The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, January 15, 1878, Image 1
TEE CAMDEN JOURNAL, f
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Kites and Plain streets. NorUOtf
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OK DENTAL SURGERY.
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THE PEOPLE OF TIMS PLACE AXD
VICIXITV.
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Justice DcPas?. decll-2m
Wm. D. TRANTHAM, <
Attorney at Law, j
CAMDEN, S. C. !'
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Office over the store of Mrs.
II. Crosby, in the building of Robt.
Man, Esq. Entrance on Broad j
street. I
May 24-ly. v
J. D. DUNLAP, i1
TRIAL JUSTICE,!,
BROAD STREET.
CAMDEN, SO. CA.
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will receive prompt attention
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J. T. HAY, ^
ATTORNEY AT LAW *
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Trial Justice !f|
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atieuilou given to Ibe collection of claims.
j. w. Repass, 11
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AND I ^
Trial Justice,
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ATTOUNEYS AT LAW, ^
CAMDEN, S. C.
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Architect and Builder,
CAAJDKN, S.Q., ?
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kinds of buildings. Contracts taken at'
moderate figures, and promptly and care- j '
fully attended to. I "
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will receive immediate attention.
March lit' r
JOHN C. WOLbT, i
PLAIN, ORNAMENTAL, !
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CAMDEN, S. C.
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Jacob Elias
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Begs 10 llliorni ins iiiuiM. |
lie generally thui be bus (
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OPENED STORE j<
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)ae door aorlli of T. J. Ban-field. Esq , 1 s
where be is offering a sioek of t
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General errliaiitli.se, i
at stor.isbljr low prices s
FOR CASH I
He has Dry Goods, Coots and Shoes,
Hardware, Groceries, &c., Slc. A call is 1
respectfully solicited. '
decl8-3in JACOB EL1AS.
^ DeKalb House,
BY A. S. RODGKRS. '
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Most Centrally Located Hotel
in Town- '
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Terms Per Day.
('..mmprcial Travelers will buve every
attention paid lo their comfort, and he fur
nishei with SAMPLE KUO.MS at this I
House; and persons visiting Cuuiden will <
find it a quiet and pleasant home.
Special rates made lor parlies traveling
I together, and lor those who wish to stay u
I week or more. '
> Itf- In connection with the house is a I
first-class LiVEKY STABLE, where horses t
and vehicles can be had at ull tunes for ,
town or country use, at the most reasonable
rates. Conveyances to uud from the
depot at every train. declbt,
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Candy, Candy.
V ijj* LO&W UMortod Candy lor sate by
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VOLUME XXXVI.
THE DATE IX THE RlXCi.
The women dressed her for farewell
In snowy silk und luce:
A crown of her braided hair tl ey set
Above her quiet face,
And on her j lucid breast they laid
White roses, as became a maid.
Her mother bent and kissed her lips.
And kissed her brnided hair.
And folded down the peaceful Lands
Upou 'he bosom fair;
\nd weeping saw )n one a ring?
V little golden time-worn thing.
>he took it from tbe icy hand,
And looked for ihymc or nnme?
Something to say why it was there.
From whose fond thought it came.
She only saw, through many u tear,
V date long past?day, month and ytar.
'Twos somn school-fellow's gift," ale
sighed,
"The child forgot to sin tv;'
lud put it back in iis own p uce
With tender touch and slow,
lnd saw its tiny flitter rest
dke sunbeam on that pulseless bieast
lb, little ring, you kept it well,
The secret of yonr date
Vhatever its meaning, it goes untold
Beyond the earth and tate.
'aiu or blessing, who can say
low much of either in it lay ?
fe watch the light in our darling's eyes,
The lines tha* the slow years bring,
et know as little what they mean
As the secret of the ring,
oy or sorrow?God only knows
low much of both lie under the rose.
A PLEASANT STORY.
If was the itiddie of July. 185.1, when
11 L union was stirred by t'v? granJ
vat ion which had just come o.l in honr
of the ' Linn Concert giver," that a
all rew-b.?ncd man uiigbt have been
ecn walking dowa one of the narrow
tracts of that foggy metropolis, alter- 1
ately humming to hiuis- If little snatch
s of melody and stopping to gaze at 1
lie signs over the d-iors. Pretty anon 1
e came to the mu>ic store of Crancr.
icale & Chappie, and strode heavily in 1
he large nails in the bottom of his shoes 1
taking music in that pi.rt <>f the town.
