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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
TIE J[M-JAMS,

"A correspondent OF tho New York
World tells oil about the sensation pro-
duccd by the jim-jams. This is the way
no tackles the subject: Delirium tre-
mems Snakes Jim-jams Yes, I've
had touches OF them. You want TO know
how it feels ?. I'll tell. you. You have
been drunk maybe week, maybe more.
At last liquor ceases to excite, brace up
or tranquilhze. You drink half pint Of
brandy. 1t has no more effect than SO
much water. Then you are close on the
horrors. Food won't help you; your
stomach rejects it. Now your punish
ment commences. You can't sleep. You
are weary. Oh, SO weary, but there is
no rest. Yon are tired OF thinking, yet
the brain will think. You Lie down, drop
into doze for q moment and wake up
with shock, as if touched with an cleo
trio wire. You are covered with perspi-
ration. You get up and walk the room,
ptrests--wsrah. walk. isut:. then fling yun--.
self down, praying for few minutes
sleep. All this for days. with people
about you, and through nights. But no
Chinese torturer employed in keeping
some miserable criminal awake until he
dies was ever more full of relentless vig-
lance than your abused nerves. breads
indescribable seize upon you. Your
hands have a sensation of being of e1or-
nous size. They do not look it. They
feel it. Your head in like manner feels
as if enormously puffed out. Then your
breath comes spasmodically; hot flashes
strike at the region of the heart; all The
blood seems to rush in that direction,
and you fight aimlessly for life and ex-
pect to fall dead. This is the commence
ment Of the horrors. Now you are fixed
for seeing rats and snakes and vsrmin. !"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
BELLE BOYD.

During her residence in Washington
" Belle Boyd" formed an intimate &C.
quaintance with President Lincoln, and
. friendly correspondence was kept up
between the two during greater por-
ton of the war. On one occasion her
letter paper was adorned with the Con-
federate motto, snake entwinedaround
Confederate flag, and the inscription,
Don't tread ON US or we will bite"
When Lincoln replied to the missive he
sent back the motto with "bite' erased
and the word "bust" substituted. Brok-
en- down in health and bereaved by the
loss Of her father, who had died In the
effort to effect her release from captivity,
"Belle Boyd determined to leave for
foreign shores, and in May, 1864, she
embarked on the Greyhound at North
Carolina as the bearer of important dis
patches from Jefferson Davis and Judah
p BENJAMIN to the friends of the cause
in London. In endeavoring to run the
Blockade, nowovssstIio uIeS.sgura was
captured by United States steaas~e4
Belle Boyd" was taken to Boston, kept
q prisoner for some time, and finally
banished to Canada. From there she
went to England, where she passed the
second epoch of her life. She was mar
ried at the aristocratio church OF st.
James, P:ccadilly, received with open
arms in titled society, became widow,
and finally, having natural talent for
the theatrical profession, took to the
stage. Probably no person in this coun-
try has been afflicted With so many
"doubles" as this lady. Since her re-
turn to America and marriage to Col. ].
3. Hammond, an English gentleman,
once member Of the celebrated "Lou-
isiana Tigers" she has completely sunk
her history with that Of her husband,
and, with the exception of few occa
sions, when she has appeared upon the
platform as the talented reader and elo-
cutionist, Marie Isabelle Hammond"
her mind has been engrossed with do
mestic affairs. Yet, every few months,
she is vexed and annoyed by coming
across an announcement that Belle
Boyd" the ex-Confederate spy, has
turned up in some part of the country.
Now the pretender is being entertained
by some prominent Southerner; again,
she is in distress and soliciting aid.
Several years ago one of these bogus
"Belles" visited Atlanta, Ga, ON lect-
uring tour, and was denounced
by Capt. ST. Clair Abrams Of
the NeDs, as an impostor. Next
morning she proceeded to the Office and
demanded satisfaction, which being re-
fused she proceeded to draw a couple OF
Derringers, but was seized before the
weapons could be pointed. Since that
time she has not turned up in Georgia.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
CIGARS WHICH NO LADY WILL
JECT TO,

