Aiken courier-journal. (Aiken, S.C.) 1877-1880, October 11, 1877, Image 1
Supposing!
p ll PPo*>«' that a man, avaricionB and old,
°nld oome to nn jingling his ailverand gold,
-ol oflcr a Bhare of his Mammon to ma,*^
^ t. th.' nalc of myself would agree—
I wouldn’t -would you V
-fjPP' ong a he>“', all bristling with fame,
thejreight of a wonderful name,
'll nSffntrrrt-rfl^uiiJtr ootivlesoeusien
his hand and a little attention—
i wouldn’t—would yon ?
1
ig a youth, with his he'.rt in his eyes,
hone like the light of the Ix'autiful skies,
I promise to love me through all his glad
life,
gged that I’d be his own dear little wife—
Qness I would—wouldn’t you ?
Uabj>Land.
IVY OEOROK COOPER.
How mai y milea to Baby-Laud!
itell,
^»e flight
|tr rightr-
^the bell.
Baby-LaujJJ-
t ie,
s, -
IS,
Ppure and bright.
r What do they do in Baby-Land !
Dream, and wake, and play,
Laugh and crow,
Shout and grow,
Jolly times have they.
What do they say in Baby-Land !
Why, the oddest things;
Might as well
«Try to tell
What a birdie sings.
Who is the Queen of Baby-Land !
Mother, kind and sweet;
And her love.
Born above,
Guides the little feet.
trttttl
Nature with dn-unv
And all the seen - a
t rVOI.. HI. NO. 146.
KKIEM. VOL. VH. NO. 340.
ATKiyS T , S. C., THURS:
!77.
$2.00 per Annum, in Advance.
THE SR,ENT HEART.
Mrs. Hartley was seated in a small,
rather cheerless sitting roam, engaged
in the homely occupation of stocking
darning; while opposite to her, Sarah,
her only cl ild, with folded hands, looked
ont cf the cottage window. There had
been a tall figure passing down the path
| Could she marry him, and live year
after year, w^ym love for her husband,
no love from^H ? Could she stand be
fore the nlta^and pledge herself to
honor and obey a man for whom she felt
only a gratitude which tantalized her by
^|iazzi?h^su8picion
! As if m answer to her thought, her
! moth v said : “ Yet you have all to gain
such a marriage, Sarah, nothing to
lose. ”
“I should lose my self-respect, my
happiness for life. No, mother, though
I may seem ungrateful, I’ll not marry
where there is no love !”
| Mrs. Hartley did not urge the suitor’s
cause, although deeply disappointed at
her daughter’s decisiou. She had mar
ried for love herself, though her husband
had been a rich man, and she knew only
too well how much warm, true love is
needed to make married life happy. To
advise Sarah to marry Charles Everhard
after her reasons for refusing were so
clearly stated, would have been to do
| violeuce to all her own convictions,
j Bnt Charles Everhard did not patient-
j ly bear the rejection of the beautiful girl
| he had persistently wooed for many Ion-'
; months. He had, as Sarah suspecte 1,
planned the apparently chance encounter !
which first brought him to the notice
and grateful acknowledgment of the
widow and her daughter. He had spent
valuable time and no small amount of ,
money in following up this introduction,
and having, as he believed, won Sarah’s
affection, had asked lier tobe his wife.
somewhat more cheerful than it had 1
been the previous day, and Sarah was
speaking cheerily, when the postman’s
voice rang along the narrow passage.
“ Hartley!”
i* ’An answer tJ. ^J^ ,i dvertiBcment!”
cried Surah, iSyiny -.own for the lettex
and up agai«
“A great legal envelope marked Ever
hart rjLd Hill,” she saul. “ Can Charles
sue me for breach of promise, mother ?”
There was a pause whileSar’h opened
the letter.
Then Mrs. Hartley gave a startled cry
at the deathly pallor of the face lifted to
meet her eyes.
“ Mother,” Sarah said, in a hushed
voice, “ can you bear a great shock ?”
“Yes, dear. All we love are dead,
and we have each other.”
“A shock of joy, mother ! Rather a { , —
uovel sensation for you and me. This f s a ’ JOU * ; the thickness of a sheet of paper
lottcr tells me that my Uncle Herbert'p Je t ween it and the magnetic bar. In
left a will!” * throwing the voice against the dia-
“ Yes*, Sarah ! Speak quickly, child.” phragro, it is set in vibration correspoud-
“In care of Everhard & Hill, to be t° the different tones and strength
opened on my twenty-first birthday, i ^ ie v °i ce - The movement of the dia-
CMrles Eberhard’s fathex-, mo|her, lias pi ira S ni fls ft approaches and recedes
>eH died.” f lom ^ ie steel magnet, sets up an induc
tive amonni in the bobbin, which is
transmitted to the bobbin at the distant i
j station, caisiug the steel bar to become |
! more or less magnetic, which
A STRANGE HISTORY.
died.
Then
aad this will since Uncle Herber
‘ ‘ I begin to understand, dear,
you are heiress—”
“To thirty thousand pounds !”
There was a long, long silence, and Mrs.
