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YOLUMEIII.
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nu ENA VISTA. GA.
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William b. hinton,
attorney at LAW.
BUENA VISTA. GA
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Stut the District and Circuit Courts ot the
United States, , * „
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BUENA VISTA, GA.
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A MKRIC'UHi GKOHOi IA,
Office on Umar Street.
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TCUAVILLE, - - - GEORGIA
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JSmti/BEtiL vices to the people ot Marise
,i buirounding counties. He
vill call at the residetfeaof ifl potties dosir
fag dautai work done, when notified by m .it
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people of Marion. Satisfaction guaranteed, and
at reasonable price*.
Special inducements offered to those who will
arrange to vieit nay office to have their opera
tions performed. my22-t
J A 8. L. BRABINCTON,
Bailor,
iIUENA VIHT A. GA
Jt'oiild V'eapeetfoMy announce to the public
and his friends that to i still at bis post;
tea.ly for all kinds of tailoring—Cutting, Sluk
iag Repairing, Cleaning, etc. Those wnnt
ihg measures to send for suits ean get them
hitti. fr®" Latest styles asid fashions al
ways oh lhmd. sAtk L. BKA9INOTON
B B Hinton, Attorney aud Councelor at
law. Americus, G., id how prepared to pro
itate pensions for the widows of soldiers of
gbn war of 1812, as toll os pensions for sol
di*. tot. J). B. HINTON.
DISCOVERIES IN THE MOON.
There was an old woman
Who lived in the inoon;
She made rice pudding,
And cut it too soon.
When slip found ’twasn't done,
.''■be gave it a throw;
It came to our planet
And we called it “snow.”
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When her little lioy saw
What his molpei had done,
lie sijpwled and marie jflbes
Tliat clouded tho KUtl.
He’d lost his dear pudding,
And to wish was in vain j
Hit tears fell, in torrents,
But we called them “rain.”
The man in tho Moon, who
Had been off to town,
Heard his Itttle boy crying,
Which caused him to lrowned.
He gave him a nice sweetmeats,
And told him to dine ;
0, then there was smiling !
Wj called it ‘ moonshine.”
[Wide Awake for May
CAPTURING JWQ YANKEE?*
Itcsult of a Scouting Expedition
It was only a year ago that I met
Abe McClellan. PoorA.bc! I hard
ly knew him. so sailiy had lie changed.
His hair was gray, his eyes bleared
and bloodshot and 1 is lace bloated
and discolored. He was sitting in
a barroom at Johnson City, Tenn.,
very much under the influence of liq
uor, but whn lie recognized me his
in.inner changed, and he seemed to
feel r ght keenly the degration of his
appearance aud condition.
\\ e drew our chairs together in
one corner of llie room and Organ to
fight over again the battles we had
f.uglit together , decade aud a halt
ago. Whilst we were lalking a pom
pous, consequential man entered Hie
room and walking to ihc bar called
lor drinks, inviting the company pres
cm (o join him. I refused and Abe,
although lii.s lace lighted np at the
prospect of more liquor, aid 1 could
s e the refusal cost him considerable
effiv , imitated me. When tno pom
pous party at last left the room 1 ask
ed Abe who he was.
“He was with Si over in Ihe early
part of lire war—Capt. Young; uud
1 capture and ldm at Murlrecsbero.
lie is now at'. imuratice agenn By
the way, I don't mink you ever In a.U
that story, Colonel, f captured Inin
and his companion, J flout. Blevins.
World you like to hear it?' 1
“Assuredly,” I rep iod, and wi.h n
longing look towards tlie (1. can ers
and bottles b hitul the bar, Abe lilt
ed back his chair, and began as fol
lows :
“It was just before the battle ol
Ceriinth that I happen and to s alt
out ou a scouting expedition, and in
three days from the time 1 ictt oui
camp found myself comtor ably quar
tered at Murfreesboro, which place
was then in possession of the Feder-
al.*. I had been there an hour oi
two —long enough to take a walk
through Ihe town and pick up some
valuab c information—when I stum
bled across my brother Ned, who had
been attached to Zolicotfer's com
mand. but was now with John Mor
gan. He was on a scout, also, and
wc linked fortunes. My business
was completed the next day, and I
hunted up Ned to know if ne would
accompany inc out of the city that
night.