An applicant for patent for q new
style of cigar thus modestly describes
its attributes"
"Tho tobacce.troln which the ciesc,s
are made is grown entirely in conserve
tories, and the cigars are made on ma
hogany tables by thoroughbred Cubans
in swallow-taI coats and white kid
gloves. When man smokes one Of
these cigars, he walks on air, and
dreams that he has diamond scarf pin
and a sixty-fve-dollar suit of clothes,
and just married rich. 1t makes the
breath sweet, and keeps the teeth white,
and will force a moustache on the
smoothest lip in five weeks. 1t per-
meates the house, window curtains,
closets and clothes with the delicate
odors and exquisite fragrance of hello
trope, new mown hay, jockey club and
white rose. 1t will fasten the front gate
every night, and carry the paper in the
morning, chase the cats from the gar
den, drive the hens to water, and hard
" ever fail to make one feel better all
over. No well-regulated family can
properly keep house without them for
the man who smokes this cigar will
never cut wood too long for the stove,
never swear when he puts up stove
pipes, never step on lady's train, join
a club or go down to the postoffice after
o,,r,,or
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
SIXTEEN CHILDREN At ONE BIRTH

SIXTEEN CHILDREN At ONE BIRTH.
A man in Illinois, having sent to a
Washington journal photograph of
five Of his children who were born on the
same day, asserting that emo other man
can show picture of five," the news
paper quiets him with the following
statistics:
Instances have been found where
children to the number of six, seven,
eight. nine and sometimes sixteen have
been brought forth at one birth. The
wife of Emanuel Gago, laborer near
ValIadolid, was delivered the 14th Of
June, 1893, of Ave girls. The celebra-
ted Tarsin was brought to bed in the
seventh month, at Argenteuil, near
Paris, 18th Of July, 1779, Of three boys,
each fourteen and half inches long,
and girl, thirteen inches. They were
all baptized, but did not live over twen-
ty-four hours. In June, 1893, one
Maria Ruiz, of Lucena, in Andalusia,
was successfully delivered of sixteen
boys, without any girls. Seven of them
were alive on the 18th Of August follow
ing. In 1885 a Muscovite peasant
named James Kyrloff and his wife were
presented to the Empress Of Russia.
This peasant had been twice married.
and was then 10 years of age. His first
wife was brought to bed twenty-one
times, namely, four times Of four chill
dren each time, seven times Of three,
and ten times OF two, making in all fif-
ty-seyen children who were then alive.
His second wife, who accompanied him,
had been delivered seven times--once Of
three children, and six times of twins.
Thus he had seventy-two children by
his two marriages"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03

S1SASENAVu oSG"6s
Probably one Of the meanest stage
tricks that was ever played was played
on Mary Anderson. 1t will be remem-
bered that, in the play of "Ingomar,"
Parthenia and the barbarian have sew
eral love scenes, where they lop on each
other and hug some-that is, not too
much hugging, but just hugging enough.
Ingomar wears huge fur garment,
made of lions skin, or something. One
day he noticed that the moths were get
ting into it, and he told his servant to
see about the moths and drive them
out. The servant got some insect pow
der and blew the hair of the garment
full of it, and scrubbed the inside of it
with benzine. Ingomar put it on just
before he went on the stage, and thought
it didn't smell just right, but he had no
time to inqu re into it. He had not got
fairly into his position before Parthenia
came out on hop, skip and jump, and
threw herself all over him. She got
one lung full of insect powder and the
other full Of benzine, and as she said,
+" wit always love me, Ingomar ?" she
dropped her head over his shoulder and
said in an aside g For the love OF heaven,
what have you been drinking 2" and
then she sneezed . couple OF times. In
gomar held her up the best he could,
considering that his nose was full Of
insect powder, and he answered, I
wilt" and then he said to her quietly,
!" Dam -fino what it is that smells so. !"
They went on with the play between
sneezes, and when the curtain went
down she told Ingomar to go out and
shake himself, and he did. It was mo-
aticed in the next act that ngomar had q
linen ulster on. and Mary snoze no
more. New York Mercury.
y A
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03

