The Athens weekly Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1875-1877, December 25, 1877, Image 1
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pared fora a. rush oil Demark.
Sha did’t scream—she hurriedly
looked up and down the road and
saw that apparently she was alone
with this man. I could seegpy the
light of the lamp that her face was
deadly pale, hut in a calm voice (the
sweetest voice I ever heard) she
said:
“Yon may walk beside me if. you
w311J^r c .;„~.-s-^ dsafe- .>•
Demark would rather have taken
my knock-down Item that, and looked
exceedingly sheepish as ho walked
along with her, and’ I followed be
hind not knowing what to do, as this
was a totally unexpected turn in the
curse I want to
u did you say
ight. You can’t
hooks came down and
was Withdrawn.*
“That was all,” sai
with a sigh.
“But the girl, 5 ’ said
ever know what her
outside.
nervous i
Singleinan
Iti-iijO'fVou was Christmas, and on;re-
flection so I ought. But seriorolyv
Ididknowit would bo Christ mas. f;
merely : wanted lyv’introduce Christ-
mas ns'jihe. subject of ronveri.trion.
and itfo\v that it was the subjoct^I
hanflydrapw. what, to say next. So I
cpjppromised by saying, f: V -
^ “ I’il take nttbther cup # tea,
‘‘^Vhy; yonr^tStp jsn*t empty yet,
Johir,': sold my vnfe;. “What’s the
matter with you tcJ-day?”
a fact I-%pidn’fc tiottaejiji;
was full—all right; Tliat’a a good
. not heeding what,
i* broke out. a.bont
inovning, aigl I-——”
next morning, I ur
$oU4tor ttt4h» N otSe®»
It to Demark. It was
fje Christmas. I told
iny discovery, of where
iloyed. Now,” said 'I,
is to get tlic accounts
out before the end of
says Demark.
f likely she’ll b e there
’» we’ll follow her—yon
e side of the street and
» side she is, hud you
id speak to her and try
Prompt
affair.
Thus did the strange trio proceed
for about a quarter of a mile, when
suddenly a policeman and a lantern
loomed up from a doorway lie was
examining, tike an arrow slm
sprang from Demark’s side and
grasped the astonished policeman by
the arm with both hands.
“ Sir, sir,” she cried, now, in the
wildest excitement, which showed
how pent up her fear had beci^be
fore, “ that man has insulted me,
when he thought no one was tear-
arrest. him.” and tier eves fiiirlv
Burgess yesterday, he ga
News reporter tlie following
LAW,
will be remembered what a great
feeling of excitement, and indignation:
was ^caused by the hanging of
Mumford for pulling a United States^
flag down from a staff on the New
Orleans
. Pro;. Ilurgess stales th.it,ho wjs
the person 'vl>o pulled the flag from
the staff tui i. passed itf to CaptaiD
Oiiyer Cantup, of the lower Missis-
iVatkinsvIUc, (it.
of course
uainted.”
oai.VlS7C-iy
tote,’’ said Single-
manner. “Young
rt day are up to
mt I never heard
Sn, it was silly—1
nth'out being told
people think ”
; Siiiglemai’H, go
•ere saying. Do-
mann, m
^nen of
almost :
<>! itliefi
Special atteutloi
For re.fercuce nrvp
r.nJ Hon. Buriil
Office over. fo-t-l IH
JebS-lsTffWJf-.,
liiiJ.time?”^ .
fySljjnighr' have done
thought of
s:iidp*^hife Oup itr pret tv
, but for two or three,or
friend, “if you ” ' . :
“Don’t speak to me, you—you
coward/’she replied conteintpUbiisfy.
Their suddenly and without'a
she turned ’and walked rapidly
away.
The policeman placed bis hand on
Demark’s shoulder. Demark had
been standing there transfixed,'■with
his eyes following the retreating fig
ure of the girl. He seemed to wake
up and flung the hand of .Vhe police-
Sr™
jurse ?”
that is, not at
utt at having all
^operation and
pit l explained
Will practice tit i
n Ciijuit, Hurt h
ip,” criei
about his lAWoge al l?
{ jreat incident that has
listnrv, and • ydung H;
Athens, Ga
a Dcnprce Building,
Alex S. Knit is. Anursw J. Cobb.
