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Milledgeville, Ga., Seetemueu 20, 1887.
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EDITORIAL GLIMPSES
The Governor sinned the Felton
wine bill just before he left for Phila
delphia last Tuesday.
Gen. Boulanger j K i lo t the full-blood
ed Frenchman his name would imply.
His mother was an Englishwoman,
and lie thus derives his stubbornness
of purpose.
The Chicago News says ministers
are so scarce in Idaho that they have
to be imported in many cases inhere
people wish to get married. Trains
are stopped that they may be search
ed for ministers.
Mexico, which reported only about
500 miles of railroad in 1890 now
has about seven times that extent,
mostly owned and operated by Amer
icans, and meanwhile the public rev
enues have more than doubled.
The Macon papers speak in terms
of high eulogy of the marriage of Mr.
E. A. Nisbetand his beautiful bride
Miss Hattie N. Bolliill, in Macon on
the 12tli. Dr. Battle was the officiat
ing clergyman.
The gross earnings on sixty-seven
railroads during the half year showed
an increase of 15 per cent., while the
net earnings of the same roads for the
same period showed an increase of
24 per cent. The gain was well dis
tributed, too, for only eiglit roads
showed decreases in.tlieir net returns
for the same period.
It is hard to please everybody when
the weather is the common topic, but
whoever else may complain the as
tronomers will not. Never were the
heavens less unclouded or more stud
ded with beautiful stars than they
have been all tin* nights for the last
three weeks, at least in this latitude, j
and portion of Uncle Sam’s farm.
Carter Harrison was one day talk
ing about the boys of Chicago whom
he knew. After naming scores of
them, and dwelling on the character
istics of each, he said: “And then
there’s my boy Cato.” Fora moment
he paused, and then added: “Well,
Cato Harrison’s the only boy in Chi
cago whom I don’t know.”
The white citizens of Rathburn,
Tenn., are excited because two white
men have been “converted” by the
preaching of a negro minister, and
have joined a colored church, which
they regularly attend. Their aeeew*
sion probably adds nothing to the
standing of the church in any way.
It may be the negroes are the ones
who ought to object.
Assemblyman Charles Smith, of
New York city, is decorating his
new saloon in a peculiar manner.
The floor is covered with small mar
ble blocks. On each slab a hole has
been bored, into which a silver dollar
has been firmly cemented. Seven
hundred dollars were required to com
plete this decoration. Besides this,
the beer pumps, gas fixtures, etc., are
ornamented with silver dollars.
The Contest is Kept Up.
How can it be stopped until there is
a remedy? The same difficulty, ex
isting in this country, lias existed in
others, and in England almost -pre
cisely as with us., An English writer
more than forty yeftrs,agO said: “fiMfeh
is the disjointed and unnatural mate
of England, that it is not easy to
foresee a remedy for this alternation
of misery between the manufacturer
and the' agriculturist, one of which
classes can only be relieved at the ex
pense of the other, thus keeping both,
as an illiterate friend of mine express
es it, in a round robin of ruin, and
successive see saw of starvation.”
We quote this merely to show that a
similar contest existed in England to
that existing in our own country.
The manufacturers insisted upon be
ing protected and the laud-holders
objected. Tile trouble was in some
way removed by tlie power and bless
ings which England enjoyed from the
inexhaustibility of her financial re
sources. Tile exact method of settle
ment is not clear, but it was, doubt
less. effected by appropriations satis
factory . to the opposing classes. Our
constitution contains no provision
that authorizes a settlement of that
character between opposing interests
in this country. But we sec that they
existed in England. In this country
our Congress has passed taritr laws
that benefit the manufacturers at the
expense of the agriculturists. The ag
riculturists iti England objected to
such laws and in some way the parties
were reconciled.
In this country the manufacturers
deny that the agriculturists are in
any way injured, and even go so far
as to say that the high tariff protects
them and protects, also, the manu
facturers. We have often shown that
this statement is untrue; that it makes
our people pay from twenty-live to
thirty dollars for a coat which, with
out the tariff, tliev could get for fif
teen or t wenty dollars, and pay prices
upon many other things in the same
unjust proportion. We refer to this
matter, now, to show that the same
causes for discontent have also exist-
isted in England at earlier periods in
that country. If any writer in the
United States has disputed the truth
of the great differences In prices
caused by our high tariff, we have
never seen it in high tariff speeches
or high tariff papers. We say now, as
we have said before, if any high tariff
papers, in Georgia, can prove that we
can get clothing, blankets, and hun
dreds of other articles too tedious to
mention ns cheap under our tariff
as the English, after pnying low du
ties, will furnish them to us, we will
cease to oppose it and give it our
warm support.
