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DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1828.
NO. 12.
■TEE OLD JPIDDLER'S LAMENT.
JOY NATHAN D. UBNEh.
'‘‘‘Light of my eyes, my friend, «iy guide,
Farewell, farewell to thee.
’The world henceforth is oold-and-wide, j
And dark, ah, dark to tire!
Nor pensive whine, nor joyous bark j
Again shall greet my ear;
-All, all is cold, tnll, •all is-dark,
And I am lonely'herc'. ”
•Such waStho broken wayside plaint
That.drew mo from the wood,
'To wlierc, with grief forlorn tmll faiht., J
-A blind old fiddler stood,
While, deaf to pittying word and stroke,
A poor, death-stiffened dog •■
J Lay crouching near, aud still awoke
The dreary monologue.
'“Good, honest Trip 1 when didst |hbu'fail,‘
Though all was dull and drear,
"By tongue’s caress or wag of tail,
To sympatliizc-and cheer?
^Ovserve in lieu'bf sight long shut
In darkness sad and lone,
And warning givo of hole Or rlit
In friendly-undertone?
■“And, when my fiddle’s plea for alms,
Sothe modest help begat,
'Who guarded well from thievish palms
The pennies.in my hat?
-And even when I could offer thee
Nor crust nor bone to gnaw,
tStill closer to my rngged*attoeo
•Didst thou in kindness draw.
‘“And now, dead—gone? Ah, cold and dim
Henceforth my steps must stray !”
T took his arm, and, chcering.kim,
Agreed to guific'lbe' Way. j
'“Cheer up," quoth I; “the village crew
'Await your violin."’ j
‘‘‘Ah, sir,” said he, “and poor-house, too, ‘
For such as't6tteria.
“‘Adieu, 1 Old friend.” He turned from'me
The lifeless form to fePrOke.
“‘Ill beg some one to bury thee
Beneath this goodly oak. i
•And fiddle-bow shall ne’er again
O’er chords responsive thrill,
/But that shall live in every strain
-The whine that now is still’. - ”
the very worst that she could do.
Among tho other tricks which the.'
fickle goddess liatl played him was
that she had married him. Why he;
ever married as he did, no ono ctuld
imagine. Tlvo dady was -ncithor
handsome, cicvcr, nor rich. Sho
was simply passablo as to looks, with
the liveliness of good ‘health and!
youth, a quality not unapt to dovel-i
op itself into a vivacity of temper
when those other attributes disap
pear. But, on some impulse, Jerry
Donnelly had asked her tho -aiomen-j
tous question, and had been favorably]
answered.
A most uncomfortable couple they
were. Jerry, from tho very first,}
neglected her—not intentionally, I
believe, but simply because for tho
moment he forgot her existence. It
never seemed to him necessary toi
alter his former bachelor round in
any respect; and as the lady had no
notion of being nogleoted, sho re
sented his indifference, and chalked
out a line for herself. It may be eas
ily supposed that tire one -was not’
adverse to brandy and water, or the
other to gossip and flirtation. They
never quarreled outwardly, but were,
hardly ever together. *
• So stood tho domestic circle, if
such it could bo called, of Captain
Donnelly, when he was ordered on
Gen. Elphinston’s expedition. His
wife would fain have remained at.
‘By on English Officer.
Calcutta, but as all tho wives wero
going to Agra, she,*for very shamo,
was obliged to go thore also. On
tho first rumors of tho disaster, sho
was very ’indifferent—said she was!
sure Jerry would turn up at the
most inconvenient time, and that if
•Ire was hqpyy, sho was. When,
however, the tidings were confirmed,''
and it was certain that Jerry had
perished with his conihidos, a great’
change came Hov. Slip shut!
herself up for months, saw no one,
I was stationed at Agra 'daring the
{ Cabal ‘disaster in 1841, one of a more
Jhandful of British troop3, left in
< charge of tticwivcs,-sisters and daugh
ters of the actors in that most un- 1
•happy expedition. And a weary,
'•heart-broikili'g time it was. The
lieutenant-governor, • who had prayed;
land sought the Calcutta authorities
• not to risk tho adventure, had the
worst : forebodings *<5f its fate; and.
