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BY A. & E. A. M C IIAN,
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TBION B. A. OHAPTEB.
No. 19, meets at Trion on the Friday
sight before the third Sunday in April,
May. June, July, August, and Septem
ber and on Saturday night befete the
third Sunday in October, Novemper,
Doeember, January, February, and
March. C. C. BRYAN, H. P.
G. B. MYERS, Sect’y.
ATTORNEYS;.
J, M, Robertson,
Attorney at Law,
«ad Solicitor in Chancery.
Chattanooga, - - Tenn.
PRACTICE in Chancery, Circuit and Supreme
Courts 01* Tennessee and U. S. lUstiict Court.
Ain* in adjoining counties in Georgia,
fcf-ottce in Court House.
Robert M. W. Glenn,
Attorney at Law,
LaFayiittk, - - - - Georgia.
WILL PUACTICE in the Supeilor Courts of the
lloint and adjoining circuits. Collections a
apceialty. office on corner opposite Drug store.
S 36 3iu.
Je«u Phklan, C. P. Gokke.
Phelan & Gorce,
Attorneys at Law',
l’ess Block,
249 Market St.,
OHATTANnOBA, ... TENNESSEE
V. U. & J. P. Jacoway,
Attorneys at Law,
Trrnton, --- - Georgia.
f>IACTICE in the counties of Dade. Walker ano
J| t’atoosa, and adjoining counties, and in the t*'u
pretno and Federal uourts A’so, Jackson, DeKall)
m Ui:h«rokee, in North Alabama, and elsewhere by
of ratal contract. Special attention given to the col
iaatlon of elation.
W. M. Henry,
Attorney at’Law,
Bummervii.le, - - - -.Georgia,
WILL practice in the Rome and adjoining Cir
cuits. Collections a specialty.
J. C. Clements,
Attorney at Law,
LaFayette, - - - Georgia.
WIi.L practice in ibe several counties of the
Rome and Cherokee Circuits, and the Supreme
Court of Georgia.
F. W. Copeland,
Attorney at Law,
LaFayette, - - - Georgia.
WILL practioe In the Superior Courts, of Koine
Circuit. Klsewhere by special agreement. Col
Icjtioas a specialty. (Office in rear of Culbi-rsou’s
■ lave.)
H. P. Lumpkin,
Attorney at Law,
LaFayette. - - Georgiy.
■'ITT ILL nive prompt a teution to all business
Yf entrusted to linn.
£/» Office at Siiuiord fit Lumpkin’* store.
DENTISTS:
■tfi. ■
Dr, Geo. B. Jordan,
Resident Dentist,
Rising Fawn, - - - - Ga.
(ifers iii* professional services to the people of
Bad* and Walker counties. Dental operations per
fanned in a neat and substantial manner.
All work warranted to give perfect satisfaction.
Will make a professional trip through McLc
uauroa’ Cave, on the fir«d of each month.
Dr. J. P. Tann,
Resident Dentist.
Dalton, - - - Georgia.
T AM PREPARED Willi all the
A Modern Improveinents in Dental
to turn out ns good work
as can be had In the Htate, and at as low prices as
uan he doneby nnv firstclass workman.
{»qM guarantee all woik turned out to stand any
ml ill reasonable tests. Special attention given to
correcting irregularities in children’s teeth.
(C7»Ladies wnlied on at their residence, when un
sole to visit the office. A liberal share of patronage
solicited,
{jQF-Office: Up-stairs on Hamilton street, opposile
Dfa.ional Hotel-
Will visit LaFayette, Walker Co., at Superior
Courts August and February.
HOTELS:
GOREE HOUSE.
JT. WITHERS Proprietor,
LaFayette, Georgia.
r m ‘SHE above house is thoroughly fur
nished and prepared with the very
best accommodations, for transient and
local oustom, and at reasonable prices.
Satisfaction guaranteed to those who fa
vor it with their patronage.
READ HOUSE,
J. T. READ & SOA Pro’rs,
A. L. DeLong, Bookeeper-
Will H. Hamblen, { Chief )
J. N. Walker, < Day >Clerks.
J. P. Bostick, (Night)
Chattanooga, - - - Tenn.
Fronting Union Passengear depot.
THE ROME HOTEL,
Broad St., Rome, Ga.
In Tkn Steps or the Railroad.
