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EDWIN MARTIN, Proprietor.
Devoted to Home Interests and Ciiltard.
TWO DOLLARS A Teariu Advance,
VOLUME X.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, IS, ISSO.
NUMBER 7
THE FARMER LOVER.
“What did you say?”
Mr. Jonathan Brnco stood loaning
over the kitchen window sill like an ex
He looked hard at her.
“I think yon are making a mistake.”
She was silent, still looking at him in
the same scared, uncertain way.
' However.” he added, “that’s neither
A QUIET GAME
agerated cop- of one of Raphael’s fa-. ^re nor there. But Belinda raisesy m.
mons cherubs, his head and shoulders
just visible nbovs tbehop vines that
garlanded the casement, with pnlid
green leaves and cnrions clinging ten
drils. Tj
He was short and stout and by no
means an Adonis to look upon; bnt
there was a genuine suspense in hfs
air and manner as' ho breathlessly
nwni’ed his middle-aged sister’s answer
to the question which he had just pro
pounded.
Miss Belinda Brnce, who stood in
front of the kitchen table making ap
ple pies, paused to rnn the jigaerin.r
iron deftly around the edge of the crnst
before she answered—
“She said no P
Jonathan’s cocntenance fell.
“Lindy,” he gisped. “did she mean
it?”
“Of course she did,” said Belinda,
“at d I told you aa much before, did I
not?”
“Bnt I never beard of snch a filing!”
cried Jonathan, excitedly. “Inm a well-
to-do farmer, and s’ o is only a ser
vant.’.
“Where is she?” said Jonathan, with
a vague idea of soaking ont the obdu
rate fair one and pleading his own
ciinse, for an offer of marriage chanced
to be the question under debut**.
“Gone!” uttered Miss Belinda.
• “Gone?” echoed her brother.
“Y’s. goner’
Miss Belinda set the two pies in the
oven with an emphasis that, told vol
umes ' r theatre >£th of the baking plat
fra.
••Packed u i and gone, and I dirn’t
know where and I don’t care, so you
need no take the. trouble to ask; I’ll
keep no girl nronndmy home that feels
herself too good to l>e my brother’s
wife! A haughty, nirish thing as I’ve
no patience with.”
J.ma hau Brnce sai l nothing, blithe
took bis elbows down off the window sill
and waked slowly away,, feeling that all
the brightness had gone ont of the .-.fey,
a id all the sweetness from the balinv Jn
ly «r.
• I have made a misttko,” thought h *.
“Seems to me my life is all mistakes. 1
ought to have spoken out myself instead
of leaving it to iiiudy.. I thought a wo
man could manage such nutters better
than a man. but l forgot that there are
different kinds of women. JUintly is ex
cellent iu driving bargains about butter
and eggs, and chickens, but I doubt it
nbo is quite gentle uud soft-spoken
enough to deal with a question like this.
Foorlittle Dorthy! I wish I had nak
ed her myself, though "perhaps after id
it"wouldn't have made any difference.'’
Jonathan Brace hail lived to the age
of forty-five without feeling the darts ut
Cupid, and when he did fall iu loro it
was a serions busi ness.
Dorothy Dale had come down to the
old farmhouse to earn her own living.
She was a delicate, lovily girl of nfne-
teen, with dark grey eyes black hair
drooping lov on tier forehead, slid with
a frosh bloom like that of a peach.
She had first c ume to Lawmoor to try
and get the position of teacher in the
district school. But when the trustees
happened to have their special favorite,
and wbon the spectacled Miss Keene
was appointed, poor little Dorothy
found herself penniless -i n a stiange
place.
“What ear I do?” she asked piteous
ly-
‘Miss Brace wants a servant,”sug
gested the landlord’s wife. “A pound a
mouth aud a good home. House-work
ain’t so genteel as teaching, bat it’s
more healthy.”
Aud Dorothy caught at the straw
which a kind providence seemed to ex-
ft.id to her, and took the position as
servant in the Brnce family, which she
filled with satisfactory until Jonathan’s
unexpected offer of marriage drove her
away like a scared bird.
