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SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1884.
NUMBER 40.
■Hand gg we—I —— e» — —
denvtlle Poatotoee, April to, ltoh
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Httiernin*, Waaklngtoi Cetntf* flfe
A. J. JERNttSfA-N.
Faoniato* an Ftrfal—em.
■EbeerlpM—-
„I1 Jg pat Tmw
RICKARD I. HARRIS,
Attorney at Law,
6A.NDKH8VLLE, GA.
Will praitiee.in nil the court* of the
middle circuit, and In the counties sur
rounding V’.xhington -Special atten
tion given to commercial law.
E SruriGMIOE,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GY.
mayor!
0. H. ROGERS.
CLERK A 2REASERER.
D. E. B, WELLS.
MARSHALL.
J. E. YVEDDON.
ALRERMEE,
W. H. LAWSON,
Wm. RAWLINGS,
S. G. LANG.
A. M. MAYO,
M. II. BOYER.
2own of 2ennille.
Mayor—John 0. Harman.
Aldermon-W. P. Davis, ,T. W.
Smith, P. J. Pipkin, T. J. Beck.
Clerk—S. II. B Massey.
__ Marshall—,T. C. Hamilton,
B. D. EVANS, ~
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bandertvllle, Oa.
April I, mo.
0* C' BROWN, i *
ATtORNEY AT LAW,
flandsisvUle, On. f
Will practice In the State and United Malgl
Court*. Offlo* In Court-house.
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY
REPAIRED BT
J EH IT I GAIT.
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
mutui oi smm,
Having recently graduated at the Univer
sity of Meiylaml and returned home, now
oners his professional services to the outsell*
ol Hamlersvllle and vlolntty. Office with
Dr. II. N Holliaeld, next door tojMrs. Bayne's
millinery store.
H. N. HOLLIFIELD,
Physician and Surgeon,
BandenvlUe, On.
Office next door to Mrs. Bayne* Millinery
store on Harris street.
MUSIC, MUSIC
QO TO—
JERNIGAN
ill,
Bows, Strings,
Rosin Boxes, Etc-
EDITORIAL NOTES.
BUY YOUIt
i,
FROM
JERNIGAM,
Rone genuine without our Trade Mart
On hand and tor sale,
SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES. ETC.
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
FOR all KINDS OP MACHINES, for sale.
I will also order parts of Machines
that get broken, for whloh new
pieces are wanted.
A. ,J. JEHNIGAN.
Euison, the electrician, is enthusinstia
,ver the growth of the eleetrio light
eusiness. The coot ot this light is
being gradually cheapened, and many
imall towns have found it a matter of
sconomy t, introduce it In some place#
the competition has foroed go* compa
nies to put prices down to ninety-five
cents per thousand feet. Edison pre
dicts that within five years the electric
tight companies will furnish 98 per cent,
of the light. He oven goes so for os to
intimato that the eleetrio light win some
day bo cheaper than kerosene. The
prejudice against the new illuminator is
rapidly disappearing.
Tint chief cooks in leading hotels, res
taurants, clubs and mansions in Phila
delphia receive salaries ranging from
$3,000 to $3,000. The cooks are mostly
Frenchmen. A French chief is an im
portant personage. Ho is treated by his
assistants with tho greatest deference,
he hiiB his distinct table and sorvants to
wait on him. The finest wines oro serv-
od at his meals, a’d his footing in tho
house is that of an honored guest. With
him cooking is one of the fine arts, and
he regards himself as the equal ot a
sculptor or a painter. Some of the New
York And Philadelphia clubs boast of
oookH as skillful aa can bo found in Eu
rope.
It is a settlod fact that good cham
pagne will novor bo cheap, Tho labor
necossary in producing it and the loss
inourrod by bursting bottles is so great
that pricosmust always range high. No
wino owes more to the skill of tho maker
and less to the quality of the grape than
this favorite beverage. Tho “sparkling”
quality is the least of its merits. Indeed
it is better to wait until tho carbonio
acid has partially disappeared, for then,
if tho quality be good, it will be found to
have retained its hotly and flavor which
was beforo concealed by the efferves
cence. But us long ns people will drink
wine by the label, they will continue to
be deceived,
It is assortod thnt as much nutriment
is contained in twenty pounds of clieose
ns will be found in a sheep weighing
sixty pounds. The English say that the
cooking of cheeso is practically an un
known art in America, tho only form
commonly known being the Wp.bh rare
bit. A cheap, savory and highly nutri
tious food may he prepared by adding
grated cheese to oatmonl porridge, boiled
rice, mashed potatoes, hasty pudding,
etc. A scientific lecturer, who upholds
cheese ns a staple food, also takes tho
positiou thnt “bosch,” when honestly
propnredfrom good hoof and mutton, fat
and sold as “butterlne,” or “oleomarga
rine,” is i«n excellent substitute for
cream cheese.
