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JOURNAL AND MESSENGER CLISBY & JONES, Profhietobs.. THE FAMILY JOURNAL—NEWS—POLITICS—LITERATURE—AGRICULTURE—DOMESTIC NEWS, Etc.—PRICE $2.00 PER ANNUM. GEqRGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING. ESTABLISHED 1826- MACON, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1880. VOLUME LV—NO. 17 FOOTSTEPS. Sound of feet In the lonely street, Coming to-night—coming to me? Perhaps (why not? the thing may be,) My dear old friend From the world’s end At last, How we shall meet, And shout and greet, And talk of twenty things at once, Till the first gush and rush he past, And smoother now the current runs; Plenty on either side to tell— Sharing joy and soothing pain, A. vniPA PAn do i As friendship’s voice can do so well. Hush! hark! I hear in the dark— . Only the footsteps of the ram. Stay! stay!— Coming this way, Through the dull night, perhaps to me, Coming, coming, coming fast, (And why may not such things be ?) A messenger’s feet In the lonely street, With some wonderful news to say At last. •A word has been spoken, A bad spell broken, Men see aright, All faces are bright, For the world to-morrow begins anew, And there’s twenty million of things to - do. Away! search, sift the countnr through, And say at once to a certain few, « Come, for our gain: ' We know yoir'and now we have work for you.” Hush! hark! I hear in the dark— Only the footsteps of the rain. now, don’t put me clean through th® blasted catechism. Let me in!” “Next door!” were the uncompromis ing accents of the reply, and the light van ished with unrelenting celerity. Next door! He might as well have said next planet. Misgill knocked again, more furiously, but was rewarded by no “You’ve been a neglecting your work, an’ leaving your ma to peg at it all alone.” “Much you care for ma 1” Molly began, contemptuously, when her mother, think ing to soften her husband by siding with him, piped up in a whining tone: “Yes, you hev, Molly. I’ve been hard further parley. Finally, he made another j at it all the livelong day.” But she got plunge into the surrounding vacancy, and, no thanks. Ballen promptly and furious- succeeded in finding, not another shanty, ]y told her not to put in her “clack.” as he supposed, but the very same, which “You’re only'a child,” he said, turning stolidly withstood another assault. The I to Molly again, “an needn’t be putting on humiliating fact is, that this process wa3 airs. If you lay yourself out for a flog- repcated several times before Misgill, as-1 ging, you’ll git it. She’s bare thirteen, well Cap,” he explained, looking toward Mis- tonished that the hillside was so iri ^ . built up, devoted all its residents to fiery gill, with some hint at an apology in his torments, and gave up in despair. tone. The following day he avoided Porteons I , “I’m near fourteen,” returned Molly, as he would a plague; hut that jolly per- [ steadily, “and am bigger than sixteen.” sonage found him at last. A watery I The Captain was thunderstruck. He twinkle in his bloodshot eyes led Misgill could fully endorse Molly’s last assertion, to believe that he anticipated a confes-1 She looked every day of sixteen, and fine- sion. t ' I ly developed for that. He stared harder, “Hallo, cap! Wher* ye hen all day? and wished he had more eyes. What a How’d ye sleep las’night, eh?” “Fine,” said'Misgill, laconically. “Foun’ Ballen’s eh ?” “Without any trouble.” “Humph! Didn’t expect you would, j splendid girl she was, to be sure, with her noble curves and dauntless carriage! There was no trace of her mother’s pinch ed features in hers. Her hair was red, but not her father’s color—paler, and glo- in Close, close Outside the house! Steps approaching—are these fot me ? Coming gently, coming fast; And O, if this can be!.. Out of the strife Of selfish life My love has fled of a sudden—’tis she At last! Here she stands, Eyes and mouth and tender form, True and warm; My dreams of many a lonely year; Stretches her hands— No deubt or fear— “ See, my. love, ’tis all in vain To keep true lovers parted If they be faithful-hearted!” ' Hush! hark! I hear in the dark— Only the footsteps of the rain. A man as full as you was, Thad., couldn’t riously soft and abundant be expected to fin’ anythin’. Well, s’pose “Weli, well; I’ll see to you by an’ by,” the young un is jus’ what I said, eh ?” said Ballen, with a sort of deprecatory There was always an alcoholic uncertain- growl. “This isn’t being very polite to ty about Porteous’ consonants. “She’s a ] the Qap’n.” splendid gal, she is.” “You should have thought of that he- The reference to the “young un” re- fore,” cried Molly, with a saucy laugh, awakened Misgill’s curiosity to see her. I “But I’ll see that you don’t go a-mann- Be had rashly vowed never again to set j dering off ag’iu” foot on Telegraph Hill; but, having to ac- The scene ended as unexpectedly as it count to no one save himself for a broken had begun. Captain Misgill resumed his resolution, he set out before dark to find knife and fork, finding opportunity to con- Ballen’3. I vey secret glances of approbation across Looking along Kearney street west- the table to Molly. ' By the dancing of ward, to-day, the hill is so closely built her eyes she enjoyed her triumph im- tiiat it resembles a huge stack of vari- / meusely, and she dreaded no later reckon- sliapcd boxes; but Misgill, in climbing, I fug. was led over open slopes, green and The Captain and Ballen lit their pipes, soaked by heavy rains. Where he had I and took a stroll to the top of the hill to- been wandering the night before, he could gether. not possibly make out. He saw nothing “That gal thinkc she’s gittin’ too mueh of the clustered houses among which he I for me,” said Molly’s father. “Td a given had imagined himself. Here a rude tent, | her a good