KING WILLIAM AND HIS ARMIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1273, 9 January 1883, Page 3

KING WILLIAM AND HIS ARMIES.

",;■/*:.."■'* . .'• ''""' I think it. well to announce/ right in the begining of this story ■that'-Miles Bunkly is not properly;ifs ltero ( though some preliminary things iiihst 'be told concerning him. , Although Miles .had loved Mies Caroline. Thigpen ■ long before llr coirrteii .'her, yet he never had told, her so in.; set words,, until—well, yon iiiay'sity too late, 'Yet .everybody was surprised. Miles-was a most dxccljentyonng man, indifttnous/sober,'.thrifty, fondof lay-' 1 a right, good deal laid U P ft )» M* no was quite passable as to looks/ Mr Bill could' ,\m have been said, :even.byy: Miss Thigpen,' to havenny advantage 'of Miltsastolbolcs, As for-the rest, dlj except vMiua .Thigpon, i.M 'his own, mother considered him tliq inferior. Yet Dukesliorough maiiii'e'ra,.or.something else, put him in the lead.on.-his first entry upon the field. ...It was then, and not till then, that Miiesßimklyiimdo one, 'and' but one, jßowed effort, and failing gave up the c|ht(!s(, and, resigned, himself to what lio.called molloncholly.: ':',.'■.. Hejj'a'd never been-at least he had never seemed to be-a cheerful minded person: anyway.' His courtship' even had taerf-iiitlirf a'solemn piece of business; %& tho jfjiial declaration sounded soiuewliat a* if ,ho had invited Missi Thigpen to go with him to the graveyard instead of taking .charge of his domestic affairs. The'lady after gently declining his suit, and claimiug tho privilege of regarding him as a as a., bro'ther-iannoune'ed her intention of ever keeping "his proposal a secret," and- requested him to do : the same., • . '

" Miles; '• no Miss Car'line/ 4 shall "no* deny it, no I Ml not'deny it. I'm much.'obleeged to you, niid'l shall be a friond (o you and yourn..: The. wnound. is in my. heayrt, aiuPit'il be obleeged "to stay thar, but I'll be a friend to vou and yourn,".

On his Way. home he called to his' neighbor-iiiiaMend Abram Grice, ; who was standing; in ..his door—" Mawiiin' Abrom,'!•,'„';,,'•; •. '■'. ;

"Mawiiin I ,'Miles.'''Lite an' come.

" Stop otit' herd"a minute,' Aboin-ef you please," ' ,'[ /,. .."•..-.. Mr Gricq.ijn.iiie cut to the guts, ' ■'• "Kickes. Inborn.' 1 , . "Kickod.-Milefi'! .Who I" - ■ " Kicked bail, 'Miles?'.'' '• "Powerful." t , " Yourliorse, Miles, or a nude, or a steer f ';;",. :■:, "Nary one. It's here, Aboro." " Then lie Mollis hand broadly on im breast. '•'■••• ■'.'•'■ " In the stomach, Miles I ifad place to get kicked. What in thunder kicked yon 'way up thar? Git down: come in and take a drink, and toll me about it afterwards:'* ...' "It'snot my stomach,'Aboni; it's my bres, The waound's. inside, Sperrits wouldn't; do it any' good: it wouldn't reteh ••" " My good gracious I -Miles' 'Bun'kly, what in the diekenfi-fs- the matter with you?" -w :....»->■< ■' -

