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EXCITING SCENE IN BALTIMORE.
Pluck ts. Law—A Contest Orera Child.
JSTO. 41.
ATHENS, GEOEGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JKLY -1, 1873.
Some time since the Baltimore pa
pers noticed a curious case, in which a
man named James E. Strong sought
to recover his child from Ellen Porter.
It was alleged by those resisting his
claim that he had abandoned'the moth
er, who died of want in a few months
afterwards, and that then tbo daugh
ter of the claimant, only about sixteen
years old, took the child, her little
brother, now between three and four
years old, in her care. She worked
for low wages in a factory at \Vood-
berry, and from her scanty earnings
supported herself and the child at the
house of Iter aunt, Mrs. Ellen Porter.
The girl (Emma C. Strong) evinced
for thwith noble, self-sacrificing devo
tion.* The father claim's he was not
allowed to go to Mrs. Porter’s to see
the chiid, and he therefore got out a
writ of habeas corpus to regain posses
sion of. it. The aunt and daughter re
fused to give up the boy, a bright little
fellow, who was averse to going to his
father. Judge Pinkney postponed as
long as he could the adjudication of
the • jsc, in hope that some comprom
ise might be effected, but this could
not be done, and on last Saturday af
ternoon there was a hearing. The
court was filled, many ladies Wing pre
sent. The testimony was touchingly
sad, and when the witnesses told of the
struggles of the mother to make a liv
ing by washing, her efforts not to have
it known that the family was in ex
treme distress, her confidential revela
tion to a friend that she was dying of
hunger, and finally her death, the
brave efforts of the girl to supply the
place of her mother, her rare devotion
to sisterly duty, and her spotless repu
tation, there was scarcely a person in
the court room whose heart was not
touched and whose eyes were not filled
with tears.
There was no charge that the father
was a drinking or immoral man, hut
he had not provided for his family, ho
had left his wife before her death* and
he had done nothing for the little hov,
that for five or six months the girl
had supported and cared for. He
claims that now lie can support the
child, and he proposes to give it to the
care of an uncle of the bo v who has no
children, and promises to do well by
the little fellow. There seems to lie
no legal reason why the father
should not reclaim his child, and yet
the heart of nearly every one present
considered it a cruel hardship. Judge
Pinkney, in giving his decision, made
most eloquent remarks, in which he
paid the highest compliments to. the
nobledicarted girl who had Wen so
true ami so self-sacrificing. He ad
mitted the hardships of the case, but
with eyes filled with tears, lie bowed
to the law, and decided that the fath
er must have the child. The girl sat
apparently stunned beside her brother,
the aunt and other female friends a
few feet distant, when the father and
some of bis relations advanced in the
crowd to take the boy. The little fel
low screamed wildly not to let them
take him. This roused the girl, and
she rose like a lioness defending her
young, and, with eyes flashing and
arms raised, she ordered them to stand
off, declaring that she would die before
the boy should be taken from her.
Hhc cried that the ghost of her poor
starved mother would haunt her if
she gave him up, and threatened even
to kill her father rather than let him
have the boy. Never before was there
such a scene of excitement in a Court
room. The crowd sympathized with
the girl, the Judge rapped for order,
but no one heard it. The bailiffs tried
to do their duty, but. for some time,
there was pushing, and struggling and
threatening over the little boy, who
never for a moment intermitted
screaming at the top of his voice. At
Inst the daughter was seized and held.
The screaming child was taken by the
father, and given to his cousin, a stout
fellow, twcntv-cight or thirty years of
age, named J. Wesley Strong, who
carr ied him out of the court room. In
the .tall the child’s hat fell off, and this
caused a delay, so that, although the
girl was held for ill roe minutes after
the child had Wen carried off by the
father, she hurried out after the child
and succeeded in overtaking him. The
little fellow struggled violently, and
gave a good deal of trouble to the man
who carried him, but they had got as
far as directly opposite the office of
Squire Myers, on St. Paul street, when
the girl and her friends gathered
around them, and a curious street
scene occurred. The father was struck
and thrust aside, and the man who
‘■arried the Wv was knocked down and
<us coat torn almost from him.
