The tribune. (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, August 18, 1875, Image 1
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Woolsej's Fall.
^arewoll, a long farowoll, to all ray groatnonn
Tins is tlio state of man ; to-day lio puts forth
Tlio toiulor loaves of liopo ; to-raorrovr blosHOD1H,
And hoars lira blushing honors thick upon
him :
Tlio third d&ycomes a frost, a killing frost ;
And?when bo thinks, good easy man, full
surely
Jlis greatness j* a ripening nips his root.
And then ho falls, as 1 do. I have ventured,
I,iko litllo wanton hoys that swim on bladdors,
This many summers in a sea of glory ;
L5ut far beyond inv depth ; my high-blown
pfido
At length broke under mo ; and now has left
nm,
Weary and old with service, to the mercy
Of a rude stream, that ninst forever hide me.
Vain pomp and glory of this world, 1 hate ye :
i luoi iny iii-urt now opened. O, liow wretched [
Its that poor uiaii that liangd on princes' favors
!
There id, betwixt that binilc wo would aapiro
to,
Tli-tr sswev! aspect of princes, and tlicir ruin,
More pangs and fo.ira than wars or women
have,
And when ho f d!.*, ho falls liko I.ueifor,
N> tor to hope again. ?Shokrspntri.
r.vriruiNt; the cutter.
At the time <>f which xvo write there
wns sta inlet on Tucker's bench, Now
Jersey, called Urigantino inlet. In 1800
this was closed up, and the sea formed
another inlet, v. hicli exists to this day.
There was no Tuekertowu then. It was
the (iaunt farm at that time. The only
settlement then was what was known as
the " Middlo-of-the-Shore," extending
on each side of what was called Andrews'
mill creek, the property origimdly bolonging
to Jacob Andrews, who settled
there in the lust your of the sixtoentli
century ami who had a mill. There
were not a great many people; but they
did u great business in lumber and
cypress shingles, wli eh they sent principally
to New York and the West India
Islands. During the Revolution the
place was a rendezvous for American
privateers, and these little sea hornets
annoyed the British shipping so much
that 1111 expedition was organized, with
the Zebra and other ships of war, to
break up the " den." There were several
privateers lying there at the time;
but they were warned by an express
from General Washington, and escaped
before the British came. Washington
sent a force under Pulaski to meet the
invaders; but they did not arrive until
the enemy had done all the mischief.
Part of Pulaski's men reached Osboru's
island, and there their picket guard v^is
surprised and massacred by the enemy.
The invader did not escape without
loss. In getting out the Zebra grounded,
and her own people burned her, to
prevent her capture by the Americans.
There was one privateer that the
enemy managed to take as she was
coming in?the Saucy Jack. She was
Baltimore built, very fast, and armed
wifli n luiwr iliidiliuiii lwinn.l.ii' rP1w? .*.1
? 'O ' * All* il\l"
miriil ni:uli- her :i tender t<> tlie flag-ship,
added a couple of ten pound carronades
to her armament, ami put a crow of
eighteen men ami a midshipman aboard,
commanded by a master's mate. She
became ii regular nuisance to the place,
sailing in every now and then, exploring
the harbor, levying contributions of soft
tack, vegetables and chickens, and then
sailing out. Th" people would have
liked to take her ; Imt while the squadron
was so near the place the heavy private
armed vessels avoided it.
There was a (Quaker who lived not far
from the ben eh by the name of Ephraim
Lippincott. lie had the reputation of
being a Tory in sympathy, principally
because his son Obed, having engaged
in one or two skirmishes with British
foraging parties, had been disowned and
reprimanded for violating the peace
principles of Friends. When the British
parties visited there they always met
with a warm welcome. Hut Ephraim
was 110 Tory, after all?only a prudent
man, who tried to sail as close to the
wind as possible. Obed, though lie bad j
been disowned, was always sure of quarters
at home when lie chose to go ; and
lie went there just after the last visit of
the commander of the Sea Wasp, as the
Saucy Jack bad been rechristened by
her captors.
