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(StonaHrr’js Jiutqmwlfttt. FEBRUARY 21, 1874. A TALE OF JEWISH FOLK-LORE ItT DR. r. DR 80DA MP.MIhZ The period of our taki in mipponral to be dome time ankecrdotit to the 19th century, for the original in to be found in the Medradi Rabin dli (where it in narrnted by Lab liunna in the name of Hub .Tow ) which was ooiupiled. according to Zulu;, Ivetwoen the 6th and 13th eentnrien. It has found its way, in a modified fonn, into Turkish popular liioratnro (“Master Naemddin'H Pranka”), and German folk lore possesses the same in the collection of naredorffer, Pauli and Haim Kaolin. A rich merchant of JoniKalem lml Ikxiii accustomed to make frequent journey* to Athena on business. tin gradually es tablished a connection there, and mode Urn intimate ac(|uaintuncc of a witty Athenian Jew, named Agathoclea, with Whom he was wont to lodge during bin Sojourn. One day, onr merehnnt, while •laying m imnal with hm friend, fell dan (rcroualy ill, and, fearing the approach of death, called Agathodeu ntul tkua ad dresaed him: “Thou seest the Banda of my life are bear mu out. Death, the great Ucftiier, ia about to gather me, too, from the blooming fields of terrestrial life. Well, m Ood will I lam ready to go. Hut, ill order that the last sigh may escape more easily from this gasping breast, in order that I may slumlier peacefully in another life, receive now my last desires. My j friend, thou knowestl have a sou; alas I ho ia far off, and 1 shall not e :piro in his young arms. Ho is my heir; to him be longs what I have painfully amassed in so many long years. Take, then, this key to my treasury and preserve it for him until he conn* to weep upon my foreign grave. Hut that thou maye.it not be deceived by a utranger, kuow that ho is an especially olaver lad. Indeed, often Ims lie en livened, by many ingenious jokes, the dark hours of tribulation that I have en dured. Givo him this key only when lie Has proved to thee that lie is the rightful lioir, by throe striking proofs of ingenuity aud ready wit.” Thus spake the man of Jerusalem, and breathed his last in the urins of his friend. The sad news of liis death was soon car ried to Jerusalem, and the sou set out to toko possession of the property. The witty Athenian, however, in order to put the youth’s ingenuity to the tost, had re quested all those to whom a Jewish stran ger could lswtsibly apply, to inform him that they did not know such u man as Agatbocios at all, much loss his place of residence. The thoughtless and gay Athenians, over ready for a joke, willingly promised compliance, so that when the young man arrived nobody hud over board of an Athenian Jew named Agathocles, and the stranger lmil to wander long about, the streets in vain. The thought, how ever, soon struck him that such ignorance of the name of a liuir-established and wealthy merchant, such as he knew Aga thocles to bo, eonid not but be pretended, and that, therefore, there was a plot to withold liis father’s property from him. Ho saw that cunning was the only weapon to be employed iti such a case. Ho ac cordingly accosted a wood seller, and asked him if the bundle of wood lying at liis feet was for sale. "Surely, master,” waa the reply. "Why else should I be standing here ?” "Then I will buy it, my man,” said the youth; “here is the money. Carry the bundle to the house of Agathoeles, and •ay the young man from Jerusalem has arrived, and, being unused to this chilly climate, semis a bundle of wood that they may light a fire in his room.” The wood-seller did as he was told, anil Was followod, of course, by the young man, who quickly arrived at tho dwelling he had been seeking all day. All wondered at the sudden arrival, but (ho host bade him heartily welcome and concealed his surprise. It was near din ner time when the young man arrived, and, in duo oourse, they sat down to table, host, host*ns, ,two sons, two daughters ■nd tht guest. Five roasted pigeons were placed before them, and the host requested the guest, ns was usual, to csrvo them. The young man did so, laying one pigeon upon a plate before the husband and wife, one for the two sous, one for tho two daughters, and coolly reserving the re maining two for himself. Enraged at this neglect of tho rules of common politeness, the host asked if this were Jerusalem eti quette. "Not so,” was the calm answer; "I had vsry good reasons for my division. You ana your worthy wife make up one pair, and consequently