"Hallo, iiiun !" said he in the broad J
"urk-Lire duiirct, toa tradesman Lebun) '
he counUr, who was examining n new
nd beautiful engraving that was d<*- 1
ignel as a frontispiece to .TulMen's last 1
oika, "C??n you teall me is Measther '
ullieu's in ?" '
"No, be is not, sir. lie 1-ft about '
alf an hcur since," said Mr. Chappie. '
for he was the one addressed); and 1
s l>e r< p! cd. be raised bis eyes from '
? 't'-'"" nnil uonnnpil I 111* nuitrh look - '
IIC UlTIJil., ....v. -1ST
JX"l'rtOB wJlO HOO'l lilW. ill- '
as coarsely clad, a man o' l.r wny lmb, 1
ritli a complexion of tI'm peculiar asliy 1
olor slightly begrimed with c<a', which
jdirutcd that he had t"ihd tor years '
eynnd the light and warmth of the sun.
"WuliV be in again U>-day " iuuircd
the Yorkshire man.
"No, he will tt'-t?not before to mor- '
ow. Did you wish tos'C him?"
'Wull, ye'as, aw would ioikc to." said
ie. hesitatingly. ''They talk sumniat
>'? goon* to Ani'rica." he continued.
"Y'f. he sails next week, but how
Iocs that interest you ?" said Mr. Chapile,
who begnu t? be curious about tbe
uotive that could prouif t such a rough
coking ovston.cr to sec the man of iuinaeointc
white kids and irreproachable
it.
-I'd loike to go over wi'um," was the
cpiy.
1 Like to go over to America with
iiui ? Pray what good c cu IJ you do
iiui?" said Mr. Chappie, with an extrusion
as near eontemj t as was cousiscnt
with good breeding.
"Wull, as to looks, that's rowth'-r
icre nor there, but aw blnw't ophliclcide
urn?ibey say wboam?bctther thou
ny man in t'coontry."
''Ah, indeed ! What's your business?
"Aw works in the coral moinc."
Yes; well, how much do you earn a
reek ?"
"About saxtecn shillin'. And then,
,oo, aw belong to a brass bond and we
uakc sumuiat by gi'cn van or two con
crts a week."
"I lliink, sir, that Mr. .Jullicn has
ogugod all ihe help ho wauts, and will
jot require yoor services," und the uiuic
publisher having satisfied his curi sity,
turned away to h s business as it
10 had already spent too much time to
oo little put pose.
The Voikshireniaii very uwkwardiy
icratelied his load. and stood 1'or a mo*
nent as if undecidrd what to do, but at
ength took a law sf? ps toward the end
>f the counti r, peeping over a pile of
iiu?iet behind which Mr. Chappie had
aken refuse, and s?id to him?
'Perhaps you moight just loikc to
iiear uie play a bit. 'Giui yo'U gi' m?*
an instrument, aw'll show you what aw
;on do "
The request was so good nofurodly
male that Mr. Chappie could hardly
refuse, so lie led hiui up-stairs, and gave
him an ophichid ', wtiioh, alter a moment's
iu-p cti n ho threw d?wn, jo
cosely exclaiming?
"GangaAa' wi'yorard brass. Cooni,
rnun, gi'c us a goo J 'un."
Mr. Chappie obligingly complied The
Yorkshiretnnn took the piece of shining
i t 1
uieial in his Iiulc hands, that were narujued,
cracked and blackened with toil,
iod raising it to hit* lips, played a J?'Pa>
to air with such a piftiiy-iM' toWe and
t>eaufy of expression, tliat it was hard
to tell which Hentiincut was the stronger
in the uiind of the list' aer, surpiise
jr delight.
"Jlut all this tnav be by rite," thoui-lit
Mr. Chappie. "Here, lot uio hear vou
filay that," said he, us he placed before
aim a new and very difficult solo for
he oph chide
The Yorksh'romari plajjed it onco
hrougb, utrd tuKuuarliud L.a hfteuer by ?
CAI
executing ir with mavelous accuracy, |
capping the climax by improvising a |
florid and appropriate cadenza.
"Zounds!" paid Chapplo, "Monsieur
Jullicn must hear you. Call to mori?aib
m Ann nnrl IiaMI IiA \\ orn ''
"Ha! ye thought I diJn't play ony.
eh ?" said the performer, as he strode
out of the room, and ho gave vent to a
broad guffaw as lie tramped down the
stairs.
