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tOL I.-m 8. BEAUFORT, S. C.. JANUARY 13. 1875. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
The Two Lovers.
The love tliut will soonest decay, r
Tlio love that is surost to die.
The love that will hoou fly away.
Ih the love
That is told by a sigh.
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The love that in sorest to last,
The love that a woman's heart needs.
The love that will bo kept last.
Is tho love
That is spoken in deeds.
THE GOLDEN RI LE.
" Bridget, hand mo my handkerchief."
" Yes, ma'nin, tlio one with tho lace
border("
"That's all, Bridget; you uoedu't
wait "
So Bridget obeyed this order, too, go- f
itig down the throe pairs of stairs to the <
basemont kitchen, and back to her task
of polishing the silver.
"Oh, dear, how forgetful I am! giv- '
big myself the trouble of ^ringing twice. *
I think bell pulls, if they are old-fash- *
ioned, are a great deal more convenient J
hinrkuobs, Cousin Augusta." 1
. att< - ' The good-natured face looked in at the J
bedroom door again, flushed with hurry- *
ing up the stairs the fifth time within an ?
hour.
" O Bridget, my work box ; it's in the *
end room on the sofa. Can't you find it? A
Well, look in Cousin Augusta's room ; I c
had it there yesterday morning."
There are two long lialls and a flight of 1
stairs between the rooms ; but Bridget, ' (
a young Irish girl, with a slender figure, ?
showing rapid growth, and not much (
strength to sustain it, hurries away, for i *
it is high time the dining-room was in
order. The mantel clock warns her the \ '
mnclieon-table must be ready in threequarters
of an hour.
44 How long Bridget is! I must have
left the work-box there, in plain sight;
but the Irish lire ho stupid !" exclaimed
the youug lady, with increasing impatience.
441 do not remember seeing it this
morning," Mrs. West said, quietly.
44 Bridget!" !
44 Yes, ma'am ; I'm looking, but I don't
find it" ?
44 Stupid creatine ! It's almost one, I
declare. I shan't have ten minutes to
sew ; but the box might as well be found.
Bridget!" And a stamp of the slippered
foot emphasized the last call over tho
banisters.
44 It isn't there, ma'am," said the girl,
- appearing from below; 44I'vo looked
everywhere."
She could not help thinking Miss Don- i
forth unreasonable ; and there was the
iuivot i_yiii{? un me Kiicnen-table, and the J
marketman, and grocery lniy, and dust- 1
man, coming and going perhaps. But 1
to have vented her impatience and un- *
easiness, as Miss Danforth did, by even '
an altered tone of voice,would have been i
considered as impertinence, and perhaps 1
led to dismissal. Yet Irish waiter girls '
are only human, and have not high breed- ! 1
ing to help them control their tempera.
"I declare, Bridget, you don't earn
your salt! Look in the Hue chamber 1!
somewhere, can't you/ Don't answer 1
mo back again ; no impertinence, miss ! ! t
What if you have looked ! Look again ; v
keep looking till you fliul it."
No wonder Bridget mutters a threat of j *
giving a womiug, as the clock strikes the 1
half hour. 2
'4 Isn't tliis it on the dressing-table, \
Bridget i" suggested Mrs. West, looking i
searchiugly around the room herself.
4 4 Thank you, ma'am ; it is, indude." t
And a grateful expression came into her 11
largo gray eyes. 44 Miss 'Ginia towld 1
mo tho end room." ! *
44 Never mind what I told you. 'Twos ! *
your place to hunt for it until it was J
found somewhere. And don't let me (
hear any more of your impertinence when *
I tell you to do anything."
