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Newspaper Page TextVUOU VOLl'KE XLHi] MI L L EDGE YILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE 17, 1874U NUMBER 47. THE anion & lUmbtr, 18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., BY Boughton, Barnes & Moore, At $2 ia Advance, er $3 at ead ef the year S. N. BOUGHTOXV, Editor. the “FEDERAL UNION” nod the “SOUTH j- HN KECOKDER" were cooeolidnted Augsst 1*1, is:-' the Union beiug in its Forty-Third Volume and the Uecorder in it’s Fifty-Third Volume. Traxsii advertising. T.—One D«»Uar pur square of ten line* for first iuser- f„fcy-five cents for each »ubs« qucnt coutiuuaur*. ■count ou these rates will be allowed ou advertise- lion LilxrJ >1 runtime thrw mouth., or lonp-r. r h te* ol Rc«pef*t, Resolutions by Societies, Obituaries sx jin* si* lino*. Nominations for office and Comm uni catioui (or iSvWu* 1 bom-fit, . hurged u Iraunient adv«ti.lu|. AW’Ibi legal advertising. i p,-r levy of ten lines, or less,... *u**-ti fa sales, per square, Letters of Administration, Guardianship,. Le Nwtir. from Administration,. “ Guardianship,... • to sell Laud, •steads, i Creditors, p.-r square,... 10 days, per square,... rc of Mortgage, per square, each tuna . 5 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 On 5 00 2 00 3 00 3 00 1 75 3 00 1 00 BALDWIN COUNTY. Beef Contract. Georgia State Lunatic Asylum, „ , Ornca Steward,; Nta.r Mtlledgerillo, Oa., 3.1 June, 1874. < C tO.alrd Propo.nl. will be received at this office until thu ‘.Oth day ef June next at 12 o’clock, M , to fttruisk thu Institution with from 350 to 450 IS. CO«D NEKCBANTABLK BLEF each day, at meb time of day as may be required, in equal proportion of fore and hind quartern. The delivery to commence on thefiist day of July, 1874, and con tinue until the first day of January, 1875. The money to be paid for tlia same monthly. Didder* to give bond and security to comply with contract The right reserved to reject any and all blue. Bids should be marked to “furnish beet " and aduier-sed tw the un dersigned. ERASMUS D. BROWN, ™ **] Steward State Lunatic Asjlum. Baldwin Sheriff's Sales. YV ILL be sold at the legal place for holding Sber- vv itT* sales, in Baldwin County, before Masonic- Hall, in Milledgeville, on the First l ues lay in JULY next, within the lawful hours of sale, the tollowing property to wit: Two hundred ami fifty acres of land more or less, adjoining lands of Joseph H. Tucker, Mary Crombs, James Osborne and others. Sold as the property of Mis Harriett Ho.wley to satisfy one Superior Conrt fi fa in favor of Tinsley A. Nichols. Property pointed out by defeudaut and notice given in person. O. ARNOLD, Deputy Sheriff. June 1st, 1874. 45 tds. « for H e to Ueliton of 1,mid. In' , P* ptri.liubie po'Pi'i y.trs- Sotiee., '*• «lnj Forse LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. e I Ili- . bv Administrator., Executor* or Guar- , ‘ r .. u „i r ', ,i by law to tie held on the fimt Tue»d.y In tlie diau*. are a h^, 10U r« of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the af-, . at tlie Court Hou.e in the county in which the property | U r.O K( 11A, Baldwin County. .. .,tuat.si. * iTO1 “ * PUbU ‘ ALL PERSONS INDEBTED to the estate of property n»u«t be given in I •**• Je**e U or tun, late of said county deceased, are kVuunnrr i« *'ay* previous to »ale day. requested to make payment, aud those having de- ' N’.itit t* totht debtor* aud creditor* of *u estate must be pub- maud* against said estate are requested to present h.h-.l W d *j‘ the Court of Ordinary I tliem m e> term* ol the law. .... -.1 o ‘ T r ' ‘ ’’.Atxi'.tt, ( ETON, \ Ex’rs. May 18th, 1874 . 43 6t. Sutl. • that application will be made to t I to *♦*!• L« ,ii**iou from Guardianship 4" I iti must !>'• published for oa® month. ■ ...... l ei Tf*r« of’AdmiuUtmtion, Ouardiaaahip, Itc., 1 publish ->1 3*' day*— for disraiasion from Admhiiatratiou “HutUy three mouth*—for d f,r foreclosure of Mortgage nuut f >r four mouths—tor eulabliuhuift lout papei *ur«*? mouths—for compelling tith> istrators, whe^boudbas been giv will always bo contiuned according to these, * 8 otherwise ordered. Notice to Debtors aud Creditors. from •a by the decetwd, the full ill always the 1.J.1 requirement., uni. Book and Job Work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED at this office. -\7ST'. J- o O buggy atou WAGON SHOP, Corner of Hancock ,V Wilkinson streets, 1st door west of liruoks & Ellison’s Store. 4 LL work left in my charge will be done promptly A and of good material. I have employed Mr. M. A. Collins, who has many veer, experience and is well known in this and the surrounding counties. Any bargaiu or trade ha may make will be satislactory with me. Ail kind* of country produce will l>e taken for work if desired. Give rae » call, I will satisfy in work and Terms cash. _ IN J. W)X. ttCffi&SSS GEOliGIl, Baldwin County. Executor, or Admin- | SUPERIOR COURT, > F'ebruary Adi'iurnedTenn, 1874. J Present and presiding Hon. E. IT. Pottle, Judge of the Northern Circuit. MATTIE BUCE j> Libel fur Divorce- joh/buce, 5 kule ,0 1>erfect Servi I T appearing to the Court by tlie return of the Sheriff that the Defendant does not reside in the county of Baldwin, and it further appearing that lie does not re side in this State, it is, on motion of counsel. Ordered Hint said Defendant appear and answer at the next term of this Court, else the case tie considered in de- ' inlt ami the Plaintiff allowed to proceed, And it is further ordered that this Rule be published in the “Union.Jt Recorder” for forty days previous I to the next term of this Conrt, by the Clerk. SANFORD & FURMAN, Pl’ffs Att’y. A true extract from the Minutes WALTER PAINE, Clerk. April 6, 1874 . 