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BARFIELD, THE REAL LIVE Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift A Arnold’s Store, ELBERTON, GEORGIA. fiiarCall and See Him. THE ELBERTON DRUG STORE fl. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. Has always o hand a full li of Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines Makes a specialty of J STATIONERY PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES Plain and fincy. just received, including a sup ply of LEGAL CAP. CICxARS AND TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. F. A. F. MOBLETT, m&m&hi mason, ELBERTON, GA. Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK aiywhere in E’bert county [je 16 6m THE GAZETTE. New Series. 1A VICTIM .or CIECUMSTAN UAL EVI LENGE, BT JAMEL PARTON. I hesitate to relate the story of this man’s life and death, fearing lest I should seem to encroach upon the department of fiction. It is, however, nothing btlt facts, and stands recorded in the arc hives of the Danish court; whence it has been drawn by English and German law writers, as the most remarkable case which has ever occurred of circumstan tial evidence convicting an innocent man. The evidence not only convinced the ju ry and court, but it actually made the prisoner believe himself to be guilty of a crime of which he was entirely inno cent. Soren Ovist was a Danish clergyman, who had perished on the peninsula of Jutland. Both as man and minister he was held in esteem by his neighbors, among whom he had lived most of bis life. His one great fault was a hasty and violent temper, of which, occasional ly, he entirely lost control, when he would break forth into a torrent of fu rious words to his own sore humiliation, and the great grief of his family. These fits of anger were of brief duration, and usually expended themselves in mere violence of language. They were never theless a subject of life long regret to him, lowered his self-esteem, and trou bled his conpciei.ce. Among the parishoners was a farmer by the name of Burns, a man of consid erable property acquired by disreputa ble means, who was held in aversion as a hard man, unscrupulous, and an op pressor of the poor. In those old coun tries there is a wide difference in rank between a clergyman of the national church and the farmer, the clergyman being what is technically called a gentle man, while the farmer, though ever so rich, is a peasant. Notwithstanding this, Burns presuming upon bis wealth, asked for the hand of the pastor’s daugh ter in inarms. Tl*e offer was refused, and probably not in the most courteous and Considerate manner, the .fanner, stujjg to the quick swoi’e to be ' re venged, bqth upon the father and daughter.*. , •#* ‘ . S#she n*on!<i'S passed, -and the affair was almost forgot!on. The clergyman needed a farm servant for in thafeoun try, all the clergymen cultivate a portion of land! and he hired a poor brother of the discarded suitor. He proved to be a lazy insolent fellow, who irritated the pastor to such a degree, that he not on ly scolded him in round terms, but oc casionally resorted to blows, and finally the scene occurred which led to the pas tor’s destruction. Enraged one day at his servant’s neg lect of duty and impudent tone of his reply, the old man lost his self-control, and seizing a spade, struck the man with it several times, and seemed to knock him down. For a few moments he lay like one dead, but when his master, in terror, be gan to lift him up, he sprang to his feet, leaped through the hedge of the garden and disappeared in the adjacent wood. He was not seen in the neighborhood again, and all attempts to discover his whereabouts were fruitless. Burns in the mean time, seemed to be full of indignation at his brother’s dis appearance, and did not hesitate to point to the clergyman as one who could explain if he would what had be come of him. He was often heard to say: “I will make the parbon produce my brother, even if he has to dig him out of the earth. - ' He went at length before a magis trate, and taking with him three persons as witnesses, declai ed his suspicion that the clergyman had murdered his brother. The witnesses testified that they had overheard a quarrel between the pastor and his servant, in the course of which the elergyman cried out: “I will beat thee, dog, until thou liest dead at my feet.” Then they heard the sound of blows, and had twice seen a spade swing above the hedge, though they could not see in whose hand it was. Another witness deposed that while passing the garden of the pastor, late in the evening of the next day, he had heard the sound of one digging, and, on looking over the hedge, had seen the pastor, in his usual green dressing gown and a white night cap. The magistrate could no longer disre gard the accusation, and gave orders that the garden be searched in the pres ence of the accuser and accused. When they had dug to a little depth came earth which had evidently not been dis turbed, and the pastor, turned to his ac cuser saying: “Slanderer, wbat have you got for your pains ?” But on digging under a heap of rub ish to the horror and consternation of the clergyman and his friends, the miss ing mans bat was found ; soon after a human arm appeared, ar.d before long the whole body, the face disfigured be yond recognition by blows, evidently given by a flat instrument, the clothes, even to the shirt with the man’s name on it, and a leaden ring in one of the ears were immediately identified. The clergyman could only protest his inn© cence. “Appearances,” said he, “are against me. Surely this must be the work of satan and his ministers. Take me to prison. In solitude and chains I will , await what God in his wisdom may de- ESTABLISHED 1859* ELtiERTOX, GEORGIA, XOV’R 24. 