. An effort was made to keep posses-
*! 0n the hoy for the father by put-
‘“S him in the window of Mr. Davis’s
a " othco ; but a young fellow, who is
ie'kla have been a cousin to the girl,
J t r _Yi'he hoy out of the window and
t ,«* 011 a run with him. Turning
(W !?r 1,ori ' nas ** asit as * ,c cou ^
\o‘l(w yeUe strect , "hc-n policeman
crowd of a ^ ha ?°’ M a,sodid a £r C!,t
spectatnW WWmm, S "Oman, curious
JiT i bailiffs, black and
the Wv j fellow who bad
man ° Mt '‘ ,ne * hut the policc-
’ ii ‘ , ,out Wowing exactly what it
to catchY -011 *’ ,na, * e desjiorate efforts
feet nf i ” m ’ andwas within twenty
'hisliiil i, ! n "i, sr> ,"' 10 " ‘he voting fellow
Liaa Hill, opposite
f m„c oih-oI t ’ nnd f " und s,i elter in
In five mil , ”' lmer *>us law offices.
" a ys tinti Jhecntrance and staii-
"ith the cxiY !‘ inl -torv were packed
Wl, the 7 7 m P?thizers with the
father, m l( ] 7 °* CUr >ous people, the
•ter. to rn the • n l an , "hose coat had
Policeman. g,rl > her aunt, and the
‘here wa 9 c r ^ r r ‘ a 'Mmti, ms ]>cgn n , nn ,i
conflict on the °‘ a serious
man cleared tin/*’ , Wjen the police-
•iothing of th e He knew
as t0 "hat wa. Y ? nd uas "ot clear
dut - v > hut he knew
that there should not be a breach of
the jieace on lie stairs. The*father and
the naan with the tom coat tried the
different doors'and found them all
locked. They peered through key
holes, but could see nothing, and they
finally went down the stairs, as also
did the girl and her aunt, when they
were informed who had the boy. The
crowd in the street was very great, the
spectators watching with curious inter
est to see ihe result of fhe affair. In a
short time Deputy Marshall Prey and
Detective Crone arrived, as also did
the Clerk of the Baltimore City Court,
who had strongly sympathized with
the giil. When Marshall Frey under
stood the situation he advised the fath
er to get another process for the re
covery of the child, whqmdip was not
litruly nllifawniiii’tnrjifTW.'. - -v,j
The hither and the man with tne
torn coat then went off together. They
tried to get the new process, but did
not succeed. A lot of jokers then got
around them in St. Paul street, and
asm red them that the people would
certainly lynch them as soon as it be
came dark. They* were evidently
troubled by the information, and soon
left. The crowd slowly dispersed from
around Red Dion Hall upon learning
that the boy had been quietly taken out
by the young man who had picked him
iq> when the fracas occurred on St.
Paul street. During the evening the
topic was discussed along St. Paul
street, whether there was a contempt
of court in picking up the boy and
running away with him, or whether it
was kidnappping, but all agreed in
sympathizing with the girl.
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LAIIGUERISHS.
What nation produces most mar
ries? Fascination.
The popular business with young
PECK’S SEWING-MACHINE.
A Mr. Peck had long entertained the
idea that he could invent a self-acting
sewing-machine, and he did. He pro
cured a steel ribbon spring about
twenty leet long, and of sufficient
power to run a horse-ear. This he
rigged on his wife’s sewing-machine
with a lot of clockwork, and it appear
ed to him, when he finished the job that
evening, that he had realized his hopes.
