The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, July 26, 1883, Image 1
Special Reauests.
1. la writing to this offioe on
■Iwnyn gif* your nun* mid Poatofloa
addreaa.
1 Business letters and communica
tions to be published should be written
on separata sheets, and the object of each
elf srly indicatedby
required.
necessary note when
N
S. Articles for publication should be
written in a clear, legible hand, and on
only one side of the page.
4, All changes in adfertisements must
cachu* on Friady.
DR. J. H. I. MILHOUS,
DENTAL BURGEON,
BLACKVILLE, 8. O.,
Office aear his residence on RTS. Avenue.
Patients will find it more comfortable to
have their work done at the office, as he has
a good Dental Chair, good iieht and the
moat improved appliances. He should be
informed several .dA7B previous to their com
ing to prevsnt any disappointment—though
will generally be found at his offioe on Sat
urdays.
He will still continue to attend calls
throughout Barnwell and adjoining coun
ties- ' -* [auglfi ly
DR. B. J. QOATTIEIMM,
SURGEON DENTIST,
wiLLisroN, a c.
VOL VI. NO. 47.
BARNWELL, C. H., 8. 0.. THURSDAY. JULY 2G, 1883.
$2 a Year.
THE DA Y OF REST.
OAcfi over Capt. W. H. Kennedy’s store
Calls attended throughout Barnwell
and adjacent counties. Patients will
find it to their advantage (oba\ework
done at his offic*. set 1'
DK. J. RYERSON SMITH,
Opfrative and Ncrhanical Dfntift, 5
. YVILI 1ST ON, S. C.
Will attend culls throughout this and ad
jacent counties.
OperatioDR can he more rati,factorily per
formed at hix PHrlore, which are supplied
with all the latest approved appliances, than
al the residence* of patients.
To prevent 'disappointment*, patients in*-
tending to visit him st Williston are re
quested to correspond by mail before leav
ing home. Faepltf
TiME'Htmiir
|238 King Street,
Opposite Academy of Music,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Rooms to let st ."0 rents a night. Meals
all honrr—Ovrters in every stvle.
Ales, Wines, Liquors, Secai-s, Ac.tmsr.tOly
Roly and beantiful! The very bird
That pours his wealth of music on the ear
Seems, to our chastened hearts, by worship
stirred.
To pay his tribute to the season dear.
The breezes pass us by with loitering wing
And less distinct the insects' joyful hum;
Faihter the voices of the gurgling spring,
And all proclaims the welcome rest hath
come.
The flowers hang droopingly on pliant stem,
The pale, thin cloud, float down the a*nr.
sea • ''
With gentlest motion; and the heart, likt
them.
Fain would go forth, sinless, and calm, and
free 1
All things without do utter “ holy time,"
And all within the soul gives answering
cheer;
The burden of all grief, and care, and crime
Is vailed from sight, it casts no shadow
here.
Into the deep recesses of the miad, • -
0 holy peace, descend and long abide !
Till a perpetual Sabbath there enshrined
• Sheds guiding rays across life’s ebbing
tide ! —Boston Transcript.
CHARLES C. LESLIE
Wholesnle and Retail Dealer in
Fish. Gamf. Lototm, Turtle*, Terrapin*,
Oysters. Etc, Ktc.
8taUs, Nos. 18 and 20 Fish
Market
v
CHARLESTON, S. C.
All orders promptly attended to.
Terms Cash or City Acceptance.
'Rsoiyl .
A, PATTERSON,
Surgeon IDentist,
Office at the Barnwell Court Houae,
1’atients waited on at residence if de
sired. Will attend calls in any portion
of Barnwell and Hampton counties.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Terms casb.
angSllyJ
ROBT. D. WHITE
MA.RBT.E
—AND—
GRANITE WORKS
MEETING STREEr,
| Jp (Corner Horlbeck’s Alley,)
CHARLE810N, , : . 8. C
juneOly] '
OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS,
—WHOLESALE—
Grocers and Provision Dealers
102 and 104 East Bay Street,
augSliy C H A RL E8TO N» JL CL
A MORE EXCELLENT WAY.
Here you young raacal! drop thal
this minute 1” . . .
