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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17
THE CASE OF SAMUEL G. BROWN.

The New York World contains communi-
cation from Mrs. Westmoreland of Atlanta,
Georgia, narrating her efforts to secure Exec
utive clemency in behalf of Samuel G. Brown,
of York county, in this State, one of the ku-
klux prisoners now confined in the Albany
penitentiary. At the instance of Rev. David
Wills, President of the Oglethorpe University,
who knew Mr.. Brown and regarded him as an
honest, upright law-abiding man, Mrs. West
moreland determined to address Mrs. Govern
or Hoffman in Mr.. Browns behalf The cor
respondence and the result will be found in
the extract we give:
ATLANTA, Ga, February IA, 1872.
DEAR Mrs. HoFFMAN:-Although stran-
ger, you will pardon the liberty I take in thus
addressing you when my mission is made
known, for I appeal to you in the name OF
humanity-yea, more, come to beg you, as
Christian woman, and by those sympathetic
and softer feelings which God has implanted
in your womans nature, to befriend the friend
less and to console the afflicted. There lies
in the State prison at Albany an old man by
the name of Samuel &. Brown, who is sixty
five years of age, almost blind and broken in
health. He is from York county, South Car
olina, and is victim of Judge Bond, of ku-
klux notoriety, who was sent to Carolina by
Grant, for the purpose, it would seem, of pros
ecuting the innocent and protecting the infa-
nous. This old man was dragged from his
home, brought to Columbia, where Bonds
Court sits, and thrown into prison. He was
then taken through the mockery Of trial,
and Notwithstanding he filed an affidavit prov
ing that so far from acting with the so-called
ku-klux he had gone at midnight, on re-
cent occasion, to prevent the murder Of ne
gro, was sentenced to five years hard labor in
the State prison of New York, and required to
pay fine of $1,000. As he had no money to
satisfy this atrocious demand the modern Jef-
freys has ordered his plantation to be levied
upon and sold, and at its sale the poor mans
family will be turned adrift upon the world
homeless, fatherless and in poverty. Know
ing your husband to be the champion OF con-
stitutional liberty, the embodiment of those
qualities which make man truly great and
noble, and believing that you must imbihe his
sentiments, I hope 1 shall not appeal in vain.
Now, if the authorities will permit it, will you
not visit this old man in his Loneliness and try
to brighten bis prisoners cell by ministering
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Seletted 2urtrp.
MY GRANMAMMA.


She tells me she was handsome once,
Her eyes like jewels bright,
The snowy locks upon her brow
AS jetty as the night;
And over her polished shoulders fell
A shower of raven curls;
Her lips were of a coral hue,
Her teeth twin rows of pearls.
The roses on her youthful checks,
Like those that blush in June,
When sky, and earth, and sea, and air,
To beauty all attune;
Her form sculptor's model rare,
More glorious than her face,
While even her slightest gesture was
The very soulof grace.
Her voice in tone as softly clear
AS song bird liquid note,
When waves Of richest melody
On summer zephyrs float.
know it's true for l have heard,
At that time she was wed,
The country round knew none so fair,
Or so my grandpa said.
But now she's withered, bent and old;
Her voice is cracked and Shrill;
Her trembling hands almost refuse
The mandate of her will;
Her brow is scanned by burrows deep,
Her ewes are dimmed and blear,
And often on their silvery fringe
There hangs crystal tear.
For she has seen, like autumn leaves,
The dead around her fall,
And followed to the churchyard near
Full many sombre pail
And back again to earth she has
Her dearest treasures given
But, looking up, she smiles and says,
"I'n see them all in Heaven"
And as bend above her head
And stroke her wintry hair,
Or rstoop to kiss her brow and cheeks
So scanned with lines of care,
feel that in my very soul
worship at her shrine,
And pay, to child of mortal birth,
Homage almost divine!
SALLIE NJ. BROCK.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17