The father met liim indifferently, but
after dinner called him out to the barn.
" Obed," la; Haiti, "I suppose thee's
consorting with the Ilidgwavs and the
Willetts boys juul such itllc, disloyal follows,
as usual."
" Well, father, I go with them occasionally,
as tlice knows; but they're very
honorable, hardworking young men and
good company."
" I wouldn't wonder; if thee know
and tin y knew, that the Sea Wasp is
coming back next Wednesday, they'd
try to capture her. They're wicked
enough."
"Shouldn't wonder, father," said
Obod, senteiitiously. " Hut 1 don't see
how they could do it."
" I've noticed that the master of the
vessel always anchors right by the
swamp, wlicro the beach shelves oil* j
suddenly, and within a few yards of
shore."
" So I perceive."
"Now, if there were bloodthirsty and j
wioivou mon, wno nan urains 10 Keep
their bad purposes, juul know that aim
is coming 011 Wednesday afternoon, ami
know that tlioy an- >iii|-f to tthoud's ami
round about to forage, and would leave
the schooner weak-handed, they might
? t hey are just bad enough?they might
leave a couple of stout boats in among
the reeds in the. creek there the night
before,"
41 They might, bitlmr."
" They might go down armed :it tho
same timo, with enough to eat nil day,
and lie there; and next morning, when
the men came aalioro and got out of
eight over the sandhills to Slioud's, they
might, if they were as resolute as they
are bad, take that vessel."
" They might, as thee says; and I have
a notion they'll try."
"They may, Olied; but if they do I
hope they'll use peaceable means. If
they do try, as thee thinks they will,
don't thee go with them. 1 tut if thee
will, and tlieo's a headstrong boy, thee j
must go unarmed. Don't thee dare to ,
take that rifle that thy Uncle Sam J
brought from Virginia and that hangs |
up in the garret, with a horn full of
powder and a pouch full of bullets and
patches. I caution thee to let it alone."
"Certainly, father; just as thee says."
There were a dozen young men in the
settlement, staunch Whigs?some fishermen
ami all accustomed to the sea?who
followed Obed's lead on all occasions.
He summoned them quietly to meet
him on Wednesdliy night, secretly, at
the bench; and in the meanwhile lie secured
a couple of stout boats, with oars,
and hid tliem away in the place indicated.
On Wednesday afternoon near night- |
fall the cutter came in and anchored, but
no one came ashore. They kept a good
watch; but the night was very dark and
their observation could not extend very
far. Obed and his friends made their
way through the swamp to the boats, !
and lay there quietly all night.
Next morning at daylight there was a
whistle heard from the cutter, and two
boats were let down, into which there j
tumbled, to the great delight of the concealed
Whigs, fourteen men, armed with j
cutlasses and muskets, with the master's j
mate and midshipman eonnnanJing in I
separate boats. This would leave the
boatswain, three men, and a boy on
board. Obed kept watch, the others lying
close down, and saw the boats laud.
They all disembarked, leaving the boats
in charge of two men and not sending
them back. They evidently intended to
return in a short while, and uo time was
to be lost. So soon as the main parfy
had disappeared behind the sand hills
Obed ami Willetts, covering the two
men who were seated on the bows of the
boat", where they were drawn up on the
beach, tired. One of the men fell mortally
wounded, and tho other dead. Obed
and Willetts floundered through the
marsh to wliorc the men lay, ami, with- j
out paying any attention to tin- wounded
man, quickly stove holes in the bottoms
of the boats, while the rest of the
men rowed into sight. One of their own
bo its took them on board and they
made for the cutter.
lint the people on the cutter were not
idle meanwhile. They disengaged a
carrouade, ran it out of a port-hole, and
prepared to lire. The boats, l?y previous
understanding, separated, one circling
north and the other south, and the
shot missed both. before another gun
could be aimed the cutter was boarded
at bow and stern.