The Next Presidential Election.
Pennsylvania Democrats on the
Tariff.
Savannah lias been deeply concern
ed over the dead body of a woman
found in the woods near that city
about three weeks ago, who Appa
rently had been foully murdered at
least a month before discovered.
Clue after clue has failed to establish
an identity and the mystery is still
unsolved. Strange, indeed, is it that
no female 1ms yet been found, to fix
the terrible uncertainty on some one.
vffhe woman certainly must have been
n stranger i® the neighborhood where
• she was murdered.
Envelopes for sale at this office at
$1 .00 per thousand.
It is not too early to look into and
organize our Democratic forces for
the great contest. We have relied
upon a solid southern vote for Cleve
land’s re-election and certainly upon
New York anil Indiana. While the
probability is that Ohio will go Re
publican, there still is a chance for
ttie Democrats to carry that State.
As we have heretofore shown that
the Democracy of Ohio, in their re
cent convention, adopted in their
platform a thorough revisipn and
reduction of the high protec
tive tariff duties, we inferred a
great change in the sentiments of the
people of that State on that question.
The great old democratic statesman,
Thurman, and others of similar stamp,
believed that the time bad come to
take strong ground against the pres
ent tariff law. There has undoubt
edly been a great change in the senti
ments of the farmers in .that state.
They have been gradually learning
how they were imposed upon, and
this knowledge lms been gradually
spreading among the agriculturists of
the great West. They grow immense
quantities of corn, wheat, oats, hogs
and cattle, which receive no protec
tion, while the tariff imposes heavy
taxes upon clothing, liouse and farm
ing utensils, and every article they
need for necessary use, for comfort
or utility, and, jin addition to this, it
makes the cost far heavier upon ar
ticles used by the poor than those
used by the rich. The tariff puts a
tux of 57 per cent, on woolhats.it
puts 100 per cent, on the poor man’s
blanket, it puts on the laces of the
rich only 35 per cent., the tax on a
farmers’ woollen clothes makes them
cost him twice as much as they would
if wool were free. We have given,
heretofore, and could give them a-
gain, a long list *o show how farmers
and the poor are excessively taxed
while the rich are taxed lightly.
There is not an instance in the whole
schedule of taxation in which the
farmer is favored. The scales are
falling from the eyes of the farmers
in all sections of tne country. Their
eyes are being opened. Many of them
are being shocked, puzzled and per*
E lexed to find out now long they have
een bamboozled by the tariff trick
sters, and have been stripped of the
profit of Lliair labors. It will not be
very long; before tl
tricksters that their hour is come for
the punishment they so richly de
serve. Some States in the great West
will, in all probability, unite with
tlie true democrats at the next na
tional election. Here's to the kind
old Democratic party! they will shout
ami rush dp tlir',. polls for victorious
ay it
Tlie Pennsylvania Democrats adopt
ed tlie Democratic Platform of tlie
Party of 1884. This is claimed ns a
victory for Samuel J. Randall, and
his friends in the party, are claiming
it to be a great victory and declaring
that bis action in the matter will
force tlie party to yield all opposition
to the doctrine of protection. These
Randall Democrats say that the par
ty must yield, or be defeated upon
any free trade platform. The persis
tent declarations, that tlie majority
of the Democratic party are free
traders and are seeking to force that
doctrine upon the party, is discredita
ble jockevisiii on tlie part of those
professed democrats who favor a pro
tective tariff. There may be a few
democrats, north and south, who be
lieve that free trade would add great
ly to the prosperity of our country,
but we do not know of a democrat, in
the Fritted States, who advocates it
adoption,
for revenu
policies.
The Democratic party favors a tar
iff for revenue to obtain money for
the support of the government, but
oppose a high tariff to afford a large
bonus for the special benefit of tlie man
ufacturers at tlie expense,mainly of t he
agriculturists. Millions of people are
made to contribute to the “infants,”
(nearly a hundred years old,) but tlie
farmers carry tlie greater part of the
iniquitous load.
The Pennsylvania Democrats adopt
ed the Chicago platform of 1884, mi
ller which Mr. Cleveland was elected
President. They claim that that
platform favored a protective tariff.