If any sewing-machine ever would go
that one would, so he wound it up
ready for use in the morning, and went
tolled. At four o’clock Mrs. Peek
aroused him and told him to listen to
the burglars in the house. lie listen
ed and heard a most terrific racket in
the lilting-room. It appeared to him
that there must be a million burglers
refreshing themselves with a prize-fight.
So lie loaded his gun, crept softly
over, and peeped through a crack in
the door. It was not burglars, it was
Mrs. Peck’s sewing-machine. The
peg had slipped out and that spring
was having full play. It would rear
the machine up on one end and charge
it three or four times like a battering-
ram against the glass' front of the
hook-case; then it would wheel around
and suddenly tear across the room,
and butt up against the mantelpiece,
and it would lie down and roll over the
floor, and hammer the sofa, tear up
thecaqtet, and boost the center-table
an 1 try and jam a hole through the
wall, and then endeavor to leap up on
the chandelier. Then as Peck entered
the room, it flew at him, and tore in
and out between his legs, the wheel
revolving like lightning all the time,
and the spring gradually unwinding.
And then Peck retreated and the fami
ly all got up and got a mattress off’ the
.bed, with which thoy covered the ma
chine, and sat on it for a while, but
finally pushed it out of the window
into the yard, where Peck piled boxes
and ash barrels and slop-buckets and
fence pailings and wagon wheels on to
it to keep it still. But all night under
the heap it kept up a continual buzz
and snort and hum, so that one of Mr.
Birdsall’-s hoarders fired at it sixteen
time with the impression that it was
cats. Peck has presented his better
halt with a new sewing-machine, and
he is satisfied for her to run it with
her feet. He is taking a short vaca
tion in the study of mechanics at pres
ent.—.Yews.
A scheme is now on foot to run a
tunnel through the Rocky Mountains.
This may seem a prodigious enterprise
at first to the casual reader, but
the parties who have the matter in
hand of the most complete success.
The idea is to tunnel the mountains
from a jioint about one mile below
Black Hawk to the Middle Park,
running in a northwesterly direction.
The tunnel to be run will, it is presum
ed, cut many rich veins of gold and
silver, and thus a great mining interest
lie developed. Money for the prose
cution of the work is furnished by
English capitalists, who are confident
of the ultimate success of the enter
prise. Some idea of the magnitude
of the task may be gathered from the
fact that the tunnel, if completed,
will lie twelve miles in length. It is
intended to make it large enough to,
be used for railroad purposes, and so,
if a road is ever to be constructed to
the Middle Park, it will find its most
convenient route through the tunnel.
It will be called the Sierra Madre 'Tun
nel Company, and the incorporation
papers for its organization have already
been filed.—Savannah Advertiser.
A Profitable Business for Army
Officers. —Hunting up Ku-Klux
in South Carolina was pretty profitable
business, even if some innocent j)cr-
sons did suffer with the guilty. The
Charleston News and Courier says the
General Assembly appropriated {35,
000 to pay the rewards offered by Gov.
Scott for the apprehension and convic
tion of persons engaged in Ku-Klux
conspiracy; that $21,400 of this
amount, was paid to Major Lewis Mer
rill of the United States army, who
was in command of the counties un
der martial law, and that the remain
der was distributed in this way:: lo the
arbitrators for their trouble. $2,500;
Thomas M. Wilks $7,000; H. H. D.
Byron, $1,200; Jas - Ca ^ on, $ 1 ’ 2 °t’
W.B. Brown, $1,600. Grand total,
$34,900; balance left in the treasury,
$100.
ladies—Husbandry.
The article chiefly sold at most fan
cy fairs—The visitor.
A volume that will bring tears to
your eyes—a volume of smoke.
Does not a young mother’s heart
leap 4th with joy when she beholds her
darling babe’s 1st 2th ? '
A four-year-old little bov recently
complained that his teeth kad “trod on
his tongue.”
^ wb^a ho;
and went home.
Thought an honest merchant is a
plain dealer, a carpenter is a deal
planer.
