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VOLUME XXVIII. CAPE MAY CITY. NEW JERSEY. SATURDAY.- FEBRUARY 24. 1883. WHOI.E NUMBER. 1493.

OAPE JffAY U1TY, ST. J. S 1 .50 a yaar in Advance. _ Trofrwlonal Cards. J R HUFFMAN, ATTORNEY AND OOlINSKLUlR AT LAV ROUC1TOR, M ASTEH AND EXAMINER -crwa.'^^fM^iRA.oNER. Pf F. DOUGLASS, ATTORN EY-AT-L AW No. MrmT°anuT nA!'CIU'T tt^ALTXB A .BARROWS, " A T T O R N E Y-A T-L A W WfUCITOK IN CHANCERY, F. LBAMDtO A 8QN, DENTT6TS, Rom ass-nun— FrMava. J"AlCE8 M. E. HILDRBTH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW •UUCTTOR. ■ AFTER AND EXAMINER IN CHANCERY. ■C"7.N.y. ° " W*"""fUM "WW*. •ppSBBERT W. EDMUNDS, ATTORNEY -AT-LA W, ROUCTTOR AND MARTER IS CBANCEET. t!B|» Mtv CUj. X. J. ■ Instefss Cards. JflNOS R. WIT.T.t AMR - ARCHITECT AND BUILDER. *ni "AEE DRAWINGS, AND 8TPKKIN ■END <IB CONTRACT, •mca " waaiDEioo at.. op. M»J, SJ. A B. UTILE, ^ B. :

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Br Jr RRR VAN RUBEN'S ' LADIES' TONIC^ A Poll live Cars for AH Fsatlo Coaplsinti. : BSilliS ' IPS® *sS 0, n>.||lvo PrW.fl. 00. Hop Bluer, ore the Pureol and no oiiiik toot ona ».ei roroiitr prapcnmol PonSfT. Urn llreuiii'ir, owl L lit owl llcoJUi h™no ron pamll. j loo* ciut « aorr iwm Hiitm or. iwe.oinM net pvleel on to or i T0<7 (ire onr III. owl TtEOT lotOoofodowt ianj""*>^'T°'"*°" "rvo- , * watriii Ml ■Heel wo* wd Jtra on oick,Mt tt"%o oolj I bwl or ntonotil., w Hop nuen o> ooot It moj oort jour III. Uowtwlo horr , ooiedbj 10 doing, m «01 H soft lor o coo. tOcj wIH om con or help. IV. per iota el let poor Irwna »oS«. h.l 1 owl argc ilicm to aoe Qop Bntrro. I j iqwmL t^t.). " , SiUvilEABACto ' POSmiELI CORED II ^ 1 CARTEffS! ;

] HIS PAS NARROW ESCAPE. "Got ooy voodint?- ooid the bod boy to tbe grocery men, no be vent in the otorr ooe cold morning. Icoring tbe door open, picked up o rigor Bab tbst bod been thrown down by tbe Moor, end begin to anoke iL "Shut tbe door, darn you. Woo ynu brought up in o oow mill? You'll freetc eery potato in tlw li.vioe. No. I boven't got rooellnc?" void die grocery man. « bo j act tbe oyrup kre ' ... o choir by the store ; when it would thaw out "Wont it to rub on po'o lego." card tbe j Ixiy ao he tried to draw smoke through the rigor «..b. "Why. whot it tbe matter with your po'o legv? lilinunotlr?" "W«M nor ■heumatiz.' laid tbe boy, ao ; be threw owoy tbe elgor Bub and drew I oome cider in a broken ten rojt "Pa hot got the worst looking hind lcgl you crcr oow. You oee. oince there ha« been »o j many fires pa bat got oOul tcared. end lie ' hot bought three fire neoprt mode oat of robe -with knou in I hero; and he" been telling ut crcry day bow be could retcne tbe whole family in cote of fire. Ho tnhl | ut to he enol, whmlcvcr happened, and to i i rely on him. If the bouse got on fire Ore ( were all to rueh to pa, and he would aorc ; 1 Well, loot night ma had to go to ooe of ' the neighbors, where they wai going to 1 bore twini. we didn't aleep much, cautr in» had to come botue twice in tbe night I get toff ron and an old flannel petticoat that I broke in when I wai akid, caute ' tbe people where ma went did not know as 1 twint were on tbe bill of fare, and they ' only bad flannel petticoat* for one. 1'a . ' Wat croaa for being kept awake, and told ' mo he boped when -all tbe children In ' ' Milwaukee were born, and got grown op, she would take in her sign and not go j 1 around nights acting as usher to baby matlcrea Pa says there ought In- be a ' law that babies should arrive on Hie regu- 8 day trains, and not wail for tbe mulnight express. Well, yu fie got to sleep, and be slept till about eight o'clock in the 5 mm ning, and the girl told me to wake pa ' Up. ao I went up atalra, and I don't know j j' what made me tbiok of it, but 1 bad some ■ of Ihio- powder they make red fire with in j * tin tlualre. that ine and my chum had tbe ! 4'J| of July, and I put it in a wash dish ! * In ibe bath room, and I touched it off and ' hollowed fire. I was going to wake pa up j ' 1 tell bim It was all rigbt, and laugb a'. nn- 1 sen mm u was an rigm. ana lsugu at

