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Published Wednesday,
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Watkinsville, Oconee Co. Georgia.
'VV. Gr. SULLIVAN,
EDITOR AND PB0FE1ET0B
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A RIDE FOR LIFE.
It was just at sundown, and Lily War¬ Ser
▼osse was sitting on the porch glow, at when
rington, horseman watching the sight, sunset and rode
a came in up
to of the gate. After seemed a moment’s satisfied, scrutiny and
the premises he
uttered the usual halloo which it is cus¬
tomary for one to give who desires to
communicate with the household in that
country. Lily rose and advanced to the
stops. letter,”
“ Here’s a said the horseman,
as he held an envelope up to view, and
then, as she started down the steps,
threw it over the gate into the avenue,
and, wheeling his horse, cantered easily
away. directed Lily picked up the letter. It
was in a coarse sprawling hand:
Con. Comfort Servosse,
In the lower, left-hand Warrington. in
corner, a
more compact and business-like hand,
were written the words, “ Read at once,”
Lily read the superscription carelessly
as she went up the broad avenue.
She went into the house, and, calling
for a light, glanced once more at the
read: envelope, and then broke the seal. It
Col. Servosse : A raid of K. K. has been
ordered to intercept Judge Denton on his way
home to-night (the 23d inst). It is understood
that he has telegraphed you to accompany him
home. Do not do it. If you can by anv meaus
ive him warning. It is a big raid, and means
- usiness. —._____ The decree is that ho shall be tied,
river, placed planks in the middle of the bridge across the
taken up on each Bide, so as to
prevent send this a rescue, and the bridge set on file. I
warning for your sake. Do not trust
the telegraph. I, shall S IhrnUd , .
late. safe hand, but tremble it be too
I dare not sign my name, but subscribe
myself your Unknown Friend.
lTie young girl stood for a moment
paralyzed threatened bv horror at the danger which
her father. It did not once
occur to doubt the warning she had
received. She glanced at the timepiece
on the mantel. The hands pointed to 8
o’clock. _
“ Too late, too late !” she cried, as she
clasped her hands and raised her eyes to
heaven in prayerful agony. She saw
that she could not reach Verdenton in
time to prevent their taking the train,
and she knew it would be useless to tel
egraph the afterward. It was evident that
wires were under the control of the
Klan, and there was no probability that
a message would he delivered if sent in
tune to prevent the catastrophe.
“ Oh, my dear, dear papa !” she cried,
as she realized more fully the danger,
“Oh, God! can nothing be done to save
him ?”
Then a new thought flashed upon her
mind. She ran to the back porch, and
called sharply but quietly :
“ William! Oh, William !”
"William,” said Lily, as the stable
boy Lollard, appeared, “put my saddle on Young
and bring him round quick as
possible.'
“But, Miss Lily, you know dat hoss
—” the servant began to expostulate.
“I know all about bun, William,
Don’t wait to talk. Bring him out.”
“All right, Miss Lily,” he replied,
with a bow and a scrape. But as he
went toward the stable he soliloquized
angrily : “Now, what for Miss Lily
want to ride that partickerler hoss, Nobufldy you
s’pose? Neblier did afore.
but de Knnnel ebber on liis back, an’ he
hab his hands Ml wid him sometimes,
Dese furrerbred lueses jes de debble
anyhow! Dar’s dat Young Lollard,
now, it’s jest ’bout all a man’s life wutli
to rub him down and sad,lie him. Why
don’t she take the ole un ? Here you,
Lollard, come outen dat.”
He threw open the door of the log sta
ble where the horse had his quarters, as
he spoke, and, almost instantly, with a
shorL vicious whinner, a powerful, dark
brown horse leaped into the moonlight,
and, with ears laid back upon his sinuous
neck, white teeth bare, and thin, blood
red nostrils distended, rushed toward
the servant, who, with a loud “Dar now !
Look at him! Wlioa ! See de ras
cal ! ” retreated quickly behind the door,
The horse rushed once or twice around
the little stable-yard, and then stopped
suddenly beside his keeper, and stretched
out his head icr the bit, quivering m
every limb with that excess of vitality
which only the thoroughbred horse ever
exhibits.
Before the horse was saddled, Lily had
donned her riding habit, pnt a revolver
in her belt, as she very frequently did
when riding alone, swallowed a hasty
supper, scratched a short note toher
mother on the envelope of the letter she
had received—which she charged Will
iam at once to carry to her—and was
sr-*- * ^ “ ai “
the The restless brawny horse groom with difficulty held
slight girl who stood by the bit; but the
upon the block,
with pale face and set teeth, gathered
the reins in her hand, leaped fearlessly
into the saddle found thestirrup and
said, “ Let him go! ” without a quiver in
her voice. The horse stood upright, and
pawed the air for a moment with his
feet, gave a few mighty thenf leaps stretching to make
sure his liberty and
out his neck bounded forward in a race
which would require all the mettle of
his endless waTbome line of noble sires
As she like an arrow down
the avenue, and turned into the Glen
'Me road, Lily heard the whistle of the
tram as it left the depot at Verdenton,
and knew that upon her coolness and
resolution alone depended 1 the life of her
father
It wm i. nirmr .. ’'tbaf'fo^some
plishmentoif her
jonmev to^nteiTl^™ 0 ! 86 h*” 1 enotafh todo
^fher Sheh^T h^" and 8mde “ d °° n -
wa ,i^- ,. Rm mad ^ ^ •/ * . to . T1 . f lt ..
