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Must Driuk or Die.
"When the use of alcoholic liquors
reaches the point where a man must
“drink or die,’’ it is a sure sign that he
will soon drink and die. The terrible
power which the appetite for intoxi¬
cants has over its slaves is vividly il¬
lustrated in* the following incident :
One wintry afternoon a trembling
man entered a tavern in New Hamp¬
shire, carrying a small package of ch tfa
ing. “Landlord, Going to.the bar burning. he said
I am Give me
a good glass landlord of gin."
The pointed to a line of
chalk marks and said,—
“John, you see the old score—not
another drop till that is paid.’’
The poor wretch glared fiercely at
the man behind the bar.
“Landlord, you don’t mean that.
You have got my farm, you have got
my horses, you have got my tools. All
I have got in the world is this little
bundle of clothes. Please, landlord,
give me for them just one glass of gin."
“I don’t want your old clothes ,’1
calmly answered the man." Pay the
old score first."
The drunkard staggered back. A
gentleman "What then said;— give
will you me for enough
have to buy good two pair glasses boots of gin? I see vou
a of on your feet.
Will you give me your boots for the
ten cents?"
The miserable wretch hesitated for
a moment, then said,—
I “Stranger, if I give you the boots,
must go out in the snow barefooted.
If I give you the boots, I must freeze
to death; if I don’t death. give them to you, I
shall burn to Stranger, it is
harder to burn to death than to freeze
to death; give me the gin you may have
the boots,"
He sat down and began to draw them
off.
The gentleman did not, however, in¬
tend to take them, but he was testing
the Others strength looking of the terrible appetite.
were on and they said
the man should have his gin.
They supplied he could him liberally, and he
drank all and he took all the
rest away. When night came he
drank the last drop, The and he went to
sleep in a barn. frost-king came
and took the poor man in his arms.
The next morning he was found in
the ba m frozen to death, ,
“Save Dat Pocketbook ’
There is an old story of a jailor* who,
■having been paid off, was travelling in
a stage-coach to London. A highway¬
man pointed his pistol at I'll Jack’s head,
said,'"your brains money, “Blow or bio your
out!" away’’ jplied
Jack. “A min might as v- 40 to
London without brains as tliout
’money." shared Jack’s A colored feeling. man'Beems have
'sold.Lisi ' A negro planter came HsHfcnay to Vriksburg,
I’-Oil, pat in" his
pGcketbook, and started sa the
Tiver. Leaning too far over the guards
as the boat backed out, be fell over¬
in board. his inside His porte-monnaie, * pocket, floated which was
out and
rode with his hat on the surface of the
water, whih* % he current carried the
negro! awayk. lowered, end
The yawl was assistance
‘at onoustarted towards the drowning
man, who, perceiving his treasure float-
off, raised his voice and sheuted, "Save
dat pocketboc head i 1 ” under and
His went disappear¬
ed. As he reee up again, he gasped,
“Dar’s one hundred and eighteen dol¬
lars in dat pocketbook !" ■ .
Scarcely had he uttered. the Words
before he sank a second, reach just time. \ The
yawl came within in time
to rescue the drowning African as he
came to the surface for the last time.
As soon as the water was wiped from
his nose and mouth so that he could see
and speak, he asked, "Did—did you
save that pocketbook.
“No," was the response.
"Well, den," said the negre, regret¬
fully, “what was de use ob savin'me?"
Prudish.
Human nature is the same all the
world over—a fact which is shown by
the following description, by a Danish
missionary, The of suitor marriage-making the in
Greenland. came to mis¬
sionary and said, “I should like to hare
a wife.” “Whom?” asks the mission¬
ary. The man names the woman.
“Hast thou spoken to her ?”
Sometimes the man will answer
“Yes, but thou knowest womankind.”
More frequently the answer is “No.”
“Why “It difficult. not ?” Girls prudish.
is are
Thou must speak to her."
The missionary summons the girl,
and after a little conversation, says, “I
think it is time to have thee married.’^
“I won’t marry."
“What a pity 1 I had a suitor for
thee.”