The noiso of the liring caused the
main party to retrace their steps, ami !
they came back in a hurry to the landing
place, where they found their boats
unlit for use?not, however, until they
had pushed them oil', and the water
poured in 01 them. Willetts, in the
mean while, after the prisoners were secured,
ran to the magazine, brought up
some grape and canister, loaded the
Long Tom, and trailed it directly upon
the party in the water. The shot from
that and one of the earronades did fearful
execution, and the few survivors that
were uuwoumied ran up the beach to
the nearest house, where they sheltered
themselves and ultimately surrendered.
Five had been killed outright and eight
severely wounded, three of them mortally.
The cutter had been won; but to keep
it was another matter. There was no
crew to man it, even if it could be got
to sea tbrough the squadron. As soon
as the news of its capture was known,
or wh.-n some time had elapsed after its
HIMI UVU, I/Iifiu nuillU i M* JMnvcrilll IHKUS
crows sent for it, perhaps one of 11 ?csmaller
vessels. So, after consultation,
it was agreed to cut the rigging, remove
the masts, and sink the vessel in the
deepest hole in the harhor, to lie raised
on a suitable opportunity. This was
soon done, after taking the movable
property ashore, previously tilling the
barrels of the Long Tom and earrona !es
with all the melted beeswax that could
be had in the neighborhood and then
storing them in the hold. Then the prisoners
were carried ofF by their captors.
In three days a British force came, as
had been expected, and they made
tilings lively. They burned down a
number of farmhouses, Lippincott's
among the number ; but the inhabitants,
except those of known loyal sentiments,
kept uta respectable distance from harm, t
Kverv boat upon the beach for miles the
British destroyed.
lu about a year's time Obed, Willetts,
and some of the rest came back, got up
a crew, raised the cutter, and found her
in good order. The cannons were rusted
some on the outside, but the beeswax
ha I preserved the inside sm iotli. They
remastcd and rigged her, cut the wasp
figurehead oft", replaced it by the rudely
carved figure of a snake, reehristcned
lif?r Knf fh?r f?ml iitio iloi'L
night got off l?? sea with Ik r, having obtained
letters of marque, and ran down
to the West I in lira, wln-re tln-y took
ample revenge for tho burning of tin*
Middle-of-tho-Shore. In fact, with the
prizes they took, tho master and crew
shared quite a small fortune at the close
of the war. Tho llattler was disarmed
when peace came and embarked in
quieter lm-iness, carrying shingles and
pine hoards along the coast for many
years.?The Indrjtuulcnt.
The Foreman.
The duties of the foreman are (li
the busy housewife's work) never doi
If he is alive to the interests of his e
plovers, he is not the lust man in t
factory in the morning, neither is he 1
tirst one out at night. To him bcloi
the duty of knowing that every ope
tive is at his work in the morning,
him belongs the duty of knowing tl
every operative renders unto his c
ployer a just and equitable day's lab
To him belongs the duty of knowi
that every operative perforins his w<
to standard perfection. To him beloi
the duty of arbitrating justly and fai
between employer and employed, r
not unfit quently does it become incu
bent upon him to settle various i
putes between operatives; in fact, In
or must be, as nearly us possible, an c
nipresent- f'lrlofuni. Ho knows of
the little domestic troubles of his sub
dinutes, and has to advise and sugg
means of bringing about (amicablv)
marital relations of mora than one
thoso umlor his control; not suflieioii
burdened with his mm troubles, he i
ries the troubles ami secrets of suboi
nates securely locked within his o
breast, if any of the operatives in
department meet with reverses, lio is
tirst one appealed to; he is the first
add his name to the subscription list
a certain amount; no matter whether
is prepared or uot, he must, to prev
calumny, subscribe. Thus we mij
speak of him on this subject for yei
and till volumes without end, and tl
not tinish this portion of our story.
