The Greenville enterprise. (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, September 21, 1870, Image 1
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G. F. TOWNE?, EDITOR*
J. Co BAILEY, ASSOCIATE
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AM idrertieemente nut have the nnmbtr
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Witt Inr.rUbty be "diaplayad."
Obitoary notices, And ell lAettera inuring to
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fflfrtri ^artrtj.
. - ' - <? " *'l 'I'.* ' The
FooUtept of DecayFROM
TttR iPARlalt.
Oh ! let the aoa\ ita alumbora break?
Arouae Ita anaw and awake,
To wee bow aoee
Life Id Ua gtoriee glidea away,
And tbe atern footatepa of decay
Coma stealing on.
And white we view the rolling tide,
Down which onr flowing minutea glide
. Away ao feat,
Let oa the preaent hour employ,
nmi unm crcu mart aream joy
Already past. ?
T.?l no r*k hop* darairo the mind?
Mo happier let at hope to tad
To-morrow than to-day.
OttffiMi<i dreams of ycre were bright.
Like them tee present shall delight?
. . Let imS ??csy.
J
Oar lives like battening streams most be,
That into one engalphing ten
Are doomed to Ml? f.
The aaa of death, whose waves roll on
O'er king and kingdom, erown and throne,
And swallow all.
' Alike the rival's lordly tide,
Alike the humble rivulets glide
1 To thet ted were ;
Death levolc poverty end pride,
And rieb end poor ?Uep eide by tide
Witbia the (rare.
Our birth is but a alerting piece ;
Lift it tbe running of the race.
And deeth the ?0*11
There ell our glittering toy* ere brought?
The path eiiee, of ell nnaought,
I* found of ell.
?? -3 .- ? yt f ^ d - d f
See. then, how poor end liUlo worth
Are ell tbeee glittering toys of earth
Thet lure us here 1
Dreams of e sleep that deeth must break)
Alas 1 before ll bids us weke,
We disappear.
l.oog ere tbe damp of earth can blight,
The cheeks' pute glow of red end white
Ilea passed away,
Youth smiled, and all was heavenly fair?
Age came and laid his finger tbcro,
And where are they ?
Where is the strength that spurned decay,
The step that roved so light and gey,
The heart's blithe tone T
The strength is gone, tbe step is slow,
And joy grows wearisome and wo,
When age comes on.
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UiJiiMltfi'ULK I31LL.
BY F. BltET HART.
It drizzled unmistakably Hint
night?not in at might forward rain,
but in sneaking guata that glanced
down the neck and up the sleeve.
I pulled on my coat and splashed
out to the gate, to see if it were
fast against wandering cattle. The
lights in the house gleamed dimly
through the mist, as if the wet
had reached them, too. Even old
Don, who followed ine gingerly out
from the porch, shook his shaggy
coat, and sniffed in diagnat at the
weather. Satisfied that all was
right, I was about returning to
shelter, when troin around the corner
of the fence cumothe sound of
horses1 feet, and a heavy wagon
sucking and groaning up the incline.
A low, prolonged growl
from tlie dog greeted the coming
team, and I waited for a moment
to see who could be traveling at
enok * time, and in such a sorry
?torm. Tl?er? soon came abreast
of tlie gate a huge wagon, drawn
by six mules, which I could barely
see through the fog. Attracted |
by tlie fire in my pipe, which I
had succeeded in keeping alight,
and the Increased growling of the
dog, it stooped, ana after the brake
rattled down, a hoarse voice
called ont:
"Whoa, there, June! I say,
stranger, how far is it to town !"
"To ]x* Angeles? Ten miles."
M That's a tmrtv cntlook f >r mn
Ten miles 1 Is this s tavern !"
? No."
"Ten miles to town! Waal,
stranger, I guess I'll stcke out here
to-night. Them animulea is too4
l>eat to do that. Where's jour
water ?"
? It's all aronnd yon to night;
bat jon can turn your mules into
tlio corral, and brine your blankets
betbro the fire, it's too wot to
stay n?t here."
