Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-\ Hu l>^oril>e To Thk Li: i for I Silo. It will bo miulo llri^litcr and Hotter tlmn .,i If it is cncouraged. J I ri a 7 ‘TB r j\ <1 'voT’t I se In Thk Lkdokk. It in naturally the best medium for the business men of this section. A Newspaper in ali that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People it Subserves. . —. ... .... .... VOL. I, NO. 50. GAFFNEY CITY. S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 2.',, 18!)5. £1.00 A YE Alt. FROM WASHINGTON. A Newsy Letter From the Nation's Headquarters. [Correspondence of Tin: Lkhokk. j Wasuixoton. .Jan. 21.—Once more little Hawaii is almost monopolizin'' the attention of Congress. It was fortunate both for Congress and for the administration that Saturday, the day upon which the news of the Ha waiian revolt was lirst published, had been previously set apart for both House and Senate t o hear eulogies on deceased numbers—in the former on the late Kepresi-iilative Lisle, of Ky.. and in the latter on the late Senator Vance. That shortened the time wh'eii could he given to a discussion of the Hawaiian resolutions offered In both House and Senate,and doubt less prevented things being said tor; which hoth Cosgivss and the admin istration woi.lt have been sorry. Saturday afternoon the administra tion ordered the cruiser 1‘hiludclphiu, which was at San Francisco, to pro- i cced to Honolulu, with the greatest speed, ami the intervening Sunday lias given Senators and Representa tives ti chance to calmly think over the situation and to give their over- | heated blood a chance to cool down. I It is the opinion of shrewd observ- j ers that this revolt in Hawaii, to-j get her with certain whispers concern ing the aspirations of Japan, fanned by victories in China, to acquire po- scs.-ion of Hawaii, will result in a speedy and radical change in the policy of the mlministration towards Hawaii, if Congress, by some hasty ! and injudicious action, does not make it impossible lor the adminis- j tration to make that change without having to sacrifice that dignity to which President Cleveland has upon fnore than one occasion shown him- ; {ipjf to lie so strongly devoted. Rut, ; jf the spirit whjeh .:h;;rae|erizci} the Matters From Maud. [Correspondence of Tin: Li.ooku.] M wi>. S. C. Jan. 22.—Mini. Mud, the teams pulling away through the mud. The wood husii.c.- had r- vived a little but hauling is on a standstill again. Monazite has revived again in our community. The work of washing has commenced with a number of our citizens, and prospec tors and leases an plentiful in this A HAIRY GHOST. YARNS BY PILOTS. I Had section ami m; around. die '<is *va! sing f v 1J« light ful is our '.mi • • •’ low sand, A fortune for each r an that will come with pan in hand With a will to work and not to play Can save his penny day by day. We hope the sand trade max and prove a source new corn are now to ae- discusaion* hi tjie Umiae and .Senate Saturday is maintained in the discus sion of the matter this week, there is little probability of a change, unless it he directly ordered In Congress. There isn't the slightc.-t doubt that a majority of Congn ss favors the Cni- ted States eontrolling Hawaii, either by annexation or by a protectorate. Relegate Fiynn. of Oklahoma, thinks the half-breeds are at the hot- ! lojii m> om< h Pf C'oijbb- <.f the Indians and he at lemppul J*»‘M l iUe I Vtitfian Apprb|’>nation hill amended so as tt* provide that every person in the Indian and Oklahoma territories, in whom the white blood predomi nates. shall he considered to lie a Y iite oerson become a citizen of the died Siglt s. and m |',r< t| fr ui Jipjding oilh c i: any Imiiaii govern ment ; hilt the amendment was ruled out on a point of order. Although some of lho members of the House 1'acilic Railroads Commit tee say that committee will report favorably a hill for the settlement of fhcdebtsduc from those companies, and that it will he alike satisfactory lo the government and the railroad few believe that this Congress on the question, al- i though the town is full of people di- : rectly iptprcsled in it. The decision of the House judicl-t r< ' a, ‘ ary committee to reopen the disc of Jud-'e Kicks, of Ohio, after