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GKNKRAIi DIRECTORY.
CHURCHES:
Preaching by the Circuit preacher, on
the 3rd Sunday in each n>onth, at 11
o’clock a. no. and at the Furnace at 3
o’clock p. m.
Preaching by the Missionary Baptist
at the Furnace on the first Sunday and
Saturday night before, in each month,
by the paitor, Rev. T. C. Tucker.
MASONIC:
The regular meeting of Rising Fawn
Lodge No. 293, F. & A. M., the Ist and
Srd Saturday nights in each month. T.
J. Lumpkin, W. M., J. W. Hussey, Sec
retary.
Trenton Lodge No. 179, F. <fe A. M.,
meets on the 2nd and 4th Friday nights
in each month. H. A. Russell, W. M.,
J. A. Bennett, Secretary.
Trenton Royal Arch Chapter meets
on the 3rd Wednesday in each month.
M. A. B. Tatum, H. P.;W. U. .Taco
way, Secretary.
COURTS:
Superior Court meets on the 3rd and
and 4th Mondays in March and Septem
ber.
Court of Ordinary meets on the first
Monday in each mcnths. G. M. Crab
tree, Ordinary.
The Justice Court for the Rising
Fawn district, on the 3rd Saturday in
each month.
EDUCATIONAL:
The county Roardof Education meets
on the call of the chairman. E. B.
Ketcherside, County School Commis
sioner.
PRO SESSION Alj CARDS.
T. J. LUMPKIN,) t H. P. LUMPKIN,
Rising Fawn. ) j Lsfavette.
rjl J. LUMPKIN & BRO.,
Attorneys at Law,
Rising Fawn & Lafayette, G-a.
Will pay promps attention to thß col
lection of claims and all business en
trusted to their care, in the several
courts of the counties of Dade, Walker,
Chattooga and Catoosa. 1-tf
Alataua Great Men Railroafl.
TIME CARD.
Taking effect February 20th, 1881.
NORTH BOUND.
vNo. 2 Mail.
Arrives. Leaves.
Meridian, 5 20 a. m.
York, 629a. m. 630 “
Livingston, 651 “ 655 “
Epes, 717 “ 718 “
Miller, 727 “ 723 “
Eutaw, 805 “ •8. 20 “
Tuscaloosa, 951 “ 9'58 “
Cottondaie, 10 11 “ 10 12 “
Coaling, 10 28 “ 10 30 “
Woodstock, 11 00 “ 11 01 “
Birmingham, 12 14 p. m. 12 19 p. tr.
Trussville, 12 55 “ 12 56 “
Springville, 122 “ 133 “
Whitusy, 209 “ 210 “
Attalla, 256 “ 311 “
Collinsville, 407 “ 408 “
Branden, 434 “ 436
Fort Payne, 451 “ 452 “
Sulphur Springs, 543 “ 545 “
Rising Fawn, 600 *• 601 “
Trenton, 624 “ 625 “
Waubatchie, 703 " 705 “
Chattanooga, 720 “
NORTH BOUND.
No. 1 Mail.
Arrives. Leaves.
Chattanooga, 8 00 a. m.
Wauhatohie. BIIa. m. 816
Morgansville, 831 “ 834
Trenton, 851 “ 852
Rising Fawn, 914 “ 910 ‘
Sulphur Springs, 930 “ 932
Yalley Head, 955 “ 900
Fort Payne, 10 21 10 22
Brandon. 10 26 “ 10 38
Portersville, 10 50 “ 10 50
Collinsville, 11 02 “ 11 03
Greenwood, 11 36 “ 11 26
Attalla, 1150 • 12 11 p.
Whitney, 12 58 p. m. 12 o 7
Springville, 131 “ 183
Tru ssville, 207 “ 208
Birmingham, 243 “ 248
Woodstock, 402 “ 403 *
Coaling, 434 “ 436
Cotton dale, 452 “ 453
Tuscaloosa, 512 “ 515
Eutaw, 618 '• 703
Miller, 740 “ 742
Epes, 751 “ 752
Livingston, 814 “ 815
York, 840 “ 841
Meridian, 960 “
Chas. B. Wallace, L. B. Morrison,
Superintendent. G*n’_l_PayL_AtM^
BEAUTY AND BEHAVIOR.
