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VOL. V.-NO. 43.
GENERAL NEWS.
\ banging fact r . v w ' ,h a Cil P itnl of
is aixnit to be stut*d n Gal-
veston, Texas.
Texas bluegrass seed is being tried in
West Tennessee. In the absence of lime
this grass, it is th night, will thrive best
in that secticn.
The largest sheep ranche in the world
j s the one at Diniment ami Webb coun
ties, Texas, where 300,(XX) head of sheep
jL re pastured on 300,000 seres of land.
The State Capitol of Tezas will prob
able be built of tine granite instead of
Ihnestone. It is claimed that this will
nrtk" it the best State-house on the con
tinent.
The queen's health is evidently a sub
ject of gra.v f< s:- in England. Her dis
order is said t > be of a dro)>sical nature,
an I die probabilities arc that she will be
a bed-ridden invalid.
Xlxml a year ago half a dozen colored
ni -n, of St. Bernard parish, Ln., organ
ized a mutual benevolent association.
Now tlr.i association numbers fifty, and
they h ive accumulated a fund and begun
the ernetkn of a school-house for indi
gent children of their race.
Six tho:isin I baby alligators are soi l
in Florida every year, and the amount of
ivory, number of skins and quantity of
oil obtained from the older members if
the saurian family are sufficient to enti
tle them t > a high piece among the pro
ducts of th ■ Stat?.
Englishmen a”e getting control of con
siderable lan I in America. In Texas
311,01)0 a wis have just been purchased
by Mr. Whalley, M. P.; an English syn
dicate hi a 1,300,000 acres of both in
land in Mississippi, and another compa
ny 2,000,000 acres in Florida
A few days ago Knoxvile finished work
on her wat *r system at a cost of $150,000
The two reservoirs were hardly filled
with wat -r when the bottom of one drop
ped out. Now comes news that th ; < th*
er is in the same c< n litien, the watt r
having suddenly disappeared into unfath
omable depths.
Savannah News: Joe Brown's ncome
is sdd to be 81,000 a day. Os this
am »nnt he gets $5)9 a day from the
Dade county coal mines. There is no
doubt that hi is making mtn?y faster
than any oth -r Southern man. His for
tune is njw estimated at $2,000,000.
The Senator’s si n denies the soft im
peachment.
Vn industrious buzz-saw in New Or
leans ran against iui obstruction in a log
through which it was passing the other
day, but held its temper and soon cut its
enemy in two. When the Hank dropped
oil the workmen found that the stw had
biseted an eight inch spherical shell,
doubtless a relic of the war. The exte
rior wound had healed entirely, leaving
no trace of the passage of the shell t > its
resting place.
Ihe New York Herald makes a calcu
lation from the traffic and passengers
that cressed the great bridge to and
from New York on Saturday, from which
it appeal’s that, deducting 40 per cent for
sight score, the receipts for toll will aver
age $2,530 each day, or $1,300,000 a year
Deducting interest at 6 per cent on the
outlay of $15,000,000, the cost of the
I'tidge, there would remain a sinking
fun 11 /ward paying that debt, $400,000 a
year.
I he agricultural laborers of Mississip
pi, 310,000 in round numbers, embracing
m.n, women and children, including
' hildren from ten years of age up to men
and women of threescore, manage to
"ling from the bosom of mother earth
l lie magnificent aggregate of $63,701,844
per annum, or nearly ;118 to every’ man,
""man and child engaged in stirring the
“ I and gathering its fruits. The money
value ».f the farms in that State in 1880
was $93,844,815, against $81,716,576 in
l8d), which shows a wholesome increase
in value.
* >f the five field generals of the confed
' 'at army, J. E. Johnston and Beaure
g.ird survive. General Johnston is the
g’li ral agent of a prominent New York
insurance company, and General Beaure
gard is the adjutant general of the state
"i Louisiana— where he has created the
h" st body of militia for its numbers in
■ merica. He is also one of the commis
t'ioners for the liquidation of one of the
"hl Lou liana state banks, besides which
has other important business connec
tions. There were twenty-one lieuten
-1 ■ generals in the confederate army
'om first to last, and of these all were
horn the United States army but four,
Biehard Taylor, N. B. Forest,
Made Hampton and John B. Gordon.
