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About Blackshear news. (Blackshear, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1879)
The Fuel Supply. There is one poiht h/hotmehold econ¬ omy upon which the landlord and the gnest will never agree. It is on the quantity of wood landlord required is firmly to heat a room. Now the con¬ vinced, and he grounds his convictions upon a long series of actual tests and practical experiments, extending over a term of years which date back to the year he began to “keep tavern,” that two sticks of wood, about two inches in diameter and somewhat longer than a match, will, snapping if properly and used, keep a bright fire, roaring, in a large stove all day, and then, if yon cover them np smolder carefully when you re¬ tire, they will all nightlong, and yon will only have to open the damper to have a nice warm room to dress in the next morniDg. He knows this, because, he tells the gnest, he has tried it, and does try it, very successful¬ ly in hiB own room every night. I never heard the gnest dispute the land¬ lord, but I can't remember ever having seen him look convinced. When I order a fire in my room I usually have about this kind of a circus. I say to the boy, in commanding tones: wood.” “ Bring up some amazed, The boy looks goes away slowly and just before the fire goes dead returns with two armfuls of wood, stick in each arm. The sticks are short, but thin. I seize them gladly and thrust them both into the stove. “ Now then,” I cry cheerfully, “bring np some wood!” The boy disappears, and I catch a passing glimpse of his white, terror stricken faee as he slides dowu the balus¬ ters. In due time, comes to the room, not the frightened boy, but with heavy, solemn tread, the landlord. There is trouble in his face. “What do you want?” he asks, sus¬ piciously. Wood,” I “wood. I wood ! My “ say, cry is still for wood I Fuel! Combus¬ tibles ! Inflammable substances I Vege¬ table growth and development I Wood 1” “ Why,” he asks, with a puzzled ex¬ pression on his face, “ didn’t the boy bring you up some wood just now ?” “Yes,” I reply, truthfully. And it kind of oddly to me, but after all, I am glsd I told it under the circum¬ stances. The landlord looks wonderingly around the room, glances behind the stove, stoops down and peers under the bed. “Well, why,” he says at last, “where in a perplexed tone of oountenance, is it?” “In the stove,” I say. An expression of incredulous bewil¬ derment spreads over his questioning face. Yes, He asks, feebly and ?” falteriugly: “ but the rest of it “ In tho stove, too,” I say. “What!!!” the good man shonts, “all of it?” And there aren’t enough capitals and exclamation points in the nows room to convey his emphasis regard and expressions to the types. I his indescribable amazement with pitiless composure. “ All of it,” I say. ■ He doesn’t believe me. He stoops down before the stove, opens tho door and looks in. His worst fears are real¬ ized. With a hollow groan he closes the door and shuts the damper with such an easy, quick, long practiced turn of the wrist that an inexperienced man oan never detect it, and rising to his feet goes hand feebly his down bewildered stairs, head, holding one the to and other to his throbbing heart. By-and by he comes back into the room, with the wan, silent face of a specter. He bears two sticks of wood, somewhat thinner than the ones the boy brought, but, on the other hand, considerably shorter. He shudders as he walks past me, and lays them down in the bottom of the wood-box, and covers them up with a pieoe of an old envelope to hide them from my extravagant eyes. But I seize them from under his hands even while he is hiding them, and not heeding the tremnlons hand he reaches forth to stop me, I thrust the sticks into the stove, and aay, calmly and sternly: “ Send the boy up with some chunks.” The landlord presses his hands over his eyes and goes reeling out into the hall. He says, in a ghastly whisper : “Well, ef you can’t crowd more wood into that stove than any man I ever see.” And as he goes down stairs I can hear him sobbing, and telling the hall-boys they’ll have to keep an eye on the crazy man in No. 72 or he’ll set the house on fire. — Burdette in Burlington Hatv't . u .