whacking if it hadn’t been there a ruder shanty, was all. He. began you was strange.” to think that he must have been very “Try it on while I’m ’round,” muttered drunk! indeed. the doughty Captain, “an’ I’ll make lime- Ballen’s was not easy to miss by day- dust o’ your bones.” light. Porteous’ description enabled Mis- The bed-chamber of those days was ,a ill to I M _ - Mi C ATTAIN MOLLY. gill to recognize it at once. It was ambi- primitive affair. The Captain’s was hard- tiously whitewashed, aqd was flanked by ly larger than his snug cabin on the Bar- a huge hogshead, standing on end; this, nacle; and as the wind tore furiously all haying a sort of door cut m it, served to night across the bleak hill, the cloth par- shelter a few domestic animals, all of I tition billowed and shook like spread which latter bad, at that time, a remarka- | sails. In his dreams Misgill was at sea; hie value. *and waking with a start in the dead of Announcing himself loudly at the front night, he had some difliculty, owing to entrance, Misgill was unexpectedly waited the rocking and creaking of the rude upon by<6omebody who darted around the fhanty, to dispel the illusion. He soon- side of the house* lj£e a'watch-dog; an I became aware gf a'flasliing and failing of angry man, whose fiery c&untenance was flight,’ not tmlilre'S. Beacon-fire on a windy covered by an abundant growth of vigor- headland, but in reality a flickering can- ous red bristles standing out straight from dle-flame in the next room, chin, cheek—ears even—and radiating Gathering his wits together painfully, heat and clioler from every hirsute J as if each had been on a separate “What the. do you want, hammer- | a soft interiruCleuf SBfftltt'di , Tbaddeus Misgill, of the good ship Bar- a man > s house down over his head?” I micel movement. The floor quivered nacle, was braving the difficulties of land = impetuous query, put forth like a I if to unheard music. He rolled over on navigation without a pilot. Steering for 1 ** his side, and stared hard at the frail par- Will, one minute lie saw it ris- | * Miscill of the Barnacle. I want a tition separating liis room from the next. A 1 J I tm cfSmnrr ttiOTA linPOll- Telegraph Hill, one minute he saw — UIC 0 ing directly before him; the next, ithad Jand rat c |ned Ballen, c ar.d go to Whoever .jas stirring there was uncon- disappeared, as if by enchantment. Well, vou ” growled the captain in his best I sciously giving the Cap.ain the benefit of at anv rate, he was sure of the lamps of I nias i c -lantem representation. A shadow Estrada’s store, behind him. He turned j «w e i] if you do want me, you needn’t 1 now elongated, now dwarfed, nowsiietnly —they were utterly gone. como as’ if y0 u was In command of the posing, now dancing, quivered up and Truth is, this human vessel had a heavy . . -jj roplieri the other, letting his over the cloth partition in fantastic plaj. liquid cargo aboard. His vcira were throb- I fa!1 an ^ave. “Your Porteous’I That shape could belong to none other bing, his head buzzing. The soberest of fnend j wpse. Expected you last night, than Molly.’ What wa3 she up to. With captains at sea, he was the most maudlin Wa)k arou , ld the back way. We don’t a nautical oath, tremendous in quality, if of revelers ashore. Goodheavens. Where on no airg jn tlje3e dig-gins. No lock subdued in tone, the Captain resolved to was lie? For that matter, who was he? I the front door; so it’s barricaded. I f m d out. Crawling cautiously on all “Me. Come out in the hall a min ute.” Molly’s face, still blazing from the hot kitchen, was heightened in color effect by a generous daub of flour across one cheek. Her hair was still twisted up,.carelessly, but picturesquely, off her neck. There was aroused attention, curiosity even, in her expression as, standing in her qoor^ way, she saw Misgill waiting with some thing exquisitely bright and soft wrapped loosely in his hands. “It is for you,” be said, answering the sparkling question in her glance; and tak ing a step or two towards her, with a ges ture as if throwing it away, he awkwardly cast the shawl over the shoulder nearest to him, instantly turning on his heel, as if to say, “Take it. It isn’t worth a thank-you.” v- ' How to bestow a gift gracefully is * rare expression of tact. Whether too- great carelessness or undue impressiveness be. more offensive, who shall decide ? But Molly was not critical. She stifled a shriek of delight; and in five minutes had worn the gay thing in every fashion, bat that conventionally accepted. Now it hung squarely from her shoulders—a court train, now it produced a classic effect in its unstudied, falls and folds; now it shrouded her bright hair, her blue eyes peeping through its long, silken fringes. The Captain Mamed delight as she para ded joyously up and down. .“Give us the cachuclia, Molly!” he whispered. “I saw you at it last night.” “Did you?” she cried with sudden em phasis. Misgill explained hilariously. Molly laughed a little too. < “You were so tipsy,” she said, “that I was sure you would sleep sound.” “Not last night. I jvasn’t tipsy last night. I hadn’t drank 'a drop”—so pro tested the Captain mendaciously. Molly ignored this. A fiery earnest ness came into her manner: “I’m a-going to be a play actress, that’s what I’m argoingto be!” , “A—kicker?” queried the Captain, il lustrating with a foot never designed by nature or the bootmaker's art for any pas , “Well, I’m to learn to dance, t6o. But that ain’t all. . There’S Some pantomime people a-going to- South Ameriky soon: Jenny Gregg knows one of the women. I’ve most made up my mkid to run a«ay with ’em.” The last sentences were safely delivered into the very porch of the listeners ear. “On accounts of your pap, eh?” She nodded frowningly. “I wouldn’t a-dared stand ag’in him yes terday, if he an’ me was alone. I tantal ized liim'a-purpose/sO’s to have it ofit be fore yon. ,But now I’ve begun, I’m a go- ing.oiwwith it. I work early and late, most days; a pity I can’t have one off now an’ then. He’s give me as much of hard knocks as I’ll take, has pa. I kind of dashed him yesterday—I could see it in his eyes.' It was an experiment. Now L’d fjUdj*. ilia’s battles, too. it' .