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DUBLIN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1,1S78.
BUSS MB DARLING.
. Kiss me, darling. Lei your lips
Be a rise that breaks apart,
And I’ll be the bee that sips
Honey fyom the rose’s heart.
Ah! the scarlet leaves unefoso
Of this blossom blown for me.
Happy fate to be a rose!
Happier fate to bo a bee!
Kiss mo, darling. Let your eyes
Be the violets on the hill;
I will be the wind that flies
Hither, thither at its will.
When my kiss upon them lies
Then the blossoms, sweet and shy,
-Must look up in swift surprise,
While the laughing,storm goes by.
Kiss me, darling. Let my heart
Be a warm and ploasanj nest ;
*Come and swing its doors apart,
Enter lit aiid bo my guest, .
Love stands just within the dopr,
Tender shall his welcomc.be; k
There, my darling, cveimore,
Sing your song for him and me;
/ - . .
JERRY CRUNCHER OUTDONE
*fe a NEW YORK UNDERTAKERS
STORY.
[The RewTbrhTimet*.]
The. inside of his shop was orna
mented with two mathematically
correct lines of shining coflins up one
side and down the other. On two
or throe stands about the room, cov
ered witli black palls, wore metalfe
“caskets” of modern make and
shape. But the interior was dwarf
ed and spoiled by the show-window,
in which avus a beautiful little white
casket, just large enough for a beau
tiful little cherub how singing Moo
dy and Sun key hymns with the an
gels, lined Avith spotless wliito satin,
tucked in and fastened’in hero and
there Avith spotless Avhite satin but
tons, the Avhole set off Avith dainty
little Avhite' enameled handles; the
sides of the window wero draped
funorally,, but gracefully, with more
white satin, tucked up and fastened
up with more buttons of (he same.
iHc avVis an under taker. A&ui should
his name bo printed, after the disclo
sures ho has made, after tho deep
villainy he has laid bare, his life
would not be Avortli one of his own
J Avhitc satin buttons. •
He was sitting, as I entered his
shop, before^ a huge, old-fashioned
desk, whose shape was somewhat
icoffin-like, leaning over a diagram he
was drawing. When I handed him
my card, and ho straightened up, I
saAV that it Avas the diagram of a uoav
casket. .He turned quickly around,
and said:
“sh!”
I said “certainly.”
He pointed to a stairway at the
rear of the shop, got up, .Avcnt to-
Avard it, and beckoned mo to follow.
I folloAvod, and a\’c Avout up two pairs
of stairs, and stopped in a workroom,
half filled Avith unfinished and un-
paintod coflins. They stood about
in piles, some of the piles much tall
er than others, TJio undertaker
selected one of the loAvest of them,
one containing only tAVo coffins, and
avc both sat .down.
Ho Avas a very mysterious man.
He got up several times before saying
ft word and peeped behind tho heaps
of cuffins. J£yt.ftudinganybody,, he,
lifted jthfl lids of two or three and
tiptoed noiselessly to tho door to see
Avhctber anybody Avas on the stairs.
Apparently satisfied ytttat avo were
alone, ho resumed his scat.
“The walls have ears,” said he,
“and I have known a single empty
coffin, that Avas buried, the next day,
to spread a scandalous story through
a Avhole neighborhood. Wo must
exercise caution. Aro you prepar-
cd?”’
I nsked for Avliat..
“To hear tho most damning roA’e-
lation.” ho cried, springing to his
feet and pounding his bony old fist
against tho lid of the coffin I Avas
sitting on, “that OA'cr Avas told to
mortal cars! Tho most Avonderful,
and ingenious, and horriblo ’ tiling
that eA'cr yon dreamed or thought or
read. I warn you. Aro you pre
pared?” •
I told hjpi jf lie would sit down
and not pound my knee again, I
thought I was prepared.
“Very good,” said he. “Let us
.begin at the beginning. I sent you
a letter asking you to come and see
me. Yon have come. 1 thank you
for it. Now, you are from llie Times,
I read in the Times a few Avoeks ago
an account of Iioav tho body.of some
ex-President or other had been stolen
from a Western cemetery,- and had
aftoward been found in a dissecting-
room. Bosh! I say boshj”
•lid slapped his hand on my knee
again and looked in 'my eyes,
looked as meek and inquiring as pos
sible.
“I say bosh! Noav listen to me.