PRoF. AsAssIz said, "No offspring is
simply the offspring of its father and
motner." This is truth farmers would
do we'll to always bear in mind. Family
traits, mental and physical, extend back
far beyond the parents-sometimea lost
andsometimes appearing through many
generations.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03

Winnie preaching from the text HE
giveth His beloved sleep" Toledo
minister stopped in the middle Of the
sermon, gazed upon his sleeping audit
ors aud said: Brethren, it is hard to
realize the 1wondrous, lnbounded love
the Lord appears to have Tor good
portion Of tins congregation. ].
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
nov TO LIFT A THOUSAND POUNDS.

dOW to LIFT A THOUSAND POUNDS.
Dumb-bells weighing not over five
pounds each are recommended, which
should be nsed regularly every morning
and evening for half an hour for year
By this time it will be found that the
muscles of the arms, legs and body will
have increased very much and become
exceedingly firm and hard. When this
condition has been acquired, then, and
not till then, can man think of lifting
heavy weights; for if he cannot get his
muscles and nerves in this condition, he
can never become litter, even with
years of practice, as it takes strength as
well as sleight to lift heavy weight.
Some very good authorities recommend
lifting at the commencement, adding
that "you must not lift too much" But
how can inexperienced hands tell when it
is too much before they find themselves
permanently injured?
After the years exercise with dumb
bells, or otherwise, as previously sug-
gested, then q man who is not ruptured
or otherwise injured can commence a
systematic course OF lifting. starting
with not over 100 pounds, which he
can lift as many times day as he is dis
posed to do for one month. He can then
lid another fifty pounds to the weight
20 be lifted during the second months
exercise, and SO on, adding an additional
ifty-pound weight each month for
twenty months, when he will be able to
ift the great weight of 1000 pounds
without any danger Of injuring himself.
This is general rule, and any man with
sound body can reach it if he only fol-
pws the prescribed course, aIdnever tries
overdo the thing. If the weight will
aot come up without too much strain,
top, for it is too heavy for you at that
Joint Of your training. To lift correct
and without danger person must
tand erect, the heels on the same line,
he toes turned out, the shoulders thrown
oack and the body resting squarely on
he hips-the arms hanging down by the
sides. The legs should then be bent
merely enough to enable the hands to
yrasp the handles or rings of what yop
IRE to lift !; then lift by merely straight
ming the legs, and not by the arms OF
,he body. Ii you have to strain, and
Il q weight does not come up freely, then
you are attempting too much and should
Try lighter load. When you have be-
ONE strong enough to Lift LOCO pounds
you are in reality strong man and
,ilould be perfectly satisfied to let well
,nough alone, for oil who attempt to ex,
,eed that point there is not one man il
90 who, at some time or other, does no,
.niure himself for life. Some few do not
out they are yare exceptions.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
oyr rs Rad as THE OTHER.

Bill PITT and Joe Nagel had $5 game
Of billiards in the "Gently Dreaming"
saloon, on Galveston avenue. Bill lost
the game, but instead Of paying the IS
be said: aI hayen't got cent ofmoney
with me. Joe. r
!. The youhaveny L Whatsort oi
a way is that for gentleman to do-to
como into . saloon and play without .
cent Of money in his pocketf How now
am I TO pay the barkeeper what ! owe
him Galveston Ners.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03
ERooKHAyEN. MISS. ss.. THURSDAY. M AUGUST 3, 1852.
HOW 4 NEW BONNET STOPPED Al
.- AY4I4NCr.t ON WHEELS.