require but one pigeon to make up tho lucky number throe. Sim ilarly your two sons and two daughters. But 1, alas I am but a single man; aud, therefore, require two to make up that number. Tho host smiled at this ready answer, and agreed within himself to account it as the second proof of ingenuity in his dead friend's son. But one of luh sons, who. perhaps, frequented tho Rchoois of the So phists, desired to air his cleverness, too, and thus addressed the stranger: “Most willingly, friend, would I emn lute my good father, and show thee some \ special honor; but, alas I I have but these two fine oranges. Divido these, I pray ttoee, between thyself, my brother and me, so that each of ns may hate a whole one. For lam desirous of eating one, I prom ised my brother one, and I would honor thee with one surely, an accomplished car ver, as thou art, will find this child's play." “On the contrary, I cannot for tho life of mo execute such a partition,” was the modest reply. “I see, then, thou hast not reached tho acme of ingenuity yet," uud the other with sneering compassion; “for see, I can pcove to thee that those two oranges are three.” "Indeed! I should very much like to h!ar that,” answered the stranger. “See then; I place one orange before my brother, that at one; another I plaee be fore thee, these are two; and this one (tnk ing the brother's) makes three,” The Jerusalem youth smiled approval, and said: “This proof is iudood convinc ing. I confess lam thine inferior in wit, and with deep shame, do I attempt the division thou requ>redst. See, thore is cme orange for thee; there is one for thy brother; here, taking the one from beforo thee, I have one which I cut and eat; k thy brother does likewise; do thou the same with the third one, whose existence thou so wittily didst prove.” A burst of laughter followed this sally, and the host’s son took the earliest oppor tunity of vanishing from the table. Some days after the host who olwerved that the stranger had made rapid progress in his eldest daughter's affections, deter mined to bring matters to a crisis, and to lay before his guest a third problem for solution. ■He accordingly had a single fowl roasted, and requested the stranger again to officiate. To his surprise and chagrin, he received the miserable share of the head, his wife tin- internal giblets, hiss 'ii t'u.’ t'ligus, and hi? daughters the bony wings, while the guest calmly re moved to liis own plate the whole remain ing Isslv. Again, Agathoeles asked if that were Jerusalem manners, and was met witii the same reply, that the young man hud Ills masons for such a division. "I gave thee the head,” ho wild “be cause thou art. the head of the house. Thy wife received the inner parts, for I desired to convey the idea that it is net outward show that biuds us to the weaker sex, but the peaceful character, the amiable quali ties of.tho soul. Mor ovcr, the place of the wifo is not outside,in the noisy street, but at homu in the house’s iuner cham bers, or in the Ciunaikeien, whore she in stills the first precepts of honor to hur daughters. I gave tho nous each a thigh, for they are the sup|Hirters of thy house. Each daughter received a wing, for it is not their destiny to remain in this bouse, but to fly away with their husbands, por chance into distant climes. For myself, I reserved the boat of the bird, for by boat I came hither, and by boat I atu desirous of speedily returning. ” “Hut not without a wing,” said Ag utbocles; “not without a wing, that shall add now speed to thy boat” And he glanced at the fair Athaiah, who bowed her head in blnshes, equalled only by those of tho young stranger. Kisiug from the table, Agathocles joined their hands, “Be blessed, thou man of Jerusalem; 1 perceived thy love for my daughter, and I delayed only till I had received three {iroofs of thy wit. Splendidly hast then lone out thy fnthcr's opinion of thy in genuity. (To now in peace with my daughter, who, in her sphere of tho interior of thine house.can wish for no bet ter haul than tliou art.” The Jack Ketch of Australia. The Pall Mall GnzrtDi of January 7th lias the following: Among other remark able men who passed away in tho year just brought to a close, was one who die served mention ns having, altliouglk born in this country, devoted many years in the antipodes Uf a work of great utility. William Bnmford, who died the other day in Melbourne Hospital, had been hangman of the colony of Victoria since 1857, and also