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M°KINNEY, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1871.
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THE KU-KLUX REIGN OF TERROR.
synopsis of a roimoN op the testi-
mony taken bv the oonoressional
lNVKSTIUATlNtl COM MIXTEE.
No. H.
mississippi continued.
Hon. Joshua S, Morris, Jackson,
Attornoy Gonornl of Mississippi, (na-
livo of Tennessee and resident of
Mississippi for the last twenty yearn,)
testifies that there is a prejudice
against Northern men whloh is "very
nututal after such a war," and that
tbis prejudico is intensified and some-
times grows into hostility and perse-
cution when a Northern lmin inter-
feres with politics adversely to the
views of the pooplo by whom he is
surrounded. But if he is a Demo-
crat, or does not interfere with poli-
cios. they treat bira well, or "passa
• <mr t leant." With
less thinks
formation is that they are all closed."
In Louisviile, Winston county, a
colored mun named Coleman, a sober
and industrious man, was whipped
for having bought 80 acres of land.
Coleman told witness of a number of
eolored men in tho same county who
had been whipped for the same of-
fenso.
A colored man nawed William Mill-
er was whipped for not raising bis
bat to a whito man.
A ddy Foster (colored) was whipped
ill Winston county for buying land.
Aleck Hughes, Noxuboe county,
whipped for threatening to sue a
whito man for $17 which tho latter
owed him. Alter whipping ho was
hung up by the ncok until ho boeamo
insensible.
• Zach Job and Henry Leadbettor,
Noxubee county, whipped by dis
guiscd men in March, 1871.
GeorgeShubb, Fanny lloreysitoklo,
and a Mr. Cnmpboll, wero nil whipped
in one Ku-Klux raid noar Oorint
Witness thinks tho prevailing hos
lility to tho freo school system is not
on account of its cost, but bccauso it
this prejudice is fostored by lending
Democratic politicians. He has boon
present at public mooting where .Re-
publican speakers woro subjected to
insult or violonco. ..%aMi HH I I
Two teachers from tho easlorn part,onabloa tho colored pooplo to get an
of theStalo came to Jackson to com-|°dueation, which most of them could
plain to witness and tho Governor of|not got under a pay systom. lho
ontragos which had boon perpotratod prosent systom is spoken of as "a
d—d Radical free school system.
Witness believos half the white
irion in Chickasaw county belong to
tho Ku-Klux Klan. Ihoso who
whipped him told him tboro were 500,-
000 of them in tho Unitod States.—
Tho sympathy of men of standing
and property with tho Ku-Klux is
plainly exhibited in their roadinossto
go bail wbon any of them got into
troublo. In tho case of tho twenty-
eight mon indicted ut Oxford for tho
murder of Aleck Pago, the citizens
hold a relief meeting, and "took them
beds and chairs and playing cards,
and all that." It would bo "sheer
nonsonso to talk about prosecuting
any ono for Ku-Klux outrages in the
State courts."
Witness testifies that tho colored
pooplo in tho part of tho county
where ho lived arc in groat fear ol
the Ku-Klux, and would not daro to
vote in an election.
— HO >—
A Mail Falls from a Balloon to the
Earth, a Mile Distant.
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upon them by armed and disguised
bunds of mon, "who had beaten and
maltreated them to such an extent
(hat they could not continue thoir
schools." Witness has nevor hoard
oí any ono being molosted or threat-
ened oxcopt Republicans.
Tho next witness is Cornelius Me-
Bridc. Ho oponed a coloro.I school
in 1870, about throe miles soutji of
¡Sparta, in Chickasaw county. In
-March last there was a raid made by
tho Ku-Klux over several counties in
thut part of the State, and a number
of school-houses wero burned; but
having commenced his school with
the general consent of the whito poo-
plo oi' tho neighborhood, witness felt
secure, and continued teaching. On
Thursday night, during tho last week
in March, tho houso whore he was
boarding wassurrounded by Ku Klux.
