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ton foieOOHB and look tor signature of
ea .very fcottln An. Jrarrlrt or 4nln la ftrfuwrr
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Stomach Hitters. Ladies ot th-; most del
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For sale by all Ih-utrirlsts and Dealers
KeneraUy. . . .
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OTATO RUGS
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feS STOMACH
IC fifacrpa rs
TFIE EDITOR'S WAGE.
Th editor sat In his rhatr lon
A bnier person there never w. known
When in came a farmer, jollv old sonl.
Whose name for lonfc years had been borne
on the roll
Of payinff subscribers. He had come into
town
To brine rite trood wife and some farm pro
duce down.
And havlntr a moment or two he eortid apare
TTsd run in as nna1, to brin? in a sbre
Of his own Ir.ward sunshine to liehten the
gloom
Of the man of the press and his doll, cheer
less room.
The editor's smile, as he lifted his eyes
And saw who was there, was of joyful sur
prise ;
And he trreeted his friend with a deal of fcTad
yest.
For a eood chat with him was Hire taking a
rest.
When at length, the old farmer s;ot ready to
leave,
ITe said, with a sly little laueh in his sleeve :
"My dear friend, there Is one thing I Just
want to sny
Now, please don't get vexed, for you know
it's tn v sray
But what makes you put in each paper you
print
So much thst is worthless do you take the
hint?
W11 potty misfortunes and little mis
deeds And W of small mattpr thqt nobody reads."
The editor looked at him square In the face.
At first with a frown, then a smile took its
place.
"My dear friend." he replied, "I'm surprised
ron don't know
Every line In the paper Is read but it's so ;
And now, if you wish, I will make my words
irood.
And prove what I say, es everv man should.
I'll pnt In the very next paner a line
Or two about yon in coarse print or fine.
Whichever vou choose, and Just where you
may say.
And if .-iu don't find on the verv next dav
That your neichbors all read It, I promise" to
Bive
Free subscription to von as lone as you live."
"Agreed," said the farmer, "yon shall sing
a new ong ;
Pnt It right In the middle of one of those
Tone
Fine tvpe advertisements I never yet knew
Any person of sense to read one of those
through ;
If I hear from it twice, I will bring down to
yon
The bst load of garden sance I ever grew."
Then the "good nays" were passed, and the
farmer went out.
And the editor laughed to himself without
doubt.
As he thought of bis wager and how rt
would end.
And the nice little Jose he would have on
his friend ;
Then be wrote just two lines, and he order
ed tbpm set
In the smallest of type thinking; : "I'll win
that bet."
And he placed them himself, to be sure and
not fail,
Tn the midst of a close agate real-estate sale.
For. to better succeed in bis little designs,
Ile'd pelectd a place where to put these
lines
And have them connected with what follow
ed and make
A sentence complete in itself, without break.
These the lines that be wrote : "Our old
friend, good James True,
Who is one of the best men the world ever
knew.
Of the well known Flop Farm" that was
a'l that be said
About James, hut the next line below these
two rend
"Will be sold very cheap" then went on to
unfold
The beanties and bounds of the estate to be
sold.
The paper was printed. The next day but
one.
The farmer came In, with his eyes full of
fnn ;
"Ton have won." he began, "just as sure as
you're horn ;
Why, before I'd got breakfast ate yesterday
morn.
Two or three neighbors called, purpose to
see
What that meant In the paper they saw
ahorit me.
(I hadn't seen it yet.) Then, during the
dav.
Every neighbor that met me bad something
to sav
Abont my being sold. I was sold very cheap.
And you did it well, too ; it was too good to
kepp :
So I've to'd the whole story, and came with
all frd
To bring you the garden sauce, as I agreed."
The editor looked from bi window and saw
ITis fiiend had brought in all his bor es
could draw
All for him ; he declined to accept it, but
found
That h friend wonld not listen, and was
off with a bound,
Saying, cbprily, as he went out : "In your
next
Jnst say J'm True's preaching, and this is
h's text :
There is naught In the paper fruit, flowers
or weeds
Not a line in the parer that nobodv reads."
JYoridVnee (R. 7) Journal.
A STRAM5E CHARACTER.
BT CART. RATM05D.
One eveningduring the progress of the war
of the Revolution In America, an Id woman
living In the suburbs of Portsmouth. Eng
land, was summoned to her door by a knock,
and, on opening It found herseif confronted
with an old man, poorly dresed, with a bun
dle in his hand, such as travellers of his class
frequently carried on their pedestrian tours.
"Madam." be said, respectfully, "can I
get to lodge here to-night ?"
"It aren't my business to take lodgers,"
replied the mistress of the bouse, scanning
the applicant closely by the light she held in
her band.
"I s'pose not, madam but I'm a poor man
and want shelter somewhere."