The tone was stern enough to enforce
ol*edieuce of itself, blit the speaker added
i-inphasie by sciaing the miscreant by
the collar and giving him a thorough
shaking. It was a small boy, thin and
-vtarVcd-looking, With many patches on
lus poor clothing and not a few rags
that fluttered as he swung in the grasp
of the strong, well-dressed youth who
held him. But his grimy fingers never
msed their hold of 0 the disputed object,
and his only care seemed to bo to keep
it from injury. His eyes blazed with
passion as he screamed:
“Let go of me, Rick Markham. It’s
no business of yours, and if yon make
me break it I’ll kill you for it some time
see if I don’t. Let go, I say."
It was an odd contest, and the boys
gathered, round, full of interest, to see
what Would happen, though, of course,
they knew that the little fellow could
jot- hold out long.
“Give it to him, Rick !” shouted out
■sorne, “shok* the dirty little beggar out
of his boots.”—
“Stick to it, Toby,” cried others, to
keep up “the fun;” “findin’s is bavin’s,
if you can only keep ’em. ”
‘ ‘Boys 1 Boys ! What is all this dis-
turliance ?” inquired Miss Lawrence, the
teacher, hurrying to the scene. “Haven’t
I forbidden fighting times enough.”
“Yes, ma’am,” answered Markham,
“but this isn’t a real fight. Toby Dxigg*
stole Ray Burgess’s toy balloon, and I
was trying to make hinugivo it up, but
no won’t, and so you see I cannot take it
iway without breaking it.”
“Careful, careful,” said the teacher,
gently; "stoic is an ugly word. Do not
say it unless you arc Mire
Devereux & Co.,
1 dKllxrs 15......
Lilt, Co ■tit, Lath*, Platter, Hair,
Slate* awl Marble laities.
Depot of Building Materials No. 90 East Bay
Sash, Blihds, Doom, Glass, Etc.
sep71yl CHARLESTON, 8. C.
—
TH0S. HcG. CARR,
FASHION AKLK
Skaviag aid lair Ireuiig Saloei,
114 Market Street,
(One Door East of King Street,)
. marSOly] CHARLESTON, S’ C.
1—
a^*TRY'‘ a M* 1 J
CAROUNA mil TONIC!
THE GREAT REMEDY FOR
’ — A" ‘ ■
PULMONARY DISEASES,
COUGHS, COLDS,
/ BRONCHITIS, Ac.,
AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
SURE CURE FOR
and Dyspepsia
IN ALL ITS STAGES.
Hi-Eor Sale by
DRUGGISTS.
all GROCERS and
H. BISOHOF* « GO.,
GhAEleetoB, S* O.
Sole Maaafaoturera and Proprietors
*1 6b N
V> i
“Well, I am sure, Mias Lawrence, for
I saw him myself. He watched where
Ray laid it when some of the boys called
him to play tag, and went and got it and
was making off as iast as ever he-eouid
when I caught him.”
“Charles,” said Miss Liwronoe, grave
ly—she never called him - by that hate
ful nickname^ Toby—“I thought you
were growing to be one of my beat boys,
Htuj now you pay me in this way for
trust lug you. You cannot be my friend
if you do such things. Now moke it as
near right as yon can. Goand give Ray
ius balloon at onoe.”
The child’s eyes had been fixed upon
lierp as. though be dreaded each word as
it fell, while his face grew .whiter ami
more set, As she cessed a stony defi
ance settled over it. He moved not ope
step.
“Charles.” she said, after along pause
Of wonder at the stubbornness of this boy,
who had lately obeyed her every word,
and perplexity as to the best course ih
case be continued obstinate, “are you
not going to obey me
~ “No ma’am,” replied the boy, Rlowh
“I didn’t steal it, and I won’t give it up
to him—not if yon kill me.”
Miss Lawrence was astounded, though
no sign of the fact appeared.
“Very well,” she remarked, quietly,
looking at her watch, “we have no more
time to spend with this affair now. Go
into the school-room, all of you, and
take your seats. I will attend to it after
the session. Charles need have no rec
itations. He can take his time to
think.”