hl« ftinli eT n Ithough . she
had never ridffin’ the home was
familiar with hwnmw 1 * nd 14
was well for her tin* th ■ 6
for, as he dashed awav lfnw '♦wiT BP
of the wind she frit i*° 1 k
Nor was to did restrain him hrm i e** re.®
she attempt "it Af Uere 1 y a Ieel r “*K
his mouth and keenin ,*
road before him r’taht iiVTw) .i®*?* °“ j
den start to the r.Vl re r
her bv surprise *h« i. “*®
Pt . u * e * t
and tried to soothe bin, i her vol • P
With head outetretchrri c -
utmost’Tfl ,
neck stramed to ite BUleWy
the ground in wii.1 * n ®T,°7. er
evening s seemed/* 0 * WUb tbo
night'waa wind aa it
Tha growine th?. chlllv y v™ °? *5"
tunc. Aa the wind truc * ri h«w *t the
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
hill-top thrown she remembered that she had
a hooded waterproof about her
before starting. She stopped her horse
and taking off her hat gathered her long
hair into a mass, and thrust it into the
hood, which she drew over her head,
and pressed her hat down over it. Then
she gathered the reins, and they went
on that long, steady stride which marks
the high-bred horse when he gets Jhor
ou ighly Once down to his work.
or twice she drew rein to deter¬
mine which road to take. Sometimes
her road lay through the forest and she
was startled by the cry of the owl; anon
it and was the through half-wild the reedy bottom land,
their lairs, her hogs, starting from
gave an instant fright.
The moon cast strange shadows around
her, but still she pushed on, with this
one only thought in her mind, that her
father’s life was at stake, and she alone
could save him. She had written to her
mother to go back to Verdenton and
telegraph to her father ; but she put no
hope in that. How she trembled, as she
passed marked each fork road, in the lest rough and ill
country she should
take the right hand when she ought to
turn to the left, and so lose precious,
priceless joy moments. How her heart beat
with when she came upon any re¬
membered landmark ! And all the time
her mind was full of tumultuous prayer.
Sometimes it bubbled over her lips in
tender, disjointed accents.
“Father! papa, dear, dear papa!”
she cried out to the bright still night
that lay around; quivering and then lids the and tears
burst over the rah
down the fair cheeks in torrents. She
pressed her hand to her heart as she
fancied that a gleam of redder light shot
athwart the northern sky, and she
thought of a terrible bonfire that would
rage a,ld glow above the northern hori
zon if she failed to bring a timely warn
iug of the danger. How her heart
throbbed with thankfulness as she gal
loped through an avenue of giant oaks
at a crossroads where she remembered
stopping with her father one day! He
had told her it was half way from Glen
ville to Warrington. He had watered
their horses there ; and she remembered
every word of pleasant badinage he had
addressed to her as they rode home,
Had one ever before so dear, so tender
a parent drove ? The tears came again, but
she them back with a half-invol
untary she said. laugh. “Not now, not now,”
“No, nor at all. They shall
not come God, help at all; for I will save him.
Oh, me! I am but a weak
girl. Why did the letter come so late?
But I will save him I Help me, Heaven !
Guide and help ! ”
She glanced at her wateh as she
passed from under the shade of the
oaks, and, as she held the dial up to the
moonlight, gave a scream of joy. It
still was just past the stroke of 9, She had
an hour, and half the distance had
been accomplished in half that time.
Still on and on the bravejhorse bore
her with untiring limb. Half the re
maining distance is now consumed, and
“he comes to a place where the roads
fork, not once, but into four branches.
It is in the midst of a level old field,
covered with a thick growth of scrubby
pines. Through the masses of thick
green are wtote lanes which stretch
away in every direction, with no visible
difference save in the density or fro
quency of the shadows which fall across
them. She tries to think which of the
many destination. intersecting paths leads to her
She tries this and then
that for a few steps, consults the stars
to determine in what direction Glen
ville lies, and has almost decided on the
first to the right, when she hears a
sound which turns the blood to ice in
her veins.
A shrill whistle sounds to the left—
once, swered twice, thrice—and then it is an
from the road right, in front.
There are two others. 0h, God ! if she
but knew which road to take! She
knew well enough the meaning of those
The signals. She hail heard them before,
marked cavaliers are closing in upon
l‘ er ; and, as if frozen to stone, she sits
on her horse in the clear moonlight, and
cannot choose.
She is not thinking of herself. It is
not for herself that she fears ; but there
has come over her a horrible numbing
sensation know which that she road is’lost, for she does
not leads to those she
seeks to save ; and st the same time
there comes the certain conviction that
to err would be fatal. There are but two
r °ads now to choose between, since she
has heard the fateful signals from the
left and front; hut how much depends
the sickening conviction comes : “No,
no: it’s the other!” She hears hoof
strikes np the road in front, on that to
ker left, and now, too, on that which
turns sheer to the right. From one to
th® o^ier the whistle sounds—sharp,
»h°rt signals. Her heart sinks within
l‘«r. She lias halted at the veiy rendez
vous of the enemy. They are all
her. To attempt to ride down either
road is to mvite destruction.