"Well, why don't you go to an inn ? there's
plenty of them in the town."
"Just because I'm poor and can't afford to
pay as much as they'd ask. I've got a little
money, or.ly a little, and I want to make it
go as far as I can. I'm willing to pay you
wtiat's reasonable ; and then I'd have some
thing, I'm thinking."
"Who are you ? where do you belong? and
what's your business ?"
"I'm callPd John the Tainter, and that's
my business, and I belong anywhere I bap
pen to be. If you're not satisfied with this
answer, why good night to you, and I'll
trudge on to try my chance somewhere else."
The old woman, who was poor herself, and
lived alone in a small, crazy old house,
thought she might as well gather in a few
pennies, by keeping the traveler, as to let
some of her neighbors do It; and so, after a
little reflection, she rejoined :
"I s'po I can keep yon, if, as yoa say,
you'll pay me what's reasonable for, like
you, I'm poor, too, and can't afford to do it
for nothing. Come In and sit down you
look tired. I s'pose yon want supper?"
"Tes, If you please," said John the Taint
er, as he walked In and took a seaUnear the
fire, upon which he fixed his eyes somewhat
abstracted 'y, while be carelessly threw his
hat and bundle down beside bins.
For the half hour that the mistress of the
house was busied in preparing his "upper,
the traveler seemed deeply absorbed In mat
tor ct hia owe, an sereely enos took bit-
eyes from the fire or changed his position.
At first the old woman gazed at him furtive
ly, with an air of ordinary curiosity, and oc
casionly ventured some common place re
mark ; but finding he made no reply, took
no notice of her presence, and even seemed
not to hear her, she became bolder In her
manner, and two or three times stopped near
bim, staring directly into hia face.
He appeared to be between sixty and sev
enty years of age, had gray hair, a stern,
pinched face, a large nose, thin, compressed
".ips, and cold, staring eves, the expression of
which was far from pleasing, and which was
not redeemed by anything else in his coun
tenance. In fact be seemed like a man not
at peace with himself or the world, or who
was either then brooding over some commit
ted crime or contemplated revenge.
"There sir, your supper's ready, if you
want it," at length spoke the mitress. In a
half querulous tone, as If offended that none
of her previous remarks had been noticed.
The strange traveler took no heed, bnt still
sat staring at the fire.
"I say your supper's ready, man ; and, if
you want it hot, you'd better eat it before It
gets cold, for I'll not warm .It again this
blessed night, for you nor nobody else 1"
cried the hostess, in an angry lone.
Still no movement no response no indi
cation that her unronsical voice was even
beard.
"I say," she half screamed in bis ear, at
the same time taking hold of his arm rather
rudely.
Like a ball he sprung from his seat and
confronted her, his eyes looking wild and
wicked.
"Good Lord, man, don't scare a body so !"
exclaimed the woman, taking two or three
quick, backward steps, and turning pale with
fright. ''I'm only trying to make yon un
derstand your supper's ready."
The stranger glared at her for a moment,
then glanced at the table, and then seemed
to comprehend the true facta.
"Oh ! all! yes!" he replied, with a grim
smile. "I beg your pardon ! it's like you
have spoken to me before !"
"It's like I have, a half a dozen times, Just
as I might have talked to a post !" '
"Yes, madam, I see I thank yon I beg
your pardon. I was busy thinking and for
got where I was."
He then took his seat at the table, and,
while eating his supper, tried to make amends
for his former impolite abstraction, by mak
ing himself as agreeable as possible. He
succeeded so well in his efforts to please that
the mistress of the house became quite
charmed with his conversation, and began to
think be might possibly be an angel in dis
guiseor, in other words, a rich and eccen
tric old gentleman, whom good fortune had
thrown In her way for a future husband or
possible legacy.
But these bright hopes did not have a long
duration for scarcely had the stranger fin
ished bis mea!, than he suddenly grew cold,
taciturn and presently asked to be shown to
his bed. If he slept soundly, the mistress of
the house did not for after the dispelling of
the bright fancy of future wealth, she began
to fear that the stranger might take a notion
to shorten her life before morning, and she
lay awake and listened and trembled at every
ur mtial sound.
The night, however, passed off without
any disturbance ; and at daylight the old man
arose and went out, leaving his bundle be
hind. Scarcely was he out of sight before
the curiosity of his hostess set her to work
to see If she could gather any new facts.
If he had left a trunk instead of a bundle,
she would probably have found a way to open
and rummage it ; bnt as it was she had only
to untie an old. dirty handkerchief, and there
before her eyes lay a shirt, a pair of stockings
and a tin box a curious looking tin box for
which, unfortunately for her ease of mind,
she could not imagine any use. She held it
up, turned it over, shook it, and tried her
best to see into it, and conjecture for what
purpose it was made ; but not being able to
do this, she at length resigned it with a sigh,
rolled it np as she had found it. tied up the
bundle and went about her own business.
