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Jan. 19, 15. fly Portland, Maine
! THROUGH THE SWAMP.
'I hit him, I did: and it wasn't bad
for a flying shot. Come on, Bill: we
musn't get too far behind Grip. That
fellow's too much for any one dog."
Biggest painter I ever seen. Jack!
Rasied the party addressed, "but it's
well enough tor you to say, come on.
1 ve rot ntty pounds o lat more to
kerry than you hev. Hadn't we better
hold up and load before we go a-kitin'
into that thar swamp?"
lime lor that when Grin trees
him," sharply responded Jack. "And
1 11 hunt him bare-handed before 1 11
lose him. Bring your bacon along as
last as you can.
And so sayinir, the tall, lithe, ath
letic young hunter sprang forward.
and disappeared among the tangled
array or trees and thickets be tore
them. ; "
Good looting enough, however,
swamp or B0Liw.mpi.i lor although
there was but little snow on the
ground, the Irost had been quite se
vere lor several days, and the JJeeem
ber sun had by no means power
enough to sotten its eriect.
The loud baying of Grip came back
to the lat hunter s ears in a way that
made his tinners tremble, as he rapid
ly recharged his double-barrel, but
his perspiring red face and hard-drawn
breath did not promise a vers speedy
recovery of his wind, tor Uill Y i
gins had been making wonderfully
good time tor the past ten minutes.
The "swamp." or bit of low and
marshy ground, in which the painter
had taken refuge from his pursuers
may have been halt a mile wide at
that point. On one side arose a range
of wild and rugged hills, and on the
other sketched an expanse of broken
and rocky ground, still covered with
a heavy growth of timber, while just
at the edge ot this latter wound the
narrow road which connected two of
the richest valleys in ail the mountain
county of 1 ennsylvania.
Now it so happened that, at this
very day and hour, the rousrh and sol
itary road was made to look a trifle
less lonely than usual by the presence
of a party ot very respectable-looking
travelers.
In front rode a very well-dressed
and comfortable-looking young man.
on a well fed and comtortable-Jookmg
gray mare. A more well-to-do and
self-satisfied pair had probably never
found their way over that swamp road;
and, if he did not absolutely own it
road, swamp, mountains and all he
certainly looked as if he did.
Just far enough behind him to make
it evident that they were traveling in
company was another "party," even
more satisfactory, in externa) appear
ance, at least, to the eyes of a disin
terested observer.
This latter consisted of a long, low
builfc sleigh, whosfeiunners were now
cutting through the light snow to the
bare ground more than half the time,
drawn by a stout, Vchuaky" pair of
Canada ponies, and which contained a
brace of human beings, at least one of
whom was more pleasant to look upon
than was the well-fed jouDg man on
the gray mare.
A young lady, say of twenty sum
mers or winters, but whose rosy face
had a decidedly summery expression,
not at all lessened by the brown curls
which escaped here and there from
under her warm cozy hood. Any one
with eyes in his head would have
looked at her first, and might have
wondered what her companion could
be saying to bring such a swift proces
sion of shadows across such a counte
nance, not to speak of an occasional
quiver of the lips, that had quite as
much feminine willfulness in it as of
any kind of grief. The words that
were pouring into her ears were low
spoken and calmly uttered, but with
a hardness and almost harshness of
tone that seemed to belie the other
"surface indication" of the speaker.
Not a very tall man, certainly, was
the latter, though broad enough to
make the spreading brim of his Qua
ker hat seem perfectly in keeping.
"Hester," he said, with an evident
effort to avoid being heard by the
young man on the mare, "thee has
been rude to Absalom this morning,
and I do not wonder he cares so little
lor thy conversation. Does thee for
get what I have said to thee about
Absalom? His father was my friend,
and his inheritance is even better than
thine may be. Has there been any
quarrel between thee and Absalom
Peek ?"
"Quarrel, father! Absalom Peck,
quarrel ? Oh, don't I wish he would !
SVhy, he wouldn't quarrel with any
body, not even it he were taking their
last cent from them. I only wish he
would let me quarrel with him 1"
"Thee is a strange girl, Hester
Merriweather," replied the old man,
"and thee takes a great deal after thy
mother. AV'hy should thee quarrel
with thy husband?"
"Husband? Absalom Peck my hus
band, father? If he were, I would
quarrel all the time. I'm glad thee
talks plainly this morning, father, so
I can answer thee plainly. 1 don't
care if Absalom Peck's gray mare
carries him clean into the mountain
or over it. He will never have any
wife at all, if he waits for me."
There was a world of spirit in the
blue eyes as they looked straight into
her father's own, but the old man was
waxing crave and stern, and he an
swered almost hoarsely :
"Hester Merriweather, I know thee;
thee has been talking again with that
lazy vagabond. Jack Maclay, of whom
I bade thee beware. Has thee not?"
"No, I haven't," sharply resoudeu
Hester, "for he hasn't been iu;ar the
house since you ordered him away.
