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GEORGIA NEWS.
The Solum, Romo and Pulton rail
road was sold on lust Tuesday week.
Do Soto Flouring Mills, nt Home,
were destroyed by lire on tlio lltli
Inst.
A lire in Wynton destroyed the
store house and goods of K S Batiks,
lust week.
Emelin Rawls, coi r, it, was killed
in Dougin riy county, mar Albany,
on the; 9th inst.
. In Hancock eounly pol tics are on
t lie rage, though the farmers are busy
with the r grain.
A colored man nt llay’* mill, near
Leesburg, Ga., had one arm sawn off
by a n"'" • ' days ago.
„acrn Express Company
.. ented to transport articles
intended for the State horticultural
exhibition in Atlanta free of ebnige.
The soci-ty will meet in Atlanta on
the 3rd of August.
Peter Russel 1 , colored, who lived
about 5 miles from Columbus, is
charged witli killing kis own daugh
ter lu-t iViundny Week’. lie said lie
found her dead in Ids house. Her
neck was was broken, upper front
teeth broken loose and lip cut.
Atlanta is all alive with martial fe
ver. Arrangements are being made
for having a grand military display
next October. Thu display is to lie
one of significance and reunion. The
leading and represi utativc citizen
soldiers, both of the North and South,
will celebrate the return ol peace,
the reunion ol ttie States. It is in
tended to stimulate a more int rest
ed spirit of p vtriotism and subdue
sectional antagonism.
The case of Renfro vs. ilie Stnte,
camo up before Judge Simmons a few
days ago for argument,and the app'i
cation of Mr. Renfrot; was granted.
The last legislature instructed Col
qu it to issue fi las against Mr. Ren-
Iroe and his securities lor $23,000,
which fi fas Mr. Reufroe desired to
have restrained by injunction. The
appiicaton of Mr. Bontroe was
granted on th ■ ground that the ac
cused has a right to bo heard which
the law does not grant.
Telegraph and Messenger: We
have of en been astonished at _tlic
want of reverence on he p irt of ma
ny people who g> to church. Lev
ity seams to be on the increase, at and
many young people c.ther dish m l*
tie name they bear, or there lias
been a volul neglect in their train
ing by their parents. No well-bred
manor woman w.il behave uimcutl -
manly during divine service.
Telegraph and .Messenger: Sat
urday week a most bloody duel oc
cur ed near Fort Valley in Houston
county, the general-get up of which
is a little ahead of any chivalry recent
ly developed in these parts. It seems
t wo young men named Forrester and
Royals, about twenty years old, be
came engaged in a quarrel, and a
challenged passed. The challenged
selected as iris weapons, lia s, and
the spot a place just outside of the
town limits. Ileiethe parties met
each other, and ew their fists, and pro
ceded to fire indiscriminately f >r one
hour and ten minutes, when a re
cess was declared until, four ill the af
ternoon. Our informant slut and ot i
contestants were badly pnni.-bed;
an I it was thought a compromise
would be effected before the hour for
the second meeting arrived.
The Sylvauia Telephone gives the
following items:
There is a man in this county who
is fifty years eld and has never yet
taken a dose of medicine or called
in a pbysiciau. This county is
healthy.
Miss Alice, daughter of H. I>.
Sharpe, died suddenly a weik ago.
Soriven county will have about fif
ty public schools this year.
J. A. Eunis. of this county, has
sent two droves of sheep t> Brier
creek Landing, where he shipped
them by boat to Savannah. “Mr.
Ennis, together with several other
planters, is making sheep culture a
most profitable ministry, and we hope
ero long to sec more ot our fanners
engaged in this business which brings
money into tho county at a season of
the year when there is usually agredt
scarcity of it.
Robt. llobbs was mortally wound
ed by a man named Sullivan, at a
picnic Ht Gray's iniil near Gridin a
w days ago.
Stop liMta ffeta Arps.
IP. A. SINGLETON. Ed A Prop'r.
VOL 5.
HOW GREEK MET GREEK.
"So it is true Jessie Ilardbrook !
