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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
Down Came parson, Pulpit and

A singular accident befell Scotch
clergyman while preaching In Non.
nonformist chapel at Shepherd 8
Bush on Sunday last. He had a
vigorous style and showed himself
fervent in driving home to his in
terested hearers the solemn words
and moral Of his text. Hands and
eyes were both brought into play in
enforcing the winged words of the
portly preacher, and now and again
he would lean his whole weight on
the reading-stand, gazing intently
into the faces of his auditors, to de-
pen the impression of his counsels.
While he was once thus gazing the
audience were startled by seeing
the reading-stand topple over the
platform, followed headlong by the
energetic preacher himself. Many
rushed to his assistance, but, al
though the fall was one Of about
seven feet, the minister quickly re-
gained his footing and at once re-
turned to his place at the restored
reading-stand. Before resumine
the awkwardly interrupted discourse
however, the preacher remarked
with quaint "pawkiness" which
the congregation seemed to appre-
ciate, that ''those who leaned upon
the Master would be better sustain
ed than he had been while leaning
upon the reading stand of His ser
want" London Telegraph.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
Suffering from Swallowing a Snake.

While oft in the fields last sum-
mer Mrs. David Schnautfer, ofSand-
lake, took drink of water from a
brook flo wing through a meadow
back of the village, and when she
returned lome declared that she
Lad swallowed q snake. Her family
used every endeavor to convince her
that she was mistaken, and for a
time, as no serious results were eX-
perienced, Mrs. Schnauffer admitted
that perhaps she did not swallow the
reptile. Several weeks ago however
she bessa to feel a peculiar sensa-
tion in her stomach, and was soon
taken quite i'll. She then renewed
the assertion that there was snake
in her stomach, and to the doctors
who have since attended her she
described the terrible sufferiag q
which size has undergone. Tht
physicians are now satisfied thai
| the lady vas right when she claim.
led that she swallowed the reptile
| and all the known remedies hav,
been resorted to to relieve her of thu
monster which has taken up III
abode in her stomach. The move.
medts of.lhc snake can be felt, ant
Mrs. Sehnauffer declares that it i
lgrowing larger. The physicians in
tend to remove her to the Alban,
Hospital, where the attempt to re
|moye the reptile win be made.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
SWapped Speeches.

Some years ago, when the late
Governor Morton made famous
campaign in Indiana, he was accom-
panied BY General George A. Sheri-
dan, of Louisiana. The Senator'S s
health was at that time very poor,
and whenever he did not feel quite
equal to making his speech Sheri-
dan used to deliver an address. Up
on one occasion both orators had to
deliver speeches, and Morton, who
had a remarkable memory, played a
joke on Sheridan by delivering the
latter's speech. The ground being
thus cut from under the Generals
feet, he was for moment nonplus-
ed. But as soon as the applause
had died away he arose and began
on Morton's speech. In this speech
Morton discussed the subject of
hard and soft money, and had a
dramatic way Of producing silver
dollar and a greenback. Sheridan
had so often heard and seen the
Senator deliver the speech that he
was able to initiate it exactly.
Thrusting his hand into one pocket,
he produced dollar note, and hold
ing it up to the audience, exclaimed
What is this? Is this money? No,
my fellow-citizens, this Is not
money. Let me read it out to you :
The United States promise to pay
the bearer one dollar. That is not
money. That is merely a promise
to pay money When Morton was
| making this speech, and arrived at
this point, he would return the note
| to his pocket and produce q silver
dollar. Sheridan was about to dc
the same thing, but found, to his
ldismay, that he had no silver dollar
labout him. The audience began ta
litter at this countretemps, when
Sheridan, turning to Morton. who
was listening to his own prize
speech, said: Senator, lend m,
THAT silver dollar which you uss
when yoa deliver this speechg Il
lis needless to say that the laugh wa,
at once turned.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
Woman at Home.

