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y,Y FREEMAN & RRO.
She Calhoun
[For the Calhoun Times.]
Lines Inscribed to the Memory or Hon.
E. W. Chastain.
BY MAY EBON.
Come, sons of Georgia, weep a\id wail,
i brother lies within death’s 'pale ;
Weep, weep, Georgia, weep, your gifted son
Will no more battle for yo’j j his Avork is
done.
Hushed is hi? voice, st’ x i j 3 his breath.
Closed by a sad untimely death.
Mourn, 1 ' > *ng hp ar ts, y our i oss j s great,
.Moure ’er as f ern relentless fate
That . m.d l*qc closest life-ties sever,
And Might ft home of love forever.
Alas 1 Aias! that death should come
UM isolate a happy home.
Weep bitterly, children and wife,
O’er the sad closing of his life;
You’ll miss him sorel/ at the days depart,
Time cannot take the bitter anguish from
your heart;
You’ll find the cross tver hard to bear,
Ind mourn always o’er a vacant chair.
Step lightly, stranger, o’er his dust,
Mar not the beauty of his trust ;
S,,il not his fame by one foul breath,
His faults are swallowed up in death,
His virtues rise above the tomb,
brighter shining tlrough its gloom.
In life whatever might be its place,
ho filled it with a stately grace,
With the chivalry of the old-time kflight
m hood
Pbremost in the ranks of right lie stood;
He battled bravely for his country’s weal,
And never shrank from the foeman’s steel.
He left no message with his dying breath,
To tell us he had conquered deatli ;
Hut we know by the smile of triumph lie
wore
He is saved with the blood-washed forev
ermore ;
That e’en in death’s embrace
He sought and found redeeming grace.
n mi w -wiau.iM'
[For tlicGalhoun Times.]
What is WortF?
Does worth mean wealth ? Is it a
merit to be rich ? When we say a mail
is worth a hundred thousand dollars, is
it in science, knowledge and goodness,
or in property and money ? Which is
Dives and which Lazarus—the body or
the mind? Col. Joseph Heid, a Cori
giessman of 1778, thought it integrity
of character, for when Gov. Johnston
offered him a bribe of thirty thousand
dollars if he would promote the inter
ests of the British; indignantly replied.
“I am not worth purchasing, but such
as I am, the King of Great Britain is
not rich enough to buy me.” Themis-
did not regard weadth ti’MiSLO^lr
who was hesitating whether to give
his daughter in marriage to a man of
worth with small fortune, or to a rich
one with no other recommendation, said,
; 1 would bestow my daughter upon a
man without money, rather than upon
money without a man. But Dr. Gold
smith ou one occasion esteemed gold as
true worth, for being called to a patient
and finding want the true cause of the
disease, told him he would send some
pills which would prove efficacious, and
on going home put ten guineas into a
paper and sent the sick man, Which had
the desired effect.
Phillip, King of Mfa&cfon, boasted
>hat lie could take any fortified city
with a mule laden with gold. A sailor
who. being stopped by a highwayman
for his money, and refusing to give it
U P Was threatened with having his
brains blown out, boldly answered,
“ Blow away, then; I may as well be
without brains as without money,” de
eded the question with himself as to
what worth is.
dany parents labor hard and live
sparingly, denying their children even
educational advantages, that they may
amass for them riches; or, if they edu
cate them at all, more pir.chingly dole
out a teacher’s salary, than the wages
or " a hireling. They, too, demonstrate
their ideas of worth.
Dto wearer of satins and ermine, with
coutempt looks on the horny
of the sons of toil and their
•coarse garments, though the jewel in
ae rough casket may be pure diamond
'hikt theirs only rubbish. Whether
ill inhospitable Denmark, in honest Swc
*oll, frozen 1 inland, rude Finland, un
* '
pricipled Russia, o? in the wide-spread
*cgioD3 of Tartary, treasures of gold
buj admirers, friends and power, whilst
genius and talent may be spurned and
skave. Providence deals not so, but
vften gives superior intellects to pover
ty, which by hard struggling shine
forth and rank far ahead in the galaxy
es the literary world.
Wealth may put cents in the pocket,
uot sense in the head, may buy
- a ud, houses, fine clothing and luxuries,
out refuses to purchase talent, and like
I'olix trembles in her presence.
