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THE UNION & RECORDER,
Is Published Weekly In Mi Hedge Vi lie, Ga.,
BY BARNES & MOORE.
Feuhs.—Ouc dollar and fifty cents a vear in
advance, six months for seVenty-rtve cents.-
Two dollars a year if not paid in advance.
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wasted as General Assistant.
The “FEDERAL UNION” and the “SOUTHERN
RECORDER" were consolidated, August 1st, 1872,
the Union being in its Fortv-TIUrd Volume and
the Recorderin itsFifty-Tliird Volume.
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A General Ranking Business Transacted.
L. X. Callaway, President.
G. I. Wiedenman, Cashier.
Directors.—W. T. Conn, D. 15. Hanford,
11. E. Hendrix, G. 1'. Wiedenman, L. N.
Callaway, T. L. MeUomb, C. M. Wright.
Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 21st, ’84. 15 ly
Spectacles and Eye-Glasses.
OLD EYES MADE NEW!
A N astonishing announcement wliic
will please the people, is that
JOSEPH MILLER
lias the larg
ed stocks ot •
eles and Eye
gia. We liav
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pirft possessing a medicinal
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K. A. BAYNE. Leading Druggist and
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Feb. 3d, 1885.
Lumber!
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Hi hedge vine, Ga.,
umber!
AJ
'd a saw-mill on
r the river about 7 miles from
n and is now ready to till all orders for
lUL
r ‘timber or sell at the mill
satisfaction both in prices
\ < trileis left at the store of
reive p’rompt attention.
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Owners and Proprietors.
This elegant l.ew Hotel, with modern
improvements, newly furnished from top
to bottom, is open to the public. The
rooms are large, airy and comfortable,
and the table furnished with the very best
Macon’s
1 per day
client market affords. Terms
Oct. 16. ’83. 14 tf
Dentistry. •
DR. H MTCLARKE-
U fOIlK nr any kind performed in
cordance with
proved methods.
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., May 15th, 1883. 44
DIVORCE
hi Baldwin Superior Court.
Jane McMillan, .
vs.
John McMillan.
I T appearing to
. cannot be perfe
fetid ant, in this
domicile, it is i
perfected by pot
)
January Term, 18.85.
the Court, that service
.•Led personally on De-
mnly, wherein is bis
i dered that service bo
heation in the Union &
Recorder newspaper, once a month for
four months, succeeding this Term of the
Court. January 19th, 1S85.
TUGS. (f. LAWSON, Judge S. C. O. C.
A true extract from the minutes.
Walter Paine. Clerk.
March 10th, 1885. 35 m4m
DIVORCE
In Baldwin Superior Court.
Laura F. Anderson, /
vs.
Chales G. Anderson. )
January Term, 1885.
X T appearing lo Up* Court by Sheriff’s re
turn and Plaintiff's affidavit, that De-
tendant does not live in said county, bntln
the State ol Missouri, It is ordered, that
service be perfcctoj on Defendant by pub
lication of this order, once a month, for
four months from date hereof, in Union &,
Recorder newspaper.
THOS. G. LAWSON,
Judge Superior Court, O. C.
A (rue extract from tlie minutes of Bald
win Superior Court.
Walter Paine, clerk.
Feb. 9.1885. M mini.
Libel for Divorce
Fannie Mary Ried, ) ’ In Baldwin
VP Superior Court.
James H. Ried. )
January Term, 188a.
I T appearing to the Court by the return of the
Shernr, m the above staled case, that tile De
fendant des s not reside in said county, and it
further appearing that he does not reside in this
state. It is therefore ordered by the Court,
that service be perfected ou tfic Defendant by
the publication of this order, once a month, for
lour months, before the next term of this Court,
in the Union A- Recorder, a newspaper publish
ed in Baldwin county. Georgia.
MILLER GRIEVE. Petitioner’s Attorney.
Granted. THOS. G. LAWSON, Judge S. C.
A true extract from the minutes of Baldwin
Superior Oourt.
Walter Paine, Clerk.
Feb. I3tii, 1885. 32 m4m.
Tax Notice.
M V Ttx Books arc now open and I am
ready to receive the Tax Returns of
iialawir County for the year 1885.
My ollce is at the Carriage and Furni
ture etcre of L. W. Davidson, where I will
r® Ml ^R^dance daily from 9 o’clock, a. m.
toY 11 !! 0 i) OC R until June 1st, at which
time my Books will bo closed, all who fail
Defaulter’s LisL 1 t,m ° wiH be plaeed on
HUNTER MrCOMB,
MUledgoville, Ga., March Shth* 2m.
Notice.
GEORGIA. Baldwin County,
Court of Ordinary, at Chambers,)
April the 27th 1885. >
h Suiith llas “Pl'lied forexemp-
au . ® personalty, and setting apart,
“valuation of homestead, and I
MonfiM SS ?, pon the wune at 10 A. m. on
» ,fSth ** of May, 1885,
Volume LV.
[Federal Union Established in 1829.
LSoutheen Recorder “ “ 1819.;
Consolidated 1872.
Milledgeville, Gta., May 12. 1885.
Number 44.
W. T. CONN & CO.’S,
COLUMN.
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—IN
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take us long to sell 500 bbls. of
Flour.
WE HAVE, ALSO,
LARGE LOT SYRUPS!
About one hundred
barrels, which we will
sell
AT PRICES
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Our Stock
Of Everything in the
Grocery Line,
Is Large, and buying as we do,
from first hands, enables us to
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W e are able to report trade
very satisfactory, our sales being
much larger than previous years.
Come and see us, or send your
orders. We guarantee satisfac
tion.
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Wholesale and Retail Grocers,
Milledgeville, Ga.
