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From Appleton’s Journal. 1TA » An
the code of honok
From tho London Daily Telegraph.
POISONING BY WHOLESALE
Last Dueling in England and Scotland.
Tho lastnublic duel between Eng
lishmen in England occurred in 1845.
During the ten previous years Mr. Roe
buck ban fought with Mr. Black; Hon.
GrantlcyBerkley with Mr. Marin;
Lord Castlereagh with M. deMoIey;
Marquis of Londonderry with Mr.
Henry Grattan; Lord Captain Tuc-
kett, and Colonel Fawcett with Lieu
tenant Monroe. Five years earlier—
1829—tie Duke of Wellington had
challenged and fought the Earl of
Winchelsea. This last affair of
honor was really the epoch of ducliinj
in England. The old Duke never sail
aa much—indued,- he always thought
lightly dftdmUing but fhaar is little
doubt that he regarded his meeting
Winchelsea in the field as the most
absurd transaction of his life. He
had brought in tho “ Roman Catholic
Relief Bill.” The Earl of Winchelsea
opposed it, and said that the whole
thing was done under false pretences,
A prodigious correspondence ensued,
with the Duke’s writting : “ For this
insult, I believe that his Lordship will
be anxious to give me reparation.”
Now, “ reparation" in duelling par
lance is tho same as “ satisfaction,”
and it is quite evident that this is what
tho old warrior was driving at. The
Earl, however, without retracting, con
tinued beating the hush until he re
ceived a note in these words:
“I now call upon your Lordship to
give me that satisfaction for your con
duct which a gentleman has a right to
require, and which a gentleman never
refuses to give. I have tho honor, &c.,
Wellington.”
To this the Earl replied :
“ The satisfaction which your Grace
lias demanded, it is, of course, impos
sible for mo to decline. I have the
honor to he,
“ Winchelsea.”
Accordingly, the parties met at Bat
tersea I* ields the next morning, the
Duke attended by Sir Henry llard-
ingc; the Earl by Lord Falmouth.
The ground having been measured and
the places taken by the principals, nt
the word “Fire?” the Duke raised
his pistol, but seemed to hesitate, for
he saw that tho Earl kept his pistol
pointing to the ground, evidently not
intending to fire. lie then fired at
random. The Earl did not discharge
his pistol. Thereupon Lord Fal
mouth stepped forward and delivered
a memorandum to Sir Henry Har-
dinge, expressing tho Earl’s regret,
and the parties separated. Upon a
subsequent inquiry by a committee of
the House, Lord Falmouth stated
that the condition on which he consent
ed act as second to the Earl was
that the latter should not fire at the
Duke. This was certainly a very odd
arrangement; hut Lord Falmouth
w.ent.on to say that “ the Earl of Win-
chelsca thought that tho injury he had
done the Duke of Wellington was too
great for a mere apology, and that he
ought to receive his tire.” Was ever
infatuation carried further? Nothing
can he more significant of the change
that forty years have produced in pub
lic opinion than that such a man as the
Duke of Wellington should have felt
it his duty to resort to a duel in vindi
cation ofnis character.
In Scotland tho duel that proved
iLe knell of the departing custom
occurred in 1822 between Sir .Alexan
der Boswell and James Stuart. The
former, a considerable master of irony,
had . published a song in the Glasgow
Sentinel, containing imputations of
cowardice against the latter. He was
asked to disavow the authorship, hut
would not; to withdraw the imputa
tion, but he declined ; and, even after
the matter !>ccame serious, to say that
he intended no reflection upon Mr.
Stuart’s courage, but he persisted in
remaining silent. The meeting; there
fore, was decided upon. In the car
riage, on the way to the ground, Sir
Alexander expressed his decided
opinion that Air. Stuart could have
done nothing else than call him out.
He aim declared his intention to fire
»tho air, and on getting out of the
fringe, he said: •>
“ Now, gentlemen, observe it is my
fixed resolution to fire in the air.” Mr.
Stuart’s feeling seemed to have been
equally forbearing. lie said that he
had no malice against Sir Alexander,
and) before anything took plnce,
he fleked tiis second, the Earl of lto-
sslyn, if it were not fit that lie should
make a bow to his opponent and ex
press a wish for reconciliation. The
Earl thought it right, and Mr. Stuart
advanced toward Sjr Alexander, ap
parently for that puipose, but the lat-
tcr*s hack wSa Jurned, and ho did not
prewive the intention. Mr. Stuart’s
conduct, from first to the last, was
cool, composed and temperate. The
ground was then measured—twelve
ong paces. They took their positions,
' vcro handed to them, and
ihaEarlofl^iyn the word .