“Certainly,” lie replied, “but wc
must first do something to make the
Yankees remember us.”
“What shall it be?”
‘•Listen and I’ll tell you,” said he.
“I learned, this morning, that two
Yankee officers, Cunt. Young and
Lieut. Blevins, are stopping at the
house of a noted Union sympathizer
just outside of the lines. If we go
about it right we can capture them.”
Young was known to me as the
'leader ot a party of bushwhackers,
Who had been the death of many of
my friends and companions. Blevins
was his lieutenant. I was willing to
thko great risk to effect their capture,
They were stopping with one McAn
drews, who was the father of two
beautiful and very interesting daugh
ters, the admiration ol all ihe eligible
young officers of both armies. Care
fully making our arrangements bc
lore band, we passed through Mur
freesboro, and under cover of night
passed through tho lines and gained
the house of McAndrows. There
were two doors to the mansion, and
leaving Ned to guard one door, I
went around to the other and knock
ed loudly for admittance. Me Andrews
came to tho door. Presenting my
pistol I said:
“1 wish you to deliver up, at once,
Capt. Young ami his friend, Lieut,
Blevins, both officers of the Fede:al
army.”
Seeing that I was alone, the old
tnan proceeded to slam the door in
my face, but was prevented bj Ned,
who had entered the rear door un
preceivcd, and seized his arms.
“llnug on to him,” I cried, “and
i’ll seatch the building from root to
cellar.”
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1878.
I Went through the 'mi ding thor
oughly, with tho exception of one
room, the chamber ol the grown-up
(lutiglil rs of M(‘Andrews.
“You will respect t hat chnmher,”
said tho old runn, “will you not? My
daughters are both undressed and in
b d.”
Just then 1 heard a scuffle down
stairs and walked out upon the land
ing to see Lieut. Blevigs struggling
to escape from Ned, Who had pn'cd
him out of a c ock standing in one
corner of the room, a ponderous eight
day affair, in Ihe companions interior
of which a man con'd cosily slow
himself away. One gl lice s.itistiid
ine that Ned had his man under con
troll, and I turned aga n to the oid
man.
“1 do not want to molest, or harm
your daughters,” said I, ‘ but 1 must
search that room.”
Acc-.rdingly tho old n an stepped
into Ihe apartment and told his
daughters to lay still and cover ihom
s Ives up, as I was about, to (liter
the room. The girls did as dcsnvd,
and when 1 went in not even their
laces could be seen. With tit dis
turbing them, I examinined every
cioset and cupboard, carefully search
ed in every nook where it was possi
ble a man could bo hidden, but could
discover no one. In dispair I ad
vanced to flic bed, and lifting the
curtains, looked under it, in despite
of old McAndrews’ urotest.
‘ Come, Captain,’’said I, “get out
of this. ’
The girls now begun to cry bitter
ly at their awkward position, and as
Young would not get out qui-tly, he
was most unceremoniously compelled
to, and walk down stairs with mre
On mounting our horses we compell
ed our pri on rs lo seat themselves
in front .f us, and when wa were
ready to leave, I turned t > old Mo-
Andrews and said:
“J would ad'ir-e you in future to
be a Rule more discrete and not con
ceal Yankee officers in your daugh
ters’ ivorn—such conduct may result
in something dangerous lo tour hon
or,’'
“Wc rode all that night, in the di
nvt ion of Siu,ct Kilie, ami tlie next
morning reached a Coufedimc camp,
and turned our prisoner* over.”
Abe having finuishid his’sto.y, I
rose aud walked towards Ihc bar.
Ife followed with alacrity, and in re
sponse to the b Getters inq dry as to
what he should be scrv< and with,
hoarsely ejaculated “whiskey.”
Si 7.; oi £le;uis.
It is a disp.u.od question as to
whether thoteUa reait.on I) tween
the size of the head aud the dovelo; c
ment of the intellect. But the hl
- facts stated by a French med
ical journal. would se< m to indicate
Hud the relation exists:
Cuvier, Byron and the First Nc
p'oloan required larger hats than the
average man, and their head cover
ing, says a contemporary, would
probably come down on the nose of
an inmate of the Earlswood Assy hint.
