Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

fif t iurn mnrnriintuT um.uMrtkiio mucrtnutnl, I’jJ-UUSitiJJ EVEUV Saturday ax 4'uitman, BY J. C. GALLAHER. TUKHt OF *il )IS< RIPTION ■ TWO DOLLARS per Annum in Ailranoe. A MARVELLOUS CURE. BY Cl.kllA AtOUSTA. For fourteen years anil upwards Mrs. Maria Chesford had been an invalid. Her sufferings had been intense. No person on earth had ever endured one fortieth part so much lut she had, if one could take her word in evidence. Job, in the days when liis boils were jnst coming ton head, knew nothing, of pain, comparatively speaking. You never heard of any disease, aud you will never hear of one which at some time or other hail not alllioted Mrs. Ches ford; ip fact, many of the uew diseases, which puzzled medical men to account for, Mrs, ('hesfurd originated, aud might claim a patent for if only she would make application. Ofjtspurse she doctored. Every physi cian for a circuit of forty miles around had ■ bee recalled to attend her at some time or I other; aud if a uew quack was heard of any where Mrs. Chesford was not content until she had made trial of his skill. But io good ever resulted from anything of the kind. She was always dying, but soraehojv she never accomplished it Aud if voti arc an observant person, you have doubtless noticed that people who are al ways (lying live to be ninety at least. Siclj, people—that is, people who are sick all their lives, never die except from old age: your well robust people die early. Mr. Chesford was a martyr. The poor man led a terrible life of it, thnngh he had been in a measure hardened to it, and did not mind it so very much. Ho was a tull> lean, sandy-haired man, with a washed out aspect generally. He had been so ac customed to the thought of a death in the family that he wore a funeral face contin ually, and might have made his fortune in some countries by hiring out to do ser vice as chief mourner. Sometimes his wife’s complaints grew so clamorous that he had to get up in the night and go for u doctor, who would come wlicu he got ready, administer a bread pfll or two, and take leave. “David! David!” screamed Mrs. Ches ford, one cold night in Fobuary, just as Mr. Chesford had fulleu asleep and was dreaming of finding a gold-mine. “Da vid, 1 say! It’s at hand! The great change is nigh! Oh, David! do stop that snoring and w'ufec upl I do believe you’d lay there fflt.l snore if the List trumpet was a tooting! David! I say, David I” “Umpli!” grunted Mr. Chesford, turn ing ovcj on the other side. “Do try and lay still# Miriab! I’m awful sleepy,” and in a moment he was snoriug again, a-veed!" cried she digging her elbows into his ribs in a way not to he borne. “I tell you I’m a dying I I’m growiug cold now! My feet is like ice, and if there was a light you’d see that my finger nails have turned purple!” “Eh? well go to sleep! you’ll lie better in the morning,” said the unfeeling Da vid. “I- won’t go to sleepl I’m a dying! David. 1 want to tell you my last wishes. Lay me out in iny black silk dress, and don’t let ’em put any eamfire on me! I hate tqe smell of eamfire! And, David, don’t. Java no cents put on my eyes; if you must put on anything put on silver dollars,, And now, David, I want to see Aunt Jenkins. I bavo something to say to her. Go as quick as you can or I shall be dead before she gets here.” David attempted to put her off with ex cuses, but she would not be denied, ami the poor man was under the neceaily of doing her bidding, It was a biting cold night, and Mr. Chesford was not in extra ordinary good humor at being forced out of a warm bed to breast tho chill north easter. So when ho reached Mrs. Jenk ins’ residence he gave a thundering rap on the dour, as if that obstacle tojliis entrance was in someway guilty of causing him this unpleasant walk. Jenkins’ folks wore timid, and lived somewhat in fear of being robbed. Tom, the oldest boy, kept a gnn loaded, and kept likewise a fierce dog. At the first sound of the rapping, Tige rushed but, and seizing Mr. Chesford by the leg upset him into a barrel of rain wa ter justbelow the doorstop, and before ho had finished swearing, and crawling on! of his impromptu bath, Tom up with the window and let fly the contents of the gun. Fortuuately, Mr. Chesford was down so low that the charge passed harm lessly over him, and he hadn’t lime to discharge a round volley of imprecations at Tom before he could load again. robbers! murdeii arson!” serai in ed Mrs. Jenkins’. “Do stop your noise!” said David more i emphatically than politely—“l haiu’t no robber, nor an arson! Nary one. I came after you, Anut Jenkins —” “Oh, well! you hold on until I get my I petticoat and my false front on, and I’ll j unbar the door.” So Mr. Chesford wait ed, and presently Aunt Jenkins appeared. I David explained that his wife thought she j was dying, and that she wanted to see, Aunt Jenkins. “Ofa, is that all?” said Aunt Jenkins placidly. I didn’t know but your cow bad Jfot choked, or the pig was took with the blind staggers. You come in and warm yourself, and have a drink of cider. Ma liuiril do well enough.” Mr. Chesford was probably of her opin ion, for he