Tho soowl eumo back to the girl's face *
as she hurried away to her work again. '
44 Bridget"?Miss Danforth's head was ! 1
over the banister now, the call arresting j 1
tho girl iu tho lower lxu.ll?44 got Mrs. i f
West's lunch as soon as possible, and :
bring mine up here. I haven't more f
than time to dress before Miss Powell j }
comes," she said, looking back, apologetically,
to lier cousin. " You won't 1
mind huicliing alone, will you? I've i *
been so hurried all the morning. Callers
seem to put everything back." 1
"I? Oh, not in the least. I was only i
tliinking, Virginia, if you had not almost j 1
as much time to go down for your lunch t
as Bridget has to bring it you." 1
*' Her time's no consequence," returned ; 5
the young lady, carelessly. " Did you ]
. seo now impertinent the crc&turo was? j j
Bervauts all are nowadays." It
Mrs. West said no more in the defense. ! ]
While the toilet proceeded, the luncheon i
was dispatched, and then came a mes- 1
sago from Miss Powell, instead of herself i
and carriage, saying she would not bo j
able to keep lier engagement before Fri- j
day. Miss Virginia was highly indignant
and vented her annoyance in no i
measured terms.
" If there was anything sho did liate, |
it was peoplo who did not keep their engagements
! Why couldn't Caroline i
Powell have discovered she should not get
away, and sent her word in time to save
her the trouble of dressing and wait- ,
mg nail an Hour ? Some people did not i
seem to liave the least consideration ! And i
what on earth was she to do with herself
in full dress the whole of the afternoon ?
The sun was too hot to walk; there were
three hours to dinner time; she couldn't
take a nap, and liave the trouble of dressing
her hair over twice I"
Mrs. West, as before, considered
silence the wisest opposition. She read |
away very cjuietly until her young hostess I
had laid aside her flounoed silk and rich t
laces, and settled into something like
composure, with the work-box and a strip
of oambrio she was elaborating into a
wavy iusertiou of broderic Anglaiae. i
Her own sowing?a set of handkerchiefs
or her husband?was then resumed, and
he two ladies chatted on indifferent
:opica very amiably, until MiHs Virginia
5ame round to the favorite subject with
SVw York housekeepers?prevalence of
>ad servants..
"If I had only known what I was uu- j
lertaking when I persuaded papa to go
;o housekeeping, I would have boarded ;
;o the end of time. New York servants i
ire the laziest, stupidest, most iuiperti- i
lent set you can imagine. You Pliilalelpluans
have no idea of it. I envied
fou, I declare; I told papa when I came
lome that everytliing in your house went
>n like clockwork. You had a specimen
his morning of my troubles."
' I don't see why your servants should i
>e any worse than ours; they are of the j
<ame eouutrv. and have the same amount !
>f education generally."
44 Wliy, you keep your servants so j
oug, they get into your way of doing j
hings. Here I've changed our cook |
liroe times in five months, and Bridget's I
lie second waiter girl since the first of j
May. Maria broke everything, aud the i
nore I scolded the more careless she was. I
[ did not know then that it was customary
:o stop all breakage out of their wages; |
uul when Mrs. Hamilton told me so, I j
bund that it could not be done without j
he agreement was made when the girl j
vas hired. The girl before Maria was i
inly nice about herself. She had superb
lair, and it was always dressed as much '
is mine is for an evening party. She !
sopied me in everything, and I could not i
itaud that. I admire the English fashion
if servants wearing calico dresses aud
;aps; don't you ?"
4 4 My servants geuerallv do dress plaiuy.
No, I can't say I do like caps on
pouug girls; so that their dross is suitable
/O their work, I don't know that we have
my right to interfere with it."
44 Not if your Marianne should under- j
.ake to copy you ?"
441 dare say she does in some measure;
[ have uever noticed particularly. All
>f us naturally copy those we are asso iated
with constantly, if we think their
asto aud judgment superior to ours."
4 4 Yon take things very coolly, Cousin
Yugusta," Miss Hyde said, pausing to
jass her needle through an omory
Sllallioil- sicllilic IIS silo di?l Uf. flint ???_
mliar nigli that seems to give out the
mpression of much enduring, long-suffering
patience under unavoidable ills.
141 wish I could. There's Jane; just see 1
vliat sewing she puts into papa's shirts,
uul it's as much as I dare do to tell !
ler of it, she Hies out so; and the cook, |
fou must have noticed yesterday that i
here was no bread sauce with the game.