Moro, duke of Milan, having display.
Sfcd before soma foreign embassadors his
F a gnificence which excelled that of ev
ery other prince, ostentatiously remark-
Das a man possessed- of so much
property anything to desire in this
world ? One thing only, said one of
etn j a nail on which to fix the wheel
°f fortune, and he might have added,
opacity, for ignorance too frequently
- B Wrapped, but uot disguised, in spier*-
did livery. Without soul and mind,
what is the body but the ultimate, a
monkey, a brure ? We, who have not
enough of this world's goods to be com
fortable, who are denied any of the su
perfluities of life, but must be consoled
that “we need but little hero below,
nor need that little long,” may appear
like old Diogenes, misanthropic, cynical,
in refusing tho meed of real tcorlh to
wealth, but
Were 1 so tall as to reach the pole;
Ami grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by my soul,
The mind’s the standard of the man.
Calhoun, Ga. M. B. R.
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[For The Calhoun Times.]
Memory’s Spell.
BY MAY EBON.
As the light fades slowly out in tho
west, and one by one the stars come out,
we lay by the busy cares of day, and
stiting in the quiet moonlight, memory
steals upon us -frith her magic spells,
leading us back, far back, over the days
of the bygone; how varied are its infill
ences. At timc3 soft as the touch of a
mother’s hand—sometimes fierce and
lleentless as the burst of the tornado;
at tines sad as the funeral knoll —at
others w ild and jubilant as a triumphal
march, filling the soul with music sweet
as the rolling spheres. Springing from
the sane wdiere sleep the ashes of ruined
joys and blighted hopes, through the
shadowy isles of tlie dfcud past, it
brings our loved ones back to us. —
There is no life so bare, no heart so dead,
tut that it has some bright oasis in the
arid desert left behind; some green
isle of gladness, which it would not ex
change for the wealth of the Indies or
the silver iiin'es of Peru. And if in
the hurried bustle of life, some of the
brightest pages in the book of the past
are folded down, and almost threatened
with forgetfulness, in some unlooked-for
hour, a voice, a careless laugh, a with
ered flower, or the glance of a beaming
eye will bring the old dream back again
with all its freshness; and if in the
beaten thoroughfare of life, we meet
with Rome rare flowers from the glowing
tropics, or precious gems from Polar
seas —if the hidden nectar of Helicon
fifes resume some latent spark of geni
us, the subtle spell of love, steals into
tho heart or the holy boon of friendship
brightens t e pathway, still? hose remi
uiscense of the post are never silent..—
Docs the statesman, when he has re<-
c ;ived the highest honor his country
can bestow ?—the king on hrs throne,
or the soldier off the tented field, forget
the mother who taught him to pray, or
the father who guided his feet in the
Ways of right? No; nothing can still
the memory’s voice. ’Tis mingled with
the flush of the noonday sun ; woven
with the silent rays of the moonbeams,
and intertwined with the soke mb mu
sings of the midnight hour.
llreakiug the News.
When the lamented Judge Bagley
tripped and fell down the court house
stairs and brake bis neck, it was f* great
question how to lireak the uews to poor
Mrs But finally the body was
put into Higigfns’ wagon, and he was in
structed to take it to Mrs. B , but to be
very guarded and discreet in his lan
guage, and not break the news to her
at once, but do it gradually and gents
!y-
When Higgins got there with Ins sad
freight, he shouted till Mrs. Bagley
came to the door ; then he said:
“ Does the widder Bagley live here V
“ The widow Bagley ? No, sir ?"
“ I’ll bet she does. But have it your
own way. Well, does Judge Bagley
live here ?’’
u Yes, sir."
“ I’ll bet he dou’t. But never mind
—it ain’t, for me to contradict. Is the
Judge in ?"
“ No, not at present."
“ I jest expected as much. Because
you know —take hold o’ suthin’ mum
for I’m goin’ to make a little communi*
cation, and I reckon maybe it’ll jar you
some. There’s been an accident mum.
J’rfi got the old Judge curled up on
here in the wagon —and when you see
him you’ll acknowledge yourself that an
inquest is about the only thing that
could be a comfort to him ! M
Quarreling —ls anything in the
world will make a man feel badly, ex
cept pinching his fingers in the crack
of a door, it is unquestionably a quar
rel. No man ever fails to think less of
himself after it than before. It de
grades him in the eyes of others, and,
what is worse, blunts his sensibilities on
the one hand and increases the power
of passionate irritability on the other.
