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A COWGIRL IN TEXAS.
A YOUNG LADY ASSISTING AT THE
“ROUND-UP.”
An Exciting but Dangerous Undertaking
for an Equestrienne—Compliments of
the Admiring Cowboys—The Risk
She Ran—A Ring.
[Midland (Tex.) Cor. New York Sun ]
There is an ocean of prairie about this
new town, and it rises and falls as far as
the eye can reach like the swell of a
troubled sea Like a dark cloud on the
horizon, great herds of cattle appear in
the distance, either in motion or under
the guards of cowboys holding them.
The herd of Col A. IV. Dunn, president
of the < olorado national bank, came upon
the plains the other day. and the colonel
came here will? his niece, Miss Marie
Bynum of Mississippi, to "cut out,” as
the phrase goes, the beeves that were
ready for market, and to pen them in the
cattle pens at the railroad station. The
wild Texas steer were full of life and run,
and the cowboys had their bands full,
with all of their skill, to get them penned.
Col. Dunn, who is a typical cowman,
mounted a mustang to help the cowboys,
and his niece insisted on going with him.
bhe could not be persuaded that there was
any danger in the adventure, or that her
dress and sex placed her at any disad
vantage in an effort for which the cow
boys were rigged with Mexican spurs,
big leather leggings, three or four re
volvers, lariats at their saddle horns, big
white sombreros with rattlesnake skins
twisted about them, and watch chains of
snake rattles. She insisted that if she
could get a swift pony and a side saddle
she would show that she could ride along
side of the wildest steer and turn him, in
spite of his dangerous horns. The pony
was provided, and Miss Bynum, placing
her foot in the hand of thi cowboy,
leaped into the saddle, and. gathering up
the reins, dashed off with a hearty laugh,
followed by her escort of cowboys, wuo
spun over the prairie after her. She
reined up as they came into the herd, as
the process of selection of the beeves re
quired a quick judgment that only expe
rience gives.
The cowboys went into the herd, and
their trained ponies, when they were
pointed to steers that were to be " cut out, ”
ran them out of the herd, and, as soon as
a bunch was formed, the cowboys swung
around them, and Miss Bynum, with a
lash made of the end of the reins, started
her pony forward, and joined in the semi
circle and started the steers to the pen.
The work was exciting to a novice, a d
the fair cowgirl's cheeks flushed as she
sped along. A big brown steer, ail
branded over, reared up, and breaking
out of line, tossed bis horns and his tail
up, and started off like a deer. Miss
Bynum whirled her pony, and started
alter the animal. She did her
work bravely. The cowboys watched
her with admiration. Her pony
dashed alongside of the steer, amt the
cowboys expected that, as the animal
turned, he would catch his horns in her
drapery, or she would plunge over tlio
pony's head as he turned with the steer.
They saw her stop as the steer turned and
balance herself like a skilled equestrienne,
and then head off the steer ami turn him
back. Soon she came dashing back along
side the steer and landed him in the bunch
that was headed for the pen. Several of
the cowboys pronounced her a “thorough
bred” and a “long horn” —their choicest
compliments, for, in the fertile vocabulary
of the cowboy, theterms “half breed and
“short In rn are equivalent to the ‘tender
foot" of days gone by, with, perhaps, a
shade more of derision to them.
Miss Bynum, when the first lot of cat
tle was jienned, dashed back to the herd,
and, with a little instruction, began to
help “cut out” the cattle. Lach trip from
the herd to the pen was marked by some
exciting chase of a steer, and each time
the young woman bore herself bravely,
and she did not let a single steer escape.
"When at the pen. of which the cattle,
w ith apparent consciousness of their im
pending fate after the long trip to Chi
cago, showed fear, they tried hard to es
cajie. With heads down, the steers that
could would dart past the ponies and dash
away, and the nearest cowboy would
touch his spurs to the pony's side and
point him and start on the chase. The
wild Texassteers are swift-footed, and it
takes a good rider to pass one and turn
him, but Miss Bynum was equal to every
steer that invited her pony to a run.
Although she was in imminent dan
ger of being dragged off her mount by the,
horns of some steer striking into her
riding habit, she was able to manage her
skirts as well as her pony, and when the
task was ended she contemplated the
forest of horns in the cattle pen with
sparkling eyes and rosy cheeks.
That night, when the cowboys were
drinking their black coffee and eating
their jerked buffalo meat, they agreed to
present .Miss Bynum with some token of
their appreciation of her assistance ami a
few days ago there came to the bank at
Colorado a massive gold ring, inscribed,
“To Miss Bynum from the Texa- cow
boys, ” Col. Dunn presented the shining
cir le of gold to his niece, and said that he
hoped it would signify an engagement of
her services at the annual round up on the
plains.
"I never enjoyed anything so much in
xnv life. ” said Miss Bynum to the writer,
“and, would you believe it? I didn't hear
the cowboys quote scripture once. lam
going to ride at the next round-up. and I
expect to do much better. Til show them
what a cowgirl can do. ”
A s«w Hypnotic.
[Medical Journal.]
According to Dr. George W. Winter
burn. the tberajieuiic uses of the white
passion flower resemble the bromides on
the one hand and gelseminm on the other.
It is one of our best hypnotics, producing
a quiet, pleasant sleep, altogether differ
ent from the comatose stupor of morphia,
and from which the patient may be
aroused at any moment. It may be given
In doses of' two or three drops of the
tincture or low dilution. Even in the
•worst form of sleeplessness, that associ
ated with suicidal mania, this drug will
produce quiet slumber, from which the
patient awakens with clear mind and
rational thought In its control of con
vulsions, passitiora closely resembles gelse
mium.