**?**«» Sir Alexander fell,
mortally wounded. After he fell he
fir* h° had not made his
TKK i t n, r mort! decided than it was.
A?Hi“‘ , i* t . ruck hira in the shoul-
’ er °d bio shoulder-blade, and
xr PP°scd to have entered the spine,
tv rnwli ? , a,ivancotl with great anxie-
of ft i* l iidten man, but the Earl
, 1^'" hurried him away. The
nforbmato baronet was carried to the
mto House, where he expired.
ja® tried for wilful mur-
pjjjk, the jligh Court 0 f .Judiciary,
rninnt^ 1 ^ 1 ’ *T Ut the jury, after a few
coasultation without leaving
of‘•^otSty]” d a UUanini0US verdict
One Woman Committing over Twenty
Murders—Folsonlng Her Mother,
Fifteen Children, Three Husbands,
and One Lodger.
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ATHENS, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 8,1872.
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Attention has been called on two or
three occasions in the Daily Tdepraph
to the consternation produced in the
north of England by the terrible charge
of wholesale poisoning, which was par
tially investigated at West Aukland,
and which has, since the committal of
the accused for trial, assumed still
more terrible dimensions. As we
stated on Saturday, the woman in cus
tody is now suspected of having poison
ed her mother, fifteen children, three
The Dur-
gave them anything they vomited, and
were sick and putged. His sisters
had often talked to him both then and
since about the suspicious death of the
children. On reading the West Auck
land poisoning case in the papers, they
statca to him that this was the way
his children went. One of them hand
ed a paper to him and said, “ That is
thy Mary Ann that has been doing
that,” little thinking at the time that
the person accused of the West Auck
land poisonings was the very woman
they were talking about. Robinson
raid she often wanted him to get his
life and the lives of the remaining
children insured, and one day he founo
her at an office trying to effect an in
surance. He forbade her doing so,
and said he would not pay a penny.
This aroused his'suspicion about the
children who had died, and he deter-
husbands, and one lodger. .
’ cdhntfSmlice have been abfe*r not to have his
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deli
■3R*® hottest
elphia Time*
The Phila-
pf-August. 1870 ® how l ' mt the month
bua cdunff^ollce have been ahkrte
lay the following particulars before the
Home Secretary, with a view to pro
cure an order for the exhumation of
more bodies to be tested for poison:
Mar}’ Ann Cotton, the prisoner, was
born in 1832, at Murton Colliery, near
Seaham Harbor, and her father, Mich
ael Robson, was a sinker at that place,
and was killed about twenty-six years
ago. The prisoner was then about
fourteen years old, and lived at home
with her mother at the above-named
colliery until she was sixteen years of
ago, when she went to live as under
nurse in the family of Mr. Edward
Potter, colliery viewer at South Het-
ton. She remained in this situation
about three years, and then she went
home to her mother’s house, and serv
ed an apprenticeship to the business of
a dressmaker. About this time she
liecame acquainted with William Mow
bray, a laborer residing at Murton
Colliery, but a native of Peterborough.
They were shortly afterwards married
at St. Andrew’s Church, Newcastle-on-
Tyne, and left the neighborhood and
went to reside at Plymouth, and after
wards at various other places in the
south of England, then returning to
South lletton, after an absence of five
years from that part of the country.
TIIE FIRST CHILDREN KILLED.
On their return the prisoner stated
that she had had four children while
away, but they had all died. Mow
bray obtained employment at South
Hetton, as a foreman at the colliery,
and remained there several years. On
the 24th of .Tune, 18(50, they had a
child named Mary Ann, four years
of age, which died. Mr. Broadbcnt,
surgeon at South lletton, says she died
of gastric fever. Shortly after this,
Mowbray and the prisoner, with their
children, went to live at Hendon. He
obtained employment as a fireman on
a steam vessel. On the 22d of Sep
tember, 1864, a son named John
Robert William, about one year old,
died; and on the 2d of May, 1865. a
daughter, named Mary Jane, died.
The two last-named were attended in
their illness by Mr. Gammage, sur
geon, Sunderland, and he states that
they both died of gastric fever. The
deceased, William Mobray, and his
family, were all insured in the British
and Prudential Insurance office, and
on the death of her husband the pris
oner got $35, and some smaller
amounts on the death of the children.
SECOND MARRIAGE.
