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(Eflrowqe and Sentinel
WEDNESDAY JUNE 17, 1874.
THIS AND THAT.
COLLINS GRAVES’ RIDE.
Away he sped when the flood came down,
Rattlo-ty-bang. past village and town—
Now hogging his beast with all his might,
Now clutching lti tail in a terrible fright ;
Now bouncing upon the animal tall,
Bumpity-bump, like a rubber ball
Away he sped till the race was o'er.
And the brute reined in at hie cottage door.
Half breathless, he shrieked, “The mill-dam's
bust,
And I was the first to get np and dust 1
lUchel Rebecca, my darling wife,
Thank Mearen, that spared yonr husband's
life!"
Then he hung from his saddle as still as a
mouse,
To hear the soft voice of his gentle spouse.
His eye grew bright and his heart beat fast.
For he knew she was going to speak at last ;
And so she was. but the words he heard
Were not as sweet as the voice of a bird,
As they broke the calm of the morning cool:
•‘Why wasn't y„u drowned, you demed old
fool!" Tucker B.
[From Blackwood's Magazine.]
UNREFLECTING CHILDHOOD AND
AGE.
BY P. LOCKER.
It is indeed a little while
Hince you were bom, my happy pet,—
Your future beckons with a smile,
Your bygones don't exist as yet._
Is all the’ world with pleasure rife ?
Are you a litrie bird that sings
Her simple gratitude for life.
And lovely things ?
The ocean and the waning moons.
And starry skies, and s'arry dells,
And Winter sport and golden Junes,
And art divine an t beauty spells;
Feast arid song, and frolic wit,
And banter and domestic mirth—
They are all mine -ay, is not it
A pleasant earth?
And poet friends, and poesy,
And precious books for auy mood;
And then that best of company—
Those graver thoughts in solitude,
That hold us fast and never pa 1:
And then there’s you. my own. my fair— j
And I I soon must leave it all—
And much you care!
IH IT ANYBODY'S BUSINESS?
Is it anybody's business,
If a gentleman should choose.
To wait upon a lady,
If the lady don’t refuse ?
Or—to speak a little plainer,
That the meaning all may know—
Is it anybody's business,
If a lady fias a beau ?
Is it anybody’s business
When a gentleman docs call,
Or when he leaves ilie lady,
Or it he loaves at all ?
Or is it necessary
That the curtain# should be drawn.
To save from further trouble
The outside lookers on ?
Is it anybody’s business,
But the lady's, if her beau,
Rides out with other ladies,
And doesu’t lei her know ?
Is it anybody's business
But the gentleman’s if she
Should accept another escort.
Where he doesn't chance to bo ?
If a person on the sidewalk,
Whether great or whether small,
Is it anybody's business
Where that person means to call ?
Or if you see a person
As he’s calling anywhere,
Is it any of your business
What hiH burliness may be there ?
The substance of our query,
Simply stated, would be this :
Is it anybody's husinoss,
What another’s business is?
If it is, or if it isn’t.
Wo would really like to know,
For we’ro certain, if it isn’t,
There are some that make it so.
THISTLEDOWN.
[AN ENGLISH RURAL CUSTOM. |
Long ago—a littlo girl,
Smooth of choek and dark of curl,
Like my daughter’s neatly—
-1 gathered for my bridal bed
Many a thorny thistle head
Before the (lying tufts were shed,
Anil suvod them up so dearly.
O the happy days and dreams!
Endless Present—lit with gleams
Os a wondrous Future !
Day. and week, anil month, and year,
Glide- and what know you, my dear?
And what know I ? O little sphere
Os every mortal creature!
l.ife has pleasure, life has pain,
Passing, not to come again,
lllackest hours and brightest.
Time takes all things, all must go ;
Bygones vanish—is it so?
(lone and lost forever ? No!
the least and lightest.
In Ago we laugh at dreams of Youth—
Are Age's dreams more like the truth ?
_ And what is life but fooling?
The world is something, none can doubt,
But no one finds its secret out,
To ohildhood, and to souls dovout,
Come the best rovealing.
Gay at heart are you, my child,
Gathering downy thistli s wild :
Cares nor fears oppress thee ;
Gathering up, for joy, for moan,
When all these Autumns, too. are flown,
The bed that you must lie upon.
God protect anil bless thee !
[Atheneum.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
By the flow of tlio inland river,
Whence the UoetHof iron have ilod,
Where the blades of the new grass quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead.
Under the soil and the dew,
Waiting tho Judgment day,
Under tho one the Bluo.
Under the other tho Gray.
These in the robing of glory,
Those In the gloom of defeat,
All with tho battle-blood gory,
In the dusk of eternity meet.
Under tho sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment day,
Under the laurel the Blue,
Under the willow the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours
The dosolato mounters go,
Lovingly laden with flowers,
Alike for the friend and tho foe.
Under the sod and tho dew,
Waiting the Judgment day,
Under tit" roses the Blue,
Under rite lilies the Gray.
Bo with an equal splendor
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment day,
Broiuei ed with gold tho Bluo,
Mellowed with gold tho Gray.
So when tho Summer oalloth.
On foroat and field of grant,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the ram.
Under tho sod and the dew,
Waiti g the Judgment day,
Wet with the rain tho Bluo.
Wet with the rain the Gray.
Sadly, but not upbraiding.
Tlio generous deed was done ;
In the storm of the years that are fading.
No braver battle was won.
Under the sbd and the dew.
Waiting the Judgment day,
Under the liloseo s the Blue,
Under the garland tße Gray.
No more shall tho war cry sever,
Or the winding river be red ;
Tltev banish our anger forever.
When they laurel the graves of our dead.
Under tho sod and the dew.
Waiting tho Judgment day,
Love attu tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
SCHOOL STATISTICS.
Twmi Saturday night, and » teacher sat
Alone, her task pursuing;
She averaged this and she averaged that
Os all that her class were doiug :
Sire reckoned per Centage. so many boys
And so many girls all counted.
And marked ail the tardy and absentees,
And to what all the absence amounted.
Name and residence wrote in full.
Over many columns and pages ;
Yan ee, Teutonic, African. Celt,
And averaged all their ages.
The date of admission of every one,
The cases of flagellation ;
And prepared a list of graduates
For the coming examination.
Her weary head sank low on her book.
And her weary heart still lower.
For some of her pupils bad little brain,
And she could not furnish more.
She slept, she dreamed : it seemed she died,
And her spirit went to Hades.
And they met her there with a question fair.
•'State what the percent, of your grade is?"
Agee had slowly rolled away,
l.eav. ng but partial traces.
And the teacher's spirit walked one day
In the Old familiar places.
A mound of fossilized school reports
Attracted l!«r observation,
As high as the State House dome and as wide
As Boston since annexation.
She came to the spot where they buried her
bones,
And the ground was well built over.
But laborers diggiug threw out a skull
Once planted beneath tbe clover.
A disciple of Galen, wandering by,
Paused to look at tbe diggers.
And. picking the skull up. looked through the
eye.
And saw it was lined with figures.
“ Just as I thought.” said the young M. D.,
•• How easy it is to kill 'em"—
Statistics ossified every fold
•• Os ere brum and cerebellum."
“ It's a great cniiosity, sure.' said Pat.
•• By the bones can you tell the creature ?"