him. 1 guess there was too much fire, or I yelled too loud, caused pa jumped out f led and grabbed a robe and rushed i through tbe ball towards the back window, I Itiat goes out on a abed. I tried to say -mielhlng, but pa run over me and told me to save myself, and I got. to the backwindow to tell bim there was no fire just as be let himself out the window. He had ooe end of tbe robe tied to tie leg of the wasli-atand and be wee climbing dua n the lack aide of tbe shed by the kitchen with nothing nu bat hii night sblriand he , was tbe most lierri blest looking object ever was. with Ma legs flying and trying to stick bis toe tails Into the rope and the side of tbe house. I don't think a man lookt well in society with nothing bnt but nigbt thirl on. I didn't blame the hired girls for being scared when they taw pa • and bis leg* come down outside tbi^ uciivdow, and when tbey yelled I went down to tbe kitdicn, and tbey said" a crazy man with no clothes on bat a pillow case around the neck wit trying to kick tbe window in. and tbey run into tbe parlor, and I iipeocd the door and let pa in tbe kitchen. Hi- asked me if anybody else was tared, tlien 1 told him there was no fire, and he ■ui it bare dreamed be was In bell, or Somewhere. Well, pa wai astonished, and aid be muat be wrong in tbe bead, and 1 left bim thawing binueir by the store while I went after bis pants, and his legs were badly chilled, but I guess nothing was froze. He lays it all to ma. and says if she would stay at home and I let people ran their own baby shows, there would be more comfort in tbe bouse. • Sla came with a shawl over her bead, an.! a bowl full of something, and after she r bad told us what the result oUier visit I was she sent me after vaseline to rub ps's | legs Pa Mya be has demonstrated that if a man U cool and collected, la one of fire. • and goes deliberately at work to rare hlmaelf, be will came out all right." | "Well, you Are tbe meanest boy I ever 1 | hard of," mid tbe grocery man. "But w hat about your pa's danc ing s clog dance ' In church last Sunday? Tbe minister's ■ hired girt was in here after acme codfish yesterday morning, and said tbe minister 1 - mid your pa had scandalized tbe church ; tbe worst way." "O, be didn't dance in church. He a littie excited that's all. You fee, pa chews tobacco, and it's pieUy bard on ' him tn all all IhroofL IDs, mraasw Without taking a chew, and be gets nervous, lie ■ always reaches around In bis pistol pock- I er, when tbey aland up to sing tbe l»>i ' i time, and feels in bis tobacco box and > ' gets out a cbcw, and puts it in bis mouth 1 • when the minister pronounces the bene- < dicticai, and then when they get out doe rs ' be is all ready to spit. He always docs 1 that- Well, my chum bad a present on I big as pa's tobacco bos, and nil you have ' to do is to tooch a spring ami it plays. " "SbeV a Daisy; She's a Dumpling." I ' borrowed it and put it in pa's pistol pock • ' «. where be keeps bis lobeer-.i box. and ' SS&SiSWsaja ; g.n to fumble around far a .chew. He . toothed Uw spang, and just as crcry body turn, and it was ao still yon could bear a I c gum drop, tbe music box begxn to pixy, . , ! and in tbe MUlnem ii manned * lood as a church organ. Well. I thought ma wravld sink. The minister bard It and be I looked towards pa, and everybody kokrd | ; at pa. too, and pa turned red. ami the , ' music box hrpi np, •«*', , Daify." and 5 tbe mioister looked mad and mid "amen. " 1 and tbe people began tn pot no their oimtv, > and the minister uud she deacon to Lunt , up tbe source of that worldly music, and ' .y*j« T ft: >"» * »■ , sSstrYeri^'ir^.1'

() It Was given out in chcrcb Sunday that c school would open on Mobihy morning. ! After tbe erening scrrice y>e boys got to. n getberaod talked it over, and decided lo n give Use teacher just a week. It "had Seen " thawing for a day or two, and I lie boys' j were tired of skating, so they thought ^ tbey could spend a week educating them- - aelvea in bow to break upascfaiwd. In ! tbe evening we were duly elected a num. f j her of tbe class of hard citizens, and we ■j were to open tbe ball and do something , bad. and get the teacher to lick us, and u i then tbe hoys were lo jump in ami help, j Monday morning tbe school commenced, and the teacher seemed to be a sickly - j looking, slim sort of a fellow, a timid, : ; nerroo" man. with a band and face like a r ' girl Every time be looked at ooe of the t boys there seemed to be an expression on r | bis face as though he would say. "I hope ; , i J»u *1» be good." , i When be bad anything to say to lie , [ - scholar* he (aid "pHjpsc." and gave other , t I evidence* t)f bring pretty soft, we all I , ! thought. That morning the weather ; , | changed and it froze liard. and at recess , ) | the hoys got together and said that tbey j , would