'RW1N & COBB,
attorneys at. i.\w.
Allien?, Ga
me ’
“I beg your pardon,’’ continued
Singlemann, releasing his grip on my
shoulder. “Idon’t think you care
Office on Comer of Blond nnd Thomas streets,
over Childs, Nickerson <fc Co.
Ieb'i2-is7«j-ly
^ m. cocim.vx,
ATTOH17EY AT XJtWi-
Gainesville, Ga.
Vgtil
purchase and side of Mineral and Farming
bands in llnll, and the other counties of North-
■ ist Georgia. .Mineral ores tested and titles to
P ierty investigated. Special attention given
10 purchase and sale of city nroperty.
inayg— Cm J. N. DORSEY. Attorncv..
^HnUHYG; JlcCURKY,
Abfcorxxey a-fc Law,
Hartwell, Georgia,
practice in the Superior Courts of North-
Qeoigia and Supreme Court a! Atlanta.
1876 tf
Alex. S. Extra,
Athens.
& ERWIN,
A TTORN KY’S A T LA IP.
Will practice in paitucrsliin in the Superior
rt of Oconee County, ami attend promptly
II business intrusted to their care.
BUSHfESS CARDS.
A. It.KIS,
'Wa'sslara-Jxar 5s <Jowolor,
iiichael’store, next door to Reaves & Nidi
's, Broad stieet, Athens, Georgia, A11
warranted 12 months.
COTTOXT BTJVBR,
Tocoa City, Ga. -1 ■
for
cash prices paid
(Hus and Pre
'-lS75-tf
1*. LIT TLE,
attouney at law,
Ci.rooivillc, Ga.
J03>b3iS <5c 7IVE,
AND COUNSELLORS AS LAW
SIBLEY'S NEW BUILDING,
BROAD STItl'.KT, ACtilSTA, LK0KGIA.
.VXD KALE STABLE.
Bunglcs& horses
Terms reasonable.
E. M. WHITEHEAD,
Wilkes county, G.-.
mann
“Now, sec here, John. Old
Singlemann boards at one pf the best
hotels in. Detroit, and will get a
better dinner titan we have :o give:
him.” f *■’* , ,
“ Of course, but yon see, my dear,
it isn’t the dinner alone. On Christ
mas a man )ikes a good dinner, of
course, hut that is riot all. I ean’t
help thinking that a man imnl feel
rather lonely eating ai Christinas
dinner at a hotel. Christmas is n
time when our feelings entwine ”
“ On, nonsansc. Old Singleniann
Tins no feelings' to entwine, or if he
lias, why didn’t lie get married years
ago, aud then he .wouldn’t have to
be lonely and board out? At his
age—”
“Now, there’s were you mistake.
Singlemann is not old; but ntVor
mind, we won’t ask him.’’
“ Why not, pray ?’’
“I shall not ask him, at least.”
“ Well, it yo\i don’t I will.’’
“Look nice, you going to a hotel
to ask a man to dinner ’
“ If my hpsbaudj won’t do it lot
me, I suppose I must.”
“Oh, if you insist, I’ll ask him, of
course.” t
“ Then I insist.’’
This was why I wanted the subject
of Christmas introduced. I knew
Singlemann must be rather glad to
escape his splendidly-furnished rooms
for one day. Of course every one in
this city knows the mercantile house
of Demark & Co. Singlemann aud I
were the Co., and Demark—well, of
course, he was Deraark.
Demark and Singlemann had
roomed together when they were
boys and young .men. Then Demark
got married, nnd Singlemami took
the rooms he has now.
“Singlemann, old fellow,” I said
when we sat alone in the counting
room after the store was closed
Christmas eve—“ I have a turkey
which I want your help on to-morrow.
Come down to dinner.”
“ Too late, my boy ; I just prom
ised Demark to go up with him to
morrow. His wife particularly re
quested it, and so I didn’t like to
reluse; you know.”
“ Oh, of course not. Very nice
little woman, Demark’s wife iac”
“ What!” said Singlemann, so
fiercely and sharply that I was quite
startled.
“ I said Mrs. Demark was rather a
fine lady
“Certainly! certainly J” said
Singlemann, looking somewhat
abashed. Then, after a pause he
said:
Did yon ever notice how wnipped up
Demark is in business? Business
will be the conversation over the
turkey to-mqr:o*v. I tell yo-t young
men nowadays—”
“ How about that girl?”