'' I've to" joiSlfidiiiojii,": and-, lie minted nioufiiJiiJly.4Qvg(iVda..thff Thig(ens/"and myrdfisiH! jq tetell'no lies: . got it from a human person over thai* md tliat. not of the so.cfc of'a man petv on." " ■•' .«< > '- • ; '•' : "Who, MiejfC'ai-'lineT ' '■•'-'' ' ■ " Ef I wasto'name the name, Abom, hat were the name. I should-namei'' Mr Grice shouted with laughter. "Miles Bimklyy.you skeer'ed nic out if a y*?ar*B; growth. -1 thought youd teen kicked, by .a team o' mules, or at east a.yoke o'-steefs, Well, look- here, r ouain't a-goih'to' stay kicked!" "It's done,-Abom," ./_ " Yes, bii't Miles, Tye bowed siich is that ondope. Why, Sarunn, kicked oe three times ban' runriin; but I told ter every time she done h that sich alk as that didn't phaze.me.. That's ranen,. Miles. .Them's their wavs. They ain't agdin'.to let a fellow know,' lot at the they, are to wve him. .1 don't know whatit's'for, ithout it's just ■natchelly to try to git he whip-hand, ofliirn at'tho start, .It'sts thenatchel iiistinc of the:woman ect. You go back'to Gar'line Thigperi, ind don't let oir.tlmt : you ain't ' even jhazed by it. Yfiu'i'e sorter slow, old' bllow-that is, in sich motions, but yar'line Thigpen got too-much sense to five up sich a chance." "'Notbcr' person,,Abom" replied Miles, most mournfully—"'notherperwn of the male sect;-- ' : "Who's'kef "William Williams." "Who? Bill Williamsf exclaimed Mr Grice, in astonishment and dis-'

''That's the name ..of. tho name, Abom." ■•-■■

" Well, Milos B.unkly„ef you can't whip out Bill Williams, even -with" his Dukesborongh ways he got bylivin'in town six months, ail I got •to'say' is you ought to get kipked by; 'a- yoke i o ,: stegrs. and run over, by the'keartin the bargin. • L. .;•..,■■■. --4 Such and similar pnonstrancca were : ineffectual to make Jlr Bunkly continue the retired -at -.oiice ioaV. ingthe •fifia.'.tp his. rival. "M the

wedding, though he- did not join in the ff ; dance, nor even in the plays, yet he '' -partooksufficiently,it w.as.thowght/ of meats, cakes, and syllabub; 'Mr Bill and Misa Caroline, h.er .brother Allen. and bis young brid,e,Betsann, were . specially attentive to his wants. He • yielded with profound sadness .'to their I persistent offering of goodthings, .and the morp syllabub he took -the •■inoum^ fuller grow hit department. .To'sevcral persons, mainly said during the .evening that it was. the mollon-' I pholiestof.alldaystpjum.. ■ ••'",'" • \ •'! "Yit, ftirthersonieraore.'V.ho -would I add, With touching unselfishness,' •'•' ef: i herwho iiinow Misis' pr'HheWilJiaifia/ f : and whfl wore Miß3,':Cai;!line fliigpen, h. ba it her or be itherni if.jier ortnenv ;! might ever want fpr§jivthjng which it ; might be herant) theirvgop'd rights or" thejr desires, and ef then I'mva-livin'-J h P«»viding,youunder^tand,.l'm;a-livin; I; -they sbpjrhave it.' ef itsViruirv b retch:';; :::;.';:.'..1:...:,":;/

Som,e four years passed, Mr BunkM' though'plunged in his Hear melancholy,' ';,„ yet attended punctually to his business 1 '•' '.:)n.a gloomy, slow, sure way, pade good

~crops,sold ntgcbd timei ! added to liis '_ land and plantation stock, and claiming 'to demise wealth, heaped it up more and more. Mr Bill, Williams was getting nlong, 100- lu-tter. than had ■ been expected and prophesied;'- Much of the exuberant vivacitywMWctodbymonths' tonpJiad subsided in these fqiit 'years of living with a wil'o . ( a ho styled. lu:i). .who. was/probably the most imiiistHo&man in the' neighiiave made a .mi.stake.jin preferring himself to Miles -Bunkly,; wd"he:had'.said,to himself at the, beginning of his conjugal career thathe'should take it upon himself to «buvjnce .the world, that it wasi mistaken. Only one thing interfered ; with the .happiness of,that rising family, and that was becoming serious. It would sting the wife painfully sometimes when she would' heir of tho practical jokes put upon her husband, who had become rather liable thereto by what had been considered in the neighborhood his too greatforwardiiess of speech and other deportment. Too great a talker, as from/the very first she had told him he was, she would'tell i.him •further that a man who got into scraps ought to get out of thtm. h these few years he had sobered much under that benign influence. . Yet when a man has once been the butt of neighborhood ridicule, it requires time to release him even when lie has ceased to-deserve it, Sometimes it seems that the only way to obtain such release is to fight for it. The exigency, in the opinion of Mrs Williams, laid now arrived. One night when the children had been put to bed, she said—*' William, you've got to whip somebody." She spoke pointedly. Mr Bill looked behind him at the trundle bed and asked himself— J.'lsitEomorisitßemef