wind up school before noon and go j | I out on the ioc. It was our turn lo be bed, I ; [ and it commenced right off. The big boys j , j to carry in the wood and lay it ' i ! down quietly by tbe alovc. We took in 1 1 an armful and dropped it on the floor to ' ■ j that it shook the building and loosened ; , the stove-pipe. The pipe came out of the chimney and filled tire place with smoke, , I but it was put back, and the sliui teacher , ' only reprimanded ur,aml mid that it must I not occur again. We just gcbed to go , after some more wood, but there wasn't in j opportunity, l'rctty soon the teacher said J | wc might go and gel a pail of water1, and , | while at the well we derided to stumble , i on entering the acbool room and spill the . water all over the floor, and thus give the sickly-locking teacher a chance to show : what be was made of. Tbe teacher was near the stove, and we j stumbled and the .water wgnt all over i every thing, wetting his boot#, ami making ] • bim pretty mad. In sizing bim up wc , ! had not Doticeil before thai bis ryes were ; ,, | black as coals, and that be veuied to i | be about right feet high, but as be looked ! J I at us we could *ce it plainly. He seemed j | to read our thoughts and knew that it was j . ; done on purpose, and we bare always thought be beard the boys talking it over IJ at recess. Any way. Ik- jumped clear

it across tbe room, grabbed us by tbe neck ,, and sat ut down in the water, then he r lifted ut up and shook us so the teeth raly tied, then be seemed to grab us all over d and just maul us. Wc got a cbauce.oncc [. or twice to kwk around ui tlie back teats. „ as be was revolving us around co otir own c axis, t* ace if tbe other boya were coming ,f to help us put bHn oul of doors, but tbey n were the most studious lot of big bovt I y0" ever mw. e Tbey bad tbrir bads down in their ,. books, and their lips were lar.ving in ri0 lent prayer. After the leacbcr bad e mopped tbe floor with us be took "us by B tlie lack of the pants, just as a dog wouldjj a duck, and went to Ins desk and got a j big hickory ruler, and proceeded to_ dry , our pan la. Well, it was the meaqest way W era «d while it dried rn1"™ *e'l enough, it left great ridges inn aide of tbem that made a corrugated chair d almost a nccemity. The boys did not r fulfil! tlirir part of tbe program, and when the teacher got through drying oar , pants, and mid "please return to your sat," we felt as though bis politeness , was a perfect sham. Wc looked at tbe r boys as we went M oor seat, but tbey never looked up. *A\e have witnessed eon tested seals in tbe Legislature since, .' but never mw ooe ao exciting at that one 1 in tbe old while acbool-bouar, at tbe fool , at tbe bill. Tbe teacher never spoke during the pro. j1 ocedingt, and when It was over lie looked even paler and more sickly ' than when be bad one hand in tbe bair j that once grew where wc are now bald, q while the other was to work in tbe vioel jwrd. But none or tlie hoys seemed to , are to pitch oo to the tick man. and be I taught that acbool two terms, and never I bad to whip another buy. That wai tbe last school wc ever broke up. Tbe slim, sickly teacher is an rid man now, living . quietly rn thia 8ute,has children as old LA , we are, and w» occasionally see him and , ask him If he remembers bow wc broke , up tbe school.' "He is feeble cow and , walks with a cue, but if we bad to bare . fight with bim even now, we would hire a man to do iL— Burlington I/attkl SlfUnga. Judge Frier Dumber aucnjod ilia lo- . augural ball, and be enjoyed hi marl! so . much thai about midnight It look four ; • to bring him in a back and in a com- , I alosecoodition lo bis wife. She, Blinking , i front tbe looks of bim that he had a rash [ of blood to tbe bead, sent for tbe pbyaii rian, who Investigated the patient caAfuli and then directed that the family pastor be sent for at ooce. lo a abort time tbe clergyman was bending over the coodi of Ibe dying reveler. Tbe clergyman was in the midst of an earnest prayer when lie smelt a rat, or rather the anus of whisky. "I think," mid the clergyman, "that our friend baa already bad more - spiritual mnariiilon -that is g>wd for htm." "Yo. be is drunk," calmly replltd Urn physician. "Why. then did you jseod for me?" "Because, you ioc, I | didn't care to be tbe only fori oo this tad j | "Student" wants to know what is tnrant ! by "a dead Vjter." Weil, a letter aaking : you to subscribe *30 fur tbe society f-.r i tbe amelioration of the cooditina of Unworthy poor, cumes-alxuil as oear being ' : dead letter as anything we know of. If - il-iaat dead, in ten caara an of dm it j might as well bc.-Howfcov. , f It M said thai WaSooll. tbr'*qna!l enter, J bad boarded at a raiinn.1 nwlaurant for » • year. and. therefore, could M> anything. , j Boston Fori. ■