@| "My daughter keeps my farm accounts,
sir; and she is as systematic and particular as
ever Bob was, who kept them before he left
home. I tell you it does girls, and he might
have added boys also, good to give them some
responsibility, and set them to watching things
about the farm and household. They learn,
I find, economy by it, and soon discover that
their respectable old father is not, necessarily,
a Grabbed old curmudgeon because he does
not loosen his purse-strings whenever they see
something they happen to fancy; for they dis.
cover the real reason why the purse should
not be opened" So said a progressive farm.
er, kind, appreciatiye, and proud father, and
a big.hearted man on general principles, to us
the other day. We think what he said worth
recording. Western Aqricuhurist.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17
DEAD AND ALIVE.
A wooDcHopPER's STORY.

y mOODSlO11 LN C1OHAs
"Boys, never swear now. Haven't used
an oath since I was dead!"
He was tall, one-eyed man, wearing n
broad -brimmed hat and red flannel shirt. He
sat on the railing of the bridge, whiting and
talking to three or four others standing by.
Eyes sir" said he, 81 was dead once 1t
was the strangest thing you ever saw IN your
life. You don't believe it, ha! Well, l don't
wonder. l don't suppose any other man ever
went through such an awful siege, and l can't
expect anybody to look at it as | do. You
see it happened like this: 1t was winter, we
numbered on Whitecomb Creek, six or eight
years ago. It was war times then, and wages
were good was getting forty dollars month,
and worked like beaver till this little affair
came off. We went to work about mile
from the shanty-Jim Robinson and me-and
had slashed into the pine like all possessed.
The boys were hauling pretty lively, for 1t
was earl y January, and sleighing was good.
Jim was at work on a big tree about twenty
rods from where was.
Pretty soon, after he had yelled at me, his
tree toppled over and fell. 1t was as hand
some piece of pine timber as ever you saw,
and l watched it as it fell. Crash it went, in
the branches of an old grub oak, and hung
just there I never saw fellow madder than
Jim was-we did some tall cursing among
them pines. He tried every possible way to
loosen the pine, but couldn't get it off. Final
ly we made up our minds to go for the tree,
and in about ten minutes we had it cut through
so it trembled like leaf with every stroke OF
the axe, he cutting on one side and | on the
other. When it was almost through, as was
the biggest and best chopper, says to Jim,
and then ripped out q big oath,
"Let me finish her, Jim. Get out of the
way and 1 will have her through in half a
minute"
81 had been chopping minute or two,
when Jim let loose scream that would have
made an Injun's blood run cold. l had just
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17
PETER CARTWRIGHT.
WONDERFUL LIFE OF THE GOOD OLD METH

WONDERFUL LIFE OF THE GOOD OLD METH
ODIsT CLERGYMAN.
The Rev. Peter Cartwright died at his
home near Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county,
Illinois, last week, aged eighty-seven years.
Peter was converted in 1901. The change
was very sudden. He had been to wed
ding about FIVE miles from home, and danced
until late hour. Soon after his returning
home, while he was pacing the floor, reAecting
on the manner in which he had spent the
day and evening, all of sudden blood rush.
ed to his head, his heart palpitated, and
in few minutes he turned blind. He imag-
ined himself about to die, cried for mercy,
and promised to serve the Lord if spared.
After recovering from the attack, he sold his
race horse, burnt his pack of cards, and took
to reading the Testament One day, while in
anguish over his sinful past, it appeared to
him that he heard a voice from Heaven, say
ing, "Peter, look at meW His sins, however,
were not forgiven till some time after. when
he received heavenly intimation to that
effect
Peter was formally received into the M. E.
Church in June 1901, and soon became we'll
known as preacher and exhorter. He was
called the Kentucky Boy A curious cpl
demic was then prevalent among the Metho-
dists, called the jerks, and resembling the St.
Vitus dance. While listening to a stirring
sermon people would be seized with convul-
sive Jerking all over. Finely dressed ladies
and gentlemen were seized in this way, and
found it impossible to resist, says Cartwright.
HOW CARTWRIGHT ESCAPED WHIPPING.
At one of my appointments, in 1904, there
we're two very finely dressed fashionable young
ladies, attended by two brothers with loaded
horsewhips. The house was crowded, and
the young ladies took seats near where stood.
1 was unwell, and had phial of peppermint
in my pocket. Before l commenced preach
ing 1 took out my phial and swallowed a
little of the peppermint. The congregation
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17