* * * e s • •
The sunbeams stole in through the
school-room window, marking, a* they
moved from desk to desk, the passage
of the boon. Pleasant summer hours
they were. Bees hummed through them,
. birds sang, and sleepy windlets swung in
leafy branches, but two hearts in that
room were too heavy to.heed.
Charles Driggs sat stolid and deter
mined, watching the door furtively, and
calculating his chances of escape, for to
thm p»»" his “thinking” had evidently
brought him. But too many eyes were
upon him, and, ssite^Jhe-tsaeher’a
efforts to prevent, many fingers were
pointed at him and many cruel little
tongues whispered “Thief I”
Ah I what a wild beast instinct it is—
that so common one, to hunt the ins
pected or unfortunate, either of human
or dumb creatures, fli* eery ones that
should rouse the Christ-like yearning to
shelter them.
Miss Lawrence watched anxiously.
She felt that there was something unac
countable in the boy’s sudden stubborn
ness and in the value he seemed to m-t
upon a simple toy. She had found him.
at her entrance into the school, idle,
willful^ and disorderly, as neglected
children so often are, but be had been
easily won and had fried earnestly
and constantly to improve. This out
break was pnzaling, discouraging, liki
so many of the cases teachers have 1.
deal with. Sometimes they find tin
key to the mystery; oftencr it is entin h
out of their reach, and they have t<
blunder along blindly, doing wind cir
cumstances compel, feeling that, after
all, it is not the right way, though tin
only ore possible to them.
What a weary afternoon; would it
never end ? At last the sunlight slipix-d
off the threshold. The pupils soon fol
lowed it. For a moment she slackened h« 1
watch, while the larger ones, being in
spelling-class with their backs to tin
door, could not see. In that moment
Charles slid round. He was almost gom
—not quite, though.
Miss Lawrence turned just in time ti
seize him and thipw him, kicking and
struggling, into the nearest seat. She
was thoroughly -angry at his persistent
wickedness, and flung the boy down
with the feeling that he was entitled to
no further consideration from her.
“Sit there !” she exclaimed, "and we
will have you fastened like any other
thief.”
Cruel words they,were—regretted as
soon as spoken—but the boy did not
seem to hear them. His eyes were fixed
with a glare of terror upon the balloon;
which was slowly shrinking away,
-pierced by some pin-point. As it shriv
clod up into an unsightly rag he flung
himself, with a despairing scream, upon
the floor beside it, and lay there moan
ing and grieving like a dog beside some
article once worn by its deed master. *
As for Miss Lawrence, she w^s rathci
glad of this uulooked for escape from her
difficulty.
, “Ray,” she said, “I will get you a
new balloon, since this one was destroyed
partly through my fault The school
is dismissed. Charles will remain.”
The boy sat quiet, unheeding the jeer*
or the contemptuous glances of the
others as thgj passed out, and staring
blankly straight ahead of him, like one
who had just seen a last hope go out.
The teacher watched his face, so stony,
so uuchildlike, long after the last young
footstep had pattered out of hearing. At
last she said.^
“ Charles, I did not suppose yon cared.
so much for playthings that you would
take those which did not belong to you.’
“ I don’t,” answered the boy, dogged-
ly. “ Why don’t yo let mo go now ?
There aint nothin’ to stay for. You’ve
smashed it, and that’s the very worst
thing ye could do to me.”
“ You may go presently; bnt why do
you speak so to me ? I did not keep
you here for a punishment. You forget
that I have the toy to pay for, unless
yon can help me.” — '
“ Well, I can’t then,” Tie rejoined,
desperately. “ 1 haven’t got a penny in
the world. If I had had or could a
get it, ’cause she hadn't a bit of money,
and then ho didn’t say-another word, but
iust turned his poor head over on the
pillow, when he tlionglit nobody was
lookin', and cried all to himself.
"I’ve been tryin’ ever since to get
somethin’ to do, so I could buy him one,
out nobody would give me any work.