Jack Maclay isn't lazy and he isn't a
vagabond. How does thee dare say
such things of a man whose farm is as
good as even Absalom Peck's?"
"Ahem ! Yes! Land enough, and I
must say his last crop was a good one,"
responded the now grim and angry
father: "but when a man puts in his
time fishing, and hunting, and follow
ing dogs through the woods, I call
him a vagabond, farm or no farm.
Thee must rever speak again to Jack
Maclay."
Just at this moment, the rounded
physique of Absalom turned somewhat
suddenly in the saddle, and a slow,
wheezy voice remarked :
"Friend Merriweather, did thee
hear that sound, away there to the
right? I think it is the baying of a
hound. The woods are full of deer
this winter, and they are very fat."
"Thee is right, Absalom," returned
the old man, "and if I was twenty
yearyounger Ahem! Absalom, I am
glad thee does not waste thy time in
bunting; but thee is right about the
deer. We must have a fat saddle for
Christmas. Hetty will be glad to
have thee come and help eat it."
Hetty Merri weather's face was fast
assuming a more willful look than
ever, but she suddenly exclaimed,
"Father, it is coining straight this
way. Don't you hear it? Oh, I
t should so much like to see the hunt!"
"And the hunter, too, I fear,"
j growled her father; but Absalom re
J plied with : "Did thee hear that
'jumping? It is very strange if it is a
deer.
."Hetty, my child Hetty !"
'Father!"
The last exclamation was almost a
scream, for even as Absalom Pecks
slow tongue ceased speaking, a terri
ble apparition f prang out through the
bushes, and crouched for an iustant,
on a low, Jhit jocktho roadside,,
Old man Mesriweather had, been
born amoug those mountains, but
never before had he been face to face
with anything so fearful as that pan
ther. The open mouth, the panting
tongue, the gleaming fangs, the furi
uos eyes, the unusual bulk that termi
mated in such an angry beating tail
Hetty might well scream, for the beast
was mad with the wounds of many
buckshot, and evidently deemed him
self "at bay."
Absalom had mechanically wheeled
his mare, but his fat and comfortable
face had suddenly turned as gray as
her own sleek coat, and in another in
stant he had again reined her diiwn
the road, digging her ribs with his
heels, and shouting, "I must go for
help !" rattled away down the road,
just as the savage king of the moun
tains launched himself from the rock
with a spring whose impetuosity car
ried bim into the long, low sleigh that
contained Hester Merriweather and
her father.
That brief moment of hesitation
had been worth something, however,
for, befor3 the panther could rally for
further mischief, a fierce, yelping cry
ran out behind him, and a tall, grizzly
headed stag hound followed the
"painter" with unhesitating pluck,
sinking his muzzle in the monster's
bloody flank, and turning his prey on
himself, for the moment.
Gallant old Grip! It was a rash
thing for any dog to do, and in a few
moments it was only too evident that
he had met more than his match.
As for the two ponies attached to
the sleigh, one would naturally have
supposed that the 6creams, jells,
howling, etc., so close behind them,
would have started them on the wild
est kind of a "run," but their Quaker
training from colthood had been ad
verse to that sort of thing, and they
seemed contented with a series of fat
and futile kicks, rears and plunges, of
no earthly consequence to anybody
but themselves.
What had they to do with fighting
panthers?
.Poor Grip !
He had done his best, and he had
done it well, but the long, sharp claws
were too much for him, while even the
frantic blows which Merriweather
was striking with the butt of his whip
did as much harm to him as to his
adversary.
It was just as Hetty Merriweather
gathered sense enough to spring out
of the sleigh that Grip's dying hold
was loosened and the panther sprang
fiercely after her. lhe old Quakers
fighting blood was up, and he followed
most unflinchingly: but that was an
old man with a hickory whip-stalk in
such a fight as that, even in defense
of his own child ?
Grin had disabled one hind leg for
his conqueror, nr it might have gone
hard with poor Hetty just then. As
it was, she seemed to have lost even
the power of flight.for she turned and
faced her terrible enemy, with her
pretty hands outstretched almost as
if she meant to grapple him, in an ut
ter extremity of helpless terror.
A trrapple, indeed, it would have
been in another iustant, and a hand-to-hand
struggle it was; but a form
better fitted for it than that of the
now pale and shrinking girl bounded
suddenly in between the panther and
his intended prey, and the barrel of a
heavy deer-gun came ciushiug down
upon the savage brute with a forve
that shivered stock and fork and even
broke the owner's hold upon it.
"Hurrah ! that's better than a whip-
stalk !'' frankly exclaimed old Merri
weather, but Hetty sank down upon
the snow, with a half-whisper of
"Jack Maclay!"
The empty gun had been put to its
best use, but all that Jack seemed to
have gained by it was time to draw his
hunting-knife, for although the biute
rolled over with the force of the blow,
he was on his feet again in an instant,
not exactly as much of a panther as
he had been, but with a whole wild-
catful of fight and yelling in him yet.'