Paper Pillow*.
[Cottage Hearth.]
Save all your scraps of writing-paper,
old notes of no use for keeping, old en
velopes, backs of notes, ete. Cut them
into strips about half an inch wide and
two inches long, and curl them well with
an old penknife. Make a pil ow-case of
any materials you have; fill it with your
curled paper mixed with a few shreds of
flannel. St iff it quite full, sew the jud
up and cover it as you please. These pil
lows are good in cases of fever, as they
keep continually cool, and are cheap, and
good substitutes for feather pillows.
THE FRENCH “SALON.”
Characteristic!! of a Noted Institution Pe
culiar to the French.
(Atlantic Monthly.
There are some words that have a
Charm about them that never fades, and
an interest which never flags. To those
who care for France. her literature, her
history, the little word- salon has an irre
sistible fascination. Il conjures up every
thing that is clever, charming, piquant,
most characteristic of the women of
France The salon is essentially a 1 rench
institution. No other nation ever pro
duced it, no other society contains the ele
ments for producing it. We say “a pleas
ant house” when we speak of a
social center, In France they say “a
pleasant salon. ” The different terms
both express and explain tin- different
ideas they represent A house is a homo
where material hospitality is exercised;
whore friends are entertained with more
substantial fare than the feast of reason
and the flow of soul. A pleasanl house is
suggestive of snug, convivial dinners and
sociable, unceremonious lunches, of bread
broken at various hours between the own
ers of the house and their friends. Another
nice distinction is that it implies a master
as well as a mistress. A salon
calls up a totally different order of ideas
It supposes a mhtress, but by no means
necessarily a muster; mid it suggests no
more substantial fare than talk, flow of
words, and libo’al interchange of ideas
It is simply a center where pleasant peo
ple are to be met and good conversation is
to lie had. It may have-indeed, it gen
erally has—its particular tone and color;
it may be literary, religious, political,
artistic or philanthropic; but it remains
always a place for talking- a place where
intellectual nectar replaces material bever
ages
\\ hen we consider how much pleasure,
amusement, even downright happiness, is
to be got out of talk, the Wonder is that
so little is done toward cultivating it.
Formerly, the 1 rench understood this,
and gave as much lime and care to the
cultivation of in k as to that o any oilier
tine art. Their salons were schools where
the art of conversation was ta ight, arenas
where its adepts and pupils exercised
themselves in the game. To say of a
woman, “She talks well,” was to jay
her a far more delicate and flattering
tribute than to praise her beauty, or even
her dress Paris is tin- birth -Dei and
natural home of the salon. It is a growth
indigenous to the soil of the lively city
and an empire which has been respected
there ever since it was first founded by
Mme. de Rambouillet for the purification
and perfecting 6f the French language.
The throne has been left vacant at va
rious periods, sometimes for long inter
vals, but there it has stood, ready for any
pretendant who could take possession of
it. Ihe right of conquest was the only
right recognized, or necessary. There
was no hereditary law which transmitted
liie scepter from one queen to another.
There was no dynastic code to which she
was compelled to conform once she had
grasped it. 1 ike Ciesar, she had only to
e me, to see her empire, and to conquer
it. i.very woman who held in her own
individuality the power to do this might,
under the most elastic restrictions, as
pire to a sovereignty at once elective, ab
solute, and democratic.
These queens have sometimes been
women not born in the purpie of "so
ciety, ” or even promoted to it by mar
riage. It is characteristic of the supreme
position conceded by the French to mere
personal cliarm and spirit in women that
even in the eighteenth century, in those
relatively feudal ages before the revolu
tion had leveled the barriers between
classes, a woman endowed with flies
qualities might, without be:ng well «>r
even decently born, throw down the higl
barricades of social prejudices, and reigi
triumphantly as queen of a salon.
Daniel Wcbf»»«‘j a. a i'uriaier.
[iK-ntc/. Budget.]
Mr. Webster endeavored to introduce
English and Scotch husbandry to some
ex tint on his farm at Marsh..eld, begin
ning by keeping a large number of cattle
and sheep. His arm at Erauklin was
cultivated in the old New Hampshire
style, and he was very fond of making
comparisons between the two. He had
somi of the products of bis farm sent to
Washington, and his blazing black eyes
would gleam with joy, while a smile of
satisfaction would light up his swarthy
lace, as he would ask a guest at the din
ner table to partake of boiled mutton of
his own raising, with p< tatoes ami turnips
of his own growth. What such a dinner
cost him be never explained, but he must
have been somewhat like Mr. Alvin
Adams, who accumulated a fortune in the
expriss business, and who said to some
friends who visited him at a munificent
estate which he owned near Boston,
“Gentlemen, shall I give you a glass of
Alderney milk or of champagne; the cost
to me is about tiie same. ”
J.aw In Brief.
[Baltimore A hicrican.]
A note dated on Sunday is void. If a
note lie lost or stolen, it does n t release
the maker; he must, pay it Each i di
vidual in partnership is i esponsib.i- lor tlic
whole amount of thedebtsof the firm, ex
cept in cases of spec.al partnership. Ig
norance of the law excuses no one. An
agreement without consideration is void.
Signatures in lead pencil are good in law.
A receipt for money is not legally con
elusive. Contracts made on Sunday can
not be enforced. A contract made with a
minor is voidable. A contract made with
a lunatic is void. Checks or drafts must
be presented for payment without un
reasonable delay. An oral agreemen
must be proved by evidence. A written
agreement proves itself. The law prefers
written to oral evidence, because of its
precision. Written instruments tire to be
construed and interpreted by the law
according to the simple, customary and
natural meaning of the words used.
