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CALHOUN, GEORGIA
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CALHOUN, GA.
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evs.
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J. G. B. ERWIN.
FAIRMOUNT, GA,
Keeps on hand a lull line of DRY GOODB,
MKDRINES, HAI DWARE, etc., etc., which
he prop ses to sell at extremely short pro
fits to csh customers He has just pur
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THE TWO ARMIES.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
As life’s unending column pours,
Two marshal’d hosts are seen—
Two armies on the tra pled shores
That death flows back between.
One marches to the diurn-beat, roll,
The wide mouthed clarion’s bray,
And bears upo i a crimson scroll,
“Our glory is to slay."
One moves in silence by the stream.
With sad, yet watchlul eyes,
Calm as the patient planet’s gleam
Thai walks the clouded skies.
Along its front no sabres shine,
No blo3d-red pinions wave ;
Its banner bears the single line,
“Our duty is to save.”
For those no lingering death-bed’s shade,
At honor’s trumpet call ;
With lifted brow and knitted blade
In glory 8 arms they fall.
For these no clashing falchions bright,
No stirring battle cry ;
The bloodless Jabber calls by night—
Each answers “ Here am I!”
For those the sentptor’s 1 mreled bust,
The build r’s marble piles,
The anthems pealing o’er *heir dust
Through long cathedral aisles.
For these the blossom-sprinkled turf,
That floods the lonely graves ;
When Spring rolls in m r sea-green surf
In flowery-foaming waves.
Two paths lead upward from below,
And angels /ait above:
Who count each burning life-drop’s flow,
Each falling tear oi love.
Though from the hero’s bleeding breast
Her pulses freedom drew ;
Though the white lillies in her cre*t
Spiangfrom hat scarlet dew-
While Valor’ haughty champions wait
Till all their scars are shown,
Lov? wa.ks unchallenged through the gate
To sit beside the throne.
THE riilZE TIG.
BY DAVID LOWRY.
“hoop-la! I’ve got it, boys! Let’s
play a juke on old Sliggins.”
“ Count uie iu,” said Sam Spigler.
And me,” added Dick Ho.veil
Torn McDide, the g eatest wag in
Rigeville, tossed up his hat, caught it
smartly, clapped it on three hairs, blew
a cloud of smoke from his mouth and
proceeded to take “ the boys ” into bis
confidence. •
“ You know that ahoat Squire Slig*
iiius paid a hundred dollars for at the
lair. He will brag about it to the visi ■
tors that will be here to-morrow, will
ask them to look at it. D you take?'
Tne boys were slow of apprehension
“ I aui not sure,” said Spigler.
** Nor I,’.’ said Howell
“ Why, we will put the Squire’s pig
in the Widow Kline’s pen, and the wid
ow s p'g in ilie Squire’s.
Toe boys threw up their hats and
declared it was a thought worthy their
leader, who shoulder-d all the mischief
perpetrated it Iligeville.
“ The best joke out,” said Spigler.
* Come on, then* said Tom. Well
do it now, and w hen we get through,
we’ll walk into Sim Barber’s grocery,
and uubody will suspect us.”
With the practical trio to suggest
was to do. The widow’s pig was car
ried to Sliggius’ pen, and the exchange
effected in a masterly manner. In half
an hour three young men looking as u -
concerned as tln ugh they had just en
coun e.red each other, entered the gro
cery, one alter the other. It was neat
ly done, very. The “ How are you,
Tom V* “ Good evening Sam,” and
“ Glad to see you, Dick,” deceived ev
erybody. Proving for the millionth
time that the real clever acting
is in real life, and sev
eral degrees from the mimic stage.
The next morning Squire Sliggins
was iu his glory lie was Chairman of
the reception committee appointed to
receive the delegation of manufactur
ers from Shuttletou He conducted the
distinguished visitois over his manu
factory, pointed out his Short >•* u* u s
broad fields, and reserved his best fea
ture for the final surprise.
“Now, gentlemen,” said Squire Slig*
gins, “ I will show you one of the fin
est pigs in the State A prize indeed.”
