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fettimed ibe Yankee. with some
Hw of spirit. -To Im- sure the
Witter looks lillllCM sleepy ;is lu
st amis, and on that aeemint I
i .tll him Slt*p\ Is*vi*l: l>m he's
a jofisinni't horse for ;il! 1 1 1 ; 1 1
HeN like a singed cat. a darned
sight better than he looks. I
should like tarnation well to In
him against some of your South
Carolina horses, to he sure I
didn’t come all the way from
home on purpose : hut a* I was
coming out this way with a load
of tin and (and her notions. I t bought
l might, time it so as to kill two
birds with one stone; for. thinks
I to myself, if I ean win the purse
and peddle oil toy notions at the
same time, I shall make a plaguey
good spec. Hut 1 had to hurry
on like the nation to git here in
season ; and that is one reason my
boss looks so kind of shabby and
out of kilter t his morning. But
for all that lie'll perform a deal
of work, 1 ean tell you."
We thought that lie had no
idea of running his horse, and
that all he said was merely to
gratify his propensity for talking,
I hade him he gone, and not
trouble us with his and 1 Yan
kee palaver.
• “Why, mister,' says he. this
is a free country, and a man lias
a right to talk or let it alone, .jest
as he ean a (lord. Now. I've taken
a good deal of pains to get here
this morning, in order to run
Sleepy David against some of
your Southern bosses. I ain’t a
joking sir. I'm in airnest. 1 tin
derstand there is a purse of two
thousand dollars, and 1 should
like amazingly to pick it up."
• “You talk of picking up a pur.se
of two thousand dollars with that
lot of carrion of yours! Away
with von, and don's trouble us
any further.”
“Well, if 1 cau l nut. then l
'sposc 1 can't; hut it's darned
hard, anyhow, for a man t• take
so much pains as 1 have to come
to the races, and then can't he
allowed to run arter all."
“It's too late now; by Hie rules
of the course the horse should
have been entered yesterday ;
however, it you plank the en
trance money, perhaps von may
get in yet."
I said this In way of getting
rid of the follow, having no idea
he could comma ml a fourth part
of the sum required.
•• llow much might t lie entrance
money he!' drawing on 1 a purse
containing a few shillings in s il
ver, and a lew pence in copper.
“If it ain't more than a quarter
of a dollar or sii. I'll plank it **n
the nail.
••■lt is two bundled dollars.'
•• l wo hundred dollars !' e\eluw
ed the Yankee. -By golly, what
a price! Why, they axed me only
a quarter of a dollar to see the
elephant and the w hole caravan J
in New York. Two hundred dol
lars! Why. you must be joking
now. Bless me! hit whole load
of tin ware, hoss. wagon, and all.
wouldn't fetch that. But mister,
don’t you think I could got in for
ten dollars?'
“Nothing short of two hundred;
and that inu-t he paid in the
short space of five minutes.'
••We now thought we had fairly
got rid of the fellow, lint he re
turned again to the charge and
asked if fifty dollars would
not do, then seventy live, then
one hundred; and finding lie could
not make a bargain for less than
the regular sum, he engaged to
give il. provided he could find
anyone to loan him the money,
lor which lie offered to pawn his
wagon load of notions, and Sleepy
David to hoot. He asked one.
thou another, to accomodate him
with the loan, declaring that as
he took the purse
..lliWpHPy should be returned,
land he would give half a dozen
Mtevhistlcs into the bargain. He
|HHfe-r. got than
ffißßui:! ' who had
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BHHHHPd"iiar -i'll ol 'ln-t-l m.i!
mSm\ as it afterward
"Ul. tin- Yankee had limit
pWtough about him. and was
playing the ’possum all
flu- while.
“His next object was to bur
row a saddle. Here. also, lie was
accommodated; and taking
Sleepy David from the tin cart,
he scrambled upon his back, and
his station on the course.
NH m-\ <-r saw a fellow 'it on a
so awkwardly in all your
life Everybody said he would
Tall before he had gone a hundred
yards ; and some, out of compas
sion, urged him to withdraw.
•“Not by a darned sight.' said
lie. -Why. do yon think I’m such
a larnal fool as to pay two him
dred dollars, and then not run
after all?’'