went in, and Mr. Jenkins got .up, and" the two sat over the fire and talk fabout the election, and the “tarual cold : until day dawn. ' Then Aunt- VOL. 11. Jenkins concluded she would go over and | ‘'chirk Mariah up a little,” aud when they | arrived at the house of death they found j Mariah up aud dressed aud getting brouk j fast. But such a “blessing” as she gave them j botht It was enough to convince any one i that her lungs were sound. In March, Fanny Barton, M r - Ches | ford’s cousin, a wide-awake, rosy checked, little, old maid, came to make them a j visit. Of course, Mrs. Chesford was very ■ poorly, she always was when there was j any one to listen to her complaints. It did not hike Fanny long to under stand the position of allairs iu the family, j Mrs. Chesford had a series of ill turns, iu i the course of the week she went through ; with yellow fever, measles, seorfula, small ! put, cholera morbus, neuralgia aud cou- I jestion of the brain, to say nothing ol j slight attacks of heart complaint, puourno | uia and billions jaundice. Oue day Fanny took Mr. Chesford aside I and half an hour’s serious conversa tion with him. At the close of the inter view he looked almost elieerful, and Fanuy was jubilant. That evening when Mrs. Chesford set up the customary cry that she was dying, Fanny joined with her cordially, aud en tered into the making of her will with great evident relish. She also suggested that tho sick woman should have her hair crimped when she was laid out, aud that she should be buried in a metalic coffin. Mrs. Chesford looked very much discon certed, hut did not explode, as Fanny expected she would. She kept her teui- per. The next day she made another attempt at dying. Fanny stood by the bedside and asked Mr. Chesford a very audiblo question about a board to lay her out ou; and Mr. Chesford replied quite as audibly that he had always calculated to use the wood-shed door. He had it off from the hinges two mouths, he said, for this very purpose. The dying woman looked daggers at him, und uttered u groan which might have been beard a quarter of a mile off. Mr. Chesford put Ills arm around Fan ny’s waist, and kissed her. “Never mind, doar,” said he, “she’s too far gone to notice anything. Her eyes are set, now." Mrs. Chesford sprang up in bed, and shook her list at him. “Set, inde<Al!” said she. “Sit! I’ll learn you what set is if yon don’t ” “Don’t exert yourself,” said Fanny, “don’t! And don’t worry about tho chil dren! I’ve promised David that 111 boa mother to them when yon are gone.” “Of course, I am sorry to lose you, Ma riah," said Mr. Chesford, “but you are such a great sufferer, it is wicked to want you to live. And you uro getting old, too.” “Eh?” said Mrs. Chesford, sharply; “old, eh? You want a young wife? do ye? She’s every day as old as 1 am. ” “She wanders,” said Fanny, pityingly. “Poor soul! She’s almost gone! Hadn’t you better step out David, und ask Mrs. Hanscoml) to como over and help dress the body. "Ob, Fanny! my dearest girl! to think I shall so soon he free!” cried Chesford, raptnously, and then thou will bo mine!” Mrs. Chesford bounded to the floor, and snatching her gown from the footboard, put herself inside it in a twinkling. Seizing a bottle of smelling salts, which happened to be the only weapon at baud, Mrs. Chesford hurled it at the head of her husband, ami so accurate was her aim that the looking-glass on the opposite side of the room was put out utterly. “Darn the looking-glass!” cried the la dy, “who kcers for a looking-glass? I’ll laru you how to plot what you’re a-going to do after I’m dead! I’ll laru you! you— you —you!” und unable to express herself in words. Mrs. Chesford had recourse to the bot tle again, aud wushes, liniments, ready re lief, pain killer, and preparations innumer able fo.lowed. ouch other in quick succes sion, hurled iu the direction of the de voted pair! “You’re a-going to take keer of my children, be you? You tnrn-np-uosed old maid, yon! I’ll see you in Halifax fust. And you’re a-guiug to lay roe out on the wood-shed door, be you, Dave Chesford? And you've kept it off the hiuges two months a-purpose, have ve?” “You said you was a going to die,” said David, “and I thought it was best to be prepared.” “I ain’t a-going to die! I won’t, I wouldn’t if anybody would give me a mill ion! I’ll live iu spite of ye! And as for yon, Fanny Barton, you may take your things and leave this house, bag and bag gage, or it’ll be the worse for ye!” Henry Wilberforce Brown, Widower. He was at the Central station last night, in cell No. li. He wasn’t drunk, and he looked so neat and clean that a reporter was led to inquire why he was detained as a prisoner. Henry Wilberforce Brown is a widower, sixty-three years of age, and lives iu Kent county, where he owns a farm. He arrived here ou tire Sunday night train f,,r the purpose of hunting a wife, and early Monday morning he start ed out. He didn’t intend to lose any time, hut as soon as he found the light sort of a woman meant to go to a justice, have the knot tied, and start for home. At the corner of Woodward and Jeffer son avenues, he encountered a smart look ing young girl, and he stopped her and sai.l: “Miss, xuy name is Henry Wilberforce QUITMAN, (tA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1875. llrowu. 