Some ol the visitors who did a Hit e
iu poik” were interested. They were
anxious to louk at the Squire s pur
chase Behold them in a circle gam
ering about the pig pen
- Look in, g utlemen,” said the
Squire. They looked. One of the
visitors smiled. Another who was “ a
little in cork ” tut ned aside, sayieg :
“ That will do. Squire. L didn’t
know you were a practical joker.”
The Squire hurriedly entered the
pen. As bo looked, a uia~ked change
came ever h s countenance. For the
space of a minute he could not utter a
w >id Then he boiled over. Ii there
was any law in the land he would deal
it out on the rascals who substituted
that lumpish, dirty th ng A h*r iiis huu
dred-dollur shoat. V\ hen the visiters
left they conduitd him on the loss ol
4 that valuable shoat.”
But now the matter s;an to assume
a serious phase. The Squire was ac
tive. He hi' l ught out his buggy and
Scoured the net hb rh ud in quest n
his uii-siug prize. He noted ini - >-u
-bics, looked into every pigpen in the
township, and as u-tiiti his >\nx ey -
fund the object of bit* search in tin
last place he would have thought ut
Behold him irate ut the widow’s dour
L’be widow, one of the pleasantest wo
men in the, world, met him with her
smile. She did tot swoon.
She ipvited him in. Hg eteod at the
CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10.1877.
dour, and pointed towards her pig pen
“ Mrs. Kiiue, you have my pig in
your pen.”
“I l” No.? the widow's surprise over
come her. “ It’s her artfulness ”
thought the Squire. “I have your—
your pig Squire? is there not some
mistake ?”
“ More art,” thought the Squire.—
There is no mistake. I know my prop
erty when I see it. There is but one
pig in that pen, and that is mine.”
“ And wher ;is mine, Squire ?” The
widow spoke gently. She was not so
rich that she could afford to lose her
pig
“ Your pig is in my pen.”
“ And how did it get there ?”
“ Madam, that is what I am resolved
to discover. Somebody exchanged
them. I shall appeal to the law, mad
am.”
“ Very well. Please yourself. But
how am I to get my property ?”
“ Let whoever carried it there bring
’t back. As they must take mine back.”
And he whirled off. mounted hi*
buggy, and drove to the Alderman’s,
where be entered suit against the wid
ow Kiiue for stealing his pig. Instant
ly the village was rent into factions.—
The Squire’s f riends defended him man
fully. The women, and half the men
sided with the widow. By nightfall
every fourth word sounded like pig,”
and the village were ready to come to
blow®.
“ Bovs,” said Tom McDade when
they were at ne, “ This is all wrong. —
Let us straighten this thing up. We’ll
take the pigs back and place them
where they belong ”
Which suggestion was carried out
quickly When the morning came, the
mystery deepened, A ray of light
shot across the Squire’s intellect. He
got into his buggy, drove to the Alder
man’s, withdrew his complaint, theu
made for the widow’s cottage. The
widow met him toi.- time with crimson
cheeks.
“ Mrs. Kline—l— ’ —ahem. That
is—l’ve dropped in to say Fve made
a fool of myself,”
“ By dropping in, Squire ?”
4 ‘ No, by sueirur. Everybody ii
laughing at us—at me, I mean. I did
wrong Oi’ course somebody has play
ed a Dick on us ”
“Of course,” said the widow, “noth
ing is clearer.”
“ I hate to have them laugh at me.
I-”
“ Take a seat, Sq”ite ”
lie sat down, lie looked at the wid
ow Then he blushed. Absolutely
blushed. But he' spoke out : “We
might turn the laugh on them.”
“ How ?” asked the widow, placidly.
“ By letting me sue you in another
way.”
To employ the widow’s language, she
“ plopped down just like she had been
shot,” but the Squire sued her then f.ud
there And successfully.
Then they went out to get the Squire’s
P'g
‘•Why, this is not my pig/’ ex
clai ed the Squire.
“ I am sure this is mine,” said the
widow.
Well, it makes no difference,” said
the Squire, “they’re both mine now,
and both yours.”