John the Painter came back to a late break
fast, and then settled with the curious widow
for all be had had of her, at the same time re
marking that he might possibly remain in
town another night, In which case he hoped
he would be permitted to return and pass
another nighi under her hospitable roof.
To this she now readily Rave her consent,
again thinking him a man of some conse
quence. He then Irquired where he could find a
tinman ; and receiving the proper direction
to one, he bade her good-bye and started off,
this time taking his bundle with him.
Toward evening, however, he came back,
and eaid he had concluded to stay another
night In town, and wanted supper, which the
widow again prepared for him.
He ate this meal in silence, and soon after
made some excuse to go out.
He was absent two or three honrs, and
when he returned he reported that there was
quite a large fire which he understood to be
in some government building that he feared
wonid be consumed.
"But blessed are the poor I" he added,
with a strange kind of laugh, which his host
ess afterwards recalled ; "for they have noth
ing to lose."
He then went to bed, and appeared to rest
well through the night ; but rose at the first
streak of day, paid bis reckoning, and took
bis departure, saving he would not return.
On going out, an hour or two later, the
widow was surprised to see the usually quiet
town of Portsmouth in great commotion
groups collected here and there as if discuss
ing some remarkahle event and mounted
men, both military and civil, dashing hither
and yon. seeming hurried aud anxious. Ou
every blank wall, too. there was a flaming
placard announcing the startling fact that a
hundred thousand pounds worth of naval
stores had been destroyed by incendiarism,
that secret emissaries of the enemy were sup
posed to be in their Midst, offering large re
wards for the arrest and conviction of the
guilty, and ordering all citizens to report to
the nearest magistrate the names or all
strangers who bad lodged !n town during the
last three days and more especially last
night
As soon as the widow fairly understood
this matter, she hastened to give in the name
of John the Tainter. with a description of his
person, manner, conversation, and, withal,
his curious tin box and visit to the tinman.
The latter was immediately sent for, and de
posed that he had made a top for the box,
which seemed to be a curious affair, the use
of which he did not know.
All this fully fixed suspicion upon the ec
centric old man ; and as it was supposed be
bad been despatched, from town to tome dis
tant point by relays of horses, horjemen were
sent off in every direction In hot pursuit,
with orders to arrest every mounted person
they might find.
Somewhere about mid-day John the Paint
er was overtaken on the regular London road
by one of these mounted partita, who stop
ped and Inquired if any one had passed him
on horseback that morning.
"Not a soul," replied tbe old man.
"How long have you been on this road ?"
"Since daylight. Why?"
"There was a gr-at destruction of naval
stores in Portsmouth last night, the work of
some Infernal incendiary, and we want to
catch the villain."
"Well, do you s'pose he fled on horseback?"
said the old man with a peculiar twinkle of
his frve.
"Undoubtedly."
"Well, he didn't he went on foot."
"Ha ! how do you know !"
"Because I know the man who did it"
"Who is he. ? where is be ?" demanded the
leader excitedly.
"He's called John the Painter, and he's
here. I'm the man."
"Take care how yon jest, old fellow !" re
turned the other, warningly ; "it might get
yon into trouble."
"If you can't understand plain Englih,
you're as big a fool as your royal master is
knave !" said the old man with an angry
sneer. "I tell you I'm the man that did it
and I'm the man that glories in it and if
yon don't believe me, ride on and bunt till
yon get sense !"
The horsemen now thought the old man
was crazy ; but, after what he had said. they
concluded to arrest bim and take bim back
to Portsmouth. They did so, and thPre be
was confronted with the old woman and the
tinman, both of whom identified bim as the
mysterious stranger they had described.
ne was then asked to make a confession
and name his accomplices.
"I never had any aecomnliees," said the
old man. indignantly. "Whnt I did, I did
alone, and I glory In it. I once livd peace
ably and happily In the quiet little town of
Amboy, State of New Jrey, far away over
the great waters ; and I'd been living peace
ably there to-day, if the minions of TCing
George bad let me alone: but thev came
there, and Insulted and ahnsed me, and
burned down my dwelling and cast me adrift
to shift for myself and then I took a solemn
oath I'd he revenged. It was mv first inten
tion to Rill your vile king ; ano I'd have done
it only for Mr. Deane, onr Secret Minister at
Taris, who convinced me it was wrong to slay
the Lord's Annointed : and so, as the next
best thing I determined to burn as mnch of
the king's property as I could. I came direct
from Paris here, and you know what I've
done since I got here, and that's enough. I
know you'll hang me for it but I don't care
for that. I'm a poor, friendless old man,
made sick of life by yonr accursed deeds ;
and now that I have got my revenge, I don't
care how soon I die."