38 40ds Tobacco! Tobacco! Tobacco! BOXES TOBACCO FOR SALE CHEAI t FOR CASH. Fanners and merchants will do well to call and examine my stock before purclias ing elsewhere. I also keep on hand a full stock ot FAMILY GROCERIES AND R*S SUPPLIES. cheap f« lsi Dour North of jliller’a Jewelry Store. SAMUEL EVANS Milledgeville,Ga., Jan. 28, 1874 . 27 ly CRESCENT SPECTACLES. Improve your sight. (Irak* aiakk-I ri'IIE CRESCENT SPECTACLES now offered to A the Public are guaranteed superior to all others in the market. For clearness and distinctness of vision they are unrivaled, the total absence of prismatic colors and refractory rays always found in Pebbles renders them especially desirable. Being ground with great care, they are free irom all imperfections and im purities. They are mouuted in Gold, Silver, Shell Rubber end Steel frames and will last many years without change. For sale only by oar Agents. JAMES SUPPLE. Jeweler and Optician, is Sole Agent for Mil ledgeville, Ga. 14^None genuine without the trade-maik stamped on every pair. Manufactured by Fellows, Holmes A Clapp, New Yolk Look for Trade Mark. March 10th, 1874. No peddlers Employed, 33 ty. TOBACCO "warehouse M. J. BAER & CO., Commiiiion Merchants & Dealeri Virgiuia Plug Tabaoco, North Carolina Leaf and Smoking Tobacco, Imported and Domestic Cigars, and Pipes, Prices guaranteed. 71 Cherry St, Macon Ga. pd m eli-il 3fi 3m pi ice Milledgeville, Ga., March 1C, 1874. Look ! Look! W. J- GRAY, Carriage, House, Siga sad Or«aa»ea*a PAINTER. Marbling. Frosting, Graining, Ac. Paper Hanging. Varnishing, Furniture. Also, Carriage Trimming. All orders promptly executed and satisfaction giren. py Cail at Gardner's Old Stand. Milledgeville, Ga.. Feb. 13, 1874. 30 ly UE0K4.IA, Baldwin County. SUPERIOR COURT, ) February Adjourned Term, 1874. j Present and presiding lion. E 11. Pottle, Judge ot the Northern Cncuit. EMMA GILMER 4 Libel for Divorce. GEORGE U* GILMER. ) ltule to PerfeCt Servlcu - I T appearing to the Court by the return of the Sher iff that the Defendant does not reside in tlie county | of Baldwin, and it luither appearing that lie does not reside in this State, it is, ou motion of counsel. Order ed that said Defendant appear and anew . r at the next term ot this Court, else the case be considered in de- | fault and the Plaintiff allowed to proceed. And it is farther ordered that tins Raie be published in the “Union dt Recorder” for forty days previous to the next term of this Court, bv the Clerk T. W. WHITE, PlffsAtty. A true extract from the Minutes. WALTER PAINE, Cleik April 6,1874. 38 40ds SANFORD & FURMAN, 250,000 Brick for Sale! attorneys at law, MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. Office at the State House. April 0, 187 4 . 37 D WASHINGTON HALL. T HE nudersigned lias just finished burning a kiln of 250.000 Brick, of the best quality, which he is I uow offering for sale. Orders left at the store of T. A. Caraker, or with Ime at tlie Brick Yard will receive prompt attention. DANIEL CARAKER. MiBedgeville, Ga.. Mar. 4th, 1871. 32 Gin police to Debtors and Creditors. | GEORGIA, Baldwin County. A LL persons indebted to the estate of Ezekiel Trice, late of said county, deceased, are request- led to make payment at once, and all persons having demands against said estate, will present them to ms ; in terms of the law. L. A TRICE, Ex’rx. April 20, 1874. 33 40d« DE4TH 0B aiKBIlUE. TOBACCO at WHOLESALE. Lonrst Market Rates tuaraalted. tc I Court of Ordinary of said County. May Term 1874. GROCERIES AND Pf^PYIpjPjy WTHEREAS, L. N. Callaway, Administrator ol 1J ilil J JJ ' J J ' J J ! /I JJ J J I yy John Callaway, late of said county deceased, has filed his petition for letters of dismission, stating Cheap for Cash. J. P. SWEANY. Milledgeville, Ga., March 31, 1874. 3f> ly l’LANTERS 1 SUPPLIES And a Genera! Assortment of always on hand i pel that he baa fully administered John Callaway's estate These are therefoie, to cite all persons concerned kindred and creditors, to show cause on or before the first Monday in August, next, why said Administrator should not be discharged from his administration, and receive letters of dismission, on the first Monday in | August, 1874. Wituessmy hand and tflicial signature this May the 4th, 1874. ^ .. 41 3m.) DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary. WRAPPING PAPER F«r Sale at the News Depet. W. H. ROBERTS, Agt dFTtNTIRPRISE The only -iv*liab!e Gift Distribution in the conntry #100,000 00 IN VALUABLE GIFTS ! To be Distributed in L. D. SINE’S 44th Semi Annual GIFT ENTERPRISE To b© Drawn Saturday, July 4th, 1874. ONE GRAND CAPITAL PRIZE OF $10,000, IN GOLD ! One Prize $5,000 in Silver! Five prizes of $1,000 each in Greenbacks! Five Prizes $500 each in Greenbacks! Ten Prizes $100 each in Greenbacks! Two Family Carriages and Matched Horses with Silver-Mounted Harness, worth $1,500 each! Two Buggies, Horses, &c., worth $000 each '. Two Fiue-toned Rosewood Pianos, worth $550 each Ten Family Sewing Machines, worth $100 each! 1500 Gold and Silver Lever Hunting Watches (il a<l) worth from $20 io $300 each ! Gold Chains, Silver-ware, Jewelry, &.c &c Number ot Gifts 10,000' Tickets limited to .81,000. Agents Waslr. M sell Tickets, la wham Literal Preaslaats will Me P Single Tickets $2; Six Tickets *10; Twelve Tickets $20; Twenty-Five $40. Circulars containing a full list of prizes, a descrip tionof the manner of drawing, and otfier mtunnaUou ia reference to the Distribution, will be sent to any one ordering them. All letters must be addressed to ft. » Biani, Box 86, Main office. ) CINCINNATI, O. 1*|W FifikSl! Jane 2, 1874. 