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THIS PAPER IS ON FILE WITH Rowell & i^hesman . Advertising Agents, THIRD & CHESTNUT STS., ST. LOUIS, MO. @Uwrton §usiufofi Cants. J. A. WREN, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST Has located for a short time at DR. EDMUNDS’ GALLERY, ELBERTON. GA. WHERE lie is prepaied to execute every class of work in his line to the satisfac tion of all who bestow their patronage Confi dent of his ability to please, he cordially iuyites a test of his skill, with the guarantee that if he does net pass a critical inspection it need not be taken. inch 24.tf. MAKES A SPECIALTY OF Copying & Enlarging Old Pictures J. M. BARFIELD, jim Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store, ELBERTON, GEORGIA. BOOTS & SHOES. TITHE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFULLY AN JL nonnoes to the people of Elberton and surrounding country that he has opened a first class Boot and Shoe SHOP IN rXiSSEHTON Where he is prepared to make any style of Boot or Shoe desired, at short notice and witu prompt ness. REPAIRING NEATLY EXECUTED, The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. ap.29-tf W. LABStSICSIT. H. K. CAIRONER, ELBERTON, GA., buy gobbT&lqciiiis. 11A It DWAItE,O It OC Iv 1-1 RY, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS Notions, &<*• T. M. SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD SWIFT & ARNOLD, (Suecessois to T. \I. Swift,) DBALRUS is DR V 7 GOO D S, GROCERIES. CROCKERY, BOOTS AND SHOES, HARDWARE, &c., Public Square, EMiIIRTON <* A. L!3H T CARRIAGES & BUGGIES. >V ... 1 I J. ~F. AULD Carriage otlajiltact’b GLUEKTOAI, CiEOSSGI l. BEST WORKMEN! BEST WORK! LOWEST BRICES! Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O Common Buggies - SIOO. REPAIRING AND BLACKS.MITIIING I Work done in this line in the very best style. The Best Harness My 22-1 y rams ipcim !P. J. SH ANNON, Saddler & Harness Maker Is fully prepared to manufacture harness, \?t?ibtes BK LOLLS, SADDIjESi At the shortest notice, in the best manner, and on reasonable terms. Shop at John S. Brown’s Old Stand. ORDERS SOLICITED. F. A. F. AOJ!FKTT, PRACTICAL lAIOI, ELBERTON, GA. Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK anywhere in Elbert county [jclii dm J. 8. B UISETT, attorn by at la w , ELBERTON, GA. J. F. STEWART, PAINTER & aiaAZZER ELBERTON, GA TIT ILL GIVE PERSONAL AT TENTION TO VV any- work in bis line. Satisfaction guar anteed Rates reasonable. feb.l 6m THE GAZETTE. N"ew Series. THE LITTLE MAID 01 ARCADEE. BY W. S. GILBERT. Little maid of Arcadee Sat on cousin Robert’s knee ; Thought in face, and form, and limb, Nobody could equal him. lie was ricn, and she was fair ; Truth, they made a pretty pair; Happy little maiden she ! Happy maid of Arcadee ! Moments sped, as moments will, Rapidly enough ; until After, say, a month or two, Robin did as Robins do— Fickle as the month of May, Jilted her, and ran away. Wretched little maiden she ! Doleful maid of Arcadee ! To her little home she crept; There she sat her down and wept ; Maiden wept, as maidens will, Grew so thin, and pale, and ill, Till another came to woo— Then again the roses grew. Happy little maiden she! Happy maid of Arcadee THE .FATAL -HAMS. One Christmas morning I attended service in a suburban church, which was as profusely decorated with green boughs as if Birnam Wood had stopped in there on its way to Dunsinane. The day was a dazzling one, for the glittering snow literally took the shine out of the heavens, and the variegated windows were in a blaze of glory. Indeed, a Take of red light, which lodged like a damask butterfly on the hand of a stran ger beside me, was the means of attract ing my attention to bis general appear ance. His skin and hair were preter uaturally white, like those of the Albino, and I was not long in satisfying myself that the 'whiteness of his hair wis pre mature, and that tears had washed the color from Iris cheek. For a while he appeared oblivious of everything about him, but he no sooner discovered the red stain upon his hand than he became fearfully agitated, and seizing my hat by mistake, abruptly left the church. My curiosity was so excited that I .as not sorry his mistake as to the hat afforded me sn excuse for following him, and I must say that I felt still more inquisitive on finding him nervously rubbing his hand with snow, as if for the purpose of cleaning it. I accosted him in an off hand way. so as to restore his composure, and the exchange of hats was duly ef fected ; but in spite of my nonchalant air, ho saw that I took a deep interest in his case, and as I turned to go he asked with an affectation of indifference whetli er I had