The truth is, the more peaceably we
get on the better for our neighbois. In
nine cases out of ten the better course
is, if a man cheats you, cease to deal
with him ; if be is abusive, quit bis
company, and if he slanders you, take
care to li\e so that no one will believe
him. No matter who he is or how he
misuses you, the wisest way i3 to let
him alone, for there is nothing better
than this cool, calm and quiet way of
dealing with the wrong3-we meet.
A noble heart, like the sun, shows
: it* greatest countenance in its loweshes
tate.
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 1. 1874.
“ Hays that are Dark.”
The San Francisco Bulletin relates
the following:
The demolition of the Mead House,
at the corner of Montgomery and Pine
streets, has developed some facts of
startling interest. The Mead House
was a rendezvous for the gambling fra
ternity from early in 18G5 to December
1871, when the police raided upon it
and disturbed operations. Until this
raid faro was conducted in the building
in a quiet and of lerly man tier, and with
profit, the net earnings reaching SOS -
000 for a single year. This was in re
ality a woiklngmen’s bank. Here the
working classes deposited large sums of
money, and were not troubled with bank
books.
A few days ago, while the workmen
tVere taking down the walls, a number
of suspicious characters were observed
banging about the spot and watching
the proceedings with great interest.—
While knocking away the wall of one
of the lower rooms the workmen were
somewhat puzzled by the manner of the
strangers. Three of them suddenly
walked up to the spot and watched ev
ery blow of the axe with the keenest
scrutiny. Suddenly a gap was made in
the wall, and the next blow of the axe
caused a peculiar sound as if a musical
instrument had been struck. On exam
ination it was discovered that three
wires were running up through the wall
from floor to ceiling. In a few minutes
no less than half a dozen workmen were
about the place examining the wires, the
three strangers looking at each other
significantly.
An investigation of the walls of the
whole house was commenced, and the
revelations were, indeed, of the most
startling character. In one of the rooms
on the upper floor was &’n arrangement
which enabled a player to know exactly
what his opponent held. Directly over
the table in the centre of the room was
a small hole in the ceiling through
which the confederate watched the
game. Wires ran along the ceiling to
the floor, and terminated in levers be
neath tho carpet, upon which the cheat
ing gambler placed his foot; as these
wires were pulled, the number of tele
graphed the course of action to pur
sue.
The faro room was the most ingeni
ously contrived thing in the house. In
the first place, wires ran from the door
so that a signal was given when it open
ed, and in an instant everything was in
readiness for the drop. This was ac
complished by two levers and a space
beneath let into the floor. In a second
Lk£u fru mkh;““OT''‘btfarse/ > grabbing Ids
checks and money, and by a motion of
the levers the yawning floor opened and
down went the whole “ lay out.” The
carpet was then drawn over the spot,
;nd when tho officers hove in sight
there w as nothing in the shape of gam
blers’ implements to be seen. In the
house there were taken out no less than
one hundred and fifty wires and several
contrivances for suddenly hiding gam
bling implements. After the discovery
an endeaver fras made by the three
strangers to bush the matter up, but
the affair had become noised abroad,
and already a good many strangers were
about the place, drawn thither by curi*
osity. The developments are creating
some stir with the gambling fraternity,
but the leading sports of the city deni
ed ali kuowledge of the existence of th e
peculiar arrangements by which the un
wary were fleeced.
It will be remembered that similar
discoveries were made some years ago
at thb tearing down of a gambling den
at Washington, D. C.
The Fellow that Looks Like Me.
Max Aldeler, who writes for a Phil
adelphia paper, has a friend named
Simmer, who deseives pity. He was
going up to Reading-the other day, and
when reaching the depot he happened
to look in the ladies’ room. A woman
sat there with a lot of baggage and
three children, and when she saw Slim
mer she rushed at him, and before he
could defend himself she flung her arms
about his neck, nestled her head upon
lus breast, and burst into tears. Slim
mer was amazed, indignant confound
ed } and ere he could find utterance for
his feelings, she exclaimed :
“Oh, Henry, dear Henry! We arc
united at last. Are you well? In aunt
Martha still alive ? Haven’t you longed
to see your own Louisa?"