He was so bad this moniiu’, mother
-aid she was. afraid ho wouldn’t last but
a day or two. He’s out of his miud a
good deal, and then he talks mostly
about the pretty red moon, and says he
is going to climb tip into the sky and get
it. I thought maybe he’d die easier to
have it, and when I saw Ray Burgees
with oho in his hand I made Up mv
(mind to get it if I oonld. It wasn’t
real, downright straliny for me totakeit
from him; really it Whsn’t, Miss LrW'
renoe, Only just taking a little of what
bolougs to us—for father spends ’most
2Very cent he corns at Mr. Burgess’s
drink shop, though mother has begged
Mr. Burgess on her knees not to sell to
him. We’d be comfortable and decent
as anybody if wfl could only have fath-
r’s wages; but they all go to help buikl
Mr. Burgess's grand house,’ and put fine
'•lollies on his wife and buy nice tilings
or his children, when our poor Lcn
•an,’t have one little plaything, and he
dying of slow starvation. That’s what
.other says it is.”
And the boy broke down with a sob at
thought of ilia pet brother’s wrongs
Miss Lawrence bad not the heart to
■ rgne with him. She was ]H>or herself,
ut no misery like this had ever crossci
, i t path.
“You may go, now, Charles, she
rid; “but let the balloou rest for to
ight, and don’t giye up; your brother
nay not be so ill as you think."
He departed, a little’comforted.
The teacher went straight to the one
iy-shopof the village and purchased its
1st remaining toy balloon. Then
iw sign, “Theodore Gray, M.D.,”
carcely noticed before, arrested her nt-
• Titiori, and soon she was on her way to
liu house of want, accompanied by i
oiing pbysieian yHTo was not too well
stablished gud successful,to attend the
-nor. —
Len lay on his lied of suffering
jflkrawn face so white that he
Ireaiy dead, and one felt almost
ed ffi^ee the blue eyes.unclose,
diaries sat gazing at him in despair.
A fruitless fight against want and mis-
ry showed everywhere.
While the Doctor examined his pa
tent, Miss Lawrence sought the heart-
iroken mother.
“ We have come to help you, if you
rill let us,” she said, simply.
So the two—poor themselves—set to
.ork to relieve those so much poorer
1 ud more unhappy.
Little Leu’s sunken eyes brightened
d sight of the red balloon, and after a
upper of warm broth he fell asleep
rith his hand on the string and the
right globe nestled against his won
•hcek.
No; be did not die.
Richard Markham heard the story
text day and wont to see him. To his
redit be it said, he was not ashamed to
like Charlie by the hand, and say: ^
‘ ‘Forgive me, lad. I WAfl more to blame
lion you. I ought to have found out all
ilxiiit it before trying to make a public
A BRAVE ACT.
(INK MAN AUT* WHII.K OTI1ERM CWIjTT
MYUPATIII/.K.
Haw a Knaaorav liars* wa» HtspreS aa4 a
I .Mile (ilrl’a I.lfe HaveS.
A FATHER’S WANDERINGS.
MTOKY OF A WAN WHO AFI’KABH AF-
TKR AN AltMKNt’E OF 1WKNTY-
F1VK YKAItM.
No commouieatioa will be pubhabid
uakss accompanied by the bum aed id*
dram of the writer, *ot necessarily lor
publication, bat al a guaranty of good
faith.
Addrem, THE PEOPLE,
Barnwell 0. H.. 8, C.‘
—*-V
earned one do you think I’d a touched
his old balloon!”
• “ But why should you, any waj ?”
urged Miss Lawrence. “ It wasn’t any-
diing you needed.”
“Wasn’t it ?” he cried, furiously. “ I
never needed anything so much in all
my life, and if tin-re’s another to lx-
prigged in this town to-night I’m the fel
low that docs it, and you may help your-
setf.”
“ Why Charles 1” exclaimed *Uic as
tonished lady ; “are you crazy? Whut
is the matter? Tell me all about it,”
she added, coaxingly, almost terrified by
the strange conduct of the boy.
“♦What’s the use ?” he muttered, with
a sullen, suspicious glance, “You
couldn’t help, and if you could, you
wouldn’t. Nobody cares for poor folks
like us. What if we do get sick and
die ? It’s no matter. And as for feelin’s,
who ever thought of our havin’ any ?
Feelin’s is for folks that dress in silks
and satins off o’ the money they cheat
us out of.”
“Charles,” observed Miss Lawrence,
gently, “I am sure I don’t know what
makes you Ulk so strangely, but I am
very sorry for you, and if you will tell
me what all this means I will help yon,
if lean. Isn’t that fair?”