i although ho did all an able, kindly,
• and well-natured man. could do to’
’•■maintain the spirits of the circle,)
•those who know him could read too
we|l what his fears were. Words
-could not describe (indeed it is pain-
4 fnl for mo even now to recall) the
• dreary wretchedness of that fatal
T-month during which mo tidings: came,
'.of the dovoted-arnyy- Evening after*
• evening saw the roads crowded by
i-anxious vwoincn, sitting there for
l hours that they might hear tho first
• nows of those who were dear to them,!
l and evening after evening saw themj
treturn in despair. And when at
;last the news came that the sole sur
vivor had stdggered, half alive, bock
> to his cottotrymen, tho wail which
1 ascended from those heart-broken^
‘Creatures I shall never, while I livo,’
> forget. i
There had been a captain in one;
«©f the native regiments, an old ac
iquaintaneemf mino, of the name of
-Donnelly, Jerry Donnelly, as he was
• called by everyone. He was careful
to explain to every one tliat.his name
'•was Jerome, and not .Jeremiah,
but why‘lie so undutyipreferred the
saint to the prophet, I never under
stood. Jerry Donnelly, however, he
• was, and as strange and eccentric a
• creature as ever breathed.
He was a very good- looking fellow
. aud a first-rate officer, but a careless,
; rollicking, half insane madcap of a
’ man, with an amazingTlow of spirits,
• little education or culture, a great,
almost ‘ miraculous talent for lan
guages, with a ■soft heart and an
easy temper. It was impossible to
make him angry, but in all circum
stances, however -unpleasant, he
. maintained a placid soreuity, which
• seemed to imply that he was on inti-
-mate terms with fortune, and knew
and went nowhere. And -whon at
casement, and although tho figuro,
was clad in tho most extraordinary*
compound of European and Asiatic
garments, I mn suro it was Jorry.
I darted down stairs and rushed out,
but tho man had disappeared. Tho
servant said ho wxiAa bad fakir, aud
wished to got in the' bungalow, but:
could or would toll mo nothing of'
what ho said. But I urn quite sui’O
it was Jerry. SoT am certain he.
will come back. But yon remem
ber bo noVor was punctual,” she
added; with a faint smile.
I did not say to her that if Jerry
was alive sho must have hoard of
him in some other way; but I took?
leave of her, and shortly afterwards
returned to India.
In 1853, I was appointed to an'
embassy to Nepaul a very striking
country, governed by ai .powerful,,
warlike race. Tho first minister or
vizier of tho country met us, as in
tho Nepauloso fashion, outside tho
capital, and wo had a very courteous^
and gratifying reception. Ho was a
tall, handsome man, with a flowing
black beard, and couvorsod with mo
in Persian, which I spoke fluently.)
After our interview, one of ‘the at
tendants informed mo that tho vizier
wished to see .mo alone, and ho ac
cordingly conducted mo to un .iuuor
apal’tmeut. He ordered tho attend
ants to withdraw, and thon, in tones
too .familiar, ho exclaimed: [
“Well, Hastings, my boy, how go
tho Plungers?” <
It was Jerry Donnelly, by all that-
was miraculous. I had observed'him
sturiug earnestly at mo during tho'
interview, and something in hisgest-.
uros seemed not unfamiliar to mo;
but his flowing board, solemn air,
and Oriental dross, so well disguised
him, that, oven when I hoard his
woll-remomborod voice, I could
sei&cbfs rqSHSjo 1 iltf Identity.-
tho end of nearly a year she ’began
once more to look at tho world, she
was a grave, thoughtful, softened,
woman. She went up to Calcutta]
uftcr that, and I never saw her again
until I came homo on furlough in
1847. She was then living in a
pretty place in Somersetshire, and
was 1 known as Mrs. Courtnay, of
Branley Hall.
I met her accidentally, but she
was very glad to see me, and ex
plained to mo what I had not heard,
that when she had arrived at Cul-I
cutta, she found that poor Jorry had,
four months boforo ho left Agra,
succeeded to this placo of Branley.
