Newspaper Page Text
£undan
£ MX,
t 92 PER ANNU h, POST PAID
W. T. CHRISTOPHER, T p ronr | et ors
S. H. CHRISTOPHER, f Proprietors.
w/t, CHRISTOPHER. - Editor.
*1 U» r*U*U. •> JU»»U N ~e.-I.CI>-. Sinar. 1
SUNDAyTmaY 22. 1881.
Clban up your premised it you
wpubi have
Boys, did you ever notice it ?
The slackest wads always do the
most talking.
Thi people of Nashville talk more
about the Cotton exposition than
the citizens of Atlanta.
It is a reflection on the Georgia
pr «, that a man who is not identi
fied with the press is year after ywat
elected treasurer.
V. ■ '"S.
A cry of typhoid fever or any
other disease would keep thousands
of people away from Atlanta dur
ing the Cotton exposition. Clean
up your sinks and filth resorts.
Thz New York Star is authority
so the statement that Geo. butler
has paid a New \ork oculist $l,OOl
to cut the cord that drew his eye
ball, making him crosseyed.
Thb sheriff of t’layto^county.
10, started for New York stale with
a crazy pnsoner, laiton the say la*
came violently insane himself, ami
he and bis prisoner wild to the asy
lum logether.
Mas. Aukaiiam Lincoln, who-U
now staying at the house of her
brother In law, N. W. Edwards, at
Springfield, Hl., is iu a very deli
cate slate of health, being confined
to her bed nearly all the time.
Col. Estill, in issuing tickets to
members of the Press Association
at its next annual meeting, should
not make invidious distinctions.
All the doctors, cobblers »uU guano
agents should be supplied with fret
passes.
Thi pe6ple ©f Tennessee say they
could live confer ably without buy
ing anything from the outside
world. Cm Oeyrgiv firmers, who
promise to pay from $1 15 to $1.25
per bushel for corn next fall, say as
much ?
Whilz northSYn people are busy
manufacturing articles for every
day use for southerners, they are
silling down quietly snd cursing
hard times. If pefrpie everywhere
would only go to work, the country
would be in a better condition.
Thz oldest postmaster in the
Union is Edward Stabler, of Sandy
Spring, Montgomery county, Md.
He has held that office fifty-one
years, snd has been under eighteen
postmaster generals. He is eighty
seven year* old, and still lives In
the boose in which he was born.
Oni North Gecjgia paper bad
three representatives at tue Ist*
press convention. One of them on
being asked if he was editor or pro
prietor of the paper replied : ••No.
but I advertise guano in it evert
year and am as much entitled to the
courtesies extended as anybodi."
This sort of business will soon run
off all good mem tiers who hafv
any self respect.
Thz editor of the Phonograph
has never held an office of any
kind and never e«|>ecls to, and can
consequently speak bis mind about
office-holding in gemrsl. Official*
In the Georgia Press association
g<-t no salsriea, nothing but honor*,
aii'l we can’t see why it is that soon
of the slow eoaeties are allowed tu
moiiopid-Zc and the youngest and
ntosl brilliant members made Io
take back reals The Georgis
Press a**o< in.ion is getting to be
a sS'Wd machine.
Fophia Pf.kwoska, the exicuted
nihilist, has been elevaled into a
sort of St. Agn s. Her life ha
b en written in ibe form of a reli
gtous romance, in which the moat
extraordinary virtues are attributed
to her. She is worshipped as a
martyr, and the nihilist faithful re
gard the clothes she wore and the
ringlets which were cut from her
bead as so many precious relics.
These objects have been distributed
as talismans among the leaders of
the nihilist parly.
I IT will no doubt be news to
feiy that Chinese tobacco is being
Ksumed to a considerable extent
Bth in thia country and In Eng
and. The supply is so large and
the leaf is so fine in color, texture
and fragrance that merchants a.e
exporting it westward to be mixed
with Havanas. It la need large
ly in the manufacture of cigarettes
under the name of turklsh tobacco.
In twelve months close upon 8,000,-
000 pounds of this leaf Were ex
ported from Hankow in foreign
bottoms alone. ml-u-C n,
INRiVIIIpAL aAMITAZY.
’ The Phonograph has been an
> earnest and persistent advocate of
irublic sanitation. It has cried
“ aloud, and spared not, in its efforts
to impress upon the governing pow
era, the importance of the protec
tion of health is of as much impor
tance as that of life and property:
u Afjjr the constituted authorities,
■ says the N. 0. Times, assisted as
much as possible by popular co-op
' eratinn, shall have done their work
e in maintaining the cleanliness of the
city and providing for thorough
e systems of drainage, sewerage,
Q health inspection and hospital ac
commodation, public sanitation will
have reached its limits, and then
a private or individual sanitation
i- must come into play, and the people
t should understand that each jpdi
vidual has duties in
with a great system of
y giene. They should know
H perhaps, most disorders to whicli
r " the human body is subject originate
D from outside physical causes, the
violence and malignity of the at
tack is greatly influenced by the
roentai and moral conditions-of the
>!»
