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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1883)
editorial notes. ijhb Tennessee cotton mill, at Nash -ffle lias just declared a dividend equal to „ n annual dividend of fourteen per Dt afterliaving quite recently doubled •fs riparity. The cotton mills north and east are complaining of hard times, but in the south there seems to be no reason for complaint. _____ The report of the general superinten deut 0 f the life saving service shows 4 617 lives, and 15,671,700 worth of property saved during the past year. During that period there were 300 disas iere tovessels within the field of the sta¬ tion operations, and of the 3,792 persons those vessels only fifteen were lost. on worth of property im¬ Of $7,176,540 lost. The perilled only $1,564,740 was number of vessels lost was sixty-eight. At the close of the last fiscal year the ser¬ vice embraced 194 stations ; 149beibg on the Atlantic, 37 on the lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the falls of the Ohio, Louisville, K y. _ The immense canned goods interest in Baltimore have recently held a con¬ vention, and agreed upon size of cans. This was done to prevent the cutting of rates by the use of small sized cans. The convention also agreed to ask the legislature to absolutely close the Chesa¬ peake oyster beds from April 1 to Sep¬ tember 1. This is demanded to prevent overtaken dredges from claiming that they took the oysters in dispute in Vir¬ ginia waters. The proposition to make the Potomac river forbidden ground to all dredging vessels during the warm sea¬ son. will, itis claimed, protect the beds upon which the canned goods interests of Baltimore is based. At the Louisville exposition Major E. A, Burke spoke of the recuperation of the Southern States in a most hopeful strain, He said that during the past four years the twelve states constituting what is commonly known as the south, have increased their assessed values from $010,700,000 on an average of $100,- 176,030, and the increase of 1883 over 1882 amounts to $253,0tX),000, which is nearly equal to the value of the whole cotton crop. Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, have built twenty cotton mills in the past year. The coal fields of these state cover 5,330 square miles, and the output of these fields has increased from 10,000 in 1872 to 1,200,000 tons in 1882. No section in the union has shown anything like such pro¬ gress. The Bartholdi statue is made of cop¬ per, strengthened by an inner skeleton of iron, For each piece a center or mold was made of wood, on which the copper could be worked and fitted. The sheet copper epidermis of the figure is made of 300 pieces and weighs 178,000 pounds, ■ffhi e the iron frame weighs 264,000 pounds. When finally erected the molded sheets of copper will he riveted together by copper bolts, and the iron skeleton will be secured to the masonry by twelve great foundation bolts. The variations due to temperature are pro¬ vided for by elasticity in every part, and corroding will he cheeked by painting with red lead wherein iron and copper are in contact. It is reckoned that the pressure of wind upon the statue, which will be 150 feet high, may go as high as 190,000 pounds. Mb. Leo Daft recently made a suc¬ cessful trial of his electric railway motor on the Saratoga, Mr. McGregor and Lake George railway at Saratoga. 1 he motci is a peculiarly shaped, box-like structure, painted bright red, and sur¬ mounted by a brass bell. Tbe driving seat holds only one person, and the ma¬ chinery is covered from sight. Between the rails of the track upon which the Motor r< t ted a third rail was insulated from its listening spikes at each tie by a strip of vulcanized rubber. The elec tricity for the affair is manufactured by a generating machine a quarter of a mile Way. The wheel under the motor takes "P the electricity and passes it into the dynamo in the box. The electro-magnets ^e set it motion and small pulleys com Mnnicate the power to the axles by layer pulleys cm the latter, and convey the current to the outer rails and complete Ihe circuit. The dangers that accompany the Ringing of electric light wires are be PMring 11 to be understood and dreaded. a wire of the Brush light forms “a Pound” it reaches a white heat, and a ensues if it touches wood. If the *ood is wet, it becomes a conductor, and * fire is almost certain to occur. The “ es t insulating material can not render secure against all accidents of this The current is so strong that ®"th ensues instantly if it is passed “^ongh the human body, and the fire to® are very naturally averse to too an acquaintance with these wires. • °i long ago the superintendent of the ^tric light company at Dayton grabbed ^ re as to by keep flash. from falling, It had been and raining. he was a f the current passed through him. If ^ hectic-light wire forms a connection ** *et weather with a telephone wire, THE WEEKLY. VOLUME Y. something or somebody is sure to be melted. The only confederate