hold the honorable office of pulilio flagellater until seised with an asthmatic attack when Wielding the out. Mr. Haitiford, who was seventy-three years of age when ho died, lmd himself, in the days of his youth, received three hundred lashes whoa serving in the Twenty-third Pusileers, at Gosport, of which regiment ho was a member for twenty years, only loaviug it, indeed, on account of some lr regularity of conduct, which led to his being transported to Van Diomun’s Land, where he, arrived in the Royal Sovereign, in tho year 1841. Having served liis sen tence, ha proceeded to Victoria, to the “diggings,” and remained tin noticed till 1847, wlieu ho volunteered to hang an old murderer mimed Mason, in Melbourne, and from that time until just before his decease, ho executed all tho criminals sen tenced to death in tho colony, with only one exception. It was Mr. Bumford's practice to keep count, and mutter after an execution the number of his fellow- creatures ho had assisted out of the world. After executing a black man at Ballarat, on tho 11th of August last, he was heard to ejaculate in a hoarse whisper: “Sev enty-one. ” In appearance he was not prepossessing, and his claims to personal beauty were not heightened by tho ab sence of one of his eyes, which ho unfor tunately lost in a row at Melbourne about fifteen years ago. His habits were not, strictly speaking, temperate. Yet there must have boon something very "taking" in liis conviviality, for after an execution he was wont to spend his money freely with a “degraded lot,” who were on the lookout for him when ho left the jail. On receiving notice that he would bo wanted for a hanging, he would, with a singular abstemiousness, voluntarily imprison himself for two or three days and sleep off all traces of intoxication. After pinioning aoondemuod criminal, he invariably mur mured in his egr the words “God bless you 1” and on one occasion, when tho man executed died instantaneously, a sweot smile was observed to steal over his face on, leaning over the drop aud looking up at his work, he remarked: "The best job in tho country; that makes forty-seven." A Bostonian’s Nouns Rbvbnok.— The Boston Globe relates the following: "A working girl in this city was engaged, re cently. to be married to a young nian who apimared to bo highly respectable, and indeed was, as tho world looks at th* mat ter. During the existence of the engage ment, however, the girl’s father died, and that event placed her in n very trying po sition. The support of her family, which consisted, bosido herself, of her mother aud two or throe small children, devolved upon her and a little brother, who was old enough to do work ns an errand boy, and thus contribute something. She con sidered it her duty to provide for her mother aud the littlo ones, and, if si e married, their maintenance would fall on her husband. Tho latter she was unwil ling to have occur, oven if her intended husband would accept tho charge, which she doubted, and sho therefore told him that tho engagement was at an end. Ho, not knowing why sho took this oourse, as sho was too high-spirited to tell him, sup posed that lie had been supplanted by a rival, and vowed vengeauce. Sho was alarmed by this threat, thinking that ho would do her bodily harm, but the course which be took was far different. He in veigled the little brother iute committing a criminal offense, for which he was sent to a place of juvenile reformation, thus taking from the family wlmt little support was derived fro® tho boy’s work. The girl, unaided, is now supporting the family, and her ease is but one of niauy.” A Lucky Hit.—A French nobleman observing his tenant about is destroy a flue thrifty pear tree, inquired the cause, lie was told that it was a chance seedling, and had borne no fruit in twenty-live years. He bad already out its roots pre paratory to the first stroke; but was or dered to let it remain. He did so, and in the following year it was loaded with superb fruit of an entirely uukuown va riety, wbiob at onco became celebrated. The root-pruning the gardener had given it worked like a charm. Not many years afterward the Dnehesse d’Augoulesne was passing through Lyons and its inhabitants sent, to her their hospitalities. Nine fair maidens presented' the Duchosse with golden salvers, on which lay heaped this precious fruit, and begged her to bestow on it her name; and the pear now recog nized as the crowning glory of nil fruits was thenceforward known