Mr. Hendricks, whose active and
powerful efforts during the campaign,
did more than anybody else to secure
our democratic triumph, took a dif
ferent view, and throughout the
whole campaign denounced the un
wise and evil results of imposing such
heavy taxes upon the people. But
let us examine the platform and see
what it says. We copy as follows
from tlie Democratic Platform, adopt
ed at Chicago in 1884. Speaking of
the Republican party and its platform
the Democratic Platform says: “It,
the Republican Party, professes to
protect all American industries; it has
impoverished many to subsidize a
few. It professes tlie protection of
American labor; it has depleted the
returns of American agriculture and
industry followed by half our people.”
“It prefers a pledge to correct the ir
regularities of our tariff; it created
and lias continued them. Its own
tariff Commission confessed the need
of more than 20 per cent, reduction,
its congress gave a reduction of less
than 4 per cent. It professes protec
tion of American manufactures: it lias
subjected them to an increasing Hood
of manufactured goods and hopeless
competition with manufacturing na
tions not one of which taxes raw ma
terials. It professes to protect all
American industries; it lias impover
ished many to subsidize a few. It
professes tlie protection of American
labor; it lias depleted the returns of
American agriculture, an industry
followed by half our people.” “That
a change is necessary is proved by an
existing surplus of more than 100,000,-
00# of dollars which lias yearly been
collected from the suffering people.
Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxa
tion.
We denounce tlie Republican party
for having failed to relieve the peo-
from the crushing war taxes
which have paralyzed the business,
rippled the industry and deprived
labor of employment, and of just re
ward" “knowing full well, however,
that legislation affecting the occupa
tions of tlie people should be cautious
and conservative in method, not in
the advance of public opinion, but
responsive to its demands, the Demo
cratic party is pledged to revise the
tariff in a spirit of fairness to all in
terests, but in making reductions in
taxes it is not proposed to injure any
domestic industries, but rather to
promote their healthy growth. From
tlie foundation of this government
the taxes collected at the custom
liouse, have been the chief Source of
Federal revenue. Such they must
continue to be. Moreover, many
for public purposes, and shall not ex
ceed the needs of tlie government
economically administered. Tlie sys
tem of direct taxation known as “in
ternal revenue” is a war tax, and as
tlie tnx continues the money derived
therefrom should be sacredly devoted
to the relief of tlie people from the
remaining burdens of the war, and
be made a fund to defray the expen
ses of the care and comfort of worthy
soldiers, disabled in the line of duty
in the wars of the Republic, and for
tlie payment of sucli pensions as con
gress may from time to time grant, to
such soldiers, a like fund for sailors
having been already provided, and
any surplus should be paid into tlie
Treasury.” This is a part of the Chi-
e.ftgo Democratic platform which the
Randall Democrats in Pennsylvania
have adopted and they claim that it
favors a protective tariff.
in what and bow does it favor it?
Does it favor it when it says; “That
a change is necessary as is proved by
an existing surplus of more than
$100,000,000 which Inis yearly been
celloeted from the suffering people?’’
When it says; "We denounce the
Free trade and aTariff I Uepnbfcan party for having failed to
essentially different relieve the people from the crushing
war taxes, winch have paralyzed the
business, crippled the industry and
deprived labor of employment and of
just reward?” When it says: “The
Democratic party is pledged to revise
tiie tariff in a spirit of fairness to all
interests” and kindly adds “but in
making reductions in taxes, it is not
proposed to injure any domestic in
terests but rather to’ promote their
healthy growth” and how? by impos
ing heavier duties “on articles of lux
ury” and lighter duties “on articles of
necessity.” By restoring our com
mercial Marine. Tlie Chicago Dem
ocratic platform says: “Unaera long
period of Democratic rule and policy,
our commercial marine was fast over
taking and on tlie point of outstrip
ping that of Great Britain. Under
twenty years of Republican rule and
policy, our commerce has been left to
British bottoms, and almost, lias the
American flag been swept off tlie high
seas.” “We demand that Federal
taxation shall be exclusively for pub
lic purposes and sliull not exceed the
needs of the government economical
ly administered.” We might multi
ply extracts to show that tne Demo
cratic Chicago Platform favored re
duction of the Protective tariff as
shown in these extracts, and when
the Democrats in congress sought to
make them, Mr. Randall and his ad
herents defeated tlie measure and the
expressed wilt of the party by voting
with the Republicans to sustain the
Republican nigh tariff. Mr. Randall
and his adherents are determined to
stand by the Protectionists, and en
deavor to sustain themselves by false
ly stating that they are sustained by
the Democratic Platform of 1884.
