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f 869. “ Tis Liberty Alone that Gives the Flower of Fleeting Life its Lustre and Perfume—and We are Weeds Without it." I 880. VOL. XIV.---NP. \ SNOW HILL. WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7. 1882. SI.OO PER ANNUM. Tin* Democratic Messenger, I*s hj Minn Evkky Satckpat pt LITTLETON DENNIS. Proprietor AT SMQW HILL. WORCESTER CO.. MD. Subscript ion, S f a Year in Advance. i -if at arrangements made wish elute. < on <*penitence solicited from all |mi*.** of Uic roauty. ADVERTISING RATES. Due dollar for one inch space vv ill he ehargcd for ike lir-i insertion, ami fifty cents f,, r sat sequent insertion. A liberal discount will he made on quarterly *ix months, or yearly advertisements. Loeal notices will he inserted at tilt cents per line. Marriage and death notice* inserted tree Obituary notices inserted at half advertising rates. All advertising hills are due after the fir-t insertion, unless otherwise agreed ttpou. LITTLETON DENNIS, Sn. w Hill, Md rn< iFi'ssroxA i, < a nns. A DTAL P. BARNES, ATTORN EY-AT-1 AW. Office opposite Court House, Snow Hill. M 1. Will visit Pocomoke < Tty every Saturday. Strict attention given to the collection ol claims. i * LAYTON J. PURNELL, v ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office opposite Court House. Snow H i'll Md. Strict attention given to the collection ol claims. Will v isit Berlin on the second Satur day of every month. v 1 J ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office opposite Town Hall. Berlii . Md. 8t eeial attention given to the collection ol r'aims. I<nnVAßl7 iT" BATES, 1 4 (Late of Baltimore BaiA ATTORNEY AND < **! vsF.LOU-AT-i.AW, S w Hitt. • Office opt-s.it.- V -art House adjoining th* / i <EOKOK M UPSHUR, ' ATTORN f V \T-I.AiV. >&. a ■ lIU, Md .1 TWILIGHT PASTORAL. K.tie takes the milking-pail. , At dto the meadow trips along ; Th. Mini earns slant along the vale. And sv.eelly rings her milking song: •• Heigko! heiglio! A milking 1 go. Conte, Spot, and come Bonnie, t in . Brindle, come. Brownie The sun fust is fluking. The 1 right stai- are blinking ; Ciimct.i me. my darlings, Tis Katie vvh.i calls." The meadows in the gold rain glisten. The cricket stops his chirp to listen. As o'er the grass the svvc t voice rings. I-o' high upon the topmost sprav. A i ohm gayly sings. Colin hears the sweet voice call. And sees the kino go lowing to her ; No call for him. and jot he goes. Ah: twilight is the time to woo her: •• Heiglio 1 heiglio! A milking I go. Cotne. Spot, ami come. Bonnie, Come. Brindle, conic. Brownie; The sim fust is sinking. The hiighl stars are blinking; < onie to me. my darlings, his Kata who calls." So Colin leans tijx.:, It e bars, And vvooetb Katie, till the stars Rhine through the haze the twilight brings, , And still. Upon the topmost -pray. Th- robin gnvlv sings. The years they roll, the Min tm is go. The grus springs given, tin waters tlow, And lvatii gray, with Colin sitting. He with hi- pipe, he with her knitting. As twiiiglu shadows trooping throng, Hear - iiuotlur Katie's song: '•H-igho! heiglio’ A milking 1 go. t :m. >. :u.d eotvie. Bonnie. * -me. Brindle. come. Br. •vvnie : The , U n t i-t is sinking. Ihi : ’!'ht st l-me 1 inking : i mm- to ine. my da*, lings. Tis Kuili whoi-.iis. • A* • s. w:t . i tli- re. u.l or t.ur. A" !!' 1 . " g Ih. I. ; o : now the \ ( ih*. sweet voice rings, : I'D ; 1 -t spiny, <:■ • • .In, .tm The < tOVEBSMENT Clerk. s 7.* •t * h ol l us!