Hall, by tho death of u distant rela
tion. He had previously made a
will,leaving her-alibis worldly goods,
then slender enough, so that in the
end this flue estate had come to her,
and a now name with it. Sho asked!
me to come down and see her, which
I did, and .learned more of her his
tory.
Sorrow and prosperity greatly
changed her for the better. Even
her looks had improved, and sho was
a pleasant, thoughtful and agreeable,
woman. Sho-had remained for years
in Calcutta before She T6turned, but
at once assumod the namo of Courts
nay, ‘vHiich was a condition on wliich
tho bequest was made.
“You-know,'.Col. Hastings, I could
not have lost tho estate, -for what
would poor Jerry have said when he
gjotback?”
I thought theiwomau’s head mast
have been affeeted by her troubles,
and said no tiling.
‘I see you think me deranged;
but I knew he was alive all the
time.”
“Why, what .could have led you
to think so?”
“I sawhim, Col. Hastings. Itwa»
in our old bungalow at Calcutta,
abfeut two years aftor I got back.
Late in the evening I heard a foot
step which strangely affected me. ]
was lying half asleop, and starting
up in a drowsy state, I heard a voice
at the veranda, and, os I thought,
inquiring of my stupid old native
whether I lived there. Tho steps
thon. turned away. I darted to tho
ho sent for mo
Next morning
again.
“I have been thinking,” ho said,
“of all that strango, story you told
mo. I am all changed sinco wo
parted. I hardly Tcnow myself to bo
tho sumo man I used to bo, and am
not sure that I could trout Sophy;
woll. But ask her to como oiit horo, :
and thon she can say. If sho likes
mo in this outlandish place, Iwill go
homo with her; if wo quarrel boro no
ono will bo a bit the wiser,.and Lean;
continue to ho doad.”
“But,” said I, “l\ayo you no in
cumbrancos?” “Perhaps sho. might 1
object to the details of your estab
lishment.” |"
“Not a bit,” said Jerry, “I have
none of your eastern prejudices; lot
her como, and sho will find nobody
to disturb hor.” *
Sho did come,, and after living in
Nepaul for two years, brought Jerry
back in triumph to Branley Hall;;
and such is tho truo version of a talo’
which mado somo noiso in tho news
papers a few years ago.
Too Much Marrying in Tho
family.
Thoro is a yoitn
who says she has
lady in St. Louis
oro payouts and
step-parents living than any ono she
iV hoard-of. Tli ‘
his.is tho way sho*
over hoard-of.
tells tho story;
“You know papa and mama never
could agreo, and so finally they got
divorced. .1 don’t say whoso fault it
was, but mama roaly did behave ugly
somotimos, and even Leonid not get
along with hor. So when the sopara-j
tioh -camo I wont to livo with papa.
Shortly after mama married .again,
und.papu was not Joyygdu Following
suit. 1
did not liko it very woll ati
first, but my stop-mother turned out
to bo first-rato, and I gob to .liko her
splendid. Thon papa seemed to got
infatuated with another woman that
vm
'.But what on earth are you doing
hero, Jerry?” said I, “and why don’t
you go home to your wife, liko a|
Christian?”
My wife! well that’s tho whole
affair. You seo, she’s somebody
else’s wife, qo I’m better out of the
way; it wOuld be n pity that pool 1 !
Sophy should commit bigamy.”
I assuro you, you are outiroly
mistaken. Mnj. Donnelly lias notj
married again.”
“Hasn’t she, ‘though’?” said ho.
“Don’t I know better? Didn’t I goj
to my bungaluw and find out that,
sho had married thut starchod fool
Courtnay, when sho know that l{
never could onduro him?”
To his intense astonishment, I told
him how tho truth was, and in ro-1
turn .ho related to mo his own ad
ventures. Ho had been carried to
Tartary, and thoro detained for three,
years, when lie was allowed to nccom-
pauy-a caravan or body of pilgrims
to Nepaul. .Being by that timo a
proficient in tho langago, ho was
taken notice of at court, but very
strictly watched. Ho effected liis;
escape, however, disguised as a fakir, !
and mudo his way to Calcutta; but
finding, as he thought, his wife mar
ried agalftto in-bia. olffjregi-
ment, he returned, was takon into
favor,.and .had risen to liis .present}
distinction.