Why is a washerwoman the most
cruel person in the world? Because
she daily wrings men’s bosomes
A Kentucky man lias named his
sixteenth child, recently born to him,
Omega, hoping that fates will let her
be the last.
Why were Grecians the quickest
ship-builders? Because, whenever
Greek met Greek, then came the “tug
of war.”
Mr. Candler observes that bee-
stung is bad and hornet-stung is worse,
but neither is comparable with woman’s
tongue.
“Gravity,” said one of our learned
judges, “is-no more a proof of wisdom
than a paper collar is of a man’s hav
ing a shirt on.”
A preacher who rode to meeting
with his cart before his horse, preach
ed from a text as announced by him,
j “And the coek wept thrice, and Peter
’ went out and crowed bitterly.”
A California hunter, who went ten
miles to where game was plenty, and
then found that he had brought a box
of pills instead of percussion caps,
returned home in disgust.
A meditative old lady says that she
hears nothing talked of now hut cere-
bro-spinal men in gaiters, and guesses
that they must be good for the shoe
makers.
Did you ever notice that the initials
of Sons of Temperance spell “Sot,”
SCT LOVINGOOD’S SHIRT.
Sut told this story to the author, to
account for his forlorn appearance:
You know that I 1 wards with Bill
Carr, at his cabin on the mountain,
and pays for sich as I gets when I
hev money, and when I hevn’t any,
why he. takes one third outen me in
cussin’; and she, that’s liis wife, Bets,
takes out ’tother two-thirds with her
battlin’-stick, and the interest with her
tongue, the interest mor’n the princi
pal—heap more. She’s the cussedest
’oinau I ever seed any how for jaw—
and pride! She can scold a blister on
to a bull’s’flc# rife an the curl in
two niinits—and patterns after-every
fashion she hpars tell on, from bussels
tojii | ififedySfiMK
you sec, I got some cotton truck to
make a shirt outen, and coaxed Bets
to make it, and about the time it was
done, here comes lawyer Johnson
along and axed for hreakfuss—I wish
it had pizened him, darn his hide, and
I wonder it didn’t, for she cooks
ful mixins when she tries I’m pizen
proof myself (holding up his flask and
peeping through it) or I’d bin dead long
ago.
“Well, while lie were eatin’ she
spied out that his shirt was stiff and
mighty slick ; so she never rested till
she worried it outer him that a prep
aration of flour did it; and she got a
few particulars about the proceedings
outer him by women’s arts. After he
left, she set in, and biled a big pot of
paste—nigh on to a peek of it, and
soused in my shirt and let it soak a
while, then she tuck it, and ironed it
out fiat and dry, and sot it up on its
aidge again the cabin in the sun. Thar
it stood as stiff as a dry boss hide, and
it rattled like a sheet of iron, it did. It
were pasted together all over. When
I came to dinner, nothin’ would do
but I must put it on. Well, Bets and
me got the thing open arter some hard
pullin’ at one of the tails, and me at
the ’tother, and I got into it. Darn
the everlastin’ new fanglcd shirt, I say.
I felt like I’d crawled into an old bee
gum, and hit full of ants ; but it were
like lawyer Johnson’s and I stood it
like a man, and went to work to build
Bets an ash-hopper. I worked power
ful hard, and swet like a boss, and
when the shirt got wet it quit its
hurtin’.
“Arter I got dun I took about four
fingers of red-eye, and crawled up in
to the cabin loft to take a snooze.
“Well, when I waked up I thought
and those of the Independent Order of i I was dead, or had the cholery, for all
Good Templars would stand for, “I I the joinst 1 could move were my unk-
once got tight.” ! les, wrists and knees—could not even
What was the result of the trial of j move 1,eB,, ’. a ? d * ka < v wiak
that horse-stealer?” asked a Missourian s,lrt " as T a j tod , fi ! st
of his neighbor. “Oh, he was left ! ° u0 f n,0al1 0 ' w ’ lro “ the «“ d ot he
hanging in suspense,” was the re- ta,Ls to t!ie ptnU of broad-axc collar
. 6 “ * over my cars. It sot to me as close
■ ’ j as her hide does to a poor cow in March.