having once nrdew d ipi jiiijJt>to>hi«jC«d fo«ojU: (mu to he reported to the House, is regarded by nearly everybody as indi cating that t lie eoiniiiltlee \tiji not report tiie impeachment resolution at ad. An enormous amount of pres sure lias been and is being brought to hear oil (iieiiilfeiw of t he committee in behalf of Judge Kieks, and it is said that Representative Hailey, of Texas, who lias been pushing tlu* impeach ment and who is now very much dls- iser use hem lit to our people ami we hope ii may he the means of iliscovering other vaiu- able minerals in this ir n rd r. Miss Black, of Coo! C iias u nourishing school at the Yi’iiiiams Academy. The scholarsaiedtdighted with their teacher Miss Ban'ham, of Spartanburg. Jus, V. L. Met raw, Teacher at Fairview, has on roll 77 scholars. The 1’rofessor hasmany little fiiends. Our place w ill soon have a mill. The Uodfrey brothers busy and will •o .u be icady comodate their customers. Jus. V. L. MeCraw nnuie aland deal last week from Chi sti r Bright. W. Y. Elliott says it pays to im prove hogs. He reports pigs two months old that weigh HI lbs. There seems to be a fine crop of mules from the way our place is visited with droves. We ought to have plenty of good :;iui. s and horses hut we ought to raise the m ist of them on our ianns. i here must he somethin!'wrong. The earth has not lost its power. .Slop and think and iiow many furmern unn you name and gone one place * hey say rented n farm that have left their farms to the c<>iton mills and l . and another into bimiiios. farming don’t pay. i havi out. Now if a man on his o people {< w by! Will legislate < cannot make a I ving .u 1 make it pay how can a renter pay rent and live or make it pay? We do not set large fields of wheat, oats and rye. The ellort that makes cotton would make small grain, sjotia; sa, v;hy rat^t* it? Hour is tlteup. Now draw you a line oil an farms in Spartanburg county, to mar Set “••t from market, exports and imports, atm .* the end make u calculation. What iso»7'he farms? where «iid it come from? and 1 what is in our county markets*' gud v.lin -tipplied tie-mz and then you can seethe irntiide. I doubt wiclhcr tin re i- any im.-iin s.- that sutler irotn the I'iss itl time as utueli a« that of the fanner. As soon as tno Wiathi r will permit sow oats; prepare your garden this month and sow s, ed. .Se lect your pasture ianiis and get them reaily for .'spring use: prepare a grass lot; manure wt'il. Tiere are several varieties of o.'V;. inat grow well here that will make early hay. It seems that system is needed. With all the agricultural papers that we have access t<> looks tike, if we that is ah that is neces- I sary. Wo do not profit, j along in our old way if : v.jjhpqj (mpujbvnpiiiin. Yesterday was a lovely day with R. K. Under. [q a Up\* o. l.iaxii.u and returned home in time We drift indolence lie treated jiimseif ‘d.v. suosenbed to ’i'llK to give a druminer a order for I dry goods. It is strange how far apart p; feel; | i big sume pur-ent amt c’ltildren live, ! and how unyieliling they are one to another, and such » hn'k of social union and parentlul fomlncss. Human gusted, may make s'»ine sensational 1 nature Is like a tungled iiireail, with disclosures on the Hoor of the House | many knots, and how painful) concerning the matter. ; when we are made to see our nature Many have been the attempts to i ‘ n its tangled shape, l or all this formulate a com promise financial i ^^re is tt time when wo think it hill that can command a majority of 1 l )ro i >er become our own guardian, both House and Senate, hut up to a,,, l ! ‘ u, 'b v * :iS 'he - |aci rumlay 1 {ids lime tlie would h«-tomprounsers j tituttHiig with Air., tinbro-e B. Rhil- or the pretended compromisers, as 1 bps and Miss Etta Humphries. 