MANUFAcrUREs.-Gloversville, New York,
makes the most gloves Of any town in the
United States Bradley, Maine, makes the
most spools; Deep River, Connecticut, the
most piano keys; Chester, Connecticut, all
wooden inkstands ; Lynn, Massachusetts,, the
most shoes Rutland, Vermont, the most mar
BILE tombstones another small town in Ver-
mont, the most school states and slate pencils;
Philadelphia, the most carpets; Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, the most iron rails, and Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, the most glass, steel,
whisky, and other hardware while New
York prints the most agricultural, scientific
and other papers.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17

aae There was curious instance Of tamper-
ing with witness and the results thereof in
a recent murder case in Kentucky. A man
named Roberts was accused of killing one
Coates, and was committed for trial without
bail on the testimony of sister of the deceas-
ed. After indictment Roberts was released
on bail, and Immediately commenced to pay
his addresses to the dangerous witness, and
before the trial came on had married her.
He was acquitted for want of evidence.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17

b9- Speaking of the climate of the Argen-
tine Republic, Professor Gould says: "a
bowl of water left uncovered in the morning
is dry at night; ink vanished from the ink
stand as if BY magic; the bodies Of dead an
imals dry up instead Of decomposing, and
neither exercise nor exposure to the SUMS rays
produces perspiration."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17

SMALL MATTERs.-The nerve of the tooth,
not so large as the finest cambric needle, will
sometimes drive strong man to distraction.
A mosquito can make an elephant absolutely
mad A coral rock, which causes navy to
founder, is the work of worms The warrior
that withstood death in thousand forms may
be killed by an insect The pettiest wretch
edness often results from deep trials. A
chance look from those we love often produces
exquisite pain or unalloyed pleasure.
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POCKET Observation-Disclosures Pocket
Dictionary, in its present shape, is great
Improvement over all previous editions and
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Then it contains 200 pictorial illustrations
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ume, while being no larger than an ordinary
pocket-book, embraces in its vocabulary a
careful selection of over $4,000 Of the most
important words of the language, with defni-
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brief, to meet the ordinary wants of any one
requiring its use Prefxed to the work are
tables of money, weight and measure, abbre-
viations, words and phrases from foreign lam
guages, rules for spelling, explanations etc.
It is in fact most valuable little book, and is
douby worth the dollar it costs. 1t is very
beautifully and substantially bound, with tucks
and gilt ed ges. The publishers, Ivison, Blake
man, Taylor & Co., 1873 and 40 Grand street,
New York, will forward it by mail on receipt
Of One Dollar, or it can be bought almost
anywhere.
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pass through their lines; but as she was in
possession of the countcrsign, she did not fear
the result. Soon Kate saw the pickets bayo-
net gleam in the moonlight, and heard him
orv ont
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-10-18

"And to love your daughter faith
fully !" interrupted the lovely Anna,
and hid her face upon her fathers
breast '' '*4''s "''-.''erta"' "7'''a', 's~era"s
Franz Mieris slipped his arm in chat
of Lucas Smart, and drew him away to
show him the wind-mills of.Leyden.
The little genre-painting of the sub
sequently famous artist, Anna Hers,
is still exhibited as one of the marvels
of Client. The charming lady execut-
ed many beautiful pictures in the days
of her success, but she never again APP
piled her pencil to miniature. The
wonderful painting remained the only
one of its klnd-one of the marvellous
creations of that most famous of mas
tiers, Love.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-10-18

The inventor of "spooh IA fishing
is said TO be. an old man named De
Castle, who, for twenty two years, has
been lock-master ON the eanal'around
the Morrisburg rapids. OF. the ST.. Law
renee river. He had been fishing off
one of the islands below the town with
little success, and looking down from
his boat into the clear, green water,
could see the fish moving hzily. about.
In taking a pinch of snuff from. his
vest pocket he pulled out silver six
pence, which, falling into thee river,
went wavering down through the wa
ter. The glitter attracted alarge pick
erel, which dashed for the sixpence and
swallowed it. The sportsman ponder
ed over the matter, and'on his return
home confscated, his, wife's brass ket-
tie, and cutting piece out Of 1t, sold
cred it to hook ind set but with this
new bait. He had not been long ON
the water before he had very fierce
strike. After a struggle of an hour, he
succeeded in landing the largest fish he
had ever caught, b 'muscal6nge weigh
ing forty-eight pounds. 80 s1E ,4'sSE
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-10-18
Nnnni Desert.
BY JOHN WEISS.