HUN fEW ECNNEf SIOITGO AN
|. AVALANCHE ON WHEELS.
. Col. Fizzletop took his wife out for a
drive. He was driving very high
spirited horse, when it occurred to Mrs.
Fizzletop that she would like to drive
that kind of an animal. She remarked !:
81 have often heard you soy, Colonel,
that a woman did not know how to drive.
Now want TO show you how badly mis-
taken you nre. Give me the reins."
"Not with this buggy" replied Fiz-
zletop, trembling all over. II know
you can drive spiendidly, but wait until
tomorrow, and I'll borrow an old
secondhand buggy from a friend for
you to practice with. I saw where o
woman in Galveston smashed up a new
buggy, so that it cost $40 to repair it so
that it could be used for kindling wood.
Let us keep this buggy to go to our
funerals in"
$50 you think I can't drive this
horse2" 4
"I know you con drive we'll enough,
but before going down the avenue let's
drive back and kiss the children and
your mother good-by, and then go over
to the marble yard and pick out tomb
stone, and then down to the undertaken
and get measured, and then"
"Out to the lunatic asylum and leave
you there for awhile. You are talking
like you didn't have good sense"
"An right. Just take the reins and
give the people a chance to fresco the
wheels with their brains" .
"You are in no danger Of losing any
brains. Get up /" said Mrs. Fizzletop,
as she took the lines.
How polite the people are to get
out Of the way" she remarked, as the
near wheels scraped the bosom Of fly
ing drummer's pants, the end Of one Of
the shafts knocked the hat off the head
of q prominent banker, while life
insurance agent was actlng as braK e
for the off-wheeI, without his intending
it at all.
Just OF this momert, when ,Fizzletop
had given up all hopes, just as the bug
gy was about to telescope street cor
full Of passengers, just as the drivers Of
other teams were whipping up their
teams to escape from the Fizzletop ava
lanche on wheels. Mrs. Fizzletop saw a
new hat in store window, and, in spite
of the frantic efforts of the frenzied ami
NAL, held him as in wise until Fizzle.
top had purchased the hat, and thus the
danger was averted. When a lady has
made up her mind to have new bon
net, two locomotives cannot pull her
past the store window.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03

uor miserly man somebody wrote !:
" His head gave way, but his hand never
did His brain softensd, but his heart
couldn't 81 &
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03

EoTG sWIafs BY MEN AND ANIMALS.
Referring to the wonderful feats of
swimming performed by Webb, the
opinion is expressed in Nature that men
and animals would sustain themselves
for long distances in water much oftener
were they not incapacitated by terror or
completely ignorant Of their real pow
ers
Some years since the second mate- Of
o ship fell overheard while listing a
sail. 1t was blowing fresh, the time
was night, and the place some miles out
in the stormy German ocean. The
hardy fellow nevertheless managed to
gain the English coast. Brock, with a
dozen other pilots, was plying for fares
by Yarmouth, and, as the mainsheet was
Delayed, sudden puff OF wind upset
the boat, when presently all persisted
except Brock himself, who from in
the afternoon Of an October evening to
l the next morning SWAN thirteen miles
before he was able to hail vessel at
anchor in the offing. Animals them
selves are capable Of swimming immense
distances, although unable TO rest by
the way. A dog recently SWAN thirty
miles in America in order to rejoin his
master. A mule and o dog washed over
board during gale in the Bay Of Biscay
have been known to make their way to
shore. A dog swan ashore with letter
in his mouth at the Cape Of Good Hope.
The crew Of the ship to which the dog
belonged all perished, which they need
not have done had they only ventured to
tread water like the dog did. As q
certain ahip was laboring heavily In the
trough oil the sea it was found needful,
In order TO tighten the vessel, to throw
some troop horses overheard which had
been taken in at Corunna. The poor
things, . staff surgeon said, when they
found themselves abandoned, faced round
and SWAN for miles after the vessel. A
man ON the east coast Of Lincolnshire
saved quite . number Of lives by swim-
ming out on horsebask to vessels in dis
tress. he commonly rode an old gray
mare. but when the mare was NOT at
hand he took the first horse that
offered.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03

For increasing the physical and mental
trength augmenting the facnlty Of endur-
ance, nothing actssolike acharm ss Browns
Iron Bitters.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03

TO OPENLY offend virtue is to clandes-
tinely defend immortality. -
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03

PRINTING from blocks was invented
about the ysax 1422; printing from let
iters cut separately on wood, in 1438 !;
printing from letters cut separately on
metal, In l450; printing from lsttsrs
cast in molds. in 1856.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-03