You may think I am crazy witch
you hear what I tell you. No bod
ies are ever dug up out of graves for
dissecting-rooms What do you think
of that? Am I crazy?” . *
It Avas on^of the occasions that
require a Avhite lie. I told him uo,
I guessed not.
“You may think that I am mista
ken, ’ he Avent on, “but before yon-
go aAvay, Twill show you that I am
not. Look at tho thing for your
self. Whtlt*is your idea of digging
a body out of a grave? A big earth
anger, boring doAvn through the head
of the grnA’o, and crushing in the lid
of the coffin? And u hook on the
end of a pole put around the nock of
the body, which is then drawn out
through the hole? That is what
people think about it. Absurd!
And then a Avagon, and a bag, and
fill up the bole, and aAvay you go
with the body to the medical college,
and you sIioa'c tho body in through a
mysterious hole in a dark corner of
the v/all, aiid a mysterious hand—
you never know whose hand—comes
out through another mysterious hole
in the Avail, .and drops a dozen gold
peieos in your palm. -More bosh!
When a stiff is planted once, it is
planted for good. There aro too
many watching about the ‘c.mictc-,
vies. Then how do they get their
bodies?”
Yes, that aviib the question.
“Give me time,” said the under
taker, Aviping beads of perspiration
from his brow, with a black-edged
handkerchief; “give me time, and
let me think a little. I never did
such a tiling before as give away one
of the secrets of the trade. But this
one must bo made public. It is so
dastardly, so .miserably -unfeeling,
that I cannot practice it; and, if I do
not, I cannot compete with my ri
vals. It must be exposed or I am
ruined.
Did you ever notice,” bo Avent on,
looking at me very earnestly, “that
the most fashionable hearses, nowa
days, have the big glass Avindow at
their pities- shrouded with crape, and
that their tops are thick and heavy,
like a mansard roof?”
“Yes, I have noticed that.”
“Well, noticing that, did nothing
over arouse your suspicion?”
“No; nothing.”
“Then you Avoro not looking about
you. Those hearses are traps—'man-
traps. I knoAV Avliat I am saying:
they are man-traps. You have seen
the coffin put inside, and. Hie assist-
aSTwofiTa I&ngTtme pretending to
"be fastening it to the floor, and at
last fastening the rear doors very
carefully?”
“Yes.”
“That is all humbug. Tho coffin
fastens in Avith a spring, which
doesn’t take a second. What the
man is really doing will astonish you.
It would astonish anybody. Ho is
making arrangements .'Avhilo lie
stands at the opey back doors to
steal that body out of the cofiin bc-
foro it is buried.
“Non*, how does be do that? The
arrangement is as intricate os it is
ingenious, but I will explain it. In
the first placo, the lining/although
apparently fastened to the inside of
the coffin, is entirely separate, and
is stolon with tho corpse- When the
coffin is finished, the lining is adroit
ly put in, and uiider it arc four
small, hid very strong linen bauds,
extending across .tho coffin, so that,
when the body is put in, oilcof the
bauds will be under it's hack, anoth
er under tho small part of tho back,
tho t hird under its thighs, and the
fourth under its cah'es. Those bands
are all longer than the coffin is Avide,
more than twice as long, and each
has a strong ring fastened to each of
its ends.
- “V lion the undertaker screws
down the coffin-lid, in tho house or
church, his scrcAva are “blinds,” and
go into boles so.much too lnrgo for
them that they do not hold at all.
While he is working with the lid,
however, the undertaker puts two
little dark-colored hinges on one side
of tho coffin-lid. These are provi
ded with little project ing pieces, like
tacks, instead of the shrew holes, and
the sharp, projecting pieces fit Jnlo
minuto holes already prepared for
them. In this way they can bo ad
justed iu a moment. The coffin is
then carried to the hoarse, and, while
the assistant is loaning far into tho
hearse, pretending to fasten the cof
fin down, ho is, in reality, slipping a
stout cord through tho rings on the
ends,of tlie linen hands, (which have
been adroitly concealed under tho
lining,) and puts through u loop in
tho cord, a small, strong, steel hook,
that projects, by a strap from the
top of the hoarse. The strong little
cord is so small avIiou it extends out
of the coffin and the lid comes down
on it scarcely a crack is to bo seen.
