Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1881 — Curious Way to Decide a Dispute. [ARTICLE]

Curious Way to Decide a Dispute.

Two young men of Hawkinsville settled the ownership of a double-barrel gun in a novel way. The gun was won in a raffle—the two young men being joint owners in the chance that won it. Qne of the men proposed that they should go down to the river at a shallow place and wade into it, and the one that waded the furthest or held out the longest should take the gun. The water was freezing cold, and the margin of the stream was lined with ice, and the icicles were pendant from every limb, from every bush. Partly divesting themselves of their clothing they entered the water and waded out. One of them went until the water reached his armpits, but his companion went a little further, and was allowed to come out and take the gun. Hawkinsville (Qa.) Dispatch. Slav* Trade. Th* slave trade in Africa is still enormous. Dr. Livingstone estimated the traffic for all Africa at 500,000 yearly. CoL Gordon puts the loss of life in the Soudan alone at 30,000 to 50,000 annually. Raouf Pasha, who was left to carry out the work begun by Col. Gordon for th* suppression of the slave trade, is proving its active abettor, and the iniquity is encouraged by the Egyptian Government. “The sale and purchase of human beings continues to be practiced on a large scale in the Hedgey Yemen, Nubia, Abyssinia and at various points on the coast. Men, women and children ar* sold a* blasts of burden.