I hat, however, was by no means
Jack Maclay's first experience with
the rough customers of the mountains,
and he gave his adversary no time fur
a 6prmg, but elosed with hnu at once,
making lightning passes with his
keen edged hunting-knife, while his
own garments and the noli and skin
beneath them were tearfully scored by
the quick strokes of the wounded
panther.
It was a terriffic sight for the eyes
of Hetty Merriweather, but it had al
most its comic side, for her broad
brimmed and broad-shouldered father
continued to ply the splintered rem
nants of his hickory whip stalk with a
frantic zeal that spoke better things
fur his Quaker pluck than it did for
his judgment.
Well was it for Jack Maclay that
his first flying shot had been so suc
cessful, and that faithful old Grip,
now lying dead on the bottom of the
sleigh, had done his part so gallantly,
for his gigantic "cat" seemed to have
even more than the traditional nine
lives of his tribe.
The result might have been doubt
ful for Jack, after all, but that now a
hoarsely panting, wheezing, almost
choking breath was heard close be
hind him, and the muzzle of a double
barreled gun was suddenly thrust un
der his arm.
Bang I bang !
Any quantity of buckshot went
tearing through fur and flesh and
bones, and the painter keeled convul
sively over on the bloody snow, with
hardly more than a good strong kick
ind quiver left in him.
"Hur puff rah.!" shouted the
voice of Bill Wiggins. "Buck pufi
shot's the puff thing ! Must have
been a puff handful in each puff
barrel. Are you puff hurt, Jack (
That was precisely the question
Jack himself had turned to ask Het
ty, but before he could utter a word,
she had thrown her arms around his
neck and exclaimed :
"Oh ! Jack. dear, tell me are you
hurt? Ye?, indeed you are ! Father,
Jack is wounded !
The chunky ponies had ceased their
stupid rearing, and were just starting
off down the road on what they might
have mistaken for a run, when Bill
Wiffgins raught their bridles and
brought them to a trembjing sort of
stand.
."Absalom ! Absalom Peck !" shout
ed old Merriweather, in a dazed and
uncertain way. "Why, the man's gone
somewhere!
"IIe said he would ride home for
assistance, father," and Hetty almost
smiled as she said it; "but I'm afraid,
he wouldn t get back in time Un.
Jack, get into the sleigh and come
home with us. You are dreadfully
scratched and torn. Lome!
"No, Hetty," said Jack, faintly;
"not to your father's house. Bill
Wiggins'll take care of inc. Where's
old Grip?"
The grim Quaker farmer was trem
bling strangely from head to foot.
"Not to my house?" he shouted at
last. W hy not to my house r I take
it all back, my boy; thee musn't bear
bard feelings to-day. Thy dog's body
is in my sleigh, and thee must come,
too. 1 mean to give him a decent fu
neral, but I don't want to go to thine
just yet. Uill Wiggins, help me put
him in. Take hold of him on that
side, Hetty, thee can help him a good
deal just now. Never mind thy broken
fun, Jack Maclay; thee shall have a
etter one before Christmas."
"Poor old Grip!" muttered the
wounded hunter, but somehow he
made no sort of resistance, for Hetty's
arm was actually around his waist, and
in a few moment's more he was snugly
ensconced in the sleigh, with Bill
Wiggins busy binding up his hurts
for him, while old Meriiweather was
pounding the astounded ponies home
ward with Jack's own ramrod.
Before long Bill was able to assure
Hetty and ber father that the "paint
er's" claws had done no serious harm,
ugly as some of the gashes looked,
and the old Quaker leaned back to
ask him :
"Uill, can thee get me a good saddle
ol venison for Christmas?"
"I reckon I kin," said Bill.
"Then get me two of 'em, if thee
can. Thee and Jack will be at my
house to help eat it, thee knows, but
I don't think Hetty will care to have
any other company."
And no more she did; nor did Ab
salom Peck ever again rein in his fat
gray marc in front of her father's
door, not even to bring assistance.
Perhaps he was afraid of meeting
Jack Maclay, or perhaps he didn't
like to tread on the panther skin that
lay for many a year before the parlor
door, inside. It lay there, to tellthe
truth, till the children of JacJc and
Hetty Maclay had heard the story of
its capture a thousand times, more or
less, from Grandfather Merriweather,
and until their busy feet and fingers
had divested it of almost every vestigO
of the fur. Perhaps that was why all
the young Maclays took so naturally
to double-barreled deer guns, rifles,
and health giving tramps among the
rugged gorges of the mountains.
NINETEEN UNHAPPY AVIVES.