as the Duchosse d’Ango dome. The San Francisco Bulletin says there pro two or three thousand outlaws in the mountains of California, who live by rob bery and violence. They occasionally make n raid tn some village and strip it of valuables. They arc quite secure from arrest in their mountain fastnesses. Envy is a littleness of soul which cannot seo beyond a certain point; and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded. BUSINESS CARDS. UsSunteT ATTORNEY AT LAW, QUITMAN, BROOKS COUNTY, GEORGIA. —o Will practice In the Counties of the Hoc then; Circuit, Echols and Clinch of tho UrtlnsWrok, and Mitchell of tho Albany. wOffioo at tho Court House. janriß-tf J, S. N. 8 NOW, DENTIST, Quitman, - - * - - Georgia, Office Up Stain, Finch’s Corner. aug2B-4m w. . BEwmsrr. s. t. sraosnsssr BENNETT & KIN6SBERRY, Attorneys at Law Q UITMA N, Brooks County, • Georgia. Jane2B-tX EDWA&D R. HARDEN. Attorney n,t Law, QUITMAN, BROOKS COUNTY, • • GEORGIA Late mi Associate Justice Supreme Court U. 8. for Utah and Nebraska Territories; now i .ldg County Court, IVooka Couuty, Oft. may24-12mo DR. E. A. JELKS, PRACTISING! PHYSICIAN, Quitman, (fa* OFFICE—Brink buildini; adjoining tho store of Messrs, llriggig Jelks A Cos., Sorovoti street. MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. D. W. PRICE, MERCHANT TAILOR, QUITMAN, GA, Would Inform tho citizens of Qnitman and snr rounding country, that bo has juatoponed a FIRST CLASS MERCHANT AND TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT IN QUITMAN, AUD UAH OH HAND A SINK DOT Oil CLOTHS AJfD CABBIM RUK9, SUITABLE FOB MAKING DRESS AND BUSINESS SUITS. He has also on Hand a Select Stock of READY MADE CLOTHING. CUTTING, CLEANING —AJTTV** REPAIRIN G DONE OH BHOBT NOTICE. ter PRICES MODER ATE. CREECH & NEWSOM, DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, Liquors, Flonr, Bacon, etc. QVITMAN. GA. moylO-tf MISCEI.I.A NEO US A D VER TISEM ENTS. BRIGGS, JELKS & CO~, DKALi.na kn Drugs and Medicine*, Family Groceries. Hardware, Crockery, Dry Goods, Dueuertie sed Foreign, Millinery Goods, Boots and Shoe*, Hats, Clothing, Notions, etc. WHICH WE WILL SELL STRICTLY FOR CASH —AM® A*— CASH VALUE. Farmers’ I*rmlar, when pgirhaard by rotuMercd ifCAKH. HENRY F. MABBETT 31 an agt-r. Jntiell-tf IWOUJJJ RESI'ECTEUI.LY CALL THE AT TENTION of tlie citizen* of Brooks and the adjoining couuties, to my large and scieei stock of DRY GOODS, BOOTS AND SHOES, IIA R D W Alt 13 GROCERIES, Etc., Etc., All of which will be ohl npon REASONABLE TERMS and at LOWEST PRICES. —o I would algo call tha attention of Plan torn to my LARGE STOCK OK FARM IMPLEMENTS, Buch M TLOWB, CIEYICES, HEEL BOLTS, GRAIN FANS, cte., etc These goods will be sold at MANUFACTURER S PRICES, With Freight Added. - GIVE ME A CALL “6* JOHN TILLMAN, Jnlvs-tf NEW STOCK. The undersigned having purchased in person in the Eh stern Cities, a large and well assorted stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE, is now prepared to offer peculiar inducements to bis many customers and the public generally. His sti>ek embraces a complete variety of Dry Goods, Ready Made Clothing, * Hats, Caps, Hoots and Shoes, Hardware, Tinware. Crockery and Glass ware, All kinds of Woodware and A COMPIJETK ASSORTMENT OF FAMILY GROCERIES. nil of which he offers on the most reasonable terms. D. It. CKEECH. 9. i'tV.O.IU MISCELLA NEO US Ah VEIiTISEMENTS. SALE and LIVERY STABLE Quitman, Ga> fJMIE UNDERSIGNED KEEP ON HAND SADDLE HORSES, HARNESS HORSES, BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, Ect., etc., For At AccummtxLdiim qf the Public. THEY ALSO KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND A Good supply of Hornes and Mules for Sale. SELECTED D V ONE OF THE FIRM, And Always Purchased on Slice Tertis as to Enable Them to Sell at tho Lowest Prices, PERSONS DESIRING TO PURCHASE SADDLE OR HARNESS HOUSES Can be Supplied upon Short Notice If not on hand, If ft description of the .took wanted in left a, the Stable the order Will be filled ill a few nay*. CECIL K THRASHER. mnj-17-tf rAINE&HALL, Haying recently mwiEiYED a lajige Mid well assorted stock of General Merchandise, Consisting of DRY GOODS, READY MADE CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES, Etc., ALSO A large and well Belccted stock of Family and Fancy Groceries. Oaring to the great financial pressure, we hare determined to sell goods at PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. Extraordinary bargains can now be obtained FOli