He jumped through a window and
ran lor his life, being tired at several
times. Ho concoalod himself in a
negro cabin, but was dragged out and
taken to a field about hall' a mile from
the house, being struck several times
on i lie way thither w ith tho Hat of
bowie knives and the butt end of a
pistol, Jlis shirt (tho only garment
lie had on) was then torn otf, and two
•men held htm down while a third"
coinitioiiecKl jabbing him with black
gum switches. One tinriiireii and
Kovcnty-tivo lashes wero adminis-
tered."and they iM'entcncd then to
hang him. saw *l ''"I'0 suspended
fro in a live near by, and, concluding
H,ev meai't to execute their threat,
iliitted «way, the shot whizzing past
him as he run, Ifc made his oscupc,
lion'evcr, without further injury, and
,i low days later left tl.o neighbor-
hood These men charged him with
laboring "to make tho niggors the
equal of the whites," saving, "G—d
d—o you, don't, you know I hat I his is
ti white man's country ¡" They in
formed him that they wore not going
to allow such a thing as a colored
school in the county. Witness had
h oted with tho Republican party and
hud advised colored people to vote
J so, but had never taken an active
[part In politics.
Witness knew of several other
[teachers who wore shot at.
An old man named Burt Moore, a
(Southern man, had opened a colorod
School as a means of earning a sup-
port for himself and family. A no-
ico was placed on lho school-house
loor as follows: "Mr. Burt Moore,
jo do not want to hurt you, but you
luist stop teaching lliis school." Ho
Ku-Klux Brought to Justice.
We copy the following from tbo
Stato Journal of the 18th :
In North Carolina tho Ku-Klax
law does not seem to bo quite a doad
letter. A sontonco of six years im-
prisonment at bard labor and a fino
of five thousand dollars will act as a
warning to these evil doors. Tlicy
will henceforth understand that the
law can bo enioreod, and that those
persons who indulge in tho cbivalric
Castimo of breaking into people's
ouses in disguise and dragging
Coacoful citizens from their beds to
o beatón and soourgod, will do so at
somo psrsonnl discomfort and peril.
After a fair and patient trial, which
lastod sovon days, tho prisoners,
eight in number, being defended by
able counsol who left no means un-
tried to clear thoir clients, conviction
followed. The chief among this ex-
ocrablo combination of scoundrels,
was Randolph Shotwoll, tho editor of
a Democrdtio paper called the Citizon.
The testimony was abundant and di-
rect, both from tho victims of the
Ku-Klux, and from membors of the
klan who, being captured, turnod
State's evidence to save thoir own ba-
con :
The first wilnoss oallod was J. M.
Justieo, who, during a lengthy exam-
ination, stated how ho was draggod
from his bod on tbo night of tho lllh
of Juno, by disguised mon, whose fa-
ces were covered with something rod,
and mouths and oyos bound and cov-
ered with something white; how he
was struck, maltreated and threaten-
ed with death, lie recognised Shot-
A Moment of Horror.