WO OMNIBUS NEEDED
LOCATED in the Principal Uuslneia Square of
the City, convenient to the Wharf, the Hanks
and the Fuat Office, and is thoroughly renovated and
repainted. J• L- M. ESTES, Proprietor.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
J. «*. A. LEWIS, Prop’r.
Dalton, - - - Georgia,
This house is a large four-story brick,
within a few steps of the Passenger de
Hoard peb day - - - $2.00
Polite and attentive porters at every
train; pass them your checks, walk right
jvor and make yourself at home.
W, U. LEWIS, Clerk.
Walker County Messenger.
THE MESSENGER.
LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA.
Thursday Morning, Nov. 25, 1880.
Rales of Subscription:
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1 lIHII ll—■——l—!■■■■ I Ifllll
Gen. Ga.-field is enthusiastically
fond of base ball, and in the game
just played made one of the best
two-base hits on record.
V
The loser in a Memphis bet is to
stand on his head five minutes, in a
public square, with a Garfield ban
ner suspended from bis feet.
■——
A young mar. of St. Raul died of
heart disease while asking his
sweetheart to marry him. No timid
damsel was ever known to perish
during a crisis of this kind.
A woman in Marshall county,
Kansas, who is enjoying her fifth
husband, lost her first two by hang
ing through vigilance committees,
a third was sent to the penitentiary
and the fourth committed suicide.
It is about as hard to find a girl
whose marriage is announced in the
newspapers who isn’t “beautiful
and accomplished” as it is to find a
man who has just died who wasn’t
“honored and respected by all who
knew him.”
“You haye always had the repu
tation of being an honest man ; liow
does it happen that you have been
guilty of theft?” “ii’s the fault of
the age in which we live. The man
who wants to make an honest liv
ing nowadays can’t do it unless he
steals.”
A colored man applying for a
marriage license in Cincinnati was
asked if he and the lady was related.
1 Yes, sah,” he replied. When ask
ed how, he answered : “I thought
you deluded to de tenderrelashuns
ob luv what prevails between us de
present moment.”
Eleven children at four births
was the feat, as Mrs. Scannel Hick
son, of Shamrock, Mo. First birth,
three ; second and third, two each,
and at the last interesting occasion
there were four, all the latter being
alive and doing well. Ten out of
the eleven are alive.
In response to a note purporting
to come from her new lover, a
Richmond (Ind.j girl pal on her
best bonnet and went to meet him
at a designated street corner. There
she found a female; rival, who
pounced upon her furiously, snatch
ed the bonnet from her head, and
tore it into hits.
Mr. Henry Glover who resides
near Americus, recently lost a fine
cow which was apparently in
a splendid condition. The cause
of the animal’s death remained a
mystery until a post mortem ex
amination revealed a lady’s hair
pin buried in her heart. How in
the world did it get there ? is what
Mr. Glover would like to know.
A couple of old darkies met the
other day and began talking over
matters and things.
“How is ole Col. Jones comin on,
what used to own you before de
war? He is sooie lie must be get
tin’ to be childish and losin’ his
reasonin’ powers.”
“Don’t know nullin’ about him
—hain’t seed him since befoah last
Christmas.”
“Why, what’s de matter ?”
“Ain't got no use for such old
gemmans. Last time 1 was dar I
fetched him a big redfish I
had cotched. f tole him es he
would girmne a table knife I would
scrape an’ clean de fish. What do
you s’pose he sed ?”
“Asked yer to come in and get a
dram, and chat awhile about ole
times on de ole plantation.”
“Nosah; lie tole me iflcouldn’t
borrv a table knife from some ob
de nabors dat he would rudder
clean de fish himself. I s’pose he
was afeard I’d be keerless in hand
lin’ de knife back when I got done
wid it.”
The other darkey rubbed his
chin and remarked* “I see by dat
dar dat de ole man’s still got de use
of his reasonin’ powers.”
LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1880.
An Old-Fashioned
Girl.
•Still a bachelor, Claud ? I’m
ashamed of yon, and, I declare,
half regretful that I did not capture
you myself.”
So spoke pretty little Mrs. Shel
don, as she sat one evening on?the
piazza of the Ocean House, looking
up smilingly into the face of the
handsome man who bent over with
such rare, debonair grace.
He laughed aloud at her mock
petulant speech.