“Oh, yes—she always dressed
plainly, but you ought to have seen
lier» I tell you, John, young Ladies
nowadays think of nothing but dress,
and yet with all their silks and fcath
erg—”
“ I know; Solomon in all his gldrv
was not arrayed like your Woodward !
avenue belle—in plain clothes.
He poked the fire for nearly two
minutes, and I began to fear that I
had figuratively put my foot into it
and lost my. story.
“ I think any one must have fallen
in love witli her, but I could never
get Demark to see it. I nevet cared
for any pne before or since. I was
completely—but what’s the use t'f
talkiug of that. I met her every
uiornhig. She always looked straight
ahead and never seemed to know
that she passed the same two fellows
every day. Where did she live?
What did she do? One night in
December, as I came up late from
the store, I was astonished to see my
young lady—I called I cr mine—
standing at a desk in a counting-
room. Her bat and cloak were flung
on the desk beside her, and she was
evidently just ready to leave The
loveliest little frown was on her brow,
and the figures evidently wouldn’t
add up right. The lamp-light shore
i ou her fair face, and it never looked
so handsome before. I stood before
the -window and gazed there in rapt
admiration, and, I may say, adora
tion. I tell you, John, I uou’t be
lieve that people nowadays know
what it is ”
“ Well, did she como out?”
“ Of course she did,” said Single
mann,- a little crossly, “ and equally
of course I followed her at a distance
aud saw where she lived. She walked
straight ou aud did not seem a bit
afraid. She seemed to set her lips
closely together, draw her cloak
around her, and walked swiftly to
her destination. Several times I de
termined to speak to her, but had
neither courage nor excuse. ‘De-
mark,’ said I, when I reached ray
room, ‘ wake up, wake up,’ and I
shook—”
“Singlemann,” said I, “I am not
Demark. There is no use in shaking
MR _
ndship, he at Igst
consented. Yon see,
Demark never cared anything about
girls, or'snch as that; he was all busi
ness. I have often- said to him,
jokingly, of conrse, that I believed
that if-L—”
“ Singlemann—go op with that
diabolical plot of yours, and never
mind' Demsfrk. I knbw linn Well
enough.” ■ <■ ,»*.<. i . -c
“ Of course, you do, aH the
way down to the store where sho
worked. Demark was saying what a
fi n thing it was for two young
men to conspire to frighten the life
out .of a girl on the. dark streets of h
city. We got there atJast, and she
was at her desje. Ah ! John, when I
picture how she stood there—but
that’s ■ no matter; I thought she
would never come >out—it seemed
.agqa,^ JL never .copld hay? stopd it,
only it kept all my attention getting
Demark to stick to his promise, for
he wanted to back out, now that we
were ou the spot. You kuow Demark
is . the very ; soul of , honor. .Why,
when Beat & Embezzle foiled, you
know, we needti’t have paid a cent,
for they held no—”
‘5 Singlemann, do you remember
that I know the whole particulars of
that failure?”
Certainly. That’s a fact, I forgot
that; well, Demark wanted to go
home again aud begged me to release
him from ltis promise, but I wouldn’t,
nnd he stuck to his contract like a
man—he always docs, you know.
Well, just as the City Hall bell struck
cloven—” " * -
“Oh, ho! Singleman—keep straight
uow. Why, man, tlie' City Hall was
not built then.”
“That’s so—1 am L ,l : <tg a straight
story for all-that slip. Some bell
struck eleven. I had ;ny,face press
ed close against the pane, but where
she could not see me, and as the hour
was tolled she shut the-heavy ledger
with a bang that mad me start, and I
heard her say, “ Only an hour till
Christmas,” and she smiled. John,
she looked divine—like an augel,
ouly angels don’t keep books, except
ing the Recording Augel. But just
then Demark began begging off again.
She soon camo out, and as before
walked rapidly away.
“ No w,” I whispered to Demark,
“ remember your promise.’’
He crossed tlie street without a
word, aud I fallowed the girl. De-
mark acted his part like a man, or a
villain, rather. He crossed back
again and coming up to her, said:
“ Madam, allow me v to sec you
home.’’ aud offered is arm.
