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DAILY ENQUIRER - RIJN : COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING DECEMBER 23, Interesting Story of Search for i Hank Wife. Watrous' Jilted bjr III* Firm I,nee lie Seek* s (llrl to Fit Her Dresses-How Pot* Blow Ilia Head Off With a Winchester. New York, December 19.—In Dead- wood, in the early dnye, Hank Watrous made lorn to a widow, who, on the eve of the wedding, ran away, leaving the troa- eoau on hie hernia. How Hank subsequent ly made the choice of a wife to lit the ore..-,.; i is told in the following letter in the Bun to-day: Dbadwood, December 12.—“Speaking about the Deadwood romance,” said old John Bittle last night, "the only real Dead- wood romance that I ever heard of has never yet been printed by any of these story-fellows.” Horae of the boys gathered about the speaker, and. after lighting their pipes, expressed a willingness to listen. Old John hemmed and hawed a little, aud then began : “You see, what I’m ffoing to tell yon occurred here when the hills were comparatively new. The romances in those days are not gobbled up by the news papers as soon as they are now. When I came in here white men were scarcer than they are now in Alaska, nnd as far as women arc concerned, you’d see one onco in a while maybc,and maybe you wouldn’t. We hadn’t any of us any business here then, because tho reservation hadn’t been opened up as yet, but the few of us who were willing to take the chances of getting ourselves SCALPED AND HAMSTRUNG by the Indians were not disturbed very much. I’m speaking now ol the time that Crook was alter the Sioux. lie had been up in Montana, and not finding the suv- ag»s there, had circled around and fol lowed tho trail of various purties, which he honed to intercept. After a while bad weather came on, and as the country was terribly' rough at that time, he and his command Buffered a great deal. They came into this camp dually, ragged and hungry, having lived on mule meat for about two weeks, nnd here they stayed for a long time, getting their breath as it were. You can bet that they didn’t llnd any fault with us white men for being on an Injun reservation. They took ull that We had to oifer, and wo offered the lads , about everything that the country ull’ord- ed. “Several of Crook’s men hud nlready served beyond their time, and when the command reached Deadwood it was de cided to let such of them us had served the full term of enlistment go about their busi- mess. Several of the troopers skipped out as soon as they could, but a few remained here, thinking that there was more money in mining ‘hail there was in anything else at that moment. In this way we had quite an addition to our camp, and, as the pres ence of our army in this vicinity did much to relieve the fears of tho average rustler, the new arrivals became more numerous as time went by. HANK WATROUS. “Well, what I want to say is, ore of the men from Crook’s command was llnnk Watrous, us tine u fellow as you’d care to see in a month of Sundays. He had been in the army live years and of course had seen a heap of service. Soldiering in those days didn’t give a mnn much of u chance to lie around nnd look pretty. When a band of regulars came to town they looked like pirates, and felt that way, too, 1 reck on. Hank made himself agreeable to mv party, and as he was a lively chap we took him in. He could work as well as he could tight and ho wns handy around thecamp. Besides him and me,there were five others, ami as time wore on others still came in, With one party came a woman, the wife of one of the men who called himself “Pete.” We always knew her as Pete's wife. She was a mighty smart little wo man. She didn’t handsome much, but she didu’t have to in those days. After a while she got into the liahit of cooking for the crowd, and we nil thought a heap of her.” “Pete and wife had been in camp about six weeks wbeu what should Pete do but >nve seen plenty of Deadwood romances, ait they are generally too high to be true. They cover too much ground. Tney in volve too many tine people. This is li true •lory, and it is none too rich for the blood >fany old Doadwooder, who was here when just such things were going on.” Toslc, Alterative a*4 Cathartic. Simmons Liver Regulator euros malaria, biliousness, dyspepsia, headache constipa tion and piles. It is most effective in starting the secretions of the liver, causing the bile to act as a purge. When there is an excess of bile in tho stomach, the Reg ulator is an active purge; after the removal of the bile it will regulate the bowels and impart vigor and health to the whole sys tem. ^ eod,se*w A Drug Clerk's Awful Agvny. Chicago Herald. “I had a strange experience the other night,” said the clerk in a Randolph street drug store yesterday. “I wus silting be side the stove in a sort of doze when the night-bell jingled violently. The instant I opened the door a boy not yet in his teens stumbled