observed anything peculiar about his right hand. “No,” I carelessly replied, “unless you refer to its being incarnated for a mo rnent by the reflection from a red pane of glass.” “Was that all ?” he eagerly demanded. “It looked to me like blood, and I have some reason to be nervous on that sub ject.” As he said this he was overcome with emotion, and the muscles of ins jaw be came so.contmcted that he could only articulate with the greatest difficulty ; j so he brought the interview to a close ; by begging me to call upon him the ! following day, as I was just the sort of | person with whom he would like to talk j over a matter which had distressed him I for a long time. I had not the heart to | refuse, although I hardly relished the ! idea of trusting myself with an utter I stranger whose thoughts had taken such a sanguinary turn ; and my confidence in him was not increased by the fact | that in directing me where to find him : he had been very careful nut to divulge his name. ‘•Bv the way,” I called after him, “what name shall I ask for ?” But he pretended not to hear me, and hurried oil' faster than ever. J The next day I called upon him, pur ! suant to my promise, and when he ap | peared in answer to my knock, addressed ! him as “Mr. Andrews”—that being the | name on the door-plate. “My name is not A idrews,” he gravely 1 replied, “and 1 only wish it was, for a reason which will presently appear. Mr. Andrews and I keep bachelor's hall here, and some might consider us a little eccentric, as we are somewhat radical in our notions, and believe in all the ‘isms of the day.” He then thanked me for being so punctual, and after ushering me into the parlor, insisted on treating me to some thing, as the proceeding next in order. While he was absent from the room for that purpose, I had ample leisure to look i about me, and saw' one article at least j which i had subsequent reason to re j member. That was a vase or urn, evi j dently modeled after what are known as I cinerary tuns, because the ancients used them for the ash sof their dead. On it was painted the Genius of Death—not lfeaning as usual upon an inverted torch, but holding one aloft; while the space for the inscription was as yet blank. On the return of my host he resumed the conversation as folio \vs: “I was speaking a moment ago of ‘the isms of the day.’ Do you believe in any of them ?” “I can’t say that I do,” was my reply, “and I regard the majority of them as humbugs of the most colossal propor tions Take Spiritualisn , for example; how can any intelligent person put faith in that when the ghost of Dan Webster ESTABLISHF.D 1859. ELBERTON GEORGIA, AUGUST 4. 1875. m’squotes the Constitution of the United States, and the spirit of Lindley Murray is not aware that prepositions govern the objective case!” The reader will perceive that I was trying to be as cheerful as possible, and I had the satisfaction of seeing that the face of my hearer had already lost some thing of its pallor. “Then,” said he, “I suppose you re gard all the popular superstitions in much the same light “Precisely so,” I returned, “for, in my opinion, black cats and red ears of corn have less to do w th mundane affairs than some people imagine.” “Would to heaven,” he fervently re joined, “that no more potent agencies than those you mention were at work in our lives—” Here he hesitated for a moment, and then added with an increasing tremor in his voice- “You have heard of such a thing as a fatality in names ?" “Yes,” I replied, “it was once thought that any one named Agnes was doomed to go mad; that James was a bad name for a King of Scotland, and all that sort of thing. As for Onomancy, or divina tion by the letters of a name, the luckiest names are supposed to be those in which the numeral letters amount to the high est sum.” “Well,” he Said, with a perceptible shudder, “my name is Lewis Lewis—do you see anything peculiar in t at?” “Nothing,” I coolly answered, “except that the cluistiar. name and surname are identical.” “And have you not heard,” he asked in a husky undertone, “that the pos sessor of such a name is predestined to be hung ?” “I. have heard something of the kind,” I replied, “but I never supposed such an absurd idea could give a moment's uneasiness to any one.” “Nevertheless,” he rejoined, “I sol ernnly believe that events as much be yond my control as the procession of the equinoxes, will yet place the black cap upon my brow. It was once the custom to bury murderers with a stake through the heart, but mine is pierced in advance whenever I think of ‘the deep damnation j of my taking-off.’ ” “But, ’ I reasoned, “consider the im p's ability of your committing a capital crime.” “I have taken that into consideration,” i lie responded, “but it affords me little j consolsaion in of ttio that so , many innocent persons have been the , victims of circumstantial evidence.” Nothing could be said to that, so 1 started off on another track by advising him to take a sea voyage as a means of diverting his mind “For,” I continued, “when we once get to riding a particular hobby it soon becomes like the enchanted horse in the Arabian Nights”—and with a levity which was perhaps ill timed, I added— “ You have no reason to fear the perils of the deep, when the proverb assures us that those born to be bung can never be drowned.” “I have never experienced the slight est benefit from travel,” he replied, “for m my mental condition I could only look upon Spain as the country of the garrote, and upon France as the country of the guillotine, and think how a death by either instrument would be less igno minious than mine, which will be the death ot Jack Sheppard and Captain Ki .and.” -Mr. Lewis,” said I, “the morbid con dition you describe might be occasioned by as simple a thing as dyspepsia, for I know a Quaker who always acts iike a ruffian alter eating a \\ elch rabbit; and what we call total depravity is nothing more nor less than a deficiency of gastric juice. If, on the other hand, your trou ble is a bare matter of superstition, you ought, for the sake of consistency, to adopt the remedies which the super stitious employ in such cases. There is the medical ring, for instance, in which they v/ear a hyacinth stone for sleepless ness, an agate for eye diseases, a jasper for dropsy, an amethyst for inebriety, and a coral for nervousness and causeless fears—just the very thing you want. But, to be serious, Mr. Lew'is, you may depend upon it that all yoitr ghastly apprehensions will prove to be the merest shadows.” * “That may be,” he replied, “but they lire such shadows as ‘struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than could the substance often thousand Rich monds.’ ” After a little more talk to the same purpose, our interview came to an end, and he presented me with a token of his gratitude in the shape of a handsome quarto, bound in Turkey morocco and illustrated by Dore ; while I, in return, hpr&Jed him my city address, with the jocular assurance that I would be happy to procure his acquittal whenever he was placed on tr.al for his life. I returned to the city a day or two afterward, and had forgotten all about my friend Lewis, when his spiritual ad viser came to me one morning by the early train, and brought the appalling intelligence that he (Lewis) had mur dered Mr. Andrews under circumstances of such exceptional atrocity that threats of lynching were openly indulged in. I was so struck with amazement that it was some moments before I could mas ter mysejf sufficiently to ask the partic ulars of the tragedy “Well,” he began, several residents of our village were returning from a politi cal meeting late at night, when they ob served a t emendous volume of flame arrd smoke issuing from the chimney of the house occupied by Andrews and Lewis. No signs of life being visible, the first thought of the spectators was to arouse the sleeping inmates, and with that object in view they burst open the door, some rushing up stairs and others down The latter party were met at the head of the cellar stairs by Lewis, w-bo wore a startled, or some thought a guilty look, and made strenuous efforts to prevent anyone from descending into tne cellar, from which proceeded an odor of burning flesh. But, pushing him asid?, they hurried down to see a most sicken ing sight. A furnace of unique design had cracked with the heat, exposing to view the calcined remains of poor An drew. The murderer fled in the dark and at the time of his capture was en gaged in burying a bloody razor, and a will by which his victim left everything to him. Of course, all he can do now is to prepare for the gallows.” “The case ceitainly has a desperate look," I remarked, “but there are always two sides to a story.” The clergyman looked at me as if he doubted my sanity, amt said in a caustic way: “The other side of the question is not wanted, for he has already confessed the crime.” “Can you recall the precise language of that confession ?" I asked. “I can,” he replied, “I was asking him whom he wished to retain as counsel, and he said it would not be worth while to introduce any defense, as he must in evitably be hung.” I was much encouraged to find this so-called confession was not irreconeila ble with the most perfect innocence, and was simply a reiteration of his old belief that any effort to oppose his destiny would be similar to a nautilus