How Rigeville laughed over the way
the widow got her prize pig.
Buried Alive lor Eighleeu
Hours.
Cleveland. Ohio, Oct. 14.—At 7
o’clock Saturday morning, while Harry
Bauch was engaged in the work of
cleaning out a well, forty feel deep, on
Stepheu Matthew’s place, at Plaines.-
ville, the whole side slid in, burying
the man alive. The alarm was imme
diately spr.ad all over the town, and
people turned out en masse, willing to
do all they could to rescue their neigh
bor. The almost herculean work was plac
ed under charg of the Mayor. No one
expected to find aught at the bottom of
the debris except the mangled corpse,
but no less willingly was the work pros
ecuted. Belays were formed, and as
soon as oue mau gave out auother took
his place A short distance from the
surface, curbing was placed in order to
keep the treacherous earth Pom again
foiling in, and the work was pushed on,
At dark but a litcie portiou of the real
work had been done, and those who
had hope of finding the man alive were
completely discouraged It was thought
that if he had escaped being crushed or
suffocated, he must die of dampness or
cold. But it was pushed ou vigorous
ly by tile light of lanterus aud torches.
One curb after another was put down,
aud the men toiled on. Midnight came
and the most of the crowd lad left
but bucketful af'tei bucketful of stones
and earth were constantly ascending
from the awful pit. At length the Dot
com was uea ly reached, when of
the workuieu called out: “Harry,where
are you ?” Distinctly, though muffled
by the earth, came the answer : Ou
the side towards town.” Dutiug all tne
terrible eighteen hours that he had
been in this living touib, Bauch bad
kept the points of the compass in his
mind, and this probably saved him at
the critical uiomeut. Gieat care was now
taken not t strike the man’s head or to
permit thedebris to ca\o in around him.
1 n a few moments his head and shoui*
d.-rs, then his whole body was
ed He was given several cups of hot
coffee and some bread, and alter a short
sice was able walk home, Bauch’s
description of his sensations while he
was in the well are very interesting.—
He had uot moved a muscle, he said,
during the time. He had a slight
breathing space afforded bin by meant
1 <d the rope by which ne was lowered.
Oue arm beot and raised supported a
large stone, aud the stone rested on the
back of his neck. He was delirious
with apprehension much of the time,
thought of everything he had ever done,
prayed and wep , heard the men at
work from the first, and when they
stopped once he gave up all hope. It
seemed to him he was in the well a
week at least.—AT. Y. Times
The Old subscriber.
He came wearily up the sanctum
steps yesterday afternoon, aud turning
the wastebasket upside down, sat down
upon it with a sign that might have
been cut up into tornadoes and whirl-*
wind- enough to go around halt a doz
en agricultural counties. He had a
woary look about h ; m as hough he had
been trying to die aud couldu t find a
doctor. His coat was ragged and patch
ed here an l there with prosperous aud
cluni-h communities of co'.kel burs.—
.is boots were water proof variety, so
arranged that if you stuck them iu wa
ter if would run out faster than it
woul i run iv.. We asked how he
fared, aud he glanced savagely among
our exchanges before he auswered sad
ly;
“Wed pretty miserable thank ye.—
Yer see, times comes iu pretty hard,aud
it was prettv hard sleddiug to get
along. I either just bad to sell the six
duu-s, or cut down the expenses iu some
other way, and so 1 stopped the paper.
