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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-11
A HAPPY DIVERSION.

How a Rather Peculiar Man Kept Him
self In Good Humor.
I II took dinner with peculiar man the
other day." said the Secretary OF State.
81 had known him for long time, but had
never noticed anything strange about him
until the other day. When we sat down
to dinner, Colonel Hackett-my friends
name-called his servant, large negro,
and said:
Robert please bring us some bread,
and OH Bob, you've forgot the soup!
Bring it, please, and you will place me UNI
der SO many obligations. All, hold on,
Bob. You have forgotten to give my
friend plate. Please bring him one.
"When the servant had retired to exc
cute the Inundated appeals to his gener-
osity, turned to my friend and said;
"Colonel, you astonish me. l have
ever taken you to be a man OF great firm.
ness
az am
"'Then why are you so servile in asking
your servant to do anything2'
4" Revenge, my dear SIR
'Revenge!' | repeated, in astonish.
ment. Why, don't understand you
"'Well, III tell you. Doyou see that club
over the mantel-piecep Well, I shall be OBJ
sequious to that fellow until he owns the
place, then shall snatch down that club
and knock him heels over head. Nothing like
it. do all my servants this way, and
enjoy myself better than any man in town.
II hadn't hit upon this plan would have
been dead by this time. Wait minute
here he comes
1.-THE fellow looked sullenly at us and
doggedly put plate in front OF me.
"'Oh, Bobbie,n said the Colonel, there is
no vinegar on the table. should esteem
it great favor il you were to get some.
Oh, don't frown at me that way, Bobbie.'
1.-THE servant made disrespectful re-
mark. The Colonel jumped up, seized his
club and struck Bob an awful blow
knocked him through a window out into
the yard. The Coionel's face wore an ex-
preston of supreme happiness.
CHOW well eat dinner, said he, resuming
| his seat. III l hadn't struck upon this
source OF innocent diversion, might have
been in my grave. You see when cringed
| to him it was humiliation, but when
| knocked him into figure five 1t was re-
\ venge. Now, l must go out after dinner
| and get another man. At first he will tell
me that he would rather work for me than
for any man he ever saw. After awhile
when my kindness becomes more plain, he
will become neglectiul; and, after awhile
- you have witnessed to-day-he will be-
come insolent. No, sir, don't know what
would have become of me had not struck
upon this happy diversion. "-Arkansaw
| TrayeIer
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-11
A GREEN ONE.
He Buys Prairie-Dog Town for Mink
Colony.

He Buys Prairie-Dog Town for Mink
Colony.
There are some mighty green men
in this world" said the passenger from
the West, "and l struck one of 'em a
week or two ago. If ] hadn't
wouldn't be here now. Last spring /
went out in Western Nebraska and
homesteaded a quarter section. hadn't
seen the land, but took it supposin' it
was all right. But when / got there
found it already inhabited. About
one hundred and fifty acres of the
one hundred and sixty were covered
with a prairie-dog town. Well, l con-
Guided to settle down and see what
could do, and I'm mighty glad now
that l did. About two weeks ago
was up to the railroad station trying to
get trusted for some bacon and flour
and terbacker, an feelin' right smart
discouraged. Twas out of money and
grub, and the winter was comm on
fast, an couldn't see anyway out of it
but to eat prairie dogs, and they're
mighty hard to catch. But that day
was the turning point in my luck.
While l was at the station an English
man got off the cars, an said as how
he was out West lookin' for a place to
make an investment. Said he'd heard
o. the fur business, an wanted to
know if he was out in the fur country
yet.
'Furs,' says l, there hain't not
an just then an idea struck me, an
changed my tune. 'Furs, says /, there
amt no better fur country than this on
'arth. Just come out to my place till ]
show you my fur farm.
"And he went out with me, an
showed him the prairie-dog town, an
as luck would have it, it was bright
sunny day, an the dogs were out scoot
in around by the hundreds.
"'Talkin' about furs, says /, 'what
dye think of thatP I've been six year,
CROWN those mink, an hain't sold {
hide. It's all natural grease. Cues,
they's bout seven thousand of EN- now
an they double every year. How many
will there be in ten years?'
You oughter seen that Englishman'i
eyes open as he took out his pencil an
figured it up. He made it 7,16S,0Ot
mink.
"'Well, says l, call it 5000, 900 to b,
on the safe side. 1t won't cost dollal
to keep 'em, either, an if they're WORT
cent they're worth a dollar apiece
There millions in it.
Then we got right down to business
an in less than an hour l had sold on
for seven thousand dollars cash. an tn,
next day paid three hundred and lift,
dollars for the homestead at the LAM
Office. got my patent and transferred
to him and took the first train for th
East Step into the buffer with me
partner, an take a drink Chicae
Herald.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-11
PlTH AND POINT.