The Great Eastern’s Mission.
(Brooklyn Eagle.)
The Great Eastern has been chartered
for a year for $25,000 by an enterprising
body of men. Their notion is to take hei
to New Orleans as a hotel, to stay there
during the great exhibition. She will
arrive in ail respects complete, stores and
stuff. The ship is provided, among other
things good for man and w oman, with
24,000 bottles of champagne—everything
else is on a like scale. It is expected that
the ship will soon be full of lodgers, whe
will, it only for the novelty of the thing,
take un their quarters on the Great East
ern; but there will also be a daily influx
of guests to the table d'hote, and so on,
and the bar business will be lively beyond
precedent. The Great Eastern ' will per
haps be one of the biggest novelties during
the exhibition. Whoever conceived thi
idea is a smart man, as there is money
in it
The Melon Shrub.
A newly imported bush fruit from
South America is being introduced among
the fruit-growers of Los Angeles. It is
called the melon rlirub. It bears a lus
cious firuit about the size of a goose-egg,
and produces f/uil all the year round.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1885.
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING!
Hume New Points Brought Out on the
Side of the Negative.
'Ben Wylde in Chicago News.]
“Mr. President,” began Mr. Doolittle,
boldly, “is life wu’th livin’? That’s w'at
we're here to find out. Now, fust, what’s
the question? W’y it's jest, is life w'uth
livin’? Tain’t, is John Cary's life wu th
livin'? It s, Is life wu’th livin'? Now,
w'at is life? That's tin- fust question.
Kv’rybody knows w'at life is. It’s w’at
keeps is alive! Not jest us in this room,
nur all the folks in Tatn’rack, nur all the
folks in the hull world. The question
hain’t, Is folkses lives wu'th livin’? It s,
Is life wu’th livin'? Now. yo see, life is
w ’at keeps ov’rythin' a livin’. S’posiu’
Deacon Bibbs was a scythin' down in the
meiidder back o' his orchid, and a big Tat
tlesnak sh d come a slidin' out at ’im!
D’ye reckon the deacon'd think that air
snake's life wuz wu'th livin'? Waal, 1
rut her reckon not!"
A new light seemed to break on the vil
lagers. They had not thought of life in
this wider sense.
" W hen were a-debatin' hefty questions
like this un we don't want no narrier idees
about it. I don't want ter say nothin’ agin
Deacon Bibbs, but he liain't got the right
kind o’idee about what life is. He's got
the narrier idee that men and women is
the only things that’s got life. Es that
wus so mebby there wot Idn’t be nothin' to
debate about, but snakei an’ toad- an’ rats
an boss-flies an’ fleas tn'all them var
mints has got lives, an’ that’s the reason
life hain’t wu’th livin’. They liain't one
o' ye tliet wouldn’t kill a weezil if ye saw
'im. \V by? 'Cause 'e snoops armin' an'
steals hens, an his life l ain t wu th li v m .
\\ Im' d'ye pul pizened cheese under the
woodshed fur? It s cause a rat s life bain t
wu'th livin', hain’t it?”
Mr. Doolittle stopped to wipe his
dampened brow with his hand and to
wipe his hand on his trousers leg, ami -ev
eral villagers took this time to look at
each other, and say with their eyes: "All’s
a downin’ ’em, ain’t ’e?” Then Mr. Doo
little proceeded:
"Is life wu til livin'? Uv course 'tain t.
They hain’t a man nur a woman in Tam'-
ruck that’d be willin' to live a dog’s live.
Ye sec, you’ve got to take all these tilings
inter consideration, Now s’posin’ I hadn’t
been born yit, an’ I sli d should find out
somehow 'r ruther thet I wus a-gvin’ to be
born a wart-tond. D’ye s’poso
I’d feel good about it? Wouldn't I
kick agin il. Uv course I would. So’d
anybody. Why? Why, 1 say? W’y
jest ’cause a wart-toad’s life hain't wu’th
livin . They’s a thousan’ argyments why
life ham t Wu tli livin'. There's the .lune
bug an the tnttth miller an' the muskeeter
an' the potato bug, an’ a hull thousand
that 1 cd tell over thet s got lives thet
ain’t wu'th livin', an’ if ye [mt all them
lives up again men’s lives un women’s
lives-supposin’men's lives and women's
lives to lie wu’th livin’—ye’ll sec they’s tin
awful lug majority o’ lives thet hain’t
wu'th livin'. An’ majorities alius rules,
so uv course that takes in the hull o’the
question au’ shows thet life hain’t wu’th
livin'. ”
Wade Hamiiton’i* Crow Story.
[Cor. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.]
Gen. Hampton tells me that while on
his Mississippi plantation he saw a tame
crow that could laugh and talk. The bird
would say “ Hello, ” " How are you?” and
several other things of like import. It
was the most wonderful raven since the
days of Barnaby Budge and Edgar Poe.
One morning a vast number of crows as
sembled in a tree on the plantation and
prepared for a pow wow. The tame bird
flew among them, ami, rearing up, saluted
the congregation with a brisk “Hello,
how are you?” His astonished brethren
scattered in alarm, as if they had been
fired upon from u mountain howitzer.
This marvelous fowl of the air was to
have been taken to the New Orleans c-;-
positiun, but its sudden disappearance
prevented. Gen. Hampton surmises that
some negro shot him by mistake.
Lawyers' Wlr.
[Philadelphia Times.}
Roscoe Conkling and Joseph H. Choate
might be utilized for the stage. The run
ning cross-fire of wit between these two
attorneys over the Stewart-Huntington
cas t seemed to culminate the other day
with this characterization of Mr. Choate
by ids rival: “This Aapoleonic face, this
misleading and beguiling face, this dome
of thought, this wealth of golden hair,
not subject to the extreme of heat and
cold, because eternal sunshine settle
there. ” There was not enough left of Mr.