All employers or factors arc not pi
tieal men. in such cases, the suecesf
the manufacturing portion of the In
ness de\olves wholly upon the forem
Not only is he held strictly aeconnta
for tho superiority of the work, but
must ever tire liis never resting brail]
producing fresh novelties; novel!
which will bring the work to a gren
state of perfection, and novelties wh
will cheapen the production, with
lessening the wages of the operativ
If it becomes necessary to reduce for
to the foreman belongs the uiipleas
task of saying: " We will have to i
pense with your services." If a red
tion of wages be determined upon,
foreman becomes the agent for prou
gating the same, and if lie is not j;
sessed of the necessary amount of t
and eloquence to present the same
such a phase as to prevent the imuw
ate withdrawal of a part or the whoh
the operatives employed, his fate
anathema.??V*/V ntijic Aincrirtin.
Self-Made Men.
" Ihirloigh " writes to the llos
.ft tii ra/f f Vc.w Vi irk iniinv i hp
self-educated, self-made?of whom ;
city might he proud. 1 called upon <
<>f these the other day. It was " Un
.Tolm," as he is culled. John L. Ste
enson is the great street car huildei
that city. He is now over sixty; as h
and vigorous as when he was thirl
under-sized, stocky, robust and clieri
a mechanic of the James Harper seln
lie makes cars for the world. No nnt
can compete or undersell him. Whil
was talking with him he was makiiij
contract for cars for Hombay. Twi
cars were ready for Liverpool. Otli
were on the wagon for London. Allot
lot were for Australia, Norway, Aust:
St. Petersburg and also-America :
over our boundless continent. Livern
cars are double-deckers. But Americ
won't ride in theiu. All Lnglish i
have the windows fastened down i
they can't be sold unless they ;
Tln se cars the English cannot ma
though they have had the patterns
years. Nor can that wonderful nut
make a rubber-car spring. All are mi
\ ... At.. L*i I .. 1 *
in 11 .>11. Diri'Ui'inuii Minp.s no i.
He delivers nil his work in Now Yc
Mi it'll nation, company or man wliotni
for a c.'.r, pays for it in Now York,
contract is taken unless the contra*
has a hanker in New York who will ]
for the fiir when it is done. Mr. Ste
enson builds nine cars a week. He
titke an order and have n car ready
ship in four days. Each car costs ?1,(!
gold. Mr. Stephenson is an ild-ti
Methodist. For half a century lie
been a member of one church. T1
he is a leader of the choir, leader of
Sunday-school, a chus 1-a ler, a man
great wealth ami of open-handed lil
ality. J lis children ami grand-child
are in the trade with him, ami all li
to begin where he began, on the low
round of tlie ladder.
A New Way.
The Chicago Tours knows of a way
which the country can be saved,
says: Suppose, without disfran'his
any one, we give two vot< s to every i
who possesses certain educational qu
lieations, two to every man who poss,
es a certain amount of taxable propc
without tin- educational qualilicatioi
How then Tho poor ami ignor
voter would still possess sufficient j>??]
cat power for his own protection, lai
good deal less power for mischief tl
he now wields. This, or something I
it, may become possible some day, wl
the evils of equal and universal vot
become more glaring and intolora
than they now are.
A family in Clinton, California,
lit veil that some of their enemies in
neighborhood turned themselves i
eats and annoyed them. Acting nj
this theory one of tlx' sons shot at a <
and, missing it, tried to kill a snspec
neighbor. He and the rest of the fan
were arrested, and in court they sw
with apparent sincerity to their hnlli
nation. They will probably bo scut
an insane asylum.
?
SFUTEUKAXEAX LIFE.
)(> A ISiulu ail in llir I'nilrrwroiinil
IU- Worlil i?l n \c? York llnlrl.
In' ftevs tin1 Xrw York .Sun : Dick, the j
ho ratcatcher, was engaged t<> clean the
IRS j kitchen, cellars, meat house, wine, bread, j
in- | and bar rooms of a Broadway hotel after i
To i midnight on Saturday. Underground
lint i in a large hotel is a world by itself. |
in- j The kitchen is one hundred feet long by !
or. j twenty broad. The tloor is of brick. 1
ing Tlire--longtablcscxtenditsentirelength. !