nt at Lard labor for two'
years anil fine of five hundrod dollars;! ——
George Holland, imprisonment forj For twonty-tbree years, old Jake
two years at hard labor and fine ofiWillard has cultivated tho soil of
fivo hundred dollars; Win. Mclntyro,Baldwin couuty, Alabama, and drawn
imprisonment for two yours and fine therefrom a support for self and
of five hundrod dollars; David Col-, wife. He is childless. Not long ago,
Hub, imprfaonmont for four years and Jake left tbo house in search of a
fine of ¿ve hundred dollars; William I missing oow. His route led him
Scruggs imprisonment for throe'through an old worn-out patch of clay
year* at hard labor and fine of flvo-land, of about six aores in oxtont, in
hundred dollars; Sponcor K. Moore, < tho contre of which was n well, twon-
imprisonmont for six months; D. B. ¡ty-fivo or thirty feet doop, that at
Fortune, imprisonment for six somo timo , - L J ---*
to
My old friend Mqrsden was a lend-
lord of some noto^am! he was famed
for queer stories. Mrs. Mariden w
a vory inquisitive wSman, an
always anxious to know so
about every stranger that soj
within their gales. The ol
often annoyed by horinqili,
he tried to give her correct answers;
but at Inst patience amL information
gave opt together and he drew upon
had furnishedj his fancy for facts. One dnv, two
months. ~ jtho inmates" of a dilapidated housejstrango 'looking men stopped'at the
Tbo prUonors will bo sout to the ¡near by with wator. In passing bv|house, and Mrs. M. was immediately
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State's
nt Albi
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!c,to sotte one Pursuit'
ol jie a greater on
oquorttly changing one's
not heed the warning, and tho
khool-liouso was burnod down. This
ias in February last, and occurrod
jout three miles from where witness
. ' *^is teaching.
MM]A toachor in Okalonn, wlioso name
^-^Inoss does not remeinbor, was
•^"^'•cod to loavo his school.
• Lanosa says there was no fault al-
WyiJ°d against any of theso toaohers
guDiitlo tliui of touching colorod schools,
ion an Hny8 . pUOp|e object to them
riod!
tho
.:r., tho colorod schools] on
uve, 3t(nd that thoy own tbo property
that thoy havo
uiui nn. |,¡ggor8
to pay to keep
school—1 uso their
expression —and thoy say thoy
determined not to pnv for educa-
pooplo that thoy don't believe in
ating."
vo other school bouses besides
ro's were burned in Chickasaw
,!r8"o animosity to tho colorod
trot ion nttachos itself to the entiro
•^"''school systom, of which these
Wo
from
Tlvoi
slifttlov
major!
The
DcmooA,, ||)0 Kti-Klux accord-
systom
In part,
. | threatened to whip o very loneli-
lyfroe school (whito schools as
| ilcr, black) in tbo.entire county.
saino witness testifies to tho
ing additional enses of outrago
occurred in the same section:
on Murfi', n presiding oidor in
K. Church South, bold n posi-
i school director in Winston
and was forced to resign by
against his life.
John A vory, tonchor of n
these o
IKu-KIu:
[tbo Into
Tho I
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ing dofin
is nntur
It up so,
íiftor n w
liffcn bad
fcrrod to
Tho R
Lho reins
lind culti
Iheir rani
!• largo a
r ¡'t>s in
Louisville, October 2.—On Sutur
day evening, near Paóli, Orango coun-
ty,' Indiana, Prof. Wilbur made ar-
raogomoiilH for a balloon ascension,
lie was to ho accompanied byticorge
II. Knaiip, ediior of lho Orange
tu.nuj J nut as Uiey u eio
getting in tho balloon, the cords gave
way, and they made a spring for tho
car, but only Hicceodod in grasping
I he rones. As the balloon roso,
Knnpp let. go, and fell at a height of
about, thirty feet, without .serious in-
jury. J'rof. \\ ilbnr held on, and at-
tempted to climb into the basket, but
was utiiiblo lo do co. The balloon
shot up rnpldlv, with the teronnnt
clinging below. Tho spectators « ero
thrilled Willi horror at tho terrible
scene, which ended in a d rotul fu I man-
ner. At a hoighl of about one mile
the dm mod man loosed his hold and
eamo whirling to the earth. At the
Height ho had attained ho looked like
a small stick, about a fool long. As
ho noared the earth ho was coining
down feet foremost, then spread out
horizontally, thon doubled up and
turned over then st.rnight.oned ont
head downward. As bo struck the
earth be fell upon his head and his
head was inashod into an indescriba-
ble mass, and bis body was bruised
and crushed horribly. The concussion
was so groat that half a gallon of
dotted blood was thrown from the
mouth. Tho body made an indenture
'in the ground eight inohes deep and
rebounded to about four foot from
whore it struck. To add to tho pain-
ful character of Uip accident, tho Pro-
fessor's wifo and little daughter wore
on tho ground and witnessed tho tor-
ribio affair. Tho remains of the un-
fortunuio man were proporly earod
for, and buried at I'aoli yesterday af-
ternoon.