Choate to retort in kind, and be could
simply say: “I confess to the possession
of some wind myself, but when the door
of the cave of /Bolus is opened and all the
contents poured out upon my devoted
bead I humbly and submissively bow to
the blast. ”
What Whisky Costs.
Exchange.]
“I suppose few drinkers of whisky, ”
said a wholesale dealer in the fluid, “real
ize how little of original value they get
for their money. The cost to the distiller
of making the best possible whisky is
on! aoout 40 cents a gallon. Now, a gill
is a fair quantity for a drink, the charge
for which at the most stylish bars is :M
cents. That is to say. a thing costing the
producer a sixth of a cent in Kentucky is
retailed at nearly forty times as much.
Os course, the government takes some of
the enormous profit, and the wastes of
storage another portion. The gains of the
hand ers remain astounding. I know of
no more solid temperance argument than
the ridiculous high prices charged for liq.
uors by tin: glass ”
Tlie “Stone of Scone.*’
[Chicago Herald.J
The chair in which all the English sov
ereigns for the past .500 years have sat to
be crowned is a rough wooden affair,
with a gothic back. It stands on the
Lacks of four wooden lions and has un
derneath its feet the famous “Stone of
Scone, ” on which the Scottish sovereigns
down to the time when there were none,
knelt to be crowned. The stone is said to
be the same which Jacob used for a pil
low when be had his well known ladder
dream, but this part of the story need not
necessarily be believed.
/In Unpleasant Reflection.
[lndeuendeut Record. I
Among foreign orders recently placed
In this country, is one by a Russian firm
which requires iron pipe for the trans
portation of oil and which looks to a
Pittsburg mill to do this work. It is an
unpleasant refection for Pennsylvanians
to know that their busy city is preparing
the means for Russia to successfully com
pete with the Keystone siate s great pro
duct
A Hard Master.
[lnter Ocean.]
A recently published book of anecdotes
presents the following sample: “Down
in Georgia, in ante bellum days, there
was an old sanctimoniously! ed fellow wh
made his negroes whistle wnile they were
picking cherries, for fear they should ea
some.
An Exhibition Which Draws.
[New York Tribune.]
The base slanderers who have strenu
ously asserted that the dude was the cipher
after the decimal point in the economic
computations of the universe are at last
met, Not only has this interesting speci
men found his place iu the eternal fitness
of things, but his type among his next of
kin —the affected monkqy —has come to
share his renown. In a Broadway show
window there stand representatives of both
classes. Crowds view them daily.
The dudo wears a carmine dress
coat, with trowsers tucked into
lacquered top boots and a high hat.
In his right hand he holds a cigarette.
(Slowly and without dignity lie raises the
burning cigarette to his opening mouth,
lakes a few dainty puffs, ami again lowers
the arm. As he curls the last of the
smoke out upon the air, liis left hand
with the single glass is raised to the eye.
ami the head turns upon its seven-join led
axis through an arc of 45 degrees. He is
looking at tiie curious throng iuthe street,
as they stare at him in mi.'e astonish
ment. A haughty smile plays for a mo
ment about, tiie corners of hit mouth; he
disdainfully turns his head aside.
And his vis-a-vis? ( lad in bungling
knee breeches and colonial cost, he is even
a greater marvel. Ho, too, smokes a cig
aretto, but to his non-human palate the
bluish va; .or is evidently not so much a
relish as il is a necessity of the situation.
Tiie poor, misguided chimpanzee smokes
with ill concealed distaste. He blinks re
peatedly after each repeated effort, ami
Ims dilliculty in gelling tiie smoke out of
his broad nmu h. .et he is equal to the
human dudo amt if he is wanting iu the
smoking act, tin; artistic way in which lie
handles his glasses atones for his other
shortcomings. His gaze al the multitude
is less elegant, but it seems a hundred
time more critical.
There they stand, forever doing the
same thing, and never disturbed, never
ii r.mti .1, They are. clever automata.
“Both from Paris,” says the shop-keeper;
"the dude costing S6O and the monkey
SIOO. It is the best advertisement I have
struck yet.
r\ Narrow Escape.
[('l t .i: Herald “Train Talk.”]
“ Several years ago, ” said an old engi
neer. “I was running a fust express one
night We were three hours behind time,
mid if there’s anything in the world I
hate it’s to finish a run behind schedule.
These grade crossings of one-horse road.-,
are nuisances to the trunk lines, and we
had a habit of failing to stop, merely
slacking up for ’em. At this crossing I,
bad never seen a train at that time of the
night, and so I rounded the curve out of
the cut full lilt. I wits astonished to see
the target set. against me, though 1 had
time enough to stop. But it was down
a grade there and tiie track was very slip
pery, and to add to tiie danger my ait
didn't work right. I whistled sharply to
have the target set clear for me, but on
looking 1 saw that a freight train was
standing right over lite crossing, evidently
intending to put a few cars on our switch.
I wish 1 could tell you what my thoughts
were, at that moment. I gave the danger
whistle and tried to stop my train, but I
had seven heavy sleepers on and we just
slid down that grade in spite of everything
I eould do.