“Well, I always was a blundering
fool, but I wont home with heart so
soft to Sophy, and vowing that
would never vox her any more with
my vagaries, that when I heard her
called Mrs. Courtnay.1 was turned to
stone, and did aiot care .a .nap what,
became of me, not even'to be made
a vizier, which I assuro you, Charlie,
is no joke in its way.”
“Well, at all "events, you must
come homo now and enjoy your, good
fortune.”
“I am not sure about that,” lie
said. “Recollect, sho has grown ac
customed to bo mistress—I have
grown accustomed to bo vizier; sho
won’t liko to bo contradicted, and its
a thing I never could bear, and wlmt
I never allowed on any account.
Now, if I went home, sho would not
bo mistrees, and as sure as fate, she
would contradict me. May be it is
better os it is.
ha got acquainted with, and bIio
woman that made tho trouble. W lion
tho second separation took place I
wont with my step-mother bpcauso l|
loved hor, and becauso my services
woro nccossary to help take enro of
the baby. ' Thon what docs alio do
but go aiul get married. I doclavo I
never saw so much marrying in my
life. It only happened a little while
ago, and my step-fathor—I supposo
ho is—treats me m a vcrykindly sort,
of way, naif ho couldn’t'hdlp hiniBolf,
but didn’t exactly.liko it, and I don’t
like it a bit. J cant go batik to mama,;
because sho is mad with me forgoing!
with pupa in tho first instmico, and I
cant go to papa bociuwo of that wliood-
ling woman, and I cant boar to stay)
where I am. It is too bad that a'
girl should havewfather and a mothor (
and tWo stop-fathors aiul two stop-
mothers all living at once aud not a
homo that sho can fool at homo in.”
Knives in n Man’s Stomach.
A man named James Moore, a la
borer living in •London, was brought
to Guy’s hospital in that city, sick. •
Ho was to all appearances a healthy,)
strong man, about forty-five, years of
ago. Ho w'us takon to (ho medical
ward and examined by tho attendant/
dootor, to whom tho patient coonplnin-
od of a pain in tho stomaoh. Ho.
was treated, hut grow worse, and, !
after sovorul days, tho attention of
' .two hospital was call
tho faoulty of
od to tho case. But >ioi\ot>£ (horn
oould diagnoao the disease. The
patient could not retain any nourish
ment on tho stomach, gradually grow
weakor, and, after houig in.tlxo nos-,
pitul abou t ono month, died. A post
mortem .examination was thou liold,j
to ascertain tho oahse of death in
tin’s mysterious enso. On opening
tho stomaoh tho remains of thirty-
seven pockot-knivos wero found.
I say remains, beoausoisomo of tlioiut
had boon digested so far that only iv
S n’t ion of t’lio blado was found.
thorsw'oro comparatively -uninjur
ed. In most, of tho knives tho
tiles woro gono entirely, tho metal in
that part of tho knifo and tho mate
rial of wliich tho handles woro made,
boing more digestible than tlio lmr-' 1
donoi.l stool of tho bhutos.
In tho museum of Guy’s Hospital
will bo-found a glass case containing*
these knives witli tho particulars at
tached, relating tho circumstances
attending their recovery from tho
stomaoh of tho dead man. No dato
could bo found on wdiieh to huso an
opinion of tho length of timo they?
had boon swallowed, hut from tho
condition of somo of them they had
boon thcro for many years. Tho
man probably had a mania for swul-
low'ing knifes, or olso devoured thorn
in an unconscious condition.
At bod timo little Willie was saying
his usual .prayer, on liis mother’s knee,
and having got ns farm's “If I should
die boforo J wako,” hesitated. “Well,
Wnat next.” asked liis mother. “Well,
-•I sipoHO tlio .next thing would be :n
funeral!”
During a eamp-mooting at luko
Bluff, noar Chicago, Sister Barr, of
Emmanuel tent, at a pavtioiv.arly
exciting part of the sovvico broke iii-
to a series of tho wildest hystorical
cries, which pone tinted -every nook
of tho camp-ground. Her shrieks
Tlioy aro having ft regular old-
fashioned contest for tho United
States senatorSliipin Arkansas. Tlieroj
aro numerous candidates in tho field!
and they aro all on the stump, ini
pressing the people with their null
viduftl peculiar fitness.for tho place.
