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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-04-14

Wasn't that Mr.. Talkaway to whom
you introduced me this morning an old
college chum of yoursp" asked Mrs.
Gushbr. "Yes," replied her husband.
"rhcn why didn't you invite him to
dinnar'" III was afraid he'd come"
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes IL still 4
frequent visitor to the Old Corner Book
store
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24
INTERESTING FIGURES.
The Age at Which Most Americans Make
Their Records,

The Age at Which Most Americans Make
Their Records.
The New York Nation gives some
interesting figures showing the age at
which men of real ability are likely to
manifest their force. When the civil
war broke out in 1861, Lincoln, Hamlin
and Andrew johnson were each so
years old; Fremont and Douglas were
each 4S; Seward was 60; Chase, SO;
Cameron, 81; Stanton 46; Greeley and
Sumner, each 50;Wilson, 40; Fessenden,
50; Trumbull, As; Wade, 81; "Thadn
Stephens, 50; Banks, 45; Hendricks, AZ;
Curtin, A; John Sherman, Morton and
Colfax, each SO; Grant. 80; Tecumseh
Sherman, Al; Mcclellan, "a; Hancock,
81; Sheridan, 80; Seymour, 81; Tilden,
AZ; Hayes, 3S; Garfield, 80; Logan, 80;
Lamar, 36. Here are thirty-three men,
then prominent in politics or destined
to prominence in the field, of whom a
full third had completed their tiftieth
year. Even cutting down the figures
by introduction in the list of the few
younger men who did not become prom.
inent at once, the average is about forty
six years. In America from forty-siS
to, say, sixty-six is the time when most
men make their record. If we lived
better it would be from forty-six tC
STANDARDIZATION Transcript.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24
THE BEll-BlRO. :
One of the Most Singular Feathery In
habitants of South America.

One of the Most Singular Feathery In
habitants of South America.
The traveller in tropical portions Of
South America is often surprised to
hear the distinct and measured tolling
of a bell in localities where there is no
settlement within many leagues. II
he undertakes to follow the sound and
trace it to its source, he will be sur
prised to find that it proceeds from
bird, which, perched at the top of
lofty tree, utters its peculiar note,
which so resembles the sound of a bell
as to make the name bell-bird appro-
pirate and descriptive. The sound is
said to be distinctly heard at a distance
of three miles, The bird utters its
note all through the day, even in the
hottest portions, when the fierce heat
has silenced all other birds. The bell
bird (ChdsmorhynchuS niUeus) is noted
for the great difference between the
sexes in plumage. The male is white
throughout, while the female is a
dusky green color. The male bird has
a curious appendagc, in the form of a
tube about three inches in length, at
tached to the base of the bill This
tube is jet black, dotted all over with
minute, downy feathers. Ordinarily,
this tube hangs down on one side, but
the bird is able to initiate it with air,
when it stands erect. There are three
other species belonging to the same
genus with the bell-bird, the males all
being very different from the females.
The males of one of the species are
snow white, with a large space of
naked skin on the throat and around
the eyes. These naked places during
the breeding season become of fine
green color The bell-bird is about
twelve inches long. 1t belongs to the
same family (AmpelMG) as our wax
wing and the cedar bird. In Australia,
a country noted for its singular birds,
and other strange forms of animal life,
there is bell-bird, but belonging to a
different family from the South Amori'
can species. The note of the Austria.
liam bird resembles that of a sheep
bell rather than that of a distant
church bell. When its note is pro
duced, as it often is, by hundreds o.
birds altogether the effect is said tC
be most singular. -American Agri
cNIturiSt.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24
TEXAN SNAKES,
Great Country for Monster Specimens
of The RattIesnake Persnasinn