‘t would under!’” ' , At that moment a strident voice seemed to vault up the ladder by which the sec ond story was gained. “He’s come home,” muttered Molly, involuntarily clinching her hands—“the beast!” , The Captain did not look horrified. Began to cry, like the child she was, on his shoulder. > , “You’ve been so good to me, Cap’n. Pa hasn’t ventured to lift a hand to me since you’ve been in the house. There’s no telling what be will do now; and—and I don’t want to go with them South Amer iky people. I want—to go with yon 1” “Don’t, dout, mj dear. Dry them pretty eyes. Would to the Lord, you was my own little gal, Molly.” . ; “Take me with you, Cap’n.” “It can’t be. Leastwise there’s only one mortal way, an’ I’m too old an’ you’re too young for that 1” “Oneway?” she echoed, seizing upon his most hopeful words, and looking eagerly into his faoe. “Why, you’re cry ing, too, Cap’n Misgill!” • - ' • “I know what it is,” said Jenny, who had been standing by, patiently waiting her adiep. “It> to marry the Cap’n, Molly.-” . l is: “To—marry the Cap's!” echoed Molly, laughing aloud, with the tears still on her cheeks. “Why, of course! Your mother .was married at fourteen, Jenny.” “But not to an old graybeard like me r returned Misgill, putting Molly away from him with a rough decision., “You’d repent of it bitter enough before you was twenty.” . . “No, I wouldn’t,” contradicted Molly; “I’d think of pa.” - Mention of Ballen had brought those evil looks and threats sharply before Mis gill’s mind. Could he leave the dear girl, whose every glance and every touch were sunshine and music to him, to the dread ful alternative of submitting Jto Ballen’s tender mercies, or desperately running in to heaven only knew what dangers ? “Molly!” he said,huskily, “thinkwell on it, my dear. Don’t make up your mind too hasty. I’ll go and find my old friend, Porteous. Expect me back in an hour, at most. I must be aboard in two.” Within the specified time he returned, and with him Porteous, whose jolly, roll ing eyes beamed anticipation of wedding liquids. “Where’s the minister?” said Molly, looking from one to the other; “I thought you’d bring one.” Whereupon Porteous roared with tri umph: “Hooray! hooray! Changed her .mind, has she, Cap’n? Never 3een a man so sorter tim’rous as Thad, all on a sud den?-GParson’s waitin’ outside.” Then he rah to wave‘-his hat ati’the opening of thee tent; and thus conjured, the Rev. Edward Grass—so Porteous in troduced him—entered. For the same reason that he had been posted without, some suspicious black bottles had been left in his keeping. Porteous apologized for his incongruous presence by telling that although he Lad been a chaplain in the British navy, he was just back from the American river diggin’s—dead broke. “But he kin tie the nuptual,” Porteous declared, “jus’ as tight as if his. heels kicked his coat-tails an’ his neck was J dm iut jrorteous me "vraiuuig Uar* r,een a dumb affair. The bride- groom nn»n to somethin’, cocked my pistols and picket! out my men. I thought of Molly hacking away at herself with the knife; I thought of-my pistols missing fire, an’ of the big nigger with the scar I’d made across bis face laying bands on her—an’ there, by the Lord! she stood—Molly!—with her head np, an’ a light that I’d seen afore when she was a little gal, flashing in her eyes. As she stepped Into the black den «J turned sick and dizzy; I couldn’t scarce hear her, but she was makiDg a little speech about Parks an’ what they did. ‘But,’ says she, *be was a bad, cruel man. Though you’ve did a terrible deed, that you must answer for to your God, I’ll swear to what Parks was in sny court. Come, men, the Barna cle’s in an awful tight place. This may be the last trip for all of us, unless yon git to work. Save the ship, an’ save your selves.’ I would ’a’ opened my head to swear that ho one should stir till they’d 4qne as I told ’em, when Molly give me a 1 ook that went went dean through me. “The trouble all blew over for a time ; the men turned to; bnf I was riled. I’m tbe law an’ the devil on my deck, I am. What I’ve once said has got to be done, if I die for it; the big nigger, he was sulky. I give an order sharp ” here the Cap tain interpolated something unintelligible save to his nautical listeners, “and the black clod didn’t stir. The next minute I’d flattened him out’s if a mainmast had fell on him; it was the signal for the hull devilish lot to drop whatever they was at'. “I stepped forward to meet ’em, slipped on the icy deck; my feet went from undtr me, and there 1 lay with the spine of my bade broke—I believed so then—at their mercy.. “Ail got dark afore me, an’when I came to I was stretched out ou my own bunk, the nigger was in irons, and the rest of ’em was obeying my wife’s orders like clock work. It’s a mystery to me to this day how Molly managed ’em. The long and short of it is, I was lyingithere; yet.when we reached Valparaiso, where we reported the vessel badly knocked about, the captain disabled, the first mate murdered an’ Mrs..Holly Misgill in com mand. She’s been Captain Molly ever since. “The big nigger? We took film back to New York, where he was tried for the murder ofParks. Molly, she went into court and testified to Parks’ little pecoo- liarities, and the black dog would ’a’ got off with a light sentence, but some of the others gave him away for hatching a plot to seize the Barnacle and make oil'to some one of the South Pacific Islands with