»• Ob, nothing strange." said die doctor, “ that
Was a nineteenth century teacher.”
Honor to the Dead.
Baltimore, June 10.—The graves of
the Confederate dead at Loudon Park
Cemetery were decorated this afternoon
with appropriate ceremonies. General
Bradley T. Johnson, of Richmond, de
livered an address. The committee ap
pointed by the Society of the Army and
Navy of the Confederate States placed
a handsome cross and boquette bearing
the inscription, “A tribute to Union
dead from Confederate soldiers, upon a
cannon guarding the lot in which the
Federal dead are interred,”
SUMMER STYLES.
•>Jennie Jane's" Fashion Notes for
the Ladies.
scabbard dresses.
It is proposed to introduce this Sum
mer a novelty into American fashion in
the form of the “scabbard” or “sheath”
dresses, an exaggeration of the clinging
styles which are now in vogue. These
scabbard dresses are in fact the same as
those worn under the French Directoire,
and in which, to look at a woman, it
wonld seem utterly impossible that she
should run, and a tour de force that she
should even walk, for these dresses are
not merely narrow, they are qnite too
narrow for grace of motion to be possi
ble, clinging not only to the upper por
tion of the hips, but ronnd the knees.
If they are ever worn in their present
styles by onr belles it will be with such
modification sis that much abused term
may be used) and alterations as will
make them less startling to behold.
And though economical, it wonld seem
from the scantiness of the pattern, our
modistes, who, many of them, hail from
London and Paris, will surely make up
the difference of cost in the trimming.
A dress that from neck to hem is straight
and clinging, with only room to move
the feet afforded by gores set in between
the breadth at the bottom, and at but a
quarter of a yard from the hem, slightly
widening the bottom, certainly would
seem to require some disguising of its
original dimensions to obtain favor with
us. But in a true sheath dress no over
skirt or draping is admissible. By
draping I mean added draping in an in
dependent form, as it is needless to
state, after the above description, that
the original “sheath” garmept could
not be draped, and with an overskirt it
would no longer be a “ scabbard ” dress.
But scarfs of uuembroidered India cash
mere will be permitted to soften the
crude ensemble—if ensemble it may be
called—and also very large jet or coin
necklaces, row below row, as on the
Bhah’s neck. With the “scabbard”
dress will reappear a long vanished fash
ion—those worn abroad display the
mode I aliude : embroidery above the
hem. In some of these dresses this em
broidery—reappearing in a narrower de
sign—around the neck cn collier reaches
as to the skirt np to the knees and is of
great richness and beauty, and of slight
ly contrasting shades.
BEADED GUIPURE OVER-DRESSES.
In the notices which reach us of the
playing of anew piece, the “Sphinx,”
in Paris, a great deal of attention is
paid to the toilettes, which aredcscribed
with great rainutia. One of them, worn
by the principal actress, Mdlle. Croi
zette, is described as a maize silk, cov
ered with black beaded lace, very new
and startling in its effect. As these
beaded guipure over-dresses are among
the newest things here, lady readers
may be interested to know of what they
consist. One style forms an apron,
which is tied at the back with a sash
and is accompanied by trimming and or
naments for bodice and sleeves. An
other has a sleeveless jacket instead of
trimming, and a third consists of a polo
naise, simple but graceful in form, with
apron front, close sides, and sleeves
finished off at the elbow with fulls of
beaded lace. The fabric is ali silk gui
pure, woven instead of hand-made, and
dotted with single cut-jet, so that al
though it sparkles all over and presents
a wonderfully brilliant appearance, it is
not heavy as one might suppose. In ad
dition to the black there are sets in yel
lowish white guipure, dotted with white
jet, which, over a white rose or faded
blue, present an even more distiguished
appearance. The same idea is carried
out in grenadine, only, instead of being
dotted, the jet embroidery forms clus
tered leaves and borders. This is strik
ing, but not at all so graceful or so effec
tive as a complete costume of plain
grenadine, trimmed with side-plaitings
of the material, over which is placed an
apron and jacket of beaded guipure.
BLACK GRENADINE.
But there are rich costumes of black
grenadine, which also seem to be one
mass of jet. The bodies are striped
cuirusse fashion with passementeries, or
with lace beaded with jet. The aprons
are trimmed row above row with beaded
lace or rich silk and jet fringe. Beauti
ful they are, exceedingly, but so pecu
liar and so marked that every part of the
costume, including the beaded capote
and lace covered parasol, must corres
pond with them. It is quite the mode,
however, to trim the grenadine skirt
with the material only, and reserve lace,
beading, fringe and the like for the
tunic or polouuise.
ENGLISH BAREGE DRESSES.
A pretty and long-neglected fabric has
reappeared this season, and makes up
into pretty, simple, inexpensive dresses
for the country and home wear. This
is English barege, and in Quaker gray
or tho creamy white, which many
matrons will remember as furnishing a
costume for the days of their girlhood,
is exceedingly delicate and lady-like.—
They are usually made without over
skirts and trimmed with the material
only, in narrow, flat, plaited flounces,
headed with puffs in sometimes a double
series. The bodies is straight round the
waist—what is known as the “French
waist”—tho sleeves long, close and trim
med at the wrist with a single repetition
of the design upon the skirt; a Valenci
ennes lace at tho throat and wrists, and
a sash fastened a little to tho side in a
loop, with two long ends, completes the
costume. Very new saslies are made of
three yards of " twenty-seven inch wide
silk, doubled over anil seamed down the
sides. This makes the loop and two
irregular euds of the requisite depth,
which may be fringed oqt or fringe
added, as may be preferred.
NEW SUMMER POLONAISES.
Quite tlio newest and prettiest things
in polonaises are made iu striped grena
dine Batiste, a lovely material, corn in
tint, and trimmed wi'th ecru luce and in
sertion. To this is added a silk sash the
exact shade of the stripe, doubled as
mentioned ill a preceding paragraph,
and the insertion is apparently fastened
down with small fiat buttons, covered
with silk to match, and put on in Vir
ginia fence style. The polonaise is un
lined, and may be worn with or with
out a skirt of the same material. An
other style of polonaise, suited to even
ing wear, is made of very clear white or
gandy. The body aud entire front, which
are cut in the princess form, are a mass
puffs and insertions of line needlework
or Valenciennes lace ; the back of the
skirt is moderately full and very grace
fully draped with trails of tinted roses
and pale bluo or faint rose ribbons.
THE “ WREATH ” CHAPEAU.
The wreath chapeau is purely and
simply a coronet brim of foundation
lace concealed by flowers and kept upon
the head by an elastic which passes un
der the hair. This bonnet fait fureur
in Paris and in London at this time —
there being but one other that struggles
with it in popularity —this is the oap
bonnet, and is simply a soft crown of
erepe de chine, faille de chine, faille or
foulard or of turquoise silk covered
with dotted net and with a ruche of
lace or ribbon ora coronet-shaped wreath
of small flowers. Besides these two fa
vorites the Corday, the Henry Trots, the
Valois, properly so-called, and the Pau
line de Vignier are the favorite models.
There is a rush for the Charles the First
fiats stud gypsies to be worn, it is said,
at watering places, with quaint red flan
nel long cloaks lined witli white or light
blue silk. Anew style of arranging the
tripple rose clusters is to place two to
gether and oue a little way off, quite
alone, or oue above the left brow and
the other just below the curved brim
further back.