1 he pome think them to he. have not sue- people began to gather about 10 ceeded In prodimlni'u bill that uotild b'ciook rtunday morning at W. T. Crrtraomo Tale of » Traveler Wbo Keen Strangled In Bed. A gentleman of the old school, who In his youth traveled widely in the south and west, tells of the following remarkable experience. There were neither steamboats, railways, nor tele graph nor express corapHnies in those days, so the traveler \Vho had business carried money and pistols belted about his waist. This particular traveler, with a companion, was journeying to a land sale, and the pair had between them some i mi sand dollars. Set tlers were few and far between; it was dillicult often t<> find a house of call for themselves and their horses. One night they were forced to stop at u roadside tavern whose keeper was not thought to be above suspicion. .So the two friends insisted upon sleeping in the same room and after they were in it took precautions against being robbed and murdered. It was an upper room, with log walls, no fireplaces, a single door and two tiny windows nailed tight in their frames. Investigation satisfied them that there was no trap door in the bare Door, nor any concealed way of Ingress, so, after barring the door se curely, they v. ent to sleep, each with his money under his pillow and a cocked pistol handy. Along toward two o’clock the relator awoke to find big, sinewy hands with a strangling grip on his throat, and what seemed like a heavy figure kneeling upon his chest. He could not cry out, but, being an exceptionally strong man, rose upright in l>cd, struggled fiercely with bis as sailant, who felt as though he wire naked and covered with long h ir. After a minute he managed to cast .he thing violently from him. It fell upon the floor with a bard, dull, jar ing sound. His companion, who han by this time awakened, called; “\Yhat‘s that? - ’ "Thieve!'. Stranglers!” pant of the otlu r. ".‘'trike a light—or wc fah 11 be murdered.” But when the light was struck it showed nothing whatever. There was no one in the room he-ides their two selves. The door was fust, the window had not been t ouched,t here was no crack or cre\ ice in the 1 >g wall through which anything lugger than a mouse could have come and gone. The two men sat up the rest of the night, cadi with a fin: er on the hamm -r of his pistol, but they saw nor heard anything more j until they left at daylight. But some ! weeks after they heard a growsomc tale of another traveh r who had beciu, found dead in the room they had pied, with cruel black throat, though the broken in and the youd peradwat cent of any con, taking oft.—Ch How Tl^ At the lieglm) the only churcl] Germany, was s' were not sulfloicnl end - of the village! badly wanted, bu$ and where was 4 from? i'ue Sm ma-ter, Gott fric4 church, he noth* churchyard wall tm-ou corn, the have been drtu The idea su«l perhaps thi.sj made the und liell waited unj l) i pi itcl sowed tlij year he gj produced; last lie Ir den for tli among who wci the < i -dj they fl enough' per's YoT^j a* A l ^ At V v where*' Was dele tb« Chatk Arcnml the Radiator When Mrn Wcra Off Duty. "Brought in the Spreo.didyou?”asked the Long Jacket of the Slouch Hat, one rainy afternoon as we all sat around the steam pipes. "No, she brought me in. Bo you think I am Hercules? That’s his spe cialty,’’ answered the Slouch Hat. "Tell the young man the Hercules’ story.” "Get out; do you take me for a news paper syndicate? Tell it yourself,” rejoined the Long Jacket. "Well,” began the Slouch Hat, "irer- cules is very fond of a joke, and he tells ’em a good deal better than any body around here, for he’s been at it, man and boy, ever since I remember. Several years ago there was a bit of scare about sickness on foreign ships. Hercules got the Spree. Well call him Hercules because that isn't his name. It’s something very like it, though. Well, as 1 was saying, Mr. Hercules boarded the Dutchman nl>out two hun dred miles out. There was sickness in the steerage and the health oliicer didn’t do a thipg but hold that same steamer for three days when she reached quarantine. Hercules was standing on the bridge that evening when the Spree got abeam the yellow house over on Staten Island, and whom does he sec balancing and juggling around in a canoe below but his young neighbor, Johnson. ‘“Hi, there, young man,’ sings out Hercules, ‘will you tell ray wife that I’m detained at quarantine and won’t be home to-night?’ "And Johnson, being an obliging young fellow, and thinking a good deal of Hercules, as everybody does, said ‘yep’ und pretty soon went in. And when he got home that night what dot*s he do but forget nil about that message until next day and then ho goes over to our friend’s house. “ ‘Mrs. Hercules,’ ho said, ‘1 saw your husband on the Spree and he does not know when he’ll get back.’ "Well, as you may imagine, young man, Mrs. Hercules took on dreadfully, and when, uftir that steamer got out of quarantine, her husband came homo she looked him over mighty careful. “ ‘Have a nice time?’ she asked. ‘“Never had a better iu iny life,’says he. ‘Who were with you?’ " ‘ Oh, a great many ladies and gen tlemen,’ he answered. "Then she told him what young Johnson had said. ‘Well, my dear,’ said deliberate like, 01 be passed by either House or .Senate. There is a ninqiicioti, as yet not very clearly defined, that some people are not near so anxious for linaneial leg islation as they appear to he, unless they can get it just exactly as they want it. In other words, they are perfectly willing to adopt a compro mise measure if the other fellows w ill give up all their demands and not jtsk tlii’in to give up anythin-.' Ev erybody knows that sort of a com promiser. Senator Sherman calls ids bill for the issue of J per cent began to gat tier about Sunday morning at W . Thompson's, some of whom were from near Rrovideneo, until quite a crowd of young and middle aged had galliered. All were in merry glee and they informed the ’Squire lo he in readiness to perform a marriage ceremony for the parties above named, that (hey were coming ac cording to their own style. So about about 12 o’clock wc saw a mun eqm- ing on h muh; like a war scout. He halted tn front of the house, dis mounted, ami called for Thompson. He said: J forhid you marrying 7* gold hoods, upon w hich national them. Have they heeii here?’’ "No,” banks may Issue circulation up to HU 'd Thompson. "Arc you her the par value, a compromise measure brother?” ‘ Yes.” he said, with hand but it is not so regarded even by ' n his hip pocket us if he meant members of his own party. Repre* business. W e looked for the’Squire penial ive Walker, of Mass., who also *'* run. but be stood bis ground and Jias a compromise |ii||, says the took tle yuung uuiu 10 the house, Sherman hill cun never pass, and and, considering the ohjc'diniis as culls attention to the fuel that for expected to wait for the twenty years periodical attempts to bin, but the young man seemed to -ass a bill in the House, allowing na- dislike the crown am) (oft. i(o was ray o' at the fort cam/!.' is u set naval regulation that nothing can bo so on board ship until the com manding officer orders it. While the army party were looking over the ship, twelve o’clock arrived. A junior oliicer approached the captain and said, with u salute: "It is twelve o’clock, bir." "Make it so,” responded the captain, and eight bells w-re struck. The army officers suspected Uf ‘* v that the navy men wanted them to "° U fl * ask some quebtium. and get bold, or that this was a bit of foolery got up to joko the land warriors. Some time after, a party of the army officers in vited the officers of the warship to dine with them. 'ihcdiimcr was pro gressing when a lieutenant entered and, saluting the senior officer pres ent, .-aid. gravely: ‘‘Colonel, the major’s blind horse is dead.” "Make it so, responded the colonel, with the greatest gravity, and the dinner pro- peed 1 •<I. Nothing was said at the time, .. but the navy officers tell the story.— .J! er sa . y /„ , , Kan Francisco Argonaut. * sh,! sa,< V replied the boy, very in nocently, "that I might go if you s quite right. I j - that young person -Yl eras till: «nd that I was in quar- ask any more que.v |us,” remarked the 11 tell you, man, anr lives. They with questions, that fellow is a foard the steamer iy light on you 1 tlm rail. They I [/it receptions, and ‘Yipliro teas, and theaters, just as Hot put in his I I to 1 swell society out, you’ve got to ■ing r/as uncivil to 1 uthwoi one who id o to the eai>- o'juld be a row.” about women,” let. "The men ions. If they iboard a steam- £ow this and that ^and If it is likely itch with so-und- ices arc. Just us RTrc a walking com- jft. And then as likely Iroomed old chapwiil pu about the price of |itc of the market, aid to one of those lb a pilot. That’s the ring 1 know ulxmt.’ J blame people for 1 icing Jvhen they’ve been at sea nothing to do but sleep on deck. And, young h, you ought to see them grab the newspapers. Wc always carry a file of papers, of course, and when the passen gers get hold of them it’s fun to sec them diving into them. A AVIhc I’rccautloA. A Detroit man who goes hunting oc casionally, without any great detriment to the live stock of the forests though perhaps some to the live stock of tin* fields, concluded not long ago that he organize an expedition of two and make a foray. Ko he consulted his office boy. % ‘T -.ay, Tommie,” he said, "how would you like to go out on u little bunt with me?” "I don’t know, sir,” responded the boy, in some doubt. "I’d have to see mother first.” •‘All right. Ask your mother ami let me know in the morning.” The next morning the boy saw the gentleman. Well,” he inquired, “what did J’our SAVED BY CHURCH BELLS. How the City of Atlanta Escaped a Shell- ln(t by Sherman’s Army. "I remember,” said an old soldier one Sunday morning lately, “when church-going bells much more distant than those saved the city of Atlanta. It is a story 1 never saw in print. "in early August, 1604, Gen. Sher man had closed in on Atlanta. The Eleventh Indiana battery had placed in position, with our assistance, four sixty-four pound rillc guns to shell the city, under command of Gen. John M. Brannan. Our regiment, the Second Massachusetts, had Sunday morning inspection and parade, after which the men of the regiment went to the hill back of the camp to see the effect of the fire on the city lying below us and two and a half miles away. Wc could bee the churches of Atlanta, from tin-, spires of several of which were float ing confederate flags. “The batteries were in position, the guns were shotted, the fuses were in and an officer stepped up to pull the lanyard to fire the shot. As he lifted his hand the sound of a church bell ringing the people to worship fell or his car. ‘Tor a moment there was silenc<- Tho otlicers looked from one to tie other, and the shot was not fired th/U day. The Sunday church-going b*li was too much for the Twentieth corps of Sherman's array. But on Monday tlie city got it.”—San Francisco Bul letin. HLTER WAS JEALOUS. He Objected to the Soldierly Attentions raid Ills Mistress. A lady who performed much service as a nurse in confederate hospitals hud a faithful helper in the person of an Alabama Irishman who had been disabled by a wound and therefore de tailed for hospital service. One even ing, accompanied by her trusty aid, bhe rode out to a camp hospital to see some patients. She dismounted near a tent in front of which stood a group of officers talking with Dr. . a Ken tucky surgeon, and after pleasant greetings passed off about her busi ness. On coming out again she no ticed that Peter, the Irishman before mentioned, pushed rudely in front of a lieutenant, who was offering to assist her in mounting. She had not ridden far before Peter, whose face was like a thunder cloud, broke out: “Dade, ma'am, yeT! go there no more, if yc plaze.” ’ “What do you mean, Peter?” the lady asked in astonishment. “Sere," said Peter, "thim fellers 'V‘iR.*nakin! 'r-ime «v ve. an’ callin! ye out av yer name.” “Toby Peter, you are crazy. What did they call me?” "Sure, ma’am, and I couldn’t jist make out their furriu wurds, but 1 be- lave tis a sinner they called ye. Faith, an’ if ye’re a sinner where wad the saints be?” W omanlike, to use her own word, the nurse became furious, and on ar riving at headquarters reported the afiair to the surgeon in charge, who promised to investigate it It turned out that Peter had overheard a con versation in which one of the officers had made some appreciative remark IN DEADLY SUSPENSE. .fast Before the Battle Many luces Are Bale. Thousands of soldiers of the late war, union and confederate, were ac tive participants in five, six or seven great battles and a dozen hot skir mishes. Not one of them could give au honest answer to the questions "\\ hat are a soldier’s sensations as he goes into battle?” He couldn’t simply because no two battles opened or were fought under the same circumstances, and, therefore, his sensations were dif ferent each time. At Chantilly, where Kearney was killed, I saw men in bat tle-line who were actually