1875. Upon the trial, in addition to the tea timony given above, two new witnesses declared that on the evening in question they saw a man in a green coat and wuite night cap come out of the wood with a large sack upon his back, cross the road, and disappeared at the hedge of the pastor's garden. Upon hearing this testimony, the minister fainted. Af ter recovering his senses he talked like this: “From my childhood I have ever been impatient of contradiction and ready with a blow. When but a lad I slew in anger a dog which one day ate my din ner that I had left in his way. Asa student, in a broil with a German youth, I gave him a wound that endangered his life. I will now confess the crime, which no doubt, I have committed, but of which, nevertheless, I am not fully conscious. Three or four times in my life that I know of it has happened to me to walk in my sleep. The last time, about nine years ago. I was the next day to preach a funeral sermon over the re mains of a man who had met with a fearful death. I was at a loss for a text, when the words of a wise man among the ancient Greeks suddenly occurred to me, “call no man happy until he is in his grave,” and I then remembered that the same thoughts, in well nigh the same terms, was to be met with in the Apocrypha. I sought and sought, but could not find them, and being tired went to bed and soon fell asleep.— Greatly did I marvel to find on my writing desk the next morning, written in large letters ,on a piece of paper: “Let no man be deemed happy until his end cometh. [Syrach xi, 34]” But not this alone, I found likewise a whole sermon written out in my own band writing, which could have been compos ed by no other than myself. Mark now, when the witness testified this morning my sleep-walking very suddenly flashed across me, and I likewise called tq /uind> that in tiie moaning after fchatf n*ght, I had been surprised to Ttif " dressing gown lying upon the*floor in stead of hanging on a chair by the side of my bed, where I always hang it. The unhappy victim of mj,, unbridled passion must Lav<| fallen down dead in the wood, and I must, in taf* sleep wi Iking have followed film thitbor • Yas./ jttmrfry*? have mercy, so it was 1 So it must have been.” The clergyman, upon his own confess ion, was condemned to death. Before his decapit tion he warned the specta tors of the danger of yielding to anger, and acknowledged „the justice of the penalty he was about to receive. Then he took off his coat, bound his eyes with a handkerchief, and knelt for the blow. In another moment the sword severed his head from the body. Twenty-one years had passed; Burns, the accuser, was d< ad, as were modt of those who had taken part in the trial. An old beggar applied to the minister of the next parish for alms ; he proved tr be the very man who was supposed to have been murdered and buried by Sor en Ovist! Upon being questioned he stated that after the quarrel with the pastor he told his brother of what had happened, after midnight they had dis interred a suicide buried where the roads met, dressed him in clothes worn by himself, gathered his face with a spade, taken the pastor’s cap and dress [ ing gown from his house, and thus J clothed, one oTthem • had carried the body into the clergyman's garden.— That done, Burns had said to his broth er: “And now you go your way. Here is a purse with a hundred dollars, make for the frontier, take another name, and never set foot on Danish soil j again, as you would answer it with your life.” The man did as he was told, enlisted for a soldier, lost a limb, and returned to his native parish a mere wreck of his former self. Ignorant of his brother’s designs, and of all the subsequent pro ceedings, he relatedj his part in the transaction without reserve. This is the only instance known, I be , lieve, in which evidence has convinced i an innocent prisoner that he was guilty ! of the crime of which he was accused. Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, received a public welcome at Toledo, recently, on his remarks he said that during his tra vels among the Oriental churches he had learned many things which tended to re move his old prejudices against them. One of the very remarkable things he dis covered was among many eastern church es were traces of Episcopal worship ; a liturgy, and bishops who traced their de scent away back into the days of the apostles. But now the spirit has passed out of the church, the life of Christ passed away, and the worshipers fallen into a very depressed spiritual condi tion, and much degenerated in their worship. What struck him most forci bly was that while other churches are doing very much, and accomplishing great good in the introduction of anew religious spirit, the Episcopal church is doing nothing. The first Masonic Lodge has just been organised in Jerusalem. Its Master is an A merican, its Past Master is an Eng lishman, its Senior Warden