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LOUISIANA.
BV T. M. LEWIS.
Bure never land was so accursed;
Not Egypt ’ueatk the rod
When locusts, lice, and frogs so foul
Wore sent by Isreal's Godl
Our freedom's gone; our land's enchained;
Vice rules the preseut hour,
,And Ignorance, Hate, and Averico
Must have unbounded power.
BUfttt wo an*tmifc t. Uuwe t*l wroutt
And murmur not a word?
And dare not we with life oppose
The vile and vernal horde?
Bhall we be slaves where we have ruled,
And leave our children slaves?
*Tis better far that those we love
Should rest within their gravest
We would have peace; wo want not strife;
But patience hath an end;
And he whose soul hath onco been free
May break but no,or should bend.
’Tis wiser far to strive ud fail,
And ftvll with armor on,
Than live a life of wretchedness
With hope and honor gone.
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Our foes are many, friends arc few,
Each word we aay is caught;
And, with malicious cunning ’tis
With difTrent meaning fraught.
But now we say, and swear it, too!
That more we cannot bear,
And those who uow insult and rob.
Should atop, or should Beware!
When war’s red waves rolled o’er our land
We bore ourselves like men,
And when we failed our tlag wo furled
To raise it ne’er again;
But by tljose hopes which onco wo had,
And by our manhood’s might,
We swear ho more such words to brook—
We wantjr we’U have the right!
•'Louisiana conquered” has been writ,
But who is he who’ll dare
To say that ne'er with victory crowned
Shall brightly beam her star?
Her sous are many brave and true,
As gory fields can tell;
And though her foes do triumph uow
There’s vengenco—and a hclll
CHEEK ADAMANTINE.
A Compositor's Story.
BY HOSE HIT.
“A ml must I r<irel out my ireaved-uji j
follies?"-- Kino Richard 111.
1 uni something loth to mlmit the fact,
but liquor did it. The more oue makes
up his miml that he is bis own muster,
ami that he cau drink at pleasure, and
abstain on the same conditions, the more ,
he is a confidence man. Mr. Benjamin .
Ziue —or more familiarly and more brief- ,
lv termed Benzine —is a confidence man |
of the most transparent water. Yon may ;
wrestle with him and you may throw him j
miccisfnlly time and again, but in the long j
rub I set it down that he will be on top :
nineteen times out of eighteen—which |
seem a little singular, but ho always mau- .
ages to Ik l one ahead.
The gentleman iu question and myself :
bad been on intimate terms for something
like two years. He was the servant aud I
was the master.
My story is an incident of the most bra
zen chsek on record, I tremble to this day
when I recall the circumstances.
In the winter of 1872, I was employed
as a compositor on the Detroit Daily Iri- -
bune —not as a “regular,” hut as a “sub- |
stitute.” Oue day, when I had been at.
work about three weeks, the foreman of
the office came to me and said:
“Jfr. A , a gentleman from the
pineries has inquired of me where lie j
could find a first-class printer willing to
go into the pinelauds and take charge of a
new printing establishment at the Electro- j
Magnetic Springs, St. Louis, Gratiot
county. You are out of permanent em
ployment, and this situation may please
yon."
Please me! it was the very tiling I want
ed—and the foreman had approached me
as if he were giving offense.
The gentleman called for me the next
day, and we sailed down on the train for
the Springs.
There I found the newspaper establish
ment complete, with the exception of the
The type was set and the paper
made all ready at St. Louis, but the press
work had to be done at Saginaw, the
edition being so large that it could not well
be work on a hand press. Thursday was
publication day, aud as everything was
ready and the “forms” locked up for ship
ment on Wednesday noon, the proprietor
deputized mo, his foreman, on my second
week, to take them to Saginaw, have them
worked off by steam, and return with the
edition and “forms” early the following
day.
Providing myself with currency for my
expenses and passage on the round trip, 1
set out well pleased with such an early,
though brief respite from pine life.
Arriving at Sagiuaw, I had my work
promptly attended to the same evening,
and when it was finished I felt, that I was
my own free man until ten o’clock the next
morning, when the train returned from
whence I came.
When a young man in a strange city has
no business to attend to, he is prone to
seek amusement. The billiard halls and
sample rooms of Saginaw, with tnoir fres
coed windows, motley-colored walls and
ornamented bars, were too irresistible for
a youth of my resolution. They tempted
me, and I did drink. Sot-to,excess; how
ever. (This is what all old topers say, aud 1
of course they never drink to excess.) I
only imbibed, enough to make me long for
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a glass the next morning—just to fuel nat
ural again, you know.