■"Kavyone," was the audible answer "It'ssomebody,bigger'n them, harder to whip, and a more descrvin' of it."

[..Mien Mr-Bill peeped through the window into-the outer darkness, and •speculated if there was insubordination among his little lot of negroes,' "Nor them neither. It's white 'folk; it's Mose Grice,.that's who it is, and it's nobody else—that is, to start with." . -Mr Bill was startled. .

: Colonel .Moses Grice had indued been extremely rough with Mr Bill on several occasions, and (being a childless married-man, nnd thought to be sore on that point) has especially and repeatedly ridiculed the father of the •twins. Vet he was a man of means, a considerable fighter, and colonel or So Mr Bill was obliged to.be.startled, and he looked at his wife.

''You've.been joked at by Mose Grice, William, and poked fun at, and made game of by him, until I don't feel like standiu' of it no longer, nor I don't think Rom and Kerne would feel like staudiir' of it, not if they were big enough arid had sense enough to nndoi° stay his' impudence.' "•Why Car'linc-" remonstrated Mr Bill.-' ..: '

.•'.'.Ph-you.,needn't be Car'linin' o' me!" said.

-./ And never before had Mrs Williams ii'ddresscd'her husband in precisely that language,' But her feelings had'been hurt, and allowance ought to be made. She cried somewhat, but tern's did not serve at once .to produce the softening influence that is their legitimate result. " There's brother Allen,/ she continued, " and which Betsann told me herself that Allen 'told her that the fact of the business'was, if you didn't make Mo.se Grice keep his mouth sliet, 'specially about Bom and Eeme, he would; and then there's Miles Bnnkly-—"

" Oh, Lordie!" exclaimed Mv Bill, "There's Miles Bunkly, and which Betsann say is about as mad as brother, and which; ef he ain't any fighter, yit, when Mose Grice was one day a-making gaiiie of him about his molloncholy, Miles told him that his molloncholy was his business and not his'n, and that ef he kept on meddling.with it he mout ketch the disease, and Mose Grice, let •Miles Bunkly's molloncholy alone, he did," '

•''And then/' Mr Bill said afterward, Wine set up a cry, she did, and it wokopft'om and Berne, and they- sot ,up a howl apiece/ and I says to myself, I'll stand a whippin' from Moso Grice rather'n ran agin sich as this." -; After that night Mm- Williams did not again to allude to its matter of conversation, and was as' affectionate,, to lier'Jiiisband as always. . Mr Bill gloried iii the possession of her, and he had.good reason. ,He brooded and brooded. 'J ho allusion to Miles Bunkly stung him deeply, usually imperturb■able'as his temper was, though.not a jot of jealousy wasin the pang/ He would have known himself to be the greatest of fools to feel that. Yet, easy going, self-satisfied as he was, lie knew that other people, including his brother-in-lav, still regarded his wife lessifortuiia'tethan slieihight havebeen. Tteffiore'Mr Bill brooded,, the more #riolis'appeared to 'him the relation of hiscaseto'that of several others,;especially Colonel Grice. >l> : -