“Marry him, I become liis wife!”
thought Dorothy, with flushed cheeks
aind wildly beaiingheart. “Never! uev
ert”
An yet, strange to say, she did not
actually dislike honest Jonathan
Brnce.
It was only the natural recoil of the
wild bird from the fowler’s snare, the
the untamed deer from- the huntsman’s
touch.
It was scarcely a month from the
day on which the middle-aged, farmer
hstened to liis doom, and he chanced
to-be crossing tha bridg: which spau-
•>d the rivor, all of a sudden, he came
a slight figure crouching iu one cf
'brazui’es.
rioroihy, child!”he cried^start'
She will be glad to have you back ut the
old farmhouse again.”
“After—”
Dorothy checked li"rself instinctive
ly.
“Yes, everything. Let bygones be
bygones. Remember only-that Belin
da wants yon, and that there is always
a home for yon there. And as for me,
you needn’t trouble. I shall uot be In
anybody’s way,” be ndd'ed a little bit
terly. “I am going up to some stele
qniTies that I own, aud Belinda will be
left alone.”
“Yes,” she said, "I will go. After
all. I shall be putting myself under ob
ligation to nobody. I shall only be
earning ray living.”
&;/ she wont back, and Belinda re
ceived her brusquely, bnt with a kind
ness that went lo the poor girl’s heart.
“Are the quurJes very largt?” eha
asked, wistfully, when she had been ut
the old farm house about a mouth.
“Never heaid.”
“Were you over there?”
“Bless vonr heart, child, no!”
“Does Mr. Bruce often come home.”
“He is at boms now, said the nuin-
ster.
“At home?”
“Why, yes; only lie’s staying down at
the tavern; lie’s a sort of notion that
you . o l’t wan’t to see him here. ’
“I—I—it’s horrible to, think that I
t :*a him oat of his home.”
“There he is down in the clover mea
dow with the men, now,” said Miss Be
linda. “He’ll be tip his way directly, I
shouldn’t wonder; shall I cull him?”
“I—I think I ought.to speak to him,”
said Miss Dorothy, with her ey< s fix- d
on her work.
#*••*****
“Wuals to speak to me, eh?” said Mr.
Brace. “Well, Dorothy, what is it.
Ho looked kindly down Upon the
girl, she lifted her large eloquent eyes
11 liis.
“Mr- Bruce, I am banishing yon
from your home.”
‘ Well, no, yon are not.” lie answi r-
ed, s lov ly. "1 can be Inippy anywhere
little Don-tuy, so tiiat I know that yt u
are con Shi. r.” .
"Mr. Brace.”
“Weil”
“There is no occasion for your ab
senting yourself from your house on my
account.
“May I come back, Dorothy?” he
ask'd.
‘ You know that you can!’' she erred:
“And yon will stay here?”
• Why should I Sot?”"she retorted.
“Dorothy,” said he, suddenly.
“Yes." <
“Couldn’t we stay her.-—together?”
She looked up, colored, yet with a
blight smile. • ’
“I Kaye said ‘no’ once,” said she. “If
yon were to ask me a* ain ”
« Well?”
■ “I should say yes!"
“Then it’s a bargain;” said he quiet
ly, “if you think ymi em put up with
an unfashionable old fellow like me—
such a sweet little rosebud as yon are,
Dorothy.”
She -raised her iunoccut young lips
for the betrothal Biss.
"I have learned to love yon since I
Came back here, ” she whispered. “1
have learned to knew yon as you re-
ullv are—the noblest and besftof men.”
And Mt. Bruce ujver went back to
the quarries after that.
A Bullet in a SSnn s Breast-
Among the many remarkable things
which was produced by the Lite war in
the line of wounds, none is more so
than the case of Mr. Thomas Wright, of
Bristol, Yii., who a few days ago suc
ceeded iu cutting ont with liis own
hand a very large leaden ball which he
had received in tlie battle of Cbicka-
inauga in 186±. He was shot in the
back and ibe bat? lodged iu the breast ,
where it- has been a constant source of
irritation, causing him frequently great
paiu. For some tims= past it has work
ed to the front of the breast, where it
could easily be felt. Mr. Wright has
suffered so much with it that he refus
ed to submit to an operation, and final
ly cut it out with liis pocket knife.