March 24th, 1885. 27 ly
500 Barrels
FLOUR!
EDITORIAL GLIMPSES.
General Grant continues to improve
and is dictating for his hook.
Tlie retail liquor dealers of Atlanta
will pay a five hundred dollar license
tax after July 1, next.
Mrs. W. H. Jones, who was shot by
her husband who afterwards commit
ted suicide, died last Wednesday night,
in Macon.
SaVannali has obtained artesian wa
ter at a depth of 725 feet. The out
flow is, at the rate of 30 gallons per
minute.
The base ball epidemic is still on
top. It is beginning to show great
contempt for the exactions of the Sab
bath. Maybe the Legislature will
now see its way clear to the imposition
of a heavy license tax on the epidem
ic.- -Albany News.
Attorney General Garland decides
that none" of the claims against the
World's Exposition made by residents
of Louisiana, of which there are
quite a large number, can be liqui
dated out of the Congressional ap
propriation.
As to Bird Murder.—The man
who murders a song bird in New Jer
sey has to pay a line of .$50, but in
Georgia the mokes can rest Their $2,50
shot gun on tfie fence and shoot
down the world's sweetest singer
without fear of punishment.
Chicago girls are wonderfully full
of resources. Their new device for
hurryingup bashful suitors is to secret
ly procure the marriage license them
selves. and the publication of the fact
in the papers nerves the timid youths
up to the required pitch of despera
tion.
When l)r. Tucker preached the in
troductory sermon before the Baptist
convention in Newnan on the 23d ult.,
a lady in the congregation was wear
ing the same dress %hieli was wore
thirty years before on a similar occa
sion. at which time Dr. Tucker was
also the preacher.
It is argued that the city of Athens
gave the Moore building to the Uni
versity. conditional that the entire
land-script fund be expended at Ath
ens, and that it§ division to the branch
colleges renders the trade null and
void, and that this structure will re
vert to the city if a test is made. At
the next meeting of council this ques
tion will be broached.
The subject of Love is one which,
upon the mere mention of its name,
commends itself to all minds. Who,
at one period or another of life has
not lovdll V There must have been
moments, even in minds the most
gloomy—minds which seem to derive
no pleasure from anything, and whose
possessors are too proud to say, that
they fuel pain; in minds even like
thes“. there must have been felt, sit
some time, the power of love—a love,
compelling them to seek for happi
ness by sharing life with another—
wit h a second self; to lqok with anoth-
.er's eves; to speak xvith another's lips;
to be joyed by another's pleasures,
and be pained by another's griefs.
Love is the life of the universe and
it is emphatically the life of man.
Judge Roney decided that Mr. W.
S. Roberts was not unlawfully detain
ed and remanded him to tlie custody
of the New York officer, Sergeant
Reiley, in pursuance of tlie warrant
-of the Governor of this State. Anoth
er application for writ of habeas cor
pus took the case before Hon. Emory
Speer of the United States District
court, of Savannah.
SAVANNAH, Ga., May 4.—The ease
of W. S. Roberts, Augusta’s bank
president, before the United States
court on a writ of habeas corpus,
charged with embezzlement and lar
ceny of funds, had the attention of
the court the entire day to 3 o’clock,
when it was submitted to Judge
Speer. In about an hour the judge
rendered his decision, dismissing the
petition relative and disallowing the
writ. This decision sustains Judge
Roney. At half past four Judge
Speer heard argument on a motion to
appeal to the circuit court, and grant
ed the appeal.
Rev. Rabbi Blum received a beau
tiful parting compliment from the He
brew congregation, of Galveston, Tex.
after a pastorate of fourteen years.
It consisted of songs and recitations
participated in by talented ladies and
gentlemen of the Hebrew congrega
tion. Mr. Frankel, in their behalf,
spoke of their grateful recognition of
his services in ministering to their
spiritual welfare, dispensing charity,
and drying the tears of the widow and
orphan. We copy the remainder of
his feeling remarks as published in the
Galveston News:
‘ You have rejoiced with us at our
festal boards: you have administered
the Vows that bind together many
loving couples here represented. You
have administered the sacred rite that
seals for our sons the covenant com
manded by Israel’s God, and you
have taught and heard the confirma
tion vows offered by our youths to
their Maker, acknowledging in their
creed tlie existence of Him One and
Only. When dread Azrael, the angel
of death, carried to Him who created
them the souls of those who have
gone before us. you have been with
us and offered consolation to those
who were left behind. All these kind
offices compel our gratitude and ex
cite us to offer you this evidence of
our appreciation for your many servi
ces in behalf of our congregation.
[Here he presented him with a check
for $200.] Accept it as a slight token
of our esteem for you as a man and
minister. And when in after years
you review the [different scenees of
your life and labors, remember us as
your sincere and faithful friends, and
as among those who loved you and
who regret your departure from
among us, and who will ever wish for
your success and happiness in the
sphere where your labors and duty
call you.
The Rev. A. Blum responded in fit
ting terms, thanking tlie generous
donors for their kindness, and express
ing the deepest regret at tlie near ap
proach of the occasion which would
sever ties that have been so pleasant. - ’
RESIGNED THE PRESIDENCY.
Dr. Hepry F. Campbell, at the late
meeting in New Orleans of the Ameri
can Medical Association, resigned the
Presidency. Dr. Wm. Brodie, a prom-
nent physician of Detroit and warm
personal friend of Dr. Campbell, was
elected President of the Association
for the ensuing year. Dr. Campbell's
retirement from the Presidency will
not prevent the Association from ob
taining the benefits of his scientific re
searches in the healing art, which, in
the past have already placed his name
in the front rank of the profession.
The National Commercial Convention.