“You should not blame me then,”
he retorted, “for what you must
hold yourself accountable. You
see, ever since Dick cut me out
witlijyou, I have been wandering
around disconsolate, trying to find
a second edition to yourself.”
“No. no I That won’t do. All the
admiration was on my side. Still,
I must coufess that dear old Dick
answers my purpose very well so
well that only one thing is wanting
to insure my happiness, and that
is to have you take possession next
winter, of a charming house next
ours in town, and let me claim
your wife as my dearest friend —”
“As you have been to me all
these long yearp, Ella, the dearest
woman friend I ever had; but Dick
has no cause for jealousy for all
that. Shall I, then, tel! you why I
have never married, though my
thirty-fifth birthday is looming up
startlingly near? I am in a confi
dential mood this afternoon, and
you shall hear. It is not because I
do not want to marry. Sometimes
the picture of my own home and
hearthstone shapes itself before me
until life seems hardly worth the
living without it; but it is an ideal
picture my fancy paints. It is not
a house but a home. It, is not the
rustle of silken trains through its
halls. It is not the sunshine of a
woman’s smile. It is not the
threshold.of society, but society is
left upon its threshold. It boasts
no richer, sweeter music than the
happy voices and laughter of little
children which God may send to
fill it! You know now why I have
never married, although the world
calls me a rich man, and I am free;
but Ella, girls nowadays are not
fitted for such homes. They are
society dolls. I want an old fash
ioned girl, and as they are out of
fashion—unless I go regularly in
search of one in some curio ity shop
where she is labelled and laid away
on a shelf—l shan’t find her ; and
even if I made the rash attempt I
shouldn’t like to have had to order
my wife like a bale of goods.”
“You’re ail wrong, Claud,” an
swered his friend. “Girls hearts
nowadays are just as warm and
true as they were a century ago;
but—”
“Oh, Ella —” interrupted a fresh
girlish voice, as a young lady step
ped through one of the long dress
ing-room windows on the piazza, a
faint rose flush tinging tier cheek
as she saw too late that she had
come upon a tete-a-tete.
She was a beautiful girl dressed
in the very height and extreme of
fashion, from the tip of the little
boot to till crown of the flower
wreathed hat.
“My friend, Mr. Arnold, Maud.
Miss Kingsland, Mr. Arnold.”
So this was Cluud Arnold, whom
she had heard of all her life. She
was not sorry for the interruption
after all; still, stealing only a glance)
at the dark, handsome face, over
which all women raved, and deliv
ering the message which had
brought her, she disappeared as she
had come. x v
“Who is she?” queried the gen
tleman.
“Ralph Kinpsland’s daughter,
and an heiress. I'am chapeiouing
her for a few weeks us her mother
is an invalid. Not at all the sort of
a girl you are in search of. So see
to it that you you do- not trespass
upon my manor in search of amuse
ment.”
Notwithstanding which kindly
warning, it was straight to Miss
Kingsland's side that Claud wended
his way, when about nine o’clock
that evening she entered the ball
room.
He had watched her as she cross
ed the hall on Mr. Sheldon’s arm,
and was fain to acknowledge her,
the most beautiful girl whom New
port ever boasted.
She was exquisitely dressed, too,
in some soft, flimsy fabric of white,
gracefully draped over snowy satin,
her neck and arms hare, and void
of ornament except two glistening
jewels in the pink, shell-like ears.
“Not at all the woman for a wife,''
he mentally soliloquized ; hut ns a
partner for a dance, enough to make
one the envy of all the fellows in
the room.”
“May I have the pleasure'.of the
next waltz,*-Miss Kingsland?" he
said, bowing low before her.
“Thanks,” she answered, in low,
musical tones, “hut I have not an
empty space to-night. I am pas
sionately fond of dancing, and my
friends are kind enough to see that
I have no lack of partners.”
“Os course an entirely unselfish
action on their part,” was his reply,
with just a suspicion of pique in
his tone.
Heretofore, with Claud Arnold,
the desire was simply fathei to the
attainment, and now he must wait
twenty-four hours ere he could
clasp this girl’s waist, and feel her
hand in his as they floated through
the room to some of Strauss' drea
my music.
“Well, then,” lie continued,
“shall it be to-morrew night, and
will you put me down twice?”
“With pleasure,” she said simply,
as her partner approached to claim
her.