Did you ever see s Intyry take |k»i- " . H joan'lfbe ft-rjil ol * -jp ] ■■ ■ , itiargr " unv tbe grimnms of a ime.of Uyooets • moving slovrly and determinedly on. but 11 there is a peculiar excitement about it j '• tint make* old veterans rise in tbeir ssd- 1 0 ' dies and dieer. k We have lieen fighting at tbe edge of Uic j r " ind*. Every anridge bin lias been ! 1 g*dc lias melint away in dead and woioded and miaaing. Not a cberv i> beard in • the whole brigade. We know that *o arc being driven font by foot, and that • • j when we break once more the line will 1 ; K'j y piece* and Jtie enemy will pour | " tltrougb the gap. 1 Here come* help : Down tlie crowded highway gallops a | 1 InttiTV, withdrawn from some other |a«i- 1 1 ! lion to mvc ours. Tbe field fci.cc is sat- 1 ' j tcrcd while you count Uiirty, and the hill is | ; reache.1 behind us Six horses to a piece— j i three riders to each gun. Over dry ditches | j where a farmer would not drive a wagon, ■ I tbrdugh clumps of bushes, over log* s ' ' thick, every borec on the gallop. 1 J rider lashing bis team and yelling— 1 1 I tbe sight Irhind us maker ur forget the ' in (omL The gunr jump two f«-t ' 1 j as tbe heavy wheels strike rocks or ' I logs, but not a bone slackens bis pact , - not a eannnnneer loan bis sot. Six 1 guns, six caissons, sixty bono, eighty ! race for tlie brow of the bill as if be who reaches It first would be knighted. 1 A moment ago I lie battery wax a connmb. We look again and the six gons arc in position, the detached bow* 1 and along our line rana tbe com- ' nmnd, "Give ihem one more volley and 1 hack tn support the guns !" Wc have ' j scarcely "hcygd^ when ^Jgosq.1 boom f ! down and scorch the green trchs under ! which wc fought and despaired. | The shattered old brigade lias a J chance tn breathe for the firat time in , , three hours, and we form a line of battle . , tlie guur and lie down. What Every man is a perfect machine. Bui- f j lets splash dust in tbrir faces but tbey I do not. wince. Bullets sing over and « around them but -tbey do not dodge. There goes one to the earth, shot through * There gora to earth, through

" the had as be sponged his gun. Tbe machinery loses just one bat-misacs just 'c one cog in tlie wheel —and then works away again as before. Every gun Is tiling short fuse shell. * The ground shakes and trembles— the '• roar rhula out all sounds from s battle n line throe miles long, and the shells go shrieking into tbe swamp to cut trees y abort ofl— lo mow great gaps iu the * bushes — tn bunt out and shatter and mangle men until tbrir corpses caonot be " recognized as human. You would think " a tornado wai howling through the forest, followed br bHtaws of fire, and yet men ' lite through it— aye 1 press forward to °] aplnre tbe battery ! We an bar tlieir shouts ss tbey form for a rush. ■ Now the shells are changed for grape * and canister, and the guns are served to fast that all reports blend into ace mighty '" roar. The shriek of a shell is tbe wicked- '' est sound io war, but nothing makes the ^ flesh rrawl like tbe demoniac, singing, purring whistling grapesbot, and tbe serpent. like hiss of canister. Men's leg* and arm* are not (hot through but tnranff. * Heads are torn from boil lea and budics rut in two. A round sbol or slirll take* two J mca oul of the rank* a* it cnubc* through. ' pile the dead upon each other. 8 Through the smoke wc see m swann of men. It is not a battle line, but a mob of men drsjicratc enough tn bathe tbeir bayo- _ nets In the flame of the gum. Tbe guns lap from tlie ground almost as f they are depressed on tbe foe, and r shrieks and screams and shoots blend into ' one awful and steady cry. Twenty men out of the battery are down, and ibe firing is interrupted- Tbe foe accepts 0 it as i sign of wavering, and come ' rushing on. Tbey are not tee feel away when the guns give tbem a last shoL ^ That discharge picks living men oil tlieir " feet and throws men Into the vamp, a * blackened, bloody mass. Up now, as the enemy are among tbe ' guns • There is s silence of ten seconds and then Ibe flash and roar of more thin J three thousand muskets, and s rush forward with bayonets For what » Neither on the right nor left nor in front of qs Is a living foe- ! There are corpses around us which have been struck by three, four, and even six bullets, and nowhere on this * wheels of the guns cannot move oetll tlie ' blockade of dead is removed. Men can- : not pass from Oisann to gun without t gun and wheel is smeared with blood— 1 every foot of graas has it* horrible stain. Historians write of the glory of war. ' Burial partita mw. murder where hislo- ' riam mw glory.