“You Jawgc Washington! tell 1 squirmed and strained till I sorter
Abraham Lincoln to bring William ! got it broke -at the shoulders ind el-
iSeward in out o’de wet or I’ll tar you ! bows, and then I done the darndest
in two. Dat blessed chile might ketch I foolishcst thing ever done in these
his death o’cold for all you lazy niggers I mountains. I shuffled my britches off
OG STORY.
H tjot make any difference
whether your name is Keyser or not,
if you riant to buy a dog, there is one
tor salft cheap .on a canal boat gow
braving"the billows somewhere east of
Frankl0ft.;'v The captain of the boat is
an Oswego man, and iti3 butonosl|ort
week au$ce : iie gpjl$d hismainbrace&nd
let oni|he reefs ini his driver, and got
three sheets in the wind, and made all
necessary preparations for a prosper
ous voyage.. HtAiWife sung, “Write
me a Letter. Love,” in the cabin; his
children.played on deck; his steede
aired trat|raihe»qn the tow pate, 1 big
I am no admirer of Jeff Davis. I
■am a Yankee, both between Saccnrap-
pa and Gorham, Corner, am full of
Yankee . prejudices J but I think; it
wicked to lie even about liim, or ifor
that matter, about the devil.
I was with the ]»rty that captnred
Jeff Davis; saw the whole transaction
from its fiegimung. I now say—I
hope you will published it—that Jeff
Davis did not have on, at the time he
was taken, any garment such as is ivorn
by women. He did ‘have over his
shoulders.* water-proof aftiele of clntlai 1
iug—something like a “Havelock.” I)
rudden and his ffiate was hot In the least concealed. iHe
ttgpflrom Tffs faftw&T ty8i'e''a‘haf!‘1\ri J did riot carry a pail
jW'datis* alleged disgcise. Tjer/al Advertt'seinenIs.
’ud kecr.”
“I would advise you to put your
head into a dye-tub, it’s rather red,”
s: i 1 a joker to a rather sandy haired
girl. “I would advise you to put
yours into an oven, it’s rather soft,”
said Nancy.
A negro was put upon the stand as
a witness, and the Judge inquired if lie
undirstood the nature of an oath.
“For certing, boss,” said the citizen:
“if I swear to a lie, I must stick to
him !”
An indulgent Kansas parent sold his
cooking stove for $11 in order to take
his thirteen children to the circus.
He says a circus only comes two or
three times a year, and, besides, he
never bad much to cook on the stove,
anyhow.
“Did you ever go to a military
ball?” asked a lisping maid of an old
veteran. “No my dear,” growled the
soldier. “In those days I once had a
military ball come to me. And what
do vou think it did ? It took my leg
off.”
A remarkably dirty man stopped in
front of a small boy sitting on a fence,
expecting to have some fun by cha
ffing him. lie said: “How much do
you weigh?” The answer was: “Well,
about as much as you would if you
were washed.”
A juryman was asked whether he
had been charged by the Judge. “Well,”
said he, “the little fellow that sits up
in the pulpit and stares over the crowd
gave us a lecture; but i don’t know
whether he charges anything for it.”
An Albany damsel asked one of her
fellow-boarders, a stylish young dry
goods clerk, at the breakfast table,
“Why is your moustache like my back
hi'r?” He blushinglygaveitup. The
answer caused him to blush still more:
“ Because it is all down.”
“You must have lived here a long
time,” said a traveling Englishman to
an Oregon pioneer. “Yes, sir, I have.
Do you see that mountain ? Well,
when I came here that mountain was
a hole in the ground.” The English
man opened his half-shut eyes.