her. My hack was lame a long stretch. That’s all. Thanks to the bravest girl ever trod ship’s deck, here we • are where we started from, ain’t we, Molly?” And that was all, save a glimpse of a heavy gold me'dal, which pras incribed: To Captain Molly Misgill, I17iO saved the Barnacle dnd her Cargo, Dec. 25th, 1853. Presented by Many Ship Owners. me bride was silent froinWense excitement; Jenny awed, and the Reverend Edward unconscionably stupid. Porteous leered very tenderly at Jepny, and whispered. “Le’s us stan’ up, too; I’m a widower this twenty year.” And the ceremony over, in -view of Molly’s shining eyes and He wished he mtebt fully express his feel- J in -view of Molly s snimng eyes au iL toward Ballen. He: considered that he , n nTif n fi ion me iront uuui > c The sudden disappearance of expected ^y omen f olkg « 3 keery.' fours to the partition, liis vision was land marks aroused disturbing queries as j^ nd ra kbits were “skeery” too. One [- cheated by a^spreading whiteness, through to his own identity. People in their right here, another started there, at the I which the candle glowed like the flame In minds, finding themselves in um ™ n “ d I Captain’s approach, making wi'.h lon^, j an 0 pal. In an agony of caution. Misgill minds, finding themselves in unwonreu Cantairis approach, making with Iona, a n opal. In an agony or caution, rnisgu plight, have been upset in some such fash- I j- or the sheltering hogshead, possessed himself of his jack-kmfe, ion! The old woman, of childish memo- Thjg „ a , 1 ningi they turned to investigate, an d with it punctured a small hole to ry, awaking from her roadside nap, to with wonder stricken ears and tremulous 1 whicli he fastened an investigating eye. discover, with Saul, that her skirts have Molly, sure enough—in white night-gear, been curtailed, cries out in bewilder- . Ballen excited Misgill’s profound with a large red bandanna fastened around, ment: . T | astonishment. “What. a spare rib she her waist, and_ straggling; odds and ends “Laws a-mercy on me, this can t be I. j 16) chuckling. “Blast me if 1 0 f color fantastically knotted There are not wanting happy strokes ot • thj ° k lier staya would pinch my there; her bright hair flying lik human nature in contemned nursery | * 1 __ Kn> Toflpet inn which he afterward | mane, and her graceful ankles rh; contemned thumb!” Ca reflection which he afterward mane, and her graceful _ _ * % Da mUllAVAfl O I V — *Ta«v* ftl* A 1 AaV OT here and like a shining :les’white and ly 3haven’t th.nkedyou forth* heau- ™ ££ £3j, -Srsrvasf sasswtt and van-! lit.Mn steam-tug Molly* Drink hearty.” - £hed. M ° lly ’ Wlth a SQUeeZe> aDd VaU ‘I“NodSS^fibS^ffiprty • I UUUUb A Wiwvvw ' * - " • . . . , I V pan Fifty would have been nearer the Like one In a dream he stood, feehn. ? | 5^^ ' jjut lie 3et the example of drink- her warm breath against his j™ deeft and looked to see if the Captain .cheek for full;fivemmutes after._ Thenfi^j. th0 same- Assuredly the.Uap- Cpees ior iuii mcuiuuiM 1 hail done the same. Assure _ _ shook himself roughly, muftenng: “You had done t y . but) t0 teH the old gray ship-rat, you! I bheTC y° ud ^ utlMo tiy had slyly poured its contents snivel lor the moon! I 11 * « Tvnc?v*r»d w „ , , , i out on the floor, her new-made husband Week alter week the Barnacle lay In kly eventing thereto, nrt. waitihe for a-crew. Hands used to I ... , ivmes. , „ repeated to Porteous). So withered a bare. Now she took an attitude of mock port, waiting for a-crew. Hands used to Jenny having thoughtfully provided a The Captain’s wandering steps, for the e ^as she, indeed, that her schriv- supplication now ofcommand,now ofscorn r0I>es ] ia d taken to pick and .■*** f indispensable changes of rahnent . *_n ctomnpd asome- ’ i aAma vm-ctnr. I “ M oA.tiv. naw Rank down on Airnaf nf Tils r»wn vessel, such delays com- ^ ^ n tA» ^ fhA v»rW«_ ensuing “two’’minutes, stamped a some- ^dappearance seemed ’in some myster- —now polkaed so.tly, now sank down on own er of his own I from heTownscanty store for the bride, iu the eica appear* ^ her hus h an d’s one knee, as in “cachuca,” waving imagi- m? nly made the-Captain anything but I irom uer * . * - what Intricate braiding pattern in tne | hold toward her hushand’s I 0 ne knee, as in “cachuca,” waving imagi- I m only made the-Uaptein isnyining uui, i had n0 sooner brought them out in a mud. His indecision which way to turn, ; ® da ^ n f a bi e temper the relation of effect nar y castanets over her head. So child- m iid-mannered. But P e J°? d a e * nea t bundle than Molly screamed with “nd his inability, to | S^Se. j - The — - . . m _ i sions For wrinkles, the poor soul’s conn-I palms touched to applaud. Suddenly I astonishedjnohody mord than the Captain c you m i n d, dear,” said Misgill. at him as if they had never blinked. The WM a marvel; her close-drawn Molly steps, light as they were, stepping himself. He wa3 convinced, althpugh a- jp.Wj here git ’em and keep ’em.” castaway laughed aloud. Nothing ^p lc ^ king exac tly as if worked round in 0 n an ill fitting hoard,made a small earth- U a d word did slip out now and-then, t^t ®wo girb shed some tears at part- S was the matter with him. Those e stitd y VThat scanty gray quak e, and a preliminary grant anuouuccd he W as turning , J iue The two men gripped each other*? 15-ere Estrada’s lamps, and he was M.sgill, ™had was twisted into atight little that old Ballen wa3 waking. Jnstantly lca d e d his yoifog friend with iuotley ug. ^ j «an and do. The Bar- _ . C? -A... ^OA-Iiiairsnenau candle went out and the play was gifts—shells, a Spanish guitar,^ dress- nana as that v^y afternoon, oxthe Barnacle. The mysterioiis disap: about her household duties the pearanecs were due to a natural plienome- I ^ (!^ ase icss activity, she reemed like I ended. .. .