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How | BECAME Ny OWN GRAND
FATHER" married a widow who
had a grown-up daughter. My father
visited our house very often, and fell
in love with my step-daughter, and
married her. So my father became
my son-in-l law, and my step-daughter
my mother, because she was my ia
TIERS wife. Some time afterwards my
wife had a son; he was my fathers
brother-in-law and my uncle, for he
was brother of my step-mother. My
fathers wife,. e., my stepdaughter
had also a son; he was, of course,
my brother, and at the same time my
grandchild, for he was the son of my
daughter My wife was my grand
mother, because she was my mothers
mother. / Twas my wife's husband and
grandchild at the same time; and as
the husband of a PERSONS grand
mother is his grandfather | was my
own grandfather.
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The Chicago Tribune says: "There
can Id little donbt that Horace Gree
ley will be next President; and that
he Wi Il be elected by IL combination of
the l. liberal Republican and, as they
are nt wv beginning to be called, Liber-
al Democratic parties. Does not this
suggek t the true nomenclature for the
victor fous and beneticent party of the
future ? Suppose this party-one now
in its platform and its candidates
drops the words Republican and Dem
ocratie, which now answer to nothing,
and simply calls itself the Liberal par
ty. Names are important things; and
some Very valuable results would be
prone rted by this new baptism. 1t
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ceptidn that those who do not adhere
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is, in bne way or another, illiberal; it
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she hatred and bloodshed of dread
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words Republican and Democratic, in
country where everybody is Republi-
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Dor Ealosonoille Cbief,
Butt-dt Kaylor.

About thirty nee and a third years
ago Their e dweltk in one of the rural
districts of Georgia, an old codger by
the nam of Butf-Cut Kaylor, who had
formerly enjoyed the honors and en-
oluments pertaining to the office OF
Justice of the Peace, the duties of
which OF fee he discharged with ac-
knowled ged liability" and dignity
and so FIR as his neighbors were capa-
BILE of Judging, lie appeared to be a
very honest mar. He had, however,
acquired the hah of "trumping up J"
accounts against the estates of those
of his nGighbors Aho were so unfortu-
nate as to Ssh! He off their mortal
coils " thin tn bounds of his baili-
wick. lie had carried this practice on
to such an exteIlt as to arouse IL sus-
picion in the minds of some of his
NEEDLES ome NJ ghbors that there
might be "son thing dead" some
where id "the seat of his financial
operate ms. Boo Crogan, who lived
in the 1eighbor god, and "run" the
post-off9 Ice at crossroads, being
somethi hg Of Jag, and having an
idea that the So FIRES honesty should
be quoted beloE par, concluded with
the con1rivance hnd assistance of a few
COMRADES, to 'funearth the sly fox"
and expose his Tascalities. According
ly, Bob pretended to die, was regular
~ shroItded and laid out on the cool
ing boa I'D in the most approved fash
ion, and Borrowing friends proceeded
to sprdad the news of his demise,
which soon reached the ears of old
Butt-C1tt. He lost no time i'll repair
ing to the house OF mourning, carrying
with him a ''full and complete assort-
ment" of first-class coincidence and
sympathy for gratuitous distribution
among the members of the bereaved
family, and the many sorrowing
friends of the supposed diseased, who
were pr esent wien he arrived. After
he had relieved his heart of it's burden
of healing words, and had succeeded in
Il tolersI BILE effql u at crying, and was
about ID leave 1e scene, he tenderly
spoke follow
"Ah, poor Be b; I'm sorry he died;
he was h good Teller, and | allus liked
ALn' men Hinl ana me went 10 the
races az Augusta-now high onto two
years aso-l loaned him hundred
dollars to bet orto a bay mar, and he
lost AM has never paid me IL cent of
that mdney frons that day to this. Poor
teller, he forgot it, reckon, but it's an
honest letb, ofkourse | can git it out
of his estate, al -
ButtiCut did finish the sentence;
for just at this bint Bob, the corpse.
slowly raised b i'm his STROUD. and.
stretching out his arms toward the old
rogue, hs if to Clutch him, yelled:
lyon are am Internal old liar. and
ifs
The lin and roar drowned the rest.
Old Big tt-Cutt didn't wait to see or
hear asl y thing more, but with the hur-
ried exclamation "Goddlemity!n he
shot through the door, hurried to his
home, packed his traps" and not on
~ left the neighborhood, but the State
Of Geefgia, forever.
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rVME PRAIRIE IsARMER.
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Cur THIS Our AND KEEP IT.
Franklin Dyrd, II highly respectable
and intelligent3far OF Galena, Kent
county, Maryland, gives the following
us c.hre for the bite of mad dog.
As will be seen, he has tested it with
the md st gratifying results:
ElechmpaneEi is a plant well known
to most persons, and is to be found in
many OF our gardens. Immediately
after icing bitten take one and halt
ounces of the root of the plant-the
green root is perhaps preferable, but
the dried Will answer, and may he
found Pm our drug stores, and was used
by me slice or bruise, put into a pint
OF fres milk, boil down to half pint,
strain and when cold drink it, fasting
ut le:tst six hours afterward. The
next . Morning, fasting, repeat the dose,
using two ounces of root. On the
third dnorning, take another dose, pre-
pared hs the first, and this will be suffi-
cient. 1t is recommended that after
each Hose nothing be eaten for at least
six hours.
aye a son who was bitten by q
mad dog eighteen years ago, and fom
other children in the neighborhood
were 4 lso bitten; they took the above
dose and are alive and well to this day
And ] have known a number of Others
who Tere bitten and applied the same
remed y.
1t il supposed that the root contains
a priv which, being taken up by
the ID pod in it's circulation, counter
acts oh neutr;i lizes the deadly effects
of the virus of hydrophobia.
| fc Tel so much confidence i'm this
simpl% remedy that l am willing You
should give MY name in connection
with this statement.
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"These ladies are like birds that
are on the wing" said a humorous
clerk to his employer, as bevy of
shop damsels left the store. "Why
500" asked the proprietor. Because
it takes them long time to settle up
on their purchase (perches)," replied
the clerk. The proprietor saw the
point" and was SO gratified at his
acuteness that he at once raised the
clerks salary.
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-06-22
Attempted Assassination of a Lady.