** isi VV : S * , j>ni m*HV “ I should like to know,” saitl Tre dennis, “ what the changes will be.” “The changes will depend upon the | kind of fellow he chances to be,” said ! Arbnthnot. “There are two varieties. If there is a good deal in him, he will begin by being hopeful and working hard. He will think that he may make himself of value in his position and create a sort of career for himself. He will do more than is required of him, and neglect nothing. He will keep bis eyes open and make friends of the men about him. He will do that for a few months, and then, suddenly, and for no fault whatever, one of these friends is dropped out. Knowing the man to be j as faithful as himself, it will be a shock to him, and he will get anxious, and worry ovei it. He will see him stranded without resources—struggling to regain his place or get another, treated with i amiable tolerance when he is not buf feted, snubbed and put tiff. He will see him hanging about, day after day, grow ing shabbier, more careworn, more des perate, until he disappears and is heard of no more, and everybody is rather , relieved than not. He may have been a family man, with a wife and half a dozen children, all living decently on his sal ary. Somebody else wanted liis place, and got it, not because of superior fitness for it, but because the opposing influence was stronger than his. Tin- new man will go through the same experience when his turn comes—that is all. Well, my friend will see this and be anxious, and ask questions, aud find out that his chances are just the same—no more and no less. He wi’d try not to believe it. being young enough to be betrayed into the folly, and lie will w< rk harder than ever, and get over his blow a little, until he sees the same thing happen again and again. Then he will begin to lose some of his good spirits; he will be a trifle irritable at times, and lines will show . themselves on his face, aud he won't be so young. When he writes to the girl he is in love with—l saw a letter ad dressed to some young woman out West lying on his desk to de v—she will notice a change in him, and the change will reveal itself more in each letter; but lie will l ang < n and grind away, and each t: iv.otj >.vil! b; a nightmare to him. Hut be wiil grind away. And then, at last He stopped and made a light rather graceful ge-tnre with Ids Angers. • “Whu! them#'* dtiMiuoid Tredonnis, with man iftairim put i-■:, “Tin-ft will be a new administration, a td if he strugelo-s through, if will he wor.-t Ur him than if he were dropped. ’■ i t hat ease lie throws aw ay another e .!* years <■{ hi - lif and a-’l the chances ! . • ;■;!!• -tp y might hold if In w- re v.ol 1 if of them." ,o d. - oid tip, looking very ro, it ':c t-e of tin Lelin - . ' i {hr a. Arbutliner bin - - ti eiy u: itupre---. d by' ■ quick movement and the energy if “Y i tr< ‘ fir matter coolly,” he ex v ■ • i ■ (] ||i. ,• ■■ to hts the feather upon the current, an<l when all is over for him, he is whirled out of sight and forgotten with the rest. And, perhaps, if he had felt there was any thing to he gained by his being a steady, respectable fellow, he might have settled down into one.” A Fifty Years’ Mystery. IT IS MADE CLEAR AT LABT. The Canadian papers say news from the Northwest Territory is to the follow ing effect: An old and well known Indian, who has just died, before his death made a confession which entirely cleared up what had been a painful mystery for a full half century. Fifty years ago Nicholas Garland, a pioneer, took a tract of land situated in what is now the township of Beckwith, in the county of Lanark, built a cabin 1 on it, and proceeded to clear away the dense forest standing upon the tract. At that time he had a wife and one small child, a very pretty little girl, named Alice. One day Alice did not return from the edge of the clearing, where she had been playing with two other children. An alarm was raised, and all the woodsmen in the country thereabout joined in a search, which lasted for many days, but resulted in no | clew to the missing child, and the gen eral verdict arrived at by the hunters was that Alice had been carried off and devoured by one of the bears with which the country then abounded. This conclusion seemed to be corrob orated by the discovery of some clean, small bones a few months afterward in a deep hollow a couple of miles from Garland's cabin. They were gathered