And she looked into Slimmer’s face
and smiled through her tears.
“ Madame,” said he solemnly, “if I
am the person alluded to as Henry, per
mit me to say that you have made a
mistake. My name is Lemuel, I have
no aunt Martha, and I don’t own a sol
itary Louisa. Oblige me by letting go
my coat, it excites remark."
Then she buried her bonnet deeper
into his waist-coat, and began to cry.
harder than ever, and said :
<! Oh, Henry, how, hoic can you treat
me so ? flow can you pretend you are
not my husband ?"
“ Madame," screamed Slimmer, “If
you do not cease sopping my shirt bos
om, and remove your umbrella from my
corn, I shall be obliged to call the po
lice. Let me go, I
The children ere here," she persist
ed. “ They recognize their dear father.
Don’t you children ?’’
“Yes, yes,” they exclaimed,;* it’s pa,
it’s cur dear pa "
And then they grabbled Slimmer by
the trowscr legs and L :ig to his coat
tail.
“ Woman,” he shrieked, ‘ this is get
ting serious. Unhand me, I say "
And he tried to disengage himself
from her embrace —while all tba brake
men, and the baggage master, ana the
newsboys stood around, and said his con
duct was infamous. In the midst, ol
the struggle a stranger entered with a
carpet bag. He looked exactly like
Slimmer—and when he saw his wife in
Slimmcr’s arms he became excited, and
floored Slimmer with that carpet bag,
and sat on him, and smote his nose and
caromed on his head, and asked him
what he meant. Slimmer was removed
on a stretcher, and the enemy went off
with his wife and family in a cab. He
called next day to apologize. His wife
had made the mistake because of Slim*
mer’s likeness to him. And now Slim*
mer wishes he may soon be kicked in
the face by a mule, so that be will re
semble no other humau being in the
world.
He Yearned to Bea Reporter.’
He came up the four fights of stairs
Saturday morning, and as soon as he
had recovered his breath he wanted to
know if the Free Press would like to
engage another reporter. He said he
hadn’t had much experience, but he
said it in a tone which was niearit to
convey the idea that he knew his busi
ness. He was tall and thin, had on a
plug hat, which looked as if it had been
run over by a. drove of mules, his col
lar had sweat through and his bandana
handkerchief was remarkable for the
many creases in it. His boots were rod
with old age, and his pants were stuffed
into the tops. Nevertheless his face
was one to command attention, and his
tones were respectful. In reply he was
told that there Was always room at the
top of the profession, just as Daniel
Webster told a young lawyer once upon
a time. He said he thought four sto
ries high was about as near the top of
the profession as a fellow could get, but
his joke watf too old to laugh at He
didn’t want much pay, he said; his ebs
jecting being to identify himself with
some growing journal and let the fleet
ing years bring him wealth and laurels.
He was nineteen years old, and he had
plenty of time. lie said ho could sit
up 3 nights running, ingratiate himself
into the affections of the police in one
brief hour, and he knew the firemen
and the captain of the ferry boats would
love him on sight. He could report
anything from a dog fight to a regatta,
and he wrote a lightning hand. He
was used to religious meetings, knew
all about medical conventions, and
would go for woman suffrage, or become
a granger, just as the paper desired.—
He preferred, he said, to work all day
and night, but if the office had a rule
requiring a man to sleep three or four
hours out of twenty-four, he would
obey.
• *-u - .; * v •
tones grew much more sAiious as he
talked. He was being consumed by a
burning ambition to wield a lead pen
cil, and ice water had no effect on him.
He was “up” in grammar, posted on the
plots, and as for history, he could re
peal every important event, from the
hour the boy stood on the burning deck,
(Town to Eli Perkins’ fight with the
“ Fat Contributor.” He hud brought
along a sow specimens of what he could
do—faint efforts scratched off with
chain lightning velocity. He handed
one over. It, read :
“ Mujder !!! Aboute ten o’clock
last rite theory of murder was herd on
one of our mane stretes, and as usual
the police was not in site. The cries
was repeated several time, being enuff
to curdle the blood of the bravest man
that eucr lived. Our new reporter nt
once—"
The item was quietly handed back to
him, and he was informed that Detroit
was not his home. His talents were too
much for the town —too many years in
advance of it. They could not appre
ciate him here, but in Chicago—nearer
the setting sun—they were standing
around on the corners looking for such
men.