LINEN SUITS.
The linen polonaise worn with a skirt
of a different material has taken the
place of the plaiu linen suits to a great
extent for ordinary traveling and every
day purposes. What are called “tour
ist” outfits are imported, consisting of a
loose linen polonaise belted ill at the
back, a skirt of striped cambric, and a
liueu satchel striped with leather.
These are not so bad for oountrv ex
cursions and such light uses, but for
traveling, a black skirt is best; a black
silk mohair, with which can be worn a
black straw hat aud black Russia belt.
More dressy linen and batiste suits are
elaborately embroidered or ornamented
with a mixture of braid aud embroidery,
and there is an abundance of embroidery
upon liueu sold by the yard, black upon
gray, white upon dark-blue, chocolate
upon brown, which maV be applied to
the plain ipion fabric by ladies who wish
to make it up iu exclusive designs.
The tight-fitting, rather loud style of
polonaise, or rediugote of last year, with
its large pockets and deep, wide cuffs,
has disappeared. The best styles this
year have French backs (narrow without
side forms) and loose fronts, which are
held in with Belt or sash. The skirt is
long, the form simple, ample and grace
ful, the skirt tied back instead of
bunched up.
THE “GOSSAMER” WATER PROOF.
This is the name given to a recent in
vention, which consist* of a plain, eireu
‘ lar cloak with hood made of fine linen
or twilled silk and thoroughly water
proofed by a preparation of oil and thin
liquid India rubber. The extreme light
ness of these wraps justified their name
of “gossamer, ’and the/ will form a most
i welcome substitute for a w proof du
ring the hot weather.
The Commercial, Insurance and
Banking Company.—The annual meet
; ing of the Directors of the above com
j pany was held yesterday. Mr. W. T.
I Wheless was elected President; Mr. W.
S. Roberts, Vice-President; Mr. J. C.
Fargo, Secretary, and Mr. It, P. Rood,
Teller,
SOMETHING OF A SPREAD.
The Pomp and Pageantry of a Royal
State Banquet in Windsor Castle—
The Queen and the Czar at Dinner.
[London Telegraph-]
Three huge sideboards contained,
among a multitude of tankards, salvers,
chargers, goblets, beakers and platters
of solid gold or parcel gilt, the great St.
George Candelabrum, the shield of
Achilles, or Waterloo trophy, and a vast
number of exquisitely beautiful cups,
chased, embossed or engraved by Ben
venuto Cellini and the great Italian,
Flemish, and German art workers in the
precious metals of the fifteenth, six
teenth and seventeenth centuries. From
end to end of the hall extended the
dining tables, set out with massive
epergues and candelabra, all in gold or
parcel gilt, and with a host of waxlights
in triplets set in golden sconces. Gold
vases and cups were interspersed
throughout the length of the board with
myriad-tinted trophies of flowers and
with great bowers of ferns and raro
plants, while smaller bouqnets—eaai
one a picture—were placed in due spa/s
by the plates of the guests. The Quit’s
chair was at the center of the tab Wand
on each side of her Majesty’s fanteuil
and on the side opposite to her e/ended
two long parallel lines of c/rirs, in
crimson damask, white and oCld. Im
agine all the multitude of wa# candles—
many hundreds in number, js it seemed
—to be lit, and on the waifs above two
parallel rows of equally bright illumina
tion. But imagine tliiy huge banquet
ing ball for at least lisdf an hour before
the commencement of the feast wholly
nntenanted, save by the yeomen of the
guard, who, in the# quaint Tudor doub
lets, slashed and embroidered with gold;
their scarlet lios/ snowy white ruffs and
black velvet li/ts, with a bordering of
red and white roses, stood with their
partisans of gleaming steel and burnish
ing gold, motionless as statutes, keep
ing guard over the feast to which so
many illustrious guests had been bidden.
Nuwand again some domestic would glide
from behind the screen or walk softly
up the hall to give the finishing touch
to ait arrangement of cups and glasses,
or to see that all due requisites for the
service of the repast were provided at
the side tables; but anon these retainers
would fade away, and the hall would be
left in comparative solitude and silence,
startling you somewhat with its multi
tude of glancing tapers and its intermi
nable vista of empty chairs—aweitigyou
somewhat wit tho solemnity of those
statuesque old halberdiers, in the doub
lets of scarlet and gold, the crimped
ruffs and the rosetted hats of velvet,
who moved not to the right nor to the
left, who took no heed either of glancing
lights or gleaming [date, or glittering
glass, or passing servants, but who stood
there motionless as though they had
been tree trunks, carved and colored by
some fantastic artist in tlio image of the
mediaeval buffetiers who stood by the
sideboard of H- nry VIII, and who were
with him at the Field of the Cloth of
Gold. At a quarter to eight over this
sumptuous scene there came a change.
Servants entered and remained. Speedi
ly they increased in number and ranged
themselves behind the chairs of crimson
and white and gold. The royal attend
ants were in full state livery coats, of
which the crimson ground could only be
discerned here and there in thin stripes
and diminutive patches between the
super-imposed lavislmess of heavy gold
embroidery, white kerseymere waist
coats and smalls, silk stockings and
buckles, powdered Lair and black bags
at the neck behind. There were ser
geant footmen, who wore small gilt
headed rapiers. To them soon entered
the Queen’s piper, incomplete Highland
costume and with a massive silver badge
on one arm. There were other pipers,
too, pertaining, it is presumed, to the
households of the Prince of Wales
and his brother; and these clans
men ranged themselves behind the
chairs of the guests, opposite Her
Majesty’s fanteuil. Meanwhile the band
of the Coldstream Guards, iu full uni
form, and under the skilled leadership
of Mr. Godfrey, had taken up a position
in the music gallery, at the end of the
hall, to tho left of the royal chair, and
while these ailioit musicians were get
ting ready for their task the cohort of
attendants below received one notable
addition in the shape of the Chasseur of
Jaeger of the Czar—a henchman of most
portentous inches, gorgeously clad in
green and gold, and with a gold-hilte.l
hunting knife hy his side. At about
eight minutes to eight Mr. Godfrey’s
band struck up the sonorous strains of
the Russian national anthem, and to
that stirring air the great company of
royal, and noble, and gallant, and right
honorable guests began slowly to file
into the enormous hall. Apart from the
Queen and the Princesses aud the ladies
of their suite, not many ladies seem to
have been bidden to the feast. It was,
the rather, an imposing and majestic
muster of notabilities of the sterner sex
—great noblemen, ministers and ex
ministers of State, privy councillors,
general ami staff officers, diplomatists
aud courtiers, and a sprinkling of di
vines. So at least three gentlemen might
be deemed from the raven hue of their
attire, since, in all other cases, uniform
or court dress was de rigueur. Amidst
the English military uniforms, blazing
as they were in scarlet and gold, a great
number of Russian uniforms, in which
green and silver predominated, were
visible; and special pains bad been
taken by the indefatigable officials who
had organized the economy of the ban
quet, and who marshalled the guests to
their appointed places, that every Rus
sian officer should have ou one side of
him at least an Englishman to proffer
him auy services in the way of explana
tion of which he might stand in
need. Precisely as the stroke of eight
rang loyd aiul solemn through the
grand old liall, Her Majesty, the
Queen, who was attired iu black,
but who wore a magnificent tiara
of diamonds, took her seat, tiles of
Yeomen of the Guard and her Highland
attendant standing behind her chair.