j carefully together and buried by the father and mother of Alice near their h..me. All the people h r miles around attended the funeral, which was the ! first ever he’d iu that section by the whites. The loss of her child aiul the terrible strain of the long suspense and the ghastly disc-, very subsequently broke down th strong constitution of Mrs. Garland, and she died with a broken heart not long after the funeral. Mr. Garland, after his wife's death, ht • .me hard and ascetic, never referred to hi-< trouble, t • ver associated with his neighbors, and has ever since lived a hermit ii the cabin he tirst built. This ohl Indian who died recently, how \r. says that he *-nv Aim •on that ■lay, when : he was playing with her e. : jpiiei- in th- denting, became fas- • e mm 1 with b-r childish beauty, and j isuii- tl her away and raised her as one j if . s ov. family. When she became j a.at mgeabh* sin* was thoroughly Indian- I v.v 1, and her abductor managed to have ! : h< ;- mani-d to one of his own sons. I si- 11 w living in Bruce County, and j i the mother <f a hirer** family. She j ire never shown f;. at si:*- had any r e* J • H. of ion of her parent:; or home, and | or, ,tvs to la* hap.o-. The thing In-! .' O • aid W* SO v.■)l li > 1 she boon j et I'-.!.! at hr in.-ved to 0.-i > could i .r . c • . re, d lt< •• ,r her real origin or > •m ;■..*<„ 00. h( v lot, and he ; d tun? la, n iajt himself and the j wli • main. 1 h r v- s i*ver made a •- j ! feiu-nipro-j \ VYhipidug-IhM Story. • : ■ ■a i w hi} 1 the mi-fortune • THE ASTOR PLACE RIOT. General Dtiryee Corrects Some Mis statements Concerning It. General A. Dnryee, who commanded the Seventh regiment at the time of the Astor Place riot, Ims been interviewed by a reporter in relation to that affair, still fresh in the minds of many readers. The story will he read with interest. “This iragic and memorable event,” •aid General Durvee, “occurred May 10, ’49, and originated from a bitter fend existing between the distinguished English tragedian Macready, and the equally noted American. Edwin For rest, and was said to have grown out of the intrigues of the former against the latter gentleman, while performing in Scotland. On the arrival of Macready in America he fulfilled his first engage ment without molestation; but bis fare well engagement, having been an nounced to begin the 7th of May, the friends of Forrest resolved to avenge the alleged insult and prevent Mac ready from appearing on the stage, and for this purpose they proceeded on the night mentioned to the Astor Place Opera House. On his appearance ho was received with hisses and yells, and missiles were hurled at him. So violent was the assault that it resulted iu the withdrawal of the English actor. Some of the most influential citizens, with Washington Irving at their head, deeming that Macready had been basely treated, wrote him a formal letter, re questing him to play out his engage ment, plelging themselves that the public would sustain him. Iu compli ance with the request, it was announced that the first performance would take place on the night of May 10, and that lie would appear in the character of Macbeth. The authorities anticipated a riot on account of the intense ani mosity existing, and the national pre judices aroused, both actors playing the same character in the same city and on the same night. These prejudices were further aggravated by placards posted throughout the city, calling upon the Americans to sustain Forrest, the groat native tragedian; and another placard appealing to the crews of the English ships in the harbor, and all English men. to rally in behalf of their out raged countryman. These inflammatory placards excited the violent passions of the lower classes. Both placards, it was rumored, emanated from the same source. Before the doors were opened, a vast riotous crowd (estimated to number about 20,000) began to assemble around the Opera House, and the at tack upon the police was immediately commenced. About nine o'clock the riot began to assume a very serious asp of. Tin* po !ie<*, after a gallant struggle, were driven into the buil ling. The doors were barricaded, planking was nailed across them and the windows, but they were repeatedly burst in and beaten down. Large stones were hurled through the windows, several striking fi*e magnitic.