“Yes, ma’am,” replied the boy, slowly,
after a long, wistful gaze into the trou
bled and gentle eyes of the teacher; “I’ll
tell ye, though there’s nothin’ you can
trample ol you, when I had never
mown jpfl to do anything like that
x-fore.”
“ I don’t blame you,” replica! the other.
/’ It was the first time, and it shall lie
the last But, of course, there are jilenty
who won’t believe me.”
For a while all Richard’s spending
money went to the Driggs family. Others
too, in time joined to help them, so that,
though always poor and struggling—as
how could they bn otherwise ?—they dh'
hot again reach such a depth of want
The father did not reform, for the dram
,hop still stood open and his earnings
iropped mostly into its till But work
.vas furnished his family—so they man
aged to live.
Miss Lawrence has never cessed to
practice the “ more excellent way," and
many Hi'S Call down blessings upon h«-r.
She does not teaqh the village school
now, but a lady sometimes stands *t a
window over the new sign—now no longer
new—who IoqJw much like her.
I think you will find, too, that the
Doctor is soon to take a student who
signs himself Charles Driggs.—A rf/iw’i
Magazine.
The Candui Paradr.—Speaking of
r i lie fireworks at the opening of the East
River Bridge, a war veti-ran said: “Dur
ing the spring of ’65 candle rations were
issued to the army of the Potomac. The
men hod no use for .them, and they ac
cumulated. One night a single com-
[From the New York Tim**.]
While the Boulevard from Macomb’s
)am bridge road to the Pork was
crowded with all kinds of pleasufB
equipages, recently, great excitement
was produced in the vicinity of One
Hundred and Fortieth street by a frantic
cry of “Clear the track 1 A runaway 1
)rive on the side-walks 1” A man in a
light road wagon was driving his horse
;oward the Park on a run and screaming
-this warning to the drivers in the street,
Behind him, in the middle of the broad
thoroughfare, a powerful ronn horse was
dashing madly down the street, drawing
a top buggy, which swayed from side to
side, while a little girl of 13 years dung
desperately to the lines, with white face
and streaming hair. Everybody gave the
runaway vehicle a wide berth. Men in
light wagons whipped their horses fran-
qpon the sidewalk, coachmen
drove their carriages, hurriedly to the
side of the road, ladies and gentlemen on
horseback galloped wildly to the fences,
and although sympathetic women in
tlteir "cftiTiages screamed and men
turned pale, no one made the sliglitess
effort to assist the child, who without
looking to the right pr left, was scream
ing: “Oh, won’t somebody save me!
Oh, somebody stop him ! What shall I
do ! Oli, what shall I do!”
A quiet looking man- in a clerical
fnxik coat, who was meditatively driving •
a large “ buckskin” horse liefore alight
road wagon toward the city, hoard the
warning cry of the man who was trying
to clear the road, and looked around just
as the roan horse, on a frantic run, was
passing One Hundred and Thirty-math
street, and all the vehicles were crowd
ing to the left-hand side of the road.
The quiet man, without a moment's
hesitation, put his horse, which was a
last one, to his sliced, and drove swiftly
l-cside the runaway steed.
Don’t lie afraid 1" he called coplly to
the child, who clung to the lines like a
little heroine. “Now, do just as I tell
you ! Hang on to the lines, and pull
most on the left, and when I tell yon to
jump, do it. Will you mind what 1
ay-2," , K
"Yes,” answered the little girl; “but
save me, oh, save me, if you can !”