An old lady selling eggs a few days
since, asked, as is usual, -“what’s the
news?” “The latest,” said the oblig
ing clerk, “is that the Yankees have
got the Modocs.” The old lady struck
her knuckles down on the counter and
exclaimed, “I hope the last one of
them will die of it.”
Here is a graphic description of a
fishing excursion. Says the Danbury
News: “A North street man went off
Saturday noon for a halfday of fishing.
When he returned he had walked thir
teen miles, lost a $45 watch, sprained
his thumb, spoiled an $H,.pair of
pants by sitting down on his luncheon,
and caught a four-pound mud turtle.
He got back in time to help the doctor
cut from his oldest boy’s foot one of the
several fish hooks he had left at home.
He took a cursory view of the situa-
i tion and went to bed..”
and tore loose from my hide about two
inches of the tail all around, in much
pain and tribulation, Oh ! but it did
hurt! Then 1 tuck tip a plank inter
the loft, and hung my legs down
through the hole, and nailed the aidge
of the front tail to the floor before me,
and the hind tail I nailed to the plank
what I sot on. I unbuttoned the col
lar and wristbands, raised my hands
away above my head, shot up my eyes,
said grace, and jumped through to the
ground floor.”
Here Silt remarked, sadly :
“George, I’m a darndcr fool than
ever dad was, boss, hornets and all.
I’ll drown myself some of these days,
see if I don’t.”
“Well, go on, Sut; did the shirt
come off'?”
I—t-h-i-n-k—i-t—d-i-d ! I beam a
noise sorter like tearin’ a shingle roof
off ov a house all at wonst, and felt
like my bones were all that reached
the floor. 1 staggered to my feet, and
took a look at tuy shirt. The nails
had all hilt ther holt, and thnr it was
hanging, arms down, inside out, as
stiff as ever. It looked like the map
of Mexico, just arter one of the first
battles—a patch of my hide, just about
the size of a dollar and a half bill
here; a bunch of my liar about the
size of a bird’s nest- thar; then some
more skin ; then some more paste ;
then a little more liar; then a heap of
skin ; then more har ; then skin; and
so on al over that darned new fangled,
everlasting, internal cuss-fired shirt.
It was a picture to look at, and so
was I. The hide, har and paste were
about etjually divided between me and
hit. onder what Bets, blast her
pictur, thought when she come home
and found me missin’? ’Spect she
thought I crawled into a thicket and
died of. my wounds. It must have
scared her good, for I tell you it looked
like the skin of .some wild beast tore
off alive, or a bag what had covered a
load of fresh beef home from a shoot in’
match.
attack of delirium tremens in the for
ward cabin. The captain gazed proud
ly around. him, and could think of
nothing necessary to complete his hap
piness ; but his wife, wiser than he,
thought they needed a dog — a nice
Newfoundland — to play with the
luv ‘ children, fish them out \vheu*they fell
in the canal, and watch the deck hands
when the captain was off after grocer
ies.
• Coining through west Utica .Satur
day, the captain, bought a nice New
foundland dog. He got him at a bar
gain ; in fact, he got him for nothing,
so to speak, because the man who
owned the dog was not around at the
time the bargain was made. The
captain had the dog, but still lie was
not happy. The dog had a way of
barking at passing rafts, and so drew
upon his captain’s boat frequent show
ers of coal and wood, and he would
drive down the steep steps into the
cabin suddenly and upset the captain’s
wife. Once she lit right on the table
and spoiled a pound of butter, and he
was altogether too playful.,,
Yesterday the captain, who is a
pious man, tied up, and put out his
plank just east of the city, and started
with his children to go to the park and
to observe the day after the manner ot
this vicinity. The dog started, too,'
and as soon as lie got on shore lie began
to caper and wag his tail, and so wagged
one of the children flat on its blessed
back. The baby yelled, and thecaptain
made snipe tender remarks as he set it
on his pious fevt, and some other re
marks as he shook his fist at the dog.