She awoke from her stupor when the
first horseman came in sight, and
thanked God for her dark horse and
colorless habit. She urged Young Lol
lard among the dense senib pines which
grew between the two roads from which
she knew she must choose, turned his
head backward toward thejdaoe of in
tersection, drew her revolver, leanerl
over /mirUiiTimncr nnon his neck and neered oi,,,,7 tbrono-l,
.i hSd hreneViee ,
her ^ftly horse’s tTkeen and stilT whispered to him
haS tom
HMdly had she she placed olaced herself herself in m hirl hid
The cLta dta
8??***^ b ^ se “ e P- 8be 00,11,1 catcb
glimpses of their figures „ as she gazed
through the clustering pines. Three
men came mU* the road that ran along
to the ot where ehe Btood - They
were hardly five but step* determined, from where she the
la 7’ P antm 8 on
IMthfol horse which moved not a muscle.
Once he had neighed before they came
*° nfar l but tbere were so many
bonev neighiug and snufiing that no
one noticed it. She remembered a little
fl»sk that Maggie whisky. had She put into her pock
et. It was put up her re
volver, drew out the flask, opened it,
poured some in her hand, and, leaning
'orward, nibbed it on the horse's nose ,
He did not offer to neigh again.
Gonsiderabla confusion arose f among
the gathering riders, who had aoma dif-
W ATK INS V11,1 iE, GEORGIA, JULY 28, 1880.
ference revolver of ready opinion) cocked and Lily, "her with her
in hand,
turned, and cautiously made her way to
the road which had been indicated by
their talk as the one that led to Glen¬
ville. Just as her horso stepped into the
path, an overhanging limb caught her
hat, and pulled it off, together with the
hood of her waterproof, so that her hair
fell down again on her shoulders. She
hardly and noticed if the fact in her excite¬
ment she had could not have
stopped to horse repair the accident. She
kept her the on the shady side, walk¬
ing upon grass as much as possible
to ing prevent all sides attracting attention, watch¬
on for any scattered mem¬
bers of the Klan. She had proceeded
thus about 150 yards, when she came to
a turn in the road, and saw sitting be¬
fore her in the moonlight one of the
disguised who horsemen, evidently a sentry,
had been stationed there to see
that no one came upon the camp unex¬
pectedly. just He was facing the turned, other way, and,
but at that moment
seeing her indistinctly in the shadow',
cried out at once:
“ Who’s there ? Halt 1”
They were not twenty yards apart.
Lollard trembled with excitement under
the father, tightly-drawn half rein. Lily iialf-fiercely, thought of
her prayerfully,
bowed closely over her horse’s neck, anil
braced herself in the saddle, with every
muscle as tense as those of a tiger before
his leap. Almost before the words were
out of the sentry’s mouth she gave
Young Lollard £he spur, and shot like
an arrow into the bright moonlight,
straight toward the black muffled horse¬
man.
.. M God he cried amnzed at the
sudden ammritinri
® be was close , upon i him • m • an instant, , ,
^ere sprung was aside, a shot; and Lily, his startled urging Young horse
Lollard to his utmost speed, was flying
down the road to Glenville. She heard
an uproar behind—shouts and one or
* w0 shots - 0n > on s» e sped, She
kne Y e ™7 f ' ,ot of the road be
y° nd - *- ile looked back, and saw her
pursuers swarming outof the wood into
the moonlight. Just then she was m
shadow. A mile, two miles, were
passed. She _ drew her horse listen
in to ;
there was the noise of a horse s hoofs
coming down a hill she had just de¬
scended, as her gallant steed bore her,
Wlth almOBt .^diminished stride, up the
opposite slope, She laughed, even m
llor ® excitement, at the very
bought that any one should attempt to
overtake her.
"* ca8 * hat follow ’” qaotb
youfcg he hummed’ LocMnvar
8 as she patted Young Lol
lard’s outstretched neck. She turned
when she reached the summit t’te her long
hair streaming backward in moon
j igbt like a „ (ddell banner ana saw the
solitary horseman on the opposite slope;
then turned and passed over the hill.
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The Slave Trade in Egypt.
, Ending a- tbe ^aws, 1 treaties , and ,
p , of the slave
> e -suppression
, , ■ ^gyP 1 and the activity
“ - even
“ , ^ y ,■ y th e Egyptian dispatches Government
t otlon recently re
>
(, *1 ,5, Genlend^ Department of State from
at inhuman C^airo would traffic seem al
rled on “ T nl ^ 18 P hed
“ aS * , or ™ er y • The k slave
^“,25?“ 1 f wl l a nommally ° n trading Arab car in legiti- , av T
’
. l,alld Egypt and
lse
‘Nilf P. ,**’ . 1 4i nca ’-5 un K av< ^
r abouT mZ
Penerai y, on the JNile, about 280 J30 milef
above Cairo, where the Lybian range ol
rUn X down to the nver.