‘‘You hain’t a foolin’ stranger?" he
asked, his face expressing the gravest
anxiety.
No —he could depend on it. It was
a solemn thing to fool with a young man
just starting out in life, and it was also
against offce rules.
‘ And Chicago is—is—"
: * Just two hundred and eighty-four
miles west of Detroit."
“ Goodbye, stranger,"^he continued,
as he arose and picked up his bundle
and put the end of his big cane under
the strap ; “ I’m very much obleegd to
you, and if I don’t walk it in four days
it’s because the railroad bed gives out.”
Love Pnt to Flight.
A few days ago a young couple in
this city were “ sighing for the knot
there’s no untying." .They had known
each other long, and thought they knew
each other well. One evening the gal
lant cafied upon his future bride. He
had passed the previous night with a
party of batcbelor friends, and didn't
“go home till morning." As a’ Conse*
qutnee, not even the bright eyes of his
dulcina could drive sleep from his eye
lids. He reclined upon the sofa, and
suddenly dropped into the land of
dreams. Heavy breathing was follow
ed by a slight snore, which developed
into a snort which caused the house to
tremble. There was as little v riation
in the nasal music as in the puffing of a
high-pressure steamer. The young la
dy began to think of the future —then
wept. She shock her sleeping lover,
but he snored with renewed vigor. At
last she was furious, and seizing his
hair, gave it a jerk that bi ught him to
his feet. He stammered, \Vhal’s th
matter, my “Matter en ugh,"
she replied, u I shall die an old maid
before I’ll marry a man that snorts. —
Good night!” She left the parlor—lie
the house. The young lady could net
keep the secret, and the reasoa why the
match was broken off is now generally
known among their entire circle of
friends.
The Phenomena of Sieejff
Dr. Egbert Guernsey, in the June
number of the Medical Union, thus dis
courses of sleep, from a physiciau’s point
of view :
“How is sleep induced, and what is
the condition of the brain during this
period of rest which occupies nearly
one third of our lives?” are questions
not merely of curiosity, butpf real prac
tical use. Either the nervous mass as
a whole is quiescent, undisturbed bv
currents of nervous energy, or currents
are still kept up, but an even, unalter*
ing pace. The latter conclusion seems
most plausible, and is more distinctly
borne out by facts. The nervous ays*
tern is seldom allowed to fall into entire
somnoleuce, but however profound the
slumber the mind Still seems to retain
Waking impressions, and is to a certain
extent under their influent even in
sleep. A person even very much fa
tigued, who has previously accustomed
himself Ao that self-discipline, will fall
into a deep and sound slumber, and’yet
wake up promptly at a time specified in
his waking moments, notwithstanding he
might have slumbered for hours had it
not been for this act of the will. A
gentleman, who in the piosecution of
his business is obliged to travel con
stantly, taking the train at all hours,
and catching his sleep when and where
he can get it, informs me he never has
any trouble, however muck fatigued he
may be, in waking at any specified time.
Even without this stiong exercise of
the will power, the brain power, howev
er profoundly quiescent, is keenly alive
to certain sounds, however oblivious it
may be to others The physician hears
the first tap of the night bell, though
he might sleep on undisturbed while a
band of music was playing in front of
his windows, or the roar of thunder or
the crash of artillery was making the
windows rattle and the bed tremble be
neath him. The mother starts from
her deep slumber at the first cry of her
child, her ear quickly catching, howev*
er profound may be her sleep, almost its
altered breath ng. It is said of a young
man, a midshipman, wishing to commend
himself to the commander, spent eigh
teen hours out of the twen y four in
watching and recording the signals, on
ly retiring to rest when utterly exhaust
ed. Then his slumber was so profound
that the loudest noise would produce no
impression, hut simply whisper in his
ear the word “signal” and in ah instant
he was on his feet, wide awake and:
ready for duty. We are all familiar
with a kind of waking sleep, in which
Uind of setm-un
cousciousness. Any disturbing element
may rouse up the current of nerve force
into full activity, but without them con
sciousness gradually disappears, ac
cordingly as the nerve currents are un*
varied in their degree, uutil sleep, more
or less profound, is produced.