41 Waal, I've soen was nights
nor this, and I'm eenmost water1>roof;
but since yoa'ro prossin'
I'll turn out thesis critters and jino
ye in a shake. (Jit np, here, yon
old cantaukeions gnvment mule!
That nr' Black Bess is theornarest
animnle I over see."
It required but little time to unhitch
bis team, and I opened the
i n t>v
j u l i r,
. i - ?t
Detrotcfr to Jtetoi,
IAILEY, PftO'BS. ;
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gate, and in the fagged creature? 1
came?gaunt and wor.n, with moth- ?
eaten tails, dripping with wet, and I
- generally cost down, at mule? are t
when tli6lr' kicking days are past. 1
Though there waa a prospect for 1
them of fodder and 6orp, not the r
ghost of a trot appeared, but thoV ?
meandered slowly into the yard, n
whero our own horses crowded to- t
get her under the shed and gazed a
inhospitably at the new-comers. y
u llave von had any supper f" I f
inquired of the t6ntnster, as he
cauie into the house with his blank- '<
ets. r
M Waal, now yon mention it, I
rayther think not, and I do feel a *
heap hungryt<
I managed to get liira a cold bite e
ft glass of toddy, and as he d
whipped out his short, black pipe, d
and moved up to the fire, lie began f'
to thaw mentally, as I Saw from *
the gladness in his eye, and physi- c
cany, as me steam from his clothes P
attested. I was alone tbat night, c
and glad to have company. I had h
a good view of my gneit how ; a
short, thick set man, with a shock ?
of a beard, bronzed face, where it tl
could bo seen, and sharp, gray a
eyes. A soldier's coat, inbeh too v
large for him, was his upper gar- *
ment, the only apparent addition- 81
al vesture being a pair of iin- 1
mense hoots. n
" I like that liqnor o* yonrs," lie
said, after a time; " it'ketcht* as fl
it goes down. How long mont c
3*on have lived here f"
"Only a J'car," I answered.
Between the wreaths of curling
smoke he scanned me cldeely, and I
again inquired? w
| M Where mout ye hail from ?" tt
" A great distance f oin hero? e
I from Maine." R
t "From Maine! You don't far ?
! so ! I'm from them parts myself.
i It seems kind \> pood to meet a *
fellow-nationer in a furrin land.? a
How's all the folks down in
Maine f" l"
" About as nsual, I fancy. Bat f|
(how did yon pet out here!" "
" I've made a long trip of It, \ on ?t
bet. If yon dofi't want to turn in,
I'll tell you nil about it. It kind ?
'o drops the tailboard out of a fel
ler's feel ins to strike a man from <*
the same dceatrict."
Assuring him that I should en- ?
joy his confidence and his story?
having mixed Another stiff'un to h
take out that last patch of cold "? F
ho related as follows : t(
"The first of it was, me and the w
old man had a scrimmage?not a v
fightin' one, mind you, fur I h
wouldn't have hurt a hair of the M
old man's head tor gold ; hnt I was
pesky tired of fnriuin' and plow- a
in', and hog killin' and such like, n
nnd was a bound for to go to sea. ^
It's cur us, a fellow never knows
the right 6idc of his melon till it's w
too late; bnt that's the way with r(
all on ns; and knockin' about in K
the world just pulls the husks off
the cob, ar.d 6hows ye what's what. ir
Ilowsomdcver, seein' ns how I wns h
hankeriu' to go Away, and as 'Me e<
lia Pritchard had married that k
citv chap, and as the old man said ftl
I shouldn't go, I was more deter- h
mimder tlinn ever. Tliere was a w
circus coming nlong to our town, v
and in? nti'l ? ? -?' 1 "
?... ...? umer ooyg was 1 ?>
I kinder handy?lielpin' water tl>c 1 81
| horses and doin' chores for the 1 d
men ?and we got into the show, ti
It was the fust time I evor see a ^
circus, and the band, and tho riders,
and the beautiful woman on a 8
calico horse, was too mnch for me,
Eirtickly after I was let in to tlie d
ivin' Skeleton and the Pat Lady.