-nt crystal chandelier, sus pended ftom the dome, shattering it > ! atoms, the fragments falling upon the ] frightened occupants of the pit. Abou* : this time one of the leaders of the mob, j “ Nod Bentlme,” was arrest* d and j placed imdt r the stage, nm mg shavinr*. • ■ and other inflammable rubbish, win ->h he | | fired. With dibienhv the flame*- vvre ! .*'■{iugnished. Terror seized the im- j pri -on* 1 audience, who were apprehen iv.* rhnt the lions** would be blown up. j Hi the appearance of Macready he was j :: lied with a torrent of losses and! v< :! , Eggs, chairs and large nipper! j coins were hurled at him, and im was i subjected to insult of the most violent ! char :<*ter. .\l tliis *ritval moment Colonel l>nr- j v, *s ? the Seventh regiment, an- j --I •••••:**>. Ammunition, ball j '*.■ r ! n > blanks * had been distrib- j ■: -d. The military turned mio Astor j i th* mounted troops leading. The ( v >:.■ Ip. <*f t !i “ latter afforded ! th* '-seer * sum mark for attack, and ; th* v were violently assailed with cobble * -torn , which were piled in pyramid'd I •vis in the street.-', owing to ex cava-j • b v. ft*;*• for ■ *w*.*rs. A marble srd was in close proximity, eon taming j rg ; : anti tv of sharp cat tings, fur-! ;<*■•< m*.l o: terrihh a-mmuni- 1 ; tin* fro* o charged with great ! - • : h d, i ■ from Broad r; .!■•••, revc v died by the sii an 1 became unmauago- ; . ■ t' 1 i ; vs were pulled ; | 4 lf t ' I - \ I*. * r hi* : back, regaining Isis ground, and secur ing a complete line across tire street to Mr. Langden’s bouse, the walls of which were perforated by the bullets of the first tire. Again the mob shonte l “Blank cartridge!” The infuriated crowd then made another desperate on set, staggering the line, buc the men heroically maintained their position. It seemed as if the soldiers would be buried alive under the tliuty projectiles. The third and final rally of the mob was an attack on each flank. A well-directed oblique fire, delivered with deadly effect, was decisive. A panic now ensued, a precipitous flight took place in every direction. The sound produced resembled the moaning of a tempestuous gale through the shrouds of a ship. Some ran for miles before stopping. Cries of rage burst from the throng, amid yells,oaths ami execrations, mingled with screams of agony and dying groans. Groups of men were engaged in taking up the wounded and carrying off the dead, the military restingfrom their work of death in stem silence, grimly guarding the Opera House The soldiers, in order to make a show of strength, spread themselves out in single rank, standing in water. The rioters had Hooded the streets from the hydrants, and the lights were ail extinguished. About this time it was reported to Colonel Duryee that a large covered wagon, filled with dead, was upon the sidewalk, and the driver desired to pass through the line to the Mercer street station house. Colonel Duryee, con ceiving this a stratagem to get in his rear, refused permission, but to assure himself, looked upon the dread reality. Turning from the revolting f ight, in a subdued tone he exclaimed, “Over two hundred killed and wounded to night.” Among the officers wounded with shoi and stone were Generals Sanford and Hall, Colonel Duryee, Lieutenant Col onel Brinekerhoff, Captains Shnmway and Pond,Lieutenants Todd and Negus, and of the rank and tile 111 men. On the side of the mob 34 men were killed and upward of 100 wounded. At length the rumbling of artillery was heard. Colonel Hincken, with a .section of his six-gun battery, came dashing up. “ Action front ! Load !” was the authoritative command. In an instant all apprehension of another attack was dispelled. Grape was home, in the cavity of the bore. The remnant of the undaunted stood guard nntil re lieved in the evening. When on their way to the armory a large crowd of desperate cut-throats followed them with hoMinga and derisive epithets When the abounding tragedy of tlie ■ me known, it fell up >n the city like a funeral pall. On the morn ing succeeding the disaster the follow ing call for a meeting in the park was j published and extensively circulated: “ TO THE PARK. “The citizens of New York opposed to the destruction of human life are re quested to assemble in the Park at six o’clock this evening, May 11, to express j nbiie opinion upon the lamentable ■ •••arrenee of last night.” This placard was posted about the • .t- and excited great alarm among | tho citizens. Rumors were rife thm. i ike roughs of Philadelphia and Balti ' r >v, called “Killer” and “Plug . 1 -dies,” and oilier secret organizations, o re on their way to the city, for the ; purpose of renewing the riot. A large : exciting meeting wa; hell, at which the military and the authorities were de- j u-.une-. d. but no further overt act * -a ; j pave. The few men of the Seventh j ' ah' • for duty were on guard again u > v j land night, during the 11th and 12th. j ! i •;.* majesty of the law had been main- j 1 iced in the hour of dire peril. Prom j I this time dates the national prestige of I tit • Seventh regiment. X-> honor o\ o | thought too high to pay the gallant ; | u-.mudi-rs of law and ord -r. All the priueiplo actors ii this real , | t agedy nave passe] away, with le or ' j two exceptions. Their names are us a- follows; William (’. Macready. Ed- i vi.. IT rn-.-d, Mr. Clark, who played j Miohiu; Mayor Woodhull, Recorderi p! d A. Tulmadge, Sheriff Wostervelt, , ' (j. neml Sanford, t b> era! Hall, Colonel 1 Brinekerhoff, George W. Mitsell, (ten or ! Go-, -rye I’. Morris. Captain Speight. Washington Irving, Charles King. , aid Mo.-os H. Grimiell. The three latter demen and about thirty others * were t!:o stguers of the call denouncing the .of rage* of Monday nighs an -i : ; pkthemselves t< sustain Mr. . A- ■ i- r named Baldwin, ft man of si ict i-1 ions proclivities, reticent and s!-- V , ? - ;-oh, w hen lea.ling hi < rile, ■ l . U commanding oflic-r and sip head. With inconceivable . •' ~ • t ftiming when he was !.<ir ;•! " and .wait orders." This . -i '- ■ ••••’. w ik v•i* • tlie firing tt( ofl’i e : , d o', ■ • it )n , ' i>- - ; . To 1 i ike a it : r < jir • rid i'-ind til* ■ • ' i S • ;;! ‘ : hr. ' •'• - \ t* V ’ it •• 1.11 Ti • - \ ■ ind 1 •’ ! ;V- Um -t ■ * ml ,;iuuif.' • * * * \ tlit u mr i Htt ■ t}’ ;r i I f C >\\\ *. aid' n . t {. \i{ \ •• m, , THREE R I RDEXS. The hardens of Life. Hours of pain. .Strong straggles for victories vain. Dull doom of dust to dust again. A ship of insecurity On stormy sea. The burden of Love.—A bright morn. That looks its loveliest at its dawn. Ah, better had it ne’er been born! For soon drive mist* of misery O’er darkened sea. The burden of Christ.—Blinding tears. A longing and love through long years. A firm, faithful front to all fears— Then glorious eternity Of golden sea! — Roo d Word*. WIT AM) WISDOM. 1)r. Johnson' say ft of second marriages, “(hey are the triumph of hope over experience.” The max that says that woman has never invented anything should listen for a fe w minutes ut the keyhole of the sewing society. Doctors say that the gout may be in herited. If any follow were to leavo ns the gout, wo should contest his will on the ground of insanity. Item from a plumber’s bill: “For 1 ibor trying to thaw supply-pipe, with out success, Fr. 14 10.” What amount would have been charged for succeed ing ? /.r Fit/aro. Proves nothing —By constantly jumping up interrupting proceedings in court, Gnitean is trying to prove himself insane. He is wrong. All law yers do