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UP DAY PASSKNGEK TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 8:45 a. m.
Arrive ntVnmt Point...'. ~ 12:27 p. in.
Leave Union Point 12:52 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. m.
DOWN DAY PASSKNGKR TRAIN.
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Remains one minute at Union Point.
ATHENS BRANCH TRAIN.
DAt 'BRAIN.
Time
Stations. Arrive. Depart, bet.
_ sta’s.
A. M.
Athens 8 45 25
'Wintersville 9 10 9 15 80
'Crawford 9 45 9 50 25
Autioeh : 10 15 10 18 15
Maxey’s 10 32 10 35 15
Woodville 10 50 10 55 20
Union Point 11 15
UP TRAIN.
Union Point...P. M. 1 00 20
Woodville 1 20 1 25 15
Maxey’s 1 40 1 45 15
Antioch 2 00 2 05 25
Crawford 2 30 2 35 30
Wintersville 3 05 3 10 25
Athens | 335
NIGHT TRAIN— Down.
Athens a. m. 10 00 25
Wintersville 10 25 10 30 30
Crawford .....a. 11 00 11 05 25
Antioch 11 30 11 32 15
Maxey’s 11 47 11 49 15
Woodville 12 04 12 10 25
Union Point 12 35 a. m.
Up Night Train.
Union Point 3 55 25
Woodville 4 20 4 24 15
Maxey’s 4 39 4 41 15
Antioch 4 56 4 58 25
■Crawford 5 23 5 27 30
Wintersville 5 57 6 02 28
Athens 6 30
CALEVAR,
A Tale of Cuban "Vengeance.
The approaching marriage of Isa Cnn
telvar, the wealthy belle of Havana,
was no secret in the Cuban capital.
Her Spanish lover, a lineal descendant
■of the fierce subduer of the Aztecs, old
Herman Cortez, was crossing the ocean
to claim his love, and great preparations
for the event were going on at the Cantel
var mansion, whose foundation was
washed bv the waters of the gulf.
Isa was very beautiful, and ,ier accom
plishments'-were of the highest order.
The only child of a man who was proud
of his name and of her face; she had
been petted but I will not say spoiled.
Her jewels were-as remarkable as her
beauty, and it was rumored that Sc nor
Cantelvar had purchased some of ex-
Queen Isabella’s gems for his daughter's
nuptials. This rumor was pretty gen
erally believed, and many fashionable
people went to the mansion hoping to
catch a glimpse*of the stones that- had
once glittered on royalty. But the curiosi
ty seekers were disappointed ; they saw
no ex-Spanish gems.
lii due time, a vessel landed the Castil
ian lover on Cuban soil, and the great
event —Isa’s marriage—neared its con
summation.
Among the many people who had wit
nessed the lover’s debarkation, was a
tall, dark featured man, about forty years
of age. He was remarkably handsome ;
his eyes were dark and lustrous, and his
was shaded by the silken hairs of
a mustache. He wore the undress uni
form of a Captain in the Spanish navy,
@l)c #§tdl)or|K Cdw,
1 which was not Reeded to give him a com
manding Appearance. Jlis whole bear
ing indicated a firmness of purpose, a
stubbornness of will, that would listen to
no arguments, and a daring that would
shrink from no undertaking.
He stood apart from all other people
watching the debarkation of the Vulture’s
passengers. The soft tropical twilight
hung over the island capital; but he
could see the faces of the passengers quite
distinctly.
Suddenly he started, and mechanically
his right hand clenched vengefullv.
There was a rising and falling of the
mustache, as in the unseen lips had open
ed and closed again and the qyes were
assuming an anim.-.ieu brilliancy.
The cause of tin’.- strange commotion
was a man who had ju ft stepped upon
the pier.
1 stood scarcely twenty feet from the
Captain, and his face was plainly discern
ible.
A handsome man he was. There was
the stamp of nobility on his face, and he
bore a resemblance to certain portraits
ol Cortez still extant. He was watching
the debarkation of numerons trunks that
bore the name of Don Cortez d’Alvaro.
But by and by he turned away, and
hailed the driver of a violante.
“It is he!” muttered the Captain,
speaking audibly for the first time. "He
is the chosen lover of Senorita Isa. His
trunks are full of jewels no doubt.”
And then a dev i : rb laugh rippled
over the unseen 1 p ! .
He watched the violante until it van
ished from sight, when he walked for
ward and began to inspect the trunks.
T hey numbered quite a score, and some
were small but heavily bound. He walk
ed among them carelessly as it were, but
noticed everything, and all at once he
burst forth with—
“ Five trunks full of jewels! Why
they would mate a Don out ol Calevar.”
