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Volume 2.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, August 10th, 1888.
Number 18.
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For terms apply at thlsnftlce.
(Ini. Toombs, says. tin exchange,!
voted ‘'no fence,” in the Wilkes
ei inly ('lection the other tiny. The
ml i- considered good iiuthority
on econoinii' questions.
If you want to see the far fly like
a r at on a coon-kin, just put a Ytm-
lo-c editor on a big .Southern daily,
'i'lir editor acts cat, while his Yan
kee kinfolk plays the part of (la 1
coonsl: in.
The Mexicans complain that
(leant has carried Yankee eorrup-
lioti into their country with his
railroads, and that profligacy runs
,-iot in the government. Mexico is
almost Yankeoized.
.judge Blundford, who was lately
elected to tin 1 Supreme Hench by
ti;e Legislature, to fill the vacancy
occasioned hy the death of Judge
Crawford, received his commission
I'ticsday, and will soon remove to
Atlanta to assume the duties of his
utticc.
A Northeast Georgia paper says:
A man lives a few miles above
Athens who eats in one county,
deeps in another, smokes when sit
ting iu his piazza in a third, and
lias built his barn in a fourth. He
lives where four counties corner,
anti is as independent of legal offi
cers us a wood-sawyer.
That man, in our opinion, is too
unanimous.
mzi-:.'..
It) MV MOTlin:.
Sail, s:el was
We mill or,
Sail, we.l uns
We luineil
We 1:UU In r,
Aimin'; tin
A ml t here is
tomb,
Uni tails of in
T
tlioiln
r ilarl
I lie it
■ In euUl.lilealc Nov,
isinvuy to rest,
y tony to rcmemliei
is true, where Ilowi rs
1 alu' loved best oil ei
lot a breeze 1 led yoe
do Mootu,
■all,
lover her
i;oodni s.s and wort
mn<;es!ie old oak, nnd ibe evcrjsreon pine,
Seem cv‘ r to llod and to wave;
'1 hey sei'in llko tlley say, “slie is mine—she Is
mine,”
As they bend o'er my poor mother's grave.
The cedars then, too, grow lug ever so high,
The same I wish placed over me,
Villa the emblem—and pointing up to the
sky—
“I live, I live only for 1 hoe.”
The dear lit.)In violet that grows bill so high,
Peeps out at the Cl ret blush ol* morn,
And with dew moistened eye, looks up to tile
sky,
I lien lolds llsell up, and looks torn,
Its days are but few, like ours on earl li,
II springs from the ground, and sighs,
its petals are full, from the I line nt its birth,
Sheds Its fragrance—turns over and dies,
Sueli is life, ns told by those (hat arc old,
Sueli is life, from beginning to end.
I [.sieves and its J riendstiips are, too, ,r ro\vln pr
cold,
As into the grave now descend
Slowly, but surely, are we drawing near
To the time to bid lids world good bye,
And to be too with those to us ever so dear
in Hull home beyond I lie blue sk.r.
The lllly looked up, the whitest of nil,
And^feemed for a moment amazed,
It thinks of the time il was placed on t lie pall,
As the friends stood around it and gazed—
i laz’d for t lie last lime on the face of the dead—
Our dead—the dearest of all.
Some stood at the side—I stood at the head
The sad picture I love to recall.
The row,- till.’ ambitions, tries thus to conceal
Its feelings- I SCO through It all—
The emblem of beauty lies crushed by the
heel—
cat man cannot face without in
stantly feeling his muscles mist rung
his skin parcheil and feverish, and
his whole hotly limp and nerveless
iis a wet rag, is of itself u sufficient
agent of evil. The fevers engend
ered by the malaria of the Kile
Delta are as virulent as ever those
of 1'hiropean Turkey, while the de
vastating visits of the plague itself
are neither few nor far between. A
less fatal hut equally formidable
enemy to natives and foreigners
alike is the terrible “Egyptian oph
thalmia,” which, although often
brought on hy the unclean habits
of the natives, is at times generat
ed iu another and very singular
fashion. A small green Hy persist
ently settles upon the sores of the
diseased eyelids, and when driven
oir carries the infection along with
it wherever it alights. So common
is this disease among the Arabs
that Mehemit Ali is said to have
formed two battalions of one-eyed
men, the one wanting the right eye
and the other the left, in 1 TDK this
complaint made great ravages in
the army of Bonaparte, one of
whose best officers becoming blind
in the desert, was forced to cling
to the tail of his comrade’s horse in
order to make his way hack to the
camp. II is a common saying in
Alexandria that an “Egyptian Arab
with two eyes is as rare as a snow
ball iu June.” The prevalence of |
Asiatic cholera is such that a land
of plagues is a distressing accumula
tion of horrors.