You have been trilling wiih me from
first to last. May God lorgive you—
I cannot! ’ said Ralph Ashton, bit
terly, ns ho dropped the white hand
and gnzul down scornfully at its
owner.
"Why, Ralphlisped an affected
voice, ‘‘l never dreamed you meant
anything—really, it seems so odd!’’
"Odd! Jessie Ilardbrook!” and
his eyes dashed angrily. ‘ You nev
er dreamed that I loved you ? You
knew it well! Day by day you have
been leading me on. Why, when
you saw I was beginning to love you
from tny very soul, did you not check
me ? 'Twas because you wished to
s.vdl the list of your victims. I cori
gratuLto you upon your success.—
Now farewell forever I” And before
tlie apparently astoni.-hed young la
dy con’d frame a sentence, the door
had slummed behind Ralph Ashton.
lie strode fiercely down the street
io his studio, and cnteiing it, locked
the door behind him. A picture
stood on the easel, partly concealed
by a clot'.-, which had h'cen thrown
over it. This he- snatched hastily off
and roveahd a full life portrait ol
Jessie Ilardbrook, just as'she looked
the first time he had met her, clad in
a white silk trimmed with tube-roses,
the same which nestled in her long,
golden curls. A smile parted the
saucy red lips and dimpled one
(lain'iiy tinted cheek. It was Jessie
Ilardbrook, surely, but a thousand
times more beautiful, for lie had en
dowed it with a soul—not liei’s, but
one of ins own creation —-one that
tie imagined that the woman lie loved
possessed.
lie had spent much time on 1 his
picture, and had succeeded beyond j
his wildest hopes. It had become
the greatest pleasure of his life to sit
before b lore it, ami with every
stroke of the brush paint and fancy
a wonder!til dream of the future
when he should cull her his very own.
All this may seem romant c and
nonsense for a strong man to indulge
in; but it was true, Ralph Ashton
possessed the sensitive nature that
continually leans towards the ideal
aud shuns the practical side of lib-.
Whatever pleased or attracted him,
he endowed with gifts of a divine na
ture. lie was honest and truthful
in the highest degree—just the one
to tall a victim to the snares ol this
hard, hard world.
Jessie Hardbrook was a flirt of the
deepest dye, without a shadow of a
heart. Her own atm was lo secure
a rich husband —who would keep her
in ease ami affluence all her butterfly
lile. She had been phased and flat
tired with Ralph Ashton's presence,
and when she saw him falling under
the spell of her charms, instead of
releasing him there and then, ns an
honorable woman should have done,
she strove the harder to please, until
she gained her own wish, mainly, to
say “no’’ to the important question.
As Ralph Ashton gazed long and
bitterly at tiic beautiful picture, lie
felt the one great hope of his life die
within Li tn, and all become darkness
and despair. At last, snatching it
angrily from the easel, be ripped the
canvass with his knife and thrust the
whole into the grate, watching the
flames consume it with a look of
fierce hatred.
The next day a friend, coming to
call, was surprised to find this pla
card on the door, “Gone to Europe.”
*****
A surppressed murmur ran through
Mrs. B ’s crowded rooms ns
Ralph Ashton entered them. It was
his first appearance in society siuce
his return from Europe, and Mrs,
B hid secured him, though by
dint of strategy, for tb.pt one evening
at least, as she announced triumph
antly to her guests.
j\_ democratic iFVYJvriXa-sr uewspafkr.
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., JUNE 2d, 1880.'
j He was quite a lion now, for his
I paintings had won him latne, and
already riches enough to secure him
comfort. When life had become
barren and clastasteful to him lie had
sought consolation ill his work, and
had grown to love it with an intm.-i
--ty which insures success.
Jessie Ilardbrook was there. She
had (ailed, although it was four ycais
later, to secure the rich 1 usbaml.
She had not altered, hut looked as
fresh and beautiful as ever as she
stood under the full light ol a chan
delier, clad, singularly enough, in*
white siik garlanded with tub > roses
just as lie had seen her for the fiivt
timo when lie had lul.en so madly in
love.
A blush dyed her cheeks as she
observed his tall figure approaching
lifer. “I will win him vet,” she said,
under her breath. For the man
whom all the world acknowledged
seemed different to her from the poor
unknown artis t she had scorned.