4) patient. People who live cleanly
s and temperate lives, indulging ir
few or no excesses, but enjoying al
things in moderation, are apt to be
e. in good condition to resist thn at
I, tacks of disease Total abstinence
f ><r any other dietetic fanaticism ii
d a* unwise as 100 much indulgence
Ineaiing and drinking, nearly
every individual is a law to himself
There are few things of which med
* ioal sciesce is so ignorant as of the
ir human cpnstituwbn. “What is one
11 man’s meat is another’s poison,’
'■ says an old proverb, which is a
d much of a stumbling block to -the
doctors to day as it was to Hip|x>
crates and Galen.
Every now and then the papers
take up and echo a lot of
if not pernicious, trash about cer
tain articles of food which are de
clared to be wholesome or unwhole
some,according as the individual
prejudices of some self-constituted
wiseacre shall decide. Each indi
vidual can discover for himself what
articles of food and drink, or what
personal habits are injurious to him,
and be should discard them accord
ingly.
The power of the mind over the
body should be utilized as one of
the most important elements of
public and private sanitation. Peo
ple who are opposed with fear and
anxiety at the prospect of the at
tacks of any disease, will hardly es
cape it. The force of imagination
has been known touring on symp
toms of dangerous disorders when
probably no. physical causes for
these be discover
ed, while, on the contrary, there is
little doubt that an undisturbed
mind and calm resolution have
availed to protect from the ravages
of moral diseases.
With a clean city, carefully
watched and kept so, with every
household in sanitary order, and
w th an entire population living by
intelligent rules of personal cleanli
ness and temperance, and free from
any mere cowardly fear of death,
the ravages of an epidemic disease
could be almost delied. Os course
perfection of public and private
sanitation is impossible, neverthe
less a great advance is practicable,
and it is to be secured by educating
the people in these important mai
lers. Notable a* an evidence of it
i* the fact that some two centuries
ago the chief cities of Europe were
pellodically devastated by theEa-t
--ern plague. The introduction and
■larelul application of drainage,
sewerage, quarantine and other im
portant improvements in sanitary
science have changed all this, and
now the plague is only a gaunt
-.pectre of the past, which is prac
Really unknown in Europe and only
retains a foothold in the most bar
baric regions of the east. What
has been done against the plague
has practically been accomplished
against the cholera, and will be made
effectual against yellow serer, ty
phus, diptberuand all filth diseases
It is only necessary to educate the
people in true hygiene-
the noon of is
FLAC F*.
The season has arrived for tbe
usual hegira to the mountain coun
try in quest of health, pleasure and
recreation. People who never travel,
and whose knowledge of tbe world is
practically confined to the narrow
limits of a local horizon, are dwarf
ed and contracted in their ideas far
more than they imagine. The world
is a big book, and people cannot
peruse a single page of it without
having their knowledge enlarged
and their mind* exfknded. They
not only gain, but they also give in
meeting strange people snd visiting
localities new to them. Thi* change
of scene and thought I* probably
far more potent in bringing back
health to the visitor* to pleasure re
sort* th*j* all tbe sulphurous spring
waters they eoold drink in a oentu
ky- Without doubt, occasional £r
THE PHONOGRAPH, SUNDAIih.MOF|NING, MAY 22,*1884.
|>eriodical visits of country people!
to the city are just as efficacious as
the pilgrimage of town folks from
the city to the country, since change !
of scene and surroundings are tin-!
chief elements in this hygiene of
travel.
It is very nice to give up the cares !
of business occasionally and hie
away to some secluded spot, where
quiet and repose can be obtained at
a price which will enable the poorer !
classes to enjoy the same blessings
as the rich. One objection to fash
ionable resorts these days is the ex
pense. The prices for board, gew
gaws, dressing and carriage hire are
so exorbitant that many persons
of limited means are kept away
from some of the best health resorts.
People should exercise a little com
mon sense at the springs as well as
at home.
There is not much honor in be
ing a member of the Georgia Press
association when a lot of dead-beats,
who do not know an em quad from
a column rule, are allowed to come
id and be one of the flock. It
seem* that some (aiople have little
or no modesty at all, or they would
not force themselves win re they are
not wanted. Newspaper men, who
uave spent a lifetime in the business,
do not care to mix with such cattle.
We know some of ibe oldest mem
bers of the asnoci .tion who declare
positively that they will no longer
affiliate with the association unless
a slop is put to the business, and
we are one of the number.
fei.l«ws with
Wild Hill, Nilm Jim, Pralrlr*b»|
Have, > ix.Shnoior Hill
and Ollivra.
From th*- La* Vega. (Ji. M.) optic,j
First, we will speak of Wild Bill,
whose career is 100 well known tu
dwell upoTl. It is said that he
hud a notch cut on his pistol han- j
die for each man he had killed num
bering twenty-six. He finally met 1
a violent death at the gambling ta
ble in Pead wood, al the hands of!