So 1 made up my mind to run off k
with this show, and I marches up
to the boss and asked him if lie P
would take ine. 4 What can you *
do f says he. 4 Anything,' says I; ^
4 mostly drive.* 4 Well,' says be, '
41 want a boy to drive the wagon k
with the centre-jiole, and I'll try
you.' And I let) tho old house K
and all ten years ago, and I've ncv- ?
er seen *ein scnce.** v
The thinking man paused a mo- .v
ment, and then proceeded:
44 It was Dan Castello's Circus ^
?and you know it was a good |
show?but it was hard lines for
me, and the beautiful woman f(
didn't look so beautiful every time j,
I see her afterward, and we roiiuhed
it all tho while, and I shouldn't n
nave muck to it, if wo hadn't been 1
travelin' We t. I thought it I j
went fur enough I might get to ;
Californy, where the gola wm fl
growin*. llow about that gold P ,
A grim, peculiar smile flitted (
across a quarter-section of his face, g
and ending In a sneer, lost Itself in
his shaggy beard. ^
" I did leave tlie business for a
while, and was some rears in Canadar
and W isconsin, but I always a
hankered after the show, and eoiue t,
back to it. There was three of ns *
chums ; and, very ting'ler, we was r
all named Bill, and they gare ns v
names to know ns apart. I was 1
Centre-pole Bill, 'canse I drove a
that wagon; there was Canvas s
>.?i fi. ' ????'' '? '
IENY]
Politics, 3tlitUig
GREKi
3iIT, as drove that wagon ; and
Jtubby Bill, u.vn a genoral
iand. , We traveled and traveled,
mill we got to Mound City, in
oway; and there Stubby was
tailed for ipinetlting ?f other in a
ow, and dfed. He and I didn't
;o cahoots so much as Canvaa and
no, bnt we missed hitn for all 'o
hat. We Me some bubbly life oft'
ind on, wo did; and if I was a
onngsjer IM rather not up in any
irofession bnt a circus driver ; bnt
i man can't nlway* have hit
Jratlicrs. Leastwise, if lie conld,
erhnps he would be no better off.
"We got to Io*fty,. ,as I w*i
eying, and the boss was mighty
eary one night. lie had ?sfriv>
1 eye, and was hot whan be got
rnnlc; and he give na partickler
liviltry, which no man hankers
or if he don't deserve it, which
re didn't; and that night Canvas
omes to me, and says he,4 Centreols,
I hain't a goin1 to sling this
art any more.' And I says to
im, 4 Why I* 4 No man,* stty* lie,
can drive over me with sharporked
horses/ Which I knew
lien lie meant to leave the show,
nd was bonnd to jine liim any
ray. And he says to ine, * Tliere's
n old pnrd of mine here, and he
?jb iw now tnere's ft Uuv'inent
rain going to itart from Out aha
ext week, nnd we can get a job
hero to go ont to the Itijnn couriry.
4 Well^Ganeftf,' mj? I, kindr
slowly like, " If you goes, I goes.'
All right,' savi lie. I couldb't
clp wishin' 'twas sora'era else
linn the Injnn country for
had hecrd thcin critters
-as lightning to fight, nnd ate un
II the dead ones. It is all well
nough to stay at home and tnlk
bout it; but ttben it comes to goig,
it's a horse of another color."
u You teamsters lutve a strange,
randering life. How do you mange
to live so !"
44 Most fellers as comes out here
9 work or drive, has run away
rom the East for robbery or mnrers.
And they can't stay in no
ne place; it haunts them all the
itno, and they inust keep ngoih'.
hit I never did no such tiling.?
lave yon ever been in the Injun
ountry ?"
44 Never in my life; but I have
ft en wished to."
44 Yon had better stow that, and
cep ont-of it. It is tempting
'rovidence nnd many red ncvils
:> g? mere. JJut as i was 6aying.