rk , Shelves, cupboards, and dresses hide I
igs j the walls. Almost endless rows of dishes, ]
rly shining pots, pans,and enormous boilers 1
nid are tasp fully arranged according to size j
nil- at the end of the room. A forty foot
li?- | range and a vast furnace, hugging ovens (
i in | and bakeries, are red with roaring tires |
in- inside. The French cook stands in his |
all well starched white apr< n and cap, j
or- 1 silently watching his assistants. Several
est j dainty dishes are being prepared. To j
the ( each of these he give . his attention.
of Here he pours in drops from several lit-I
itly tie bottles; there a handful of Hour; j
ar- here a cupful of cream ; there a spoon- I
'di- ful of butter, livery dish lie tastes, and [
wn as it is done, he catches the put or pan, !
his , mill ill ft IV iimitiis its >>iiiit?ntii tutu I
the | tun ens <>r plates. At a quarter to twelve i
1 to | lu? l?ids !:is assistants to prepare to ("Iran |
for , up. At midnight a major ilonio doho
seem Ist>' tin* kitchen ami shouts, " Put [
rut out the lights. The cook goes around
?ht I his kit <'li' 11, sees that everything is in its
us, ! place, turns down the gas, ami then all
ien i is still.
j Dick the Ilat ami his assistant take
ac- j possession of the lower regions. Dick
i of lights his hull's eye lantern, examines his
isi- long iron pinchers, closely scrutinizes
an. 1 his canvas hag, puts on a pair of light
hie | slippers, ami strips for work. The rats
he j are e\iilently busy, as they arc hearil
i in | from far ami near. Dick has studied
:ies | their routes. Hefore going to work he
iter | carefully removes every obstacle in his
ich way as silently as he can. Then he ntout
ters a call squeal, like that of a rat.
is. Again, I >ick squeals louder and with
"Co, more assurance. This time he is auant
swered from the bread room, where a
lis- hundred barrels of Hour and hundreds
ue- of loaves are packed.
the Dick had previously thrown open all
ml- j the doors. Like a cat he springs for?os
| ward in the darkness ; his strong light
act : danci s with extraordinary rapidity along !
in t the walls, door s, and ceilings. The j
'di- i sharp, piercing cry of a rat in pain an I
; of | nounces Dick's csipture. His assistant |
is I opens the bag, and a great rat is thrown
I in. The assistant shakes the bag several
times and the rat is quiet. A weak, yet
; shrill squeak is heard, and Dick brings
out at the end of his largo nippers a
; poor little mouse. Hat ami mouse aro
n put into the bag. Dick pauses a mou~
: ment, and again gives a call squeal, 1
which lie says the rats understand to i
>lie . ... ,, " . i.... ,i.i.i .i
. mean an is suic. ouucieuiy ill' mrows
1 j ' i the dazzling light u]>.?n a slii'lf. There,
| j ' crouched ami seemingly paralyzed, i.-. a
V | monster rat. It does not stir, but looks
j".? straight at the light. It is unable to
\ ' move. Its largo blark eyes are distinct'
ly seen, while it still holds the broad in
!? ' its mouth that it was eating. Upon it
lo!.' I >iek springs, and his nippers seize it. I
*' T ie rat utters a piercing squeal, the bag ;
i is opened, and it is thrown in.
? The rats in the bread rt om have taken
l' ! the alarm. Diek darts out and as the
1 j bright ray dances up and down, lie runs,
Im'l stops, stands erect, crouches, listens, J
u"l squeals, darts forward, and the light
' " runs along pipes, behind barrels, under |
^ boards, into holes. At one moment he |
il1^ is in the icy chill of the great meat room, ,
"" with its pounds of beef and mutton, and
| its hundreds of chickens, ami then in |
y ' the grocery ; the wine room ; the larder; !
the store room; the coal room; the
"!n garbage room; back again into the
u ' kitchen, and at two o'clock the bag couj
tains fifty rats.
doS I
No ! The Interior of Africa.