She then obtained a situation at the
old infirmary at Sunderland, and re
mained there about six months, when
she became acquainted with an inmate
named George Ward. He married
her and they went to reside in Gray
street, Sunderland, where he died on
the 21st of October, 1866, aged thirty-
three years. Mr. Gammage attended
him, and, although he was an ailing
man, lie considered that he dropped off
very suddenly. From the death of
Ward to the 20th of December it is
said the prisoner led a loose life, but
she then obtained a situation as house
keeper to one James Robinson, a fore
man in a ship-building yard at Pallion.
In Juno, 1867, lie married her, and
they continued to reside together at
Pallion. When Robinson married the
prisoner he was a widower with five
children, and the prisoner had one lit
tle girl about nine years of age. She
lived with Robinson until the latter
part of December, 1867, and during
that time there died in his house John
Robinson, ten months old, January 4,
1867; Janies Robinson, six vears old,
April 7, 1867; Elizabeth Robinson,
eight years old, April 13,1867 ; Eliza
beth Mowbray, nine years old, May 2,
1867 ; Edward Mowbray, nine years
old, May 2, 1867, and Margaret Rob
inson, three years old, December, 1867.
Mr. Gammage attended E. Mowbray,
and he states that she died of gastric
fever. Mr. Shaw, surgeon, Deptford,
attended the Robinsons, and he states
they died of gastric fever.
RUINING A HUSBAND.
It is stated above that the prisoner
lived with Robinson until the latter
part of December, 1847. About this
time he had found out that she had in
volved him in about £60 debt, besides
pledging bis clothese and disposing of
his household linen and goods. She
had also charge of his bank book and
build society book, and he also found
that she had wasted upward of £50,
and entered sums in the building socie
ty book which she never paid in.
Robinson’s sisters also began to talk
about the suspicious deaths of the chil
dren, and told him they had been pois
oned. Robinson taxed her with her
dishonesty, and said what he had heard
about the children’s death. After
Robinson left the house that day, she
dressed herself and took ono of her
children, alwut 18 months old, and
went out, and he has never seen her
since. Sho left the child in the street
with a person till she went> to post a
letter, dul she never returned, and
Robinson did not recover his child for
some time, when he found it in a
wretched state. He now feels con
vinced that his children were poisoned.
He suspected so at the time, bnt did
not like his mind tQ-dwdl on the sub
ject. They were healthy and strong,
and only ill a few days before they
died. Ho noticed that whenever she
THT AND WISDOM.
THE THIRD MARRIAi
After her father’s death her mother
was married to Robert Stott, who is
now living at Seaton Colliery. Mrs.
Stott, the prisoner’s mother, died the
9th of June, 1866, aged fifty-four
years, and was buried at Old Seaham.
She died very suddenly after tho pris
oner came. She robbed the house of
everything she could take away, and
Stott stated that he would never allow
her to enter the house more. The
prisoner, after absconding from the
houso of her husband, is found wander
ing about Sunderland, Seaham harbor,
Tynemouth and Newcastle, until the
7th of July, 1870, when she obtained
a situation as housekeeper to Freder
ick Cotton, a pitman, residing at Wal-
bottle, Northumberland. In October
of the same year he married her at St.
Andrew’s Church, Newcastle, in the
name of Mary Ann Mowbray. When
residing at Walbottle a number of fat
pigs died, and for some reason or other
she was suspected, and the place be-
camo so hot that they were obliged to
leave it, and they came to reside at
West Auckland.
At that time the family consisted of
herself, Frederick Cotton, her hus
band ; Frederick Cotton, her son, nine
years; Charles Edward Cotton, step
son, six years; Robert Robson Cotton,
son, two years or so, who have all died,
as well as a lodger named Joseph Nat
trass.
A CATALOGUE OF ORIJIE.
The prisoner herself states that
while she was in the South of England
she had four children to Mowbray, all
of whom died. The other case3 of
death were as follows:
Mar} - Ann Mowbray, four years,
South Hetton, June 24, 1360; John
Robert Wm. Mowbray, one year, Hen
don, September 22, 1864; William
Mowbray, 47 years, Hendon, January
18, 1865 ; Mary Jane Mowbray, four
years, Hendon, May 22, 1865 ; Mrs.
