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rpHE UNDERSIGFED HAVE THIS DAY
X entered into a partnership forthc practice
of law in the town of Elberton under the name
and st.) le of SHANNON & WORLEY.
Will practice wherever tmyloyed, and prom
ise prompt attention to all business entrusted to
them.
Thankful for the patronage bestowed upon
them in the past, they ask. a continuance of the
same.
JOHN P. SHANNON.
Jan'y 8, 1876-tf JOSEPH N. WORLEY.
J. S. IJARNETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELBERTON, GA.
JOSEN T. OSBORN,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
ELBEitTON, GA.
WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS
and Supreme Court. Prompt attention
to the collection of claims. nevl7.lv
X. GARTRELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ATLANTA, GA,
PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES CIR
cII it and District Courts at Atlanta, and
Supreme and Superior Courts of the State.
"elbertox i'lrsixr.ss cards.
J. A. WREN,
PHOTOQRAPHIS ARTIST
Has located fora short time at
DR. EDMUNDS’ GALLERY,
ELBERTON. GA.
WHERE he is prepared 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 iuviles
a test of his skill, with the guarantee that it lie
does not pass a critical inspection it need not be
taken. inch‘24.tf.
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T. J. BOWMAN & CO.,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
ELBERTOX GA.
WILL attend to the business of effecting
sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE
as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS.
Applications should be made to T. J.
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LOWEST PRICES!
CI-Oer PERSONAL ATTENTION TG
BUSINESS, and ah EXPERIENCE
OF 27 YEARS,
lie lio[)C'3 by honest and fair dealing to compete
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EEBEItrON’, GEORGIA.
iSTCaII and See Him.
T H EEL B E HT O N
DRUG STORE
H. C. EDMUNDS, Proprietor.
Has always on hand a full line of
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
Makes a specialty of
STATIONS’/
PERFUMERY
Anew assortment of
WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES
Plain and fancy- just received, including a sup
ply ot LEGAL CAP.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO
of all varieties, constantly on hand.
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mmmhi iaioi,
ELBERTON, GA.
Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK
anywhere in Elbert county [jel6 6m
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AUGUSTA GA
W H. EGBERTS,
CARPENTER & BUILDER
ELBERTON; GA.
T HAVE LOCATED IN ELBERTON WHERE
i I will be prepared to do all work in my line
as cheao as any good workman can afford. Con
tracts respectfully solicited.
Coffins Made <o Order.
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jNTew Series.
DUTY TO CHILDREN.
EY A 3IATEON.
Though marriage is the source of ma
ny arc! very great advantages and en
joyments, it is also productive of cares
an 1 anxieties. It would, indeed, be un
reasonable to expect the contrary; for
it has been ordained, for wise purposes,
that while every human ill has its at
tendant consolation, so every human
benefit has its greater or less attendant
evil. Children are among the greatest
and most desirable blessings produced
by marriage ; but if children be produc
five of pleasure, they also create duties,
anxieties and cares. Among all the du
ties of a wife, none are more imperative,
can be neglected with less impunity,
than her duty to her children This
dutv she owes not only to her children,
but to her husband, to herself, and to
society. The very brute creation, with
no other guide than instinct, are tender
to their young; and this is as observa
ble in the meekest and tamest of our
domestic animals. How shameful, then,
in woman, endowed v/ith reason and
tutored by Holy Writ, must be the neg
lect of duty which even savages do not
even fail to perform !
Rare indeed are the instances of wo
men being positively cruel to their off
spring ; and the very few instances
which do occur are witnessed on.y in
outcasts from decent society. But ia
morals, as in religion, there are sins of
omission as well as commission; and
though, as regards the improper treat
ment of children, the latter are rare in
deed among us, the former are of fre
quent, if not general, occurrence.
In the higher ranks of life especially,
it is unhappily a very common practice
to commit to hired substitutes that im
portant duty which nature ut once coin
mauds and enables tho mother to per
form—that of succoring her infant. For
this departure from nature none have
any apology ; least of all have they, who
though,, the almost exclusive votaries of
this practice, are, by fortune, released
from the necessity of toiling for a sub
sistence, and who consequently have
full leisure for supplying the wants and
superintending the care of their off
spring. Fashion has been called om dp
otent, and it would almost appear that
it is so, when we find it powerful enough
to stifle, in some of tho most gifted of
sex, the feelings of nature, and to in
duce them to expose, not only their off
spring, but them selves also, to the vaga
ries of careless hired aids. It is no
apology that, they do not them
selves perform tins duly, they provide a
substitute ; for if the calls of nature are
insufficient to induce them to nourish
their offspring and attend to its com
forts, how can they hope that merely pe
cuniary considerations will induce
strangers conscientiously, constantly,
carefully and affectionately, to do so '!