“ Now comes the surorising part of my
story. Quicker than I can tell you firn
brakeman on that freight train Uncoupled
a car just back of our crossing and sig
naled ins engineer to go ahead, which he
did sharply, but barely in time to let us
through. In fact, the pilot of my engine
took tiie buffer off that rear car. Through
that little hole we slipped, ami lives and
property were saved. Now that brake
man was only a common railroader, yet
lie saw that situalion ata glance. There
wasn't time to run his whole train off Ibe
crossing, nor even half of it- barely time
to [mil up one car-lenglh by prompt
quick work, lie kept his wits about him
as 1 ventured to say not one man in a
thousand would have done, ami saved my
reputation, if not my life. He is now a
division superintendent on one of the best
roads in this country; and may good luck
go with him. ”
Custer ami Voting.
(Atlanta Constitution.]
There is a good one told by Gen.
Pierce Young, which we print in cor
rectcd shape. Gutter and Young were
messmates and classmates, and devoted
friends at West Point, in the war they
were major generals of cavalry on oppos
ing sides. One day Gen. Young was in
vited to breakfast at tiie Hunter mansion
in Virginia. The beautiful young ladies
had prepared a smoking breakfast, to
which tiie general was addressing himself
with ardor, when a shell burst through
the house. Glancing through a window fie
saw ( uster charging toward the bouse at
the head of his staff.
Out the window Young went, calling to
the young ladies: “Tell Custer I leave
this breakfast for him. ” Custer enjoyed
it heartily, and looked forward with pleas
ure to the dinner in the distance, in the
meantime, Young, smarting over the Joss
of his breakfast and bis hasty retreat,
drove the Federal line back, and by din
ner time was in sight of the Hunter man
sion again. ( u ter, who was just setting
flown to dinner, laughed and said;
“That’s Pierce Young coming back
I knew he wouldn’t leave me here in
peace. Here's my picture—give it to him,
and tell him his old classmate leaves his
love with this excellent dinner.” And
out of the window he went and away like
a flash, while the Georgia general walked
in and sat down to dinner.
Concerning Cnndy.
[N«w York Letter.]
Candies that are moulded, snch as
peppermints and gumdrops, or jellydrops,
are poured inlo imprints made in corn
starch, which is easily dusted off. Nougat
is made with white sugar, pure gum
Arabic, the whites of eggs beaten, and
chopped almonds, Pingoli nuts or pis
ache. Nougat has to be boiled a long
ime, and is constantly stirred by ma
Chinery. Some candies are made
In a* few hours, while it takes
& week to make sugared or burned
almonds. Marrons glares require a
certain manipulation and to be long sub
mergedin sirups, kept ata certain tem
perature, to become thoroughly flavored.
The vegetables used in coloring are a par
ticularly juicy beet that supplies the reds
ind pinks, lettuce and spinach for greens,
tarrot for yellows; coffee and maple sugar
are used for browns. The “Estelle” bon
bon, made of apricot and marsh-mallow,
is the last, thing in soft or French candy;
while “curls. ” or “opera favors, ” which
ire twisted sticks flavored with acid fruits
snd cut into small pieces, are some
of the features in hard confectionery.
“ Strings, ” which are but snips of choco
ate and cinnamon hard candy, are also
new.
Must Not Be Disturbed.
[Philadelphia Cali.]
Fashionable Ma —Children! children I
!to[> that noise. Sit down and keep quiet
Children - Why, what's the matter, ma?
Ma—L’oggie is'taking_bin nap.
»
TRACKINGEMBEZZLER
r
’ THE PART A NEWSPAPER PLAYED IN
THE CAPTURE OF CASHIER SWAN.
i
1 After Stealing W 30.000 He Begins r.ife
Anew in Michigan Elected Prosecut"
i ing OHlccr of Leelenaw County —
Clever Detectives Work.
.»
St. I'aul, Minn., Jan. \ —The case of
David K. Swan, the abseomlins: clerk of the
* Northern Pacific railroad company hero, who
has just been captured at Sutton’s Bay, Mich ,
a , and who has reached here in the custody of
.* officers, is one of the most remarkable crim
-1 inal cases on record in the northwest. He was
. ; chief clerk in the local treasurer’s office of
I the company here. In the early part of 1883
s . the ofli era of the company felt confident of
> ■ having i raced to him a leakage of in forma
' I tion regarding financial affairs and transao-
! tions of the company nt St. Paul. On ac
count of t iis his resignation was requested
i Swan tied the state and an exhaustive exam-
' iiuitior was then set on foot and the extent
’ of his larcenies discovered. The aggregate
amount' of his peculations was
3 | Swan had been extremely adroit in cover
-1 ing his tracks. It is said Swan was a grad
uate of a Jersey savings bank, ami probably
4 to this fact may be attributed his excellent
I ! capacity and skill in this sort of business.
.. ( Tiie crime not having been discovered until
alter his departure from St. Paul, no course
■' remained to the company but to ferret him
, ' out. This has been one of the most difficult
r i tasks in the detective annals of the country
, on account of his great adroitness. One of
I his principal devices in covering up his tracks
was the destruction of all his photographs.
, Fortunately there was a young clerk in the
local treasurer’s office who had groat talent iu
crayon drawing, and with his pencil he soon
produced a striking likeness of the missing
r chief clerk. This the officers of the company
> i Lad lith< graphed ami distributed throughout
the country.
It was reproduced in the Police Gazette' and
this finally gave the detectives a clue. About
a fortnight ago a few drummers wore sitting
around the stove in a hotel of a small Michi
gan town entertaining the open-mouthed den
, Irens with yarns. Some one picked up a New
I York Police Gazette. It contained a portrait
of Swan, who was wantt'd for forgery and
. embezzlement. The paper was passed around,
‘ and one of the c inniorcia! travelers re
marked that It bore a striking resomblanc®
I to a person whom he knew, ami added:
' ‘‘lf 1 didn’t know the man and know him
to be incapable of any rascality, I would
i swear that was his portrait.”