1 he next day at the appointed hour.
Jullien, with his publisher and the
Yorkshire ophicleidist was in the same |
upper room. Jullipu,after hearing him 1
play was in ccstaeies, which he endea- j
vored to express in hall a dozen lan- ;
guages.
"Hravo !" he shoutid. rubbing his '
hands. "Capital! Mon Dicu, est ex~
ti aordinairc. Mr. Chappellc, engage J
him and give him five pounds a week." |
"Five pounds a week!" exclaimed ;
Mr. Chappie, "he'll be glad to go for
one quarter of the money."
"Never mind that," said Jullien,
"never uiind that?hire him, and give
him five pounds (825) a week, lie's
worth it."
The game raw-boned Yorkshire) man ;
is better clad now; his countenance j
wears a healthier hue, and our word for
it, you will hear no provincial brogue
in the tone of his ophicleide.
The Days of Stage Coaches.
A correspondent tells the following
tale of the days of stage coaches in California
:
The stage drew up at his ranchc odc
day with a passenger list go beggarly
that it reduced the smiling lioniGaco to
state of despair, and to an ohtrusc calculation
of his profit and loss accouot.
Among the few dust begrimmed passengers
that filed in to feast on the
irood things on his hospitable board, j
was a verdant looking individual, who ;
tightly clutched one of those old fash- j
ioned, capacious mouthed carpet-bogs
with vast bowcled depth, that our
zrand lathers used in their journeys, (
jtid that was usually laden with two
jhirt? and a month's luncheon. This
particular carpet bag was notable only
lor th? apparent extreme paucity of its i
contents, and when our verdar.t traveler
slunk bash J ully to the unoccupied
ad of the long dining table, and seated
Inmsclf in one of the chairs, lie deposited
his dusty bag on u vacant chair nt
tiis side. So industriously did he ntack
the viauds before him, that Donif.ce
lapped him on the shoulder several 1
;iu:cs before he produced a dollar, the
usual pi ice u.' u meal.
"Your bill is two dollars,"said Boniface.
"Hay !"
"Two dollars, if you ) lease "
"Goth all mighty, landlord," he ex
claimed. "you don't mean to say that j
you tax a fellow two dollars lot a meal
like this?"
Our charge is a dollar for every cheir
occupied at the table. Your bag monopolizes
a seat and the charge lor it is j
thd same as for a person."
"But, Judge. see here, hew, tlio bag
hain't eaten a mouthful."
"Can't help that; there arc the vi-!
ands bclore it, and if it don't partake i
ol (hem, it isu't my fault. Come, sir, .
pay over; 1 huveu't t.me to argue the '
matter."
"Wall," squire, maybe its all right, j
but it seems mighty rough ou a feilow. 1
Hero's your two dollars."
And the owner of the bag sit down
and hastily iinished his meal. amid the
audible smiles of his fellow-passengers;
and. the very perceptible priu on the
laud lord's lace. His meal done lie
turned to his bag, opened it, shook out
the creases and folds, and with provoking
miiij/'roui, thus addressed it, loud '
euough tor all in the loom to hear:
"1 beg your pardon, Mr. Bag, for
making you wait ibr the second inble.
Aunirrv. eli? 1 should rather think;
n j i
so, with nothing inside of vou hut n
shirt and a paper collar, an i there isn't
uiuch substance in them. Like roast
beef, cb ? Here's a nice piece weighing
a d-zen pounds I gu?ss. Whc.v!
you took that in at one gulp and it do> s
uot seeui to distress you cither. Try a
breast of lamb ? lean recommend it.
St>:ry the miutsaucc is all out. Hiscuil?
Ves, here's a hull plate full. Jliscuits
arc very trying on uue's digestive uiachinery,
they say; suppose you tty a
c<>up!e of pintufuls of bivad on top of
theui. Have a spring chicken ? Two '(
Well, ouu ate cheeky, but hero they
are. Vou don't wait to pick 'cm, 1
sec Souie utore biscuit '! There you
have them?"
Suiting his actions to these words, ,
the owner of the bag stuffed into his
capacious interior every odiole that lay
within his reach, regardless of the con- '
sternation depicted in t lie face of the
landloid. who rushed up to stop him.
"Thin is robbery, air, downrignt robb.
ry I" be thuudertrj. 4'i will nut
Hubinit to it."