Jack McCall, who was hung at
Yankton. \Yild Bill's real name was '
Hickok; he was a native of Indiana,;
having been in file western country ;
at the time of his death over twenty ■
five years. We next speak of “Buf
falo Bill,” of whom We know little
except th >t he was a desperate man,
bat within the last few years, since
bis adopted state, Nebraska, be
came civilized, be has simmered
down, And has represented his dis
trict Ip legislature. His real name
is William F. Cody. “Cherokee
Bill' 1 is known as a killer and an
outlaw, making his home most of
the time in the Indian territory
But little is known io tl.e writer of
the real character ot “Prairie Dog
Dave,” except we are informed that
he was a long time a roomier up
the mave. “Mysterious Dave is
too well known up in this comrnu
nity to dwell upon at length. We
do not know bow many men he has
kdlled. • Fat Jack” was not a bad
man, always wore good clolbea and
was a memlier of the gang. “Slap
Jack Bilk, “Fly Speck Sam” and
“Bull Shank Jack” all came to Las
Vegas aliout the time the railroad
gut here, ami were soon run in the
quay on a charge of tra n ami coach
robbery. “Loek-Kyed Frank” is
not considered a bad man, al
though he drowned his man about
two years ago at an eastern town I
called Dodge City, but was adjndged
hy the courts of that county to be
justifiable. “Corn Hole Johnny’’
pads from Texas, snd hia special
forte is three-card monte. The
homesteaders around Newton, Kan.,
will rememtier him in the years of]
IS7I-A “slim Jim” was shot al
Leadville, about two years ago.
“Split Nose Red" is al present at
El l’a*o getting in Ids work on len
derfeet. “Six-Shooter Bill," we un
derstand, is al Deining, doing good <
service in his line. "One-Armed
Kelly,” who was outlawed from
Leadville six months sgo, came to
Vegas, shot the windows out of
Horton's restaurant, «a* run iu for
three months, went to Tombstone,
where t lias been r ported, he was
banded down as food for the worms
of that consecrated soil. “Alkali!
Charley,” while at Canon C ty, Col.,
was regarded as an honest youth. -
He ertamly was iryiug to make an I
honest living st his business, black
ing boots, but when became to Las
Vegas be manifested a desire to be
a shooter. He cut a l»ole-tn the leg
of bis boot at the wee hours of the '
night, went out iu the street and I
irud Ida pistol several times, liter
ally perforating the front door ot
loe-Jam saloon, and reported that
some one had shot al him, showing
up the wouud in his bout. Judge
Steele did not think that he ceukl
met to the joint as a killer; and wise-
ny ordered “Alkali” to leave town
instantly. “Dutchey," who killed
Kelliher, after be was dead, skipped
out of the country iu company witli
•'Hoodoo Brown.” “Dutch Henry,”
was a thief and a murderer, and,if
our memory serves u* right, was I
captured either stOtera or El .Moro 1
about three year* ago and taken to 1
Arkansas, where he was wanted.
“Sheeney Frank" is said to be at
Lamy Junction making war on
peaceable citizens. “Hurricane!
Bill," we believe, ba* been regarded |
a* a killer ;we don't know whether lie ,
is at present alive or not. “Texas
Frank” is hardly worth speaking of.!
He would, perhaps, have liked at
one time to bate acquired the rep- i
utation of a bad man, but “Myste
riou* Dave” bad no use for him,
and he left Vegas over a year ago
for parts unknown. It is believed
by many of the fraternity that if he
did not kill himself be had ought
to. “Monte Bob” died at Alamosa
about a year ago. “Billy the Kid”
is sentenced to be hung at Mesilla 1
MATBIMONYMADB EASY.
associations.
A Helping: Hand Extended to All
Mpinatem and Baehelarw—A
Novel Scheme Evolved
by Wyoming* Coun
ty Wit.
The Men’s and Women’s Endow
ment associations of Warsaw, Wy
oming comity, New York, are both
' newly I rm'ed and incorporated or
ganizations which cannot fail to at
tract general attention, both on ac
count ot their novelty and utility.
The founders of t hese associations
start out with the proposition, the
force of which most persons will
concede, that the social, moral and
political welfare of society depends
largely upon the promotion of the
marriage relation. Recognizing
that fact, they have organized these
associations for the benefit ot all
unmarried men and women of good
moral character, between the ages
ot fifteen aud fifty years, who may
desire to become membets thereof,
for mutual assistance aud contribu
tion at the time of marriage. It is
conceded that many estimable per
sons, of both sexes, hesitate to en
ter the marriage mate for the rea
son that they do not possess the
nece sary means to meet the in
creased expenses of such relation.