How can they wonder that strangers
are careless when they are themselves
unnatural? And what is the iuduce-
utertt to this neglect? Fashion, amuse
ments, ami company! Even mere indo
lence frequently leads to the partial
indifference to children’s wants by those
who would shrink from an actual nega ;
tiou of maternal care. Every suen
breach of duty is an injury to the bus
band as well as to his children. Re
member it is in early childhood that the
future man is formed ; any neglect, any
enormous treatment, is dangerous, and
may be even fated to him.
The National Hotel. —This favorite
travelers’ resort since its remodeling,
has resumed its position with the pub
lic, as one of the most popular hotels in
the city, and its steadily increasing
patronage gives ample evidence of the
ability of Messrs. Hewitt A Lee to
cater to the public. There is an air oi
neatness and coziness a amt the inter
ior of the place that makes its guests
feel like they were at home, while the
table is liberally supplied with the
choicest articles the market offords.
The bar under the management of the
veteran Pacette, is one of the best
patronized and managed institutions of
the kind in the city. The liquors,
wines, Ac., are of the best, and are
dispensed with grace and courtesy.
Tl.e billiard room is also well managed,
and is much resorted to by those who
in bilge in the ‘"ball and cue.”
We bespeak for the National a suc
cessful future.
[Atlanta Commonwealth.
Darwinianism. —At one of our West
ern hotels, recently, a young man hap
pened to be in the way of a “ Lit mug
New York drummer, sab,” who insolent
ly told him to “get out cf road.” The
N. Y D was dressed up in the very
latest, and, with Lis side whiskers,
muchly resembled a well-dresse l me nk
ey. The young man who was unfortu
nate enough to be in his lordship’s way,
was for a moment utterly at a loss for a
reply. He quickly reeow red himself,
however, and walking up to the N. Y.
D. he attentively examined him from
head to foot : then exclaimed to a pass
ing friend, “By Jove, Charley, I’ve read
of it, and heard of it. but I never expect
ed to see it myself ” “Seejwhat?” ask
ed his friend “Why, Darwin’s missing
link.” The drummer suddenly had busi
ness elsewhere.
A Nevada sheep man, who had tried
and succeeded with sheep, said: “Sheep
are better than a government bond.
You can tear off a coupon every six
months half as big as the bond, and
the bond is left as big as it was."
ELBERTOST, GEORGIA.* 9, 187*.
CHICKEN CROQUETTES.
Take the m*at from two well-boiled
chickens, rejecting all gristle and skin ;
chop it very fine. Take half a can of
mushrooms, using some liquor also; if
you have them, two or three good-sized
truffles are an addition ; a little paisley
and one very small onion—all to be
| chopped separately, very fine ; into a
i farina boiler put a quarter of a pound
of butter, with the chopped onion, to
! stew until so.t. Care must be taken not
to let the butter get brown. Take it
from the fire and add four tablespoon
fuls of flour, after it has been rubbed
perfectly smooth with some milk. Put
it on the fire again, and add a pint of
cream, or rich milk, the mushrooms and
parsley. Stew it until it makes a rich
cream sauce; then add a large table
spoonful of pepper, and the same of
grated nutmeg. Stir in the chickens,
and keep it on the fire, and stir quickly
in o it the beaten yellow of two eggs.—
Spread some stale bread crumbs
through a fine colander ; beat the whites
of the eggs with two whole eggs on a
large dinner plate ; take a small table
spoonful of the chicken, drop it into the
bread crumbs, and form it with bread
crumbs into any shape you fancy ; roll
it in the egg, and again into the bread
crumbs. With your largest iron cooking
spoon, or strainer, lay it gently in hot,
boiling lard to fry —the lard must be
deep enough for it to swim; as soon as
it gets to be a rich, golden brown color,
take it out. Some people add sherry
wine in making croquettes.
[Country Gentleman.
IE I COULD ONLY SEE MY MOTHER
“If I could only see my mother!”
Again and again was that yearning cry
repeated—“lf I could only see my moth
er !”
The vessel rocked and the waters,
chased by a fresh wind, played musical
ly against the sido of the ship. The
sailor, a second mate, quite youthful,
his limbs stiffening, his breath failing.