"See ht-'re now, squire, just keep cool
and we'il urgue this," caiuil v replied the
verdant one, nut letting tip however,
in his occupation of tilling the bag. i
"H.dii'l this bag pay for a squire mea.?
What is a square meal if it isn't to cat
till one is satisfied? Isn't that so gouts?" j
His fellow pas?engers, wild were roaring
witli laughter, readily assented.
-Sow that being the verdict of this
jury, let mc tell you Mr. landlord, that
this bag aint going to be siti*fied untilit
is chock full I'm its friend, and any j
one that interferes with its meal will get
eternally 1 untried.
Ho meant every word of it, and the .
Lndiord wisely withdrew, looking a i
SjjJaudid cxuaipiu of the biter l/itwu, |
dDEN, S. C., JANUARY
THE LAKE W ITIIOl T BOTTOM
A WONDERFUL SF1EET OF WATER HIGH
UP AMONG MOUNTAINS.
Pyramid lake is nearly forty miles in
i .l (IPiflun in twentv in
It'llglll U) iiuuuv ......v.. - -width.
It is but 4.000 feet above the
level of the sea. while Lake Juhoc is
0,210 feet above the level of the sea.
The Luke contains many islands, several
of which, near the middle of (Iip
lake, rise to the height of some hundreds
of feet, and are pyramidal in form
and light pray in color. One tall spire,
scon far down to the northward, where
th.j lake seems shoreless, is perfectly
white. A large island, probably the
largest in the lake, contains six square
miles of comparatively level ground,
and is covered with vegetation. Upon
this island a number of goats were
turned loose some years since, and they
have increased at a wonderful rate, so
that thpy may now be seen feeding upon
every hill. They need no care, winter
or summer, and are about as wild as the
goats found by Robinson Crusoe on the
island of Juan l-Vrnandez. The lake
is of immense depth; it is said that near
the centre GOO fathoms of line failed to
find bottom. The waters of the lake
are brackish, except immediately
about the point where the waters of the
Truckec river flow into it.
Owing to the brackishness of its waters,
to great depth, or to both depth
and brackishnc9s, the lake never freezes, i
Although the lake is generally very
rough, owing to its being exposed to
sweeping westerly wind*. the I'lute Indians
fearlessly navigate it in all directions
and almost at nil times on their
tule raft. These rafts are often nothing
more than a single bundle of tules,'
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but wlieu tlie ran is mu'iimu iu utu>uu> .
module more than ono person, two or
three bundles are lushed together and
drawn into the shape of a clumsy boat, j
Near shore they generally pole these ,
craft about, but they frequently hoist j
a sail made of a blanket, ai.d fearlessly
steer away so far out upon the lake that
only their sail remains vi.-iblc. These
tule boats very closely resemble the
catamarans used by the natives of some i
of the islands of the South 'Pacific. ;
They arc so buoyant that it is inipo.?i- j
bio to sink tbcni. Far out in the lake '
among the islands they set their long
lines, strung full of hooks. These they
visit on rafis. and sometimes bring in ;
not less than 300 pounds of trout atone
trip. The trout arc sold at ten cents
per pound at the lake, therefore it will
readily b? seen that fishing is a profitable
business.
At the north or lower cud of the lake .
are a dozen or nr>rc islands of lock of
p?culiar and picturesque form. These
are of solid rock, and arc from 300 to
100 feet in height. Atadistanco they
look like monster musnnmnn ?>r i-ng:i
standing on steins?such otr^s as might
have been produced by the roc. that
bird of ancient times, one wing of which,
according to Ibn-F.l-Wardec. was 10,000
fathoms long.
It is impossible to climb those rocks, |
as, white their stems form perpendicular
walls, it is beyond the power of man to
ascend those parts where tiioy begin to
swell out into domes Mr. Stiles sa)s
be has sounded the lake at the base of
these fantastic islands, and, with the
longest line at his command, was unnblo
to tiod bottom.
One of the largest of these i-lands.
the tall white one seen from toward the
head of the lake, is not wholly perpendicular
on all sides. On one of its sides 1
there is a deep slope which it is thought
might be scaled in some way. A story
is current at the lake that John 0. Fremont,
the great pathfinder, found a path
to the top of this rock. It is believed
that he left his field glasses and some
other instruments of value on the summit
of the rock.au J many uttcuipfs have
been made to climb it in order to secure
these articles.