I missed it poweitul bad the titst lew
weeks theu l kind o got use to it. Bor*
rowed it ouce iu a wnile here aud there
but folks somehow diuu t appear to len i
their paper aud so 1 finally lost sight ul
it altogether Then trouble began right
off The first thing I kuowd i was ar
rested and fined for violating the
game lavv. thiugs has beeu chang
ed a little a-d I dun’t kuo v nothing
about it. but the judge said as now
ce wasn’t no excuse in these days
when the state was so full of papers ul
you couldn’t fire a stone out o the win
der without hitting an editor. Theu in
a week L was arrested and fined §2O
fur violating the fishery law, and wneu
[ be. ged of an’ said i didu't kuow noth
in’ about it, tbe judge asked where i
was raised au’ remitted me §2 or the
find fur me to take the paper w.th, But
I kinder thought i couldu t
get in any more sc apes, and 1 Surto’
hung on to the two dollars. In about
three days I was took up again aud fin
ed $4 and costs for hunting ou Sunday
and I hope I may die if I knuvvd it was
Sunday. An’ I had to seli the gun to
get out of the jug. Then a fellow came
along and bought every grain of corn l
had in the crib for six ceDts less thuu 1
found next day it W'as selling in the
market; then I lost two of tne best
cows you ever saw, aod they wa3 took
up and advertised, and all the lime
I was hunting the whole country over
for ’em an’ when I fouutl em at last the
costs was more than the cows was
worth. The taxes came due and 1
didn’t kuow it, au’ the farm was sold
an’ I had big cost to pay before l
koowed a thing about it. Then lost
§lO on a bet that Beudletou had a dead
sure thing on the Democratic nomina
tion, an’ nother §5 on a bet that
Belknap was secretary ot war, an’ I
don’t know anything about Baocockjnor
Blaine, nor nobody, and every week
since Fve stopped the paper I’ve paid
out more money to keeD out of scrapes
Gian wouid keep me in newspapers ai.
my days. But my name down ou tho
list.”
A Sociable Lot.
He moved his box of paper collars
and his three-shilling trunk in anew
buadiug-house.
It was a cheap place and he ex
pected to get along swimmingly and
save stacks of money.
He staid just one week and in that
time fell away to a mere shadow. He
them called the lady of the house aside
and said :
“Laudlady.l’ve got to move. I tried
my best to brave it through, I can
not do it. Just make out my
bill, and i’ll settle with vou and be
off.”
k( Why, my dear Mr. Nervores, what
is the trouble ? Haven’t I done all I
could to accommodate you ? Isn't eve
everybody here sociable and agreea
ble?”
“Oh, yes ! sociable enough—special,
ly the boys. I wasn’t going to speak
of it but it’s a fact; you’ve got the
most ociable lot of boys I ever encoun
tered. I haven’t slept a wink since I’ve
been here, and it’s wearing me down
to nothing. Don’t ask me to stay; I
couldn’t think of it if you’d board me
for nothing. Just make out my bill and
tack on a couple dollars extra for the
society of the boys if you want to, and
and I’ll send a man around after my
baggage this afternoon.”
She took him at his word, and he
paid the amount without a murmur
and then started off to hunt up a
higher priced ranche with fewer ex
iras.
“ Where there’s swill there’s away,’
a* tne pig reuiaiked when it climbed a
ten rail fenoe and tioneled under an
hedge to get a barrel of slop in
the back yard.
A German was about to make a jour
ney to his fatherlaoo, and wishing to
say “good-by” to a fiend, extended his
hand and said; “Veil, off I dou’d
come back, hullo.”
Kerr* 4 Best Stump Speecb.
When Speaker Kerr was first run
ning for Congress, and was first adver
tesed for a speech at Paoli, 111., on the
13th of August, he arrived in the vil
lage late on the 12th, aud put up at the
only tavern iu the p ace, a small frame
building, proudly called the Tremont
House. The proprietor of the tavern
was a Yankee, Wiilian Harrison, who
had formerly lived at Seymour,lndiana,
and had taken there an active part iu
the operations of the Vigilance commit
tee that Lad driven the Reno despera*
does from that place, and
administered a severe whipping to old
ReQO because be had refused to divulge
the whereabouts of one of his notorious
sons.
The outlaws had repeatedly tried to
shoot Harrison in Seymour after dark,
and fur that reason he had removed to
Paoli. The Tremont House was situa
ted in the middle of a large vacant lot
at some distance from the other dwell
ings of the village. When Mr. Kerr
arrived, there, no other guests stopped
at the tavern, and when he retired to
bed, he aud the landlord were the only
men in the house. There was also Har
rison’s young wife, au infant daughter,
and three servaut girls
At 10 o’clock all lights in the house
were extinguished. A couple of hours
later Kerr was awaken by a loud rap
ping at the door. He heard that Harri
sou went to the door, and asked, with
out opening, who was there ? The an
swer was :
“We, the Reno boys, are here, Bill
Harrison. Come out, you white-livered
hound; we have come to cut your heart
out !”