With happy heart the islands mount l climb
To kindred glodness, that, beyond the wood
Whose pines are heavy with solitude,
Sacks all the space Of sea and sky sublime.
Rocks, eft austere by winter, laugh again
With gay and happy hearts at summer tide;
Ger cliff and ledge and waves goes laughter
wide,
As per the sea noon's poltins silver rain.
AfocK Of little sails below appears
To forage all along the shining waste;
Now huddled, and now scattering, without
haste,
For morning waits, like sec-birds, each one
steers.
Ofall the sails that catch the sun, and smile,
There's one that takes my own mood out to
sea;
It's laughing side is hidden on the lee;
It's shadow tacks to windward all the while.
Mid all the gladness, just a faint reserve
Watts me apart, but not to scowl and gloom
The worlds vide laughter keeps me in its
ROOM
MY SIdUON ID llOt slidl II W pNSLfCs
IT'S but the thickness of a sail between.
A cloud has caught its buoyant, gilded wool,
Too thin to keep the sailors heart aloof:
He's comrade still Of all the happy scene.
II.
The ground-pine flung it's carpet on the steep
AS in and out, along the dinted shore
We crept, the surf-beat secrets to explore,
And map the isle for atterthought to keep.
And when we paused. to brood with talk and
pipe
Upon the color of the cliffs and sky,
To watch light glooms of breezes scurry by,
And loy each new surprise grow fancy-ripe.
Between the rocks we found our carpet spread
And from the softncss, where the sky and sea
In act Of perfect marriage seemed to be,
Tic afternoons along the deep were led.
Against the seward reefs, from time to time,
Some wave, more bold and eager than its
mates.
Runs up, all white with hurrying, and waits,
And clings, as to a rugged v-rse the rhyme.
And falling back as slowly as q strain
Tha. sings a mood we fear will slip away,
Our eyes, released, towards each other stray
And climb, and cling, and act the wave again
In lulls Of speech the coast begins to Groom;
Our thought and glance the far horizon sip
And leagues Of freshness break upon each lip
In tangled drift of mirth and talk and tune.
Tired lids of distance fall : between stripe
OF mornings clear memory remains.
This eve we sit apart autumn gains
The cricket's reverie must share my pipe.
From Old and Ne,o FOR October.
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A /" singular Fix.v

A man, Ia chemise, was in Philadel
phia the other morning, hanging high
up among the telegraph wires When
rescued by the aid OF a feather bed,
upon which he dropped, having reach
ed the extreme point of exhaustion, his
hands were found to have been severely
cut by holding on so tenaciously at the
perilous height. II is supposed he was
suffering from an attack of mania-a-
potu, during which he must have
sprung out OF the window and caught
the nsrc.
.... 49,. la.nL.w ~ q
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The Sea.Serpent in a Highland Loeb.
From the Inverness Couric