I do not think that a high degree of
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passion. I remember being desperately
in love with a lady who had a freckled
face. I was cured of my passion, not
by discovering her lack of beauty, but
because I once saw her stand up on a
chair to look over the heads of a crowd;
the action appeared so unfeminine that
I disliked her from that moment. ford
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A ladt correspondent wishes to know
if we cannot suggest a title for a song
she has written, preferring “ somethin#
after the style of that beautiful gem,
< Empty is the Cradle, Baby's Gone !’ ”
Certainly we can. You might call your
effort “Empty is the Bottle, Papa’s
Full;” “Whistle Back the Bulldog,
Charlie’s Gone;” “ Empty is the Pantry,
■Tolinny’s Home;” or “Brokeu is Her
Bustle, Mabel Slipped.” Any time you
would like a nice name for a song do not
fail to write.
Dropped hairpins bring more women
to their knees than all the sermons in
the world.
“ Faithful t the Eight, fearless Agaiist the Wroig."
what atr lover said.
By the merert chance, In the twilight gloom.
In the orchard path he met mo—
In the tall wet graaa, with its faint perfume,
And I tried to paw, but he made no room ;
Oh, I tried, but he would not let me!
So I stood and blushed till the grau grew r.d,
With my face bent down above it,
While he took my hand, as he whispering said—
How the clover lifted its pink sweet head,
To listen to ah that my lover said!
Oh, the clover In bloom 1 I love It.
In the high wet grass went the path to hide,
And the low wet leaves hung over,
But I could not pass on either side,
For J found myself, when I vainly tried,
In the arms of my steadfast lover.
And he held me there, and he ®ieed my head,
While he closed the path before me;
And he looked down into my eyes and said—
How the leases bent down from the boughs o’er
head,
To listen to all that my lover said!
Oh, the leaves hanging lowly o’er mo !
I am sure that he knew, when he held me fast,
That I must be all unwilling;
For I tried to go, and I would have passed,
As the night was come with its dews at last,
And the sky with its stars was filling.
But he clasped me close, when I would have fled,
And he made me hear his story;
And hiß soul came out from his lips and said—
How the stats crept out when the white moon led,
To listen to all that my lover said.
Oh, the moon and stare in glory!
I know that the wasa and the leaves will not teli,
And I’m sure that the wind, precious rover,
Will carry his Becret so safely and well
That no being shall ever discover
One word of the many that rapidly fell
From the eager lips of my lover
And the moon and the stars that looked over
Shall never reveal what a fairy-like spell
They wove round about us that night in the dell,
In the path through the dew-laden clover;
Nor echo the whispers that made my heart swell
As they fell from the lips of my lover.
—Bostvn Transcript.
A MYSTERY OF THE SEA.
A tropical niglit on the Pacific! The
sky is studded with stars, which ate
mirrored in the vast deep beneath.
There is just enough air to keep the
Dolphin moving at a quiet rate, and the
passengers are gathered on deck to en
joy the matchless evening.
I had been an invalid for years, and
was now recovering from a very severe
spell #f sickness.
I was lazily drawing at my Havana,
puffing the tliin fragrant smoke from my
mouth without removing the cigar, and
gazing upward at the brilliant stars as
they slowly sailed overhead. I was in a
deliciously-dreamy state, half asleep and
half awake, hearing only the murmur of
the voices around me as one hears the
faint sound of a distant waterfall.
I presume I had lain thus for nearly
an hour, and my cigar had burned al
most to my mouth, while the long col
umn of ashes was still unbroken, when
something struck my ear like the sound
of a bell. It was not until I had heard it
several times that it seemed really to af
fect my senses.
All at once I gave a start, the ashes
dropped upon my besom, and I arose to
a sitting position and gazed around me.
The strange, solemn sound was re
peated at regular intervals, as if sw r ung
by the hand of some exhausted sufferer,
or tolled by the swell of the ocean.
The Captain by this time had ap
proached me and stood in the attitude
of attention.
“ We must be near the land ? ” I vent
ured to say, rather in the form of an in
quiry than in that of an assertion.
“No, sir,” responded the Captain;
“ the nearest island ia a good 800 miles
away.”
