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The Conyers Examiner
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VOLUME VI.
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-Under ^he Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, OX.
Where all the delicacies of the sea
.ill he furnisqed in the best of style and
,, cheap as any establishment in the city
a ■ Meals furnished at allhours of the
day.' BALLARD & DURAND. nnej.2
FOUR-YEAR-OLD JOE’S PIPE.
Probably the youngest confirmed
smoker of tobacco in New York is Joseph
Granger, a chubby four-year-old who
lives at No. 9 Mulberry street. His
father, August Granger, is a skilled
French glass worker, employed in D.
Durand’s Worth street factory. The
other day a Sun reporter saw the young¬
ster toddling about the shop with his
lighted pipe in his mouth. He is a four
year-old of full size. His eyes are bright
and clear, and his cheeks were rosy
enough to show good color, despite the
trying effect of a Tam O’Slianter cap of
flaming red. The plumpness which
severely strained the buttons of his com¬
fortable overcoat was apparently solid
and healthy tissue. He manifested a
wholesome respect for Mr. Durand, but
sturdily resisted that gentleman’s effort
to take away his pipe. He howled dis¬
mally when his resistance was overcome
snd the pipe was forced from his clenched
teeth and determined grasp. It was a
common wooden pipe, soaked and strong.
The reporter consoled Joe with a
cigar. He seized it eagerly. It was a
big one, full flavored, dark and strong.
The baby smoker shut his fist tightly
upon it, held it jealously against his
breast, and clamored for a match. His
little teeth were scarcely equal to the
task of biting off the end of the cigar,
but he nibbled at it until he found it
would draw, and then scratched lu*;
match. Having secured a good light, he
smoked away with every air of satisfac
fen at the change, nodding his head
vigorously when asked if he liked the
cigar better than the pipe. His pipe he
holds firmly in his teeth, and scarcely
puts his hand to it until it is smoked out.
The cigar was too big to close his teeth
on comfortably, so he held it between his
lips with one hand, never letting go his
hold upon it for an instant, and very
seldom taking it out of his mouth.
The father of this four-year-old is not
without concern as to the effect of his
indulgence in tobacco. He is a heavy
smoker himself.' Little Joe has been ad¬
dicted to the weed since he was eighteen
months old. He was weaned at that age.
The family don’t remember how he first
came to get hold of a pipe. It never
made him sick. When they had got over
gratifying his taste for the sake of the
oddity, and tried to break him of the
habit, they found that they couldn't.
The sight of a pipe was the signal for an
outcry that could be stilled only by al¬
lowing him to smoke. They gave it up.
Joe has since smoked regularly, and calls
upon his mother to fill his pip; as soon
us he gets up in the mornirg.
smokes through the day as often ns he
can prevail upon her to give him a pipe
lul of tobacco. His health seems to be
go,id, but he is inclined to taciturnity.
When he has his pipe in his mouth it is
difficult to get a word out of him, and
his customary attitude is one of medita¬
tion. Whether this is really the outward
and visible sign of deep thought or of the
stupefying effect of the tobacco, Mr.
Granger does not attempt to say. The
hoy sleeps well, but eats scarcely he two is
solid ounces of food a day, though
plump as a partridge.
Shipping Apples. —Mr. G. F. Newton,
of Millersville, Ohio, writing of apple
shipment in freezing weather mentions
having once sent twenty barrels to mar¬
ket in midwinter. “They were detained
by mismanagement in transit for over
two days and nights, on the track, and
on the second day the mercury went
down to twelve degrees below zero.
There was no fire in the car, but they
went through sale.” The secret of this
success, as he thinks, was in the pre¬
caution he took to “line each barrel with
two thicknesses of paper.”
bridge A New Bbid«e.—T he new snspensior
across Niagara River is to be com¬
pleted September 1, 1883. It will b«
located a quarter of a mil© south, of th€
present suspension bridge, and will be
used exclusively by the Canada Southeix
toad, New running in' connection with the
York Central.
«eo«sraphicai,.
Although you Arab brilliant catch,
I do not Caffre you.^
W SvM y Dane 40 hear
This heart ’ is Scot m 7 suit—
.. fSv™ j&Enits by thee.”