The last attempt to scale the pyramid
was by a sailor, who usca a loug rope,
throwing it upward till it caught upon
a projecting point of rock, then drawing
himself up and then throwing his
rope to a rock above. He reached a
height of 150 feet, when lie was unable
to find any more projections over which
to throw his rope, and came near never
reaching level ground ulive. He was
obliged to descend in the same way as
he effected the ascent, and wlicu lie not j
low 11 lie was completely exhausted; his'
hands were bleeding uuil he was scratch* I
eJ front head to foot. Tito fishermen
have now concluded that the only way
in which the field glasses and other
plunder can be secured is by attaching
a line to a rock and then firing it over
the top of the pyramid from a mortar.
One of the small rocky islands of the
* -? ! - T* !_
lake is a!ive Witli mmesnuKes. n is
supposed that the iir-t of the stock was
wafted to the island on a rnft of tulesor
drift wood. Uoe. Wood, who has visited
the island, says there is ''millions
in it." The reptiles have their homes
among the rocks and live on the eggs
and young of watcr-lowl. and upon the
dead fish that are east n-horc on the
island. Mr. Wo>?d says that the stories
that have been told of the snakes rushing
in a body, hissing and rattling, to
attack any man landing on the island,
are untrue. Ho found that whenever
they were disturbed they ran away and
concealed themselves in the crevices ol
the rocks, just us would have been done
by any other snakes.?-Xcvttda Enter'
prisr..
The New York ?S'?? publishes a list
of defalcations within the last five years
fooling up over $3l).UUU.UU0, and it embrace*
only reported eases of $5,0U0 uud
upwards.
p 15, 1878.
One Night of Swearing.
The Fearful gonad Hint Kept n
gleeping-Cur Awake all Xiglit.
It was in the Cedar I'apids steamer
Outside it was dark as the inside of an
nk bottle. In the slceping-car people
slept.
Or tried it.
Some of them slept like Christian
men and woajen, peacefully and sweetly
and quietly.
Others sl^pt like demons, malignantIr?
hwlnnticie (l.imliclile OSt f !lf?Il<r] 1 it
l_J. v.tyuo.j, , .. _.... -was
their mission to keep everybody
else awake.
Of those, the man in the lower number
three was the ''boss-" When it
came to a square snore with variations,
you wanted to count ' lower three" in,
with a full hand and a pocket full of
rocks. '
We never heard anything snore like
him. It was the most systematic snoring
that was ever done, even ou one of those
tournaments of snoring, in a sleeping in
a sleeping car. He didn't b*-gin as soon
as the lumps were turned down and
everybody was in bed. Oh, no there
was nnre cold-blooded diabolism in his
system than that. He wailed until everybody
had had a 'litlie taste of sleep,
just to sec how good and pleasant it
was, and then he broke in.on their slumbers
like a winged, breathing demon,
and they never knew what peace was
again that night.
II<> Rtnrtod out with a tcrriffie
Gn r r r t!"
That opened every closed eye in the !
car. Wc hoped it was an accident.'
however, and trusting that he wouldn't j
do it again, we all forgave him. Then
he blasted our hope* and curdled the
sweet serenity of our forgiveness by a
long drawn
"0 w-a h-h-h-hali !"
That sounded too much like business
to be accidental. Then cverv head in the
sleepless sleeper was held off the pillow
for a mi tithe, waiting in breathless suspense.
to li'iir the worst, and the sleeper
in "lower three" went on in long-drawn,
rccular cadences that indicated good
staying cjualitics,
"Gwau-ah! ((waa a-uh! Ghwahawah!
Gahw.ahw.ih! Galiwa-a n-ah !
Evidently it was going to last al'
night, and the weary heads dropped
back cn the sleepless pillows, and the
swearing began. It mumbled along in
low. muttering tone?, like the distant
echoes of a profane thunderstorm.?
Pretty soon 'dower three" gave us a
little variation. He shut off a spiteful
'G wools!"
Which sounded as though his nose
had got angry at liiui and was going to
strike. Then there was a pause, and
we began to hope lie had either awakened
foom sleep or strangled to death, nobody
cared very particularly which. Hut he
disappointed everybody with a guttural
"Gurooch !"
Then he paused acain for breath, and
when he had accumulated enough breath
for his purpose he resumed business
with a stentorian
"Kowpf!"
He ran through all the ranges of the
nasal gamut, lie went up and down a
........ >i itin sn-ilit ,>(' Kiinviw }k> ran
the intricate and fearful variations until
it seemed that his noso must be out of
joint in a thousand places. All the
night through he told his story.
