The Jacksonian, Volume 3, Number 47, Nashville, Brown County, 1 May 1873 — Page 1

THE JACKSONIAN.

VOL. 3.1 NASHVILLE, IND. TIL.dSDAY, MAY 1,1873. 1|0.47.

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say he might reel ic a little of a sacrifice just at first; but by this time he has persuaded himself that there never was such a woman, and that the favor was all on her side. I don’t think, for my part, McFarlane will ever regret it.” And I don’t think Uncle McFarlane overdid, —From The Aldine for May.

THE JACKSONIAN Thursday, May 1, 1873. Published every Thursday by GEORGE W. ALLISON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Official Paper of Brown County. would be utterly impossible, to describe, stood pensively regarding a shallow pool mirroring the face, of heaven—in short, a mud-puddle.— “Do you know this lady ?” asked the officer, in whose bosom the pangs of match-making already bestirred themselves. The young man seemed deeply moved, his face alternately flushed and paled with an intensity of delight, and so great was his joy that he would have rushed away to hide his feelings, had not the presence of the man in uniform restrained him. The bystanders reverently took off their hats, and at length the fair one spoke: “Well, I’ve come.” “Will you marry her or go to jail ?” added the policeman, and the swain looking down the, vista of years, and, by faith., seeing his grandchildren praising him, responded tremulousiy, “I s’pose I’ve got to.”— Over the remaining scene we draw a veil, only waiting to see the city clerk smile politely as he pockets the wedding fee, and the youth, fearing himself from his bride of an hour, going back to the beggarly elements of hack-driving—out of the new world into the old.

MB. BOSNALL’S MATCHMAKING. My uncle, Alexander McFarlane, was waiting breakfast, an event very uncommon with him, for Aunt Nancy was the soul of punctuality. Nevertheless she was a little late this morning. Eight o’clock was the breakfast hour, and it was now fully ten minutes past.

Aunt Nancy was not my Uncle McFarlaue’s wife. He was a widower of some fifteen years’ standing. Fifteen years before his wife had left him a delicate little boy for a keepsake, and had gone away, waispering with her last breath that she was very happy. Her mother and sister, who had come to the house to nurse her, remained after her death, according to Uncle McFarlane’s particular request. He would be so glad, he said, if it were not exacting too much of a sacrifice, to have Mrs. Howard and Nancy stay with him, keep up his house, and attend to his little boy. So Mrs. Howard, who was a widow with a very straightened income, rented her little house in the New England village where she has always lived, and came to preside over Mr. McFarlane’s spacious mansion and liberal housekeeping in Greenwich Street, New York—my Uncle McFarlane lived in Greenwich Street, a fact which marks the date of my story with sufficient exactness. Mrs. Howard had been dead three months and still Aunt Nancy presided over Uncle McFarlane’s household. Neither of them had ever thought of a change as either necessary or desiteable. Nancy had been a fair, prim, and somewhat quiet girl when she came to live in Greenwich Street. She was still a fair, somewhat prim woman of thirty-five, with pretty, soft brown hair, violet blue eyes, and a pure, soft, somewhat changeful complexion. She was not in the least like a modern young lady's heroine. She had no particular aspirations beyond the limited and old-fashioned one of doing her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. She did not consider herself a martyr to uncongenial circumstances, because she made Uncle McFarlane’s shirts and mended his stockings, and even the fact of going down into the kitchen, to do up his immaculate ruffles, when old Mrs. Brown's...were too...the chambermaid's too unskillful to be trusted with them, did not awaken in her mind any desire to rush out into the world in search of a career. No such fancy had ever entered Nancy Howard’s head. She was absolutely ‘‘contented with her present condition,” willing to go on making Uncle McFarlane’s shirts, keeping his house, spoiling his child, and “makingit pleasant for him,” as she simply said. Her great pleasure consisted in doing muslin embroidery, visiting the poor, going to church, and reading the English classics, with now and then a novel. If she had any trials she kept them to, herself, confiding them to no spiritual director, newspaper editor, or female friend. Such was Nancy Howard at five-and-thifty. My Uncle McFarlane was a fine gentleman in the true sense of the phrase. He was unimpeachable in integrity, unspotted in morals, in manners absolutely perfect—a little set in his way, and possibly somewhat particular in eating and drinking. He was also given to amusing himself in a quiet way with the peculiarities of those about him. But he never willingly hurt or neglected any one, and he had a certain genial gracious ness of manner, which made all his employes, from Mr. Saunders, his confidential clerk, down to Black Sam, the carman, and Davy, the errand boy, feel the better when he spoke to them. “Miss Nancy is a little late this morning !” observed Uncle McFarlane, as Brown, his man, brought him the paper. “Yes, sir, She was out till after twelve last night, at Sam's... !” “Indeed! How was that?” “Well, you see, sir, Sam’s girl was took with a quick consumption last spring, and his wife ain’t very rugged either. Miss Nancy, she’s been there a good deal, and when Susy was struck with death last evening, she sends for her. So Miss Nancy, she went and stayed till it was over. It was a great comfort to them, sir. You see, Sam’s wife, she’s got a little young baby, too, and altogether it comes hard!”