Somehow it was all stale and un
profitable to Claud that night, and
when he retired, rather earlier than
his usual custom, the thoughts
which mingled with the smoke
from his fragrant Havana, as lie sat
by his window, listening to the
ocean’s roar, were if anything a tri
fle more cynical than his usual
wont —nor did he sleep as soundly
as usual.
* I need a walk,” heusaid to him
self next morning, and started off
about nine o’clock for a solitary
stroll.
In this however he was doomed
to disappointment, for, turning a
sudien angle on the beach, he
came face to face with Miss Kings
land.
“What unexpected good for
tune 1” he’exclaimed, duffing his
hat. “I did not dream you were
such an early riser,” looking is he
spoke, at the blight color the
morning breeze had brought into
her'cheek, and the dark eves so
frankly uplifted to his own.
“Frightfullly unconventional is
it not?” she queried with a little
low, fippling laugh. "But one must
be alone sometimes, so I am driven
to do it in self-defense."
“Rather an unfeeling hint that my
morning’s trespass must not be re
peated,” said he, ruefully.
“Oh, no indeed ! We would not
be iikely to meet again in any case.
Besides ttie beach is public proper
ty.”
Again that uncomfortable Bense
of piqne - pervaded her listenfir’s
flame. Really it appeared .a matter
oLmost sincere indifference u liotjier
or not h? appeared upon tliFlgbno
of actipn.
■ ‘■Bather a pretty costume you
have, to he donned solely for the
admiration of the sea-gulls,” lie
continued looking down at the
dainty dress, so perfect in all its
belongings, with the eye of a man
who considered himself a connois
seur in feminine apparel —albeit
inclined to use his taste for its con
demnation.
I dress for myself, Mr. Arnold.
I am passionately fond of pretty
things, and fortunately am able to
gratify myself. 1 have often won
dered how men, who are so severe
upon women for their love of the
beautiful, would like to have their
wives appear in ill-fitting garments,
or as slatterns. By-the-way, did
you ever see a man who did not re
turn straightway to his tailor a coat
which had in it a crooked seuin or
an ugly wrinkle?”
“I can’t say that I ever did,” he
replied, laughingly, while he sud
denly remembered that, in all his
imaginings, the old-fashioned girl
who was his ideal, had never pre
sented beiself in old-fashioned gar
ments.
The hop that evening Mr. Ar
nold yoted a success, though he
usually regarded them us necessary
bores.
Miss Kingsland h id made danc
ing an art. He could have wish'ed
the music to last forever, as she
floated through the ball-room on
his arm. She was like some beauti
ful fairy.
Os course he decided mentally.
Carry her .into the walking realities
of life, and you would destroy the
charm. Still, there was a freshness,
a piquancy, in her conversation,
which not only attracted, hut held
him.
To come into her presence was
seeking a more braceing atmos
phere, and ere many days had fled,
Claud Arnold found himself count
ing the hours not spent with her as
wasted hours. Yet, that there was
any danger to himself or her, he
never dreamed.
He had made for himself an ideal,
to which she was in every way the
opposite. Fashion and luxuries
were to her necessities. The wo
man ho married must have a rninj
above such frivolties.
Meantime the ideal for the pres
ent was set aside, and the glittering,
alluring reality enjoyed.
Three weeks had passed since'he
had met Miss Kingsland, when
standing one morning on the piazza,
waiting for her to join him for a
promised drive, and
the morning papers, just delivered
at the hotel, his eye fell on the
startling announcement of the tem
porary, hut it war feared permanent,
suspension of Kingsland & Co.,
New \ r ork’s great bankers.
These were troutdous times, when
the weak and strong tottered to
gether. Their failure would cause
a loss to himself of several thous
ands; hut to this Claud Arnold
never gave but a passing memory.
His whole thought was filled
with the girl on whom the crush
ing blow was to fall.
“How pale you look !” said a
sweet voice beside him. “Are you
not well? Shall we not go !’’
He turned toward the speaker.
How lovely she looked —lovely not
only with nature’s loveliness, hut
all the accessory of public taste
added to make a perfect whole.
Her dress seemed moulded to the
exquisite form, her glove to the ti
ny hand ; her hat resting graceful
ly on the small well-poised head.
Rob this girl of all externals, and
she would still he beautilul; hut it
would be like robbing the lose of
its dark green leaves, which seem
to belong to it by right.