Hartley gently untied Sarah’s shabby
bonnet. After a moment of composure,
Sarah cried fervently: “ Make a fire .of
the chairs and tables, mother, while I
spend the contents of my purse iu a
xu
that led to the little gate, but, long* be- 'witUffche pure instincts of ; good breakfast. I have just discovered
fore, that was out of sight. Still Sarah
sat there, her dark, mournful eyes look
ing out npou the dusty road, her beauti
ful mouth folded in lines of pathos,
touching in one so young.
Busily the shining needle went in and
out of the stockings, and sometimes the
mother cast a wistful glance at the lovely
face opposite her, as if longing to com
fort or advise. It was strangely pathetic
to her fix see the little white hands, that
were always so busy, idle in the fore-
-oon, the cheerful features so absorbed
sad.
M '>-t, Sarah broke the long, painful
silence.
“ Moti. v ” “ i 8 it my duty to
own maiden heart to guide her, had that I am very hungry,
refused his offer. But there was uo more want or cold
With his heart full of bitter revenge for the heiress or her mother. It was
ho tried to win by cruelty what he had thgee years later when Sarah was sought
failed to gain by kindness. Before u , agate f?r a wife by one who loved h«r
marry Char
‘ ‘ Your
V*
warmer word .
marrying a mn. x
great a debt of grat
‘E-NCimother. I
but i
s Everhard ?”
Sarah ? Have yon. uo
use when you talk of
owe so
to him.
week had passed he urged his suit with
Mrs. Hartley. With affectionate words
she told him of her own regret at Sarah’s
decision, but absolutely refused to use
her own influence to alter it. Then,
when vague hints were thrown out to
wakeu her fears, a stately dignity re
placed the motherly warmth of hjjjK
manner, and Charles Everhtyai^ uS
courteously but distinctly that
j Sarah could never bribe or
threat.
But a fewd^were,allowed for re-
j flection im^ethe landlord of the little
1 cottar” raised the rent to such an ex
orbitant amount that only immediate
removal remained for the Hartleys. Th©'
easy, lucrative work was taken away at
an hour’s notice, and when Sarah went
to the warehouse tor which she had
wircii., - ' ' 1 "i nt was denied
and vton the treasure of her love, aad
the warm, true heart, under the apjeal
of sine —e devotion,
silence at had ^
girl from -”***‘ v
ing wife
hvu**^
_ turu,
acts upon t\e diaphragm. No battery is,
used. The urinciple upon which the
curx-ent is v&usmitted depends npou
Faraday’s manetic-electro law, that a
disturbance h a magnetic field causes
an induced cureut of electrcity, the
whole ’ ower coxes from the voice, the
current, therefor is weak, consequently
the diaphragm is t a delicate coustruc-
fiou ; freely responding to extraneous
currents from oth? wires. According
to the well-known law of magnetism,
power variesinverselj;o the square of the
ie j distance. It is diflic’t to reproduce the
enee to the cgnal,
outlaws prciptly
UO txCZ
“Yet he loves yon Tie vo uh! ly,
“ If I could only believe tlnu.” Sa-»di | ),^ r . there. Winter
sighed. “ If I we^e only sure he »^cd the narrow attic room seemed even more
idjeary tb*>i before in contrast to their
me !
“ Yon doubt that V
Mrs. liartley^ioke iu a tone of the
utmost arm ’’eiSKt, while her busy hands
fell idly beforWr^**
“You doubt C Hailes Everhard’s
love ?”
“ Mother, if he really loved me surely
my heart would answer something to
his words ? But when he is most elo
quent 1 a)r r hik from him the most. I
ask q***eh' why he should feign a love
f^foe, who can give him nothing—not
y/vcu love—in return, and find no answer.
' And yet I know, by every throb of my
- r—r . ■
“ Yon are too x-omantic, Sarah. Think
for a moment. We were miserably poor,
living iu an attic,doing slop-work for the
bai-est necessaries of life, when accident
threw you in Charles Everhard’s way.”
“Was it accident? I have often
thought it was strange that he should
have stood so very near when 1 was iu- j
suited for ♦be only tune iu the street.
It has of**i troubled me that I thought
j ictooted (l glance pass between the
man who was nxde to me and my gal
lant deliverer. It was rather dramatic.
‘5°-’?i s cottage.
Sti. mother ^nd daughter spoke no
word ot -egret fSt the refusal that was
costing them so de.>t. Sarah iu her
load of i bio
suddeu.
vftjsJ voice correctly. If th trength of tone is
rfs ’lloubled, it will qu*d\ple at the other
Four of the masked
i-oseeded to the ex
press doo> with >fr. Barnhart in charge,
a nd witldeveled revolvers foi - ced him to
give fla signal he usually employed to
gain a {mission to the car, Mr. Miller,
the eijl’ess Giessenger, responded to the
signal rvjfonms the door a few inches,
and tlJKtlled highwaymen grabbed the
door, ■ybw it open and covered the as-
touislX messenger with their revolvers,
and Mck as thought, and before Mr.
Mil^F could recover from his surprise
tl’^Fentered the car,disarmed him and
.red the treasure boxes containing
000 in gold coin. They next tried
f/entiirtfufl Career of R Native of Ten-
Ilia Home to Become a
Iran Field iTtarahat and tfae Hicbesl
in Jlezleo.
t Tennessee is a weird region, and
rt of it is wilder than Hawkins
It is nearly a hundred years
’since it sent forth an adventurer
ho achieved a great career, passed
ough a world of stirring events and
ved a long life.