I'bese associations arc, therefore,
for the purpose of providing the
! requisite funds desired in such
1 cases. The funds are raised by con
j intuitions or assessments upon its
members in the classes to which
i they belong, from 2a cents to sl, ac
| cording to the class and amount of
endowmenu
Certificates of endowment are
issued in three classes, viz: A, B
and C.
Class A, endowment, |5U0.00.
Memtierehip fee, $2; annual dues,
|l; assessment, 25 cents.
Class B, endowment, SI,OOO.
Membership fee, $4; annual dues,
$2, assessment, sl.
Class C, 'endowment, $2,000.
Membership fee, sa; annual dues,
$4; assessment, sl.
A person desirous of becoming a
member in class A, by paying $3.25
! (If the application is approved) will
! receive a certificate of SSOO, paya
' ble according to the constitution
! and by-laws of the association. In
j class B, by the payment of $0.60.
i In class C, by the ( ayment of $lO.
, in case the application is not ap
proved, the money will be refunded,
in all cases the money must accom
pany the application.
Any member is at liberty to mar
i ry at any lime during membership,
but if be or she marries during the
first year tbeieof, the endowment
will not become due or payable until
one year and sixty days from the
dale of the endowment certificate,
at which time the holder will be en
titled to receive oie assessment from
! each person who belongs to that
class at the date of marriage—nut
to .exceed, however, the amount of
lilt endowment certificate.
Each member of either associa
lion will be required to pay one as
sessment on each marriage that may
occur in the class to which be or
she belongs—twelve months previ
ous to the maturing of the certifi
cate. In ease a member of the as
1 sociatiou in good standing remains
unmarried until he or she baa
reached two thirds of the life ex
! peclancy, according to the tables
of this association, he or she will
i be entitled to receive oue half the
amount of his or her endowment
certificate. Should be or she marry
before reaching the full expectancy,
lor should he or she remain unmar
ried the full period, then he or she
will lie entitled to the balance ol
his or her endowment.
The list of officer* of this asao
- elation, embracing names as
8. D. I’urd/, U. Seaver, J. W/lf*
, Shipler, Frank Wilsou, S. C. Dewis
and M. E Bartlett, all well known
citizens of Vi yoming county, afford*
asuffici.nl guarantee of Ibe liona
lldecharacler of these organizations.
Under the benign influence to be
* exerted through the medium ot
thi-se associations we look with con
fidence in the near future for a
marked decrease in ,the number
of the unmated fair, and a no less
decided accession to the noble army
of benedicts.
I- - •* • - - ———
Hrreium «n«l Chivalry.
Philxklphia Timca.j
I The following incident of the bat
' tie of Fredericksburg is well authen
, ticated. It may prove that though
the north and south were at war, a
spirit of chivalry did exist among
the southern soldiers. “On the
' 15lh day of December, 1862, the
' sixteenth regiment ami three com
panies of the second battalion of
i Featherstone's Mississippi brigade
were sent to the front to relieve a
brigade posted st the foot of Ma
| rye's Heights to the left of the plank
road leading from the city toward
Orange Court House. Between
them and the City was a tan-yard
' aud many outbuildings. Much
sharpshooting was indulged in on
both sides, opportunities being af
forded us by squads of federals,
who in twos or three* kept moving
I rapidly from behind extern porizea
1 shelters to their rear, posted in the
'city limits proper. While a squ«d
I of these were braving shots, one of
i them was seen to drop while all bis
i companion* but one, taking advan
! tage of our emp y rifles, soon got
;to cover behind the bouses. This
! brave fellow, seeing bi* comrades
fail deliberately faced about, and,
! dropping bis rifle, assisted bl*
friend to rise, snd together they
j slowly sought the rear. A* they
moved off a score or more of rifles,
lin the excitement of the moment
were levetaf with deadly intent,
but before a single one could be
discharged our Colonel, Carnot
Poesy,commanded, ‘Cease firing;
that man I* too brave to be killed,’
and then, with characteristic adtni
ra'ion for the brave follow, we gave
him a'hearty cheer, to which he re
plied by » graceful way® of bis cap
as he and his comrade passed lie
hiod t|>e protection .of an outbuild
ing. have often thought of this
brave ia<'t snd wondered if lie es
caped a soldier’s death ami li<Vil to
becot& an acknowledged leader
amo ig men.”
lATHICAL TALK.
the theatrical Math
nmercial Traveler—
Peculiuritles.
w something, more or
asculine masher, in an
e termed a “beau,” but
u slang has perverted
degant, but more com
rm “masher.”
he geuius was not com-
Brummcl and Beau
g out from among the
plet .yes of the past as separate and
di*, net specimens of their kind, but
now a-days mashers are strewn so
thiedy al ing the social highways
and byways that there is no longer
any distinctive attraction attaching
to them, and we feel scarce any of
the thterest that bolds in our recol
leot.ons of those two alxive men
tioned celebrated old masher i of
“ye olden time."