How would she hear poverty and
failure ? She should not if lie could
save her from them. In that mo
ment he knew how false were his
sophistries, and how unconsciously
he had learned the lesson Love on
ly teaches. At first they were both
silent on their drive; then she
turned toward him with a sort of
silent sympathy in her voice.
“Tell me what troubles you?” she
said.
“Only,” he answered, "that I am
awakening from a dream, and it is
for you to decide whether my wak
ing shall he of earth or heaven. —
Maude, I love you! The dearest
wish I have would tie to make you
my wife. Darling have I been too
abrupt?"
A bright blush mantled her
cheeks, as she raised her dark eyes
to his.
“I will he fra’nk with you Mr.
Arnold,” she answered. “Had you
spoken yesterday, your words
would have given me pleasure —
now they bring a mingled pain ;
for I cannot give the answer rny
heart prompts. I am no longer
rich, Mr. Arnold. My. father is
threatened with failure. While he j
is in trouble, I cannot think of my j
happiness. My place is near his
side. 1 intend returning home to
night. I meant to have told you
in any case, but I hated to spoil
our drive by dragging in my trou
bles.”
In utter amaze, Claud listened to j
her words. She had known of her j
father’s threatened ruin, and yet 1
had smiled so cheerily, and had
found time to sympathize with any
misfortune she fancied might come
to him ; and now she could so quiet
ly lay aside all thought of self, in
thinking of her father and his dis- j
aster.
A great wave of tenderness swept ]
over the man’s nature, and with a
respect almost holy fur tho girl
whom lie had judged cnee with so
narrow a judgment.
“My, love," he said, “I will wait
for you, will serve for you, as Jacob
served for Rachel, hut I will never
give you up.”
And drawing her to him, he seal
ed tlie words with a lover's ki°s up
on the young lips, which made no
resistance to his touch.
The suspension of Kingsland &
Co. was hut temporary after all.—-
The pretty house next to Mrs.
Sheldon found tenants in the early
winter, such as she had so ardently
wished.
But Claud declares, in spite of the
fact that his wife's trosseau came
direct from Paris, and is the envy
of all feminine Gotham, that he re
alized his two ideals—he has found
a homo, and lie lias married an old
fashioned girl.
A Joke on a Horse.
One of the commission houses on
Woodhridge street lias a horse
which was the terror of every pedes
trian who got within three feet of
his head. The animal lad teeth
like a shark, and up to n few days
ago he’d bite everything within
reach except a pile of grindstones.
Whipping had no effect, mid he
would get rid of muzzles as fast as
they wei;e put on. The firm had
paid out considerable money to set
tle for his bites, and was wondering
what they could sell him for, when
along came a man who guaranteed
a cure for $5. He was told to go to
work, and his first move was to get
an old suit of clothes and stuff it
witii straw. The horse was driven
down tho street, and the suit was
tied to a liitching-post, back to the
street. A full pound of Cayenne
pepper was then rubbed into and
sprinkled over the garments and
the straw stuffing, and the joke was
ready.
The horse came jogging back, and
the driver left him standing within
six feet of tho man of straw. The
old biter’s eyes had a twinkle as he
saw a fine chance to use his teeth,
and as soon as left alone lie began
edging towards the post. When
ready for business he made a sud
den lunge, and caughtthe“man” by
the shoulder. That old horse
meant wickedness, hut he hud a
surprise in 6tore for him. As he
lifted the figure off its feet and gave
it a shake it fell apart, and his
mouth, nose and eyes were filled
with the smarting powder. Great
tears rolled down his long nose, he
sneezed and snorted and coughed,
and he was just as chagrined at the
general laugh on him as a man
would have been. He hacked
away from the remnants, opened
tiis mouth to cool it. and hung his
head in shame. He did not cease
weeping for half a day, hut when
he got so that he could look the
public square in the face he was a
changed horse. Anybody can pull
his ears or rub his nose now with
impunity. In fact, he courts cares
ses where he defied them, and on
the approach of a stranger will shut
his eyes and mouth as if fearful of
another dos e.—Detroit Free Press.
He IlimeSt.
Be honest in your dealings; take
no advantage, even of a child. Be
conscientious in your bargains.—
Have a single eye and a eingle
heart. Seek not to be shrewd. Be
not ashamed to he called simple.