“Others who wanted to see Ike
spurt, though it should cost same
broken bones, encouraged him
to proceed, saying, as they laugh
ed aloud, that they had no doubt
but he would carry off the purse.
‘That’s what I mean to do,'
| said lie. -I liain’t come here for
| nothing, 1 can tell you. Wake
up. -Sleepy David, and look about
you ; you must have your eyes
open to-day; it’s i.o time to lie
snoozin’ when tlmre's money at.
stake."
‘The horse, as it he understood
what his master was saying, open
ed his eyes, pricked up his ears
and actually showed some signs
of life.
The signal was now given to
start. Away sprang Southron,
with the speed of lightning, and
away sprang the other Southern
b uses, leaving Sleepy David far
in the rear,and the peddler verg
1 ing from side to side, as if he was
l j iis<t ready to fall off. The horse
went pawing along with his tail
i clinging close tohis haunches,and
| his nose stuck ought straight be
fore him ; and you never beheld so
queer a ligure cut by any man
and horse, as this singular pair
made.
-But they improved a* they
proceeded ; the peddler sat more
jocky like, and the horse evident
ly gained upon the others. But
it would not do. lie came in half
a mile behind Southron, and a
little less behind the others.
••It was now thought the Yan
kee ha<l got enough of the race
and would withdraw before the
next heat, Contrary to all expec
tation, however, he persevered:
and oven offered to bet a (lions
and dollars on the issue of the
race.
•• ‘The fellow's a fool,' said one.
•He don't know which side his
bread is buttered,” answered an
other, or else lie wouldn't risk
any more money mi so desperate
a stake.”
. “He's safe enough there,' said
a third, for he lias no more to risk.
••Here however,everybody was
mistaken again, for the peddler
hauled out an old greasy pocket
book and planked the thousand
dollars. It was covered, of course.
But 1 confess 1 now began to feel
staggered; and to suspect that
the Yankee was. utor all. more
knave than fool. 1 had no fears
however, for the purse, 'south
ron was not a horse to lie distau
cod in one day, aud especially by
such a miserable looking devil as
Sleepy David.
•■The second heat was bow
commenced : and if I had before
felt confident in the entire supe
riority of my noble horse. South
ron, that contideuce was strength
cned as I saw him coming in
ahead oi the rest. 1 considered
the purse imw as mv own proper
THE FIELD ANl> FiHESI DE—-51A 1; 1 L'l r l S. u .'. -T'l IH> \Y, Al’klL H. ; .l.
Iy. In imagihttlional had grasp
ed it, and was about putting i'
safely in my pocket, when—do
and behold ! the peddler's horse
which was behind all the rest,
suddenly shot forward as ii the
devil kicked him on end; and
stretching his neck like a crane
won the heat by a throat latch.
Everybody was astonished.
“That horse must be the very
devil himself,* said one. “At
least, he has the devil to back
him,’said another; -I was >ure he
would play you *ome Yankee
trick before In- got through," said
a third.
Such were the observations
that passed from mouth to mouth.
•The Yankee, in the meantime
ottered to plank another thousand
dollars; but nobody would take
up the bet. And il was well they
didn’t; for at the third heat,
Sleepy David not only distanced
every horse, but even came in a
full quarter of a mile ahead of
Southron himselff
“‘Thereby gauly!" said the
Yankee, as he dismounted, -I’ll
take that are little purse if you
please, and the tother cool thous
and ! I knew well enough that
your Southern horses couldn’t
hold a candle to Sleepy David."
ttev. Henry Ward Beecher on
•UMJl’s FALL. •
“I did not lose anything in A
dam’s fall,” said Mr. Beecher on
Sunday morning. “I was not
there; I did not fall; my will was
not in him. It is the vervextrav
nganee of insanity, the metaphy
sics of the lunatic asylum, to say
! that 1 had anything to do with
Adam. Let Adam take care of
himself. But it is said: ‘Do w T e
inherit the sins of our fathers ?
