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OFFICIAL .TOURNAL OF THE PARISH OF ST.
VOL. 4.
OPELOÜSAS, PARISH OF ST. LANDRY, LA., SATURDAY
kNDRY.
OCTOBER
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Life's Better Moments.
Life has its moments
Of beauty and bloom ;
But they liau<* like sweet roses
On the edge of the tomb.
Blessings they brinf* us,
As lovely as brief ;
They meet us when happy,
And leave us in grief.
Hues of the morning,
Tinging the sky,
Come on the sunbeam 1 ;.
And oft with them fly.
Shadows of evening
Hang soft on the shore,
Darkness enwraps them,
We see them no more.
So life's better moments.
In brilliance appear.
Dawning in beauty.
Our journey to cheer,
Round us they linger,
Like shadows of even,
O, that we, like them,
May melt into Heaven.
Speech #f Senator Schurz.
Nashville, September 20.—Carl
Schurz made hiss promised speech at
the capital to-day. An immense au
dience attended, representing all
sections of Tennessee. Iiis arrival
in the hall of representatives was
greeted with applause. ' Governor
Neil S. Brown made a few remarks
in introducing him.
The speech of Mr. Schurz was of
great length, liberal, candid and
impartial, and was well received.
He began by stating that not
withstanding the captious remarks
which had been made relative to his
acceptance of an invitation from
prominent men who had been rebels,
lie was happy to meet all steadfast
Union men, equally happy to stretch
out his hand to all men who had
stood against the government dur
ing the war, but are now ready to
work for the restoration of universal
peace, harmony, friendship and true
brotherhood, and thanked the union
ists and confederates, Republicans
and Democrats, natives and adopted
citizens, whites and blacks, for the
very friendly welcome extended to
him. He had no selfish aspirations.
His audience had nothing to give
him. He had been allotted the high
political position attainable to a for
eign born citizen under the constitu
tion. He would utter the natural
convictions of his mind without fear
and impartiality. Proceeding to dis
cuss the present condition of public
affairs, he said a general amnesty
should no longer be postponed. It
would tend to disarm the feeling of
alienation caused in the Soin h by the
results of the war. A j ust, generous
and conciliatory policy should be
adopted. It was necessary to return
without delay to sound practices of
constitutional government. Local
self-government should be restored
to that freedom which belonged to it.
Great abuses had grown up in the
civil service and must be corrected.
Our system of import duties needed
a change. Taxes must be reduced ;
a return to specie payment:» must be
made ; corruption in high places re
buked ; the influence of corporations
of tremenduous power guarded
i
against, and donations of public
lands stopped. These were, he said,
problems to be solved, and his views
were shared by millions of liberal
Republicans North. Some of them
were of special interest to, the South.
He impressed on the audience the
importance of the attitude of the
South in laboring for reforms. So
long as disorderprevailed, the North
would not yield to its liberal and
progressive impulses.
He said the war was caused by the
antagonism between slavery and free
labor. Slavery brought on the strug
gle. Its cause was hopelessly lost,
and can never be revived.
He referred to the change of affairs
in the South, and the necessity of a
change of social and political orga niz
ation based on principles of equality.
The reconstruction acts of Con
gress were not the offsprings of
hatred and vindictiveness, but of
stern necessity to protect those who
stood by the Union, white and black,
and to prevent a reaction or future
troubles. The Southern people would
resort to all possible expedients ; ac
cept of free labor in its true form,
and free labor must and would be
maintained, secured and developed,
or the struggle be fought over for
those.political privileges by which
freemen maintain their rights. He
asked if the South had been placed
in the position of the North, would
they have done less ?
Mr. Schurz was emphatic in his
disapprobation of the policy of the
present administration,-and in his
frequent expressions of apprehension
of the result to our republican insti
tutions to allow its perpetuation in
power, the only deliverance from
which he considered to be through
the co-operation of the sincere pa
triots of all parties in the political
organization which would insure the
obliteration of sectional bitterness
from national politics. Such an or
ganization would command the con
fidence and secure party co-operation
of his faith, who would support it in
preference to the administration par
ty, but could not conscientiously act,
with the Democratic parly. Such a
movement would receive the support
of the entire German element of the
nation, and the true patriots of all
parties, and result in a genuine res
toration of the Union.