KENT, July 10, 1881.
Letter from Charles DarWiia of En-.
qla,,d, to Mrs. Emily Tutbot.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-11
WHEFLING W. Va. FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST II, 1882

Ballard Scott. Edward Callaghan, Hamilton
district; ]. N. Mason, A. G. Odell, Jefferson
district; J. w. 0dell and Jas. w. McCiung,
Summerville district
Political matters have about dropped out
OF fsight In Nicholas at present. notwith-
standing that Congressman, State Senator
and Delegate TO the Legislature are 10 b
elected this fall. Its all surmise as to who
will be persuaded to sacrifice his "alr" and
launch himself before the people TO have
his popularity tested; anyway It is moro
than probable that political rehersals arego
ing on behind the scenery.
Some of our citizens who have been at
tending Webster Circuit Court have re-
turned home. The time of the court was
consumed up to Thursday afternoon in the
trial of two parties named Putter and Bier,
charged with busrglarizing Amos Curry's
store in that county some months ago. The
prisoners had nearly the whole bar engaged
in their behalf, but the able Prosecuting
Attorney, J. d. Anderson, will prove too
much for them, and Messrs. Putter and
Bier have to make trip to Moundsville.
There are not as many visitors at the
Webster Springs this year as usual, on &C.
count of the wet weather.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-11
A PECULIAR CASE.
How . Telegraph Operator Enlisted
and WAS Discharge.

WASHINGTON, August l0,-W. A. Red
field, telegraph operator at Columbus Bar.
racks, Ohio, has been under arrest upon q
charge of desertion, and awaiting trial by
court-martial. Secretary Lincoln has re.
ceived many petitions for his release and
to-day issued an order releasing him from
confinement and discharging him from the
army.
The above order will, no doubt, create
lively satisfaction among gentlemen Of the
telegraphic fraternity throughout the
country, as the facts leading TO the arrest
of Mr.. Redfield were we'll known and uni
versally condemned by the operators every.
where. 1t is stated that an alleged friend
Redfield's, then an operator, but since dis.
missed. attempted to black kmail him, and
being unsuccessful, represented him TO the
recruiting officer as a deserter. The officer,
however, was not disposed TO pay much at.
tention to the charge, bnt the friend
threatened to have the Sergeant arrested IL
he did not take Redfeld into custody. As
the Sergeant thought there might be some
foundation for the charge, Redtield having
entered with an entire misrepresentation,
however, of the duties be was 10 undertake,
he was compelled to act, and the arrest and
subsequent charges followed. General
Eckert and other prominent officials Of the
Western Union have taken an interest in
the case. and LieutenantG Governor Rich.
ards, OF Ohio, has been very active in his
efforts to procure Redfeld's pardon.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-11
IURRENT COMMENT.
IFaulkper I,,srx,.wo.,

In here from the East stopped of
at BerlSPrings, and saw Judge Chas. ].
FauIk F., who was holding a term of
court place. The Judge is one of
most y and pleasant gentlemen have
ever md received me courteously.
After preliminary conversation, l
called lention to the statement of Mr..
John = Payne published in the King
wood ASf the l4th ult,, and inquired
if he hsh it:
Yes,
lie ca'on you to give your recollec
hon Of proposition made to Judge
Hoge q him communicated to his
friends e Fairmont Convention. If
you des answer that inquiry I shall
oe giad It to the public through the
colGmnse REGIsrEs? '-'o
wen, | have no desire To Ava;
myself Or kindness, and can only sx
press MET that my name has in anv
way oeeilicly mentioned in Gomez
fT Tion Witfsontroversy between Jndre
nose ahg Lucas. l determined, when
Zen | entered my judicial duties, to avoid
any comp with or iuterference in
gouISai gSai FRS, either directly or in.
o.s'.,SSy .ee.iy' ar l have maintained that
sasu9e, ;a peither by word or acl dn 7
ntenu the course which / b,va
tba myself while I remsin on
;nv;ts,;or!.IlS ;;sn King yon for your polite
now lli S only add, that neitber
IN ... ~. tutore time, will | desire
A'S"er pquiries, furnish any infor.