10 D ; ‘It must be some AUSTIN’ Aluminous Sulphated, S CHALYBEATE SPRINGS jr. F. i A TI FITTT iP’ BANKRUPT-RELIEF. Opposite Passenger Depot, beacon oa. March 31,1874. LANIER HOUSE. S URE SAFETY for distressed Debtors, and their exposed families is to be found nowhere but in the United States Bankrupt Court. Why five m hope ms bondage ? Th* law invites you to be free, and start life again with hope; at least to save a home forever,| pd36 3m I for your families. „ ... I practice in the Attorney. Milledgeville, March 25,1874. 35 B. UI'B, PrwMrtetwr. Macoa, Georgia. I Mulberry Street, The above named Hotel l.aa boei. refar wished and fitted np for the w<x>.nmo<iatton of Iran vient as well as permanent Boarders. Persona find it to their interest to stop at thui IIoo “» “ central location makes it a very desirable plye for merchants and families coming to thero.ty for btumeaa,. ^ A «r lor a sojourn ot pleasure. An ELEGANT HAM I ” y . TEA. A6BNIB WANTED TEA AGENTS wanted in town and country to sell TEA or get np club orders, for the largest Tea Com- T-kirukrt.-r.’ pi iees aud inducements LL L cool ^Tuthero people will find a hearty welcome- They are situated 5 miles north of Juhosoil’s Depot E T \ and Ga R R-, in a beautiful grove on a bluff 150 feet blah overlooking thecryetal waters of Watauga River. As a resort tot tubing and sporting, it is unsurpassed, pleasure boats. Ten Pin Alley. and a vanety ot amuse ments free to gueets. Every effort will be made by the Proprietor* to furnish their visitors such luxuues as can De excelled by none. Medicinal qua'tties of the water are a* g-od as any in tbe State, as will be seen from tbe analysis by Alpbeus Dove. M. D.: ANALYSIS. ONE GALLON OF WATER CONTAINS »«>»" *« l “,^f °la2S3i■^*1 -j« the season, from first markets, and ca urpasse 1°*“ *, Toaa WxrxLT Tribuxz, of Sept, ad, »T* : “ AU I Sulphate of Magnesia 1 ' 1 8 tyt --rr first markets, and can by none in the South- , .v. I-Uruiiw’ .koutd write Robe. Wells [or circular.” ..I Omnibus to convey passergers to and from the | fc, T sr, of Sept, iu, tsy* ' | Hotel and all trains, free of cb * r «» 0B p^pHetor April 18. 1872. AT WILSON’S, Washington Hall! Headquarters for the justly celebrated manures, WHANN S RAW BONE ana BAHAMA Guanos—unsurpassed by any Fertilizers ever offered to the public. i Tlie Isaacs House Cherry Street, - Maeon, Ga. H AVING some of the finest rooms in the city. 'V itb mYauVZ tables D Hole-$3 W> per day, or 17o cents to $1 00 for room, and “ rder - rates by the week, aud every effort made to give | ! “ d ,0 ,r* AC’W. Preprifler. c J. MACLELLAN, Clerk April 21,1874 Tend to Sulphate “ Lime Soda........ Iron........ Carbonate Iron of Lime J 4 80 gr .2.40 gr ti.40 gr 12.80 gr 30 gr 1L 0 gr ..2.00 gr ...80 gr 39 ly Oxide of Atlumina Chloride of Sodium Iodntine a trace. ....4.00 gr Daily hack wdl run to and from Johnscn’s Depot.- “S Km** C Hd< Johnson City, E. Tcdd. May 5 *1874. 41 3m Ttilizers ever offered to the public. . amtlT A PITCItITU QIIHP I also keep a full supply of Gr< ^^ t IT T\ n I? X A* R A T i NEW DLALIxOill 11U uHUI. d Provisions, which I sell cheap. FINE I ^ U 1/ U ti 1’ **' Di» I THE under- and TOBACCO a specialty. C. G. WILSON. March 3d, 1874. 32 3m | BININOBA’B OLD LONDON DOCK GIN. Especially designed for the use of Ibe Medicol nd •JO HOUSE, •atahkam, For anything and everything in the Mus.cal Line, and! your order wid be promptly and satisfactorily fi led boU, M toprice and q«Hty. Wo deal only in uwl Mneioal Instruments, and can compete with any teuton, and the family. uoanetwiuK A Dnr , I . fT ttfl medicinal properties which belong to an I hwlitullh# U# ** PIANOS! Complaintsr A delicmns tonic. Put taming on© dozen bottles each, aud sold bjriu A. M. Bininger It Co., eotab rut Lh, t sod grocers, itc uhed 1778, No. 15 Beaver st, N. Y. rune* from five of the op12 74 ly | boat Bakers ia tbe United mates, and of • v ® r }'* rlT-L-. Elegant Pianos Mdprioa- Elegnnt ■ *ha bee. - money. Two Cottage Color I from $25 to ORGANS! THE under signed has put up a BI a ck smith 81iop on ths corner of Hancock and Wilkinson streets, opposite the old Court House Square, where he is prepared to do ALL KIND OF WORK IN IRON in the best manner. Sfteeinl wtttMlioo given to farm and plantation work. Patronage eollctted ^ m cb «bvrij MtlladgrWiB*, Jana 9. 1874. 45 tf • 1.00 to 8I.W per bkklish; b**f rA«wT, Mason & Hamlin Organs lor Cbarches, School# and Parlor. Filty styles, from $55 to $760 each. 8otd at Factory prices for cash or on monthly payments. Churches, Bnliiw »*d , Teachers liberally dealt ot ■«*^ u T!™^ U Iro’^nested to stop said With. A full hneot West ^waack.^ P # ^ » i3 reward ltber SSfRAYEDGR STOLEN F ROM ur PLANTATION near Linton, hsHanoock county, on the 30th of May last one dark mease colored mare mu e. I n: ft **'!* Jane 10th, 1874. 4fi 2t. I ^ m ' U j eh M.''lilTCHCOCK. GROUND IN OIL 50o per g»L I ..... BV8W—8BSH; N*K8. »■« **" “55— ZmsBiSfssss&rk ..». v-t --w ar Kfa a. ~t >'«“■ *■ Catolognee free. I SPECIAL AESCWCEHEST, 8*TE»T PETBOIiBUB U8088* Works in all Paints as Boiled Linseed only 50c par gal. MAcnnmT orwMr~ *• G. KELLEY’S PATENT SPERM OIL, $!