Papa would just as lief not have it at all
is without. She knows perfectly well. We
lad her sister last summer, and she w:is j
;lie most wasteful ereaturo you ever did
ice. I never should have known it; but 1
bint Lane paid me a visit, and under- <
;ook to set things to rights. She found i
ler lighting her fire with butter one
uorning to save trouble." ]
44 Butter f" \
44 Yes; she rolled up a coue of paper,
uid filled it full of good pastry butter to .
nake the wood kindle in a hurry. Oh, j
hat's very common, I've heard since, ,
vitli lard. Ann carried things a little \
artlier tlikn usual. She had very gen- \
eel ideas. We left her in care of the ,
louse when I wont to Newport, and ]
VIrs. Cashing, who lived opposite, you
mow, said she used the parlors just as I |
f I'd been at home, and lighted tho gas 1
or-lier company. She must have en- I |
ertiiined them well, too, for there wasn't |
i thing hi the store-room when we came
lomo. But tliat's nothing to the trouble
Mrs. Cusliing had herself. Why, do you
mow, her waitor man, and cook, and ,
French nurse, ull gave warning in one
lay! Mademoiselle had her dinner in j
lie nursery when this cook came; one of 1
he cliildren was sick. So the cook had ,
lie head of the second table, aud re- ]
u?wii to give ii up. jonu iook alarm's j ,
mrt, tuul wouldn't curve unless she nut' \
jpposito to him. Did you ever hear
mything bo ridiculouH ?" ]
"'High life below stairs,' certainly," j
mid Mrs. West. "Isn't Mrs. Cuslung
.hat very fashionable lftdy who called ! ,
rimrmlay, and talked so much about ; |
Paris bonnets and gaitera i I think she j ,
uiid alio sent out for all her gloves."
'' Yes, that's Mrs. Cushing. She does !
:alk a little too much about ' when I was j
u Paris.' Papa ridicules her for her !
foreign airs. Marie was a most valuable
tervant, she got up muslins so beautifully;
aud that's a great deal nowadays, i
Jlio knew Mrs. Cushing could not re- ,
l>laoe her. That's another tiling ; if you
jet a really good servant, they presume.
*o. There's Bridget, I would not keep
lior a day, she has such a habit of answering
back; but she's tidy, and I hate
to see a sloven waiting at table, and
moves lightly and quickly; two very
good things in a waiter. The Irish are
generally so stout and heavy."
" Bridget is very delicate looking. I
don't think she can be very strong,"
Mrs. West said. " What wages do you
give her V
"There's another thing about hor ;
she asks such low wages. Why, Maria
hud six dollars ; but Bridget asked only
four when she came, and that's all I've
given her. I'm nfruid every day she'll
ask to liave her wagon raised. Papa
allows six yet, and I should have to give
it to her. As it is, I can afford two pair
of gloves a month out of what I save."
" How is that (" asked Mrs. West. She
could not believe her young relative
guilty of so small a saving. Small to
her, but how much to a servant, who had
nothing' but her wages tm depend upon !
'' Why, papa allows six dollars, in the
house allowance, for a waiter, and as
Bridget only asked four "?
" You make two dollars a month out :
of Bridget ?"
" Yee," said the young lady, piercing j
nil eyelet hole with a gold-headed bodkin;
and, as she did not see Mrs. West's ex- p
pression, concluding her economy was v
considered laudable. c
" Is she Protestant or Catholic i" in- i 1
quired the other, after o moment's : s
silence. ! <J
"Oh, I fancy her religion doesn't (3
trouble her much any way. They have I \
Sunday afternoon once a month; but I n
fancy there's not much church-going. 1
It's all the time they have for visitiug, t
you know. I was quite astonished at ii
your girls having half of every Sunday, a
and one week-day afternoon every month, c
I did not know it until that day you I
could not go to Germantown, because f
you were taking care of tho children to
lot Marianne go out."