into the store with a prescrip tion in his hand. It had been written by a physician living on Washington boule vard. More asleep than awake, I set about preparing the medicine—a task which con sumed fully half ail hour. After the boy bad departed I returned to my seat and was just falling into a deep slumber when the thought that I had mado a mistake in thu preparation of the medicine flashed through my mind. I leaped to my feet as scared a man us ever lived. Seizing the prescription, I read it over and over again, each time becoming more convinced that I bad made a most egregious and perhapB fatal error. No aconito had beon pre scribed, yet my thoughts and tho moist plug in tlie bottle containing the drug told me that the poison wus in tho medicine. 1 darted out of tho store in search of tho boy, whose name I did not know, but be was nowhere to be seen. Returning to the store I paced the floor liko a madman. Un pleasant visions flashed before my eyes, and I was about to drop upon the lounge in despair when the bell began to tinkle again. I thought my fate bad surely come when 1 started towards the door. Imagine my surprise to find the very same boy cry ing as though his heart would break, and holding a piece of tho broken viul in his hand. “ ‘I—I—fell and broko the hot’ the lad whimpered. “ ‘Spiled the medicine I gave you ?’ I gasped, not waiting for tho boy to finish his sentence. “ ‘Y-e-o-s, sir! I’ “ ‘Hooray !’ I yelled, choking the boy off and hugging him to my breast. Imay have acted like a baby just then, for I kissed him again and again, and squeezed him as though ho hnd been n long lost child. When the astonished lad left the store this time he clutched the pure, straight stuff, but I wouldn't pass through another hour of such torment for all the drug stores in the city." COLUMBUS Iron Works a o nvr ip .a. 3sr it, Columbus, Georgia. FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS, DEALERS IN Lime, Shingles, Dressed and Matched Ceiling and Flooring and other Lumber. Specialty made of Dress ing Lumber for oilier parties. -AGENTS FOR Standard Nervous, llilillilatcil Hen. You are allowed a free trial of thirty days of tho use of Dr. Dye’s Celebrated Voltaic Belt with Electric Suspensory Ap pliances, for the speody relief and perma nent cure of Nervous Debility, lossof Vital ity and Manhood, and all kindred troubles. Also for many other diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed. No risk is incurred. Illus trated pamphlet, with full information, terms, etc., mailed free by addressing Vol taic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich. decl7 tu.tli.sat.se&wly Object Lessons lor Cabinet Ladles. It is a great pity that the olHciul ladies at Washington can not settle amicably ou an order oi precedence. Let them observe the harmony oil that subject which pre vails at any barber shop and learn a lesson from men.—Chicago News. Royal Pumps, Judson Governors, Eberman Feeders, Injectors, Hancock Inspirators and BROWN COTTON GINS MANUFACTURERS OF Stratton’s Improved Absorption Ice Machines, Saw Mills Pumps, Hollow Ware, Syrup Kettles, Q-OLIDEISr COTTON PRESSES AND The Improved Calender Rollers, BLOW HIS HEAD OFF with a Winchester that lie was fooling wit h. Nobody saw bim do the job and wbeu we found the body we thought at first that lie hnd been killed by the Injuns. They were exceedingly liable to do such things in those days, but on examining the lay of tho ground wo found Unit the thing must have been an accident. Only one cartridge had been shot olt, and, as there was no reason to suppose that Pete wus tired oflife, we returned a verdict that his death was accidental, one of those myste rious dispensations that you read about. We buried him in good shape, and as the woman said that slic would stay with us we kept right on calling her Pete's wife. "About a month after this my friend Hank told me that lie had been making up to Pete’s wife, and that she had promised to marry him thirty days later. This met my approval, and nobody else objected, so that Hunk made his preparations accord ingly. At first he sent over to Sidney for a couple of new dresses, and when they eame I can tell you that they were mighty pretty. They fitted Pete’s wife like a glose. because they had been made after an old one, ami when she tried one of them she looked mighty fine. Now, i want to tell you something. On the day set for the marrying—we were going to conduct tho oeremony ourselves— PETE’S WIFE VANISHED. Hank was about crazy, for he hadn’t counted on anything of this kind, aud I wus afraid he would go out and shoot his head off, too. But lie didn’t. We looked all over without finding a trace of her. At first we thought that the Injuns might have got her, but that theory was aban doned after a while, because we could not fiud anywhere within twenty miles of camp a fresh trail. Then we came to the conclusion that she had just skipped. To save Hank's feelings a little