The remainder of the speech was
devoted to the exposition of his
views on other topics mentioned in
the outset of his remarks.
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Two thousand women are now
i £? in ß farm work in Wisconsin.
i They stay fn the fields from §annse
j to SUDSCt.
Experiences of a Diver.
I have lately had the pleasure of
an interview with Mr. -T. Wood, of
Herne Bay, who has followed the
business of a diver for upward ot
twenty-two years, and who has now
retired altera longandactive service.
Mr. Wood made his first start in
life by an extraordinary, and, as it
turned out, a'very lucky piece of di
ving. If the reader will look at the
map of Ireland, he will see that out
side of Belfast Lough, and a little to
the southwest, opposite Donaghadee,
are situated the Copeland Islands.
It so happened that a Whitstable
man was a coastguard in this district,
lie heard a legend that a sliip laden
with a heavy cargo of silver had been
wrecked ofi the Copeland Islands
some half century ago. He t here
fore communicated with some of his
friends at Whitstable who were «li
vers. Accordingly, Mr. Wood and
four others put their diving-dresses
on board a vessel and sailed from
Whitstable to Donaghadee. The
story they heard when they got there
was, that the wrecked vessel was in
the slave trade, and that she had on
board, when she struck on the rocks,
a large number of slaves, and a con
siderable sum of money in the shape
of silver dollars. Nothing would
have been known of the wreck having
taken place had not somebody dis
covered human legs projecting above
the surface of the water, it appears
that the people on board the ship
had tried to escape; they had filled
their shirt-sleeves with dollars, but
in getting up the rocks many of them
had fallen back and met an unt imely
end, as the weight of the dollars had
kept their heads under water. No
one had ever disturbed the wreck
since it happened, so Mr. Wood and
his friends set to work to find out
where it was. They put on their di
ving dresses, and for two or three
days walked about to and fro at the
bottom of the sea, in about forty feet
of water, searching for the treasure.
This they did by clearing away the
weeds and turning over the stones
with crowbars, and feeling for the
dollars with their hands, as the water
was too thick to see. The wreck itsel f
had entirely disappeared through*
the lapse of time. After a long and
careful search at last they came upon
the dollars ; they were spread about
among the stones, but many had
slipped down among a heap of iron
ore which had formed the ballast of
the ship. Many of the dollars were
worn away thin by the action of the
waves. Some were lying separate,
others in great lumps like rocks sol
dered together by iron, certainly in
some cases the handcuffs used for
the slaves. Some days the divers
got two hundred dollars, sometimes
three hundred, sometimes a thou
sand; the best day they got live
thousand, a considerable sum of
money when reduced to English
pounds.
Mr. Wood showed me one of the
dollars, which he always carries
about him. The following is the in
scription : On one side, " Carolus
iitj. Dei Gratia. 1797. Hispan et
Ind Rex M S R. FM." The coin is
about the size of an old five shilling
piece. The " Divers Arms," near
the clock tower at Heme Bay, of
which"Mr; Wood is proprietor, owes
its existence to the discovery of these
dollars. Mr. Wood had on this oc
casion a curious under water adven
ture. One of the divers complained
that he was annoyed by the lobster
aud couldn't work. Mr. Wood
learned the whereabouts of the lob
ster aud went down after him. He
soon discovered Mr. Lobster sitting
under a rock, looking as savage as a
lobster can look. His feelers were
pointed well forward, and he held
out his two great claws wide open in
a threatening attitude. Wood know
ing the habits of lobsters, gave this
fellow his crowbar. Then watching
his opportunity he passed his signal
line over the lobster's tail, made it
fast, signalled to the men above to
haul up. This they did, and instant
ly away went Mr. Lobster flying up
through the water into the air above,
with his claws still expanded, and as
scared as a lobster could be.
A great conger-eel also paid the
divers a visit. He was an immense
fellow, aud kept swimming around
Wood, but would not come near him.