About the year 1801, Elias P. Beau, a
d of seventeen, started with a party of
ftsmen bound from the Holstou to the
ississippi. They floated down from
can’s station, trading by the way, lost
leir raft upon the Muscle shoals, and,
aviug purchased a drove of horses, cor-
nned their journey overland toward
atchez. Here young Bean met the
mous frontiersman, Captain Nolan,
r ho was about starting an expedition
to Arkansas. He joined this party,
aling away from his brothers—whom
e left to retttni home without him—
(vernight. After many ups and downs
detachment of Nolan’s command,
^rrfteing our hero, was captured by
ic Indians somewhere close upon the
exau border. Bean and a companion
^ leaped from the Indians only to be re-
c 'tured by the Spaniards, who took
the. 1 prisoners to the old town of San
Auto&io. Here, after a while, they were
released on parole, and, having a ttttti
for taking things easy and a genius for
work, the yoK iger of the two Americans
set himself to learning the trade of a
hatter. He succeeded so well that in
three years he • became the fashion, be
gan to make money, fell in love with a
native beauty, and was making strides
toward his fortune, when, in an unguard
ed moment, an opportunity to escape
presenting itself, he yielded to a sudden
fit of home-sickness, abandoned his busi
ness, deserted his sweetheart, and tied.
Fashion Notes.
The retention of the princesse style
enables ladies to make over their old
dresses. ,
The cuirass polonaise is one of the
simple and comfortable models offered
for early fall and winter, wear in the
house and street.
There is but little change iu the de
signs of dress, the princesse style re
maining the foundation upon which
many caprices are displayed.
Oddly blended colors, like the rich,
and irregular hues seen on the wrong
side of India shawls or the right side of
Items cf Interest,
School boys will regret to learn tl »t
J cuffs are coming in fashion.
Mrs. Fanny Fancy, of Lancaster, Pa.,
is 103 years old, and- y~'t does all the
I housework for a family of three.
A Californiau, whoso family burial lot
is close to a i ace-con isc, sells scats ou
j his fatner’s monument to spectator-
The village priests are newsmongers in
Russia. They read to their flocks every
Sunday official dispatches from the seat
of war.
General Grant is getting the freedom
of more cities than he knows what to do
with. Ho will come home loaded w ith
night keys.
When a clergyman remarked they
were to have a nave iu the new church,
an old lady whispered th#t she “ knew
the party to whom he referred. ”
Dandies, to make a greater show,
Wear coats stuck out with pads ai/d puffing ;
And this is surely apropos,
Eor what’s a goose without the stuffing?
If the agilo Turk would only go to
a dress of brocaded satin, with high
square neck and very long train ; the
flowers form a chatelaine ou the side
and a chaplet for the hair.
There are so many comparisons be
tween long basques and polonaises, that,
iu first examining a new costume, it is
difficult to say whether it is a basque
with overskirt or n polonaise. It gen
erally proves to be a princesse costume.
A great many materials are imported
for dress trimmings to be cut up in
side gores, panels,. pockets, vests, and
collars, and these dresses dispense with
all galoons, pipings, and fringes. These
trimming stuffs resemble chenille aud
plush.
A novelty for ladies’ over-dresses is
Turkish rugs, are much in vogue. ,
The latest thing in wedding dresses is ; elee P ancl dream some more of the hour
aud, consequently, not be so wide awake,
it would please the Russians mightily.
Under the stalls of large fish dealers
in a New York market are tanks of water
three feet deep, in which eels and ter
rapins are kept alive, and killed when
ordered.
They have bold rats down near
To wand a, Illinois. They infest the
corn fields and destroy the ears of corn
by climbing up the stalks and eating the
grain off the cobs.
A Kentucky girl was given the pre
mium for horsemanship at a town fair.
Au admirer threw her a bouquet, where
upon her horse shied, and the prize horse
woman sat down on the ground.
Oswego county, New York, has two
jjflak tnq.'
1 -pie at the other / the through safes, which contained large*He was pursued, overtaken, brought
heart was glad that some yf t],,
gratitude was canceled bv Vi*
rude persecution ; and Mrs. '^jartley
spoke once in terms that quiet<V ^ny
pain her daughter might have felt ou
account.
sum
valley
White Vid)
a village j n the valley of the Glopsu
(Srema), -, m \ is practicable for wheeled
carriages.
‘2. Troyan f>ass, 4,700 feet, conuects
Troyan, a busy Bulgarian towu of 1,700
inhabitants, with Tcke, iu the Giospu
valley, and appears to be a mule track.
3. Kailovc pans a mule track, con-
Troyan with. Karlovo, a busy
maiiinirccUiiji e ~. T i nna 0 f 9 j ooo inhabi-
tauts, mostly inhabited by Bulgarians.
4. Rosnlita pass, 0,333 feet, is one of
the highest of the Balkans, and the
mountains near it attain an altitude of
7,040 feet. It is, nevertheless, practica-
for wheeled traffic. It connects
Troyau with Kalofer, a busy manufac
turing town, occupying an important
strategical position on the watershed
^separating the valley of the Tunja from
“Sarah,” she said, “I shudder to
think of your life iu the power of a
who could so wreak his revenge upmi
two helpless women. It is fortunate,
y l TUllf, i w.rrimaTV g.-.TTO rt
No unm who ever loved von could
of the Giopsu.