Stott, mother of the prisoner, 54 years,
South Hetton, January 9, 1866;
George Ward, 33 years, Sunderland,
Oct. 21, 18G6; John Robinson, ten
months, l'allion, January 4, 1867;
James Robinson, six years, Pallion,
April 7, 1872; Elizabeth Robinson,
eight years, Pallion, April 13,1867 ;
Elizabeth Mowbray, nine years, Pal-
lion, May 2, 1866 ; Margaret Robin
son, three months, Pallion, December,
1867; Frederick Cotton, 33 years,
West Auckland, September 19, 1871;
Fred. Cotton, ten years, West Auck
land, March 9, 1872; Robert Robson
Cotton, 14 months, West Auckland,
March 28,1872; Joseph Nattrass, 35
years. West Auckland, April 1, 1872,
and Charles Edward Cotton, seven
years, West Auckland, July 12, 1872.
Traces of poison, it has already
been stated, have been found in the
bodies of two of the deceased, Charles
Edward Cotton and Joseph Nattrass,
and the police are now waiting for
their instructions before carrying out
the order which has already been re
ceived for further exhumations.
Game is very plentiful on the Pacific
road—that is, euchre and seven-np.
Why is the bridegroom worth more
than the bride? Because she is given
away and lie is sold.
Wait for others to advance your
interests, and you will wait till they
are not worth advancing.
He who does evil that good may
come, pays a toll to the devil to let
him into heaven.
People who are always wishing for
something new should try neu-ralgia
once. if'.J.'.J
The Boston car drivers complain that
old ladies punch them in the back with
parasols when they want the car stop
ped- . • • , ,
A German sob, " It was easier for
a needle to vaix out of a carnal’s eye
than for a mans to get der lasht vord
mit a voomans.
A crusty old bachelor says that
Adam’s wife was called Eve because
when she appeared man’s day of hap
piness was drawing to a close.
Wisconsin marshes are yielding
alternate crops of intermittent fever
and cranlierries to the extent of from
two hundred to three hundred bushels
to the acre.
“ Wife, do you know that I have
got the pneumonia ?” “New iuonia,
indeed! Such extravagance! You’re
the most spendthriftiest man I ever
did sec, to go and lay out raony for
such trash, when I need a new bonnet
so much.”
The Standards Taken by Na
poleon I.—The French newspaper
“ Uniters" has remarked that as the
trophies of the wars of Napoleon I.
are not to be seen at the Invalides,
they have probably been restored to
the Germans. In reply to this the
Paris correspondent of the “ Indepen
dence Beige” writes that on the night of
the 13th of March, 1814, the 1,500 or
1,600 banners which then hung under
the dome of the Invaliedes were
taken down and formed into a pile
in tho court -yard. The banners,
with their lances, surmounted by Ru
Prussian and
owbray, nine years old, Mav 2, sian » Prussian anil Austrian eagles,
■ ” ■ • ’ were set on fire, anil upon them were
thrown other trophies, such as the
sword and regal insignia of Frederick
tho Great. Tho ashes of this pile
were soon swept up and thrown into
the Seine. Next day, when, after the
entry of the allies, a Russian officer
came to see the banners, General
Darmaud showed him the place where
they had been, and told him they had
boon burned on the previous nignt.
Never set yourself up for a musician
just because you have got a drum iu
your ear; nor believe you are cut out
for a school teacher merely because
you have a pupil in your eye.
A poor but honest young lady, who
earns a living by working on hoop
skirts, in reply to an inquiry, stated
that she had spent tho summer “ at the
spring.”
Many gentlemen have pockets made
in the sleeves of their overcoats, where
in a lady may keep her hand warm
when walking arm in arm with them.
Here is the last witticism from the
minstrel hall: “Isay, Billy, Gen.
Grant plays a big game of billiards."
“ What game does he play, Backus ?”
“ Why, he plays the pocket game, of
course.”
A Boston woman, who has been
reading in the papers that Sunday mar
riages are illegal, writes to the papers
to know how it is with a baby horn on
Sunday. If so, which should he pun
ished—the father, the mother, or the
baby ?
“Who was the meekest man, my
son ?” said the superintendent of a
boy’s Bible class. “ Moses, sir.”
“ Very well, my boy; and who was
the meekest woman ?” “ Please, sir,
there never was no meekest woman.”
“ Remember who you are talking to
sir,”. said an indignant parent to a
facetious boy; “ I am your father, sir!”
“ Well, who’s to blame for that?”
said tho young impertenent; “taint
me.”
In one of the suburban schools a
teacher gave out the word “ psalter” to
a class in spelling. It was a poser to
all till it reached the foot of the class,
when a curly-hcaded little fellow
spelled it correctly, and being asked to
define it, shouted out, “More salt.”
A good story is told of a college
president, who, meeting on the cars a
student whose character for sobriety
was not good, whose thin appearance
evinced a recent dobauch, approached
him and solemnly and regretfully
said: “Been on a drunk?” “So
have I,” was the immediate reply.