A !>i;ATIi-i.ltlS ('ONFF.KSION.
In Ohio MiinliTOf 'Ju Years Airo .lust llcvoalri
She
Tim’ e
‘■ill never appear at my eat
usiied to Hie earth, its fn
Its perfume it does not conceal—
1 " ill be walleil above liljjh up to (bo skies,
To my mother whom I now kneel.
—< tONIlAT).
OAJllHTTA.
A Uriel' Iliiscrlptlon of Hie I,ami ol' I’Urmii's.
rail Mall Gazette.
The eyes of the civilized world
are drawn to Egypt now, as they
were a year ago, but the interest, in
this country at least, is of a more
anxious character now than when
and his followers were lay-
Miss Johnnie Morgn
Louisville Commercial.
Miss Johnnie Morgan, the Gen-
eral’s daughter, was the heroine at
the Morgan reunion in Lexington.
It did not require a practiced eye
to detect tiie warm admiration en
tertained for her hy her father’s j j,q lu |i 110 . p; s
faithful followers, and considerable
Tlie prospect is that the cotton
mark t will open low this season,
innl probably settle. It is evident
Hint prices will rule low throughout,
the average ranging somewhere
between S and 10 cents. The high
est prices will he paid in the early
part of the season and very late. The
crop, generally, will not compare
with last year's crop thoughout the
(•niton raising region, and the year's
crop will not equal last year.
The telegraph strikers still hold
bravely out. The sympathies of
Hie public all over the country are
with the strikers. In the Northern
cities the striking operators are re-j Arabi
eeiving substantial aid. Suds ing Alexandria in ashes. Damietta, J pressed her great joy at meetin
are being commenced against the where the cholera is making such them, stirred their hearts and sc-
felegrnph company, and Mr. fearful ravages, is a city on one of
(ioulil seems likely to have a use j outlets of the Kilo, eight miles
lor every dollar ol the j->,1)00,1 Kill ! f r()]n (] u , Mediterranean. The
which lie boasted he had laid aside
Now York !lunik).
The little town of Matamoras,
Ohio, thirty mile's below this city,
has just experienced a singular and
j unparalleled sensation.
In 18(51 a New York syndicate
sent a man, whose name cannot
now be rccalleel, to Matamoras to
prospect for oil land. lie came with
! a tine team, and had about him $50,-
I 000 in greenbacks. He went from
Matamoras to Archer’s Ford, a short
I distance nbovp, and stopped with a
! man named Ward, whom he took
into his employ. lie and Ward
prospected about the country for a
time, when suddenly he disappear
ed.
His team remained at Ward’s,
hut that individual said he had ab
sconded with his employer’s funds
and had left him the team in pay
ment for his services. The story
was scouted, but there was no evi
dence of other facts and it therefore
had to he accepted. Soon after
wards Ward’s circumstances under
went a great change. He was a
poor man and owned a small and
sterile farm, which he disposed of
and moved to Matamoras, where he
purchased a hotel property and
branched out amazingly. About
three years ago Ward, while walk
ing into the yard from the house,
threw his hands up nnd exclaimed,
“Oh, my Goil!” dropped dead.—
With his death all talk of the dis
appearance of the New Yorker end
ed, until it was brought hack in a
thrilling way recently.
James West, a good-for-na-ught
about Matamoras, who had sudden
ly come into possession of money a
long time ago, was taken down with
an illness which proved to he fatal.
end approaching, he
time was spent in presenting them j | () ma ],
to her. Her close resemblance to I minister
her father awakened in them many
of the memories of the eventful past
and her sweet face, lady-like grace,
calm and gentle voice, as she ex-
said: “I have a terrible disclosure
to sustain the monopoly. Our
patbies are entirely with the
s t v lo
st ri-
The Macon 7We//rttph says: “The j
main count in the expensiveness of j
our Legislature is due to the local j
legislation mania. A change in the
Constitution properly restricting
•sueli legislation, Would save to the
•date in a few years, money enough i
to more than meet the expenses of j
a Constitutional Convention.”