"Virginia," said Mrs. West. " did it
ever occur to you that your servants have
a soul as well as yourself f" 1
" It's not my business to look after it, v
if they have." And the bodkiu was 0
again inserted, with a half smile at what li
the embroideress considered a clever t
answer to her questioner. ti
" I beg your pardon," Mrs. West, re- n
turned, more serionslv 44 It seemn to ft
mo you have a great deal to do in the 1)
matter. I thought you were very atrict ti
about Sunday." 'J
" So I am. I uever receive calls or I
walk, and I go to church twice a day." ' 1)
"What for?" iv
"What for? Because it'a right, of 3
courae. How odd you are, Augusta !" c
" And you are four?let me see?eight h
times as wicked as Bridget." j i'
" Why, what do you mean, Augusta ?" 'J
" If Bridget only needs one sermon a h
month to teach her, and you need eight. 1'
Do you see ?" n
" But she can't bo spared. Dou't you J u
see how it is ? The work must tie done c
Sundays as well as other days." d
"So you dress, and go to church, and h
hoar, 'tliou, uor thy man-servant, nor r
thy maid-servant,' must work on the t]
seventh day, and consider the whole c
commandment observed because you d
neither receive visits nor wjdk with your h
gentlemen friends." tl
Miss Hyde looked up, not knowing s
whether to smile or show her real vexa- j c
tiou; but her cousin was perfectly sen- v
ous. | i\
" Do you ever ask the girls if they j e
have been to church '?" * | a
" I don't think they'd stay very long, if . a
they were catechized as to how they spent ; b
their afternoon out. It's a pity if they ; fi
can't see their friends sometimes." Miss ; d
Hyde, like all only daughters, did not ; A
know how to be found fault with gra- I ii
ciously. 1 o
" I quite agree with you, and that's the i ii
reason I give them one afternoon be- J li
sides, even with a little personal incon- 1 a
vrini'iitT fiuiurtimw, uuu i. iiun i m;r wily *
yrrur cook and chambermaid cannot
make the arrangement to relieve each
other, just as mine do. It would be !
easier in your family, for you have a j (]
seamstress." " 1
Miss Hyde was too much annoyed at "
Laving lieen snared in her own argument ^
to vouchsafe any answer. u
"As long as we do not treat our servants b
is rational human beings, we have no b
right to complain if they neglect their tl
luties toward us. How are they going tl
to know that ' Servants, obey your mas- b
ters, not with eye-service,' is a command o
i)f our Master and theirs, if they never H;
havo time to listen to any instruction tl
{."It's all eye-service," Miss Hyde said, I ti
ihortly. 1 tl
" What else can it be, when you do not ti
take any interest in them or their affairs, 1>
hut to get as much done for as little u
wages as possible ?" j u
" Why, you are always so economical, ' o
\ugusta; I thought you would approve n
[>f that, I'm sure." v\
"I'm never ecouomicul about payiug u
for work?work of any kind, Virginia, h
Think what very Rmall wages they make, ??
it any rate, anil so few of thorn lxave any o
homes to go to, in case of sickness or ae- j b
sident. There's another kind of wages ) b
they iike just as well?kind words? ! ?
when vou see thov'vo tried their best to d
please you. Kiiul words and a little con- n
uderation will get twice as much accom- "
plishcd. Now, your culling Bridget up ,
stairs seven times this morning, when
she might have done all you wanted in I
coming twice, for instance." j 0
"Wliv, my dear soul, she's paid for it; j e
it's her work." j tj
"Bo it's her work to sweep and dust . t,
the parlors and halls, and the sidewalk; : u
to clean all tliat silver; to set the tublo ] Cl
three times a day, and wait on it; to an- \ j
swcr the door-bell every half hour, and |
yours?we won't say how often; to bo in c;
three places at once; and never to feel ^
fretted, if her work is put back an hour j?
by unnecessary demands upon her time. n
I believe one never can understand it un- j,
less they have tried it themselves." M
"You seem to." And a slightly scorn- ^
ful expression passed over the young j,
girl's face at tho lecture she was receiv- 8
mg- o
"Iloarnedby experience.