5. Shit
&. snipR**—4^320 feet, the easiest
prss of this portion •-» Balkans, was
held by the Russians. A
across it was begun by order of Midhnt tyJ!
T^gdk^Jtmt has never been completed.
1^*'' _u.ect» Tirnova ami Gabrovw hi the
, liOitli witn ivazamik iu the sc
It was in January, a night when rain ; Standing upon its summit w© look dowu
was falling fast upon half-melted snow. I upon the smiling vale of
suddenly become your enemy.
SO
'ess
that Sarah came home after a day of
fruitless search for work.
“Where is your shawl?” Mrs. Hart
ley said, as thi girl drew, shivering to
the tiny handful of fire.
“ I sold it. We must eat or die,’.’ was
the quiet response. “I bought bread,
milk and potatoes, aud there will be
.
famous for its rose
the Tuuja,
gardens, and dotted
0 an
triment, the speaking is louder and
licate diaphragm is required.
The Belles ef the Past.
VT -
.. Ne |'p°rt correspondent’s letter has
I My dears, the belles
over with numerous villages embowered ! to-day fr „ very prf , tty young womon>
iu groves of walnut trees. Kazanlik has teit it’s a gr^t deal of it fine clothes.
ats.-of ■ The belles of c;„„ .i.-. .
a population of 21,000 inhabitants, of
whom about 12,500 are Bulgarians and so
7,500 Tprks. Shipkn, a large Bulgn- j mt
• *11 *• ”
♦f lay time
much on vhy
did not depend
;e.y wore. They were
mostly tall, finely made young women,”
rian village of 800 houses to the north of | aml the S 00 ' 1 dame here drew herself up
it boasts of two churches aud a fine involuntarily, for sh.> herself was oue of
— i \ „ „ these belles m the pa t period “I
i enough to replace these for a few days ! schoolhouse. , . f l *--- * '
! more. Then work may come.” ' «>• T-puriska Polyana pass, 4,230 feet
me.” Ab Hhe Bpoke there was a loud kuoek | only about uiqe miles to the east of the
a great deli- at the t | oorf am i Charles Everhard came Shipka, connectsTravna,the Nnrcm . g
c- cy exhibited iu his kindness since that iu ^ meet a chilling reception. of Bulgaria, famous for its wood
mother, that sudden insh to protect
But think, Sarah, of the great
time.
since that
His introduction to me was cer
tainly a - gentlemanly method of obtain
ing permission to call. Then his pro
curing this cottage for us upon such
forms, aud the work
pleasant and
surely, Sarah
Not abruptly, but by graceful transi-
, . re
member one of tte.sc bePcs,” she went
ou. “She was the daughter of one of
the Champlius, a line name in Newport
cary. | once; one of them fcl
i easy
we are doing, so
yet so
, if we were still as rich -o
we were when your dear father died, you
could not have been wooed with more ;
respect than Charles Everhard constantly :
shows you.”
“ I know all you would urge, mother, |
and yet the fact remains—he does not i
love me!”
“He is a man who might marry well j
in his own circle, Sarah. His father
Abraham
ings aud pictures, with Maglish in the ! Redwood s daughter, aim omi of the
tions, he led the way toT his hope that Tunja valley. When Kanitz visited dancod with Genera,Washington
Sarah might think more kindly of the Maglish, the Bulgarians and Turks there
offer refused before. He had spoken were ou excellent terms. ■ • xias a
.. —O
! at the old Assembly Rooiq iu Church
street. The daughter I speat of
. , » | eloquently of Us love for her, -CoT ! Sr ondn^H.t S. "
well paid. And 1 urge d his respect and affection for her . Hie KaloftrDere to the south of lirnov a,
mother, and expressed the most
! far and near at her feet.
1)ro _ j with tlu^ village of Haiukoi ou the «o afraid of marrying as
__ ( w — ..... V.U I —s- ... tliey^jR
found regret that he had ever allowed his Tunja, and was taken by the detached 1 au ‘l a handsome girl like Sally;,]
auger at his first Refusal to influence «vvalry force commanded by General was greatly run after, uo suit. ^
him, as it had done, to acts of enmity. Gourko. • ashamed of showing his preferem*
There was no lack of words to prove h is 8 - Tvarditza, or Ferelish Derbend, openly. Sally had rejected a gren ^
sincere affection, as he poured them into 8 »5‘20 feet, is oue of*the easiest passes of : ^ ne offers, when oue day there oa,
the ear of the almost despairing girl; the Balkans, bnt the carriage road across proud gentleman, who, meeting the
and Sarah, listening for some answer ' t > hke so many other works undertaken hite, did not take it
from her own heart, found none. Not l> y the Turks, has never been completed, others, and remom
. , r | one throb there bore witness to the truth It connects Elena, in the north, with the ; asked for some more definite reason th,
is oue of our leachng lawyers, and your of th e vehement i. . . .
P ’or uncle had great respect for Imn ”1 ...
so meekly ^
remonstrating with
him.’
p >or uncle had great respect for
“Uncle Herbert, mother?”