And let me tell you a secret, seeing
it is written in the Scriptures, that
your whole body will then be full j
of light, and this in every kind —|
You will actually see further and
see clearer than shrewd and cun
i> og men ; and you will he less lia
ble to he duped than they, provid
ed you add lo this another part of
the character, which is proper to
an honest man —namely, a resolu
tion to protect honesty and to dis
countenance every kind of fraud.
A cunning man is never a firm man;
but an honest man is; a double
minded man is always unstable ; a
man of faith is as firm as a rock.
I tell you there is a sacred connec
tion between honesty and faith;
honesty is faith applied to worldly
things ; and faith is honesty quick
ened by the Spirit to the use of
heavenly things.
VOL. IV. NO. 19.
Where He Missed tt.
A Woodward avenue merchant)
who has for two or three years past
employed an ancient darkey to'da
odd chores about the store, was
yesterday asked for a few minutes’
private conversation, and when the
request had been granted the old
man began:
“I wanted to ax fur a leetle infor
rnashun. Las’ nite when I was
gwino home I met ole Ebeneezei'
Wright, one of de pillars in our
church. He's bin n leetle aglewise
to me chef since do Ins’ donushun
party, but I nebbcr saw a man melt
down as he did. lie called me an
agitator. What does dat men*? I
know it’s sunt'liin’ good, but I can’t
’zactly git de full meanin’.”
“Why, he meant that you were
kicking up a fuss.”
“Did he? Fo’ de Lawd, but I
took it de odder way 1 Den’ho said
I war’ a truckling. Did dat meat!
I owned trucks?"
“It meant that you truckled.—
You’ve seen a dog skulk along be
hind his master after he has been
kicked, haven’t you ?”
“In course I have. Did he reail
ley mean dat 7 De old woman an’ I
couldn’t make it out, but we fought
it mils' be sunthin’ sweet. Den he
remarked that I war' a bigot. Was
dat abuse ?”
“I should say so,”
“Did he mean bad when he call*
ed me a fawnin’ sickerphant and a
fossilized corruptionist?”
“He certainly did. Many men
have been knocked down for saying
less.”
“Fo’ de Lawd 1 but how ye talkl
Am it possible dat I stood dar an’
took dat all in an’ Htniled an’laffed
an actually asked de ole man to
step in somewhar’ an’ have a glass
of cider? Why, sail, if I’d had de
"slightest hint of what he meant I’d
have crushed him to pulp in two
ininits, sab—de worst lokin’ pulp
you ever sot eyes on I Lawd, sab,
hut what a chance I did miss !”
Detroit Free I*resß.
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Southern-tltiCS.
Among the most instrumental
in creating the immense Radical
majority the North gave at the re
cent election, were the manufactur
ers and merchants of that section,
who, by threats of discharge in case
their employes did otherwise, in
timidated them into voting the Re
publican ticket. As the puissant
North has not yet enacted a law
compelling the South to trade with
it, the Southern people should avail
themselves of this grace and form at
once direct trade relations with
foreign ports, and sell their products
to and buy such articles as they
conr.ot manufacture themselves
from those who, no matter what
they think, at least don’t publicly
proclaim them thieves, robbers,
rebels and murderers. The pro
ducts and the trade of the South
have been the real causes of the re
vival of business and the financial
success of the United Stabs Treas
ury in this country ; but while the
South has reaped little of the ac
cruing benefits, the North has
grown lusty and waxed fat there
from. Let the Southern money
now invested in Northern stocks be
withdrawn while bucli stocks are
high and he put into manufactories
and importing houses at home, and
as the Radicals will not permit
ships to be brought in the cheapest
markets, let foreign associates be
formed who will buy with it cheap
Clyde steamers and establish direct
lines between Southern and foreign
ports, and it will not only return
larger dividends than it is now do
ing, but will make the South rich
and prosperous and at the same
time bring her implicable enemies
to a realizing sense of their folly in
killing the goose that laid the gold
en egg. — Alexandria (Fa.) Gazette.
■
An aged and wealthy Milwaukee
widower found a wife by a queer
method. In a coffee grinding mill
i in Chicago a female packer placed
; in several bundles of coffre a card
! sayir.g that any gentleman matri
monially inclined might address
I her. This widower found the card
while preparing his lonely break*
| fast after a quarrel with his bouse
i keeper, and now the Chicago girl is
| Mrs. .