"Gawoh ! gurrah ! gurrr! kowpff!
Guwawwah! gawah-hah! gwock ! gwurt!
gwah-h h 11 who-'f!
Just as the other passengers had consulted
together how they might slay
him, morning dawned, and 'lower three'
awoke. Everybody watched the curtain
to sou what manner of man it was
that had made that beautiful sleeping
car a pandemonium. Presently the
toilet was completed, the curtains parted,
and '-lower uutubcr three" stood revealed.
Great heavens !
It wa? a fair young girl, with golden
hair, and timid, pleading eyes, like u
hunted fawn's.
Extraordinary Gambling Fraud.
For over a month past a heavy poker
game has been going on in the card
room attached to one of our popular saloons.
An unprecedented run of luck
was the lot of the experts who were running
the game in the interest of the sa
loon management, or at least in the in-[
tcri'ft of those who controlled liic card
room of the saloon. A number of the
most experienced curd shuips in Los
Angclos si t tiiotuseIves to unravel tlie
mystery. Still the luck stayed with the
house, and the confraternity were worsted
to the tunc of about >51,500. "It
was strange; 'twas passing strange,"
that no outsider could, under any circumstances,
win a game in that room
try they never so hard, but so it
was. At last two proficients took
possession of the apartment, ostensibly
lor play, and locki d the doors. They
at u.iee begun a dilligcnt searjh of the
premises, and tin earthed a regular system
of wire telegraphy, by the aid of
which a stool pigeon, who saw the cards
of the outsiders, telegraphed their hands
to the manipulators of the skin gauic. i
We understand that those who have ]
been fleeced have taken legal advice, j
and that every means will he tried to,
recover the money.?Los Angelas IhraUL
At an Atlanta wedding the other day, ^
among the wedding presents ostentatiously
displayed was u ?10(1 bill, a present
from the doting father to his darling
daughter. Alter the guests had
departed the old tnan coolly rolled up
the bill and put it in his vest n'ockot,
auii (hat wan the end oi it.
m si|
NUMBER 27
Amenities of War.
Hon' McC'lellan aud Custer
treated uu old Weat I'oiut
4/omrade.
In the summer of 18G2, when Generals
McClcanll ami Joe J&hnson were ;
commanding the two opposing armies
j in the attack and defense of Richmond
a freak of fate or decree of destiny or- 1
dercd a sii gular coincidence in the sit '
nation of the Northern and Southern f
cadets. Custer was acting on General
McClellan's staff, and his torm- r friend {
on that of General Joseph Johnson,
each as aide to the commanding generals
of the Northern and Southern ar- (
mies.
On the day of the battle of Seven
Pines, or Fair Oaks, tho Confederate .
rand uAIIAHAIII tTAII *17 O C
luuiiuaijuci wan rv? cicijr huuhucu ????*
?everc!y wounded by a shell, and his
place afterward filled by Gecorai Lee. ?
The same day Johnson's young aide
was captured by the enemy while in the
dischatge of his duty, and taken to Mc- f
Clellans ^headquarters as a prisoner of
distinction. He had been known to
the Federal General when at West
Point, and being courteously recognized h
was treated with much consideration, c
Here loo, he met several young officers ?
who had been cadets at the same time
with him, by whom he was welcomed
with much cordiality and pice?kindest e
and most cordial was Custer. p
It was a sigular, a striking scene;
oDe that merits description among the s
incidents of a sectional war. The blue
jackets greeting the gray, foes meeting
as friends, bands clasping kindly that I
were armed in deadly strife against v
each other. Just a small green spot in r
the dreary desert of war. To Custer's
it m 11 . * II J iL .