Small hoys in Bangor, Me., supply
themselves with pocket money by leav
ing parcels of their own devising at
people’s doors, marked, “Pay the boy
ten cents.”
Don’t be too anxious to solve a co
nundrum. We know a man who got
two black eyes in er deavoring to find
out the difference between a man and
a woman fighting in the street
This is a personal item in the most
approved style of the Western papers:
“ Jacob Bumgander blew into tho muz
zle of his gun to see if it was loaded.
It was. Funeral on Sunday.”
Nothing is more indicative of the
earnestness of life than the sight of a
well-developed malo creature spending
eight hours a day in trying to wear
out a dry goods box with tho seat of
his pants.
A dying Irishman, asked by his
confessor if he was ready to renounce
tho devil and all his works, replied,
“ Don’t ask me that; Tm going to a
strange county, and I don’t intend to
make meself ’enemies.”
Reign of terror in North Car
olina.—The Wilmington Journal
says: But little more than two
months ago, on the night of the 8th of
August, Bn wife’s chamber, at Hills
boro’, was fired into from a window.
But little more than two years ago,
on the night of July 13, 1870, another
attempt Was made to assassinate Mrs.
Turner. On that occasion the would-
be-assassin was so dose to Mrs. Turner
that the powder from his pistol burned
her face.
On the 5th of August iff the same
year, Mr. Turner was arrested by or
der of Governor Holden, by a military
force, without any warrant of law
whatever, and confined in a loathsome
dungeon with a negro felon condemn
ed to death.
On. tho 24th of March, 1869, a par-
, consisting of Joseph W.
oldui, Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, various employees and
officers of the State government, and
others, met Mr. Turner at the depot
in Raleigh, and is a body assaulted
him. Mr. Turner’s coolness and his
pistol saved his life.
Only a few nights thereafter an at
tempt was made to assassinate him by
shooting at him through a window
near which he sat writing. This timo
Mr. Turner’s life was saved by the
change in the direction of the ball,
caused by its passage through the pane
of glass. The building in which he
then was is the same one that was
blown up night before last.
The court was in session then, not a
stone’s throw from the spot, and no
step was taken to find out the criminal.
The court is in session now, and
Judge Watts is again its presiding of
ficer. Will he pass this outrage by in
silence and in contempt, as ho did
that? We shall see what we shall
see!
A Sad Mishap.—That young man
in Harrisburg who went serenading
has abandoned nocturnal howling for
the present. While he stood uuder
her window thrumming his lute and
caroling a tender song, she leaned out
from the casement in her night-gown.
Suddenly he made an effort to strike
the high C. The shock startled her so
that she lost her balance, fell, turning
three or four somersaults to the pave
ment, her left foot crashing through
the gay troubadour's guitar. The
strain of the minstrel suddenly ceased,
and he fled away into the darkness,
with the impression that the girl’s
father in his wrath had either fired a
roll of matting at him or thrown out
his mother-in4aw with the, intent to
destroy two muissnees at one blow.
The maiden picked the cat-gut -and
Splinters from her toes and went to
bed. She anchors herself to the ward
robe now whenever she hears music in
the street.
Legal Notices.
COMMISSIONER’S SALE.
r * PURSUANCE OF A DECREE
® u Pf. rior Court, September Term,
™*° HutwilL Hart county, on tho
nap TUESDAY IN DECEMBER next, within
the legal hotfra eC public sales, the Mice and Scw-
?7*f t °, f L , ANIJ ! •ring «“ Beaverdam Creek,
aojoiniog lands of ¥ red Human, Gustav us'Wynn
an* othero, and containing Two Hunbred and
Twenty-fire Acres, more or less. Terms cash.
JNO G. McCURRY, Commlsaioaer.
October 21st,. 1S72. uovl-lt
Shoal Creek Factory and Mills
FOR SALE.
"WILLBE SOLD before the Court
_ „Uoo»,ta Hartwell, on the FIRSTTUES-
PA\ IN DECEMBER NEXT, during the legai-
aale hours, In accordance with a decree rendered'
iU-i. , Hart Superior Court, at September term,
1S72, in case of Wm. Knox a d A. Corn tig, exceut
Tne factory and Mill lluuscs is couij
Long Ears.—A gentleman seated
in the stalls of a theatre, who was af
flicted with remarkably long ears,
overheard the jocular remarks of a
neighboring young man to another,
which were by far too loudly expressed
The proprietor of the ears turned
round thereat sharply and said, “ Sir,
it is true my ears are very large in
deed for a man, but yours are very
small indeed for an ass!”