Wood was afraid of his hand being
bitten, as a conger's bite is very bad.
He once knew a diver whose finger
was seized by a conger. The brute
took all the flesh cleau off the man's
finger. A conger is a very dangerous
animal in the water. However, this
conger kept swimming round about
Wood, so he took his clasp-knife out
and tried to stab him, butthe conger
would not come near enough to be
killed. It was a long time before
the conger would go away, and even
after he had gone away, Wood could
not go on working, because lie was
not sure that he was really gone for
good, and it might have come out of
some corner and nipped his fingers.
Mr. Wood has had other adven
tures with fish when working under
water. He was once employed in
fixing some heavy stone in the har
bor at Dover ; while waiting for the
stones to come down from the ship
above, he sat down on a rock, and
being very quiet, a shoal of whiting
pout came up to examine the strange
visitor to their sub aqueous resi
dence: they played all about him,
and kept on biting at the thick glass
which formed the eyes of his diving
helmet ; so the next time Wood went
down he took with him a fish-hook
fastened into the end of a short stick
—a gaff, in fact. The pout* camo
around him as usual, and he gaffed
them one after another with his hook.
He then strung them on a string,
and came up after Iiis day's work was
over with goodly fry of whiting pouts
for his supper.
On an other occasion Wood was
employed to bring up some pigs of
lead from thêhold of a vessel. When
he was walking about on the top of!
the lead he felt something alive
under his feet. It kicked tremen
dously, but he knelt down upon it to
keep it steady; he soon ascertained
that it was an enormous skate that
he was standing on, so lie served
him as he did the lobster, lie
watched his opportunity and slipped
the noose of his line round the skate's
tail ; he'then signalled to " haul,"
and up went Master Skate, flapping
his great wings like a wounded eagle,
and mightily astonished were the
people in the boat when they found
a monster skate at the end of the
line, and not a pig of lead.
Wood once nearly lost his life
when at the bottom of the sea. A
Prussian vessel had gone down oft
the Mouse Buoy in the Thames estu
ary. The captain was drowned in
hiscabin, and Wood had undertaken
to get him out if lie possibly could.
Arriving at the bottom of the sea,
Wood found the vessel lying over on
her side, and that she had gone down
with all her sails set. lie tried to
get into the cabin, but found the
main-sail all-over the cabin door.
He was just about to return when he
found that his air pipe and signal
line had suddenly got jammed. Fully
aware of Iiis very dangerous position,
and without losing his presence of
mind, he sat quietly on the edge of
the vessel and considered. The men
above, he could find, were signalling
to him violently to come up, but he
could not answer as the line was
jammed. He took out his pocket
knife, and thought two or three
times of cutting himself adrift. As
a last chance, he determined to
adopt another course, so he climbed
up the rigging, among the great wet
sails and loose ropes, as well as he
could, and fortunately found the
place where his a : r-pipe was hitched.
Ho carefully loosened it, gave the
signal, and .was hauled up imme
diately. If I understand right, the
line was clear enough when he went
down, but while he was at work on
the sunken ship the tide changed
and, carrying his pipe and the line in
opposite direction to that in which
it had been originally conducted, it
became jammed. He did not get to
the surface one instant too soon, for
the boat was just drifting, as her an
chore would liot hold.—[Cor. ft. Laad
nul Witw
Smoking Opium.
While recently visiting the Leigh
ton plantatiorf, where M r. John Wil
liams employs a large number of
Chinamen, we saw one of them smo
king opium ; and as the process is
novel, we will describe it for the en
tertainment of our readers. Having
boiled the gum opium, dissolving it
to the consistency of melted glue,
they keep it in a small vessel, simi
lar to an ordinary ro md pocket ink
stand ; and when ready to smoke, ;<s
they do two or three times a day,
they lie down upon a bed or lounge,
beside a tray about two by three feet
in size, in the centre of which stands
a burning lamp, surrounded by pipes,
the bottle of opium, and a long steel
or iron ueedle, about the size of a
knitting needle, which is used to
transfer the opium to the pipe. Ly
ing with the right hand next the
tray, the needle is dipped aito the
bottle of opium, and the portion
which adheres to it is held so near
the flame of the lamp that it cooks
and swells, when it is rolled into a
pill by passing the instrument over
the smooth surface of the pipe, for
the latter has not as large a hollow
as the ordinary pipe, but an opening
simply large enough to pass the nee
dle through.