“Miss Ilardbrook? What a pleas
ure !”
She felt her hand grasped cordial
ly, aud thought she noted a look of
the old interest in the speaker’s
brown eyes.
lie remained by her side most of
tha evening, making himself wonder
fully agreeable by descriptions of his
travels, and when tie placed her in a
carriage, whispen and soitly:
“May I come to-morrow ?”
Alter that their old intimacy seem
ed revived. The gossips began to
dream of a grand wedding, and ail the
girls envied Jess’e her good fortune.
She was very happy, too; for the first
time she knew what it was to love;
yes. site loved Ralph Ashton fivui
her very soul, aud felt sure lie loved
her in i\ turn. Only one thing troubled
her, lie did not speak.
“He is waiting to 1)3 sure of me,"
she would say to herself. “He wi 1
not risk another refusal. ’’ And she
became doubly gracious.
One afternoon lie remarked care
lessly, as lie sat by her side
“I am going away to-morrow, Jes
sie; shall you miss me ?’’
“What a question, Ralph!’’ she re
plied blushing. “You know I shall.
You’d not be gone long ? ’
‘•Only a few weeks. I shall bring
a friend back with me whom I hope
you will Lve lor iny sake.’’
"Indeed I will,” she answered.—
“Is lie like you ?"
“Hardly.” And a curious smile
played about Ralph Ashton’s mouth
as ue rose and bade her good-bye.
Three weeks later Miss Ilardbrook
teceiml a little three cornered not",
which read as follows:
“Dear Jessie: Meet me at Mrs.
W ’sreception to-night. 1 wish
to introduce you to my friend.
It. A.”
It was with great care that she
prepared for the reception.
“I must look my b<st; Ralph will
wisli me to appear well belore his
friend,’’ she whispered, as she gazed
admiringly at the image reflected in
the ni rror.
The rooms were . crowded with
guests and the little Swiss clock on
the mantle Lad chimed eleven, still
Ralph came not. Jessie was glow
ing impatient when a hush for au in
stant proclaimed anew arrival, and
she saiv through the crowd making
his way directly toward her, Ralph
Ashton, with a beautiful woman
dressed in puro white leaning on his
arm.
‘‘Ah! we were looking for you,’’
he said, as he approached. "Edith,
ilear, this is the friend I told you 01.
liss Hardbrook, allow me to present
my wife.”
Jessie Hardbrook grew while to
the very lips at that wmrd. The
room whirled, she reeled and would
have fulen had he not caught her in
his arms.
"The heat has overcome you,” he
said, alpud. But, he knew, better;
for, bending close, he whispered in
her ear, "Greek meets Grek !” ’
Oil A RCOA L AND ITS USES.
Charcoal, laid Hat while coldjon a
burn, causes the pain to ab ate im
mediately; by leaving it on fur an
hour the burn seems healed when the
hum is superficial. And charcoal is
valuable for many other purposes.
Tainted meat, surrounded with it, is
sweetened; strewn over heaps of de
composed pelts, or over ilead ani
mals, it prevents an unpl asant
odor. Foul water is purified by it.
It is a great disinfectant, and sweet
ens offensive air if placed in shallow
trays around appartnientß. It is
minute interior," it absorbs and con
denses gasses most rapidly. One cu
bic inch of charcoal will absorb near
ly one hundred inches of gaseous am
monia. Charcoal forms an unrivaled
poultice for malignant wounds and
sores, often coroding away dead flesh
reducing it to one-quarter in six
hours. In eases of what wo call
proud flesh it is invaluable. It gives
no disagreeable odor, corodes no met
al, hurls no texture, injures no color,
is a simple and safe sweetener anil
disinfectant. A teaspoonful of char
coal, in half a glns3 of water, often
relieves a sick headache; it absorbs
the gases and relieves a distended
stomach pressing against the nerves,
which extend from the stomach totlic
head. It often relieves, constipation,
pain or heartburn.—Scientific Amer
ican.