Y\’c admit that local legislation is |
a prolific source of the waste of time ;
and money, hut we cannot conceive
how any change in the Constitution
can remedy the evil, or how much i
greater the restrictions could he)
made, unless the door is closed and ;
locked against alt local legislation.
The season for big stalks of cot- '
ton and first blooms and bolls has !
passed, and the time for first new
bales has arrived. A dispatch from i
Selina, Ala., dated the (ith inst.,
ap
proach to the place is by rail from
Mansurah through Hhirbin. The
line runs along the left bank of the
Nile, across a plain remarkable for
the growth of melons. Damietta is
10 miles from Mansura, 92 miles
from ('airo, :!() miles from Port Said,
about 120 from Alexandria and 09
fromTuntah. The town is old and
decaying, its present population of
29,000 souls living in the midst of
the ruins of its former greatness.—
A trip by boat to the Nile mouth
with a fair wind takes about an
hour and a half.
The neighborhood abounds with
extensive rice fields, which are in
tersected in every direction hy can
als. The ancient Damietta, captur
ed hy King John of Jerusalem,
1210, and occupied by St. Louis of
France in J2t0, is supposed to have
stood near the sea further to the
north than the modern town. A
Held near the town, which is of
dark red color, is known as the
“Sea of Flood,” and ns local tradi-
says: The first hale of new cotton i tion has it, owes its hue to the blood
M ils received here yesterday. 11 1 of 80,000 martyrs of Islam who were
was raised in Dallas county, on the ! massacred there. The hills to the
plantation of Woodrull' A North, I northeast are known as the “Hills
where there are 900 acres in cotton, of Skeletons” from the immense
It said for 11cents per pound, a i number of human remains found
low price, owing to the absence of there, relics of the old crusade wars,
nearly all the brokers from the city. | Hack of the town Is Lake Menzaleh,
’flic first bale was received last 1 an almost interminable expanse of
year on the 11th of August. The sand, swamp and water, which
earliaess of this receipt is not a re-1 stretches as far castas Port Said,
liable index of the comparative mu- The narrow strip of land lying bc-
tmiiy of the crops, because July tween this so-called lake and the
was this year very dry, causing the j sea is as desolate a region as can he
bells'ti) crack open, A dispatch I found iu ail Egypt. The harbor of
from Montgomery, Ala., reports the j Damietta is frequented in times of
first new bale received in that city) peace hy about olid vessels annually
an tin 1 (itli inst. It was sold for HI but it is very poor, as no vessel of
cent- per pound. j more than Hi* tons can cross the
I dangerous and shifting bar of the
cured for her all the love and ven
eration they once had for her father.
After paying a glowing tribute to
General Morgan, orator Black turn
ed to Miss Johnnie, who rose grace
fully at his greeting. He told her
that his comrades, who had loved
her illustrious father while living
send for a minister.” The
came, and West poured
out the long-hidden mystery con
cerning the stranger. Ward had
come to West, and told him of the
prospector’s money and how easily
they might obtain it. The two men
decided to murder him, and took
into their confidence a man named
lvirkbride, a butcher in Matamoras.
The three waylaid the stranger one
night at Archer’s Forks, and while
Ward and West held him, Kirk-
bride cut his throat with a butcher
knife. They then robbed him of his
jewelry and about $30,000 in money,
and lexeicd him while dead, had j < >„ ono finger was a gold ring which
fitted so tightly thev could not re-
accorded him the pleasing task of
conveying to her from them a gen
tle token of the faithful allegiance
which her father enjoyed and the
warm admiration they felt for her.
He became eloquent as he proceed
ed with the theme, and closed by
saying that, “never since the days
of ancient chivalry did gallant
knight crown a fairer queen,” and
handed her a velvet ease containing
a handsome gold watch and chain.
She stood up bravely under the
trying ordeal, during which old sol
diers’ eyes were blinded by unre
strained tears, and turning to the
sea of faces she said, with beautiful
composure: “Dear friends, I can’t
begin to tell you how happy
you have made me, and how grate
ful 1 feel to you for it. 1 assure you
that 1 love you as dearly as my fath
er did, and I sincerely hope that
you may always he as happy as you
have made mo to-day.” As she
bowed her acknowledgments the
giant oaks trembled under the deaf
ening shouts that went up from a
thousand throats and the boom of
the artillery.
Y smart man is lien Butler, says
die Bavunnah News. Tlu» South
Wa delighted at his victory over
die swells of Beacon 11 ill, but when
squints at the Presidency, he
deesn’t excite mirth. One (Jreeley
ia a general ion is enough.”
