Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-01
Jimmy DIIIard's Adventure.

other day and asked him if Jimmy billiard of Oglethorpe, did not belong to the Troupe | artillery. sYes, and a braver or better sol dier did not enter the Confederate service. He was mere stripling when he joined my company, but he was as cool and collected in battle as of Napoleons old guard. You know Jimmy billiard was raised very pious boy, and he led in the army as devout a life as if he were at home, but he could face death with the same calm demeanor as he could enter church.
 "Gettysburg was the hottest place I was ever in and my battery bore 8 conspicuous part in the great fight. At one time we were left in most trying position, exposed to a cross-tire, and my men and horses were moved down like grain in a harvest field 1t was at this juncture that an English off, cer, who had been sent here by his govern ment to watch the American war, rode by in nasty retreat out of danger. As he passed my battery there sat astride one of my guns facing the enemy and deiantly waving a tat tered flag, Jimmy billiard, and he was so youthful soldier and so cool and uncon- cerned that the English officer, struck with admiration at such gallantry, halted and asked the little fellow if he was not afraid of being killed.
 V, AO, was GAS reply, hdTS DOD Lee ordered me here and Pm not afraid to go anywhere he says.'
 "In his report to the War department at home he mentioned this incident and com. mented upon it. It was taken up by the press and created considerable discussion. Generals Longstreet, Hampton and other Confederate officers after the war, were pre- pairing history of certain battles and loca- ted this incident in Haskell's battery I at once wrote to them and had it corrected, as the young hero was authentically traced to Jimmy Dillard."
 How Some Married Women Go To Sleep.
 From the Chicago Tribune
 There is an article going the rounds entit- led "How the girls go to sleep" The man ner in which they go to sleep, according to the article, can't hold candle to the way married women go to sleep.
 Instead of thinking what she should have at attended to before going to bed she thinks of it afterward. While she is revolving these matters in her mind, and while snugly tuck ed up in bed, the old man is scratching his head in front of the fire wondering how he will pay the next months rent. Suddenly she exclaims:
 ''James, did you lock the door?'
 s'What door?" says James.
 ''The cellar door," says she.
 f'No," says James,
 s'Well, you had better go dow and lock it, for I heard some one in the back yard last night''
 Accordingly James paddles down the stairs and locks the door. About the time James returns and is going to bed she re- marks:
 'sDid you shut the stair door?"
 'sNo," says James.
 "Well, if it is not shut the cat will get up into the chamber"
 'Let her come up, tben," says James ill., naturedly.
 ''My goodness, mol" returns his wife, ''she'd suck the babys breath"
 Then James paddles down stairs again and steps on tack, and closes the stair-door, and and curses the cat, and returns to the bed room. Just as he begins to climb into his couch his wife observes:
 ''I forgot to bring up some water. Suppose you bring up some in the big tin"
 And so James, with muttered curse, goes down into the dark kitchen and falls over a chair and raps all the tinware off the wall in search of the "till" and then jerks the stair door open and howis: ''Where the duece are the matches"
 She gives him minute directions where to find the matches, and adds that she would rather go and get the water herself than have the whole neighborhood raised about it, af ter which James finds the matches, procures the water, and comes upstairs and plunges inso bed.
 Presently his wife says: 'James, let's have an understanding about money matters. Now, next week I've got to pay
 stI don't know what you'll have to pay and don't care, shouts James as he 1urches around and jams his face against the wall, all l want is sleep"
 That's all very well for you," snaps his -1-z {loa vi. never think of the worry and trouble have. And there is Araminta, who I believe is talk ing the measles"
 s'Let her take 'em," says James,
 Hereupon she begins to cry softly but about ,he time James is falling into gentle sleep she punches him in the ribs with her elbows and says:
 ssDid you hear the scandal about Mrs. Jones?"
 stWhere?" inquiries James.
 q declare" said his wife, ''you are get ing more stupid every day. You know Mrs. | Jones that lives at No. 21! Well day before | Susan Smith told Mrs. Thompson hat Sam Barker had said that Mrs. Johnson had" l Here she paused and listened, James is l noring in profound slumber. With snort | ,f rage she pulled all covers off him, wraps | ID in them, and lies awake until a. m., thinking how badly she wis used. And th1s IS the way some married women 90 to sleep.
 EAST HARTFoRD'S PRIDE.
 East Hartford has instituted High school of it's own. The institution is wholly an ex- oerimental affair and it's continuance depends entirely on it's success during the coming year. Should it prove successful the stand ard will be advanced with successive years. ] The teacher has already been determined in ,he person of William D. Evans. of Rockville, | } graduate of Yale college in 1885, and an experienced instructor who comes highly | The branches taught will be | arithmetic, algebra. bookkeeping, physical | Latin, German, English litera- 5ure and English branches and, possibly, l French and geometry. An instructor in | lrawing will be obtained also. The commit | tee managing the school comprise the follow l ng persons: Messrs. Joseph O. Goodwin, | chairman; Rev. G. A. Bowman, P. s. Bryant, | 5. H. Fowler, P. Garvin, O. w. Porter and | }. w. Roberts, secretary. 1