“Whom ?” The sought missionary his aid. names
the man who has
“He is good for nothing; won’t have
him.
“But," replies he the throws missionary, his harpoon “he is
a good provider; thee
with skill; and he loves "
Though listening to his praise with
evident pleasure, the girl answers, “I
won’t have him.”
“Well, I won’t force thee. I shall
soon find a wife for such a clever fel¬
low."
The missionary remains silent, as
though he understood her "No" to have
ended the matter.
At last, with a sigh, it.” she whispers,
“Just as thou wilt have
“No,” replies the persuade clergyman, “as
thou wilt. I’ll not thee.”
Then, with a deep groan, comes “Yes,”
and it is settled.
Political Opponents.
Public men often abuse each other
for political effect. They are like op¬
jury, posing and lawyers then, while who quarrel twelve before gentle¬ a
the
men and are dine deliberating together. as to the verdict,
go While William
H. Seward was ser-
ving irritating his first term as Senator, Henry his most S.
Foo of Mississippi. antagonist was The sarcastic
e,
Mississippian York Senator used in to insult debate, the New and
then his house public and hobnob with
go to
him. John C. Ca’houn, who was too
frank and sincere to play a double part,
private once publicly intimacy taunted Foote with his
■ with the man whom
he satirized in public.
But the dapper little politician'
knew that to abuse Mr. Seward, who
was dubbed in Mississippi as an abo¬
litionist, woo'd make Senator Foote
popular at Home. Personally, he liked
the Senator from New York, who per¬
sisted in mair Liming social relations
with his revilers.
An illustration of the respect ai d
courtesy which political opponents
should show, and which sometimes they
do show to each other, is narrated by a
writer in the AtlanHc. It occurred in
ah interview between Gen. Taylor and
Gen. Cass.
Gen. Taylor, who had been elected
President over Gen. Cass, the Demo¬
cratic candidate, had no sooner arrived
in Washington than the latter called to
pay his respects As he entered the
room, Gen. Taylor grasped his hand
and shook it cordially. As Gen. Cass
did not at first recognize the President¬
elect, he exclaimed,—
“You had the advantage of me 1
That’s twice you’ve had the advantage of
me 1 "
"That’s true,” said Gen. Taylor, “but
you know the battle is not always to
the strong.”
“That’s a fact,” replied Gen. Cass,
and then the successful candidate and
his unsuccessful competitor had a
friendly chat together. As Gen. Cass
was troduced leaving the room, a gentleman in¬
himself, with the remark,—
“I was on the stump as a Democrat,
and in every State in which I spoke
you had a majority."
“I “My good friend," said Gen. Cass,
am very much obliged to you; and
if your speeches had that effect, I wish
you had stumped in two or three more
States.”
Is Drunkenness a Disease?
In a recent issue the St. Louis Re¬
publican has above a well written editorial,
with the caption, taking ground
against the theory, for some time so
prevalent, that drunkenness is a dis¬
ease, and claiming that a man’s free
will bad a great deal to do with his
drinking to excess or abstaining from
■doing bo.- A correspondent of the Re¬
publican refers to this editorial approv¬
ingly, and claims to have had oppor¬
tunity to observe a large number of
cases of patients treated for inebriety
in the asylum at Binghampton, and
that the trouble with most of
them was not that they could be cur¬
ed, but that they did not want to be.
The Norwich, Conn., Bulletin says:
“The truth is that voluntary drunken¬
ness, and drnnbanness is volan¬
tary in ©99 cases oat of 1,000, is it¬
self a crime, and ought to be con¬
sidered an aggravation of every
offense committed nnder its influence.”
That is sound doctrine. It is not a dis¬
ease any more than a tendency to theft
or eny manner of vies or orime is such.