Riuirp, the groat gun manufacturer
has just taken out a patent for a flat-
headed projectilo. This novel form has
been given to it with n viow of preven
ting its glancing off on striking tho ar-
mor-plnto of a vossol nt a great angle of
inclination. The form has further been
adopted with tho object of penetrating
a ships armor below the water-line, an
operation hitherto attended with but
little success, owing to tho pointed head
of the shot. In order not to cause a loss
of ve ocity, a point of wood or thin iron
plate is attacked, which, on striking, is
immediately shattered, and, wt the same
time, being filled with oil, which is to
grease the projectile, is said to increase
its power of penetration.
*• K. Risks.
O. H. Romm
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.,
Praotloe in tho comities of Washington,
r'H 0 ” 10 !), Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson,
. H 1 ® u - 8. Courts for th* Bonthsris Dl*-
trlot of Georgia.
rem L ®5 t “* “E»nta In buying, sailing or
renting Real Estate.
Oot U-tX° n <5^*"* |U<1 ® of TuWlo 8%uar«.
Few people have any idea of the
number of free passes granted annually
by a leading railroad. First come tho
excliango passes given to the officials of
other roods. It is nothing uncommon for
a railroad to issue 1,500 of these passes.
In some States members of tho Legisla
ture and Congressmen are furnished
with posses. Editors of leading papers
are also favorod in this way. One of the
western road issues editorial passes iu
form of little books. Each book con
tains thirty-six coupons, and a coupon is
taken np for each division tho editor
travels ovor, if it is not moro than two
miles. A black list of editors who sell
parses has been compiled by the national
ticket agents’ association, and this has a
tendency to restrain the editors of one-
horse journals who are tempted to sell
their passes.
Tub prohibitionists of tho country claim
that the outlook is favorable in many
States for tho adoption constitute mol
amendments prohibiting the manufac
ture and sale of alcoholic beverages. The
constitutional movement has been agita
ted in twenty-one States. In Kansas it
has been consummated ; Iowa passed
it through two Legislatures and ratified it
by 30,000 majority, but the amendment
was killed by its clerical errors. Maine
has passed a constitutional amendment
through the Legislature, and it wants a
popular vote. In Oregon one Legisla
ture has acted favorably, and a second
mo is to take action in the matter. Ohio
passed it through her Legislature, and
lost it before the people, Jn Texas
West Virginia, Nebraska, Michigan,
Wisconsin and ArkanSnS it failed by
ouly a foto votes
GENERAL NEWS.
The state lunatic asyhttii of Arkansas,
has 24? inmates.
An immense candy and confectionery'
manufactory will bo established in Knox-
ville this year.
The total number of convicts from
Montgomery county, Alabama, santen-
ted to hard labor is 02.
The oity oouncil of Chattanooga have
increased the license of retail liquor
dealers from $100lo $250.
ZinO iu abundance And of the verj
riche t quality, has beou found in th
vicinity of Fall Branch, Tonnesseo.
It is calculated that the Iron prodtic
tion of Alabama, Georgia an 1 Tennessee,
by 1890, Will reach a million of tons.
New Yoke’s now State Capitol has
cost nearly 815,500,000, and keeps
steadily employed thirtoen hundred men.
Within tho past two yoars 29,800 fruit
trees have boon planted Itt and around
Harrisburg, MadtscU County, Tennessee.
Christmas parties in Tampa, Florida
dined on watermelons, cucumbers, to
matoes, beans, early potatoes and
orallges.
Br tho census of 1880, tho number of
persons of twonty-ono years and upward
in the Southorn States who wore Unable
to write was 2,984,387.
Tiieiie are now more than five hun
dred strangers prospecting lot homes
and arranging for tho purchase of prop
erty in North Carolina.