" But you never wero a servant, Cousin y
Augusta i" 1,
"You are mistaken." And a half fi
smile ciime to Mrs. Wont's face. " I know
all Bridget's troubles by most lameutublo n
experience. No, I won't say that either; ' j|
it was my own choice, and I had excel- j r
lent wagos in the end."
" But how i I don't understand
you." j c
"Perhaps I will tell you all about it ' r
some day. In the mean time, hero's j e
Bridget waiting for orders, and Master j r
Ally looking after mamma." i e
Mrs. West came to the conclusion that ! 1
her venture in Bridgot's behalf was not ' t
all lost, when she suw the pains Miss j 11
Hyde took to remember all the dinner- 1 t
table instructions at" once, and heard her t
say, in conclusion, " Nevor mind going s
to Miss Loo's after dinner; you look c
tired, and to-morrow will do just as I
welL" it
The girl looked not hvis astonished than
rateful, the weary, listless expression
anislied, ami Mi as Hyde did not find oeasion
for fault during the whole meal,
t hud never occurred to her before that 1
ervants were to be managed rationally,
ir that consideration was as much her |
Lnty as theirs. Mr. Hyde thought she i
ras very absent minded, and rallied her I
bout a certain Mr. Abbott when she
lelped him twioe to fish; but she was
liiuking of what her cousin had said,
ind determined to remember her advico,
,nd profit bv it. So well did she suc <H'd,
that Miss Hyde's servants lnid,
leneeforth, comparatively little cause
or complaint for her treatment.
Still, lie was not Happj.
An uncle of Michael Hogan, of West
Frov, N. Y., died recently in Peunsvlama,
leaving coal laiuls valued at #5,000,>00,
to a portion of which Michael is
ioir. Forty years ago Michael Hogan,
hen twenty-one years of age, and an
lucle, the only survivors of a once uu
aerous family, some to thin country ami
dopted it as their own. Michael, a
iiird-'working, industrious young man,
Lnally took up hit* residence in West
iroy. The uncle went to Pottaville, I
'enusylvauia, or that vicinity, uud after
iboring a number of years, purchased
?*ith his earnings a large tract of laud,
lichacl also saved money, and in the
ourse of time laid by enough to start
limself in the grocery business, in which
t can be truthfully said he has prospered.
?lie venture of his uncle turned out to
?e a most profitable one. The landsmrcliased
by him were found to contain
bundance of coal ; and by judicious
lanagoment he gradually increased his
arthly store until at the time of his
oath, which occurred a short time ago,
ie was worth about jJS.OOO.OOO. Michael
eceived information from an attorney
liat his uncle, with whom he had not
omiiiuuicated for sixteen years, had
ied, and that he was his only surviving
eir. Michael was not at all elated at
his announcement, and appeared rather
orry in fact that such good fortune had
ome to him, says the Troy Timcx. He
ras getting old, he said, and would not
rant so much money; besides he had
noHgh for himself, wife and daughter,
ud the possession of the immense
mount meutionod above would only
ring trouble nntl disgrace upon his
imilv eventually, as young people uowa.ays
did not know how to Bpeud money,
is we have stated, Michael is a sober,
adustrious man, and is every way worthy
f his fortune, which ho intends to claim
umediately. If he is sorry about this
ittle matter, ho can turn it over to us
nd wo'll cheerfully bear the burden for
dm.
A Warning to Criminal*.