It was not pleasant to die thus in this
shaking, plunging ship ; but he seemed
not to mind his bodily comfort; his
eyes looked far away, and ever and anon
broke forth the grievous cry—‘“lf I
could only see my mother
An old sailor sat by, the Bible in his
hand, from which lie had been reading.
He bent above the young man, and ask
ed him why he was so anxious to see the
mother he had so wilfully left. . ... .-.y
.**Q! that i'j,. .oisOu, lie in
anguish ; “I’ve nearly broken her heart-,
anti I can’t die in peace. She was a
good mother to me—O ! so good a
mother; she bore everything from her
wild boy, and once she said, ‘My son,
when you come to die you will remem
ber this.’ O ! if I could only see my
mother I”
He never saw his mother. He died
with the yearning upon his lips, as ma
ny a one has died who slighted the
mother who loved him.
Boys, be good to your mothers.”
RUSSIAN HOUSES IS WINTER.
The windows are invariably double,
and the space between the sashes is cov
ered wish a layer of tine sand, designed
to absorb moist era and prevent the
frost from silvering the panes. Twist
ed horns of paper containing salt are
set in it and sometimes the sand is
concealed by a bed of moss. There are
no outside shutters or blinds, for they
would be useless, since the windows re
main closed all the winter, being care
fully filled m around the edges with a
kad of cement. Heavy cm tains of a
rich material still further deaden the ef
fect of the cold upon the glass, a sub
stance much mote permeable than is
generally believed. Open fi;e-places
are rare; when they do exist they are
used only in spring and autumn They
are closed and filled with flowers—
which are tru'y a Russian luxury. The
houses overflow with them—flowers re
ceive yon at the door and go with you
up the stairway ; Irish ivies festoon bal
ustrades ; jardiniere adorn landings on
every floor. In the embrasure of the
windows bananas spread out their silken
leaves ; talipot palms, magnolias, came
lias growing like trees, mingle their
blossoms with the gilded volutes of the
cornices ; orchids hover like butterflies
around lamp shades of crystal, porcelain
and cmiously wrought terra-cotta. —
From the horn-shaped vases of Japanese
porcelain or Bohemian glass, placed in
the centre of a table or at the corner of
a sideboard spring sheaves of superb
exotics. And all this floral splendor
thrives as in aho house. In the street
you are at the pok ; within doors you
might beiieve yourself in the tropics-
A young man in Chicago was recently
found dead in his bed, and the sup
position was that he had committed
siicide by poisoning; but upon an
alyzing the contents of his stomach
nothing but the following were found
in it ; Pickles, pound cake, lemonade,
I turkey, beer, fried oysters, cold punch,
ham sandwich, sponge cake, beef tea,
mince pie, champagne, looster, game
pie, fruit cake, tea, chicken salad, whis
key, coffee, bologna sausage, port,
cheese, sardines and sherry. The jury
returned a verdict of “Died through the
visitation of friends.”
A hunter of Brainerd, Minn., while
out in the woods recently, discharged
his gun to clear out the barrel, and un
known to him a fine buck happened to
be in range and was shot though the
heart.
A clerical individual approached an
aged Danbury farmer, who was profane
ly apostrophizing a log he could not
get upon his wagon, and impressively
sagl :
!‘old man, have you made any provis
ions for the future ?"
The old,man stared.
“Your hairs are whitened with the
fruits of lpaay years,” observed the
stronger, with a quiet flourish of his
hand, “Time pi asses upon you, can
doling you that the end is drawing
near. Of course, if you knew yon were
to at a certain time you could make
ample preparation. But the time is un
certain. Now ”
“X kin tend to my own affairs. I
gUf ss,' broke in the eide ly farmer, in
a tone “An’ when I
wait religion I ain't agoing to a call
“-tight!” interrupted the clerical par
ty, soothingly. “But what I wish is to
call: your attention to the plan of the
NomCombnatible Life Insurance Com
pany of ”
“A life insurance agent !” yelled the
oldgan, running madly around iu search
of a stone. “Get out of here, you
swindle !”
Tim stranger immediately stepped
over the nearest fence, and sealed eleven
hills iu less than an hour.
[Danbury News.
* A SAMPLE CASE.
Chapter I. — lt was New Year's morn
ing, He had been thinking deeply for a
day or two, and there was a riparian
look on his face as he sat down to, break
fast. He was unusually quiqt, though
be said he never felt bettey iu Ids life.