:o squared up with the bow?
rhich there wasn't much coming
y us, as there always is, tor we
*ns just like sailors, and never
ad a dollar in the dunnage box?
nd it don't take tnnch drinking
ud dancing and poker to clean a
filer out. Hut we got away from
icre, and got to Omaha the best
e could?there wasn't any railjads
in them days?and Canvaa
nd me wasn't long in hiring out
sr drive; for lomo ot them Quo
lent sojers?partickly them as
as dirty uniforms?has a bugger[1
smart eye to pick out a feller as
nows his biz, and they see at onct
9 how Canvas and mo suveyed
osses up to the handle?whicu it
as true, thongli I say it, for Canas
and me had saveyed liosscs evr
eence we was knee high to a
nipee?and some of them dri?crs
idn't know no more about houses
lian a dog docs the price of hymn
ooks,"
44 What made you and Canvas
uch friend*!" ^
u Waal, yon see, we had pad-,
led together, and was made to gV?.
i double harness. Don't yon
now that Nature makes everyliing
in pairs! And some men
its married?which I never could
once that city chap carried off
Melia, and which is rcsky, anyow,
because one or the other is
ound to kick over the polo or boat
lie Unsettling; but thereV some ae
eta to pards, and them's better
or man and wife. And old Canas,
he onat saved my life when I
ias attacked bv a euchrc-alingor
ii Chicago, which I sometimes
1 link he didn't ought ter, as 1
iain*t been wutli much to no
>ody.w
u lint there's always something
or a man to do, it he only knows
t," I said.
And the teamster drained his
;1aa?, and answered:
* You're right, there, bnt it is
ncky if anybody can find it onf,
f he onst gits down like You
kin't a getting tired, are ye? I'll
(o through the rest like the Ten
Commandments through a Sunday
cliool."
" By no means ; it interests me
ery much."
- Waal, we started on our trip,
nd was bound lor Arizona ; twcny-eight
wagons, four ambulances,
nd two companies of cftvalry?a
ight smart lino of os, It ain't
ery interesting, going over the
'lain*; nothing but sago brush
nd jaokaes rabbits, and (leer, and
uclr vermin. And tbo deserts
ii inn mji L IMI i iii-nwi*i? i?nwrrt*?rr^r"
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HVILLE, SOUTH CAROLHf
i i ii ill lijii ii"' i Uh
pd??* r.tt
deep, in tko sapd, water t?r<j:
wiles apart* and - ne grass nor
nothing-*!* some of them ntehN I
n*od 10 wiili to get home ngtli.-*,
But Canrtts* ami tnd *rts Wofag tp
gh gold, and go hack rich and see
the old folt^a?-but wljicli it 4qn?
never be. Canvas and JW OOW*
oeet we cuuld. WAOtda'l aft
nanny injnns fust along; onst in a
while a few .would hang around
behind us, or are wotiidace One or
two sknrrving np a canon. After
we got wel' away from fhe *dftle?
thenfs, they trfed to startip&Je we
cattle; bdt *o >M*rcd for
thorn. mul tliav ilMnh ?> i...? -
V..V... I *vf. .+*** O
few. It wasn't pleasant for ,a man
to b$ thinking of lojnn* all the
time, and many * night as 1'rc
been on ganrd I thought 1 see a
big one wilder every bush. M%
old mother used td hykf^Vttjh
8criptflrS attorit 'roaring' IHNaf*
*nd' afeekinfc tb foWir* lin.t }Wt
book aonl sSy nothing about'? acbes,
.which is very singular, it it
makes for to show as how-to go.
Perhaps the fullers as wrote it never
was in Arizona, and I often
thought as hew God left tfmtnountry
ont of his day-book, as being
o9 no account?les?stvH?6, porbam
that was the ptaoc w.bbre (no de>J1!
squatted WfiotV IS? Wat jorKod o^t
o9 the gardin, as grnn9ther used to
tell on.,, .. ... ,v. ... ,,T: ??