' '* them the following are living: D. H.
•LU. who is in North'Carolina; Stephen
qM)c Elcillon drejns.
Lee, Early, Buckner, Wheeler and A. P.
Stewart, besides the two not from the old
United States army mentioned above.
Gustavus W. Smith is the ranking major
general living, find is state commissioner
of insurance in Kentucky. W. T. Mar
tin lives in Natchez, and is a railroad
president. 0. W. Field and L> L. L< -
max are in Florida, and both are in the
employ of the United States corps of en
gineers. Marmaduke Johnson is in St.
Louis and is wealthy. William Preston
lives in Kentucky and has a fortune he
inherited. Humes lives in Memphis,
Tenn. Wirt Adams is an agent for Mis
sissippi, and lives in Jacks >n. Frank
Armstrong lives in St. Louis, and is con
nected with the Gould system of railroads
in the southwest. Churchill was Gover
nor of Arkansas, and lives at Little R< >ck.
Colquitt was governor of Georgia, slid is
United States senator-elect from that
state. Colston has returned from Egypt,
and is living somewhere in Virginia. Di
brell is a member of Congress from Ten
nessee. Lyon, who commanded one of
Forest's divisions awhile, lives in Eddy
ville, Ky. Tdo not know what Mackall,
who was a brigadier-general and chief of
General Bragg’s staff, is doing, but I be
lieve he lives in Georgia. McGowan is a.
member of the supreme court of South
Carolina. Miles, W. R., is a cotton
planting magnate on the Yazoo rizer, in
Mississippi. R. A. Pryor in a prosper
ous lawyer in New York, and mirabile 1
dictu. I hear that he is an enthusiastic
advocate of Governor B. F. Butler for
the presidency. Ripley, “Old Rip," as
he was called, is in London, the agent of
an american rifle company, and Rody is
there with him, John G. Walker is in
Mexico, and is getting rich in silver mi
ning, and Holmes is his partner. Wil-
Ham C. Wickham is a prominent railroad
man and republican in Virginia. Os the
three Lees who were generals, Custis,
who was Mr. Davis’ chief of staff, is the
president of the Washington and Lee
college in Virginia; William Henry
Fitzhugh Lee, generally called “Runy,”
is a planter and is prosperous on a tine
estate. Fitzhugh Lee, a cousin of the
others, and a famous cavalry officer, owns
the “Ravenwood” estate, on the Poti mac
about fifty miles below Washington,
where he is living like a fine Virginia
planter of the olden time. Robert Lee,
the Heneral’s youngest s< n, who served
in the ranks a greater part of the war,
livos on the James river and owns a
handsome estate there. Longstreet lives
at Gainesville, Georgia, and is United
States marshal. General Early prat tlces
law at Lynchburg. Lieutenant-General
A. P. Stewart is pre sideiit of the Un’ver
sify of Mississippi, at Oxford, and Lieu
tenant-General is prisident of am ther
Mississippi institution of learning. R.
H. and Patterson Anderson are dead.
General B. Frank Cheatham is the super
intending commishioner of the Tennessee
penitentiary. General Bate is governor
of Tennessee, and W. H. or “Red,”
Jackson, one of Forest s division com
manders, is living near Nashville on a
magnificent plantation. General M hee
ler, who commanded all of General John
ston’s cavalry, is a planter in north Ala
bama. General Lawton, the quarter
master-general of the confederacy, is a
leadihg member of the Savannah, Geor
gia, bar, and General Gorgiis, the confed- 1
crate chief of ordnance, died in Alai ama
the other day. Cockrell, the ranking
confederate general from Missouri, is a
United States senator.
A Barricade.