A TOOTH. WHAT THE REST OF THE ANIMAL WAS —A HARE VESTIGE OF AN EXTINCT ANIMAL. The Hoosier State, published in Vermillion county, describes a rare curiosity found in that county as follows: We have no doubt some of our readers will be surprise ' to learn that elephants twice y.n« weight and nearly a third taller than the largest of the modern species at one time roamed wild over the prairies of Vermillion county. Judging from the remains of such found from time to time, we can come to no other conclusion. We have seen and examined the tooth of one of the,above named species, found by Jessie Houtchin on his farm in Kelt township, in this county, and now in the possession of Win. Gibson, County Clerk.— Mv. Gibson says it belongs to spe= cies “Elephas American us,” and is a very large, rare and beautiful specimen. For a description and plate of the same we would refer our readers to “Dana’s Geology,” page 561. This is the first and only tooth of the kind ever found in tins comity, and is different from all others formerly found, in this respect. It is the tooth of a true .elephant, and not to be confounded with the teeth of the “Mastodon gigantus,” which are comparatively abundant in this section of the country ; one of which is in the possession of the Hon. John Collet, of Eugene, and another in the possession of Dr. J. C. -Winslow, of Danville, Illinois. Within our county, the remains of the only two American species of the elephantine mammals, known to geologists, have been found namely: “Mastodon gigantus,” and “Elephas Amerieanus.” Dana says the American elephants ranged from Georgia, Texas and Mexico, on the south, to Canada, on the .north, and to Oregon and California on the West, and remains of the undigested food were found between the ribs of one found near Newburgh, -■w in —' ...... .—

for her. My wife has known it this long time, and I can see it too. Of course you can’t marry. She is old and poor, and plain, and in delicate health besides. So. of course, ail you can do is to get rid of her. Send jiier home to her native place with a pension, marry Regina Schuyler, Phil begin life anew.” jj “Does Mrs. Bosnall really think Jib at —that Miss Howard entertains such sentiments ?” ashed my uncle, as Mr. Bosnall paused a moment: rWoinen see such things mote clearly than men.” i ‘Of course she does. She was [talking about it last night. ‘Nancy ought to have a change,’ says she ‘if she don’t she'll go oil'like her sisShe's a quiet, patient creature,’ he; *but it is easy to sec what er.’ Now. you see, her being »;unsU'Uiptive is another reason why .you can’t marry tier. So, there! I’ve Ipokeil my mind, as I always do; md I hope you will have sense enough to act upon it.” f “I certainly shall act upon it!” jsaid my uncle, candy. ■‘And soon, I hoped” said Mr. Bosnall, rising. “The sooner the better,” •■The sooner the better!” echoed iny urn-ie. T quite agree with you, Thank you, Bosnall, thank you!” -1 think I did a good piece of '.work this morning!” said Mr. Bosnull to his wife, as lie was preparing go go*out; *T spoite to McFarlane [about Nancy!” And be repeated the; substance, of the conversation. |Mrf, Bosnall was a quiet, kind-heart-fvi man; but, like her husband, she sometimes spoke her n»ml. ■ Sic did so on this occasion, 1 f ••Bosnall, you are an idiot ! Most ffen are in 'such ■ matters,- and •..-.you a perfect one.”