.,14 X guess I'U He np a little; it
runs rayther heavy tonight," ?ai?i
lie, as lie filled himself anotlier
crUiss. and ooniinnwt
41 We camped" iii one night at
tho jaw of canon, ate our wipi
pcrs, and Canvas and me was on
guard together, in the early
watch. We used to meet'at the I
end of a walk, and stop a hit and
talk. But we had a g<>od look out
all the while. It was very dark,
and every one was asleep. Bye
and l>ye, Canvas, says ho, Cen*
tre, I'm going up to the spring to
get a drink.' The spring was
about a hundred yards up the
gulch, among the hushes. * Well,1
says I, 4 don't be long, and if you
see anything, yell.' And off he
weut, whist I iu' softly like to hisself;
and I stepped away again.?
lie was gone a long time?longer
than lie had any ought to, and
tliotigh I hadn't heerd any noise, 1
was kind o' narvons. as wc never
knowrd tiW many'Injuns might
lie doggin' ns. At lust, I couldn't
stand it no longer, and 1 put for
the wagons, and waked up Jim
Bruce, which was outside, and Bill
West, nnd I says to 'ein as how
Canvas had been gone too long.
and would they go along.o' me to
look arter him; which they did,
bein1 good fellers, and never hard
to do a go.*l turn, pnrtickly for
ine and Canvas, which had often
hel|>cd them shoe their team when
the blacksmith was sick; and we
went np to the' spring together.?
Yon couldn't see a wink, and we
dersent take a light for them
thieves to shoot us by. There was
a big cotton wood growin1 just
aside of it, and we ran agin1 this,
and hit something sittin' like, leanin1
against the trunk. 'Canvas,1
says I, ' Canvas, inv hoy, is that
I you f1 And he never made mc
j no reply, but kept as quiet as a
skull on a tomb-stone. 'Jitn
Bruce,1 says I, 4 jost scratch for a
lantern ; there's sonietliin1 wrong.1
I felt of the body, and there was a
wet, sticky stream upon it. 4 Con-1
vas,; says I, 4 what is the metier J11
and l o word. Jim soon (etched a
light, and tlxwe was Canvas, stone
dead, pinned to the tree bv seven
arrows. And the thieves h*d cor
off his hands and pnt them In his
pockets, and cut off his ears and
fastened them on his forehead.11
Oh!( what a vengeful glitter
shone in the eyes of the speaker 1
"Young man, they sav when a
woman loses her first yoting an, it
breaks her, and as how a lion robbed
of her cubs is crazy ; but may
yon never feel asT did when I saw
Canvas -~him as had been inv oard;
had sot by the ssme fire,and <frank
out of the same dipper, and shared
his last terbackcr with me?when
I saw old Canvas, cyt up like a
sheep, and dead forever from me.
Ten thousand devils was tuggin1 at
tny heart, and I sank, with a yell,
down by his dead side."
The emotion of the stronger al
most overpowered him, as ~ho r?
called these agony days of the past.
"They told mc afterward that my
yell roused the camp and tbey
came rushing out to the spring;
but I didn't know it then. I was
stunned like, and never know what
hap)>ened. When morning came,
they bm ied Canvas near where he
died. They didn't leave nu mound
to draw the Injuns; but on thnt
round I knelt and cried. I don't
ook as if I could cry, but I did
then. "Canvas," says 1, "pld
pard, you're gone 1 You was thirtyfour
years old. Bo help tne God,
I'll kill an Injun for every year of
yours, till I wipe out the score!"
I
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it^H^ V?jT .\in?uO ;L'ifHill) ffK'fllTlMlUl I ?
5t?tt?wt tf % 1&
38?*n<3fcr
;,.sjEgtJ5ygg!ni,;ff7p.
Ti?r W)ofc: me1 cbrAy,ancf fot* fbhr
mtt IdUi tit (IfsVifov winch
hflflffy made rito wiga In my
dip u;?til J a lent ?yr wyrd Willi
Capvk?^.;., ^v?,
.?, u,Young man,", he contiuueJ,
after a pauee, "I left that train at
'Tnceon; and loMe'limt time I've
been roamm.' I |j*ro come hi
thlt Irtptfr got ti ftbd
gbin* buck. t)\l 806 rtiis
?c.-S: kTT 1
f Wi |tt.