Hie 1 >eim>erntic party seems bont
“ i I'nimnitliiig some egregious blun-
diT, by which they may destroy
da ir present fair prospects for suc-
‘ 1 in I'v I. mid is just as likely to
the old spoon thiefiis the
In'-1 1 lenioeral in the laud. Should
die Beast he nominated, and any
d'lnoerat however true, or any
°dior man except Joo Brown,
•Imiikl refuse to support him, tho
Ei'in da Senate would taboo him
Evenly years nlterwnrd—Greeley
"i' lie (I replay. The idea that the
iiuiae u|' m.,, liutlcr, the Beast,
'"'iilil lie mentioned In eunneetion
"dli die nomination for President
“VJiie Bemoeratic party is utterly
Edii'iiloiis, The Democrats of the
N, utli can never be bimught to snp-
l’"i't him.
Damietta arm ofthe Nile, theehun-
nel of Which, under the most favor
able circumstances, varies from <i to
1(1 feet in depth. Yet the place, in
spite of these drawbacks, has a oon-
' sldcrnhlc trade in dates, hones, rags
elded fish and grain.
As mlgut be interred from this
brief deseri pi ion of da surroundings,
'Damietta is about as miliotilthy a
town as is to be found in the land
ofthe Pharaohs.' When St. Louis
1 marched his army to the place in
tin* thirteenth century, it was al
most destroyed hy the epidemics
which prevailed, Just as the armies
of Napoleon, Kleher and Monon
wore decimated hy disease lUUU'ly
! six centuries later. 'The whole re-
1 glon of the lower Nile, in fact, is a
vast hot-bed of disease, and the
wonder is, not that so many should
succumb to the climate during the
unhealthy season, hut that any one
should escape. The dreadful ‘kham
sin,’ or hot wind, which the strong-
The I’l'i'MVnlill) Tragedy,
Eastman, Ga., August 3,—Joal
Peel and A. ('. Perdue, relatives of
each other hy marriage, were em
ployes ofthe turpentine works of J.
M. Woodward, several miles from
Eastman. It is said that for some
time past there has been had blood
existing between the parties. In
order to separate them Mr, Wood
ward discharged Mr. Pardne. Yes
terday, however, he came to whore
Mr. Peel was working and sought a
difficulty with him. Peel, it is stat
ed, tried to avoid any trouble, hut
Perdue was persistent, and Peel
went to hbi house and got his shot
gun, which he kept hy his side.—
Perdue insisted upon a fair light,
which was refused, lie came up
w ith an ax in Ids hand and, cursing
Peel, told him lie had to light.—
Whereupon Peel took lip his gun
and discharged the load of ono bar
rel into Perdue’s breast, who, reel
ing, cursed Peel again. Peel then
tired the other load at him mid he
fell, exclaiming, “Farewell world!”
Idle was soon extinct, A Coroner’s
Jury was summoned and hold an
Inquest, rpon hearing the evi
dence, they rendered a verdict of
Jlistiliable homicide. Peel quietly
remained on the premises nfler the
deed was done, making no attempt
whatever to leave,
move it, and they therefore decid
ed to allow it to remain. They
buried the body'undder a manure
pile for a few days, then dragged
it up and threw it in a well on
Ward’s place and filled up the wc
Ward gave out that the well caved
in in order to cover the crime. The
three divided the money equally
and kept their mouths shut.
West said, in conclusion, they
might find the skeleton in the well,
and could identify it by the gold
ring. Shortly after making His con
fession West gave up the ghost.
The disclosure created the most
intense consternation and excite
ment in Matamoras, though no
prompt measures were taken to in
stitute the search suggested. Kirk-
bridge was there, and denied and
ridiculed the story, hut after some
little time had passed the fillcd-up
well was looked for, found and
searched, and the e x c a v a t i o n
brought to light a skeleton, with a
gold ring clinging to the bony fin
ger.
A t this tho town went wild, and
Kirkbride was placed under arrest
to answer the charge,
After Tucnty-Kitflit Yours.
I'liilmlclphiii Record.