The Vexations Lawsuits that Annoy
Tlic Prophet. Brifcham Tonne'x
Home Tribulations- Jndge Mr
liran's Adverse Deciaion nntl Ann
KIiza'9 Five Hundred Dollar
71 on i Ii.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the nine
teenth wife of tlie Prophet, sat ip her
room in the Grand Central Hotel
(says the reporter of the New York
fcun of the 22d inst.,) surrounded by
newspapers and an odor of camphor.
"Y'on must excuse my appearance and
that of my room,' she taid, with a
pleasant smile; "hut I am just recov
ering lrom a severe illness, and am
not feeling quite myself yet." Mrs.
Ycung, as she sat in her Inrge easy
chair, clad in a very becoming morn
ing dress, with a crimson shawl thrown
around her shoulders, a bit of lace at
her throat and wrists, brown hair
rippling across her forehead, and a
faint flush on ber cheeks, was any
thing but an unpleasant picture.
"I am very glad you have called
upon me,' 6aid she. "I-don't hesitate
to say that I want to say something
for mj-self. My history, actions, mo
tives and present position seem to be
most thoroughly misunderstood by
the public. Some of the leading pa
pers are attacking me bitterly. They
say I'm a bad woman; that I embraced
Mormouism with my eyes open, and
that I married Brigham Young know
ing very well what L was doing. Why
I was born in Mormonism; I was
taught from my infancy that my sal
vation dejended upon a polygamous
marriage. 1 believed that
BRIUIIAM YOUNG WAS NEXT TO OOP,
a veritable prophet, and when I first
learned that he wanted me for 1m
wife, I could not have been more
shocked or more horrified if my own
father had jiroposed marriage to me.
I resisted the very idea. The public
have heard ot the influences which
were brought to bear upon me, and
which forced me to yield. And jet in
view of all these facts, I am called a
vile woman, while nothing is said
against John W. Young's last wife,
who left her home and husband in
Philadelphia, where she was reared
and educated, to go to Utah and be
come the third and favorite wife of
the Prophet's son. It was only when
I found that Brigham Youug was an
ordinary man, and no prophet: when
I found what a bad, cruel man he was,
when I found how unhappy his family
were, that I lost faith in my religion."
Here her cheeks flushed with indig
nation. She paused a moment and
then continued :
"In regard to the legal condition of
my affairs there seems to be great mis
understanding on the part of the pub
lic, though I am convinced that cer
tain newspapers wilfully misrepresent
the facts; and I am certain that Mor
mon money i3 the cause of the mis
representation. THE TROPnET's IMPRISONMENT.
"In the first suit brought in 1873,
Brigham entered a demurrer as to the
jurisdiction of the court. Judge Eni
erson sustained the demurrer. Then
I let the matter drop for awhile.
When the 'Poland law' was framed,
giring the United States Court juris
diction, I saw another chance. I
wa nted to 6ec if women could do any
thing to help themselves. So in Oc
tober, 1874. I applied for temporary
alimony. The case was argued before
Judge McKean,-who rendered judg
ment in my favor. I was to receive
$500 per month, pending the litigation,
which would amount to 9,500 from
the time I entered the suit. Of course
it's well known that Brigham had to
pay $3,000 lawyers' fees, and was im
prisoned one day for contempt of
court. And now look at this telegram,
which I received this very day from
my father :"
Salt Lake City, March 20 $500
paid. Other not paid. Probably pay
on Monday. C. G. Webb.
"So," continued the lady, with a
lit'e light of triumph flashing from
htbiOTsn eyes. "1 shall i get the
!,000, and $500 a month as long as
the ease is in litigation. It has been
said, and written about editorially at
length, that Judge McKean granted
me a divorce, and by that act
legalized poligamy.
"This is all false. Judge McKean
did not grant me a divorce. He said
it must be proved whether I was the
legal wife of Brigham Young before
he could grant a divorce. So that
will be the next question argued a You
know Brigham claims that he has on
ly one legal wife Mary Ann Angell
to whom he was married in 1837 in
Ohio. The other eighteen f us, he
says, were married hy religious cere
mony only. It he proves this, then
he proves that he is a felon,. for ac
cording to law a polygamist is '.a felon.
He'll do this if he can. in order to
save his money; and he'll hurry up
the suit too, instead ot delaying, as he
has been doiug. for every month's de
lay costs him 500 anyway in my tem
porary alimony."
Changing the subject the lady said :
"Since I commenced lecturing I
have received many letters from Mor
mon women congratulating me on
having gained my freedom, encourag
ing me to go on in the warfare; and
when I was in Utah last fall many
Mormons invited me to their homes.
Of course there was a great deal of
opposition on the part of the leading
men. The first night that I lectured
in Salt Lake City Brigham Young sent
ill his daughters to attend the lecture
and do all they could to break me
down. So a lot of his
daughters and daughters-in-law,
enough to fill two rows of scats, seat
ed themselves close to the stage and
made faces at me during the whole
lecture. Instead of embarrassing, it
rather strengthened nie, though it
made me rather angry, for I knew
from very many of the sesame women
how unhappy they wens in their
homes. I know all Brigham's family,
and-hd very manyfrwnds among
them, though of course there was
some envy, as there would naturally
be in such a large household.