1,1 tko a ”'
~nt grottoes and tombs in these mount
d Stributed .7 ^ouXu^toe threiiKhout ^tbe 6 ' 1 country country.
ie the activity of a young Swiss attached
to , American Mission at Assiout re
reb _ u ^^ 8 slaves m ^ ie and s ^zure the lncarceratior and manu
deriers. f " J A a ^ Iffirough c ia !'gf, the d wUh representation beln g slav oi ‘
there *'| le British being a Consul treaty for General the suppression at Cairo
e B 'ave trade between Egypt and
England—three , hundred soldiers were
dispatch to Assiout, the caravan stir
rounded amirthe seizure above notedI <■!■
thatthis Although it.was well understood
caravan had brought more than.
slaves into the country, the mos!
ngid search failed to fhscovcr more than
68, the semainder having been disposed
maimmitted seized in jsl= their
some were
“ at J v0 country while sleeping in their
P 61 ”®’ °tners were borne off while tend
mg their sheep and cattle in the fields;
^ th f K 1 ^ 8 w ere forced away from
thelr nusbaads and still others were
cnginaHy slaves and sold to the caravan,
—Philadelphia Times.
Rejected Manuscripts. P
_ Rejected . . , contributors , . sometimes
are
avenged. A scotch newspaper, the Green
oak Advertiser, has ceased to exist, after
a “! <A ^‘ty-e^ht vea™. ^per ]y:
^ ° r !
'* Hohenbn
ft. “ %
^ it
was assured by Sir Walter Scott that it
wuh one of the finest things ol the kind
t,iat ll '- evfir rca ' 1 - Hince that time, the
P«>“ >‘ aH ^ worn out by the myriads
o£ sclKX,1 ' lKi y B who have R J ,oken it m
pub ii c on the stage. Charlotte Bronte’s
P«t novel met with a similar reception,
“JaacEyrc’-was written in the grey old
parsonage mdthr the Yorksliire hills; the
roU g b notes, sketched hasty in iienril,
were transcribed in a neat hand an legible
as print, and the manuscript, sent off from in its brown
paper wrapi**, was the sta
tion-house at Kh-ighley to publisher after
publisher, “returned only with to thanks,” find its way till the back packet, again,
scored all over with publishers’ by names,
,-md well-nigh worn out its travels,
found its way into the hands of Messrs,
Smith A Elder with This a stamped ot envelope
inside for a reply. story “ Jaue
Eyre” is, with authors who eannot find a
publisher, one of the standing sources of
consolation, and it is s very striking in
stance of the loose way in which publish
ers' readers now and then kx>k through oth
manuscripts that find their way into
« hands
Nevada’s First Nugget.
Nevada’s first nugget was mined with
a butcher's knife. John Orr started
across the plains in 1819. The roads
were obliged bad, tho weather through was worse, and he
was to remain the winter
at Salt Lake. In April he resumed his
journey. Kelly, after He had whom a partner Kelly’s named ravine Nick is
named, and in the company was William
Prouse, now living in Nurb City, about
forty miles southeast of Salt Lake.
Prouse had worked in mines before gold
was discovered at Coloma, and was a good
prospector. One day the train stopped
on the edge of what is now known as
Gold Canon, near the Carson River, to
let the animals feed on some bunch grass
found growing near tho sage brush.
Prouse, at noontime, took a milk pan,
and going down to the gulch began wash¬
ing dirt, in a few minutes getting color
to the value of a few cents. Orr then
named the place Gold Canon. The train
soon after resumed travel, going to the
head of Carson Valley. There they met
a party of seven, who had left the train
at the sink of tho Humboldt, intending
to go in advance to California and select
good locations for the remainder of the
party. the They had been unable to in cross
country, tho and had been lost the
snow in mountains for four or five
days, unable A to find the divide three in Hager
town. stay in Carson for weeks
followed, when Orr, Kelly and several
others returned to Gold Canon and re¬
sumed prospecting. Kelly and Orr went
up the canon until a little fork was
reached, when work was begun. The
party had few tools, and Orr had nothing
but a knife. While Kelly was working
he noticed a very narrow place at the
fork, where the water barely covered a
slab of slate rock. Idly he examined it,
and noticed a small crevice near the
edge, drove the knife into it, breaking
out a piece. The water running over it
washed away the underlaying dirt, andin
a few minutes he discovered a gold nug¬
get where the rock lind covered it. It t
was found quickly removed, and This afterward
1st of June, to weigh just $8.25. thirty was the
1850, aiid years ago.
Prospecting was continued, though
•lust was found in several places through¬
out the canon, Orr’s was the only nug¬
get. He still has it in his possession,
the first ever found in Nevada.
Snag’s Corners,
The officials of a Michigan railroad
now being extended were waited upon ^
the other day b a )iemm from tbo
woods and sand lulls who announced
himself as Mr. Snag, and who wanted to
*™ ow it could be possible that the pro
posed line was not to come any nearer
tb an three miles to the hamlet named in
his honor.
“ Ib Snag's Corners a place of much irn
portance > 1 asked the president.
“Is it? Well, I should say it was. We
made over a ton of maple sugar last
spring.”
“Does business flourish there?”
