v
tailing the circumstances of the
llnd. II ultimately transpired that
tlie Eticn hanker ami stockholder
in the Jacksonville, St, Augustine
and Halifax railroad, Air. W. Je
rome < Iri'ou, had occupied that room
(he night previous, anil the money
was his property. Although Air.
Sldpp’s well known integrity could
have no thought of doing otherwise
than lie did, tin' promptness which
lie displayed in making Ids llnd
known, preventing any long unea-
sines on the part of Air. Oreen, was
conimi'iidubh'. He did not see that
that gentleman at all, and thus
avoided the thanks he would have
received,
A reunion of the survivors of
“Morgan’s men” will he held at
Lexington, Kentucky, this mouth,
•.md we give the following interest
ing sketch of the raider from a cor
respondent’s letter written at that
place:
Kentucky has a most remarkable
facility for assimilating men. A
Virginia mill boy came from the
slashes of Hanover, and became
tlie typical Kentucky orator; and
though (leneral John 11. Alorgiui
was born in Alabama, yet he be
came as much a type of the Ken
tucky soldier as if lie had sprung
from tlie blue grass. Indeed, it
seems to me there is no man who
incarnated in a single individuality
so many purely Kentucky traits,
and became the exponent of so
many characteristic K e n t u c k y
ideas. He was successful without
being laborious; never painstaking
he was always accurate; correct in
his conclusions, lie knew no logic,
and could never give a reason for
his opinion.
He was prudent without calculat
ing tlie risks, and when he seemed
to dare most ho really accepted the
only chance for safety. Jealous of
his own fame, his eliief delight lay
in praising other?, lie was gay,
with an undercurrent of saturnine
humor; reekless, witlim gift for tak
ing tlie right precautions, as it
were by inspiration; he was super
ficial, hilt bv instinct appropriating
penitent!-1 th0 fl . llits()f
research; theatrical, he
i Avas not affected; exacting im
plicit obedience, he was leni
ent to the eccentricities of orig
inal minds; partial to a fault to
wards friends, he was just to ids
enemies; fond of his cukeuml ale,
lie coupled a stern duty to an iron
resolution; ignorant of the art of
Avar, he revolutionized it, and the
lessons which he did not learn lie
taught to the world’s martinets; un-
ATTsed in literature and art, liis life
was a romance, his career a poem,
his death a thenody; with the same
delirious joy he rode into tlie can
non’s mouth or kissed the red lips
of a woman, and a strand of silken
luiir bound him more securely than
manacles of steel and prison walls;
gay and debonaire and light, the
sunshine in his heart, the cloud
within his ijoui. Middens worship
ped him, young men died for him;
he was Sarsfiehl and D’Artugnan,
Tricotrin and Alcibiades; constant
to a purpose, he was moody as the
wiml-swept blue grass when blos
som; as stern as a Rliaihinmntluis,
and polite as Chesterfield, he hung
tlie spy and shot the deserter, and
let the bush-whacker go unhjirmed,
anil released the captive for whom
his wife pled with a most consistent
inconsistency; in all things he was
himself, and in himself he was a
Kentuckian.
His first idea Avhen he went to
war was to get the best horse ob
tainable, and tlieii hunt the enemy
until tlie enemy started to hunt
him, wlieii tlie same good horse
would carry him so safety. To this
iirst idea lie clung to tlie last, and
war without a horse was to him as
absurd as rowing without oars. In
this he struck the key note of his
people in Central Kentucky, Avliere
nobody who inis liny self respect is
ever supposed to walk anywhere at
all. His command moved surround
ed by a cloud of spies and scouts
and pickets, like a nebulous mass of
undeterminable size, and while the
foes were watching him through
telescopes, and wondering whether
they were strong enough to give
him battle, he struck like a thunder
bolt their weakest point, and was
away before they could look beneath
tlie smoke.
By many it lias been said that lie
got ids ideas from B a s i 1
Duke, but that J cannot believe.—
His whole art of war demanded
himself as a constituent element in
success. His only plan was to ride
into iho midst of the enemy and
then act as occasion required.—
When thecomhimitioii wasdemiiml-
ed—when ids force was large and
his order ofbattle required separate
action converging to a single result,
In* often failed, and his greatest
achievements were obtained by a
small force instinct with ids own
personality, lie knew the strong
points and tlie weak ones of his peo
ple; lie adapted tlie laws of war to
tlie laws of their being and he made
Kentuckians of tlm men from other
states who served under him, The
generals who encountered him In
the West could never tight in Ills
style, but they learned the counter
move and played in Ids later years.
