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TBION R. A. CHAPTER.
No. 19, meets at Trion on the Friday
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May, June, July, August, and Septem
ber and on Saturday night before the
third Sunday in October, Novemper,
December, January, Feb-uary, and
March. 0. 0. BRYAN, H. P.
O. B. MYERS, Sect’y.
ATTORNEYS:
J. M. Robertson,
Attorney at 1/aw,
and Solicitor iu Chancery.
Chattanooga, - - Tenn.
PRACTICE In Chancery, Circuit and Huprcrao
Court* of Tennessee and U. S. District Court.
jWio in adjoining counties In Georgia.
(X?-< )ffice in Court House.
Robert M. W.; Glenn,
Attorney at Law,
LaFayetth, - - - - Georgia.
"fliriLL PRACTICE in the Supeilor Courts of the
W Koine and adjoining circuits. Collections a
•psciitliy. Offic* on eor.ier opposite Drug store.
35 3m.
Jobs I’bklan, C* P. Gorkb.
Phelan & Goree,
Attorneys at Law,
Poss Block,
249 Market St.,
CHATTANOOGA, - - - TENNESSEE
W, TJ. & J. P. Jacoway,
Attorneys at Law,
Trenton, - - - - Georgia.
PRACTICE in the counties of Dade, Walker and
Catoosa, and adjoining counties, and in the Sta
promt and Federal Court A eo, Jackson, OeKalb
•m dClierokee, in North Alaham\ and elsewhere hy
epeoial contract. Special attention given to the col-
Itetiod es eluirus.
¥.*M. Henry,
Attorney at Law,
Bumhkrvil/T-e, - - - - Georgia.
TYTILL practice in the Rome and adjoining Cir-
V T cuita. Collections a specialty.
J. C. Clements,
Attorney at Law,
LaFayette, - - - Georgia.
Wfijj practice In the several counties of the
Rome and Cherokee Circuits, and the Supreme
flheurt of Georgia.
F. W. Copeland,
Attorney at Law',
I. Fayette, - - - Georgia.
WILL practice in the SuperiorConrts, of Rome
Circuit. Elsewhere hy special 'agreement. Col
laetions a specialty. (Office in rear of Culberson'*
Store.)
11. P. Lumpkin,
Attorney at Law,
LaFayf.tte. * - Georgia.
11, ILL cive prompt attention to ail business
i j entrusted to him.
fXf Okies at Shuford & Lumpkin’s store.
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DENTISTS:
Dr. Geo. B, Jordan,
Resident Dentist,
Rising Fawn, - - - - Ga.
Offers his professional services to the people of
Dads and Walker counties. Dental operations per
formed in a neat, and substantial manner.
All work warranted to give perfect satisfaction.
Will make a professional trip through VJcLc
naorM* Cave, on the first of each month.
Dr.lJ. P. Fann,
Resident Dentist.
Dai.ton, - - - Georgia.
T AM PREPARED with nil the
tf£*£k gSffiP LModern Improvements in Dental
to turn out ns good work
as ca* be hart In the State, and at ns low prices as
can be doneby anv first el ass workman.
#7-1 guarantee all woik turned out tn stand any
ml all reasonable tests. feJpeeinl attention given to
correcting irregularities in children’s teeth.
(ST-Ladies waited on at their residence, when un
able :o visit the office. A liberal share of patronage
solicited,
(KT-office: Up-stairs ou Hamilton street, opposite
Wa.ional Hotel.
Will visit LaFayette, Walker Co., at Superior
Courts August and February.
HOTELS:
HAMILTON HOUSE,
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
J. *t. * m®,. Drop’s.
Centrally Located ; Good
Accommodations; Rates
Reasonable.
Terms* sl-50 to $2-00 per Day-
THE ROME HOTEL,
Broad Sit., Rome, Ga.
In Ten Stpps or the Railroad.