Nhw of all the mashers that infest
the fair fabric of modern society,
there are two classes deserving of
special mention, traveling showmen
and commercial travelers. Os those
two classes of men, mashing is more
the business ot their lives than
i aught else under the sunlight—or
l>erhaps I should say, “under the
gas light”—in the cases of travel
' ing showmen, with whose mashing
tendencies it is at this time my pur
pose to deal—for their mashing is
dune in that alluring deceitfulness
of that artificial glare.
Now to those good people inter
ested in the study of natural h»o
--ry, but who have not had the op
■ portunity of observing behind the
; acdane, there is no doubt but a fair
. 'liujving up of the tbeatrrcql masher
wirf prove a matter of dec[Hnterest.
oirst, of course, the anatomy ol
the animal is the poipt in which the
outsider is interested. But the spe
cies is so varied, consisting of such
widely differing characteristics,
' tones and shading that to attempt
! to describe them as a species would
! lie a work of superrogation.
I'he masher in general is a human
bybred, and the washer in particu
lar may be lean or fat, tall or short,
tliiek or thin, a blonde or a bru
nette; he may have eyes like the
dost, or sparkling jet, mackerel
eyed, or eye of In evenly blue, or
mellow,dreamy eye, so po
etlwand so pensive.
■e may part his hair in the mid
dle snd plaster it down into pretty
little fascinating scallops upon bis
intellectual brow, or he may actu
ally bang it, or he may affect the
tragic, and wear hyperian curls, or
be may wear in a dofift-care s-dam
itive style of graceful disorder; but
of *>ne fact be assured, when he
before the seven-by-nine
looking-glass in bis dirty dressing
room, the theatrical masher lias but
one thought in his scliollarly crani
um. bis own individual mashing
pov.er as compared with the mash
ing power of every other masculine
of the company in which he travels.
No matleu bow hi makes up his
clasic features for the flattering
glare of the footlights, or how be
fixes bis shining curls, it is only
with a view of making mashes dur
ing the progress of his act upun the
stage, and to the initiated “lookers
on in Venice,” the whole process,
the entire “tout euseiuble,” from
the time the make up in the dress
ing-room begins, until the gifted
maahes is planted firmly on his rock
of refuge before the entrance door
at the close of the show, is a matter
of profound inteieat an 1 amuse
ment. »
i A n<* then to watch the gam* come
down!
But we are not considering the
mashed unfortunate wretches! Our
business is with the masher. Now
tlifl most eligible position for mash
is occupied by tbe talented pi
anist of a company, and he seldom
fads to lie a masher of the first wa
ter—for the creature grows in grace
by what it feeds on—and a pianist
has a chance to banquet during the
entire progress of the show, while
the other |>oor devil* can only be
admired during the short time their
act is going on. But then they con
sole themselves with the sweet hope
of standing before tbe entrance
door when tiie show lets out, for
then their chance with the pianist
ia at iecst equal.
But for ail tbe attractions of day*
and nights passed in mashing, tbe
business will tell upon the strong
est constitution. “It isn’t a healthy
business!” 'lhere i* a shade of
“Faris green” about it, which
poisons tbe systems of those
who follow the business, and
that caste its ghastly glare over tbe
features, so that in time tbe profes
sional masher is distinguishable
from all mankind; and then the mis
erable wreck they leave behind them
of silly girls and foolish women,
pining in secret because they looked
upon the theatrical masher when he
was “made up.”
Hotel dining rooms are also a fine
field of operation, but more especi
ally for tbe commercial traveler, as
the theatrical masher depends so
much upon bis make up and “gas
light.”
It Is now an open question whether
Lord Besconslleid died *<'hrl*tian or
a Hebrew. Sir Nathaniel Kothschlld
Is said to have evidence of the fact that
be returned to the laltll of hi* race
before his death. A good many peo
ple have been of the opinion that his
religion* faith was deeply seated
enough to be of great Importance, be
ing baaed on Just about as slight a
foundation of thorough conviction a*
Ida political creed.
The tombs of Mordecal and Es her
will be restored If Kabbl Mlaraehl,
from Perils, succeeds In collecting
money enough for the purpose. He Is
now going through the state of New
York, ana may be expected here before
long. Collection* are small.
A SVCCKMIFUL spy:
A 5
Tlie Mt > aErious “Burke” who Fur
nished Furrugut with im
portant Points.