Home is more to woman than to
a man. 1t is her temple. She Is its
goddess, its priestess-but oftener
its japitor. A man doesn't look SO
longingly back at the old home,
though it never cost HIM cent,
bought all his clothes, and sent him
to college. Al man likes his home,
when he gets acquainted in it, be-
cause there his stupidity passes for
the profonndest wisdom. His jokes
are all laughed at Though it needs
q glossary to get at their meaning)
lie he only indicates the laughing
place. Wnen a man dies he is wept
for at home, but the cold world
moves right along as if nothing had
happened; fond lovers come to his
graveyard, even; wear his tomb
stone smooth sitting on it, contract
bad poetry and worse rheumatism,
and burden the air with labial con-
fection6ry. Eve heard that there
were skeletons in many homes.
They never get there unless they
are brought. Secrets in the family
are bad things. There is one,
though, that's all right, ard that i
q h4ndsome Christmas present fol
the husband, for the bill is sarc /.
be sent him four days before Christ
mas, 90 that everything i made har
lmonious.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
xneiasy.


~ 5skaF
NErTIE PowER HOUSTON.
We ali have waking Visions
Ii have mine. AID. being young
And fanciful and counted fair,
sometimes dream of love.
And sitting all alone and musing still,
While yet the fSe-light aiekers dim,
/ ask myself If shonld learn to love,
II my cold heart should wake to life again
How would love, and how weuld b,
| loved?
For am weary Of idolatry.
Ny soul is faint within me when think
OF the fierce strong passion have seen ami
and known,
Resistless in its might as some rock-cleav
| ing stream.
! would be loveain calmness--
Trusted and not feared.
He whom ! loveasliould be my king,
And not my slave.
! do not ask that he bs proud and cold,
But calm, and grave and very strong--
A king, like Saul alpong the sons Of men,
And kinglisr cs< apself
He mnst rot sFe pay siightest frown
Not shudder II kyc;
Nor must he, lfjI6 i yasIa crave my smile
Glad in the dust befqts nv feet to lie
For am weary Of sefvility,
4 would not rule, noEswonld yet be ruled
scorn the tyFdft as | scern the slave.
There is love of sweet equality,
The love God gave and smiled upon;
For it was very good,
He whom | loved mist be my king,
But must be MS queen;
And he should yield me, as my tribute due
The reverence l had earned,
Not only by my womanhood, by all gentle
| ness,
Long suffering, the patient sweetness
Only love can teach
Eor, looking q. ~ ~ siieuld feel and know
Iha1 peace and bat follow after toll.
II me his hef9 II snoutd N such safety trus
That ne She We no need Of spoil"
l do not ask. Tor him the worlds applause
The hiafe OF heraidry, The ponp Of fame;
His deeds the annals " q nations pride,
his Aaale upon the lips of men;
But ! must feel his power
Must know he could be what earth's heroes
are
could not love him were he not great.
His hand must be both safe and strong;
A hand TO shield my trust, to lay my owr
within,
To stake my life upon,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
Effect ofHsat on the Nerves.

DIR. William A. Hammond, the dis
tlnguished neurologist. in an article
in Our Continent with the taking ii
tie, "How to Escape Nervousness,
warns against overheated apart
ments. He says: AN oyerheated
apartment always enervates its OF.
cupants. 1t Is no uncommon thing
to find rooms heated in winter by an
underground furnace up to 30 de-
grees. Fights and murder are more
humorous in hot than in cold wealth,
|er, and the artificially- heated all
that rushes into our room, deprived
as It is of it's natural moisture By
the backing it has undergone, Is
even more productive of vicious pas
|sions. It is no surprising circum-
stance, therefore, to fiud the woman
who swelters all day in such tenn
perature, and adds to it at night By
|superfuous bed-clothing, cross ant
disagreeable from little every da,
troubles that would scarcely ruffie
lher temper II she kept her room q
I65 degrees and opened the window
NOW and then
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
Counting the Cost.