-«' ENGINE OIL, .... FILTERED ROCK LUBRICATING OIL, • - fiend for card of colors and circulars. NEW YORK CITY OIL CO., Sole Agents, 116 Maiden Lane, New York. March 31, 1874.36 6m tea J** received and for sale cheap at the Sow* IMfA Beet Mixed, Oolong and H. REID, SlugcMi A l«8fcoie8l Deitist, o»t • rsu? Camber's Mare. A a work guar- MtRad*ev«a, Jahe 9, 9,1874. 46 Im BUCK AK» LIKE, •SSiS'Ba aoxiD! LDDDEN & BATES, J Savannah, Ga. pfsmh 31,1W4. T. A. CARAKER. 36 3m A t WFilCsale nw »tW»e State of Milledgeville, ©*-. 5^1874. A nice assortment of light Groceries constantly on handnt the Mews Depot 41 tf. The ancient clock in Deacon Shermer f old fashioned kitehen was slowly chiming tlie hour of nine. It was no smart toy. no trifle of the bronze or alabaster, but s tall, square solid relic of the last century, looking not unlike a coffin case set on end in the comer—a clock that lasteo through four generations, and judging from appearance, was quite likely to last through several more. Deacon Shermer cherished the old heirloom with a sort of pride which he himself would have scarce ly confessed to. There was a great ruddy fire of chest nut logs in the red brick fire-place; and the candles in the brightly polished brass sticks were winking merrily from the high wooden mantle, where they shared the post of honor with a curious sea shell and a couple of vases, each containing a fresh osage orange from the hedge that skirted the clover field behind the bam. At the window a curtain of gaudy chintz shut out the tens of thousands of stars that were shining brightly on that autum nal night, and on the cozy rug of parti colored rags a fat tortoishell cat was not the only inhabitant of the farmhouse kitchen. ‘•Timothy” said Mary Shermer, decid edly, “if you don’t behave yourself, I’ll—” What she would do Mary did not say; the sentence was terminated by a laugh that set the dimples ar ound her mouth in motion, just as a beam of June sunN shine plays across a cluster of ripe ehej> ties. Mary Shermer was just seventeen—a plump, rosy girl, with jet black hair, brushed back from a low forehead, and perfectly arched eyebrows, that gave a bewitching expression of surprise to a pair of melting hazel eyes. ishe was rather dark; but the severest critic would not have found fault with the peach-like bloom upon her cheeks, and tlie dewy red of her full, daintily-curved lips. Evis dc-ntly Mr. Timothy Marshall was quite satisfied with Mary's peculiar - style of beauty. “Come, Mary!" said Tim, moving his chair w here he could best watch the flush of the fire light upon her face, and pick ing up the thread of the conversation where he had dropped it when it became necessary for Mary to bid him behave himself—you might promise. Its nine o’clock, and your father will soon be home. Promise what. Tim ! said Mary de- mnrely, fitting a square of red in her patch‘work, and intently observing the effect “Nonsense. Mary? You know what very well. Promise to marry me before Christ mas ! I tell you what Mary, it’s all very well for you to keep putting a fellow off, but I can’t stand it. What with your father’s forbidding me the house, and that romantic Tom Stanley’s coming here every Sunday night Mary gave her pretty head a toss. As if Mr. Stanley’s coming here made any difference in my feelings, Tim ! “No; but, Mary, it isn't pleasant, you know. I’m as good a man as Tom Stan ley, if I don’t own railroad shares and keep an account at the Hamiltonsville bank; and I love you, Mary, from the bottom of my heart! Now, this matter lies between you and me only; no other person in the world has a right to interfere between us. Come—promise me !” He held both her hands in his and looked earnestly in- the liquid, hazel eyes. “Do you love me, Mary f “You know I love you, Tim. “Then we may just as well—hush, what's that?” There was a portentious sound of drawing bolts and rattling latches in the porch-room beyond—a scraping of heavy boots along the floor. “Oh, Tim, it’s father!” “Suppose it is V “But he musn’t find you here, Tim ! Hide yourself somewhere, do!” “What nonsense, Mary! said the young man. resolutely standing his ground. I haven’t come hero to steel his spoons. Why should I creep away like a detected burglar ?’’ For my sake, Tim. If you ever loved me, do as I say! Not iu that closet; it is close to his bed-room, not through that window; it is nailed tight. He is coming! Here, Tim, quick! And in the drawing of a breath, she had pushed Timothy Marshall into the square pendulum case of the tall old clock, and turned the key upon him. It was not a pleasant place of refuge, inas much as his shoulders were squeezed on either side, and his head flattened against springs and wheels above, and the air was unpleasantly close; but Tim made the best of matters, and shook with sup pressed laughter in his solitary prison cell. Well! a joily scrape to be in, were Tim's thoughts, and no knowing when Til be out of it. Mary’s, a shrewd little puss, however, and I can't do better than to leave matters in her hands. “So you haven't gone to bed yet, Ma ry?” said Deacon Shermer, slowly un winding tlie two yards of woolen scarf with wliich he generally encased his throat of an evening. “Not vet, father,” said Mary, picking up the scattered bits of patchwork with a glowing check. “Did you have a pleas ant meeting?” “Well, yes,” quoth the deacon, reflec tively, sitting down before the fire, great ly to Mary 's consternation—she