Artificial Light.
Much injury is dono to tho cyo by
the impropor use of lamp or gas light.
Many persons suppose that a bright
light, in reading, is injurious to tbc
cyo, and llioroí'oro attompt lo read
with a low, unsteady light. This is
wrong. Lot tbo light bo bright and
stondy—the brighter tho bolter, but
let it bo no placed that it may not
shine directly in tho fuco, but over
tbo shouldor. No harm is done in il-
luminating tbo book well—tho error
is in allowing the light to fall direct-
ly in the face. Gas light is bettor
than lamp light, if it i steady and
brilliant. Tho student's lamp is tbo
best kerosene lamp for reading pur-
Eosos. Romcinbor lo sit with your
nok to tho light; thon lot it burn
brightly and illuminate your book
well.
well and others among tbo orowd.
J. R. Dopriost was next oxamined,
lie testified to tbo oath of tho" In-
visible Empire; " that it had boon ad-
ministered to him by tbo prisoner
Shotwoll; that Shotwoll was tbo com-
mander of the county of Rutherford ;
that tbo object ol tho said organiza-
tion was to assist tho Democratic
party, and that its members were
obliged to oboy all order*, lawful or
unlawful. •
J. W. Jolly was next called. lie,
too, was a member of tho Invisible
Empire. Had been on govern! raids;
was present at lho outrago on J. M.
Justice. Randolph Sholwell was
ihoro. 1 kilew him and shook hands
with him. 11c said Jim Justieo must
bo hung that night, and asked who
would pull lho ropu. Somo answer-
ed, " no, wo must «boot hii r" We
then rode on. I did not go into the
i own. I understood wo wero all un-
der Shotwcll's command.
AIfred Harris tostifiod that ho be-
longed lo "llorso Crook Den," Spar
lansburg, S. C. 1 have been on ab-
out I lu ce raids. Was in tho raid ori
IkUihorfordton. 1 have raided on
colored men and whipped them. The
business of our Ni^ht Hawks was to
j{o around and call the meetings.
Tho Chief of my Don told mo he had
orders from Randolph Shot well to
got all tho men together ho could for
lho purpose of killing James Justieo
and Aaron BigtforstalT, and -to tear
up the Star ofiice. Our reason lor
raiding on Justieo was because he
was a Republican and had said in a
than Iglg frequently
b&Biiices. If any man will look
around and notice who have got rich
and who havo not, out of thoso he
started in life wilh, ho will find that
the sccesnful havo gouorally stuck to
some ono pursuit.
Twoiawyors, for oxamplo, bogiu to
praotico at tbo same timo. Ono do-
voles his wholo mind to his profess-
ion ; lays in slowly a stock of logal
learning, aud waits patiently, it may
be for years, till ho gains an opportu-
nity to show his superiority. Tho
other, tiring of such slow work, dash-
es into politics, Gouorally at the end
of twenty yoars tho latter will not
bo worth a pouny, while the former
will have a handsome practice, and
count his tons of thousands in bank
stook or mortgages.
Two clerks attain majority simul-
taneously. Ono remains with his
former omployors, or at loast in tho
samo lino of trade, at firat on a small
salary, thon on a larger, until finally,
if ho is meritorious, ho is taken into
partnership. The othor thinks it be-
neath him to fill a subordinate posi-
tion now that ho has bccomo a man,
and accordingly starts into somo oth-
or business on his own account, or
undertakes a now firm in tho old
line of trado. Where does ho end?
Ofton iu insolvency, rarely in riches.
To this ovcry mordíant can testify.