IS THIS A DOG STORY. A funny story is told of the actor, Mr, EL B, Sotbern (Lord Dundreary), who by the way is a great practical joker. Last summer in the dog' days he undertook to cure his little Scotch terrier “Jack,” of making acquaintance with all the dogs he met: When he saw another dog Jack would rush up and rub his nose against that of the stranger and indicate in doggish ways that he would like to be his friend. When the season for muzzling came, Soldiera put a muzzle upon Jack and took him out for a walk. Soma where near Union Square he met Florence, and as the, twain stood in conversation Florence noticed that whenever Jack applied his nose to that of another dog the latter went howling down the street, leaving the terrier very much astonished, Florence could not understand it, and finally asked; JSTed, what’s the matter with Jack, that all the dogs run away from him so?” “O, nothing,” said Sathern, “except that before I started I fixed a couple of Cambric needles in his muzzle so that they stick out about an inch beyond the end of his nose.” The result was that in a day or two Jack, was afraid to go near any other t r *or>\ V> 1 •• y c* ' V- *•’’ _y iiid l interviewed y, A „h needles were careful tt/keep away from him.

Miss Schuyler, that they make such t a fuss about. And I don’t w; U her for a stepmother. So there ! t “What is that about Miss SchuyL ler?” asked my uncle, laying! down his paper. “It strikes me I | that you sre taking rather a liber- * ty with that young lady —to say'! nothing of myself.” “It wasn’t me, father; it wasj] Mr. Bosnall,” answered A lick “Mr. Bosnall asked me if I wool s not like a pretty young lady like? 1 Miss Regina Schuyler to come in tor the house; and I told him no—Ip didn’t want anyone hut Aunt Nan-! cy. Then he said Aunt Nancy 1 was an old maid ; and I said, if sh# was forty old maids she was a hu i-f dred times prettier than Miss I, : gina—and s'o she is!” “We won’t'discuss that matte) V said my uncle, annoyed but repr««- - sing his annoyance, as usual. } “You need not mind Mr. Bosnall. f We all know his ways!” There was something in his fifth- f er’s tone which made Alick aware I that lie had better drop the subject. ? Uncle McFarlane went on with his paper, but now and then ghmc- ] ed over it with an expression of d some interest. “Nancy is pretty !” he said to himself. “There is some- j thing in her face which remindsh me of my mother.” Breakfast being over, my nuclei' put on his overcoat, asking as he] 1 did so, his invariable question, 1 “Have you any commands for the : city?” ' i “And, by the way, please seel that everything is done for 8am’. family. The poor woman will perhaps be the better for some port;' wine, or ale, and let everything betnice about the funeral. 1 will taka the expense on myself. Sam is a good faithful fellow.” “Really Nancy is very pretty.!’hr said ray uncle’ as he walked out pf'i the house. “I never thought much about it before, but she is decidely pretty. Miss Regina Schuyler, in- : deed. Really Bosnall is too bad to put such notions into the boy’s 1 head.” And Mr. McFarlane pursued his way to the office, uncon- 1 scions of the fate awaiting him there, “Any letters, Saunders?” he asked, as he passed the clerk’s 1 desk. “I see the packet is in.” I “Yes, sir. They are on your 1 desk, and Mr. Bosnall is waiting! 1 to speak to you in your room. What ails Mr. McFarlane?” said-' the clerk *o. himself, asciis primp' r ' ever before forgot t< k for my ; wife. I hope nothing is, wrong.’' Mr. Saunders had an invalid wife, who was indebted to Mr. McFarlane for many little comforts, Mr. Bosnall was waiting iq the office. He was a stout man with red hair and whiskers, and a bluff', uncompromising manner. He had a habit, on which he always . prided himself, of always “speaking his mind”—that is, saying ev : cry thing and anything which came , into his head —a habit which did ; not cause him to be loved by his ac- 1 quaintance. He and Uncle McFar- , lane had once been partners, andj they still kept up a kind of intiim.w cy, at which many people wondeyf I ed. [ “Well, Bosnall, how goes the i world with you ?” asked my unci : \ leasurely taking off' his coat and overshoes.