— It/troit Prrt Vrru 1 Mis* Jesse T. Detcbon, after a full den1 UI course in Philadelphia, lias been 11censed lo practice as dentist in that city. Several young women are applicanu to ' pursue s course of study In the dental col- ' lege of New York. No doubt in lime all 1 our principal cities will have tbeir quota I of lady dentisu. There Is no reason why 1 women should not follow this profession licre. Tbey are very common in Germany, ami Very successful. In all the large 1 dental establishments in tbe cilia where : sra-sriietics are administered, women act '^li. aradonst require more physlol strength : than many women possess. Had they tlie 1 requisite skill, lady patients would prefer ^ IO employ one of tbrir own sex for oh- j vtmis reasons. Krer. liir making of plates ( and the manufacture of false tevih might ! * W undertaken by women, as .lt requires j ■ no more manual drill than wood engraving I or painting. By all meant let na have wo. | men dratisu.— From Drwurml* StontHf.

When the house i« glpTMsJir itrrlf inrx- : J perieneed jiersons may believe thai it bc- ( haves exactly as it doa when there are t | people io it; but tbis is a delusion, *1 yon I will discorcr if yfin ire ever left aloof- in it at midnight sitting up for tbe rest of tbe , family; at this hour its "true disposition [ I will reval itself. I To atch It allts bat prcteod'to retire, • put out tbe gas or lamp sod go up stairs. , , Afterward come dos-n softlv. light no J more than ooe lamp, go into the empty J i parlor and sat yourself at a table with I ; something to read. * . No sooner that you have done so than ! you will har a little chip, chip, chip j ailing the top of tbe room— a small sound. | but pcraiitroL It is evidently tbe wall ' { tribulation, that if it due* come oft I you can't lielp it. and go on with your ! bonk. , As you sit with your book in your band j you begin lo be quite sure tbst some one j U coming down stain. Squeak, squeak, j squrak! What folly! There is nobody j ' there to come down; but there— oo, it I i* oo tbe kitchen stairs, ijumebudy is j coming up. Squeak, snap! Well, if it is a robber i you might as well face bim. You can grt j the poker and stand with your*, hack j , against the wall. Nobody comes up. Finally you decide that you are a goose, put the poker down, grt a magazine and | There, that's tbe door. You bahYTKr* lock turn. Tbey are coming home. You ' run to tlie hark ilnnr. unlock and unls.lt : you linger tbe door gives a dick that makes you jump. By daylight neitlK-r lock nor stairs make j of these noise* unksa tbey are touched or trodden on. You go Iwck lo the parlor in dhurry, with a feeling that the next thing you ' know sometbing may atcb you by the ' hair hod uy to remember where you 1 kit ofl. Now It ia the tabic Ural snalis and ' cracks as if tire spiritualist knocks were , bidden in ita mahogany. You do not Ian ou it hravilv without this result, but it ^ and put the hook tar your knee. Your ^ '* eyes wander up and down the page, and

J" you grow drainy. when, apparently, the ^ book-case fires ofl a pistol. At least a loud, fierce crack coma from the heart of that pica of furniture, so loud, so fierce, that you jump to your feet trembling. You canDot stand the parlor any more. '° You go up stairs. "* No soooer do you grt there than it seems to you that somebody is calking on the '" fo ,f. If tbe bouse is t detached one, and * the thing is impossible, that makes it all * the inpic mysierioua ' Nothing ever moaned in the chimney before, but something moans now. There ° is a ghostly alcp ix=TCt bath nom. Year find out afterward that it is the lap drip- ^ ping but you do not dare' to look at ibe ° And it it evident tbst there is something i up the chimney— you would not like lo ^ ask what. If you have gas it bobs up and down * in a phantom dance. If you bare a lauip J it goa out in a blue explosion. If ynu have a candle a shroud