When the pill is made as large as
is desired by the smoker, he holds it
on the end of the needle, which is
pushed down into the pipe, leaving
the opium on top, with a hole through
it, and it adheres to the top of the
pipe when the needle is withdrawn.
This preparation complete, which
occupies fully ten minutes, he com
mences sfiioking by holding the pipe
to the flame of the lamp, and melting
and burning the opium. The smoke
is all drawn through the small open
ing in the pipe, and instead of being
puffed from the mouth, it is all
breathed out through the nostrils.
The smoking of a pill occupies buta
few moments, but it takes three such
doses to satisfy the ordinary smoker.
Thé Chinaman we saw smoke was
well educated, and speaks good En
glish. He informs us that in China
all clases, from the highest to the
lowest, indulge in this habit, and,
like tobacco smokers, he thinks it
harmless. Of one thi ng we feci sure :
it consumes so much time to smoke
opium that we do not fear that our
energetic American s will ever acquire
the custom.—-[SugarvBowl.
" My dear, will you play your thou
sand dollar polka ? " said father to
his charming daughter, six months
after her return from a fashionable
boarding-school. The youHg lady's
musical performances had dwindled,
piece by piece, to a solitary polka,
and the fond parent's sole compensa
tion for his many yeàrs' outlay was
this precious " thousand dollar pol
ka " and his own sorry joke.
Mankind embraces womankind.
SOLI m KRS,
EX-CONFEDERATE
Letter to Carl Schurz— His Response
Nashville, September 21.— The
speech delivered by the Hon. Carl
Schurz, of Missouri, Wednesday, has
created a profond impression in po
litical circles. The most significant
incident connected with it is the fol
! lowing letter, formally addressed to
Senator Schurz, and signed by sev
eral hundred ex-confederate soldiers,
embracing every grade and rank of
the late rebel service, from private
and non-commissioned officer up to
major general. The signers, generally,
are representative men of influence.
Nashville, Sept. 22, 1871.
To Hon. Carl Soliurz :
Dear Sir—We, the undersigned,
formerly Confederate soldiers, wish
to express to you our high .regard for
yourself, and our profound regard
and admiration of theunseltish, non
partisan, cultured and patriotic ad
dress delivered by you in this city.
We admire the manly, independent
spirit which refuses obedience to
party when in conflict with one's
convictions of duty and right. We
pledge you that we are no partisans ;
that we have a faith that no words
can express in the sublime signifi
cance of the mission and destiny of
the American republic; that we
honor and revere the national flag as
the assured herald of that day when
all the races of men, of all ranks and
conditions, will be redeemed and de
livered from all species of political
and mental thraldom. We wish to
turn our backs upon all sectional
parties, and all parties groping in
the moonlight of the past, and to
ally ourselves with any party that
will be animated with the spirit of
civil and religious toleration, broad
and elevated patriotism, unbounded
by State lines, and inspired with an
abiding faith in the genius of free
institutions.