“Flourish! Why business is on the
ga jj () p there ftwry minute in the whole
twenty-four al ,^ o{ hours. We had three ‘ r false
firo there wv( . k
f na t for a town which is to be left three
mi i cs off your raih , )wlr
bugine( Bring f asked to give scratchThis the names of the
8 ho he heM
for a while, and then replied
“Well, there’s mo to start on. I run
big gtore j bt k { and
shall soon have a dam and a saw mfl “
Th th , blackHraith gbop a half
office, a doctor, and last week over a
dozen patent-right iSief men passed inc3 through
here ' In one year we’ve
f rom a squatter ^inUng, and two liavfa doi/s to our
preBent and we’ll tawyer
there before long. ”
“I’m afraid we won’t be able to come
Rny nearer the Corners than the president. present
«i™y,” “Yon won’t! Anally remarked the
It can’t be nossible that
^w me an to skip a growing 1 place like
g Comers r
“J-think we’ll have to."
“Wouldn’t come if I’d clear you out s
place 1 in the eei” store howwecilul,]” for a ticket office’”
-q do „. t
“Maybe I’dsubscribe ll t2 ’’ r i ” continnn-1
t bf , ( i ft ]( ;C r ab .
couldn’t rh»n<w. ^ ”
“Can’t do it nohow?”
.<N 0 ”
“Very well ” said Mr Hnati rrifro«/l as he nut
rm bitt linf “If this’ere ibiolo.
ft can stunt or cripple [|| Snatr's Corners bv J
j @avir 8 jt out in e W)ld feave ,
Gg rn take Before I town to
day I’m goinc to lmv a wind mill and a
aud 1,6
tree t romi.
. .|» ( ., narkllb |^ swim
Visitors to Pme Grove Cemetery, at
Milford, Mass are much surprised to
sa swan rocking-horse standing on a grave near
child's The swan utters
a shriek if any one attempts to approach
tee grave. Some years ago the mate to
the swan died, and soon after the rock
mg-horse was placed on the newly-made
grave.whenthe stationed survmrigswanimmedi- himself
diately horse. If the as protector
over tl.e fatlier of the JittJe
^ tl,at 18 buned tbere a Pproari.e-s, the
.war. makes v no outory but no one else
i? allowerlto approach the spot. Itoaintlv “M
th ® ho ^ Z** takan W 811,1 P a
and while it was absent the swan hx>k no
notice of the grave, but passed its time
oil the pood or in the house but when
the horse was replaced the swan took
up its position the by rocking-horse its side, thus showing
that it was and not the
^rumored grave that was the object t^istees of its vigil It
that the ordered the
home removed, but the irerner of the hit
refused to comply l with the command be
cause his son iad requested that it
should lie placed aixive bis grave.
----
Hickoby-xdt Car*.—O ne cupful of
sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one-half
cupful of sweet rnilk, two cupfuls of
flour and one and one-half teaspoonfuls
of baking-powder, well mixed, one large
cupful of walnut meats, one large cup
fulof raisins, whites of four eggs, yelks
of three eggs arid ; beet, butter and sugar u,
a e ream, the yelks of the eggs well
hirtiten, then the flour and milk ; flour
the meats and raisins fstoned; and stir
them in; lastly, the whites of the eggs
listen to a stiff froth. Bake la pans to
slice or cut in blocks. When baked,
make a frosting, miring in ooe-half cur>
M walnut msau, sud po<ir over.
The Man in the Gallery,
It will be remembered that, in bin
speech nominating Sherman at the Chi¬
livering cago convention, Gen. Garfield, after de¬
candidate, an appropriate said: Who eulogy upon that
“ do you want?”
Whereupon “ Garfield.” a voice in the gallery shouted
That unknown man called upon the
General on Tuesday afternoon, jus!
as ho was washing his hands tc
to prepare for a general shake. He
was a one-armed soldier, and rather seedy
in his make-up.
Said he, “ General Garfield, I come tc
offer my congratulations.”
let “Thanks, thanks,” said the General
“ me see, weren’t you in the Forty
second Ohio—?”
“ No, General, that’s not it. Didn’t
you hear that voice in the gallery when
you said ‘Who do you want?' I’m the
fellow that said it. I was for you first,
last and all the time,”
“ You are a prophetic soul,” said the
General, “and if I come to the White
House depend upon it I shan’t forget
you”.
And the one-armed manjleft his name
on a card and went away happy.
In a few minutes Garfield* was sur
rounded by his friends, and his right
hand was going like a pump-handle,
when a burly Teuton pressed forward and
accosted him:
“ Guton abend, General, 1 dinks I
have some glaims on you anyhow.”
“ I am at your service, my good friend, ”
said the General; “ let me hear from
you.”
“ Did you hear dot man slioud oud in
in de gallery ‘ Garfield ’ when you say
‘ Was halien sic?”
“Ah, yes, I remember it well. Do
you mean to tell me—”
“ Yah, General, I vas dot man, identi¬
cal zame.”
“ long My friend, I shall never forget you
os as 1 live. Let mo hear from you
any time. ”
And the man went aw ay happy,
Passing through the rotunda on his
way to the carriage, the General felt a
thundering slap on the back, midway be¬
tween his shoulders and hips, accom
ponied by, “ Hillo, old Gar.”