Facts such as we have stated arc in
favor of a certain low degree of nerve
action as existing under every variety
of state, from the light sleep to the most
profound. On this hypothesis, when
all the currents of the brain are equally
balanced and continue at the same
pitch, when no one is commencing, in
creasing, or abating, consciousness or
feeling is null and mind is quiescent.—
A disturbance of this state of things
wakens up the consciousness fora time ;
the variety or stimulm in the waking
state forbidding this perfect equilibrium
from being attained. * * *
Sleep is a positive necessity. It is a
period of recuperation, during which
there is a restoration of what has suf
fered collapse, waste or disturbance du
ring the period of waking activity.—
The tired brain and the aching muscles
regain, by strength and ,tbe power to
obey the mandates of the will. The
demands of the material form for rest
are so great as to often defy the actionof
the mind. During the cholera summer
of 1819, while practising in the coun
try, so constant aud fatiguing were my
professional labors that I have often
ridden for miles on horseback sound
asleep. Almost every physician in ac.
tive practice during periods of epide
mics, when his strength was taxed to
the utmost, has dropped into a sleep, as
I Lave done many times, while walking
the street. During the battle of the
Nile, many of the boys engaged in
handling ammunition fell asleep even
while the roar of the battle was going
on around them. It is said in the re
treat to Corunna whole battalions of in
fantry slept while in rapid march. —
Even the most acute bodily sufferings
are not always sufficient to prevent
sleep. The worn out frame of the vic
tim of the Inquisition has yielded to
its influence in the pause of his tor
tures upon the rack, and for a moment
he has forgotten his sufferings. The
Indian burned at the stake, in the in
terval between the preliminary torture
and the lighting of the fire, has sweet
ly slumbered, and been only aroused by
the flame which was to consume him
curling around him.”
A seriously inclined but illiterate
girl had been so constant and attentive
at church that she had the entire sei
vice by heart. She always had her
prayer book before her, and much edi
fied the young man to whom she was
betrerf-hed by the close attention which
she bestowed upon it. One Sunday,
happening to have forgotten his own
manual, he asked permission so look in
to her’s. She readily granted it, but
great was his surprise to see the book
held the wrong way in her hand. “My
dear,” said he, “your book is upside
.down.” “ f know it is; but that’s the
way I always read. I’m left-hand
ed.”
Why is the letter V like a youngWa
dy ? Because it make pa pay.
Maxims fot* Working Meti.
A good advertisement for a wor'.ii’
man is a seat in church.
The savings bank is a safe debtor.
Fifty cents fur a good lecture is bet
ter than half that sum for a circus.
Dress neatly. A well clothed man
j commands favor and respect, while one
j in slovenly attire can hardly borrow his
neighbor’s saw horse.
If you wish to personally comprehend
the completeness of the old adage, “ a
fool and his money are soon parted,” buy
a lottery ticket.
Never sacrifice your money for what
people will say. It is blitter to buy a
fair peace of beef for fiften cents a
poupd and leave the surloin for some
other, man who would buy y* ur kind
except for the name. , .
The man is always most honored who
is most excellent in what he undertakes,
ft is better to saw wood well than to
plead law poorly.
Be honest. A cold stove is better
than a warm one with stolon Tup!
The laboring mau holds the same re
lation to the merchant, uianulacturer,
attorney, physician and minister, that
the locomotive does to a train ofelegaut
filled cars—they would stand still forev
er if the engine did not move them.
There is many an honest, hard work
ing man, who rises himself and calls
his family before sunrise, three hun
dred and sixty-five days in a year. In
nine cases out of ten, when h.s chil
dren arrive at his age they will be call
ed up by Servants.
A meerschaum pipe and a bank-book
always q’uarrel, and the upshot of the
encounter generally is that oue puts the
other out of doors.
Work harder at drilling rocks, for
instance, if your employer never
visits you than if he frequently does.
He will know of your faithfulness when
he pays for the drills.
The poverty of childhood is more
frequently than otherwise the stepping
stone to wealth.