The New Orleans PIcAYUNE re-
ports an attempt made on Monday
Last, upon the life of Mrs. Holbrook,
wife of "A. NJ. Uolbrook, by Mrs.
Bronson, his former wife, from
whom, on his own application, he
was divorced about a year ago, and
who had just come from New York.
The PIcAYuNE says :
About II O'clock, Mrs. Eliza !.
lloibroOk "a in her bedroom, the
front one, upstairs, standing at her
toilet table, dressing, with her back
to the door, leading from her bod
room t0 the staircase from below.
whom she heard a slight rustIing
NOISE, turned her head to sec who
Der visitor was. AS she turned her
head, Mrs. Br~ nson, who was stand
ing within two or three feet of Mrs.
Holbrook, pointing u pistol at her
head, fired. The more accidental
turning Of the head saved the in
tended victims life. Mrs. Holbrook,
who knew whom she had to deal
with, at once faced her enemy, feel
Ing, AS she told the surgeon after
wards, that her life was at stake
She rushed at Mrs. Bronson. who
again fired, but again missed her
aim, and Mrs, Hoibrook seized tho
pistol and held ON to it with desner.
ate grip and firm, unyiclding will.
In the fierce struggle that ensued
between the two women, tho one,
furious and bent on inhictinr death,
and the other norved up to nnwont,
ed strength to defend her life, the
pistol fell to the floor, and the evil
indor of tho pistol separated from
the barrel.
Mrs. Bronson then seized a large.
heavy bottle on the toilet table,
holding bay rum, and, the two still
struggling, struck Mrs. IIoIbrook
over the head several times with
this dangerous implement, inficting
severe wounds, from which tho
blood flowed copiously over Mrs.
Holbrook's head, face and drcss.-I
Tho bottle was broken, and then
Mrs, Bronson seized a small vase,
which sho also broke over Mrs.
Holbrook's head; and then other
articles.
Mrs. Bronson, being familiar with
the promises, had entered the ward
by an alley way, and it WAS then
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DINNERS AND DIPLOMACY

The stomach is a great Conscrva
tive, and many diplomatic quarrels
have reached a settlement through
the gastric juices. A well ordered
dinner is a great peace-argument
on both sides of Il knotty question.
Even cold mutton is Il better arbi.
ter than. cold lead, aud the carving
knife is often mightior than the
sword. A bottle Of wine taken in.
to the stomach has an immense ad.
vantage over Il gallon of blood
drawn out of it.. Let men and IA
tons settle all their ~quarrcls with
dinners, and we will have the first
approach to the Millennium. If the
Geneva Conference, now in session,
would devote more time to dinners.
lhstea" oil "coHSeQlicnt1ai damages"
they would find that maccaroni is
more easily digostcd than red-taDc,
and it, instead OF putting business
between the respective commissions
ers in the shape Of hard, dry docu-
meut~, they would load. the table
broiled phcasants, and Swiss
mutton, Parmosan cheese, Hook,
Bergundy, CIarct and Champagne,
and crack their jokes and nuts with
each other, consequential damages
would be of no consequence, and
Alabama claims c,uId be settled
at dessert. The reason the Geneva
Conference is at a dead lock is be.
cause the commissioners have not
with each other. Let them
the green baize off their ma,
nogony, substitute the wine-bottIc
Ior the ink.bottlc, "and all will be
and serene"