had hoped he would” have gone to bed at once, ac cording to his usual custom—it was tol’- blv pleasant. Elder Huskier was there and Elder Hopkins, and—well all the chinch folks, pretty much. Why, how red your cheeks are Mary ! Tired am t you’—Well, you needn’t sit up .for me, my dear; it must be getting late.” The deacon glanced mechanically round at the clock. Maiy felt the Wood grow cold in her veins. Twenty minutes pas’ nine—why, it must be later than that Why, land o’ Canaan! the old clock’s stop ped! The old dock had stopped; nor was it wonderful under the circumstances I wound it up this morning’, I’m sartin. said the deacon, very much disturbed. It never served me such a trick afore, all the years it stood there. Your Aunt Jane used to say it was a sign of a death or marriage in the family before the year was There was a suppressed sound like chuckle behind th* dock case as Deacon Shermer fumbled on the shelf, for the dock-key. • “These 6pnngs must be out of order somehow," said the deacon derisively. “How scared you look, child! There ain’ no cause of being scared. I don t put no faith in your aunt Jane’s old-time super station. Where in the name of all possess ed is that key? I could ha’ declared I left it in the case.” Isn’t it on the shelf, father?” asked Mary, guiltily, conscious that it was snug ly reposing in the pocket of her checked gingham dress. “No, nor ’taint in my pocket, neither. And down went the deacon, stiffly enough on his knees, to examine the floor, lest, perchance the missing key might have fallen there. “Well, I never knowed anything so strange in all my life,” said the deacon. “It is strange," faltered hypocritical Mary. I “I’ll have a regular search to-morrow, said Deacon Shermer .vhere around.” “Yes, it must," said Mary, tremulously. “Only,” the deacon went on slowly, re suming his place before the fire, “I kind still a single night When I wake up. you know, it seems like a sort o’ talking to me in the stillness.” The deacon looked thoughtfully at the fiery back log. Mary fidgeted uneasily about the room straightening table-covers, setting back chairs, and thinking—oh! if he only would go to bed ! As he sat there, his eyelids began t<J grow heavy, and his head to nod solemn ly. Mary’s eyes lighted up with a sparkle of hope. “Child,” he said, suddenly straighten ing himself np in the stiff backed chair, •‘you’d better go to bed. I’ll sit up a while longer till the logs burn out." “But, father, I am not sleepy." “Go to bed, my child,' reiterated the deacon, with good humored authority that brooked no opposition; and Mary crept out of the room, ready to cry with anxiety and mortification. If Tim will only keep quiet a little while longer, she thought, sitting on the stairs where the newly-risen moon stream ed in chilly splendor. Father sleeps so soundly—and he is sure to sleep in his chair. I could steal in and release him as quietly as possible. She sat there, her plump fingers inter laced, and her eyes fixed dreamily on the floor, while all the time her eai'3 were strained to the utmost capacity to catch every sound in the kitchen boyomL Hark! was that the wail of the wind? or was it something to her literally nearer and dearer. Yes; she could not be mistaken it was actually a snore. Mary rose softly to her feet with re newed hope. Surely now was the accep ted time. Noiselessly as the fleeting shad ow she crossed the hall, opened the kitch en door, and stole across the decking boards of the floor. The candles were burned out, but the shifting lustre of the fire-light revealed her father nodding be fore the fire, with closed eyes and hands hanging by his sides. With a heart that beat quick and fast like the strokes of a miniature hammer, she drew the key from her pocket, and proceeded in spite of the nervous trem bling of her fingers, to fit it into the lock. So absorbed was she in her task that she never noticed the s udden cessation of heavy breathing—never saw the deacon start suddenly into wakefulness around him. Love is blind and equally true it is deaf. The deacon rose up quietly with a shrewd twinkle in his eyes, and Mary gave a little frightened shriek as a hand fell softly on her arm possessing itself quietly of the key. Let me help, said Deacon Shermer. Father, I—I found the key faltered Mary. Found the key, eh f returned the dda- con, well, that's lucky; and now we can find out what’s the matter with the clock. Mary’s heart throbbing so wildly a moment or two ago, seemed to stand absolutely still, as Deacon Shermer turned the key and opened the tall door of the clock-case. Hal—lo! ejaculated Deacon Shermer, as ND. Timothy Marshall tumbled laugh ingly into the room. So you was the matter with the old clock, eli ? Yes sir, said Tim composedly, I hope I have not seriously interfered with the working of it. “You have seriously interfered with me ?” said the deacon, waxing indignant. “What do you mean sir, by hiding in my house like a thief ?” “Indeed ! indeed ! father I" cried Mary, bursting into tears, “it was not his fault He did not want to hide, but I put him there.” “You did eh ? And may I ask what for ?” “Father,” faltered Mary, rather irrever ently, “I lovo him and he loves me." “Is that any reason why he should hide in the clock-case, Miss ?” No—but—father ! I can never marry Mr. Stanley. He is so soft, and I Mary’s tears finished tbe sentence for her. The deacon looked down (not AGASSIZ AND GOD. His Anti-Darwinism—His Simple Die ty —His Ignorance of Theology. 