-"Do you wish to be my wife, Ma
bel?" said little boy. yes" incau-
tiously answered Mabel. "Then pull of
my boots. Pail Mall Gazette.
"A man who is willing to hold the
baby part of the time and grease the
griddle in the morning is, in woman's
eye, the only substitute for cash.
tive eaten next to nothing" lisped
Smithers, who was dining with his girl.
"Oh, I always do that when l sit by
you," responded the young lady, pleas
antly.-Sam.
-"Give us the ballot-box," is the cry
of but very few of the fair sex, while the
rest of our feminine population is con-
tent with being allowed to frequently
stuff the handbook. philadelphia Her.
aid.
1t is said that san Ohio man
planted the first American flag in Cali
fornia soil in 1888" Whether it grew
or not is not stated; but we suppose of
course it did. They have glorious
climate out there. -LoveN Citizen.
"A man in Northampton County
went to sleep in an engine house, u.s.
ing box of dynamite for pillow.
When he awoke he found his head
blown off 1t must have been pain
full surprise to im.-Noristown Her.
ald
Innocence Out of the City, wish
you'd let me go to the city with you,
Charlie, dear" said young wife to her
husband, who is on the Stock Exchange;
II should so like just for once to take a
stroll through the money market. IN
Y Ledger.
Mr.. Middlemas met three tramps
this morning; to the first he gave five
cents, to the second ten cents, and to
the third ten cents-what time was it?
All give it upP Want me to tell youp
Why, it is easy to see what time it was
"a quarter to three. IN. Y. Intlepend-
ert.
Nothing makes man feel the
value of an economical wife so much as
when he finds that the hundred dollars
he had given her to buy Christmas
presents with has been invested in pay.
ing her dressmaker's bill and buying
him corn-cob pipe.--FdU RiUe,
Herald
-Wife-"Aren't you going to eat
your pudding, dearp'' Husband (pok.
ing it disparagingly with his spoon)-
sit would kill me to eat that mess of in.
digestible stuff" Wife-"I know it's
not very nice, but you had better eat il
dear. l hate to see it wasted CHI
cago Mail.
Times are pretty hard with some OF
the small brokers in the new board Of
trade district. A deaf and dumb mar
went into an Office in the open Board O.
Trade Building the other day, and
Selling piece Of paper, wrote: II an
hungry" The broker took the piece O
paper, read the unhappy words ant
scrawled under them: $50 am |. CHI
cago Herald.
She should have darned EN-
The beautiful maiden Is shopping to day,
Quite busy and to her surprise,
While through the thronged street she Il
taking her way,
Her beau in the street she espies.
Good gracious tits awful! He's coming, n,
doubt,
And swift to her heart strikes pain;
The eyes of affection will single her out,
He'll see her and speak, that Is plain.
She halts, bushes redly, then crosses tn
Avoiding the youth that she loves;
The maid 1t would mortify much should the.
There are holes in the tips of her gloves
Boston Courier.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-11
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
"SMALl AND TRiFLING."

In your hand you hold an acorn,
Deeming Ii q worthless thing,
And you cast IL from your keeping.
Rain, and dew, and sunlight, bring,
Slowly, surely, an awakening
To the acorn's little heart,
Till the tiny germ within 1t
Makes a sudden, silent start.
Time goes on. You have forgotten
All about the little shell,
Which, as years slip into decades,
Works its secret mission well.
Ah, could you but read the future,
See what coming years can tell,
You would scarce believe the wonders
Springing from that acorn she'll
First you see come slowly peeping
From the ground tiny sprout;
Soon 'twould be tender sapling,
Sending budding leaflets out.
Then you'd see, as years passed onward,
What, as boy, you'd thrown away
Making cool and grateful shadow
For your silvered head some day.
You would see the forest growing
Round the grand old parent tree;
Hear the woodman's axe resOunding,
And the busy builders see
At their work on ship and dwelling;
See the vessel proudly glide,
Carrying precious burden
Ger the ocean wild and wide.
All, my boys, we can not always
From cause judge its effect.
Grand results may lie safe hidden
In some duty you'd neglect
Just because twas small and trifling.
So, my lads, just watch; you'll see
All through life that trfles often
Make or mar destiny.
%. G. Thdrin, IN Golden Days.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-11
Singular Coincidence.