The Executive Committee of the
National Convention, being desirous
that small towns should be repre
sented in that body, have determined
to admit one delegate from each town
having one thousand inhabitants, and
to allow one additional for each
additional two thousand inhabitants.
Intelligence received indicates that
all sections of the Republic will be
largely and ably represented, the
approaching Convention being re
garded as the most important to the
interests of commerce which has ever
been convoked on this continent. The
Executive Committee, therefore, sug
gests to the authorities of every city
and town to appoint and commission
the number of delegates to which
their several municipalities are
entitled.
Arrangements are now being per
fected for .extremely low rates of
railroad fare, of which full information
will hereafter be giveu.
Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, May 4th, 1885.
Your correspondent did not have
his usual six-hour confidential inter
view with the President of the United
States this week, and is consequently
not able to give you a news report hot
and steaming from the lips of the ad
ministration. Maybe the reason why
I did not call on the President was
because my friend did. 1 have a wild
Western friend who found himself in
Washington last week with two whole
hours at his disposal. He decided
that the time was not quite sufficient
for him to see and talk to every body
in Washington (though he could come
as near doing it as any living man or
even woman) and inasmuch as lit* had
to draw a line somewhere, he called
only on tlie President, Secretary La
mar and your correspondent. I will
not attempt to tell all he told me, for
he talked without punctuation. But
to the President he made the original
remark that he had no friends to re
ward, no enemies to punish, and no
favors to ask. The “no favors to ask’’
clause seemed to please the President,
and he replied, “I am nearly worried
to death by those who have nothing
but favors to ask.” My friend then
called at the Interior Department up
on Secretary Lamar and told him that
lie wished to see his bath tub! The
saturnine secretary at once set down
my wild Westerner for a crank, but
glance at his nice clothes and his face
painted red with intelligence and lnt
mor convinced him that he had struck
a character rare. So he showed him
tlie little zinc bath tub and the two
foftr dollar rugs, to buy which, lie had
sold the ten thousand dollars worth of
government carriages and horses.
Tlie President and members of it is
Cabinet have gone to Gettysburg t
celebrate the anniversary of the bat
tie. This is the first respite that Mr.
Cleveland has taken since the 4tli of
March. Miss Cleveland is away
New York. Col. Lamont and his fam
ily, consisting of his wife and two lit
tie daughters, have, at the urgent re
quest of Mr. Cleveland, moved into
the White House and they will soon
accompany the president to his conn
try residence at Soldiers’ Home. The
President's cottage at the Home
about three miles from the White
House and about a mile and half from
the northern boundary of the city. It
is situated on a commanding elevation
with a fine view of, the city and the
Potomac river. Surrounded by trees
and acres of green sward it will have
all the advantages of a summer resort
with the additional advantage of com
plete retirement front society aaui
fashion that cannot be obtained at
Long Branch, Saratoga or Newport.
Tlie illness of the President's pri
vate secretary has revived the old talk
about the peculiar Washington mala
ria. Every ill that flesh is heir to it;
this city is*attributed by tlie non-pro
fessional writers for the press to tua
laria. A Senator cannot eat or drink
too much but that his indisposition is
malaria, and one of them went so far
as to attribute the aecouchment. of
prominent woman to the same prolif
ic cause. Washington, as the statis
tics show, is a universally healthy city
and its death rate shows as small a per
centage from malaria as an} - city
the union.
What will the administration do
concerning officia*l changes? is a ques
tion that is being very earnestly asked
at this time. There are in round mini
bers about 102,000 salaried office-hold
ers under the Federal Government.
They are the regular army of politics,
for it means their bread. This disci
pline enabled the Republican party to
keep itself in pqwer for half a century.
Nine tenths of these officials are still
in position. What is the President go
ing to do about it? A gentleman who
holds a very responsible and promi
nent appointment under Mr. Cleve
land, and who comes from a powerful
state occupying a most important po
litical and geographical position
spoke very plainly and fully the oth
er day respecting the matter of chang
es. fte said: “No one better compre
hends the necessity for a complete
change in all commissioned officials
than does the President. He is per
fectly aware that the people, in mak
ing the change in presidents last fall,
did not mean simply to put one man
out and another man in. They meant
that the entire system should be .ti
tered and renovated, and you may de
pend upon it that is precisely what
the President means to do, but he will
not be hurried.”
^Written for the Courier Journal.)
“SWEET GIRL OF SOUTHLAND, FAKE
THEE WELL.”
7 Y W.
CASTER.
Farewell, farewell! the winds were soft
That bore our bark along the shore
Of days departed; and how oft
We gazed on skies that are no more:
And watched the white moon, drifting far
With white salts through tlie trackless seas;
How tenderly each holy star
Danced to the music of the breeze,
Canst tliou not hear the distant swell?
Sweet girl of Southland, fare thee well.
II.
And must we parr ; Send back the smile
That lit my pathway to the goal
Of hopes and joys, that burned the while
(Like sacred tires) within my soul;
And oh, the bird-like song I heard
That swept the silver chords of love
And in my raptured spirit stirred
Dead memories of deep souls above.
Sweet girl, I say farewell to thee,
Send back the smile and song to me.
III.
Farewell: and when tlie twilight hour
In silence reigns a lonely queen.
And dreamless sleep both held and Bower,
Where I must be, and thou hast been;
(111. then tlie past, the hallowed past.
l.ike a bowed mourner at some shrine,
A suppliant kneels, over me to cast
Those love light beams that ouce were thine.
Hark ’tis the peal of the midnight bell,
1 hear its echo; farewell! farewell!
Nov. 24. 1«82.
For the Courier Journa'.
THE MAN OF NO ACCOUNT.
BY ANGKLK CRII’PICN DAVIS.
THE BONDS SOLD.