25 young ladies of Augu-ta Semi
nary, Staunton, Va., passed through
Lynchburg, Na , a lew days ago in
in charge of the Agent of I lie Ken
nesaw route. Lynchburg News says:
Miss Mary Bell Pmvel 1 , of Bartles
ville, Ga., received the prize lor the
best composition.
Miss Lizzie Hill, Griffin, Ga., took
the scholarship star medal, the com
position star medal, the mnial lor
scientific attiinmcnt in inus’c arid
the lir.-t honor medal in German, in
ad lit on to a diploma of graduation
—all in three years. This young la
dy took the highest honor and more
medals than were ever awarded in
the history of this widely known in
stitution.
Miss Carrie Butler, oi Savannah,
Ga., took the first honor medal in elo
cution.
Miss Ann Murphey, of Atlanta,
Ga., and Miss Mary Nugert, of New
Orleans, were awarded improvement
medals instrumental music.
"Woodworker,” an Indian chief,
siys lie lias never seen a gray haired
Indian in his life, and lie lias seen
some over 00 years old. It is b: cause
an Indian has no trouble, no worri
ment, or anything that way. Ilis
wife chops alll the wood, builds the
fires, goes to market at daylight,
stones tramps out of the front yard,
and bl nks his boots. And he is ru t
tormented by tax collectors, gas hi Is
and lightning rod peddlers. Lit an
Indian start a twenty-four column
daily paper in a six column town, to
fill a long felt want, and hit; hair will
turn gray in one night.
A bright boy was walking Ihe
streets witn his mother, and observ
ing a man with a peculiar hitch in
his gait approaching, lie tlroily ex
claimed, "Look, mama 1 See how
'•hat pc or man stutters with his
feet.”
The 36th ballot nominated Garfield
for the presidency. '1 he 36th ballot
elected Jefferson President. When
Jefferson and Bi rr had tied in the
cctoral college the 36th ballot elect
ed Jefferson. Congress was seven
days at tlmt time.
A meichant may manage to grub
along without advertising, and so
may a man empty a hogshead of wa
ter with a teaspoon, but both are de
cidedly tedious undertakings.
<i
Oghthorpe Echo:. Win n you,see
persons talking in church during
preaching, don’t think hard of them
Tlrr - • ’ •
GOVERNOR ARE.
TELLS HIS COOL-HEADED WIFE
That Ho has hern Nominated to Sit in
thu Big lied Chair, Whereupon
that Lady Requests Him to
Run After a Bucket
of Water.
I’m glad and I'm sorry. The truth
is I’m so disgusted with Grant’s im
pudence and incapacity that the idea
of the American people tolerating
h m any longer took away my appe
tite, I was jest about to lose confi
dence in the republican party. Then
again I'm sorter sorry they didn’t
nominate him for we could have beat
him so easy and laid him on the shelf
so nicely. Nevermind, lie lias run
his course. His mission is ended.
Now ht him travel again and study
kingdoms and empires and dinastys.
But I hope tie won’t take Lochranc
nor little Alek off with him, for they
are lively citizens, and we mout miss
’em. I don’t feel so shore about
beating Mr. Garfield. I wish there
was an insurance company that would
insure it. I believe we are bound to
beat him, but tny opinion is ho is
about the fastest horse tiiey had to
put on the track. He hates us and
our people, and would keep us toting
wood and water a thousand years,
but then he lias not been a breder of
animosities among Ills own people.