A hint is givon to capitalists in South
ern seaboard cities by tho American
Lumberman, which says the largest ves
sels over built iu Bath and other ship
building towns in Maine, were built of
Georgia pine.
Mn. Hamilton Disston, tho million
aire manufacturer of Philadelphia, has
8100,000 insurance on his life in thirteon
regular companies, wliilo ho is good for
several thousand additional iu mutual
companies. Ho has probably a heavier
lifo insurance than auy man in the
country.
During the recent cold "hfaap” Charles
ton, S. C,, httd th< coldest weather iu
130 years. The thermometer, was 18
degrees above zero, not below, ns has
been reported. The Nows and Courier
Booms to bo groatly surprised that there
should have been ice on the Streets, Ihnl
tho Rutledge Street should have been
frozen ovor, and that tho flowers on the
Mnll should have been crystalized and
covered with ice.
The o instruction of now railroad in
the United States during the year 1883
was less than 60 per cent, of the now
mileage of 1882—ouly 6,600 miles having
been built, against 11,591 miles for the
previous year, 9,789 miles in 1881, and
7,17-1 miles in 1880. In only one other
3’oar, however, was the mileage larger—
in 1871, wlion 7,379 miles wore construc
ted. ’1 here are now about 120,000 inilos
of railroad in operation in tho country,
of which one half has been constructed
since 1871.
Ddeiing tho year 1883 not one Ameri
can vessel cleared from tho great port
of Now York for Europe laden with grain,
tho principal article of export from tho
United States. During tho year there
wore exported from New York in 491
vessels 21,545,000 bushels of wheat,
25,225,608 bushels of corn, 5,052,043
bushels of oats—a total of 51,970,081
bushels. A low estimate makes the
total amount of freight-money paid for
tho transportation of this grain nt least
84,000,000.
When it is remembered that some
seventeen municipalities of Brazil hnve
voluntarily liberated their slaves during
the presont year, it does nut seem very
far in the future whon a tidal wave of
popular enthusiasm will sweep tho insti
tution entirely from tho South American
empire. On October 11th, tho provin
cial assembly of Ceara took a step in this
direction by raising tho tax on slaves to
8100 and by prohibiting the renewal of
slavery in all municipalities in which it
has been abolished. The new law goes
into effect on January 31, and the Rio
News thinks that thousands of shves
will be liberated by their owners rather
than pay the tax.
Dr. H. H. Caret, fish commissioner
of Georgia, hop been interviewed down
in Florida, where he has been hunting
the spawning places of the shad. Tho
doctor states that shad ore disappearing
in the St John’s and will disappear
unless replenished artificially. Ho fa
vors tho introduction of artificial spawn
ing. In the course of his interview Dr.
Carey said that a few years ago li« put
half a million young Connecticut river
sh ift in Flint river. Three years later
fishermen along that river reported that
the Bhod rose readily to the fly, some
thing before unheard of with tho shad of
southern rivers. The fact shows that
Connecticut shad retain their original
habits when transplanted to other
waters.
THe Mahufucturera' Record gives flip
name and location of every cotton mill in
the South, with the number of spindles
and looms in enoli. The figures as thus
compiled, show that tllerb arte liotV 8l4
cotton mills in tho South having 1,276,-
422 spindles am\24,873 looms, while nt
tho time the census was taken iu 1880
tho South had only 180 mills, with 712,-
989 spindles and 15,222 looms. The
largest incroase iu tho number of mills
was made in North Carolina, where a
gain of 43 mills and 110,090 spindles Is
exhibited, wliild (Georgia Inode an in
crease of 189,15(1 spindled and 22 mills.
In 1880 the Value of manufactured cotton
produced at the South wns a little over
$21,000,000, while in 1.883 the value had
risen to between $35,O0O,0OO atld S20(),-
000,000. ’Hie tocokl figui'es up that
during tho last three yoars and a ho f
about $200,000,000 has boon iuvestodby
new and old Southorn cotton mills in
machinery, the bulk of which hns been
paid to tho Northern and Western ilia*
ckiuory manufacturer*.