Pity ths drunkard as you pity any
other vicious or criminal character, so
as to desire his reformation, and aid
him in any honest effort he may make
to redeem himself. Bat he should be
made to see the fact that he is not iD-
dulgiDg an amiable weakness, to be
passed by with crime a pleasant jest, but
committing a againet himself,
his family, society and God. Men oc¬
casionally, in their theories and plans
of a humanitarian character, become
wiser end better than God and Scrip¬
ture, but soon or late, stubborn facts
convince them of their error. God’s
word ranks drunkenness as a sin, class¬
es it with gross and heinous sins and
denounces the same terrible penalties
against it as agaiust the rich. Let
God be true, though all human theo¬
ries be proved to be false by his truth.
—South West Methodsit,
Winning; By Pluck.
The famous Lord Erskine, one of the
advocates at the British bar, had a hard
struggle for success. He was the
youngest son in a poor family, and lit¬
tle could be done even for his educa¬
tion. At fourteen he entered the navy,
and by sheer merit won p romotion.
But disliking entered that the branch of the ser-
vice, he army, and served
for about eight years. He married im¬
prudently, expensive, and finding determined his family
growing fortune the bar. Selling his to win
a at com¬
mission, he managed to obtain a legal
education, and on his first appearance
in court won a position for life. The
case came to his.ankle him by a lucky day, accident. his
Spraining to visit friend, one he could on
way a go no
further, and attended, instead, a large
dinner party. His brilliant conversa¬
tion attracted an old sea captain, who
having been removed from the office
for showing up the abuses in Green¬
wich damages. Hospital, He engaged had brought this a suit bar¬ for
young
rister, who threw his whole energy into
the case. His speech electrified the
bench, the jury, and the spectators.
When he left the court room he was
loaded with briefs, and success was
won.
ADVEBTISEMENTS.
CLINCH SHERIFF’S
SALES.
WILL „ -
_ __ BE SOLD before the Court House
door in the town of Homerville. on the first
Tuesday legal hours in November the following next, between named the
of s*e,
of wild lands, lying being and situated
said comity, at.d levied upon by virtue of
tax ril. fas. Issued by M. M. Caswell, fax col-
lector, of Clinch county, and to be sold to sat.
isfy State and County Taxes due upon said
lands for the year 1882
LOTS OF LAND Nos. 130, 132, 133. 131. 143,
143, trict'of 147, 171. 172, and 187, in the Seventh dis¬
said county. Levied upou as '.the
propertj ofA.E. Newton.
Al so LOTS Nos. 86, 87, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101.
474. 476, 508, in the Seventh district of said
co'in’y. Levied upon as the property of B. H.
Layman.
ALSO LOTS Nos. 317, 349. 850. 351. 321. J22,
823 , 321, Seventh 825. .356, 256. 2'2, 209, 809 , 288, 289, in
the district of said county. Levied
upon as the property of W. H Sneed.
AI SO LOT No. 522, in the Seventh district
of said crunty. Levied npon as being subject,
Name of owner unknown.
ALSO LOT No. 487 in the Seventh district
of said county. Levied upon a3 being subject.
Name of owner ur": wn.
ALSO LOT No. 52 in the Seventh district of
said county. Lerled upon as being subject.
Name of owner unknown.
said ALSO LOT No. 285 in the Seventh district, subject. f
Name oounty. of Levied upon aB being
owner unknown.
ALSO LOT No. 275 in the Seventh district
of said eout.y. Levied upon as being subject.
Name of owner unknown.
AI SO LOT No. 438 in the Seventh distr'et
of said county. Levied npon as being subject.
Name of owner unknown,
ALSO LOT No. 200 in the Seventh district
of said county. Levied upon as being subject
Name of owner unknown.
ALSO LOT No. 88 in the Seventh district
of said county. Levied upon as being subject.
Name of owner nnknown.
ALSO LOT 103 in the Seventh district of
srld couDty. Levied upon as . being subject
Name oi owner nnknown.
ALSO LOT No 278 in the Seventh district of
said county Levied upou as being subject
Name of owner unknown.
ALSO LOT No 437 in the Seventh district
of said county Levied npon as being sud-
ject Marne of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No. 479 in the Seventh district
of said county; Levied upou as being subject
Name of owner unknown.
ALSO LOT No. 213 in the Seventh district
of said county Levied upon as being subject
Name of owner unknown.