* yoar wora, ’
To Hindoo you no longer hero
And so, good sir, Tartar.»» *
“ What Ottoman like to do
Bewailed me ?
the stricken man
“I'll Finnish up my mad career.
And wed the Galican,”
TIIE JOKEU’S BUDGET.
t’LIPPE "r PK^ l T,?13 , Ei MOR, ’ l,S
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THOUGHTS ABOUT POTTERY.
IhaHawkeye philosopher says; Venly,
the potter hath power over the clay.
Therefore, the clay is the pot, but the
man who makes it is the potter. Ergo,
protest. Refined and scholarly joke.
This stylo six for a dollar. For two dol¬
lars an explanation of this superlative joke
and the Hawkcyc for one year will he
sent to auy part of the United States or
Canada. Put that in your clear Havana
cigar and smoke it.
Potteiy is tho oldest industry in the
world. Adam was made of clay. But
he acted as though ho was only half
baked. His son Cain built the first kiln
in the country.
The potter works in the mud, hence we
admire his work. His life is one long act
of mndder, hut ho is never hanged for it,
though somotimes he is broken at tho
wheel.
All his work, however good, goes to tho
fire. NVhat- he hakes you cannot eat, al¬
though you eat what the other baker sets
on it.
The potter is an aristocrat by nature,
and always belongs to a set. To several
sets, in fact.
He is independent and urns his own
living
He is a base ball star, and makes a bet¬
ter pitcher than the “old Nolan,”
He is no deacon, hut he passes the plate
regularly. A rigid temperance man, he
is fond of his bowl. And he always
makes it go round, too.
There never was but one blind potter,
and he did not stay blind long, for he
made a cup and saw, sir.
He is always hopeful, for it is in his
nature to look cup.
He is a generous fellow, and what is his
is ewers.
He believes in human equality, and
thinks the law should make daymen tho
equals of the clergy.
“Who breaks, pays,” must have been
originated by the potter. Although in
these perilous times, it is more likely to
read, “who pays, breaks.”
A pottery is the place where they make
pots, but not Jack pots, by along chalk.
The potters make all things of clay, but
this does not make clazay of them, by
any means.
Thin thing may seem to be running in¬
to the ground. That’s where it has to
go, to get the raw material.
DENVER TRIBUNE FABLES.
A child Awakening from its Sleep in
the Dead of Night, cried out to his Mam
ma in affright: “Oh, mamma,” said the
Child, “I saw a Big Kitty at the Win¬
dow.” “Be calm, my Dear,” replied the
Mother, “I have been Married too Long
to be Worried at anything Sliort of
Snakes in your Papa’s Boots. ”
A Don and hiB Tail fell into a Dispute
as to which should Wag the Other. An
itinerant Wasp passing that Way casually
Remarked: “Speaking of Tails reminds
D that I Possess one which May possi¬
bly be Influential enough to Wag you
Both.” This fable Teaches that trn
cents’ worth of Dynamite is a bigger man
than a Church Steeple.
A Child who had a Mild typo of the
Measles invited a number of her Ac¬
quaintances to a Party. Producing from
the Pantry a Bowl of Sweetmeats, she
said: “Behold now an Act of Generosity.
I will Take the Sweetmeats, and you,
Unless you immediately Taka your De
parture, will Take the Measles. This
fable illustrates tho ingenuousness of
childhood.
A precocious Boy was once afflicted
with a Boil in that Locality of the Anat¬
omy which js seldom mentioned in Polite
society. To him a Playmate addressed
Words of Condolence. “Ob," replied
the Precocious Boy, “I’m not so Power¬
ful bad off After all. This boil has
taught me, in its Quiet, unobtrusive
way, what Mantel-Pieces were Made for,
you yourself shall Learn if yo u will
Stay and See me Eat my Supper.” This
fable Teaches that All created things
have their Spheres to Fill in this Life.
When I saw hei first, I noticed with
great satisfaction that a fall of preby
lace covered her maimed hand, and that
“Big Charlie” under his rough husk, for
held a real reverence and affection
her. To these feelings he tore witness
everywhere, and when his friends would
play'upon him, and say half in jest and
half in earnest: “Ah, Charlie, yon re a
fine fellow, ain’t you?” he would answer
with naive conceit aud confidence:
“Yase, I am; for I hef gommanded dere’s a
bark of a dousand duns; but a
better dan me at home. And ev anybody
savs ‘Kalstrom’s a vine vellow,’ wife you gan
him, ‘Yase, but Kalstrom’s is 3
viner.’”