Chapter li.—-Rising from; the table
he drew forth his tobacco box, and said
to his* wife
“PiHnnab, I’m going to quit the
weed.”
“No!” ( *
“Yds, I am. I've been a slave to tho
disgusting habit for forty years; but
nowfm done with it! Come here, Han
liahjL ypy ,-v
Slii followed him to' tha dopr, and he
flung, the box far 'out into the back
yard i* .. •
GnAfamt lll.—Four days had passed?
Dried-pumpkin, cloves, spices, gum, and
dried beef had been cheyved in place of
fk>n,Won’t you t” asked the wife.
“I will or die ?" ho. replied.
Chapter Last.— Twas dark. Man
sneaked around the house—on his knees
on the grass —pawed around—fingers
clutched an object—lid flew open—
moved his right band to his mouth—
“Yura ! yum ! what a fool I was !”
Moral.—Don’t chew.—[Boston Post.
FUNNY INCIDENTS IN THE PULPIT.
At a clerical dinner party some time
ago, says Appleton’s Journal, the ques
tion "ent round to each as follows :
“Were you ever so placed in public in
performance of a service as to lose all
sense of the solemnity of the occasion
and be compelled to iangh in spite of
your more serious self? and the follow
ing are some of the replies that were
made: A very solemn clergyman and
bis assistant were disturbed in their
chancel by a miserable looking street
cat, which had coma in some un
known way and was rn king itself up
against their legs, me-o -ing piteously.
The rector beckoned to the assistant to
put the cat out, which he did, but in
a few moments she was back again. Up
on this the very solemn lector placed
the poor creature under one of the heavy
box steels in the chancel, and, placing
h.s foot on the improvised kennei, gave
out the hymn beginning : “A charge to
keep L have.”
The last experience mentioned was
that of a clergyman at his first baptism
of infants. lie was then very young in
years, and had never before held a baby
that he could remember of, much less
hold a baby and a book in the presence
of a church full of people. The first in
fant given into his arms was a big,
squirming boy of thirteen months, who
immediately began to corkscrew his way
through clothes and wrappings. The
minister held on bravely, but in a few
moments the child's face disappeared in
the wraps and his dangling legs beneath
were worming their way to the floor.
Seized with the horrible impression that
the child was tunneling Lis way through
his clothes and would soon be on the
floor in a state of nature, he clutched
the clothes violently by the sash band,
and, straddling the child upon the
chancel rail, said to the mother. “If
you don’t hold that baby be will certain
ly be through his clothes and I shall
have nothing left but the dress to bap
tize. ”
“Isabel Marl Stephens,” yelled the
mother of a milliner apprentice from
this city, who went Sunday to visit her
parents in the country, what on airth
do you mean by coming out in broad
day light with your gown all kajum
muxed up in a heap belaud ye, and all
bound up in that way in front of ye?
And hain’t ye got no stockings all of
one color that ye haf to wear them
zebra colored things ? Thought ye was
gwine to be a milliner. Should think
ye’d married a barber, and was puttin’
up a sign board for him. Did I ever
think one of my girls would come to
this? And sho lifted up her voice and
wept, and would not be comforted.
Vol. I V.-jSTo. 41.
A girl with three arms is attracting
attention in Tescelo, near Jalapa, Mex
j ieo, and when that girl gets her two
i arms around her huuband’s neck she’ll
i still have one to flirt with the other fel
low across the street.
A Michigan paper says that a man
in Saginaw recently chopped of three of
i his Angers while splitting wood,
i There is scarcely a man in Michigan
j but will say that it served him right for
I meddling,with a woman’s work,
j “Can’t you square your bill to day ?”
j asked a bar tender in a Gaivestiou sa
! loon of a custom or; “I'd like lo clean
j eft’ the slate,” which hung in sight. “3”!1
! fix the slate,” the customer rejoined ;
i and be sent a bullet through it. The
| account is still unsettled.
[ A Bad Time. —An old miser, saying
| ho never felt so mean as lie did just
after his last fit ojf illness, was asked :
“Why so?” “Because,” replied he,
“thinking I was going to die, I paid
several bills, when if id waited I might
have kept the money nobody knows
how long.”
Bids for carrying mails closed Feb
ruary 2d for routes in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Florida, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and
Kentucky, and opened the 3d. Pre,
cautions are taken to render frauds
heretofore practised impossible.
“Maria,” obsered Mr. Holcomb, as he
was putting on his clothes, “there ain’t
no patch on them breeches yet.” “I
, can't fix it now no way ; I m too busy.”