Great Country for Monster Specimens
of the Rattlesnake Persuasion.
The largest rattlesnakes are in Texas,
on the lower Rio Grande, where they
sometimes attain the length of twelve
feet and are heavy in proportion. The
smallest are the horned rattlesnakes
of Arizona, New Mexico and Southern
California, which seldom reach length
of two feet. They have two little ex-
crescences over the eyes and are full of
devilment. They have rattles, but sell
dom use them, preferring to lie half
hidded in the sand until stepped on,
when they demonstrate. The sand or
"dessert" is also small, and protends to
be on neighborly terms with the prairie
dog, whose burrows he occupies.
have reason to believe that when the
rattlesnake inserts himselfin the bosom
of prairie dogs family he does SO on
fraudulent grounds and is unwillingly
entertained. The prairie dog carries
no life insurance and can not afford a
quarrel and the snake is mean enough
to take the advantage of him. There
is little brown and very comical owl
who likewise takes up residence with
the prairie dog, but he makes at least a
show of earning his rent by remaining
at the entrance and acting as janitor,
politely bowling to everybody who
passes. Neither snake, dog nor owl
seems to mind the others presence, but
are exceedingly sociable. -NashviNt
american.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24
WASHlNGTON'S COURTSHlP.
How and Where He First Met the Widow
Martha Gusts.

How and Where He First Met the Widow
Martha Gusts.
Near the end of May, 1853, Washing
ton was ordered by the Quartermaster-
General of the British forces to leave
Winchester, there to explain to the
Governor and Council in what des-
perate condition the Virginia troops
were as regarded clothing and equip
ments. Accordingly he set out on
horseback, accompanied by his servant
Billy Bishop.
The two men had reached Williams
Ferry, on the Pamunkey river and had
crossed on the boat, when thee met Mr..
Chamherlayne, a Virginia gentleman,
living in the neighborhood. The hos
pitable planter insisted that Washing
ton should go to his house. 1t was
forenoon, and dinner would be served
as usual, early, and after that Colonel
Washington could 60 forward to Will
iamsburg, if 60 he must. Besides all
that, there was charming young
widow at his house-Colonel Washing
ton must have known her, the daughter
of John cambridge, and the wife of
John Parke Gusts. Virginia hospital
ity was hard to resist. Washington
would stay to dinner if his host would
let him hurry off Immediately after
ward.
Bishop was hidden to bring his mas
ters horse around after dinner in good
season, and Washington surrendered
himself TO his host Dinner followed,
and the afternoon went by, and Mr..
Chamberlayne was in excellent humor,
as he kept one eye on the restless
horses at the door, and the other on
his guests, the tall, Indian-like officer
and the graceful, hazel-eyed, animated
Young widow. Sunset came, and still
Washington fingered. Then Mr..
Chamberlayne stoutly declared that no
guest was ever permitted to leave his
house after sunset. Mrs. Martha Cur
It's was not the one to drive the soldier
away, and so Bishop was hidden tc
take the horses back to the stable. Not
till the next morning did the young
Colonel take his leave. Then he dis
patched his business promptly at Will
iamsburg, and whenever he could get
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24
SHE GAME NOT
An Experienced Mans Philosophy and an
inexperienced Mans Indignation.

An Experienced Mans Phil osophy and an
inexperienced Mans Indignation.
If you are standing around a railroad
depot about the time some train is ex-
pected in you needn't look twice to
identify the man who is down there to
welcome his wife. She has been away
three weeks, but the time seems like
three months to him. He was never so
glad in his life as at the thought that
she is rolling towards him as fast as
steam can travel.
There was such a man at the foot of
Brush street Saturday. He expected
his wife on the Michigan Southern
train. He rushed up and down to see
if the train was on time. Then he
rushed out and engaged hack. Then
he promenaded up and down and
wiped his brow, and he was still at it
when a man who had been across the
road to wet his whistle with old rum
came slouching back and inquired:
Expecting some one, ehP"
Eyes, sir
wife, probablyP'
Eyes"
"Bin away longP"
"Over two weeks.
"Coming on this trainP"
eyes"
"Wall, | dunno" continued the man,
as he rubbed his back against the ticket
window shelf Il wouldn't be too en-
thusiastic about it. Wimen are mighty
onsartin. I've had two of 'em run
away from me. lsyour wife any hand
to make acquaintance while travel
ingP'
mo, STRIP
Couldn't be induced to elope?"
"Sir! Do yo intend to insult mep
"Gosh! no. | wouldn't insult no.
body nor nothing. Could your wife be
carried away by good looks and lots Of
money!"
eff you wasn't an old man I'd thump
you for your impudence!' exclaimed
the husband as he grew red all over.
"You would! Wen, | won't talk to
you. If your wife comes in on the
train, all right; if she doesn't you
needn't blame me-
He went into the sitting room, and
presently the train came in. The hus'
band lodged about as if he was walk.
ing on glass, and the passengers came
out one by one until the coaches were
empty. There was no wife. 1t was
ten minutes before the husband coult
give up, and when he did and started
out doors the old man lounged out and
said:
II told him! I've lost two winner
just that way, and knew what wal
talking about!" -DetroU Free Press.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24
SELF-SACRIFlClNG.
A Woman Who Got Married as "A Matter
of Accommodation.


