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THE ATM HNS GEORGIAN: AUGUST *3. Ls,7.
H. Stephens.
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Ore ti'u-manarr.
{Charlotte Ob-u-rver.]
Every newi»paiier contains a notice
now that Hun. Alexander H. Stephen-
is entirely renewed in health, and will
return to Waeliinutont -ia Fall looking
better than ever; and now that he is?
on hiit regular monthly parade before
the public gaze, we contribute our
tnite toward keeping the hall moving
by copying with our hearty endow
ment the folicwinir pen picture drawn
bv our good brother Cameron, of the
Hillsboro Recorder, and made true to
life: *' Stephens was always right
at the wrong tithe. He lagged to the
tear when ids services were wanted.
He rushed to the front when the bat
tle was‘lost and could not be restored
He was a peace man when his position
and his duty constrained him to lie for
war, acd lie was the ablest exponent of
the principles which led to the war when
the piactical failure of those principles
hail been irretrievably decided by
wager of battle, lie was a Gram
■“» when Grant trod most heavily
‘-Me South : and he is u
tipon a prom..-. ""it sen>e ol
llayCs mall when the n«»u—
(he Smith rebels against the recogni
tion ot his legality.’’
Wanted to Get on the Jury.
Presently the stillness of the couvi
room was interrupted by the entrance
ot a man, who catue in with d. shut-
fling, uneasy step, and with bis hat i:t
his hand. lie halted, leaning against
the railiug. Nobody took the slightest
notice of him, however. At last he
took courage and spoke; »
“ Is the Judge in ?’’
The clerk immediately awoke his
Honor.
“ Well, what do you want ?”
J “ I’m looking for a job, your Hon
or. I’ve been looking for work over a
month.”
“ There's nothing for you here.”
“ l thought you cccassionaly gave
jurymen ft Job. r 1 don’t read n§w?na-
'pefs flnj\ and bein' it siH4tiger in town
I haven’t got ilfly prejudices flgiil any
body, A purd of mine wrote down to
■fee at Reno, last week, and said that
the jury business up here was brisk an’
it would pay to come up. As I’m a
stranger to you, and a little hard up.
I’ll start in and serve for a case or two
for half price, and yon kin see what I
kin do.’’
“ What arc your main qualifica
tion ? ’
agree.
on *er „
the first ballot, then jine the majority
and argue the rest into it. I can din
count any lawyer talking. I can show
’em points they never tumble*! to be
font. Sometimes I have to use force,
but seldom. Once down at Truckee,
in a murder case, there was a couple
of.fellers standin* out agin hangin,’
and after arguing with ’em as smooth
and gentlemanly as I could for over a
quarter of an hour, I went for ’em
with chair8,and by the tin.e I’d busted
half a dozen pieces of furniture ove*
’em they was glad to cotne in with a
Verdict of ‘Murder in the first dpgree.
and the feller was hung not long after ‘
ward. In these Juatties courts I can
get on a jury, and if yot ’ll just give
me a winkas to bow you want tin-
case to go, I’ll guarantee to fetch in
the verdict you want, or not take a
cent.*’
The man was told to drop around
again in a day or so and they would
try and make a vacancy for him In
onler to do it, however, some regular
juryman will probably have to be' dia»
oharged — Virginia City Chronicle
About tite Name of h Flub.
Apropos of the camp meeting at
Martha’s Vineyard, the Methodist
newspaper tells a story of some of the
brethren who arrived early and sought
to while away the time by going3i
fishing. Several kinds of fish wore
caught on the trip, an*! on their re
turn, one of the fishermen, with a
laudable desire for information, in
quired of the skipper the names of
the different specimens. “ This,”
said he, “it » black fish, that iajt
blue fish, the next is a soup, and that
fellow ia a Baptist ” “ A Baptist!”
exclaimed the go6d brother; “why
do you call those fish Baptists?”
* Because they spoil so soon on being
taken out of water,” was the satis-
factory explanation.
Last week a man 60 years old
walked 19 miles on the railroad to
town to buy bis marring*) license.
The case is hardly eo bad that
occurred in Suramor county, Tenn.,
some time ago. A roan walked to
Gallatro, 30 miles, to get his license,
but after making application be lathed
20 cents of having money enough.
He walked back home nhd tried to
borrow 50 coots, and failing* walked
book to Gallatin, and spent three days
trying to beat down the clerk.
NKWH HU.U .*1A BY.
Some expert lias estimated that
17,000,000 grub worm- and 100.000
rats peri>hed in the conflagration of
the Hittahurg elevator. The rioters
should ask a discount on that.