In a city not more than a thousand
miles from San Antonio, local clergyman
rented house for dwelling that had
formerly been a gambling house. One
night two young men of his congregation
knocked at the door, and, to their horror,
their pastor opened the door. They fed
in dismay. And now he goes about telling
everybody he has strong hopes that the
two young men win yet muster up
couraget to study for the ministry, while
they take the pillars of the church aside,
and whisper: "Hel He He Where do
you think we saw Parson - Why,
around at John Smiths gambling room,
bucking at monte. Who would have
thought it?"
The Sunday ofisrtOry has oegun to fan
off slresdy.-Texss SLtings.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-11
THE ENGINEERS STORY.
Two Red Lights on the Track Look Like
Mountain of Red Stone.

Mountain of Red stone.
Ever ride on an engine on a dark,
stormy night, ehP Have you learned
what red light meansp l remember
one bleak, dreary night in the winter
of 1877, was running on the Erie.
We were behind time, and were skim
ming down the hill toward Alden,
when we rounded the curve and saw
what seemed to be blaze of red lights
before us. 1t seemed to me that the
country was on fire. My heart jumped
into my throat, and l thought my time
had come. 1 reversed my lever, put
on the air-brakes, and opened the
throttle wide. My fireman had Jump
ed, with serious consequences to him.
self. and | thought l was a goner. I
let one brief prayer escape from my
lips, and felt terrible Earring.
''At first it flashed through my mind
that we had struck, but as / heard the
jarring of the wheels | found that we
were almost at a dead stop, the wheels
slipping on account of the force of the
| steam which had run up. just about
two feet from us was the caboose of
freight train which we would have run
into had we not stopped in time. After
the excitement was over one Internal
fool of passenger came up and asked
why we had stopped so quick, swear
ing at both the road and myself for
stopping trains so quick. The cylinders
of my engine cut little on account Of
the cinders which were drawn in
through reversing, but beyond that no
damage was done.
you can bet your bottom dollar
my boy, that the two red lights on the
back of that caboose looked to me that
night more like a great mountain Of
rcd stone on the track than they die
like two inofensive crimson lights. ~
] Buffalo ETDress.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-11
MINE MODER-IN-LAW.

Dhere vas many qveer dings IN dis land of
der free,
1 neffer could qvite understands;
Der peoples Obey all seem so deterrent to me
AS dhose in mine own faderand.
Obey gets hlendy droubles, und Undo mishaps,
Mitoud der least bit of cause;
Und. would you pellet id2 dhOse mean Yangee
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-06-18
Commencement at the Virginia Female
Institute.

This female college under Mrs. Gen. j.
E. B. Stuart, gave its annual evidence,
this week, of its undisputed title to its
place in the front rank of the colleges of
the country. The Art Department under
Miss A. H. Little, and the Musical De-
partnent under Prof. Webb, shown in the
public exhibits this year with the results
of the educated skill of these instructors
at the final exercises, Wednesday, Bishop
Randolph, of this diocese, was present,
and assisted by Judge Shelley and Col
Skinner, delivered the prizes and medals
as follows:
PRIZES.
For greatest Improvement in Penmanship q
handsome Writing Desk, to Miss Rose Hurry
For greatest improvement in Calisthenics,
owen Meredith's Poems, to Miss Parker Ram
For greatest improvement in Elocution,
Longfellow's Poems, to Miss Annie Wiermap.
For excellence in English Composition,
Shakespeares Complete Works, to Miss Mary
Crump.
handsome Engraving, to Miss Allene Johnston.
For greatest Improvement in OF Painting,
handsome Engraying to Miss Nellie Ryder;
Sewing, to Miss Sarah Rock.
MEDALS.
English Scholarship, Miss Louisa Davis ;
Mathematics, Miss Fannie Brewer; Languages,
Miss Agnes Freeland; Calisthenics Miss Mary
Crump; instrumental Music, Miss Nellie Wes-
ton Vocal Music, Miss Blanche Baker; Gen
eral Excellence among Day Pupils, Miss EN-
ma Hoge; General Excellence among Board
ers, Miss Maggie Coplin.
Grattudtes-In Music-Miss Frank Buford
Miss Nellie Weston. In English-Miss LYDIA
Sutield.
FULL GRADUATES.
Miss Belle Buford, Miss Mary Crump,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-06-18
Greenville Items.