On the anniversary of (he Paris Com
mune the inhabitants of Stuttgart were
surprised by a large blood-red flag
hoisted on a tower in the middle of the
town. It seems that this flag remained
there until noon, when the police suc
ceeded in removing it. The Socialists,
who had hoisted it the night before,
had done everythingto render the re
moval of the revolu onary banner as
difficult as possible. The tower gate
was found to be barricaded, as well as
the windows of the first story, and the
police had to scale the tower by a high
ladder and enter through the windows
of the second floor. Tiie flag bore the
inscription: “Liberty, Equality, Fra
ternity,” and “In memory of the Paris
Commune, 18th of March, 1871.” At
the entrance was posted a placard, “Be
ware of dynamite.” About five pounds
of gunpowder was found strewn about at
the inner gate.
An elder of the kirk having found a
little boy and his sister playing marbles
on Sunday, put his reproof in this form
—not a judicious one for a child: “Boy,
do you know where children go to who
play marbles on the Sabbath day?
“Ay,” said the boy, “they gang down to
the field by the water below the brig.
“No!” roared out the elder, “they go to
hell and are burned.” The little fellow,
really shocked, called to his sister:
“Come awa, Jeanie; here’s a mini swear
ing awfully.” —Dean Ramsky,
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE Hi, 1883.
Western Stock Raising*
A I‘ir'tVßE PRAWN OF IT nv A practical
WESTERN MAN.
A western man who has hail a lengthy
experience in stock-raising, says that
the picture drawn of it by many news
paper Writers is altogether" too flowery.
He says it is the height, of folly for a
young man to go west with a few hun
dred dollars in money, invest in sheep,
and then sit down expecting to be rich
in a few years. lie concluded his letter
ns follows t—-A young man starting for
the West to engage profitably in stock
raising should have at least $5,000. Os
course he Could start on less. Two
thousand dollars would buy him horses
and Wagon, fix Up his ranch, pay his
ordinary expenses, and buy him 200
sheep; but he would have to work very
hard, save all ho could, and really otiglit
to have a partner to help do the work.
Even with $5,000 it would be slow work
for several years. I would advise a young
man of limited means who wanted to
go west to raise stock to get lip a party
of three or four and “ pool their issues ”
;er a few years, till they could afford to
branch off alone, At any rate, I think
i man ought to hire himself out to a stock
man for a year before he invests. He
will thus have a chance to learn the
business and can look around for a snit
dde investment, and perhaps at the end
if a year he may not like the life and
conclude to return. For the life is a hard
me, full of exposure and discomforts.
He may have to do his own cooking and
washing tinless he is fortunate enough to
have a better half to do it for him. But
ic will be his own master, sleep as he
lever slept before, his cheeks will be
kissed so red that his mother would not
know him from an Indian. He will have
to work hard, perhaps, day and night,
for which he will be well repaid by the
increased comfort of his flocks and
herds, and by their increase till they
cover a thousand hills. But this talk of
i man who has no means going west,
taking cattle and sheep on shares, put
ting up a log house on the open prairie,
loing his own work, and making his
fortune in a few years, is all nonsense,
ft is a very risky business to say the
least, and careful managers will not give
stock on shares to anybody who is not
well prepared to take care of them or
concerning whom they know nothing.
The expenses of raising stock are much
heavier than supposed. The cost of
living is higher than it is here; wages
ire high, fencing is expensive, corrals
md buildings take much time, labor and
noney; but to one who is willing to work,
md wants to get ahead, I say, “Go
West,” and see for yourself.
Bismarck Saving a Soldier.
A good Bismarck anecdote, showing
the prince to have been a good comrade
from his youth up, is the following :
In 1838 he entered the Potsdam bat
talion of “Garde Jaeger” as a one year
volunteer, and six months later, at his
request, he was transferred to the “Sec
ond Jaegers” at Greifswald, in order to
be able to profit by the lectures in the
Agricultural School of Eldena. One of
his comrades in the battalion was a
young man, who at the present day still
counts among the great landed propri
etors of the province of Pomerania. He
then stood in the second rank immedi
ately behind Bismarck. In spite of
stringent orders to the contrary, the
Jaegers persisted in frequently firing a
shot at the numerous storks on the
meadows near Greifswald while out on a
march, drilling or exercising. One day
on the march home to the barracks, Bis
marck’s hind-man brought down a bird
with a bullet. The officers, although
marching a good way ahead, heard the
report, saw the stork falling down, or
dered the battalion to halt and forthwith
began to examine the guns. Everything
was as it should be in the first rank
The culprit in the second rank began to
tremble all the more for his safety, inas
much as his promotion to a lieutenantcy
was at stake in case he should be found
out. This Bismarck realized, and while
his friend was on the point of voluntari
ly denouncing himself in order to clear
the rest of the men from an unjust sus
picion, he whispered to him:
“Look sharp ! take your gun in your
left arm ; I’ll throw you mine.”