A young man is bred a mechanic,
lio acquires it distaslo for his trade,
however ; thinks it a tedious way to
get ahead, and sets oul for the West
or for California. But, in most caso ,
iho'eiime restless, discontented and
wpocfllative spirit which carried him
away first, renders continuous npplir
cation nt any one placo irksoiue lo
hi tu ; and so ho goes wandering ab-
out tho world, a sort of semi-civilized
Arab, really a vagrant in ohuraoler.
and sure lei die insolvent. Moantime,
his iollow apprentice, who has staid
at home, practicing economy and
working steadily at his trade, has
grown comfortable in his circumstan-
ces, and ¡b even porhaps a citizen of
mark.
There are mon of ubility in every
walk of life, who aro notorious for
never getting along. Usually it is
bccauso thoy never stick to any one
business. Just when they havo mas-
tered one pursuit, and are on tho
point of making money, they chango
it for nnolbor which they do not un
B of New York, situated this spot, nn ill wind llfled Juke's on the anxious scat to know some
"tile" from his head, and inalioiflaély ibfaiit about them, and the next even*
wafted it to tho edge of tho woll, and I i
in U tumbled. V
virtue of «conorS^,*' and tyei im
atoly not about recovering the lost.
hat. He ran to tho well, and finding] "Mr. Marsiffen, who
it was dry at tho bottom, bo uncoiled Btrango looking meii 1"'
tho ropo which ho had brought for tho J "Who?—them ?" pointing bis thumb
purpose of capturing the truant cow, toward them.
and after sovoral attempts to catch j "Yo*, them," rather tartly;
lho bat with a noose, be concluded tot "Obi tbeni are two ebaps—one
save timo by going down into the ¡ from Egypt and the other from Jeru-
«•«ii iiimanir To accomplish this, he sniom— goin' to givo an exhibition up
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Who They Wen.
spcech that the Ku-Klux ought to bejdorstand, i iu a little while what lit-
hung. We hud orders to meet in an tlo they aro worth is lost forever. We
Abornathy being called to a patient
who fanciod himself vory ill, told
hiin ingenuously what he thought,
and declined proscribing, thinking it
unnocossar}*. "Now you aro bore,"
said the patient, "1 shall bo obliged
to you, Mr. Abornathy, if you will
eo school in Winston county,! tell mo how I must live—what 1 may
eatened wilh donth and his'cat, and what-not." "My directions
ouse burned. He was ajas to that point," said tho physician,
n man anda minister of tho: who abominated this sort of quostion,
"^i «will bo fow and simple. You must
tbo poker, nbovol, or
hurch South. Tbo order iu
county was to "put down
and witness doos
is a singlo freo
oo school;"
iovo there
i>en in the couuty. 'Tbo in-,but anything else you p!easo.
not eat tbo poker, sbovol, or tongs,
for they aro hard of digestion; norOwens, imprisonment at hard
tho bellows, bccauso thoy are windy:1 for six yoars, and fino of fivo
know scoros of such persons. Go
whoro you will, you will gouorally
find that tbo men who have Tailod in
life tiro Ihoso who never stuck to one
thing long. On tho other hand, your
prosperous man, nine times out of
ton has always stuck to o/w pursuit,
The. Workman.
— - —
Excitbmisxt.—Tho Itev. Dr. Arnot
having boon charged with "excito-
tnont," when pnnukitig on total absti-
nence, litis replied :
"People need iiotlcll nic that I am
cxc.itcd on those questions. 1 know
that 1 am. I should l>o ashamed be-
fore God and man if I wero not.—
There is more in tho public houses of
Glasgow to slir the spidt of a min-
ister than all that Pnnl saw at Alliens.
In :ny ministry 1 moot the horrid
fruits of these-whisky-shops ; I ace
men and women perishing in these
pitfalls. Tho number of tho victims'
is so great that, it overwhelms mo.—
My bruin is burning, my heart is
breaking. The church is udeep, and
the world, too, and they are hugging
each other. I am weary with hold-
ing in 1 must cry. 1 would rather
be counted singular in ihe judgment
of man, than bo unfaithful in the
judgment of God."