They all like him, and he is a good
cnlhuser. He will unite his paity —
that is,except the niggers,and it don’t
matter whether ho unites with them
or net, for they can’t do anything for
him. Now, the next thing is some
thing else. We must choose a leader
who can do the same thing. It’s a
bail rule that wouldn’t let Webster
nor Clay nor Calhoun be president,
but we can’t help it. It's a nil; that
belongs to our people and our kind of
government. The greater a man is,
the more he is envied, and envy
shows no quarter in a fight. We
an’t get our best men, for our best
men don’t want it. They are sitting
away back. There is hardly a coun
ty in this state that hasn’t got one or
two or maybe half a dozen men who
wouhl make a good president,—
There's some comfort in that, for
when the millenium comes and we
have to draft men for office, they will
be on hand to put in the box. But
the question right no\y is who is the
most prevailablc man, and there ain’t
no other question. We liavent got
any favorites in this fight. We
mustent have any. There’s no sense
in-hurrahing and bellering and shout
ing over a man because we admire
him and he is a splendid fellow, or
because he will remember us when
he gets int > I lie kingdom, for, you see,
he may not get in at a ! l. Let not
him boast who putteth the armour on
like him who taketi. it off. The
thing at stake is not what will most
gratify us, but what will save the
country. Now the country may not
be in as great danger as I think, but
then I know there is some eighty
odd thousand offices and lots of good
government pap and may bo some
plunder in danger of being carried
off again, and it is high time our par
ty had a finger in this interesting
business. It’s a nice business, a pav
ing business and suits the taste and
inclinations of our people. They’ve
had no showing for twenty years, and
it st me there was a change—a good
deal of change and if they don't go
for back rations they aii.’L the sort ol
boys I took cm for. When we get in
1 want an oliiee for everybody that
needs one and has a disinclination
for work. Judge Underwood told
me a long time ago that reform
meant the creation of enough offices
to satisfy the demand. He said the
supply ought to equal the demand in
everything, and lie promised me that
if ho ever got to lie governor lie
annual subscription, oo
fire?’ t .ing. I’ve been lor him twenty
years, and I'm for him uow, but if
he don’t hurry up I'm in danger of
being put on the retired list without
pay.
But I had a boom yesterday —a
fanii'y boom—some friend in disguise
sent me a paper which had my name
nil mixed up promiscuous with tlio
gubernatorial chair, and Mrs. Arp
and her daughters adornin the ex
ecutive mansion, and so I read it to
myself and tlion rose up and trotted
accross tlio piazza with my two
thumbs in my two vest holes, which
attracted her attention, and she
looked at me over her spectacles and
asked what agitated me so all of a
sudden. ‘How docs Governor Aip
sound,” says I, "and Mrs. Governor
Arp. I’ve been nominated for gov
ernor;” and then 1 read her tlio Hal
tering paragraf. She resumed her
sewing as she quietly remarked: “I
dident know the convention had
nut ’’ ‘ That’s so,” said I; “I hav
ent exactly been nominated, but my
name has been suggested by a re
spectable sheet—the Meriwether
County Vindicator—one of the lead
ing papers in the state, and mv friend,
General Revill, the accomplished ed
itor, is a far-seeing and discerning
man. You see, my dear, the first
tiling is for somebody lo suggest—
then comes the nomination and then
the election. Now, I've taken the
first, and so h ive j’ou, for you know
the scriptures saith, where I go there
you will go, and there you will be
buried, or words to that effect. How
Would you like to be a governess
anyhow ?’’
Mrs. Arp twisted her head to
wards the branch and said: ‘‘Wil
liam, 1 thought I heard Jessie cry—
maybe she has falter, in the spring—
take the bucket and go and look af
ter her, please, and while you are
down there bring me a bucket of
fresh water.” There’s no exciting
that woman. She won’t take on
about anything, The next t : me I
got up the subject says she, "Didn’t
you say that Governor Colquitt nor
any other governor couldn't live on
ihe salary and keep up the dignity
of the office. Then how would you
do it—burrow money and mortgage
the farm and have nothing when
your term was out ? Where’s my
silks and satins and jewelry, and
carriages and horses, and all the nice
dressing for the gii*ls ?- Where’s the
fine cook and all the cakes and good
things to come from, for there will
be parties to give and entertain
ments for distinguished people who
visit Atlanta almost every day;
who will attend to tlnse little chil
dren and dress them and keep them
neat and clean all the time? Where
will the little things play without get
ting run over by the cars? Here
they can go as they please, and wade
in the branch, and fish, and pick
berries, and ride on the clover, and
sci earn and holler as much as they
please, and nubody to be annoyed or
make a fuss about it. And then sup
pose you were to run for an office,
somebody would set in to abusing you
like you was a thief and keep you
and me and the children in a fret and
ferment ail the time. So what is tc
be gained by being in office and what
is to be lost ? I don’t suppose there
is any danger of your ever getting
one but I thought I would express
myself wh.la I was about it. I'm
glad that your Vindicator fiend
wants to vindicate you, and you had
better write him a letter of thanks
and tih him to please excuse me for
I'm getting too old to grace anything
now.” That settles it. The argu
ment is exhausted —I’ll not run this
time, no how. I did have a sneak
ing notion of playing the dark horse,
but I can’t do that' now, for when an
aspiring man plays that hand he
must play it very darkly until the
Nomination. It musmit leak out a:
make love to all the candidates He
musent be suggested. So yoa tee
my Cake is all dough, for between
Gen. Revill’a appreciation and Mrs.