They sent the old man, nnder guard, to
London, where he underwent a close exami
nation before the Privy Council, bnt no new
facts vere elicited. He strictly adhered to
his first statement ; and, mainly on hfs own
evidence, or confession, he was tried, con
victed, sentenced, and hanged.
We have only to add that the foregoing
may be relied on as strictly authentic.
A CURIOUS DISCOVERY.
"Certalr.ly," said Mr. M., "romance is not
confined to literature. Truth, as is so often
said, is stranger than fiction. Ten years ago
my wife and I decided to come to New York
together to buy goods. We were keeping a
small store in B at the time, and mat
ters had not prospered with ns, as a rival of
mine, who had more money than I, was do
ing bis best to ruin us. In fact we were
quite discouraged, and we were making a
last effort, for my wife hoped to choose more
tempting stock than I could, and by offering
novelties reinstate ourselves in our old posi
tion as the keepers of the best store in B .
We got on the train about 9 o'clock and
went first to G. A J.'s for woolen goods.
All the way down I had noticed a stranger
a man about 4.1 years old who sat near us,
look at my wife. But she was, if I say it, a
very pretty woman, and that did not sur
prise nie. Besides, a cat as we well know
has a right to look upon a king, nowever,
there is a limit to everything, and when I
saw the man walking behind us it struck me
that I aid note like it. And when ai G. fe
J.'s he walked in and began to price woolen
goods in a way that made me sure he knew
nothing about them I grew angry.
However, even that might have been a co
incidence, and it was only when we had
been to H 's and V 's and were
going to lunch, and I had seen him follow
ing us with his eyes on my wife, that I made
up my mind to bear it no longer.
We went into lunch. He took the table
opposite us. nowever, the restaurant was
for the public. I gave him a glance, and be
colored and looked away ; but he was on
our heels again when we left. Then I
made up my mind to put end an to it and
we came to a large stationery store in
street 1 stopped, dropped my wife's arm and
requested her to go on by herself to make
the purchases, as she was more accustomed
to that sort of stock than I.
She did as I told her, but
"Oh, Frank," she whispered, "don't quar
rel with that man. 1 know you are going to
speak to him."
"Don't be frightened my dear," I said, "I
am quite calm. I only intend to end this
annoyance."
And as she left me, I took a step toward
the stranger, who lingered on the sidewalk.
He met me half way.
"Sir," said he, "will you tell me that la
dy's name ?"
"That, lady Is my wife, sir," I answered.
"Then, sir, you can give me all the infor
mation I desire, he went on. "I wish to
know your wife's maiden name."
"Is this some old love of Fanny's?" I
asked myself, and started at him indignant
ly. "A curious question, " I said.
"I will put it in another form, then," he
said.
'Look here. He took from bis pocket a
daguerreotype, one of those old. fashioned
things never seen now-a days, and opened
the c. "Who is that ?" he then said.
I looked at It. It was a better portrait of
my wife than I bad ever seen taken before.
"That Is my wife," I said
"How old is your wife?" said he. "Wait
Your wife cannot be more than thirty. This
is a portrait of a woman of thirty-five, and
it was taken twenty-seven years ago. It is
my mother!, portrait ; but 70 can ae tha
iikeness of your wife. I ran away from
home when I wns a boy, but took my dear
mother's picture with me. I left a little sis
ter, who was said, even at three years old,
to be her mother's imace. That little sis
ter's name was Fanny Faulkner. I am Jas.
Faulknpr. A year ago I came back to
America, and I found my parents gone from
their old home and no trace remaining of
them. I believed the whole family to be
dpad. but, when to-day I saw yonr wife, I
conld not help hoping that she was mv sis
ter."
I listened and felt snre that the man
snoke tbe truth, ne had mentioned my
wife's maiden name, and I knew of her run
away brother. I told bim so. and called
Fanny. We went tr.ge.her to a friend's
house, where we talked everything over.
He proved to be Fanny's brother, and I
bad the banniness of telling him that his
mother still lived at our home.
It was a very happy family greeting, and
moreover, a verv fortunate one for us. Mv
wifp's brother was rich and gerterons : he
assisted me materially, and helped me to
overcome my difficulties. To-day he Is onr
best friend, and an inmate of onr bouse
and vet it is strange to think that If we bad
rot met In the streets of New York thot dv
we should not. hav met at all. for h had in
tended to sail for Europe by the next steam
er, never to return.
THE RAILROAD LIAR.
It nas always been a source of wonder to
me. savs Bnrdette, what a railway corpora-
tinn expects to gain by keeping the move-
ments of Its trains profound mysteries f-om
the traveling public, especially dnring perl-
....... ... rmi i-ei'i-iri, ""nieiiis nun
annoylng delays. The passpngers on the
trains, the waiting friends and expectant
passengers at the stations are alike snubbed,
misled by evasive replies, or directly or in
tentionally misinformed. All this makes
the delay doubly exasperating tn the wnit-
ing people, and it doesn't, move the delayed
train a rnlnnte faster and doesn't add to the
popularity of the road.