The dog misunderstood the man, and
came running back, full of f'uu, and
made a jump to lick lii's face. He
missed the man, but he knocked the
other child into the canal, and the
father, without waiting to make any re
marks, jumped in after it. -The do;
being to the water horn, knew just
what to do, and he went cavorting off
to get a good headway, barking to him
self at every jump, and, just as the
man got to the top of the water with
his darling child, the dog took a flying
leap of about twenty feet and struck
on top of the man. Well, the water
that man spurted around was boiling
hot with the oaths he sputtered with
it, and his wife pranced around on the
deck of the boat, and flung a pole to
the old man, which the .dog promptly
dragged and pulled ashore, and that
captain was nearly drowned before lie
trod the sod again.
The dog is an intelligent animal —
very intelligent, indeed;. and just ns
soon as lie saw that mariner’s face he
knew that something was wrong; so lie
slunk up the plank on board. The
captain gathered what loose granite and
lumber lie could in a hurried but ear
nest search, and marched up the plank,
the grimmest figure of Neptune ever
done in Mohawk Valley mud. As
soon as he got on board lie opened a
hot fire on the dog, and that sagacious
brute went yelping through the for
ward in the bunk, where the mate lay-
musing about the devil. When the
mate saw the dog, lie thought the evil
one lmd come for him sure enough, and
lie braced hitnsel for one last fight, so
that, when the captain jumjied down
in pursuit of the dog, there was a mu
tual misunderstanding all around. The
captain’s wife looked down and tried to
explain, but there was a confused
whirlpool of bunk boards, and hair,
and bedding, and legs, and arms, with
an occasional infusion of dog, that it
seemed idle to waste her breath in tak
ing such a circus.
To-day the bow of that fated craft
cuts the waters solemnly, and the helm
stands the wreck of that captain, fasten
ed together with strips of plaster, and
smelling of liniment, and ever and
anon he surrenders the rudder to his
wife, while ho goes forward to ham
mer a dejected dog, which is for sale,
or to listen to the ravings of the maniac
confined under the forward hatch.
Of water on h-'s heanor carry a
bucket, or kettle in any way.
To the best of my recollection, lie
carried nothing whatever in his hands.
HART SHERIFF’S SALE.
WILL BE SOLD before flip Court
** fjmiNe'^OOr, in the county of Tlart »n«l
fowbftf ifiit>nHI^CrS. r within llie logoi hour* of
sale, on tliQ FIRST TUESDAY JN JIII.Y
nt»xt, the (aUowipg.|»mpertj: tw-Wh? All of the
interetif of IA tt. Nixon iii a Itohtl for Titles to *
certain trac( of Land iyiu|C n»cl being in said conn*
tv, onTugalo river, adjoining lands of Jonathan
Weldon, O, II. I*. Fantand other*, containing Two
llnudrejiaud re»,ynoreor les*, V\<;oihtr.
with the Growing Crop thereon. There Is a Mer*
*hatit Mill anil Saw Mill and Cotton bftt j
premises. Levied on and sold tui tbCjprpjpvjrt^ uf t
l*. H. Nixon, to satisfy a fi. fa. in favor of r-
A BlvinnV... 1*. lt.'Nixun; Xiao; foie iitYlvor of J.’ '
Also, at the same time and place, will heboid,
One Hundred and Two anil One-half Acres of Land
lying and being in said county of Hart, on Savan
nah river ami Big Light wood Log creek, adjoining
lands of John Cochran, Micajah Carter, and other*.
His wife did not tell any person that levied «« and «oid»s the property ofJai.ie»Btce,
• • * - ... J * - - to satisfy a fi. fa. in favor ot J. L. Turner, admin*
her husband might hurt somebody if
he got exasperated. She helm veil like
a lady and he as a gentleman, though
manifestly he was chagrined at being
taken into custody. Our soldiers l>e-
liaved like gentlemen as they were,
and the foolish stories that went the
newspaper rounds of the day, telling
how- wolfishly he deported himself,
were all false. I know what I am
writing about. I saw Jefferson Davis
many times while lie was staying in
Portland, several years ago; and I
think I was the first one who recogniz
ed him at the time or his arrest.