A moment later he walked away, close
ly followed by a dwarfish man who had
the peculiar gait of the sailor. Though
the Captain walked fast, the sailor gain
ed on him, and as lie was about to enter
a hotel a hand touched his elbow.
The tall man turned quickly, and
peered down into the distorted face.
‘"And so you are here ?” lie said in me
lodlous Spanish. “'Where have you
been ?”
“To the wharf.”
The Captatn’s eyes glistened—
'“He came—”
“With five trunks of jewels for his
bride.”
“But she shall never wear them.”
“No.”
“Good! Come to my room. I want
to show you something.”
The two men passed into the narrow
hall and ascended a stairway to a room.
In the centre of this apartment stood a
table on which lay an elegant sword ot
genuine Teledo workmanship. On the
sheath, elegantly worked, was the name
“Calevar,” and the blade bore the in
scription : “From the Queen to Cale
var.” Above the single bed hung the
gorgeous dress uniform of a Spanish na
val commander, and a pair of splendid
boots stood under the table.
All this was revealed when the room
was lighted up, and Celevar, threw him
self into a chair beside the table, and
dre\v a paper from an inner pocket.
Unrolling it he disclosed to the eyes
of the dwarf—who perched upon a stool
and was bending over the table like a mon
key—the complicated plan of a house.
“Here is the Gulf,’said Calevar, touch
ing a shaded place with his finger. You
will wait forme here. You see I have
designated the exact spot. You cannot
miss ifi Long ago, some person—Cale-
Var’s father perhaps —drove a huge sta
ple into the wall. Ii is there. See it.
You cannot mbs it. It is beneath that
staple that you will await for my signal.”
The dwarf looked up, and smiling
hideously, nodded.
“ Can’t yon fail, Seiior Captain ?”
‘‘Fail? No!” said Calevar. “I know
the interior of the house. I can go di
rectly to the treasure room, and, so sure
as there’s a God in heaven, I’ll show you
the girl’s jewels on my own deck. She
wouldn’t marry Calevar. If she marries
D’Alvaro, she will do so jewelless. Ah!
this, Domargo, is Calevar’s revenge !”
He laughed devilishly, and in that
laugh the chattering of the dwarf joined.
Then several bottles of wine were pro
duced from a sideboard, and the twain
drank long and deep.
It was midnight when Domargo, the
sailor dwarf, left the room. He stole out
quietly, for Calevar was asleep. The
wine had affected him.
“ For twelve years Domargo has served
Calevar,” said the dwarf, when he again
found himself on the deserted streets.
“He has sailed with him to other
worlds biding his time. That time is
very near at Laid. Calevar does not
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1875.
think that Domargo is the brother of the
little girl he made his wife in Barcelona,
and then murdered on shipboard.”
The last words, full of hellish revenge,
dropped in hisses from the repulsive lips
of the dwarf, and at last he lost himself
among the shipping in the harbor.
And Calevar, the revengeful, the cove
tous, the rejected lover of Isa Cantelvar,
slumbered on, never dreaming that the
dwarf who had served him so faithfully
for twelve years, was delivering him over
to a fate, from the contemplation of
which the mind would shrink with hor
ror.
It was the night before Isa Cantelvar’s
wedding.
The hour was twelve, and Havana
slept on the edge of the Gulf.
Not a sound came from the old house
so soon to resound with martirge music
and with the groans of one doomed to a
living death.
The fai r Isa, no doubt, was sleeping
away her last maiden hours, for the day
soon to dawn was to see her a bride be
fore it departed.
The sky was covered with opaque
clouds. Not a star was visible, for the
rifts, if there were any, were as black as
the clouds.
r l herefore, the crouching figure that
crossed the flower garden was not per
ceived. It seemed a man, yet it had the
motion of an animal.
It paused before a low door in the
eastern wing of the Cantelvar mansion
and listened.
The wash of the weaves against the
walls was the only sound that came to
the solitary being. Then it struck the
door twice, and the portal opened noise
lessly, and closed again. But the night
prowler w T as not to be seen without; he
was within the mansion.
The person who had admitted him
seemed to be a small man. The person
admitted was tall and wore a mask that
effectually concealed his fatures.
“ You can find your w r av now?” asked
the traitor.
“Yes; give me the light.”
The dark taper w r as placed in his
hands.
“You have the keys,” said the traitor.
“May the Virgin speed you .; I will be
at the work. We sail to-night.”
“Yes, to-night. Be there !”