NO OMNIBUS HEEDED
LOCATED in the Principal Business Square of
the City, convenient tithe Wharf, the Banks
and the Post Office, and is thoroughly renovated and
repainted. J. L. M. ESTES, Proprietor.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
JT. ((. A. LEWIS, Frop’r.
Dai.ton, * - * Georgia,
This house is a largo four-story brick,
within a few steps ot the Passenger do*
SoARD PER DAY - - - $2.00
Polite and attentive porters at every
train; pass them your checks, waik right
T A- BASS,
—draper in —
Staple Dry Goods,
FANCY AND FAMILY GROCERIES.
Allkinds of produce taken in exchange
for goods. , . ~
We keep the best wagon yard in the
city, and feed stock at reasonable rates
Our yard is free to ali during tho day
Walker County Messenger.
Music in Camp.
By John r. thomppon’
Two nrmle* covered hill nnd pl-nfn,
Where RappahnnuMk’* water*
Ran deeply crimsoned with the *uin
Os battle’s recent slaughter*.
The summer cloud* lay pitched like tents
In mends of heavenly azure;
And each dread gun of the element*
Slept in it* high embrasure.
The breeze so softly blew, It made
No finest leaf to quiver,
And the smoke «,f the random cannon <dc
lolled slowly from the river.
And now where circling hill* looked down
With cannon deeply planted,
O’er listless camp and silent town
The goiden sunset slanted;
When on the fervid air there came
A strain, now rich, now tender,
The music seemed itself aflame
With day’s departing splendor.
A Federal band, which eve and morn
Played measure* brave and nimble,
Had just struck up with fl ute and horn
And lively clasli of cymbal.
Down flocked the soldiers to the banks,
Till, margined by its pebbli*,
One wooded shore was blue with “Yanks,”
And one was gray with “Rebels.”
Then nil was still; and then the hand
With movement light and tricksy,
Made stream and forest, hill and strand,
Reverberate with “Dixie.”
The conscious stream with burnished glow,
Went proudly o’er Its pebble*,
But thrilled throughout it* deepest flow
With yelling of the Rebel*.
Again a pause, and then again
The tuinpet pealed sonorous.
And “Yankee Doodle” was the strain
To which the shore gave chorus.
The laughing ripple shoreward flew
To kiss tii* shining pebbles—
Loud shrieked the swarming Bovs in Biue
Defiance to the Relies.
And yet t nee more the hu .la sang
Above the s'.o iny riot;
No about upon the evening rang—
Ther reigned a holy quiet.
The sad, slow stream its noislcss flood
Poured o er the glistening pebbles;
All silent now the Yankees stood,
Ali silent stood the Rebels.
No Unresponsive soul had heard %
That plai..tivc notes appealing.
So deeply ‘Home, Sweet Home’ had stirred
The hidden founts of feeling.
Or blue m gray, the soklicrsecs,
As by the wand of fairy,
The cottage ’neath the live oak trees,
The cabin by the prairie.
Or cold or warm his native skies,
Bend in their beauty o’er him;
Seen through tiie tear mi>t in his eyes
His loved ones stand b .iore him.
As fades the iris nfter rain
in Aprils tearful weather,
Tin: vision vanished as the strain
Aud daylight died together.
But memory, waked by music’s art,
Expressed In simp.est number*,
Snbdued the st«ri>est Yankees heart—
Made liylit tin* Rebel* slumbers.
And fair the form of Music shines,
That bright celestial creature,
Who still ’mid war’s embattled Pnca
Gave this one touch of nature.
The Scottish Banker’s
Dilemma.
CHAPTER 11.
Dismay fell on the quiet little
hank of Tollkirk. The former un
easiness became in the office a panic.
Hamilton had been made ill by the
anxiety of his position, and was in
bed on the day Mr. Traill’s defi
ciency occurred. After closely
scrutinizing each entry in the books,
Traill came to the conclusion that
he had not paid the money in ex
cess to any one, and that the notes
must have been stolen by some one
on the premises. The bank’s safe
was duly examined; but the locks
bore no marks of being tampered
with. The windows and doo/s of
the office were unaffected; and Mr.