MR. FRED WOLFFE AND HIS ASSOCI
ATES TAKE THE ENTIRE ISSUE AT
A PREMIUM OF FIVE-SIXTEENTHS.
From the Atlanta Journal, May 6th.
The pending negotiations for the
entire new issue of the bonds of the
State, and which xvere alluded to in
yesterday’s Journal, resulted in a sale
of the entire issue to Mr. Fred Wolffe
and his associates at 100 5-16, deliver
able: $100,000 on July 1st, 1885; $255,000
on July 1st, 1886, and $3,100,000 on
May 1st, 1836.
The written contract of sale was en
tered into and signed by Governor
McDaniel anti Fred Wolffe and Clar
ence W. Rodgers. The sum of five
per cent, of the purchase, amounting
to $172,750, was deposited in the State
treasury by the purchasers as a guar
antee of the trade.
The amount will be used by the
State as a temporary loan by author
ity of an act passed in 1884. The
amount will tlraw six per cent, inter
est and will be held to reimburse the
State in case there should be any loss
or unlooked for contingency in the
sale of the bonds.
Tlie bid accepted is said to be fully
$100,000 better than Mr. Wolffe’s first
bid and $500,000 better to the State
than any of the other bids made. The
expense of getting out the bonds xvill
be about $4,000, but the premium
amounts to $10,000. The sale of these
bonds will bring about an aiuiual reduc
tion of $80,000 in the interest account,
which, added to the amount saved by
the retiring of bonds last year, makes
a saving of about $125,000.
MU. W. S. ROBERTS’ CASE.
Judge Speer, of the United States
District Court before whom the case
was re-argued in Savannah sustained
the decision of Judge Roney. But
Mr. Roberts' eminent counsel succeed
ed in obtaining the privilege of an ap
peal to the United States circuit court.
Judge Speer put the bail at $10,000
and allowed five days in which to ob
tain it, he to remain in the custody of
the United States Marshal. Mr. R.
obtained the bail in Augusta and as
soon as Judge Speer receives it he
will be a free man. The ease will be
tried before Judge Woods or Judge
Pardee. 1
REST FOR THE WEARY
Ami Health for the Sick,
Is found in that delightful nerve ton
ic and invigorator, Pemberton's
French Wine Coca,
Winch positively cures and prevents
mental and physical depression, loss
of memory, insomania, loss of appe
tite, emaciation, dyspepsia, female
weakness, sexual debility, kidney dis
ease, neuralgia, sick headache, gen
eral nervous debility, muscular relax
ation, &c.
The Medical Savans of ttie world
award to Coca, the most effective and
wonderful remedial powers for both
mifld and body, and tlie profession
and people award to Pemberton’s
French Wine Coca, the palm of victo
ry ox er all other known tonics and in-
vigorants.
There is joy and good cheer in every
bottle.
F$r sale by John M. Clark,
“Wake up here! Wake up, I tell
you!" saida X’oice in the street.
Dr. Vickers was in his office, where
he had been sitting, reading an old
German book. He threw the book on
a table, opened the xvindow and look
ed out.
The cathedral clock struck two.
The gas-lights flared in the keen wind.
Tlie street xvas still, sax - e where noxv
anti then a belated pedestrian hurried
along, and from an adjacent square
some votaries of Bacchus xvere x’oeifer-
ating their intention of not going
home till morning,
Till ilaj liglit ilotli appear.
A man xvas lying asleep on the office
step. A big, burly policeman had
him by the shoulder, shaking him.
“Get up. I say! Get up!’’
The sleeper rose from his recumbent
position, yawning, and said :
“Certainly, my dear sir. Anything
to oblige. But you should not be so
vehement in your manner. You real
ly should not. You xvould find it to
your advantage to cultivate repose. - ’
“Don't be a-gix'in’ me any o’ your
lip,” said the moral policeman, “but
come along to the station-house.”
“But really, noxv, you are too atten
tive, Policeman. I object to going to
prison. 1 am neither drunk nor dis
orderly, and I hax’e no felonious in
tents upon my neighbor’s goods. I
thank you for your interest in me,
but a coolness on your part, a studied
ax'oidance of my x’icinity, would
please me well. Au rex - oir, Mr. Po
liceman.”
And so saying, the man lay doxvn
on the steps. The exasperated officer
caught him by the coat-collar and
jerked him to a sitting posture.
“If you don’t come along, noxx r ,
you'll wish you had." he said, at the
same time gix’ing him another jerk
that set him on his feet. The man
looked into the face of the other and
replied:
“No, it xvould be impossible for me,
under any circumstance, to wish to
accompany you. You exceed the
bounds of probability when you say
that, my good felloxv. But since you
are so importunate, I xvill go, always
under protest, though, alxvays under
protest.”
So saying he descended the steps.
The Doctor had been an interested
spectator of this scene, and; nox\% act
ing from impulse, called out:
“Wait a minute, officer,” and shut
ting the xvindow xvent out into the
hail and opened the street door.
‘Let the felloxv alone, officer, said
he to the policeman, “I xvill see that
he does no harm.”
“But he can’t go on a-lavin’ round
asleep on door-steps,’’ replied the
majesty of the laxv.
“I admit my conduct xvas open to
adverse criticism,” the stranger said,
xvaving his hand. “The customs of
society do not xvarrant a man hi go
ing to bed in his" boots, especially
when his couch of dreams is naught
but the cold, cold stone of a door
step. But I will make a handsome
apology if necessary,” he continued,
bowing to the policeman.