“Then,” the undertaker contin
ued, (ho was much excited) “the
ijriver mounts his scat. The mourn
ers and friends are behind, in carria
ges. They get fairly started, and
tho driver presses his foot upon a
little spring on the foot-hoard. Then
what happens? Nothing is to be
seen or hoard outside.' But if you
could be inside the hoarse, you would
see. some ^remarkable movements,
rim top pfjth© inside of the hoarse.is
•v •-black cuffum. Tile first feu el i of
die spring rolls the curtain quickly-
back, and a largo space above is dis
closed, much larger than it looks
from the outside, And largo enough
almost to hold coffin and body and
all.
“But the curtain is only a prepar
atory move. Almost at tho same
instant the curtain rolls bade,, the
steel hook raises the" strong little
rope, (lie coffin lid raises on its hing
es, and the body and the coffin-dining
come rapidly ouj;, nil supported by
the linen bands, and go up into the
top of tho lvearso like a flash. A
small Aveight is displaced by this
movement, and the upper curtain
rolls back to its place, not, hoAvovcr,
before a sand bag bus come down
from (lie top and taken tho body’s-
place in the coffin to make tho
Aveight. Loss than a quarter of u
-minute and it is donp.”
“But Iioav docs this interfere Avith
your legitimate business?”
“How? Look at the difference;
the undertaker avIio steals the body,
in this Avay, takes it to a modicol
college tho -same day, and it being
fresh, and in good condition, gets.
$25 for it. Then tlioye’s the lining.
A good satin lining costs $10. Wo
charge $45 for it, 'but aVc have to
have a reasonable percentage. He
uses the same one every time, taking
it in, or letting it out, as tlrb size of
the coffin rcduircs. How can I com
pete Avith those men?”
“But are they never detected?”
“NcA’cr, and never could bo; it is
too avcII arranged. Hark! Some
one is’comiug up tlm stairs, I have
a nice lot o'f comfortable coffins here,
haven’t I?”
Not Ke:uly to Dlslmnd
[ Thomaed’le Timta]
Lester lias the bulge on Parson
Felton, the independent. The peo
ple bf Georgia arc rapidly acquiring a
knoAvlcdgo of the true inAvardness of
thcsoMiidepeudcnts. Tho democracy
of Georgia aro not ready to disband
yet. This is a sore disappointment
to many, but is ncA'crtheless a stub
born fact,
TI1E TURKISH SLAVE MAR
KET.
The English protectorate over Asi
atic Turkey bids fair to become ere
long highly unpopular to tho average
'Park. By the agreement entered
into with tho Sultan, it Would appeal*
that Ilia Majesty consonts to extin
guish slavery throughout his domin
ions. Immediately after tho Crime
an Avar, Lord Sin fiord do llodoliffo,
in a spirit of mistaken philanthropy,
so far as I ho persons t o whom ho had
reference wore concerned, insisted
upon tho ulMuulminieut by Turkey
of its trade in fair Circassians. The
effedt avos a general outcry against
English interference both in Circas
sia, and Constantihoplo. Tho Cir
cassian girls* liad boon brought up
from their curliest infancy Avith
bright visions of future grandeur as
possible wives of pashas or even sul
tans, and move thiui one can lay'
claim to tho honor of having given
birth toa padislm. Confined to wiId
valleys of their native, mountains,
Avith no higher matrimonial prospect
than tho possibility of marrying a
neighboring boy, or more probably a 1
■peasant. AVarrior of her own valley,
a Circassian belle looked eagerly for
ward to the advent of tho Turkish
trader who was to barter guns*and
ammunition with tho chief of tho
district for tho fairest of its daugh
ters. The parents, Avho always receive
a considerable share of the spoil,
wore delighted to part Avitli their
daughters on theso terms, and tho
latter avovo no loss Avilling to ex
change •their mountain seclusion for
tho luxurious harem of Constantino
ple, Ayh.ero picnics to the sweet waters
and drives in open ambus gave them
nn opportunity of slyly revealing
their Charms to the enterprising and
amorous youth of tho Turkish mor
tropoljs. The traders, avIio received
largo prices for their frail morcliati-
(litjc.^imino loss disgusted at fimpng
their traffic at an end, Avhilo ’the.
magnatcS for whom .they Avoro des
tined," found themselves deprived of
tho most prized inmates of their
harems. Thus no one Avas sutisflod
but tho philanthropists of Exeter
Hall. Since then, tho Circassians-
have emigrated en mime to Turkey,
and the girls enn bo obtained in Con
stantinople without any other species
of payment than that Avliich is
knoAvn among civilized nat ions under
tho euphemism of marriage setl.lo--
ments. Circassian mother’s can iioav
sell their daughters, liko tlio moth
ers of Christendom generally, to the
highest bidder, and feel that because
they get rank-find Avcnlth and not so
many yards of printed calico in ex
change, tliey are civilized. Tho
principal source of supply for the
slave markets of Turkey at present is
Africa.