I^^.i W0M*> JWWjT^Wi# *??>
ItnnqJe, and handed it to irvcs. In
tint.wood I saw Ibirtecn holes ns it
bored with gii?4otn^
sH?nit*rifeo*5 dSlcry
one is a 'Puclio." It's my account
book, ahd ^M'y'Tojtth I It fit! ip
SoesahoV I've got a good many
^flore ta xw^ko
b) Camasj, V?t J'? awe' ,W?ek,
and pVaps I may meet Canvas
soma dayv if^ Isikaap my' enord,
which I Wo preacher Mito ?ir the
riglit Wsiy.M s * ? >wi ?"** * ^
* Whitt nemtn therestrfti'lieffe'Wr il
hoihilV on, fmtrihn ven^CtntCc
^ffcTre itl , "
" .Well v you've kiudly beard my
ftqry* fttul, y?i re from Maine j
thank ye for both. lVa-going to
Uiiaia.1V ?i m <hw ? *"? *?.!?
I And with tfrisrmtgh goothnlghf, I
| he rolled Itimaelf inr hHj bhihfeets,
atidj tb? reytihif brenflnngs soon I
Showed him tft be nsftopl ,1 had
but fitful plumbers until earTy rporid |
lug, when the teamster roused me
to take his Ienvc, lio disapw
M " ~tm . 1><U < i;t>^ Juris V>0'
Is early a year after my-connection
with .the mines took tne to
Tucson; and while I was thero, a
scouting party came irt with* badly
wounded man mtIia wbi with
then*?not a soldier, but one who
was always eager for nn Indian
fight?Mmd further than nettling
was known of biin."^ *
-Out of curii?stty, T went in with
the snrgeoh To ^ec fl?iri; fcrtd fherc
nizcrf no otio, but kept iu a deep
stupor, hl^cdhig from internal,
wounds t,hat could not be stanched.
.4 lie was an auful lighter,' said
the Doctor, 'and he has douo nothing
hut follow the scouts.'
4 Doctor/ said I, 41 ^know that
inan.' And us lie* whtelfcd, I told
his atorr.^'1 *' * ?*T J
We 6<it there 6crcraT Tionrs, and
at last the struggle came. The
dying man raising himself on the
pallet, looked fixedly at tlio ceiling,
and in a lionrsc voice, said :
4 Hi^re's a show?a Canvas?'
and lie (ell back. dead.
I looked, afterward, in bis belt,
and found two knives, and in cneb
of the bandies there were seventeen
boles. These keep sakes of
the man I begged, and linve them
to this day. ? Qvertaiul Monthly.
Legend of theChtrokee Rose.
The 44 Cherokee Rose w?that
beautiful flower, with which every
Georgian is familiar?bath to it a
legend which not very many of
our youger readers, wo opine,
have met with in their readings.
It is thus told:
44 An Indian chief of the Semi
nole tribe was taken prisoner by
his enemies, flic Cbcibkecs, and
doomed to torture, but fell so seriously
ill that it became necessary
to wait for his restoration to health
before committing hiin to the
flumoa Ass/) n a lus In v tWAal po f/wt I
"v r,,ra,,",vu
by disease m tlie cabin of the
Cherokee warrior, "the daughter of I
the latter, a young dark faced
maid, was his nurse. She fell in '
love with the ypu.i^g chieftain, and
warning to save liia life,, urged hiin
to eaca|>e; hut ho would not do so
ntilessshe would flee with i>in>.?
She consented. Vet itefore tlisy
had gone tar, itnoelled by soft regret
at leaving home, she naked
permission of Her lover to return,
for tlie purpose of benring away
some memento of It. So, retracing
her footsteps, she broke a sprig
from the white rose bush which
climbed up the poles of her father's
tout, and, preserving it during
her flight through the wMdernees,
planted it hy tre door of Iter new
home In tire lit iff of the Scminoles.
And from that day this beautiful
flower has always been known between
the capes of Florida and
throughout the Sontborn States.by
the name of the Cherokee lose."
The legend is as beautiful as the
rose itself.
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At the recent railway accident
in England, the dead and wonuded
were plundered indiscriminately.
The tempting display ot rings,
watches, dec., overcame all human
uy, aim oven policemen lent it e i
wreckers ilicir aid in despoiling
the crops#*.
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Ira friend' In need is a Ificnd
indeed, commend to ns a baker.
Wito is the largest man? The
lover; he is a man of trcmondous
sighs.