On tbo following day, I remember dis
tinctly of paying my landlord tbo remain
der of my limited currency for supper,
lodging and breakfast, and that 1 w%s left
absolutely sine pecunia. It was impossi
ble to conjure a stray ten oent. Spinner
from any remote corner of my pants, vest
or coat pockets, wherewith to waltz up to
the bar and be # man once more. I am
satisfied now, however, looking back with
tbo steady eyes of a Qood Templar, that
the liquor I bad imbibed tbo proceeding
night was still bolding carnival with mo,
and was all-eullioitut for pedestrian pur
poses.
My return ticket bad been secured, and
without giving a though to business (or,
in fact, to anything in particular.) I made
for the Flint & Pira Marquette train, leav
ing the “forms” at the offioo of the hitler
prise, in tbo bands of Prof. Chnuco. Ar
riving nt the depot, I observed a passen
ger train standing in front of the building,
with no engine attached. On inquiry, 1
learned from two accomodating and nobby
young men, that this was tbo identical
train that I was seeking, though why tltoy ,
should have laughed so immoderately as I!
ascended tbo steps of the middle, car was j
rather mysterious, and disconcerted me j
not a little. It was very impolite of thorn, j
if I was astranger.
I knew from the good warm stove of tlie
oar I selected that train time was not far
distant, and throwing myself carelessly
into a seat, I meditated disconnectedly
upon the topics of tho day, and was soon
wafted into oblivious repose, not caring
Rfruplously whether the Ticbborno
Claimant was Urn real Sir Roger, or wheth
er the real Sir Roger was the genuine Aus
tralian butcher-boy; and while in this de
lightful condition, I wus partially aroused
by the gentle moving of the train, con
scious that all was correct, that I was
homeward bound, that everything was
pleasant, nnd that the goose was suspend
ed high in the nir.
There is nothing so well calculated to
make a drowsy man sleep sue. tly, as the
uoisless rocking of a passenger coach on
a smooth road, unless, perhaps, it
is rum nnd molasses. So peaceful, indeed,
was my slumber, that the conductor of the
train, it seemed, could not find it in Ills
heart to awaken me for my ticket until
we hiul skimmed over twenty-five miles ol
the road. But when bo did disturb me,
he did it with such a will as to leave no
doubt of his sincerity, and the shake 1
received did not admit, of any argument as
to its being authoritative, so I passed in
my ticket at once.
“Young mau,” said ho glancing at tho
pasteboard, “where are yeti bound?”
“Bt. Louis, Gratiot county.
“No,” lie replied, “you are bound for
Fb'nt, at the rate of thirty miles au hour.
St. Louis is North—you are going south.
Your ticket calls for twenty-five miles on
the road, and here you are your money’s
worth."
The brakemau had opened the door and
shouted “Graytown,” aud the train had
come to a stand still.
Well, this was a pretty go! Explana
tions were not in order just then, and
nothing was left me hut to disembark.
This is too good a word for the occasion,
I didn’t disembark —I simply crawled out
m a bewildered kind of a way, like a poor
little orphan boy with only ono father
and mother.
Fifty miles from St. Louis, totally a
stranger, and not a uiekle in my pants.
It was all very clear to me. I understood
precisely how I was situated. But that
| Ban. should have thrown me at last! This
! preyed upon my mind most wofully.
Many wero the tussles wo had, but this
1 was his first victory, and it was ovcrwhelm
! tog. Then I could think of nothing else
! for some timo but the accomodating and
j nobby young gentlemen at the Saginaw
! depot. Aud for them to have laughed so
immoderately! It was impolite of them.
Lwonder where they were brea.
Then I sat down on an empty barrel at
the station and formed twenty-three good
resolutions, each on winding up with some
thing about total abstinence.
This was not business, however. Some
! thing had to be done. The night was
| coming on, und I whs told tlicrc would Ijg
;no northern train until next morning.
! Lodging aud provender were o be negotia
ted for, aud calculations to be made as to
how I could get back home, if there were
fifty northern train going to start at
! once.
Graytown appeared to me as rather blue,
1 and I doubtless appeared to Graytown as
! rather green. There were about fifteen
’ houses, and ono of them sported a rusty
| sign with “lioTel” daubed over it in geuu
! ine home-made letters. I resolved to enter
j this public house, state my situation fairly
to the host, aud trust to his sympathy for
accomodations. It required some nerve
to do this, but I finally screwed up my
courage up to the sticking point and ap
proached the august landlord. I told him
in detail just how I became to bo there,
my financial circumstances, and the condi
| tion in which I was placed—keeping my
little matinee with Ben., however, careful
ly in the background.
He was half inclined to disbelieve my
story, but consented to my staying over
night with him on my promise to remit
the bill at the earliest opportunity. My
' promises were as abundant as blackberries,
aDd I meant them, too.
After a good night’s rest, I rose before
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daylight, drank a warm breakfast of cof
feo, and learned from tbo landlord that
the first train passed at six o’clock.