No sooner said than done—so quickly,
in fact, that the inspecting officer did
not notice it, and the case of the killed
stork remained an unexplained mystery.
Over a mug of beer that night Private
Bismarck declined to receive the thanks
of his comrade for a service “which was
not worth talking about.” To this day
the two are pleasant neighbors and
sworn friends.
An Author’s Offence.
In Dresden, Julian Hawthorne, the au
thor. is credited with the following ex
ploit: He had been driven from the side
walk many and many a time by the Ger
man officers, till finally one day coming
over the Elbe on one of the bridges with
out a friend, he vowed that the next
German officer he met should at least
give him half of the sidewalk. He soon .
met one, and neither being willing togive I
way, they walked directly into one an- I
other. Hawthorne did not budge, neith- j
er would the German; they glared at |
each other for a few moments when the
German drew his sword and attempted •
(o strike Hawthorne with the flat of the
blade. In a twinkling Hawthorne I
knocked the officer down, took his sword .
iw»v from him, broke it across his knee
md" threw it into th • Elbe. The dis
■ raee of having lost his sword was so
i/reat that the officer never dared to men
tion the circumstanc'; so Hawthorne;
•scaped without tine or pumshment,
No Chance To Shoot,
One Sunday afternoon, at a hotel in
Alabama, we were talking about how
great disappointments sometimes soured
a man, when a chap who hail been chew
ing plug tobacco all by himself over by
the window turned around and said:
“Gentlemen, you’ve hit it plumb cen
ter ! Up to four years ago I was a man
who alhis wore a grin on his lace, and I’d
divide my last chaw with a stranger.
Folks now call nie mean and ugly, and I
kin hardly get a man to drink with me.”
“Then you have suffered a great disap
pointment?” I queried.
“I have, stranger—l have. Ten years
ago a man in this very town cleaned me
out on a mortgage, sold me out on an ex
ecution, and chuckled at me when I took
the dirt road for Tennessee. I orter have
shot him, but somehow I didn’t do it,
and arter I got to Tennessee things be
gan preying on my mind. Day and
night I could hear a voice saying: ‘Go
back and plunk old Brown,’ "and I lost
flesh and came powerful near going into
a decline.”
“Yes ?”
“ Well, that voice kept talking and I
kept waiting, but in about three years I
shouldered my rifle and turned my steps
this way, my mind fully made up to
shoot old Brown on sight. He had a
patch o’ land out west o’ here, and used
to ride out every day. I made for that
spot, calkerlating to biff him as he drove
up to the gate. Nobody had seen me,
and nobody would know who did the
shooting.”
“ Yes,’’some one answered as he made
a long pause.
“ Well, I got fixed and waited, and I
was feeling real good for the first time in
three years when I heard hoofs and
looked out for the old man. It wasn’t
him. True as you sot there the old skin
flint had gone and died only a week be
fore, giving me a tramp of "200 miles to
say ‘ howdy ?’ to his executor ! Gentle
men, I can’t describe my feelings ! Just
think of one white man playing such a
trick on another ! It was wuss than Ar
kansaw swamp mud warmed over for
next season. I was took with shakes
and chills and a cough, and here I am,
sour, cross, mulish, ugly and realizing
that I don’t stand no more show of going
to Heaven when I die than that thar’
dog does of swallowing a postoffice with
out any preliminary chawin’!”— M.
Quad.
Preserve the Forests.
One of the encouraging signs of the
times is the fact that the South is wak
ing up to the value of its timber lands.