* I length of smutted English sil^, bright nacle sa^ S’ no more 0 f Molly p - ” * 1.AAT* ** Vip.tpfi hv I Witn a ccascic?* » - I The following afternoon Misgill climbed en ough to gladden any girl’s heart, a sil- | auuDau lion—log. Had lie not been so heated by internal fires, ho would have felt it? piercing chill. “Git out this ’ere mud-hoM| turn! your back ou them lamps, au’ go ahead. You’re all right, old chap.” i exact ently rewarded by finding himself going UP Inreality, the stratum of vapor was not ■ But a little fog may do a vast deal ofmischief with poor”dwellers upon Sntly, and C. Ballefi silent; “but that S is posal of these dyspeptic centnvan^ bles . I re’her hilband totSl tow she •sour ” a3Mis"ili also rcmariced with pro- 11 0 a miners’ restaurant, was the family s g ke shared all the good tilings with csty, left it *nt would show nothing to won h. . •r, fearing to lose them. “’Twasoff the Horn, in the blackest rejoiced secretly In her kind of weather,” so Misgill wot^d begin, ~~~ Porteous I resicnation, waited their turn m tne oven, I- Assurina the giver that she I w ith a beaming glance m - ms wiles ai- came in swinging a calico I wliSce issued spicy odors of bubbling in- ld every precious one off to rection, “that the worst crew »P<>or devil had referred .a Ltr+mei vriiile they sides and deliftitely browning tarots. I? ^ ^b her—at mention of 0 f a cap’n ever pr.t up with, showed signs sun bonnet, by ^ ' ^ ect a ; r of uu^ Huge earthen howls of dried apples and ®° licll possible journey MisgUl’rTtfclish 0 f mutiny. Half on f 11 were at table. A pe Captain’s peaches—fresh fruit was out. ofrthe ques- j d j iea ^ would Sink down untold 'foth- 0 ne way or ’notherf an all was vicious L A Sfrewd observer, it struck Son, then, for such purples—&d another nc had been introdu.ced into J dogs. My first mate, though, * luck to see. A shrewdreDserver, n, airuuk uo , , ^ awned n ear, the latter 1 areirra-^onlv a1«rlifvba?d customer.” Here he would rtf -&&&& SS-sssS stesris i «— of the ’. Greggs—only al pretty haJd customer. iimIa tent it was,; _on Clay wink, aS if to imply that he was sugar and j meet the palate with « 1 ruue en apple. ■■■■■■■■ ly’s eyes, the Captain Now and again, Misgill looked around to Then Mwgm luvoiuma u The k!tc h C n was hot as a fur- Jnn gpr ; ad there with unheard of luxn- ders Parks would play tenj«ns with^em, make sure that the bacons gleamed in Ballen, and found himself prompuy^ ^ nacg he pcrepircd pr of u? ely, hut still “K^ded by the Captain. Then, too, bowling ’em down, so ’twas a mortal their places. As he went higher they ing hack the culls of. , ® ^ ,,„ al ^ke seemed bent on studying pie-making pro h p da stolen visit to theBama- wonder any ever got up agam. §ome S ^wpfand lower-seeming to roll | wasn’t going to jit by and^see aJjai«« | see^ Pcrhap3t h e rolling and,vat fit- | ™ tn ° over sand-rifts and didn i t . We’d had two funereh. two rac- sank lower and lower—seeming to roll wasn t goiDo re J ence —“’twas agin cesses. Perliaps the rolling and nest nt-j . and ano ther: over sand-rifts and j didn’t. We-—- glances, *? u ; *.n?.u.■ *ii at i.mued in the same strain! imuujr » -not nat. nf 1 enuren. - . 1 c... A«»ioi«nni to wife s^*3^3!«J5SaS SSjT5SVbSTS*'b«»ine ’ — | cut like • P>U oro 1 S75aTO.lt*>>««„„ She whose'sole^attractions were reflected from [ tnegin-L“was“as*qui& i« he.’With I poised the plate in air to cuiawi the wife and danghter he had “fetched i place. But si ’ inst which she the surplus drapery of dough, had frem riie “States.” The California ot like some chann ^afliar to the moment. iblrtv vears a2o was not rich in wives and I flungherse , . /. • *> 1 Preparations for din could cajc’late oar course Well, she said that if I stop to Parks’ brutalities, she best he dared mthfkiiclxL ^ I “One night, when Parks was on.dcck, - harsh voice issuing from the. kitchen, 1 ® s c ome on ’em, got i:p and made thirty years ago was not rich in wives and j . j oefcd^e^i^eral ^ja^^g^Mi^l^'irent J e ’jj!^ri n ^ 0 hasSy^g^h-1 lShrfhim^WFen 1 ! l^«keS AJT I9TCIBENT. .Unarmed and unattended walks the Czar, Through Moscow’s busy street one win ter’s day, The crowd uncover as his face they see— “God greet the Czarl” they say. Along his path there moved a funeral, Gray spectacle of poverty and woe, A wretched sledge, dragged by one weary man, Slowly across the snow. VT And on the sledge, blown by the win ter wind, Lay a poor coffin, very rude and bare, And he who drew it bent before his load, With dull and sullen air. The Emperor stopped and beckoned to the man; “Who is it thou bearest to the grave?!’ he said, “Only a soldier, Sire!” the short reply, •Only a soldier dead.” “Only a soldier!” musifig, said the Czar; “Onif a Russian, who was poor and brave, Move on. I follow. Such goes not Unhonored to his grave.” He bent his head, and silent raised his cap, The Czar of all the Russians, pacing slow, Following the coffin, as again it went, Slowly across the snow. The passers of the street, all wondering, Looked on that sight, then followed si- ' lently;. Peasant ana prince, and artisan and clerk, All in one company. Still, as they went, the crowd grew ever more, Till thousands stood around the friend less grave, Led by that princely heart, who, royal, true, Honored the poor and brave. _ i —Spectator. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. EDITED BY Gesebal Wm.