At tho end of the present fiionllt it
splendid View of Mars can bo obtaiued
through tho telescope. As the direr i-
fied surface of this distant World corned
into view it appears a real globo marked
with continents, oceans and islands and
partially covered with clouds. Tho tele
scope plainly shows tho snow cap cover
ing tho antarctic region of tho globo of
Mars. A darkening around the snow
field is SUjipoged to be A Sea. Littgfl
telescopes Guable the observer to see
that the two tiny moons of Mars rovolvft
so cloSe to the planet that the inner oiifl
goes through nil tho chaugcs from now
moon to old moon in less than a day.
Auotlior interesting thing to bb studied
Ik tlio mysterious network of so-called
canals covering a largo part of tho
planet’s surface. As those canals are
about sixty miles in tho width it is diifi-
cult to believe that they have been
constructed by the inhabitant*. It is
tolerably ceftaih that Mars hns toached
a later stage of planetary development
than tho earth, and if it hoi inhabitants
they mAy have attained A degree of civ
ilization incomprehensible to us. At nil
oveuta, tho ruddy star in our midnight
Sky is a wonderfitl World.
— A-
A Letter-Carrier's Story.
A rather good-looking, intelligent man
related the following true story : “I de
liver in the Cliftou District,* nnd some
of our best and wealthiest people are on
my route. Two years ago I delivered n
letter at A ceBftin residence to n beauti
ful young lady, who went into raptures
on recognizing the writing, and thanked
me so heartily that it far outweighed
all the incivility I met that day. It was
some months before I called again, and
then with a mourning envelop, ad
dressed to tlio mother of the young
lady. Boveral months passed, each day
of which 1 saw my young lady friend
standing in tho door at tho oiul of the
approach looking for my nppearonoe. It
was so regular and continuous that It be
gan to w rk on my mind, and I won
dered what was tho cause. Shortly after
I had letters for tho mother, and on go
ing np to the door wns met by both, and,
boys, the chnngo in that poor child's
looks wont through me liko a knifo.
Sunken eves, with nn empty expression,
wasted flosli nnd color, nnd mi indescrib
able air of melancholy, which troubles
mo evory moment I am disengaged. I
delivered some mail to a grocer’s place
iu tho squnre, and could not help asking
about tliis poor young lady. I was In
formed that sho was betrothed to a
young man who went to India ns a mis
sionary, but soon fell a prey to the
deadly cholera of that pestilential coun
try, and that his death wns hidden from
his affianced wife iu the hope that sho
would ultimately forget him, but I tell
you. boys, Moore was right when ho
wrote:
Tho lionrt thnt has truly loved nover forgetn,
lint a-i truly loves on to the close,
As tlio sunllowor turns on her god when lie sctB
The same look which site turned when ho
roso.
And so it proved in this case. With tho
kind-hearted grocer ns a middle man I
regularly deliver a letter twice a month,
purporting to come from India, and
written by her mother, and I receive in
duo tinieMhe answer, which I leave with
the grocer, who privately sends it to the
mother. It is by tlio advice of the
family physician, who fears formy young
friend’s reason. ” — Cincinnati News-
Journal.
Homes for Soldiers’ Widows.
tttltWS IMQUEST.
A BEAUTIFUL
ROM tNCE FROM TTTE
WEST.
Beryl’s Pa itcccim
Kxprctnnry unill
Movcalt-d.
a Ll-ltcr—sii(> la 4»fl
tlie Contents nr#
"Como hither, Beryl."
Btnyvesant Nutwood spoke in kindly
tones to his daughter, and yet the girl
noticed, or imagined that she did, a
slight tronior in his voice, but, thinking
it was duo to the involuntary loosening
of ilia false teeth. gaVo the iriatter no
ftlrtilef attention, fttlo eroded the
room to Where her fattier Wto Sitting
in hiS^ great nriu chair beside the
floryl had groiVn tip dn tier .father'd
farm almost without society, but not
without education, for every year sho
hail attended llife seminary at Acbrnville,
and iu her loth yeftl 1 silo lirttl g+ndfiritefl
with all the honors and a percale dress,
And then she had gone back to the farm
again, but somehow her lifo there was
uot ns satisfactory ns beforo. There
were times when Beryl felt a sense of
ennui mixed with an indefinable feeling
of restlessness tlint Wottld dallse lief to
Wander aimlessly nrotlnd the plnco in ft
roVorlo Until fecalled to tho things of
this world by siepjiiiig Hh hot uttkle.