The ball is a very large one, and is
very little battered. "It was fourteen
years and eight months in Mr. Wright’s
body.
t THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT IN
! PRISON
There are some folks who think it aw-; „ _ _
ful wicked for a husband and wife to- Tlie “Claimant had left Dartmoor
sit down together of an evening and! ^ or Portsmouth before my arrival at
play cards, while others can’t see where former placfe. I h d heard a goad
the barm comes in. i of him. of course. .He seems to
Why,” said the Colonel a few days have given an infinity of trouble. His
ago wheu the subject of card playing
was neder discussion, “does any one
pretend that my wife and I can’t play a
few games of euchre without disputing
and argueing and getting mad over it?
applications to address the Homs Sec
retary, and to have interviews with Di
rectors, Governor, doctors and. priest,
were incessant. He got admitted to
the chgretf choir for reasons—he ob
Loafers can’t, perhaps, but we could ' tiined a more comfortable seat, and he
play for a thousand years and never S was excused from labor on Saturday
only
■ time
’ vour
The young fellows and girls at Priwh
ett Institute, Glassgow, Mo., went out
at niglit with horns, pans and balls lo
serenade the faculty. They made a di
abolical noise in front of president
a w j Pritchett's liou^-e, and he came to a
She pushed- the dark, hair out of her j window with a demand to know what
lyes and. looked, athim defiantly. j they wanted. “A speech, old Baluy,”
Yes,, it is I,” she said;. j was the response, ‘T’llgive one,” he
on are pale and- thin,.” lie' attbrea’.i (juied^eviidently displeased at the nick-
1 name. Then’- blazed a wav witn- a sliofc-
-I have hard -
and :n»iact !■ m
gmii
wounding two- of the girls-, fie
; says he only meant to scare them; and
ittey charge that he aimed to hit/
’’ * I >
have a word—yes, we could.
The others shook their heads in a du
bious way,and the nettled Colonel walked
straight to a stationer’s and bought the
nicest pack he canid find. That even
ing, when his wife was ready to sit
down to her fancy work, he produced
the cards and said:
“May, I was told-tO-d£y that yon aud
I couldn’t play cards without disputing
and getting into a row . Darling, draw
up her. 1 .”
“Dearest we will not have a word of
dispute—not one,” she replied, us she
put. away her work.
The Colonel shuffled away and dealt
and turned up a heart,
“I order it up,” she observed, as she
looked over her ca rds.
“I was goiug to take it up anyhow,”
growled the Colonel, ns his cliin-fell, all
his other cards being black.
“Play to that,” she said as she put
down the joker.
•‘ Whoever heard of anyl oly leading
ont in trumps!” he exclaimed. “Why
don’t you lead out with ace.”
“Oh. I can ph.y this hand.”
“Yi-n c. u, eh? Weil, I’ll make it the
richest.?play you peers; w! Tin! took all
the tricks,-elr? Well, I thought I’d ei r’.wns allowed him.
Crnrugeyou a little. Give me thecurds
—it’s my deal.”
“You dealt before.
"No, t didn’t.”
“Why, yes you did! We have
played one hand.”
‘•Well, go ahead anil deal aU !h
if you want to! I'll make two of
deal anyhow. What’s trump?”
She turm-d up a cl-.b. He had only
the nine-spot, but he scratched liis
head and puckered Lis mouth and seem
ed to want 11 want to order it up. The
bluff didn’t'work. She! o'; it up and
■n led tin uce of hearts.
“No hearts, eh?” he shouted, as she
trumped it. “Refusing suit is a regu
lar loafer’s trick! I’ll keep an eye on
you! l’es, take it--and; that—arid all cf
’em! It’s mighty queer where you get
nlltbose trump. 1 Stocked the curds on
mo, did yon!”