“ It’s the bell of doom ! ” exclaimed
Backstay Bob, a tall, scarred sailor,
from his position at the wheel.
“Pshaw! you’re childish,” replied
the Gap tain. “ Whatever it is, we are
rapidly approaching it.”
Such was the case. The bell was
now heard distinctly to the south, and
was approaching nearer every moment.
Shortly after, the Captain took his
night-glass, and gazed long and intently
in that direction. When he lowered it,
he said, “I can just discover a dark
body rising and falling on the wares,
but nothing more. Backstay Bob, you
have got the best eyesight of any one
on board, see what make of it.”
Bob resigned his place at the wheel
to one of the men, and came forward
and took the glass. He held it to his
eye for several minutes without speak
ing, and to all appearance without even
breathing, while we awaited his word
with the deepest interest. Finally he
gave a great sigh and lowered it. “She
ain’t got the least mite of a boom,
yard, or anything like. Sho looks like
some great hulk of a light-boat. Hold
on again ; T see the bell. They’ve rigged
it up to the masthead, so that it swings
baok’ards and for’ards every time the
thing gives a lurch to leeward. ”
“ Can you see an thing aboard ?”
j “ Not a creetur, living or dead.”
“ Keep her away a couple of pointa,”
•ried the Captain to the man al the
wheel.
“Ay, ay, sir !”
'And the ships course was altered,
so as to bring her rapidly near the mys
terious craft, toward which all eyes were
directed. Orders were given to heave
tU. and get one of the boats in readiness.
By this time the nondescript was plain! v
visible to all. It appeared to be an old
hulk, with a single mast in the center.
The bell was suspended fuom the mast-
L; ad, and ever and anon sent forth its
solemn tolling, as the hulk rose and
sank with the heaving of the sea*
Before the ship w r as brought to, we
nad passed the hulk some distance, so
that when wo halted there were several
hundred yards intervening, and it was
only dimly discernible.
A boat was lowered, and the Captain,
having selected a crew, pulled away
toward the latter.
There was something so extraordinary
regarding the appearance and action of
the hulk that the curiosity of us all was
so intense as to be painful. We strained
our gaze as the Captain and crew drew
rapidly near it.
We saw the distance swiftly decrease
between the two objects, until the
shadowy forms merged into one. And
then followed an impressive silence—
suddenly broken by a howl, a pistol
shot and a scream ; and, as our hearts
almost stopped beating, we saw a m'o
ment later the boat pull off from the
hulk, and the men rowing with all their
might back to the ship. As they came
nearer, we discerned that the Captain
was missing.
Backstay Bob dashed toward the boat,
and, shaking [his fist at the men, de
manded furiously, “ You cowardly dogs,
wjiere is Capt. Luster ? ”
“ The devil has got him ! ” ~~
Absurd as the reply might have
Reemed at any other time, it was uttered
in solemn earnest, as the ghastly faces
of the crew attested. In reply to our
e iger questions, they said the moment
t! ey came along the craft they heard a
hollow, unearthly sound, which
caused them to hesitate. The Captain
climbed up the side of Jjm de
scended the hatchway disappeared
from view. He was hardly out of sight,
when the noise they had heard at first
was repeat^far louder and fiercer. The
next moment the report of the Captain’s
pistol was heard, followed by a terrible
shriek, and then all was still!
Horror-struck, called loudly and
repeatedly to their commander, but, re
ceiving no answer, pulled away from the
ship.
“You’re W purty set of cowardly
sneaks, ain’t you, to go and desert your
Captain that way, when, like enough, he
needed you to save his life,” exclaimed
Backstay Bob, forgetting, in liis fury,
that the first mate was among thoso
whom he denounced. “I’m going back
to that old hulk, and, if I can’t get at
the devil in any other way, I’ll put a
keg of powder in it and blow it to
blazes!”
“ Bob is right, if his excitement does
make him forget his manners,” said the
mate. “It was not my intention to de
sert Capt. Luster in trouble. The men
were so frightened that I thought it best
to come back and get anew set. ”
There was some trouble iu procuring
the requisite number, and accordingly
Prescott and myself were accepted out
of the passengers. The boat shoved off,
and we rapidly neared the hulk, which
had acquired a strange interest to us
all.