~M. BROWNE,. . Professor of History and Agriculture in the University of Georgia. yjjigreishiitone state executioner Iq"tSe malefactor named nardoned good old pre-Nihilist days, when the abo- ition of capital punishment was still maintained in Muscovy, committed three murders', and was condemned to penal servitude for life. When, however, revo lutionary successes rendered the services cf ail imperial hangman-indispensable to the Ministry of Justice, Froloffvolun- terred for the office on condition that an amnesty for his past misdeeds should he granted to him. His offer was accepted, and for some time past, ho has been a busy man. For every “function” he re ceives forty silver roubles—about £6 sterling—from the Russian Exchequer but that official fee by no meaus repre sents the total emolument he derives from the practice of his gruesome handicraft, for he is permitted to trade upon the su perstition still current in Russian socie ty respecting the -lack -conferred upon gamesters by the possession # a morsel of the rope with which a human'being has been strangled, either by the hand of jus tice- or by his own. Immediately after young Mladetzky had been hanged, only the other day, Froloff was surrounded by members of the Russian jcuncsse doree, eager to purchase scraps of the fatal noose; and he disposed of several dozen such tal ismans at from three to five roubles apiece, observing, with cynical complacency, when he had sold off his last remnant, that “he hoped the Nihilists would yet bring him in plenty of money.” There is, indeed, every prospect, if the Melikoff regime only lasts long enough, that Froloff will speedily become a wealthy man.—London Tele- graph-sin-' “ Steam vs. Sails’.—The rapidity with which steam 1 supplants’sails in the carry ing trade of the world,' is illustrated in the statistics of the mercantile marine of SOIL TEST AT TUB EXPERIMENTAL FABM OF TOE STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICUL TURE AT ATHENS. We have just finished putting in the fer tilizers on a ten acre field which we se lected ior a soil-test of eighteen different standard commercial manures, namely: 1,'Etiwan guano; 2, Patapsco guano; 3, Bliwan crop, food; 4, Mastodon guano; Bradley’s ammoniated dissolved bone; Grange mixture; 7, Baldwin’s ammo niated dissolved bone; 8, Monarch guana; , Georgia State Grange fertilizer; 10, Lowe’s formula; 11. Cumberland super- DeLeon’s cotton fertilizer;’14; YufeShfiZ; 15,. Gossypium phosphate; 16, Pomona £*•* "‘•“ d w ”“ u " ■ Great Britain. In 1860 the total tonnage of sailing vessi'- s belonging to the United Kingdom was 4;«T7,275 tons, while in 1879 it had sunk to 3,018,676' tons, a decrease of 785,509 tons, or nearly 17 per cent. On the other hand, the total , tonnage of the steam vessels’ employed in 1879 had risen to 2,331,157, a growth of 1,291, 188 tons, more than ' 124 per rent. In this connection the London Economist notes that “ip I860 the total number o, British vessels, both sailing, and steamf was 21,881, while in 1879 it had fallen to 20,029. Keeping in view the concurrent increase of aggregate tonnage, it -is thus cTear that there has been a gradual in crease in the size of the vessels employed, and one result ot this has been an econo my of labor. Thus, while tbe tonnage of steam vessels was more thau doubled, between 1870 and 1S79, the total of the men employed ro3e only from 58,703 to 78,781, or about 84 per rent The Presidential Election Finan cially Considered.—A classical Phil adelphian, writing to the New York Na tion in regard to the fact that the expen ses of the general election in Great Bri tain, estimated at $10,000,000,- hare hail the .effect to depress the price of consols, says “that-such an. effect of electioneering expenditures upon the money market is : no Dew thing in history. Cicero, in one of. bis letters to Atticus, remarks that electioneering was then going om with great activity in Rome. In proof of his assertion fie states that on tho 15th of July previous the rate of interest in the money market had gone up from four to eight per centum per annum. Our recent American experience,” add* this learned writer, “is different. Since the currency A fact worth remembering. The farmer who gathers from a field imperfectly prepared and fertilized eight buslieh of corn, when by good prepara- tign and adequate manuring, he might have gathered twenty, is selling his time and labor at considerably less than half price, A.great many people suppose that in or der to ascertain what fertilizers to apply to a soil, it must first be analyzed that we may know exactly what it lacks, and therefore what to apply to it to supply the deficiency Thi? is a greatterror. No two soils show exactly the same deficiencies. Were we to take a dozen or more samples of soil from the same field, and submit them to the most able chemist, he would find them vary almost as much as the same num ber of samples of. soils from distant pla ces. The only effective way to analyze soil is simple, and costs very little. Find out the elements existing in the forest, and then ascertain those which the crops havo abstracted, the difference is that which will restore the soil to its original fertili ty. This shows the value.of nitrogen and. phosphoric acid as fertilizers. Although farmers, as a class, largely outnumber any other, whenever any pub lic matter arises which specially interests them or affects their business, they, al most invariably, are obliged to go to some other class or profession to bring tbe mat ter before the Legislature. Why are not farmers, who certainly must know "their own wants and circumstances and inter ests better than lawyers and doctors, qual ified to attend to tbeir business them selves ? Their calling is certainly, equal in dignity to any other, and if it does not exert its legitimate influence in civii and political afiairs, the fault must be with the farmers themselves. THE JURUSALEM ARTICHOKE. Persons who have tried it say that the Jerusalem artichoke, (Helianthus tubero- sus,) is a most valuable food for animals, that it can be raised on any soil and with little cultivation; that it yields largely, and that the tubers are fully equal in nu tritive nature to the hiore expensive and troublesome root crops. The Reception with Which