“Now, dear, I played as-fair as could
be and made tw o, and if I make one on
your deal I’ll skunk yon,”
“I’d like to see you make one on my
deal!”, lie puffed “I’ye been fooling
along to encourage von, but. now I’m go
ing to beat you oui of sight. Diamonds
are tramps.”
She passed and be took it np on two
small tramps. He look the first trick,
sha the; next -two, he the fourth, and
when he put out his. last trump she had
the joker.
“Skunked! Skunked!” she exclaim
ed, as she clapped her hands in glee,
“You didn’t follow suit!”
“Oh, yes l did.” .
‘•I know better! Yon xefused spades.”
“Bnt I hadn’t any.”
“You hadn’t, eh? Why didn’t you
have any? I never saw a baud yet
without at Jeasi one spade in it.”
“Why, husband, I Know how to play
cards.”
‘ ‘And don’t I? Wasn’t I playing en-
ehro when you were learning to walk!
Isay you slocked the cards on me!”
“No, I didu’t! you are a poor player;
you don’t know how to lead!”
“I—I—why, maybe Pm a fool, and
maybe I don’t know anything, and so
you can play alone ind have all trumps
every time!”
He pushed-back, grabbed his paper,
wheeled around to She ghs. and it was
nearly thirty-six hours before be smiled
again. Nevertheless, no one else ever
had a dispute over cards,—Detroit Free
Pt ess.
A TAKE DOWN-
In France, fathei-in-laws l-eat the
mother in laws all hollow. Not long
ago a rich French marquis married the
daughter of a count who had no cash,
but he invited the couple to l : ve with
him in- Ms elegant villa near Paris. In
the course cf time the two nobleman
fell out, and the marquis, thinking the
villa was his wife’s dowry, told the old
count to go somewhere else. The eonnt
apparently consented and pretended to
go to the country, hut took rooms at
the Hotel de Louvre instead-. One day
he learned that.his daughter and her
husband were going to give a-dinner
party- Watching his opportanity, he
saw them go ont for a drive, preparato
ry to making their toilet, and he march
ed. into the villa, reinstated his own do-
mertie-V and told those employed by his
son in law that their master and 'mistress
waited them'elsewhere. ^Sending them j
«ff in eT.riuges, hr -‘’-at ‘the* doors, ur-’’s
- - TIP •
mornings that he might attend practice,
The organist assured me that he had uo
notion of Singing, add that the' noise
he made was something between the
chirp of a crow and the croak of a ra
ven. It was generally admitted by the
more intelligent prisoners who came in
contact with him that his habits and
manners were vulgar. He was doing
liis best, by the aid of French school
books furnished him by the priest, to
master the French language; and he
made all sorts of promises to a prison
er who vas in a cell next to him, and
who could speak French, if he would
aid him, bat this man told me he was
very stupid at it, nud that his progress
was very slow. When the “Claimant
first went to Dartmoor he seems to have
had a good friend iu the gentleman who
was at that time Governor of the pris
on. He was extremely troublesome,
constantly breaking prison rules, and
constantly being reported for doin
but so long as the Major remained in
command ho was-never punished, and
when he r< c ived visits from his friends,
Dr. Keuealy and others,Abe visits took
place, contrary to the regulation?, iu
the Governor’s office, and « ra time
The advent of Cap
tain Harris was a misfortune for Cas-
‘o , or Orton, or whoever be may be,—
I may hi-re take the opportunity of df-
ing au act of simple justice to Captuir
Harris. I am quite sure that if the
ip.fi or brother of the Secretary of State
were a prison'd' under liis control, lit
would be treated with the same indul
gence as every other prisoner, and no
more. The “Claimant.” when best he
received a visit; did so bebiud the bars
m l within the time specified by the
rules. -
When reported for insolence he was
sentenced to two days on bread and wa
ter, and he got a siconcl piluisbmentfor
the same < flense and some others. By
the doetui’s orders'll© had eight i uaces
of additional bread per day a..d eight
ounces of potatoes, and ou ' meat aud
soup days he had increased rations. I
presume his friend, Mr: Wind ley, wor
ried tire Home. Secretary ii.to removing
him to P irtsmouih, where I am told l e
is fetching a tolerably easy “bagging.”