Two persons in the circle who had been
1 taking little part in the conversation seemed
interested. These men wore Pinkertom oper
atives. They learned that the drummer was
' traveling for a Detroit house, and tele-
1 graphed the intelligence to the ('hicago head-
1 ipiartors A detective was sent to Detroit to
Lind the drummer. He was found and his
description of his friend tallied in par
ticular with that of Swan. liM his friend
I could not be the missing cashkw, insisted the
I gentleman. His friend been elected
, to an important office, of prdKecutiug at
torney for Jxiolenaw Mich., and was
jno of the most respected and exemplary cit-
, izens of Sutton Bay.
Two detectives were sent thither. They
learned that D. F. Eddington was the newly
elected prosecutor of evil doers. Mr. Edding
i ton was in the employ of a large lumber
: dealer, was a knight templar, and a teacher
iu the village Sunday school. Besides, he
i was the local agent for the Masonic Insur
ance Company. The detectives were curious
, to see Mr. Eddington, and when they did see
him they greeted him with:
' ‘‘Mr. Hvvan, we arrest you.”
He admitted his identity, and was taken
to Chi ago, where he remained only r long
enough to make railroad connection for St.
Paul.
k He Married a Negro Girl.
’ New York, Jan. 10. Staten Islanders are
agniu discussing the matrimonial eccentrici
ties i f a coachman who lives in Stapleton.
For some days past Mrs. John Bowaid, who
lives in Ross street, Clifton, has been asking
Hie ai lof many prominent citizens to en
deavor to prevent h r son John from marry
ing a nezress or >u i roon named ( mru Brad
ley, who lives in Rocky Hollow, near
Stapleton. The | er- ns approached have told
Mrs. Bowaid th;.t an her son was of a legal
age he could not bo stoj»ped by law. The
couple were married at the resilience of the
girl s father by the Bov. Adolph Kuehne,
pastor of the German Lutheran Church on
Beach street, Stapleton. When it was learned
that he had united the couple the German
population in Stapleton became indignant,
and a private meeting of some of the members
i.f the church was said to have been held to
ask the pa;-tor to explain the cause of his action.
The friends of the bridegroom’s family say
that he was the victim of a trick, which was
carefully conducted in order to shield some
better known jiersons. He is employed as a
coachman by Mrs. Brick, of Toedt Hill, lu ar
Clifton. The bride is handsome, and has a
remarkably fine figure, tall ami full. She
has clear, creamy flkin. Her cheeks have a
pretty, peach-like redness. Her teeth are
beautiful. Her hair is long, straight and a
glossy brown. She is quite well known in
Stapleton. Her name was recently asso
ciated with a suit that involved the name of
a farnilv of some prominence on the east
shore of the island.
Vicar General Brandts’ Death.
Covington, Ky., Jan. 10.—Vicar General
Brandts, of Covington, who was taken vio
lently sick on December 29. died at 11 :20 this
morning. He was ‘■ting as administrator of
the Covington I i .opr ic, and has been over
worked since the the . 'ath of Bishop Toebbe
preparing for the consecration of Father
Maes, of Milwaukee. Dr. F. LI. Noonan waa
hi* acting physician.
Signor Arditi’s I air Friends.
Boston, Mass., J m. 10.—In token of their
admiration for Signor Arditi’s merits m a
conductor in opera Mme. Patti Thur»iay
night presented him with a set of shirt «tu<li
in which the Ita.ian colors were represented
by a diamond, a ruby and an emerald, and
Mine. Scalchi gave him a scarf pin formed
of a large ruby, surr< unded by diamonds.
The Union Leag te Endorses Evarts.
New York, Jan. 10.—At the annual meet
ing of the Union league club lost evening
the following resolution waa unanimously
adopted amid prolonged applause:
Resolved, That the Union league club, recogniz
ing the eminent talents and character of the Hon.
William M. Evarts and his fitness to represent the
state of New York in the senate of the United
States, earnestly appeals to the republican mem
bers of the legislature to elect him to that office.
Congressional Contest Ended.
Siuma, Ala., Jan IU. —George H. Craig,
republican, in December served a notice ol
contest for a seat in the forty-ninth congresi
on A. C. Davidson, democrat, who was de
clared elected, in (this) the Fourth district. In
a letter made public yesterday Craig notified
Davidson that he had withdrawn and would
not contest.
, ' BE BOUNTEOUS IN FORGIVING.
[Thomae J. MooreJ
I How much misery would be saved,
I Os pam and love’s dejection,
If hard-felt word of tongues depraved
Were not made love’s reflection I
| If lie who loves theo has dona wrong
He bounteous in forgiving.
For love can make the sinner strong
In purity of living.
Gen. Jackson’s Wife.
[Ben: Perley Poore.]
When Gen. Jackson came to Washing.
P ton as Lulled Slates senator from Ten
( ncssce, he brought his wife with him,
( and she was received iu society, although
scandalous reports concerning her were in
; circulation. The story of her life, as told
by the general's friends, was that he first
I knew her when she was the wife of Lewis
I ; Robards, and he boarded with her mother,
■ j the widow Donelson, at Nashville.
; j b'obards bad been separated from his wife
' ! before, but it e pair had been reconciled
■ I to some degtse, and were now living
' togelher nt the mother's when Andrew
• ! Jackson came there to reside with Mrs.
i Donelson, ThcattentionsofyoungJack
•j son to Mrs. Robards excited the jealousy
■ of the husband to a violent degree. Terri
' ble scenes ensued between the un
fortunately nutted pair and between
Robards and Jackson.