The execution of Hocdol, who shot
at King William and misssed him,
shows tho desire of tho German gov
ornment to promote good workman-]
tlio oflloioncy of .its anny
ship. - As ,,
deponds upon tlio skill of its common
S le,.it wottld not answer to allow
bad shooting to go unpunished
A lato lottor says that tho women
in tho Oneida communfty aro, almost
without oxcpption, palo, haggard and)
sad-faced. Any woman would bej;
whose baby was taken away from hor
h and mixed in among a
at its birth and mixed in among
number of other babies so that sho
would never rlcnow lier own child,
again.
“Now -vidian come with mo bc-
foro tho judgment seat of heaven 1”
cries the hero of a play by M. Dnguo,
of Paris, ns .ho ho hurls tho heavy
villinn into tlio car of a ballon, cuts
tlio rope and begins a duel with him
with bowio knives os they shoot up
wards to tho skies.
At ft Texas ball a largo number of
married women, who had brought
their babies found it impossible to
dunce unless somo of the young mon
became nurses. Tho young mon
took tho babies into another room,
and changed their clothes, so that
when tho motlibra reached homo that
night there was constoruation over
the interchanges.
ladies tried to. calm her, but the
greater their efforts tho wilder her
lmiuifostations, until her voieo nroso/
to a prolonged squeal anti lier ap-f
peanmeo was frenzied. Somo of the
mon woro dumbfounded, and all oil
tho women woro frightened, but one
sister told i.lio reporter that Sister
Barr had tlwfc morning ’announced
her intention of furnishing tho if or-,
shippers with a sensation.
The Burlier Escaped.
“Out my hair,” said tlio ciistomor,
as ho seated himself in a harbor’s
chair, “and bo Bure to lot it rim down
tlio back of my neck,” referring, of
course, to ,t]iGp»u , tiouliM , ,«tylo of tlio 1
cut.
Tlio harbor was a western artist,
liaving lately avrivod in Oil City fronij
St. Louis.
Aftor clipping away;for some time
lib concluded tlmt perhaps tho liairj
wasn’t running down his customer’s;
neck us fast us that individual might
desire it—-although for tiio life of
him lib couldn’t sbo why ho should
want it to run down at all—and,
when a quantity laid accumulated
inside liis shirt-collar, tlio accommo
dating bftrbor shoved it down aud out
of sight witli the handle of .fcliq!
brush.
This performance was repeated
two or throe timos, and tlio customer
began to realize what was going on.j
Henceforward lie took a lively inter-
cstiin the proceedings. Ho said:
“What, in tho name of tho bird (
with tlio broad and sweeping wing,
arc ^ou doing?”
didn’t scorn, to run down” sai
tho barber, apologetically “and so I
crammed’it down with tlio brush;".
The customor acted liko a man 1
who lmd mado the discovery that a
cat had built,1icr nest between his
shoulder-blades and had kittens
there; so ho yelled:
“Cram your crammed head to
cvamnationl” and then turning a
double somersault out of his chair,
lie kicked attlio reflection of the bar
ber in .tlio looking-glass, Tlio bar
ber escaped.——Oil City Derrick.
A New York candidate for oon<
gross, who waft sure of his nomina
tion, and said ho would “niako it
warm for tho fellows,” was rather
disappointed when he only received
two votes—one on Jho first ballot
and one on tho second. Ife takes it
“quite cool, and hasn’t thought of
warming tlio fellows” since. Uiq
history repeats itself In almost evory
district I
Al ..Dogmatic Definition of the
Telegraph.
“Sam,” said a darkey to his chon.y
brothei 1 , “how am it dut dis tdle-
graf entries d.o news froo dem wires?”
“Woll rti-nu.il> nntrtt’nflsn (1
‘Well Cittsur, now s’poso dat am a
dog free miles loiif
“Nclier was.sui.'h u-big (log, don’t
bllievo-dat.”
