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The Conyers Examiner w E. 1 W A, HARP Publisher. VOLUME VI. T II E CONYERS Polished every Friday, CONYERS, GEORGIA, It $i 5° P er Annum in Advance. JOB PRINTING, Of Every Description, Promptly and y M tly Executed, at Reasonable Rates. bates fok advektising Advertisements will be insertedfor ONE DOLLAR per square, for the first inser lion, anil FIFTY CENT’S per square for each continuance, for one month, or less, /or a longer period, a liberal discount will ' foirOne inch in length, or less, consti lutes a square. the local column will JgrNotices in he inserted at Ten Cents per line, each inser Marriages and doaths will be p ublished j-) items of news, but obituaries will be charged for at advertising rates, UAI.Ii AT THE RESTAURANT. -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 4 w E 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*. __ _ r __ ^ 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 * | - 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. _ . .....