Bb Sect .vi, at Home.—Lot parents
talk much and talk well at homo. A
father who is habitually silent in his
After the verdict "of tho jury wan!0® hoiisj may, iu many respects, lie
rendered, judge Bond proceeded toja wi :o iiinii, but ho is not wise in his
pass the sometico of the court, firsilsileiice. We sometimes see parents
on l<. A. Shotwoll. His Honor said,¡who uro the life of every eompiuy
« You, according to tho evidonco he- thev enter, dull, silent, uiiiiitere.-ting
fore tho court, uro lho most gulliy ¡at homo among the children. If thev
of all this party. > on pointed out i havo not. mental activity and mental
to Ihoso ruffians, in the doad hour of ,(nvcs HUfticicnt for both, let thorn
the night, tbo wny lo Justices house,
whonce ho was dragged from the sido
of his innocent wifo, and so brutally
treated. Tho mercy asked for you
we feel for yonr agod parent. Tho
judgment of the court is that you bo
imprisoned at hard labor for six
yours, and that you be fined fivo thou-
sand dollara. Marshal take the pris-
oner into custody.
The remainder of the prisoners
wero sentonced as follows, viz: Amos
labor
old field on the Saturday boforo the
Sunday when Justice was taken out
Judge Edwards called for voluntoors,
and seven or eight stepped out. We
had to do what wo wore ordered todo
when we went on raids, whether law-
ful or unlawful. On lho way to Ku
thorfordlon wo mot or overtook
Othello Martin, R. P. Seruggs, Jonas
Vnssit, Judge Edwards, King Ed-
wards, Swan Parish and Win."Web-
ster. Wo stopped at tho widow Cox's
shop. I diil not know Randolph
.Shotwoll, hut hoard bis name called
that night; was told that ho was
Grand Chief of Randolph county. I
wont wiili lho raider into town.
Handolph Shotwoll led us. 1 was told
by tho crowd it was he. lie lod us
up to Jamos Justico's gale, and told
us how to enter lho bed room. Ho
did not go up stairs himcslf. 1 staid
at tho gale. Heard them knock
down tho door, and afterwards hoard
Mr. Justieo begging for his life. Thoy
dragged him down tho steps. Thoy
cursed him and told him to hush
when ho bogged, and 1 heard ono say
"G--d d-n you, we aro going lo lull
you." Wo then went out the Shelby
road. 1 staid behind lho crowd
awhile. When 1 got up with thorn,
thoy woro going to kill him for being
a Republican.
Thomas Tuto also testified that, on
tho night of tho raid Shotwell said,
'• wo must kill Justice and demolish
tho Star office to night.
mado fast ono ond of tli'o ropo to a
clump hard by, and was quickly on
his way down tho well.
It is a fact, of which Jako was no
loss oblivious than tho reader horoof,
that Ned Wolls was in tho dilapidated
building aforesaid, and that an old
blind horse with a boll on his nock,
who had boon turnod out to dio, was
lazily grazing wilhia a short dislanco
of tho well.
Soino wicked spirit put it in Ned's
cranium to havo a litllo fun; so he
quiotly slipped up to tho horse, and
unbuckling tho bell strap, approaobod
with slow ineasurod "ting-a-ling" tho
odgo of tho woll.
"Dang that blind horse!" said Jako,
"bo's a comin' this way snro, and
hain't got no more sonso than lo fall
in lioro. Whoa, Bal 11"
Bul tho continued approach of tho
Hing-a-ling" said just as plainly as
words that "Ball" wouldn't whoa.—
Besides Jako was at tho bottom rest-
ing, beforo trying lo "shin" it up tho
rope!"