Bull Bog vs, Chinaman,*
Between 10 and 12 o’clock this morn
ing, a bloody combat occurred on Bran
nan street, near Fourth, between a
Chinaman and a large bull dog which
was subsequently reinforced by a larger
dog of the mas*iff breed, both of which
were, fortunately for the Chinaman,
killed before any serious damage was
done. It seems that the man was plod
ding wearily along with a couple of
baskets of fish strung on his pole ; when
a large brindle bull dog of ferocious as*
. 1-1 _ O I ' -
wagon, prompted by that instinct which
impels dogs generally to go for China
men, made a rush at the fish vendor
and seized him by the overshirt, over
turning his basket and all in the vio
lence of the onslaught. Happily for
the Chinaman, a large knife, with a
blade about two feet long, used for the
purpose of cutting fish, fell out of the
basket near the Chinaman’s hand, and
this he seized and with one terrific
lunge drove it into the dog’s body. The
ferocious animal, however, did not loos
en its hold upon ihe Chinaman, who
with several well directed thrusts, kill
ed him. The driver of the express
wagon did not see the fight and drove
steadily on. While the Chinaman was
examining himself to see if there were
any wounds upon his person, a mastiff
ran out of a factory or mill near by and
made directly for the Chinaman. The
latter instantly stabbed at the dog, but
missed him, when the animal seized him
by the chest. The man then stabbed
the dog several times, when the animal
relinquished its hold and ran back to
the factory, where it fell dead. The
Chinaman was not injured beyond a few
scratches and contusions, and probably
believing that he would get into trou
ble, quietly tyit quickly left the san
guinary scene just as the crowd began
to gather. —San Francisco Post
Ne* Remedies.
We are indebted to a correspondent
for the following recipes which are
placed here instead of under the head
of Home Remedies, because we have
not fully tested them, in accordance
with our rule on this subject:
To cure a cold —Tak cayenne pepper,
2 oz ; pepper, 3 oz ; red pepper,
2 in a strong solution
of No. six ana pain-killer ; place this
mixture by the fire to keep warm, then
go to bed. In the morning pour out a
tablespoonful of the mixture and give
it to your favorite cat, and your cat
will be gone, if not your cold
To cure lassitude —Fail to buy your
wife anew spring hat. This will
arouse you from jour lethargic state, as
a good dose well adoiirristefea generally
makes things lively. «
To increase the circulation of the
blood —Run a little,in the piorning.—
If the mornipg is not bandy, run in
debt. A little run in debt generally
increases the circulation of the
blood.”
To cure bill-ious fever—Pay as you
go.
To sleep well at night—Eeat nothing
and a heap of it for supper.
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Couldn’t Bluff Her.— Among the
waiting passengers at the Central depot,
Saturday, says the Detroit Free Press,
were a widow woman and five children,
and by and by a man who was waiting
for the same train opened a c< uversa
tion with the widow and soon reuaiked
that he’d like to marry just such a wo
man. “ Here, Susan, hold tins satch
el !” said the woman turning Do her eld
est daughter, and then reaching for the
man’s arm she continued : “ I ye been
j looking for you about five years !” Ev
i erybody shouted and jumped in g:‘‘e,
and when the scapegoat backed flat
down they said he ought to be dumped
n the river.
YOLU ME IV. —N O. ! 8
FI’ShEMS. N
These are the days when one hear
the phaney planner phi! >sophizing ••
his pho»phates«nd phertiili. ers
The young lady out west who r
cei red 81,000 damages for a kt*-. is.
said to bo spoiling to Vo damag .*/
again.
“ You shut your mouf, saa !” is tin.
favorite method of calling a gentleman
to order in the S mill Carolina legisla
ture.
A fortune teller has prodi ted that
Mark Twain will die this year—but h
is only going to start a p iper whieh is
pretty close for a fortune teller.
“ iloise Oil/’ instead of butter, i
frequently used in dressing vegetables
in Paris. The first taste of it makes a
man, feel like trotting avay fr in t ;
(able.
Waterbury, Conn , has a bashful
young man, who made a call one even
ing, ai.d, aftor pa Caking of a little ice
cream and cake, asked, ** Is there any
thing else?’'
( “ Where do wicked *ittle boys go
to who fish on Sunday,” asked a teach
er in a Nineteenth street Sunday selioo
“ Down to ’Culloui’s Kiltie, was ill
prompt reply.