coming into collision with a large man of-war. “Then he concluded to send for me after all ?” said I. “No,” was the reply, “what brings me here is this. Shortly before this murder, Mr. Andrews, who also belong ed to my church, deposited with me a sealed envelope with directions to open it not less than three days after his death. That period having elapsed, we might as well examine the document at once.” It read as follows : “October, 187-i. “Tp Whom it May Concekn : Cremation is now an accomplished fact, and the chariot of lire is again called into requi sition. The body of the wife of Sir Charles Dilke, Member of Parliament, who died recently in London, was burn ed at Dresden, in the furnace invented by Herr Siemens. The brother in law ci the deceased, and many scientific gentlemen were present, and in seventy live minutes six pounds of the ashes were placed in an urn as all that remain ed of Lady Dilke am] the casket. With in the past few days, cremation of the dead has been ordered at Vienna, and the furnace of Dr. Reclam has been test ed at Breslau before the National Sci ence Congress. Sir Henry Thompson has shown the sanitary advantages of cremation, and the Bishop of Manches ter has vindicated it from a religious point of view. Let the g'ood work go on until death is associated with the bright blue sky and the picture urn, in stead of with the darksome ground and the dreadful prerogative of the worm. ' Let it go on until men like the historian Prescott and the novelist BuLver are no i longer tormented by the fear of prema- I ture interment. Let it go on until w’e :no longer have reason to imagine that | every churchyard rose has once bloomed I upon some cheek, and that every church yard violet has the look of some blue eye. “Having been assured by the best of medical authority that I am liable to die at any moment of heart disease, I have had a furuacc constructed in my cellar something on the principle of the one which Prof. Brunetti, of Padua, exhibit ed models at the Vienna Exposition; and Mr. Lewis has promised to perform for me the same service which Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt performed for the poet Shelby by the bay of Spezzia. “I have written this to show that Mr. Lewis has acted with fulx authority from me, and request that the widest publici ty be given to the facts of my case in or der that something of a practical charac ter may be given to the cremation move ment in America. Caleb Andrew's.” “Hurrah !” I shouted, waving the pa per above mv head. ‘ Your great mur der has literally ended in smoke, and our friend Lewis will escape the halter in spite of his name.” “Don’t be too certain of that,” replied the clergyman, “for, as I said before, there is a strong disposition to lynch him, and you know it is still the tenden cy of human nature to drive the nail to its head and to dip the sponge in the gall. At all events, we had better make the explanation at once.” We were not a moment too soon. A roaring mob led by a man whose open countenance reminded me of the mouth of the Mississippi had already taken Lewis from the jail and were dragging him toward a buttonball tree which stood a short distance off. But my blood w'as not fairly up to a boiling point until I saw the poor fellow pitch headlong in consequence of stepping on a rope which had been placed around his neck. Calling on the clergyman to eorrobo rate my statement, I succeeded in con Vol. I V.—No. 14. vincing the majority of the crowd that they were almost as much indebted to me as Lewis himself, for I had prevent ed them from committing one of those blunders which are said to be worse than crimes. “But how about the bloody razor and I the will ?" asked one of the most incred | ulous. Lewis explained as follow i: “Mr. Andrews made me promise that I after his death 1 would sever his jugu lar vein before committing bis body to I the flames, so as to preclude the possi | bility of his being burned in a trance. ! On finding that 1 was suspected of tmir j der, I was anxious to conceal what j would be likely to afford additional | grounds for that suspicion.” I have done with the unpleasant part of my story. Mr. Lewis was set at lib erty, as a matter of course, and found that, the Andrews estate was left to him lon condition that he changed his name 1 —the testator thus considerately bring ing him within the act authorizing a change of name on its being shown to the court that the petitioner will derive a pecuniary benefit from such change. After thus getting rid of his “fatal name,” there is every reason to hope tuat the evening of his life will be a moonlight one, and without a cloud, ex cept those rose colored ones