_
A bot will go in swimming and fool
around the water for hours together;
but when told to wash his face he will
have almost a hydrophobic dread of half
• pint of water. __ -—
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHffg TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH ‘/Q, 1883.
A VERMONT MYSTERY.
flow n Rf real Jom-nnllstic War llnd It*
<nn a Few Tears Ago.
Speak to a gray-haired Vermonter about
the Masonic times,” and yon touch the
greatest political excitement of his life,
homo of the whig campaigns saw more
noise, while m the anti-slavery struggle
there was the great depth of purpose [,
m heat and bitterness ul
lcal parties existed has nothing equaled since polit
tests f.xUowing the the con
A belief that the great Morgan abduction.
acting secret society was
id public affairs, to manage gov ern
mrnt, protect criminals and what not,
caused the forming of a distinct and a « iti
Masonic party, to which members ef the
order and outsiders who held a contrary
opinion—these last derisively called ‘ ‘jack
masons ’’—were opposed, and the fight
became so hot that all other political qnes
tions were quite lost sight of, and it could
almost be said, that every man hated per¬
sonally each individual on the other side.
And at this time there was a local “mys
sery,” only loss remarkable iri-’thc devel¬
opment than the one in which Thnrlow
Weed was so mi ich interested, and a eixri
olitical, history it-makes.
The story has never hoi ly told since
the occurrences, aud is now worth reoiill
>"g.
Joseph of Buruham, a middle-aged farm¬
er the town of Woodstock, was con¬
victed two or three years before Morgan’s
disappearance, in the State and sentenced to a te nil
Prison at Windsor. The
woman who made the charge had......_ a had
character, many believed the man inno¬
cent, and a strong effort was made to get
him pardoned, headed by his son George,
who lived in Now York City; but while
this work was in progress/ October 16,
1826, Burnham died in prison. His body
was delivered to the son, George, two
days later, and by him taken to Wood
stock and buried. There is no doubt,
that these are tho facts. But soon after
the death there came a rumor that a man
named Lyman Mower, who onoe lived in
Woodstock and knew Burnham there,
‘ had seen him in New York City, alive
and well, going by the name of Patrick
Dolon.- The matter attracted very little
attention until the rising of tho excite¬
ment following Morgan’s disappearance,
two or throe years later, when tiic old
story came up in a most unaccountable
way as a Masonic outrage.
Burnham was a Mason, the superin
tonileut of the prison, the physician in
charge and some other. officers, ns well
George, the son, were Masons, and tho
belief gained ground that the prisoner
had feigned death and been allowed to
escape by the prison officials,-while the
by body of some other person was buried
his friends as a blind. And in tho
popular excitement of the time this mate
ter assumed a degree of importance
which npw seems incredible in view of
the slender evidence upon which the
case rested—the reported statement of
Mower, who was known to be an unreli¬
able man. Tho story, however, grow
and grew until in the summer of 1829 it
wns taken up by the newspapers and a
journalistic war ensued, the like of
which was never seen in Vermont before
or since. In the midst of this Mower
published an affidavit setting forth that
lie saw Burnham in New York iu the
fall of 1826, and that in 1828 he had met
and talked with him often.
A man named Cutter also made affidav¬
it that he saw Burnham in New York
in July of the current year, and the ,ese
statements, with whispers of some pe. nd
tog developments about the prison, fair¬
ly created popular fury. ordered In October the disin¬ tho
Woodstock selectmen
terment of Burnham’s remains for identi¬
fication. The body was exhumed, but
Could not ho identified with certainty,
and a few days later the operation
repeated in the presence of a large crowd,
lint with no better result. But at tlio
same time the matter was taken to tho
Legislature, as the conduct of State offi¬
cers w»s involved, and then the truth
was established. A legislative offered committee, Mower
went to New York and
$500 if he would produce Burnham in
Vermont, and guaranteed a pardon for
the latter. Thereupon tho whole thing
fell through. found, and it seemed
Patrick Dolan was
that Mower had known him perfectly
well for several years and could not pos¬
sibly have lieen mistaken as he then said
he was. The most probable explanation
of the whole matter is that some sem¬
blance which Dolan bore to Burnham led
Mower to make a thoughtless remark, Ver
which was m agnified in going to he lied
mont, that as the excitement rose
deliberately from love of mischief and
notoriety, and that Cutter did the same.