Turning round lie saw a very little
man, with a very tall hat, and a very thick
stick in his fist.
' ‘ Don’t remember me, eh? I’m called
the boss interviewer of Chicago. I in¬
terviewed old Conk, and you too—”
day. “ Ah, yes. Well, good-day, good
“Hold on, old fellow,” said the chop;
“I want to have just a word with you on
my own hook. Didn’t you hear that fel¬
low up in thegallery when you made your
Sherman speech, shout ‘ Garfield?’ ”
‘ ‘ 1 did, I did. Do you mean to say— v
“Guess I fixed you that time, old man.
I knew it was hound to go that way.
Now, I consider I am the man who saved
the Republican party. ”
field, “ My dear, good little fellow,” said Gar¬
“you deserve the thanks of tho Na¬
tion. I sliall give you a new club. Como
down and see me in Ohio, and I’ll tell you
all about the next Cabinet. Perhaps you’ll
be in it.”
And the little man went away happy.
Just as tho General was boarding the
train, a bottle-nosed politician from tho
Seventh Ward plucked him on tho coat¬
tail and sliriekod, “General, General,
one word—only What is it, one word. ”
“ my man?”
“ Do you remember when you made
your ing speech in the convention nominat¬
Sherman that a man in tho gallery
shouted “Garfield?”
The General is not a profane man. He
was once a minister of the gospel, but
he was also at one time of his life a canal
boatman. Early habits of thought and
expression are never completely eradi¬
cated, and ho startled some of his friends
in the car as he threw himself into * seat
and exclaimed:
“ Cuss that man in the gallery."
Drinking Ice Water.
There is no more doubt that drinking
ice water arrests digestion than there i«
that a refrigerator igerau would arrest perspi-a
tion. It drives frorn tho stomach its
natural heat, suspends the flow of gastric
juice and shocks and weakens the deli¬
cate organs with which it comes in con¬
tact. An able writer on human diseases
says habitual ice-water drinkers are usu
ally very flabby They about complain the region of the
stomach. that the food
lies heavy on that patient organ. They
taste their dinner for hours after it is
bolted. They cultivate the use of stimu¬
lants to aid digestion, If they are intol
ligeut physiologist they read upon food and what the
long lias to say about it—how
beet rig and it it would woul take cabbage and pork and
pota toes and other meats and
other esculents to go through the process
of assimilation. They roar at new bread,
hot cakes and fried meat, imagining
these to be the cause of the maladies.
But the ice water goes down all the
same, take and farewell finally look friends are called in to
a at one whom a mys¬
terious Providence has called to a clime
where, as for as is known, ice water is
not used. The number of immortal lie
ings who go of hence, injudicious to return no more, ice
on account an use of
water can hardly be estimated.— Haiti
more Sun.
Formation of Snow.
Snow is formed from va ,por, and vapor
is formed by heat; an( I it has been
calculated that the heat expended hi
forming a single pound pounds of vapor would
melt no less than five of cast
iron. Nor is this all. force Equally great if
not greater is the necessary te
transform the vapor into snow. Prof,
l *®y* : the wild
I have seen stone avalanches , ,
frf the Alps which smoke and thunder
(town the declivities with a vehemence
almost sufficient to stun the observer.
I have also seen snowflakes descending
Wihoftl v an not to fmrttiif Hpiingli*
dUM du.^ , ‘''from from 1 '’^^ aqueous vajior : a a * quantity 0 IiaifthV
which a child omld carry of that tender
material demands an exertion of energy
eorn.ietent to gather up the "battered
blocks of the largest pitch stone avalanche J
have ever see", anil them to twice
tint height from which they fell.
P<‘t a m*n on his honor to pay a debt
snd s gambler will pay ss promptly ss
mm " body eb*.
NUMBER
Roofed Conntry Roads.
To a large extent in the South and
Southwest the highways are of two dis¬
tinct sorts—in local parlance, turnpikes
and mud roads.
The former title covers the main State
roads, often constructed with great care
and cost, and usually macadamized. The
latter includes the great majority of
country roads; and for nine month s or
more every year the name is exactly de¬
scriptive of their character. They arc
deep emphatically tenacious. mud roads, and the mud is
and
Plank roads arc sometimes tried where
lumber is cheap; but they ri-st under the
disadvantage they of being expensive, and
are neither durable nor easily kept
in repair. Accordingly mud roads pre¬
dominate, and communities possessing
them are little given to social or com¬
mercial intercourse with their neighbors
save during the brief periods when the
mud is dry and the wheeling possibly
good.
An exception to this rule appears in
Bosier Parish, Louisiana, where an at¬
tempt has been made to keep on import¬
ant earth road dry and usable by the
novel device of roofing it, so as to keep
oft' tlio rain. The first, stretch of covered
rood on this plan runs from Red Chute
Bridge, River Louisiana, four miles across Red
idoa bottom, near Hhrievepoit. The
kins originated with Judge J. I). Wat¬
of Hkrieveport, and, as is the usual
fate of new ideas, it aroused no little
ridicule. Judge Watkins was not a man
to be laughed d own. Obtaining a State
charter for his enterprise ho began to
build the road. His opponents & Sil¬
plained that ho was obstructing the
parish road, mid attempted to stop the
work; but ample and lawful room liaviug
been given for the parish rood their op¬
position came to nothing. It is now four
years since the work was begun, and Mr.