*"1. 1 CV>1. Long, in describing his recent
''l'N journey to the interior of Africa, and
' i the vicinity of the land of the pigmies, i
r:'M thus describes the hardships he under- I
. ' I went : To cross Atinour is a fearful |
1 1 ' undertaking, I assure you. For one (
hundred and fifty miles the route, ,
,':l' though painful, is in close proximity to
the river, and thus we have water for ;
j two hundred miles. Leaving Abon 1
1 '' Ilnnied, where the river den ribesa great
" '~ ( ai westward, we are obliged to cross a |
1011 ; bleak, barren sea of sand, -o sulVnctiug
:,N'> t and hot that thethernioiiieti r will searce'
| ly register the heat, (ireat simoons or
| lihamseens blow with roaring sounds
j their hot hreath, and cause your skin to
j crack like parchment. On all sides a
I sea of sand, bordered only by delusive
' m mirages that lead many to their death ;
It f,,r there is no well or water (save one,
infi> half-way, like F.psom salts, and nolle
l,aJl but camels may drink it) : then we have
ah i water for eight days, carried mi camels'
ss- i iMl<.ks in goat skins. The camel, a pa
'rt.V tient, hard working animal, without
,s which it would he impossible to cross
ant i (j,,. desert, still has not the extraordi''ti
navy p.owers attributed to him, and is
t :l water-proof only for two or three days,
'!aM , dying on the fourth. Thousands thus
perish, and the road for the whole dis(l??ll
i 1 A
lanec snow.h 11 \ to ton carcasses it>r every
in? mile, bleached bones that indicate tin*
bio deadly route. Aihl to this the fearful1
see-saw movement. A forced march is
necessary, ami day ami night, with oojl(V
easionnl nans ami stops for the parties
1)OSO ?' eating black bread and onions
nju and drinking of nearly putrid water?all
)))n this may not give you the slightest con at
: option tlitss march,
ted
lily A Kentueky woman writes to the i
ore N'tntimi'x ,/ottnial to say that "the
lei dawn of freedom for women here is Ixv
to gun," because "many wives arc demanding
stated incomes from their husbands."
FROM KITCIIEX TO 1IALL.
A IMi)ln<!?'l|iliin Mrrvnm Ulr! lii-i-omen nn
Irinli llt-lrc-H.
A Philadelphia paper says : Patrick
UafVerty is dead. Patrick breathed his
last away off in one of tho northern counties
of Ireland. Now the death of Patrick
didn't startle tho civilized world in
general one-third as much as it did tho
immediate neighborhood of 3,197 ltidge
avenue in particular. Ilero resides tho
famous Dibbs family, composed in tho
main of Mr. and Mrs. Dibbs and a Miss
Margaret Kall'erty. The latter is, or (
nuiiii ?an iiiiiu rriM'iinj, it tiuinea- j
tic in the Dibbs household. Sho had
youth on her Hide, and her arm was as
well developed as the limbs of a lion.
Mr. Dibbs saw beneath her bronzed features
all of her true worth, and when she
told him in her own simple, orphan-like
way that she was a stranger in a strange
land, that she liadu't any friends and
hadn't any " spondoolix," his heart was
touched, for lio knew she'd be handy
about the house, and was sure to know
how to boil his corned beef and eabbage.
So Margaret, after Mr. Dibbs had consulted
his wife, beeamo as one of the
family, and at once, entered upon her
household duties. This happened three
years ago, and one day last week found
the once dejected immigrant alive and
kicking in Dibbs' kitchen. Iler face was
as bright as a new tin pan, and you could
see your likeness from a distaneo of live
feet in the glistening beauty of her dnrk
brown eyes. Kleveii o'clock had struck,
and she was just in the act of taking up
the potatoes for dinuer when Mr. Dibbs,
all aglow with incitement, handed Margaret
a letter from California. It was
the lirst line from anybody the peor girl
had ever received, and her enthusiasm
was so great that slio dropped the
"murpheys," dish and all. Her excitement
was beyond control ; she
couldn't hold the letter steady enough to
read it, and so asked Mr. Dibbs to become
her secretary. The kind old
gentleman consented, and while Margaret
sobbed and laughed outright at
inconsistent intervals, read to her the
following astonishing epistle :
c? Ti -r 1
oas i kaja'isco, iluiy 1u.