"Why, Mary Ann, l haven't seen
you in an age, You must come home
and stay with me-"
II can't do it. I've got married
since l saw you last"
you, married! Why you always
said that you never would get mar
ried."
81 know that. but got married as a
matter of accommodation.
ITO accommodate your husband, l
l suppose"
20, no! not at ALL You see almost
every day before | was married poor
unfortunate wretch of a tramp would
come to my house, and beg for pair
of my husbands cast-off pants or an
old pair of boots, and | hated 10 send
him away empty-handed, particular ~
as he really needed clothes. ST. got
married Just TO accommudai" that
tramp with my husband old clotdc, "
TEXAS S4tIagS.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

an hour dashed over to the White
House, where Mrs, Gusts lived. So
prompt was he about this business,
also, that when he returned to Win
chester he had the promise of the
young widow that she would marry
him as soon as the campaign was over.
Horace b. Scadder IN ST. Nicholas.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

L1FE-sENAToR FLINT, Canadian parlia-
ment, says; ST. Jacobs Oil acts like charm.
sRev. W. M. Leftwich, D. D., Nashville,
publicly endorses Red Star Cough Cure.
Price, twenty five cents bottle.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

PlKE's TooTHACHE DROPS cure in minute, 25t
Glenn's Sulphur Soap -ieas and beauties. 25c
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kids Corns & Bunions
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

Nor faded or gray hair to be seen, after
using Halls Hair Remover.
A powerful remedy for lung troubles.
Safe for young OF old. Ayers Cherry
Pectoral.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

As home-ruler the cook is "a supreme
success.-N Y independent.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

DIR. Cyrus Edison has begun cru
SADIE in New York against such "French
peas" as are colored with copper.-M.
Y Sam
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

Ir afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson S Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

THIS talk about the editorial pen is all
nonsense nearly all editors use pencils
Chicago Ledger.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

WHAT is it that is dry, but still has run
ming spring in itl A watch.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

DESIRABLE Quarters-Twenty-f cent
pieces. -BoSton Post.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24
THE MARKETS..

A SCHOOL for liars-A school of dsh.-Lu-
diaidpolis Herald.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consump-
lion. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24
Foreign Notes.

NM DuCQUERCY and Roche have been
sentenced in Paris to fifteen months i'm
prisonment for fomenting riots.
THE sanitary board of Rome admits that
Asiatic cholera has broken out at Brindisi,
and has ordered that all arrivals at other
Adriatic ports from Brindisi be quaran-
tined one week
THE German Government refuses to rec
ognize the German explorer, Richard, who
claims to have acquired territory around
Lake Tanganyika equal to half of the area
of Germany.
THE GOODNESS which arose between the
Sultan of Zanzibar and Portugal in rela-
ton to Portuguese claims to territory in
the Sultan's dominions has disappeared
and been succeeded by a re-establishment
of friendly relations The Sultan has Or
dered that the Portuguese flag be publicly
saluted.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24

Mr. Michael Davitt, the founder of
the Land League, spent over twelve
years, or about one-third of his whole
life, in prison. As he has: only one
arm. and so could not break stones or
pick oakum, he was generally en-
ployed in turning crank, and he was
obliged to associate with thieves, plug
uglies and felons of every description.
Mr. Davitt now comes forward to eX-
press his establishment that he should
have been imprisoned three times con-
secutively for advocating the very
same principles that Mr.. Gladstone
and the Liberal party of England are
doing their utmost to make law of
the realm to-day. Chicago Tribune.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24
Soldiers.