Mr. Bosnall looked as if some one had thrown a wet towel in his face. •Why, Mary Anne? What’s that on?” ■•You'll find out soon enough. Go along, do, and leave me in peace.” Mr Bosnall was always very m«". k when ids wife took these rare dv- of plain speaking, and he shut the door without another word. Mrs. Bosnall sat looking at the tire with an expression ©f vexation, which gradually changed to one of kindness. “Alter all it might be worse.” said she, speaking to the fire: “Nancy is a' good . soui, and as sweet as honey. She will make him happy, rind will he happy horse 1 1, and it ■ v.T! he good for the boy. ‘But I ' -L4 sip iB . laoi-i when,,! ■ i V A i 3 U J ( , For two hours my uncle sat looking through his office window withpit even thinking oi his letters. Then he drew a deep breath, as of one relieved ot a doubt, and turned lo his correspondence, fie d d not so home to dinner, but left the ofiee early, stopping at the florist's, where he bought some beautiful lot-home flowers, and two nice .Lyaeinth bulbs in pretty glasses, which last he sent to Mrs. Saunders. “Father, may I go up and see -loin Saunders’?” asked Alick after [tea. Aunt Nancy was sitting at I her work-table fresh and neat from "'top to toe. She was composed as I usual, but my uncle fancied he observed a slight change in her manlier toward himself, probably Al- > gk’s remarks might have disturbed ;■ a little.

LEE AND LONGSTEEET. A CO VERTEX) EX-CONEE3DESATE, RAIS' IX G UP GHOSTS FiiOM GETTYSBURG. [Mobile (Ala.) Correspondence 1ST. Y. Herald.] Brigadier-General W. 1ST. Pendleton, late Chief of Artillery of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, and now pastor of the Episcopal Church at Lexington, is on a lecturing tour through the south for the purpose of raising funds to build a tomb to the memory of General K. E. Lee. He has spoken in nearly all the principal cities south, but here General Pendleton eclipsed his former lectures by making a most astounding charge of treachery against Longstreet.

R. L COFFEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. NASHVILLE, - - INDIANA. Will practice in the courts of Brown and adjoining counties. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to his care. (v3-43- tf) FRANCOIS T. HORD ATTORNEY AT LAW, COLUMBUS, - - - INDIANA, Will attend the Courts in the County ot Brown and give attention to any business entrusted to him. ,(42 WM G. QUICK, ATTORNEY At Law, NASHVILLE, - • INDIANA Office, up stairs, in the Court House Prompt attention given to the colection of claims, and probate busi- BARK WANTED The undersigned will pay the high est market price for CHESTNUT OAK BARK At his Tannery at Taylorsville, Ind. Also, for Black and White Oak, Hides and Sheep Pelts. 446m] FRANK REISNER

CLILPINGS. One of the largest and most successful sale of short-horn cattle took place near Waukegan, Ill., Wednesday. ■ The entire herd, fif-ty-six in all, of W. B. Bedge, and thirty-six from the herd of C. C. Parks, were sold for an aggregate amount of over $45,000. The cows overaged $610 50, and the bulls $350 each. The stock was purchased by breeders from Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. A fatal accident occurred at Palmer’s hotel, corner State and Monroe streets, Chicago, Monday. The platform on which men were at work, near the rear top of the building gave way and precipitated them to the first floor. One of them, D. Otis, was instantly killed, and the other had both legs broken, Eight freight cars loaded with flour, tobacco and miscelloneous goods, on the way to New York from the West, were broken open at Philadelphia Sunday night and robbed. Several roils of oil cloth were dropped on the track. In the absence of the manifest, the amount taken is not known.