Ho informed mo, moroovor, that it
would be nocossary to flag it, as they sel
dom stopped at Graytown when not sig
naled. This could bo done, he said, by
merely waving my handkerchief.
Yes—of course—this was all right
enough—but—great Jerusalem! A dead
head stopping a passenger train for a
twenty-five mile ride! Visions of an in
censed conductor, of burly brakemen, and
a coach full of gaping travelers, flitted be
fore my mind in unpleasant succession,
and well-nigh paralyzed me. Why, I
would bo pitched through a car window
into tbo first ditch—while the train sped
on at its thirty mile gait—and left sans
eyes, sans nose, sans teeth, sang anything!
This was a situation for an orphan boy I
“A shipwrecked mariner waiting for a
sail.” However, one tiling was certain:
should I fail to reach homo that day, my
employer would suffer grievous wrong, my
situation would be lost, and my chances
would bo up generally. Moreover, what
in the angel need I caro for the conduc
j tor’s thoughts? I passed a resolution to
| board that train, nolens nolens, and as
| whistle was hoard “omul tlio curve, this
i procession moved toward the station—
: that is, myself, followed by a long train of
I misgivings, conjectures as to probable
results, and philosophical calculations as
to whether the rhow was of sufficient
depth to break the force of a fall.
There was little timo for deliberation,
as the train had already arrived, and with
out waiting for my spirits to drop to zero, J
I whipped out my liandderchief, flourish
ing it in the. air as bravely as if it were
the Star Spangled Banner, and lmd the
satisfaction of seeing the train come to a
stop. I sprang aboard, tho bell sounded,
and off we were.
I don’t think I ever before or since ex
perienced such peculiarly uneasy sensa
tions as I did while that train was gliding
out of sight of Graytown.
I felt ignominiously guilty— and yet was
aware that my course was the wisest one I
could pursue. 1 certainly would not be
murdered in cold blood; and besides, I \
had paid the company once for a passage I
to my proper destination, and was it my
fault that the conductor had not awaken
ed me iu time to correct my mistake? In
this manner, I almost succeeded in argu
ing myself into au honest man.
Wo had made about five miles from
Graytown, nnd I had half persuaded my
self that there was just a possibility that I
might be overlooked until we reached
Saginaw, when, delusive hope! the door
of the coach opened, and in strode the
conductor. I knew his errand at once—
he was looking for the youth that got on
at Graytown. •
He found him.
What should I do? What should I do?
In my dilemma I grew desperate and !
dou’tcarative, and resolved to tell him a
straight story, aud then soo what he
would do.
“Ticket sir!”
Thou I assumed that innocence and
placidity of countenance that my old
.Sabbath-School teacher had so often as
sured mo worn by those who navigate the
eternal reams of space on wings of love,
and narrated to him him how I had been
deceived by tho nobby young gentleman
at Saginaw, how the conductor of yester
day had neglected his business, and how
grievous the consequences would he to
others concerned if I failed to reach St.
Louis that day with the “forms” and
edition.
His face flushed into ns beautiful a scar
let as you would wish to see, and by de
grees bloomed into a deep carmine.
“Are you the fellow that flagged the
train at Graytown?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And without money to iay your
way?”
“Yes, sir.”
Ho looked me in the eye for a moment
with blank astonishment, finding no
words for his thought, and then glanced
through the window. Then ho whirled
on liis heel and made a motion as if to pull
the bell-rope, but lowered liis hand again
and rested it over his eyes, and then start
ed for the front end of the car. Suddenly
he stopped, whirled again upon his heel,
aud strode back to where I was sitting.
“Young man, ’ said he, with a very dis
agreeable expression on his face, “I have
been conducting trains on various roads
for eighteen years, and this is a little the
eheokiest transaction that ever came un
der my observation. I have dealt with
all kinds of dead-heads and dead beats;
I have detected men btealir. g rides on axle
trees, on top and between the cars; I have
dealt with men carrying forged passes;
men with all kinds of pitiful stories, true
and tramped up; but this act of yours,
for assurance and auducity, is
parallel. J. N. Free himself would shrink
from such a step. Let me give you a word
of advice—never attempt such a thing nglin.
On some roads you would be thrown from
the train like a dog. Bridgeport, ten
miles from here, is our first stopping place,
At that station see that you step down and
out.”
Well, ten miles from Saginaw was bet
ter than twenty-five. But a ten-wile walk
over a six-inch snow-fall was not to be
thought of, either. Perhaps something
would turn up at Bridgeport.
We were uot long in reaching that ham
let, and, as tho whistle blew down brakes,
thfe conductor again came to urn with, a
smile on his face, which seemed partly
of auger.
“I have thought this matter over,” he
said, “and will carry you through to
Snguaw, Your impudence shall bo your
pass. It is the only ease of the kind on re
cord!"
