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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: JULY
^ HAT BECAME OF FIER* a,H * llic Wack garments they had
put on.
And a year passed, and it was the
day that Anuie had disappeared ; and
they had all gone as usual, aud were
returning home.
Mrs. Redwood was in tears.
“ I think of Annie all day to-day,’*
she said. “ Oh ! it’s more thau I can
bear. Who was that old woman ?*
What did she do to that girl ?”
“Oh, mother! there she is!” cried
one of the daughters.
All looked. Before them on the
road tottered a large figure in a plaid
cloak, coughiug violently,. The same
old woman, no doubt. But who
supported her? Who—
“ Good Heaven! is it a ghost ?”
screamed Mrs. Redwcod. “What
is it? Oh! what is it?’*
“Annie!” screamed the girls to
gether; an"? screaming, sobbing, re
gardless of what any might think of
them, they surrounded the pair.
It was Annie, alive, and holding
fast to the arm of the old woman she
had helped out of church just a year
before.
“Don’t question me on the road,”
In a little village church in a small
American country place, a small eon-
gregation gathered together one
Sunday to hear the old minister
preach one of his old sermons. E\ ery
|»ew held people well known to each
other, and who knew each other’s
business. Nobody there but had
heard tl it, Thomas Benton had
courted Annie Redwood, and how
all was going on well, when the two
grandfathers quarrelled about an acre
of ground in a stony, unproductive
spot, and a family fond commenced,
and they were separated. Annie was
«ix and twenty now, and had never
had another suitor—and Thomas had
left home for good. And there the
obstinate old grandfathers sat, not
careing a whit for all the trouble they
had caused, mid never f< irgiving each
other’s trespasses, despite the fact
that they repeated the Aord’s prayer
together every Sunday.
Sometimes in the summer, there
would lie strange boarders, from the
city in church; hut now it was win
ter, and every one \v< ndered to see
a large old woman in a great plaid,
old-world-looking cloak, and a fur
hood, and a deep cap border, come
into church, and seat h irself in a back
pew. Who she was no one could
guess, and why she came to church
with such a cold as she seemed to
have, was a wonder to all. She
coughed loud and long, interrupting
the sermon and the prayer, and at
last was seized with such a fit of
choking, that every head was turned.
She seemed to try to rise, but found
herself unable to do so. Then Annie
Redwood, leaning towards her moth
er, whispered :
“ It’s a shame. People ought to
be more christian-li tie in their con
duct. I’ll go and help her out.”
Then she arose mid went softly
down the aisle, and bent over the
old woman and whimpered something,
on which the poor old soul arose and
♦>ok her arm, and they went out of
church together. The coughing was
heard outsTde for a moment or two,
but the services went on as before,
and* no one wondered tnat Annie
liedwoo.l did not return.
The family expected to find her
when they reached home, of course;
but she was not there. She did not
come in to dinner, nor did she come
to tea. By evening mi eh alarm was
felt, and inquiries weie made, but
without avail. No one had seen the
girl since she left the ohurch doors.
There was a Sunday train to a
large city, aud a man kept watch at
the station all the day. He, seeing
fewer passengers on Sunday than at
any other time, had noticed them all.
The old woman in the plaid cloak
had come to the station, hut Miss
Redwood wa3 not with !:er.
A young man spoke to the old
lady—nay, she had his irm—but he
might have been a stranger who was
assisting her. No one could tell.
The old lady could l ot be traced
after that, and nothing more was
heard of Annie Redwood.
Many thought the old woman was
some dreadful person iu disguise, who
had murdered Annie for the hand
some watch and ring she v ore. Then,
too, she had quite a little sum in her
pocket; for she had had money left
her by ah aunt, and was not depend
ent on her father’s gilt* of pocket
money, as the other girls were.
The woods were eeaiuhcd, the
* ponds dragged, but in vai 1; and the
poor girl was at last given up for lost.
The old people had beer, very cruel
to her about Thomas; non they shed
bitter and unavailing tears. How
much snaoiFsFo?M have been to
let Annie marry and have her still
with them!
The old grandfath^s shook hands
for the first time for years. The fam
Hies were reconciled ? but Annie was
gone, and Thomas was gone, and
what was the use ?
“ If I only knew what became of
my girl,’’ sighed Mrs. Redwood.
“ Ah, yes,, and if I knew my boy
was alive,” said Mrs. Bento j.
They were, all very sad, but good
country people never stay away from
church for that. Sunday ;ifter Sun
day they met with their sad faces,.
she said. “ Let us go home.”
And glad and angry, and a little
terrified, the Bentons and the Red
woods entered the Redwood home
stead aud closed the door on in
truders.
“We thought you dead, Annie!”
sobbed the mother. “ Oh, you have
been cruel!”
“ But I see my death has reunited
you all,” said Aunie, returning the
embrace.
“ All here but Tom.”
“ Oh, poor Tom!” sobbed his
mother. “ If he were only here, too!”
“ But I must have an explanation,”
cried Mr. Redwood. “ Who are you*
madam? And what life has my
daughter led with you ?”