We should imagine that the terrible
oath of Douglas and Moshor at Hay
tidge, Long Island, ami the grisly sight
f their bodies lying in the Brooklyn
lorgue, would have a depressing effect
pon the gentlemen who belong to the
urglarious profession. Most undoubted'
j in east-side saloons, and especially in
le bucket shops along the river front,
no circumstance lues been discussed, and
ar-rooms hold entranced by the recital
f the dead heroes' daring deed. But a
udden stoppage of a career of crime as
loirs was stopped, is apt to rub the
insel off the idea, if it ever existed. And
lore is no doubt that a tawdry fascinaion
is excited over a certain class of
eople by the stories of felony written
ith such rose-colored ink by Mr. Ainsrorth
and others of his ilk. Only the
tlior day the police of Philadelphia
lade a descent upon a cellar in which
rere a dozen or fifteen lads, constituting 1
juvenile gang of thieves, each of whom
ad been originally led astray by the iniieuce
of the yeliow covered romances
f crime. Perhaps Moslier anil Douglas 1
egan iu this manner. However they '
egan, ami however they have lived, it is 1
ertuin that they have given in their !
eath the most terrible emphasis to that
ither trite heading for a copy book, |
Honesty is the bvst policy."
A Curious Suicide.
The old story of a room with a number (
f windows, one of which disappeared
very day, and the room gradually conducted
uutil it crushed its occupant to
) death, evidently haunted the brain of
despairing Parisian jeweler who roently
committed suicide. The unlucky
'rencliman, inconsolable for the loss of j
is better-half, became subject to a speies
of somnambulism. He was uccns>med
to wear a gold necklet, one of his
ito wife's favorite ornaments, and he
seil to say to his friends that the ueck?t
daily grew smaller, and that his wife
ras thus painlessly killing him, much to
is joy. The fact was that the somuninulist
rose every night and went in his
leep down to his instruments, kuocked
ff the link of a necklet, and put on the
is toning again. Next morning he found
lie collar smaller, and, having 110 recolmtion
of what, lie hiul flimn nSriKnl .1
lie event to supernatural influence,
'his continued for some time, when the
lecklet grew so small that, in fastening
t, on, the hapless widower literally garoted
himself to death.
English School Law.?A compulsory
ulucation law, similur to that which is
tow in operation in New York State, is
mforoed in Eugland. There is now a
lovel difficulty in London in the way of
xncting compliance with its provisions,
rhe holiday pantomimes and spectacles of
heaters employ hundreds of children,
md the |>ay is six shillings a week. As
he tine for parents who do not send
heir children to school is usually hut a
hilling, thoy pay it when brought into
, >urt, as they are about once a week, and I
t9Sp on breaking the law. Higher penaliea
are proposed.
Prentice on Dueling.
The famous letter of the late Geo. D.
Preutice on dueling, ami written in response
to a challenge he had received, is
now republished. In his lotter the veteran
editor said :
" Presuming that your notes are written
to me with a view to a duel, I may as
well sav here that I have not the least
thought of accepting a challenge from
you. I consider my strictures upon your
writings entirely legitimate, and, at any
rate, the disclaimer that I have made
ought to satisfy you.
441 came here from a distant State because
many believed I could do something
to promote a great and important
enterprise ; and as I have reason to think
that my labors are not altogether in vain,
I do not intend to let myself be diverted
from them. There are some persons, and
many, to whom my life is valuable ; and
however little or much value I may attach
to it on my own account, I do not
see tit at present to put it up voluntarily
against yours.
44 You may, for aught I know, be u man
of reputable standing, and I disclaim any
rnfiianl fn v/\n nil flin n/
your not being a gentleman ; but you are
not of the order of men whom I should
choose to fight, if I fought at all. If you
were to kill me, y?u would kill a man
who is the support and stay of his family,
and who is extensively regarded as one
of the stays and supports of his party,
and as the possessor of some influence m
the affairs of the country ; but I presume
that it is of no great consequence to any,
except your immediate personal friends,
whether you die or live.
'' I am no Iwliever imthe dueling code.
I would not call a man to the field unless
he had done me such a deadly wrong
tliat I desired to kill him ; and I would
not obey his coll to the field unless I had
done liim so mortal an injury as to entitle
him, in my opinion, to demand an opportunity
of taking my life. I have not
the least desire to kill vou or to harm a
hair of your head, aud I am not conscious
of having done anything to entitle you
to kill me. I do not want your blood
upon my hands, and I do not want my
own upon anybody's. I might yield
much to the demands of a strong public
sentiment; but there is no public sentiment
that either requires me to meet you
or would justify me in doing so.