After a little more parleying xvith
the offended policeman, the Doctor in
duced hun to depart xvithout the of
fending sleeper. Still acting from im
pulse, he inx'ited the stranger to en
ter the office. The only explanation
of his conduct was that he xvished to
hear him talk. Possibly the fact of
the German book having been a psy
chological xvork may have had some
bearing on Dr. Vickers' anomalous
conduct. Beside, it xvas in the night,
and no one xvould knoxv it. Deeds
under such circumstances are nex r er
so heinous as xvhen performed in the
broad, uncompromising light of day.
Once seated by the fire, the Doctor
saw that his new acquaintance was
a man something ox'er thirty years,
who would liax'e been handsome un
der happier circumstances. But heg-
lect and dissipation had made sad
liax'oc xvith his face. The Doctor
placed a lunch on <’t small table, and
courteously'invited him to eat. The
other drew" his chair up to the table,
and then said, xvith an affected air of
cyncern;
“You must give me assurance, Doc
tor. that food partaken of at this late
hour xvill not be detrimental to my
general health. I never play tricks
with my digestion."’
With assumed solemnity the doctor
assured him that lie might eat with
impunity. The other professed him-
seif satisfied and xvent to eating. He
xvas evidently x r ery hungry and equal
ly reluctant to let it be too appar-
nt. so that the doctor made an ex
use and xvithdrexv. When he re
turned tlie plate xvas empty, and the
stranger xvas seated in front of the
fire.
He looked so thin, so pinched xvith
hunger, so blue xvith cold, so utterly
forsaken anti disreputable, that for
the first time I)r. Vickers felt a com
passion for him. He drexv an arm-
hair the other side of the fire, oppo
site him.
“I don’t imagine life wears a roseate
hue for you, eh?” said he, interroga-
tix-ely.
“Well," said the other, “I liax’e not
much of which to complain at present.
I am warm and have eaten. It is not
always so with me. A stomach is
such an inconvenient thing. I often
reflect on the folly of my liax’ing one."
Here the unknown struck an attitude
and continued.
“You know the poet says:
“Von may live without books—
What is kuowledjic. but grieving?
You may live without hope—
What is hope but deceiving?
You may live without love—
hat is passion but pining?
But where is the niau that can live without
(lining?"
“You are acquainted xvith the poets,
are you?” said Dr. Vickers.
“I hax’e, sir, quite a knoxvledgeof
polite literature. In fact, I have done
a little xvriting myself. It nex-yr
came to anything. Nothing ex*er
does that I undertake. I xvas nex’er
thoroughly
I labored under another. I was sup
posed to be a genius. Doubtless you
have known many young persons of
whom great things were expected, but
xvho failed to realize. I was one of
that kind. Hoxvex’er, nothing is ex
pected of me any more.” And he
laughed a hard. dry. mirthless laugh.
“Have you any tobacco?" he asked,
xvith an abrupt transition of manner.
The Doctor gax'e him a cigar.
“I have smoked the Turkish chi
book in Constantinople,” continued
the man between puffs.
"I liax e xvhiffed cheroots in Hax’ana
with dark-eyed seuoritas. I hax'e
smoked cigarettes with pretty griz
ettes. in the Latin (Quarter in Paris.
1 have puffed out smoke from thedud-
heen of old Ireland, and taken a turn
; at a cob-pipe in the pine woods of
! Alabama. In fact, I hax'e smoked
under many conditions and in many
climes, but my day is ox'er. Thetrax"-
eling L do noxv-a-days is mostly of the
sort known as pedestrian tours, he con
tinued drily, "though my trip from
San Francisco this fall xvas enlix'ened
by a little ‘riding of the rail.’ I’d
wait at the xvater tanks along the
track, and then climb up and hang
on underneath a freight ear. Quite
an exciting way of journeying. It
rests the muscles somexvliat, but it is
fatiguing to the nerves.”
"But xvliat do you intend doing in
the future?" asked the doctor.
"Do?" repeated the other. “Just as
little as possible till the end of the
chapter. What does a xvatch do xvhen
it has no main-spring? I hax’e no
main-spring.” He smoked a little
xvhile luid looked] moodily . into the
lire. '
The Cathedral clock struck three.
Then the other clocks in the towers
took it up and told the hour.
“One—two—three,” repeated the
man. “Quite a romantic situation for
you, isn't it—sitting at 3 o'clock in the
morning, receix ing the confidences of
a common tramp? But I am a human
being, sir, and 1 once had a conscience
and a heart. I have been through
things that xvere enough to kill both,
though once in a while I hax-ean un
easy ache xvliere my heart xvas like
the throb of a nerve after a tooth is
out. That is xvhen memory xvakens
up. Sometimes in the night when it
storms. And always in the spring.
Out in the country, you know, xvhen
you smell things just starting to groxv,
and tifter sunset, when the gray night
begins to cox-er the fields, and the
frogs are peeping in the ponds. Some
thing hurts me then ; ex’erythingis so
innocent and peaceful. 1 alxvays get
intotoxvn as fast as 1 can, and beg,
borroxv or steal a drink or txvo. That
fixes me all right. 1 forget ex'erytliing
then, only that 1 am a beast xvithout
a soul. 1 xvish I had a drink now,”
said lie. in what tried to he a bragga
docio tone.
The doctor made no reply to this,
and the man dropped his head on his
breast and sat silent for quite a little
xvhile. When he spoke again it xvas'
in an altered tone and xvith an altered
manner.
“I’ve always thought if my mother
had lived it xvould have been differ
ent. Perhaps it xvouldn't, but I’x r e
noticed a man's mother is about the
best friend he has. A xvoman is gen
erally good to her child, no matter
lioxv bad she is ex r ery other way. It
seems to be their nature. Heax’en
knoxvs there isn't much use in a man
putting any faith in one under any
other circumstances. Let me tell you
something. Sometimes, xvhen I am
trudging my xvav, along a dark, lone
some road, xvith feet lamed with walk
ing and a tired body, and head nearly
crazed with thinking, 1 feel like I'd
find some relief in talking it all over
xvith some one. That helps any one
if he is in trouble—helps decent, re
spectable people. 1 mean. Of course
nothing could do me much good.