The quiet man gave the buckskin
horse a cut with his whip, and the ani
mal broke into a gallop and brought the
atiof hiu»aster> wagon even with the
runaway horse’s head. Then the man
piiokly wound his lines about bis right
hand and with the loft seized the runa
way horse’s bridle. The frantic beast
plunged and jerked bis head away, al
most dragging the man from his scat,
and dashed on, the man losing his hat
and whip. But he at once drove along
side the horse’s head again, and again
seized the bridle, which was again torn
away from him. He drove up again and
made a third attempt, and met a like
failure. “Don’t give up,” he called out
to the child, who was losing courage and
crying; * ‘just hang on to the lines. ” Then,
in very vigorous language, he exhorted
some of the horsemen whom they were
flying past to come to his assistance, bnt
not oho responded. The two animals, in
this time had run down to One Hundred
and Twenty-eighth street, and between
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth and One
Hundred and Twenty-sixth streets Hes «
heap of stones, mortar, and bricks,
where a building is in process of con
stmction, and toward this jagged pih
the quiet man, who was still driving and
encouraging the girl, saw that the runa
way horse was headed, and knew that
he must make a final effort to stop the
animal at onpe. He drove up lieside
the he ul of the beast again, seized the
bridle, dropped his lines, and, calling to
his own horse to stop, he sprang to the
ground, dragging the runaway horse’s
head with him, and after a sharp strug
gle brought,the brute to a standstill and
took the child, who was almost fainting
from the buggy.
The little girl said that her father
who had been driving with her, hat
Ix-cn rnn over at One Hundred anil
Thirty-sixth street, and that the hpns
liad run from there, a distance of morr
than a mile. The quiet man drove back
.to look for the father, and met him driv
ing down in a grocery wagon to look foi
his child, whom he expected to fimt
dead or dying in the road. He was not
badly hurt. He said that he stopped in
the road to check up his horse and gave
his little girl the reins. Some other
horses came up behind and startled the
A Mtarv that WaaM be WerWrA aft lata
Twa Valaai* Nevel—Aftrr.TwTBly-
Sve Year*.
The story of John Heim to, who tamed
up in Reading, Pa., a few days ago aftei
absence of twenty-five years, is in
many r«q>ectH remarkable. When he
disappeared Hennse had a wife and sever
al children, the youngest of whom,
Mary, then three months of age, is now
married. Mrs. Hennse heard nothing
of her husband until wjjjji after the late a ix)ut the
war begun, when she received a letter
announcing that he had Ix'en conscripted
into the rebel army. Nothing more was
heard from him and he was mourned as
dead.
On Tuesday a bronzed and weather
Ix-aten man of sixty-five years registered
at the Berks County House., Ho wore
long hair that fell upon his shoulders In
curls and his ears were adorned with I
gold rings. It was the same John who
had disappeared a quarter of a century
ago, seized with a loncing to o ioe more
see his wife and children. Ho learned
t at they were still living. The moot
ing between the long-Oeponded couple
was not a gushing one. There were no
tears of joy am) no clinging in fond em
brace, but nevertheless the prodigal
husband was cordially greeted when ho
had established his identity.
Then he visited his youngest daugh
ter, Mra. Rolland. That lady was en
gaged at her household duties when she
was suddenly confronted by a strange
man.
“Your name is Mary,” said he break
ing a short silence and advancing a step
or Iwo.
“Yes, that is my name,” answered
Mrs. Rolland, eying her strange visitor
suspiciously. “What can I do for you ?”
“I am your father, Mary, who left you
when you were a babe three moutlis old.
Am I quite forgotten ?”
And tears came to the old man’s eyes
he leaned against the counter and
as
gazed at his daughter. Mrs. Holland's
first impulse was to summon assintance,
for she feared the man was demented,
but he stopped her and soon convinoixl
her that his sfbry was true, and then re
lated to her his past life.
To a correspondent of the Times Hen-
use told his story. He said when he
eft Reading he went to Virginia. Here,
ij'hen the war broke out, he was forced
into the reliel army, and when on the
march to Gettysburg he escaped, but
was recaptured and placed on lioord a
war *»ossel. He again escaped, and then
made his way westward, only to be cap
tured by hostile Indians. For a time he
was kept s close prisoner, but eventually
le adopted their habits and mode of life,
and was looked upon as a member of the
tribe. He Hved with his red brethren
fifteen years, and during that time
learned several dialects.'- Then came a
yearning for the home of his youth. He
liade his savage friends farewell, went to
France, and after a brief sojourn there
returned to America by way of Cul».
Then I came to Reading,” sorrowfully
concluded the aged adventurer, “ and
I will leave again as quietly as I came,
the city is strange to me, the people are
all strange, and even my own family do
not seem to recognize me. I will leave
for the South; I have friends there.”