carc oicuiaiiuii especially constgnea me
young Confederate officer, with the fi
charge, given in a serio-comic tone, that, w
"The prisoner should not be treated
very severely, but be allowed a cigar
and other refreshments occasionally." b
So that one night there was rather a
jollification in one of the headquarters c*
tents which the partyocupied?rehearsing
scenes at West Point in which u
they hud mingled, "skylarking" ot h
Penny Haven's, and other liap-huzard r<
frolics, stori?s of study and drill, and c<
mutual inquiries for friends scattered
South and North amid the ranks of the st
contending armies. d
Afterward, when the Confederate k
prisoner was ordered to bo sent to Fort it
Delaware, in parting with his acquaintance
again, Custer, hi* generous guardian,
suddenly struck with a kind
thought, exclaimed impulsively, "You 0
must have some money, Jim; those pic- s]
tures in your pockets (Confederate cur- a
rcncy) don't pass up there;" and in h
spite of the earnest protest of his friend d
who assured him he could readily draw
on relatives in Baltimore for neeJed Vl
funds, finding it impossible to persuade 0<
him to take the money ke offered, step- s)
ped up and stuffed some notes in his ^
vest pocket, nolens vofetis. Such acts
arc only prompted by a noble heart. ?|
During this detention at General n
AffCldll.-m's hendmntrtera while one
day the Federal and 0 on federate officer# n
were seated together under a tree, an
itinerant artist seized on the striking ,,
feet of the singular situation and ?
promptly portrayed them in a photo- f<
graph. As un auiusing and appropriate
addition to the seeue, Cusfcr had a j
negro boy seated at his feet; putting, as 0
he said, laughingly, "the impressible w
conflict between them." This picture tl
attracted much notico from the press p
at the time with the singularity of the t|
circumstances and incidents attending sj
upon the meeting of the two young men. h
Female Society.
All men who avoid female society G
have dull perceptions, and are stupid d
and have gross tn?tes, and revolt against w
what is pure. Your club swaggerers, e
who sucking the butts of billiard cues n
all night, call female society insipid, d
Poetry is uninspiring to a yokel; beau- h
ty has no charms for a blind man ; mu t<
sic does not please ; a poor beast docs g
not know one tunc from another; but
as a true epicure hardly ever tires of
water, sauce, brown bread and butter. 1
I protest that I can sit for a whole c
night talking to a well-regulated, kind- P
ly woman about her daughter Fannie Pl
or her boy Frank, and tunkc this the P
evening's cntcrtniument. One of the *
great benefits a man may derive from a f
woman's society is that lie is bound to 11
be respectful to her. The habit is of e
good to your morals, men, depend upon u
it. Our education makes us at the best
eminently selfish men in the world,
and the greatest benefit J that comes ^
to man from woman's society is that
he has to think of somebody to whom r
he has to be attentive and respect- {<
ful- ,
ABoy a Composition on Columbus. '
lie was born when he was very young
in a little town called Genoa, on a little
gulf of the same name in the Alediter- b
ranean Sea. I suppose he was like a
most all boys; ho had hoops, marbles p,
and tops, wint to school, got whipped, j,
and was terrible hungry about dinner- $
time, and liked to go to Sunday-school h
when it was most Christmas time; then c
maybe he felt bad when he didn't get
anything on the tree. 1 guess when he
got big he wanted to go the Black Ilills v
or to Arizona, if somebody would give f
him money for he had none of his own. t<
I think all boys would like to be like s
Columbus, but I don't think there are g
any more countries to discover. <j
While climbing a load of wood with [
u gun in his h?nd a Texas man recently
shot his windpipe in two. Tho windpipe
id uo un to bitu now. ]
ADVERTISING RATES.
Time. 1 in. } col. j col. 1 col.
1 week, $100 $5 0) $0 00 $15 00
2 " 175 7 50 12 '<25 20 00
3 " 2 50 9 00 15 25 24 00
I ' 2 00 10 50 18ix> 27 50
5 ? 3 50 11 75 20 50 2100
(i " 4 00 12 60 22 75 24 00
7 " 4 50 13 25 24 73 37 Ou
8 ?? 5 00 14 00 25 00 40 00
3 mos G 50 17 00 33 00 60 GO
4 " 7 50 19 00 39 60 59 00
6 " 8 50 24 00 52 00 84 00
9 " 9 50 30 00 63 00 105 0t?
12 " 10 25 45 00 75 00 120 00
lir Transient atlvertlsenieni"? mn?? I* accompanied
with the cash to insure ittseruan.
Russian LadioS
The ladies in Russia ara very anxious
to marry, because they have no liber'y
before marriage. They are constantly
under the paternal eye until they are
liven up to their husbands, and then
they take their own course. Ainiust : s
loon as the girl is born, iu th-? b 't*r
rank of society, her parents bczin to
prepare the dowry she must h\ n when
ihe goes 'o her husband, vfhc ms*t
'urnish everything for au outfit if1 life,
>ven to a dozen new shirts for n?-r u 'nng
husband. The young man goes to
he house of his promised bride, and
munts over her dresses, and ezauiiiv*
he furniture, and sees the whole with
lis own eyes before he commits hiuwlf
o the irrevocable bargain. In hi;,li
ife such things arc conducted wiift
riore apparent delicacy, but the facts
ire obtained with more aoturaey, rhc
tusiness being in the hands of a broker
ir notary. Tho trousseau is exj^^.ed in
lublic before the wedding day.