that. Piraymu. Nor too fanny: “ Dwo vas setaoost enough, bndt dree vas too blendty,” remarked Hans, when his best girl asked him to take her mother along with them to a dance. —Chmhriitp Tribune. Editors’ cousins and aunts make frequent trips abroad, for the papers are continually printing articles headed “Our relations with Great Britain.” — Rost on Commercial Pullet in. “You have heard, mv love, that Amendi is about to marry Arthur?” “ f know it. but what I can’t understand is that a woman ns intelligent as she is can couseut to marry a man stupid enough to marry her.” —Paria Paper. A charming married lady, scarcely more than thirty, remarked to me: “ For the first time I realize that I am grow ing old, since people are continually saying, ‘ How wonderfully young you are looking.’ ” Considerable surprise and excite ment were created in Wall street the other day by a prominent operator ap pearing on the steps of the Treasury building with his* bauds in his owu pockets.— Tin Jndtf . It is spoken of as a wonderful thiug that the person who transports the mails from Yergonnes to Addison, YL, is a woman. Just as if transporting males was not woman’s work from tune immemorial. —/met ’I Conrh r. No man who has never written a book en comprehend ttie awful joy which fills the soul of the author as he di-> ■ vers ihe offspring or his brain sand wiched in among a number of other dis carded volumes, and marked “Your choice for ten cants.” A YrßoiviA fa’her hns eleven children i named in the consecutive Latin nnroer | al.s, from “ Primes " to “ Undecimus.” ! At 'the birth of his tenth !> >v the latter ! was named “ Docimus 1 itimus,” or i t( :nh .:u' last, but, somehow, another so-. f.-T-iv"p 1, an \i- dnbb, d “Undeci- I mus.” l 'i’.ir village of Sehaghtieoke, N. Y., ns. I to b - called Cressville, and was then one of the he lUhiest. towns in the East. The change was made under ! imitest, and n-v. ; the pt-vv supports ' ;we:sfy-tw-3 doctor-* six drug ‘•lores, and three undertakers.—/)• 'r-.T Fro A western farmer of the old school, lamenting tlie paragon lured man of the 1 past, thus speak-- of him of the present: , “He wears white shirts and collars. He : won’t eat with a knife. He wants nap : kins, and if ws don’t hang no a clean towel once a week !:-■ wipes on his ha dkero’uief. fie wants ;1 whole hour nr ~n, and after supr-'r he trots off to . : lor si news* j P -per.” “Whv d > xon iu.-ist my marrying v.-.-i, i s. ad f a clergyman ?” rather irritably i-ninircd Judge Hur.t -f a man who ha-1 been waiting at the Judge’s ehumln-rs all day with a licence in one hand and a woman i* l the other. ••\V*:v. Judy," said the bridegroom with :t cft.utiotis wink, as he Iran-d over a ;d whil in She (Y.urt’s ear, “yon v..... w.aa’-ti are ■-■' o ".idcmm-d ousartain ■w:, l.ws, that I thought E<l just open .„. :'.eC(>iint whore 1 mi r -ht a .credit in ca c I -h-.i’id ti tv3 i > !i .V-' it divorce M-'tie tun ■ v.ii.-n bnTne-s v...- b- 1." ■ Ej i-hataj . A dr c>o:-1 i s at flic olliee of th-• fa hh-r one morning to got a note dis.’ont-tcd. The ofiicial ves iVb ; . Li.- his chair reclir d a plump, s->• - I mdivi-lna! who wa- fast p. Turning to one >f fit-- clerk.-' ;o„l Hi. i '‘hvieing a' the ■'.‘cum’oant fig . ,th vi- iter ol ;■ erred : “lopearsto i ■ pr Mv Mi -s dlv terms with Mor • : h;- -itabi!,” re ponded .ieeo c ‘ I,' he .mm’. - h(-*v. ’ “Has i. i ftppoM-, -. ■ ( t:••• cisl-aer ",v, ' ; i...’ , the mv, minort O*' -.c great 1•: •: : : !Vo-i l--ut V-ahur s tir4 ■(■-.:*. a! -a- -. M- Arthur, nig n piin'or, -honirl have know t beo -r than to Up- . > mo !i r ca-iv - e.. ■oim-'V, ’ - in tked vumsmt, a i La thiny -a* o-xpeoted m him bv !’••* craft uc iav he muv ex ■ : rover--' Of i-'-t • and bo ■ ■ , f-> i:> O - . When dd- > -cur - i is hep-<1 the Presi-lcnt. e-H i e -d In - rente; n oolum is • ..ii ‘ >; drt sir <dl get Kill c i-i! * * ’ • k-- ” lull <*? ligor's. Ou- 1 an h*or ;.y . i.d . lit' Wtu • Hou--‘ Pr -' 1- : ae a-will > >