Prescott, in addition to his revolver,
bad a long Italian dagger, which I ob
served him handle, as if to assure him
self that it was reliable. Then, as lie
replaced it, he remarked to me, “There’s
no telling what’s inside that mass of
lumber, aud this may be the weapou I
need after all.”
Arriving at the craft, after a short
consultation it was agreed that the
four oarsmen, the mate and myself
should remain behind, while Backstay
Bob and William Prescott should ex
plore the hulk. As it was morally cer
tain that some dreadful danger menaced
all who entered the cabin, and as I was
good for nothing, I needed no more urging
than did the mate to remain in my po
sition.
Prescott was first, holding his pistol
in one hand and a lantern in the other,
while Bob followed closely with his cut
lass. We saw them descend the hatch
way; all was still, and then I heard the
single exclamation from Prescott, “Oh,
my God! ”
This was followed by a terrible roar,
a quick succession of pistol shots, a
tierce struggle, and then all was still
agaiu. The next moment both Prescott
aud Backstay Bob emerged to view,
covered from head to foot with blood.
“ Come aboard,” said they; “ the dan
ger is over.”
The next instant we were on deck. I
rushed to the hold and gazed down.
By the dim light of the lantern we
saw the mangled body of Capt. Luster.
The head and one of the limbs were
goue, and there was scarcely a sem
blance of humanity in the remains be
fore us. Neal' him was the gaunt, ter
rible form of a Bengal tiger, killed by
the bullets, cutlass and dagger of Pres
cott and Backstay Bob.
The two latter, on entering the cabin
first, saw the mutilated body of Capt.
Luster. A low growl warned them of
danger, and, as Prescott turned to gaze,
he saw the tiger crouching and in the
very act of springing. Dropping his
lantern, he fired his revolve-, and, as
the terrible animal bore him to the
floor, he drew his dagger and stabbed
him again and again. The needle
pointed instrument reached his heart,
which, united with the slashing blows
of Backstay Bob, killed him before he
could do any material injury.
We made a critical examination of the
place. A number of human bones
strewed the floor, and several articles of
wearing apparel, which seemed to indi
oate that the place had been tenanted
by two human beings of the opposite
sexes.
The brute had a chain to his neck,
and had been confined to one corner of
the room by a delicate iron ring, which
had been broken. Over the center of
the room was written something in In
dian dialect, which was pronounced by
the mate (who had speSt several years
in India) to read : “I iiave sought—l
have found that which I soufjhfc—venge
ance.”
Carefully removing the body of the
Captain to the little boat, we scuttled
the mysterious craft and bhw it sink.
Shortly after the Captain, wrapped in
his winding sheet, followed the hulk to
the depths of the ocean. *
A
tb ac ultra the v younb idea.
“Attention, children ! " said the prin
cipal, entering the class-room, followed
by a stranger ; “this gentlemen will ask
you a few questions in arithmetic. He
is the Superintendent of Schools at
Mule Gulch, Nevada, that great Western
State of which you have so often heard.”
“ Which his name are Dodd—Shorty
Dodd,” said the visitor, and, mounting
the platform, he drew a bowie-knife from
bis boot-leg and tapped for attention on
the desk. “We will now proceed to do
i sum in simple edition. A gentleman
who had a Lead on him from last night
met another gentleman in Dew-Drop
Inn, who put a head on him. How
many heads did that gentleman have
snhim?” “Three!” “ Now you’re talking.
We will next proceed to substraction.
Wall-eyed Bob had live fingers on his
left hand (including his thumb), when he
injudiciously called Buckskin Joe a
limping mule. Buckskin Joe dr a wed
his eleven-inch toothpick, and the bar
keeper subsequently swept up two fin
gers. How many finger* had Wall-eyed
Bob left ?” “ Three! ” “You’re right, and
I’ve S3OO here in this little
that says you are. ”
“ We generally do these sums #u ap
ples and other domestic fruit,” said the
priuoipal, timidly.