Opposite to Her Majesty were her pi
pers, flanked by more Yeomen of the
Guard. On the Queen’s right hand sat
His Majesty, Alexander 11., Emperor of
all the Russia’s. To HerJMajesty’s left
sat the Grand Duke Alexis. The ban
quet now commenced, the band of the
Cold-treams playing the overture to the
“Merry Wives of Windsor,” and follow
ing during the repast with a selection of
Russian dance music, and concluding
with a grand march, “C’est l’E-pagne.”
The unique service of gold plate which
has long been one of the wonders of
Windsor Castle was exclusively used for
the requirements of the banquet. Thus
wended its stately way a proud orna
ment in which few, even from the ranks
of the noblest of the land, could hope to
participate, and which fewer still could
be privileged to behold as spectators. It
was trul3', indeed, a State banquet, de
signed and carried out after a manner so
superb, to do titling honor to a sovereign,
whose own court is the home of the
stateliest formalities and of the tradi
tions—immutable and immemorial—of
etiquette. The Emperor Alexander will
not be enabled to see a great deal of the
English people, albeit at the Crystal
Palace to-morrow he may be iu a posi
tion to take a rapidly comprehensive
view of Englishmen uutramtneled by eti
quette; bnt iu this grand “function” at
Windsor he has beheld all the grave and
dignified pageantry which properly be
longs to the court of an English sover
eign, and the retention of which, with
the fullest acquiescence of all loyal sub
jects, is sanctioned, with some slight
modifications, by the usages of a thousand
years, but will never, to Englishmen
who love their country, seem antiquated
or obsolete.
9
A FINE OLD IRISH GENTLEMAN.
Mine Host of the St. James Makes the
Old Rooster l>ust—The Courteous
Colonel of the National Blandly En
tertains Him aud Finds His Guest a
Blue-Blooded Baronet of Plethoric
Purse.
[Letter to New York San.l
Jacksonville, Fla., April 28, 1874.
The Grand National and the St. James
are the names of rival hotels in this city.
The former is kept by Col. George Mc-
Giuly, a jolly-faced Georgian, and the
latter by Deacon J. R. Campbell, a glib
tongued Yaukee from Massachusetts.
Their struggles for public patronage ex
cite universal comment. The citizens
take sides in the fight, and guests dis
pute with each other as to the relative
merits of the hotels, even acting as run
ners on the various railroad and steam
boat lines. Last January the Yankee
deacon was saddened to hear that a live
English nobleman was stopping with the
Georgia Colonel. The deacon ate noth
ing and never smiled until the noble
man had left the city.
About three weeks ago Deacon Camp
bell sat behind his desk awaiting the ar
rival of the train from Savannah and
Cedar Keys. The night was balmy, and
the whippoorwills were twittering in the
foliage of the building magnolia trees.
The train was late. Finally, however,
the omnibus rumbled, to the door and
deposited a dozen guests. The Deacon,
all smiles and suavity, selected fine
rooms for his patrons, aud congratulated
them on their safe arrival. This done he
stretched and yawned, and ygnit to bed,
leaving the hotel in charge of Kings
bury, the night watchman. Kingsbury
is a squint-eyed Yankee, with unique in
tellectual faculties. He turned down
the gas and Imuted a pipe. Soon after
ward a tough-looking* man entered the
hotel and wrote his name upon the reg
ister. His face and hands were sun
burned, aud his eyes looked bloodshot.
The watchman thought that he detected
a smell of whisky about his clothes. A
gray flannel skirt, tom coat, dirty
breeches, and scaly brogps, were all
that the visitor wore. Kingsbury gazed
at him a few seconds, ayif undecided
whether to kick him out/r allow him to
stay. /
“Could I have ro/is placed at me
sarvice ?” asked the )6rd-lookiug custo
mer. /
Kingsbury hesit/ed. He eyed the
applicant very cl/dy snd smelled of
him. There was/taint of liquor in the
air. “Oh, youimnt a room, do you, old
fellow ?” the /atchman said. “Well,
just stop her/i moment and keep your
hands in y oft pockets while I run up
stairs to Campbell, and see if he
will assia* you one.” The red-faced
man nod/ed assent. Kingsbury sprang
up staii/ He was anxious to return be
fore \Xf stranger could take advantage
of h/ opportunity and make off with
othaTpeople’s baggage. Deacon Camp
behmad just stripped, and was sitting
ooKhe edge of the bed listening to the
Music of the whippoorwills. “There’s
/man down stairs wants a room,” the
bvatchman said. “Who is he ?” inquired
the Deacon. “A drunken old Irish
man,” was the reply. “What does he
look like?” was the interrogatory.—
“Look like,” repeated the watchman.
“He looks like a mighty rough old cus
tomer. He’s the worst looking Irishman
I ever saw, and he’s as drunk as a nig
ger fiddler.” “Well, slap him in No.
No. 40,” the Deacon responded. “I
guess that’s good enough for him.” “I
guess that it’s better than he ever had
before,” answered the watchman as he
closed the door. Down stairs he dashed.
The baggage was all safe. The Irish
man stood facing the register with his
hands in his pockets.
“This way, old fellow,” the watchman
exclaimed, again mounting the steps.
The old Celt followed him. No. 40 was
a cramped apartment in the top of a
wing of the hotel immediately over the
kitchen. The carpet was dusty, the nose
of the wash-pitcher was broken, and the
furniture generally was not calculated to
please a fastidious taste.
“Is this my room ?” the Irishman
asked. “ Yes, this is yonr room,” re
plied the watchman. “ Well, then,”
said ‘lie Celt, “ I must tell you that this
won’t do. I wan’t a larger apartment,
one that is well furnished and with soo
parier accommodations. ” “ Oh, you
do, eh ?” exclaimed Kingsbury, glancing
at him in derision. “ I suppose you
would like the ladies’ parlor. You can
consider yourself mighty lucky to get
this room. If I was the proprietor I
would hoist you into the hay mow.” The
old Irishman stared at the watchman in
perfect surprise. It was some seconds
before he could catch his breath. “ I’m
greatly obliged to ye for yer imperti
nence,” he said, “ but if 1 cawn’t find
accommodations here, I must go where
lean find them.” “That’s right, old
fellow,” the watchman responded, “you
had better go to the Grand National.
That’s the place for such slouchy old
roosters as you.” And the indignant old
Celt walked down three flights of stairs,
followed by theequally indignant watch
man. As the old gentleman was about
to pass out the front doors he met a
half dozen hard-fisted companions about
to enter. “ Hold on, boys,” he said,
“ this is too aristocratic for oos. The
National is the place for such slouchy
ould roosthers as oos.”
And they went to the National. Two
large express wagons loaded with trunks
traveled in their wake. The whippoor
wills laughed at them as they passed
under the water oaks shading the pub
lie square, ami the stars shone brightly
as they disappeared under the Georgia
colonel’s portico. When the sun arose
Deacon Campbell got up and the whip
poorwill stopped singing. The Deacon
came down stairs with a fine appetite.
“Good morning, Kingsbury,” he said.