1 Agassiz was was profoundly ignorant of. or profoundly indifferent to. Dr. Hodge f theological system; the Princeton “scheme of salvation” he never studied; but touch him on the point whether God Almighty should be prayerfully recognized by the investigators of His works and he always flamed np in eloquent exposition of what he called the “Divine Ideas” on which the whole scheme of creation was planned. God, with him, was always imminent in the universe. The successor of Aristotle was an unconscious Platonist. “I don t care,” he seemed to say, “how many se parate centers there may have been of the creation of plants, animals, and the differ ent races of men; that is nothing to me as long as the plan existing in the Di vine mind was carried out; and as to any valid scheme of classification, I consider it not as a contrivance of the human in tellect to formulate its knowledge, but as a discovery—a means of interpreting the Divine plan of creation as it existed in the thoughts of God.' The doctrine of the mere physical connection of animated beings by the process of reproduction and gradual variation of species through millions of years, he recievjd with bursts of Homeric laughter; he said, as a geo logist and paleontologist, that the “miss ing links” were nowhere discoverable in the geological record; but his real contro versy with the evolutionist was in his sul .ordination of matter to spirit, fhe most exact of observers was An idealist. He did not believe the world was worth living in if its operations were not dir ected by the Lord of heaven and earth. His science was curiously blended with a quaint and natural piety. Of the puz zling theological questions relating to the fall of Adam, he knew nothing but he excelled most clergymen in being a dog matist on the being of God, and lie never undertook an original investigation into the realms of the unknown without in stinctively breathing a prayer for aid to the Father of Spirits- It is to be sup posed that this grand, genial, jovial na turalist whose mere presence in a com pany was, as Emerson said, “a festivity, will, in the end, have some justice done to the singular depth of liis simple piety. He held Darwinism iu a kind of horror, because he thought it would eventually lead to scientific atheism; and, thorough going scientist as he was he considered the unproved and, as he believed, dis proved theory to be eventually fatal, both to science and to religion. Most of his friends, scientific, theological, and liter ary, tried to convince him that Iris fears were imaginary and exaggerated. “Don t trouble yourself with Darwinism, but pursue your own course in y°G^ own way. THE UNTUTORED NEGRO N HI3 NATIVE WILDS. The whole of my experience in Central Africa says that the negroes, not yet spoiled by contact v, it.Ii the si velrade, ■ire distinguished for fiiendiu ess and sound sense. Some can be guilty of great wickedness, and seem to think lit lerbout it, others perform actions as imm.stahably good with no great selfeoir phicercy, and, if one catalogued all the good !eeds or all the bad ones ho canu across, le might think the men extremely goodor rxtremo- ly bad, instead of calling them, like our selves, curious compounds ol good and evil. In one point, they are remarkable-— they are honest. Even among the can nibal Manvuema a slave trader at Bam- baare and I had to send our goats and fowls up to the Manvuema village to prevent their being stolen by my friends own slaves. Another wide-spread trait of character is a trusting th position. The Central African trmes arc the antipodes to some of tlie North American Indians, and very unlike ninny of their own countrymen who have come into contact with Mohammedans and Portugese and Dutch Christians. They at cnce per ceive the superiority of the strangers in powers of mischief, and readily hstin tu and ponder over friendly advice. After the cruel massacre of Nyangne— vhich L unfortunately witnessed—fonrtce • eh.efs whose villages had been destroy d and many of them killed, fled to my he use and begged me to make peace for the • ;tii the Arabs, and then conic over o Lteir side of the river Lualaba, divide ticir country anew and point out where each should build a new village and ti itivata other plantations. The pottos was e sily made, for the Arabs lird had no * x visa for their senseless murders, an 1 each blamed the other for tlie guilt —Dr. Liv ingstone. Terrible Accident in St. Marys. Two affectionate ladies, both very well off, very refined and fasliionableChristians and wives of two very high-toned gentle men, chanced to meet ou the comer of the street the other day. But alas! as these dear creatures were in the act of greeting each other v.itli the usual kiss, a monstrous—-large—very large calf, called “Abe,” belonging to an excellent colored pusson in town, ran towards them, frightened to death by a collection of dogs in pursuit of him, and knocking down both ladies, the infuriated animal continued rushing through the town. The result of this unfortunate occurrence was—the complete snotshing of Mrs. F. s new teeth, just made and put in, ar. up per and lower set too, and the entire loss of Mrs. G.’s false curls.