Yes-(hesitatingly)-but if you put
! a drop of poison into Boston Bay
and let it flow out through the
North and South Atlantics and a
; round the Cape of Hood Hope
and up the Bay of Bengal. I think
, by that time the poison would he
washed out throughly, and any
! sin that 1 committed four thous
and years ago has by this time
grown pretty thin. That man
kind, without exception, are low
born and low bred, that, all need
to he quickened, and that too by
l a supernal power, is true; that
they need development and odu
! cation is true ; that without such
i devconuient and education man
is but an animal is true. The
■ whole human family are horn at
aero, and they have got. to go up
: by successive stages, socially, in
tellectually, morally and finally,
i spiritually ; that is the problem
•of life, the method of creation.
Men are not born like animals
are ; between the egg and dove
| there is only tho thickness of the
] dove's wings, aiul it reaches rna
Unity in a few days; a fly comes
! to maturity in a minute. Man on
the contrary, begins very low and
! progresses but slowly. Ft is true
that in ihis 4 itite menfare empty of
holiness ; but I was not born any
more empty of holiness than 1
was empty of arithmetic ; I was
empty of every things except my
mother’s milk. Mv business was
to till up, and that is everybody’s
business. To say that man fell
with Adam is fumbling with a
great fact; they had mittens on
when they dissected that. Suppose
I send my father to the bank with
SIOO,OOO to depositc for me—a
very unlikely fact—and he loses
the money, and as a consequence
I cannot fulfill my obligations
and am in poverty, it is not my
! fault ; I diil not lose the money ;
| and if Adam was carrying my
i property in his loins and lost it,
it is not my fault and I am not t re
sponsible. But men are born with
intelligence and can choose what
| is right, and can do it, and every
one is elected or non-elected; the
man that will is elected and the
that will not is non-elected. The
whole human fanily has the pow
er to see what is right and what
is wrong and to choose between
i them, and they are responsible
for the abuse of this power."
Somewhat Mixed.
What's the matter. Bold
•Sam, who am l!
Why you are yourself—B>.!>
Harrison, ain't you!
No; far from it.
Why, what's the matter!
Well, sir, I’m >o mixed up. 1
ilou't know who I am.
Don't take it >o hard to heart.
1 can't help it.
Well, sir, what’s the matter!
Why, I’m married.
Married! why. sir. you .should
he happy.
Yes, njH 1 ain’t.
Why, all married men atv sup
posed to be happy.
Ye. hut how luanv are so
Well. sir. a> I said before, don't
take it so hard; tell us all about
it.
Well. Sam. I'll tell you how it
is; you see. 1 married a widow,
and this widow had a daughter.
Oh, yes! I see how it is; you
have been making love to this
daughter.
No; worse than that! You see
my father was a widower, and
married that daughter; so that
makes my father mv son-in-law,
don’t it. Well, don't you see
how I am mixed up?
Well, is that all?
No, I only wish it was. Don’t
you see, my step daughter is my
step-mother, ain't she? Well,
then, her mother is my granmoth
er. ain’t she? 1 am married to her
ain't I? So that makes me my
own grandfather, doesn’t it? Then
who in the devil am 1 ?"
Hi m. ms or thk law. —Persons
who are unfamiliar with court
proceedings are often surprised
and perplexed at the number of
objections that are made to ques
tions asked witnesses. Quite an
amusing incident in this connec
lion once oceured in the seventh
district court in this State. A
trial for murder was progressing.
A witness was testifying that on
the morning after the murder he
met the defendant .at breakfast,
and the latter “called the waiter
and said--"
“Hold on ?" exclaimed the at
tornev for the defense, -1 object
to what he said.’
Then followed a legal argu
ment of about an hour and a half
on the objection, which was over
ruled, and the court decided that
the witness might state what was
said.
• Well, go on and state what was
said to the waiter,' remarkod tin
district attorney, flushed with
his legal victory.
“Well,” replied the witness,
‘he said, Bring me a rare beef
steak and a couple of soft boiled
* *i
Pit <JS.
A San Francisco savant pro
phesies that a greater earthquake
than has ever taken place on the
Pacitiic coast will occur in the
neighborhood of Los Angeles a
bout the first of October. San
Francisco, he says, will be sever
ly shaken up, but will be so far
removed from the centre of oscil
lation. as to be safe from great
damage. Appropos of this cheer
ful horoscope,it maybe remark
ed that at least fity per cent, of
the celebrated earthquakes of
California have occurred between
Los Angeles and Tejon Pass,
where to-day a chasm of from
twenty to three hundred feet, in
width, one hundred to five him
dred feet in depth, and nearly
one hundred miles long may
be seen. Well, let the eathquake
come, it will be an offsett to
the agitat ion of the Chinese ques
t ion.— Yen' Orleans Times.