"Brigham and the leading apostles
tell their people that I am going
around talking against Mormon wo
men. Its false. I have nothing but
good words for my unfortunate sisters.
laueht the doctrine of Polygamy and
celestial glory; no, polygamy and eter
nal dimnation, ruled over by brutal
husbands, all energy and ambition
crushed out of them, is it a wonder
that they man v as they do, and then
remain in bondage? They are as a
class as self-sacrificing and as
pure-minded women
as live, bearing all their burdens and
suffering for the sake, as they think,
of the salvation of their souls. The
great majority of Mormons are sincere
in their belief. They arc astonished
at my course, for they have been
taught that to apostatize was not only
to lose one's soul, but to fail utterly
in all temporal affairs. They see that
I am not starving, and that I am well
received by the Gentiles; in fact, that
their prophets have been wrong as re
gards temporal success, and some are
beginning to question their infallibil
ity as to spiritual matters.
"My great aim now is to put the
facts so clearly before the pe ple that
they shall see the great evils of polyg
amy as they are and demand adequate
laws against Mormonism."
The highest land in Indiana has
been determined by Professor Collett,
Assistant State Geologist, to be in
Brown county. The highest point in
the State, the hill known in Brown
county as the "Weed Patch," which
is 550 feet above Nashville, (Ind.,)
and 200 feet higher than any other
point in the Slate. The Columbus
(Ind.) Republican says on the top of
the 4 Weed Patch," there is a beauti
ful level plane embracing GOO acres of
land. The view from this point is
grand, romantic and picturesque, and
if the ground should ever be properly
cultivated it would make an attractive
and healthy summer resort for inva
lids. Judge Wilson has entered into a
law partnership with Hon. Samuel
Shellabarger, of Ohio, and, under the
firm name of Shellabarger & Wilson,
they have opened an office in Wash
ington. We understand also that the
Judge intends to purchase property
in Washington and make that city his
permanent home. We are sorry to
lose such citizens as Judge Wilson,
and his removal froni Connersville
will be generally regretted. No law
yer ever made more rapid progress ir.
his profession than Judge Wilson has
during the last four years, and we
predict for him a brilliant future in
the profession for which he is most
admirably fitted. Connersville Times.
The people of Nevada spend per
cnpita U7 cents tor intoxicating liquors
every day, and it is estimated that
there is one liquor dealer to every
sixty-one inhabitants of the State.
Nothing like advertising. A New
York' merchant advertised recently
for a boy; he found one in a basket on
his door-step next morning.
Aj Washington dispatch to the New
York Mercury states that Senator
Cameron's-excursion to Mexico has
for its object the annexation to the
United States of several of the norths
em States of Mexico.
Suits are to be commenced against
the Pacific railways for the amounts
due the government for the 5 per cent,
of their net earnings called for by the
act of July 1, 1862, and other acts.
The United States Senate Snstains
the President.
On the 23d, after Thurman and the
balance of the Democratic Senators
had exhausted all the tricks of legis
lative procrastination, the Senate
adopted the following resolution, a3'es
33, nays 23:
llesolved, That the action of the
President in protecting the govern
ment in Louisiana, of which W. P.
Kellogg is executive, and the people
ot that State against domestic vio
lence, and is enforcing the laws of the
United btates in that state, is ap
proved. -
Here are the yeas and nays: .
YEAS. '
Allison, Anthony, Boutwoll, Bruce,
Burnside, Cameron (Wis.), Christi-
ancv. Conkling. Cragin Dorset Ed
munds, Ferry (Mich.), FreliBghuystn
Harvey, Hitchcock, , Howe, lngalls
Jones (New), Logan, McMillan,
Mitchell. Morrill(Me ), Morrill (Vt ),
Morton, Faddock, .Patterson, Ivobert
son, Sargent, Sherman, Spencer, Wad-
1eigh, West, Windom. '
NAYS.
Bayard,
Bogy, Booth, Caper ton,
Cockrell,
Cooper. Davis, Dennis,
Gordon, Johnson , (lenn.), Jones
(Fla.), Kelly, Kernan, McCrecry,
Maxey. Norwood. Randolph, Sauls
bury, Stevenson, Thurman, Wallace,
i -1 . 1 1--. i
t nyie, liners.
All the Republicans except Booth
voting for it. Thurman made a des
perate though unsuccessful enort to
so amend it as to break its force
Even Mr. Booth voted square against
his propositions.