My Dear Sisteh : I liavo just received
a letter from the parish priest of
St. 1 Uiilget's Abbey, who informs mo
that our undo Patrick is denil, ami has
left an estate of ?00,000. Wo are his
nearest of kin, ami consequently as rich
as blazes. I'll write ye agin.
Hopin' this thuls you as it leaves me,
I remain your darling brother,
Timothy IIaffehty.
At the conclusion of Mr. Dibbs' reading,
Margaret didn't faint, but sprang to
her feet and rushed up stairs, vowing
she'll cooked the last dinner for the
Dibbs family. Mr. Dibbs immediately
informed his wife of the intelligence,
and the two worthy people eamo to the
conclusion that to adopt Miss ltaderty
would be a humane thing under the circumstances.
They accordingly adopted
her, and Miss Margaret, feeling somewhat
elated over the circumstance, resolved
to be known henceforth as Miss
Margaret llalVerty-Dibbs. To the reporter
Miss Margaret wouldn't exhibit
herself, which refusal, of course, was
M iss Margaret's prerogative ; while Mr.
Dibbs looked on the inquisitive individual
as he would have done upon a
suitor for the youug lady's hand. He
was communicative enough, however, to
make known the fact that Margaret had
live brothers, and that the fortune would
be divided among them?"pro ratter,"
said Air. Dibbs; "in other words, accordin'
to lor."
Plucky Little Children.
A circumstance that happened in
Chicago shows that two children at least
liot'o nu.r.i ilfitt /\i><1?nnmr ^
their years. They are the children of a
we'll known business man who resides
on East Piersou street, anil their ages
are seven and ten respectively. Their
father had left the house on the morning
in question for his placo of business
about eight o'clock, leaving the children
together, the oldest being in her teens.
This latter was in the rear part of the
house somewhere, when the two young
ones went into the parlor, and came
upon a man who was stealthily walking
across the tloor towards the mantel, evidently
searching for something. The
elder of the two at once, nothing daunted,
went np to him and, taking him by
the arm, asked him what he wanted.
The man grutlly muttered that he wanted
"gold," whereupon the child said
they had none for him, and told him to
leave, lie said then that if he couldn't
get gold that he wanted a girl, and,
without showing an inclination to
leave, sat down upon the sofa. The
smaller child ran into the rear part of
uic House, seized u broom, ami camo in
witli it pel! moll, while the other child
ran to the hallway and called to lierfather,
pretending la? was in the house. The
intruder, fearing In- would be ejected
J rather forcibly, if not arrested, at once
made his way out of the house, tho children
running after him, and the little
one in particular giving him a parting
tap with her broomstick. The man had
found the front door open, andhadgone
in to help himself without any ceremony,
probably also knowing that tho
head of the family was absent.
At Atlanta, (la., last autumn, a negro
built a coop, six foot by seven, into
which he put a dozon partridges, tho
ground being tirst covered with grass.
I luring tho winter they thrived, in tho
spring they mated, laid eggs and hatched
out several broods of young, and tho
negro now has about sixty young partridges,
all doing well. Tliey are tamo,
healthy, and seem to bo oontcntod,
X.
Items of Interest.
The Roman Catholic clergy of Troy
are determinedly trying to stop round
dancing at Irish picnics.
Query for naturalists?If a bird in tho
hand is worth two in tho bush, is a molo
on tho face worth two in the ground ?
Tho Sicilians, of late so sharply overhauled,
assert that there is as much brigandage
in tho streets of New York as
in their own island.
Fifty thousands Fijians are said, on
the best authority, to have perished
since tho present epidemic of measles
began in tho Fiji Islands.
A mosquito, buzzing around where a
young lady was singing : " Come to mo
in beautiful dreams," said ho woidd?
provided there was no bar.
Tho Niagara Register says that dogs
have been sent over the falls without
sustaining serious injury. Now suppose ?
you experiment with liackmen.
Theio is no place like home. Fallacious.