1 lam the father of three children, have horses, cows and a farm, aud I want a wife. I like your appear ,” She jumped away from him aud ran across I lie street, and he decided that she wouldn't make a good wife anyway. Ho meandered up as far as Earned street be fore he saw another face that suited him, aud he halted the woman aud said: “Lady, my name is Heury VVilberforce Brown. lam the father of three children, own a nice farm, have lots of money, and I want to marry. You are a mighty hand some woman, aud it you will say the word we'll go and git ” • “Sill" she said, as she stepped back; “sir! you are a drunken old fool!” “You wouldn’t suit me—too much tem per!” ho replied, aud ho waved his hand at her aud passed ou. Ho was gazing at tiie city hall when n portly female catuo sailing around the cor ner of Michigan avenue, and the widower took off' his hat, made a low bow, and as she halted and wondered who he was, he said: “Madam, I am Henry YVilberforoo j Blown. lam the father of three children, I have horses, cows, and a farm, and I am | looking for a wife.” “Sirl” she gasped, retreating a little. “Oh! no offense, madam!” he went on. “I am looking for a wife, and perhaps you can assist me. If so, I will send you a hull lot of produce to pay for your trouble. 1 didn’t waut to marry you, because you are too stout, aud I know that stout women are often as lazy as tho day is long; but perhaps you can toll mo of some nice lit tie——” “You old wretch!” she shrieked; “you ought to be lashed to the bone with a raw hide! If I could see a policeman (looking around) I’d have you in jail in live min utes. ” Henry Willierforce Brown was some what discouraged by Iris failures, but he concluded that patience and perseverance would bring him success before uoou, and he walked around the Opera house block. He carefully noted every passing female, and it was half an hour before lie found ono to suit. He thought he had, perhaps, been too bold with tho others, and so when he stopped this oue he inquired: “Miss, you know lots of women in Detroit, don’t you?” “What!” she asked, iu amazement. “This is nice weather to go on a bridal tower!” he continued, giviug her a power ful wink with his left eye. Site ran into a store, supposing him drunk or crazy, and, after a little reflec tion be decided that the boldest way was the best. He would state his business frankly, aud then if they didn’t want to marry him there would be no time lost. He started for tho market, hut on Monroe avenue he encountered another female, whose face suited his idea, and ho walked right up to her and said: “Miss, I am the father of three farms, and my name is Henry Wilberforce Brown. I own children, several cows, aud I want to ffinl a ” “Police!” hlio screamed, striking at him with her umbrella. “Oh! no offense, madam; if you are en gaged .” “Po-leoou!” she shouted, fighting him back. “My name is Heury Wilboforce B ,” lie was going on, when several men grabbed him, and an officer came running up and tore Iris coat-coUar and flopped him around and walked him to tho station. These, briefly told, are tho reasons why Henry Wilberforce Brown, widower, oc cupied cell No. G last night. A Rich Scene in blew York. Tho serenade to the king of the Sand wich Islands to night brought out many iudierouo incidents. The committee of the board of alderman appointed to re ceive King Kalakaua had become as drunk as Toodles. While awaiting in Jersey City the arrival of the train from Wash ington, they adjourned to the benzine shops near the Pennsylvania railroad depot and took in a supply of Jersey lightning to steady their nerves to receive with becoming dignity tho copper-colored potentate, whose presence was to shed such a blaze of glory. At the Winsor hotel to-night the Ninth regiment bund put in an appearance shortly after!) o'clock to serenade the king. An immense throng had assembled in front of the hotel. During tire playing of the first air the king and suite appeared on the balcony. Kulukaua’s features became like a newly polished mahogany table. Ho seemed pleased with himself and his surround ings. Parties of female beauty clustered iu the corridors of the hotel, iu the parlor and on the balcony, and siied a lustre ou the scene. Two brilliant calcium lights illuminated the avenue for a quarter of a mile. The first air over, old McCafferty, chairman of the reception committee oi the board of - aldermen, staggered to the side of the king aud, leaning over the balcony, swayed to and fro in a manner which alarmed his friends for his safety, and looked ominous for whataoevej life insurance company he had a policy iu. Alderman McCafferty, “a desciudeut of kings and princes, be jabers,” spoke as oilows: “Mr. chairman, aud numbers of the boord of alderman.” [Laughter.] A friend at his el ow—Damn it, Mac, what the h—l are you talking about? Bay, ladies and gentlemen.” Alderman McCafferty, smiling a good natured, alcoholic smile, aud giving a plunge ahead against the life insurance interest, taking the