The committee’s report was orderedpub
lished in the newspapers, and the con¬
troversy died wit, but still so many
stories had be :r- circulated and such an
issue made O; ne matter that to this day
many persons believe that Jo Burnham
was let out of prison alive by feliow
Masons,
A Philadelphian, detained by busi¬
ness, spent a recent Sunday in Baltimore.
In the evening he went into a saloon and
took a drink, several men who were pres¬
ent drinking with him. The next mom
w hc was astonished by a summons to
appear before the'Grand Juiy as a wit
ness to prove that the saloon-keeper had
violated the Sunday law. He acknowl¬
edged that he had drank in the place
named, and when asked if others were
present, promptly pointed out two of tlio
jnrynv-n is his chance companions of
the night before, “That will do,” in
terrapted the foreman hastily; “that will
do, you can go home,” and the I’hiia
delphian waa pohtely escorted to the
door by a bailiff.
Tubus Wat.— The cause
of Goldsmith’s first attempt at
suicide, in San Francisco, « the refusal
of a girl to marry tem His life was
saved? and, impressed by the proof of his
affection, the woman changed tor mind
and became bis wife. But still he was
not happy. On three occasions in a vear
he took doses o£ laudanum, and the last
one was fatal.
Inquirer—N o; that mysterious “False
Prophet” oi the Soudan is not a weather
prophet i-~*Bo8t/yn Posts
OVER THE WIRES.
liUlisoii’fc Experiences as a Tclegrn plicr and
lifiu He Kent (he JtofSs
“What were the real facts of that Bos¬
ton experience you had hi fast receiving a
good many years ago ?” Mr. Edison was
asked.
“Let mo see; that was in 1868. I had
been working in Louisville, Ky., a
couple of years, and went- from there to
Miehigan. A friend named Adams got
me a place hero in Boston, and I came
over, arriving here about 4:30 o’clock,
and had to go to work at 6:30 o’clock.
Although it was the middle of winter I
came into the ~‘Jicc with a linen dust ci¬
on, for I was very poor then. A fellow
named Jack Wight, who knew mo out
West, thought to have some fun, so ho
posted the office and had New York put
on an operator named Begley at their
end of the lipo, with a special of 800
words to tlio Journal. He had had my
end switched to a table about the middle
of t ho room, near tho manager’s desk.
Not suspecting anything, I sat down and
commenced taking it. Soon Bagley
commenced to ‘whoop ’em up,’ and,
although I was accustomed to keep six
or eight words behind in copying, I
thought it best to close up, especially as
he commenced to send some awful
sticking stuff, making l’s of his m’s and
contracting his words, sending ‘imy,’ for
instance, for ‘immediately,’ I having to
write it out in full. Happening to look
up, I noticed fifteen or twenty operators
grinning behind me. Then I saw it was
a ‘put-up job,’ and my blood got up and
I determined 1 would not break. Opera¬
tors in New York asked over other wires
if I was getting it, and would hardly
believe the replies. When I thought he
had reached the top of his speed I opened
my key and said: ‘Don’t go to sleep;
shake yourseli and hurry through this !’
“The way I managed it was this: I
had practiced all kinds of handwriting,
and found that by a kind of print hand 1
could write fifty-five words per minute,
aud I knew there was no man who could
keep up that speed with a telegraph key,
so I felt safe if I could only read the
ticking. I had no fears as to that either,
as I had read all kinds of ‘clipped’ send¬
ing in the West. Another thing that
in my favor is, that I am a little
deaf, so that the hum of an offioe does
not disturb me, and I gave my whole
attention to the clicking of an instru¬
ment.
“There is a little experience I hail out
in Indianapolis that may interest you.