Yet singularly enough Custer and
Crook in tlie East adopted Morgan’s
idea and used it with terrible effect
on Lomax and liiiboden a n d
Vaughn, while Hampton fought on
tlie siinie grand principle as Wool-
ford in the West. The others nil
fought with the head; and his men
felt for him a devotion greater than
the attachment they had for their
cause. As General Duke lias said:
“When he died the glory and
chivalry seemed gone from tlie
struggle, and it became a tedious
routine, enjoined by duty and sus
tained only by sentiments of pride
and hatred. Surely men never
grieved lor a leader as Morgan’s
men sorrowed for Him. The tears
which scalded the cheeks of hardy
and rugged veterans, who had wit
nessed nil the terrible scenes of
four years of war, attested it, and
the sad faces told of the aching
hearts within.”
So it is that this good fellow, full
of amiable weaknesses and social
instincts, kindly, generous and pop
ular, without deep learning or strong
convictions, who would in no pos
sibility have become a great man
at home, by simply being one with
his command and making war ac
cording to tlic bent of his own in
cl illations and theirs, lias stamped
tlic impress of His own personality
more deeply on the history of our
civil war than any man engaged in
it, except, perhaps, Lee and Jackson,
and lias given to students of mili
tary science a new lesson in the use
of cavalry, worth more to them
than nil their books could teach.—
With the great strong personality
of this powerful nature pervading
them, it is no wonder that Aforgun’s
men should pay such deep devotion
to His memory, lie was to them
idealization of victory. Their pa
triotic imaginations went back to
the revolution, and saw in Francis
Aiarion the forerunner and theevan
gel of John 11. Morgan. They could
not let his remains rest in Holly
wood cemetery, though the soil was
consecrated by heroes and was in
tlie heart of the Old Dominion. No
earth but Kentucky earth was tit-
ting to receive those remains; no
soil hut blue grass should grow upon
ids grave. And so he sleeps here
in Lexington—here w h ere his
dreams centered and his hopes al
ways pointed, Avhere he had lived
and loved, from which the feet of
Black Boss bore him away, and to
which lie had turned his horse’s
head so often in vain, until at last
the pale horse bore him silently as
a speechless shadow burdened with
a dreamless sleep.
A Human Windmill*
Now York ‘World.
In a small one-story frame dwell
ing situated opposite the freight de
pot of the Danbury and Norwalk
Railroad here, the Work! corres
pondent recently discovered a curi
ous example of human deformity,
whoso existence has been preserv
ed a secret for nearly seventeen
years.
At tiie house mentioned Thomas
Harden, a railroad laborer, and 11is
wife live with tlieir son Tom. This
boy was born seventeen years ago,
a misshapen mite of humanity. By
tlic advice of tlieir parish priest tlie
sorrowing parents have carefully
concealed him from the public gaze.
When the World correspondent
called at tlie house to-day the un
fortunate boy was found half-sit-
ting and half-reclining in an in
valid’s easy chair.
He is totally devoid of shoulders,
and from the centre of his back two
arms, Avlth well formed hands,
grow from a single joint. The hands
and arms are devoid of the power
of feeling, and are also afflicted with
a strange, continual motion, sweep
ing around in a circle like a wind
mill, tlic arms being stretched out
at full length and moving in op
posite directions.
This motion never ceases except
when the arms are tied together,
and are covered with scars from
contact with tlie walls, tables, chairs
etc.
His body is further deformed by
the joining of the legs as far ns tlie
knee. Here the right leg is turned
back and upward until the heel
strikes the centre of the hack,where
it is firmly imbedded in the flesh.
He is mentally bright, and con
versed freely and intelligently with
the reporter about the few books his
parents had been able to provide
for him and about articles he had
read in the newspapers, which are
occasionally supplied to him.
Said his mother: “He is a great
care to us, being unable to help him
self at all. But ho is just as dear to
me as if lie was like other children.
I suppose he might bo exhibited, hut
as long as His father or myself
have life in our bodies to work for
him. lie never shall be.
A (irt'Ht ilim Flnlshiil.
0111 chi I Ci>rrti|itli>ii in .Hi‘xli‘0.
Letter to Cliiengo Tribune.