G. A. Arnold iu Philadelphia Weekly Times.]
In March, 1865, I was assistant
enrolling officer of Mobile county,
my chief being Maj. H. G. Humph
ries. *one morning the major hand
ed me a bundle of papers, and,
pointing to a sial wart-loot ing sol
diqr, dressed in the uniform of a
yjonfeilerate sergeant, said: “Exam
in'e these papers, and give him what
he requires.” He added: “If I
had a thousand such men I could
whip a brigade of Yankees." The
major was a very impulsive but
conscientious man. I found the
I>apers to be regular; they had been
through the headquarters officer and
were indorsed “correct.” The en
rolling officer was directed to fur
nish Sergeant Burke with a horse
and subsistence. His papers rep
resented him to be Sergeant, Burke
of the army of East Tennessee, and
he was directed to proceed to Mo
bile and gather up all men frointliat
army absent without leave and re
turn them'to their commands. A
desk and writing materials were
furnished him, as was a horse. He
was soon engaged in writing. Af
ter a day or two he would absent
himself, and on several occasions
would not return for many hours
and always on his return he would
write a great deal. When .sked
what he had done he always had a
probable story to tell of being on
the track of a number of deserters,
and, strange to say, be did not for
ward several batches of men to
their commands. He appeared to
be very zealous in the confederate
cause, an<l one day remarked that
we ought to fight under the black
flag and shoot every federal found
within our lines. The major was
much of his opinion, but I was not,
and Burke thought 1 was very luke
warm iu the thuse. In all of hi*
actions he was a confederate of the
most bitter of course was
not suspected or being anything
else. This weut on for several
weeks, Burke going away in the
morning, ami when he returned he
would go to his desk and write a
mass of papers, appearently taking
Ins notes from a book which be al
ways earned.
I-arly in April, Mobile was sur
rendered and Gen. Canby took pos
session. Burke left two days pre
vious to tbe surrender, and we sup
posed he had gone to bis command.
The day after the surrender I was
walking on Royal street, near Gen.
Canby’s headquarters, when I was
hailed by a federal soldier, who
called me by name. I looked at
him with surprise and did not re
cognize him until be said : “Lieu
tenant, don’t you know me?’,’ I
then saw that it was Sergeant Burke,
and remarked: “What ifoes this
mean ?” He replied : “You know
what I have lieen at tbe past few
weeks?” “Yes,” 1 said, “a spy.”
He smiled, and said: “Lieutenant,
ifryou want protec'ion or aid you
will get it by reporting to Gen. Can
by. I made a list of deserving cit
izens for his use, and your name
heads the list. Good bye.” I
have not seen Burke since, nor have
I any knowledge of what liecame of
him. Burke was a sharp, intelli
gent American Irishman and I now
have reason to believe that he fur
nished Farragut with a great deal
of valuable information.
FEKIIXTLY PAHALYZIMG,
The I n tri Ire tual (nn vr rtHtlen Be
tween Gi«ld> >uung ThingM
on the Cur*.
On the way to Buffalo two “young
people” got on the train somewhere
east of Cleveland. They were go
ing back to school. They were not
silly, ignorant country young peo
ple. By i;o manner of means. They
repiesented seminary and college
culture, for the young mau was on
his way back to Cornell. They
drop|>ed into a seat opposite the
pilgrims, and they talked, and the
passengers in the immediate vicini
ty listened to this highly intellect
ual interchange of pulsing thought
and throbbing sentiment:
"Say !” exclaimed the impetuous
youth. “I heard something about
you !”
“Oh, you!” she replied; “what
was it ?"
“Shan’t tell.”
“That's real mean ! Who told
you?”
“Oh, I know,” he asserted ; “It
paralyzed me.”
“Well, what was it about?”
“Down there at Chatauqua, that
time. Oh, that parly zed me. Te
he, te-be.”
“What,” she exclaimed, in tones
of intense surprise, as though it
was the first time she had ever heard
of such apiace—“Chatauqua!”
“Aw, yes, you know, out there
with —”
“With whom?” Te-he.”
“Oh, pshaw! Te-be,te-he!”
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“Oh, no, you don’t! Well, it
paralyzed me.”
“Well, I don’t care anyhow; it
ain't so.”
“Well, I got it pretty straight.
It Just paralyzed me ”
“Who told you?”
“You never tell I told you?”
“No, indeed, 1 won’t.”
“Weil, I got it from Will Blank.
It Just paralyzed me.”
“Ob, I know what you mean now.
Well, what of that? Te-he, te-he?”
“Ab, well, a good deal of it. Te
hc, te-be!”
“Why, that was nothing. Te-he,
te-he!"
“Aw, that just paralyzed me.”
“I don't believe you know any
thing about it, anyhow. Te-he, te
he!”
"Yes, I do know all about it.
Just, paralyzed me, I tel) you."
“Well, what did he say about the
other ?”
“Oh, he told Die all about that.”
“What did be think ?”
"I won’t tell you.”
“Oh, please do.”
“Ah, you’re too anxious.” J
“Indeed, I think I ought to
.know.” 1
‘‘You’ll get mad if I tell you.”
(Then, suddenly remembering that
he hadn't made the remark for thirty 1
second*) —“It just paralyzed me.”
“No, I won’t get mad.” (
“Yes, you will.”
“No, I won’t.”
“Yes, you will. It’ll paralyze
you.”
“No, I won’t get mad. Not at
you.” «
“Oh, pshaw! Won’t you?”