Perhaps the air there is not so bracing,
but at Dartmoor his appetite was enor
mous. I know men employed iu the
tailor’s shop who did uot need all their
food, and who gave lnm«ome‘c6nstant-
1y; and the order’iis who carried art/uni
the bread were in the habit of yielding
to bis entries lies to shy bini a loaf, if a
good “screw” happened to be on duty.
By the way, a good ‘‘screw” among the
the prisoners means a man who does
not do bis duty. I knew ii little Irish
man who told use that one day he was
able tb give the “Claimant” six dunce-
t laves, and that he came very near get
ting three days for his good nature.—
The big man was very unpopular with
some of his neighbors, who say that he
was a bad sleeper, aud u*ed to- puff and
blow, and gruut and groan all through
the small hours. He was nnpppnlhr
with the w.-.rdcis, because it was with
the greatest difficulty tiiat he could be
got to scrub liis ceil or keep Liar celt
furniture cican. But I won’t say anv
more about the felL'iw. I should think
the wuild had had enough of him in all
conscien ce.—“ Gnrict Life, by a Tick-
f i-of-Leave-Man. ”
Female Bandits in the Stkeets of
New Y.jIIK.—Added to tlie-already -gri a
dangers of «ur streels tnere is a noviliy
in the line of highway robbery. Wo
men have taken to the footpad basinesr
Yesterday morning, in ihe small hours,
as a young Italian named Salvatore
C-orreglio was walking throng Thomp
son street, he was suddenly attacked
from behind by four women, who seiz
ed him by the threat and arms and drag-
NEWSP APER RATES-
The Chicago^ Times announces an ad-
advance in the price of its paper torsub-
scribers of 20 per cent in consequence
of the.heavy advance . in the price of
white paper. The daily, including the
Sunday edition will be thirty-five cents
per week, and single copies six
cents. This necessity,asdhe Times puts
it, occnrs at a period when the people
were demanding a redaction
in the price of subscription, and
many publishers, nearly all in fact,
had reduced-the price of weekly pa
pers. The boom struck newspaper
publishers at the wrong end. It may
force some common sense into them in
regard to business principles. If so it
will pay. The squeal of the Times
which sought to oveishadow its contem
poraries regardless of cost is a pretty
loud one.— Cincinnati Gazette.
The revival of good times—the “bus
iness boom” . so-called—has given al
most every class a Uft forward except
newspaper publishers. Strange as it
may sound, the general advance in wa
ges and prices which pleases the pnblic
so much has mule harder “times” for
the press. The price of type has been
raised, coal is dearer, labor has advan
eed, and white pap^r, the leading item
iu newspaper expense, has been thrust
np to 33 to 50 pgr cent., with threats
on the . part with the paper-maxing
combination to put it higher next
spring. MeauwhiFo, publishers are
charging the old price to their subscri
hers and the old rates for advertising
consequently the whole advance in the
cost of putlisbiuga newspaper falls on
tlie proprietors, who have not felt at lib
erty to f ix back their Iossps on the pub
lic. Borne of the newspapers have drop-
How tbo Republic Bf Tewas Weufc out!
of Existence-
A LITTLE COINCIDENCE
The culminating scene of annexation ‘ ^ 13 rcru ^ * n '■‘ !e chronitl/s of
-with the United States took place Feb- | visit fc » Washington;
ruary 19, 18A& President Jones deliv- ! General Grant ca-
ered his veledictory from the steps of ; *f cd the cU,ircU Metropolitan M.