‘“Well, give mo the patch, then, an’ I’ll
carry it ..around with me. I don’t want
people to think I can’t afford the
cloth.”
Out of a total population of thirty
millions of people in France, there arc
stated to be five hundred thousand
Protestants and forty nine thousand
Jews, half of the latter living in Paris.
The number of French an. n who have
made formal declaration that they do
not belong to any religion is about
eighty two thousand.
A young gentleman met a lady fjjend*
in the jjtreet, and* gecin>Vft roll ia he#
hauefsfahich Jjq ••roi^T||fpf;„H* .music,
nslmdk Slfc. jjSiut Jt lit cud
'curtlyresponded. Why
—-why—r■staihmered the youth, blush-
and 6* er whelmed With
confusion, “why, I have not touched a
.drop 16-day.’’ The young lady looked
him stralfiAin the face and jppeatejU
'*T iwp^pPPL'-e©n
she could finish he fled across the street,
and she was compelled to send him a
note the next morning explaining that
“You’ve been Drinking” was the title of
the piece of music she earied.
At .Plain views, Minn., Frank Hathaway
shot ard killed Nettie Slayton, because,
as is supposed, she would not return
his love. Hathaway then attempted to
kill himself with the same pistol, but
only succeeded in making an ugly
wound in his breast. He was taken to a
hotel and placed under guard.—About
midnight on Tuesday last some fifty
masked man drove up to the hotel and
proceeded at once to Hathaway’s room.
They pushed past the keeper, put out
lights, took the young man from the
room, and hanged him on a tree in the
back yard, and then drove away. All
was done quietly and in the space of
live minutes. There is as yet no clue
to the identity of the lynchers. It is
said they came from some distance -
How Morton was Horrified. —A Mis
sissippi planter ‘•topping at the Arling
ton House, Washington, was bragging
about the ver. superior quality of some
grapes he had raised on his premises.
Senator Morton was standin ; near at
the time, and caitiuliy putting in his
oar, obsei ved :
“May I take the liberty of asking, sir,
what kind of manure you use ?"
The Mississippian surveyed Lis ques
tioner for a few seconds, and then grave
ly' replied :
“Dead niggers.”
The horrified Senator fell back in
good order, hauled a little blank book
out of his coat pocket and promptly
made the following memoranda: “Speech
—Amnesty impossible—South uncon
quered—Democrat’ c barbarities—Mas
sacred of blacks—Deadj niggers—Ham
burg grapes.”
*<.!*,♦
AUTUMN.
This “Ode to Autumn” appeared in a
Western paper:
The grasshopper creaks in the leafy
gloom, And the bumble bee bumbleth
the livelong day. But where have they
gone with the bran new broom? And
what has been done with the buzz savv’s
play ?
Oh, it’s little he thinks of the cold
mince pie, and it’s little he seeks of the
raw ice cream ; For the dying year with
its tremulous sigh, Shall waken the lin
gering 1 on from its dream.
Oh, list! For the cricket, now far
and near, Shrillfully singeth his rounde
lay, And the negligent noodle bis noisy
cheer, And where the noodle bug eats
the hay.
Ob, the buzz saw so busily buzzes the
stick, And bumbling the bumble bee
bumbleth his tune, While the cricket
cricks crickitigly down at the creek,
And the noodle calls noisily out, “It is
noon!”
The dog fennel sighs, “She is hero!"
she is here!” And the srnartweed says
dreamily, “Give ns a rest!” The hop
vine speaks tenderly, “Give us a beer !”
And the j ini son weed hollers, “Oh, pull
down your vest!”
HIS OBITUARY.
It was a very sad wot -an that came
into our sanctum the other day. Not
too fine a point upon it, she wept. “I
am Mrs. Briggs,” she murmured, sadly.
The sub-editor said he was glad to know
ic, and inquired after tho health of Mr.