These were unexpected but most wel
come words. I thanked him kindly, and
at Saginaw borrowed money and returned
with the “forms” and edition in safe time.
Drinking Champagne Cider.
A newly married couple, whose every
appearance and action indicated that they
were country, missed connec
tions for the South yesterday morning at
tho Nashville depot, and were compelled
to “lay over,” until night before they
could proceed on their journey. They
therefore determined to wait until night
in the passengers’ sitting-room at the de
pot, being unsophisticated in the ways
that are dark and tricks that are vain m
city life, and afraid, therefore, to venture
beyond the coniines of tho depot. By
and by “Frank" so “Betsy,” tho wife,
called her husband began to feel dry in
the throat, and, espying the refreshment
and news-stand, turned to his wife, and
said, “Betsy, wouldn’t ver ueo u> drink
Ko’thimrV” Jl - replied, “Yes, Frank,
Jailing.” Frank, big with tho import
ance of his new situation in life, and
evidently feeling the responsibilities of a
husband, strutted in a dignified manner
into tho refreshment stand and slapping
the smiling and polite attendant at the
stand, Bob Strother, familliarly on the
shoulder, said: “Dn yer keep anything
ter drink liyar?” Strother replied, "Oh,
yea, what is it you wish?” “What have
yer got?” naked the countryman. “Well,
we have soniu nice wine ’ was tho an
swer.
The countryman mused for a while, and
finally said, “1 guess that’s too steep for
my pockfct," and then brightening up
suddenly, us if all idea had struck him,
said, “iiev yer got any whisky?” Ho was
informed that whisky could only bo sold
by the bottle, At this he became rather
downcast, and looked around to sec if he
could discover anything else that would
whet his appetite. He saw some bottles
of champagne eider standing on the eomi
te.r, and inquired “what that stuff in them
green bottles war.” When told the
nature of the liquid, and the small price
of a bottle, hut first asking iiis wife if she
wanted some cider, and receiving an af
firmative reply, he purchased a bottle.
Strother had accidently shaken the con
tents of the bottle up, and a foam rose to
the top, which so excited the curiosity of
the countryman that lie pulled out the
stopper, wlien, to his amazement, the
liquid, bubbling and boiling, fell all over
Ins new wedding clothes. However, he
wasn't going to let it get ahead of him,
and swallowed about two-thirds of the
beverage, then passing it to his wife,
asked if she didn't want some. Having
satisfied the thirst of himself and wife,
the countryman “slapped” flic money on
the counter, with the remark that “that
was the doggoudest stuff that I has ever
seen, or beam, or tasted of." After seat
ing themselves for awhile, both husband
and wife became rustless and impatient,
and the former jumped up and called fora
couple of “them ore reading books’ stored
away in the shelves. Raving purchased
these, he and his partner remained silent
until the shades of evening approached
and the departure of the train was an
nounced, when they left, having never
once thought of purchasing any delicacies
to appease their craving hunger.—Louis
ville Courier Journal.
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MURDER IN TEXAS.
■HIE RESULT OF AN ELOPEMENT —A HIIIDE
OBOOM SHOT TO DEATH Hi’ Ills FATHER-IN
LAW.
A telegram from Jewett, Texas, to the
Galveston Nows, dated Jan. 11, says: -“A
terrible aud unprovoked murder was com
mitted about six miles north of this place
early this morning. A young man named
L. Bradly was shot and almost install ly
killed by I’. 11. Thomas. The facts of
the case, as far as we can learn, are, that
Bradly liad been for some time paying at
tention to Miss Dorn, the daughter of
Thomas, apparently witli the consent of
the father, or at least no disaffection on
his part till a short time ago, when Brad
ley asked Thomas's consent to marry his
daughter, which lie positively refused.
The daughter being of age, and of a dif
ferent mind, the couple escaped last night,
and were married by Esquire Davis, of
this precinct. They then went to the
house of a mutual friend and a relation of
the bride, named George Head, and
passed the night there. Early this morn
ing Thomas, missing Ids daughter, sur
mised what had taken place, left the house
iu search of the pair, bearing with him a
double-barreled shot-gun, stopping at sev
eral places to procure some buckshot, for
the purpose, as he said, of shooting a ‘dog
with.’ After procuring tho shot, and
avowing the purpose for which they were
to bo used, aud being implored not to do
anything of tho kind, he followed the
bride and ber unfortunate husband to the
residence of Head, and entering ho lev
eled his gun at Mr. Head, commanding
him to reveal the whereabouts of the
couple. Mr. Head could do nothing but
tell him they were in the next room. In
the meantime Bradley and his wife had
seen her father approaching, and, fearful
that a difficulty would result if they met,
Bradley promised his wife that he would
not injure her father. Then, hearing his
command to Head, aud his threat to shoot
him if ho didn’t obey, they became
‘alarmed at the state of tliiugs, and Brad
dey, deciding to avoid a meeting, left by
the door leading into the garden, leaving
behind him a double-barreled gun, which
he knew was loaded. Thomas at this
moment entered the room which Bradley
had just left, and seeing Bradley through
the window, started in pursuit. Beaching
the door when Bradley was within ten
paces of the garden gate, and about the
same distance from him. lie discharged
one barrel, the charge striking his victim
in the head, aud almost immediately fired
the second time, the charge striking him
in the side,. Bradley fell,, then arose and
staggered to the gate, where he stood a
moment, then fell to the ground it corpse.