“The lumber interests of the United
States, and in fact of the whole world,”
says The Southern Lumberman, “have
assumed such important proportions
that it is due to the people that our State
Governments each establish a series of
surveys and investigations, with a view
of determining the exact amount of their
forest wealth, and that in time the gen
eral Government, through its proper de
partment, should publish in statistical
form the result of each State's timber
resources.
“While this authentic report would be
of great value to commerce, the presence
of the botanists and their assistants
in every portion of tlie States ami Ter
ritories would arouse the people to h
sense of the wealth contained in their
forest possessions, and would perhaps
stimulate them to a more economical use
of the timber, and make them more care
ful about preserving it; at any rate, the
timber, its extent, variety and value,
should be made known at as early a I
date as possible.” |
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The Cleveland Herald says:—Few,
indeed, are the people who can keep up
the round of Washington gayety without
sadly showing their weariness. An ex
ception to this rule is a young daughter
of an army officer stationed in that city.
All winter she has been busy with re
ceptions and dinners, kettledrums and
Germans, and on Wednesday, as she
came into Mrs. Chandler’s parlors she was
fresh and rosy as if it were her first day.
My curiosity was aroused, and presently
I had an opportunity to inquire of her
how it was that she was able to endure
that to which stronger women yielded.
“Oh,” she replied, laughing, “ mamma
is almost a crank on that subject. She
is bound I shall not look passe at the
nd of this my second winter. Every
niffht when I get home, no matter how
tired I am. a worm bath is given me,
)(i r which I drink a bowl of buillon,
•lid am put to bed in the guest chamlier,
ahich is more quiet than my own. In
the morning I am not called, but arise
when I awake, which is not often lieforc
lunch time. It grows monotonous, I
assure you, but if 1 go, I have to submit,
T tell mamma she treats me as if I was a
Maud 8. or a prize fighter.”
A clergyman at Cambridge preached
a sermon which one of his auditors com
mended. “ Yes,” said the gentleman to
whom it was mentioned, “ it was a good
sermon, but he stole it.” This was told
to the preacher. He resented it, and
called the gentleman to retract what he
: had said. “I am not,” replied the ag
gressor, “very apt to retract my words,
but in this instance I will. I said you
had stolen the sermon. I find I was
wrong ; for on returning home, and re
ferring to the liook whence J thought it
was taken, I found it there.”—
—■
A Snow Decision. —The Supreme
Court of Illinois decides that no man is
obliged to clean the sidewalk Opl<osite h»s
The case was that of a reside t
f Bi.s.mmgton. who let rim snow aecn
mulMe n. front of his |«r"P'' t v, and, bmnj . i
undi r th. <’.ty oi.hmp.ee, ..pp m-d/-
(o the court,
Shelling a Village.
u The shelling of an Alaskan village, of
v which so tragic an account was current
.1 some months ago, is described by Comdr.
- Merriman of the navy, who did it, as a
jr wholly justifiable proceeding. He says
that he is represented as wantonly burn-
- Ing the Indians’ houses, bedding and
i winter’s food, and turning their women
1 and children to perish in the pitiless cold
of the Arctic night, simply because they
I had made a vague threat to destroy
” property.
The true history, as he narrates it, is
as follows:
s A medicine man of the Hootsnoo
e tribe, 80 miles from Sitka, wns acciden-
- tally killed while whaling with two
£ white men, whereupon the tribe seized
a the whites, demanded 209 blankets as
, ransom, and finally waited to gel a third
white man (as one of the two captured
1 had but one eye), intending then to put
a two of them to death—one for the medi
t cine man, and another for the death < f
3 an Indian while felling timber, some
time before.
It seems that it is either a life for a
I life, or a hundred blankets—that being
I the native valuation of an Indian, in
3 their current money. They also took
3 possession of a steam-launch and other
i property to the value of several thousand
I dollars. Comdr. Merriman arrived at
t the scene on the day whose evening
3 would have seen the prisoners put to
, death. He rescued them and immedi
-3 ately demanded of the Indians 400
blankets, told them if he did not receive
) the blankets he should burn the town,
and gave them till the next day to com-
I ply. They at first said they would, and
i then, sending him only 80 blankets, and
I those stolen from the house of an absent
t chief—they took their winter provisions,
• bedding and blankets into the woods ami
- defied the officer.