At lengh Robards abandoned iter and
returned to his former home in Kentucky.
: Hearing, however, I hat her husband was
about to return and take her, she mads
her escape to Natchez, accompanied,
, anton.st. others, by This,
logether with other alleged causes, gave
, rise to proceedings for a divorce on the
part'd' Robards, who accused his wife of
the grossest infidelity, and implicated
, Jackson in the crime. News was brought
to Nashville that the divorce had been
obtained, and Jackson hastened to Nat
chez, declared himself to Mrs. Robards as
a lover, was accepted, and the two were
married at Natchez by a Catholic priest.
But, in fact, the divorce had not been
obtained, nor was it completed until two
years after this marriage. Upon ascertain
ing this tiie determined couple were mar
ried again l>y a Protestant clergyman at
Nashville. A long and happy wedded life
followed: Jackson’s worst quarrels arose
from this cause, and to defend her reputa
tion “he. kept pistols in perfect condition
for thirty-seven years. ”
Dion Boucicault on the Coming Drama.
[Boston Globe. 1
“What do you think, Mr. Boucicault, ir
to be the prevailing drama of the near fit
turn?”
"I think that there must be a speedy re
turn to the legitimate. 1 think it is a grea'.
[lily that there arc signs of dissolution ir
the few resident companies that are left to
us. I mean companies where works of
any great promise could be properly
brought out. 1 don’t believe our au
diences want six or seven new dresses
worn in each new play by the leading ac
tress, nor do 1 think that they demand a
great dis;Jay of tinsel scenery. I think
they wo ihl be content if she bad only one
dress, and that a calico one, if the part
had the variety instead of her back. Why,
in your large dry goods stores they keep a
lot of pretty girls to try on costumes, so
that the customers may see the effect of
the dresses when worn by young ladies
whose line figures and handsome faces set.
them 0.l to good advantage, and I tell you
that 1 have seen twenty or thirty of those
girls wito were much better actresses than
many 1 have seen on the stage. But this
style of acting, or rather not acting, and
this class of stage productions has got to
go. And now this reminds me of au
aiences. There is, of course, a great dis
I ference in them. The audience in full
I dress is well enough, but the actor does
; n d somehow warm to such an audience as
' lie docs tu another kind. There Is the mi
diem'' wliii li does not come in a dress suit
nor in its shirt sleeves. The audience
which pays its 50 or 75 cents or sl, and
comes with tiie spirit, of getting its full
money’s worth of enjoyment—that happy
middle audience—it is a pleasure to play
to. ”
He Got the Train.
(Philadelphia Press.]
An officer of the Nineteenth district sta
tion-house recently brought in a well
dressed, slightly intoxicated man with a
valise, whom he had found holding an
animated conversation with a lamp post,
and threatened to pulverize it if it did not
direct him to the New York depot
"I told him I would bring him to the
depot, ” whispered the policeman to the
sergeant.
“Gimme a ticket for Noo York,” said
the prisoner to the sergeant, laying 87
cents on the desk, all the money he had.
“Here you are, sir. One through
ticket, including a lower section sleeping
berth,’’said the sergeant, handing him a
ticket for a rallie.
"All aboard!” shouted the turnkey, in a
tone that would have caused an ordinary
station-band to blush for his own un
i i worthiness.
I “Whoop!” came from one of the
■ j patrolmen in imitation of a locomotive,
, | while another picked up his valise, and,
, throwing it on the stretcher Hint sto- din
, the corner, wheeled it around the room
completing the decention ami making the
would be traveler believe he was in a rail
road station. He was quietly led to a cell,
and soon fell into a slumber.
Ten-M-Cotta for FrontM.
I Popular Science Monthly.]
Terra cotta, when properly burned, is
absolutely impervious to smoke, and is un-
I affected by acid fumes of any description;
. it is about hall the weight oi tiie lightest
i building stones, and its resistance, when
' burned in solid blocks in compression, i
marly one third greater than that of Port.
, land stone; it is not absorbent —a great de
. sideratum when damp has to be consid
i ered, it is easily molded into any shape,
for strings, cornices, or windows and
architraves, and can easily be modeled for
figure, or other enrichment It can be
got in good, warm yellow or red color,
and, when glazed, can lie produced in al
‘ most any tones of soft browns, greens,
reds, or yellows, and its strength, durabil
-1 ity and imperviousness to all the destruct
ive influences of town atmospheres recom
' mend it as tiie building material moat
' adapted for facing street frontages.
The First Locomotive Engineer.
Charleston, 8. C., Jan. 10.—Julius D.
- Petseh is dead, aged seventy-eight He wai
; the first locomotive engineer in the United
' State*, and in 1830 drove the ‘‘Best Friend/
the first locomotive built in this country, or
the South Carolina railway, then the longesl
railroad in the world.
>
J Mrs. Thomas J. Creamer Takes Arsenic
Kankakee, 111., Jan. 10.—Mrs. Emma K
Creamer took a teaspoonful of arsenic. Th<
size of the dose, however, and the prompt at
tendance of a physician saved her life. Mrs
» Creamer is the wife of ex-Senator Thomas J
1 Creamer of New York, counsel of the boan
1 of excise. For the j>ast two she hai
been residing with a brother in this city.