ALSO LOT No. 295 in the Seventh district
of said county Levied upon as heingsubject
Name of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No. 336 in the Seventh distiict
ofsald county. Levied upon as being subject.
Name of owner nnkaown.
ALSO LOT No. 445 in the Seventh district of
said county Levied upon as being subject.
Name of owner unknown.
ALSO LOT No. 465 in the Seventh district of
said conn !y Levied upon as being subject.
Name of owner unknown. '
ALSO LOT No. 331 in the Seventh distriot
of said county. Levied upon aB being subject
Name of owner unknown
ALSO LOTS Nos 181, 188, 189, 309, in the
Seventh district of said county. Levied upon
as the properly of C R Forsyth
ALSO LOT No 131 In the Seventh district of
said county Levied npon as being subject
Name of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 173 in the Seventh district ol
said county Levied upon as being subject
Name of owner unknown
ALSO T.OT Fo 304 in ths Tenth district, o'
sa d county Levied upon as being subject.
Name of owner unknown
Al SO LOT Nos 165, 166, 212, 258,259,314, 432,
435,437. 438 In the Tenth district of said county
Levied upon as the property of E H Oliver
ALSO LOT No 529 in the Tenth district ol
saideoun'y M Levied upon as the property ol
Henry Scott
ALSO LOTS Nos 458, 460, 465. 474, 504, 507. 517.
In the Eleventh district of said county Levied
upon as the property of C H Gardner
ALSO LOT No 456 In the Eleventh district
of said county Levied upon as the property
of A E Tav el
ALSO LOT No 138 in the Twelfth district of
said county Levied upon as being subjeot
Name of owner unknown
AISO LOT No 43 In the Twelfth district of
said county Levied upon as being subject
Name oi owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 004 in tbe Twelfth district
of Clinch county Levied npon as being sub¬
jeot Name ol owner unknown.
ALSO LOT No 360 in the Twelfth distriot of
said county Levied upon as being subject
Name of owner unknown
ALSO' LOT No 102 in the Twelfth district
of said county Levied upon as being subject
Name of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 29 in the Twelfth district of
said oomnv Levied npon as being subject
Name of owner unknown
A L80 LOT No 431 in the Tweltth district of
said county Levied upon as being subjeot
Name of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 95 in the Twelfth district of
said county Levied upon ns being subject
Nameof owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 170 in the Twelfth district ol
gaid Name county Levied upon as being subject
of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 216 in the Twelfth distriot of
said county Levied upon as being subject
Name of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 330 in the Twelfth district of
said oounty Levied upon as being subject
Name of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 78 in the Twelfth district of
said county Levied upon as being subject
Name of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 171 In the Twelfth district of
Bald county Levied npon as being subjeot
Naroe ol owner uuknown
ALSO LOT No 120 in the Twelfth district of
sffiii oounty Levied upon as oeing subject
Nai ie of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 140 In the Twelfth distriot ol
said county Levied upon as being subject
Name of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 191 in the Twelfth district of
said county Levied upun as the property of
C C Davison
ALSO LOT NO 508 in the Twelfth district
of said oounty Levied upon as being subject
Name of owner unknown
ALSO LOTS of land Noe 139 in the Twelfth
diet.'let, and 31. 32, S3, in fhe Thirteenth dis¬
trict of said county Levied upon as the pro¬
perty of R E Wyley
ALSO LOTS No 245 81, in the Twelfth dis¬
trict of said county Levied upon as the pro¬
perty of John W Gamble
ALSO LOT No 225, In the Twelfth district of
said county Levied upon as the property
of J. If Keen
ALSO LOT No 474 in the Twelfth distriot of
s>id county Levied npon as being JsubJeot
Name or owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 177 In the Twelfth district of
said oounty Levied upon as being subjeot
Name of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 210 in the Twelfth district, of
said couty Levied upon as the property of
A H Champion,
Al SO LOT No 77 In the I „h •district of
h ild oounty Levied upon as being subject
Name of owner unknown
LSAO LOT No 270 In the Twelfth district
ofsald county Levied upon us the property
of B H Layman
ADVERTISKIHKNTS.