"Great Jerusalem!" said ho, "tho
old cuss will bo a top of. mo before I
can say Jack Robinson. Whoa ! dung
you, whoa!"
Just thon Nod drow up to the edge
of tho woll, and with his foot kickod
a lilllo dirt into it.
"Ob! lord!" exclaimed Jake, fall
ing upon his knees at the bottom.—
" I'm gone now, whoa!—w-h-o a! Hall!
Oh, Lord have meroy on me."
Nod 'could hold in no longer, and
foarful Juke might suffer from his
1'rlght, ho rovouled himself.
Probably Nod didn't make tracks
wilh his heels from that woll. Maybo
Jako wasn't tip to tho top of it in
short order; and you might think ho
didn't try o vory night for two weeks
to get a shot with his riHo at Ned.—
Maybo not. 1 don't know. But I do
know that if Jako finds out who sent
you this, it will bo tbo last squib you'll
got.— Star Spangled Banner.
Died of Whiyky.
If epitaphs always told lho wholo
truth, those words would bo cut on
many a lombstono. Not only on the
rough stones that mark tho graves of
lho htimblo and lho poor, but ulso on
tho marblo montimcnis that riso above
tho dust of lho children of woallh
and genius, would appear tho words,
"Died of Whisky I"
How sad & disgraceful tbo record !
What volumos uro condonsod into
three words! Read them, pondor
tlioin, be warned by them. Thoy will
givo you food for thought. They loll
of chuructor ruined, inonoy squan-
dered, families beggared, hopes
crushed, tho mind besotlod, and the
soul lost. They will recall sad mem-
ories in tho life of every reador.—
There is hardly any mail who cannot
go back through twonty yoars and
call up tho face and form of porno
friend or acqnuiiitanco of whom ho
must say, " lie died of whisky."
Not that tho kind and considéralo
physician so próhounccd, not that tho
family of tho deceased so admitted,
but still tho sobor, candid conclusion
of disinterested partios, and inter-
ested ones loo, if they would utter
thoir lionosl thoughts, is, "He died of
wMlhy."
Now, reader, recull tho past, arrd
say how many start up at memory's
bidding to attest this fact. Young
mon of fino talents and brilliant
promise; men of mature years and
tho best capacity for professional or
practical business; old men, whoso
last years grow darker and more sor-
rowful its thoy haslonod lo oomplolo
their epitaph—Died of whisky ; those
from all classes of society, swell the
¡.'real army of victims to the insatiate
demon of tbo boltlo. Tho warnings
are abundant and impressive against
la death by whisky. * *
Knowing, Ihon, all tlio evil that
first pro\ ido for their own household, j whisky has done, and all tho ovil that
Ireland exports beef.and wheat and
lives on potatoes ; and tlicy fare as
poorly who reserve their social
c'iarnis for companions abroad, and
keep their dullness for homo consump-
tion. It is better to instructchildren
and make tliein happy at homo, than
it is to cliartn strangers or amaso
it is now doing, in tho ohutches and
out of the ohurobos, can any man
that loves his race rofuse to tako up
arms against such a foe?
[ hichmoni Advocate.
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A gentleman, who bad by a fall
brokon ono of his ribs, was mention-
ing the circumstanco and describing
!and dollars; Adolphus Pepriost, im- ing ".-hut
vour friends
" | - " — — I tllV ■*•*••• IIV IV S B. nui KWV M HV
placo for young people—a placo, was prosent asked him if tbo Injury
from which they will escape if possi-jho sustained was near tho vertebre.
No, sir," replied he, " it was within
up." a few yards of the court-housc."
thou*-j Mo, Tliey will till: or think of bo
hero."
"Air thoy ? Wall they'll fail sartin.
Why 'lis nothin' but exhibitions all
tho lime—circuits and furbelows, aud
somo kind of jimcraeks or other.—
Del tor do someihiu' useful, tboy had.'