“Indeed I won't. I will be thank
ful to you. I’ll do something tor
you some time.”
“Oh hush, you paralyze me,” he
sighed.
“Well, tell me; won’t you?” she
pleaded.
“If you are real sure you won’t
get mad.”
“Indeed and Indeed I won’t!
What did he say about it ?
“Well, he saikhe didn’t care. It
paralyzed with a sud
den inspira'.ioif of genius, ho added)
—“And don’t you forget it.”
“Are you siVre he didn’t?”
“He said he "didn't. Oh, I was
paralyzed. Te-he-he.”
“Well, I'm glad.”
“Yes, I thought you would be.”
“Why?"
“Oh, because. Te-be!”
“Well, why did you think so?”
“Well, because.”
“But why ? Te-he?”
“Oh, because.”
“Well, you must have some rea
son?”
“Oh, I know. It just paralyzed
me, I tell you. Te he-he!”
At this interesting point in the
conversation the passengers got
out at Sliver Creek to conceal their
emotion. The jester was weeping.
The man on the wood-box was
swearing under his breath. The
tat passenger was purple in the face,
am) the sad passenger, lifting his
hands to heaven, said:
“Immortal gods, dwellers on
high Olympus! Did I ever in all my
oallowest days profane s-.iqjfil
quiet of the day with such colossal,
heaven-daring, maddening, soul
destroying imbecility? No, a thou
sand times no; by all the voiceless
gods that guard the awful gates of
eternal silence, no; by thunder, 1
never did!”
“You bet your life you did,” said
the woman who talks base, ami
without breaking the dead-lock the
senate adjourned.—Burdett’s Roam
ing Letter.
■»—-
THE REVENGE.
A Thrilling Tale of a Thundering
Price for Bran*.
Tom Watrous, commercial travel
er, stopped off at the Marshall
(Mich.) eating-house several years
ago.
He was hungry, and called for a
plate of .’leans, which he received.
Ke inquired the price, and was in
formed that it was 75 cents.
“That's a thundering price for
beans,” said Tom.
“That’s the price,” said (he pro
prietor.
The train was just starting; Tom
paid the bill and the coaches bore
him and his indignation on toward
Detroit.
This was on Sunday. On Mon
day Gilmore, the eating-house man,
received a telegram, collect on de
livery $1.25, which he paid, and
read, on opening it, “A thundering
price for beans.”
Thirty days from that date a neat
express package was handed to Gij
more, C. O. 1)*, who paid 90 cents
lor the privilege of opening it to dis
cover a lot of sawdust, on tlie top
of which lay a slip of paper with
the cabalistic symbols, “A thunder
ing price for beaus.”
Two months from t Ida Gilmore
was summoned to Chicago to meet
a former business partner, and the
hotel clerk handed him a letter con
veying die pleasant information,
“A thundering price for beans.” ,
During Gilmore's absence his son
paid for two telegrams and one ex
press package, all bearing directly
on the subject of seventy-live cents
being “a thundering price for
beans!” Cost of these articles, $3.80
A genuine telegram from Gilmore’s
mining share broker, advising him
to sell, was refused, and the loss of
it entailed an actual damage to Gil
more »f SI,OOO.
A year rolled away. Gilmore or
dered a case of Mackinac trout from
Detroit. They came C. O. D., $13.88,
When, opened he found every fish
had been removed from the ice and
sawdust, and a si.ingle met his eyes,
marked with a blue lead pencil, “A
thundering price for beans!” Trou
ble arose between Gilmore and the
Detroit lisb house, and they went
to law, Gilmore winning the suit,
$25 damages, and ail at a cost for
the attorney's services of $96.90.
Gilmore grew dejected. Life
looked gloomy. Letters poured in
on of his family at regu
lar intervals from all parts of the
world, bcaiing the unpleasant in
formation that it was “a thundering
price for beans!”
At last Gilmore sold the Marshall
eating-house and moved to Chicago,
lie carried his deep aflliction along
with him, gnawing like a cancer at
bis vitals. The persecution never
ceased. Gilmore drooped, faded
and Anally died. The terribly af
flicted family followbd him to his
last resting place, and the widow,
with what little money she bad
saved from the expenses of bogus
telegrams and express packages,
erected a plain marble slab to the
memory of tbe tortured Gilmore.
The following Kabbath the mourn*
Ing family went out to tbe cemetery
to plant some violets on Gilmore’s
grave. Arriving on the ground,
she observed in silent horror that
another legend appeared above the
name of Gilmore on tbe tombstone.
,Jt was chalked on a small black
board, and read:
A THUNDIRINU PRICK FOR RIANS.
A MAN WITH A CHARMED LIFE.
SkotaNcori 1 of Times and Carry
injj llwif a Dozen Mustkcl
Bails in His Body.
From the Cleveland Leader.]