The arrival at this port yesterday
morning of tho American Line
steamship British Crown brought to
a climax a truly unique love affair,
which has been developing since
the year 1855. The lirst act of the
romance was enacted in England
thirty years ago, when the hero,
Henry Ball, aged 111, fell in love
with Miss Beuedictu Price, then
with the bloom of 33 years upon her
cheeks. The course of trim love
did not run smoothly. Trusting
thal he eould soon return and claim
his belle. Henry left England in
I s '">•"> and came to this country to
make h|s fortune, Emm that time
until yesterday the lovers never
met, hut although three decades
have slipped away their love has
never I'a'tered. Bushels of tender
missives have kept alive the Hume
kindled in their hearts hy Cupid
during his campaign of IH53.
Mr, Ball, who Is now 79years of
age, is tall and spare, with white
hair, moustache and heard, rpon
the arrival of the British Crown
the happy pair left for South Jer
sey, with the intention of getting
married at once,
liuiv li Feels to be Struck by l.izblnlmr.
Hartford (Cimii.l I'mirant.
Curtis B. Wells, of Ibis city, has
received a letter from Henry M.
Burt, detailing the editor’s experi
ence with lightning. Mr. Bert cer
tainly had a narrow escape, lie
writes:
“A little before 9 o’clock Saturday
night I was in my office, (in the old
Summit House on Mount Washing
ton) and had just given directions
to Darby about making up a form,
when all at once I felt a tremend
ous blow in the hack. I eould not
imagine at first what caused it, but
instantly thereafter I saw a ball of
tire as large as a man’s head direct
ly in front of me, not three feet off.
It exploded with a tremendous
noise, seemingly as loud as a can
non, and then I knew what must
have happened. My left leg seem
ed to 1)0 completely paralyzed, and
I fell to the floor. Three of my
printers were in the room at the
time, two sitting at the table near
me and one standing' up a little fur
ther off. The hitter had the skin on
one hand torn up, another was hit
in the hack, and the third escaped
without injury. At first I felt as
though a hall had gone through my
body, and that all below had heeni
shot away. I was startled and con
founded, hut did not lose conscious
ness. The young man who eould
get out of the office ran to the hotel
tHe .Summit House, and told wlnit
had happened. Help came immed
iately, and I was removed to my
room in the hotel and undressed.—
Dr. Strong, a medical student of
Harvard, took my ease in charge,
and treated me with great skill. In
the course of two or three hours T
eould begin to move my log a very
little. This (Monday) morning I
find myself quite comfortable,
though I cannot walk without a
cane, and my leg pains me consid
erably. I can assure you that it was
a narrow escape from instant death
and for one I do not care to go
through another experience like it.
As the storms are all, or most of
them, below the summit, we have
very little fear of being struck hy
lightning. In fact, for forty years
no one has been hurt or had sueli a
narrow escape from death. Itisan
old saying that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place, and
I am sure I do not care to have it
\Ye were all the more surprised
from the fact that until the holt
came in we had no idea of the pres
ence of an electric storm, it had
begun to rain a little, hut there had
been no flashes of lightning. It was
as startling as it would have been
to get a clap of thunder out of a clear
sky. You have probably heard of
tlu 1 impression of a tree being found
upon the bodies of those killed by
lightning. The same thing was
noticed upon my hack, and, as there
are no trees upon Mount Washing
ton, it seems to me that the pecul
iar appearance must he the result
of the blood settling in the smaller
veins.”
Five Days In n Fri'lglit Car.
Philadelphia Heeoril.
Workmen employed nt Washing
ton avenue wharf yesterday, ob
served a small stick protruding
from a hole in a freight ear stand
ing on the trucks. The stick kept
moving around, and the men deci
ded to open the ear. The door was
thrown open, and there to their
(rent surprise, was a lmif-starved
lad. The hoy’s countenanco was
haggard, and he was too weak to
walk. lie was taken to the second
district police station. Dr. Nebln-
yer gave the hoysomo restoratives,
mil prescribed light but strengthen
ing food.
The hoy told the following story;
“My name is Frank Harris. I live
in Chicago, when 1 both my parents
were buried some time ago. 1 am
13 years old. Iliad no one to take
care of me, and I earned a few pen
nies wherever 1 eould. On last
Wednesday 1 saw the men loading
the ears in tho depot at Chicago.—
At dinner tiino when the men left,
the car was only partly loaded. I
crept in and .hid in the corner be
hind a big box. I thought I would
take a short ride, and when 1 got
out into the country J would get olF
the ear and find work. They came
hack tilled, the ear and locked the
door. Thai evening we started off,
and I have been in tin* ear ever
since. We often stopped, and 1
hallooed, hut I eould make no one
hear me. Then we would rumble
olf again, and I would throw myself
hack and cry. I don’t know how
long I was in there or how far we
went.”