Afexioo is not a republic hilt a
despotism—that is, a sort of mild
despotism, which seems to permit
tlie free exercise of political thought
and action, but at the same time
denies it. There is little of either
permitted. Perhaps this sort of rule
is necessary for a country just be
ginning a new life, where there is a
large element ready to stir up dis
cord and provoke revolution. Moxi-
eo Knot free of quite an important
faction that denies the stability of
tlie present government, and does
not believe that permanent peace
is assured. They are not formida
ble enough to make trouble so long
as the present rule is popular. They
probably never will be for the pres
ent rulers, from the highest to the
lowest, seemed to have combined in
a determination to rule with a firm
anil even hand until all danger of
revolution is past. So far the people
stand by them, and they are popular.
“Are they corrupt ?” is a question
often asked. They are supposed to
be—that is, corrupt in the way of
making something out of the new
boom. There are all sorts of scan
dals about their taking up large
tracts of land at a nominal price-
standing in with tlie railroad build
ers and American speculators every
where. These stories are common
talk, and you rarely hear them de
nied. The general impression is
that the present rulers have got a
spoon in each hand and are not get
ting left in gathering their share of
the sugar that is now falling upon
tlie country.
A Suit Fever In Xew York.
Tlie discovery of salt wells near
(Ionesco lias given new energy to
tlie salt fever which lias prevailed
throughout the western juirt of that
State during tlie present year. The
new salt fields in western New York
of which Warsaw is tlie centre, were
pronounced exceedingly valuable
at Hie beginning of the your, it being
reported that tlie home manufac
ture of the greater part of the $1,-
000,000 worth of soda ash heretofore
imported annually would lie one of
tlie results of tlieir discovery, Tlie
census of 1880 showed that New
York produced 020,00(1 of the 1,044,*
(ioo bushels of suit manufactured in
the United States tlie proceeding
year, or nearly twenty times as
much us Michigan, the entire value
of tiie product of tlie State being
$2(10,000. The extension of the salt
hula try may add much to the
wcu tli of the State and diminish
the importation of salt from the Old
World.
l'lillmlclphln Times.
What is designed to he the great
est improvement in modern war
fare, “The Lyman Haskell multi-
charge gun,” Avns finished at the
Seott Foundry to-day. It lias been
undergoing construction for over
two years, and to-morrow will tie
shipped to Sandy Hook, where it
will be tested in the presence of
leading officers of the army and
navy of the United States and for
eign countries. The last Congress
made a special appropriation for
this purpose. Since tlie invention
of the cannon, four hundred years
ago, they have all been constructed
on the same principle of placing tlie
powder in the breech, and tlie Ly
man Haskell is the first deviation.
The gun contains four “pockets” un
derneath each of Avliicli holds twen
ty-eight pounds of powder, Avliiie
tlie breech itself holds but eighteen
pounds. As tlie projectile starts
from the breech the force of this en
tire one hundred and thirty pounds
of powder is concentrated on it, one
“pocket” after another rapidly dis
charging its contents.
Tlie gun is twenty-five feet long
and weighs twenty-five tons. It is
rendered doubly strong by a steel
lining and, it is thought, can hurl
a projectile through a solid piece of
iron twenty-four inches thick. It
will shoot, so it is claimed, from
twelve to fifteen miles, and is in
tended for both harbor and naval
defense. The present gun was man
ufactured at a cost of over $.7!),000,
and Air. Haskell has personally su
pervised its construction. Tito pro
jectiles with which it is loaded
weigh from one hundred to one
hundred and fifty pounds. A com
pany with a large capital has been
organized for the manufacture of
the gun. Ex-Governor Cornell and
ex-Semitor I’lutt are some of the in
terested parties.
mtUKXT <11.KAMOS.
Till' Monoiiolr Must Or.
I’lnrlmiutl Fnqillivi.
THo Western Union will find out
that public opinion is stronger in
the long run than any monopoly.—
Tlie strikers may lose tlie battle,
but tlie telegraph monopoly is doom
ed to destruction.
Specially KnriorHiHl*
Macon Telegraph.
The report that Wat kin Ilicks is
preparing to again turn Democrat
is bail. It is too bad. It is tiie worst
tiling that lias come over tlie wires
for months. Some method of avert
ing that calamity ought to be devis
ed. The Democrats don’t charge
anything for Mahonoaiul Chalmers,
and if they did I licks would more
than pay the bill.
To Cuiiffilcruto llonil Kpcailutorx.
New York Hernlil.
We assure Englishmen that they
only make themselves ridiculous
when they let Americans see that
they expect payment for Confeder
ate bonds. There is not a public
man in the Union, South or North,
avIio would listen patiently to a pro
position that tlie Southern States
should pay even a hundredth of u
cent for a million dollars of them.