1 D. T. Edginton, the newiy-elected pros*-
I cuting attorney at Traverse City, D. T., has
I been arrested by a Pinkerton detective,
charged with being a Cashier
Swan, of the ISurtberu Pacific
NO. 225
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The >-« p.ity t i rompt .rd ' fllcient bnu»*.
boM ein dh' . <’» Jy lup n < r<-'n pt r.lly®
* >• t■/ f I ... . H - ■ n-1 r 'a n .ch Bitterl I. the
l'U-1 lu ?< rn -,;.t ■ r ■ nin.t o, ul»r Irr.ga
liuttv of the stoii veil end bo els tnsltrisl
tv-f, liv r cftri-lslnt, mbill y rheniustl m
Siu) fo<nor slliuof ts » e 'horrutm 'y 01 n- uered
' y ibis 'nc t' lsrshle fsnlly restor.tlvw sod
ni'.lciral .su guard. Mid it <s Ja> tly regsrdrd
» :h> ruroiit .' *i n o t ' cunprobcnslTa ri med,
t t.ci.rx, For arts b., all drugrlatt «nd
I dei'ar. pei c-aily.
elint ill.lMl 1 ILthm
- ue cure h-' BHml, Bleeding and Itch*
u g Piles. Oiu box fine cured the worst
■ . -of 20 yeare’“landing. No one need
suffer fivimlnutee after using William’s
li dlim PH Oiutmi nt. It absorbs tumors,
ill. ye Itcl.lng, act,-ae poultice, gl»efl In
mnt relief. Prepared only tor Piles.
' iking ■■ ho private parte, nothing Hae.
H hi. -J. M. Coffenbury,nt Cleveland, says!
I lu v ii.-ofl i-eii'H ot Pile cures, and It
iffi. i tIH me pleasure to say that I have
ver loumj anything which gives such
fomedlntP mid permanent relief as Dr.
WliJl >m'B Indian Pile Ointment.” Bold by
i ugglet" i.-ihl n ulled or receipt of price,
»1. Fi -ale by Brann-n i. Careen, li.
■irbf, J' In P. Tun er and Geo. A. Brad
j ord, Columbus, Ga.
Dr, Kratlrr’, B»ot Bitter
Frazler'e Koi t Bitters are not a dram
i In P l everage, tut are strictly medicinal
II , very .; . I hey act strongly upon
•tn Llwr and Kidneve, keep the bowels
;• ' old n gular. make the weakstrong,
»l tin li og build up the nerves, and
li none the bio. o • t,<i system ot everylm
nifty. Si kl bv drugglete. 11.00.
For: ali by Bi armon <t Careon and J no,
' Turner, (Jolumbuß, Ga,
Dr. Pra«ler’it Magic Ointment.
A mu i no lor Llttu Grui'g In theßkfn,
Tnigh Hkm, etc. it will remove that
i' hi: ’l"’. the tr ds ami face and
m ytii' uulu . Price 60c. Bent by
runt I. For sale by Brannon A Carson and
John P. lurnei. Columbus, Gu.
Mrs. Dr V’ hHob’s Periodica! Tea.
Mot,tier Ito baa prescribed thleval-
“bierne'i'i cine for n greet many years
>n| nrlvipractlc" If hue proved SB
stalling r pecifie 1; the treatment of the
.-my dt-"i derH to which the female con«
titutfon fl ’ übjm t. It Is a eure cure tor
he monthly Houblee that so many women
uffor. K,filed on receipt of price, 60c.
For s ale by Brannon & Carson and Jno
P. Turner, Columbus, Ga.
Haratopa High Bock Spring Water for
><leby al! flrugglstF,. mh22eoriAw
ft. E. ( 111(108,
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE:
r. H. LV . N <t ( 0.8 Drug Store.
lU rhlmcc, Jac k < u St., East Court Houae,
J»uß Jy
Male and femme academy.
CUSSI7.I. , GEORGIA.
The w,. k ' * thi:- Hci oo will begin again
JANUARY 6. lßßs(Hret Monday).
1 utf ton #1 CO, W 2 50 and «3,50,
Aei OH'li i o - de. Board never more
Than SN. Per Month
itIISK !!<:«. PER ItIONTH,
LO AIIUN HEALTH. Ul,
W.E. MURPHEY,
janlwlt-inilws Principal.
OR. johOorwood-
01-'FICE AT
BREEDLtm & JOHNSON’S Drug Store,
Randolph Street.
Residence with H. L WOODRUFF,
•Jrawford, be ween Troup and Forsytn street
■ep3o>Bm
IMPORTANT
TO
Farmers, Hucksters and Gardeners.
1 wlll.furrli h or board trie Oars at Mora,
Alabama, a very
Rich. Marl
IT fJX OE6 Al BPill IOX
cash i
And a Vcrv low Rate of Freight
Is effetfd ty the M/bllt 4 Girard R. B
By analysts of the State Geologist this
MARL evi tnlns from 5 to 8 per cent, of
Pfiotpti ! e wit li oth> r fertilizing qualities.
For mpor’ti: g end broadcasting for
'»ie!i fl l->, f tcnaide and lawne it will be
bund
A Valuable Stimulator.
Thiol ’•< i < --lat o, but UtRICH, MARLI
o
A: y ord r? forwerded to
R. J. ORR. Agent, Flora, Ala,,
M' bile A Girard U Iroed, will meet with
prompt rietdli.r. deeiptf
W. A.TIGNER. Jr.
Attorney At Law,
OI FILE IN GARRARD BUILD! NO
COIUMBU-. - - - GEOBGIA
NOTICE !
GFORtlf' MTSO OFF CorKTT.-I J»COb
bii’band of R b< Brodz, cl raid
t our tv surf B*-te. hereby a've nctlr* to the
publ’e of n.y c ■ e nt fbatmyaad wife, 1 oaz
Pro » Fla rend bfcorve from after thiz
di»<e a public or free trader w th all of the
right* acd ;r>vilegea under the Htat in such
cjaet made a r d provided. JAOOB BKODA,
January t, 1885.