" I look upon the miserable code that
is said to require two men to go out and
shoot at each other foi*wliat one of them
may consider a violation of etiquette or
punctillio in the use of language with a
scorn equal to that which is getting to be
felt by the whole civilized world of mankind.
I am not afraid to express such
views in the enlightened capital of Arkausivs
or anywhere elsG. I am not so
cowardly as to stand in dread of any imputation
on my courage. I have always
had courage enough to defend my honor
and myself, and I presume I always shall
have. Yours most, etc.,
" George D. Pkkntice."
A Sad Sight.
It was a sad, sorry spectacle wliich
the passengers on the train from North
Adams to Cheshire saw, the Springfield
/{rpublirati tells ns, and one not without
its lessons. The early comers to the train
were met by a man at the car eytrance
who introduced liimself as '' John C.
Wolcott, of Cheshire, the clown, often
called the fool." He was a direct descendant,
he said, of old Oliver Wolcott,
one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence, and "I am not," he added,
"a Henry Ward Beecher or a thief
or a robber ; i am only John C. Wolcott,
the drunkard." Alas, the poor fool?for
such rum had made him?and it was
true ! This man in his patched trousers,
rusty coat and eminently drunken liat,
with a naturally fine face, drawn into a
silly pueker, was John C. Wolcott, the
eccentric, talented member of the Berkshire
Bar, and once quite well known as
an effective temperance orator, going to
his Cheshire homo from a North Adams
drunk. Alternately during the ride he
played the down, addressed an imaginary
jury, or made faces at an indignant Irish
woman, who objected to his companionship
when there were many unoccupied
seats about her. A while ago there was
a demand that he be expelled from the
Bar, but Wolcott very nbly pleaded his
own case at Pittsfield, aud the lawvers,
who are loth to give up " eccentric John
Wolcott, refused to cast him out. Once
a favorite student of the Into Judge
Bishop of Lenox, John C. Wolcott dare
not now go out of town with more tlian
seventy-five cents, 'tis said, above his
railroad fare, lest the temptation for
drink overcome him. Ho lives in a
slovenly way, with only a boy for company,
on the old " Wolcott place," and
this young man for whom Mr. Bishop
predicted such a bright career, years ago,
cannot now be trusted with the management
of his own property. In his sol?er
moments he is yet a lawyer of more than
average ability, and' in the little cases
which are occasionally given him these
days ho often displays much of his old
bnllianey and power. But " the boys "
now like to see " Old John," as they call
him, drunk, and if he hasn't got any
money it is quite the fashion to treat
him. Especially is this true at North
Adams, where the train officials say they
have seen him lighting to get awav from
his friends (?) who would persuade him
to make sport for them over another
train. And then John C. Woloott goes
heme at lust to act the clown to a car load
of disgusted, pitying strangers, reeling
off at Cheshire statiou to make faces from
the platform till the train disappears and
shuts him out, an unsightly nuisance.
A New Haven man, while dredging in
the harbor at tliat city, raised a human
skull which was thickiy covered with
mussels and oysters.
Items of Interest.
A Chicago plumbing firm advertises
" load sinks." As if everybody didn't
know that.
Turkeys who survived the holidays
appointed January 2d, 1875, as a day of
Thanksgiving.
They do say that the entire crop of
mustard this 'year wouldn't make the
Kentucky Library draw when it agreed
to.
A young lady Bays she longs for fingers
like the prongs of a pitchfork, with diamond
rings enough to fill them to the
ends.
A Richmond paper has a plan for keeping
a party in power. The party is to
give every girl in the land a sewing machine
and a feller.
A strong effort to have the next college
regatta at New London, Conn., will be
made nt the meeting of the College Boating
Association in Hartford.
If there is one thing more than another
that will thorouglily exasperate a
man, it is breaking a straw off when
cleaning out a dirty pipe-stem.