The Centennial of the Constitution
of the United States.
Written for the Union-Recorder. .
The Hermit of lhe“ Oconee,
BY .). H. NISBKT.
justice, tlo uii
be.
Distress after eating, heartburn,
sick headache, and indigestion are
cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It also
1 creates a good appetite.
dustrles have come to rely upon tab
ulation for successful continuance,
so that any change of law must lie at
every step’ regardful of the labor and
capital thus involved; the process of
reform must be subject in the execu
tion to this plain dictate, of justice.
All taxation should be limited to the
requirements of an economical gov
ernment. The necessary reduction
in taxation can and must be effected,
without depriving Amerioan labor of
the ability to compete successfully
with foreign labor and without im
posing lower rates of duty than will
be ample to cover any increased cost
of production which may exist in tlie
consequence of a higher rate of wages
prevailing in this country.
A sufficient revenue to pay all the
expenses of the Federal government,
economically administered, including
pensions, the ' interest^ arid 4 principal
of the public debt, can be got under
our present system of taxation from
tlie custom liouse taxes on fewer im
ported articles, bearing the heaviest
on articles of luxury and bearing the
lightest on articles Of necessity. Wd
therefore denounce the abrises of tiie
existing tariff and subject to preced
ing limitation. We demand that
Federal taxation shall be exclusively
A hundred years ago, September 17,
the Constitution was adopted by the
(’(invention sitting tn Carpenters’
Hall, Philadelphia.
The September WiDK Awakk cele
brates the event with a paper by An
nie Sawyer Downs setting forth in
brief the situation out of which the
Constitution came; with engravings
and portraits.
This paper is so important as a very
short and easy statement of one of
t-lie greatest achievements in history
that we should bo glad to print it en
tire.
For contrast, skipping some bits of
poetry, Lucy's High Tea. by Sophia
May. comes next -r. Ijttie story for
very little girls, which every reader
of whatever age will find more than
delight in.
There are the usual eighty pages:
Charles Egbert Craddock’s story, and
a great deal more.
The publisher, (D. Lotbrop Com
pany, Boston,) offer to send -a speci
men copy (back number of course)for
five cents.
A subject more discussed than
almost any other in Atlanta re
lates to the department of Agri
culture, tlie removal of the Col
lege of Agriculture and Mechani
cal Arts from Athens to Milledge
ville; the abolishment of the
blanch .Affrifipltnml GoIWok ex
cept ono in North and one in
South Georgia; the establishment
of an experimental station and
an experimental farm at Milledge
ville in connection with the State
College; the repeal of all fertilizer
inspection laws; the appointment
of a chemist who shall have
charge of the experiment station,
and whose duty it shall be to
analyze fertilizers for farmers,
make soil tests, etc., the election
of a Commissioner of Agriculture
who shall have an office at the
Capitol and be charged with the
duty of collating facts touching
the farming interests of this
State and, for comparison, those
touching tho same gjroat Interest
mother States; distributing seeds
and circulating reports of experi
mentation made at tho farm at
Milledgeville, etc., the Commis
sioner to have a clerk.—Atlanta
Cor. Augusta Chronicle.
In this sketch I do not propose to
create a myth of the. imagination, a
knight of the forest and stream, a
Fitz Janies and his Ellen, “the daugh
ter of Douglas,” or an outlaw of the
mind, like Rhoderic, or Robin Hood
the robber and hero, and paint a pic
ture where
“Nature scattered, free ami wild,
Each planter flower the mountain child,
Here eglinttoe embalmed the sir,
Hawthorne aud hazel mingled there;
Aloft the nali and warrior oak
Cast anchor In the rifted rock"—
Or by profuse coloring mar the pro
bability of tiie tale ; but to give the
reader the plain unvarnished truth
about the daily life and habits of a
man who spent all his years from
youth to a moderately fair old age in
the pine thickets and deep forests and
cane brakes t lint three 'decades ago
lined the west eVn. banks’of the, old
Oconee, from the month of Tobrer’s
oreek 'two mites north; of the court
house, to the month of-Gampereek
three miles below. ' t \‘ ' t
Our hero's name \yas GiCORtiK Bot;'r-
wkll. He was the son of worthy pa
rents who lived a long and good life
in this city where George was born,
about sixty years ago, and almost in
sight of which he died, about three
years ago. The writer and George
were boys together over forty years
ago, and fished and hunted in the
streuins within nnd skirting the city’s
boundary lines, which then as now
extend several miles to the north-east
and'south-east shore of the Oconee.