> Whereupon lie was as good as his
■ word, and, though he says ho spared a
t aumber of dwellings to shelter them,
i they were left under the impression that
■ he meant to destroy everything they
r had, and he “wanted them to think so.”
3 He adds that “the property-holders and
, missionaries agree with me, and I bo
lieve the lesson will last the Indians for
f a generation, although they rebuilt their
houses in a month.”
He gives the Alaskans a good charac
ter in the main, and declares that, if the
present prohibition of distilled liquors
were extended to malt liquors, and
schools established for the children, the
Alaska Indians would be a valuable
5 population, for they are “at all times
willing to give an ‘honest day’s work for
, reasonable pay,’ an attribute not pos
, sessed by any other tribe within my
knowledge.”
1 Going Into Exile.
I
Capt. Thomas Osborne of the steam
. ship which took Arabi Pasha and his
companions in exile to Ceylon, and ar
rived at Bombay on January 16, has fur
nished the following account of the voy
age : “We took Arabi Pasha and his
associates and their families on board at
Suez, and sailed from that port on De
cember 27, bound for Colombo. They
were seasick for the first two or three
days, and after that they brightened up
and were always more or less cheerful.
Eventually, in fact, they became as
happy as if they were going to paradise.
“The dullest of the lot was Arabi.
The exiled party went ashore in four
squads. In the last one was Arabi. On
landing the people crowded round him.
II should call it fairly mobbing one.
Some kissed his clothes, some got down
on their knees and kissed his boots. The
party were driven away in carriages to
the Cinnamon Gardens, where they were
located in some handsome bungalows.
On the whole, I don’t think any of them
regretted his lot. They never exhibited
any symptoms of fear, and believed a
happy future to be before them.”
Heavy License.
The most recent example of the work
ing of a high license system for bar
rooms is in Bloomington, 111. There are
thirty-two saloons in the place, and a
population of nearly 20,(XX). The fee is
$.50 a month, or S6OO a year, and this
brings into the city $19,2(X) a year, or
nearly one-third the whole revenue.
The saloons are said to be orderly, and
generally in the hands of substantial
men, who own the buildings in which
they are kept, and who would stubborn
ly resist a return to low license. The
l»resent arrangement has prevailed
nearly twenty years, and is, therefore,
no longer an experiment.
A Herolne.—Reporting the death of
a Mrs. Baker, at Fort Fairfield, Me.,
recently, at the age of 97 years and 11
months, a correspondent of the Lewiston
Journal says: “Many years ago she
came, with her husband and three small
children to the Upper St. John, where
she made for themselves a home in the
wilderness. They settled on what was
afterward the disputed territory. Mrs.
Baker, being a patriotic woman, manu
factured an American flag, which her
husband flung to the breeze on a Fourth
erf July morning, for this display of Yan
kee patriotism on what was claimed as '
British soil, Mr. Baker was arrested and
lodgedin jail at Fredericton, where he i
remained for more than a year, while his
heroic wife managed the farm and kept >
everything in goodjwder at home.
The Chinese have no word that fs I v
equivalent to hell, and no conception of /
such a place. A missionary in an ann- /
cultural district of China / o<
when he tried flint could I r “‘
TERMS 81.00 A YEAR.
AMERICAN FABLES.
inMratlliide-TherineketShnp T he r ltm „
and the fox, • "»rmer
Some Specimens of INORATm-mi.-A
Burglar who had risen to the Hwul of
Ins lrotes.von one day called upon *
Lawyer and said: 1
“1 have come to demand the Protec
tion of the Law.”
“You shall have it, mv Friend—fee
hve dolin'’
“Last night a man named Jones liv
ing on Seventeenth street, shot at me ”
continued the burglar.
“And what were you doing?”
“I was about to crawl into one of his
Windows to pack up his Silver and take
it down to the Safe Deposit Company’s
vaults for safety.”