Thomas rode off home, and from thence
started to escape, declaring lie would not
be taken alive. As a.ion as, possible a
party started in pursuit, ”
An Infant Abandoned, and Dog3 De
' your It.
It is seldom newspapers avo obliged to
chroniclo a case of inhuman abandonment,
with such shocking results, as was brought
to our notice on yesterday. A sou of Mr.
John George, a well known plasterer in
this city, as ho chanced to pass a yard on
tho corner of Hurris and Williams streets,
yesterday morning, discovered a number
of dogs having the mutilated remains of a
newly-born white infant, which they were
eating. When discovered, there was but
one leg, below the knee of the babe, that
was whole. The body and head, with its
other portions, had already been devoured,
except a few small pieces of bone, which
lay scattered in different parts of tho yard.
When found, tho dogs wore fighting <**or
the leg. Ho drove the dogs way, mid
I picking up the unsightly remains, guarded
them until a negro woman who was living
on the premises came to him. As soon as
the woman came out of tho house he,
wrapping the portions up in a piece of pa
per, and leaving the bundle in her keep
ing, went off in search of a policeman to
report the facts. Mr. John Evans, an of
ficer of the force, who lives close by, was
notified, nnd immediately went over to
the place and had the remains conveyed
to the statiouhouse.
Those who saw what was left of the lit
j lie iiniuurtil, ivpurt Mint It jireutud tho
| most shocking sight they lmd over seen,
j Tho flesh was all torn from the bones, and
j tho ends of tbo bones chewed in a fright
ful manner. Judging from tbo foot and
leg found, it wus supposed that the babe
could not have been born more than throe
or four hours. Of course, there was noth
ing by which it could he told whither flic
child was born alive or not, but there was
every reason to suppose that it had been
thrown into the yard the night before.
The woman who lived there stated that, she
had heard dogs lighting and growling the
greater part of the night, but was unable
to account foi it until the next morning,
when it was explained as above. She did
not go out to seo what was tho matter.
She knew nothing about the child, or how
it got there.
Detectives Bomar and Jones are inves
tigating the matter, and hope to find some
clue to implicate the parties who so merci
lessly abandoned their offspring to its fate.
Various annuison as to who it was that gave
birth to the helpless being were tuJulgej
in, but none of them have, as yet, proved '
correct. One woman, who was staying at
a house of disreputable character, who
was known by the police to have been en
cientu, and it being believed that it might
possibly be her child, was looked after.
She was found to have given birth to her
child, aud it was well and being tenderly
cared for by its mother. Another surmise
which we beard, was that ill all probabili
ty, that smile women whose standing in so
ciety could not brook the disgrace conse
quent upon giving birth to an illegitimate
child, had given it to some ono to hide
her shame, and this party in order to dis
pose of it left it in this yard.
A coroner’s jury of inquest was held yes
terday afternoon by Coroner Kile, but uo
new facts were elicited— Atlanta Heirs.
A RIDE WITHOUT A DRIVER,
TWO UNOUIDED HOUSES, AND TWO UNSUS
PECTING OCCUPANTS OF A HACK.
One evening last week there was a wed
ding in this city, at which quite a number
of t.iie city of Ban Francisco were present.
The affair passed off most pleasantly, the
fair bride and manly groom received the
congratulations of their friends, their hap
piness was toasted in bumpers jof cham
pagne, and it was late ere any one offered
to depart, from the pleasant scene. One
Indy was there whose good husband had
i tell forced to remain at his office to pre
paro business of moment for tho morrow,
aud upon au intimate friend of tho fami
ly he imposed the pleasant duty of wait
ing on mudarne to her homo. The friend
most .gladly accepted the task. He had
known the lady long, aud knew her to tie
as charming a companion as she was a de
votoil wife and mother. Even the fact
that, he was a lawyer, and used to deep
plagues iu the opaque waters of probate
proceedings, had not left him devoid of
all human sympathy, neither had it quite
oxtjrtgMshcd those qualities of politeness
for which lie was noted in early days.
As the night grew long, umciamo ex
pressed a desire to depart, arid her cava
lier rushed forth and about the clustered
carriages until ho found the special Jehu
with whom he had made a specific con
tract.