hint —Ladies and gen tlemen: Allow me to introduce to you my fri nil, King David—roaring laughter, Kalakaua smiling amusedly, ‘while McCaf ferty glared iu astonishment, and the ai dcmianio friend at his elbow said, “H—l, Mao, call him Calico.” McCafferty, who had evidently been seeking information in regard to the pronunciation of the poten tate’s name, corrected himself in the fol lowing fashion; [I mean Mr. Chairman— that is, ladies and gentleman—to give his majesty his full title.. Let me introduce to yon King David Kalak-.i-a. [Hoars of laughter.] As members of the common council [Pause and laughter]—as citizens of New York, yon will listen patiently to wlmt the king has to say. He will now address yon. Mr. Kalakaua, let mo intro duce- you. The crowd laughed and cheered, and his majesty smiled and puffed his cigar. He lmd no speech to make. He listened to another air, and then retired to his own rooms. The baud continued playing un til after 10 o’clock. McCafferty and his aldermanie friends adjourned to take a drink. Now is a good time to buy thermom eters. They are lower now than they have been since last i-p.ing^ IA BibleJCauvassor’a Talk witii a Fiddler. A Bible cunvAH<r called iu a house on Macouib street yesterday to see if bo couldn’t sell a book. A small lame girl opened the door in answer to his knock, aud just as he entered a man sitting ou the edge of a forlorn-looking bed raised a fiddle to bis shoulder, and commenced scraping out a tone. “Have you a bibio in the house?” asked the canvasser, as In* crossed tho room. “Nary Bible/' answered the m.m; “and— Old Dan Tucker Drenmpt a dream!” “Or a hymn book?” continued tho can vasser. “No, nary; and— “lf you love nre, Mollie, darling, Let your answer boa kiss.” “1 am agent for the sale of this Bible,” said tho canvasser, taking tho volume out of bin satchel. * “Couldn’t buy one cover, and- Oh, darkies how mv heart grows weary, Sighing for th.' old folks at home. ’ “I can soil you the book for a small amount down and the balance iu weekly payments. A great many—” “Bibula are uil light, but I’ve got a sore foot, and— ’Twas a cjilhT, still night, And the moon’s pale light.” “If you do not Care to road tho book yourself you should not refuse your child permission,” remarked the eanvassor. “And the old woman’s up stairs, sick with the fever, and They took her oil to Georgia To toil her life away.” “But it seems hard lo think that you are permitting yourself and family to jive iu ignorance of religious—” “Bibula is all light, and I’d encourage ’em if times wasu’t so blasted Ha! ba! lm! yon aud me. Little brown jug. don't 1 love iheo.” “I have a smaller ediliou like this. You can have that by paying 50 emits down aud 25 cents per week until puid up.” “No use stranger,” replied the man; “there luiiur nothing to do, money is tight, and— I’ve wandered this wild world All over.” “I wish you would cease that fiddling and Binging for a moment, and let mo talk to you,” said the agent. “Bibula is all tight, you is all right, and— Oh! this world is sad and dreary, Everywhere 1 roam!” “Won’t you stop for just one mo ment?” “I’d like to oblige, but now’s my regu lar time for fiddling aud singing, and— Up iu a balloon, buys, Up in a balloon,” “Then I can’t sell you a Bible?” “I)on t look as if you could, for I’ve wandered through the vihago Tom, I’ve sat beneath the tree.” Aud the canvasser leit mo house iu de spair. LEE S SURRENDER. Itid AUCOUIii tM !*’ itlovniUHlk AIVUIIU Ajipumut l.o x Court lloutfc. [ltemiuiHcencoß by lU v. J. W. Jouoh.] The followiug tetter Luh been made public for the first time in Mr. Jones’ reminiscencea of the lute war, says the Ad vertiser: * KilA.lt Aitumattox Court IToube, Va., I A]nil 12, lbl&. j liis Excellency Jefferson Davis: Mr. President: It i with pain that 1 unnouno to your Exeelloncy the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, The uperafcioiiß which preceded this result wiU be reported in lull. I will therefore now only state, that upon arriving at Amelin Court Hotiße upon the morning of the re treat from the lines in front of Richmond and Petersburg, and not finding the sup plies ordered to be placed there, nearly twenty-four hours were lost in endeavor ing to collect in the country Buhsistcncc for men and horses. This delay was fatal, and could not be* retreived. The troops, wearied by continued lighting and march ing for several days and nights, obtaining neither rest nor refreshment, and on mov ing on the sth on the Kichn opd and Dan ville Railroad, I found at Jetersvijlo the enemy’s cavalry, and learned the approach of his infantry and the g<-ut ml advance of the army toward liorkeviile. This de prived us of the use of the railroad, and rendered it iuipiad icable to procure from Danville the supplies ordered to meet us at points of our march. Nothing could be obtained from the adjacent country. Oui route to the .Roanoke was fchereiore chang ed, and tli3 march directed upon Farm, ▼die, where* supplies were ordered from Lynchburg. The change of route threw the troops over the road purs id by th< artillery and wagon trains, west of tin railroad, which impeded our advance and embarrassed our movements. On the morning of the (ith Gen. Long street’s corps re :ehed 4r iiice , ►t itiou, on the Lynchburg Railroad. It was followed by the commands of Generalsf{. If. An derson, Dwell and Gordon, with orders to close upon it as fast as the progress of tin trains would permit, or as they would be directed, on roads further west. Gen. Anderson, commanding Pickett 8 and !. 