And he kept his word, for he left as sud
denly as he came, not even bidding his
wife and children farewell. ^
Gambling in the Army.
Flagrnnt Outrage* on a Cl tinea.
'The Providence, R. L, Journal given
a detailed account of malicious persecu
tions to which Mr, William A. Weeden,
a fanner of Cumberland, has been sub
jected of late years. Twelve years ago
his two large Imrns were burned, with
cattle junl horses. In 1882 his barn and
other outbuildings were again burned, '
involving a loss of 92,400, on which
there was only $600 insurance. In clear
ing away for the new bom which is now
being erected there was found among the
debris, in the centre of the cellar, a bot
tle containing dynamite. Soon after the
barn was burned several of the fence*
land were torn down and
thrown into the road, and like disgrace
ful actions are kept up until this day.
Recently outrageous actions have been
Committed at the family lomb on his
farm. The door has Ix'en taken from
its hinges and thrown into the middle •
the road, and the gate lias been torn off
and placed by the roadside. On the .
slabs arc caricatures of disgraceful ob
jects, and many lines of vulgarity writ
ten with red lead. In the tombs are the
IkxHos of Mr. Weoden’s father-in-law.
sistcr-in-law and his two ohihlren. At
the commencement of the season he
found in his lots which he intended to
mow first, that in several places were
large pieces of iron, umbrella wire*,
large stones and other missile* stuck
into the ground, so that the knife of the
mowing machine would edmo in contact
with them. He discovered this by one
of his hired men going through the field.
Not long ago he was plowing, and at
night left his plow in,the field. Upon
returning the next morning the plow
was nowhere to be found. Finally it
was discovered in a swamp near the field,
with both handles and the shore broken, -
which made it unfit for use. About the
first of last month Mr. Weeden went to
his well on the night before which the
deed was done, and found the bucket as
usual, all right. The next mining the
work girl went to the well, which hoe
two buckets; and on letting one down
for the other to come up noticed a change
in the color of the water. She brought
it up, and upon making an examination
found the bucket to be filled with fresh
cow manure. The water has been unfit
to drink or to use since this was dime,
although it has been cleaned out. Fre
quently in the morning he has found the
front of his house Wlaulied with filth
and the fences around the house torn
down and mutilated. Only last Sunday
evening the bars at one place on his
farm were taken out and thrown Into
the road. Mr. Weeden says he knows
of no reason for thus ill-treating him,
racpptrrerlwpfi, political animosity or
personal grievance, of which he is nna-
aware. It would seem that the State
ought to take some means to protect a
citizen in his rights, if the town is on*" *
ble to do so.
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A Roman Pageant.
The Washington Jtepublican says:—
Said an old army correspondent re
garding the revelations of gambling
among army officers at Washington: “ It
is not to be wondered at that idle army
officers should gamble when it is a fact
that the vice was a common one during
the most active campaigns of the late
war. I have seen men spend the even
ing between two days of a battle in
playing cards for stakes. It wasn’t ex
actly gambling under fire, but it was the
next thing to it There was hardly an
officer’s mess, regimental or staff, «hat
do, a* I know on. You see, my little pany, each man carrying a lighted candle it He olang to its
brother Len has been sick a long time
md gettin’ thinner and thinner, till he’s
iest as poor and pale as a ghost. It’s
mostly the poor food he ha* and the hard
times, the Doctor said, and he finally
told mother there wasn’t no use of his
cornin’ any longer; so he don’t, and poor
little Le& fcift got so weak he can’t ait
started in procession through the comp.
Regiments, battalions, and . brigades
caught the infection, and 50,000 candles
glimmered and danced in every direc
tion, winding like a fiery serpent over
the hillocks, and stretching out in a sea
of flaming dots as far as the eye could
reach. The bridge illumination was
up any more, but just has to lie still all I very fine for its kind, but for beauty and
day long, with nothin’ to pass the time novel effect I think the candle procession
or make the time any qaaier* haiutteAhUsmifftif
home ofus hdlooim up to the | ana of the Army of the Potomac will re-
| when i
window a few minutes at a time. He
can’t bear it long, but it seems to please
him. Well, the other day, as I was
loin’ so, a boy came along with one of
ihem things, an’ it took the poor k little
fellow’s eye, so it seemed he must have
one. But mother told him she couldn’t
member the candle parade.’