ALSO LOT No 161 In the Thirteenth distriot
of flame said county Levied upon as being subject
of owner unknown
ALSO LOT No 160 U the Thirteenth dis*
trfet of snid county Levied upon as being
gvibject Name of unknown
ALSO LOT No 65 in the Thirteenth district
sa jd COUD ty Levied upon as being subject
of owner unknown
A LSOLOT No 9 Id the Thirteenth district of
said county Levied upon as being subject
Naina of owner unknown
Levied upon by L W.Mattox, Constable, this
October 1st, 1883. and turned over to me,
2d day ol October, 1883;
J M JEFFORDS,
Sheriff of Clinch Cpunty
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J H ESTILL,
3 Whitaker Street, Savsnnab Ga
Savannah, t Florida and Western
Railway.
ouriuivi ... Office , 1
Bavakkah, July 28, 1883. J
f'XN A. t Passenger AND AFTER Trains SUNDAY, on this road July will 29, run 1883 a&
fallows:
FA&r MAIL
Leave Savannah, daily, at........ . 9.30 a m
Leave Jesup daily, at.................... ..11,20 p m
Leave Wavcross daily at.............. .. 1,00 p m
Arrive at Ca lahan daily at........... .. 3,05 p m
iSrrive Airive at Jacksonville daily c.t.......... 3,45 p m
at Live Oak daily(e-rcept S”n-
day) New^i, - ...........................................6,00 .anfaFd daily (encept p m
a .
Arrive at O.uit,man daily at............5.(.ftrm
A rrive at Thomasville daily at_..........6,10 p m
Arrive at Bainbr'dee de'ly at............. 8,45 p m
Leave Anive at Chattahoochee daily at.......9.30 p m
Chattahoochee daily at 4,40 a m
Leave BaInbric ,or e daily at..... 5 JO a m
Leave Thomasville dally at........,....... 8.05 a m
Leave Qu'tman dally at...................... 9,13 a m
Leave Va'dosta daily at.......................8.50am
Leave New Branford dally (except
Leave Sunday) Live Oak at...................................6,30 drily(except Sunday a m
Leave at................................................... ..... 8,10 a m
Jacksonville daily at..... __ 9:30 a m
Leave Callahan daily at.............. .....10,15 a m
Arrive at Waycross daily at .....12,10 p na
Arrive at Jesup daily at........... .... 1.50 p m
Arrive at Savannah daily at...... .....8,40 p m
Between Savannahand Waycross this train
stops Blackshear. only at Fleming, Johnston’s. Jesup and
Between Wayoross and Jack¬
sonville stops only at Folkston and Callahan
Between Waycross and Chattahoochee stops
only regular at Itelegraph tat ions. stations and >.n signal at
Pullman Palace Cars on this train between
Savannah and New Orleans dally.
This train connects at New Branford with
steamer Caddo Belle, leaving for Cedar Key
and Suwanee river points every Friday morn¬
ing.
ALBANY EXPRESS.
Leave Savannah, daily at.............. ,.4,oO p m
Leave Jesup dally at......................... ..6,30 p m
Arrive at Waycross dally at......... .8,30 p m
Leave Dupont daily at................... 12,30 a m
Arrive at Thomasville dally at..... ..6,45 a m
Arrive at Albany daily at............ 11,15 a m
Leave Albany dally at_................ ..4.15 pm
Leave Thomasville daily at........... ..8,4.5 p m
Arrive at Dupont daily at............. 11,53 p m
Arrive at WaycroBs daily at.......... ..1,30 am
Leave Waycrosss dally al...... 2,00 a m
Arrive at Je9up daily at........................8,60 a nt
Arrive at Savannah dally at................6,30 am
Connection at Albany daily with passen¬
ger trains both ways oh Southwestern Rail¬
road to and from Macon. Eufaula, Mont¬
gomery, Mobile. New OrleahB. eto.
JACKSON 7TLLK EXPRESS.