11. Johnson’s divisions, become dincoii nected with Mahone’s division, forming the rear of Longstreet. The enemy's ea\ - airy penetrated the line of march through the intervals thus left, and attacked the wagon train moving toward Fumiviik*. This caused serious delay in the march of 1 the centre and rear of the column, and eu-1 ablod the ererny to mass upon their think. J After successive attacks, Anderson’s or Ewell’s corps were captured or driven from their position. The latter General, with both of his division commanders, Kerslmw and Custis Leo, and his Briga dier, were taken prisoners. Gordon, who all the morning, aided by Gen. W. F. Lee’s cavalry, had checked the advance of tho enemy on the road from Amelia Spring.*, and protected the trains, became exposed to bis combined assaults, which be bravely resisted and twice repulsed; but the cavalry having been withdrawn to another part of the hue of march, and the enemy massing heavily on his front and both thinks, re newed the attack about <3 p. m., and drove him. from the field in much confusion. The army continued its march during the night, and every effort w m made to reor ganize the divisions, which had been shut tered by the day’s operations; but, the m<*u being depressed by fatigue and hun ger, many threw away their arms, while others followed the wagon trains and em barrassed their progress. On the morn ing of the 7th rations were issued to the troops ub they passed Fanuvilie, but the | safety of tho trains requiring their remov al upon the approach of the enemy, nil could not be supplied. Tho army reduced to two corps, under liongaUeet and Gordon, moved steadily on the rood to Appomattox Court House; thence its march was ordered by Camp bell Court House, through Pittsylvania towards Danville. The roads were wretch ed and the progress slow. By great effort the head of the column reached Apponmt j tux Court House on the evening of the 6th, . aud the troops were halted to rest. The j march Was ordered to la* resumed at one a. m. on the fitli. Fit/. Lee with the oav i alrv, supported by Gordon, was ordered i thrive the enemy from his front, wheel j to the left, and cover the passage of the trains, while Longs!reel, who, from llice’s ! station, had formed the rear guard, should I fume up and hold the position. Two bat talions of artillery and the ammunition wagons were directed to follow they army; the lost of the artillery aud wagons to move towards Lynchburg. In the early : part of tho night the enemy attacked Wal ker’s artillery train near Appomattox sta j lion, ou tho Lynchburg ltniilruud, ami 1 were repulsed. Shortly afterwards the cavalry dashed j toward tiie Court House, til! halted bv our lino. During the night there nore ill<lieu fions of a large force massing on our left and front, l’itz Lee was . rderod to us certain its stivugt.h, and to suspend his advance till daylight it necessary. About 5 a. m., on the 9th, with Gordon on his left, he moved forward and opened the way. A heavy force of the enemy was discovered opposite Gordon’s right, which, moving in the direction of Appomattox Court, House, drove back the left of the cavalry and threatened to cut off Gordon from Lougstreet, lii.s cavalry at tho same time threatening to envelop his left flank. Gordon withdrew across the Appomattox j river, and the cavalry advanced on the | Lynchburg road and became neparaled | from the army. Learning the condition I of atVairs on the lines where I had gone, i under the expectation of meeting Gen. j Grant, to learn definitely the terms he I proposed in a communication received | from him on the Bth, in the event of the surrender of the army, I required pen si on of hostilities until these terms could be arranged. In the interview which occurred with (leu. Grunt, in compliance with my request, terms having been agreed on, I surrendered that portion oi the Army of Northern Virginia which was on the j lieid, with its arms, artillery, and wagon trains, the officers and men to be paroled, retaining their side arms and private ef fects. 