But though sho strove to conoonl eVtifl
froto herself the tonl causo of this feel
ing Met lientt Would ebor and alipn give n
great throb ns sho thought Of Bupoft
Hollingsworth, who was now a strug-
a lawyer in a Western town. There
icon no words of lovo between them,
but on the day Rupert graduated they
had met for the last time, nud, stand
ing beneath tlio shndo of n grnud old
oak thnt guarded the entrance to the
college (lamblls, Rupert lind taken
Beryl’s hand ill his and said to her,
whiie his dark-hrowh eyes seetned look
ing into her Very soiif: “You will not
forgot mo ehtifolyi Miss RtuyVesant ?”
forget yon," sho replied
‘as long ns 1
HIE STORY OF A SLATE’S LIFE.
Ifeiutives flshlln* lor the Prsprrtr ■»
MtSi lllsrlillB Unitlels.
Many of the Grand Army posts in the
west are moving in an effort to got a
National Home for the widows and
Orphans of Soldiers. Several posts
adopted a framed memorial to Congress
setting forth the need of national homes
for soldiers’ widows. The measure will
be laid before the Grand Encampment
of Wisconsin soon to be held at Janes
ville. It is proposed to petition Con
gress for the establishment of orphan
homes at the public expense, somewhat
iu the plan of the present soldiers’
homes, whore the needy and infirm and
aged widows of veterans may be sup
ported, maintained, and cared for. It
is held by those who favor the project
that tho expenditure of publio money
for such a purpose will be more feasible
and more proper than that of providing,
at present at least, for pensions to all
soldiers.
Oysters.—Now Haven’s oystermen
smile derisively at tho rumor of a New
York and Chicago syndicate’s forming
to monopolize the oyster trade, and as
to electricity's killing the starfish that
are destroying oysters in the Sound the
dealers say that (lie eleetrio shock that
would kill the fish would kill the oyster
also.
I shall never
with grave earnestness,
liTfi.”
He had onde stepped oh her toeft.
Whon Beryl lind crossed tho room bet
father motioned her to a seat by his side,
and ns she cuddled np cosily on a has
sock, nud, plncing her arms upon her
knees, looked up iu his face with a
wonderful expression in her great blue
eyes, Stuyvesant Nutwood felt a great
itirill of sorrow in the knowledge that
one day this tienlttiful girl, with all her
wealth of loVo ahd bandoline, Wottld
leave him fofevet,
“I linVo fcticiVed a letter from Rupert
Hollingsworth, floryl,*' he said.
Tho girl gave a sudden start, and a
wnvo of crimson swept oter tho pure,
sWeet face, but she did pot speak.
"Can yoil hot gtiesfl,” ho continued,
“what the purport of his lotter is 7”
Boryl oould uo longer look her father
in tho face. She know full well why
Rupert Hollingsworth had written.
Ho lmd gone away only two years be
fore in all tho vigor of his glad manhood,
nnd his splendid talents had gained for
liiiii stlcdOSH where others lind fnilod.
And now, crowned with tho laurel
wreath of victory, ho had written to her
father for permission to urge his suit
with her. Sho know all this full well,
and yet when her fntlior asked her tho
question to which her heart had al
ready given answer she did not reply.
"Ton could nover guess, little one,"
said Stnyvesnnt Nutwood, a merry
twinkle in his eyes, “why Rupert has
written. Do you think you oould ?”
A deeper blush overspread the pretty
face.
“Rut I will tell you,” ho continued,
“because you two were nt collego to
gether. Still, perhaps, I had better be
silent”—and again tho laughing light
came into her father’s eyes,
“Tell me, papa," whispered Boryl, no
longer able to conceal her engoruoss,
"why hns ho written ?’’
“He wants something,” was tho reply.
“Can you uot guess what it is?”
Every fibre of Beryl’s being is throb
bing with expectancy now. Tho sun lias
passed from sight, mul great bauds of
rosy light that stream up from below
the horizon's rim east a strange halo
over tho silent earth. Beryl feels the
solemn influences of the twilight hour,
but no word comes from her lips.
“Can you not guess,” repeats her
father, "what Rupert Hollingsworth de-
siros ?”
For an instant she does not reply. To
answer the question ia the affirmative
would seem bold and forward, and yet
can she deny, even to herself, a Knowl-
.idge of what Rupert desires ? So she
simply says to her father: “Tell me
wnat lie wants.”