Copy of a Painter’s Bill.
A Scotch newspaper of 1707 gives
the following copy of a painter’s bill,
presented to a church for professional
work done therein:
“1. To filling up a chink in the
Red Sea, and repairing the damages of
Pharoah’s host.
“2. To a new pair of hands for
Daniel in the lion’s den, and a new set
of teeth for the lioness.
“ 3. To repairing Nebuchadnezzar's
beard.
“ 4. To cleaning the whale’s belly,
varnishing Jonah’s face, and mending
his left arm.
“5. To a new skirt for Joseph’s
garment.
“ 6. To a sheet-anchor, a jury-mast,
and a long-boat for Noah’s ark.
“7. To giving a blush to the cheek
of Eve, on presenting the apple to
Adam.
“8. To paing a new city in the land
of Noil.
“ 9. To clear the garden of Eden
after Adam’s expulsion.
“ 10. To making a bridle for the
Samaritan’s horse, and mending one of
his legs.
“ 11. To adding more fuel to the
fire of Nebucliadnezzar’s furnace.
Debts of. the States.—The
amount of the debts of the different
States of the Union foots up an enor
mous aggregate. Taken in detail,
their liabilities range from $37,879,-
350 to $300,000—New York having
the largest, and Iowa the smallest.
Louisiana ranks next to New York,
$30,244,752. The debt of Massachu
setts is only a trifle smaller than that
of North Carolina, $29,560,664, and
about $3,000 more than that of Penn
sylvania, which is $28,656,876. Ala
bama is credited with a debt of $25,-
181,967; Missouri, $20,869,000;
Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland
and Arkausns range from $18,267,500
to $11,200,000. The debt of Ohio is
8500,000 more than that of Maine,
$7,212,000, and Florida’s debt is $461-
435 less than Connecticut’s which is
$5,769,300. Indiana, Texas and Cal
ifornia are between three and four
millions each in debt; New Jersey
and Rhode Island about the same,
$2,500,000. Tho debt of New Hamp
shire is $1,068,000; Nevada, $760,-
000; Vermont, $412,000 ; anil Ore
gon, $300,277, These are entirely
separate from the national debt.
Shrewd Reply.—“Now, Jony,”
said a venerable lady to her six year
old nephew, who was persistently de
nying an offense of which she accused
him, “ I know you are not telling me
the truth; I see it in your eye.” Pull
ing down the lower lid of the organ
that had so nearly betrayed his want
of veracity, Johny exultingly replied,
“ You can’t tell anythingabout it aunt;
that eye always was a little streakod.”
PoorPrinteb.—Enter tho open
door, open now and ever more; step
briskly on the inside door, and settle
with the printer poor. He waits with
heart so sore, ana cannot wait much
more; exhausted in his little store, he’s
“ gone up if you miss the door.”
A rural exchange gets off the follow
ing: “ An heiress is stopping at a
neighboring village whose washing
cost eight dollars a week. Onr ac
quaintance with heiresses is very slight”
and we had no idea they were so dirty.
The other day o little boy who, had
cut his finger, ran to his mother and
cried: “ Tic it up quick, for tho juice
is all running out!” The same urchin,
on one of the late oppressive hot days,
appealed to mother for help, saying:
“ Ma, do fix me, for I’m leaking all
over.”
A lawyer riding through the town
of Worcester stopped at a cottage to
inquire his way. The lady of the
house told him lie must keep on'straght
for some time, then turn to the right;
but said that she was going to pass the
road that he must take, and if he
could wait a few moments till she got
her horse ready she would show him
the way. “ Well,” said he, -*-* bad com
pany is better than none; make haste.”
After jogging on five or six miles, the
gentleman nsked if he had not come to
the road he must* take. “ Oh, yes,”
she said, “ we have passed it two or
three miles back: but I thought bad
company was better than none, so I
kept you along with me.”
A Beautiful Jewess Married
Before She Knew* It.—The Paris
Sicdc tells a curious story illustrating
the evil consequences of arbitrary no
tions concerning marriage held by the
followers of religious sects in opposi
tion to the simple view of the matter
taken by the State. The ancient cus-
tomes of the Hebrew nation make the
reception by a young woman of gift
from a young man, tendered with the
words, “I consecrate thee to myself
with this,” a valid marriage. A young
and indigent man, being in want of a
rich wife, fixed upon a wealthy young
Jewess as a fit person ujion whom to
try a stratagem suggested by this cus
tom.