A moment later the tall man moved
off', leaving watching him and
his light, ■■
More than corridor the mask
ed one travelthe silence of death
was about feet gave forth no
sound, for they were encased in nothing
but short Cuban hose, and there were
no obstacles in his path. The ornamen
ted butts of the pistols visible just above
bis belt told that be w r as prepared for an
emergency, and bis left hand clutched
the hilt of a dagger whose blade was hid
den in his sleeve-.
At last be paused before a door much
smaller than any he had encountered in
the house, and its heavy locks told that
it led to a room w'here valuable treasure
lay.
The mask listened a long time at the
door before he tried to open it. He knew
that he w'as underground, fur the stone
floor on which he stood was quite damp,
and the walls about him w r ere covered
with icy sweat. The curiously shaped
key that he drew from his pocket open
ed the little door, and the night prowler
found himself in a small room.
Closing the door gently he soon pro
duced a stronger light, and the glare that
suddenly dazzled his eyes almost sent
him to the floor.
A table stood in the centre of the
treasure room, and on that table were
the treasure for which he had seemingly
entered the Cantelvar mansion.
There were necklaces of diamonds and
tiaras of rubies; bracelets of pearls and
pins of emeralds ; head-dresses of beaten
gold, studded with precious stones, and
rings whose value seemed incalculable.
He stood before Isa Cantelvar’s wed
ding gifts !
About him on the floor was the old
Cuban’s wealth--coffers full of doubloons,
safes well stored with precious stones.
The five small trunks which Capt. Cate
rer had noticed on the pier were there,
hut they were empty. The jewels they
had carried across the ocean glittered
on the table.
For many minutes the mask stared at
the array ot wealth, and then, as if to
test the reality of things, he approached
and took up a costly necklace.
“ She shall never wear this !” he said
after a moment’s inspection, and then
the costly bauble disappeared T>eneath
his doublet.
A tiara of beautiful rubies followed
the necklace, and then rings, bracelets
and other rich personal ornaments disap
peared. He discarded many rich things
with the discrimination of a lapidary,
and when he was about to turn away, he
laughed.
“I can’t take any of your doubloons,
Senor Cantelvar,” he said. “They are
very pretty, very good, but your daugh
ter’s wealth is more portable. I guess I
carry about four hundred thousand
doubloons’ worth of pebbles on my f per
son. Ha! ha! Isa wouldn’t marry
Calevar!”
He put his hand on the door, when the
slightest of noises startled him. '
“Calevar?”
At the sound of his name he turned
quickly, and faced six men with drawn
pistols.
Had they' sprung from the floor of the
treasure room?
There stood old Senor Cantelvar, and
his lips w r ere still quivering with the
name just spoken.
Beside the Cuban stood the youth Who
had lately landed from the Vulture.
Thedask did not drop his taper and turn
for flight. On the contrary, he said.
“ Well!” and looked into the muzzles of
the pistols without a tremor^
“We know you!” said Senor Cantel
var.
“And I know you !” was the rejoinder.
“You came thither for the wedding
gifts.”
‘And I have got them !”
“Do you expect to keep them ?”
“No—not now 1”
“Advance and put them on the table.’'
Calevar advanced without hesitation,
and his hand crept to his bosom. But
it did not draw a single diamond thence.
It came forth empty, but the next in
stant it was filled by the butt of a pis
tol. He raised it quickly, and Senor
Cantelvar went to the floor.
The next moment there were sounds
of struggling in the treasure room, and
when they grew still Calevar, with the
mask stripped from his handsome Spanish
face, sat in a great iron arm-chair-.
Strong ropes bound him to the seat,
and iron bands fastened his feet to the
floor.
The table groaned beneath the most
palatable of Cuban viands, and a rich
candelabrum; suspended from the ceiling,
revealed the sumptuous board. There
were numerous bottles of Spanish and
Islandvwinee on the table ; hut he could
not touch one with his outstretched arm.
Piled up on either side of him were
chests of Spanish doubloons, and the
doors of iron safes were open revealing
the glittering wealth of more than one
mine. He groaned when he compre
hended his situation, and then he cursed
till his tongue refused to blaspheme
longer.
“This is your fate Capt. Calevar,” said
Senor Cantelvar’s well-known voice.
“ You sought wealth and you have it.
What you see is yours. You are wel
come to take it away. You’ll find the
wine the best. There are two bottles o
your favorite Catalonia, and two of thir
ty-five year Madeira. Pleasant dreams
to you, Senor Captain 1”
The silence that followed was awful.
“If Domargo knew this!” cried Cale
var. “Holy Virgin ! where is the dwarf?”
A hellish laugh answered him.