the “Old Capitol,” which stood where!® Church) that the choir was singing
ihe market lionse of Austin now stands. | ^ e . e ^ eum I*aJamns tha Siimo
He closed with these words: I wl,ldl ' vas snn S *P on the entree of the
“The Lone Star of Texas, which ten i
Pmice uf Wales at St. Paul’s Cathedral
i after his recovery from his serious ill-:
years since arose amid clouds, over J , ,
fields of carnage and obscurely seen fori ut ’ ss > some > par s ago, and t e same
awhile, has culminated, and following M ,,cb sung upon the entrance of
N.'ipoleon in the Cathedral of Notre
Thompson street. A policeman heart!
the youngmaiiV despairing cry, and
went to the resena. In the hallway he
found hime'ngaged. iu Ti 'desper.ite tight
with the wenches, who were rapidiy'gi't-
ting the ’oast of the battle. Tha female
desperadoes were all arresffid, and yes
terday m.zrniug, iu tlie Jefferson Mark
et Police Court, gave their/names,as
Minnie Patterson-, Sarah. 5 Smi'h, Mary-
E. Davis and Sarah Rollins. The firs:
two were accused of steeling fourteen
dollars from the young man, and were j
held in default of one thousand dollar
bail t
Mary
ped their supplements to reduce ex
penses, and few have ventured to raise
their .subscription prices. The St.
Louis moruing papers have advanced
iheir rates from four centi a copy at
retail to five cents, and by the week
bare he.-eased their charges five cents.
Papers in other cities are contemplat
ing a redneton iu the size of ther sheets
where their presses will permit it. In
this city the Daily Tribune has omitted
apart of its supplements, and may
have to drop more of them if the mice of
paper keeps on advancing, but will re
tain its old price. The Times, aa
choice of evils between a reduction of
size and an increase of rates, has ad
vanced its price one cent'per day, re
tailing hereafter at six cents instead of
five, and raising its delivery price to
city subscribers five cents per week,
charging 30 cents instead of 25. In
making the announcement of the ad--
vanee, the publisher say that the cost of
printing the Times is at the rate of
§100,000 per annnm more than if
it were a year ago/ Judging from our
own experience, this stamement is. not
far wide of the truth. All the great dai
lies will be obliged either to curtail their
size or increase their price if they
would escape serious loss. Singular as
it may appear to the unreflecting road
er, the more business booms aud prices
inflate the worse it is for the publishers.
Like the fable in Easop, what is
sport to the reader is de; th to the pub
lisher.— Chicago Tribune. ..
A machinist in Virgiuia City, Nev.
is engaged figuring oat a diamond drill
which "will cut a tunnel of ordinary size 1
Its main feature is a rim of saw-blade
six feet in diameter, and three and a
anlf feet in width, with diamonds set in
one edge. WLen a cut a yard in depth
hot been made, the drill is rr-n back
and the block of rock knocked ont.
F-he machine is really a kind of circular
saw. There is a sort of a centre bit, al
so armed witn diamonds, that--goes a
little in advance of.the main saw, apd
makes a hole an inch and a half in di-
>im. ter. This assists in giving a steadi
ness tb-the main tool, and leaves a hole
in which t j insert a giant powber car
tridge and knoc-K oat the block of rock
when a cut lias teen made to the prop
er c!ep:h. This novel drill is intended
f >r use iu Lard rock only, though it may
be used for soft reck where the ground
is not too wet and heavy.
The most unique Confederate monu
ment- in Tennessee stands in the court
house yard- at Bolivar. It represents,
gedlrim into the hallway . of No. 56 ip (he . carvetl marble, a tented army,
with battle flags, etc., and cannons re
versed. The following sentences are
quoted: ...
“Hardeman county erects this monn-
meiit to the memory oMiPrsons who
felt in the service of the Confederate
B at.'S.
“In hope of a joyful seen tree lion-.”
‘rihiuigh men deserve, they may not
wia success.”
“The bii-Y-j will honor the brive,
though vanquished.”
IVh n the vote cn sceesjriKi - wqfe'ta-
i! ken, tiic-ie was but t;nr, vot'e-lor “No
> await the action of grand Jnryi j sc-pc-ratipn' in - hat county'.