* i 4 i j •* i * X. A Terrible and Deadly Affray. In the annals of deadly affrays in this State, says the Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald, we know of no occurrence so fatal in its results as that which occur red on board the steamer Sunflower, while lying at Johnsonville, the county seat of Sunflower county. Col. D. A. Holman, while in Johnson ville, on entering Dr. W. L. Lowry’ ’s store, was accosted by Dr. Lowry, who ordered Holman out, remarking, it is said, that Holman was no gentleman, aud did not keep his word, or something to that effect. Holman’,departed, saying in substance he would see Lowry again. On the morning of the affair Col. Hol¬ Sunflower man engaged passage on the steamer for Vicksburg, accompanied by his father-in-law, Dr. G. O. Walker. The boat arrived at Johnsonville some¬ what earlier than usual, and Col. Hoi man and Dr. Walker together went on shore, bnt in a short time returned. Perhaps a half hour later Dr. Lowry, as was usual with him, came on the boat to transact hie and while en tering the cabin was caught, it is said, by tho lett arm or book, by Col. Hol¬ man, and who turned his Lowry half breast way around Lowry putting pistol to bis fired. started down the cabin, but in John stantly turned, and seeing his clerk, C. Arnold, start from his chair (being shaved at the time), said: “ Kill him, John; kili him, he has shot me.” Arnold ran out of the cabin to attack Holman, and Lowry, walking to the cabin door, cocked his pistol and fired at Holman. At the same instant of time, perceiving Dr. Walker with a pis¬ tol in his hand, he pointed his pistol at Walker with deadly effect; Walker fall¬ ing gle. aud expiring almost without a strug¬ Lowry then walked in the cabin staggering, and fell, and in about two minutes expired also, o In the meantime Araold and Holman were fighting outside the cabin. Arnold received a wound in the chest, and died shortly after being removed from the boat, Col. Holman being wounded in the left arm and side. ly All respected. the parties Dr. engaged Lowry are very brother high¬ was a of Gen. Robert Lowry, and leaves a widow and six ohildren. Arnold was a brother of Judge Arnold, of Columbns, Miss., talented Col. Holman lawyer, being a piominent and and respected in the community in which he lives. Dr. Walker was one of the oldest resi¬ dents of the county, and we believe had no enemies. Col. Holman, the only survivor, was immediately arrested. Long and Short Sleepers. Seamen and soldiers, from habit, can sleep they will. when Captain they will Barclay, and wake when when per ¬ forming 1,000 his wonderful in feat o! walking miles as many consecutive hours, obtained such a mastery over himself that he fell asleep the minuto he lay dowu. The faculty of remaining asleep for a great length of time is pos¬ sessed by some individuals. Such was the case with Quin, the celebrated player, who would slumber for twenty four hours successively; with Elizabeth Orvin, who slept three-fourths of her life; with Elizabeth Perkins, who slept for a week or a fortnight at a time; with Mary Lyell, who did the same for suc¬ cessive weeks; and with many others, more or less remarkable. A phenomenon of an opposite char¬ acter is sometimes observed, for there are other individuals who can subsist on a surprisingly small portion of sleep. The celebrated General Elliott was an instance of this kind; he never slept more than four hours out of the twenty four. In all other respects he was strikingly abstinent, his food consisting wholly of bread, water and vegetables. In a letter communicated to Sir John Sinclair by John Gordon, Esq., of Swine, mention is made of a person named John Mackay, of Skerry, who died in Strath nave, in the year 1797, aged ninety one; he only slept on an average of four hours in the twenty four, and was a remarka¬ bly robust and healthy man. Frederick the Great, of Prussia, Hunter, and the illustrious surgeon, John only slept five hours during the same period. celebrated French general, Pichegro, informed Sir Gilbert Blaine that a whole himself year’s campaign above he had allowed one hour’s in the twenty-four. The Jackson (Miss.) Comet that there cannot be too much to the North and West for aid given yellow fever sufferers, but there can far too much poetry on the subject, THE UREATEST MUSICAL SUCCESS OF TUB DAY IS H. M. S. Pinafore! 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