I was very ambitious to receive ‘press
report,’ and used to sit up until the 2 a.
m. ‘press report;’ listening beside tho re¬
ceiving operator, until after awhile I
couhl receive it very nicely, and then I
wanted to receive press myself. Natur¬
ally, when I bad tho real responsibility
of taking it, I ‘bulled’ it bad at first, as
they sent at tho rate of forty words a
minute, I thought the matter over, and
worked out a little plan to have the
‘register’ indent some tin foil as it came
in, and then had the boy turn it through
another instrument, which ticked it off
at the rate of abont twenty-five words
per minute, which I read and wrote off
very easily. The only trouble was that
got ‘30’ (good night) from tho Kast
about 2.30 a. m., while it was sometimes
hour or more later when we got the
last rheet to the newspapers. They com¬
menced to growl after awhile, and our
manager dropped in cn ns one morning
and discovered our little game in full
blast. several alu
“By the way, there were i
able inventions wrapped up in that office
trick. Talking of the tinfoil reminds mo
of another incident. There was a fast
sen ding tournament gotten up once, in
which the judges were to be at St. Louis,
and the fnst-senders throughout the
Slate were to scud from tlicir respective
offices to tho central office in St. Louis.
Now, although I have a reputation ns a
receiver, I have jnst the opiposite reputa¬
tion as a sender, and when I entered my
name in the list to compote there was
great ‘ha-liaing’ over the wires, We
were given a chapter in the Bible to
send, and, while file other man were prac¬
ticing sending it. I worked out the chap
ter on the tinfoil, and fixed everything
already to turn the crank at the rate ol
about fifty or fifty-five words per minute,
getting our boys to keep quiet about it
For some reason the contest never came
off, and I did not have the pleasure of
carrying off the prize .”—Boston Herald.
The Oldest Cow on Record.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says; The
most t United aged States—is cow in Georgia—perhaps owned by citi in
the a izen
of Hawkinsville. The owner assun s us
that the cow is 100 years old, and is now the
giving milk. When we mentioned
improbability, iu fact, the almost impos¬
sibility, of bis cow being 100 years old,
the gentleman assured ns that she has
belonged to his grand parents, great and
grand parents, and other ancestors,
that there is no doubt that the cow is
100 years of age. We can say for the
owner of the cow—the gentleman who
makes the statement—that he is one of
our most esteemed citizens, one not ac¬
customed to exaggerate, and whose word
has never been doubted. The gentle¬
man is fifty years of age, and is a mem¬
ber of one of the old and noted families
of the State.
Bad as a tiring u, it may be worse. A
bulbous nose is not • pretty feature, but
it is not improved by being broken,
though it may be made leas prominent
r ,31* Tv." neopbTideep bet
PT * if the he i /a iwil is*Disced ‘ to the
^b.v>h^ .. u good deal
where the -
ORIGIN OK PETROLEUM.
Few Theories a» to How It ( mm- Into I t
Iste IICC.
A matter of absorbing but still unsat¬
isfied curiosity, says a letter from Brad¬
ford, Pa,, to the New York Evening
Post, is the origin of this petroleum or
“rock oil,” gushing up from a thousand
or more feet below the surface, aud till¬
ing so large a place in our commerce and
industry. Science, on many points so
precise and positive, gives us here two
divergent theories. By one hypothesis
it is contended that the porous sand
rock which underlies tlio oil regii >118 011
an average about a Fifth of a mile below
the surface is the original source of the
oil deposit. In those sand-rock strata,
so it is said, formed from beds and
shoals of rivers, there were ages ago
deposited vast masses of vegetation.
Those, under certain conditions, pro¬
duced coal which in its chemical con¬
stituents much resembles oil; but under
conditions a little varied they produced
oil which, with gas, is held suspended
in the spongy stone, aud now and then
gathers in cavernous magazines, where
it is held fast under the immense pres
sure wliich, when relaxed by the oil
digger’s drill, drives < tlio fluid to the snr
face in a jot of oil and gas. A second
theory asserts that tlio oil is not gener¬
ated in the sand-rock measures, but in
the carboniferous shales far below. Here
there is developed by heat a gas which,
forcing its way upward through rocky
fissures, reaches the colder sand-rock
strata, where it is condensed into oil,
ami this oil iB held down under the
harder upper crust of sand-rock until
the drill gives it exit. This last is, I be¬
lieve, the hypothesis most generally ac¬
cepted by scientists of present fame.