' f ftYon joss wait a ininit; I’so only
illustra6iii, you stupid nigger. Now
dis yov 'dbg.you seo, jess nnts jbis
front foots on ilo New Yortlk slid!,
“lessor.”
“N owrs’poso.you walk on dis dog’s
(ail in New York—”
“IIo’Jl bark, woht'ho?”
^Yossgi\^
“Well, whorowill dat dog'baiiic?”
“In Hoboken, I calc’lato.”
“Dat mtm jest it. Yon walk ou
tho dogs tail in Now ’York, an’ luo
barks in HAbokeiv-an’ dut’s de way
do tolograf works. ”
“Yossor; desso ^dossol Yon’s
right, by golley.” ' ,
A little five-year old daughter of
romi
one'of our prominent business men
in offeringaiyp.hor evening prayer re
cently, uttered the following: “God
bless mama, bless papa, anti make
him buy mo a dog—a groat'big one
that’ll iiolp’ino whip the devil idl out
of everybody,”
Tho Great Western Ilel'onn.
[St. ‘Lout’s Gtobc-Dcmcrtif,]
“Mr.” sounds much hotter
“gonoral” or “coIoiiqI,” when applicU
to a man who isnnot in tho nulitauy
sprvico of tho country. So many bo
gus titles have boon mixed up witli
tlio genuine sinco tho war, that the
only wise way is to abolish them all,
as tho GMbo-Domocrat proposes.
It’s dreadfully dull at Washington.
The secretary of waiy wlio is pretty
dull liliAseif/fis tile puly cabinet offi-
cei-Hiorc. Tlio president, who is al
so another miserably dull party; is
thoro, but ho lives in almost complete
desolation, because- Iboro.nro no pub
lic, men .in (own, and but few o/lioo-
sookoi’s. Tlio president’s ontiro fa'm-
ily Arendbsont; and ho (lives alone at
tho soldiers’homo.
Tho Darkey and tho Yankee.
Jc in 1804, Mr. John Woods
of Callaway county, Mo., wont out to
try his fortunes in Montana, tukiyg
with him old Sam, ono of the ViaMdes
' who lnwl gr/iwn up on tlio homo place.
Sam had for yours,, oven, be (oro ho was
free, had pretty much liisamvn ovay,
and well known us a soiisiblo and
witty fellow. In Montana ho picked
up odd ’jobs, ail’d was in constant
requisition. He was ono day em
ployed by a Yankee carpenter to hew
a log foi’ him, and having completed
tho job, wont to tlio “laws” .for,his
pay, expecting to cliargo ilboui ;7>5
cents. Meantime the eaipentcr ha'd
made a rough coffin for a poor follow
who had died in the wilderness; and
at the samo timo a frioiul of the do-
consod was paying fdr the coffin, tlio
amount being' ^OO. Turning to Sam,
the carpenter, in liis quick, snappy
way, •»!■'!.'•(!:
“Got that log done?”
“Y-y-os, b-brhofis, ullLl-'d-doiio'. - ”
“Well, how- mu6h is it?”
(our il-d-dollars an’ :i,b«lf.”
“Gracious! Wliyj you’d skin anion
alive!”
“Y-y-os, boss; hut chit’s not as b-d-
bad as skin him after bo’s d-d-dead.”
■Ilar'jpWH,
Sbo was a colored lady and attend
ed a revival of religion miff had work-
c*d herself up to tho extreme pitch til
going to.the good place in a moment,
or sooner, if possible. As her friends
gave vent to thier feelings, she liko-
wiso gave vent to hor feelings, anil
loudly exclaimed;
“Oh, my, I wislil wasu Juno hug
that I might fly to my Jesus 1”
A brother of sabir hue standing
near, inquiringly responded:
“You fool, nigger, woodpecker
botch you Toro you’d git half way
dar.”
way to make money; Take n
•feit 85 bill; enter a store at
Easy
counterfeit
dusk with a witness and ask tin?
le.ir -I irudc-man it lie can give you
silver-for'a >12.bill. The honest
tradesman will slam the bill into tho
till miff count out tho silver. When
ho discovers that tho note was a coun
terfeit you have a witness to sworn-
tjmt you received just *2, henoo the
.VacLv. can’t have been given by yon.