Duff’s domestics —who swept out
the office—had been his servants
and were known to him for years.
The matter was on this occasion
reported to the bank’s head office;
but thence came the cold intimation
that no further deficiency could be
made good, and referring the bank
agents to their recent letter to that
effect of such and such a dale.
Mr. Duff began to think the
place was haunted. Wherever the
money was gone, it had to be paid
up; raising the total losses made in
this mysterious way to the unpal
atable sum of fourteen hundred
pounds in less than three months!
The mystery was all the deeper
that during the day of the differ
ence in Traill’s cash it had happened
there had not been a single cash
paymentamounting to five hundred
pounds. Then there came vague
rumors —such as the police, bad the
matter passed into their hands,
would certainly have made use of
—that there was an itenerant lock
smith, a gypsy, in the neighborhood
to whom popular rumor attributed
almost miraculous power in the
manipulation of locks. Yet it
would take a very clever locksmith
indeed to open the Central Bank’s
safe unheard in the house, and to
close it again without leaving traces i
LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1881.
of his work. The safe had a foun
dation of eight feet of store, and
was coated on tho floor, wall, and
roof with a two-inch plate of solid
iron. The doors were, of course,
of iron, and eacli —there were four
doors—had two keys and separato
locks. Through the lock of the
outer door, an iron bolt was each
evening shot down from Mr. Duff’s
bedroom above, and while that
bolt was down no key in the world
could open the door. It was neces
sary to be in Air. Duff’s bedroom
before the bolt could be drawn or
dropped. It was extremely im
probable that there were any in
Tollkirk who could, even with the
necessary keys in their hands, find
their way in the strong-room, un
aided.
No longer was Mr. Duff able to
leave the bank with an easy mind
for a two o’clock luncheon —with
forty winks to follow —as had been
his custom these twenty years. He
was closely on the watch. Yet
there was no visible cause for sus
picion. Bankers and clerks were
fast becoming demoralized —in the
military sense—from sheer fright,
accelerated by mystery, and a sense
of utter helplessness in face of it.
Mr. Duff might far better be losin;*.
his fortune on tho stock exchange,
or throwing his money away on
turf speculations; in these there
would be some remote chance of
profit, if not satisfaction in losing
his property. His bark had up to
this time sailed in smooth seas, had
even, hitherto, floated in a sheltered
bay unexposed to financial tempests
or breakers; but now a leak of a
dangerous sort had sprung, as likely
he imagined, to ingulf him at his
anchorage as any buffeting of waves
in open sea.
Mr. Duff became a changed man.
He was thin and worn and ill with
anxiety and watching. They were
all watching. Traill was watching
Hamilton; Hamilton turned a keen
glance on the boys; the boys kept
their eyes very widely open all
ronnd. Mr. Duff was unwilling to
put the matter in the hands of the
local police, knowing that the first
to he suspicior.ed would l>o hie
clerks, and that the affair would
speedily become town gossip. Se
cretly, Mr. Duff began to think the
placo was bewitched.
His partner, George Traill, being
called upon to pay up half the five
hundred pound, resolved to get to
the bottom of the matter. He had
a bed fitted up in the bankers bus
iness room, and determined to
spend his nights thers until some
solution of the problem presented
itself. His transfer from the Aber
deen branch seemed just then to
prove a bad bargain. The keys of
the safe, it should be mentioned,
numbering eight, were placed every
night after the locking up of the safe
and the dropping of tho iron bolt
from the banker’s bedroom, in a
strong box, the key of which was
always carried by Mr. Duff. Geo.
Traill, armed with a revolver, in
spite of Mary’s protests and Mr.
Duffs jeers, occupied theroom where
the bed had been fitted there, and
waited philosophically the course
of events. He slept little for the
first night or two; but no intruder
came to disturb his repose. The
long dull hours crept on without
adventure or other result than to
make Traill sleepy and cross during
the following days. The hankers
were beginning to despair of dis
covering the thief. Yet Traill —
despite Mr. Duff’s perfectly reason
able argument that if any man
broke into the safe it would not be j
merely five hundued pounds that j
would satisfy him, nor would he j
risk a second or third visit —con-
tinued t‘o spend his nights in the
hank.