LeaveSavannah dally at............... .....11,00 p m
I,cave Jesup daily at-.................... ....._3.15 a m
Leave Waycross daily at..., .......5.05 a m
A rrive at Callahan daily at.......... .......7.05 am
Arrive at Jacksonville dally at...... .......8.00 a m
Leave Jacksonville dally at........... ......5.45 p m
Leave Callahan daily at.................. .......7,00 p m
Leave Waycross dally ~t_.............. ......8J5 p m
Arrive at Jesup dally at................. .....11,25 pm
Arrive at Savannah dally at........... .......3,45 a ns
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on thlR train
da by between Jacksonville and Washington
Passengers permitted In to Sleeping remain Cars undisturbed for Savannah
.ire until 6
o’olook a. m.
Passengers leaving Macon at 8:00 p. m. con¬
ned at Jesup with this train for Florida dnily-
Psssengers from Florida by this train con¬
nect at Jesup with train arriving at Macon 7,00
a West m dally, making connection lor points
and Northwest.
Passengers for Brunswick take this train
arriviugat Brunswick at 6:45 a ra. dally.
Leave Brunswick 8:30 a. m. a: rive Savannah
3:45 a. m.
Cedar Passengers from Florida Savannah for Gainesville
Fernandina) Keys and Transit Road (exoept
take this train.
Passengers for the Florida Southern Rail¬
road vis Jacksonvile make close connection
at Palatka.
Mail steamers leave Balnbrldge for Apala-
ohioolaand Columbus every Wednesday, and
for Columbus every Saturday.
Passengers for Pensacola. Mobile, New Or¬
leans, dose Texas, connections and trans-Mlsslsslppl points
make at Chattahoobee
dally with trains of Pensacola and AtlP-ntlo
Mobile hatlroad, 4,04 arriving at New Pensacola Orleans at 9,80 a. m.
at p. m., at 10,05 p. m
Connection at Savannah dally with Cbar-
le"ton and Savannah Railway for all points
North and East.
Connection at Savannah dally with Cen-
:al Railroad for points West and Northwest.
Close Connection at Jacksonville daily
(Sundays St. Augustine, excepted) Palatka, for Enterprise, Green Cove Spring,
and all landings St. John’s river. Sandfora,
on
Trains on B. and W R. R. leave Junction
gjlng west, at 12,55 p m, and for Brunswick at
TL55 p m, dally
iiecommodatiou 'Through TlcketRsoldand secured Sleep. Bren’s „gCar Berths
at Ticket
Office, No, 22 Bull street, and at the company’”
depot foot oi Liberty Rtreet. Tickets also on
8«le at Leve A Alden’s Tourist Offices.
A restaurant has been opened in the sta¬
tion at Waycross, and abundant time will be
allowed for meals by all passenger L.TTAYLOR, trains.
JA8.
General Passeuger Agent,
R. G. FLEMING, Supt.
Printer’s Boys.
The term “devil,” applied to an ap¬
prentice or errand boy in a printer’s
office, is thought by Borne to have ite
origin in ibe ill-nature of authors who
considered themselves persecuted by
continual calls for “copy," and anathe-
matized the poor little messenger by
way of revenge. Modern refinement is
wearing out the term, and now it is
probably oitener heard outside the
printing An office than in it.
exchange speaks an appreciative
word for the boys who carry such an
uncanny title.
There is no class of boys for whom
we have more profound respect than
well-behaved printers’ devils. They
know something and are more practi¬
cal, which is more than yon can say of
all classes of boys. In that respect,
we place the boys who work in a print¬
ing office head and shoulders above
most boys.
Did you ever hear of Benjamin
Franklin? Ben was once a printer’s
devil. He was also one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence.
Hannibal HamliD, Vioe President un¬
der Lincoln, was once a printer’s poor
devil. Schuyler Colfax, who has been
Speaker of the Hoase of Repsesenta-
tivea for years, was “nothing but a
devil in a printing office,” at one time.