Senator Schurz's reply is as follows:
Maxwell House, Nashville, )
September 23, 1871. )
Gentlemen—1 have received your
letter, and without affectation I may
say that I can not find words strong
enough to describe the joy it has
given me. The spontaneous expres
sions of such sentiments as your let
ter contains, coming from you, as
late soldiers of the confederate army,
may well be called an event of great
significance in the history of our
days. When your former comrades,
as you do now, rally one j more aroi 1 ad
the flag of the American republic as
! H ' c f-™*"? 1 of nnive snl freedom,
' , aml ™nstitnt.oaal gov
j eminent, when they declare that
they will turn their backs upon all
parties " groping in the mopn'iglit
of the past," aud discountenance
that partisan spirit which is so apt
to obscure human reason and blunt
thebest: moral impulses of the human
heart; when they once more fully
recognize the identity of their true
interests with those of our great com
mon country, then every patriotic
citizen will feel that the regeneration
of the South is certain to be accom
plished by her own people. If there
is still lurkinghereandtherea spirit
which keeps alive feelings of animo
sity and distrust, which by means of
social prescription or intimidation or
violence strives to impede the deve
lopment of a free public opinion, you
can render it harmless by your in
fluence and example] If there are
still disturbances of the peace and
order of society occurring, calculat
ed to produce the impression that
the property and the rights of the
citizens can be sufficiently protected
only by the interference of the gen
eral government in your local con
cern, you can dispel that impression
by devoting your energies to the en
forcement of the law, thus proving
the capacity of local self-government
to accomplish its legitimate ends here
as well as elsewhere ; if there is still
an apprehension as to a secret design
to subvert the logical and legitimate
results of the war by reactionary
movements, you will remove that
apprehension by demonstrating that
the young South has risen above old
prejudices and absolute aspirations,
and is determined to build up again
the prosperity and power of these
States on a basis, in harmony with
the progressive spirit of the age;
men of courage and convictions like
you will do nothing by halves, they
will not look back when they put
their hands to the plow, and I assure
you your efforts will have the sincer
est appreciation, hearty applause
and energetic support of every true
frieikl ot liberty and free institu
tions; your rights will be safe in the
security of the rights of all. Your
power will be strong in the restora
tion of the brotherhood of all Amer
icans, and the republic will be proud
of all her sons.
I am, gentlemen, with fraternal
greeting, jour friend and fellow
citizen, C. S ciiurz.
D uties of N eutrals .—Never to
néglectan opportunity of interfering
between man and wife.
Never, on any account, to allow
lovers to settle their own quarrels.
To be prompt in volunteering ad
vice, especially disagreeable advice.
Always to be ready to give au
opinion as to a lady's age.
To make a point of differing from
mamma, in every particular, when
she praises baby.
To plunge into all street rows.
Needlessly to take part in squab
bles between relations.
"Generally, to meddle in other
people's business, aud to neglect
their own.
ihs Hying Trapeze in ihe
■(Pennsylvania) Correspondence of
the Now York World.]
One of the most extraordinary
and almost incredible exhibitions of
human intrepidity and daring was
last Monday, the fourth instant,
witnessed hy the citizens of this
place. It seemed to me to equal
if!
i not surpass, in thrilling and painful
i inteivst anything ever attempted
I by Sam Patch or Hirudin in their
ciiori
An
individual
a tightrope!
" as he styles
himself, who had, on the previous
wiliest
named Donaldson
walker and "magician,
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no basket attached j
nothing whatever,
m tact, but a common trapeze.
I. pon this he seated himself with |
\\ ediiesday, made a balloon ascen
sion in the ordinary way (the first
balloon ascent of any kind he had
ever made in Iiis life), repeated
performance on Monday last, but,
tins time with no basket attached
to his balloon
throwing i
which he j
1
,.ie greatest coolness ami eompo- j
sure, and went floating away
spa ce, to the astonishment of thel
large, crowd which had gathered to
see him, but few cheers greeting
him. as the spectators seemed spell
bound with fear and apprehension.
After ascending to a considerable
distance he commenced
out a number of circulars
had attached to a little hoop below
the balloon, producing a most novel
and pleasing effect.
But this was nothing to what
followed. At the height of some
three hundred feet he commenced
balancing himself on his back on
the bar of the trapeze, and going i
through other fearful evolutions. |
He then deliberately slid from the
bar head downward, and, catching
himself by the feet remained sus
pended for several seconds in that
awful position! The appalling
sight was one never to be forgotten
by those who witnessed if. A thrill
and a low aiurmur*of horror passed
through the immense multitude,
who were looking on with inten
sost interest, and many hurried
away from the sight, giddy and
faint.