Reported for the Staunton VINDIcAToR.l
The entertainment given by the chill
dren of the Earnest Workers Society of
the Baptist church, was very credtable to
the children and much enjoyed by the
large audience present. Several of the songs
were especially commended. The society
and its friends were pleased with the
greeting given them. After the entertain
ment the company visited the lower rooms
of the building where strawberries, ice.
cream and cake, flowers and fancy ar
ticles-a 'feast of fat things''-were re-
ceived with perhaps greater relish than
the feast of reason. The proceeds, which
amounted to more than $50, go to procure
library for the Baptist Sunday School
and to finish paying for the new bell
Rev. Chas. G. MerrYman of Baltimore,
the pastor elect of the Greenville Baptist
church. is expected to arrive this week
and preach his first sermon next Sunday.
Mr.. Merryman is a recent graduate of tn 9
Southern Baptist Theological Seminar
at Louisville, KY, and is young man of
promise. On Sunday night. welcome"
will be extended to the new pastor, in
which several other ministers Of the Au-
gusta Association will take part. It ia
hoped that large audience will be
present.
The damage done to the Baptist church
by the recent hailstorm has been repair
ed, and one can now see few marks of the
disaster.
Crop prospects, except in the track of
the late storm, are very fine, and our
neighboring farmers are beginning to have
more cheerful faces.
The merchants say "business is dull.''
A colored man named Robinson. living
several miles above here, was arrested
Tuesday, for beating his wife, and sent to
jail Wednesday morning. His excuse was
that she listened to everybody else and
not to him. Probably he succeeded in
making her hear, but he may wish he had
not. ANONYMOUS.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-06-18
A Ludicrous Mistake.

The Deaf-Mute and Blind Institution
Of West Virginia at Romney, closed it's
session last week, and its scholars were
shipped to their homes for vacation. Many
of them live in the Southern part of West
Virginia and have to come around by the
B. u o. road and take the G Il o. road
at Staunton to reach there. Monday
afternoon the Valley Railroad Agent here
received dispatch from Winchester say
ing that car load of blind mules would
be in Staunton Monday afternoon and to
tell the g. & y. agent to hold the Chesa-
peake & Ohio train for them. Agent
Summerson of the G.. & o. was Informed
and much puzzled at the same time.
A car load of blind mules to be attached
to passenger train was something the
G. & Q. had never hauled before. After
consultation it was decided to ask Win
chester station to repeat the message and
it was repeated "b lind and mutes," and
shortly after. the special car filled with
blind and mute pupils rolled into the
Staunton depot in time for the trip West.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-06-18
Excursion of Bostonians.

Wednesday afternoon The Appalachian
Mountain Club" an association of ladies
and gentlemen of Boston, twenty-five in
number, arrived here in special car and
stopped at the Hale House. They had
been to Washington and were going yes
terday morning to Elliott's Knob, now
called Mt. Rogers, after Prof. Rogers.
Mr.. Alex. Hartman sent up from his livery
stable in advance, ten horses to Mt. Rog-
ers. Wednesday night. so they might
ascend the mountain yesterday morning.
The following ladies and gentlemen COM
pose the club: Mr.. and Mrs. John Ritchie,
Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Farnham, Mr..
and Mrs. q. G. Hall, Mr.. and Mrs. W. e.
Holder, Mis-. S. M. Malcombe, Mrs. H.
M. Tower, Mrs. p. r. HolIingsworth /;
Misses Rose Hollingsworth, Mary R.
Seaverns, M. Ritchie, L. r. Stone, 81. E.
Freeman, E. M. Barr, A. q. Coburn; and
Miss Porter, and Messrs. j. II. Coburn,
II. S. Sears, o. B. Cole (of the National
Signal Service, G. w. Kennard, E. E.
Norton. and E. B. Pratt. They 60 from
Mt Rogers to White Sulphur. then to
Charleston, thence to Natural Bridge,
thence to Luray caves, and then home.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-06-18