eye-witness of the death of General A. P. Hill gives a thrilling account of that event in the Philadelphia Times The writer, Ser¬ geant G. W. Tucker, chief of General Hill s stafi of couriers, state that after the general’s right gave way in front of Petersburg, General Hi 1 made an effort to reach General Lee’s quarters. Taking Tucker with him he crossed the Bowdoin plank road, and striking through an old fiel t the two came upon a party of federals in the cover of the woods. Two of the blue coats were some distance in advance of the others. General Hill and his courier called on them to surrender, but the only response was a bullet which struck General Hill with fatal effect. Tucker made liis way into Longstreet’s lines, and thence to General Lee, to whom he made his sad report. Directing the courier to accompany Colonel Palmer to Mrs. Hill, General Lee said: “Col¬ onel, break the news to her as gently as possibe.” In England there is more land lying idle in sporting grounds, game preserves and landlords’ parks, than the whole kingdom of Belgium, which supports in happiness and prosperity 6,000,000 peo¬ ple, and sends large food exports to London. An income of $175,000,000 a year is received by 8,142 landlords as rent on 46,500,000 acres of land. They do no work, hut recall Carlyle’s picture of the French Marquis, perfumed and petted, who sat in his castle window and watching a poor woman gathering nettles in the rain, received one nettle of three, as rent. If England were cultivated as closely and as thoroughly as Jersey it would not only amply feed its present population hut 50,000,000 besides. So vast are its tracts of idle land, however, that $150,000,000 a year is sent out of England annually to buy food. It is with such arguments as these that the land-hunger of the poorer Euglish classes is sharpened by the leadersof the radical movement. The erection of large oil refin lies in San Francisco by ex-Govemor Perkins, Charles Goodall, Captain Knowles and other capitalists, will enable the Pacific coast to handle the entire whale product of that section, instead of shipping it to New Bedford. About 30 out of tlie 150 vessels engaged in the whaling trade are empioyed in Pacific waters. American whaling dates from 1794, and the tonnage lins increased from 4,129 tons in that year to 32,802 in 1882. At present the cliief use of whale oil is for lubricating axles and machinery. The sperm is used for candies, fancy and toilet articles. The old-time abuses on whaling vessels have almost entirely disappeared. The seamen are well treated, they have an interest in the catch, and it is to the in¬ terests of the officers and men to get along harmoniously. Men get from $30 to $75 a month. The perils of the busi¬ ness are very great, but the profits are proportionately large, especially as the price of hone has gone gradually up from 50 cents per pound to between $2.50 and $3. The new canti-lever bridge over tlie Niagara has been practically completed, though it will not be opened until the 1st of December. It is an enormous strac ture of iron 910 feet long without the ap proaches. The total weight resting on the towers is under the maximum strain 6,400 tons, and the track of the Canada Soutliern, which crosses the bridge, is 239 feet above the water at the central span. This work represents the first use in bridge building of this principle repre¬ sented in the name. Canti-lever expresses the leverage obtained by an external angle. Take two pieces of timber or iron, join them endwise at a very wide angle, set this angular part upon a pillar, balance the arms so that the ends are on a level with each ottier, and you lave the principle of the power which sup¬ ports the great bridge. This plan is cheap and quick, while in strength it compares well with the best of the old methods of bridge building. The new canti-lever bridge stands only 300 feet above the old suspension bridge and pre¬ sents a strong contrast to it. The wmes. railways, and fine work of the old bridge give i. the appearance of the finished task of the basket weaver ; while the canti¬ lever is stem, rugged and bold. At the foot of the tower of the new bridge the first ripple of the "W hirlpool Rapids can be seen. So fast does the torrent increase that the water is boding and seething under the old bridge only 300 feet below. GA.. DECEMBER 7,1883. GENERAL NEWS. Key West, Fla., is to have a street railway. Mica has been discovered in Cobb county, Georgia, Rockboko, N. C., is building a $12,000 court-house. Floiuda is utilizing convicts on tur¬ pentine farms. A new silver mine has been opened in Wautauga county, N. O. “Libekty” street in MilIedgeville,Ga., leads from the penitentiary to the cem¬ etery. Thebe is a Mormon church east of Aberdeen, Miss .; just over the Alabama line. Mb. Tulane’s total donation to the University in Louisiana now amounts to $ 1 , 000 , 000 . Lewis Hawkins, colored, is editing a paper devoted to the interests of the col¬ ored people in Rome, Ga. It is said that ten pounds