. School mistress “ Johny, 1 an:
ashamed of you. When 1 was your
age, I could read as well as 1 and > now.”
•Johny.—“ Aw, but you’d a different
teacher to what we’ve gut ”
A woman who had recently had her
butter seized at the market for short
weight, gave ns a reason that the oov
from which the butter was undo \\a
subject to a cramp, and that caused tin
butter te shrink in weight.
Husband—“ Why don’t you we:u
hair and things, and dresses, and look
like other Women?” Wife— ‘ What
and have everybody soy, “ What a pity
that handsome woman married that ug
ly little man !’ Oh, no I”
» • It •
In Indiana the bride never expect
to go,on a yscdding tour. She steps
into the old quill-wheel, her uiolhe*
Stuffs a bag of dried apples under the
seat, her father ties a cow behind, and
the happy couple roll away to the cot
tage of the bridegroom.
A Western stump orator, in the
course of one of his speeches, remark
ed, “ Gentlemen if the Par sy fix (>ceai
,wor an ink-stanu, and the hull clouded
t»“?ryg!. h .TOJ!
couldn’t begin to write my love o'
country on it.”
A Scotchman went to a lawyer once
for advice and detailed the circum
stances of the case. “ Have you told
me the facts precisely as they occur
red ?” asked the lawyer, “Oh! aye
sir! replied he; “ I thought it b st to
tell ye the plain truth. Ye can put the
lies into it yourself.”
“Hans,” said his grandfather one day,
“ take this jug, and go out and got me
some beer.” “ All right, give me the
money.” “Oh!it is easy enough lo
get beer with money ; the thing is to
get it without money.” Hans goes
and soon returns with the jug. 11 is
grandfather, after trying iu vain to g< t
a drink, says : “ Jlins, this jug is e lll j -
ty.” “So much the better,” replied
the urchin ; “ it is easy enough to drink
beer when the jug is full ; the thing is
to get a drink when it is empty.”
One-eyed Winston was, and is prob
ably now a negro preacher in Virginia,
and his ideas of theology and human
nature were often very original, as the
fallowing anecdote may prove. A gen
tleman once accosted the old preacher
one Sunday : “ Winston, I tinders‘an*’
you believe every woman has seven dev
ils. Now, iiow can you prove it?”—
“ Well, sah, did you ebber read in the
Bible how do seben debbils were ea
out’er Mary Magdalene?” “Oh, ye:
I’ve heard of that.” “ Did you ever
hear of ’m being cast out of any other
woman, sah?” “No I never did.”—
Well, den, de oders, got ’em yet.”
A Cornwall farmer *o!d u- that bis
cattle were so gee tie and kind that th y
followed Innar all over the farm, ard in
passing a haystack . they aVMuld olfen
call Hui. upon which heobiigwigly gave
each anc a lock of hay. The traits res
furred to are uot uncommon among do
mesticated animals. We were visiting
a family last week j.n the vicinity of
Goshen, and, having occasion to cross a
fifid where a male cow was grazing,
when he followed us to the gate with
an eager expression, and, lifting the
gate off its hinges, he took after us at
tu'l speed. No doubt lie would hav*
called when we passed a haystack, but
the folks were waiting dinner for u
acd we couldn't step. So we left our
coat tail and a portion of our } «nts or.
the gejitlc creature’s horns, and \v<. *
into the house.
.
Sam Slick didn’t admire upefa. —
“What’s this?” he exclaims, “just
look at that gal at the piauny ; anti*
and seas what a crash ! .it seems as ii
she would bang the instrument into a
thousand pieces. I guess she s vexed
at somebody, and she s pegging, th*'
piano out of spite. N* w comes the
singinh See what faces she makes
She stretches her mouth open, and
turns up the white of her cy< - like a
duck in a thunderstorm. She's in a
musical ecstacy ; she feels good all over.
But, hello 1 what under the sun is sh<
about now ? Why, her voice is goin°
down her throat and comes out a
hoarse as a man’s; and that dandy fel
ler along side of her is siogin’ the la 1 -
setter. Why, they’ve act lily changed
voices; the gal sings like a man, aud
that screamer like a woman. This is
science, this is taste, this is fashion, bu*
hang me if it’s ualur.’’