Bismarok and Moltcke measures
more round the crown than the Em
peror William. Inferior races have
heads smaller than the Europeans,
the heads ot negroes, Red Indians
and Cochin-Chinese being paitieire
larly small, although, by way of com
pensation, they are particlarlv hard.
Women have small heads, but a deal
of mischief is sometimes packed in
them. Men in the South lias small
er heads than these in the North,
mountaineers than dutzens oi the
plains, artizans than artists. The
heads of peasants grow, says the
writer of this article, when their
owners come lo reside in towns,
'ihc head increases in volume with
the ordinary mortal until the ago of
loiuy five.
An Astonished Dutchman.
A Dutchman in Pennsylvania oil re
gions lt his hands to an oil company
last Spring on condition of receiving
cue-eight of the oil procured. The well
proved to be a pretty goo 1 one, and
ilia former thought that the od men
should give him a better choice, and
ventured lo toll them so. He said they
ought to give him one tweß'li. Ihe ar
rangement was finally made, with the
understanding that the Dutchman was
not to tell any one. All went on
smoothly Until die division day came,
when our ftiend was early at hand, to
see how much better he would be off
under the new bargain. Eleven barrels
were rolled to one side for the oil men
and ono for him. “How’s dish?' said
he, “f think I was to get more as before,
you have made some mistakes.” The
matter was explained to bitn that lie for
merly got one barrel out of eight, but it
was his proposition to take one out. of
every twelve. This revelation took him
abash. Ife scratched his bead, looked
cross and relieved his swelling bioast of
self-reproach by indignantly remaining,
“Well dat isli the first lime as I ever
I knowed ciglrt was mor’u dwelvo.
A. DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER;
A panther nine feet long was killed
hear Oakland.
Summit Times : 'ho pel in Liberty
was visited on Sntmd.y night of Issi
week by a body of twenty or tweniy-five
outlaws, who made a determined effort
i<) release the bulldozers coniine ] in it,
and would prohali'y hay!* succeeded, bin
fur lire alarm being given by - shot fir, and
at a citizen, who v.,4? aceidwl dly pass
ing across the street. Thors were no
guards at the jail, we learn lo le.-i t the
attack; but the alarm bo'ng given; the
bloodhounds lied into the surrounding
dai kness.
Meridian Mercury says; An old negro
woman died in this cry, a day or so
since, something like a hundred years
old. She died of no disease whatever
but merely expired of old age. What is
remarkable about this oid woman is,
that she never prayed in her life, as she
asserted a lew days before her death.
Tho Columbus Democrat save : That
along the road from Walihall to Winona
iho caterpillars have (auiy denned the
foiest of foliage. It is feared that fruit
trees will be seriously damaged. Num
bers of trees in the forest will die, which
besides ilm l"S;> of timb r, it may cause
sicknes--. The caterpillar curse is all
over the State, but seems lo he worse in
the central counties than elsewhere.
Wliat lie might have Smoked.
Tf one could calculate beforehand
all the cost of yhdping to temptation
every time that an evil indulgence
might present itself, and would s ve
and lay up that cost in money, it
would bu a better investment than
a life-insurance. An exchange men
tions the successful result of au ex
periment in that line by Mr. Hal -
bard. a Connecticut gentleman.
He was about eigh'enm years old
when lie determined to lay aside day
by day the money he woul 1 havo
spent lor cigars had lie been a smok
er, At the end of each month he
deposited at tuUre t the sum tints
obtained in a saving bank.
As the price of good c!gnr£ advanc
ed. he C')'U os; o-■ 1 ( \-Ty i reiVnc-e'd Chi'
amount of money to be laid away each
day. From time to time, when Ins
sarings itt the bank reached a few
humored dollar*, he would draw them
out to m ike a bolter investment.
B, wise and shrewd management,
the fund amounted to from $15,000
to SIB,OOO a lew yeans since. Mr.
Hubbard then took this money, and
with it purchased a < harming site on
Grenwieh Bill, mid built a comforta
ble and commodious home for him
.-elf and fami .y. The place over
looks Long Isktnd Sound, and com
mauds i ne of the widest and finest
views that can be found on the Con
ti. client shore.