we told him that she probably lmd found out that she still thought too much of Pete to marry again right away ami so we went on trying to forget all about her. “That was in 1870.. Five years later I heard of Pete’s wife up in Montana and a year after that 1 saw her there. She was then well married aud she told me that she skippad out because she hnd concluded that she could do better. She found her way to the track all alone, and though she was sorry to disappoint anybody she had never regretted her decision. Well, Hank KEPT THE TWO DRESSE9 ior some time and said nothing. Finally, when the crowd began to come in, we noticed that he would tuke a great deal of interest in every woman that arrived in thecamp. Two or three times he got the dresses out aud carried them down town, but he always brought them back again. “Finally we got word that ho was to bo married, and as there was a preacher here then we went to the parson’s to see the ceremony performed. We didn’t know the girl, but when she came in with llnnk what do you think she had on? Pete's wife’s dress, by cracky, as big as life. She Was a tough little customer, and she led Hank a lively dauce for a year or two, but you can’t wonder at tbat when you hear ilow she eame to get him, or how he came to get her. “You see, Hank had been brought up more economically than most of us, and he had tried for nearly a year to get a wife who would fit the dresses that he had bought for Pete’s wife. Sometimes when the dresses would fit the woman wouldn’t, Bud when the woman would fit the dresses Wouldn’t, and so it went. At length he found a girl who was just the size of tho dresses, and as she happened to want some ffloUtea slit agreed to marry him, Now, l “UOL'CIII ON ItATN” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rabbits, sparrows, gophers. 16c. At drug gists. “KOItflll ON CORNS.” Ask for Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” Quick relief,complete cure. 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GEORGIA, MUSBOGEB COUNTY: Whereas, C. A Redd, administrator of the es tate of Mrs. Mary S. Park, represents to the court in his petition duty filed, that he hits fhlly ad ministered Mary S. Park’s estate. This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned, heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said administrator should not be dis charged from his administration and receive let ters of dismission on the first Monday in Februa ry, 1886. witness my official signature this 30th day of October. 1886. F. M. BROOKS, ocw oawsm Ordinary. GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY. Whereas, George Y. Pond, administrator do bonis non, ot estate of Ellen Thomas, represents tc the court in bis petition, duly filed, that he ha> fully administered said estate. This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned, heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said administrator should not be dis charged from his administration and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in March, 1887. m t , _ Witness my official signature this December 7th, 1886. F. M. BROOKS. dec70ftwl2w Ordinary. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS To the Stock or tke Ml Will COMPANY. r t being officially known to tho Board of Direct; ora of the Georgia Midland and Gull Hal road Company that the first section of twenty miles of Georgia Midland and Gulf RaUroud, oi four feet and nine inches grade, between Columbus, Ga., and Atlauta, Ga., or between Columbus, Ga„ aud some point on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad between Atlanta, Ga., and Macon, Ga., with the privilege of entering. Atr lanta on the track of any railroad with terminal facilities there, is graded and readv for the cross- tics, trestles and bridges, and whereRs, by the terms of subscription the first installment of the same becomes due and payable upon official pub lication of the completion of the work as above. Be it resolved, That the Treasurer is authorized to publish in the name of this Board the comple tion of the first section of twenty miles, as stipu lated in said subscription notes, and to cull on the subscribers tor payment of the first install ment notes of 25 per cent., which notes are now due and payable at the National Bank of Colum* bus, Ga. _ _ . Seaton Oran Hand, C. L. Davis, Geo. P. Swift, jr., N. J. Bussey, W. J. Kincaid, J. F, Flournoy, B. T. Hatcher, T. M. F< ley, ,T. W. Wool folk. The Board of Directors of the Georgia Midland and Gult Railroad Company.^ novl6 oaw4w FOR SALE. 