D.vvis and Sarah Rollins were! '
an inscrutable destiny has passed on
and become fixed forever in that glo
rious constellation which all free men
and lovers of Iriedormin the world must
revere and adore—the American Union.
Blending its rays with its sister states,
long may it shine, and may generons
Heaven smile upon this consummation
of the wishes of the two republics now
joined to one. May the Union bo per
petual, and may it be the means of con
ferring benefits and .1 lessings upon the
people all over the Shit •?; is my ardent
prayer. The first act in the gveat dra-
ma is now performed. The Republic
of Texas is uo more.”
Wheu the _ last sentence was uCored
the fi.ig of Texas—The Loue Star State
—was lowered, and the folds of the bau-
ner of the broad Union was flung to the
breeze. Around it stood hundreds of
old Texans who had faced danger iu all
its most appalling and abhorrent forms
—m n who had never quailed when suf
fering and privation tested their
strength and fidelity to Tex is; men who
had always furnished proof that they
preferred death to dishonor; and men
who had worked and waited aud prayed
for annexation. Yet in that assemblage
tilere were scores of men, pioneers,
veterans, who were subbing, like chil
dren. They felt that the bright banner
they had fashioned and followed, and
struggled, and bled (of, had been for
ever furled; that what they loved to
idolatry had been shut out from their
gaze—lost to them and theirs—for ali
time. It was one of the most impres
sive scenes the writer ever witnessed.—
It was something the heart could feel
and respond to with deep emotions, bat
was an incident, which defied the pow
ers of language to describe; which mock
ed P*e magic limning of both the
pen and pencil-—Austin (Texas) Re
view.
each sear to the work Lo;
months; — New Tori/ Truth.
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fy six !
atent press
all right, la
Clement Atta ffimont-
Enterprise, Clarke Co., Miss., J/n, 30.
—Your correspondent, Mr. Fiauie, is
perfectly coirect in bis statement in ref
erence to the origin of the Clement At
tachment. I Tecollect, distinctly, more
than fifty years ago, to lrave seen the ma
chine he describes in m iny farmers’
hou-ses in Alabama, aud it was operated
very much ou the principle of the ma
chine yon represent in your issue of
19th iu3f. The following is an extract
from an article I commenced .writing
for publication in the Courier, of this
plade, but was prevented from finishing
it by the intervention of soma other
matters not material to this subject. -
The Clement atsachment is already in
operation in the form of the spinning
jenny of more -than fif.fy ycais’ exist
ence before Clement ever conceived the
idea, and was in use in many planters’
homes. That it has been enlarged and
materially improved I do not question
in the least, bnt I do contend that the
principle is the same, and that the pres
ent claimant is entitled tc only a patent
for snch improvement.
A few years prior to the war of seces
sion the late' George C. Henry, a com
mission merchant of Mobile, Ala., in
vented a machine to be used ou fa: in*
for the same purpose, bnt, for reasons
beretofere stated, his invention did not
meet with the encouragement he con
ceived it merited, and he abandoned it.
Thers was, at the time I refer to, two
machines in use, one that ginned and
carded the cotton into rolls for spin
ning on the large hand wheel, au 1 one
that ginned, caided and spun the cotton
into thread. 31y recollection is that-
the machines were manufactured iu
some nation of East Tennessee.
Wherever the honor of. discovery or
resuscitation may be awarded, there is
no doubt that, if prudently aud jadi
ciottsly employed, it will prove a valua
ble acquisition to th©'South.—Uias. F
Mayerhoff in Courier-Journal.
A Wooden Watch.—A North Caroli
na paper, the Abingdon Standard, has
the following: Some time i-go Mr. E
A. Johnson, of Johnson Brothers, Jen el
ers.of this,place made a plain, open-faced
wooden watch that attracted a great
deal of attention, bnt was subsequent
ly eclipsed by Mr. Doroit. of Bristol,
in a watch somewhat more elaborate i:
<itsign. NoJ^te be agUIone, Mr. John
son s^t to yrork -tru onoHier watch, and
turned out a haiitkeme- double case
stem-winder and s-t- • every-
P’eee vl w’-.ichp^^ ‘ jju and Hi
Dame upon the occasion of national
thnnksgivingjeeremonies in Pari s.”