of solid gold were recently taken out of the Ball mine in Georgia in one day. A man in Sumpter county, Tennessee, has gathered 600 bushels of hickory nuts which he proposes to sell. Two hundred and thirty-one children are enrolled at the colored public school in Pine Bluff, Ark. Vessels are in great demand for the lumber business at Mississippi City, which is said to be thriving this season. At the next session of the Mississippi Legislature an effort will be made for tlie establishment of a State female col¬ lege. Appling sword of honor, which The lias hung in the Executive office for nearly seventy years, is to be turned over to the Georgia Historical Society for safe keeping, until the new capitol is completed. Clement Cato, colored, 104 years old, walked from his home to Rome,Ga.,a distance of four miles, to pay his tax. He is still hale and hearty. Floyd coun¬ ty also boasts of a white man, Mr. Huck by, ninety-three years old, who has picked cotton every day this season. Jackson county, Fla., boasts among other things a natural well, formed by the sinking of earth, near Greenwood, a few months ago, and a natural bridge of limestone across the Chipola river, about three miles above Marianna, formed by the river sinking for the distance of half a mile. The long-expected development of the marble quaries of Georgia is at hand. A party of gentlemen have just closed the purchase of two of the most important fields, and the managers ot the Rutland, Vermont, Marble Company are now in Atlanta for the purpose of investing in some of the same property. The passage of the steamer Silverton through the jetties below New Orleans, is considered the best evidence yet given of their success With the exception of the Great Eastern, the Silverton is the largest freight earner afloa', and there are now only half a dozen ships in the world that can not easily land at that city. Atlanta Constitution : Tlie failure of the Mississippi Valley Bank grows in magnitude as the facts come out. It is now admitted that the liabilities are over one million. The bank seems to have been a family affair, the President being Geo ge M. Klein, the carrier John A. Klein, Jr., assistant cashier William M. Klein, and John A. Klein, Sr., as a sort of business director. The advertisement announces that the bank is not mcor porated.” The winter exodus from the North to Florida is unusually large this year. About 250 people leave New York every day for Jacksonville, and probably 500 people arrive in the latter city every day from different parts of the country. The number will continue increasing until February. A good many settlers are go¬ ing at present. A majority of the set¬ tlers go to south Florida, in the neigh¬ borhood of Sanford. Great numbers are going from New England, New York and Pennsylvania. A Subscriber Lost. The Richmond (Va.) 'Religious Her¬ ald says: “A melancholy young ask man came m a few mornings ago to us to discontinue the Herald, which he had been sending a young lady, Not wish ing to lose even one subscriber, and feel¬ ing a compassion for the young woman who was about to be deprived of such an excellent journal, we ventured to ask the young man why he proposed He hesitated to per¬ petrate so rash an act. a moment, » and remarked with a jerking emphasis of manner, ‘Why, she is go ing to marry another fellow.’ We ex cused him.” PECK’S BAD BOY AGAIN. HE K El.I EVES THE SUFFERINGS OF AN OLD SCHOOLMATE. II. Trio* Hi* Hand at a Little Work ol Llinrity nnd Succeeds very Weil. “ You say a word against that poor girl, and down comes your grocery,” said the bad hoy to the grocery man. “ She is a Christian, that girl is, though she don’t put on airs and go to church with silk dresses and rich duds. But she prays, by jingo, better than any of ’em. You see her father is a drunkard, and he takes half she makes peddling apples, to buy gin, and her grandmother has got the consumption, and that takes the other half to support her. I knew that arirl when I went to school, and yesterday she come to me crying, and said she was going to ask a favor of me ’cause I had a heart in me. It seems her drunken father had taken all her money, and had gone on an awful bum, and she didn’t have any to buy some of those cough the’old syrup lozenges for her grandma, and lady was chokin’ up pretty rough, and she wanted me to lend her a dollar till she could realize on the ap¬ ples she was going to get trusted for. Probably you have noticed I haven’t got any watch this morning. I have got my chain, with a hunch of keys on it in my pocket, but nolxxly will know I haven’t got any watch unless they ask me what time it is, and then I will tell them it has run down, and I guess it has, ’cause pawnbrokers never wind up watches. Well, sir, I got four dollars on my watch, and I went and bought apples for her and medicine for her grandma, and then I went down home with her. When I went in the little room, where the old lady was on a bed, and heard her let off one of those regular hark-from-the-tombs coughs, that