At tlie time 1 speak of there were no
houses north of Tan-yard branch and
where now Wilson A Go’s Iron and
Machinery works stand there was a
thick pine forest, anil through it ran
as olear and pretty a little stream as
ever sang its quiet song to the woods
all night. It. was full of perch, lior-
ny-head and cat-fish, and it was no
hard matter to catch a long string in
an liom or two between - tiie two
bridges that now span Wayne aud
Jefferson streets on tne North. George
had no love for tiie confined air of the
school room. He was almost born on
the banks of Tanyard, and lived in a
few rods of it, until his old haunts
had got to be intruded upon by the
inarch of civilization, when lie be
came disgusted witli tlie ways of men,
and panting for more retiracy and
the gratification of his-natural desires
and habits, sought a home in a deep
thicket of pines, where today the
fields are white with cotton or full of
ripening corn.
One day, about thirty years ago,
while hunting in a dense pine thicket
on the north-east city common, I
came suddenly on a white woman,
apparently young in years, coarsely
dressed, and carrying an axe on her
shoulder. She was small in statue,
and not very bad-looking—her coun
tenance displaying marks of pleas
antness if not of facial beauty. 1 was
as much startled, perhaps, as Hag
gard’s hero was when he met the sav
age girl in the jungles of Africa who
loved him not wisely blit too well.—
Having to say something to this lone
creature, I inquired if she could
point me to a spring whfcre I could
get a drink of water. She beckoned
me to follow her, which 1 did, .and in
a short walk came to a hrush-beap,
which proved to be her liouse. Go
iug to the rear she lifted a piece of
faded carpet that hung from a per
simmon limb above, and served as a
door to her habitation, entered and
returned with a gourd full of water
which she said had just been brought
from tlie spring. It did not take me
many minutes to get a perfect pic
ture of this rustic, bouse burned into
tlie plate of an excited brain, arid
without another word between us
I took my departure in search of
game. The house, or hut, in which
this woman lived, was composed of
rough pine saplings, about six by
eight feet in lie glit and length, and
was covered over and on the sides
with pine boughs, with here and there
a few planks and fence rails, which
had no doubt been gathered from tlie
drift wood left by a freshet in tlie
Oconee hard by. 1 did not see the in
side of tlie hut, but 1 was told after
wards that thvre was not a piece of
bed clothing in it, but pine straw
served that purpose; and a frying pan,
coffee pot and tin (bucket constituted
the entire furniture. This, I was in
formed by some negroes I met after
wards, was the residence of George
Boutwell and Ids wife.
Here, and in tliU manner of life,
Hontwell and his companion lived a
Crusoe sort of existence, for many
years, subsisting on the game of the
dense woods and river islands, during
the winter, and on the cat-ihih catch
in the spaing and summer, which was
ever ready and abundant to supply
their physical necessities, and from
the sale of whicli to people in the city
they were enabled to buy heavy cloth
ing for the winter’s blasts, and a few
luxuries such as sugar and coffee.—
Pine-knots and the moon supplied all
the light the few waking hours of
night required. But this was not to
last. The river bottoms and fertile
lands of the city’s commons attracted
the’attention of amateur city farm
ers, and the far-seeing arid smelling
cl
ml along >vitb him, and together they
transported their scant arid primitive
furniture, perhaps by boat down the
river, for nAone ever seemed to know
just when theypre-empted the Fort
Wilkinson territory or how they came.
Here the Hermit improved his style
of house-keeping, knd added petty
agriculture to the pursuits of hunter
and fisherman. He dug a cave in the
side of the steep hill on which Fort
Wilkinson once stood, noted for a his
toric incident in the early history of
the government of the United States,
(which I may refer toat another time,)
and in this cave he and his wife lived
for many years, following their old
pursuits on the river and in the
swamp, molesting nobody aud with
out intrusion except from some old
city acquaintance or neighbor in the
white settlements, some distance a-
way, fishing or hunting. His cave
was weather-boarded with pine sap
lings, and an old coffee sack served
our Hermit for a protection ngainst
uninvited scrutiny and prowling var
mints. II is a locality famous for rat
tlesnakes, yet neither tlie Hermit nor
Iris wife were ever bitten by one tho’
they killed a great many. He said to
those lie met that he was most hap
py tlie further lie got away from hu
man habitations, and the less he saw
of human folks.