"But this is u roligious exhibition,"
said tbo old man ; "a scrlpteral illus-
tration lilco, you know."
"A which?"
"A sort of scripteral thing—like
Bunyin's Pilgrimage."
"Ah! indeed! What is it?"
"Why," said he, "they aro goin' to
exhibit tbo sling that Duvid killod
Goliah wilh. 'Tis a little thing, and
terribly out of repair. Tbo strings
uro gone and the leathor all rotted
away, and there's nothing loft but tbo
hole."
The old lady was vory indignant,
and she nevor inquirod about any*
body for a fortnight.—Ex,
Anocdote of Thomas Jefferson.
Noar Washington lived a friend
with whom Mr. Jofforson frequently
stopped wbon on route lo Monticello,
unu on ono of those occasions a ser-
vttiit rushed in lo say a eolored man
was bloeding lo death from a cut
wilh uq ax. Tho distance lo a phy-
sieian being considerable, Mr. J«tfer-
son proposed Umt he should sew.wfi
the wound, which was in the oalf oí
the fellow's leg, and did so success-
fully, remarking at tbo time thai it
seemed strange tbnt the thick flesh
coverings and defenses of the bonos
in the human limbs wore on tb« back
of those membors, while tho danger
of fracturo cume gouorally from tbo
front. This being montfonod as an
instatioo of Mr. Jefferson's aeutonoss
of perception to tho physician, who
had arrived late upon tho soeno, that
worthy man, partly from disgust at
having been robbed of Ins patient,
and partly from boing u most bitter
political opponent of tbo President,
broke out, raising bis hands with hor-
ror : " Woll, wliul in tbo world com-
ing to! Hero this fellow Jetforson,
alter turning upside dowu everything
an the ourlli, is now quarreling with
God Almighty himself I" Instance
number two is told of nn oqually de-
voted parly friend of Mr. Jefferson's,
who was exulting Ibat oven in dying
on tbo fourth of July his -hero re-
flected now lustró on the sublime prin-
ciples of (lie party. Some one here
brought the Hews that John Adams,
the louder of the Fcdorulist or oppo-
sing party, bad died on tho same day.
Por a time lho ardent Jofforsoniau
would not believe it, but being ul last
satisfied of lho fuel, exclaimed in a
passion, "It was a ineau Yankee
trick !"—Mrs. Randolph' Ihmcstie
Life of, Jefferson.
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Opkn tiie Dooits.—Where there
aro children, it is of great importance
lliut rooms and «iilrtes should bo of
the saino tomporaluro, for ccrtalnly
largo proportion of tho chest and
bowol uflections of tho young can bo
tracod lo a change in tomporaluro,
ospocially whero the lilllo ones aro iu
tho bnhit of passing from ovor-
wnrmod rooms into somovthal undor-
warmod entries. Thero is no need
to dilato on tbo necessity of ventila-
tion ; but oven where stovos are usod,
and a certain ventilation is tbos af-
forded, our rotnarks hold true, for
there is no doubt that all ordinary
modes of burning anthracite coal pour
into our rooms so much of the ino-
d r ius, tastolosr, poisonous carbonic
oxido, that wo can hardly have too
much nit' wilh which to dilato It. fto
wo pat in a ploa that instruction be
given to our young folks somewhat
difToront from that which their fore*
fathers roccived. Teach them by all
moans to bo obedient And docile, but
be loft, ajar}
on*
forgivo them if doors bé loft, aji
nay, more, tench them to loaro th
open.—Mtdical Time .
Amiambd of thb Picture.—-ítflia
writer wan told bv one betting the
honored norao of Honor, that wlicu %
young man in an office, lie was great-
ly shocked with tho language of |!ie
young tnen beside him.' One even-
ing when they wero conversingnio-
gothcr, unknown to thorn he copied
thoir light ond profano Iangoego,an<i
thon showed it to them written out.
Kven thoy were ashaitiod of their own
words when they saw them?
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