If your home be in a row of
houses, it is probable that tho homes of
vour neighbors will be like votirs.
A young man in Philadelphia went
out rowing in a skeleton boat, a few days
since, and strapped himself to it. The
boat capsized and ho was drowned.
The sultan has eight hundred wives,
and devotes to his own and their use
?2,000,000 out of tho ?7,000,000 that
constitutes the whole income of tho
Turkish empire.
Danbnry, Conn., has just welcomed
the "return, through executive clemency,
of one of its oldest inhabitants, who lias
passed over forty years of his life in
prison for horse stealing.
When a boy falls and peels tho skin
off his nose, the first thing he does is to
get up and yell. When a girl tumbles
and hurts herself badly, the first thing
she does is to get up and look at her
dress.
Another indication that economy is in
fashion is furnished by a Saratoga shoemaker,
who, surrounded by piles of old
boots, slippers and shoes, remarked:
" I never saw so much cobblin* in Saratoga
before."
Agassiz was accustomed to toll his
pupils to kill a fish as soon as taken from
the water, because the flesh of the fish
that die as soon as taken from tho water
is much better than that of those that
suffer before dying.
A Denver boy pulled the bung out of
a beer barrel and stuck in his thumb ;
the barrel rolled over and broke tho
thumb so badly that it had to bo amputated
; and tho father of tho boy sued
the owner of tho barrel for $5,000.
A Georgia farmer has raised from one
grain of wheat one hundred and ninetyone
stalks and one hundred and ninety
heads. Tho largest head has ono hundred
and eighty-five grains. This is tho
most remarkable reproduction on record.
Tho old superstitious idea tliat tho
hand of a dead man is a talisman against
evil, once prevalent among Southern
negroes, seems not to have died out. A
vault in Greenvillo, Miss., was recently
broken open and a hand cut from a
corpse.
The Patrons of Husbandry of Indiana
li!>vn rr>uf>ltTOil flint tlinv will not hnv eer
tniu agricultural implements, for the
very reason that the manufacturers refuse
to recognize the grange agents, and
will only sell through the old established
agents.
California ?s giving fresh evidence of
the antiquity of man. Sawn logs that
might have been worked at by the man
of the Calavaras skull have just been dug
out 1,800 feet from the mouth of the
South Fork tunnel, and 800 below the
surface.
A man was recently discharged from
the Herks coiuity (Pa.) prison, where ho
had been serving a term of thirty days
for vagrancy, who is only thirty-eight
years of age, and has been iu twentyseven
different jails, spent twenty years
of his life in them and learned tivo
trades.
At Halifax, N. S., a circus has fallen
into the hands or bailiffs. A firm of
printers seized several of its effects for
debt, among the rest a fierce lion. Iheyr
aunounce that they are going to put this
animal to use in collecting bills of refractory
patrons.
In a caso lately tried in a Philadelphia
court, the presiding judge instructed .
tho jury that the act of killing by one
whose mind, from extremo intoxication,
was incapable of forming a deliberate intention,
could not be held as murder in
tho first degree.
A mother and father are trying to
force their daughter torn *Ty. Daughter
[ (loquitur)?" There are many reasons
why I don't want to marry him. In the
I first plows ho is too hideous and stupid."
Mother (with dignity)?" Stephanie, did
I not marry your father?"
Whoever has had occasion to find
out what high prices aro charged by dentists
in Paris will appriciate this story :
A lady went to ono of the fraternity to
have a tooth extracted. He did the work
in a moment, and she gave him ten
franca. He looked at it in disgust. "Is
this for my servant ?" he said. "I^o.
air, she answered, "it is for both of
yon 1"
The Esquimaux have an ingenious
way of killing boars. They sharpen tho
ends of a pieoo of whalebone, a foot or
moro long, then bend it doable, and
wrap it closely in fat meat, whioh is exposed
to the air till it freezes. Those
treacliorons pellets arc thrown to the bear,
which bolts them wholo. They thaw in
his sotmaoh, the bontwhalebono straightens,
and the sharp points pieroo his vitals
whenever he attempts to nftove.