But I’m going to tell you the thing
always in my mind only xvhen I am
drunk. When I was a young fellow,
nearlx- through college, my father lost
his money. 1 xvas engaged to a girl—
such a pretty girl, all smiles and dim
ples and golden hair. I thought she
was rlie purest, ’ sweetest xvoman God
ex-er made. And I beliex-ed in her and
lox-ed her—my God! How I lox'ed her!
I could liax'e knelt and kissed the hem
of her garment. I look hack noxv and
feel as sorry for myself as though I
had been some other young fool,
adoring something that had never ex
isted. Well, when the money was
gone I xvent to work. 1 never dream
ed of her not being true to me, so I
had the hope of her to help me. It
xvas up-hill work, brought up as I had
been. I used to think I’d be obliged
to remake myself. But I might hax'e
done something in time ; I don't knoxv
though. One day—I remember it as
though it had only been an hour ago
1 had a letter from her, telling me she
xvas going to be married. It xvas a
hot day in August. I was on the
xvharf xvhen 1 read the letter—I nex’er
see the sun shining on xvater to this
day but what it makes me feel sick.
“I fell over, they said, and they
thought it xvas a sun-stroke. I never
beliex'ed in anybody after that. And
I didn't care. What had I to care for?
I just drifted. Ten years afterxx’ard,
I came out of u gambling-house in
Nexv York city at midnight. It xx'as a
hitter night. There xvas a cold xvind
bloxving that seemed just from the
eternal snoxvlields of an Arctic winter.
There xvas snoxv on the ground, and
the moonlight made the very air
wkite. I stood in the door, dreading
to brax'e the xvipd. A woman came
round the corner and accosted me.
Sir, if 1 was sent to endless torment
and suffered for an eternity, I could
not forget. There she stood, a thing
too low for an honest man to look at.
Her thin dress bloxving round her
shivering limbs. Her shoulders xvrap-
ped in a dingy shawl. Her hair—
great heavens! hoxv 1 once loved it! I
used tocall her “Goldilocks”—it was
bloxvn around iter neck in an unkempt
mass. And the face—the face. How
I had cried over its counterfeit repre
sentation! The little picture I once
carried of her had been blistered with
the hot tears that had fallen on it.
Years of longing, of loneliness. Poor
boy! poor boy! Why could not God
hav r e taken me then, xvhen I xvas in
nocent and believed in her? And now
I must carry alxvays xvith me while
my soul shall lix - e, forex’er and forex r er,
if "xvhat they say is true. Always see
the face as it xvas then, blear-eyed
and bloated and degraded. I knew
her in an instant; ruined as she xvas, I
tried to speak to her, but my tongue
seemed to cling to the roof of my
mouth. 1 leaned forxvard and seized
her arm. A look of horrified recogni
tion came into her face. She shrieked
out my name, and then ran down the
street, with the wind blowing her
scanty clothing round her, till she
xvas lost to view.”
He stopped and wiped the drops
off his forehead xvith his ragged coat
sleex-e.
“That is all. I nex’er saxv her again.
And waking or sleepingj— for it comes
to me in dreams—I see heras I saw her
on that night, only xvhen I drink and
it 77
rv S nJ 16 through the donnito-
As thlvT the i tV ! 0 lon K row » of beds,
row tliev l e n are<1 tlle last one in the
of The a gr ° Up about • it - ° ne
“Yo,? come to meet them.
“•'‘or he u
The doctor drew npnr ■ i
Sf c , „ h ,r,. sh “;„r i»« k
“The man of no account.”
PERSONAL.
The health of General Toombs is
said to be much improved.
Gen. Grant’s salary on the retired
list brings him in a monthly check of
$1,133,33.
Judge John I. Hall has returned to
Griffin from Hot Springs, much im
prox'ed in health.
Dr. Mell, by kindness, exerts a won
derfttl influence ox'er the students of
the State University.
Miss Mary Lizzie Leverett. of Ea
tonton, has won the first honor of
Wesleyan Female College.
It is said the “Bosphore Egyptian"
was edited by the former foreman of
the Meridian, Miss., “Hurricane".
Fanny Fern, according to Henry
YVard Beecher, was “a bewitching
little creature" when a school girl.
Barnum offers his highest reward
for any man who uses liquor exces
six'ely and yet succeeds in business.
Coi. J. T. Waterman thinks that
Rex’. Sam Jones is a phenominal
preacher ; he lias a mission and is ful
filling it.
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, one of the ed
itors of the Sunny South, has a beau
tiful home at Clarkston, on the Geor
gia railroad.
Miss Herring, the accomplished
laughter of Mr. YY. F. Herring, of
New York, is revisiting friends in Au
gusta, the home of her childhood.
Hon. J. YV. Daniel, of Lynchburg,
Y"a., who xvas elected commencement
orator bv the I’hi Kappa Society of
the University at Athens, has de
clined.
Hendricks is not a rich man as rich
es are counted in these Vanderbilt
days. The Vice-President is comfort
ably off with an estimated $1,000,000
of savings.
Mary Anderson lias fallen in lox’e
xvith England. Now. if Jay Gould
xvants to do a generous thing, he xvill
buy it and make her a present of it.—
Boston Post. %
Paul H. Hayne is engaged in pre
paring an article on ‘Southern YVar
Songs' that xvill be published at an
early day, and will be a choice contri
bution to the memorial literature of
the South.