Bending tenderly over his daughter,
Stnyvesnnt Nutwood whispers with in
finite pathos iu her ear: “Twenty-five
dollnrs to get home with.”—Chicago
7'ribune.
The Public Lands.
O. W. to WHITAKER.
DENTIST,
Bills for the disposal of the pnblio
lands are already flocking into Congress.
Senator Plumb's gives a laud warrant
for 160 acres to every person discharged
from the United States army during the
Civil War, within two years from his en
listment, on account of disability in
curred in tlio lmo of his military duty ;
while Senator Logan's gives 80 acres to
every htmorably discharged soldier or
sailor for a service of less than n year, 120
for a sorvice between one and two years,
and 160 for service over two years. One
trouble with this form of laud bounty is
that corporations and speculators mis
use it. Mr. Beck declared iu the last
Congress that it was usual to buy sol
diers’ scrip at about a dollar an acre, and
then to locate that quantity, apparently
by collusion with local land offices, nnd
contrary to law, along streams iu regions
scantily supplied with water, so as to
practically control many times the
amount of land thus bought from the
soldiers.
Finished—There is an old story of a
maker of musical instruments who, rub
bing his hands cheerfully, exclaimed :
“There, thank goodness, the 'bass fiddle
is finished at last.” But. before the
words were well out of bis mouth an ex
pression of anguish spread over his face,
and he added, "Thunderation 1 if I
haven’t gone and left the glue-pot inside
the fiddle, ”
The Common Pleas Court of Phila
delphia referred to Lawyer Jerome V.
MastefStfii tot aftdit an aoconnt in the
estate of Mrs. llfcUriAtta R. Daniels,
colored, in which several elifrttffdhiary
legal questions have arisen. Mnf.
Daniels died in Philadelphia a few
months ago and left 850,000 worth of
property lliat is claimed by an army of
iipr own and her husband’s collateral
heirs. The case is in many respects re-
mnrknble, atld (tie proceedings are
watched With groat interest by. members
of tlio bat ana friends of tho dead wo
man as well as tho*o Who expect to
receive shares of the estate. Mrs.
LfanioM, Wl}oso maiden name was Rob
inson, was lioffl Charleston, 8. O.,
and wns one of the ninny ftiftta* of An
drew P. Dwight, a wealthy planter,
\Vlioti ffUhriethi Was 12 years of ago hot
master sent her as n CllriStttnft ptosent to
his sister, Mrs. Fraily, of CuarfcetWii,
Mrs. Fraily, however, find no use for tho
girl and wanted to send her back. Mr.
Dwight then said he lind too many use
less slaves about his house, and asked
ills sister to hire tlio girl to some one
who oolild pity Well for her services.
Henrietta wns touted to Mrs, Furness, a
dtoss-toaker, and in a few years lator
Mr. Dwight Was receiving $40 a month
from tho dress-fnaker for tho services of
his slave. In six years Henrietta anted
enough toonev over and nbovo her
wages to buy, lot 89110, her mother, who
still lived on Mr. Dwight's plantation.
When tho last of tho money Wan paid
Dwight refused to allow the old woman
to join her daughter in Charleston, sny-
ing that it was enough for her to know
that she was free, nor would he refund
the purchase money. Mrs. Furness
heard the story, bought Henrietta from
Dwight at 8(,500, nnd then brought
suit to compel him to either give tho old
woman her freedom or return the 8900
pnid for he?. Dwight won the suit, the
court holding thnt Henrietta's OArnings
were as much his property ns she was.
The old woman went back Into slavery
nud died. Henrietta then bought her
own freedom, Mrs. Fliriieim allowing hor
to put in her wages ns partial payment.
After pnrehasing her freedom she miii'j
ried Asa Daniels, a blacksmith, and five
years later she bought him out of shiv-
cry, P«yiug 81 ,609. In about 15 yonrs
this woman had bought her mother, her
self, aud hor husband, Daniels. Hhe
wanted to come North at onee, but Mrs.
Furness, who had a gjoat affection for
Henrietta, induced her to remain in
Charleston until Daniels had found em
ployment in one of tho Northern cities.