With her nubia twined about her head,
and her cloak snugly drawn about her,
that the fog might uot penetrate, madumo
tripped from the house to tlie track, and
entered tho vehicle, followed by her es
cort, who shut the door and cried out,
I “AH right!” Then the hack moved slow
| ly off.
| Now, it requires about twenty minutes’
i sharp driving to reach madame’s residence
from where tho wedding took place, and
when thin time had more than expired she
interrupted the conversation by saying,
“It is timo we hud reached the house, is it
not?”
“I think so,” replied the lawyer; “per
haps the man Iras mistaken the street.
Ho! driver!”
There was no answer, so the lawyer
poked his head out of tho window aud
yelled, “Ho! driver!” again.
“Blessed if I don’t believe tho man’s
drunk 1” ho exclaimed, pulling iu his head
aud addressing his companion.
“Perhaps ho is only asleep,” responded
madiime, with true womanly charity.
“Well, if he isn’t light the horses arc,”
tjie lawyer replied; “just see how the car-
I liage goes from one side of tho street to
the other!”
“My goodness!” exclaimed rnadame,
gazing put through the fog, “this isn’t our
neighborhood? Where are we?”
"Blessed if I know,” answered tiro at
torney, - with deep caution, “Say, you!
Bill! Bob! George! Henry! Augustus! Dri
ver! wake up, confound you!” But there
came no reply.
Then the lawyer let down tho narrow
sash at the front of tho carriage and peer
ed upward to tlie-driver’s seat. It wits va
caut! “Blanknation! there’s nohody on
tho box!” In- roared. The two stared ut.
each other for a moment, the horses mean
time keeping up their monotonous trot.
“Well!” sighed he.
She sighed without, saying well.
“Blessed if there is but one thing to
do,” ho exclaimed, aud iu a jiffy, to her
horror, she saw her cavalier squirming
upward through tho narrow window,
“Oil! supposing he should stick there!”
she said to herself, with a hopeless groan;
hut he didu-'t stick - —bo was uOt oemstruct
ed on the principle of Daniel Lambert—
and after a fearful struggle, succeeded in
reaching tho driver’s place and obtaining
possession of tho reins, ho stopped tho
noises, ami then followed a consultation,
he talking from the box and slio from
within, the result of which was that ho
turned the horses and drove hack over the
rente they hud come. The fug was dense
and bitterly cold, and the impromptu dri
icr was arrayed in lavender kids, a suit of
light broadcloth, tho coat being of the
title known as claw-hammer. He had
driven about ten minutes when luudiiuio
felt that tho hack lmd come to a stand
still. The next moment the do--- p'Ued
and she beheld her guide e'lilosopher and
Irioud,. Id" v..ctu finny oliutteriug with
wild.
“I-I-I-s there nn-n-n-ny thing I can
wr-r-r-r-ap myself i-i-i-u?” lie asked; “it’s
a lit-t-t-tle coolish outside. ” She uncoiled
the nubia from her head and wrapped it
about his neck and chin. “Thanks,” he
murmured from under tho layers of split
zephyr, and again resumed the position of
a hack driver without a lieeuse. It lacked
twenty minutes of 2A. M. when he dis
covered the residence of iiis charge and
puhed up tlio horses at the door, Who led
him into the house. His face was gener
erally bine, but a flaring red knob shone
forth where his nose commonly had place;
his eyes dripped water, bis hair was damp
with fog, and ho shivered with tho cold
trom head to foot, Blie made him sit by
the lire, kind woman that she is, and made
him a hot Scotch toddy, which seemed to
dash into every poitiou of his frame and
cheer his blood with its tingling warmth;
and when lie had been half thawed and
half dried she brought (for lie declared ho
must drive that buck back into town) a
pile of greatcoats and shawls and wraps,
in which she so enveloped him that when
ho bade her good-bye it was with difficulty
he could climb outlie hack, so swathed
and bundled was he.
It did not take long for him to drive
those horses into town, and leave the hack
at a livery stable, “to be called for;” and,
up to tins day, the sleepy hostler who
opened the stable door has not ceased to
wonder who the gentleman in lavender
kids that drove a hack into the stable at
2:30 o’clock iu tlie morning. It was just
after the hack had driven away from the
house of madame that her husband, worn
out with the task of tho evening, came
home. To mm, as lie sipped Ins tumbler
of grog, she told the whole story, and,
when slie had finished, sho said: “It was
such a narrow escape! Just think! We
might have been upset nnd killed!”
“Indeed you might,” he replied, his
face solemn at the possibility.
“Andoli! Ned,” she continued, “I’m
so glad yon didn’t go to the wedding.”
“Are you, dear, and why?”
“Because, love, you never, never could
have crawled up through tho little hack
window?” Aud she patted his bread buck,
aud filled another glass for him.
SCURRILOUS POSTAL CARDS.