John 8. Williams, of Shrieveport, who
lias been connected with the enterprise
from the beginning, informs us that the
road is a complete success. At the time
of his writing, while the uncovered roads
were axle deep in some places with stifi
mud, the shed road was firm and dry.
In building the road, the lied, 18 feet
wide, was thrown up just enough to koop
out the surfaco water ; and over it was
tl»c put a roof of plonk fivo-eights inch thick,
plunks being 12 inches wide and 20
feet loug. Cypress from the neighboring
swamp is used for posls, and roughly
sawed timber for frame work. By moans
of an ingenious platform mounted oil a
common two-horse wagon and supporting
alight framework, r four men easily put
up 20 sections, of twenty feet each, a day.
The cost of the road was shout $1,500
labor a mile, with lnmbor at $1 a hundred feet,
$1 a day, posts 124 cents each,
earthwork 20 cents a cubic yard, and
nails 5 cents a pound. The advantages
of the road arise from its sheapness,
as possible compared witli any other style of road
there, its durability and its un¬
varying soil, sorvieeableness. Tho native clay
when kept dry, makes a better road
than either wood or stone, and the road
is easily kejit in repair. The wagons do
not touch the woodwork, and tne roof
will last five times as long as planks laid
upon the damp earth. Though the sides
are not enclosed the rain does not drive
in enough to make tho roads muddy,
much less wash it. In short the practical
test of the road, on the score oi
cheapness satisfactory and efficiency, has been
so that the ridioulo and
opposition it first awakened have been
overcome, and other roads on tho same
plan are about to be constructed.—
SeientUle A meric.an.
New and Stale Bread.
The nature of the difference between
new and stale bread is far from being
known. It is only chemist, lately that the cole
lirated French Boussinganlt,
instituted an inquiry into it, from which
it results that the difference is not the
consequence of desiccation, but solely oi
tne cooling of the bread. If we take
fresh bread into the cellar or in any
place where it cannot dry, the inner part
of the loaf, it is true, is found to he
crumby, but the crust has become soft
awl is no longer brittle. It stale bread
is taken back into the oven again it as
sumes all the qualities of fresh baked
bread, although m the hot oven it must
undoubtedly M. Boussingault have lost part has made of its afresh mois
ture.
loaf of bread the subject of minute in
vestigation, but uninteresting. and tho results New bread, are anything in its
smallest parts, is so soft, clammy, flexible
and glutinous, (in consequence of the
starch during the process of fermenting mueilagin
and baking being changed into
oils dextrine) that by mastication it is
with greater difficulty separated and and
reduced to smaller pieces, in its
smallest parts is less under the influence
of the saliva and digestive juices. hard It
consequently careless and forms hasty itself mastication into halls and
deglutition, by becomes coated by
over
saliva and slime, and in this state enter*
the stomach. The gastric juice being
unable to penetrate such hard masses,
and being scarcely able even to act upoD
the surface of them, they frequently re¬
main foreign in the bodiea, stomach irritate unchanged, and and,
like mcom
mode it, inducing every species of suffer¬
ing—oppression disturbed of the circulation stomach, pain the in
the chest, of
blood, congestions it the brain, and pains in the head,
irritation i and inflammation,
apopleptic attaoks, cramp and delirium.
— The Millar.
A Home Thrust,
William Cullen Bryant, when chal
lenged onee to fight a duel, contrived to
f llHte n the charge of cowardice on “the
other fellow " very neatly, and with little
trouble. His reply having been inoor
d(!at rectly f reported h > ^.n-in-law, in the notices Godwin, of his
H Parke
publishes the facta as follows :
Mr Bryant wag challenged by a Dr.
Holland, now deceased, on had account of
offtniKivo word* that nprx*aml
in th< ’ Evmln U l ‘ ,M < but - remembering
that J>r. Holland had l>een previously
challenged by William Mggett. ehuliengo, without
taking any notice of the lie
rcph.ri to tlns effect:
“ Mv Deah Hi« : I am not familiar
witli t]lQ (xxl „ of tho duuli)lti but j | M( .
have that, according send to its provisions, challenge no to
one baa a right to a
fight a duel so tong ss an unanswered
nhsileugc hangs over Ins heed."
Then the matter wee dropped.
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LIRKR.Ui TERflTBf FOR WORE SPACE
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
A own has no feet yet it can kick.
Strong cheese is rank, hut hatred is
rancor.
Buffalo mulattos arc called Buff fel¬
lows.
A nightmare is the only animal that
has a dreamy eye.
A bride may not like fish, but she will
not go back on her-ring.
A man must, be a hardened sinner
when he “lies” at the point of death.
They say it is only the. female bee
that stings. Oh, pins! thy'name is wo¬
man.
He was a ragged orphan boy—
lit* dlil not own u cunt—
Bui still whond'or In* tore his clothes,
He’d gather in hU rent
—Salem Sunbeam.