is a German, its Junior Warden is a native, its Treas urer is a Turk, its Secretary is a French man, its Senior Deacon is a Persian, and its Junior Deacon another Turk. Among its members are Christians, Mahometans and Jews. Freemasonry is evidently cosmopolitan. JIM WOLE. How he Tailed to Grab the Tom Oats, But Spoiled a Candy Full. I knew by the sympathetic glow up on his bald head—l kaew by the thoughtful look upon his face—l knew by the emotion il flush upon the straw berry on the end of the old free liver’s nose, that Simon Wheeler’s memory was busy with the olden times. And so I prepared to leave, because all these were reminiscences—but I was too slow ; he got the start of me As near as I can recollect, the infliction was couched in the following language: “We were all boys then and didn’t care for nothing, and didn’t have no trouble, and didn t worry about nothing only to shirk school and keep up a re vivin’ state of devilment all the time.— This yah Jim Wolf I was talking ’bout was the ’prentice, and he was the best hearted feller, he was, and the most for givin’ an onselfish I ever see—well, there couldn’t be a more buliier boy than he was, take him how you would, and sorry enough I was when I saw him for the last time. Me and Henry was always pestering him and plastering horse bills on his back and putting bumble bees in his bed, and so on, and sometimes we’d crowd in his bunk with him notwith standing his growling, and then we’d let on to get mad and fight across him, so as to keep him stirred up like. He was nineteen, he was, and long, and lank, and bashful, and we was fifteen and sixteen, and tolerably lazy and worthless. So, that night you know, when my sister Mary gave a candy-pullin’, they started us on to bed early, so as the company folks could have full swing, and we run in on Jim to have some fun. Our winder looked out onto the roof of the ell, and about ten o’clock a pair pi old tom cats got to rarin’ and charg ha round it and carrying ®n like sin.— Tfcere was four inches of snow on the roof, and it was frozen so that there was a right smart crust of ice on it, and the moon was shining bright, and we could see, them cats like daylight. First they other, you know, and bow up their backs and push up their tails and swell around and spit, and then all of a sud den the grey cat he’d snatch a handful of fur out of the yaller cat's ham, and goin around Jlike a button on a barn door. But the yaller cat was game, and he’d come and clinch, and the way they would gouge, and bite and howl, and the way they’d make the fur fly, was powerful. Well, Jim, he got disgusted with the row, and ’lowed he’d climb out there and shake him ofiFn that roof. He had not reely no notion of doin’ it, likely, but we everlastin’ly dogged him, and bully-ragged him, and lowed he’d allers bragged how he wouldn’t take a dare, and so on, till bimeby be highsted up the winder, and 10, and behold you, he went—went exzactly as he was, nothing on but a shirt, and it was short, but you ought to see him. You ought to see him creepin’ over that ice, and diggin’ his toe hails and finger nails in to keep from slippin’; and ’bove all, you ought to seen that shirt-tail flappin’ in the wind, and them long shanks of his glis tenih’ in the moon-light. Them company folks was down there under the eaves, and the whole squad of ’em under the onery shed of old Wash in ton Bower vines—all settin’ round about two dozen sassers of hot candy, which they’d sot in the snow to cool.— And they was talkin’ and laughin’ lively; but bless you they didn t know nothin ’bout th® panorama that was goin’ on over their heads. Well, Jim, he went a-sneakin’ up un beknowns to them tom cats—they was a switchin’ their tails and yow-yowin' and threatenin’ to clinch, you know, and not payin’ no attention —he went a sneakin’ right up to the comb of the roof, till he was in a foot’n half of ’em, and then all of a sudden he made a grab for the yal ler cat! —But by gosh he missed fire and slipped his holt and his heels flew up and he flopped on his back, and shot offn that roof like a dart!—went a slasbin’ and a crashin’ dewn thro’ them old rusty vines, and landed right in the center of them comp’ny people !—sot down like a yearthquake in them two dozen sassers of red hot candy, and let off a howl that was hark f’m the tomb ! Them gals—well, they looked, you know. They see he wasn’t dressed for C Jinp’ny, and so they left. All done in a second —it was just one little war-whoop and a whish! of their dresses, and blame the wench of ’em was in sight any where! Jim he was a sight. He was gormed with ihat bilin’ hot molasses candy clean down to his heels, and had more busted sassers hangin’ to him than if he was an Injun princess—and he come a prancin' up stairs just a-whoopin’ and cussin’, and every jump he gave he shed some china and every squirm he fetched be dropped some candy ! And blistered! Why bless your soul, that poor cretur couldn’t reely set down comfortable for as much as four weeks.” [Mark Twain. —. —♦ o* An exchange says: “Barnum pays his new balloonist S2OO perday.” And even with such a good salary that man is lia ble to “go up.” — Pay up and have a clear conscience. Vol. IV.