A WEALTHY OLD NEW YORKER HEAVILY FINED
FOR COSTING ABUSIVE MISSIVES.
Moses Chamberlain, and old, wealthy,
and previously respectable citizen, was
arraigned for sentence yesterday afternoon
iu the criminal branch of the United
States Circuit court, before Judge Bene
dict, on conviction of an indictment con
taining fourteen counts, charging him
witli us many violations of the United
States postal laws iu sending scurrilous
postal cards to Aaron Vun Valkncbuigh,
who owed him a small amount of money,
but had been freed from his debts by the
bankruptcy act. The testimony showed
that these cards contained such epithets
as “Dear thief,” “Dear scoundrel,” “Dear
swindler," etc., and denounced and threat
ened Van Valkenliurgh for not paying his
debts. This was the first conviction for
this offense in this district.
When Chamberlain rose to roccivo sen
tence, every eye was upon him. Ho is of
tall and commanding figure, very respec
table iu nppeorance, and looked more like
a professional man than a convict ar
raigned for sentence. His counsel, Mr.
Waring, pathetically addressed the court
iu mitigation of sentence. His client was
nearly seventy years of ago, of feeble
health, and had been long in the hands of
a physician on account of his ’sufferings
from acute dyspepsia, symptoms of
Bright’s disease of tiie kidneys, and the
exhibition of curious phases of monoma
nia, resulting from disordered nerves.
Ho requires air nnd exercise, and confine
ment in prison would doubtless prove
fatal to him. This statement was sup
ported by a physician’s certificate.
Judge Benedict, iu passing siiitence,
said: “You have been convicted of many
offenses agai st the laws of your country,
au intelligent and impartial jury having
found you guilty of fourteen distinct
crimes. No our present during the trial
could entertain the least doubt ol your
guilt. The scurrilous epithets used by
you were written to force tho payment of
money to which you were uot legally en
titled. You are liable to a sentence which
would exhaust the remainder of jour life.
It's necessary fertile community to un
derstand that those who uso the postofliee
for purposes of extortion, by meHus of
scurrilous postal cards, must bo punished.
In the hope that you will hereafter obey
the law, and in consideration of tho cir
cumstances in which you are placed, I will
uot subject you to the ignominy of im
prisonment, but shall impose a tine suffi
cient to admonish jou how unprofitable
your course had been. I will limit the
•sentence to the fiiot court, aud suspend
sentence on the other thirteen. This will
lie a very light sentence considering the
persistent manner iu which you have re
peated your offenses, nnd the fact that
your position and intelligence are of such
a character ns to have given you full
knowledge of the gravity of your viola
tions of the law, thus lendering them less
excusable. I Hue you $6,0C0 on tho first
count of the indictment, suspending sen
tence on tho othera, and you will stand
committed until tho tine is paid.”
Chamberlain, who had watched the
judge with almost breathless utte Hion
while sentence was being passed, appeared
greatly relieved when the ordeal of stand
ing iu liis bumilialing position was no
longer necessaiy, and quickly arranged
with his counsel to pay bis fine to United
States Mmsliul Fi-ske, who soon afterwards
received it, and Chamberlain left tho
oourt-rcom a freo, but much sadder, wiser
and poorer man than ho was before crim
inal proceedings were commenced against
him. His legal expenses and fine amount
to about 810,000, wb’le his cla m against
Vau Valkenbiirgh is said to umoout to
only about ouo-touth of that' amount, —
New York Tones,-
- 1 IUM
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
High timo—A ohnrch clock,
A week’s conclusion Saturday night.
“Good words for the young”—Dinner s
ready.
Whero to go when tit rnoiie?—Go
to work.
Matchless maid—Tho kitchen giri out
tit lufciferS;
A literary class—Builders. They are
always finishing stories.
Even the laziest hoy can sometimes
catch a whipping,
Wlmt risk do people run who sit iu free
pews in church?—Of being good for
nothing,
A Yankee who started a factory in Hitt
own house says lie’s just “making things
What kind, of a salt Water fish weighs
the least? Fprpoiues, 6t A'Mtrib; they
have no scales.
Wlmt is the use of talking of this word’s’
joys and sunshine to a man who has on a
pair-of tight boots?
When n girl >•?- " M 7. #* home on lie-'
eon”* ■' “ H VY ou her eye, it is almost use-,
loss to toll her that providence doeth all
things well.
An exchange has this advertisement:'
“Two sisters want washing.” We fear that
millions of brothers are in the same pre
dicament.
NO. 38.
Short dresses are coming into fashion'
again, and young ladies are experiment
ing ou the old, old difficulty of getting a
No. G foot into a No 4 boot.
A young lady, fearful of becoming
stout, devotes Lvo hours to every meal,
because she has read somewhere that
“11. is to makes waste."