* Not His Sliirt.
Mis. Jones was one evening busy
ombroi'itring some mu-.hr.; Mr. Jones
sat looking at the rich display she was
making, and at last said; 'Why don’t
you fix up my underclothing fancy,
100 V
‘Oh,’ replied Mrs. Jones, ‘men don’t
care about such tilings.’
‘Of course they do,’ answered her
husband, but the women are too
less and lazy to take ihe trouble to put
on the fancy work.’
Nothing more was said, but Mrs.
Jones looked as though something had
conic into her mind that woimeijuiiy
pleased her.
A few night afterwards as they were
retiring, Mr. Jones appeared to be arix
ious'v hunting something he couldn’t
find, and at last, very petulantly asked
‘whi-te is my nightdress?’
MJn ler your pillow, my dear,’ gently
replied his wife. ‘No it isn’t,’ said Joins,
‘you havo made a mistake aud put some
of your flummery heio.’
‘Oh no, that is got mine,’ said Mrs.
Jones, as she took up the garment she
held it up before her husband, ‘it is your
night-shirt, fixed up as you said vou
would like ii.’ And further examination
showed the astonished Jones, that Ins
shirt was ornamented with a frill around
the bottom, and a ruffle around the ton
while a pretty piece of embroidery ran
down tin) front. To make the joke
more decided, his wife had put all his
other sliirlß in wash, so that ior once
he was compelled to sleep in this fancy
garment, and as he expressed it when he
got up in the morning, he was not. sure
whether he was himself or some woman,
At bis request his wife took off the ‘all
ey fixings, as Jones called them, and he
never afterwards complained that she
was careless about his underclothing.
An Anecdote for Slycltniiie.
According to some recent experi
ments of Dr. Lclli, detailed in tho
Loudon Lancet, strong coffee may be
successfully used to counteract poi
soning by strychnine. Tho ejpeii
ments were made upon rabbits, and
were tried in consequence of a report
ed instance of failure in an attempt
to poison a family whore strychnine
bad been introduced into the coff c
pot. s
TS'lic Great i’ui'i* Balloon.
It will he tlie Urgent in the world.
One hundred and sixy sewing girls are
engaged in putting the pieces of which
it is made tngetln-i. The ear will hold
lihv passengers and has a restaurant and
bar attached. A wire repo, some 800
feel, in length, will bo s cured in the
bottom of tin; car and oneia'ed bv a
winding so that the balionu with its
living cargo will always bo under co’ -
tro I —provided the rope does not break.
It will take shoot four minutes, under
favorable eircums'anees, for the balloon
lo ascend until the end of ilie rone in
n ached; and about eight to wind i
down again, the wii.d ass !e be operated
by a small steam engine. A ride in the
balloon will cost two francs, and admit
tance to the enclosure wfn rrfrrm the
ascents take places, one franc. The
cl aim s of an accident by' the rope giv
ing away, are freely discussed and would
form, doubtless, an acceptable side-show
to the satiated Parisians.
When (low! Times wilt Come.
When business will revive no man
ean tell. Phophosies will not hasten
its revival, despondency only retards
it.. Strength comes slowly to a man
who has been wasted and enfeebled
bv long illness. The country must
thus convalesce after the exh mstioh
which war, wild speculation and reck
less extravagance have produced;
The cure is to bo effected by industry,
economy and hopefulness. It wilt
tints be effected. Wc must dismiss
our expectations of large Interest,
wake from our dr< am of sudden
riches, live within our meins, and
pay as we go. Wo greatly mistake,
if wo are not, s’owly perhaps, but
surely, learning wisdom by the things
we have suffered.
Si He Culture isi Alubausu.
An attempt to introduce flic
culture of silk as a s■>urco of itidus
try among the colored people of
Alabama, is now in progress in
that State. Two years ag>anex
peniricnC ~n this basis who emu- i
mettced at //nntaviMo Ala. fim— j
oral cocoons, which were donated
by a Englishman who ha ’ brought
them itcroj-s the Atlantic, were
placed in a c tuple of acres of white
mu i berry trees. From these co
coons nearly 100,000 worms were
hatched. An academy lias been
formed for the purpose of training
the colored folk in reeling, spin
ning and weaving, and fifty pupils
are now engage in the industry,
while the silk produced is pro
nounced to bo of an excellent qual
ity.