When the recent flurry of snow and horeM
winds and Arctic cold swept over the land T
waited at a great city station of one of the
greatest railroads in America for a train due
at S o'clock p. m. I snsppptpd thp train
would be late. By diligent, inqniry I man- I Mandeville Marlgny and Emile La Sere, who
aged to find five men in the uniform of the j still live, sonce years past 70, remarkable ex
railroad company's employes, who nssnred ' amples f well-preserved faculties and spirit,
me that they didn't know anything abont ' Marigny, under the auspices of Kin Louis
that train. Fhililppe in the cavalry school of Saumar,
Well, as a general thing, a railroad man is ; 'as a classmate of the Duke of Orb-ans, and
not expected to know anything about the ' at his graduation had been commissioned into
trains on his own road I suppose. If that is
so. tbpse five, neatly uniformed men in the
. .
nannsomest station In America filled the bill
to perfection. That is what, the brakeman
Melias and conductor Hanford knew, and
they have got into trouble and an indictment
for it.
But I continned my search, and nnearthed
one or two more uniformed specimens of
colossal ignorance of all matters remotely
pertaining to the railroad, ore of the speci
mens, the one with the bluest coat and
brightest buttons, expressing great sur
prise at learning that there were any trains
at all on the road that day. Presently I
found a liar, who deliberately told nie the
express was only forty five minutes behind
time. I afterward learned that he was pot
the regular liar, but was a supernumerary
who was j.tst learning bis business, and
only went on in star parts when the regular
liar was sick. But on this occasion there
were so many anxious people asking qties-
tions that the entire force of bars at the dis-
posal of the company was on the stage at
once, assisted by the full strength of the en-
tire ballet. I met most of them. I found a
light comedy liar who, when I asked bim
how mnch was "22" behind, said it was all
behind the enaine. The sarcastic liar fin-
ished telling a nervous old woman that the
train would be in before morning, and then
when I asked him where it was now he said
his watch had stopped, and went away to
tell another passenger it wonld be along in
twenty minntes. At la?t I found the premiere
liar, who is neypr sarcastic, never evasive,
always polite, always direct, and never ill
natured, ne looked me straight in the eyes,
and in tones earnest with conviction told me
at 7.30 p. m. the train was only an bonr late.
He told me the same thing again at 8 o'clock ;
quietly and earnestly he repeated this de
claration at 9 15 p. m. ; a' 10 20 he re-affirmed
it; he stuck to it at 11; when midnight
paused in the sky he called upon the stars
to witness that what he said was true ; he
stuck to itatl a. m. ; and at last, at 3 o'clock
in the morning, that train came in, ten hours
behind, and the premiere liar was still telling
the questioning people that it was an hour
behind schedule time.
Now what cood did all this deceit and
misrepresentation do the railraad company ?
It didn't make a pound of steam ; it didn't
clear away a snow drift ; it didn't deceive
the public, who have come to disbelieve al
most anything a station employe tells them
about delayed trains. It would be some
comfort to a man waiting for a train to know
how long he has to wait If it is going to be
ten hours, he will go home and start next
day. And when a train is ten hours late
surely somebody in the employ of the com
pany must know something about it. It Is
true the employes are pestered and bothered
by the endless questioning of the waiting,
impatient, restless crowd, but if they can't
stand question ing they should leave the rail
road and go to work in a powder-mill, where
people will not crowd around them and ask
questions.
Swef.t-MrSDF.D Women. So great is the
influence of a sweet-minded woman on those
around her, that it is almost boundless. It
ia her that friends come in seasons of sorrow
and sickness for help and comfort ; one
soothing touch of her kindly hand works
wonders in the feverish child ; a few words
let fall from her lip in the ear of a sorrowing
sister does much to raise the load of grief
that is bowing the victim down to the dust in
anansh. The husband comes home worn
out with the pressure of business, and feel
ing irritable with the world in teneral ; but
when he enters the cosy sitting room, and
sees the blaze of the bright fire, and meets
Ids wife's smiling face, ne sneenmb In a
moment fc the soothing influences which
acts as the balm of Gilead to his wounded
spirits that are wearied with the stern real
ities of life. The rouch school boy flies in a
raee from the taunts of bis companions to
find solace in his mother's smile ; the little
o..e, full of irief with its own large troubles,
finds a heaven of rest on it- mother's breast ;
nod so one might go on with instances of the
influence tbt a weet-m;nded woman li'is in
the social life with which she is connected.
Beauty is an insignificant power when com
farad with ber'a.
DUEL O HORSEBACK.