Arp’s philosophy I’ve about madenp
my mind t® stay at home. Well I'm
happy hero, and so what’s the use.
Yours, Bill. Aaf.
Pood i<or she bears.
The oilier day a lady, accompanied
by her son, a very small boy, board
ed a train at Little llock. The wo
man had a careworn expression hang
ing over her face like a t .ttcred veil,
and many of the rapid questions ask
ed by the boy were answered by un
conscious sighs.
“31a,” said the boy, “that man's
like a baby , ain’t h;?’’ pointing to a
bald headed man sitting just in front
of them.
"Hush.”
"W hy must I hush.”
After a few minutes eilelice.
“31 a, what’s the matter with Hint
man’s head ?’’
“Bosh. I tell you. He’s bald.”
“Wlvat’s bald?”
“His head hasn’t got any hair on
it.”
"Did it come off? ’
“I guess so."
“Will mine come off,?”
“Some time, maybe."
‘ Tin n I’ll Le bald, Won’t I ?’’
“Yes.”
“Willyou care?”
“Don’t ask so many question*,"
After another silence the boy ex
claimed, “Ma look at that fly on that i
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man’s head."
“If you don’t hush I'll whip you <
when we get home."
“Look 1 there's another fly*; look at<
cm fight; look at cin 1"
“Madam,” said the man, putting
aside a newspaper and looking
around. “What’s the matter: with
th t young bycna ?"
The woman blushed, stamered out
something, and attemptedto smooth
back the boy’s hair.
“One fly, two flies, three flies,”
said the boy innocently, following
with liis eyes a basket of oranges car
ried by the newsboy.
“Here, you liedge-hog.” cried the
bald headed man. “If you don’t hush
I’ll have the conductor put you off tho
train."
The poor woman not knowing
what else to do boxed the boy’s ears,
and then gave him an orange to keep
him from crying.
“Ma, have I got read streaks on
my head ?”
“I’ll slap you again if you dont
hush.”
“Mister,” said the boy, after ft,
short silence, “does it hurt to be
bald-headed ?”
“Youngster,” said tno man, if;
you’ll keep quiet I’.l give you a quar
ter."
The boy promised, and the money,
was paid over.
The man took up his paper and re--
sumed his reading.
“ This is my bald-headed money,"
said the boy*. “When I get bald
headed I’m goin’ to give hoys money..
Mister, have all bald-licadeu men.
got money V
The annoyed man threw down bis
paper, arose and exclaimed: “31ad--
am, hereafter when yon travel leave
that young gorilla at home. Hitherto,
I-always thought that the old prophet
was very cruel for c filing the sho,
bears to kill children for making
spoit .of liis head, but now I am forc
ed to believe that he did a ChrisEatV
act. If your boy had been iu tha
crowd lie would have died, first If I
can't find another seat on this tra'Uj
I'll ride on the cow catcher rather
Ilian to remain here.!’
“The bald-headed man is" gone,”'
said the boy, and the woman leaned
back and blew a tired sigh Irotn her
lips.—Little Rock Gazette.,
The seventeen-year locust are in
vast numbers in Pennsylvania and
West Virginia.
A young blood m Norfolk, Va.,
struck a voting lady with a brick bat.
and broke a number of her ribs be
cause she ref Wand to marry Him.
It is said that Garfield's nomina
tion is the first one made since 1841
that a salute was not ft ed ora torch
light procession had in honor of tho
nominee, by tln-ir r< sportive ttcij;!*
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