1, deemed this course tlm best under all the circumstances by which we were sur rounded. On the morning of the 9th, no cording to the reports of the ordinance oJKcers, there were 7.892 organized infant ry with arms, with an average oi 7o rounds of ammunition per mun. The artillery, though ledllced to lid pieces, wit 1* 93 rounds of* ammuiiit ion, w.n anflicient. These comprised all the supplies of ordi nance that could be relied on in the Slate lof Virginia. J have no accurate report, of I’ i lie cavalry, but believe it. did not exceed 2,100 elleePvc men. The enemy was more than five times via 1 number. If \v eoiiul have forced our way one day longer it would have been at a great, sacrifice o! liie in tin* end, and 1 did not see how a surrender could have la en avoided. \W had no subsistence for man or horse, and i* could not be gathered in the country. The supplies ordered to l’amplin station from Lynchburg could not reach me, and '.lie men, deprived of food and sleep for uiuny days, were worn out and exhausted. With great respect, lour obedient servant, 11. E. Lee, General. • -4.0 An Incident. Home twenty live years ago there cnnic to Crawfordvitie, Georgia, a poor irish man, following tin. avocation of a ditcher. Ha remained in Crawfordvillo for Home years, during whirl, time ho married a woman by whom ho Inal three children, two hoi:a and a daughter. A few years prior to the war tho ditcher left ostensibly on a visit to Augusta, but to the sorrow of his wife, and the consternation of the village of which lie was a respected, al liougli sometimes u rolickin citizen, lie never returned. 'J oe newspapers were tilled with “notices” ol Ids'departure, yet not a word was ever heard from the wan dering son of the Emerald Isle. A few weeks ago, Hon. Alexa. del' Ji. Stephens was notified through the Hlate Department that they had notice of the death in Buncos Ayres of and American citizen, who had left him a legacy. Mr. .Stephens called at the Department, whore ho was received most kindly by .Secretary Fish, who snowed him the will made by tin American citizen, who proved to be no other than the Irishman of Oriiwloi dvilie, who hud left without a penny many years before. A part only of the will in' tin handwriting ol tho wanderer l publish. Ihe first part dehcribea himself as naving leit Crawford viilo at a certain date, et. lie then goes onto say: “Through tin Kindness of nil ulwisc .providence. I have accumulated a small estate, which 1 be queath to my wife and children, if th.-v are living. J name little Ah ck .Stevens of Georgia, (I use his own language) tie noblest man Unit God ever made an mv executor, and want my estate sold and the proceeds paid over to him. He will carry out my desires. If wife and children be dead, or not to be found, 1 bequeathe all [ have to Alexander H. Stevens.” This! i the will. The American consul had aid the estate which netted iff,'MO 4i. gold. Mr. Stephens on being notified as above went to find out tho whereabouts of the los. ones. Ho found that the wife died; that both the soils had been killed in the rebel army, and here the search .seemed lost. I'atiently and untiringly Mr. Stephens labored, when a few weeks ago he found the daughter, married to a shoemaker in .Savannah, and tare mother .01 live children. He drew the money from tho United States Treasury, and me other day sent it to the pool- daughter of his old time friend, the wandering exile. I gathered these facts at the State Department to-day, and recite them to show how truly grand is the spectacle of a man’s life, whose days have been so spent that lie has the confidence of all -the high, the low, the rum the poor. Such a man is Alexander H. Btephens, of Georg a, tlm lost, of the romans, whose name will be handed down to posterity as a devoted friend, a pure, statosuitt i and ail honest man. Who would not sigh for such an epitaph, “when life’s fitful fever is over?” —AUunUi HeruUL - • ♦— Domestic "cuutjv” is kept iu iainiJy jars. THE INDIANS. A BEARER OF HERALD DISPATCHES CHASED FOR Hl® LIFE. Nine Savages iii Pursuit- -Desperate Run Through a Terrific Snowstorm. Fort Sill. J. TANARUS., December 10, 1874. ihe thrilling adventures of Lieutenant Wet more in his ride to Camp Supply, bearing dispalehes for the Herabl ami General Miles, im the great heroic event of the season, and is the talk of ah tho offi cers and soldiers, Accompanied by a servant, he left Gen eral Miles’ headquarters on tho Washita to carry dispatches to Camp Supply. Reaching the Canadian river, he con cluded to leave the train amt escort with which he lmd been traveling and strike for supply, accompanied only by In’s ser vant. This was u very perilous under taking, as the narrative will show. Scarcely had Wetmore and Hamilton, fils servant, left tho train before they saw signs of the redskins. But they were both full of pluck and anxious to reach their destination; and, so, lunninttiui of the dangertucy were in, DBF rAN IL V GALLOPED ON toward the north. Toward night, on the 17th, the two reached u uIiYUUI, Mimic they determined lo cuni; , but ou louud ing a point, came suddenly on a band ol three redskius, who, on seeing the blue coats, scattered through the brush like leaves before si winter wind. Here was u hazardous position for too two men, for they well knew that the Indians they Imd met were hut stragglers of a still larger party iu the immediate neighborhood. And so it proved. Retracing thou* steps, they put spurs to their horses only tu ride into the midst of a party of nine mounted savages, who wore so completely taken by surprise at ihe appearance of the soldier boys that they merely turned ou their horses and gave ono steady, prolonged stare at the during intruders. But Wet uiore uml his companion did not take the introduction so coolly, Quickly wheeling their horses, they started down tho slope and out on tho sleety and