The Pike Outrage.
Telegraph tfc Messenger.
Baknfsyjllf, July 31.-—The body
of Milton Mongham, tlie negro that
rumor says made an assault to out
rage Mrs. Gary Cunningham, was
found in a field of C. N. Gresham’s,
between Zebulon and Griffin. Two
witnesses swore before the coroner’s
jury that when they last saw Milton
it was on Saturday evening in com
pany with Messrs. Gary Cunning
ham and Cicero and Fayette Gresh
am. The A’crdict of the coroner’s
jury Avas that he came to Ills death
by severe blows from unknown
hands. The homicide will no doubt
he fully inA'estigated in tlie courts.
At present all is conjecture.
Pl'llllll'toil'x l’l'Illtclll'C.
Vnklosln Timex.
I have almost come to the conclu
sion that as a legislator I am a fail
ure. I have so far been unable to
contribute a single bill or resolution
or even a speecli to my country—
and worse, nearly every bill that I
have voted for has been defeated,
and as many A’oted against have
passed the House. I am nearly al-
Avays Avith the “gallant few” who
go down under the bone of “minori
ty.” Tt will he remembered by the
readers of the Times that I got into
this unlucky channel in the famous
campaign of 1880. I find myself in
tlic condition of the twelfth juror
avIio asserted that lie Avas associated
Avitli eleven of the most unreason
able and contrary men he had ever
seen—because they Avould not come
over to his side of the case under
consideration.
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HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS.
Weary of Life.
Telegraph & Messenger.
Atlanta, July 31.—Atlanta had
the sensation to-day of two attempt
ed suicides outlie part of a white
man and negro Avoman, a pair of un
fortunates, both weary of life, Tlie
white man was Jim Bell, formerly
an engineer. He lias had domestic
troubles, and is very impecunious.
Tired of life, and worn out with His
ineffectual struggles against its mis
fortunes, he this morning sought to
give up tlie fight, and, to effect the
eiid, swallowed large quantities of
laudanum. Doctors have been with
him till day, and this afternoon his
chances of life are still very preca
rious.
The negro Avoman was a disre
putable character, avIio was up be
fore the Recorder’s Court this morn
ing. # She afterwards swallowed
morphine. The doctors Have been
working on her to-day and she will
likely recover.
Mystcriuus Kulrlilc.
B.vv 11 fad, N. J., August 1.—
Job C. Little, a man of military np-
poiinuice, arrived hero from Balti
more ten days ago, and registered
at tiie Alii burn House. On Satur
day evening, a lady arrived at the
Alilbuni House and her expenses
were paid by Mr. Little. She regis
tered ns Mary C. Little. They went
to Fair View fora ride, and spent
Sunday almost entirely in eaeli
other’s company. Mr. Little intro
duced the lady as His sister. Tills
morning the lady went to I’hilndcl-
pliht. Little then wrote several
letters and paid his Hill and that of
the lady, He said he would lie
down for a while us he was going
to New York In the afternoon.—
Wlien the clerk went to call him
this afternoon lie was found dead in
Ids bed. In Ids write hand was
grasped n revolver with one cham
ber discharged. The bullet had
been tired into Ids brain. On the
dressing-case was a letter address
ed to Mrs. Mary (’. Little. Oil the
hack of tlie envelope inclosing Hie
letter was: “Minnie: it was all for
love. You’re not to blame.” The
unfortunate suicide is apparently
fifty years of age. There was a hunt
$300 in Little’s pockets,
llulildnir a Turk.
Atlanta Constitution.
Romf, Ga., July 23.—Doubtless a
great many people will remember
thoTurk and his wife who travel
ed through this section a month ago,
Avitli a performing bear. They
wont down into St. Glare county,
Ala., anil fell among theives. Some
one sued out a warrant against the
man for using opprobrious words,
and ho was placed in charge of a
mail named Sprewell, who started
with Him to Ashvillo. ‘When they
had gone some distance, Sprewell
told the Turk that if he would pay
him $50 ho could go free. The Turk
agreed to tills, and pulled out a
roll of money and paid tlie sum.—
Sprewell seeing that the man Had
more money, eurried Him a short
(listunee further, into a thickly
wooded spot, anil stepping behind
the ignorant man, shot him twice
in tlie head witli a pistol, Tlie man
fell to the ground,uml Sprewell sup
posing him dead, robbed Him of
$100. It transpired that both the
shots made only sculp wounds, and
when tlie man regained conscious
ness, lie found His way hack to Ids
wife and bear, where he reported
tin' outrage. At last accounts Spre
well had not been arrested,
1)0 Til K MCKIv 1MIKK1T Til K KAKTH7
The eagle plucks the raven,
Anil tlic i*nven plucks the Jny,
To whose voracious craving
The cricket falls a prey.