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The Gambler** TkU.
Aifcfong'/the innbmerable anec '
^dofes irelated of thq ruin of persons
"at pW^tliere is oue worth relating
wduch refers to a Mr..Sorter,
an English gentleman* who in the
reign ot Queen Anne* possessed one
of.,(he best estates in Northumberland,
the whole of which he lost
at hazard in twelve nights.
, Recording to the story ot this
madQl^TrWf we call him nothing ,
else-rwiien he hod jnst completed
t|jQ ,lpss of his last acre at a gam
Uiug^house in London* and was
Drococdincr down Rtaini fn throw I
Iiituself into bis carriage to be carried.
to bis house in town, he resolved
to Imve one throw more to
try to revive his losses, and imme- j
diatel v returned to the room where
tire play whs going on.
Nerved tor the worst that might
happen, 'he insisted thrtt tho person
whohr he had been playing
with, 6honld give him one cluyrdc
of recovery, or fight witli him.-? j
His proposition was this; That his
carriage and horses, the trinkets
atid -looso thohey in his noekcts,
fois'toftrn house, plate and furniture*?in
short, all he had left in
thc;wor!d "e<ccpt the clothes on bis
badk, should be vnlned in a lump
at a'certain price, rtnd be thrown
tof at a single dash. No persuasions
Could prevail on him to depart
from his purpose. He threw
/I'htT lost; tlien conducting the winnitfr
to the door, be told his coach
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? in.ii mere was nis muster,
nnd marched forth into the dark
and J is trial s'rccts, without a house
or home, or nuy other creditable
means of support.
'lhus beggared, he retired to an
obscure lodging in a cheap part of
the town, subsisting partly on
charity, sometimes acting as the
marker at. a billiard table, and occasionally
as a helper at a livery
stable. In this miserable condition,
and with nakedness and fam
ine staring him In the face, exposed
to the taunts nnd insults of
tb4?e whom he once supported, ho
was recognized by an old friend,
wl*o gave him ten gnineas to purcluu>c
nocessnries. He expended
five in purchasing decent apparel.
With the remaining five he repaired
to a common gnming house,
and increased them to lie
then ndjonrned to one of the higher
order of houses, sat down with
former associates, and won twenty
thousand pounds.
Returning the next night, he
lost it all, was once more penniless,
nnd after subsisting many years
in abject penury, died a ragged
beggar at a penny lodging-house
in St. Giles.
An Extraordinary Theory.
A distinguished Swedish chemist,
Dr. Gfusaelbach, a professor
of the University of Upsal, lias
come to the conclusion that those
Egvptnin ttiuniinies, which are
round in the ancient tombs on the
Nile, in a complete Btatc?that is
to say, without having l?oon deprived
of their brains and entrails,
like iwst mummies?arc not embalmed
at all, but " are really the
bodies of individuals whose life
has been momentarily snspended
w-itk the intention of restoring
them at somo fntnre time, only the
secret of preservation was lost."
lJrof. Grnsselhach adduc<8
many ]>roofs in snpport of his
idea?among othcrn, his experiments
during the last ten years,
which, he says, have always proved
successful. lie took a snake
and treated it in such a manner
as to benumb it, as though
it had been carved in marble, and
'It was so brittle that, had he allowed
it to fall it would have broken
info fagments. In this state be
kept it f?r several years, and then
restored it to 1 iIq by sprinkling
it with a stimulating fluid, the
composition of which is secret.?
For fiiU'on years the snake lias
boon undergoing an existence composed
of successive deaths and
resurrections, apparently without
sustaining harm.
The professor is report :d to have
sent n petition to government, requesting
that a criminal who has
l?eon condemned to death may
be given to hiin to be treated in the
same manner as tho snake, promising
to restore liim to life again
in two years. It is understood
that the man undergoing this experiment
is to be pardoned." Of
course, it the man can be kept
in a state of suspended animation
for two years, lie may bo kept for
two thousand years, and, if the
professor succeeds, wo ninv lay up
a few specimens of contemporaries
for cxibition in tlic thirty-ninth
censnry.?Apple ton"* Journal.