After tho hoy had sufficiently re
covered to walk, ho was taken hy
Policeman Adams to the latter’s
home.
ITKHF.Vr Gl.KAMMIS.
A Social list CciiglOSM I>Is|U‘l-8Ctl.
Bayknna, Itai.v, Aug. (J.—A con
gress of Socialists met here yester
day. The police being refused ad
mittance to the hall broke down the
doors and dispersed the meeting.
IUIIh ills Wife iiii.l lllmsi'ir.
Noufoi.k, Va, August (i.—John
Simmons, a merchant of Deep
Creek, near Norfolk, shot and kill
ed his wife and himself Saturday
night. No cause for the act is as
signed.
A Rose 1 toady to Hand.
Roston Star.
The Hartford Courant says that
taking gall is a sure cure lor mala
ria. In that case we would advise
somebody to swallow Bill (’handler
—it would dispose of both Bill and
tho malaria. »
Had Woman.
A Louisville woman has forced
her daughter, thirteen years old, to
marry a Chinamen, with whom she
carried on a laundry. The little
girl ran away from home after the
ceremony anil the police refuse to
make her return.
Internal Revenuet hanues.
Savannah Recorder
To-morrow goes into effect the
combination of the Savannah and
Atlanta Internal Revenue districts,
with Col. Johnson as chief, and (lap-
tain L. M. Pleasants as deputy.—
A. A. Knight, Esq., special agent,is
in town completing the consolida
tion.
i’olnon In Ice (’ream.
Cl r a r r.KSTON, August fi.—At Cam
den, S. C., Friday night, many per
sons ate some ice cream at a Bap
tist church festival, and on Satur
day fifty-nine persons were taken
seriously ill. One child lias since
died, and only about two-thirds of
the sufferers have yet been pro
nounced out of danger.
Washington Humor.
There is a story current in Wash
ington that a syndicate has been
formed to buy Cuba from Spain.—
General Grant, Cyrus W. Field, W.
If. Vanderbilt, C. J. Osborn, Augus
tus Schell and Addison Caminack
are named as tho leaders in the
movement. The plan has progress
ed so far that Gen. Sickles will
shortly go to Spain to open negotia
tions. The syndicate is willing, ac
cording to this writer, to give $100,-
000,()00for Cuba.
The Hullet Found.
Fort Gaines Tribune*.
While the workmen at J. W. Sut
ton’s mill were sawing up a large
tree some days ago the saw struck
something hard, and on examina
tion it was found that it was a large
hullet occupying a position nearly
in the centre of the tree. It is of
course reasonable to suppose that
ihe hullet has been in the tree a
long time, as the track where it en
tered had entirely healed up and
not a sign of it was visible.
An Old (Ji'iitlamun Killed lij liouirlis.
Muxtci.aki:, Ii.i„, August fi.—A
party of roughs returning from a
resort known as Turner’s Park,
near this city yesterday afternoon,
entered the grounds of Mr. Lovette,
an old and respected resident, and
proceeded to dispoil Ids fruit trees.
He warned them to leave when
some of the party assaulted him
with missiles, one of which struck
him at the base of the brain, instant
ly killing him. Citizens have or
ganized for pursuit of tho gang, but
no arrests have yet been made.
A Prolific Family.
Sumtorville Florida Times.
Eliza Baggswas a native ofSerivcn
county, Ga. Sho came to Florida
at fi years of age, married at 13, her
first child was born when she was
only 11. Sho is now 31, and has had
IS children, (twins twice), 15 of
whom are now living. She is now
hale and hearty, and has the repu
tation of being one of tho hardest
working women in Florida. There
were 1 sisters, the3 living have IS
children each, and the one dead had
14, and died at 2fi years of age.—
Eliza lives near Sumtorvlllc.
Subscriptions arc positively cash
A MIhkIId Tliroivn at On> I'rcsldi'iit.
A Washington special to tho New
Orleans Timcs-Demoerat says that
last Saturday night the Pennsyl
vania railroad train on which the
President was a passenger had Just
left the Gunpowder Bridge, sixteen
miles north of Baltimore, on its wn,\
South, when (hero name crushing
through the plate-glass window of
the President’s ear a stone nearly
as large as an egg, which struck the
flagman, Charles Sparks, on Ids left
cheek. The President nt the time
was about midway the car, some
ten feet behind whore Sparks was
sitting, Perhaps this will ho claim
(>d as the fu I ill Intent of tho predie
tion'of Zuidki'l, the London ustrolo
gist, for July, which roads: “The
President of the United States will
he in personal danger at the latter
part ofthe month, and he should
take precautions accordingly.”
HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS.
A SAXON I'HOVKl!!!.
Tliciv Isa Jolly Saxon l’rovoi'li,
Thai Is very much like this,
That a man is hall'In Heaven,
When he has n woman’s kiss;
lllit them’s danger In delaying,
And Ihe sweet ness may forsake il,
Sol (ell you, bashful lover,
If you want a kiss, why lake It.
Never let another fellow
Steal a mar eh on you In this;
Never let a laughing maiden
See you spoiling for a kiss;
There’s a royal way to kissing,
And the jolly ones who make it
Have a motto that is winning—
if you want a kiss, why take It,
Any fool may face a cannon,
Anybody wcur a crown;
lint a man must win a woman.
If he’d have her for his own;
Would you have the golden apple,
You must 11ml the tree and shake It,
If tho thing is worth (lie having,
And you want a ldss, why take It.
Who would burn upon a desert
With a forest smiling hy?
Who would give his sunny summer
For a bleak and wintry sky?
lib! I tell you there Is magic,
And you cannot, cannot break il,
For tho sweetest part of loving,
Is to want a kiss and take it.
Light reading—the feather mark
et.
Expounders—retired preachers
and pugilists.
In youth buy a bicycle, in age try
a trycyele.
A foul lip—Giving the waiter a
had half dollar.
Why do men never wish to he in
and yet labor hard to possess?
Bonds.
Is it any wonder that a man who
imbibes corn juice freely should
have a “husky” voice?
\ 'Washington paper says Dorsey
is a kind man. If so, some other
kind of a man is preferable.—Texas
Siftings.
Woman is naturally a timid,
shrinking creature, but it is tlio
bathing-suit that reveals her shrink
age the most.
“The Hidden Hand”—Three aces
and a pair of kings the poker play
er slips up his sleeve when he gath
ers up the cards to deal.
Paterfamilias (reading doctor’s
hill): “Well, Doctor, I have no ob
jection to paying you for the medi
cine, but I will return the visits.”
“No, my daughter didn’t do noth
ing at tho exhibition; she ain’t
much of a scholar you know; but
everybody says sho was the best
dressed girl in her class.”
Do very man dat tells yer dat
clothes doan make the man is do
one what looks to see how yer’s
dressed. I’se done dis myself.—
Ar/cansaw Traveler.
A Beading (Pa.) man died a few
days ago, after drinking fifteen
quarts of water. Tho Coroner’s
jury rendered the verdict: “Sui
cide hy drowning.”—Philadelphia
Press.
Lightning recently struck a tele
graph polo and ran into tho offico
at Coatesvillo, Hid., when tho opera
tor seated at the instrument excit
edly telegraphed hack: “Don’t send
so fast!”
Twenty-live new comic operas
are being written in Boston for tho
coming season. People who desire
to visit Boston should go now before
tho rioting commences.—Philadel
phia News.
Some men unpleasantly comb
their mustache at the table, re
marks a writer. This is cruel, and
tho society for the prevention of
striking mustaches when then are
down should suppress such an ex
hibition.—A r . V. Advertiser.
When a fellow gets a letter for
his wife out of the post office and
he forgets to give to her for a week
or so, the safest way to lot her have
it is to tie it on tho end of a ’ long
fishing pole and poke it through the
window to her.
“Settled with a hullet,” says ono
of our exchanges in giving an ac
count of a murder. It does not
state tlie cause of the trouble be
tween them, hut it is high time that
the present generation should learn
to have no dealings whatever with
a hullet.—C/iieagn Times.
An unscrupulous person contri
butes this: “A gentleman went
down to Mississippi from Tennes
see to prospect, with a view to im
migrating. lie happened to he In
that part of the country which the
tornado struck and was completely
carried away with iV’—Latiisrille
Paurier-Juiirnal,
The other day on an Arkansaw
railroad, an old gentleman sat, half
asleep, with a hook entitled “Tho
Train Bobbers” lying on Ids lap.—
The window sash fell with a loud
report and the old man springing to
his feet and throwing up his hands,
exclaimed: “Gentlemen, 1 haven’t
got a coni,”