There is an old lady living in Ath
ens, now eighty-two years of age,
xvho has never entered a church or
spoken on the subject of religion.
When this topic is broached she al
xvays gets up and lettx'es the room.
No one knows xvhat is her belief.
The Milledgeville Union A Recorder
has recently donned a bran new spring
dress, and looks as primp and spry as
if it xvere only “sweet sixteen."’ This
is one of Georgia's old stand-bys in
the newspaper ine. YVe congratulate
you, brother Moore.—Cartersville
American.
The appointment of Mr. A. YV. Fite
to the office of Deputy Collector of
Internal Rex’enue for this division
ieax’es a xacancy in the Legislature
for Bartoxv county, and the voters of
the county xvill soon be called upon to
fill the vacancy.—Cartersville Ameri
can.
forget it.
He rose from his chair xvith these
last xvords, and said:
“I am going now”
“But is there nothing I can do for
you?” begun the doctor. “Isn't there
something—”
The other interrupted him.
, . , . , “You, nor any one else, can do any-
trained m anything. I , tiling for me.”
am the man of no account,’ he said,
exactly as though he xvas introducing
somebody.
“What has been the matter?” asked
the other.
“YVrong training,” replied the man
of no account. “If 1 hu<U been ap
prenticed in early life to a shoemaker,
and learned my trade well, I would
probably have had a chance to lead a
decent, respectable life. But, unfor
tunately for me, my father made some
money. I, therefore, was condemned
to learn nothing useful. I was or
dained to be a gentleman.” (He glanc
ed lit his ragged coat xvhen he spoke,
add drew his tattered hoot away from
tl|t' fire almost as though Jje .were
And he opened the door of the
room. On the steps he turned and
lifted his hat.
“Good night, sir. YVhen I say good
bye to you, i probably say ‘good-bye’
to the last gleam of respectability
that will ever cross my path. Good
night.' 1
And he xvas gone in a moment more,
and the shadows of tlie black night
had sxx'allowed him up. .
Oscar Wilde occasionally puts his
head abox-e the puddle, and his latest
appearance was to remark To the pub
lisher of an American magazine that
American prose writers generally
would be x’ery good “if a little more
care, both as regards style and sub
stance, should be taken." Oscar
might furnish the style, but scarcely
the substance.
Married.—Newnan, Ga., May 6.—
At 11:30 o'clock yesterday, at the resi
dence of the bride's uncle, Mr. J. C.
Thomson, Miss Lee Sanders, daughter
of Mr. O. G. Sanders, of Franklin, Ga.,
was united in xvedlock to Mr. John O.
Davies, of Gainesville, Ga., the adopt
ed son of Rex’. L. J. Dax-ies, of Cov
ington, Ga. Rex’s. L. J. Davies and
YV. YV. YVadsxrorth were the officiating
clergy. The groom represents one of
the largest tobacco houses in Virginia,
and is one of the most successful and
popular trax’eling salesmen in the
south. The bride is a splendid x’ocal-
ist, intellectual, thoroughly accom
plished, and xvas the reigning belle of
Heard county. The bridal party left
at 1 p. m. for Atlanta, and from thence
will x’isit New Orleans.
Richmond society is deeply interest
ed in the announcement just noxv of
the engagement of Miss Julia Jackson,
the only daughter of Gen. Stonewall
Jackson, to Mr. YVilliam E. Christian.
The marriage will take place June 2,
at the Second Presbyterian Church,
and the ceremony be performed by
the pastor, Rex - . Dr. Moses D. Hoge,
who xvas a dear friend of the Confed
erate soldier, and conducted his fu
neral services from the same church
in xvhich Miss Jackson is to be wed
ded. The lady is as well known in
Baltimore as in Richmond. She is
universally popular. Mr. Christian
is about 28 years of age, and one of
the most popular and successful busi
ness men of Richmond. After serx'ice
of several years in a large banking
house of that city, he began last fall on
his oxvn account, as the general South
ern representative qf McDermid &
Co,, of Chicago—a firm of xvhich Mr.
C. YV. Smith, general manager of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Raihvav sys
tem, is a prominent member. While
actively engaged in business, Mr.
Christian is distinguished for his
broad culture and great polish of
manner, having received the advan
tages of a course at the Unix-ersity of
Virginia, and afterxvards at one of the
German unix’ersities.
Old Age Seeking Relief.
HUMOROUS.
THE IDYL OF THE SUMMER TIME.
Somerville Jonrual.
ivtien the gohlcn sunlight dances on the tx>som of
the stream,
And the silver lilies, starlike, ’mong the olive
sedges gleam;
When the bull frog seeks the cover of the grass
es tall and rank,
And the pickerel at noonday seeks the shadow of
the bank.
Then the small boy goes in swimming in the cos
tume of the mode
That was worn by rair Godiva, when through
Coventry she rode.
He splashes in the limpid stream with many a
gleeful shout,
And to the bank returning puts his shirt on in
side out;
And when his mother questions him: “How
came that garment so?”
He looks upon it with surprise, and says he
doesn't know;
When further pressed to give the cause this rea
son he emplbys:
“I must have turned a somersault when playing
with the boys.”
The housewife’s Monday soliloquy
—-“Aye, there’s the rub!”—Loxvell
Citizen.