—Ten car loads of ammunition,
140 tons in all, have been loaded
upon the steamer John Bramhall, at
"the Winchester Rifle Works, New
Haven. Destination—Turkey.
—The shipping of Southern fruit to
tlio Northern market, by the way of
Petersburg, is noticeably on tho in
crease over former years.- Largely
over one million pounds of fruit .have,
within the past several weeks been
carried mirth through Petersburg by
express.
—The lightning behaved strangely
at Jamestown, N. Y., when it went
through a church without harming
any one of the congregation, and killed
a small boy on the outside of the
church. It was an unjust discritui-
' '■ of those who attend
nation tn
church. Bt t there is Mm r*tiwu m
strikes ol any jkinti.
—Puring his visit to Au-
gust) HisibftKh told an Ameri
can gOttlUman that Prince Gorchakofl
was, in his opinion, the greaters states
man of his time, and expressed the
belief that history would confirm that
jjdgment. The American hinted
that among his own countrymen pub
lic opinion inclined to award the first
place to Bismarck himself, to which
the Count modestly replied: “ No; I
am only (he pupil, He is tho mas
ter.”
—The shrinkage in attendance at
Saratoga this year, taking in all the
hotels and boarding houses, w about
twenty per cent. on last yedK The
Grand Union Hotel is less popular
this year than heretofore j Congress
Hall is the favorite and doing the
largest business, while, the United
.States is full. It is estimated that
fully 1,500 wealthy Jewish people
who previously spent the summer
there have gone eltewhere. Sharon,
Richfield and Long Branch have
profieted by the Hilton-Seiigman
affair.
—During the hoodlum attack upon
the Chinese quarter in San Francisco
fifty horses were taken from horse-car
-tables for the use of the citizens’ cav
alry. Much difficulty was experienced
in preventing the animals from charg
ing up Sutter street whenever that
Thoroughfare was crossed. Finally
Captain Tlrittenden conceived the idea
ot strapping a car bell to the pommel
of his saddle, by the aid ot which TiiH
entire command was started, halted,
and otherwise maneuvered with the
greatest precision.
—The detectives at Constantinople
find it extremely difficultto enforce the
sumptuary laws against the use by the
women of their yashmaks, fashionably
cut frajees and high-heeled French
boots. The officers were instructed to
stop any woman who did not con
form to the law, to demand herad-
dress, and, having obtained it, to
proceed to her house and when there
to wain her relatives of the impropri
ety of her conduct. The women
proved themselves to be more than a
match .for the police. The dectec-
lives now- complain that when they
have accosted a culprit and have ob
tained an address from her they have
almost invaiinbly found, on visiting
the house named by her, that she had
given them a talse direction, and that
nothing but derision and c -ntumely
awaited them. It is now- announced
tbal in the future the police will fol
low' every culprit to her house, and
thou and there demand speech of her
lord and master.
Chinese women have no sense.
Every night they pray to their goda
to change theta into men. Ob, foolish
woman. . By the time you. had walked
a mile and a half out of your way in
the hot atm and. dived down eleven
alleys aadl rambled through three
lumber yards on your way to the
office, In order to keep cot ot. - the way
of men who are looking lor you toduu
you would be happily content to
sit at boioo behind closet blind a and
locked doors in an upstairs room: and
sew all day. Want - to be a man, in-
died.
Mischief in Wail Street.
Benrji tiew- Tonu sl o..a fniliuc Sachin# by
I e icy \. -with and bln Ureters.
Several days ago, when business
was dull iu the Stock Exchange, Hen
ry N. Smith, Jay GoUhiVold partner,
stepped into Henry Clews*'office, in
New Street Mr. Clews was absent,
and Smith, while sauntering around,
noticed a fine painting in a corner.
Watching to. see that Mir. Clews did
not return, Mr. Smith hired two boys
to carry the picture across the 3treet to
Timpson & Gillespy’s. After hang
ing it, Smith went out among the
brokers, and, after bringing them in,
offered to raffle the work of aft at one
dollar p-r chance. The painting was
a valuable one, ai|d in a shigt time
the chances were nearly all" taken.
Smith went (gttsidc and, finding Mr.
Clew-, persuarj&d him to take the re
maining chawies, and then took him j
in to tec tho picture and attend the
raffle.
When Clews recognized his proper
ty he pretended to be indignant Ar*
officer and
eav " oraitli into custody. The pris
oner urged the crowd to go down to
O’Brien’s and all take a drink, ns a
preliminary to his incarceration.