an At* lanta Crowd Met at Red Oak. Then I went to the cabin iMfegbad^pitilegy llmumgSSSKM*- snuffed out the few scattered lights. The ^ too-that the Cap- [garments. ^»rtW by resoive into execution, wuw* | mA Mnllv Ballen!” The man lainj i , slipped from ^ under him, and he went 5’®^ a8t0 „ lsh ment and rage... I dowurdown.down; until wmethln|surt^ | Vdaring you. I’m a-protertlng belligerently out _of.toe nWjr, I to^’sSl. 0 sudden right in his way. -It was the siae wau oi j resolution—'“I’ll do that so a house, and Misgill beat on it funouslv. fecess of herj resomu a rlndlfl flickered famtly long as I drew breatn i At length a candle through a small window over his head ^\Vho 9 down there, and what do you riant ?” said a voice. “It s Misgill, of the Bamalec. If you re Jim Ballen, Porteous sent me. Come, “Yoh’ve been off, nobody knows where, since morning.” . good-bye, “What, Cap’n t a-going aW»y 7 “Good Lord, Molly! how long would you have me ” ' * “Forever," Molly broke in, promptly ~He listened “awhile. No sound of furJ SS? »*y* I. Sa£Sft*s>*“ as su«£5S£E was made of, you see. Did .. Not Molly. She did tuns white, but looked stiddy at the t7 “I*'walked inter the foksl with a pistol in each hand and two more In my pock et*. Six on ’em was there, with their laid together. ‘Now, my I, ‘them that’s been ‘‘Fvervbodv ken know where, if they “Molly! —s ,wa£TR?£» ?o Jenny Gregg’s. If you I No answer.; don’t believe me, ask her.’ shawl where it lay in a careless heap. Another sigh gave him the sympathetic j impulse needed. “Molly l”—softly. ‘ “Is that you, Cap’n?” tbe first, this’ll be the last, time. She waited no u * arms around his m Nathan Cook, of Terrell county, is 102 years old, and still earns his daily bread. He has ten children, the youngest of whom is forty years old. He has lived -VPS; I .“La^Ma^n creeping of'the hull lot in the same yard that now incloses bis has been controlled and regulated at, —- nWnhate Washington the effect of the Presidential monia and 3.62 of phosphate electious has been to make the money- market easier ‘ than it would otherwise have been. Which system is to be pre ferred?” We do not propose to answer the conundrum, though repelling the no tion tbatthe state of the money market is the only barometer by which to determine the fitness of things in politics and morals. If it were, however, it would he a good thing to have a Presidential election every few months, and to get Secretary Sher man to announce himself early and often, especially if each time he alleged himself to bsa candidate he would buy $5,000,000 of bonds for the sinking-fund, instead of ‘limiting himself, as he'declaredhe would do, to purchases of $2,600,000 a week. thoroughly plowed and cross-plowed, and is in as good order as it could possibly be made. The soil isTtolform in texture, has a southern exposure, and thpugh'tlnn, contains a good, amount of humus. We applied the fertilizers at the rate of 200 pounds per acre, with a Dow-Law plant er, which does the work with almost per fect accuracy. Between the sets of ferti lized rows are sets of rows of the natural soil, and as there is no previous artificial fertilization to influence the result, and as the antecedents of the soil are similar throughout, we hope that tho test will prove of real value. BUST IN WHEAT. We regret to see so many and wide spread complaints of rust in wheat. It would be of very great value to the agri cultural.interests if those whose crop has been injured by rust, would state ^whether or not they sowed seed procured from a distance, or seed raised on their own or neighboring farms. We have been in clined to believe that where the seed is imported from the North—the farther North the better—there is little or no danger of rust. Our own wheat pate*, sown with six different kinds of wheat ob tained from Canada, New York, Mary land, and Tennessee, has not a trace of rust up to this time, but we fear that the severe frost of Sunday night, April lltb, has injured it materially, as it was fully “booted,” and was beginning to head. We would esteem it a great lavor if some of those who have suffered from' rust would inform us what seed they used A CORN PLANTER, p We have seen and tried several ma chines which their inventors claimed would open the row, drop the com at reg ular intervals, and cover it i* the most approved manner. Until new we have never found one which practically was mu&1 to ft negro witti ft forked stick ftnd ft pocket of com “dropping” the proper-num ber of grains as he moved slowly up and down the rows. But we h%ve found one at last which does the work perfectly. If opens the row, drops three or four groins, aud at any distance apart, from fourteen to thirty-six inches, as may be desired. It runs lightly, cannot be easily put out of order or disabled, and does all that it professes to do. It"is tho “Eureka Com Planter.’! It doss the work of three men and two horses with one man and one home, and gets over more ground than could possibly be covered in a day In the old way. i THE C0MP06T HEAP. There is no “institution” connected with the farm that merits more care and attention, or pays better than the com post heap—the home supply of fertilizers Carefully conducted experiments have "demonstrated that a single cow, of average size, will make over ten tons of manure iu a year. Were this manure mixed with swamp muck in tbe proportion of one load of manure to three of muck, a most val uable fertilizer would be the result. 