-No. 30. AN AFFECTING CASE. The many freaks of physical infirmity show nothing stronger than instantane ous blindness or deafness, or their im mediate cure. But cases of the kind are well authenticated. The following is told in a Nashville paper : We recently beard a remarkable and touching story of $ little boy, the son of a gentleman in an adjoining county.— His age is twelve or thirteen. He is an interesting and promising lad. One day during the past winter he failed to rise as early as usual. At length his father went into his room where he lay, and asked him why he did not get up. He said it seemed dark yet, and he was waiting for daylight. His father retir ed, but the boy not making his appear ance for some time, he returned and said a second time : “My son, why don’t you get up V’ “Father, is it daylight?” he asked. “Yes, long ago.” “Then, father, the little fellow said, “I am blind.” And so it was. His sight Was gone. In a short time his father took him to Nashville, to get the benefit of the medi cal profession there, but none of the physicians could do anything for him, and happily tried no experiments on his eyes. Some ladies in a family of his father’s acquaintances sought to cheer him in his affliction, and one night pro posed to take him to the opera, that he might hear the music and singing. He went and was delighted. In the course of the performonce. all at once he leaped up, threw his arms around his father’s neck and screamed in ecstacy: “Oh, Father, I can see!” His sight had instantly returned. And since then he has retained it in full vig or, except that under excitement there is sometimes a dimness of vision. The case is one of a remarkable and singular character. A RAILROAD DIFFICULTY ADJUSTED. When Col. Fisher took charge of the Georgia portion of the Air Line railroad as Receiver, some differences sprang up between him and Col. Buford, Receiver of .the North and South Carolina por -wi. and so wide did the, broach become, that; vxn. jjuAbru ened to withdraw his trains from the Georgia division. Indeed, steps were taken to do this, by the building of a turn-table by him just this side of the Georgia line. Col. Fisher accordingly built one just within his border, near the South Carolina line, and there was a prospect that the road would be cut in two at that point. Some time ago, however, a meeting at which the two receivers, Gen. H. Haupt, R. Y. McAden, Esq., Col. J. B. Peck and perhaps others were present, was held in Col. Buford’s room at the Cen tral Hotel in this city, when all the dif ferences were adjusted, and an under standing ai rived at by which the road will be conducted as usual. Col. L. P. Grant, the former receiver of the Geor gia portion, and Col. Buford, always conducted their respective divisions har moniously, and it is to be hoped that the same amicable relations will exist in future between the new and old receiv ers.—[Charlotte Observer. Nearly all the horses in Columbus have the epizootic in a mild form. We see in the papers that the speediest way to cure the epizootic and make him thor oughly happy is to give him onions. In proof thereof, a Portsmouth horse is mentioned which had a severe attack of the disease and his owner placed a half dozen onions in the trough with his reg ular food. The horse tackled three of the onions immediately, and by the time he had swallowed them began to congh, sneeze and prance about, appearing quite indignant and refusing to touch the re maining onions. For full five minutes this continued, and there was a cured horse. He has not had a cough, sneeze or any symptom of the epizootic, but he did have the courage to eat the on ions remaining in the trough the next day after the cure. The result in Mississippi gives anoth er State to the Democrats if the next Presidential election should be thrown into the next House of Representatives. Twenty votes are required to elect in that body, and the Democrats, with Mis sissippi and Oregon—in the latter of which they have just elected a Congress man—have twenty-four, four more than is sufficient fo*’ a choice. This is grati fying, because it is by no means certain that the next election will not go to the House. The last Mississippi delegation stood five Republicans to one Democrat. It is now entirely Democratic, a change of eleven votes. This v/ill increase the Democratic majority in the House to eighty-three ®r eighty four—almost two to one. Pat Your Small Debts —One of the great evils of the times is the general omission and indifference of people to pay small debts, say from fifty eents to five and ten dollars, as if these sums were nothing to withhold from them they are due, whether printer, mechan ic, merchant or farmer. The mighty ocean and great rivers are formed by rain drops, as cents are the fractional part of dollars and millions. The larger number of dealings among men are in small debts, and are equally, if not of more importance than the liquidation of large sums to those whose means may be sufficient to afford indulgence. THE BO A- 00 N STRIOTOR. “Jolifl, undo his tail 1 There, ladies and gentleman, is the wonderful hoar constrictor, so called because he con structs many pleasing images with his serpentine form The constrictor is a long animal, as you will perceive, and is very long lived. He lives U hundred years or more if he don't die be/effehand. He is of the worm species, and worms himself along the ground with legs. He is capable of climbing high trees, in which he ift fond of concealing