Are you intending to buy new
sleigh this winter, asked mechan-
ic of Charles Wallace, rs he met
him on the street.
4 have not decided. yet. Why?
4 have some good ones on hand,
and will sell you one at bargain.
Come and see Them
If ! conclude to purchase / will
give you call
Il will give you time-if you have
not the money just now; can wait
three or six months, if you like;
glad to accommodate YOU
We'll, I'll think about it.
Charles Wallace was a young man
just started in life. He had bought
a snug little farm, with q cozy cot
tage and cut-buildings, and brought
his young wife there, to help him
enjoy his new home. He paid eight
hundred dollars down and gave a
mortgage for the other thousand
dollars, to be paid in yearly Install
ments of two hundred dollars prin-
cipal, and the interest on the re.
mainder. Ellen had a little money
that she earned in teaching school,
and she furnished the house, as far
as she could, without running in
debt. She was a sensible girl, and
preferred buying fifty head of sheep
to furnishing the parlor. 1t will
not take long, she said, 'for the
sheep to bring money enough to
buy a parlor set and carpet, and we
shall have them growing all the
time, and we can wait; our sitting
room is good enough So when
her husband came in, and told her
that Jones would sell him sleigh
and wait for his pay, she shook hel
head and looked grave.
4 would not do it, Charley. W.
shall not drive much this winter, and
that old box sleigh Of your fathers
will answer.
You don't think that !! can af'ord
| it, / suppose.
You know that in three months
there is two hundred dollars, be
sides sixty dollars interest, to b
paid which we must not fail te
meet. Let us see where it is com
ling from before We agree TO pay lfif
| ty dollars more for new sleigh
that we can get along without.
The young man looked rather Sc
rious, and ate his dinner very quiet
~. That evening he sat down b.
the stove. while Ellen WAS clearing
the table, and said: ! reckon
shall have to give up the sleigh;
have been thinking over what 20,
said at noon, and unless / sell o.
some of the stock / cannot, for tn
life Of me. see how ] can raise IN
money fora payment on the farm
/ in three months
/ That has to be done, Charley
land we must not sell the stock eth
er; it would be like killing tn
lgoose that laid the golden egg.
/ Have you sent for your parlo
furniture YETI
/ No, was in no hurry; We shout
not use the room half 4 dozen time
through the winter; so Epnt th
wool money into the bank till
needed it.
We had good luck with our poul
TRY; that brought us q hundred an
fifteen dollars; but ! have to pa
lsome out Of that. How large I
store bill have we, do you sUppos
EllcnY
i have no store bill, Charley,
any other bill to pay. I have sol
leges and butter for groceries.
Il owe something for nails; pe
haps d dozen dollars or SO.
sThen there is tNenty Ave dollal
yet on the sewing machine.
Yes; and Il. there not 4 balan.
due on the pigs, or have Sou pei
IitY q
No; ten dollars there! An
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
sAaiseellaav.
rIsT.F1aHTs OF STATESMEN

i FI6T.FIQHT6 OF STATESMEN
How senator Lamar wss Knocket
/ Down Years Ago---Hampton'l
| Scufde.
Washington letter.
Senator Lamar was knocked dOwr
1.-THE other day by coming into con
tact with carriage horse. Tht
senator says this is the second time
he was ever knocked down. The
first event is thus narrated: Years
ago, when he had just begun the po
litical career that has become SC
GLORIOUS, Lamar had q dispute with
. local celebrity ut Covington
named Zacharie, famiEarly called
s'Uncle Jimmy" This man was
very powerful. When the war o1
words came on he was sitting in .
chair, and Lamar confronted him
erect. Knowing we'll enough that
his only safety was in intimidatins
his gigantic antagon st, Lamar drew
a pistol, pointed il at the sitting
man, and calmly said: "Uncle jim
my, If you attempt to rise from that
chair will kill yonr' Uncle Jim
my concluded to obey, though with
promises of future settlement.
Not long afterward. when Lamar
was treating some democratic fell
low-citizens at a corner grocery to
benzine or wine, lie heard an exul-
tant voice cry out behind him! In
cius, have got you now!" Suit
ing the action to the word. Uncle
Jimmy let drive his muscu lar arm
and fist, which, coming in c0ntac,
with Lamar's head, caused the bod j
to stagger and fall. Lamar rose aad
Uncle Jimmy precipitated his huss
bulk against him like a capapuit
Then the democratic party present
thought the time had come to inter
fere and Uncle Jimmy was seized
by sinewy grips and told to release
his hold. Not satisfied with his
method of doing SO he had q secont
admonition. At this junc1ure h'
plaintively squealed: Il ant hold
ing him, he's holding me- Sure
enough, on examination it was
found that Lamar had Uucle jim
my's finger in his mouth and woult
not let it 60. During the melee La
mar had seized skillet and made
quite mess of his burly foeman's
face and head. But this was the
first time he had ever been knock
ed down, and the last time until
Thursday afternoon.
General Wade Hampton says he
never had but one fist-fght, and
that was with a Columbia bully,
who attempted to add him to the
number OF his conquests. 81 was
a good boxer" said the South Car
olina senator, "and every time the
fellow rushed at me / floored him,
The last lick gave him broke his
thumb. A policeman came up and
arrested me. When I was pinion-
ed the man rose up, drew knife,
and was about to rush apon me.
asked the officer to let me go and
give me his club. He did so. Arm
ed with that weapon, l faced the
desperate, and warned him tina,
though I did not wish to kill him ]
would surely do SO if he advanced
a step farther. He took counsel OF
his fears and prudently retired.
had not scratch, but the other
man was laid up for three weeks" :"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06