Whatever the origin of petroletm, there
ho no doubt of the magnitude of
those operations of Nature which—scien¬
tifically rather than commercially speak¬
ing—have boon going on over an area of
Bomo 4,000 square miles in Pennsylvania
alone, which have led to the sinking of
some 30,000 wells, costing on an average
at least $2,500 each, or $75,000,000 alto¬
gether, and which havo been so wantonly
abused by the improvidence of man that
the sliodoWB which portend the failure
of our coal-oil supply havo already be¬
gun to fail.
The emilo petroleum, ns it issues from
the Bradford Wells, might very readily
be mistaken for dirty water. It is yet
low in tint, takes tire like other oils,
foams easily when ignited, and seems
more viscid and loss strong iu smell than
the lower grades of the refined article.
If the reader will take a small vial, till
it with water, add a little sweet oil anil
yellow dirt, thou shake up the compound
vigorously, he will have—barring tlio
smell—a pretty good likeness of the
crude rock-oil of tho Bradford region.
In refilling about one-quarter of the crude
petroleum passes away, largely into more
solid products, which arc so far utilized
now that petroleum may be regarded as
a complex product with every part val¬
uable. Few people appreciate its place
in our export trade. In tho fiscal year
ending in 1881 we shipped to foreign
countries petroleum anil petroleum pro¬
ducts worth $40,315,000. It ranks third
in our export trade, following bread
stuffs and cotton, and tho exports rep¬
resent only a fraction of the whole pro¬
duct. In this connection I may say
that, according to trustworthy estimates
hero in Bradford, the notorious Standard
oil monopoly which controls the trade
produce refined petroleum at live
cents a gallon. Householders, there¬
fore, can estimnto for themselves, from
the locnl prices they pay to their grooms,
tlio intermediate costs arid profits. Here
in Bradford tho liest refined petroleum
sells at ten cents a gallon.
Faying a Ret.
The Committee on Harmony, of the
Lime-Kiln Club, reported that the Lirne
Kiln Club was at peace and harmony
with every government on earth except
Greece, and with every organization and
association in America except the Con
cord School of "Philosophy. During the
quarter the committee had taken action
in twenty-four instances where memfers
of the club bad differed in opinion, and
the only case left was that of Wh ile!)! me
Howker vs. Clay Bank Tyler.
“ What am dat case?” softly inquired
the President.
It was explained that Brother Howker
had won an election bet of Brother
Tyler, but that the latter refused to
square up. He was asked to stand up,
and when he was on his feet Brother
Gardner said:
No, sah.
“Was you waitin fur anythin to
pertickler to happen befo’yon paid dat
“No, sah.
“ y™ had better settle de matter
befo’ de nex’ meetin occurs A man who
am fool miff to bet on leckshunshould
be idiot naff to pay what he loses. -
Detroit Free Press.
-*♦*-
_<• We observe, and we are glad te
observe it,” says the New York Sun,
“that our young men of fa-hion now*
davs are rarely addicted to hard drink
ing. bftbem.’* It is not considered in good fora,
After Twenty-five Years.
General Roger A. Pryor, now of New
York City, when asked by a reporter for
his reminiscences of the challenge to
fight a duel with bowie knives in a locked
room, sent him by Jolin P. Potter, a
Congressman from Wisconsin, who is
now- dying at Milwaukee on the Poor
Farm, as wi ll as tlio trouble preceding
tlio sending of tlio challenge, spoke as
follows: to talk
”t am unaffectedly reluctant
about the matter, and for twenty-five
yearn I have silently submitted to an in¬
accurate and injurious statement of tlio
affair. The version which party feeling
gave to the affair has gone so long with¬
out question that I doubt if anything truth.
from me will now vindicate the
Nevertheless, in reply to your inquiry, I
will give you in a word the facts of tlio
case. having j occurred
“An angry dohato
between Mr. Potter and myself on tlio
floor of tlio House of Representatives, challenge.
T determined to send him a
1 prepared the paper and left it in tlio
hands of a friend to deliver, while to
escape arrest or interruption I went im
mi (diately to Alexandria, Va., in conoeal
mont. I heard nothing more of the
matter until I received a message from
my friends that the thing woe ended and
that I should return to Washington.