sounded away down cellar, where it is damp and mouldy, I tell you it made me feel serious. And when that ragged little girl got down on lier knees and prayed, there in the dirt, and asked God to bless the friend that had risen up and lifted such a load off the sufferer, do you know, I felt as though I had swallowed a piece of turnip or something hard, and couldn’t get it up or down, and the tears came to my eyes just like when you peel onions. this “She didn’t use any of highfalutin language, such as the high salaried preachers use, where you want a diction¬ ary in your pew to find what the words mean. It was no full dress forma! prayer. The little girl got right down on her knees, and said, ‘Oh, Father in Heaven,’ just as though God was sitting right there in front of her on a three legged stool, and seemed confident that the Heavenly Father heard her. She didn’t tell God anything and buying about my pawning my watch the apples, and she didn’t mention my name 6-t all, but I could imagine that He who watches even the sparrows fall, was onto the bunch of keys in my vest pocket, hitched to the watch chain, bigger than a house. I could have listened to that dirty, ragged girl pray pitiful, for and an hour, she was so natural, and talked so God could understand it whether He had ever graduated at college or not. But she wasn’t and she talking just against seemed time, for wages, to have a little conversation with the good Lord just as a child would with its father, and then she got up and fired some medicine down her grandma, and made her a cup of tea on an oil stove, and toasted a piece of bread and poached an egg while I sat there thinking. Do you know she broke me all up. If it wasn’t for that old calico dress, and the shoes run over at the heel, and the moth eaten stockings, I should have thought she was an angel, and by gum, I will pawn for everything her I have for her to get things grand¬ ma, but somebody else has got to chip in to buy gin for the old man. I can’t run a hospital and a distillery both, on one cheap watch, hut I am going to work for ihe humane society next week, and that girl can have all the money I make, as long as the old lady’s cough hangs on. “Say, do yon think there is any bath¬ room in heaven where they can take such angel a dirty girl as that and make crowd an of her that will pass in a ? Take the dirt out from under her finger nails and soak her hands in hot water, and put cold cream on them, and let her sleep a few nights with rubber gloves on, and I suppose they could make her pass as an angel. Well, I have got to go down to the Humane society office. I was in a street-car the other night, and the car was full, and got off the track, and the mules couldn’t wouldn’t pull it. All the men sat there and get out. They read papers, and acted mad, while the driver pounded tbe mules. I was on the back step, and I yelled, ‘The members of the Humane society are re¬ quested to get out of the car and help push.’ You ought to have seen ’em. They all looked at each other, and then they all got out, and some of them looked ashamed, but they Helped me muies. The boss of the Humane society heard of it, and he said he would give me a job watching for butchers who maul cattle, I guess I can work my way up so I will finally hold the proud position of looking after lame horses that draw swill wagons. Well, I must go and send the doctor down the alley, to sound the old lady’s cough, aDd have him charge it to pa. ” As the boy went out the grocery man told the carpenter that the boy had a heart in him as big as a barrel, but you had to watch the raisin box, all the same. when he was around.— Peck’s Sun. A Moemon is now as bold as a grizzly, well and Uncle Sam loves one quite as as the other. NUMBER 37. A WORD ABOUT CHRISTMAS. Its Arrival Unexpecled Every Year—Some¬ thing About Presents. When what was designed to be a pleasure becomes a burdan, it is time to stop and examine it carefully, and see if it is the thing itself which has grown to be such a weight, or whether it is simply an awkward manner of carrying it. Certainly there must be something wrong in any celebration of Christmas which results in serious fatigue of mind and body. During the first three months of the year, nothing is more commonly given as a reason for ill health than an overstrain during the holidays. “She got so worn out at Christmas,” or “She worked too hard in finishing her Christmas presents,” or “The week before Christmas she was tired out with shopping,” are excuses which appear as surely as January and February come. The question must occur sometimes to every one, whether all this worry and wear of heart and hand there and brain are really worth while. Is not some better way of celebra¬ ting this day of days than for women to wear themselves out in making or buying pretty trifles for people who already have more than they can find room for ? Setting aside all effort of eyes and fin¬ gers, the mental strain is intense. Merely to devise presents for a dozen or more