The Southern States report this
years wheat crop in very 1ne condi-
|tion.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
BRooKHAVEN. MISS. THURSDAY APRIL O. 1882. Y
dollars more on the colt;
and say ten dollars to the black

twenty dollars more on the colt
and say ten dollars to the black
Ismith?
Anything else that yon think o
j iCharleyy
| my boots! Three and half
Let me see; it seems as If there was
something moro. Yes, you know
got a meat barrel and water tnb,
six morer
1T will take about oil the poultry
money to pay these bills, and ]
would pay them right away.
tThey onght to be paid. sure!
But, Ellen, where will the money
come from to take np the first notel'
You have some grain TO sell, un-
less you conclude to feed the lambs
and fat them for market
They are yours. it would pay to
fat themr
oh, we are going to pay for the
farm whether the parlor is ever fur
nished or not; and, Charley, evil
keep out of debt, if possible for the
future
4 did not suppose I was owing SO
much
Little debts count up fast, and it
does not take long to make them
large. l hope you will settle them
all up right away, so as to begin a
free man. A man in debt is slave
to his creditors
Suppose yon get hundred dol
lars for the lambs; how in the name
of goodness are we going to raise
the other hundred and sixty dol
lars?'
There is the money for the wool
and fifty dollars of the butter mon
ey; and / reckon, Charley, you can
earn twenty or thirty dollars in
three months
But, Ellen, you want a new dress
or two!
No thank you, l am very well of
now. You never asked me what
did with the money that you gave
me when your checks came for the
butter, and as / did not need it fol
household expenses, thought il
best to save it to help pay off the
mortgage, for I am in a hurry to get
that off our home. so that we can
feel independent
'Yon are dear little prudent wo-
man, and l am as happy as can be
to see my way clear.
AS happy as if you were riding
in Jones' sleigh with u lien OF it?'
If you had said one word in ia
vor of it, should have bought it,
Ellen; l had not thought!
Then there would have been an
other debt to pay! We Can be just
as happy to ride in the box sleigh
till we are ready to have a better
one, and we shall feel better by a
fifty y-dollar bill next spring.
The next day Jones saw Wallace
and urged him to buy one of his
new sleighs.
No. he replied, Il am not intend
ing to buy a new one this season.
IF had done as we'll as You have
this year, said the other, i would
have q handsome turnout to give
my wife a ride in once in while.'
MY wife would not enjoy riding
in sleigh that was not paid for,
and 1 shall not buy one till l can
pay for it. / am going to pay for
my farm and home before l dash
out in much style, and my wife feels
as do about it.
That night Jones was in the store,
and made the remark that Charles
Wallace would be rich man by the
time he was forty, for he had SEN
sible woman tor wife, and he had
common sense himself.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
fashionable Millinery

| Purchased OF Manufacturers for cash.
| which enables her to cfier the most stylish
goods at unusually low prices.
Due notice of the grand fall opening will
be shortly given.
Orders solicited and goods cheerfully ex-
changed when not satisfactory feb24-
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
A samson Of the west.