Smith stood treat out of the raffle
money. A pulling machine stood in
the comer, and Smith challenged
Clews to a trial of strength, and tak
ing the handles made a good score.
Clews took off his cot>t, '■braced
against the foot board, seized the me
tallic handles, and suddenly became
convulsed with pain. His arms
twisted and his legs gyranted. “Let
me oft,” he cried, but Smith winked
and the barkeeper turned on more
electricity, ,
Mr. Clews «ritiicd iu awful agQpy.
“0 won’t I make you pay for this!”
he yelled, as an extra amount of power
was turned on behind the bar.
“ Send away your policeman and
we will let you off,” said Smith, and
Clews told the officer to vanish.
Then he was let off and after an
other “ smile ” and the divison of the
raffle money the crowd eeparat^ST’But
Henry Clews says be will be yet even
with Henry N. Smith. ^
ThW .New York Worid thus an
nounces the death of tho last of the
sensations: “ The strike is over; so is
the Benningloh. centennial; ’ the. dog
ordinance eas been muzzled; the excise
raids are t laved out; the Eastern war
is peace; G.’W. B. has gone down the
harbor; there hasn’t been a savings
bank or an insurance company bursted
during the past twent-frur hours;
General Howard hasn’t caught Cliiel
Joseph, and there are no more con
ventions till next week If anybody
connected with the Tweed busiuesshas
any statement to make, now is his
time.”
Wto. i;>.
If we die to-day, the sun wilt shine
as brightly, the birds will sing as
sweetly to-morrow. Business will
not be suspended a moment, and the
great man will not bestow a thought
upon oar foemories. “ Is he dead ?”
will be the solemn inquiry of a few, as
they pass to their work. But no one
will miss ns, excepting our immediate
connections, and in a short tinoe.tbey
will forget and laugh as merrily as
when we sat beside them. ' Thus shall
we all, now active in life, pass away.
Our ^children crowd close beh&d nsiT
and they will soon pan away, jin a
few a years not a liviug being cahsay,
“I remember him.” We lived in
another age, and did business with
those who slumber in the tomb. Thus
is life! How rapidly it panes. *
A workingman’s convention was
recently held in Galveston, Texas,
and the principal resolution adopted
looked to the regulation ot' every
labor rmtikvt by Congress. “ We
will petition that body,” d*-clares the
resolution, “ to pass a law making it
a pengl offense for any corporation or
firm to advertise • tor men, either la
borers or mechanics, w hen the supply
is equal to the demand in their own
localities.”
STOVES.
The Hatse-Keepeis Rmmtcs!
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Atlanta and Augusta Undersold,
THE TREMENDOUS STOCK OF
THE MOST DURABLE!
The Cheepest and Best!
i otter the ah.,vc STOVEa to the citizen-! Cf
Northeast Georgia, In-sides Tinware, Sheet Iron,
Copper, Zinc., etc. Call and yon will l,e satisfied.
J. C, WILKINS
SICS OK THK P
aiuT-Sui
Street,
COKKKE fOT.
TffP j
SIDE;
Tho authorities of Oakland, Md.,
are evidently of a festive and accom
modating disposition. One of its
municipal scaudals refers to the fail
ure ot i he Common Council to light
ihe streets properly one niglit. bwAu-e
they had loaned the city’s lamps to
the proprietor ot a beer garden ill the
outskirts.
OR,
ANOERSONVILLE PRISON:
Compiled from Official Documents
iu the hands of
It HUMPH STHEHSOH, M. (L
Formerly Smyeon ill tha Army of the Con
federate States of America r (Siief Surjrton of
the Confederate Staten Priron U<«nital», Ander-
eonville, Oi-.'tvrin; Surgeon and Medical l’ur-
veyor of the Confederate Statue Frison!* East of
the Miesirnippi river.
Together with a-review of a nortion of the
testimony of the witneeaca iu the celebrated
“ Wire Trial,’' and brief notice* of acme of the
works that have apixaired on Southern Prisons
hy-Northerfl-Autliors,
WITH AST APPENDS^
Containing the names of alwut 13.OU0 Union
Soldiers who died at Audersonvilfe; giving
number of their craves, their rank, the Coiu|w
uies and Regiments to which they belonged,
and the date of tlteir den li, ns registered by the
author and others.
Also, Cause and Classiticatiou of the Disease
incident to Prison Life; Comparative Sfat •
meats of Prisoners captured, an-1 deaths in
Northern and Southern Prisons; A Chapter on
the Exchange Bureau, etc., etc
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