weeping and as pale-faced as the dead. Next day, on the Bull Run battlefield, 1 saw these same men laughing and frolick ing as they wheeled into line and opened fire. I saw the old First Mich igan cavalry make its historical charge at Gettysburg, rushing across the field to what seemed certain anni hilation, and there was not a pale face among them. On the contrary, many of them were laughing and singing and calling out: "Good-by, old man— see you again in ten minutes!" to ac quaintances outside the regiment. I believe my experience was that of the great majority. If rushed into a fight no one lost his nerve. If lying (Iowa in support of a battery or wait ing behind breastworks there was laughing and joking. The man who happened to be wounded in the hand or foot got no more sympathy than as if lie complained of the toothache. If a shell struck the earth in front of us be halted by the provost guard In thq rear of the lines and be returned to u* with the stigma of “coward” attached to his name. He is not a cowardj ha has simply broken down under tha strain, as hundreds of men before him and hundreds will again. He weop^ and wrings his hands as lie takes hla place in the ranks. You can see othef men grow pale and work their jaws and look furtively from right to left. Suspense is about to start a panics when the shout rolls along the lines: “Attention! They are coming! Dresa back on the left! Steady, now!” It is the panacea. Five minuteq later men are cursing and shouting and fighting as if they loved the scent of blood, but those who live through the fray will be very serious minded and quiet for three or four days. It takes time to get the nerve back after a period of suspense.—(.apt. Dale, in Detroit Free Press. A SPY’S ADVFNTURE. m W/ A M [ • 111; MV “OLD JOI1X,” AS TUK HOVS CALLED HIM. and covered a dozen men with grass and dirt it was a matter for a joke, al though a hundred bullets and a dozen fragments of iron zipped and whizzed overheu I and perlir vs u\ qn away \’im crew of a field piece. It was the stand ing out in battle line in the open, un der fire but waiting to return it or to move on, which drained the courage of even the oldest veteran as blood flows from a wound. Let us take the second day at Gettys burg. So long as we were moving there was something to distract atten tion, but now comes the test of wait ing—of suspense. Away over there we : can see the columns of the enemy wheel ing into position—banners rippling— artillery moving with horses under the lash. There Is going to be a tierce grapple here. These scattered trees will be rent and riven—these acres of green grass torn up —that babbling ! brook change the color of its w aters 1 before the sun passes its zenith. Men draw a long breath to fill their lungs before putting forth nil their He Mas Praised for ills Bravery by Pres ident Lincoln. During the Antietam campaign a cadet engineer, Henry E. Rhoades, was employed in medical service in the field hospitals at Frederick City, Md. One day a surgeon asked him if he would undertake a dangerous work for which he was well qualified. Ho consented readily, being influenced by a love of adventure characteristic of youth in war time. The work was secret service in the confederate lines. Antietam had been fought, but Gen. Lee’s army was still massed along the Potomac, and them was a column of unknown strength between Frederick City und Washing, ton. \\ hat the cadet engineer was asked to do was to ride across coun try and ascertain how large was this force, and, if possible, what it was likely to do. He took the train for Washington by way of Relay Junction, dressed himself like a Maryland planter, and mounted a fine gray' horse at the stables of the National hotel. The horse was so frisky from lack of ex ercise that tlie rider was thrown from the saddle, and drag ,-ed some distance along Pennsylvania avenue. Bruised but undaunted, the young engineer remounted and rode toward George- . town. Following the turnpike,he went on hour after hour until he was with in the confederate lines between Itock- , ville and Clarksburg, lie chatted east- ly with the pickets, passing him sell off as a Maryland sympathizer with the confederate cause, who was on his way home to Cumberland. He did not excite suspicion, was iq no haste to ride on, and did not ask too nnnr, 'qn*.