An impertinent fellow wants to know
if you ever sit down to tea where
skimmed milk was on the table without
being asked " Do you take the cream ?"
It is the thing to import* " indoor
men," and people who come back from
Europe bring, with the rest of their
" fixings," a German or Italian " Major
domo.'
It is stated that of the 250,000,000 tons
of coal annually dug from the bowels of
the earth, Great Britain produces onehalf.
Germany and the United State
one-sixth each.
The question for discussion at a reoent
meeting of scientists was: " Which
travels faster, heat or oold ?" It was decided
in favor of heat, as many present
had often been able to catch oold.
Of course, a woman doesn't want her
plants to freeze, but stilL one can't
blame a man for raising a row when
he hops out of bed in the morning and
finds a geranium plant in each trousers'
leg.
It's truly astonishing how the papers,
while they persist in charging a man a
dollar an inch for advertising when living,
cheerfully give up a whole oolumn of
space for nothing, when his obituary
comes along.
Mrs. Eshelman. of Shillington, Pa.,
will arrest the fellow who poured coal oil .
in her well if she can find nim out. The
trick made her- think she had reaUy
" struck oil." and ihe disappointment is
aggravating.*
" Madame ! take this hundred-pound
bill. Use it freely and never say that I
suffer your purse to be empty of pocket
money," said an attentive spouse in
public, but added, mtto voce, "if you
spend a penny of it I'll kill you."
President Lincoln, sitting at the fountain-head
of official patronage, used to
say that it sometimes seemed to his discouraged
mind that seven-eighths of the
people of the United States were trying
to live at the exponse of the other eighth.
The sheriff of Cuyahoga county, Ohio,
lately had the disagreeable duty to perform
of conveying to the penitentiary on
a three years'sentence a "repeater,"
whose offense consisted in having voted
three times for the very official who was
conducting him to prison.
Building m Italy would see^p to be a
peculiarly dangerous occupation. A new
office is being erected in Rome for the
Ministry of Finance. The other day a
workman fell from the scaffolding and
was killed, making the hundredth victim
of accidents upon the same building.
A correspondent of a Cincinnati
Eper writes from Circleville, Ohio : " I
ve read with some degree of interest a
Circleville telegram in the Cincinnati
press of to-day, reporting me in a dying
condition lost evening. Judging solely
from my own knowledge of the matter,
I hereby certify tliat I do not believe the
report to be true."
The Denver News records this incident:
A man was about dying in this^
city, and an acquaintance sent the fol-"*
lowing telegram to his wife, who was in
Chicago: "Your husband is dying.
Come quick." She coolly replied:
" Cau't go now. If he dies, hand liini
over to the Masous, he's oue of them."
The man died. The wife hasn't been
heard from since.
A farmer, famous for liis hogs, was
asked what was the secret of his success.
He answered : " I always choose a goodnatured
pig. Those that when they eat
are constantly running from one trough
to another, and knocking their snopts
against the next pig, I sell to my neighbors,
who don't know better than tq buy
such troublesome animals, while my contented
pigs get fat."
The Troy Times relates this: 11A
young lady in a neighboring village cooepted
an invitation from a young gentleman
to ride, and when the gentleman
came with his horse and buggy, the lady
found it impossible to get in, so closely
had she adhered to the prevailing fashion
of drawing her dress tightly about
her. She asked to be exoused, and going
into the house, let out two or three
reefs in her dress, when she was enabled
to get into the buggy."
An accident has occurred on the Great
St. Bernard in Switzerland, Eight
Thillian worlf mpn vara nrnauinct fha ivnnin.
tain, and two monks and a servant, followed
by a dog, went ont to meet thorn. jBI
The whole party was overtaken by a
snowstorm and buried in the drift. One
of the monks snoooeded in extricating
himself, bat was only able to walk a g|
few steps. The dog went back to the
monastery and assistance wae sent, but
it was too late. The monk died half an
, hour after being found; the others will
| 1 amain buried in the snow,
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