“ Yes, dear, who died iu Australia
last year. Poor fellow, after slaving
there for twenty years, he must have
died poor.”
“ Why?”
“ I am his only living relative, dear,
excepting yourself, aud if he had left
any property, wcytifeuld have heard
of it.”
“Yes, I have heard you say so. I
wish he had left us a little money. Ever
so little would enable ns to throw off
this bitter load of obligation. It crushes
me. I had ivt’ier be back
and know we were independent. Mother ! j
Mother ! I cannot marry Charles Ever- !
hard !”
resolutely, she
before: 4 _ _ ©—>
Everhard. I do not love you, and you j P ear ' ,e practicable for
do not love me.”
“ I do not love you !” cried her suitor.
“ Sarah, can you be so blind, so deaf to
love, as to doubt mine ? Be my wife,
and every hour of my life shall prove
my love for you.”
“ I cannot be your wife !”
“ Do you love another, Sarah.'”
“I do not admit your right to ask that!
question, but I will answer you. I do
uot love another.”
“Then love will come. I
it tortured heart. The
been so
kindness of her
assertions. Sadly, but ' lower Tunja valley. she had given him for his rejectioi
said, as she had said ' 9 * Zupanchi Mesari Balkan, though , Sally was used to a very different man
I cannot marry you, Mr. oul y 3 » 600 feet in height, does not ap-1 uer from this, aud nettled at his inde
carriages pendence she turned npou him sharply
throughout. ' ’ with this answer:
10. Demirkapu, or the Iron Gate, “ ‘ Sir, you seem to think that it is a
3,993 feet, joins theSlivuo road connect- j very wonderful thing fora man to be ic
ing Elena with Kotel (Kazan) with jected. I have refused twenty offers
Slivuo, more correctly called Sliven, the 1 from this very sofa, sir.’ ”
Islimie of the Turks. This is an im- We shouted with laughter at this cli-
portaut towu of 21,000 inhabitants, of max, and then oue of the listeners in-
whom two-thirds are Bulgarians.
The passes further to the west oppose
but few obstacles to the movement o
troops, though ttiey undoubtedly pre
sent strong positions for defense.
Adrianople, the object at present of . When Dr. Bradon was rector of
Sarah firmly the Russian movements, is a city of G2,- j EUbaqi, in Kent, England, the text he
’ ‘oving 000 inhabitants, of whom about 20,000 one day took to preach, was : “ W1
are Turks, 15,000 Greeks and as many art thou ?” After reading the text, he
late when the disappointed Bulgarians. Nearly the whole of the made (as was his custom) a pause, for
suitor took his leave, aud Sarah crept fertile region to the south of the Balkans the congregation to reflect upon the
into her mother’s arms. is iu the occupation of Bulgarianr — ’
“ Forgive me that I deny you, too, the even iu the towns, Adrianople
What became of the
man
m our attic yearB if it mU8( . 1)e „
can wait,
quired
after this ?
“ He became Miss Sally's husband,”
was the demure respouse.
But he pleaded iu vain. _
refused to become au unloved, uni
wife.
i t was a despairing cry, coming from j It was
’ “ young girl had ,—
gradually hedged in by the , inio ner mother’s arms. is iu the occupation of Bulgarians, and words, when a gentleman in a military
suitor, that she had “ Forgive me that I deny you, too, the even iu the towns, Adrianople and dress, who at that instant was marching
scarcely measured her load of obligation comforts of a home,” she sobbed. Philippopolis alone excepted,they consti- : very sedately up the middle aisle of the
until she was asked to i.a* -- “ Child, child,” her mother said, “I tute a majority.—The London Graphic, church, supposing it to be a question
want no home built upon the ruins of * addressed to him, to the surprise of all
your happiness. Have you forgotten to-1 Glancing at the ticket received for the j present, replied: “ I am sir, an officer
boy traveling half fare as under twelve, ; of the Seventh Foot
in i
asked to give her life
payment.
The keenest pain was in her own ap
parent ingratitude and hardness of heart.
She asked herself again and again what
she could desire in a lover and husband
that Charles Everhard did not nff..- w
Everhard did not offer her.
He was young, uot twenty-six ; fine-
looking, intelligent, well-educated. His
family occupied a good social positieu,
:.ml he was in a lucrative practice in the
iii-ighboi'iug town. Yet lie wooed her, a
penniless girl, giving her no love.
I morrow is your birthday, Sarah ? You
are twenty-one. ”
44 And when she arrived at woman's estate.
It was all the estate she had.”
quoted Sarah, bitterly.
There was little sleep iu the cheerless lady ;
attic; but the morniug found the Hart- since
leys up early, and Sarah preparing t<# go
out iu search of work.
A bright sunlight made the prospect
- .. WA . _
he looked at him aud then at his mother, j party here ; and, having brought my
on a recruiting
, I party nere ; and, havi „ 0 v
then at the ticket, and remarked that he wife aud family with me, I wish to be
was 44 a large boy to be riding at half ( acquainted with the neighboring clergy
fare.” “ I know he is, sir,” said the \ and gentry.” This so deranged the
divine and astonished the congregation
that, though they attempted to listen j.ont to u
witli decorum, the <Jis<<mrse- ; wart not
proceeded in without eotisiderable diffi
culty. /
44 put he’s grown a good deal
we started.” When last hocj,
Sandy, the conductor of the noted slow
train, was ou his way to weak to the
engineer about it.