“Truly, such Ingratitude must be Re
buked and Punished,” said the Lawyer.
“We will have him Arrested forthwith',
and though he maj Defend his Silver
against Burglars be cannot Defend his
Greenbacks against the Law.”
The Bucket Shoe.—A simple-minded
Peasant who had heard a great deal
about Bucket Shops, entered one of
them one day and asked:
“What will it cost me to get a bucket ?”
“Five dollars is our lowest Figure.”
was the reply.
The Peasant handed over his cash and
was told to watch the Ticker and the
man who chalked on the Blackboard,
lie watched until weary of the Occupa
tion, and then said:
“I guess I’ll take my Bucket and
along home, as it is about time to teed
the Pigs." ‘
“Why, sir,” replied the owner' of the
Cooper Shop, “thw Bottoni dropped out
of your Bucket half an hour ago.”
“Then I will take the hoops home to
show my Wife that I speculated and
lost.”
“Base ingrate !” shouted the proprie
tor, “is it not enough that you have not
had your pockets picked and your head
mashed with a chib? After having put
us to the trouble of taking your money
you would now squeal! Go hence"!
Come here no more! Hereafter get
yourself robbed on the highway or buy
Mining Stocks !”
The Farmer and the Fox.—A Farmer
having missed a number of bis fine, fat
Fowls, placed himself to watch for the
Deprecator, and ere long he had the
Pleasure of Sending a bullet into a Fox.
“And so it was yon who gave me this
Fatal Wound ?” gasped the Fox as ho
fell.
“But yon were taking my Chickens,”
protested the Farmer.
“That is true, but I was also nursing
a litter of Foxes for you to kill. The
/kin of one Fox is worth four times the
price of a Chicken, and I was raising a
Family of five. See what you have lost
by slaying me, and Behold what base
Ingratitude has repaid mv eflorts to
britigyoii Wealth !”— Detroit FreePretn.
—
A llaytiaii Duke.
M. To'.issaint-Lagorille, a full-blooded
negro, once the “ 1 )ucde la Grand-Terre,
and financial agent in France of the
Emperor Soulouque, lias just died in
Paris. He was successful in securing
a considerable loan for the black Ctesar,
by promising to pay the most incredible
percentage—according to one account,
even going so far as 2,000 per cent. He
also bought up an enormous quantity of
old military uniforms of all European
nationalities, second-hand generals’ hats,
and other adornments, for the decora
tion of Soulouque’s soldiers, generals,
and officers of state. He did not forget
to procure, also, a considerable quantity
of French brandy. Soulouque was so
delighted with the success of his agent
that he sent word to him that he hail
elevated him to the dignity of a Duke.
This made the man a butt for French
wit, and ruined his credit. Then Sou
louque became angry at the decrease of
supplies, and, fancying that his agent
was growing careless, he degraded him
into a Marquis, then to a Count, next to
a Baron, afterward to a mere Chevalier,
and ultimately deprived him even of
that remnant of aristocratic distinction.
Meanwhile M. Toussaint-Logon He bail
also lost faith in his imperial master,
and began to carry on his business on Ins
own account. When the Emperor was
dethroned, and fled to Pans, he sum
moned theex-Duke to appear lieforelum;
but Lagorille refused to obey the sum
mons. He had managed to build up for
himself a iirop rty of some 60,(XX) francs,
upon the interest of which he lived with
comfort and great st-ls-complacency to
extreme old age.
A London Mystery.—A london pajx r
savs: “A sad story of life will lie found
tli’is morning among the reports of in
ouests. Seventeen years ago a baby was
found on the steps of a
There the child was kept three
till it was time to send her to Hanwell
School, and from school the girl passed
into employment as a domestic servant.
She was, her master says, cheerful and
happv. But a few days ago she sud
denly disappeared from the house, and
next day her lifeless body was found in
a pond close by. There was nothing to
show, nothing to suggest, a reason for
suicide. No one can tell of whom she
was tiorn; no one knows the
Iw i Jesith From darkness to mukiu'w,
•[h'a i'ttlespace<4hupp/htebetween.
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