•Superadded .to a general ■ disposition' to- impose' ; upon whomsoever would endure him} Colohel Grice had a spite against Mr Sill on account-of the friendship lliat, since the intermarriage with Thigpen, had grown, up between him.and Abrani' Grice, the colonel's ■younger brother, whose relations with himself were not only not fraternal, but hostile: f Tlip;colonei:was a'fighter, ,'andjhad-managed spmchbw always to conie vletbriouir out of a combat; for he' was''a, inan of powerful build, and of great-vigor and activity. Some, indeed, had often said that he knew 'whom to encounter and whom not. ; His position of .head of -the regiment had been •obtained when military ardor, after a long'peace, had subsided,,and leading citizens cared 14. for the eclaf qf office. He had sought j£ ejjgerjf, afldliad .obtaiweiJtit : because there was no strong : competitor; aii'd especially because.: his election' was expected an| intended to ridicule and discourage regimental parades. He was greatly exalted by and became, yet. more, 'Overbearing wheneyer he coulddo so ;wilh:safety, ' ■ i : -rM . ;: ''.'!'

"That's hjs bjotjier

Abramone day to Miles Bunkly—"that's jest him. He'll impose'on anybody that'll let him, and he'll try it with anybody bethinks likes'mei', He's been so from a boy. Ho imposed on me till I got big enough to whip him, wiuoh 1 have done a time or two, and then ho/quit, it, But .betook his! revenge oii'nio; by choatin' me out of. part o' tho prop'ty, and ho: done that the quicker because lie bowed I, bein' his brother, wouldn't prosecute". him for! if. That'sMose, that's jest him/"'..,';,, " I hato'the cobo Abom," answered Miles" because J has that respects of Car'line Williams that it mortify me, and make ino so speak, git molloiicholier.than what Iriachelly aui to see a man that's her luißbarid, 1 and the father,' as it. were, o'.them two far pinks of boys, riinned over in tho style that Mose runs over him, night and in iind about every time he come up along of Williain Williams, 1 never.keered no grcatdcal about him, with them town ways o' liis'n, untell he. were married to Miss Car'line, and then [ knowed that tlieie were oMeeged to be that in William Williams which people in general never supposened. (To bo continued.) ; The underground telegraph system in Europe appears to be working- satis* factory; The extent which it has reached may be seen from tne following data: In London, 110 tiiilea; other cities to England, 120 miles. In Paris, 119 miles; other cities in. France,-100.milts.• Berlin has 50 miles, other cities in Germany 40 miles, Hagiio i miles, Antwerp 2, and Amsterdam 7$ miles. Between litrlin and Halle 400 miles, and Liverpool to Manchester 36 miles,

A deadly strife is carried on.at the present time between two cities, Corato and Huvo in Italy. The last-named town, which contains about 20,000 inhabitants, r-jcently celebrated a fete of a saint, and as a mmibw of people came from Coratio the occasion was deemed a good ono for settling.the quarrel. The strife, commenced, and the greater number of the inhabitants from Coratio were routed, but about 300 were surrounded five were killed, anda hundred wounded.: Since then, the fights have been incessant.

There iii, says a home paper,'; a curious report going abroad which , certainly wants confirmation, Communication with tho New World, is to , be conducted on entirely new prin- ' cijiles, Liverpool and Queenstown are ' to be superannuated, and Gal way is \ to bo the port of the future. The.new ' I'outo is to be via. Ncwfouudhmd, ', Seventy miles of now railway is all , that is necessary to, be laid, and for it charters have, already been obtained. In'the narrows by Nova Scotia the carriages will bo shunted on to the j steamboats—the whole journey between New York and London will be ; reduced by three or possibly four days. \ Business will 'ho prosper that trade will | not content itself with less than a daily servico of Atlantic liners, and the distance from New York to Liverpool may bo achieved in fivo or even in four-and-a-half days. Engineers and capitalists are consulting, at New York, and in fivo years Galivay will l»o the port of Western Europe. Tho scheme is not entirely a now one. Tho promise lms often been made' before. Bigger beats have been built, greater speed haß been attained, but Queenstown has still managed to hold her own. .'