“How’s your drunken Irishman this
morning? Is ha up yet?” “No sir,”
replied the watchman. “No. 40 wasn’t
good enough for him. He wanted the
bridal chamber, and I made him dust.”
Here the Deacon stepped to the register,
and began to read the list of arrivals.
Suddenly his eyes dilated. A flush
overspread his countenance. Putting
iris forefinger upon the book he shout
ed, “Here, here, Kingsbury. What’s
this? Look here.” The watchman
looked at the finger. It pointed to the
name of
! SIR GEORGE GORE.... England. :
“Oh, good Lord,” he exclaimed, “that
was the drunken Irishman.”
The Deacon waited to hear no more.
He slapped on his hat and rushed for
the National Hotel. As he entered its
rotunda he saw the jolly face of the
Georgia Colonel superintending the
transfer of the Baronet’s baggage to a
suit of elegant parlors above. The Dea
con sent his card to Sir George, and af
ter deluging him with apologies and ex
planations asked him to return to the
St. James, but 1/e old follow politely
bowed him out, with the observation
that the National was “good enough for
such a slouchy old rooster as he.”
The story got out, and threw Jackson
ville into convulsions. Os the ten thous
and tourists in Florida the past Winter
Sir Georgia was the only one who at
tracted universal attention. Nothing
iu his personal appearance indicated the
presence of blue blood. Ho was ap
parently about fifty-five years old. His
dress was invariably shabby, and his
face aud hands were rough, hairy and
sunburned. Though of English birth,
he looked like an Irishman. A delicate
Celts brogue slipped from his tongue
and gave a quaint polish to his manners.
Tho Baronet was stuffed with money,
and scattered his greenbacks with a care
lessness that astonished and delighted
the natives, white and black.
Sir George talked horse like a Presi
dent, and was passionately fond of hunt
ing. He did things upon a big *scale.
lam told that his baggage weighed
nearly nineteen tons, and covered scores
of guns, pistols, aud kegs of powder, a
half dozen ducking boats and canoes, a
portable shot tower, and any quantity of
fishing rods, gaff hooks, scalp nets and
lily irons. His retinue included twenty
four thoroughbred dogs, seven horses
and ten servants. He had a pile of camp
equipage as high as a hay stack, and
thirty-two pairs of real Bedford cords,
well worn. He either chartered a large
steamboat or moved from point to point
in a special train. The Savannah News
declares that his income is S4OO a day.
There is good reason to believe that this
estimate is under rather than above the
truth.
Sir George first appeared in Jackson
ville during the latter part of January.
He had been killing antelopes and buffa
loes ou the plains, aud come to Florida
for a grand Winter crusade. His pre
parations astonished the natives. He
threatened to clean out the entire penin
sula and drive all the game into the
Gulf of Mexico. Fortunately he over
looked the deer-dotted savannas and
gobbler-echoing hammocks of the In
dian and Kissimee rivers, and made a
descent upon the Gulf coast. He hired
II score of guides, and swooped down
upon Menatee county like a prairie fire.
For a month the land resounded with
tho roar of his guns. Game was scarce,
but the Crackers declare that he made
it “a heap scarcer.” “Yea sir,” said
one of them, “he druv all the dur, bar,
cats, an’ tigers over to the Atlantic
coast; and Manatee county got shut of
every turkey, snipe and patridge.” The
Baronet, however, had bad luck with
dogs. He ran them too hard, and lost
sight of the most valuable animals. —
They were unacclimated and too fat.
Some of his best horses also died, but he
expressed himself as fully satisfied with
the trip.
Sir George spent a month at the Na
tional Hotel, then chartered tho steamer
Lizzie Baker aud departed for Savan
nah. He will pass the Summer in Cana
da, but is expected back here next Win
ter to resume his shooting and listen to
the music of the whippoorwills.
The Methodist Bishops on Dancing
and Operatic Church Music,
The pastoral address of the Bishops
of tfie" Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, was read in the Conference at
Louisville. Upon dancing by church
members and operatic music in the
churches they expressed themselves as
follows;
“Wordly amusements are denounced
by the Word of God and by that part of
oitr general rules which forbids the
taking of such diversions as cannot be
taken in the name of the law of Jesus.
This denunciation is explicit and com
prehensive. Amongst those indulgen
ces which cannot stand this solemn
test is the modern dance, both in its
private and public exhibitions, as ut
terly opposed to the genius of Chris
tianity as taught by us. When persist
ed in‘it is a jnstifiable ground of action
bv the church authorities.
“We do not hesitate to say that no
music should be introduced into public
worship that is not decidedly devo
tional; that no tunes should be snng or
hymns announced by our preachers
which the congregation cannot join, and
that the pastors of onr churches in vir
tue of their office have a general super
vision of this, as well as any other de
partment of public service. W 1 ’ give it
also as our judgment that whenever in
strumental music is practiced in our
congregations, preludes and interludes
ghould be avoided, since they intermit
singing and ooiisaipe the time allowed
to the service.”
Farmers’ Reform Convention.
Indianapolis, June 10.—The Farmers’
Reform Convention assembled to-day.
There are about 5,000 delegates present.
Committees on credentials, platform,
resolutions and permanent organization
were appointed.
SOUTH CAROLINA SKETCHES.
TRIAL JUSTICES OF THE NEW
RELUME.
[special correspondence of the chronicle
AND SENTINEL.]
South Carolina, June 8, 1874.
The next in order of infamy is the
Trial Justice department of this God
forsaken State. Instead, however, of
treating the subject myself and growing
warm and nauseated over it, I send you
the subjoined observations of a friend
practicing law in Oiangeburg.
Bourbon.
Orangeburg, S. C., 1874.
My Dear “ Friend and Frequent
We were talking, you remember, about
“ Trial Justices,” and while I was prais
ing their courts as happily conducted in
this State, you were ungratefully decry
ing them and drawing* unfavorable com
parisons with other like courts in other
States, particularly in Georgia. I told
you I would not submit to this, and
would convince you of your error by
giving you an accurate ac.-ount of the
workings of these sublime institutions,
made up from my own personal ob
servation and experience. I know
you will quietly wilt, and after
patiently listening to me, will cheer
fully admit that there is no State
in this glorious Union where the laws
are so intelligently, faithfully and learn
edly administered as in South Carolina.
You will see that there can be nothing—
as matters are now managed—which can
possibly render the laws or their appli
cation ridiculous, or farcical, or hold
up their administration as a laughing
stock, as we are pained to believe is the
case in most of the other States. Well,
yon can judge yourself, and acknowledge
your errors. This is what I saw with my
eyes, and no one told me of it. A week
or two since three clients—Schoem,
Hunks and Hunks’ wife—came to see
me. Their faces were long and gloomy.
I said, “ surely each one of this party
has had his dearest friend lately promo
ted to a glorious immortality.” I said,
“ no one 1 ioks that way except on the oc
casion of his bosomest friend sailing for
Heaven.” I prepared to say, “my dear
friends he not cast down; you have my
sincerest sympathies; let me assure you
of this consolation, however, that your
loss is his eternal,” &c. These, and oth
er like original condoling words, was
I about to utter, when the three howled
in concert, “Oh, Squire, it ain’t that; it
ain’t what you think it is; it’s worse than
that. Squire, we’re gone up now.” I
said, “ wherefore so ? and why thus?”