In his lecture delivered in this city for the Lee memorial fund, Pendleton solemnly arraigned Gen. James Longstreet, that tireless fighter and proven hard hitter, and to his delay he attributed the lost opportunity at Gettysburg. The lecturer said that to his personal knowledge, derived from Lee’s own lips, Longstreet had, the night before the battle, received from Gen. Lee in person orders to advance at the dawn of the next morning; that he (General Pendleton) had made a reconnoisance in person, and declared to General Lee the perfect practicability of immediate assault upon the then unprepared enemy ; how he had waited impatiently till 12 o’clock; how Longstreet at that hour rode up to his side and sat upon his horse, useless and inactive, until 4 o’clock p. m. ; thou when the head of his column did go in, his soldiers were futile against the now marked and concentrated enemy; aim still Robert E. Lee (GeneralPendleton said) refused to lay the blame upon the shoulders of the man who had fought so often and so well for him. It is expected that this will create quite a storm in the South. HAD TO DO IT. [From the Springfield Republican.] There is always a charm about weddings-the blissful expectations, the little anxieties and the flutter of preparation interest the most prosaic and gild hours to look back upon through life. It is perhaps true, also, that the delights of courtship intensify as its duration shortens. We infer that these things are so, from the circumstances of a union which took place in this city a few days ago. At the depot, just before train time, numerous hackmen stood chaffing and laughing, when a policeman suddenly tapped one’s shoulder and invited him to a brief “constitutional.” Now, it is well known that the haekmen never think any thing of little . sacrifices for others, hence this one followed the overseer of ordinances to the steps of the Massasoit house, where a beautiful girl, whom it

The anniversary of the Proclamation of the Fifteenth Amendment was celebrated at Richmond, Virginia, Monday, with more than usual pomp, by the colred people. The procession was the largest ever witnessed in Richmond, on any occasion, the line extending about one mile and a half in length. The French Atlantic h broken 280 miles from Brest. The Wellington Canal was opened for navigation yesterday. A suspected Cuban filibuster has cleared from Philadelphia. The Old Catholics of Bonn will elect a Bishop of Cologne June 4lh. Barton & Aleln, suspended Wallstreet brokers, are short $800,000The revision of the general steam boat rules will be completed to morrow. The coffee-dam built to protect the Fails of St. Anthony has been washed away. Baron Liebig’s funeral took place m Munich Sunday, and was largely attended. Rumors of Secretary Delano’s contemplated resignation are authoritatively denied. John Cunningham fell from an elevator yesterday, at Winona, Mia* usssota, and was instantly killed, There is a rapid rise in the waters, of the St. Lawrence at Montreal.