At daybreak, however, or. a cer
tain morning in the fol’owing Week,
Traill, who slept very lightly, was j
suddenly awakened and startled by .
hearing the bolt that passed through j
the lock of the outer door of the j
safe drawn sharply up. He could |
hardly believe the evidence of bis j
ears, thinking that perhaps he had
dreamed. But the “click” was still 1
reverberating, exaggerated as all !
sounds are in the stillness of night.
If the bolt was really lifted, the
person that drew it up must be in
the room where Mr. Duff slept.)
Traill was a courageous man; hut in
spite of himself, lie trembled as he
felt for nnd examined his revolver.
When the, reverberation subsided,
there was a silence for a moment ns
of Death, Sleep’s twin brother.
Then he thought he heard, far off,
a doer open; presently the door
opened, nnd a man entered, carry
ing in one hand a lighted candle, in
the other a bunch ot keys. The
revolver was firmly held in Traill’s
grip, nnd before firing, he was about
to utter a cry of warning, when he
noted that the figure paid no heed
to bis presence, hut passed hint,
making straight for the sale-door.
In the dim light, to his astonish
ment, he distinguished the fixed,
even rigid features of his friend and
partner, Air. Duff! His eyes were
wide open, and be moved with his
usual deliberation, but with an air
of stern preoccupation quite foreign
to his working habits. Traill saw
at a glance that the banker was
walking in his sleep.
His firs* impulse war to seize and
wake him: but a moment’s reflec
tion decided him to wait the natural
issue of events. Mr. Duff, without
hesitation or fumbling, chose the
right keys for the outer door, and
pushed it, as the lock sprang hack,
slowly open; then the wicket-gatei
the inner iron door, and so on, till
he disappeared silently in the vault
like shades of the strong-room.
When he reached the inner safe, he
took from the well-packed store of
pound notes—Traill eagerly watch
ing him from the door —a bundle
containing five hundred; he then
noiselessly shut and locked the
door as he retreated. He passed
within arm’s-length of Traill, hear
ing tho bundle of notes, the keys,
and his lighted candle; leit the
office —followed by his partner—
walked slowly up stairs to his bed
room, where he deliberatsly dropped
the bolt back in its place, and
finally laid the keys carefully, ap
parently counting them, in their
usual place in the box, fixed in the
wall for the purpose: Traill ex
pected he would then retire to bed;
but it was evident that the somnam
bulist hud not finished his night's
work. if..ving safely put away
the keys, he lifted his cantih; end
again went down-stairs, carrying
the notes in his hand. Traill
followed him through the kitchen
and ont into the court-yard behind.
With the same purpose-like delib
eration that he had shown ot the
safe, he now marched to —the pig
sty ! Arrived there, he lifted a
loose fold of thatch that rested on
a slab of stone in the rickety roof,
secreted the bundle of notes there,
replaced the thatch carefully, and
then turned with an air of relief,
and went in-doors.
Traill did not disturb him, did
not even take the trouble to follow
his partner to see if he reached his
bed safely, but sprang eagerly to
the loose thatch, in which, 3nuglv
lying, lie found the comfortable
sum of one thousand nine hundred ;
pounds in bank-notes! He could j
not help laughing as he stood there
in the dim gray morning, half-clad
for the pursuit hadn’t been without
excitement.
“An expensive roofing for Duff’s
pjigs,” he murmured, gathering the
various dusty bundles together and
retreating indoors from the cold
morning air.
“I think, Duff,” said Traill, seri
ously, when they met in the office
alter breakfast —“I think, to make
certain that no thief, or witch, or
ghost has been tampering with the j
cash during the night, we had better ,
count the cash henceforth in the
morning as well as at night; that j
will make certain whether the
money disappears hy night or in
the day.”