“ K4ep your hand from
Demark. .
The policeman drew-'..is club and
grasped Demark again, and I sprang
to the rescue of my friend, but some
how I ran against that club and so if
you want the details of the scuffle
von must ask Demark,or hunt.up
that policeman. : i
Demark saw Christmas morn
ing dawn through the bars of the
lock-up..... • ; ..t
I had an interview with hint, nnd
fonnd him very much depressed. lie
didn’t give a cent, he said^ about the
arrest, but the meanness of the ac
tion was what hurt him. I proposed’
to see our employer and have him go
Demark’s bail, or else have the affair
hushed up, if possible but Demark
positively forbade any such proceed
ing, besides, it would, iuevitably. re
sult in tbe discharge of liqth of us
I left the cell as dejected as De-
mark was, and did’nt know what
to do.
I resolved to do an act of justice,
however, and accordingly went di
rect to the. resideuce of the young
lady, and • rapped at the door—there
was no bell.
I had no sooner done so than I
remembered that I didn’t even know
what name to r.sk for. However,
the young lady herself opened the
door nnd put an end to my embar
rassment on this score, but increased
my embarrassment on a thousand
other scores.
I told the' 1 whole story, putting the
blame exactly where it belonged,
She never said a word • during the
recital, but sat there with that
straight ahead look in her eyes and
I half doubted whether she paid any
attention to what I said.
She bowed me out without a word
and I went home more, depressed
than ever. After thinking the mat
ter over I resolved to go to our era
ployer anfl lay the whole ease before
him in spite of what Demark had
said, and by assuming the whole
blame, as of course I ought to do,
aud accepting iny discharge, he might
get Demark out and keep l.iin in his
employ. It was no fan to loose a
good place then, I can tell you; now
days people change around more.
There’s that young Smyth, who kept
accounts for us last year. I hear he’s
in San Francisco, and I guess doing
first rale. I told Smyth when lie
left that if—’
• Never mind Smyth,” said I;
“ did your employer get Demark
out?”
“ As I was saying, I started down
to see him when I met Demark him-
do<*t],oue of the party.
Prof B. was wise in kciping his
own counsel on the subject till now,
as the News is the first to reeeeive
the nbove'pnrticnlars from him. :
Gen,; Butler, please take notice.
'‘'the ingenuity of the Chinese is
not’confined to embroidery, ceramics,
and decorative art, but extends to
internal revenue. One of the latest
schemes of t jhe Celestial statesme*:
proposes a t,-ix on iiew-lioi'ti iof.Ytits.'
The sunt ; s ridiculously slntiil—Hhout
ten cents—but ns l»«bies are one of the
principal productions of the Celestial
Empiie, mid the maikqt is constantly
overstocked, a handsome revenue from
this source is confidently expected
Thfe tax falls due wheu the infant
enters the world, aud the happy
father, without delay, steps down
to the captain’s office and sellies its
passage. 'Strange as it may seen,
there are no deductions in case of
double entry. This is not in accord
ance with natural equity or c. stoma
morality. The tax; tor twins surely
ought not to exceid fifteen coins, for
small jobbing let!*, with the tisual dis-:
count for the trade;.
In conversation with one of the
best informed citizen of Athens, on
Monday morning, lie gave it ns,his
opinion, that.the receipt oi'cotton at
that, point would be perhaps 35,000,
or more bales, and that §100,000
would be saved to the farthers of the
surrounding country, by tbe North
eastern railroad, ui the convenience
and reduction of freights by the
building of tlir.t road. Lc also re
marked, at tlie same time, that tli"
business of the road had for exceeded
the expectation of its friends.—1'brcst
New.
Harry St. Clair prof, ssed peni
tence i'i a religious revival in New
London, Conn., and joined the church.
A few days afterwards he walked into
a church meetajfc. declared that his
pretense of codVefaion was all a sham,
and that he “ properly belonged to the
devil.” Ho tlien went off on a spree.
Michael Murphy was accompanied
in his sprees, in East Boston, by an
other b'ute—a very savage bulldog.
The pair were a terror to the jxople.
Murphy set the dog on two women
who had resented his insults, and one
of them were bitten twenty-one times,
and the other eight, before a folice
officer’s shot rescued them.