frozen plume with the speed of the wind. TUKY WERE IN FOR IT NOW. One look behind them revealed the sav ages in full pursuit. But they had a good start, The wind was blowing a gale from the north went, and the piercing needles of sleet drove straight into their laces with blinding fury, but tin v could neither stop nor change their course. On went the fugitives and ou came tho bloodthirsty pursuers, rt was a veritable It ACE foil LIFE. none of your dime novel fictions, but a living, breuthiug, palpitating, exciting fact. Nino hellh.mutts ot the frontier alter two bluecouls and then Heulfes. This \wjh U.e exact aitnntioii, and Wetmol'o and his companion know it. They also knew that their horses would not hold out long against terrible tno storm ami begun to devise ways and means to sell their lives us dearly as possible. They thought of making a stand it- the buffalo willows, when the rememberaliee uf tlm l terrible fate of Chapman and bis eumpan lons made them dig in the spurs a little deeper and seek a more favorable location. At last it Was evident that they could go no further, and something must be done. The trail they we, e making on the sleety surface told them there was no escape by flight, so uusliuging their carbines they dropped behind a small thicket and pre paid! to “pass in their cheeks” us dearly as possible, By this time. darimesH had -et in and the storm of sleet and snow' was .-a.png with unabated fury. Long and , uxiously those two benumbed and he ,lighted men knelt ou the frozen crust and waited for the appearance oi their savage foes, but they cuuio not. Either the redskins had been pelted out of their purpose by the ter rifle storm, or eise they hail come to tho conclusion that the market price of two sculps would not justify more than one or two twenty mile heats ou a stiff and slippery prairie. At all t-vunts they gave up the chase. Lieutenant Wia,.and Hamilton staid behind tno thicket a l night, narrowly es caping freezing to death, aud ox peat ing .■very moment that the whoops of the savages would be heard and tie) crash of a tomahawk put them out of their misery and end the terrible, terrible suspeus. WHEN MOIiNINO DAWNED the savages lmd disappeared, but the be lougutvd men w. r ) in another pickle. They were lost in the prairie—lose as effectually mid completely as though they were in mid-oei an. Tile storm howled as fiereelv ms it did during the night. By nothing in the heavens above or the earth beneath could the points of tho compass be deter mined. Weary, frozen, hungry, and din-’ eouiugeil, the wanderers began to fee] lout their miraculous escape of the night be fore was only a putting off of the inevita ble. Finally, seeing that they were com pletely bewilder and. they struck lor the nearest stream and lb.lowed it to the uouth. It emptied into a larger one, and ill us thesu men kept on until. AL-TBK INN IJMKHABLE HAKDRHIPB, they succeeded in striking the old trail, fifty miles south of Camp Supply. F,.i ti .ml s from flic post they met the cavalry out. in search of them, and were escorted to quarters, having I tarn nearly three days without food, uud with their clothing fro ! zen light to tli ir bodies. It was - \ MOST TIIIIIUJNO AKnjtXCITIMo ADVENTUW. j told 11s it was by the bronzed lieutenant, still clad ill his rough woolen shirt, cuv ■ Irv boots and punts, the stripes of winch proclaimed tile wear and tear of the lace through the umlerlinisli. It only wanted the charm of the camp lire to finish the word-picture of one of the rarest exciting adventures of the Indian campaign. Lieuteiniot. Wetmorc says his hands and feet were badly frostbitten, but otherwise lit; is in good health mid spirits. Hamil ton, his companion in tli® adventure, lias not yet arrived from the frontier, owing !o his exhausted condition. An lowa niau lias invented a ten bar reled soot-gun. and the- f.tau of the small siy who didn’t know it was loaded i air! radiant with a hideous leer of satis faction. The city Government of Paris has 01- ganized a service of 600 tumbrils for the removal of suow from the streets. The sum voted was 200,01.0. How many mil lions would a snn.l.ir service add to our expenees? I ICSCELLANEUUJ ITEJ4S. Tlu j- ti.ln- liio rM.j in Mias..,ai,, pi. A friend indeed in one (vle is not in hood. Instead of wuitiog for a chance, mnkn one. Hotter run in old clothes than ron : debt. A imm sticks at nothing when ho tri< s to sliili a ghost,. A Chicago uwn hue invented a bar-ten dor’s boil punch. When it cnmtM to point lueo, all women can 800 Ihe point. Hpcnking of the round world, much can lie nani on both aiden. Forty Kentuckians rode two days to hi a fox worth sixty cents. I’eoplo wlm tinned never pay the fiddler. It is those who get up the ball. A Wisconsin mnu recently killed six skunks in olio tiny. After intorviewiufcj the Uist ono be hccnuio reckless und -'O kept on. When an old barn and a pig-sty bum. i at Ashtabula, Ohio, the other day, “th star-lit, heart ns were made to quivor above Uie leaping, roaring flumes.” “Wind, station do yon call this?” said man, ns lie crawled out of the dt Inis 01 u railroad smash up, “Devastation,” rc piiod tho ui bane