A FAMOUS ENCOTTKTFR AT SEW fRLEANS
FIFTY TEARS AGO.
Apropos of the recent marriage at Taris of
Miss Emily Schaumhurg, to an English gen
tleman, Col. Charles Hughes-IUUet (the
proprietor, it is said, of the estate charged
with the ancient tribute of the Dunmow flitch
of bacon), the New Orleans Times tells a
picturesque stoty of a famous duel fought on
imiM-tnu-K near mat city many years ago by , jer-ts f r the di-eeing t,i ,;P : and when thi
Miss LulaSc'iaumburg's father, then a Lieu- j Duke of Wellington was the most adored
tenant In the Second Dragoons. It Is a pleas- i and the most talked ,f man in the king 1 nn.
Ing t rie in itself snd suggests curious reflec- j The Serjeant does not forget to tell tVe t4.ry
tions on the difference between the socral ; of t!;e D'lke's joining Crockf.tr.Ts, t' fa
ethics of New Orleans half a century ago J motis gambling resort, tint he might black
and tnose of New York as illustrated in the ball V.is sons if t-ov 'mh. candidate : nor
Loubat-Turnbu'l affair to-day. Lieutenant j riat other nvre venerable tale of bis ming
Schaumhurg, dwelling in New Orleans, had ' ling his t-ars nifh Bh'totmr's over tlie dead
a difficulty with a Creole gentleman o,' the ! of Waterloo. And apropos ef Blucher conies
class so strikingly described by Mr. Cable in j the old a-)ee,iotp of ttU r.drt.ra'ion for Lon
the "Grandii-simes." Tl:is particular Gran- don aftr a gorgeous city dinner: "What a
dissime was one of three brothers famed for j enVndid city it wmi'd he to w.eV;," cried the
t netr cntvairic valot-ttie t nrvelliers, Alex-
ander, Ado:plie and Joseph. The latlerstil
j ",,rviv'"s' Rn octogeuarian, universally
"Pted by the citizens of New Oil-ans.
re-
He
! is a kl"d, gentle, and amiable old gentleman.
lio still halts on one lek', perforated in one
of his youthful rencontres.
Adolpbe Curve llier If was who called Lieu
tenant Schaumhurg to account for some sliubt
put upon his honor. Schaum'mrg aceepted
the challenge, and as a cavalry officer his
brother officers decked, that having the
I choice of weapons and mode of combat, he
j enjoy the privilege of fighting tin horseback,
j with sabres or swords, nis seconds, officers
of his regiment, Insisted nron that nin!e of
i Combat Popular sentiment did not reg-rd
j oo ins n- it-jjiiuii!ie. a civilian oi tieii-
J cate frame, wholly unused to cavalry set vice,
! unskilled in horsemanship or in sabre exer-
cise, was certainly not the. equal adversary
of a stalwart, broad shouldered, heavy dra
goon, who had lieen long practiced and drill
ed In the exercise of his ait as a cavalry offi-
t cer of thp crack dragoon regiment of the
regular United States armv.
Nevertheless Cuvellier did not hesitate, to
accept the terms of the combat. A week's
preparation and training were accorded the
parlies. Cuvellier placed himself in the
hands and under the training of two golUnt
Creole gentlemen of tested courage and skill.
I tnt! cuirassiers and served several campaigns
,n t,1Ht corps.
I,. . . . .
j llp was an accomplished equpstnan and
sworustuan, or tne coolest courage and iron
j 1'fve. He assumed the charge and drilling
I of ,,is friend Adoiphe and of his charger, de-
vvlmih many ii'iun 'i me u:ty 10 i ne. tin in ii;e
ot ooiii Horse and rider, until lie had brought
them to perfection in their respective func
tions in a hand-to-hand combat. His prac
tice was that of the French cuirassiers, who
use a long, straight sword in rest, and at a
charge like a lance, while the dragoon's
weapon is a broadsword, which they can
sweep ovei their heads, slash and cut adlibi
turn, giving little heed to their adversary's
I thrust. Schaunibuig was drilled with the
j broadsword.