plainly enwrap? ' the wick and falls toward you. t The blinds shake as if a hand clutched tbem, and finally a doleful at hqfins to j man io the cellar. Yon do not keep a at. and this finishes you. , You pretend to read no longer, and sitj ting with a towel over your bad and face, and bearing something below go * "shew, shew, show." like a Httlc saw, t you believe In the old ghost stories. j Ten minutes afterward., the bells ring; 3 the belated ones a/me borne; tbe lights are lit; perhaps something must be got c out to at. People talk and tell where t tbey have been, and ask if you src kineAtxl not a stair creaks. No step t« bard on tbe roof ; no click in tbe front " door. Neither book-ease nor tabic cracks. The bouac bru on its company manners— only you have iound out bow it behaves c when It Is alone. - New Yes* Ueraxt. r Two young ladies just from a wedding t up the Hudson look a seal la-bind a lltr - s old reporter on an afternoon train lo the , city, and tbeir conversation, conducted iu s an excited and vivacious manner, ran as B follows: ! Firat Young Lady— "What do you - think of Ibe bride's drea^Maggir?" t Sncond Young Lady— "I didn't like it r extra well, did yon?" "No, 1 most confess 1 did noL But, . Lizzie, 1 never thought Kiftie would get . a ban, did you? ' "No, Indeed. It is too funny for anything; but she got a giant, didnt abe? Ob, my! I oevcr could marry that man." "Nor L I think be is awfully coarac. Kittle dont like bim any too well. Sbc - came very near backing oul." "Did j*u see her blush?" "Gracious, yes. 1 think 1 should have > fainted if it had been me. I suppose you - wOI be getting married next." 1 "Oh, I guess there's no dinger." i "Usui Harry proponed yet?" "Gonnnms, oo. He's tieeu coming lo i see me a year, too. Oh, be makes me so , mad sometimes. I could pound him real - good." e "llow at up id." t "Only Ihink of it, I could have bad ' j half a dozen good catches if be wasn't | l> | around in tbe way." e j "Why don't you fire him out?" r , "Ural's tbe bother of it. I can't get a '• j chance to quarrel with bim, and he's so ! s ; aggravating about laughing — " you t.| know." ■ ; "Oh, you fool; 1 wouldn't far *11 tbe : t world." □ere the train entered tbe tuooel and '• the ioi.vr.-s*; km ended I

AX BTLAXTA KXroCTXU. ] | The Atlanta f Vnub'lafton in a recent i J iu Meriwether county a don't care sort of ! * a negro named Jack Wilson, who could j ' neither read nor wtKe. He lud gained J his freedom in some way or other, and j , 11 g lined bis livcbbnod l«y scting as sort of j 1 ' director-general to famnas bancs in bis ! J ■rclghbothand. J srk tacsme suacbed to j ^ 1 ly style. Da- srrvsnt girl was a bright " mulatto, and Jack a shade itirrker. Tbey ' litnes. At tbe same tinie Jack liad a slave- .' ' lime wife lo Virginia. Uuf.br was a. bUck " , as read. When the ^sr ckw-.l ami the ® j slaves were declared free. Jack took his ^ j Georgia wife lo be bis partniv for life, and by Using with her for a slated period £ 1 she faeemme l.i. wife according to law. A. ? | ream a« be wa? matiicd Jack showed a ., Hidden spirit of industry (lust astonished | everybody. His rarelcsa habits were I will. Tire wealthy Gala, liis master, ^ I dud. and tlie brood acres fe-ll Jo tbe po*. I Session of the brira. Jack still worked on * Ibe place, and was saving and carefuL- . ! Tlie G.UW family l»d kwt ereTTtmng ex- ' t tbeir Dnd. Hundreds of slaves were . by tlie new order of thing", and the and princely fortune was g-Hje. Tbe p could not attain tlicmsclviw to the , lion. Finally |umnl, tla-y sold fifty . ' acres to Jack; then they wanted mure , ... , ' , " money, and Jack H...I lltetr aecunty at s laGtangc lank, atidwben tbey were un- f| bank and trade for a piece, of the Gates' ? plantation, lie wotkid with a vengance sod all his family worked. Old man Jack " lacanie a noted and In-oofed rilltrn ol tlie q old botiiestr-ad. Finally be owned it all ^ and was rich. Three yrars ago be derided that it was bis duty to provide for bia old Virginia wife, ao he sent for bcr, and (lie . with her children tame to bim. She wax . given t bouse on Uic plantation, and— is well provided lor. Jack owns now the - magnificent place of about flft«-n bumlred • . magnificent hundred