“ A happy one, I hope, sir,” said
the old woman, tossing off her bon
net and throwing away her cloak;
and before them stood a. tall young
man—Thomas Benton, and no other,
who said :
“In this disguise, I ran away with
Annie a year ago. We changed cos-
itumisMn the church porch, and got
safely off. Now we are here again,
readyvfor your blessing, if you will
give it to ns. Are we forgiven ?”
It was Annie’s mother who said
“yes” first, but the others followed
in chorus.
ON TO CONSTANTINOPLE
Uuin:i*kliig the Russian Programme.
[Journal of Commerce.]
London, July 8.—A dispatch from
Erzeroum dated July 2nd, says the
Russians on Sunday abandoned the
siege of Kars and are now in full
el rent towards the River Ivarstchai
on the frontier. The Turks are greatly
eluted over their success, and repre
sent that the Russians are utterly de
moralized.
Reports front the seat of war are
untrustworthy, but there is no doubt
that the fighting has been of .a terri
ble description, attended with great
carnage both on the Danube and in
Asia Minor. The Turkish forces have
obtained such important victories in
Asia, that the Russian journals are
accusing their Generals of having
managed the campaign badly.
The atrocities are now confined to
one side alone—tlie Bulgarians mas*,
sacreing the Turks, and the Bashi-
Bazouks mutilating the Russians. The
Russians at last openly declare that
Constantinople is the objective point
of the advance on the Danube, under
a guarantee to the English Govern
ment that the occupation will be only
temporary.
The whole pivssu.i the English
Cabinet is being .t*> bear on
the Marquis of Salisbury to prevent
his resignation; in the meantime,
communications are constantly pass
ing between the Austrian and Eng-,
lisk Governments, the Austrian Cabi
net having declined the overtures
made by the Russians for an arrange
ment uuder which they might be
permitted to move their troops
through Servia. The Czar now coun
sels Prince Milan to maintain a peace
ful attitude. *
Layard, - the British Minister at
Constantinople, has assured the Porte
of Servia’s neutrality.
On account of Lord BeaconsfieUl’s
illness, the Cabinet councils are held
at his residence. Beaconsfield, while
extremely anxious that Parliament
should pass a vote of credit for an
amount to be placed at the disposal
of the Government for use in certain
military contingencies, will not ex
press his persona! views-to bis col
leagues in Cabinet.
A dispatch from Turnia Maguerell’
says General Garibaldi has offered
the Roumanian Government to send
experienced officers to form an Italian
legion. The Roumanian Government,
after consulting the Czar, lias refused
the offer.
Austria lias warned that she will
occupy Bosnia if the Turks now
operating against Montenegro enter
Cittinje. Austria is evidently deter
mined that Montenegro shall not be
crushed.
London, July 8.—A dispatch to
the Daily News says the position
occupied by the Russians at Seinuitz.i,
is fortunately admirable for defniso,
and the time allowed th an by the
Turks has enabled them to bring up
men and guns enough to defend it
for two days. The situation was
critical, but now by occupying the
hills in force, the Russians have prac
tically gained an immense advantage.
The Daily Neics' correspondent at
Semnitza sharply criticises the recent
operations. He says the retreating
Turks were not promptly followed,
and though a crossing was effected
on Wednesday, it was only on Satur
day that General SkabelefTs cossaeks
went to learn the whereabouts of the
Turks. Meantime, the bridge was
incomp’ete,‘and tin* Russian force was
liable to an attack on the fiatik from
Rustchuk and Nicopolis.
Tiie access from Semnitza to the
place of embarkation was suffered to
remain a difficult track down a steep
bluff", and no attempt was made to
improve the communication. The
troops on the Turkish bank archiving
precariously. A General’s dinner has
to be sent from his baggage wagon
on this side. Tl\ere is no accumula
tion ot provisions or ammunition at
Sistova. The atmosphere of Semnitza
is poisonous and the water supply
abominable. The correspondent
draws a damaging comparison wii h
the Germans in the foregoing partic
ulars, and says a finer army than the
Russian was never seen, but its very
fineness makes more conspicuous its
defective tactics, methods and ar
rangements. -
ENGLAND ItED HOT FOR A FIGHT.
New York, July 3.—A cable spe
cial from Loudon says, unusual ac-.
tivitv lias been developed in navy
and army circles within the past ten
days, and though not generally
known, England is iu a position to
have 150,000 men iu the field, and
it would not be difficult to mobilize
an army of 300,000 Mohamedan
A cable special from London says:
“ The House of Commons, last night,
was the scene of the most extraordi
nary and unexampled scenes on
record, three of the Irish members
having an altercation with the Gov
ernment. They kept calling for a
division of the Hcuse and made use
of other parliamentary filibustering
tactics all night, the session not end
ing till seven this morning.
A young lady complains to us
that a certain young lawyer of her ac
quaintance doesn’t stick to his profes
sion. We don’t' know whether she
means his professimi of law or some
profession made to her.
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A large number of transports have
been quietly collected at the ports of
Hindostan, and iu two weeks’ time
it is estimated that 150,000 men can
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Ay; hut wait, good wife, a minute;
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Mother, ’tis onr Wedding-day 1
Jnst as now, we sat at sapper
When the guests had gone away;
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Forty years ago to-day l
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