Mr. Duff assented.
“■Suppose you begin this morn
ing.”
Again Air. Duff assented; nnd
with reluctant fingers, at his part- j
ner’s suggestion,counted the money I
himself.
“Powers of Darkness!” he ex
claimed, “I shall not stay another
day in this house. The cash is
again five hundred pounds short! ’ J
Had Air. Duff not been a remark- j
able bald man he would probably
have torn his hair iu agony.
“How much do you reckon your,
pigs cost you annually, Duff?” I
r l mill asked with apparent irrele
vcnce and, as Mr. Duff thought,
flippancy.
“Figa! Hang the pigs! Hang
the bank! and Yes; I mean
to resign my office. I'm not going
to remain here to lie robbed and
ruined.”
“I see you are putting a new roof
on your sty, and papering it,” ho
went on sententious!)’. “Snaring
no expense on it. Doing the thing
[ stylish, eh?”
“Are you mad, Traill?”
“Well, let me see. At the rate of
two thousand pounds, say, in three
months, that pig-sty will cost you
and me just eight thousand pounds
a year.” Traill was apparently in
his gravest mood. “That’s pretty
mordernte, vh?”
“Poor Traill! The loss of his
money has taken his brain. What
demon has entered this house?’
sighed Mr. Duff in tho presence of
a despair more tragic even than his
own.
“Look here, old felowl” said
Traill, suddenly bursting into a (it
of laughter—“l found these in the
roof of y lur pig-sty this morning;
and what is more, I saw you put
them there.”
“Prodigious!”
Yes, all the missing money was
there!
The banker gave a champagne
dinner to his delighted clerks on
the evening oi that day. llis own
health, however, was in a rather
had way. In a month or two he
resigned his office, retiring on a
liberal pension to his farm; and in
order to compensate James Hamil
ton, Mr. Dull requested that the
directors appoint him assistant
agent with Traill. The offices both
gentlemen hold with honor to this
day. George Traill ami James
Hamilton are now brothers-in-law,
each having wedded one of Mr.
Dufl's daughters. The bank is
Hamilton's home; Traill has rented
a farm adjoining Mr. Duff’s. Tho
fresh air, and exercise, and fishing,
and unlimited golfing, all enforced
on him hy the doctor as the best
medicine, have put an end to the
old banker’s somnambulistic ram
bles.
aw
Arguing with a iiur 0 -!ar.
It is an open question whether wo
men or men are most brave when
“the villainous eentrebits grind on
the wakeful ear in the liusli of the
moonless nights,” but to Miss Stock
ley, of Brighton, belongs the credit
of an elaborate argument, in the
semi-darkness, with a gentlemanly
burglar. The young lady was dis
turbed in her first slumber hy the
unwarantahle intrusion of a re
spectable-looking young man” hi
her bed room, who was busily oc
cupied rummaging over her dress
ing table by the light of a dark lan
tern. “What do you want?” asked
the maiden, undismayed. “Be
quiet,” was the answer of the “en
terprising burglar.” “It's all very
well to tell me to be quiet,” conttn
ued the lady; “but you’ve got my
purse, in your hand I” The thief
pocketed the purse, and proceeded
to ash ’‘Where’s your watch ?” .
Miss Stockley was still alive to the ,
humor of the situation. “Oh ! come
row,” said site, “it’s only Geneva,
and not worth £5; you surely won’t
be so mean ns to take that.” But
the thief pocketed the watch, and
with a courtes) worthy of Claude
Duval, said, “Remember I will send
you the pawn-ticket!” After an
amicable altercation as tn the im- 1
propriety of proceeding to the bed- ‘
room of Alisa Stocicly, who was an '
invalid, the burglar ceased to “bur- .
gle,” and Miss S. went to sleep as if i
nothing had happened. Next i
morning she gave information to
the police, declaring that she could 1
recognize the thief, having exam- 1
ined his countenance with the aid
of the lantern and a friendly gas j
lamp. A young and innocent up-
holster’s apprentice was arrested
who t.ad been employed in putting |
up some blinds in the house of the | ,
prosecutrix; thn supposed burglar, j
when put on tri.fi, was almost in- j
stantly found “not g'uity” by a
sympathetic jury. So the ease is
still enshrouded in mystery.