>t:ons. lie learned that the force was small, consiNi Gen. Rally’s brigade, amf forcemeats were not expected, practically the rear guard prepa : to retreat While he was still within the ene my s lines, he halted at a house near Hyuttstown and asked to be enter tained over night He was kindly re ceived by an old planter whose daugh ters smiled upon him at dinner, and talked suspiciously about him when he had retired to his bedroom. 1 heir voices made him uneasy, and looking about his room, he noticed a stovepipe closed with a cap, but com- : municating with the parlor below. Ho removed the cap. and, putting his ear to the hole, heard distinctly the con- vernation in the family room. 1 I he girls were talking very unpleas antly about him. One of them was fi’ r j,] ft v tionuJ hunks to issue durroney up to tlie par value of bonds deposited by them have been made and that they have all failed, Mr, Walker’s bill is Urn shortest yet Jnlrodueod. It sim ply gives the Sc retary •*! 'Jn Treas ury authority to ii- lie J per rent short Him. coiiJ^iJ ivlu V( tin men will not L ol pi : h and without puss. Ison, duuglilir •nson, died at I na 011 the |sih k,\ ■ : 1 • : | K Monday.y I for finding the runaways. But the couple saw that they were cut 4,11 from Thompson and knowing tlmt tiny were being persm-d by the hlnllu i liny lo, ! no tim, - 111 driving to Mr. John Rtipjic',-, when tiny were married and llu i) d •p.,rlt | fi,r M. I I’hiliip- Iml 11|) |]|, \si,y (Iny met the hrother tlm! wen! Jo Thomp son S III. i ii lie W'/libl Lot gj\ ■ (h,. road they drov- rowid to a,’old trouble. When ihe iruti brother T< allzed his defeat belurnclhis mule homeward, but it looked like it was done for When the couple arrived it I iiilbp- they sent a me.-xage of r* gn t to tbe disappointed friend, at rhoiiipson's and we all adjourned. •J’. Give us Some History. Mr. Editor:—One of your readers is glad that ‘‘J. L. H one of your con tributors, is devoting part of his spuee to liislorieal facts of value, and I v.on|,1 be further pleased if he won! I take up hi* own section and write or important events that h ive oecurred there In the past. If he will d » -o hi will find ample material for many intere-dmg articles. .\ni| then The would tbi 1 \ over the maii\ 1 id old women and men who have 'ive.l m his section before ami since In time, he could, in short biograph ical sketches of them, give much val u'd.h, but almost forgot ton interest ing information, “J, | ( . s,” is well qualified for ml work, und I trust h“ will taki it up. AbMJltEK. would take somebody else along with us to do the shootin’.”—Detroit Free Press. • All Wlthla I’rofeHalonul Ethics. Dr. F., n physician of Montpelier, was in the habit of employing a very ingenious artifice. When he came to a town where lie was not known he pre tended to have lost his dog, and or dered the public crier to offer, with beat of drum, a reward of twenty-live louii to whoever should bring It to him. '1 lie crier took cans to meulion all the title , and academic honors of the doc tor, as well us Ida place of residence. He i oon iKieame the talk of the town. “Do you know?’ Rays one, "that a fa mous physician has come here, a very clever fellow? lie must bo very rich, for Ik* offers twenty-live louis for find ing his dog," The dog was not found, I but pulicub* were.—Loluuu TcLgi uph. — u ‘THAT AIN’T NO CROCHET NEEDLE." about the services of the lady, and the doctor had responded: “Yes, she is a sine qua non.” At another time one of the "boys," about leaving the hospital ‘o go back to his regiment, came to offer his kind iiur e a little keepsake. This was, or the lady thought it was, a crochet needle prettily carved, ami with one end fringed out She took it with thanks ami said: "I hope I may use this needle to crochet a pair of mittens for you.” “ 1 hat ain’t a crochet needle,” cried : the donor. "No? Well what is It?” "it s a dipping-stick. Don’tj’ou chaw anulf?" She answered in the negative, with I »ome natural indignation. , "It ell, Lor’, lady," said the crest- j fallen soldici, "I made sure yon did, you're so yaller complected.” '1 he nur.