(imounts, but fortunately they were se-
3ured by combination locks, which cau
Lily be opened by agents at each end of
^he line, aud the baffled villains had to
content themselves by heaping abuse
tud threats upon the messenger, who de
clared his inability to explain the com
bination. The robbers did not interfere
nth the Uuiti d States mails, bnt left the
Express car and proceeded to go through
the first class coach.
In reference to their proceedings on
this part of the train a Herald reporter
gleaned the following facts from W. F.
Srdman, the news agent on the train.
Ho says :
“Just before reaching the station I
board the report of a pistol, and in a
lents I heard several more re-
■ncoessioii, aud went to
door ot tL» u, ii. -rt
leant. About the time I LoomKi o..i
sked man stepped upon the platform
.nd, presenting a revolver, said: ‘Throw
p your hands,’ and I threw them up.
e then told me to go back into the car,
nd I went. By this time two masked
obbers had appeared at the other end
f the ear with cocked revolvers, and
wo more came up to the door where I
ad been standing. One man then came
hto the car with a drawn revolver and a
ntern in his hand and went down the
lisle relieving passengers of their watches
and jewelry and spare change. They
were very gentlemanly iu their conduct
and did not molest ladies or rob cripples.
They got about $1,700 in money from
the passengers, besides a number of
watches aud chains. Mr. Cummings, a
merchant of Sidney, but formerly of
Omaha, was on the train, but escaped
being robbed by throwing his pocket-
book and watch on the floor.”
44 A Texas cattle man on the train had
$3,100 & his pocket, but managed to
secrete it. They handed back two watches i
which they had taken with the remark : I
4 Wedou’t want those. They are snides.’
Dan Fretwell, of Sidney, who is known
by the enormous diamond pin he wears,
was ou the train, and oue of the robbers
remarked to him : 4 Where’s that pin of
yours, eh ?’ ”
The reporter then asked: 44 What were
the pistol reports you referred to ?”
44 The robbers fired a few shots at the
engineer and fireman to intimidate them, !
I suppose.”
44 What did the robbers do with Con
ductor Patterson ?”
44 When he stepped ou to the platform
to get orders one of the robbers put a
pistol to bis head aud commanded him
to hold up his hands.”
We learn from other sources that be
sides the coin they got §458 iu currency
. rom the express car ; from a passenger,
uAined L. Morris, a gold watch, $430 in
iii iuey aud a ticket to Chicago ; from
other passengers four gold watches aud
thirty dollars iu cash aud a ticket to
go. They made an effort to get
the sleeping cars, but the doors
secured, and before they could
them open freight train No. 10
aung and frightened them from
their pre\. As the train was approach
ing they allowed Conductor Patterson to
go aud sigml it, the guard escorting him
beyond the rear end of the train aud
then retiii -ig to join the band. The
tire in the passenger engine had been
extinguishe and when the freight train
t ' erson sent the engine to
i : nd organize a pursuing
called French cord, and so closely re- centenarians, Hannah Fry, born Sep-
I ;
1 uK*
inti
wer
force
cam<
back, aud, as a penalty, sent across the
Rio Grande and over the Mexique raoun-
tains to the Pacific seas. In other words,
they took him to Acapulco, where he
was thrown into prison, He occupied a
dungeon iu the ol 1 fortress for six years,
his only comrade a scorpion, which he
tamed and took into his affections.
In 1812, the first Mexican insurrection
against the Spanish power broke out. It
was led by Padre Morelos, a dissolute
priest, but a patriot, a soldier aud ft
statesman. Reaching the sad old sea
port, where Bean was confined, it re
leased him, a prisoner of half a dozen
years, but a man of undiminished
strength and ardor, a little into his thir
ties, and perhaps all the better for his
long confinement. He sought the in
surgent camp and leader. Morelos,
if ore him an American, who
stalwart. nativc^a
prison arvd eager for active empioymrJi;,
gave him first his confidence and then
his love. He became chief of staff, next
general of brigade, next general of
division, and smote the Spaniard hip
aud thigh. At length, the contest grow
ing imminent, a more delicate, if not a
more dangerous, business presented
itself. Morelos had loved, seduced and
j cajoled from her home a noble Spanish
j damsel, whom, for many years, he had
j concealed in the mountains. She had
! borne him a single child, a son. In the
; midst of the struggle, and at the critical
; point, she died. The son was too young
to go into the field. He could uot be
left anywhere to take care of himself.
There was really no safe place in all
Mexico. So Morelos sent for Bean to
counsel what should be done. Bean
represented that arms aud munitions of
war were wanted ; believed he could
negotiate for these iu the States, and
proposed that he should kill the two
birds with one stone—carry the lad out
of harm’s way and bring back the needed
military supplies. Morelos was delight
ed, and Beau was despatched on the
double mission. He succeeded admir
ably ; but, when he got back, Morelos
laid been captured and shot, aud for
the time being, the revolution was at an
end, The sou of the priest-president, as
the Mexicans delight to call the great
Padre Morelos, grew up to be the famous
General Almonte, his guardian and friend
to be a field marshal, and the richest
man iu Mexico; where, at Jalapa, in
1848, our victorious army found him a
hale old man, retired from active life
and living in vast splendor, surrounded
by an extensive progeny. Of his chil
dren but one rose to distinction—the
black sheep of the family—a fellow by
the name of Cortinas, not unknown to
fame.