“Domargo is here !” said the dwarf’s
voice. “He is Vinitics’ brother! Ha!
ha !ha ! Good-bye Captain ! The Sea
Cross will sail this time without you.”
“Betrayed !” groaned the doomed man,
and for the first time his bravery desert
ed him.
He fainted in the iron chair.
The next day there was the sound of
merry voices far above bi n. Angels
seemed to be singing to him in hell.
By and by the sounds ceased. Isa
Cantelvar was a bride !
No sounds now but the wash of the
gulf waves against the walls of the trea
sure room.
Days came and went.
The bottles on the table grew moldy ;
the oranges rotted ; the delicacies spoiled,
the candelabrum’s light went out; but
there was a grinning man in the iron
chaif. The Sea Cross sailed away with
out him.
A year ago that terrible room was
opened. A skeleton seated in an iron
chair, told the story of Cuban vengeance.
Experiments made within the past
six months have developed the estound
ing fact in natural magic, that four
messages can be sent over a single wire
as readily as two, and that through messa
ges and local ones can be sent without
interfering with one another over the
same w r ire. While for instance, messa
ges are being simultaneously exchanged
between Boston and New York, two
more can be sent on the same wire be
tween Boston and Worcester; two be
! tw'een Worcester aud Springfield and
i New Haven or New Yofk, making in
all eight separate ami distinct messages
crossing and recrossing on one w ire at
the same moment of time.
A good kick out of doors is better
than a rich uncle.
INTERESTING ITEMS.
Hanibal Hamlin has been elected
L nited States Senator from Maine.
Nellie Grant Sartoras is now en
route for home, to spend the winter.
North Georgia is unusually promising.
A New York woman, 83 years of
age, attributes her long life to an absti
nence from bathing.
The man who invented the name
“ Capet-bagger” was William Parr. He
died the other day in Virginia.
Ex-Governor Bullock has a little
office in an obscure part of New York
city, but it is ftot known what he does
for a livelihood.
There are eight metals—indium,
vanadium, ruthenin, rhodium, platinum,
uranium, osmium, and iridium—more
valuable than gold.
A Catholic girl of Louisville has
united with the Jewish Church, and dis
carded her Saviour. She is described as
young, beautiful, and intelligent.
A newspaper warmed, and placed
inside the waistcoat, will keep out cold
far better than a large quantity of cloth
ing. Now is the time to subscribe.
A young lady, last week, commit
ted suicide by leaping from the bridge
at Rochester, N. Y., and was carried
over Genessee falls. Love—shame.
Only 1,440 years, as the transit
astronomers tell us, before we are to fall
into the sun. As we don’t count on liv
ing that long, we say, let her fall. It
won’t be our funeral.
A little darkey in Rome, Ga.,
stole a cake from his grandmother, and
when she stripped him for a whipping
he ran Away. He was found frozen to
death next morning.
living by serving as nude models’ for
painters and sculptors. Many one virtuous
young maidens and married ladies, driv
en by want to that extremity’.
A hermit died in Connecticut, a
few weeks since, who for thirty years
had lived in a hole which he dug in the
side of a hill. There was a woman at
the bottom of it—we don’t mean at the
bottom of the hole, but of the man’s
strange conduct.
At Breakness, N. J., while five
children were sleighing on a pond in
front of their mother’s home, the ice
broke through and all were drowned ere
assistance arrived. The mother was
watching them from a window when the
distressing accident occurred.
The whites and negroes of Edge
field district, S. C., are at the dagger’s
point, and a war of races there is immi
nent. Incendiarism, qmbusliing and
threats of extermination one freely indul
ged in by the blacks. Armed squads of
both races patrol the country night and
day.
The invention for making paper
barrels was patented about six months
ago, and there are two factories now in
operation, turning out 2,500 barrels per
day. Their strength is said to be great
er by four times as wooden barrels, and
of one-half the weight, costing twenty
per cent. less.