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FOR SALE BY ALL LEADIR8 MERCHANTS. WARNER BROTHERS, 353 Bro’ dway, New York Citft SMITHS BEANS /T^URE Biliousness; Sick Headache In Four hours. \6) One dose relieves Neuralgia. They cure anc prevent Chills Fever. Sour Stomach Ba< Heath. Clear the Skin, Tone the Nerves, and nlv« ife ** Vigor to the system. JJose: ONlj hbf " .dedlclno Dealers generally. Sent' on receipt u price in stamps, postpaid, to any address, o.F. SMITH & CO., Manufacturers and Solo Prop*.. ST. LOUIS, M0. GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY: Whereas, Mrs. Leo. E. Swifl applies for letters of administration on the estate of George P. Swift, jr., late of said county, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite all and singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to show cause, if any they have, witbin the time prescribed by law, why said letters should not be rant* d to said an ” Witness my oil 4th. 1886. dec4 oaw4w GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY : Whereas, Michael Sullivan makes application for letters of administration on the estate of Katharine Sullivan, late of said county, de ceased. These are, therefore, to cite all persons interest ed kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they have, within the timf prescribed by law, why letters of administration should not be grant- < d to said applicant. Witness my official signature this December 4th 1886. F. M. BROOKS. dec4 oaw4w Ordinary. GEORGIA MUSCOGEE COUNTY: Whereas, R. E Parish applies for letters of ad ministration on the estate of James B. Slade, Jate ol said county, deceased. These are. therefore, to cite all and singular, kindred and creditors, of said deceased, to show cause, if any they can,within the time prescribed, why letters of administration, os aforesaid, should not be granted 10 said anplicant. Witness my official signature this December 1th, 1886. F. M. BROOKS, dec4 oaw4w Ordinary. Election for Justice of the Peace. WHERE will be an election held at the court A house, in the 668th district, G. M. (lower town) on Saturday, the 1st day of January next, for one Justice of the Peace tor said district, to supply the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Bell, Esq. This December 7th, 1886. F. G. WILKINS, N. P. and Ex-Officio J. P. for C68tli Dist. G. M. dec7 dtd PP Tyi? Send six cents for postage and i IV 1 £aXj. recceive free a costly box of goods which will help all, of either sex, to mak more money right away tha« anything else 1 this world. Fortunes await the workers abso- utely sure. Terms mailed free. Thus & Co. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. LAWYERS. rjiOL Y. CRAWFORD, Attorney-At-Law, Office up stairs over Wittioh & Klneel’s storv JOSEPH F. POU, Attorney-At-Law. Office up stain over 1111 Broad street. J)EABODY, BRANNON & BATTLE, Attorneye-at-Law. Office second floor Burma building, Broad and Twelfth etreete. q'HOMAS W. GRIMES, Attorney-at-law. Office up stains over Robert Carter’s drug lion. yy M. A. LITTLE, Attorney- at-Law. Office over R. 8. Crane, corner Broad and Twelfth streets. OIIIQRBV E THOMAS, JU. GRIOSBY B. 01IANDLHB. rjiHOMAS & CHANDLER, Attomeys-at-Law. Office no stairs over C. E. Hocbstrasser’a stove. J AS. M. LENNARD, Attorney-at-Law. Office back room over C. J. Edge’s shoe etora. J L. WILLIS, Attorney at Law Office over Crane’s corner. JAS. G. MOON, Attorney-at-Law and Real Estate Agent. Office comer below Swift’s warehouse. JAMES M. RUSSELL, Attomey-at-Law. Practices In the state and federal comts of Georgia and Alabama. Office over 1247 Broad St. S. B. HATCHER. f. D. PHABODT ATCHER & PEABODY, Attomeys-at-Law. Office up stairs over 1119 Broad street. IF yy A. TIONER, Attorney-at- Law. Office on second floor of Garrard building. g P. OILBERT, Attomey-at-Law. Prompt attention given to all business. Offiaa over R. 8. Crane. yy B. SLADE, Atl omey-at-Law, Office on second floor of Qeorgia Home bnHO- ing. yy ALONZO CARTER, Attomey-at-Law. Office up stairs over R. 8. Crane. J OUIS F. GARRARD, Attorney-at-Law, Office in Garrard building, over Witticb A Kiusel’s. P1IYNICIANN. rjIHOS. S. MITCHELL, Practicing Physician and Surgeon. Office at Hall & Wheat’s drug store. Telephone No. 5. Residence on Rose Hill. Telephone No. 110. dec7 3m9 JJ C. TICKNOR, Practicing Physician. Office at Robert Carter’s drug store. J E. GILLESPIE, Practicing Physician. Offlc at Robert Carter’s drag store. w. w. BRUCE. ^T W. BRUCE & SON. BERT BRRCOO Practicing PhysicianB. JNO. J. MASON, Practicing Physician. Office at City Drug Store. £1 D. HURT, Practicing Physician. rjl W. BATTLE, Practicing Physician. Officce over Brannon & Carson. Residence 79t Broad street. R E. GRIGGS, Practicing Physician. DENTISTS. W. F. TIONER, Office up stairs over Qlass Bros’ drug store, Twefth street. QEO. W. McELHANEY, Dentist. Office up stairs over Wittich & Einsel’a, in Garrard building. WM. 3. FOGLE, Dentist. Office over Rothschild Bros., 1247 Broad street. Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia. 8AVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 1st, 1886, A Dividend, of FOUR DOLLARS per chan from the earnings of this Company and its de pendencies has been declared, payable on anc after December aoth, to the Stockholders as a record this day. T. M. CUNNINGHAM. dec7 eodltt ~ '