Tub Rochester Democrat , under the
heading of "Local Matters,” places
“ Different Views of Hell.”
Now say that a Scotchman can’t make
a joke. Tho Magistrates of Aberdeen
have solemnly given it as their opinion
that it is unlawful to take spirits out of
an empty cask.
In all guns of grewt calibre you find n
great bore. In a man of small calibre
you fiml a small bore. Conclusion—A
man of small calibre may easily pass for
a great gun.
Professor —“Wliat is the fundamental
condition of existence?” Student—
“ Time.” Professor— “ How do you ex¬
plain that?” Student—“Very easily.
How cmi a person exist if he hasn’t time
for it?”
A Missouri girl dressed up as a boy
and went oiit as a farm liana, and they
never found her out until she carelessly
lot them see that she could thread a
needle without pricking every linger and
swearing like a deputy sheriff.
A DRUNKEN join- shoemaker was look¬
ing mond, through when a tobacco he house in Rich¬
Va., fell into a pile of
plug tobacco and dislocated his arm.
He immediately applied for a pension on
tho grounds that he was a sole jour in
the navy.
“Mr. Ford has an abominable gait;
don’t you tliiulc so?” “No, indeed; I
think it is quite handsome, especially
sinco it was painted.” “Excuse me, but
vou don’t understand me—I alluded to
liia carriage; carriage.” “Why, la me! he has no
he rides in the hoss cars.”
At a theater in Dublin a gentleman
requested a man in front of him to sit
down, adding sarcastically, sir, “I suppose
you are aware, that you arc opoquo.”
“ I shall sit down when it suits me,” was
tho response, “and if you want to handle
my name, mind, it’s not Q’Pake at all,
hut O’Brien.”
Said the mistress of a Marseilles cigar
shop to a young Bohemia journalist:
“Inis is the sixth time you have been
hero without saying a word about the
money you owe me, monsieur! What
am 1 to understand by it? ” “Ah,
madam,” said the clever journalist,
“when one sees you, aue forgets every¬
thing!”
A Hopeful Case: Patient—“Then,
according all, 1 to you, doctor, hi order to live
at living?” must give Doctor—“I’m up all that makes life
worth afraid bo¬
at least for a few years. ” Patient—“Per¬
haps you'd recommend me to marry?”
Doctor (a confirmed bachelor)—“Oh, no!
Gome, inv dear fellow, it’s not quite so
bad as all that, you know!”
Yodno men should never lose presence
of mind in a trying situation. When
you take tho girl you krve to a picnic, and
you wander away together to commune
with natnro, and she suddenly exclaims,
“Oh, George, there’s an ant down my
back!” don’t stand still with your mouth
°pon; don’t faint; don t go for tho girl’s
mother; go for the imt.
“Yes,” said a witness, “I remember
the defendant's mother crying on the oe
casion referred to. Sho was weeping
with her left eye—tho only one bIio line
—and the tears were running down her
judge, right cheek.” “how "What!” exclaimed tho
could that be?” “Please
your honor,” said the witness, “she was
awfidiy cross-eyed. ”
Two French women wero passengers
on one of the local trains between Vir
gfifia City and Carson. They had with
them, iu a big tin eago, a parrot that
annoyed squalling every and gabble. one with Observing its constant
the
unfriendly the glances that were bestowed
down upon bird, one of tho women pulled
a cloth cover that was on the top
of the cage. When the extinguisher
was clapped upon tho bird and it found
itself in tlio dark, it growled out, “That’s
Binart.” The bird kept quiet for a few
minutes, then yelled in its shrillest tones:
“Look out, Sarah, lie’s going to kiss
youl” be in the The conductor, said: “That who parrot happened must to
car,
be an old traveler on railroads. He
seems to think we are passing through a
tunnel.’’
Dh. J. Lawrence Smith, of Louis¬
ville, Ky., has made a personal investiga¬
tion of the great meteorite which fell in
Emmitt County iu 1879, having visited
the spot for the occasion. Tho external
appearuiice was that of a mass, rough
a n d knotted liko multierry calculi, witli
rounded protuberances projecting portions from
the surface. The larger were of
gray color, with a green mineral irregu¬
larly disseminated through it. The total
weight of the portions The found amounted of
to 307 jssinds. stony part this
meteorite consisted essentially of bronzite
and olivine, the three essential constitu¬
ents being silica, ferrous oxides and
magnesia. An the analysis showed contained that in
composition meteorite
notiiing that was peculiar. Its unique pud tion,
however, among meteorites accompanying is on
account its fall, of especially the phenomena the great depth to
which it peuetruted beneath the surface,
and also because of its of association physical charac¬ of
ters and the manner its
mineral constituents.
“Good, kind-hearted aoul that ahe
was,” said Job Shuttle as lie mused oa
the excellencies of his better-lmlf rneel lonu
s i„co passed ' away. * “HI don’t
that, wonmu her iu other heaven, I hope I shall
miss in the place, that's all?”
Lime has never lieen found in a native
state; it is always united to an acid, as
to tho carbonio in chalk. By subjecting
c b *lk or limestone to a red beet it is freed
from the acid, and the lima is left in a
state of purity.