Horace Greeley, who was one of the
first journalists on this continent, and
an ex-Oongressman, was a printer’s
devil. Ex-Senator Simon Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, was a “devil.” Thurlow
Weed, one of the wealthiest and most
influential men in New York, the edi¬
tor of the Oommerci Advertiser, was
a penniless devil in a printing office}
Ex-Senator Ross or Kansas commenced
bia successful career as a printer’s
devil. Two.thirds of the editors of
the United States were once printer’s
devils.
Permit us to tell you that the men
who once did duty as printers’ devils
have done more to advance the inter¬
ests and sustain the good name of
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A Tragic Incident.
It would be hard to find a more
heartrending illustration of the horrors
of war than the following. It is not
the only one of its kind,sad to say, for
in our great civil conflict many fron¬
tier families were divided, brothers and
fathers and Bona taking opposite sides,
caeot eech other afterwards in fatal
fight. An old volunteer officer, who is
now writisg an interesting account of
the Irish brigade for the Boston Com¬
mercial Bulletin, relates this story:
There was a tragic event at Malvern
Hill wbioh deserves to be recorded,
of what may come in a civil war One
of our beat non-commissioned officers,
Sergeant Driscoll, an excellent shot,
noticed th 9 distinguished daring of
a Confederote officer, and resolved
to counteract his inspiring efforts in
the most effectual way; so, stating his
intention, he waited till he got a fair
view through the smoke, raised hie
rifle as be would at a pigeoD, end crack¬
ed away. The officer fell, and his men
broke, with our fellows after them with
the bayonet. Driscoll stopped as he
came to the victim of his unerring shot,
who had fallen on bis face, and turned
him over. The victim feebly opened
his eyes, murmured “Fatherl” and ex¬
pired.
Driscoll had shot his own son. -His
grief crazed the man. Oonspicuons for
his coolness hitherto, he become pos¬
sessed with immeasurable fury, and
with a fearful execration, tore off his
coat and and equipments, and with un¬
loaded mnektt, plunged headlong into
the fight; the enemy were strongly re¬
inforced, and the confliot was warm.
Driscoll daehed in like a Malay ranm'ng
a much. He fought like a fiend. He
was brought to the gronnd again and
again, each time springing up afreeh,
and striking with deadly force. He
fell dead just as our line reached him
covered with wounds.
Appreciating- a Joke.
The late President Wayland, of
Brown University, was a disciplinarian
who inspired a wholesome dread in
students incline to be idle or mischiev¬
ous. Few offenders cared to encoun¬
ter his words of rebuke end his stern
looks. But the doctor had a keen sense
of humor, and heartily enjoyed a col¬
lege joke, if the^fun was the harmless
bubbling Wayland of over exuberant spirits.
Dr. married for his second
wife a Mrs. Sage of Boston, and the
college boys were anxious to celebrate
the event. But he had forbidden an
illumination in hoimr of a professor’s
handled marriage a little time before, and had
dents who roughly dared some of the stu¬
boys, therefore, to disobey him. The
were afraid to venture
on a second illumination.
A few restless spirits, however, felt
that something must be done. In the
quiet hours of the night they managed
to enter the doctor’s room in the college
and to abundantly decorate! it- The
next his morning Dr. Wayland on enter¬
ing room was surprised to find it
hung about on every side with sprigs
of sage.
He c onfessed to himself that for once
the and boys the had been too much for him,
that he made point of the joke was so good
who the no trespassers. attempt to It find out
ware was al¬
most the only offence under his ad¬
ministration that was not detected and
promptly punished.
Cakes, puddings, etc., are always im¬
proved by making the ourrants, sugar
and flour hot before using them.
FARM & GARDEN FACTS.
Keeping Sweet Potatoes.
An inquiry appeared in the Msroh
number of the Cultivator, as to a suc-
ceseful plan for keeping sweet potatoes.