Jonas Johns, or big Jonas, Is th;
Goliah of this region, aud some ol
1.-THE stories of his strength and en-
dnrance sound fabulous. In 1855
he gained national reputation by
walking from Illinois to California
pushing his provisions before him
in wheelbarrow. He was living
in Knox county, I'll, when the gold
fever swept over the country and,
being 10 the early twenties of his
| life, was fired with an ambition to
Join the Argonauts. He was imper-
fectly acquainted With English. and
had but SO in cash, so he walked
across Illinois and Iowa to Omaha
making the distance in two weeks.
There he bought a wheelbarrow, and
laid in a stock Of provisions. With
those, on the 18th day Of April. he
pushed boldly out, and ninety days
thereafter he .'landed" safely at the
diggings, some fifty miles northeast
Of Sacramento. the first successful
placer mines. Here he went to work
in the same independent way he
made the journey-alone-and was
successful. He was able to earn
from $40 to $40 per day, according
to the number of hours he put in.
A year satisfied him. and with bag
well filled with "dust," he returned
by way of Panama and New York,
to his former home in Him ois.
His feats of strength are no less
remarkable. About twenty years
ago he found a COW in no uncom-
mon predicament in those days
mired in slough. A team of
horses, planted on firm ground, had
proved unable to draw her from
the mire, whereupon Jonas, laying
down some boards to give a good
footing, lifted her bodily out of the
swamp, and seizing her by the
horns, dragged her to firm ground.
At another time his wagon loaded
with hay became mired down and
the horses failed to extricatc it.
Jonas 60. impatient, and going to
the rear he raised the load and
pushed it forward to better ground,
making l;l which is moderately
estimated at not less than 1900
pounds, and performed under unfa-
vorable condition. He is now a
hale, ruddy-faced man of So years,
located on fine farm of 12O acres
in Boone and Hamilton counties,
well stocked and improved, besides
being the fortunate owner of two
Others, 16O and 120 acres, respective
ly. He was born in Sweden, was %
years old when he came to America.
and has been resident of this coun-
ty for twenty-three years. He stands
six feet two inches in his stockings
and tips the beam at 245 pounds.
A No. II boot accommodates his
foot, and his hand is that of a giant.
Boone (Ill.) Standard.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-06
The Oldest City in the World.

Damascus is the oldest city in
the world. Tyre and Sidon have
crumbled on the shore; Baalbec is
a ruin; Palmyra is buried in a des-
ert; Nineveh and Babylon have dis
appeared from the Tigris and the
Euphrates. Damascus remains
what it was before the days of
center of trade and
travel-au isle of yerdure in the
desert: "a presidential capital with
martial and sacred associations ex-
tending through thirty centuries.
1t was near Damascus that Saul of
Tarsus saw the light above the
brightness of the sun: the street,
which is called Strait, in which it
was said he prayed still runs
through the city. The caravan
comes and goes as it did 1,0OO years
ago; there is still the sheik, the
ass, aud the water-wheel; the mer-
chants of the Euphrates and the
Mediterranean still occupy the
streets with the multitude of their
wares The city which Mohammed
surveyed from a neighboring height,
and was afraid to enter, because it
was given to man to have but one
paradise, and for his part he was re-
solved not to haye it in this world,
is to-day what Julian called the
Eye OF the East IS it was, in the
time of Isaiah, the head of Syria
From Damascus came the dam
son, our blue plums, and the deli
cious apricot of Portugal, called
damasco; damask, our beautiful
fabric of cotton aud silk, with vines
and flowers raised upon a smooth,
bright ground; the damask rose
introduced into England inthe time
|of Henry VIII; the Damascus
blade, so famous the world over fol
its keen edge and wonderful elastic
lity, the secret of whose manu-
facture was lost when Tamsrlan'
carried the artist into Persia, ant
that beautiful art of inlaying woot
and steel with gold and silver,
kind Of mosaic, engraving an,
sculpture unitetl-called damas
keening-with which boxes, bn
reaus and swords are ornamcnted
It is still d city OF flowers ant
bright waters; the streams of Let
anon and the silk of gold still mul
muir and sparkle in the wilderness
of the Syrian gardens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-25
demonstrating The Drowned

Now that the season for excursions by water
boating parties and bathing is near at hand. it
may be we'll to republsh some simple rules for
the resuscitation of drowned persons The
method practiced by many physicians consists Of
good deal Of rubbing, the use Of plenty of
warm clothes, slightly rolling the body while
supporting the head o trife higher than the
body, and an external application of the hands
in q way that will produce an artificial respira-
ton.
The people Of Portugal practice another
method, which Is said to be very effective. At
OpOrtO when persons are recovered from the
water they are Immediately stripped and rubbed
all over with salt, but more particularly about
the breast, temples and joints. A sailor recently
fell overheard In the river D0uro and was under
water half an hour. When recovered his body
was subjected to the Portugal treatment, and In
less than four hours he was up and walking
Dogs and cats were placed under water for two
hours. and then were covered over with salt, the
nostrils only being free from the saline bath.
Presently they began to breathe and discharge
the water from their mouth and nostrils. The
struggling soon grew stronger, and In three or
four hours they ell got up and ran away.