The landlord did not comply with
this amiable request, but ran up to
Kerr’s room, and hurriedly fold him
who the nocturnal callers were.
“They are the most desperate villains
in the world,” he said excitedly ; “they
will assuredly murder me and my fami
ly if they get into the house,and I need
not look for assistance from the people
in the village, because the very name ol
the Reno boys will strike terror into
their hearts.”
Kerr meanwhile dressed, and while
the outlaws were knocking louder and
louder at the frout door,he said to Har
rison ;
“Can they get into the house?” ask
ed Kerr.
Not easily,” replied the landlord; the
doors and window-shutters are secur
ed.”
“Well,” said Kerr ; “ let me out the
back door. I will go, and speak to the
fellows.”
“What!” you intend to face the mis
creants ? It’s madness, sir; they would
murder you without a moment’s scru
ple.”
“Never mind,” said Kerr. lam not
afraid.”
Harrison implored him again and
auain nut to go, but Kerr insisted.—
Wh n he came down into the hall he
found Mrs. Harrison and the three ser
vant-girls there, a prey to intense alarm
for the Reno boys threatened, amidst
the most blasphemous oaths, to burn
down the house if Harrison did not
speed.ly deliver himself up.
Kerr stepped out of the baok door,
aud went round to the yard.
“Halloo, gentlemen !” he shouted to
the men, of whom there were four. —
‘•What is the row ?”
They rushed toward him, but he said
imperatively :
4 Stand back a moment. I am a
stranger here My name is Michael C.
Kerr. lam the Democratic candidate
for Congress iu tliis district. Wboare you
and what do you want here at this un
timely hour of the night? ’
These words, uttered in the most son
norous of voices, and Kerr’s fearless air
and commanding presence made an im* |
pressiou upon the outlaws. One of them
replied :
“We are the Reno boy3—from Sey
mour, you kuow. We have been hunt
ed like dogs by the cursed Vigilants
They have whipped our old father with
in au ich of his life. Bill Harrison
G and and n him, was one of their
leaders, and we are now here to kill him
for it !”
‘‘How do you know that Mr. Harri
son was one of the Vigilant?, ’ inquired
Kerr.
“We know it,” replied the speaker of
the outlaws.
“How do you come to know it? Sup
pose you are mistaken ?” demanded
Kerr.
No, we are Dot, and we don’t pro
pose io argue the question with you
either.”
“Not so fast, yonngmen, Mr. Harri.
son is at the window above you with a
Spencer rifle. He can bring down the
who'e of you in less than no time. He
has forborn thus far only beeaue I ask
ed him to do so. And why did I do so?
Because I thought that you were men
fter all, like all of us. You are the
Reno boys, are you ? I have heard of
you- They call you robbers, murderers
and outlaws. Do you really do aU-h
things ?”
They made no reply.
“Y ou ought to know,’’continued Kerr,
“where you will finally laul, leading
that sort of life. They have driven you
out ol Seymore because you acted very
badly there ; but why don’t you go else
where, and make a decent living ? Big
fellows as you are, you could do well
anywhere in the West. Is Sam Reno
among you ?”
“That’s me,” re} lied one of the out
laws.
‘•Theu you are the man whose .vile
left him because he will aot mind her,
3Ud gtay on his laroi "
He made no reply.
“I know her, because she lives near
me in New Albany,’’continued Kerr.—
“She’s a good woman, and has got two
nice children. I’ll make her go baok
o you if you will promise to go farming
agaiu. Now will you, Sam Reno ?” sk
ed Kerr.
lie made and unintelligible reply.—
Kerr then said :
“You say they whipped you'* father
inSejmour, and that Mr. Harrison
here had a hand in it. Now, if your
father has any evidence to that effect
against Mr. Harrison,let himcome to me
and I pledge you my word that I will
bring suit against Harrison without
charging your father a cent. J3ut mind
me boys ; you have got yourselves here
again in a very bad scrape. There are
men and r fles enough to make mince
meat of you. If you persist in banging
at this door, you will get more than you
are bargaiuing for. So the best thing
for you be to go horn 1 , and let me have
a little rest God knows I need it for I
have to make two long speeches to-mor
row.”