conductor. A Curio man warns people not to trust Ilia wife, and she retorts liy saying that he’ll go without clothes all summer before she’ll Lake in n nailing to rig him out again. Oats may bo good to souk the dampness, .mt of wet hoots, but, how many i-St,. Hun is men can afford to keep thirty bushel of outs tm I land for that purpose. The Duluth woui iu who put the kerb won fan on tins stove-hearth while Klin went out to trade with a peddler, is UuvV keeping house iu a burn, kindly loaned for tire occasion. It is generally believed iu sotntf of tho comities of Michigan that men will do more plotting and planing to rob a hen coop, than would no necessary to insure .. successful bunk burglary. An inebriate mnu, walking along the ■reel, ivg,nth it the nit'uu with sovereign contempt;: “You needn’t feel so proud.” lie said, “von are full only once amoutn anl Ia n, r. night.” A Milwaukee man bill in a public door way and jumped out and kissed iris wile. She didn't whoop mid yell, us he expected, but replied: “Don’t bo so bold, folks around here know hfttl” NO. 30. When a Peoria youth goes to spark a girl jie find:; the old Indy iu one corner of the room, the old man m another, und a dog under tile melodeou, and lie i re quired to speak up like an orator. There is none of God’s creatures for whom the recording angel reserves a larger share of pitty tlnm the man con demned to wrestle with the average bourd ing-house sirloin. This world would be a sandy desert of loueson'eness if women were not privileged to attend miction saleß amt pay more for an old bureau than anew chamber set would cost. A clergyman at Kansas City said if there was any one within hearing of biff voice who would try to put a stop to Hun* daydog fighting he’d like to huve’ent rise up. A smalt boy and an old woman rose up. “I can’t say ns he Went to Houvtsn,” re marked a Fort Scott citizen of a deceased townsman, “but tie paid a bill ot eleven years’ standing only the day before be died, and you ean judge for yourself.” The Manchester, N. H., Mirror wittily says; “within a year wo have know n nu apparently hopeless case of con sumption cured by an appointment to a probate judgeship), and we don’t know of a disease which n Congressional nomina tion would not enro. ” Aver, the pil!-mnn, who was defeated for Congress the other day, (manufactures an excellent expectorant, lmt Ayer don’t expect to rant in tho Forty-fourth Con gress. Texas would have been a splendid plm 0 for Micaw ber. When he sat down, wait ing for something to turn up, the playful nibble of a tarantula would have turned 11]) wlmt ho sat down ou in a tory lively manner. New York hoarders object to the pud ding being mixed in a coal-scuttle, on tiro 'round that iu these hard times tho waste of fuel consequent upon the pieces being cooked with the pudding is a flagrant neg lect of the poor. Tho “blub” belongs to the very worst class of talkative people, lias always got his ears and eves open to see or hear a little, then proceeds ou his errand to retail it to his fellows, who magnify what may have been a slight indiscretion to a heinous, crime. A Missourian wlio attended prayer meeting with bis dnhrrliler f. It eoinoetlod to rise np a. and r mark: ‘i wm tto ! e good and go to Heaven, hut if those fellers don’t stop winking at Mitrv there will he a good deal-of prancing nrottud lierfc the fust tiling they know 1 /’' Kulak o a's o dd: There comes a sound from Washington Thai well may silence vulgar scoffing;. It’s Knlatanu’s stern, deep tone: “Take hirf.” says he; “that’jj Ihc that’s c ughing.” At this period of the year, a voice, steals at oar.y morn through the key-hoi.) of domestic chambers; “Mary Jane, uo up and fix the fire;” and a prompt and cheerful < cho responus. “I’ll see you dodroftted first, and then I won’t you old brute.” Buell are the celestial lo.L --uiouies of domestic life. A .Sacramento lawyer remarked to the court: “It is my ccnuid opinion, Judge you aie an old fool.” The Judge allowed his iiiildly-bcuming eye to fail upon tin. lawyer a brief moment, then in a voice husky with suppressed emotion, said: •It's my i-undid opinion that you ore fine 1 $100.” Ellen liuirabee, an Illinois farmer’s' daughter, just missed being a heroine. Seeing her father's burn on lire, she got a pail of water, ran toward the blaze and-- fainted on the way. The barn was de iti-oyed-, and her father, rating her inten tions by the slow standard of her failure wanned her shoulders with a stra), He blushed a fiery red’ Her heart went pit-a-pat; Bbe gently bung her head And looked down at the mat. He trembled ill liii speech; He rose from where he sat, And shouted with a sereei h, “Your sitting, on. my hut l' Yesterday, while sortie negro steamboat men were racing paid oil', the clerk in quired o' each one as he can e up to sign the pay roll: “Will you write your name or make an X?” Thu first one said he could write Ins name, and the pen was handed him. He looked id the pen, scru tinized the pay in 1 and In situ led so long fh.it the clerk poked him i )>. “Let's it id thebaic .as -a i hived I "k; now tin • ao*b i• ■i.< i* b..w . .-'tvA* 1 Jr ■ i * ■ "- • > ' ? *>’ s