which help to beautify the sunset. OBIGIN OF THE CORONER'S INQUEST. A gentlewoman in England, after burying six husbands, found a gentle man hardy enough t.) make her a wife once more. • For several months their happiness was mutual, a circumstance which seem ed to pay no great compliment to the former partners of her bed, who, she said, had disgusted her by their sottish i ness and infidelity. In the view of know- j ing the real character of his amorous ! mate, the gentleman began frequently j to absent himself, to return at late hours, and when he did return to appear as if intoxicated. At first, reproaches, but afterwards menac s, were the consequences of his conduct. The gentleman persisted, and seemed every day to become addicted to his bottle. One evening, when she imagined him Mead drunk, she took a leaden weight and having melted it, she approached her husband, who pretended to be sound usleei'. in order to put it into Lus ear ] through a pipe ; convinced of her wick edness, the gentleman started up and seized her, when, having procured as sistance, he secured her till morning, and conducted her before the magistrate, who sent her to prison. The bodies of the six husbands were dug up, and, as lead was found within the skulls of each, the proof of her guiit appeared so strong upon her trial that she was condemned to be executed To this cir. urnstance are we indebted for that useful regulation by which no corpse can be interred without legal in spection. How Marbles ake Made. —The chief place of the manufacture of marbles— those little pieces of stone which con tribute so largely to the enjoyment of boys—is at Oberstein, on the Nalie in Germany, where there are large agate mills and quarries, the refuse of which is turned to good \ aying account by being made into Btnall balls, employed by experts to knuckle with, and are mostly sent to the American market. The substance used in Saxony is a hard, calcareous stone, which is first broken into blocks, nearly square, by blows with a hammer. These are thrown by the hundred or two into a small sort of mill, which is formed of a flat, stationary slab of stone, w.tli a number of eccentric furrow's upon its face. A block of oak or other hard wood, of the diametric size, is placed over the stongs and partly resting upon them The small block of wood is kept revolving while water flows upon the stone slab. In about fifteen minutes the stones are turned into spheres, and then, being fit for sale, are henceforth called marbles. One estab lishment with but three mills turns out sixty thousand marbles each week. Miscegenation.- Intermarriage of whites and blacks is forbidden by law in In diana, but a German gardener in that State has wooed, won and been wedded to a black woman. The knot was tied by a negro preacher. Bride, groom and preacher are in jail, subject to a penalty of ten years imprisonment and a fine of $5,00(1 A man in Portland, Oregon, thought he recognized an old friend, and pro ceeded to slap him heartily on the back and exclaim, “Hello, old feller, where in h—ll did you come from?” before be found out that it wasn’t his fnend, but the Rev. E. Payson Hammond, the re vivalist. Gen. J. B. Hood is writing a book which will embrace an account of his operations around Atlanta, his Tennessee campaign, and his reply to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. While in New York Gov. Smith ex amined Clews’ books and reports them much mutilated. He heard of Bullock, who was freely circulating about New York. Joseph E. Johnston is elected Presi dent of the Arkansas Industrial Uni evrsity. Judge Underwood is evidently a good lawyer. No one can doubt this who reads his remarks to four young men recently admitted to the bar in bis cir cuit. He must speak from experience.. Listen to him, and doubt, if doubt ye can : “Young gentlemen,” said the Judge, “I want to say a thing or two to you. Yon have passed as good an examination as usua 1 , perhaps better; but you don’t know anything. Like these young fel lows just back from their graduation college, you think you know a great deal. It’s a great mistake. If you ever get to be any account, you will be sur prised at your present ignorance. Don't be too big for your breeches. Go round to the Justice's courts and try to learn something. Don’t be afraid—let off qpon a high key. You will, do doubt, speak a great deal of nonsense You will have one consolation—no one will know it. The great mass of mankind take sound for sense. Never mind about your case, pitch in—you are about as apt to gain as lose. Don’t be ashamed at the wise looking Justice. He don't, know a thing. He's a dead beat on knowledge. Stand to your