* The latest rat story comes from
New York. A lady of that city, for four
months, was an involuntary wet nurse
for a rat. Both herself and husband, at
night, frequently found the natiseous an
imal at her breast, hut feared to disturb
it, lest it sink its poisonous teeth into
the nipple. It w ould gorge itself on the
milk, and then escape to its hole. The
lady, through horror and the drain upon
her system, was reduced to a skeleton,
and her child had to he nursed artificial
ly. They frequently changed their resi
dence to get rid of the creature, but it
seemed to know by instinct where they
had moved, and w’ould follow' them. It
w'as finally shot, just after leaving the
lady’s breast, one night,
A ship has just landed in Boston
which reports the discovery of a country
off the coast of South America, where
the trees, inhabitants, and tow’ns are pet
rifled. It is reached through a subterra
nean tunnel, through which it took the
vessel several days to sail, the water of
w'hich was very deep, but so transparent
ly clear that the ship appeared to be
sailing through the air. The men land
ed aud attempted to explore the island
(as it is supposed to be), but were seized
with a strange drowsiness, when they
immediately retraced their steps, and
some are as yet suffering from a stiffness
in their joints. It is supposed that pet
rifaction had commenced on them when
they re-embarked. They brought back
with them the petrified arm of a beauti
ful woman, covered with jewels, as also
many other curiosities, which are now
deposited in the Boston Museum. An
expedition is now' being formed to visit
this wonderful land.
VOL I—NO. 17.
THE LATEST AND BEST.
When was the greatest freak of
nature ?—When Mary bad a little lamb.
Any’ young Miss would rather
have her corsets tight than her “ feller.”
The down-trodden people of New
Orleans seem to have their Phil of Sher
idan.
■ Don Piatt’s favorite song is—
“ Meet me by Moonlight, a loan isWll I
ask of thee.”
Since the hard times struck Ne
vada they’ have raised the price of kill
ing Chinamen to $7.
W hen the Ku-Klux hang a man
what part of his wearing apparel do they
become? —His susipeW^rs.
that is afraid of a woman, than to breAk
a woman that is afraid of a cow.
is a skull kept oU the Counter, marked,
“ Tis man was a drummer. Beware I”
The papers have a paragraph on
kissing a girl against her will, It is
generally done against her cheek—isn’t
it?
A Dogsborough man lias invent
ed a way to make his home happy, and
intends to apply for a patent. It is done
by keeping away from it.
A citizen of Syracuse has thirteen
children, all girls. What that father has
spent for hairpins would have bought the
Western Union telegraph wires.
ever saw,” said John Henry. “She
punched away at the ivory keys like
mad, and the piano-forte nobly.”
They never seem at a loss for
amusement in Arkansas. In some of the
towns there, now', when business is dull,
they vary the monotomy by turning out
with shot guns to hunt for “ Smith.”
A couple of fellows who were
pretty thoroughly soaked with bad whis
key got into the gutter. After flounder
ing for some time one of them said :
“ Let’s go to another house—this d—d
hotel leaks.”
A Crawford man says that when
his Wife gets up in the morning with a
jerkj and, neglecting to do up her hair,
goes silently about her work, she is ma
terializing a domestic row which, before
night, will shake the house to its foun
dations.
A venerable friend from the ru
ral districts w’auts the Legislature td
pass the following hills during the pres-'
ent session: To require all chickens
carved up before they are placed on the
table. Desires “gravy” called “sop.”
Wishes dog days changed to the winter,
.so he can fish all the summer.
A Syracuse girl declined to en
gage herself to the object of her affec
tions until his father had given her writ
ten guarantee that his son w r as not only
sound in “ wind and limb,” but of good
morals, gentle, and warranted to behave
both in “ single and double harness.”
This girl did not intend to be seen in a
divorce court.
Girls should be w arned of the
danger they incur iu marrying a railroad
hrakeman, An enthusiastic member of
that fraternity, on being awakened the
other night by a dream of an impending
crash by a train, found himself sitting
up in bed, holding his wife by the ears,
having nearly twisted her head off in his
frantic efforts to “ down brakes.”
To the correspondent who in*
quires, “If there has been any sudden
drop in dry goods this week,” a conimcf*
cial writer says: “We have noticed but
one. She said, when we picked her up,
that people who ate grapes ought not to
throw their skins on the side-walk. We
presumei it was grape skins that were re*
ferred to.”
census taker. “ John Corcoran. “ Your
age?” Twenty-one.” Wha* nativity ?”
“ Well, that’s what bothers me. I’ll tell
you, and maybe you cau make it out.
My father was Irish, but now a natural
ized American citizen ; my mother Eng*
lish, and I was born on a Dutch frigate,
under the French flag, in Turkish wa*
ters. Now, how is it?”
An old lady in Lockport recently
achieved eminence by carrying a quart
of popped corn to a donation party, and
ating two dozen fried oysters, a pound
of crackers, three sliees of fruitcake,
half a mince pie, and some applies, sitter
which she said she was threatened with
ea spasm, and in the effort to prevent ic
she sacrificed all the wine there was in
the house. She attends donations regu
larly, and does a good deal for the church
in that way.
And now comes a Boston girl wh >
wants the new undergarment called “pri
ma,” because it is the first to be put otk