people, which must be appropriate and acceptable, and which they do not already possess, and which no one else is likely to hit upon, is enough to wear upon the strongest brain; and when one’s means are not unlimited, and the question of economy must come in, the matter is still more complicated. The agony of indecision, the weighing of rival merits in this and that, the dis¬ tress when the article which is finally decided upon does not seem as fascina¬ ting as one had hoped, the endless round of shopping, the packing to send to dis¬ tant friends, the frantic effort to finish at the last moment something which ought to have been done long ago, result in a relapse, when all is over, into a complete weariness of mind and body which unfits one for either giving or re¬ ceiving pleasure. Now, when all this is looked at soberly, does it pay ? It is a remarkable fact that, although Christ¬ mas has been kept on the twenty-fifth day of December for more than a thou¬ sand years, its arrival seems as unex¬ pected as if it had been appointed by the President. No one is ready for it, al¬ though last year every one resolved to he so, and about the middle of Deoem • ber there begins a rush and hurry which is really more wearing than a May mov¬ ing. It seems to be a part of the fierce ac tivity of our time and country that even our pleasures must be enjoyed at high pressure. While it is almost impossi¬ ble, in matters of business, to act upon the kindly suggestion should of intelligent critics that we take things more leisurely, surely, in matters effort of enjoy¬ ment, we might make an the keeping to be lees of overworked. Cannot Christmas, for example, be made to con¬ sist in other things than gifts ? Let the giving be for the children and those to whom our gifts are real necessities. As a people, we are negligent in the matter of keeping birthdays. If these festivals were made more of in the family, especially among the elder members, we should not find that we were losing the blessedness of giving and the happiness of receiving, even if we did omit pres¬ ents at Christmas time. In many large families a mutual understanding that the Christmas gifts were all to be for the children would be an immense relief, although, perhaps, no one would lie quite willing to acknowledge it. Some¬ times a large circle of brothers and sis¬ ters can unite in a gift, in that way makmg it possible to give something of more value, and at the same time to lessen the difficult task of selectipn. Above all things, if yon give presents, be more anxious to give than something send which “supplies a want” to some pretty trifle which can only prove in the end an ad ditional care. A little fore¬ thought and friendly putting of yonrself in another’s place will make this possible. In the great world of books something can be found to suit every taste. Flow¬ ers are always a graceful gift, and can never become burdensome by lasting after one has grown tired of them. There are numberless other things which can be procured, without a wear and tear of mind and body which make the recipient feel as David did of tile water from the well of Bethlehem, that what cost so mnch was too valuable to be ac¬ cepted. —Susan Anna Bbown, in the Centum for December. Women Lawyers in Italy. Italy is getting as much ahead of us as America. La Signora Lydia Poet has just been admitted to practice at the bar of Turin, and appeared for the first time in her barrister’s gown to plead the cause of a young painter whose pictures had been unjustly detained by his land¬ lord, and much injured by the damp oi the garret to which they had been con¬ signed. The lady barrister obtained a great success for her humorous descrip¬ tion of the subject of the pictures, and, amid much applause, obtained a verdict with goodly damages in favor of her client. She was escorted home, still en¬ veloped in her lawyer’s who robes, by a large conconrse of people, gave her a sere¬ nade in the evening, in which the tenor voice of the young painter was conspicu¬ ous by its deep expression.— Loudon Herald. Going South.— Twelve locomotives were shipped from Philadelphia foi Brazil in one week. A CHRISTMAS CLUB. How It was Formed and ihe Good Work I* Accomplished, [We reprint from the Christmas 8t. Nicho¬ las the following account of the formation at Portland, Me., of a Children’s Christmas Club, which gave last year a Christmas-tree and din¬ ner to six hundred poor children of that city.J A number of notes were written, ask¬ ing two or more girls and boys from every Sunday-school in tbe city to meet at a certain house at five o’clock, on the following Tuesday afternoon. Did they come ? Come ? They did not know what th» call was for, save for a whisper about Christmas work; but they came: came in pairs, in trios, in quartets and quin¬ tets—a whole squad from the Butler school; big boys with big hearts, wee tots only four years old from the kinder¬ garten—one hundred children, ready for anything. could have been there Oh, I wish you at the forming of