Tims with the names oi the next Ring
of Engl toil aud Emperor of India and
of NapJeon are associated thoughts of
General Grant. Of course as the chron
icle says, “it happened.”
So “it happened” that Grant chose’
for his coat of arms three crowns.
“It happened” that during his stiy in
PhiLidelphia hfs dreams were sweeten
ed by his sleeping on the same couch on
which the emperor of Brazil formerly
reposed.
These things all happen.’ Bnt those'
who make them happen are courtiers.'
well acquainted with the weaknesses*
and the vaulting ambition of tho third
term candidate.
Litlle things are often indicative of
great things. If Grant were ever again
President and by virtue of that oflierf-
Commander in-Chief of the Army and
Navy, the p; ople might have m'ofe po '
tent reasons for associating thoughts of ;
nim with the names of the kings antf
empc rors of the Old World.—
Theke has been a sensation trial at ’
Madras respecting the guardianship of -
Ihe sacred hair of Mohamm- d. This
hair is inclosed m a safe called the “An- --
saree Sliareef,” and the possession of..
the relic carries with it a small pension* -
Four Persons, claimed it--«,wo by suc
cession and two by right of a will. One
was a wi man. and the Judge decided,
that she could not bold it because she',
conld not fulfill the ceremonies connect
ed with it, and finally intrusted this .
valuable hair to one of the male liti-
gauts.
London Truth hears that the feeling: (
of indignation against Lord Lytton in
India among military men is very strong.
Having rend the dispatches of the Duk'o .
of Wellington, he is convinced that he
has acqnired sufficient strategical knowl
edge to conduct a campaign' himself.
He.entirely ignores advice and sugges
tions from the heads of the army, aud
corresponds directly with the colonel i .
and captains, an though he were tho
general in active ccmmaud of the for
ces.
It was developed before the Senate -
Exodus Committee Thursday (hat tho
negroes were induced to leave North .
Carolina for Indiana only through tho’
misrepresentations of the men Perry
and Williams, who said that work was
plenty, and wages high in Indiana 1 ,• and
strong negro Republicans the only ones
wanted. It was also stated that the
condition of the emigrants in that State
was pitiable.
A panther .entered the house of Mr!
Dobbs, near Damason’s church, near *
Greeneville, ran Mrs. Dobbs gu', and.
took possession of the place. Her lias-
band being aD3eut, she went to a neigh
bor's, got several persons aud returned
to her house, and found the vicious ani
mal quietly gnawing a bone. For some
cause it escaped before it could be k\
e«L
-+■ Of <3>- 9 ’
The Russian Countess who re.'^
commuted suicide on the eve of h
wedding day, Vera Koseheiff. left a not
to say that the reason she sewed her-
lelf up m a sack with the seams on tl e
inside before rollrog herself into th.
river was her fear of crawfish and wa
ter bugs. Ccnnt flelhnn was her 1 >v- ;
er, auc! she may not have iv.Iisiieil his
aame.
Boston is still pegging away, through-
.i committee from her Chamber of Com
merce. at another bankrupt law.
Through Hon. Proctor Knott, they have
secured the appointment of a sub-com
mittee on bankruptcy, consisting of
Messrs Ryan, of Pennsylvania, ILiui-
mon<% of Georgia, and McKinly, of
Ohiu. The Boston comm:!tee liavo
hopes of success:
They call it a romantic marriage in
Michigan when a caui le of the neigh
bors get the bride’s’rath - ! into a back
oom and sit on him to prevent hi? iu-
■ m'ptiijg uud,._lirraking up rhe wed-
iiug.
"See here, Jones, why don’t you
encu iu your premises?” “Oh there’s
io need of it, ?o long as my wife is al-
v:ts railing around the house, is
here?”
• cNSk
A jian who takes one drink too many
is often denounced as a foo;, i>at noth
ing is said ' A. the woman who geti
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