The Dublin post. (Dublin, Ga.) 1878-1894, August 01, 1878, Image 1

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YOL. 1. 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,