There were times when tiie weather
compelled our Hermit to stay in his
cave. Then he got on his hobbys and
rode them, one after another,’ until
lie got tired or dispirited. One of
these was to discover perpetual mo
tion—this was his favorite brain child.
Another was to invent a churn to bo
worked with iris perpetual motion—
another to invent a “hydrant” (mean
ing lever 1 suppose), that would raise
any amount of water from its level to
any height he pleased; and this was to
be used to lift all tlie water out of tlie
river and enable him to catch millions
of fish with liis hands. l)o you ask,
was lie crazy? Not a hit of it no
more crazy than you or I to-day. He
had a plenty of good natural sense,
and knew right from wrong as well as
Dr, Hawthorne or any other close
reader of brainy men’s books. He
honestly believed lie would accom
plish all the great conceptions I
have alluded to, and he kept working
on them till lie died, and left no sign.
He was fond of children and would
ramble with them through the forest
and the briers in search of musca
dines, wild grapes, black liuws, black
berries, and wild strawberries, but he
didn't want any grown folks company
at these timeH. He was as honorable
as lie was harmless. No one feared
him, or cared to molest him. Tlie
land lie preempted was of doubtful
ownership, but I believe was claimed
ns a part of a reservation attached to
tiie lands belonging to the Lunatic
Asylum. But that institution never
sought to drive tlie Hermit away, so
lie grew to believe it was Iris own
property by right of first purchase—
that is, “squatter sovereignty.” He
had no boat, for he had neither tools
nor lumber to make one, and lie was
too honest to steal pne. He always
swam tlie river when he had to cross
it for any purpose, and when he did
so he took Iris wife along. He would
tie her to iris own body with his trot
line and swim her across the Oconee
with all her clothes on. One day she
wore a big hoop skirt that she lmd
found or that had been given toiler,
when tlie Hermit took his usual swim.
The idea occurred to him while cross
ing to make an experiment. He want
ed to find out whether a lioop skirt
was effectual as a life preserver in
deep water. So about the middle of
the stream lie untied the line that
bound her to him, and let her loose.
He soon saw the experiment was a
failure, and lie had hard work to res
cue her.
Our Hermit’s neighbors would some
times see trim pass their houses by a
path lie alone seemed to tread, and
talking earnestly to himself. They
said the Hermit was mad about some-
tiring, perhaps the quiet of the her-
mittage had been interrupted by an’
intruder, or the mistress of the cave
was “out of sorts,” or the tisli didn’t
“bite,” but he never displayed any
belligerent action however wrought
up Ills passions might have been. If
lie or Iris wife got sick he would not
hesitate to go to the settlements and
report his distress, and lie never
failed to get assistance and attention
in such extremities.
His wife died several years before
the Hermit handed in his checks,
which was some time during the year
1884. When lie died he was about
sixty years of age, having lived the
life of a recluse on the bankg of the
Oconee, three or four miles distant
from this city, for forty years almost
continuously.
This singular man only lived out a
nature which no combination of cir
cumstances or place oould have
changed.
evllle, Ga., Sep. 15th, 1887.
aldermen, year by year, encroaohet
on Boutwell’s reservation. Tlie sound
of the axe and human voices broke
harshly on tlie Hermit’s ear, and
quietly he pulled up stakes, aud emi
grated to “pastures new,’Mir the deep
still forests about “Old Fort Wilkin
son,” four miles south of his pine
thicket home. His wife and dog trudg-
A Polite New York Bank Cashier.
A dispatch was received that tick
et No. 50,255 had drawn tlie $150,000
prize in the August drawing of The
Louisiana State Lottery Company,
on the.8th inst., at New Orleans and
that one-tenth of the ticket, repre
senting $15,000 to the lucky holder,
had been collected through the Na
tional Park Hank of this city. A
News reporter asked Assistant Cash
ier DeBauu and lie-had tlie books ex
amined and replied that the tenth
part of ticket 50,255, whicli drew the
$15,000, had been received by them
from Crane’s Bunk at Horne’llsville,
N. Y.— New York Daily News, Aug. 30.