In commenting on the action of the
Democratic Senators, on the Louisiana
question, the Indianapolis Journal
makes the following pertinent and
truthful remarks :
"The action of the Democratic
Senators in voting against the reso
lution indorsing the President's course
in Louisiana affairs, was in harmony
with their action throughout the
whole Louisiana business. From the
beginning they have treated that
question as a purely partisan one, be
ing guided through all its shifting
phases by two ideas first to sustain
the Conservatives and White Leagu
ers of Louisiana, and, second, to make
political capital for the Democratic
party. AVhile eonstantlj- prating of
their devotion to the constitution and
the principles of liberty, they have
never once risen above a purely par
tisan view of the question. At several
stages ofthe complication Republicans
have honestly differed as to the best
course to be pursued, the question
with them being what would contri
bute most to a peaceable and perma
nent settlement of the Louisiana
question, to the protection ol life and
i lie establishment of law and order.
But no such differences have ever
sprung up among the Democrats.
1 hey have never bee in doubt as to
the bet policy for them to pursue; it
was simply to defend the AVhite
Leaguers, oppose everything that
looked towafd a settlement of the
Louisiana question, and make all the
political capital they could out of it.
I'heir conduct has not been embar
rassed by any such considerations as
the enforcement of law, the protection
of life, the restoration of peace or the
settlement of Louisiana affairs on the
solid and enduring basis of equal
rights. They have given no thought
to anything of the kind. They have
simply asked themselves how they
could best uphold the hands of the
White Leaguers and turn the Louisi
ana question to political account."
"LITTLE DAN."
A Ietroit lotoflire Experience as
Kelatel hy the "Free Prmtit."
You see, the people at the Postof
fice soon recognize faces aJid names.
and after a man or woman hns appear
ed at the general delivery window
three or four times they are pretty
well known. It is a real pleasure to
hand out letters to some, while the
lerks care little for the calls of others
to get hold of their epistles.
One day a year or two ago a funny
looking little old woman, wearing
faded garments, but having a tidy
look and a motherly face, appeared at
the window and asked for a letter.
There was one for her, sent from a,
distant city, and any one could have
told that an unlearned boy directed
the envelope. There was a little "d"
in "Detroit," with a big "T" to end
the word, and it seemed wonderful
that the letter ever reached its desti
nation. The old lady felt so good that, tears
in her eyes and yet trying hard to
smile, she put her head into the win
dow and said:
"Thanks! It's from my boy, Dan,
and you don't know how much good
it does me'"
The lady delivery clerk rose up to
look after the old woman, and when a
second letter came she was looking
and watching for mother a whole
day belore the letter was passed out.
"It's from my little Dan again,"
cried the old woman, as she noted the
superscription. "He's in Buffalo,
learning a trade. He's only a bit of a
boy, and there wasn't a show for him
in Detroit, and besides be was runnin
f
out nights and going to the bad.
sent him away and he's working hard
and trying to be good: God bless my
Dan! I'm a lone widow with" only
him to love, and I hope he'll be good!"
"I hope so too," added the clerk,
aud after that the two were friends.
Sometimes the letters were far be
tween, and when the old woman would
worry over the delay, and the big tears
would fall, the lady would almost shed
tears with her. "Mother" would open
her letters at the window, and if Dan
was feeling brave hearted and getting
along well both would rejoice, while
both would still be anxious if he com
plained and was anxious.
Almost every week for a year and a
half the old lady received a letter, and
just as regularly she came to post an
answer. She wrote in a quaint old
hand, but the boy could make out
every word, and once when he wrote
that her writing was improving she
felt all the pride which a school girl
could have shown. He improved as
well. J5y and by he wrote "Detroit"
plain and fair, and he took extra pains
to commence his "Dear Mother" with
a grand flourish, and to add some
thing extra after the words "Your son
Dan."
Those letters were food and drink
to the old lady, and she seemed to ae
tually grow younger. Little Dan had
many friends in the postoffice, and
bad the mother been ill any carrier
would have hunted till midnight to
find her and hand her the looked-for
letter. Three or four weeks ago when
she opened her letter she wept and
smiled as over the first. Dan wrote
that he was coming home for a week,
and her heart was full. She said she'd
have the cottage looking iike new for
him, and she'd be at the depot to wel
come him first of all. Everybody felt
good with her, and the. lady clerk was
to go up some evening and have tea
with her and see little Dan and praise
and encourage bim, for the more kind
words a boy can have the better will
he seek to do. -
There was no letter the next Tues
day, a nor the twd excused its absence
by saying that Dan was getting ready
to-com home. "Thakwasfc early in
February, and-he was to'ebmeaboat
the 1st of March. . The next Tuesday
there was a letter, but the handwrit
ing was not little Pans. It was a
strange, business hand, and the elerk
felt a chill go over her as she turned
it over. It might be good news,' but
she feared not. "Mother" came in at
the regular hour, and she turned pale
as she took the envelope. Her fin
gers trembled as she oiened it, and
she had to wipe the mist out of her
eyes before she could decipher a word
She hadn't read over four or five lines
when she uttered a moan and sank
right down, like one crushed by some
awful weight. They lifted her up and
took her home, the letter clasped in
her stiff fingars, and though she came
oui of the faint after awhile her heart
was broken, and in a week she was in
her grave.