The}’ dolefully responded, “ Been steal
ing rice.” “ Who’s been stealing rice?”
I asked. “ We, Squire,
Three Bushels of Rice 1 "
‘•The devil you have ! You are well to
do iu this world. What could have in
duced j’ou to steal three bushels of rice?
and from whom did you steal it ? “ Twas
from a nigger, Squire; but you see we
didn’t steal it all. Only a Trial Justice
says we did—aud he sent for us—and
we are bound to go—and e want y onto go
along, too, and help us out.” And then
they howled in concert again. So you
didn’t steal it after all ? “No, sir, we
didn’t.” Oh ! are you quite sure now ?
“Yes,-sir, sure. We never stole a pint
of rice yet.” I thought they must be
mistaken; I said so; but they stuck
faithfully to the denial of even a halt
pint. I said, mentally: “There is a
mystery here—this thing is curious—
this is somewhat incredible—yet I re
flected, and said, mentally: After all
why should it seem so hard to believe.
These people are not in ‘ye ring.’ They
appertain not unto the spokes of ‘ye
ring.’ They know nothing of its hub.
Neither beloDg they unto the outer cir
cumference of ‘ye ring.’ ” Why, then,
should they steal ? and wliat chances
could they possibly have of stealing? and
why should they 'lief seeing that they
follow not “ye ring” business? Then I
said aloud: “All right; 1 believe every
word you say. 1 believe if anybody
stole rice, it was the nigger himself; and
I furthermore believe you are just as
good as any nigger in the State. I would
say more, my friends, but am prohibit
ed by special act of Congress from using
any higher degrees of comparison.” So
now proceed to business: Did you give
bond? “No, sir.” Are you in cus
tody of any one in particular ? “Not as
we knows. ” Any process served on you ?
“Yes, Squire; a sort of a paper, but no
body could read it. We showed it to
the neighbors. Each took a shot at it;
but each missed and gave it up. So we
don’t know one word that’s in it.’’Maybe
I can make it out. “But you see,
Squire, the Trial Justice said: “He
must have that back. Couldn’t ge| on
without it.” “And as we didn’t know
what it was for, we gave it to him.” How
the devil do you know you’re accused
of stealing rice ? “Oh ! as to that the
Trial Justice" told us so. ” This is alto
gether correct, and lovely, I remarked.
Now name your
Time, Place and Distance.
“Time, next Saturday—place, Trial
Justice’s house in the clearing.” In the
what? “In the clearing, Squire. Aon
see, Squire, it ain’t much settled round
there, and this Trial Justice has squat
ted on a bit of ground in the pine woods
—not close enough to other folks to
ni|ke it uncomfortable in warm
weather.” Proceed: Distance? “About
24 miles from your town in a straight,
line.” All rigiit—l’ll be there. Ou
Friday Schoem sent for me. I took the
South Carolina Railroad for some dis
tance to a station, where I got off and
Schoem and I took seats in the horse
car, in which we rocked along until near
evening, when we reached Schoem’s
house. There we tarried for the night.
Sehoem’s children (he had from 15 to 19
around) were in great distress. They
had never seen any one before with a
stove pipe hat on—and under the excite
ment naturally took me for the hang
man. It seemed I just filled the bill ac
cording to their ideas of that functionary.
I asked what they were looking down
the road so anxiously about. Schoem,
acting as interpreter, told mo their views
as to my own character, and said they
were looking for my corps of carpenters
to heave in sight. These were expected
to erect a first class gallows on which
Schoem was to be hung by break of day,
without fail. When they learned I was
not that eminent individual their tears
changed to smiles at once. They fed me
hugely aud drank me in proportion.
(The corn in that section is evidently
prime seed, /judge so from what I ex
amined). And then put me in a com
fortable bed, where I forgot everything
until sunrise, when Schoem woke me.—
Early rising, with the “supplement of
corn seed” (that’s your term “pard”)
helped the appetite, and after a
bountiful breakfast we again got tickets
on the horse car and traveled
for the Court House. Briefly measur
ing off six miles through the pine woods
in about three hours, we came, sure
enough, to a “clearing,” in which we
beheld a house erected of poles of the
native pine tree (the bark being careful
ly kept on uninjured) which grew in
great profusion and luxuriance around.
We observed also a gate and a chicken
coop, built of the same material, and
several other articles indicative of a
high state of civilization. “This is the
place,” Schoem hoarsely whispered.—
Indeed, I remarked, I might have known
it. It lias that palatial look about it
which one would naturally expect to find
in the mansion of a Judge of indepen
dent means. Besides which, there is
that air of elegant refinement about the
premises; that “je ne sais quoi,” ex
pression, if I may use such a term, which
invariably pervades the dwellings of the
educated and refined. There is a smell
of books here, too, Schoem !■*-an atmos
phere of literature! It is almost too
much to come upon suddenly. And the
odor of legal lore is positively suffocat
ing. lam afraid I can’t stand it.”—
Schoem became alarmed. “For God’s
sake, Squire, don’t give it up yet. It is
awful grand, but you must stick to me.”
I said I’ll try, but I feel bad. So we
Counted Out Some Grains of Corn
Seed.
Then feeling courage we entered on the
piazza of the palace, and took our places
on the oriental and luxurious pine
bench, on which we found seated Hunk
and Mrs. Hunk, both in a tremor, and
talking in whispers. There was an awe
inspiring something about the whole
place which positively compelled you to
speak iu a low breath, and forbade any
thing like irreverent noise or boisterous
language. Schoem whispered, “This is
the Court House.” Which? how?
when? where? I asked. “Right here
on this here piazza.” Oh ! that’s it.
Yes, I see. I looked around to see if an
audience was present which could pos
sibly fill that hall. Then I leaned my
back against the front post of the piazza
and rested my feet against the rimer op
posite wall of the house, and waited
patiently for the Court to show np. There
was a small room, the architecture of
which was apparently more modem than
that of the body of the palace (that be
ing a commingling of the Elizabethan
style with the Doric) anjjl which opened
on the Court room. This, I said at once,
is the Judge’s robing room. My profes
sional instinct was correct. After sev
eral moments of dread ftil suspense out
of this room there stalked into the Conrt
room, a slim copper colored nirrger ( vrith
eyes that looked a cross between fried
eggs and spoiled oysters. Tuis nigger s
manner was supremely contemptuous
and supercilious. He
stalked in majestically, ignoring the
presence of all inferior beings. He had
on the usual complement of pants, and
was worrying into his coat with a superb
haughtiness. He bad a pen on a rack
side of his head. As soon as his arms
got safely through the sleeves be pro
ceeded to crack and devour an Easter
egg, with the air of a man to whom
such luxuries were too common to make
any fuss about. And he didn’t care and
• .uldn’t help it if we did admire him
..nd did pine for Luster eggs. Schoem
said, in the densest kind of a whisper,
“That’s him Squire.” Who’s him ? I
asked. “That’s him, the Judge !”
Which Judge ? Now, see here Schoem,
you don’t mean to tell me that that oys
ter-eye fried-egg-eye Easter egg eating
copper-colored, wool headed,sleepy-look
ing loth amendment nigger cnss is the
Judge you have been telling me so much
about? “Yes, but he is tho’’squire.”