Daniels came to Philadelphia and found
work in a blacksmith shop which he
afterward owned. A few months later
Mrs. Furness was taken sick nnd died,
hilt uot bofore she hod given Henrietta
810,000 in bnnk notes as a reward for
her faithfulness. She also bequeathed
to hor a house in Charleston, but ns Col
lateral heirs of the dead woman con
tested the will, Mrs. Daniels oameNorth
to join her husband.
Shortly after Mrs. Daniels left Charles
ton it was discovered that a few dnys
before her death Mrs. Furness had
drawn 810,000 from a hank Tho
money could neither bo found nor ac
counted for. The assumption was that
Mrs. Daniels had stolen it, and officers
set out in pursuit of her. In Richmond
Mrs. Daniels learned that sho was being
hunted. Sho secreted herself thoro for
several weeks and was finally brought to
Philadelphia by an ageut of the Under
ground railroad. All this timo she had
in hor possession Mrs. Furness’s written
acknowledgement of tho gift of money,
hut previous experience made Henrietta
dread the decisions of the Charleston
courts. Upon her arrival here sho en
gaged a lawyer, who at once notified tlio
Charleston authorities of tho true facts
in the case, nud there the matter ended.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniels bought a house
on South street and lived there many
years. Ho and his wife owned two
blacksmith’s shops and a score of small
tenement houses in the centre of tho
city. They had one son, who was
drowned in the Delaware river four or
five years ago. When old Mrs. Daniels
died a host of her and her husband’s
distant relations came forward and
claimed the estate. The property was
sold by order of the court and the money
wns paid into court. Mr. Masterson
will, as Auditor, arrange a distribution
of the funds. The lawyers of the ool-
lateral heirs of. Mrs. Daniels hold that
her husband’s relatives havo no just
claim upon the estate, he having been
her slave by purchase. The legal ad
visers of the relatives of Mr. Daniels
argue, however, that ho became a free
man nnd liis wife’s equal, and that as
the Philadelphia property was in his
name it should be divided among them.
Killed.—That lightning killed his
soil is the belief of a farmer in Newton,
111. Ho writes: "This summer, when
my corn was two foot high, the light
uiug struck it, killing a patch about 100
square feet in extent. It seemed to
have killed the ground, as neither weed
nor spear of grass has grown on it since.
The ground looks dead, and I boliov<}
it is. Occasionally these spots are met
with all over the prairies. The people
account for them as buffalo tramps,
where buffaloes congregated in fly time
and tramped until they killed the soil, but
from the above occurrence I account for
them aa having been struok by light
ning-” • .
Pity him a little. He was game, but
he was crippled. His bound brought a
shriek of pain to mingle with his roar
for vengeance, and ere he could recover
from the false spring there was a whirl
—a flash, and tlie heels of the wild horse
king sent him rolling over and over tlio
grass. There wns a rush—wild neighs
—howls of despair—and as tl: 4 grand old
king of the prairio gallops away at the
head of his baud the king of tfio grove
lies trampled and bruised aud dead ov
the grass.
“A Fortune Awn tmg a Tramp," is
tlio title of an nrticlo m a contemporary.
Lt is no more than just. So many tramps
have been waiting for a fortnue so many
years that it is no more than right that
Fortune should now wait for a tramp.—
Boston Transcript.
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A aril M. UN.
THE J0KEIYS BUDGET.
WHAT WK FIND IN THR HUMOBOU*
FAFKHM TO SiHlLK OTEH.
BEREAVED.
O I brightly gleams the sunshine In the bln*
sersphio sky,
As frsgrant with tho harvest time the blithe
some hotirs fly,
And *11 around is wondrous fair, as if some
fairy hand
Had touched with glowing colors the bright
and lovely lsmi:
Dut wliat to Bill are all these scenes? To BUI
they bring no joy
Binoe lie saw Jemail* at tho show with Jim, her
other boy.
He didn't know he loved her so, but now eaob
little word
To him was sweetest mnsto his ears had eve*
heard;
Dark visions of that lounge he bed that stood
behind the door,
Blnco now he know snotlior’s form its bending
bosom boro s
For what to BUI wore all the nights that lonngs
he did enjoy,
Binco now he felt Jerusha's arm around that
other boy 7
He could not sleep, be could not live, yet was
not fit to die,
ne oould not oat—unheeded stood the festive ^
pumpkin pio;
Tlie ginger snap, the doughnut, too, tho gonial
Jolmny-csko,
All sostblcss passed—ho scorned tho buns hll
mother used to bake.