The slaves oomo from Egypt, Tunis
and Tripoli in large droves after long
and perilous caravan journeys across
the desert from the Soudan, Avlicrc
they are captured by Arab traders in
Ruzzais. They are also sent in large*
numbers, or avovo, until very lately,
from the east cost of Africa and Zan
zibar to tlio Persian Gulf, supplying
Bussorah, Bagdad and tlio Euphrates
Valley as far a*. .Damascus, The
trado lira been considerably dimin
ished in"consequence of the pressure
put by tho British Government upon
the KliediA'O, of Egypt, und the
Heyed, of Zanzibar. It is avcII that
this is so. Tho African shiA-e trade
partakes of none of the features of
that Avliich wo have described in Cir
cassia. . It is carried on wifk an un*
sparing cruelty, and invokes untold
stiffenugs upon its victims. It is im
possible to read tho nurrativea of Liv
ingstone, Spcko, Stanley, and other
African travelei’s, Avithont feeling
that a substantial benefit will be con
ferred upon humanity, by tlio British
Government, if it can succeed in clos
ing all tho slaA'o markets in Turkey;
but it certainly will cause very con
siderable* discontent, both among the
traders and purchasers of slaves. It
is only fair to tho Turks to say that,
as 'a rule', they dojiiot ill-treat their
.slaves. The women lend indolent
lives in tho harems, chiefly as attend-
mits upon the proprietors’Avivos, and
the undos perform domestic services
of by no moans an arduous character.
It is tho procuss of obtaining them
which causes tho chief suffering,
otherwise, tho transition from the
Avilds of Africa to the comparative
comfort of a Turkish gentleman’s
establishment, is not ono Avliich, as a
rule, proves to ho a hardship to the
slave.-—d\ r . V. World.
A FIENDISH OUTRAGE.
A Child Assaulted nnd Tied to n
Tree in the Woods.
A report was in circulation yoster
day that a fiendish outrage had boon
eoiumited on the Louisyiilo road in
tlio vicinity of Woodlawn Park on
Thursday afternoon, and u-po-i; in
quiry wo ascertained the folloAving
particulars:
The victim A\’as a colored girl
indued Clara Brown, aged about ton
years, living with her parents on
Bryan street, near West Boundary.
On Thursday aftornoon Avhilo en
gaged in picking up rags and . scraps
of paper from some trash near tho
Bryan street bridge, a colored man
driving,a cart passed near, and, accos
ting her, asked Avhat she aa’us got l ing
tlio old rags and paper for,» av licit she
replied that sho avus collecting them
to sell. Ho then told her if sho Avould
come with him a short distance ho
would give liora largo quanily of old
paper, and invited her to lake a seal on
tho cart. Tho child thanking him
for his kindness,-accepted the offer
and Avent with bin over tho canal
bridge.
After proceeding some distance bo
turned off from the roud, and, seizing
tho child. envviod b«v from view, ami
dospi lohor pit eouscrioH,. comm itfced a
brutal felonous assault upon her
porson, previously having gagged her.
lie then tied her hands, "and drag
ging her to a tree, tied her to tho
trunk, and hurrying back to his carl,
disappeared.
Between fife and six o’clock an old
colored man living in the neighbor
hood, Avhilo on hio Avay homo, look a
short out across the Holds, and thus
fortunately came in view of the child
tied to the tree. Ho at once approached
and released her, and after removing
the gag from her mouth inquired how
sho came to be in Bitch a situation.
Tlie gag had injured tho child’s
mouth very much, and her banugno
avus badly swollen, but sho managed
briefly to toll the story. The colored
man at once brought her to tlio city
and carried her to the house of her
parents, ivhou a physician avus sent
for. An examination showed tlmt
her injuries Averoof the most serious
character, and yosterday uftornoon it
avus not expected that sho could sul’-
A'Jvo. Elio bud been tied to tho tree
several hours.
Tlio child states that she. docs not
knoAV the muno of the man avIio
assaulted her, but is positvo she
could recognizo him if sho saw him
Again. Efforts will bo made to ap
prehend the villain.—Suvnwih Nows.