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“Oh, well enough. If it don’t go to suit me, I make it, that’s all V’ answered Mr. Bosnall. “But see here, McFarlane, I didn’t come here to bandy compliments. I want to talk to you about a serious matter.” “Well, what is it?” asked my uncle, preparing to listen, not without a longing glance at his foreign letters and papers. “I am going to speak my mind, as I always do!” said Mr. Bosnall. ‘1 want to know what you mean to do about Nancy?” “About Nancy!” repeated my uncle, with a little start. “What about Nancy?” “Aye, what shout her that’s just it. Of course you can’t go on as you do . now. It was well enough when the old IH" was alive; but her death, cn'an that, aau folks will talk. Ivas. an old maid, to be sure—forty, i she’s an hour—” “Thirty-five!” said my uncle correcting him. “Well, live years don’t mattes much. She’s an old maid, as I said The truth is, Mr. McFarlane, jo\ ought to marry again; and o’ tourse you can’t with Nancy in the house.” “Youthink so?” “Why, of course, not. There is Miss Eegina Schuyler, now. She’d jump at the chance of marrying' you; but you don’t suppose slie would set up housekeeping with Nancy Howard, do you?” " 1 must beg, Bosnall, that you will not bring Miss Schuyler’s name into question,” said my uncle. "Such liberties are not to betaken with respectable young ladies,” “Liberty or not, she would hare you in a minute. And there’s jinother thing about it. Nancy Howard is dead in love with you, her self, and of course you can’t marry her—that is out of the question.” “Nancy Howard!” repeated my uncle, in a tone of bewilderment. pTo be sure, man. Any one but you would have seen it, though Nancy is not the woman to throw lawself at&ny ouiu’s head. I’ileay that

■“Certainly, ray son. And be snr« nnl ask, particularly how Mrs. Aunders finds herself, 1 quite for- ■ jgu. it this morning. I was the nore ready to let Aiiek go as I wish to consult you on a matter ot great importance to us both.” And then, in his usual kind, somewhat -formal nanuer. he opened his subject. He vas desirous, he said, ot going (broad iur some time, perhaps for some vears. He thought the change Gould be .good for Alick, who show-' cl signs oT delicate lungs. Aunt Nancy’s-heart fluttered, and icr color went and came; but she lad long been schooled in self con(jrol, and she made no other sign. It won’t he for long!” said the quiet, breaking heart to itself, little guessng what was in store lor her. My uncle continued. I don’t enow just how hv. worm d it, hut he V- -D it pi Sin Vo lu) nor ■ the boy could ihc without 'Nancy, i Would Nancy consent to beem ehis wife, and be n mother to Alick in fact, as she had long been in name? And so in an hour the matter was all settled. “We are asked to a wedding!” said Mrs. Bosnall to her husband some six weeks afterwards. “A wedding—whose wedding? asked Mr. Bosnall, not greately interested. “Na n cy Howard’s” “Nancy Howard’s—you don’t mean—” The idea which occurred to Mr. Bosnall fairly struck him, dumb. “Yes, Nancy and McFarlane!’ answered his wife, enjoying her lord’s discomfiture. “They are to he married at St. Paul’s, very quietly. and sail lor Europe as soon as possible.” “The deuce they are. After all I have said to him !” “Alter all you said to him!” echoed Mrs. Bosnall. “The moment you told me what you said to him, and especially to Nancy’s being talked about, I knew you had made the match. Yon could have got him to marry old Miss Paget in tiie same way.” “But such a sacrifice, Mary Anne I” “Oh, well, I don’t knew. I dare

“I should say so, indeed. Find out when the funeral is to he, and let me know, and tell your wife to send them something comfortable when she goes to market. But here comes Miss Mancy. Send up breakfast, Bro.wn.V Breakfast was usually a somewhat silent meal, save with Aliek’s chatter with his aunt; for Mr. MeFarlane always read'the paper, invariably asking Miss Mancy’s permission . <‘Why do you look at me so closely, Alick?” asked Miss Nancy, as she caught her nephew’s gaze fixed upon her. “I was thinking how pretty you are!” answered Alick, with his usual frankness. "‘I think you area hundred times prittier than

NOTICE OF SALE. N«#iee is hereby given, that I will s$i at public sale on SatoedaY, May 3d, 1873, at the residence of Rebecca Thompson, late of Brown county, Indiana, deceased all her personal propertv. consisting of live stock, household and kitchen furniture, &c. Terms; A credit of six months will be given on all sums over three dollars, the purchaser giving his note with approved surety waiving valuation and appraisement laws. c Abhaham Thompson, 45] Administrator, SSpIfead this paper and subsen do for it. $1.50 a year-