Then, for tho first time, I was told that
Mr. Potter, who had not loft Washing¬
ton, had proposed a fight with liowio
knives, anil that, my friends, for reason?
satisfactory to themselves, had perempt¬
orily rejected the proposition, Tho
friends who acted on my behalf were
Mr. Muscoe, R- H. Garnett, of Virginia;
Mr. Wm. Porclior, Miles and Mr. Law
icnco M. Keit-t, of South Carolina.
These gentlemen rejected the proposi¬
tion without communicating with me
and without my kuuwlodgo. Indeed, I
repeat that I did not know ut the proisi
sit.ion until it had been rejected. Upon
consultation with friends whether I
might not yet accept tho proposition,
they unanimously advised that I could
not disavow the action of tho gentlemen
to whom I had entrusted my interests.
Accordingly, I had no alternative but
to acquiesce. Do not understand mo to
question the propriety of the conduct of
those gentlemen.” altercation
“What was the botween
you and Mr. Potter?”
“I do not remember; and if I did I
should not care to bilk about it. Those
are escapades of my youth, of which I
now sec the folly, and which I prefer to
lot drop hi to oblivion."
THE ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.
Tho verdict of tho jury which finds
Carlotta Teresa Sturla, of Chicago,
guilty of manslaughter and the sentence
passed itpon her of one year’s imprison
mi nt end a trial full of romance, stark
ling incidents and dramatic situations.
The evidence on the trial showed that
Charles titib s met this girl when she
was about fifteen years of age, and after
she had already—with the early develop¬
ment incidental to her Italian blood—en¬
tered upon a life of degradation. With
Iuh promise of marriage to encourage her
she followed him to Chicago, and there
entered upon the duties of a wife. She
took rooms with him, kept boarders,
washed his clothes, and worked from
morning till night to keep a homo over
her head, with an evident desire to lead a
worthy lifo.
But her brutal lover, not content with
a bumble homo and a faithful slave,
drove her to her old life in order to sup¬
ply him with the means to gratify bis
depraved taste s, which seemed te have
been unredeemed l>y one good trait.
Not content with the depths of moral
torture to which ho flung tlio girl—who
seems to have had a repugnance te the
life to which want Inal first, driven her—
lie struck her violent blows, kicked her,
throttled her and covered her with
bruises. Nor did his fiendish cruelly
end there. Knowing her to he nervously
timid and superstitious, ho would take
her to neglected graveyards and te lonely
spits, and after nearly throwing her into
convulsions by working upm her fears,
would abandon her aud leave her in the
dark to escape as liest she could. One
night, thus abandoned, she crouched
behind a vault for hours, till daylight
relieved her terror.
On another occasion he took her to a
lonely hotel, and after dining sumptu¬
ously on the last money she bail, drove
away, leaving her to walk home eight
miles through drenching rain and a bit¬
ter wind, on a dark and lonely country
road.
Sinking the Shop.
the toothache, and the party traveled
twelve miles to find a dentist, who an
phed a little laudanum bnbsequently
not relieved the fair patient, he (’ry'v re
phed, “lam on a nation. I haven’t
practiced for «x week*. __
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^ BOfm>]T JK , J]ccm;lrl> on bemg asked
. fae (h(1 not interfere in a fight, re
marked that he was never inclined to be
pragmatical. against A the Chicago rah*. policeman The said in
it was fact
t>oth cases was that the policeman
thought that if he interfered he would
get walloped, which incur judgment was )
a mighty good reason for staying out. — i
Boston PosU
$..50 PER ANNUM IN AD/ANCE
NUMBER (i.
TV IT AND WISDOM.
It is always “put up or shut up” with
the umbrella. — Boston Bulletin.
It is tlio sure badge of a clown not to
mind what pleases those he is with.
It mat lie set down as an axiom that
when a person grows fat he grows waist
liil.
Joan Billinas says: "Next to a
clear conscience for solid comfort comes
an old shoe. ”
“ Have yon evor seen a mormaid, cap¬
tain?” asked a lady on a Staton Island
boat. “I’vo soon a good many fish
womon, madam, if that’s what you
mean,” was tho reply.