They wero in the parlor together.
Tlio light lmd gone out, xpul they
stood at tho window in the radienco of
tlio moon. lie had his arm about
her, and was looking droumily at tho
queen of night, Softly he spoke—
“Darling, I am thinking Iioav
happily avo Avill livo in flur home,
and you shall bo its dear little Mis
tress. Wo will liavo a littlo, parlor
and a little dining-room and a little
kitchen for you to manage. Wo
shall bo there all by oiwiolvcs, and
wo shall ho so happy, my darling,”
“Oh, Henry,” flip despondently
altered, “I thought avo Avoro going
to hoard.” ..
There Avero tears 1n her eyes for
him to kiss away, but he lot her re-
movo them with Avhat facilities slid
could command.
'•'bo Vo;\H^e of Dentil.
The (‘liurlt-slon Courier prints
Iho first letter of its correspondent,
who sailed (o Africa with Iho emi
grants on tho bark Azor. It is a rec
ord of suffering and misfortune.
Twenty-three died on the voyage
from measles, ship f-jver and other
onuses. -Tho provisions avovo scant,
tho darkies improvident, cakI con
sumed on the voyage the stoves ship
ped for consumption in Africa. Tho
Association had shipped us BUrgeoi
and physician, ono Curtis, a negro
AA’ho liftoAv absolutely nothing about
sickness or medicine. The motley
crown, or pa^i ongoi-u, though other
wise docile, could not ho made jo ob
serve proper regimen, or keep them*
solves clean. They ivcro landed ut
last, at Monrovia, innocent of all
provisions for tho future, and Avitjji
prospects as black ns Africa herself.
Love is liko a cigar—tlio longor it
burns, the less it becomes.
;—rr?-’-*"",
Why is gold liko tlio prodigal son?
Because it’s returning to par. >
Tho only Avay a St. Louis man
keeps cool, is to go homo and “get
up a breezo Avitli his lyife.”
■ ; v _ ■ A- - . ■' - - .
Wliy is n fino Avoman like .a looo-
motivo? Because sho draws a train
after her, scattei’s Iho sparks, und
transports the males.
Mrs, *Muriu Saunders, of Graves
comity, ICy., 114 years of ago, lost
lior youngest child lust week, a strip
ling of 87.
In seven months, beginning in No*
vemhor and ending in May, 127 illicit
distilleries have been bvbken up in
tho northern district of Georgia.
Lewis Hall, colored, was tried and
sentenced.;' by Judge Ilardon, of
Brooks county, to 12 months on the
cliain gang, for boating a mule’s
brains out.
. The ChurJjestoAVii News xmd r Cou
rier calls Avhout and outs the' white
‘man’s crops, the ovidenco of civiliza
tion ami progress.
H;~-
Bismurk took an immense fancy to
Disraeli. Says tlmt ho is the only
man ho has met for somo years really
worth talking to.
Chni'lblto Cushman left her for
tune to her noplioA?!* Somo young
men, in such a case, might , hava
proved ungratofUlj and Boon forgot
ten their benofactress. Ho, however,
has erected an eleven dollar monu
ment to her memory.
The Morocco embassador, Tibi Blit
ilium, lately suid to a ludy of tho
court at a royal breakfast, in Berlin,
Unit ho was n much-nmrricd man;
had 31 wives and 20 children, but
since his depart ure from homo ho had
received the pleasant intolligonoo
llmt his family liud been increased
by 5 iioav duugbtors
A Nevada toumstor Jost his sweet-
;!M$j who ,wns. kind but ob.-dinafo;
and so ho named a mule Nancy, be
cause the mule reminded him of his
girl’s character. The mulo has
kicked $200 Avorlji <$ lmnicss to
jiicces; hut tho teamster Ioa’cs tho
bcust all tho eiinie, and has ttars i;r
his eyes ivhexi ho sees tho leather fly
ing. All the sentiment of llm worid
isn’t confined to ncAvspuper offices
after all.
Tlio agricultural development of
tlio United States has been tremen
dous of hi to years. Thus tho coni
crop has increased from 708,320,000
bushels in 1867 to 1,340,000,000 in
1877, or nearly 100 per cent in a sin
gle decade, The hog product has
more than doubled during the same
period, being tho last, year 9,0-18,56(1
ahead. The yield of Avlicat last, yen
Avas 360,000,000 bushels, or 50,090,
000 more than Avas over before pro
duced,