Refill ts> Save.
We commend tin's excellent, advice
given to young men by the Congre
gational is:
Young mo a ought to begin laying
up money or piopertv in some lorm,
eiirfi- r than many of them now do.
Their income may indeed bo small,
but, so may bo their expenses, and in
more than n corresponding ratio; and
tor their income, they can not be
sure that it will soon or ever bo any
larger. There are a good n
in mature or advanced file w io are
poor to-dav because they wait for
large pay or profits before they be
gin to save or lay up anything.
The fe'elgc of Yickburg.
Joseph S. Irwin has presented the
Louisiana (Mo.) Press f r inspection
a relic of the seiga of Vicksbmg It
is a copy of the Citizen of June 30
18G3, cootainingfour columns printed
on ono side of a p'ece of wall paper.
The local column contains several in
teresting befits of the siege then b
ing conducted by Gen Grant's army
against tho city; among them the
death of Gen. Martin Green, of Mis
souri; the bursting of a shell in the
Catholic church during services and
the miraculous escape of the congre
gation; tho wounding of several la
dies; an account of the killing and
eating of a nude bv the starving gar
rison; tno sail killing of tho brave
and lamented Col. Eugene Irwin, of
the Sixth Regiment Missouri Volun
teers, on Juno 25, while on tho works
preparing to lead a desperate charge.
Forty years ago from tlio Stir
insf-the first steamship which ever
crossed the -Atlantic Ocean, left
New York. There are scientist
now living who scoffed and ridi
culed the idea of navigating the
ocean by steamships. Some men
agreed to eat the firM one which
succeed in crossing. Had he done
so, and continued to eat them un
til .now, lie would have been cer
tainly a prodigy of digesty.
3,000,000 visitors in Paris are en
joying the wonders ol the Expos.lion.
NEW GOODS
AT GOLD AND SILVER. DEICES.
THE UNDERSIGNED lIA VE JUST OPEEKED 'THEIR STOCK CP
V'/- ■
!SD 2
And, low as Colton is, DU 1 GOODS, many of them, arc lower than CoUo
ever teas. He bought some of them cheaper than ever, and ivill sell them at
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WE KEEP UP OUU USUAL STOcK OF
STAPLE IltlV fiOOOS, POCKET and TABLE CUTLERY,
ULOTIIIN 0, UMBRELLAS,
CARPETS NOTIONS,
HATS, TOBACCOS.
SHOES, &.C., AC.
Sonic Extra Fine Pocket Knives and “Razor Steel” Scissors.
I. Y O I II
We offer some ENTIRELY NEW FABRICS, BEAUTIFLL EX DESIGN, and very
STYLISH as well as very CHE AP.
Was NEVER TETTER—NEVER SO CHEAP • It consists of Common and Fine Coats
Pants and Vest, Linen Shirts and Collars, Gauze, and Check Muslin Undershirts.
OUR “BON-TON” CORSETS
Have proven to be VERf SUPERIOR, FITTING PERFECTLY and GIVING SATIS
FACTION to all who have tried them.
T\7 EofT,r no INDUCEMENTS to purchasers by selling a FEW LEADING ARTI
' * (T.ES at LESS Til AN' HOST, but we do, .uni will satisfy all who take ir'o consul
(•ration the AVERAGE PROFITS we charge, that we sell goods as iOll’ as AX Y
HOUSE IS SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA.
GISAJtfISKIHUr & HAIILOW,
Americus, G-oorsyia.
Longcvily of Tl•■**-
From observations made oil speci
mens still in existence, the longevity
of various trees tms been estimated
to be as follows: Deciduous cypress
0.000 year.'. bn.Joab trees, 5,000; dra
gon tree, 5.000; yew, 3,000; “great
tre(s”ot California, 1,000; chestnut,
3,000; olive, 2,500; oak
1.G00; orange, 1,500; Oriental palm,
1,200; Cabbage palm, 700; lime, COO;
ash, 400; cocoanut palm, 300; pear,
300; apple, 200; Brazil wine palm,
150; Scotch fir, 100; and the balm of
Gilead about 50 years. Such exam
ples are perhaps sufficient, to justify a
remark of Schleideu’s “thete seems
lo be a possibility of a compound
plant Using on without end.”—True
Citizen.