The daring, ,'eronaut, however,
went through the evolutions suc
cessfully, and, regaining his seat,
went soaring rapidly and steadily
upward. When at the height of
three-quarters of a mile, lie had
the astounding nerve to repeat the
performance, which, at. so great a
distance, could only be clearly vi
sible by the aid of glasses. What,
made this ascent all the more ha
zardous is that the balloon
is a
very small one, carrying but little
ballast, and with nothing but a
light anchor attached to the hoop
Î am glad to say that the aeronaut
completed Iiis voyage safely, al
though he once or twice seemed to
be in considerable danger. The
trapeze struck the roof of Henry
Connard's residence, on Fifth street,
when Mr. Donaldson màde a skill'
ful leap from the trapeze, and pre
vented a collision. The balloon
then ascended, and came down
again on the other
in a field, and
ide of the road,
was about striking
the top of a tree, when 31 r. Donald
son turned a somersault, on the
trapeze rope, and prevented the
bar from catching on the tree.
—
"N epentite ."—This word, which
is so often used by poets, is the
name of a plant, which, in torrid
regions, supplies the traveler with
a refreshing beverage. It lias an
urn or pitcher at the extremity of
its leaves, generally filled with pure
and limpid water. This is covered
with a lid when full ; but the water
diminishes during the day, and in
creases in quantity during the night.
" Nepenthe" is also the . name of a
plant which the ancients put into
wine, to drive dull care away, when
the wine itself could not*. Some
suppose it to be the helenium.
The Atlanta (Georgia,) Planta"
tion says : " Col. Locketfc has, in
Southwestern Geergia planted in
cotton this year 0500 acres, and in
corn and small grain 3500 acres.
It is estimated that his cotton crop
will be worth 880,000. This is pro
bably the largest cotton crop made
by any one person in the cotton re
gion. He employs three hundred
and sixty hands—all black."
An anccdote of Lord Chief Justice
'
Holt is a, follows : A poor old woman i
was anaisned for witeheratt. The
witness deposed that she nsed a :
( ( ,, Uill b rn,.« « en,ii •) ,,„ n ,i i -
"spell.' I he " spell, ' produced m !,
evidence, was a line from one of thoi
classic poets, written on parchment. !
The justice demanded to see it, and
it was handed to him. , " How came j
you by this . he asked the prisoner. !
rtfvmrni. nivlnvd rrm-n I
" A young gentleman, my lord, gave ;
, m ? *° cnr ® m .v daughter's ague."
"Did it cure her . "O, yes, my [
lord, and many others." " I am glad j
of it," said the judge. " Gentlemen :
of the Jury, when I was young and
thoughtless I went to this poor
woman's house with some compa
nions, had no money to pay the
reckoning, and pretended that by a ;
" spell ' I could cure her daughter's
agite. She accepted the proposition,
and let us oft scot free. Tf any one
is punishable it is tf»e Lord Chief'
Justice, and not this poor woman."
Of course she was acquitted, butthe ;
credulous multitude affirmed that j
the judge and jury were all bribed,
""" — -— -
By no means put yourself in an
other person's power; if you puti
your thumb between two grinders, |
they are very apt to bite,
Neu name for
cribs.
1 low
man—
U;i med
UT \
nec<
THE HHiORISTS' fOLFMN.
A little non son se now and then,
Is relished by the wisest men.
i oi ied earn—The novelist's pay.
tight boots—Corn
distill'
guish a wealthy
■sus in his face'.
;e in Indiana
Old Necessity,'
knows no law.
has been
' because
A contemporary says "'the
printers were Titan." There
good many "tight uns" among
still.
first
are a
them
A fashionable lady lately dropped
one of her eyebrows in the church
pew. and dreadfully frightened a
young man sitting next to her, who
thought it was his moustache.
. : T~~ , .
f A la(i >" ' l Stockton was
f, " iml sltt i"" on the "style» the
other evening. .She sat down on a
young man's new hat. That didn't
fit her. and it is ruined forever.