The boys hesitated a little, but finally
withdrew.
Next day all Paoli was astonished on
hearing that the redoubtable outlaws
had been in the village, bent upon the
assassination of Mr. Harrison, and that
Mr. Kerr's fearless eloquence had
prevailed upon them to retrace their
steps.
Kerr had a most enthusiastic
meeting next day, and carried tho
county by a welNnigh unanimous
vote.
808 STEWART’S GRATITUDE.
A Governor of Missouri Walking
Arm in Ann with a Convict,
Probably the oldest genius who ever
occupied a public position in Missouri
was the late Robert M. Stewart. He
lived in St. Joseph, where he rose in
po'itical power. The first Presidei tof
the Hannibal and St Joseph Railroad,
he was called its father. He
ed Governor in 1857.
When .Doniphan's expedition was or
ganized to go through New Mexico and
co-operate with the main United States
army in 1847, Bob Stewart was a mem
ber of a company raised in Buchanan
county. Four days out and his gun
was accidently discharged, the contents
enteiing one of his legs, shattering a
bone and disabling him. One of the
company William Grover, was detailed
to remain with Stewart. Grover watch
ed over his friend with the care of a
brother, and Stewart, not then dream*
ing of his future destination, said,
Billie, old fellow, I’ll pay yo back
same day ! The time will come !”
Ten years later Bill Grover, the
friend of Stewart was arrested as a par
ticipant ij a palitical ciime, tried, conn
victed, and sentenced to the penitentia
ry for ten years. Not long after his
conviction, Stewart was nominated for
Governor. He saw his triend just be
tore be was incarcerated, and said,
“Bill, the first thing I do alter I’m in
augurated will be to pardon you out. —
Aud I’m 6ure to be elected.”
Bob was elected and inaugurated.—
True to his word and the native in
stincts of gratitude, he went to the pen
itentiary and inquired for Bill Grover.
He was not there. He was one of a
detail called out to dig a well in Jeffer**
son City, and was then engaged in that
work.
Often the Governor went to the well
iu which Grover was at work. On resell
ing the place, he leaned over C e well
and cried out:
“Bill, are you there ?”
‘ Who’s that?” asked a voile from
the subterranean deeps below.
“It’s me —Bob Stewart ! Come out
o’ there, and n you ! I’ve pardoned
you.”
In a few mioutes Grover was hauled
up out of the well. Then was exhibit.,
ed the curious spectacle of the Gover
nor* of a great State walking through
tbe streets of* the capital arm-in-arm
with a striped-suited convict. He took
his old friend up to a clothing stor",
rigged him out in anew sgit of clothes
and made him a guest at the Gover
nors mansion, afterward providing for
him a start in business.
Stopping Tliat Iplvrest.
Daniel Webster once dined with an
old Boston merchant, and when they
came to the wine a dusty old bottle was
carefully decanted by John and passed
jo the host. Taking the bottle he pour*
ed out Mr. Webster’s glass and handed
it to him. 'i hen pouring out another
glass for himself, he htld it to the light
and said :
‘‘[low do you like it, Mr. Webs
ter?”
“I think it is a fine specimen of old
port.”
“Now oan you guess what it cost me?’
said the host.
“Surely not said Mr. Webster; “1
know only that it is excellent.”
“Well, now I can tell you. for I made
a careful estimate the other day. \Y hen
1 add the interest to the first j rice, I
find that it cost me the sum of j ust $1.20
per glass 1 ’
“Good gracious 1 you don’t say so.’
said Mr. Webster j and then draining
his glass he presented it again with the
. remark :
“Fill it up again aa quick as you can,
fur I want to atop that confounded in
terest.”
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