crop.
9Th. That it should be cut when at its
| fullest development, when the ears are
fully formed, and just as they begin to
glaze over and get too hard for roasting
ears, and before the lower blades begin to
die and dry up.
9th. To get it to the silo with all possible
speed after it is cut down. and to cut it
as fine as possible, not less than half an
inch in length, and to tramp it down all
over the siIo and especially in the corners
and along tie walls.
9TH. To put on the cover as soon as pos
slble after the sllo Is filled, and to weight
heavy enough to press out all the air.
I 9Th. That cheap silo will preserve the
fodder as we'll as more expensive one,
| provided it is so constructed
| AS ABSOLUTELY TO EXCLUDE BOTH AIR
| AND MOISTURE.
9th. That the cost of raising and put
| ting ton of corn fodder into the silo is
less than one dollar per ton.
am aware that large portion of our
| farmers and stockraisers are content to
follow along in the ''old ruts," and per-
! sistently shut their eyes to all forms OF
| improvement, ignoring even what has
been proven by the most careful expert
ments, and branding everything as hum
bug that isnot in accordance with their own
stereotyped ideas. This class perhaps
will see no good in the silo and the feed
ing of ensilage.
But that
LARGE AND PROGRESSIVE CLASS
who are ever looking for advanced meth
DDS of improvement and profit, and who
are not willing that their cows should
''stand dry'' half the year. or that their
young cattle should be turned into the
spring SO poor that it will take them all
summer to recover and to reach the point
where they left off in the fall will appre-
ciate this system of feeding as soon as
they fully understand its merits.
Then the COWS will give
AS MUCH MILK IN WINTER
when butter is high. as they now do in
summer when it is low; and the ''young
things,' instead of leaning against the
leeward side of straw stack, to keep the
wind from blowing them away, will go
into spring ''fat and sleek "and will make
as much growth in two years, as under
the old system in four
Tie poor. WORKOUT lands OF the old
Dominion, that through the cultivation
of wheat and tobacco, are bringing their
owners in debt, can be made to produce
the choicest beef and butter for the great
markets that are lying at our door, and at
a cost SO low as to be absolutely free from
Western competition.
A. M. BOWMAN.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-06-18
The Wheat Crop.

Tue wheat crop of Augusta, now ready
for harvesting, astonishes even the oldest
inhabitant, and may be put down as the
largest, for the acreage, ever made here.
One thing remarkable about it is the way
it has stood the beating of the heavy rain
storms. 1t has risen with wonderful vital
lty, especially the Fultz, which greatly
exoells the Longberry in this respect. 1t
IS hard to find field in which any appre-
ciable amount of wheat is down, A gen.
tleman who has been through Rocking
ham, Shenandoah, Clarke and Loudoun,
tells rs that the wheat crop in those coun-
ties is, if possible, finer than in Augusta.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-06-18

MARRIAGE.-Mr. Thomas Kivlighan
the popular proprietor of ''Tom Kib' s."
place, was married on Tuesday morning
last at St. Francis church to Miss Kate
Brown daughter of Mrs. Catherine Brown.
The church was crowded. The following
were the ATTENDANTS: Mr.. M. Kiylighan.
brother of the groom. and Miss Mary
Brown, sister Of the bride; Mr.. M. Crogh-
an and Miss M. Gal!ager, OF Washington;
Mr.. Dennis Brown, brother of the bride,
and Miss Kate Knightly. The newly mar
ried couple left on the morning train for
Old Point.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-06-18
Com lnerCtaI.

SrAUNTON, June IT, 1885,
Flour-Extra, 81 00@$405 ;Superfne s3.6O@$3.7 rs
Family s4.25a$--; Wheat, 92@93; Corn, 400;
Oats 31@33; Rye. 50@55; Bacon. 7@S: Tea Black,
6O@75; Tea Green, 50@$l.OO; Flax seed, 75@-;
Plaster Ground, 800 per ton; Lard 615@7; Butter
l6@lsc; Eggs lo@l2; Corn meal, 45@-; Salt. 81 IS
Pork, $4.5O0$475: Sugar 7@9c: Molasses 40 @175c
@20c. Potatoes, 5000. Timothy seed, 81 sO@2.25;
Wool (washed) 2O@22c; Wool (unwashed) lSc
Glover Seed $.6Oo@s6 so; Baled Hay, $12@$l4OO
Timothy $-@$-; Glover, $9,OOQ$l1, 10; Rye
65@7O.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, Juue 14th-Beef
Cattle.-Prices of Beef Cattle ranged az
follows: Best s5621aas5 s14; that generally rated
first quality $5.25a$5.5O; medium or good fair
quality 81. 25a$5.OO; ordinary thin Steers Oxen
and Cows $200a$3.75. Extreme range of prices
81 O0a5.S711. Most of the sales were from
$3.75a 1915 per 100 lbs. Trade has been slow to-
day and prices 1aa4c lower than last week. The
quality of the offerings is quite as good If not bet
ter than it was last Monday, there being rather
better tops and longer line of the good middle
grade cattle, Receipts for the week 979 head :.
sales for the week 971 head.
SwINE.-There Is a slight increase In the receipts
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-06-18
BreVItieS.

The Rawley Springs, which will still
accommo date $50 persons, notwithstand-
ing two of its building were burned, will
open next Wednesday, June 23d, with
that experienced manager, Maj. Jos. N.
Woodward in charge.
DR.. A. M. Henkel has commenced the
erection of a handsome double brick ten.
ement house on the corner of Lewis and
Frederick streets. Cost $4,000. Messrs.
Plunkett and Butcher contractors.
The case Of Cookeus. the Valley Mutual
is still on in the Circuit Court and will be
for days yet.