tt0 acres in three mills of While Sulphur Springs, in Meriwether county, lie ia m sixty years old, and bis children are actlied around him, and all are contested ^ and happy and industrious. He owns fifteen or aixtern mulct, and is noted for c koqiing the best stock in the county. His credit at the La Grange Hank is giaal, and he ran borrow all the money be wanta on his simple note of band. " "How much is be worth?" U "I slniuld thy i,li -ut *30.000. and every is a remarkable story of bow a slave sue- ^ coed* bis master in the ownership of a ^ vast landed estate. 1 passed tbe place a. few months ago, and the Georgia wifn 10 came to the door to give me a drink of water. Everything was neat and clean about the place, the yard waa newly o swept, the Iwrnx appeared filled, and in lota 1 saw piles upon piles of manure carefully sheltered. It is a model plantation. Why. 1 have seen en Jack's place ' 180 acres of can under one fence." "Is he educating liis children?" * "Yes, although he cannot read and '' Ibrni and 1> giving bis children the bfncfll j ' ol schooling. The story is a true one, and ' shows what tan be done right here in u Georgia by pluck and industry. The old " ailagc is true: 'There ix more in tlie man than there is in tbe land.' " C "You don't all Ibis cold, !» you?" ' a gasped a red-noted stranger who strolled * into tlie olflre tbis morning while wc were * trying to encourage the thermometer to '• rise np to zero point. "Well. U ain't exactly sultry." ' * "No, but I U'tlTrno. tblz nlnt nothing d to a little snap wr lis- 1 when i was work- | L ing I.u tlie Morning Howl u|Jin Mimic- j ' "Ooldcr'n it is here ?" ^ "Well, I sbouldsmilo. .Why! the ink ' froze so bard the reportersatxt-d to break ' tlie laxttle and cut it in a slick lo use like lead pencils, and thermometers! 5 Why, wc had to spllzc tw - of Vm togatb- ] e I*"""*'n "Evcrytliing froze. C'va-lqai's tbe boyi , used to carry round in tbeir' praltala In shape of cylindera. I saw the biggest 0 kind of a fljflit ooce.tieausc a man wanted ' to bile ofl a cocklatl. whereas the owner ' t wanted bim to cat it off. Editors used ' soul! red hot stoves for chairs, and it was ' the hardest work lo light a lamp you crcr t did see. . Many and many a lime I've carried a lamp to tbe alovc to thaw out a , . Same that waa frozen solid. , "Tbe cold outride waa so awful intense | » that when it ante i«o contract with warm i L into warm air, it tnngaled it instanter io- i lo snow. One day w« got tbe office tolerably warm, wbeu some fellow opened tbe I cbarr and H immediately lagan to snow io i c Uic room. In two minutes the "bauti- | j far1 was four feet deep, and tbe compoai- t snow shoe*, smt tla-rc was siane talk of , twinging tlie paper cotter up nod using it < a for a sleigh. Hut that waarrt 'all. Tbe , j air all J urn ing to -ribow created surii a i 1 vacuum in the rqun that tbe prowurc . of tbe outside atmosphere broke all tbe | windows, and Ibe flying glass killed tbe , 4 foreman and the exchange editor. i "Haidet this, Ibe irielc* on Ibe roof ■ ' j used to gel at big as- — " "Eoougb!" j« r cried, "throw off youryBa-. j j guise di*w ruble no hatgiv. we rcoognixe j j you — our aid time booorid friend, Eli #j I'erktu*."- Dwdvilie Cknuieit. c- No mailer if tlie |"*Uge ia reducril.il J is jnrt at much trouble tn lick a two- cent . i ♦amp «s a tbrec-otel ooe.— N. Y. Co»t- J

Several of tbe brothtTS bad rrialsd ex- . larirnoea lncl.lv improt^bie and ridico- [ Irat tin storie* were accepted as the spirit- Women kboutcd and were re-' ; ioiccd that the truth bad made itself gloriously manifest. Old man Gailaop sat j for a long lime in that depth of rileoce into which excessive admiration frequently lower* a credulous human being. : He lost sight of his religioo insomuch | that be rrrolved not to allow any of tbe j xioriea to aoor above bia ripe invention. 1 11 In n bis time came, be ruee and mid : I "Good brethren, you know that my bobnobbing with tbe devil waa long, that be -Waa my companion for yore, and that it waa after a muscled exercise of grace that I auoceeded in downing tlie old gen! tli-raan." Tbe eburrh peo|>le looked eurirnjsly at one anotlier an i brother Gailaop ' . continued: "At last 1 concluded to make an effiK L 1 didn't have long to wait, the next day, while 1 was down at tbe creek fishing, the devil came up and mys he: "now are you ?' 'How are you T mys 1 "Give me a chaw of tolaicker,' my* lie. do it," says I. N»td fellow," says be. 'we'vo been friend* for a lone time, and 1 have done A great deal fbr you. I furnialtcd you with whiakey on numerous occasions, ami III be blamed if 1 him that lie couldn't help hiinscll and i lint 1 had resolved never to have any thing more to do with him. Then be flopped up, popped bim heels together anil struck in. 1 grabbed him and we had iL First one and then another would be downed. 