1 he I’quid manure, too, Is fully as valuable as the solid. Were this carefully saved by ab sorbents—occasionally sprinkled with gypsum and kept under shelter, the pile could be doubled, and amount in quantity to over twenty tons. COTTON SEED CAKE. Large quantities of cotton seed cake are ifced in England as a fertilizer, and if ranks as one of the must valuable ma nures known. Professor H. E. Colton states that it contains 10 per cent, of am monia and 3.62 of phosphate of lime. It is estimated, how correctly we cannot say, that in the cotton year just dosed, 5,000,- 000 bales of cotton, 600 pounds to tbe bale, were produced. At 1,000 pounds of seed to each bale, tbat.would give 2,500,000 tons of seed. Were only half of this amount turned into cake, allowing for the loss of hull, etc., we should have upwards of 600,000 tons, worth, at presentpsicaa, from 1J to 2 cents per pound. TJmaxn* genous value of cotton seed cake is esti mated at half that of the best Peruvian guano. , Dr. Land, late State Chemist, made the following analysis of col ton seed meal: . . . ., , Insoluble Phosphoric Acid; . . l.W Reduced “ “ • • Potash, • ■ • ^ Dr. Pratt, the present htate Chemist, has also analyzed cotton seed meal, and he reports that It contains “nitrogen equiv- 1 alent to ammonia 8.75 per cent.” One day last, week a party of young gentlemen iu Atlanta bound themselves together for the purpose of making a raid on the moonshiners and thereby confiscat ing to the government some good old com juice. The party was composed of repre sentative young men of the city, and no thought of failure • entered their minds when they took up their line of march to the illicit distillery neighborhood known as Red Oak, about forty miles from At lanta.-* ~ ' On their route they “pressed into ser vice” as a guide a negro who professed, thorough acquaintance with the country and commanded-him under penalty of death to conduct them to the house of a actuated'byTe'ar, _ compii6a-wiv'Eha T negro, mands, and irom the top of* hill pointed', but the house of the wanted distiller be- Afl^ the~fip£e”W ®f d S.3S- d the made his appearance in front of the hous e aud gave the agreed signal. The raiders, who doubtless had spent weeks in study ing “Sherman’s march through the South,” approached the residence of the boss moonshiner, doubtless congratulating themselves on their success, aud having surrounded the house, were about to force an.entrance when they discovered that they themselves were environed by armed men,-who demanded their unconditional surrender. Not having studied the tac tics of a standing fire as well as the raid ing element of warfare, they quietly gave up their arms and wept at the ignoble de feat with' which they had met. As soon as a complete surrender of the arms had been effected, the big mogul among the moonshiners said “march,” and the line took up its march to the house which the raiders intended to invest. When once within, the doora were closed, sentries placed on all sides of the building, and all erftra baggage laid aside, and then it was that the fun began, and the Atlanta boys showed themselves to the best advantage: The “big Ike” among the moonshiners instructed a big six-foot mountaineer to bring forth his fiddle and “tune her np.” The order was complied with, and when the horse-hair touched the cat-gut, har monious sounds resounded through that old building. Turning to the raiders the moonshin er said, “Get your pards ior the next quadrille.” The boys looked around, but no blooming lassies were present. See ing that his order was not thoroughly un derstood he approached and explained. Said he: “You’re come all the way from Atlanter fer fun, and dam me if you ain’t going to have it. Two on youris git out there together and the others over here, and when Jake plays that fiddle you dance. Don’t fool about it, but dance likeh—.” ... At first the boys hesitated, but seeing that biz was biz, and that it took money even in that county to buy whisky, they proceeded to mix toes lively. When once the set began the moepshinere “joined hands all around,” and kept them faith fully at work for an lnur, when a rest was* had. They then brought out a jug and passed it around among the raiders with instructions to drink aud be merry. Nothing loth they complied with the first injunction any how. • “Now," said the moonshiner, “that’s the first part of the programme for this evening’s entertainment; let’s see how you. fellows can pat, and mind, no foolen.” Atlanta arranged herself up in a line, and began lotting, and such patting, why Cal Wagner was no where. After patting come more whisky, then singing, then whisky, then praying, then whisky, etc., through all the varied accomplishments which the boys knew. When the night had about spent itself they took one of the boys to the door and said, “Do you see that gray horse tied to tbe fence?” “Yes,” was the reply. “Well, who rode him here?” “I did,” said At- lanta.“ Well, now,” said the moonshiner, “you just climb up on that horse and get, and git fast, too, and don’t you come back any more, and take good care to tell the revenue officers how well we treated you.- and ’tis useless to add that he got. One by one, with half an hour inter vening, they were dismissed, and strange to say when they got back to Atlanta yesterday, they were yet each half an hour 6J The bojs express themselves as highly pleased with their entertainment in the mountains.—Atlanta H&osk A Royal M. D.—Charles Theodor of Bavaria, the royal prince who has just been regularly admitted to practice as a physician, is a Specialist of some renown fa eye diseases. \ He has practiced for several years, wltn considerable success, and has been at the hospital of his many patients at *11 hours of the night and any. He is * ngsiwi as well as a wealthy man. andtohis poorer patients gives not n I’Sdrice, but substantial help. Ufeuo wou&rthat Ms tenants upon his r^scHt&cent estate of Tegorusee will have notaher doctor.^The pnnee is th* brother of tbe Empress ofAasto*,th« Queen of Naples ana the Duchess of AlencoH, and, upon his elder brother*, death, will be the head of the Bavarian, ducal line. ■ ■MM