For what to Bill were all these pomps and
vanities once glad.
While Ills Jcrusha loaned upon another's Uvei
pad?
Farewell, frail girl I tho spoil is passed, and
Bill’s himsolf onco moro,
Ho lived for love, for glory, too, but now hell
livo for goro i
No bomb-bell or banana pool to devastate tbs
land—
Not these, but worse, with fiendish joy he Joins
the German band.
And now, when Jim would warble soft beneath
the mellow moon.
Bo likewise doth the Bill on his big B-flat
bassoon.
—Burlinolon Itauiianm.
WOULDN’T MOVE A STEF.
An old mold was visiting a oity friend
In whose house waa a telephone. Early
one morning there Wfl* * coll for her and
tho senvunt went to tho room.
Miss Jane,” she said, “there’s a call
for you at tlio telephone.”
'I’ll|be there in a miunte."
‘Come now.”
‘I’m not dressed.”
‘You can’t wait; it’s a gentleman aud
he’s in a hurry.”
"A gentleman? Otwtd heavens, tin i
I won’t move a step till I get on my
clothes. Do you think I’d go down to
that telephone nnd talk to a man with
out n dress on ? I don’t know what
your oity styles may be, but I do know
what is proper iu tfio country, and that
man enu wait till I’m ready or not aee
me, that’s all.”—Merchant 'Traveler.
Tint DEADLY MOUSE.
A lady, while engaged in the pursuit
of her domestie duties, encountered a
mouse in the flour barrel. Now, moat
Indies, under similnr circumstances,
would have uttored a few genuine
shrieks aud then sought safety in the
garret, but this one possesjed more than
tho ordinary degreo of gonuine courage.
Sho summoned tho man servant and told
him to get the gun, call the dog and sta
tion himself at a convenient distanoe.
Then she clambered up-stairs and com
menced to punch tho flour-barrel with e
polo. Preseutly the mouse mode it*
appearance and started across tho floor.
Tho dog started at once in pursuit.
The man tired and tho dog dropped
dead. The lady fainted, fell down the
stairs, nnd the man, thinking she was
killed, and fearing that he would be ar
rested for murder, disappeared and ha*
not been seen sinoe. The mouse e*-
oarped.
TRAVELING ON A FASS.
“I suppose yon travel on a free pass ?”
ivas the question put to a newspaper
man recently while riding on a train.
“Oh, yes, I travel on a free pass,”
was the reply.
“The railroads extend a great many
courtesies to you newspaper men, don’t
they ?’’
“Yes, indeed. A little ‘courtesy’ wo*
sent to the office only a day or two ago.
After it had assumed a local habita
tion and a name it appeared in the
shape of a 8200 notice of the road. ”
“You got paid for that, of course ?”
“Oh, yes, I get a free pass. I am
now going out to the end of the road
and back to reduce the amount a little,
and then my partner will take his turn.
In the course of a few months we hope
to get the amount down so that we won’t
have to charge over half of it to profit
and loss. No, sir-ee, it doesn’t cost a
newspaper man very much to ride on e
railroad train—not over five dollars s
mile.”—Philadelphia Evening Call.
A WAR REMINISCENCE.
“Yes,” said Dumley, “I served three
years in the late war, nnd if I do say it
myself I mode a good soldier.”
“You have a soldierly bearing,” said
young Brown, admiringly.
“So I have been told,” replied Dum
ley. “Even to this day,” he continued,
“strains of martial mnsio will set mv
pulses bounding, and like a war horse 1
scent the battle from afar.”
“Were you ever wounded, Mr. Dam-
ley?" asked Miss Simpson-Hendrioks,
considerably excited.
“N-no,” he said, “I never was; I waa
very fortunate in that respeot.”
“Yes, indeed,” ventured young Brown,
“a gun-shot wound is an ugly thing. I
suppose you cau attribute your good
fortune to your nose ?”
“What has my nose got to do with
my not getting wounded?” demanded
Dumley.
“Why, its—its ability to soent the
battle from afar, you know. "—Philadel
phia Call.
“I will stoke my opinions against
any man’s,” said Mr. Littlewait,
proudly. “I got’em from my lawyer
and tlley cost mo 8250. ”