A man stopped at the Commer
cial hotel, Newcomerstown, on Sun
day, who made the journey from
Little Falls, N. Y., on foot. He is
on his road to the Dayton Soldiers’
home, and his history is indeed re
markable, and should place him in
tbe class as one of the battle-scarr
ed heroes of the republic. His life
is more like a dime novel romance
than real history.
He enlisted in the United States /
regular army in 1843, when only 15
years old, and after serving in the
war with Mexico, re-enlisted in 1848,
1853 and 1858. He participated in
the battle of Bull Run and other
severe engagements in 1861-2-3,
and was taken prisoner by tbe reb
els at Vicksburg June 24, 1863. He
served over live months in Salisbury
piison, Over eleven months in An
dersonville, and several months in
various other rebel prison pens. At
Andersonville be was shot in the
mouth by the notorious keeper of
that pen (Wurtz,) and carries the
bullet in his head at this time.
In 1865 he escaped from tbe reb
els under Kirby Smith,near Browns
ville, Texas, and swam the Rio
Grande under tire from his pursu
ers, receiving a severe wound in his
right hand, which tore off three fing
ers and the thumb. On reaching
the opposite shore he was captured
by the “Greasers,” a band of In
dians and half-breeds who kuew
nothin; but murder, rapiue and
plunder, and was a prisoner with
them till last September. During
all the fifteen years he was a cap -
tive he suffered untold hardships,
aiul hiq repeated attempts to escape
were rewarded by his body beinfc
literally peppered with bullets. In
bis attempts to escape, he was shot
fourteen times and now carries in
his body two four-ounce silver balls,
four lead balls and one copper ball.
The latter he received while attempt
ing to escape on the 16th of last
, September. On that day the band
of Indiana, having him in* charge
were captuMd by the Mexicans and
all condemned to Meath. He ap
pealed to’Conaul General Foster for “•
protection as a United States citi
zen, and jftst as the Mexicans were
adjusting the rope around ,hi« neck ,
Consul Foster’s order for his release
reached him and he was spared. He
was sent to New York on a United
Slates steamer, and as be could
find no relatives living at Little
Fails he started for this State on
foot. He showed your reporter a
four ounce s.lver ball which Dr.
Mott, of New York, extracted from
one of his wounds. The wound
made by the copper ball which he
r ceived last September is in the
left breast, and the flesh an I skin
as well as his finger nails, are cop
per colored. The sloughings from
the wound are colored green fromr
the verdigris contained in the fluids,
and the physician told him that the
acid fluids of the body would grad- ~
nully convert the ball into verdi
gris and it would thus be expelled
' I from the system, although the
I wound would never heal.
Atlniitu’* Grand Nh*w,
> Knoxville Tribune.]
Great preparations are being
made at Atlanta for her cotton ex
position in October next. The peo
ple of the north arc deep
' and sincere interest in it, and win
be there with their machinery and
i cotton fabrics. We have no doubt
it will he one of the grandest expo
sitions e'ier bad in the south, and it
will attract a very great mi ititude
1 of people, not only from every part
; of the United States, but many
[ from foreign countries will also be
there. J
But this exposition is not to be
‘ confined alone to cotton and other j
things directly and indirectly cou
i nected with cotton. We under- ,
stand a large house is to be erected
for the exposition of every variety
of agricultural products, and the
minerals and woods of the south. ,
Here will be an excellent opi>ortu
mty for East Tennessee to make a
display of her mineral resources
1 and wealth. It will be a better Op-
I ixirtunity for this purpose than the i
Centennial exposition at Philadel- ~
pliia; because there paintings and
j sculpture and other like things ab
stracted the attention of spectators
' from objects of utility. But the
\ Atlanta exposition is to be confined
to objects of utility almost exclu- *
sively. No better opportunity cw* „
I he ottered to the people .of East
, Tennessee to make a display oPlheir
mineral wealth than the exposition
at Atlanta. In this day of railroads, d
Atlanta is a neighbor city, It will
I lie very convenient to send samples
of minerals there, and also conve
. nient, and not expensive, to have
some of our citizens present to give
1 any explanations about them that
i may lie desired by visitors to our
i department of exposition.
It will lie necessary to have some
system to make preparations for the
exhibition. It is important that we
should have some central pbint in
East Tennessee to which samples
of minerals should be sent, and a
| pro|>er selection made from them to ,
be forwarded to Atlanta. We have
no doubt the railroads will take
samples of minerals free of ex|>ensa.
We would suggest to the citizen
lof Knoxville, who have heretofore
taken an interest in our minerals, to
hold a meeting and take measures
to have them pro|*erly and advanta
geously exhibited in Atlanta. If I
such an association should übe
formed, the ollicers should at once
open a correspondence on the sub
ject with leading men in every coun
ty in East Tennessee. As ft would
l>e more convenient for some of the ■
counties to send their mineral* to i
Chattanooga, we would modestly ,
suggest that a.similar association
should be organized there, ' ’ ”
u u) uU