When a man reminds you that you owe'
him, just make a note of it. Ho will take'
more interest iu tlio matter if you humor
him that way.
“I would go to tho end of the world to
please yon. said an ardent lover to the
object of his affections. “Nothing would
please me more than to have you go
there,” was the sweet reply.
A Yankee paper says, “A mule kicked 1
an insurance agent on the cheek, the
other day. The agent’s cheek was unin
jured, but the mule’s hoof was broken.”
A man in hartford carelessly threw some
yeast cukes out into his back yard, and
his rooster ate them. They exploded and
blow the stuffing out of him.
A Western editor says tliat“a child was
run ovorjiu the street by a wagon three years'
old and cross-eyed, with pantalettes oil,’
which never spoke afterwurd.”'
A Yankee editor tosses up tho sponge
with tho remark that, “It don’t pay to
run a paper in a town where business men'
read almanacs, and pick their teeth with 1
the tail of a herring.”
When they take the next census in Ab
erdeen they will miss Peter M’Glosky.
The old man found a package and threw
it into the fire to seo whether it powder or
sand. It wasn’t sand.
We are told that tho smallest hair
throws a shadow.” And so it does. It'
throws a shadow over your appetite when
you find it in your blitter.
A Chicago shirt-dealer has given up'
coaxing ami taken to bullying the public'
to trade with him. A big placard in front!
of his door reads. “Buy or I will bust.”
In is reported that an angel was seen
suspended over the town of ltipley, Ohio,
the other day. It is very likely. Any de
cent angel would remain in that state of
suspension twenty-five years rather than'
drop into the State of Ohio.
In peeling onions put a large needle in’
the mouth, half in aud half out. The
needle attracts the oily juee of the bulb, -
and any number maybe peeled without'
utibeting the eyes.
Before an Augusta policeman could ar-'
rest a three-card monte man the other day
the latter swindled him out of six dollars
in currency, a silver snuffbox and a pair of
silver-plated chicken gaffs.
He lives in Khinabeck now—one hun
dred aud eight years of age, threads a
needle at arm’s length, slept with Noah
when a boy, ployed marbles with Pharaoh
and turned a grindstone for G. W. to
sharpen his little cherry-cutter.
A good way to restore a man, appar-’
eutly drowned, is to first dry him thor
oughly inside and out, aud then clap a
speaking trumpet to his ear aud inform
him that his mother-in-law’s dead.
Abner Granger started out twenty-tour
years ago from his home to fodder the
cows and lie hasn’t retuned yet. Possibly
he made a mistake and went out to fodder
the worms—who known.
Tho last bit of fun that wc have heard’
of is of a man who poked his friend with 1
it guri lie didn’t know was loaded. Tlitr
undertaker said it was awfully jolly; __
A strong armed American tootb-jerker
has just opened his tool-chest in Rome.
Persons who have seen him go through'
the motions think ho is destined to niuka
“Romo howl.”
A lady, who her love had sold.
Ask’d if a reason could he toltl
Why wedding rings wore made of gold?
I ventured thus to instruct, her:
Love, ma’am nnd lightning are tho
same—
On earth they glance, from heaven they
came;
Love is the soul’s electric flame,
And gold its best conductor.
How frail a thing life is in some peoploh
It is said that ail alleged murderer who’
was taken out of jail by a Kentucky mob’
a short timo ago, riddled with bullets,
hacked and curved with bowie knives,
beaten over the head with clubs and crow
bars, and then saturated with kerosene oit
nnd cremated, lias died from liis injuries.
A Western paper says, “Talk about the
wind blowing tho grasshoppers away.'
One of them faced Monday’s gale for an
hour, and then yanked a shingle off to
lionse for a fan, saying it was awfully
sultry.”
The poet who sent an effusion entitled
"Nothing but Flowers” to a paper for'
publication is dying rapidly with mortifi
cation. The poem appeared as “Nothing
but Fleas.” When tho compositor was' -
reasoned with he said he thought there
ought to be something “lively” about the
poem.
An exchange tells of n married woman’
in Canada, who has been in sort of a
trance and has slept during the past vino'
years, with tho exception of about fivo
minutes every day to take on fuel; and 1
who has just come to her senses and begun
to talk again. Her husband—poor man,
he will probably be glad to exchange his
home for a situation as engineer of u‘
steam w histle or a double acting trip
hammer.
They have discovered the remains of a
gaiut in Smiley’s Grossing down in Texas,
The skeleton is fifteen feet iu length and
one of the teeth is eleven inches long and
six inches wide. Only think what an aw
ful famine that chap would create on a
free lunch counter, or at a hotel table.
What a deadhead he would have made—
ho aud his wife-—for the audience behind
Lo yell "Down iti'front” at—eh?
Such thing are hot to be contemplated
•without-a shudder;-