“ Quite right, quite right,” said the
gentleman from the far West, “but my
plan is universally admitted to be more
national—more patriotic. It was criti
cised some at our last convention at
Gallows Forks, but a majority favored
it and the gentleman who opposed it
walks with a crutch yet. Now, then,
kids, hump yourselves for a problem in
multiplication and edition. A gentle
man held a full at a social game of poker
—three nines and two sevens. How
many spots was on his cards?” “ Forty
one ! ” “Surely I Mister, your class is no
slouch of a class at Tithmatic. I will
just give the kids oue more—an easy
one. Five boss thieves had operated
for five days before the Vigilantes hung
them, and had stolen twenty-eight head
of stock. How mauy bosses a day did
each boss-thief steal?” “ One and three
twenty-fifths of a boss ! ” “Right, and if
any man says you ain’t, don’t take it
from him, if he’s as big as a grain-eleva
tor. Now, mister man, trot out your
class in moral philosophy ! ”
When walks with a girl as
though he were afraid some one would
see him, the girl is his sister. If lie
walks so close to her as to nearly crowd
her against the fence, she is the sister of
some one else.
Constantinople tas 45,000 Jews ami
thirty-six synagogues. Nearly 40,000
Me of Spanish origin.
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NUMBER 38.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Jay Oould.
Jay Gould was born at Stratton’s Falls,
Delaware county, New York, in the year
1836. When 16 years- of age, he made
his first move in life, and became clerk
to a “Squire Burham,” atßoxbury, two
miles from the falls, who kept a small
store, remarkable for the variety, origi
nal and infinitesimal quanti
ties of its stock. Here his auditory
nerve became so susceptible that his em
ployer thought it altogether too sensitive
for so small an establishment,
Burham had managed to obtain intelli
gence that a very desirable piece of land
was for public sale, cheap, in Albany,
and determined to purchase it. This he
cautiously whispered to some parties in
the presence of his young employe. On
proceeding to put his design into execu
tion, however, he found that, in the in
terim, liis clerk had become possessed of
the property, having availed himself of
the astuteness of his hearing.
The genius of Jay must have been of
no ordinary character, for before he was
20 years of age ho appeared suddenly a
full-blown civil engineer, and made a
survey of Delaw’are county.
When Mr. Gould bade farewell to -3 a
Lome of liis youth, he went to Pennsyl
vania with Col. Zadoek Pratt, and start
ed a tannery in conjunction with that
gentleman, at a place named Gouldsboro.
In 1859, Mr. Gould began to speculate
in Wall street, in railroad stock; and,
it is said, as a curbstone broker. At
that period his means were limited, and
his quarters in New York most unpreten
tious. From the very first, however, he
had the reputation of being a most suc
cessful man ; and this was of itself an
amount of capital not easily estimated.
He neither smoked, drank nor gambled,
and was always on the qui vive for busi
ness. During the war he profited large
ly by the sale of gold and of stocks, and
took advantage of every defeat or success
of the Union army. Long before the
close of the struggle he was said to be a
millionaire.
A HARK TALENT.
The faculty of drawing out of persons
with whom one is conversing the best
there is in them—brighter things even
than they suppose themselves capable
of—is the rare gift with which nature
has endowed some women. George
Eliot was a most charming person in
conversation, though she was a woman
of few words, because of her intuitive
insight into the thoughts of others. A
few words would put her into posses
sion, not of what they said, but of what
they would fain have said, and she would
so improve upon it that ordinary people
went away charmed with her who had
made them for once, at least, feel them
selves to be wise. Long afterward, per
haps, she would reoall to their remem
brance the wise or witty things which
they could hardly believe themselves to
have said, and which they assnredly
never would have said but for her quick
ening influence.
“GO AHEAD MIT YOUR STABBING.',
A doctor received a call from a couple
who had not been in this country over a
year, and who had decided to checkmate
any danger from small-pox by vaccina
tion. The husband bared his left arm
and the operation was soon completed.
He then rolled up his other sleeve and
held out his right arm.
“ One arm is enough,” replied the
doctor.
“ But I gness I takes two of ’em,” was
the reply.
“ What for ?”
“ Why, dis one is for me, and der
odder one for my frow. It ish
better dot I cotches all der small-pox
myself. Go ahead mit your stabbing 1”
The doctor did not succeed in con
vincing them that one could not be vac
cinated for both, and the woman sullen
ly refused to let the lancet touch her
urcu.