Dan was dead! The letter said that
he had been taken suddenly ill, and
that nothing could save him. lhe
blow was too heavy for one with her
gray hairs and childish heart, and her
little oil cottage is without a tenant.
No more letters commencing "Dear
mother," come for the dead, and the
trembling hands which used to linger
fondly over the words: "My dear boy.
Dan, are folded over a listless breast,
there to rest till the angels unclasp
them.
Civil Rights in the Sonth.
The civil rights bill has become a
law and is in full force, and jet the
world stands and all things continue
as tney were since tne latners leu
asleep. The political papers have, in
deed tried to get up some excitement
over the question, but have complete
ly flattened out in the attempt. A few
simple-minded colored boys have call
cd at some ot the grog shops in Atlan
ta for liquor, and bem refused, which
was good for the boys. If all of the
grog-sellers in the city would do the
same, it would be a great favor to the
colored people; and then, if they would
turn their white customers out of
doors, and close up the business, that
would be still better, and would rid
the community of an intolerable curt e
and nuisance. There is a sort of "one-
horse" theater in town, where colored
people have heretofore been admitted
to the galleries, which is unfortunate
for them. Last week a colored boy
took a seat in a part ofthe gallery not
assigned to that people, and was as
saulted and driven down stairs. An
other came up, and was beaten and
hurled back with violence and seri
ously injured. A gentleman and lady.
were ousted in a violent manner; but.
the day after these occurrences, the
papers said that tho latter were trying
to get to their "proper place," the
niggers' corner," and the young man
who was hurt was not the one he was
supposed to be. ro matter, he was a
nigger; that was enough. hetlier
these persons have any redress under
the administration of the law, is a
matter of doubt. One gentleman at
this theater was armed with a shot
gun, with the avowed purpose ol
shooting any "nigger" who did not
"know his place." In this instance,
it is clear that the white men were the
biggest fools, and the only disturbers
of the peace. If the newspaperf had
indicated half as much good sense in
the case as the colored people, there
would scarcely have been a ripple on
the surface of the social sea. But,
happily, the papers have signally fail
ed to get up any considerable scare.
Their borrowed trouble finds a paral
lel in that of the ancient maiden who
was found batbed in tears, and when
asked the cause of her sorrow replied,
in the midst ot heart-rending sobs:
"Suppose I should get married; and
the baby should be creeping along by
the wood pile, and the wood should
fall over it! Oh, oh, oh!" That
would be sad. The danger was equal
ed by that threatened by "social equal
ity." The people ought to see that
they have been egrcgiously humbug
ged and fooled by designing men fcor
political purposes on this matter. Our
opinions on the subject are unchang
ed; the rights ol all of the people as
citizens must be protected before we
can have peace in the South. The
public schools are not and should not
have been disturbed, but (through
the South generally) ought to be made
vastly better than they are, for both
white and colored. The social equali
ty scare is consummate nonsense. No
one is so stupid as to wish to regulate
social affairs by law. The law ought
to protect all, however, in the enjoy
ment of their rights. This it must do,
leavine all social relations to regulate
themselves. Southern Methodist Ad
vocate. Thirty thousand people attended a
meeting in Hyde Park. London,
called to take cognizan e of the death
of John Mitchel, the Irish Pat-PAT-patriot.
Resolutions were adopted
demanding the release of Fenian pris
oners, condemning coercive laws in
Ireland and condoling with the family
of the deceased.
The desperado, Vasquez, who was
the terror of the Pacific coast region
for years, and who was charged with
having at various times committed
made a business of highway robbery.
The taking off of such a character is a
relief to the world.
Woodhull says Tilton called upon
her nee and told her he had just left
Beecher at his bouse. He said Beech
er had been holding him on one knee
and Elizabeth on the other, with am
arm around each. This is too thick.
thirty-seven murders, was hanged at
San Jose, California, on Friday week.
He was a native Mexican, and hn
Old Mr. Page told Brother Dun
ham he lied; Brother Dunham sent
word to Brother Page if he did not
take that statement back, he would
bring him before the church. Brother
Page came to terms . in .this wise:
"Brother Dunham, perhaps I did
wrong to say you lied. I will take it
back; but X declare I believe you did
liel" which was satisfactory.' ; m
Men who never do wrong seldom do
anyimng.- jjosion i e ws. . ; t . i .
Whenever a fresh kiss ia discovered
in the Brooklyn trial one of the jury
turns pale, shivers a. little, and drops
over in a fainting fit.' " V
The New xork Mail says the man
who wrote "Beautiful Snow" has left
the country in disguise. " -
.in lien vacKson, a minaman, was
received last Sunday week as a mem
'ber'of jtbe Met hoditt Church at Cin
cinnati. ' . - - :
Theodores midnight wanderings in
search of a soft spot reminds one of
the old lady who searched a long time
for her spectacles, and finally found
them on her own head. Rochester
Democrat. . . y
A Watertown widower, who recent-
l I :J l: i .ii ur
ly uuneu jus t-tcuuu wuc, iinus an ui
lady friends opposed to a , third term.