From the Inverness Courier.
A gentleman on whose intelligent obser-
walton and accuracy we have perfect reli-
ance, sends the following account of a
strange animal now to be seen about the
West coast of Invernesshire, and which, if
not the veriable or traditional sea-serpent,
must be the ohjectso often represented un.
der thlt appellation: E.
On Tusedly last went on trip to Loeb.
ourne, In my small sailing boat. was ac-
cOmpanied ty my friend and your acquain-
lance, the Rev. -, Of Kent, my two
daughters, young man, my grandson,
and servant lad. While we were pro-
ceeding along the Sound of Sleat, it fell
calm, and we were rowing the boat, when
we observed behind us row of dark mass
IS, which we took, at first glance, for d
shoal of poipoises but second look
showed that these masses formed one and
the anne creature, for it moved slowly
acE our wake about 200 yards off, and
diss oeared. Afterwards, what seemed
its head reappeared, followed by the
bumps or unGulations of its body, which
rose in successl on till we counted az 1t
them. It apr cached now withinabo ut
hundred yards or less, and with the help of
binoculars, of which there happened to be
three on board, we could see it pretty
distinctly. We did not see its eyes, nor
observe any scales but two of the party
believed that they saw what they took tr
be small flu moving above the watero
1t then slowly sank, and moving away Just
under the surface of the water, for we
could trace its course till it rose again, by
the large waves it raised above it, to the
distance of mile and upwards.
We had no means of measuring its size
with any accuracy but taking the distance
from the centre Of one bump or undulat ton
of its body to that of another ut six feet
(and it could not be less,) the lelgth ofthe
portion visible above the water would be
about fifty feet; and there might have been
about twenty or thirty feet more of its
length which we did not sec. Its head
seemed blunt, and looked about eighteen
inches in diameter, and the bumps were
rather Larger than the head When in
rapid motion, the bumps disappeared
and only the head and neck could be seen
partly above the surface Of the water. Ii
continued to rush about in the same man.
ner as long as we remained within sight Of
TIM place, but did not again come so near
us that day. On the afternoon Of the next
day, as we were returning home, we en-
countered our strange acquaintance again
within the entrance of Lochourn, and saw
him careering swiftly along the surface Of
the water, which was now slightly rippled
with light air of wind. 1t passed once
abeam of us, at the distance Of about $50
yards, with its head huff out of the water
and we distinctly heard the wllizzing noise
it made as it rushed through the water.
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From the Aldine.
EN- MINIATURE.
FROM THE GERMAN OF ELLIE PoLKo.

HuOh If1E dEtAdAN Of EhlAGt ROLhO.
The lovely Anna Smythers, of Client,
found {. joyous life awaiting her as pu-
pill in the studio of Gerhard Dow, the
famous painter of the Netherlands.
Her father had at last yielded to her
repeated entreaties for instruction by
a regular master, and the hope of en-
riching both herself and him by the
practice of the art, which he esteemed
but lightly, had decided him to send
her to Leyden, to the home of Dow,
who was q distant relative of her de-
ceased mother. Thus, for the first
time, Anna stepped from the gloom of
a lonely youth, into warm, bright at
mosphere of affection. Free to devote
herself openly to the art, which she
had so long secretly adored, she now
blossomed like rose, to the Joy of all
who saw her, and her rich talent devel-
oped itself with astonishing rapidity.
Dow's studio was a spacious room,
with northern exposure, full of soft
lights, and looking down upon the wa.
ters of a quiet stream, Wondrous or
der reigned In the cool, attractive re-
treat. The master never began his
morning work until every particle of
dust had subsidized. Long after blonde
Anna stood painting zealously at her
easel. Dow would wait patiently,
Watching the fine notes floating in the
sunshine, and when the giddy whirl
had ceased, he would slowly bring forth
from chest his palette, with all it's
belongings, carefully select his colors,
and take the brush in his hand. Then
there must be no going to and fro
among the pupils--a rule of especial
irksomeness to aimpetuous Franz Won
Mieris, who would gladly have run
every five minutes from one easel to
another. Anna wore her brown frock
loored up, least in her quick motions it
might sweep the floor and whirl cloud
of the dreaded dust into the air; and
indeed she had no cause to blush for
the little feet which stood in their
high-heeled shoes, as trim and delicate
as princess own. Her close fitted
jacket displayed the charming outlines
of her graceful form, and her padded
sleeves were pushed back from pair
of hands which Franz Won Mieris de-
clared the fairest in the Netherlands.
Unfortunately for the young scholar.
Annals easel was placed at such an an
gle that only ut rare intervals some
turn Of her head brought to his view
her delicate profile and rosy cheek. So
he admired all the more ardently the
golden hair fastened in heavy braids at
the back of her head, and falling on
each side in a shower of curls. We
have charming picture of Franz Won
Mieris in his later years, in which he
has represented himself standing be-
fore his easel, dressed in black velvet,
his bold, handsome face turned toward
the observer, and his aristocratic hand
res ing between the folds Of some rich
drapery hanging over the back of a
chair. Near him stands a girlish fig
IRE in the precise attitude Of the beau
tiful Anna in the old studio; the slen-
der waist, the lovely shoulders and
neck encircled by a golden chain, the
luxuriant hair, a glimpse of the cheek,
aid q white debate Leld--al ere he