He introduced himself to the lady as
a jeweller in the town, and succeeded
in making her choose a bracelet.
While paying him she saw that she
had not sufficient money, and said so
to the pretended jeweler. He instant
ly handed her a coin, at the same time
pronouncing the sacramental words.
The girl immediately threw down
the piece, but the rascal had, in the
opinion of the bigoted rabbis, acouir-
ed sufficient right over her to indnee
them to summon her to the synagogue
that the affair might be investigated.
They finally decided that the condi
tions making the gift a marriage had
not been fulfilled; but the poor girl
fell ill from agitation and anxiety, and
died in a few days.
Earl Russell and the Irish.—
The aged Russell, who has distinguish
ed himself as Prime Minister of Eng
land, is going to introduce in Parlia
ment a scheme for home rule in Ire
land. There has been so much schem
ing done for Ireland already that it is
not unreasonable for people to mis
trust the sagacity even of so old a
man. It would seem indeed that he
has not much faith in the “ scheme”
himself, not on account of any defects
in it, but want of wisdom, of course,
in somebody, not Earl Russell. He
says: “ that ho wishes to promote
Irish improvement and bring about
Irish prosperity, but he fears that ifan
Irish Parliament is set up in Ireland
her energies will he wasted in conten
tion. He, therefore, wisher to divert
the forces tending to inflammability.
He fears, however, that wisdom will
be wanting both in England and
Ireland.” Yes, there is the rub. That
want of wisdom is alway in the way.
Tiiiers to be Made President
for Life.—The Paris papers an
nounce that when the Assembly re
sumes its sittings an effort will be made
to make M. Thiers President for life,
create an upper chamber, and the of
fice of Vice-President; to remodel the
Assembly and modify the election
laws by restrictions on universal suf
frage. It is supposed that this will
give stability to tho republic. In view
of the man in which Gamhotta’s repub
lican ideas are popularly received, and
the inflamable material of France,
such an effort would likely produce an
other revolution.
General Grant, who recently sent a
courtly letter of congratulation to his
cousin of France, no doubt awaits the
result of the experiment with deep in
tcrest. If Thiers can he President for
life, why cannot Grant ?
“ The Committee of 70,” of New
York, which made so much noise last
year, comes forth in its true colors.
With flaming professions of reform on
its lips, self aggrandisement was always
at its heart. It is a mere appendage
to the Custom House ring, and has
sold itself to that concern on the con
dition that its members shall have
good fat offices. They are running
the committee,” says the World, “ to
help their members to obtain office,
and they will make any combination
and indorse any sot of men to aid that
arrangement. The whole thing is a
fraud upon its face, and is run in the
Radical interest pure and simple.
News comes to us from Salt Lake City
that Brigham Young has been
unanimously re-clcctcd Chief Prpohet
of the Mormon Confederacy, and that
nearly all the present officers of the
church have been retained in office.
The most important fact, however, of
the recent Mormon conference, as the
Gentile” world is concerned, is the
appointment of no less than thirteen
missionaries to Europe. The Mormons
are becoming zealous in the work of
proselyting. This is the largest num
ber of missionaries, we believe, that
sect has ever sent out.
i couipsnitireiy
Th Mill is in splcuiiil running order, with one
rock or wheat and one for corn.
Thef Factory has S % spindles, -iOS iu goo.1 run
ning onlcr, with necessary |>reparationa for the
sanio ; also, a new line shaft. The above machine-
is driven by a 26-inch Double Turbine wheel
Connected with the Factory are a SA W MILL
TURNING LATHE and WftOLCARDS.
Tki;m* of Salk—One-third carh. tho remain
der due in two installments uf one and two years.
Purchaser will receive bond for titles, amt be re
quired to give two approved securities- For fur
ther particulars apply to the undersigned, on the
premises, or address them at Barker's St re, Hart
county, Ga.
Sold as the property of A. Corn.vg, and estate of
Samuel Knox, for division and distribution.
September UOth, 187i. WM. KNOX,
A. COttNOG,
octlS-td Executors Samuel Knox, deceased.
GcorgiaRailroad Schedule
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SCHEDULE
GEORGIA and MACON and
AUGUSTA RAILRODS.
Superintendent's Office, I
Georgia and Karon A Aagasta Railroad, V
Auguata, Ga., June 5,1871. >
O N AND AFTER WEDNES
DAY, June 5th, 1872, the Passenger Trains
on the Georgia and Macon and Augusta ltaUroada
will run as follows:
GEORGIA RAILR6A&
Day Passenger Train will
.....8 20 a.m.