Tiik counsels of the good cannot
benefit us, nor the seduction of the
wicked injure us without our free
consent. Our wisdom and folly
| are onr own, and we innst reap
| their fruits here and hereafter.
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V PLUME ^ITH^NO.tS.
Nkwspapbb Dbctmok.?At the
recent term of onr District, Court,
a spit was determined at the suit
of the Galveston News, involving
ft a u est ion of some interest to put
Ushers of newspapers and their
subscribers. The defendant had
prepaid liis subscription to the
News for six roont 1m, alter the expiration
of which time, without
any express renewal of the subscription,
the publishers oontinned
to send the paper and the subscriber
to receive it.
When the bifl was presented
the subscriber refused to pa; it on
the ground thrit hnrfn# subscribed
and paid for a definite time, and
not having authorized a continuance,
it was the dut; of the publisher
to discontinue the paper at
the end of the term. The plaintiffs
contended that upon the facts
uivfw wm an implied contract to
pity Tor tlie paper at the rates previously
agreed upon, and that it
was. the duty of the subscriber to
refuse to-receive the paper, if he
did not intend to pay for it.
The verdict of the court was for
the plaintiffs, thus affirming1 the
correctness of the News. We nn-i
derstand that the case will not be
appealed to the Supreme Court by
tho defendant, and the decision of
the District Court therefore stands
for law.?Brenham Banner.
A Greedt Snop keeper Sold.?<
A sailor from one of the lake fleet
vessels recently went into a shop
in Milwaukee, and purchased goods
to tho amount of fifty cents.?
Throwing down a bill, he said i
*There is a two dollar hill?
me the change." A glance showed
the store keeper that the bill
was n " V," and hastily sweeping
it into the drawer, he gave back
the change. After Jack was gone,
the man went to the drawer, and
found that the bill was a " V," to
bo sure, hut was a little tbe worst
counterfeit ever se?n, Indignant
at the treatment, Jack was ifonnd
by the store keeper and threatened,
but Jack was ready, and showed
by a comrade that he received
hut a dollar and a half in change,
so he could not have given the
man the bill. After a little talk,
the matter was allowed to drop by
the store keeper, who has probably
learned something ho did known
before."
Persons Allowed to Vote.?
"An Act to provide for the General
Elections, and the manner of
conducting the same," approved
March 1st, 1870, provides:
" Sec. 2 ?Every male citizen of
the Uni'ed States, of the age of
twenty one years, and upward, not
laboring under tho disabilities
named in the Constitution, without
distinction of race or color or
former condition, who shall have
been a resident of tho State for
one year, and in the county in
which he offers to vote, for sixty
days next preceding any general
election, shall l>e entitled to vote:
Provided, that no person, while
kept in any almshonse or asylum,
or of unsound mind or confined in
any public prison, shall be nllowod
to vote."
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Tiik present war must add largely
to the already gigantic debt of
France. As soon as war was declared
the Minister of Finance
asked for a supplemental credit of
500,000,000 franca, and this is
likely to be but a small part of
what will be needed. Tho debt
of Prussia is very small?much
the smallest of any ot the great
powers ot Enropo.
A census taker recently stumbled
upon a young couple near
Limn, Ohio, with a family of seven
children. The lather is not
quite twenty eight, and the mother
said " she had not reached her
twenty-fourth year." They had had
nino yenrs ot wedded bliss.
Wiiat is tbe greatest want of
the age? Want of funds.
An actor ought to be a happy
man ; bis work is to plat*.
Mythological Festivity.?Hercnles
going to dine with his club.
Why do thieves lead a comfortable
life! Because they take
, things so easy.
Why is a large carpet like the
J late Rebellion ? Because it took
| a lot of tax to pat down.
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I A my6tkrioc8 stranger who doe*
not know his Maker?the Cardiff
Giant.
Ansran?To ask a man who has
tumbled into the water if ho feels
moist.
To bring forward the bad actions
of others to excuse our own,
i is like hashing ouselves in mud.
i Why is a man who spoils his
' children like another who builds
castles in tho air I Because he in^
dtilgcs in fancy ti o much.