-.c had lately recovered from an attack of jaundice- and accepted the apology in good part. Not so Peter, however, who just then happened in with an unnfui of pine knots. He set upon the man in a fury, and the ,"o4>d woman was obliged to inter fere, a 114] finally to 4irior him out of the r.xnn. — South’s Companion. It is probable the regiments which fought under Gen. Mansfield, who fell in the early bottle 4.f Antietam, ami subsequently became the famous Red and White Star divisioas of Nlo- cuin’s and I looker’s Twelfth and Tv -n- tieth corps, will take steps to n r ■» Philadelphia, so that the pv.,' tin! city woi U arn to know % took ’a battle, and ul ,0 toeninbim-1h 90 a ’ • i it plan , -j- ^ b' V 0 !» dull.. field. strength in one great effort. Armies , ... , , lo the same. Tills Is the long breath I w,; ’ ltlvo Dial he did not live in Cumber- before tin- clash land, and the other intimated that he might be a spy. The father had less to ; say, and the family council finally broke up. The engineer determined to leave the house v. here he was suspected. He waited until everything was4|uict, and then softly raised the window. With a sailor’s deft lingers he tied the blan kets o f tlie bed together, and fastened one end to a chair. With the aid of before the clash comes. Watch the horses ns the field pieces come galloping upl They are looking across the valley at the enemy, their eyes blazing and their ears working. Lveryone is iu a tremble as the teams are unhitched and led away to the shelter of the ravine. They know what is coming and the waiting unnerves them. There is “Old John,’’ as the boys call him. He has been in half a uuzen lights and lie has three or four battle scars, but he is just as nervous au if he had never heard a gun fired. See how his nostrils quiver! Watch the biazo of ins eyes! What a paint ing he would make as he stands there with head and tail up and every uerve a-quiver! The officers’ voices grate harshly as they jerk out their commands of: “Dress more to tlm right:” “Front, there!” “Cease that talking:” They are officers, but they are men. The exploding shells and the zipping bul- Ijts are meant for them as well as for us. an l they are also lighting against the terror of suspense. Our colonel rides along the line in front That is well, but it is a bluff for all that. He’s moving- to keep his nerve under con trol. Watch the men! There are old vet erans here—men who have fought In every great buttle from first Bull Run and there are recruits who reached us only three days ago from the far away farms and villages. You see a difference, but it is affected. The old veteran jokes with the men right and left, sharpi ns Ids jacknife on the rock in front of him, whistles a few bars from a rollicking air to make you be lieve that he never felt more serene in his life. It’s mere sham, but it helps t4> brace up the pale-faced men who are to receive their baptism. "Why don’t we move?” This state of suspense is disorgan izing. Men look wildly to the right and left—to the rear. There are no cowards hm^ ^Rut it would take very little tqji^H'/ .qjc und a rush. Men £ i? > ^uoekery. They v; $ 1 -W \ -1' UndH I'> I ,n\ HE REMOVED THE CAP. CitAUl.l • 'I of f* 1441* r. V f il.on D : v May 10, 1 cscap! , 4lii:i 1 •’UP !, lie:.;- ago. this blanket-rope he lowered himfeelf from the window and reached the ground. Then stealing' into the barn he sad dled his horso and cautiously led the animal to the road, expecting mo mentarily an outcry from the win dows. Happily the inmates were not aroused. The spy mounted his horse and rode steadily until daybreak. Hu passed through L’rbanaand crossed the Mon- ocaey, and was safe within the union lines. Reaching Frederick City, ho reported at headquarters, giving tho secret information which was urgently needed. A few days afterward he was at Gen. Hartrauft’s headquarters, when an important visitor wts announced. It was President Line .In, whohadcomo by train from Washington. Tlie gcu- ffai introduce l the cadet ; inecr , a» l related hi:> dangerous exploit. iV d U | U I* ryh * , ^ ent hud already heard of cfl jVmt hi* Mbm insisted upon having detail from tlie va hint! tar their own * - fj r V arii , hajfiords tiirei ;. /*of the 'a tndured Jef- - Ga., on