—Thus m that brief moment those new teeth and beauti ful curls were demolished by this wild We were once present at dinner, j Q f a belonging to one of our where Agassiz was the most conspicuous guest, and where his advice was given. The great naturalist twirled his napkin in his hand, paused, smiled benignantly to all his friends, listened somewhat ner vously to what they had to say, and an swered: “You don’t know what this new tendency of science will lead to. God will go out of the universe, as fast as Darwinism comes in. If the theory were demonstrated by facts, I would lie the first to sustain it; but I can’t give up God Almighty for an ingenious hypothesis when I know there are facts which con tradict the hypothesis. I am, first of all, a man of science; I follow whithersoever science leads, but I get enraged when I am voted an old fogy and a man behind the age because I decline to accept a theory which my generalized knowledge and my daily investigations forbid me even to tolerate.” We have sometimes thought that Agassiz would have lived twenty years longer had it not been for the mental irritation and fret excited in him by the seeming triumph of Darwin ism. There was something amusing in the glowing terms in which ho praised Darwin as a naturalist, who had added, by his original investigations, to the facts of botany and zoology, as contras ted with the relentlessness with which he assailed Darwin as a framer of theories. —K W. Whipple. * unkindly) on her bowed head, and the tender arm that supported it. Apparent ly the course of true love, roughly though it ran, was overwhelming all his own worldly-wise arrangements in its tide. And so you two young folks really think you love each other ? said the dea con, meditatively. I love her with all my heart and soul, said Tim Marshall earnestly. I am not rich, I know, but I can work for her. And I can work for myself too, father, interposed Mary, with tears in her eyes that shone like softened star's. And you said yourself, sir, went on Tim, that the stopping of the clock meant either a marriage or a death. Of course we do not want any deaths, so don’t you think the most sensible thing we can do is to help on a marriage as soon as possible? The deacon laughed in spite of him sell “It's late,” he said, "come around to-morrow morning, and well talk al>ont it. No, Mary, I am not angry with you. child. I suppose that young folks will be young folks, and there’s no use to stop them!” And the deacon re-hung the pendulum and set the iron tongue of the old clock ticking again. Tim Marshall paused on the front doorstep to whisper to Ma ry = What shall it be, Mary !—a death or a marriage ?” And she in return whispered : “A marriage, I hope." My darling !” 8aid Tim, it's worth passing a lifetime behind the clock-case to fed as I do now! WIRTZ’S GHOST. Can In the case of Hubbard Cozart, recent ly tried, in Atlanta, for firing a pistol in a car crowded with ladies, was acquitted— But Judge Hopkins had something to say. and this is the way ho said it: “The jury have acquitted you of this charge. En trusted as I am to some extent with the administration of the law in this county, I cannot allow you to be discharged from custody without a word about this ver diet. If this verdict goes out to the pub lie without explanation, itiWiil operate w a license to crime. I donut hesitate to say, that in my opinion it is unwarranted by any principle of law, or by any fact known to me- I do not question the mo tives of the jury ; I have nothing to say to that I wish to protect the public in terest the best that I can, and it must not be thought that a man can get into a drunken row and go into a railway car crowded with men, women and- children, and, without provocation ur sufficient cause, draw a murderous .weapon and shoot at w-ll among them. That is what was done in this case, and the verdict vindicates the conduct, but it is not the law. This evidence discloses the most complete case of rowdyism and utter dis regard of human life that has ever come under my observation. It richly merited the utmost pensMgr - asrthorized by law.— : The verdict is final and conclusive, and an outraged law must Bubmit to it. You are discharged from custody. ” Shakspcarc says ‘"the thief thinks every bush an officer.” Men with bad con sciences always have their peculiar ghosts. The spectre of Mrs. Surratt has over shadowed the lives of several men, some of whom died miserably in singular ex piation of the evil they did against her. Some-of these bud men and executioners of a woman are still alive; but every time they seek to restore their lost reputations, the pale face of their murdered victim rises from the grave again and withers their reviving hopes. But the sad shade of Mrs. Surratt is not the only one that walks the night and revisits the glimpses of the moon. The awful phantom of the murdered Wirte—the victim of Ander- sonville—is said to haunt the dome of the Federal Capitol. Here is the story of one of the Capitol police to the Washing ton correspondent of a Western paper: “Last night, Brown, Jones, Robinson and myself were on duty, and it was a magnificent night, bright as day. We came out here to talk over affairs, and while we were talking I saw Jones start— he was staring with a fixed gaze toward the dome. I followed his eyes, and, by Jove, there, sir, was a man! Not leaning against anything, not standing where a shadow could be thrown, but out in bold relief, his arms upraised, was this figure. Jones continued to stare, and said, in a voice hoarse with emotion: “I've told you of him, boys; he comes at long intervals and prays.” “Who?” we inquired. “Wirtz; it is Ins ghost that wanders over here!” “We watched him and he stood mo tionless for an