himself in the branches thereof, that he may im pose upon the benighted traveler or oth er beast whereby to satisfy his hunger. “He licks his vittals before be cats ’em, and then swallows 'em head first. The sea serpent is much larger, yet I think the constrictor could lick him, for he is full of pluck. Prick him, Jo n, and make him hiss. When he hiss es he is very angry, and cares very lit tle what becomes of him. This is be cause he is very weak minded and has a small head. He has however, a large belly, and when it is full he is very good natured. He has a very lovely skin, but ie very snlky and lazy, and he is so spiteful it is a mercy he can’t talk. I have took care of this mighty snake for three years, but he shows no gratitude, he is a glutton, and likes to stuff,him self and then go to sleep If John didn’t stir him—stir him again, John— he would never wake up except to his vittals. “I don't know as I ought to blame him though, because nature is always the same everywhere, 'vhether in Host ing or the rude valleys of Bengal. I have an uncle living in Bengal, and a brother who has never been there. My uncle tells me he has seen ten thousand boa-constrictors frolicking in the forest, anil eating each other up. My brother does not believe it, but then ho has not seen it. My uncle may be depended upon. He sold rum and sugar to the injens. He is the only one who ever gave liquor to the boa-constrictor. This is the one ho gave it to. He first got it tight, and then boxe 1 him up. The boa will never forgive him.” A Remarkable Professional Success.— Among the notable professional men of this country who have achieved extraor dinary success, is Dr It. V. Pierce, Buf falo, N. Y. The prominence which he has attained has been reached through strictly legitimate means, and, eo far, therefore, he deserves the enviable repu tation which he enjoys. His great suc cess is the result of a thorough and care ful preparation for his calling, and ex tensive reading during a long and unu sually large practice, which have enabled him to gain high commendation, even from his professional brethren. Devot ing his attention to certain specialties of the science he has so carefully investi gated, he has been rewarded in a re. edies’iu'efiCriberr bymfik’liave, it IS* saMt,’ been adopted and prescribed by physi cians in their private practice. His pam phlets and larger works have been re ceived as uneful contributions to medi cal knowledge. He has recently added another, and perhaps more important work, because of more general applica tion, to the list of his published writ ings. This book, entitled “The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser,” is de signed to enter into general circulation. Dr. Pierce has received acknowledg ments and honors from many sources, and especially scientific degrees from two of the first medical institutions in the land. Sam Smith, the driver of the Sonora and Milton stage, which was stopped by three highwaymen near Milton, Tuesday, the 12th ult., delivered the following el oquent address upon the occasion: — “Gentlemen, I have I een a driver, boy and man, going on twenty years. I nev er ditched a stage or growled at a pas senger, and, gentlemen, I assure you I have had some of the toughest outsid ers that ever left Boston for a week's chassez in Yosemite. I have met gen tlemen of your kind before, and I defy any of them to come forward and say that I ever treated them with contempt. On the other hand it has been my aim to act toward highway—excuse me, gen tlemen, I mean road agents—with that listinguished consideration due their standing in society. Hence, you will believe when I say that I have nothing for you this morning. Sorry, gentle men, but the truth of the matter is, Wells, Fargo & Co.’s boxes are young poorhouses on this rout® just now, and you couldn’t squeeze a picayune out of them to save your sweet necks from the gallows.” , Everlasting Fence Posts.— A corres pondent of the Western Rural says: “I discovered many years ago that wood could b® made to last longer than iron in the ground, but thought the pro cess so simple and inexpensive that it was not worth while making any stir about it. I would as soon have poplar, basswood or quaking ash as any other kind of timber, for fence posts I have taken out basswood posts after having been set seven years that were as sound when taken up as when they were first put in the ground. Time and weather seems to have no eff ct on them. The posts can be prepared for less than two cents apiece. For the benefit of others I will giv® you the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and stir it in pulverized char coal to the consistency of paint. Put a coat of over the timber, and there is not a man that will live to see it rotton.” Lord Truro, a British peer, has been robbed of jewelry to the value of £lO,- 000 It appears that the jewelry was packed up in a large wicker basket, cov ered with black patent leather, and ad dressed to him at the hotel d’Europe at Brusels. The basket was then placed in a cart which, driven by a trustworthy servant for a short time in the borough, and afterwards proceeded from London towards Woolwich by the old Kent road. On the driver nearing Woolwich he was startled on looking around to find that the basket with its centents had been ex tracted from the vehicle.