CASH. We will take anv kind of produce in exchange for goods, or in payment of accounts. We will also take certificates of deposit on the Bavannah Banking and Trust Company. All of our customers are earnestly requested to come forward at once and make settlements of tlicir accounts. oct2s-3ra DEDELL & CO., Liquor 1> eale rs ; ASD TOBACCO AGENTS, 140 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GA. nov29-tf M FITZGERALD, (ESTABLISHED 1850,1 Manufacturer and Wholesale and Betail Dealer in CANDIES, CORDIALS, STROPS, Fancy Confectionary, Ac. 180 Bryan St., Between Barnard and Jefferson Streets, Savannah, Ga uur2-I< SA VA NNA H AI) VER TISEM ENTS. (with uitbbt urrevunom.) FOR 20 YEARS THE Standard of Excellence THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Over 750,000 lu Use. If you think of buying a Sewing Machine it will pay you to examine the record* of those now ia tine and profit by experience. The Wkwln Ik Wllaon Stand, alone a. IK* only Light Banning Machine, n.lng the Rotary Hook, making n Lock Stitch, alike on both eidea of the fabric sewed. All "battle machine* waste power in drawing the .battle hack after the stitch is formed, bringing doable wear end strain Upon both machine and operator, ncuce. while other machines rapidly wear out, the Wheeler it Wilson Last, a Lifetime, ul d proves an economical investment. l)o not believe all that is promised by so-called “Cheap" machines, you should require proof that years of use have tasted their value. Money once thrown away cannot be recovered. Bond for our circulars. Machines sold on easy terms, or monthly paymonts taken. Old Machines put in order or received In exchange, j WHEELER A WILSON MKO CO.'S OFFICES: i Havansah, Augusta, Macon and Colnmbns, Oa. W. 8. Claim, Gen. Agt., Savannah, Oa. j m&yfil-llm JOHN M. COOPER 4 00, SaVannali, Oa. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN BOOKS AND STATIONERY. Keep constantly on hand a large assort ment of ,WINCKLL,ANEO IS, STANDARD AND SCHOOL BOOKS. Snnifny Lit*'*trie* furnished on the most liberal UTini Irifh the latest and IrtLSi Knylish PulAicutivns. 15 I 15 L E S, Pocket, Family and Pulpit, In Gftftt Variety. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, SCRAP BOOKS. Any books sent by mail on receipt of price. maVM-tf BKF.SXAVN EUROPEAN HOUSE, Nos. 156, 158, 160 and 182, Bryan St, SAVANNAH, GA. rnHE PROPRIETOR HAYING COMPLETED 1 tho necessary addition* aud improvement*, eon uow offer t%nia guests ALL THE COMFORTS TO RE OB TAIN ED A T OTHER HOTELS AT LESS THAU HALF THE EXPENSE. A Restaurant on the EUROPEAN PLAN ha* been added, Whefe guest* can, All Order whatever can be olitaiuod in the market. Rooms, with Uaoril, SI SO per day. Determined to be OUT DONE BY NONE " I can ak i* a TRIAL, confident that complete satisfaction will be given. <* M-tf JOHN BREBNAN, Propri. to GEORGE APPLE, DEALER IN CLOTHING, II A T S, CA P S, Gent’s Famishing Goods, BOY'S SLOTHING, TRUNKS, VALISES, Boots and Bhoes, No. 162 Bryan Street, Market Square, tVDEU DRESS AN'S HOTEL, Savannah 6a. atig2-tf SAVANNAH ADVERTISEMENTS. l. Dxwrrr. ilmobgaw. T. 8. SANFORD. DeWITT, MORGAN 4 CO, 130 Congress Ht., SAVANNAH, - • - GEORGIA, DEALERS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, WTTILL, ON Ist OF SEPTEMBER. COM W MKNCE opening their Pill and Wmtaf stock, and will offer the same far CASH oa tbs most reasonable terms. DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS and CLOAKS, QUILTS and TOWELS, , * EMBROIDERIES and GLOVES, Woolen goods, for GENT'S abd HOYS, Full stock of PLANTER’S SUPPLIES, I)R. 11. COX, LIVE STOCK, SLAUGHTERED MEATS, AfrtP- I* It O I > IT c R COMMISSION MERCHANT -*M>— PURCHASING AGENT, 8A VANN AH, GEORGIA. -—■■ -ox* - Stock Lot*, WILLIAM AND WEST BROAD STENTS, o:o- Produce Depot IN BASEMENT OF CITY MARKET —am cosimishti os BEEF CATTLE, MILCH COWS, SHEEP, HOGS, G A Ml, DRESSED MEATS, Ac., A<b, —Ai.no— POULTRY. EGGS, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, MELONS, SUGAR. SYRUP. HONEY, HIDES, TALLOW. A<. RESPECTJTULLT SOLICITED. anglft>tf MAMET SQOA£E BOOSE VALENTINE BASLEN, (Successor to hi* brother Antony Bailer) THE WELL KNOWN TEN PIN ALLEY, At the Old Stand, 174 Bryan St, OPPOSITE THE MARKET, Continues to keep on hand the best of Brandies, Whiskies, Wines, Ales, AND ALL OTHER LIQUORS, Mjr Foreign Liquor* are all of my own Impor tation. QgO-tf MARSHALL HOUSE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA A. B. LUCE, Proprietor, BOARD, 83 00 Per Day. außie-tf