This is the season of the year
when the night air is very dan
gerous, but the girls face death
at front gates with the same he
roism which has always been one
of the ehiefest adornments of the
sex.
What city in France is a man
about to visit when he goes to
get married? He is going to
Havre, (have her). An old baclia
lor being asked the question,
promptly replied, “to Rouen"
(ruin.)
A Meteoric stone weighing
ninety pounds fell in Missouri
last week, striking a darkey Hat
on the head. He seemed to be
considerably confused when lie
got up, and'went off muttering,
"Kf I knowed for shuli, who frow
ed dat brick, den I'd see whar am
de eihbil rights ob niggahs.”
We like line writing when it is
properly applied; so we appreci
ate the following burst of elo
quence. “As the ostrich uses
both legs and wings when the
Arabian courser bounds in her
rear—as the winged lightnings
leap from the heavens when the
thunder-bolts are loosed—so does
a little boy run when a big doe: is
after him.**
In one of our courts a little
while ago. an old lady was being
examined as a witness. To almost
every question asked, the council
on the opposite side would .jump
up and say. -I object to that as
irrelevant, immaterial, and in
competent.” It appeared to an
nov the old lady, who seemed in
dined to make a personal matter
of it. Finally the interrogatory
was put—
“ Did you see those in that field
on that dav !**
•‘Maybe what 1 saw wouldn't
be evidence.” was her answer,
“because 1 saw them through
glasses. lam old and wear spec
taeles.”
Mrs. Smith's Complaints.— Dr.
Bolus, a cynical old fellow ot her
neighborhood, meeting Mrs.
Smith one morning,
salute her with the usual compli
ments of the morning, with the
accustomed “How d'ye do?”
“Why, doctor, I feel mizahle,
thank’ee. My old complaints is
troubling me. There never was 1
a poor creature that suffers more
than I do. Pains and aches all
the time."—“But," interrupted
the doctor, growing impatient,
“von don't look very bad.”—‘No.
replied she. “I know I don't; but
1 feel a great deal worse than 1
look.”—“Good heavens!” cried
the doctor throwing up his hands:
“then you had better make haste
home, for you can't live an hour !”
The Salt Lake Herald tells of
a remarkable mule that is driven
on one of the street car lines of
Salt Lake City, and that is re
quired to make five round trips
every morning before a change
of teams occurs. As the fifth
trip draws to a close, the saga
cious animal stretches its neck
and looks for the team that is to
relieve it, and if it does riot see
any waiting at the route, begins
to whinny in a way that is as in
telligible Yis word s could be.
What the editor of the Herald
wants to know is where that
street car mule learnt its arithme
tic. and how it succeeds in keep
ing accurate tally of the number
of trips that it makes.
WESTERN A ATLANTIC
TIME OF DEPART! KK
FROM MARIETTA.
t*assi: \<; >; i>s ot T i!.
No. -1 * 12.13 j). m.
- 10.07. p. in.
Frkic-iits.
No. 12 +.lb. a. m.
Accom 7.57. a. m.
N<\ 10 1.13 p. m.
“6 4.27. p. m.
“8 2.40. a. m.
Passkngkks North
No. 3 7.13. a. m.
“ 1 3.30. p. m.
Freights
No. 5 7.59. a. in.
“ 9 B.IS. a. m.
Accom 5.18. p. m.
No. 7. ... . 8.07. p. m.
No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5- 9. 10. 11.
and Accomodation trains, stop at
Marietta.
W. C. McLellan,
%% ISHK*TO INFORM IIIS
friends and the friends of L. C.
McLellan, that, as successor of
the latter, lie has and will keep
on hand, fully up to old stand
aids, all the leading brands of Im
ported WINES and BRANDIES.
Also full line of old RYE and
BOI’RBON Whiskies, with do
mestic GINS and WHISKIES,
and would rail attention especi
ally to the OHIO VALLEY
WINES, on draft and bottled, at
very reasonable prices.
The Medical fraternity arc in
vited to examine.
W. C. McLELLAN.
Marietta. Ga., Maivli 13, '7O
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