Well, I’m —. Look here Schoem, I have
heard of such things before. My friends
have tried to impose on me as I thought
with narratives of such. I discarded all
these as simply fabulous, incredible—in
a word, impossibilities. Now, if you
are not lying, all I have to say is I take
back everything. From this day hence
forth and forever, I’ll believe every and
anything I hear. But this thing is one
or two branches over my persimmons.
However, when Schoem assured me he
teas the Judge I settled down to my
Court manners. I took my feet from
the top log of the house, aud straighten
ed up my back from its luxurious lean
against the front post. I rose graceful
ly’; I said blandly, “may it please the
Court I would ask humbly to be per
mitted, as a great favor, to inspect the
affidavit and warrant which your Honor
has been graciously pleased to issue in
i the case of “the State vs. Schoem, Hunk
& Hunk.” He simply made an effort to
flash one oyster at me contemptuously,
and observed,
“The Court Hev Not Sot.”
Then he pealed another Easter egg,
and, smiling grimly at it, sent it in
search of its last companion. After
which he drew forth a magnificent silver
watch, I thought, with some ostentation.
I may be wrong. It is likely I am. It
is probable he was above being proud
of such a trifle. Then he returned to
the “ robing room,” aud presently
brought out a table which he placed
ne r the door in the court room. Next
he took the pen off its rack, nibbled at
the end in a thoughtful aud abstracted
manner, put it back on the rack, took
out the watch, and eat another egg.
“Truly,” I said to myself, “this great
man is apparently not hostile to eggs.”
“Mr. Johnsing,” now said the Judge
sternly. Another fifteenth appeared—
this was his constable. “Bring mo the
‘statoos.’” The “statoos” were brought
and placed before him on the table,
whereupon he commenced turning over
the leaves from the first, aud didn’t stop
until he got through the book. This
seemed to be a necessary preliminary to
opening his Court, for, having pealed
aud ate another egg, he announced “The
Court hev sot.” He then pushed over
some papers to me saying, “you kin
look at them papers, and also those evi
dence.” He then opened another egg.
1 said, “it seems, then, you have already
taken testimony. “Why, in course I
hev. This Court knows her dooty, 1
should think." I took up what we were
told was a warrant, and which my clients
had already given up as Greek. It
might, by the uninitiated, have been
called a warrant. In fact it could have
been called anything by anybody, and
yet survived. The spelling nor the gram
mar would not have entitled the author
to the first honor in any large Universi
ty, nor to the second perhaps. And the
hand, as a specimen of penmanship or
intelligible writing, was not much to
brag about in a crowd. Viewed as
Egyptian hiroglyphics, it was fair
enough. As far as I could interpret and
translate, it seemed to insinuate that my
clients had three bushels of rice of no
value whatever, which the plaintiff said
belonged to her, and defendants were
required to say at 1 o’clock, p. m., of
that day why this was thusly. I rashly
remarked, “This, your Honor, would
seem to be meant for a civil process,
more particularly as I see no affi
davit annexed. I thought we were to
answer a criminal charge ?” “ Why,
in course it is a ceevil process. There
is nothing said about any process.
I write it process. If you is a lawyer
you orter know a ceevil process from a
criminal process. And you have no
business to read it process, for flier
ain’t no sich thing.” I bowed my ac
knowledgements for tho correction.—
“You needn’t think,” says the Court,
“You can be a cornin’ here fur to be a
commentin on that paper, for I tel yon,
Mister, you karnt.” Far be it from me,
your Honor, I said blandly, to criticise
spelling and grammar, which are
so perfect, and handwriting easily
mistaken for copperplate. ” The
last word, I think, touched his heart
—he nodded graciously and said,
“Proceed.” I proceeded. “Upon look
ing at this process, your Honor, I per
ceive that no value is placed upon the
rice. And, after carefully examining
the evidence, I can find none proved—
to say nothing of the entire failure of
proof as to any ownership whatever. If
then this is all the evidence, I would
move that the case be dismissed, or for
a non-suit or a verdict for defendants,
just as it may strike your Honor as the
most appropriate course, as maybe most
consistent with the practice of your
Court.” ‘Non-suit,’ staggered him—l
said the “plaintiff must make out a case,
or is out of Court. We are not put
to defend where no case is shown against
us.” “Now where’s any sich law ?” says
the Court. I stated that I was unfor
tunate in not having access to his
Honor’s library, and was too far from
my own to furnish him with any au
thority ; but that in ray section of the
county such was generally received aud
adopted as law. “Well, es yon’s got no
law fur it, all I’s got to say is J’s got law
here. This here is the ‘statoo,’ and I
goes by that, and es it ain’t there it
ain’t no law.” Has your Honor then
made up your mind ? “I hev made up
my mind to
Three Bushels of Rice.”
That being somewhat an unimportant
matter by itself, I presume your Honor
will then try the case from the begin
ning. “The Court kin do so.” Well I
ask for a jury. “I don’t think, Mister,
you are entitled to eny jury.” I said,
Oh! I don’t want a jury personally
(except a coroner’s, I mentally added),
but my clients do. Here the Judge
peeled another egg. It seemed to mol
lify him. He said, “I guess they may
have a jury.” I bowed. “Mr. Johnsing,
you will now proceed to select 12 names
out of which you can git a juror.” I
said, “I don’t like to persume to sug
gest to the Court, but in my section of
the county,” “the Statoo” provides
for eighteen names. He simply ob
served, “Draw twelve,” I said eighteen,
Court “twelve.” Eighteen. Here he
turned his back on me. “Draw twelve.”
All right I said, tain’t so in my section.
Another trial Justice whispered some
thing to him, when he turned to me and
said, “I guess you may have eighteen.”
He then commenced for the 100th time
on the “Statoos” and went thro’ as
usual. What he was looking for I don’t
know—apparently something, aud he
appreciated how utterly useless is the
index to that great book —as everybody
knows it is. I now understood why he
looked so sleepy. It was clearly I saw
the effects of “burning the midnight
oil.” That man is a hard student. Mr.