>mm8 lSSsDk - , r „I"
at Augusta at........... 30 p. m.’
Night Passenger Tram. ll’l
ugustt '
.tunta
S t
MACON AND AUGUSTA
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at..
Leave Atlrutaat.....
Arrive at Atlanta at.—.
Arrive at A<
Leave Atlanta at .8 00 p. ea.’
Arrive nt Atlanta at —...6 13 a. m.‘
Arrive at Augusta at...........—.......... 6 00 a. m.
Leave Augusta at—...
Leave Macon at
Arrive in Augusta nt...
Arrive in Macon at
■I
(GEORGIA, HART COUUTY —
V-X Whereas, lt.T. Gaines and John M. Brown
administrators of Kichard H. Gaines, deceascd,|>e-
titions for a discharge from said administration.
Therefore, all persons concerned arc hereby re-
required to show cause, if any they have, why said
administrators should not, at the regular term of
*he Tourt of Ordinary of said county, to Iks held on
the first Monday In January next, be discharged
from said administration.
Given under my| hand at ray office, this the 7th
day of October, ia?2. F. C. STEPUKNSON,
octll-td Ordinary.
Q.EORGIA, FRANKLIN CO.—
V A Court of Ordinary of said count v.
Whereas Iarkln D. Scwcilaml William J. pntrick
administrators of Willis Cheek, late of said county,
deceased, petitions the court for a discharge Croiu
said administration :
Therefore, all persons coucercd, are hereby re
quired to show cause, if any they have, why said
Administrators should not, nt a regular term of
said court, to lie held on tho first Monday in De
cember next, be discharged from said administra
tion.
Bv order of said court, at a regular term thereof,
held this the 2d. day ofSeptstnlier 1872.
sept. 14 A. J. MORRIS, Ordinary.
Miscellaneous.
TONS OF
Dicksons
........U on a. m.
6 30 a. to.
2 45 p. in.
- 7 40 p. m.
Night Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at 8 15 p.
Igoavc Macon at 10 00 p. in..
Arrive in Augusta at C 00 a. m.
Arrive in Macon at 4 15 a. tu.
Passengers from Atlanta, Athens, Washington,^
and stations on Georgia Railroad, by taking tho"
Pay Passenger Tralu will make conueclioii at da-'
irk -tfTtli the Train for Macon.
Pullman’s (First-Classi Sleeping Cars on all!
Night Passenger Trains on the Georgia Hailrokd; ‘ ‘
and First-Class sleeping Gars on all Night Trtdnsoo»
the Macon nnd Augusta Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON, SupL
Miscellaneous.
GREENE &R0SSMN0L,
Successors (o Wm. 11. Tall.
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Sho trripped lightly o’er the cross,
ing, lisping “Dear Augustus,” and
was on the point of embracing him,
when a rude hoy ran up and holding
out a bundle of papers cried out,
Misses, you dropped your readin’
room,” and shied and shied away down
a dark alley.
Mormon Apostates.—A dispatch
from Salt Lake says: An apostate
and backsliding Mormon organization
has been formed, called the Utah Lib
erating League. It is taking a strong
hold on the people and spreading rap
idly. It is a potent instrument in the
destroying of the priesthood of the
Mormon Church.
SOLD THIS SEASON.
This Shows whuttho Plan
ters Think of it.
MORE OF IT USED THAN ANY
FERTILIZER IN MARKET.
Planters who used a few sacks
this season have already pul in their
orders for a few TONS for next.
I)v. Look to your own interest, ami buy a FER
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you know is good.
Every Sack is Warranted Genuine
Wo hare now on hand, and will continue to
keep a GOOD STOCK, so that farmers can haul it
away before the busy season.
'Payments on 2'imc, Purchases
not due until Novem
ber t si, 7873.
ee- we can also supply -bu
CHEMICALS
TO THOSE DESIRING TO
Make their Own Fertilizers
Those Buying Now will get on as Good
lerms as those who Buy in
the Spring.
England ^ Orr
A-GtEaSTTS;
A new style of ear drop screws into
the lobe of tho tortured member, so
that the pearl or diamond rests upon
the ear as if with no support.. In fact,
very few are able to support it.
A little island in tho Connecticut,
near Wells river is a geographical
curiosity. Onecan sit down at a certain
point on the island and lie in two
two States, three counties four towns
at the same time.
If home is the place where faces are
sour, and words harsh, and fault-find
ing ever in the ascendant, children will
spend as many hours as possiblo else
where.
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