hour, then he walked now backward and then forward. We blew our whistles; the ‘Reserve came; four ol us went np toward the dome by the cen tre, and four by the side stairs. When we got there not a soul could be seen Our comrades hailed from below: “You are on the very spot where he was stand ing, and after you left us he just melted away Officers old in the service tell me they’ve seen him frequently since the exe cution; but, thank God, it was my first, and I hope, my last sight of the fellow!" We’ve not space to give you the con vernation ia detail that followed this re cital. We tell you what wan told us, and the very wards. As a general thing, we do not believe m ghost stories; but that the dead havt sometime* returned, the Bible and tnub tem leave no room for doubt. It may be, that this vision of poor Wirtz is a* substantial as vapor and the mere fig saent of a distempered faney. But if, as legend* tell ua, the departed M oecaw ioually permitted te eoaae back to that world, especially on the owe of aoine pro nowu-ed Minority, this is a wery exoelleat season far the visitation «i the dnhappy d assassinated Wiite til ■ r ; most excellent colored Mark citizens and Christian gentlemen. So much ladies for kissing without noticing before hand, if there is any danger, or anything to excite you. We feel sorry for what happened, specially as these sweet tokens of affec tion always emanate from hearts lull of sincerity.—Brunmrick . ipfH al. To Destroy the Cotton Worm. The newspapers are always coming forward with something new. The latest and most interesting is an original plan to destroy the cotton worm, invented, it is said, by a Louisiana planter. First and foremost, he discovered that tlie worms are quite helpless, and, with the excep tion of their digestive organs, torpid and that if from any cause they fell upon the ground they ingloriously died. Where upon, this beneficent Granger bethought him of a plan. He took a pair of swamp wheels which were lying in his stable yard, suspended from the axle thereof a swinging rake with long teeth—say four inches apart—so adjusted as to brush the foliage of the plant very briskly, aud then, harnessing a pair of mules to those wheels, he proceeded to run over his crop at the rate of about fifteen acres a day. Having only forty acres, he accomplished this object in three days. The plan worked handsomely. Thou sands of worms lay npun the ground, here they died. The process was re peated twice afterward, at such intervals as seemed necessary, and the Louisiana planter found his cotton free of its worst enemy. The New Orleans Dicayunc vouches for the reliability of the stoiy. A correspondent of tut English no 'S- paper sends the following communica n, which will be read with interest by all thinkers: One meets with many curious th. js in his journey through the bounds of nis broad circumambular globe. I have tet with many myself; but the most uni uo thing I remember of seeing is the f >llt w- ing curious bill, paid in the year 11H2, >y the officers of the Church of England, or repairs at the Winchester Cathedral. T .us is a literal copy: Winchester, October, 1182 For work done hy Deter J/. Sailers. s d. In soldering ;ind repairing St. Joseph G 8 Cleaning and ornamenting the Holy Ghost 9 ® Repairing the Virgin Maty behind ano before and making a new child.... 4 8 Screwing a nose on the devil and put- J ting hair on his head, and placing a fl new joint in his tail Paid December. 1182 11 2' P. M. Sollers, Church Mechanick. The Fifth district is still far ahead of any other district in the number of Con gressional aspirants, and perhaps it is steadily gaining in that respect; but lie Eighth district already presents the fol lowing list of names that have been men tioned by their respective friends: H >n. L- N. Trammell, Colonel George N. Les ter, Hon. Wash Johnson, Hon. P. M. B. Young, Hon. A. R- Wright, Colonel D. O. Printup, Captain Dunlap Scott, Colo nel T. W. Alexander, Colonel Natl m Bass, Hon. J. W. Wofford, (declined, 1 lit still willing if thrust upon him) and Cc lo- nel J. O. Waddell. An Indiana man was lately buried in a coffin made frpm a tree which he planted. How happy be must bare been? A cynic says marriage is rerj often > dull book with a very fine preface. Some times it is “half calf,” too. A Toast.—Womam the Iasi and bail of the series—if we haye her for* we won’t ask for any babte. The Eastman Atlanta Business College. This institution has achieved a success wliich is unparalleled in the hist >ry of Commercial Colleges. Starting in .vtla ita Ga., May 9th, 1871, with four stmh ntf. it uas already sent out to the business world nearly THREE HUNDRED STUDENTS to attest its superior merits. The secret of its wonderful sweesw is. 1st it is tho mly College in the South that is conduc ted on tlto Actual Business Plan. 2nd, it pa up, to the letter of its advertise- 3d, it ia conducted by men who have had years of experience as practical aeeounte business men and teachers. The toted cost for a full course, including board, watering,tuition, hooks and station ery, will wot exceed $130. For specimens of Prumanship and College Journal con taining full information address. DETWYLER AND MAGEE. P. O. Box 536, Atlanta, Ga. N. B.—Parties writing us will please fire the name of paper they saw our ad. JoafOl, ML*”

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Union and recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1872-1886, June 17, 1874, Image 1