Ah old lady in Kalamazoo, Mich., ob
jected to the setting of a telegraph pole
si her premises, saying she wasn’t going
to have that thing there to telegraph
she said all over town.
Lead ami was dragged a block, when the
beast got away and the wheel of the
buggy went over his leg. The quiet
man drove them both home, but declined
absolutely to say who he woo.
Th* dirtiest man that yon will en
counter is the one that leave* a box of
soap at your House for a few days. “Is
it real good?" naked a lady of oneo
venders; and then, looking at
him, she added, reflectively, "Bnt, ol
oou-so, yon wouldn’t know anything
about it. ’’
Is thxm in this country any law
against marrying a deceased wife’s sis-
Stranger.
The tournament in the Villa Borghese
at Rome in honor of the marriage of the
Duke of Genoa was an interesting spec
tacle. It will be remembered that the
Piazza di Soena, which was planned far
pngrants of this kind, and where many
have been given since the days of Pope
Paul V., has exactly the outline of an
aucieut Roman circus. The seats which
had been erected along the side* and
semi-circular ends were filled with about
thirteen thousand spectators. In the
royal pavilion, on the middle of one side,
hung with crimson velvet and decorated
with flowers, were the King and Queen,
the bride and bridegroom, the Duke of
Aosta and Prince Arnulph of Bavaria,
with their respective suites. On their
right was a pavilion for the foreign am
bassadors and envoys, and on their left
others for their families and far the
Cabinet Ministera. The mnphere, all
young Italian nobles and cavalry officers,
divided into four squadrons of thirty-
four riders each, two representing Bava
rians and two Italians, woe mounted on
richly caparisoned thoroughbred horse*
and wore handsome sixteenth century
costumes of gay colors, with plumed hats.
They rode into the lists preceded bjwthe
woe not a poker club, and thousands of I herald, Prince Odesoalchi, trumpeters
lollars changed hands after each visit of | and standard bearers, and were led by
the paymaster. Freeze-out poker, the
winner to maintain the mesa until the
next pay-day, wia a common form of
gambling among the officers. Many of
the private soldiers were lively gamblers,
and hardly a company was without its
‘poker sharp’—usually a cool, quiet,
goody-goody’ sort of chap from some
country district Early in the war pro
fessional gamblers haunted every depot
of supplies and pressed upon commis
sioners, quartermasters, and paymasters.
One or two paymasters lost fabulous
nuns to these sharks; then defaulted,
were sent to prison, and the gamblers
tied to Canada until the storm was over.
The vioe is as common and as fashionable
io the army among officers and privates
as it ever was—the only difference is that
Ihe army is not qaite as large as it
the young Prince of Naples, who ac
quitted himself gallantly. The sports
were of the various kinds practiced at
such pageants—since tilting went out
with the use of armor—theTurk’s head
the hunt of the rose, and the like. TU.
men rode well, and the evolutions, es
pecially those at a hand gallop and over
hurdles, were admirably executed, and
elicited loud bursts of applause. So pq
a spectacle has not been witnessed b
Rome for many years.
Denounces Liquor-Sellers.
This if m tun • of year at which the
luxurious young man takes his girl out
in a village cart in the country, and as
he points with the whip at an orchard
full of blossoming trees, and they are
both looking at it with their hearts full
of poetry, th* hone flies screes abridge,
and the cart suddenly jumps
ter ?—Stranger. No; none is needed.
When the average m«n marries a second fnll of water, bounces about t^fggW j
time he usually prefers to change his | the air, and fills their eye* aaM^|Pth
juotber-in-law.—J’hUadclpkia N*ws. mqd.—Fuek.
The Milwaukee
The Rev. Father
John’s Cathedral,
once sermon to a
-people, in which
the action of
against the si
the men who
themselves s
could not
■aeramente
refused to
church or the
ing the good
city. The
and was much
well MiehgkNB
Wisconsin says:—
Mahoney, of 8t
a temper-
concourse of
he 'hesrtily indorsed
Btowell)
opposed htesj Ring
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