j The day, hour, and place of the rencontre
j bad been duly advertised, and the people
I flookpd to the race course at Carrollton as to
i a great festival to w itness the combat. There
were thousand present, who occupied the
: seats allotted to the attendants of the races,
There was no charge for admission to the
! grounds. The parties were promptly 011 the
ground at the appointed hour. Principals
and seconds were mounted nn the best train,
I ed and highest-blooded chargers that could
! be obtained in the cily. Schaumhurg had
1 borrowed for the occasion a iii.igtiificept
! bloided stallion, owned by Col. Oliver, a
j sportsman esteemed throughout ti e South as
j a most ex perienced stock breeder and j nlge
: of horseflesh. Cuvellier's bail been s'l.-ct( a
for him by Marigny. lie, too, was of hii;!i
blood, but of less weight atid power than his
adversary. The combatants were stc.ttor.ed
at a distance of a hundred yards apnrt. The
blast of a trumpet was the signal for the
charge. It was gallantly and impetuously
made, the splendid chargers putting them
selves on their highest mettle and speed, and
their riders directing them against each o; iier
with desperate force. Theirs winds met rml
clashed violent:. Cuvellier, by a slight in
clination of his head, protected himself fiom
the sweep of Schnuniburg's sabre, which
clove his hat and uncovered him, while his
own long sword grazed the neck of Schauni
btirg's charger. The great impetus of the
combatants carried them some distance R-oiri-
derand a halt vvat sounded, wi t n the quick
and agile second of Cuvellier. Emile La Sere,
leaping from Ids horse and picking tip the
hat of his friend restored it to him. so that
when the cavaliers bad w heeled they were
both in good condition and preparation for
another charge.
The trumpet again sounded. The two
high mettled animitU. obedient to the spirit
of their riders, again rushed nt one another.
The swords again met and clashed. But Miat
of Cuvellier was more certain and vigorous
in its aim than in the previous conflict. While riotiieda little dog which kept biting at the
the savage thrust of Scbaunibuvg wasted its skirt of the prisoner' coat This led thea
power on the pommel of the saddle of his to examine the ptrmeiit. and thev found
adversary Cuvellier's long sword passed its i upon it traces of blood, w h:-b. ultimately led
full length through the muscular neck of the ' to the conviction of the man. When they
noble charger of his adversary, severing the looked around the dog had disappeared, a.1
main arteries and causing him to reel over j though the door hat netrer been opened
and fall to the earth.
II is ridei narrowly escaped being crushed
under the wound"d charger. The seconds
then interfered. The combat was declared
"off." The splendi.1 charger of Col. Oliver
in a few minutes yielded np his proud spirit.
The parties retired from the field. The
crowd dispersed mnch discontented with the
result of the combat. Honor was satisfied,
but Col. Oliver's beautiful horse was deliv
ered over to the Street Commissary, and a
very disagreeable legal question arose as to
the responsibility far this loss and damage;
who should pay for the horse his rider or
his slayer ? Lieut. Schaumhurg did not con
tinue long in the service after this event, and
removing to I hiladelphia married a lady of
the Page family, engaged in civil pursuits,
studied law. and was a frequenter of legal
and political circles In Washington and Phil-
adelphia, prosecuting certain claims against
the Government and never attmctine much
attention until hl beautiful daughter Emiie
effu'ged upon s-iciety arid t'ave him renown
as the father of Mie ImHo of ti.aey reasons.
- -
sabs sco.uitig over iLe back
Gardes
fence.
ODD LEGAL STORIES.
REMINISCENCES OF AJf OLD LOituoT
LAWTEK.
THE
Sergeant BaUantine, who is Li.pd-n born,
began his legal csreer in the period ss-ben nil
lamps dimly lighted the streets of the great
city; sslien bi.-hips walked alout in white
wigs, three-cornered bits, lone eilk aprons
and knee breeches ; st hen Rtirke pnd Hare
j by the liberal art of murder provided sub-
j old Pru--inn to his beaming ho-;ts. Xot the
i least ergTciT;. rortion of r.al'.iritioe's remi-
j nNcencec arc those of h's enr'r strung''" rs a
poor barrister: h's encounters w;h dnna
hi wondering as to wheice next l's din
I ncr was coming. One of b,s frst briofs was
i given to hint by a rnther sh-vly atbrny of
tile JcwMi pers'.i.uion ; and Wins at that
i time without experiencr. yourg P.,"nutitie
i yielded implicitly t' l is instrtiofioTis. "A
young gent'eman of the sarne faith," he
j says, "was calVd as a -jriiress. Ify client
j suggested a quest inn. P.lind'y I pot it. and
. was met bv a direct negative. 'What a lie !
I ejieulated mv client, and dictated another
. qneslion ; the snnie result followed, and a
sitni'ar eJaculnt;o:t. By bis further Instrue-
i tton 1 put a third, the answer to which com-
, pletelv knocked us over. My client threw
' himself bark. 'Well ' siid -o M e is a Par
he always nas a Inr, and always will be a
liar. 'Why,' rcmatkr-d I. 'you seem to know
all about him.' 'Of coin - I do,' wr.s the re
ply, 'he is my own son " " Among the Ser
geatit's reeoilectioi.s of L,,ij-,ti magistrates
is one of that "shrie!led crab-apple," Mr.
Idling, whom Dickers caricatured io "Oliver
Twist" as Dr. Fane. A clergyman eom
p'uMied of I.ric's irritability to ti e Home
Office, ami tl'e authorities, pot sorry to fol
low the lead of a popular author, dismissed
tpm. H's c cricpi accuser was shortly after
ward convicted of stealing p silver spoon at
a charity dinner at which be presided.