that club. A lady came forward to speak to them, and then: voices were hushed in expecta¬ tion. I can’t tell you just what she said, but her words were beautiful. She spoke of their Christmas festivities every year, of their presents and their friends; then of unfortunate children who had fewer, some none of these joys. When she asked: “Does anyone here want to do anything for these others ?” the thought that they could do any¬ thing was new to almost all—to many even the wish was new; but like on# great heart-throb came their answer : “Yes ! II I! Ill want to do something I” “Children, what can yon do?” A pause, and then one little voica cried : “Dive ’em a cent!” That was the first offer, but it was followed by many another : “Give ’em candy!” “Give’em a turkey I” “Give ’em a coat!”—each "Give.” beginning with that grand word, that meeting this The result of was r To form a club which should last “forever”; to call it “The Children’s Christmas Club”; to have for its motto: “Freely ye have received, freely give”; to place the membership fee at ten cents, so that no child should be pre¬ vented from joining because he was not “rich”; to make no distinction in regard to sect or nationality; to permit to join the club any girl or boy under eighteen years of age who accepted its principles, which were : To he ready at all times with kind words to assist children less fortunate than themselves; to make every year, in Christmas week, a festival of some kind for them; to save through the year toys, books, and games, instead of carelessly destroying practicable, them; in to good save and, whenever clothing; put repair all outgrown to bog nothing from any source, but to keep as the key-stone of the club the word “Give”; to pay every year a tax of ton cents; and to make their first festival in the City Hall on Thursday, December 28 . 1882 . IN A GYPSY CAMP. A Graphic Description at a Romany Pettiest ■uent in (Sussex. The London Telegraph says: “Of the younger fry there were as many as half a dozen, four of them girls, whose ages may have ranged from eleven to fourteen, and they were worse clad even that the two women, nor were the grow¬ ing boys better covered. As for the lit¬ tle children, whose lack skins, poor little wretches, for of washing, were of the color of light mahogany, several of them were as naked as they were born, and there in an atmosphere pungent with the odor of onions and misty with the steam of the stew, they were all huddled biggledy piggledy on the ground, some reclining at full length, others squatted ‘nose and knees’ to¬ gether, discussing their supper with an tappetite only to beobtained by a day’s oil in a hop garden. “The tent contained no single article of furniture in the ordinary sense of the term. An empty barrel, that apparently had once contained flour, stood in the centre with a board across the top of it, and od this stood a shallow brown pan, which contained what had been cooked in the large kettle, and beside it were several loaves of bread. Two of the woman presided. The three men squat¬ ted cross-legged, with a large zinc wash¬ ing-bowl filled with the savory mess on the ground in their midst, and a four pound loaf, from which, with their clasp knives, they hacked a ‘chunk’ as they required it. Plates and spoons there were none. They thrust their wedges of bread into the bowl, aDd so extracted the broth, and they helped themselves tearing to meat with their dirty fingers, it asunder with their teeth when the pieces were too large to put at once in the month, in a gallon stone bottle they had beer, which for convenience of drinking was tilted into a yellow pint basin. “Even less ceremony was observed by tlie children in eating. The female in charge of the bread cut a substantial ‘round’ from a loaf and tossed it to the eider ones as they reclined on the ground, and then the custodian of the stew fished out a piece of meat and thrust it all hot and reeking at the end of a fork toward the eager hand held out for it, and the meat was clapped aid'of atop of the bread, ration and so, without the a knife, the was devoured. The smaller children were served in the same way, but less liberally. When the men liad had their bowl replenished and the women bad enough, the pan with the remains of the broth and some bread broken up in it, was placed on the ground, and squealing and greedily hustling each other like so many other little pigs, the gypsy infants made short work of it. Not long since a little three-and-a-half year old was out in the garden, when she stepped on a beetle and killed it. The gardener, her: “Perhaps in a sympathetic mother tone, said beetle to that was a gathering food for her children at home, and they mayjsuffer with hunger;” when Ida replied, with apparent honesty, “I guess, Uricle Frank, it was not the mother beetle I killed, but was only tha hired girl ” Of all the actions of s man’s life his marriage does least concern other peo¬ ple, yet, of all actions of our life ’tis most meddled with by other people.