The big llxli dines at leisure
Upon the smaller fry,
Anil the minnow eats with plensnro
The poor nneonseious fly.
The miser skins his neighbor,
The neighbor skins the poor;
Anil the poor mail doomed to labor
Spurns the beggar from his iloor.
Anil thus the world Is preying—
The strong upon the weak,
Despite the precious saying,
“The earth Is for the meek.”
It is not until avo have passed
through the furnace that avc are
made to know how much dross is
in our composition,
Tlie country preacher is expected
to be poor and humble. His con
gregation will keep him poor, tlie
Lord must make him humble.
An observing individual has dis
covered that it isn’t curiosity that
causes a lady at a theater to occupy
so much time in poising her opera
glass. It is her diamond rings.
A Philadelphia servant girl has
got a month otf and gone to Wash
ington to see about a pension. She
once worked for three consecutive
weeks in a family that lost a second
cousin in the Avar.
“Is anybody waiting on you?”
said a polite dry goods clerk to a
young lady from the country. “Yes
sir,” replied the blushing damsel;
“that’s my fellow outside; he
Avouldn’t come in tlie storei”
“No,” said a Philadelphia philan
thropist, “I care nothing about the
swindle, I only sued the man as an
act of charity. There are <>5,000 law
yers in the United States, and not
work enough for half of them.”
“Roastbeeflambmuttonandham,”
said tlie Avaiter avIio “waits on the
table” at the Isle of Hope. “Well,”
said tlie old gentleman, “I’ve never
tasted it, hut you may bring me
some and I’ll see Avhat it’s like.”
A sponge measuring eight feet in
circumference lias been taken otf
Key West, and is said to be the
largest in tlie world. It is not as tail
as some Avho hang around beer sa
loons, but it absorbs more water.
An Ohio man lias taken the small
pox from a pet pig.—J>Jx. That Avas
real mean. Some Ohio men will
take anything AVitldn reach. We
wouldn’t have deprived a poor little
pet piggy of his only cause of small
pox.
Dudes who chew the heads of
tlieir canes, are advised by a medi
cal editor to have the same of soft
rubber instead of silver. It makes
less Avear and tear on the gums, and
helps the teeth to come through
just as Avell.
A poor woman in a red flannel
bathing suit Avas chased by a cow at
Narragansett tlie other day before
she could get into tlie water. Peo
ple Avho say women cannot run
when occasion requires don’t know
what they are talking about.
An exchange says ten plagues of
a newspaper office are bores, poets,
rats, cranks, cockroaches, typograph
ical errors, exchange fiends, hook
canvassers, delinquent subscribers
and the men who know how to run
tlie paper better than tlie editor
himself.
There is u beautiful practice com
mon throughout a portion of Mexi
co, for little children to kneel be
fore a stranger and pray that he
may have a safe journey. And the
fathers of tlie children have a prac
tice not so beautiful of “laying for
tlie stranger in the forest Avitli a
jack-knife two feet long.”
A St. Louis lady, at one of tlie
Long Branch hotels, lias already
exhibited forty different costumes,
and lias two maids milking new
gowns for her, which she puts on as
fast as completed. She has more
diamonds than Hinhud saw, and
enougli other Jowolry to start a na
tional Inink. Hut it is not every
lady who can say she resides in or
comes from St. Louis.
All Arkansas journalist in assum
ing control of tiie local columns of a
weekly paper, says: “The proprie
tors of tlie Skillet, have deemed it
advisable for me to lend my influ
ence to tills great enterprise. I am
an old hand at the business, and
come highly recommended, having
been run out of the swampland dis
trict on account of a delicately ex
pressed sentiment to the effect that
tlie country Judge aviis a thief of no
small capacity. So long us the judge
of this county remains honest, or
rather is not caught stealing any
thing, I may stay with you, and help
you develop the wonderful resour
ces of fids section, hut lust so soon
as lie is proved to he iy thief, 1 reck
on I’ll have to slide. 1 take this
method of informing the people
that I will preach at the Clay Hull
church next Sunday.”—A rkansatt
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