Those who have glowed with indignation
over Dickens' "Fang" will le surprised to
read thit he was a thoroughly honorable
e"ntteman, a good lawyer p.nd an aoeom.
rlishrd s--!-.!ar. Arabin. another .f B illan-
tire's lne.il
! wns d;iri
brethren ar .'. a ouaii.t little man
i
ulshed for eniTnci,iin1r absurd I-
ties with mot perfect Innocence
"I nssnre.
yon. gentlemen." he said one dav to a lurr
' speaking of the irilihl i'ants of a provincial
town, "they will steal the verv toeth not r.r
your nioutii ns you v ail: t hroiOi lie s' reels
1 fenmr from ryprrienre.
Among the Sergeant's o,'d .-. eVrirs is
one coreerning the wif ,.f n Governor of
New South. Wales who, happening Pi b in
England at a time when a fashionable perri
quier was sentenced to transportation for a
grave ctime, impiored the Home Secretary
tr. entry out the senter.ee, as there was le.t a
decent l.air-.lre-ser it, thecoV-ny. Orjeof the
most grote,que fi-r.res in ti e honk is that of
a rtecert'y-dressod, q-i let -look in:: man who
used to presold himself fffer ,i;n.,Pr fr) tne
judees and counsel nn the list da y of the OH
Bailey sessions. Upon his r.rpearatire he
was always presented with a i-l-tss of wine
and this he drank o the health rf his ps.'
trops, exprr-ssir.2 "with beeon.lng nu-Jesty
bis gratitude for past f.,Vors ... ,;N- hopes
for favors to cone." It was Ci'lcraft. the
hangnfi. Of .rs'ice Parke, a -i-v,'r of
the old school, Ba'lsntine says that in his
latter days be had a conned a habit of thnk.
ir.j aloud, v. ich led on one occasion to a
r!l.er amusing incident. Whilst trying an
old woman on the charge of stealing fagc-ts,
he tip, or.-, ioilsly r':tcn!n.td : "Why. en?
fpcjf't isr.s like iT:(.ti:er fn-jgot a one egg's
like another " The roun-tl deferd!ng
the case heard the observatio-i and repeated
it to the Jury. "Sop. svd Sir Jan es,
,:s',i p. it is an ir.lri vetition rf Prnvi 1en-e.
This was the very thought that passed ihro
my tr.ii.d. Gent'ernei." addressing the
iuivl, "ae.-jnit the prisoner." An anecdote
of Chief Justice Erie, a man of great benev
olence, wni:'i! i!i,ii!.:i-it o pnvel. He was
ptesi bi t: in thi Civil Cotpt at Northampton,
pnd was obliged to direct a jury against
some roor p'x.p' who had been scandalous,
ly but lepiliy swindled. To them the result
was absolute rnin. On the follow ing morn
ing an f-lnerly r-'ttleinan on horseback
made his appearance in the a'iey where the
suffereis resided. This was Sir W'l.iaui
Erie. lie gave them Some very good advice
!l"d with it a sum of money that rej laced
them in their o!d position
A stoty of Sir Astley Cooper, told by his
nephew to Ilal ar.tine. JMs more of the su
pernatural than legal aitec lotos are usually
deck-d with: There had been a murder,
ami Sir Astley w ?s upon (he c ne when the
man stisp-cted of it was npprehend-d, and
Sir Al!ey, being grently inferes'e . acr-.ni-panied
the officers w it!) their pris-mei to the
jail, and he and they and the ncc used were
all in the cell, locked in together, when thev
o mere, or r.ow it got away, no
body could tell. When Bransby Coiper
spoke of this, he always stud that of course
bis uncle had made a mistake, and was con
vinced of this bitnsolf ; and Brarsby used to
add that no doubt, if the matter bad been
investigated, It would have !een that there
was a mode of accourting for , from nat
ural cau s. But neither sir Astley nor Lis
nephew, in their own heart, discarded en
tirely the supernatural.
rr u . .t .
How IIe Got Over. In Scotland they
have narrow, open ditches they call shepp
drains. A roan was riding a donkey one day
across a sheep past ure, and when the donkey
j came to a sheep drain he woo d not go over,
j So the man rode bim back a short distance
and turned bim around, and put the w hip to
him, thinking, of course, that the douker
going so faat, would jump the ditch before
be knew it Bat not so. On they came, and
w hen th donkey came to the drain he stop
ped all of a sudden, and the man went over
Mr. J .nek's head. No s.xner had he g t up
j than, looking Mr. D mkey in the fdee, be
said, "Yery well f itcht J ; but then bow are,
ye going to get over Trelf.'
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