1 gut in a good lick and cried hallelujah. Tlien he wakened. 1 balleagain and be Bank on bis knees. Ibis opportunity by tbe boras of I grabbed a rail and pounded bim tbe bead until be begged for mercy. I let him up and be limped away, when 1 turned again and began to atcb fish. Never mw fish bite so in my life. I couldn't pull tbem up fast enough, and tbey crawlod up the line and happed out ^ the back. A big turtle came along the stream, came out, lifted me auto Itself, slid In the water and miled around with me for an boar. Never bad such an enjoyable ride io my life. Wbeu got back to the place where I bad been 1 found that the fish were all gone, but when I reached borne I found tbst tbey bad hung tbcmselva up, after build-

a fire under themselves." :r "That will do," mid one of tbe preach - '' era, "we cannot endorse such a story, and now, brethren, 1 move that we take immediate atcps towards expelling Mr. Gailaop from the church. '' Tbe unfortunate man waa expelled at 18 the next session of the church Board, and when lie was asked by a sinner why lie left tbe religious institution, be r plied : "Well/ you see, we started in one i'«y to see who could tell the biggest 1 ic. Well, I ^ Ii -at 'cm; tbey got jealous and fired me" a. In tbe lime 'of Napoleon it was cslima<X ted that it took six hundred bulk-Is to be ' fired in battle before a man was kilkd; In 0 other words, every dad aoHjer u prcf seuled liis own weight in k-aiL t t it the " recent improvement ia firearms has added ' to the efficiency of tbcsuldicr. The greater - range of Uic rifle, as well as tbe rapidity ? with which it can be fired, lias made it thirty-two times more effective than the old smooth bore. To put it more aocurJ atcly. a military' authority says thai tbe " modern rifle is superior to tbe old smooth - >1 bore io the following particulars;— It la d eight times more effective lo accuracy, D lwo4hinls greater in range apd pcoelra1 tion, fire lima greater in rapidity of 1 aimed fire, while the weight of the rartridgra jar man has dimisbed, yet tbe number that may be carried has been io- • creased. The added efficiency of the . gun* is no less surprising. Tbe fa- . mous Krupp now makes a gun nine incbra calibre and eighteen tons weight which will send a ball through twenty India of solid iron; and bis field gun, within a range of more tbau a mile and a , half can be depended upon lo put every projectile into a space of leu than two hundred square focL Taking into consideration the broeck-loading, rlflllng, better powder, improved projoctiio, the ( lighter carriage* of steel, the science of . artillery hat been revolutionized, and one , I lattery do-day is more effective than . twenty ol those to skillfully bandied by the Great Napoleon. In tbe next great baula some dreadful cnglua of destruction will be bought into pity. Tbe Hotcht kin revolving gun can fire bunting shells at the rale of eighty a minute. It can pour out a continuous and deadly fire of j seventy-five pounds ot metal, or 1,800 r hits every sixty seconds It is fearful to , think ol tbe havoc which would be caused by tbe guns of tbe future-— fts* r lHmorttC> MtmlUn for JfareA Toung Wlvesrsroid Hasbands. 1 G. WaUeraou. By-tbe-by, a few years ago a friend : me a book containing the reminis- ■ ccnces of Henry A. Wise. In It be say s - that be was ridixxg out ooe crating with - I 'resident Tyler, who informed him that -' was going to get married to Miss Gsrd- ' "Why."said Wiw. "sheis ton young - for you." "Not all ail," replied the i'reai- • dent, "I'm still in my prim. " "Thai reI minds me," oontinoed Wlac,*"af sa old darkey down In Virginia, who wa generally consulted by bis old master oo any • affair of any importance to both. Tbe i old master was a widower, and when be : got tbe consent of a young lady to marry darky. "My Lord,' said Sambo, -abe is young for yon.' 'Not t bit of U,' sn- ! swered tbe master; 'I'm (till in my prime.' 'Yes,* responded Sambo, 'yon are In your - prime now. but wail till abe gets in her t prime, then where 'will your prime be f t'scfnl 1st Uic I -'a tails. We usually have it to dodoci to rci commend medicines, bat Parker1* Winger Tonic lias been ao useful in our family in relieving ticXnem sod suffering that we - cannot my too much In its praim.— Baton