Rome Sentinel.
Now that the thaw has come, the
npright citizens is no longer obliged
to take his regular monthly bath in a
. ' t -i i,
pint cup. .orwici uuiieim. -
Navigation is open at Uswego. A
man who stepped off the wharf there,
the other day, says he went right to
the bottom without meeting any ob
struction. Detroit Press.
Tho English sparrows around town
whiled away the time during the last
snow storm by singing, " 'Omc, 'omc;
sweet, sweet 'ome, Re hit hcver so
'umble. there's no place like 'omc."
1
When a boy "throws a snowball at
his little brother in the woodshed,
and hits the old lady, who has just
come to the back door with a pail of
slops, he hardly ever has any appetite
left for supper. Rome Sentinel. .
When a man drags a three-cent
postage stamp from the dark recesses
of a bladder and tenders it in payment
for a copy of the Times, we are satis
fied that he's not any better "fixed"
a1 J , . "
mail we are, ana our nearis Deal in
sympathy. Fulton Times. .
"Geology is all well enough in its
way," said Blifkins, the other morn-
w vi ib iuklo i. t lie rv 11. UVv I J
understand getting into a pair of
breeches when tbe lining in the legs Is
torn, that it does to permeate the
Silurian or any other of the Paleozoic
ages." Milwaukee News.
Billy Henderson was engaged in
cleaning out the cellar the other day
and sorting over the apples. It was
during the thaw, and the cellar win
dow was open, and as Billy seized a
rotten apple toshieat Jimmie IJrown's
dog, which was passing, he didn't-no-tice
that his father was just, putting
his head in at the window to call him
to dinner. . JLiilly will probably be able
to sort over the rest of those apples
next week, but his father's eye will
never resume its wonted brightness.
Fulton Tinie3. ;
From the Danbury Xevrs.
To have your boy follow a good ex
ample hiteha brass band to it.
The difference between a home
made and a store p:e is that the form
er is generally beardless and the lat
ter generally isn t- J ,
A funeral was postponed. Monday.
because of the non arrival of two
cousins from a neighboring village.
Everything was in readiness, even to
. 1 4 . 1 i.a .
tne presence-oi tne undertaker, with
a melansholy aspect and a iiew screw
driver. However bad a man may be there is
yet some good in him. ' It may te hid
den in filth and rubbish, but it is
there, and there comes a time when it
is brought to light, when the mire and .
the clay fall from it, and it acquires
new lustre lrom its surroundings. A
man may neglect his business, his
family, and his friends, but he is al
ways attentive to a cold-sore on his
lin.
A Jersey City youth has left his
home because his parents would not
have pie at dinner. He is probably
secreted in some Country printing of
fice. . . .
One nf nnr prcliiinirou vim tn VianJ
- .... . . ... .. V V ..I. .1
hist ffwlr a.witimanierl w n nnctol
...' ... . j . i in i
card, explaining that it was one day
i i . . i i . i . -
iaie, owing 10 ine eaiior naviug mis
laid the shears.
A Fishkill man received a telecram
from a Chicago hotel keeper, a few
days ago, notifying him of the death
ot his wife at the hotel. The Fishkill
man promptly replied: "Send tho
body. Let her come through in style.
I'll make it right with you." The re
mains came in respectable order and
C. O. D. The hotel keeper was a man
ofthe world.
A petition is in circulation for sig
natures, which will be presented to
he next assembly of the fetate Legis
ature, praying for the passage of a-
aw preventing coasting on the public
streets and thoroughfares. This is
netted by the several accidents which
have occurred in Connecticut, this
winter, through coasting. We should
ike to endorse this petition, but still
t seems hard to denrive the bovs of.
about the only enjoyment winteV af-.
fords. And as long as they don't, kill ,
anybody but themselves, we don't see
why we old people should mind. ; And
then again, if they can't ride down
hill, they will throw snow balls, and
we would rather that seventy-five bov
should be killed than tn he nit n:ielr
of the head unexpectedly with a snow
ball. It is a very painful case anyway. .
and we don't really see how it can be
satisfactorily settled.
Tfr. ia reYnsrVahle fiet tluif wenrA- 1
of long moustaches are fond of soups
and custards, and their indulging m -them
has a very filling effect on the
party opposite. '. "' ; . . -?
Th Tpemoer.it io Sheriff nf Vw ,
ex-keeper of Li bby prison, 'while the
Mayor takes for his, Jeffl'Davis' pri- '
vate secretary.- Ex. ' ; : ; i
Now. if Wir hadn't been hiinr thnui
X - -. , f , . 111 .
oubt. - ' - - - f V