Johnsing in the meantime squatted be
hind the chimney outside and wrote on
a bit of paper and presently brought in
eighteen names. We then commenced
to draw, the plaintiff objecting to every
white man and I to every nigger, which
resulted in plaintiff winning the game—
getting four niggers to my two white
jurors. The Judge now called order by
observing to those outside, “He didn’t
want no pigs nor disorder, nor picking
teeth.” Turned over “Statoos” and eat
an egg. Each juror was then made to
stand up and repeat the following for
mula : Court, “You do soleinly swear or
affirm, as the case may be.” Juror, “I
do solemly swear or affirm as the case
may be.” “Court, “That you will try
this case and do jest.” Juror, “That I
will try this case and do jest.” May it
please the Court, I said when the first
was being sworn, in my section of the
county the juror is sworn to decide j
the case according to the evidence, and
this would appear to be correct, for your
Honor will see that one man’s sense of
“jest may not”—Court, “Hold up your
hand (to next juror), you do solemly
swear or affirm, as the case my be, that
you will try this case and do jest.”—
All serene, I observed, in my section
those jurors would be said to be
improperly and illegally sworn. I
don’t know what the laws in this
section are. Go ahead. “Well Mister,
you have said about enough. The Court
knows her business, I can tell ye.” He
then unracked the pen and after eating
another egg went through a form of
taking down testimony, which he never
did do. He swore the plaintiff to tell
the truth only, and if the plaintiff didn’t
tell “the whole truth and nothing bt;t,
the truth it is certain that plaintifi didn’t J
violate he? oath. No more case was j
made out than before, and I asked for a j
verdict. He said
Three Bushels of Rice Were Proved. \
I said I would like to say something :
to the jury. He said “you have had j
your sav, besides you said you were j
done.” I said nothing of the kind. I \
said “that’s ail” when I finished my last
witness aqd told YOU to go on with the
reply. “Well, if you said so I didnt
hear you—l must be deef.” I expect
you are damned deef—l was getting mad
then. Now, just here, I have sogiething
to say to this jury, and 1 mean to say it,
and j don’t mean to let you interrupt
me witli any more nonsense. Your Court
nor the Supreme Court shall not stop
me in the discharge of my duty. “Now,
Mister, I want to know es you means for
to compare this here Court with the Su
preme Court ?” I bowed, may God for
bid, your Honor ! I beg to disclaim any
and everything like contempt of your
Court —such a comparison could never
enter my head. This apology soothed
him, and he said “advance.” I advanced
on the jury. One old nigger (who had
gone out and stayed some time during
the evidence and who had been brought
in and mildly told he musn’t do so auy
more) w'as fast asleep, another nigger
was rolling his eyes jealously around at
the 3d, around whose neck the plain
tiff, standing behind him, had lovingly
twined her arms (her husband had left
soon after I opened on him). I knew
that juror was against me, and No. 2
also; and the 4th was speculating on the
chance of his ever getting 25 cents out
of mv clients for sitting there. The
two whites were thinking it was a long
time since breakfast. I got through and
the Judge said “you cau take the case
and find. Three bushels of rice have
been shown.” Then the jury was led into
the next room, spacious, but unfinish
ed. There were about six loose boards
on the floor aud the carpets had not ar
rived. The ventilation was good around
aud under. The one sideboard as furni
ture was not much in the way, and those
jurors spent four precarious hours on
those loose boards. About dark they
came in. The four niggers had tired
out the other two jurors, and the Court
read the following verdict :
“We find Hunk not guilty, aud we
find Schoem and Mrs. Hunk
Guilty of Three Bushels of Rice.”
I mildly observed, possibly I gather
the meaning of the jury. That verdict
might bear amending as to form, ppr
haps.” Mister, says tho Court, the
jury here found and the Court approve,
“so that’s all.” All pellucid. Os course,
I dou’t meuu to submit to any such in
fernal verdict as that—l 11 appeal. “You
can’t do it.” Well, we’ll see about that.
“You’ve got to give bond fust goin off.”
All right, if I have to I have five days to
do it in. “Does the Statoo say so?”
Look for yourself. “Then you learnt go
from here tell the costs be paid. Them
costs is SO.” I irreverently invoked the
name of an old Dutch friend. I said,
U. B. Darn and your costs too, don’t
you wish you may get them and the
rice also ? Then Schoem and I took re
turn tickets and left for his house.
When we counted out some more grains
of corn and went to sleep happily. The
sequel is, the Judge did send down Mr.
Johnsing with au execution against Mrs.
Hunk, and he prospected around to. find
chattels of hers to the amount of $6 (for
the Judge put his own estimate outlie
rice aud ordered a levy to satisfy $3, and
$3 more for costs besides 2 cents “com
missliion”), but finding no property of
hers be nailed in Hunk's corn house,
under a delusion that Hunk ought to
pay corn for Mrs. Hunk’s rice. Then lie
prospected around Schoem’s with a
similar execution. But Schoem'B dogs
ivcre not hospitable. Then Hunk came
in and ungratefully indicted the Judge
for official misconduct, and the Judge
said it was Mr. Johnsing. Then Hunk,
without regard to decency, indicted Mr.
Johnsing, and Mr. Johnsing let out that
the Judge lmd instructed him to nail
up lluttk's corn house and go around
and engage the corn; fitaw the nails
from the house at night; sell it at once
aud deliver it, and carry him the money.
Os course no one could believe that.
However, ail injunction stopped them
all, and Mr. Johnsing is bound over to
answer for such wicked stories.
I have been tedious in my illustration
of the elegant workings of our system
over here, pard—and after all you will
perhaps see no great fun in it, but I
wanted to convince you that Georgia
can’t beat us in 'the administration of
justice, and now I hope you yield the
point. If these matters do not point any
particular moral, or adorn any tale they
furnish valuable food for reflection, and
they natiualljjinduce the mind to a train
of self condemnation. Wearemade tode
plore our ingratitude. lam afraid it is
not thought of enough. In our spirit of
complaining we am not disposed to
think gratefully of the many blessings
which surround us. These facts which I
have stated to you ought to teach
us in the strongest language how grate
ful we Ought to be to our good Gov
ernor who gives us these efficient and
learned men to sit in important places
aud administer our laws so intelligently
and so well. This bounteous provision,
by our good Governor, we ought never
to forget. We ought to be thankful to
him; we ought to pray for him every
night in our closets; but in our gratitude
we must never forget the good and wise,
patriotic and pure Senators and Repre
sentatives who, out of genuine love for
us, their constituents, take pains to find
out and recommend to the Governor the
good and wise for these offices. For it
matters not liow anxiotfs the Governor
may be to do us these kindnesses, we
must remember that he is not übiqui
tous—he cannot know where merit lies
hidden throughout the State; and,
therefore, to those whose duty it is to
find fit persons for him to appoint, and
who so faithfully perform that duty, we
should render a proper share and a large
meed of praise. The Governor ought
not to have all the glory. Selah !
Your “Friend and Frequent Paudnek.”
P. S.—l have just learned that the
Governor, moved by the misrepresenta
tions of some jealous and pitiful enemy
of our Judge, has had him removed and
another Trial Justice appointed in the
place of this wise ornament of the
Bench. This is particularly uufortu
nate, as a large number ofl citizens were
about sending a petition! addressed to
his Excellency, asking him, on their
bended knees, figuratively, to keep this
Trial Justice in office for life— or, if that
could not be, to try and help get him on
the Supreme Bench. I send you a copy
of the execution, which you can file iu
the archives of the State or give to some
Georgia Justice to keep as a precedent,
or you may do anything !:lse with it you
like.
The Execution.
State of South Carolina 1 By A. J. E.
• Minger,
County of Orangeburg) \ Trial Justice
In and for the county ar| state aforsaid
To Samuel Jonsan tb|e said constable
Thear are to command and you take of
the goods and chattels Mrs S. C. Huu
gopeler you levy or cau/srso to be leved
the sum of Six Dollars Wihish Carry
Hayler befor the corts of Trial Justice
A. J. E. Minger Did recover for a Debet
Also the Sum of three Dollars cost be
sides 2, cents commishion oml maker
you a return her of within sixty Days
from the receipt herof.
Given under my hand and seal This
14 April A. D. 1874.
A. J. E. Minger, ) ' \
Trial Justice.
Owners of Lins,
r) UN by either horse, r ater or steam power.
U or those that contemplate pu’chasing, will
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is the cheapest medickie in the world, is given
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Thousands havo
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Main Office, 101 W. Fifth Street.
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PLANS and ESTIMATES given for BUILD
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We also manufacture Irons for Water Tower
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X HE stomach is ono of tho most delicate or
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