Briggs. “You don't seem to keep tho
run of our eminent citizens much, she
said, with some asperity; “for, yon
know, he died last Friday." The sub
stammered out that ho had indeed over
looked it. “That’s just it,” said ti c
grief-stricken one. “I want an obituary
rit on to him, something strong, you
know.” “Ah ! precisely,” said tho sub
editor ; “I will just take down th
points. He was public-spirited, of
course?” “Certainly,” sighed the wid
ow. “Respected, influential, high-t: n
ed?” “Way up,” sobbed the relict.—
“Fine feelings, self-made, rich ?” “W.d,
no, said the mourner, “ho would h- o
been rich? His partner was just elect
ed supervisor, but he didn’t w.o for
the first day even. Ho fade-1 :
faded away.” “All right, mad: i, ■.*/■
will get up a notice that will make ;
tho other bereaved families in yout r>
of the town howl with envy.” ‘ O-i - .a
front page, mind,” she r-.ighed “Just
so, ma'am. It will bo SB.” “Ei„ - dcl
lars for an obituary, \v;ih eug> (fi
cents?” “But reflect, that yon will hm.
an article that will malts Andre, j-v -,tvt-
sun and Henry Wilson turn over in teem
graves ” “Eight dollars—and Johnrv’a
shoes will be sl, and Jane’s pull Lack
well, mister, I guess the old man will
have to slide through on his o-vu uv?r
its. The regular four-bit send off v
about do, I guess,” and depositing that
coin on the desk she sobbed LerutU
down stairs.
[San Francisco News Letter.
■ - ♦<“>♦
A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.
Mr. Moses Fogm a wealthy fanner,
lives a mile from Gorham Village, ale.
He is a widower, and his housekeeper is
a Mrs. Jewett. The other forenoon a
knock was hoard at tho front door, and
on opening it Mrs Jewifct who was alone
in tho house, saw a tramp standing
there. Ho asked to see the mistress of
the house. She replied she was tho on
ly mistress at the time. Tho man then
inquired for the gentleman of tho house,
and was told he was down in the field.
He appeared very anxious t 5 s?e Inin,
and wanted Mrs. Jewett to go down
and call him. She refused, and told
tho fellow sho could not talk to him any
longer, and elmt tho door in his face.
While the lady was talking she thought
she heard someone up stairs, so she
went directly to her roouvnnd Jaldjig. 4-
pistol, stoppedfijjfo
where sure sho was confronted
.by ft large, uglv looking maft who wi
endeavoring to secrete himself in a clos
et. With the utmost coolness Mrß.
Jewett aimed the pistol at him and re
queftea hit© to depart. Ha* Am tii-ruA
at first, when the lady , -
road ' Tnema?r "8!i ' fno Front door had
also disappeared.
♦
THE STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
At the meeting of the State Executive
Committee recently held in Atlanta,
General A. R. Rawton, of Chatham, was
chosen to fill the vacancy existing in the
National Executive Committee. The
following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That a, committee of Con
gressional Districts be called by tho
Executive Committee of each Disrict
on Wednesday, the 26tlr day of April,
at such places as each District Com
mittee shall select, to nominate two
delegates and alternates each to the
National Democratic Conventions ar/1,
to nominate four names as dele
gates at 1 .rge ; and if the said District
Conventions shall fail to agree in the
selection of the same four delegates at
large, they shall empower the State Do
mocratio Executive Committee to select
from the names nominated four delegates
for the State at large from all the nae
designated.
It was moved and carried that the
Chairman cull a meeting of the commit
tee the week after the assemblage of the
National Democratic Convention to ar
range for a State Convention to elect
Presidential Electors and nominate a
andidate for Governor.
THE DEATH KISS.
Woman’s love ! Is thore anything like
it ? A Canadian’s wife has just died in
Raleigh, and he has taken her to Canada,
to bury her under the native sod. She
died in a land of strangers, bub lift be
hind her the name of a beloved wife. It
was love in death. He saw her sinking
fast; lie knew it was consumption. Ho
nursed her like a child, the strong man,
ar.d there they were in the room togeth
er the night she died. She wanted to
see out, to gaze out once more at tho
world outside, but ho entreated her
against it, and told her that to take her
up would make her worse, but she told
him that she was dying anyway, and he
lifted her tenderly in his arms and
walked with her about the room, holding
her to his breast and showing her this
object and that, pointing out every
pleasant thing, and sho kissed him with
every breath till the last breath was
gone, and tho kiss died cold on his cheek.
Woman’s love ! When God made man
He put all heaven in woman’s love ! and
told him to win it and be worthy of it.
A special dispatch to the New York,
Herald from Rome says the cremation
of the remains of the lata Chevalier
Rossi was conducted publicly m the
Monumental Cemetery at Milan on Suc
! day. Editorially referring to this case
i of cremation the Herald says thearrange
inents for this purpose in Milan were
very complete. Tho corpso was placed
in a chamber in which one hunchedjgas
jets combined to raise a temperature of
one thousand degrees, and incineration
was neatly and thorongly done in au
hour, a more pinch of delicate dust re
maining