A little bit of a thing, who had
just got back from a party, was asked
by lier mamma how she had enjoyed
herself."Oh,mamma,"shesaid,"I'm
so full of happiness!—1 couldn't bene
happier, without J was bigger.' 1
11 ' „, ^
« George," asked the teacher of a
Sunday school class, "who, above
all others, shall von wish first to see
h j m f
' '
lion, the litttle fellow shouted, "Ger
liah ! "
The following in the conclusion of
an epitaph on a tombstone: "She
lived a life of virtue and died of the
cholera morbus, caused by eating
£' miU iVuit in the full hope of a
blessed immortality, at the early
age of twenty-one years, seven
months, and sixteen days. Reader,
go thou and do likewise."
wheu you get to heaven ?" With a
brightening up with anticipa
ir~"
s
A very curious mode of trying
the title to land is practised in
Hindustan. Two holes are dug in
sputed spot, in each of which
the plaintiffs and defendant's law
yer put one of their legs, and re
main there until ono of them is
tired, in which case his client is de
feated. In this country it is the
client, and not the lawyer, who puts
his foot to it.
A Dutchman, the other day, read
ing an account of a meeting, came to
the words, "The meeting then dis
solved." lie could not define the
meaning of the latter, .so he referred
to his dictionary, and felt satisfied.
In a few minutes a friend came in,
when Houty said. " Dey must have
very hot wedder dere in New York;
i ret an agount of a meeting vere all
de beoples had melted away.",
The late Jeremiah Mason was once
engaged in a famous trial, in which
some good Methodist brethren were
concerned. One morning, when the
court opened, an over-zealous friend
or his client came to him, and in a
: solemn whisper said : " Mr. Mason,
> Mr. Mason, I had a vision last night.
Cabriel appeared to me and tohl mo
that Brother A. was innocent. No
mistake about it." " Very well," said
the man of law, not so much as lift
ing his huge head from over the table
on which he was writing : "very
well : better have Gabriel subprenaed
immediately."
Front Surprise Valley comes the
following story of an old fellow who
j got very jealous because his young
! wife went to a ball with a good look
ing fellow, and stayed out till broad
I daylight. The old chap went to a,
! justice of the peace and told his story,
i winding up with : "I want ycr to
help me, for that ar thing has been
going on about long enough."
Well," says the Justice, " You can
write down to Yreka, and see if some
of the lawyers can't get, you a di
vorce." " Divorce ! " roared the an
gry man, " who the deuce wants a
divorce ?" The Justice began to get
wrathy. "If you don't want a divorce,
what the deuce brought you here?"
"Why, I want an injunction to stop
further proceedings."
T ryin' to the B aste .—A Hiber
nian, fresh from the "green isle,"
having sufficient means to provid^
himself with a horse and cart (the
latter a kind he probably never saw
before) went to work on a public
road. Being directed by the over
seer to move a lot of stone near by
and deposit them in a gully on the
side of the road, he forthwith loaded
his cart, drove up to the place, and
had nearly finished throwing off his
load by liitnd, when the overseer told
him that was not the way—he must
tilt or dump his load at once. Paddy
replied that lie would know better
next time. After loading again he
drove to the chasm, put his shoulder
* «J* f'« 1 . ?"1 "'"*5 " , ® ''TT'
and all n.to the Roily. Scratch.
'," a ', l ,'f„ hra< !', ?" 1 '""'iT ra ?!" >r
doubtfully at his horse below him,
!, h ^ . « T >, lf ind i^ sn lll5frll
. , 1 i* f ll , 8a J. ai .g i P
fiS "
During the " troubles " a young
confederatemiss was passing through
i, i JTg
lieutenant,
nmg.
" Oh, «here is he, let me kiss him
for his mother," exclaimed the maid
en
The attendant led her into an ad
joining ward, when, discovering
Lieutenant II- , of the Fifth Kan
one of the hospitals, when i
marked that a prisoner, a lit
iiacl died this morning.
couch, and thinking to have a little
f UH he pointed him out to the girl,
|gj ie sprang forward, and bending
oV er him said:
" Oh, you dear Lieutenant, let me
; kiss yon for your mother."
j What was her surprise when the
awakened "corpse " ardently clasp
i,jg her in his arms, returned the
salute, apd then exclaimed :
" Never mind the old lady, Miss,
| go it on your own account, I haven't
the slightest objection,"