rack, fodder or no fodder, and you will see daylight after awhile. The community generally suppose that you will be rascals. There is no absolute necessity that you should. You may be smart without being tricky. Lawyers ought to be gentlemen. Some of them don’t come up to the standard, and are a disgrace to the fraternity. They know more than any other race generally, and not much in particular. They dn't know anything about sand stones, carboniferous periods and ancient land animals known as fossils. Men that make out they know a great deal on these subjects, don't know much. They are humbugs—superb humbugs. They are ancient land animals themselves, and will ultimately be fossils. You are dis missed, with tlie sincere hope of the Court that you will not make asses of yourselves.” SOUTHERN VS. NORTHERN CO TTON MILLS. A few days since, says the New York Bulletin, we published the results of the expaiimcnts made in cotton manufacture at the South, by which it appeared that the mills of Georgia had been able to run steadily and full, and to pay hand some dividends on the capital invested. Aim os! simultaneously com the news of the closing of more of the New England mills on account of over production and inability to rind a market for their goods. Taken together, these are sug gestive facts and to the further inquiry of the causes at work which upon this showing would indicate a tendency to change in the location of this industry. It is not only true that machinery costs less now than that of most of the New brought England mills, which were large ly at war prices ; but the same may be said of mill property. Water privileges, darns, mills and machinery can doubtless all be bought and constructed at nearly, if not quite, half the aggregate cost of many of the Now England mills. Be side, the South has virtually a protective tariff on its manufacture, both on raw material and goods, in the saving in transportation. And this advantage it will continue to hold until its produo lion exceeds its home consumption when only it can be compelled to come into equal competition with tho mills at tho North. These facts must have an im portant influence for some years to come, no doubt, while tho effects may very possibly prove permanent. At all events the disposition certainly exists on the part of tho Southern people to make a thorough expeiiment in the matter. Capital only is wanting, and that, doubtless, will be speedily supplied un der the new era of prosperity which is evidently dawning on the South. The Vicksburg Herald tells the fol lowing, which is richly worth republish ing: “A member of the colored church was the other evening conversing earn estly with an acquaintance, and seeking to have him change into better paths, but the friend said that he was too ofton tempted to permit him to become a Christian. ‘Whar’s yer backbone, dat ye can t rose up and stand temptation !’ exclaimed the good man. ‘I was dat way myself once. Right rn dis ycre town I had a chance to steal a par o’ boots—mighty nice ones, too. Nobody was dar to see me, and ] reached out my hand and de debbil said take ’em. Den a good spent whispered fur me to let dem boots alone.’ ‘And you didn’t take ’em?’ ‘No, sah—not much. 1 took a pa r o’ "heap shoes off de shelf an’ left them boots alone !’ ” A gentleman of Baltimore, unmindful of the fate of Icarus, has invented a fiv ing machine in which ho proposes to cross the ocean during tho present sum mer. The machine appears to be a combination of the balloon, the wind mill and the steam launch. The voyager rides in a boat containing a small steam engine, which is used for moving tho “wings” of the balloon and steering it through the air. The boat is attached to the flying machine witu a rope, and thus is drawn through the water. It is said that Mr. G. W. Gail, of the firm of Gail & Ax, tobacco dealers, will furnish the inventor, Mr. Schroder, with the money to build one of these flying ma chines, and the contract for the same ha* already been given out. Tilden and Washburne. —Tho great gambler, John Morrisey, thinks Tilden and Bayard will be the Democratic nom iuees for the Presidency. Tilden is worth $7,000,000, is a business man, with first rate' legal knowledge and ex ecutive ability. Of Washburne, Mr. Morrisey thus speaks : “1 can see where Washburne would poll a great vote. He saved those priests in Paris. Do you suppose the Catholic church will ever get over that ? He saved the Germans from the people of Paris. He stayed right there at his post at the time.” A Democrat, no matter wlmt his religion, will vote for the Democratic candidate, and, unless some juggling be used, that candidate will not be Gov. Tilden.