Her Oat.
"Emelinc Arnold, did you strike your
msband with a poker?" nsked tho
ourt of a square shouldered woman
rithout anj bustle on.
"And what did he do?" she squeaked.
"The poker question takes the pref.
rence, Mrs. Arnold. Did you play
loker on his head?"
"You don't know what I have to
tand from him."
"Answer my question, Mrs. Arnold."
"If you knew that man a* I do, judge!
had thirty-dollars in c*.sh when we
rerc married five years ago, and he has
u.i through every cent of ir."
"The?poker?the poker 1"
"Well, I did hit him," she replied,
nding herself cornered at last, "hue
rhat did he do?auswer nia that!"
"I can't do it*"
"Weil, sir, he kicked the cat that has
cen in our family for three yeara !"
Is Mr. Arnold here ?" asked the
ourt looking over the audience.
Mr. ArnolJ, with his head bound
p, had been waiting to swear against
i* wue, uui suuut'UJ) uvulaitm MHAI
:morse, he rashcd oat doure as the
ourl called.
"Mrs. Arnold, you may go home,"
lid his Honor, "anfl if you feel a your
aty to strike your husband with a peer
occasionally, I suppose I can't help
, ff
Nellie's Idea of Prayer.
Little Nollie.who wasoniy fmrycars
!d, no sooner saw work laid aside, than
lc ran to her mother's knee and r' .inioj
scat there. Mrs. Lee lifted her to iter
ip, and went on, busily thinking of her
uties and cares.
For a while Nellie amused herself
cry quietly by winding a st:iu" in r id
at through her fingers, hut prcr^ntly
ic began talking to her.e'.f itt a L..
>nc;
"When I say my prayers. God say?,
lark, angels, while I he ir a lit.'e
oise.' "
Her mother asked her what th*t
oise was:
"A little girl's voice. Then the ancls
will do just so." (siiuttior' her
louth very tight and keeping very still
jr a moment,) till I say Aui? n !
Isn't this a sweet thought? I woner
if the children who read this story
f little Nellie have ever thought how
onderful it is that God always L^ars
icir prayers? He hears the softest
rayer of the little child kneeling bv
be bedside. There is never too much
ingiug or too many praises there for
im to hear a little girl's "noise "
The Springfield lirjitiUirunsays that
ren. Butler should have cited the "bullozed"
pariah of Baton Rouge, La.,
dien he was recounting the dreadful
fleets of the Hayes policy. The iuhulan
manner in which the white people
own there have been building school
ouscs for negro children and hiring
sacliers to instruct them, would make a
ood text for a bloody-shirt harangue.
The thing that seems to be hurting
he Republicans worse than anything
lse is the assertion of equality on the
art of the South. That a Confederate
oldicr should apply for office is a bitter
ill. That he should get it is death.
V.UU V CL 111 IS ^uvt'l llUJUMb 13" UIJO a lie
Confederate has a real tangible interest
ii. lie has to auppoet it. Ho has an
qua! right to share its benefits. Let
is have iess nousenseon this subject.
Mrs. Scales, of Kansas, r*ail a paper
f floriculture at the late meeting ct'tbo
State Horticultural Society. Some peo>le
were talking when she began to
cad, nod she gave them this sly wipe :
I never read when people are convering,
for fear that I should disturb
hem." After that she had the undiided
attention of the house.
California's head is level. A hill hes
ecu introduced in the Legislature aimed
t the forcing process in tln> common
ehools. It provides that reading sprung,
writing, arithmetic arl ..ogronli}
hall lake precedence of all other studi a
n the district, primary, gum mar and
osmopolitan schools of the State.
Two young ladies from 0!..oinea.i
rerc visiting two differcnr fam''V* nor
nr from Beacon Hill, Boston. A Boson
girl, speaking of one to t'-c ?'ii r,
aid : She's the most disa^.-'eab"
;irl I ever saw." " Yes," r- u?Dod the
latnsel from Cincinnati, "end the
iroudest, though her tathcr ouly
Lilled a hundred hogs last year."
Bayonets aro driven, but bulkU art