Mr. B. Betbnne, of Milledgeville, Ga.,
very kindly responded with a plan tbal
he has found successful, and which he
presents wi'h a commendable brevr.y
and clearness. He says: f
“A correspondent in your March
number says he failed, wben^v’•baokeflr''
carefully and coveasd ihe rk L sheltered the
banks well. Anil careless negrors
around him succeeded without shelter¬
ing. The reason is obvious to tbs pre¬
sent writer, who has always failed'
when he used a shelter or banked i n a
house, yet never failed outside. We
have potatoes on the table every day
in the year, by ohseiving the iollowing
rules:
1. Dig when the potatoes are ripe,
which may bo told by cutting a potato,
and if ripe the cut surface will form
white starch when dry; if not ripe it
will turn black.
2. Dig when the land is not too wet.
3. Coyer the bottom of the bank with
straw, which may be either dry or
damp, bot not very wet.
4. Cover with similar straw alter
piling the potatoes in sharp coma.
5. Cover with corn stalks sufficiently
thick to keep out the dirt.
6 . Cover with dirt two or three in¬
ches thick, leaving s small part of the
stalks at the top not covered.
7. Nail together two pieces, 1x12,
two feet long in V ebape, and invert
over tbe top to keep ont the rain.
8 . When the freezes commence put
on three or four inches more of dirt.
9. The dirt used in covering mast
not be dry, hard, lumpy clay; in that
oase ths air and cold will not be exclu¬
ded.
The writer generally digs potatoes
when the land is in order, and would
handle well in any other farm opera-
tion.
In the spring, say first of April, or
when the danger of severe frosts is
over, open all remaining banka and
rub off tbe sprouts, which will some-
times be six inches long, and remove
the potatoes to a dry floored room, and
they will keep until the winter freezes
come, if not used. The writer’s prac¬
tice is to preserve the same tempera¬
ture as the potatoes have when dug;
he believes that moisture to a certain’
extent is necessary to prevent ‘dry rot;’
that a layer of dirt not thicker than
that on potato banks, will become po¬
rous and let in cold, which will oause
rot; that the moral to all this is, “don’t
shelter.”— Southern Cultivator,
Brains and Muscle.
Tbe editor of tbe Americas, Ga.
Recorder, is a Western man of energy
and ability, who has lately come South
to live, and these are his views on im*
migration, as eet forth in bis excellent
paper:
M any people of these section seem to
think the developement of the South
depends upon inducing Northern capi¬
talists to come South and invest their
wealth. While moneyed capital is
not to be despised and performs its part
in developing the resources of a conn,
try, experience and muscle do the
greatest work and must be depended
npon ae the pioneers.
What good would it do the South
to have Northern capitalists come
South and buy up the land, to
hold it for (peculation 1 No more
would be prodaced from the land than
there is now, nothing ★onld be adding
to the industry of the country. But
suppose a few thousand of small far¬
mers could be induced to come South,
buy some small farms and thus improve
the land and add to the production of
the country.
It is brains and muscle that have
made prosperous States out of the
Western wilderness, the men of small
means, who by their work year by year
add to tbe value of their lands and
thus increase the value of tbe prop¬
erty of their neighbor*. If the West¬
ern States had waited for Eastern cap¬
italists to develop their resources, they
would yet be in a wild state. Capital
is cautious and avoids risks. It is the
necessity of mao which impels him to
seek new fields of labor, to wrest
wealth from the ground.
It Bhould be tbe policy of tbe Sooth
to invite men of small means to settle
within her borders. Call their atten¬
tion to the opportunity the South af¬
fords, through its cheap lands, to secure
a borne and a comfortable income.
Thousands of mon are going from the
older settled States of the North to the
bleak plaine of Dakota, attracted
thither themselves by cheap lands, and securing
for farms which they could
not purchase where land ie high.
If tbe same tissue were used to at¬
tract them to the Sontb, they sould
come to this more genial clime. When
Georgia ie cat ap into email farms, and
owned by those who oultivate them, it
will eee an era of substantial prosperi¬
ty. With the development of its agri¬
cultural resources manufactures will
come, and capital will be eager for in¬
vestment.
Tbe earthy mould should never be
washed from potatoes, carrots or other
roots, until immediately before they
are to be cooked.
Parsley eaten with vinegar will re¬
move the unpleasant effects of eating
onions.
sack. A night-gown is nothieg bat a nap-