Said lie, “Lot us be one” and she
was won.
The difference between perseverance
i ami obstinacy is. tb.it one often conies
j from a strong will, and Ibo other from
a strong won't
Life, It Is a strife,
’Tis a Uttftle, 'tis a dream ;
And man is but a little boat
That paddles down the stream.
A man named Howardnf Delaware,
has been sent to Slate prison for five
1 j years for stealing a flat-boat loaded
; with tar. A blacker crime was never
; committed.
It’S hope that keeps our spirits up,
. It's hope that keeps our memories
■green;
It ’s hope that makes out- lives sublime,
It's soap tlint keeps us clean.
If there is any tiling a young man
Considers a disgrace,
It's to have Ills beard referred to
As the down upon his sac Ids
[girl.
“It-isall very well,” said henpeck
ed husband, when told to look after
Die children, “It is all very well to
tell me to mind the youngsters, but it
would suit me better if the youngsters
would mind me.”
Many a young lady who objects lo
being kissed under the mistletoe lias
no orjsetlons to being kissed under the
rose. A careless compositor made an
error in the above, rendering it, “lias
no objections to be kissed under the
nose.”
“There’s one kind of ship I al
ways steer Menr of,” said an old
batchelor sea captain, “and that’s
courtship. There’s always two mates
and no captain.”
Father Boyle, of Washington, ad
dressing a school on the subject of
Easter celebrations, a young miss
asked him: “Father Boyle, whnt is
the origin of Ester eggs?” “A hen,
no doubt, miss,” replied the father,
quietly.
Women in the Island of Lowes
do all the carrying. When they
come to a river or ford, the man
slings the creel upon his back, and
the women carries both the man
and the creel across. What a wife
one of these women would mu|^tl
A Galveston woman is about to
marry her fifth husband. Her
pastor retailed her fi r contem
plating matrimony so soon again.
Weil, I just, want you to under
stand, if the Lord (r/vsthem I will
too,” was the spirited reply.
“I have left all my fortune to my
wife,” said the philosophic hus
band of a grumbling nnd scolding
spouse, “on condition that she
shall marry again.” “What is
that for?” asked his legal aJvisir.
“I wish to be sure that there will he
some one to regret my death when
I am gone,” subl the husband.
A fashionable holy was unexpectedly
left without a servant. She undertook
to make her husband a cup of codec,
but it took «o long lie asked what in
the Halifax was the matter with tlie
eotl'ee. “I don't know,” she said,
bursting into tears, “I’ve boiled them
beans for a whole hour, and they are
no softer now than when 1 first put
’em in the pot.”
‘lf you’ll pick tiie daisies I’ll weave
tiie vlinliis,* was the merry suggestion
of Hie fair and curly liulred little one
to the brown and ruddy cheeked boy
with a pineapple cut. Audit is ever
thus, we thought, the man as well rrs
the hoy pick daises, the woman as well
as the. girl weaves the chains, and the
dai.-ies are while and tiie links golden,
no matter how old we grow.
A voting negro mail, by the name !
of John Arnold, was recently killed in
a shocking manner, at (lie saw mill of 1
J. K. Itoop, nine aud half miles south j
of Carrollton, lie was steadying a log |
at the time, aud his hand slipping, lie j
lost Ills balance, his head being thrown :
forward under the saw, by which it!
was terribly mangled, resulting in j
immediate death, —Haw kins villi; I tis- j
patch.
A young man from tho country, |
having married a city vocalist, i
proudly wrote homa that, his wife I
was a first-class singer, with a re- |
markable voice. “In fact,“he wrote
“she has a Mezzoeoprnno of un- ,
usual [lower and compass.” His
mother immediately answered:
“My sor., that is what your Aunt j
Keziah died of. She waited too;
long before she bad it operated on. j
Don’t delay. Have it cut out at |
once.’