A Paris correspondent: The only
novelty in dress introduced at the last
qtmeu’s drawing-room which is likely
to be widely taken up—for I do not
count one noblewoman’s sandals set
with ge ms as likely to start a fashion—
is the jardiniere, a silver filigree bas
ket filled with flowers, flat on tho side
next, tho dorm and hung from the
waist like a chateblaine bag. A glass
lining permits this to be filled with
water, in which the flowers keep fresh
for many Hours.
The city of Little Rock, Arkan
sas, put in circulation upwards of
§IOO,OOO of notes, obligations to
pay, and which passed current as
any other money, in banks, stores
and all other places intthe city.
They were decided illegal in the
Chancery Court ot Pulaski county,
afterwards bonded and the bonds
subsequently repudiated. After
several years tho city was sued by
a number of of parties—the mer
chants’ national Jjauk being tlie
chief pi ant iff-—aggregating a total
stun of $40,000 or more, and upon
these Judge Dillon, of the United
Slate Circuit Court, recently de
cided in favor of plaintiff
Horse tliiefs arc dealt with lather
roughly in Western Kansas. For
sometime past tlie practice has been
going on pretty extensively. One
ol the citizens of Belleville lost a team
of horses recently,. and called his
neighbors together and started in
pursuit of the thief. After hard rid
ing overtook tho rougue, and carried
him to jail. At night a tnob broke
into tho jail and carried off the horse
thief, and the next morning ho was
found hanging upon a batcher's dec
rick half a mile from town. On the
back of the corpse was a card with
this grim epitaph: “’Tis said man is
the noblest work of God, but in this
case it was a lailnre. Horse thieves,
beware! Take notice ol your doom.
Shipped by lightning express to a
damned eternity.”
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It is a great misfortune to have
a fretful disposition. It takes the
fragrance um ._.r ... re. i: re, .... r
leaves only weeds where a cheer
ful disposition would, cause flowers
to bloom. The habit of fretting is
one that grows rapily unless it be
sternly repressed ; the best way is
to look on the cheerful side of
things.
“John Phoenix,” tho American hu
morist, being one night at a theatre
fancied he saw a friend some three
scats in front of him. Turning to
his next neighbor he said: “Would
yon be kind enough to touch that
.gentleman with your stick?” “Cer
tainly,” was the reply, and the thing
was done; but when the individual
thus assaulted turn, and around. Phoe
nix saw he was not the man he took
him for, and became at once absorb
ed in the play, leaving his friend to
settle matters with the gentleman in
front, which, as he had no excuse
handy, was not done without consid
erable trouble. When the hubbub
was over, the victim said: “Didn't
you tell me to tap that man with my
stick ?” “Yes.” “And what did you
want?” “Oh,” said Phoenix, with
imperturbable gravity,,“l wanted to
see whether you vvou'il tan him or
nut.”
A convict confined in (ho Erie
county, New York, penitentiary
known ns Win. Foreman, and sen
tenced to 18 months seivicc for bur
glary and larceny bad served. six
months of the time, where a short
time ago a petition for his pardon was
being considered, it was determined,
according to tlie laws of the peniten
tiary to examine carefully the state of
the prisoner’s health under such cir
cumstances. The surgeon soon dis
covered that Win. Freeman was a
woman. This ltd to tlie revelation
of her real naipe, and some circum
stances of her life. Her real name is
Mary Anne .Schafer, who left her
mother arid step-father when only
11 years old, and to enable her the
better to get employment for
an independent living dressed irt
boy’s clothes. She Las ever since at
tired herself as a mala and engaged
in all manner of hard wotk on a farm.
None but her mother and herself knew
her real personality until the time re
ferred to. She is 23 years old, weighs
140 pounds, is healthy and good look
ing. She was removed to a secluded
apartment a.td dressed in female at
tire, and begged to be kept there 11 r
life rather than expose her name and
change her clothing. After detection
she avers that though she pleaded'
guilty to the charge, it was under
fear, and that she is innocent, and the
man who threatened her life to induce
tlie eonlcssiuu is still living.
No. 30.