A Brooklyn man, xvho was angered by
his wife s neglect to mend his pants,
hung them out of a front window of
his residence with a placard on them
stating that fact, and ascribing it to
Man 888 OI> ber part.—[Rights of
With a Bang.—An Irishman just
over from the old country, on hearing
the report of a cannon in the Navv-
thatr * Portsmouth - asked. "Phut "is
!^ h uV^ the8Unset gun.” •
• t !, 1 Does the sun always go down
^ such a bang in this country*'"
He Stopped Swkaring.-A friend
of ours in YVashington tells the follow
ing story on our Congressman, Tom
Robertson: When he first appeared
at YVashington, in conversation with
a brother Congressman one day, he
said: “A particular friend of mine at
home one day told me before leaving
that after arriving here there xvould
be two important things for me to at
tend to. One xvas to stop swearing
anil the other to appear in a swallow-
tailed, coat. YVell, 1 hax’e stopped
swearing.” remarked Robertson, “but
I'll be d—d if I xvill wear a swallow
tail coat.”—Elizabethtoxvn Nexvs.
Johnie’s Idea.
[Washington Hatcliet.)
“Mamma, xvill my shoes go to
heax’en?”
“Why,no, Johnnie, xvhat put such a
ridiculous thought into your head?”
“Oh, nothing; only you said last
night that everything that hits a soul
goes to heaven if they are good, and
my shoes liax'e soles, and they are
good!”
When Johnnie's tua got through
xvith him he thought her slipper also
had a good sole.
Worse than Firearms.
The editor of an Omaha paper, in
commenting on several cases in that
city xvhere children died from the ef
fects of taking cough syrup containing
morphia, remarks that opiates, poisons
and narcotics are more dangerous
than firearms. Mothers should note
this and furthermore that different
Boards of Health, after making care
ful analysis have certified that the on
ly purely vegetable preparation of
this kind, and one that is in every way
harmless, prompt and effective, is Red
Star Cough Cure. Mayor Litrobe of
Baltimore, and the Commissioner of
Health, have publicly endorsed this
x aluable discox erv.
A Serious Case.
Three days afterxvard Dr. Y ickers
xvas in the city hospital. Au attend
ant said to him:
“There xvas a man brought here
yesterday badly hurt. 1 think lie is
ilying. "I wish you would look at
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Hartford, Kv., March 24, 1885.
Dr. John M. Johnson:
Dear Old Friend—Puffs similar to
the.enclosed (Rev. Jessie H. Camp
bell's “Txvo More Important Cases”)
occur almost weekly in our paper in
relation to Sxvift’s Specific. I presume
upon our old frieudship to inquire of
you in relation to it—its curative qual
ities. price and manner of procuring
it. Hax-ing lived eighty-three years
through the most important part of
the xvorld's history, the prospect of
dying from cancer on the face is not
very consoling. Let me hear from
you at earliest convenience.
Verv trulv votir old friend.
HARRISON D. TAYLOR.
Atlanta, Ga. . March 26, 188.5 ;
HarrisonD. Tavlor, Esq. Hartford Kx :
My Dear Friend—Your very highly
esteemed fax’or of the 24th inst. reach
ed me on the 25th. You want^for
mation in regard to the celebrated
medicine manufactured here, knoxvn
as 9 S 8.1 have watched with much
care'the effect of this medicine upon
those who hax e used it, and bear will
ing testimony to its good results in a
great majority of instances. The firm
engaged in its manufacture are gen
tlemen and capitalists, and are far
above falsehood or deception as any
men in your community. You may
confide iiiiplicity in any of their state
ments touching its utility. You can
get it at the drug stores in Louisx’ille,
Evansville or even in Owensboro, Ky.
I am sorry for your affliction, but I
beliex e this"medicine will cure you if
persisted in. I would not stop under
one dozen or more large size bottles,
which can be secured at reasonable
cost. JOHN M. JOHNSON.
72 Marietta street, Atlanta, Ga.
Treatise on Blood aiul Skin Diseases
mailed free. ^
The Swift Sfecific Co., Drawer 3,
Atlanta, Ga. ^
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[Philadelphia Call.]
A. Nexv Y"ork dude was suddenly
taken violently ill and a physician
was hastily summoned.
After looking at his tongue and feel
ing of his pulse, the usual formula,
the doctor remarked:
“He has ex’idently been overloading
his stomach. My dear sir,’’ rousing
the patient, “can you tell me xvhat
you ate to-day for dinner?”
“Nothing, doctali, but a glass of
watali and part of a toothpick,”
replied the sick dude, wearily.
“H’m,” mused the physician, ‘that
strange. His faintness certainly
comes from a disoreilred stomach.”
Then lie suddenly said: “Bring me
his cane.”
The cane was brought him, and
after a careful examination he laid it
aside, with the remark;
“It is as I thought. A 10-cent cane,
and he has sucked the varnish off the
head. Gix’e him three drops of milk
ex-ery four hours, and be careful not
to exceed the dose. I'll call again to
morrow.”
A\ END TO RONE SCRAPING.
Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg,
111., says; “Hax’ing received so much
benefit from Electric Hitters, I leel it
my duty to let suffering humanity
know it. Have had a running sore on
my leg for eight years; my doctors
told me I would liax-e to hax'e the bone
scraped or leg amputated. 1 used,
instead, three bottles of Electric Bit
ters and seven boxes Bucklen's Arni
ca Salve, and my leg is now sound and
well.”
Electric Bitters are sold at fifty cts.
a bottle, and Bucklen's Arnica Salx r e,
at 25c., per box by E. A. Bayne.
“Kougli on Coughs.”
Ask for “Rough on Coughs,” for Coughs, Colds,
Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches, 16c. Liquid
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Cleans out rats, mice, roaches, flie3, ants, Bed
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Heart Pains.
Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness, In
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“Rough on Pain" Poroused Plaster;
Strengthening, improved, the best lor back
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Debility. $l.
Whooping Cough.
and the many Throat Airecticms of children*
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If you arc failing, broken, worn out and ner
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If you are losing your grip on life, try ‘ Wells’
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•■Rough ou Itch” cures humors, eruptions, ring
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All Sorts of
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