From Colonel G. Fl
Mackey, Sod Iowa In
fantry: | have now beer
using Ely's Cream Balm
for three months, ant
am experiencing NJ
trouble from catarrl
whatever. / have beer
q sufferer for twenty
years.-C. II. MACKRY
Sigourney, Iowa.
For several years
have been troubled
with catarrh - Ely
Cream Balm has prov
ed to be the article de
sired. | believe 1t II
the only cure. Il. b
CoBURS, Hardware
Merchant, Towan da
Pa.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-09-11
OPELOUSAS, La, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER H. 1885,

Provided, That this section shall no
apply to or include any levee tax col
lected or collectible for the year 1886.
- Sec. 1S. BE it further enacted, etc.
mat five commissioners shall eonsti.
tute quorum for the purpose of trans.
acting the business OF said district.
~ Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, etc.
mat all public State lands donated by
Congress for levee and drainage pur-
poses situated within said Levee Dis
trlct shall by this act accrue to said
LeVee District, and the commissioners
are hereby vested with power, to sell
the same to the highest bidder at pub
nc outcry at Simsport, after notice of
thirty days in paper published in OF
nearest said Levee District, and to de-
vote the net proceeds of the sale to the
benefit Of said Levee district.
Sec. ~. Be 1T further enacted, etc.,
That this act shall be submitted to a
vote OF the property tax payers resid-
ing within the limits of the proposed
Levee District. That the police Jury
OF the parishes of Avoyelles and St.
Landry are hereby authorized to hold
SAID election on the first Monday of
October, 1886, in that part of the afore-
sad parishes, lying within the limits of
said district and held under the present
laws governing elections; if MAORI
~ OF votes cast at said election shall
be In favor of the proposed Levee Dis
trlct, the result shall be promulgated
within ten days, making this act opera
tive in full force.
Provided, That this act shall have no
effect III either parish, unless majority
OF the votes therein shall be cast in
favor OF the same, but if one parish
vote for a,,1 hn thn,, ~
trlct shall be composed OF the parish
voting for; and in that event the COM
missioners named for either of said
parish shall constitute the board as
herein provided.
Sec. 81. Be it further enacted, etc,
That on the first Monday OF November,
1886, the commissioners .of the said
leFee district shall meet at Simmsport
ana proceed to organize for the pur-
pose OF carrying into effect the pur-
poses OF this act, and thereafter meet
at such time as they may deem adyis-
able.
Sec. 2S. Be it further enacted, ETC.,
That all laws and parts of laws in con-
filct, inconsistent or contrary to the
provisions of this act, be and the same
are hereby repealed.
FL. W OGDEN.
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tlves.
CLAY KNoBLoCH,
Lieutenant-Governor and President of
the Senate.
Approved this Sth July, 1886.
S. D. McENERY,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
true copy from the original.
OSCAR ARROYO,
Secretary of State.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-09-11
Farm Life.
Editor Home and Farm:

There is no life that will compare
with farm-life in Independence of Iiy.
ing and in the development of mental
moral, and physical powers. Farm life
furnishes man with more and better op-
portunities for progress and improve
meDt than any other occupation.
| From the farm come the men tai, moral
and physical giants of the world.
Some OF our greatest and best men
were once boys brought up on the
farm. John Randolph of Roanoke was
a farmer, and where has he had an
equal in our country's history? Daniel
Webster was farmer, and where is his
equal Z? Talmage, Beecher, and numer-
GUS others were once farmers, and
where are their equals? Young man,
the farm is the place for you. There is
something in farm-life that will elevate
you, and give you broader and deeper
views of human life and human destiny.
Stick to the farm, there is no life that
will compare with it.
The true farmer is the only truly
happy man. His time is his own and
he is dependent upon nobody for a
living. Not so with the man in the
town and city. He must be behind the
counter, at the desk, at the law office.
1t is business in the early morning and
business at the late hour of nsght. He
must count, pack, write, and labor, al
though his body is tired and his brain
weary. 1t is strange that so many peo-
pie flock to the towns and cities to live
when the country affords such great
and glorious opportunities. Why men
should prefer the dust, smoke, and
crowded walls of a city to the pure air
and lovely sunshine Of the country is
mystery to me.
To the many young men who are
leaving the farm for the city, / think
the words of Mrs. Randolph to her son
john while he was little fellow,
should prove of advantage. Mrs. Ran
dolph while riding out one day over
the Roanoke plantations, took little
John up behind her, and when they
came in full sight of the many planta-
tion scenes, she raised her hand and
waved it over the broad acres, ex-
claimed, /" Johnny, all this land be-
longs to you and your brother Theo-
dore, it is your fathers inheritance.
When you get to be a man you must
not sell your land, it is the first step to
ruin for boy to part with his fathers
home. Keep your land and your land
will keep you." 1t is said John Ran
aolph never forgot these words, and
they were the making OF him. He
kept his fathers land, and his fathers
land kept him. From the farm he went
np to the national capital. Young men,
stick to the farm.
j. II. ETHRIDGE.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-09-11
The Governor Responsible.

The Truth, of Baton Rouge, in reply
ing to an article on the defalcations of
Gen. Strong, in the Capitolian- -Advo-
cate says:
Did Gov. McEnery know, before he
commissioned Gen. Strong as member
OF his staff, that Secretary Strong had
misused the "ticket money" belonging
to the State? If not, when did he make
the discovery Having made the dis
covery, what was his duty in the pre-
misses? Having failed to make the
matter public and prosecute Strong,
who is responsible lie to public opinion for
the manner the laws have been execu-
ted and for the subsequent political
recognition of Mr.. Strong? Brig Gen.
Strong has asked for suspension of
pubic Judgment until he can make an
explanation, and we are perfectly will
ing to grant him the privilege. 1t is not
our intention just at prent to pursue
him any further, and the mention of the
charges against him is made only in an
incidental way. The editor of the Can
ltollan- Advocate evidently misuntler-
stands the import Of our article, if he
thinks that we hold Gov. McEnery or
his friends responsible for Mr.. Strong's
detalcation more because he his Gov
ernor: We admit that Gov. Nichols
would not have been responsible for
the defalcati0n had it occurred during
his term of office; but this responsible
lty would have attached to him and his
administration had the defalcation
taken place while he was Governor and
been covered up, while he, as Chief Ex-
ecutlve, although cognizant of it, failed
to have the defaulter proceeded against
by proper methods.
Z.xz
Two hundred Anarchist met in Cleve
land, O., yesterday to express sympathy
with the condemned Anarchists of Chi |
cago. Chris Saam, the leader of the
gang, promised the country that, if the |
seven condemned men were hanged,
,oO,ooo avengers would arise from their
blood" When the hat was sent around |
to help secure new trial for the Chica- /
go septette. the munifcent sum of 10 50
was made up from the united contribu-
tions of the 200 States.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-06
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Estate of "That Baby

The many readers of the RECORD UNION
will remember the romantic affair of a
baby being mysteriously left one night
three or four years since at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Slayback, at the Durock Man
sion, near Single Springs. The midnight
ringing of the bell was responded to by
Mr.. Slayback, when baby of only few
days old was found in a large basket. in
which was also most extended supply of
infants clothing of finest quality, and
made with utmost care. A perfect mystery
surrounded the entire affair until a few
weeks afterwards, when Mrs Taggart died
at San Diego, soon after which application
was made in Court by Miss Olive Slayback.
her friend, for letters of guardianship for
the baby, as being the infant son OF Mrs.
Taggart and entitled to her estate. a long
and hotiy contested case in Court followed.
Mrs. Taggarts relatives resisting the claim
of helrship of the little waif, but the case.
after going to the Supreme Court two or
three times upon different points, was
finally ended on last Monday, by the con-
Guiding settlement of administration of the
Taggart estate, when, after all expenses
paid, the child-now quite lad-has left
to him $4,000 worth of property, with an
income from it sufficient for the child's
support Miss Slayback has carried the
case successfully through, and has proven
heroine in the romantic affair