Curious episodes, indeed ; but fit out
growth of the rock-ribbed ledges dark
44 with the silent horror of death.”
serables the corduroy worn by gentlemen
that it will brobably be known as cordu
roy, notwithstanding the protest of
merchants against so fine a stuff ^ving
so common a title.
Among the colors most seen in French
cord are various shades of moss green,
olive, and bronze. As these hues are
not becoming to all, there are blue,
brown, and black grounds brightened
by knots, threads, dots, and dashes of
bright scarlet, cardinal, pale •sky blue,
old gold, and the vivid imperial yellow.
Corsages take the most varied habit
shapes, even iu princesse dresses. AU
tember 10, 1769, aged 108, and Mrs.
i Clarlt, of Oswego, bom October, 1770,
aged 107.
Mr. Edwin F. Grig enjoys the dis
tinction of being the smaUcst man in
I Iowa. He is nearly tweuty-one years
old, is forty inches tall, and weighs forty-
five pounds.
A man noted for his close-fisted pro
pensities was showing an old coin to a
neighbor, when the latter asked :
“ Where did you get it?” “I dug it
out of my garden,” was the reply.
4 4 It is a pity you didn’t find it in the
eemeterj,” said the neighbor. “Why
the plastrons, Breton vests, revers, and ’ ,, . “^ „ ♦«
, 1 ’. ’. ’ , , so? asked the coin owner. “Because
fichu ornaments are seen again, and but t ^ . . . . , _
one thing seems obligatory, which is,
that the trimmings shall be ns Hat as
possible, and add nothing to the appar
ent size of tlm most slender figure.
Bias silk folds in long perpendicular
clusters are added to the back and front
of plain basques to give the appearance
of a pleated basque. One Frenchy
touch in such dresses is to have a ribbon
belt and bow with ends crossing these
pleats back and front, but stopping
there instead of passing around the
waist entirely.
The fabrics hitherto known as bour-
ettes have increased in number and
name, and ‘merolin***** «re fast N making
suoli-titlos as Plevna impm irJs
Servaau ueige
pomtille, jongleur, and cheniiL - r i©«>.
you could have naV^TT the hole to be
buried in.”
In the Mexican circus in San Antonio,
Texas, a while ago, as Abram Zerrata,
one of the gymnasts, was performing bin
last act on the trapeze, kneeling on his
knees on the treacherous bar and at
tempting to rise to his feet without the
assistance of his hands, lie suddenly
lost his balance and fell to the ground,
striking with such force as to break his
neck.
The latest Prussian census shows a
population of 25,742,404. Of this num
ber 16,(536,95)0 are Protestants. $8,625,
840 are Roman Catholics, and 339,790
Jowish. All other sects and creeds, in
cluding Greek Catholics, R^'ormed
Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Moth-
arrived Mr. 1
give the alar
party.
"\
a Wounded Soldier.
ring near the roil-
o.inty, Vn., we think)
Odd Freak
There is a maif
road (in Orange
who belonged to a ^Fk rida regiment dur
ing the wrr. He utBh wounded : iu oue
of the numerous batXlea fought iu that
part' of Virginia. That rurgeou told him
he could qever reco^r the use of his
leg. “Tlieu,”^
leave tnig l\itt
his vord.
at hi' cab J
by. His |
I shall never.*
ndhe hag kejj
itch
has a lit
iug unj
Bachelor Authors.
The bachelors of literature are a nu
merous throng, and their respectability
is still maintained against their more
numerous brethren of the Benedict
order. There were Goldsmith, and Gray,
aud Thompson, and Collins, and Mar
lowe, and Macaulay, and Irving, and
Lamb, and Pope, ami Otwav, and Cow-
per, aud Ben Johnson, aud Hume, and
Gibbon, and many another, among whom
the misanthropic and cynical Swift must
now be counted, the late Mr. Foster
having demolished the theory of his
marriage with Hester Johnson, his
‘•Stella.” Goldsmith’s happy-go-lucky
career may well be contrasted with the
home miseries of the bard of Avon ; but
it is questionable whether Gray, tum
bling dowu his fire-escape into a
hogshead of water, carefully placed for
his reception by jocose under-graduates,
had a happier hearth than the less able,
but more genial, Southey. Benedict or
ihelor, it is the man that makes the
LsJe tht man.
|migrants to
iro jL-hi-m
court, i
being |
Senators whose Terms Expire.
