The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1885-07-23

DOWNSTAIRS to give the alarm before the
murderer could escape. My feet dew
nom under me. and after that all is q
blank until few days ago."
After Aignan's trial and conviction
and sentence to penal servitude for
thirty years, he admitted the crime
Il played bold game" he said, land
lost II l had had more time would
have possessed the whole estate. IN.
r. Dispatch.
coUNTRYMEN IN NEW YORK.
Store Clothes Rob the Hired Man Of His
PieturesQaeness.
1T is curious thing" said white
haired man who has lived in New York
all his life. but who retired from active
business over ten years ago, "that the
countrymen one sees in New York to-
day are few and far between, as far Is
may be judged by appearances, or very
rural when they aren't counted. I
have watched the people in New York
STREETS for many years, as I have al
ways had a fancy for studying the faces
and manners Of fellow pedestrians
Even when ! was boy it was my ia.
vortte amusement to wander about the
streets after business hours and stare at
people who swept to and fro. Until
ten years ago there was regular in
flux of countrymen about this time
every year. just as sure as summer
came around just so sure did hordes of
cumbersomely clad and awkward PEG.
pie come to town. They were guyed,
laughed at and ridiculed, sketches were
written about them and produced in the
variety theaters, and the writers for the
press brought out their follies. A short
time ago the Sun called some attention
to the matter by announcing the almost
entire disappearance of countrymen
from New York. 1t is an actual fact.
and one that has not been noticed until
the San spoke of it, that roughly
dressed and more or less uncivilized
c0untrymen are now the rarest of all
objects to be found in New York. The
whole of America seems to have become
suddenly civilized, and men from q
small town from the interior Of any Of
the back-woods States come to New
York wearing clothes made by the big
New York tailor establishments, fash
iOnable hats and neat shoes.
1T is, indeed, q matter of some diff
Guilty to distinguish at sight an average
New York young man from the average
young man of Keokuk, Penn Yam or
Duluth; but this is worth noting, and
that is, when genuine greenhorn does
appear in the streets of New York he is
one Of the blacklist stripe. passed
such one yesterday, and l confess that
stopped and looked back at him; he
must have been from Bayou Sara. He
had an old-fashioned stock such as our
grandfathers used to wear, q long frock
coat that reached almost to his heels,
!haggy trousers, buff waistcoat and high
ASpipe hot and heavy boots. The
S1seves OF his coat were 20 long that be
rolled them up, and they had been
rolled 50 long that the creases showed
plainly at the ends Of the sleeves. His
trousers were as much too short IS hil
sleeves were too long, but be did moi
seem to mind that q bit, and he STUN
bled along with the air of man fol.
lowing q pillow. That costume was
once . common one in New York thai
is, it was common among the men who
visited the metropolis from the back
woods; but now It is so rare that as
say, l stopped and looked at it. While
speaking Of such peculiar clothes I an
reminded of the hired man of whom &c
much has been written and said. The
hired man, you know. has . particula,
niche in American social life; he i
something between a servant and ,
friend. In Europe such person is en-.
tirely unknown. There either man 4
q gentleman, q tradesman, or servant
ION all farms, and the hired man
you know, was always prevalent OF
farms, It was always conceded that OF
Sunday. after the horses were fed ant
the chores done, the hired man SHOULD
| be what he always termed a gentleman
To this end he always renowned BIZ
working clothes and dressed up on Sun
day afternoon. He usually had blacl
fr0ck coat and trousers. heavy but well
polished boots, q stovepipe hat whicl
was invariably . size or two too small
for him, and which left o blood-red lin
across his forehead when he took it of
1t was for many years the custom 0
the hired man to array himself in al
the glory of this attire and sit in tn
shade Of the barn door and white Sun
day afternoons away. At night he wen
to visit his best girl. A gentleman VIII
sells moving machines among the farm
ers tells me that this type Of hired ma
has disappeared as completely as tn
suburban visitor of years ago. In hi
place is natty young fellow who wear
Derby hats, low shoes, variegate
hosiery. and who dresses up every nigh
and goes to the nearest tavern o
grocery after his work is done. So yo
see in q few years more what are know
as store clothes will have revolution
lied nearly all Of the picturesque fig
urcs of American life out Of existence.
, M T. Sun.
Where the Marriage Service Was.
They were discussing the marriag
service. They were men. If they ha
been women there would have been n
story.
Il tell you the marriage service reat