"Wukn’ll yon bo back, my dear?” in¬
quired a wifo of an angry husband who
wail going off in a hurry. “ Whonovor I
please, madam 1” “ Do try anil not bo
any later than that, if you can help it 1”
was her meek reply.
A Young Inventob. —The youngest
inventor on tho records in Washington ifl
Walter Novogold, a lad 15 years of age,
of Bristol, 1’n., W’lto has patented im¬
portant improvements in rolling mill
machinery.
A young man in Des Moines loved a
girl so wildly that ho wrote her fifteen
letters a day for five weoks. At tho end
of that timo she eloped with another
follow as a matter of solf-protootion.—
Boston Post.
A Philadelphia man has bought a
schooner and gono in search of souls.
His wifo wants a sacquo for tho coming
winter, am' ho calculates to save sev¬
eral hundred dollars by getting tho
material in this way.
We ore willing to take a certain
amount of stock in newspaper accounts
of Western cyclones, l ut when an Arkan
huh paper tells about a zephyr carrying a
bed quilt sixty-one miles, and thon going
back for the shoot, wo ain’t there.
One sign of prosperous timos is the
activity among dealers in patent niodi
cinos. Or is it an indication of hard
times on the theory that tho pooplo have
less time to fuss over their fonoiod ail¬
ment when they got busy ?—Boston
Transcript.
Health journals say that to retain a
sound constitution a man must lio on the
right siilo. Yes, but which is tho right
siilo ? Every lawyer, preacher and edi
tor in the country thinks the side ho is
lying on is tho right one .—Timas Sift
inf/s.
Heheaeteh, whon you are in New
York, don’t drink. One of tho Central
Park ostriches swallowed a glass of lager
beer the other day, and diod almost im¬
mediately. It doesn’t do to touch Now
York liquor unless you were born in the
place, and weaned on it .—Lowell Cit¬
izen.
Dean Btanley is said to have had
great love for children, though ho wua
childless. As tho Doan might at any
time have drawn on an orphan asylum
for fifteen or twenty little prattlers, and
as he never did do so, it is fair to infer
that tho Dean was a gentleman of re¬
markable self-control, and that ho nevor
allowed his affections to run away with
him.
Osoaii Wilde lost his trank while on
a lecturing tour lust full, anil his leg*
were in a Htatc of perturbation painful to
“ ’Ere, 'Arry ! 'Any 1 'Ero’s a jolly
go, I say! I ’nvo tlio brawse* for the
luggage, and the blooming conductor ’as
gone and shunted tho luggage van off on
another line, don't you know I Blawst
the bloody luck of it; I cawn’t see any
think in tliiH howling country but trouble,
you know.”— Burlington Hawkcyc.
The modern JJsop: A father hail four
sons, who were very naughty, and often
gave the neighbor* cause for serious dis¬
satisfaction. For this reason he sum¬
moned them in his presence and showed
them four twigs of hazel. “ Take notice,
my sons, that if I should strike you with
one of these twigs alone, you would fool
lit tle ; whereas, if I should bind them all
together, it would cause you great pain."
And hereupon he tied them together and
gave the boys a sound thrashing. — Elio
gendv Ma tter.
A Lady Who Is “Only Eccentric.”
People seem to think that an insane
person is not dangerous until he or sha
commits some deed of actual violence,
says a New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia of Record. whose family
I know a woman say
that she is not insane, but who goes into
tlio parlor whenever her daughter baa
company and drives the terrified guest
out into the streets. aversion This singular pie, and wo¬
man has taken an to
for a long time there has bean none on
the family table; but one day recently
-jzsssss&s } f 2 1 f y ,.,/ UJ , on the offending dish.
®. J sw m ed; “who ordered a
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man
ln * ir ^, L_
^ iith r „„„>* havs
* that sha
{rom hcr chair , and, seizing chased a
carving knife from the sideboard, and
the young man from room to room,
would have done him an injury it he baa
not escaped to a room where he coiud
jock himself in. But the family say she
is not crazy, she is only eccentric.
--— " W 1 ♦
The young man wno suffers bis sweet
fl e nrt to rule him may be called a atis»
grided being. _ . .....