At the close of the present Congress
iir 1879 the terms of the following Sena
tors will expire: Spencer (Rep.), Ala
bama; Dorsey (Rep.), Arkansas; Sar
gent (Rep.), California; Chaffee (Rep.),
Colorado; Baruum (Dcm.), Connecti
cut; Conover (Rep.), Florida; Gordau
(D'em.), Georgia; Oglesby (Rep.), Illi
nois; Morton (Rep.), Indiana; Alison
(Rep.), Iowa; Ingalls (Rep.), Kansas;
McCreery (Dem.), Kentucky; Deunis
(Dem.), Maryland; Bogy (Dem.), Mis
souri; Jones (Rep.), Nevada; Wadleigh
(Rep.), New Hampshire; Conkling
(Rep.), New York; Merriman (Dem.),
North Carolina; Matthews (Rep,), Ohio;
jVfitchell (Rep.), Oregon; Cameron
(Repj, Pennsylvania; Patterson (Rep.j,
South Carolina; Merrill (Rep.), Ver
mont; Howe (Rep.), Wisconsin. The
Louisiana seat now iu controversy be
comes vacant in 18"9. Of the outgoing
Senators eighteer are Republicans and
six Democrats. -
c
cloth. These are all wool or else partly I adis-e,-ce'»*»“Si - andJMcflnonites number
silk, with knots, snarled cuds, loose about 125,000. The Free Thinkers arc
fleece, or else mere dots or flakes of > estimated at 17,000.
color on very dark grounds. The solid, A New York Graphic correspondent
drabs, browns, and grays of last year’s 1 Baj B the city of Deadwood offers $250 for
costumes, are seldom seen, , ti ie gcalp of au Indian of any sex or age.
—~— “ Five thousand dollars for twenty scalps
Lcmon.s Would Not Settle It. arc g 00 q wages, and any enterprising
Au old man with an exceedingly bald ' young man might make that sum in two
head, a remarkably bad hat and no coat days—if the Indians would only hold
to speak of, holding a large basket full still and not insist upon embarking in
of lemons ou his arm, stood before his the scalping business themselves. The
honor in the Jefferson market police scalps of cigar store Indians don’t count,
court yesterday.
“John Johnston,” said the
44 the officer charges you with
drunk. ”
“It’s all a mistake, sir,” said Mr.
Johnston, setting his basket of lemons
down between his feet.
“ By their fruits ye shall know them,”
said the court.
“Good fruit, too,” said the prisoner,
picking up a lemon; “ sour as the deuce,
sir.”
“Mr. Johusou!” exclaimed the court,
reprovingly.
“’S jus’as I tell you, sir,” said the
prisoner with a solemn shake of the
head; 44 ef you don’t believe it—suck
it,” and he thrust the lemon toward the
court,
“ I was not referring to the fruit you
sell, but to the fruit of your life,” ex
plained the court.
“Ye’r right, squire,” conceded the
prisoner, graciously; 44 ye’r right thar ;
ef a grapevine was to bring forth a poor
quality of thistles, or a peach tree au
inferior v ! rie*y of potatoes, or an apple
tree—a—”
“ That will do,” said his honor ; “ 1
don’t think you are quite sober yet.
Teu dollar* or teu days.”
“ Take it iu lemons?”
An Attempt to Starve.
A correspondent in Minnesota writes
: as follows : “ I accidentally heard of a
little incident connected with our State’s
prison at Stillwater, which will not he
nuinteresting. Among the large uum-
! ber of convicts now confined there, is
one Cooney, who is serving ont a life
sentence for murder. He is said to bo
oue of the most polished and gentlemanly
i convicts in the prison. His voice is
! smooth aud pleasant, and his general
| manner would lead any oue to pronounce
him a gentleman, bnt he is cousidered
oue of the most ugly aud dangerous men
within those walls. A few days ago a
quarrel arose between him and another
convict, and they were soon involved iu
a rough-and-tumble tight ; but Cooney’s
antagonist was too much for him, and he
i was soon down on his back, with the
other man on top of him pounding with
deliberation. They were shortly parted,
hut as soon as they became free Cooney
seized a hatchet and flung it at the
other’s head. It missed its aim. Cooney
was then grappled and thrown into a
dungeon. Now he was mad, aud he sat
in his cell with forbidding sullenness.
He was kept in the dungeon oue day,
. when he was transferred to his regular
But the court refused to take it iu ^ At eacli meal it was noticed that
emons. i cn or World. the food placed at his door remainedjnn-
touched. It was quietly removed, mid
at the uext meal-time a fresh supply was
curried to his door, and again removed.
This was kept up day after day, and it
became known throughout the prison
that Cooney was starving himself to
death. The singular mau said not a
word to any oue, but sat sullen aud de
fiant. Toward the eighth or ninth day
he began either to pretend that he was
crazy, or he was really out of his head.
He stood hour after hour before the pic
ture of a saint, with hands tightly clasp
ed, aud a varaujptare.. Thus he stood
until th^ circuit ion iu his fingers had
ceased. ? his wliGle appearance
■ ghast’^F
day,.wh‘
ate. U
eludes
that
w
44 He’s grow
, n to IkLi
polished gentle
man, anyhow,” said cfn old lady, gazing
jcidjv, as she spoke, a* the shining
of Jje. s(/u just retail.‘xl after
Hi * held out until the tenth
i I is spirit failed him, aq<y
begins to live again, au;f -on-
takes him to^ Lag to" die in
This same man has been fired
at several^tlines by tin guards for dis
play > of his 1 ugly temper. Once he at
tempted to stab the gnarg, btlt the latter
evialed Him,and fired it the'viTlaiu, who
sp\ang to a huge pile of 'jjtiils iu the
ream and clambered over theq> like a
cat; thence he flew about jaie room,
overturning cverytMpg^wJj^^le guard
st II lived, bnt was
and thus he escape-]
existence.”
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