NO. .3,‘S.
Hi rap* Tran ,Inti’d
by j. .r. a.
Polil l' B"proof.—Guest:—“Mad
am, I’l’n:’- ;i raven blackhairin my
ROUp !”
1. milady—“ Well ilo you ex
pect mi'to hire a blonde cook for
I your accommodation ?"
| Mullieinus —"Yea Doctor, my
i d*tter p i segars extraordinary
reach' wit. ftlie’s very witty in*
deed.”
‘1 sill'll not dispute (lie point,
madam, Imt, you must allow mo to
remark, it’s not mother wit,”
To be among wolves and not
howl with them, often places one
in an unpleasant predicament, but
the embarrassment is enhanced
when orio is among sheep and ex
pected to bleat ivi.h them.
Fatal.—'-[rave you heard that
our friend the slater fell from the
roof and was instantly killed?”
“That don’t surprise me, for he
has been loosing bad for some
time.”
Widowed Brother. Lady :
“Kate who was that young man
with whom you were talking so
lrng at the front door last night ?”
“Kata, the cook—“ That—thatt —that, —
that was my elder brother.”
Lady—“ Your brother! Ididnot
know you had a brother living,
what is his name ?”
Kate —“Jacob Feigcly.”
Lady—“ How does it happen that
lie lias not your family name ?”
Kate—“ Why you see, madam,
lie’s been married once.”— Couranl,
(Pa) __
('anuing of a Pox.
Berne fishermen on the west
coast of Ireland were in the habit
of going to n small island in queßt
of bait. The island was inhabited
by n large number of rabbits and
couhl be reached at low tide by
wading, (be water there being only
a few inches deep. One morning
they went (o their boat quite early,
ii being high i'uie, and on’ landing
saw a dead fox lying on live beach.
The fur of the animal was all be
draggled, and he scernod to have
been drowned. One of the inert,
remarking that bis skin was worth
something, pitched him into tho
boat. Procuring their bait they
returned lo the main land, and
the man who luid possessed him
self of the fox seized him by tho
tail and flung him on tho shore.
As soon as the animal struck the
l ank he picked himself up with
eonriderable agility*for a ('end fox,
while the men stood staring at each
other in mute astonishment. The
men ccneulded that he had crossed
over to the island during the night,
when the tide, was low, in search
of rabbits, and finding in the morn
ing that he was rut off from tho
main land, counterfeited death,
with the expectation of thereby
procuring a passage to the shore in
the boat, and an expectation which
was fully realized.
A Cold Blooded Fiend.
A most revolting butchery was re
cently perpetrated in the little town of
< liinii, in M ilne, Charles Merril, a
timid only twcnty-lliree years old, who
Imd cherished an apparently causeless
resentment against his mother, killed •
her with a hammer on February 19th,
cut her hoily to pieces w'tli an axe.
burned some par! of it in a stove and
fireplace, and burled the rest, and in
li, - inlet vals of his ghastly work,
wiii' li oeeiipieil a full week, slept and
ate in apparent peace of mind, and at
tended to the various duties ot the
house and farm. Os course, suspicion
Dually ripened into conviction, anil
last Sunday morning lie was arrested.
He now is supposed to exhibit S' me
regret, hut on the whole, appears trail*
ipiil and contented.
When two young people start
out in life together with nothing
hut a determination to succeed,
avoiding the invasion of each other’s
idiosyncrasies, not currying the
candle near the gunpowder, sym
pathetic with each other’s employ*
tnent. willing to live on small
means until they get large facilities
paying as they go, taking life here
\s a discipline, with four eye?
watching its perils and four hands
flighting its battles—whatever
others may say or do, that is a roy
al marriage. It is so set down in
the heavenly archives, and the
orongo biossom shall wither on
neither side of the grave.