When it was known that ho was cer
tainly taken, some newspaper cor
respondent—I knew his name at the
time—fabricated the story about the
disguise in an old woman’s dress. I
heard the whole matter talked over as
a good joke, and the officers, who knew
better, never took the trouble to deny
it. Perhaps they thought the Con
federate President deserved all the
contempt that could lie put upon him.
I think so too, only I would never
perpetrate a falsehood that by any
means would become history. And,
further, I would never slander a woman
who has shown so much devotion as
Mrs. Davis lias to her husband, no
matter how wicked he is or may have
been.
I defy any person to find a single
officer or soldier who was present at
the capture of Jeff' Davis, who will say,
upon his honor, that he was disguised
in woman’s clothes, or that his wife
acted in any way unladylike or undig
nified on that occasion. 1 go for try
ing him for his crimes, and, if he is
guilty, punishing him. But I would
not lie about him when the truth will
certainly make it bail enough.
Jas. II. Parker.
H huAville, I’t.
one month,.
JtefUciws* o'n
i! fior5KS M. U- ,
Western Editorial Life.—The
editors of the far Western weeklies are
not deprived of all that makes life
endurable, as one would suppose from
the looks of their sheets. The editor
of the llt'coni, an Arizona paper, has
now on his table two invitations to act
as second in a duel, an invito to an
Indian bunting raid, a pair of bearskin
pants presented by a hunter, a three-
pound nugget of silver, a free pass on
a stage route, two lottery tickets, three
Apache scalps, a call to act as post
master and justice of the peace, and
twenty-seven dollars’ worth of faro
checks.—Detroit Free Prat.
Remedy for Corns.—Mr. Rose, a
merchant of San Diego, announces that
these creators of so much torment in
the world can easily and surely be
cured by applying a good coat of gum
arabic mucilage every evening on go
ing to bed. He had them for forty
years, and tried nearly all the corn
remedies in existence without relief un
til he tried the above, which readily
cured him in a few weeks.
NICKNAMES OF CITYS.
The following is a list of the nick
names of a number of the cities of the
Union:
Philadelphia—The Quaker City.
New York—Gotham.
Boston—The Modern Athens.
Baltimore.—The Monumental City.
Cincinnati—The Queen City.
New Orleans—The Crescent City.
■Washington—The City of Magnifi
cent Distances.
Chicago—The Garden City.
Detroit—The City of Straits.
Portland—The Forest City.
Pittsburgh—The Iron City.
New Haven—The City of Elms.
Indianapolis—The Railroad City.
St. Louis—The City of Mounds.
Keokuk—The Gate City.
Louisville—The Falls City.
Nashville—The City of Rocks.
Quincy—The Model City.
Hannibal—Tee BlufTCity.
Alexandria—The Delta City.
Newburyport—The Garden of Eden.
Salem—The City of Peace.
“ A good square meal, $1; a perfect i vjreai raise
$1.50.” [Sign in Michigan.”] | he would.”
A Miraculous Fountain.—Near
ly everybody has heard of the miracles
performed at the Lourdes in France,
within the past two or three years. It
was related a year or two ago, that a
couple of young girls discovered this
fountain, and one of them was detain
ed by a wonderful vision, or reality—
as you please- -of the Virgin Alary,
with whom she communed for a long
time. And she had many subsequent
interviews with her, in which she was
informed of the wonderful healing
properties of the fountain. Itisclaimed-
ed, wo believe, that the.Virgin blessed
the waters of the fountain," thus im
parting their heal'ng virtues, after hav
ing caused it to spring forth miracu
lously. So famous have these waters
become, and the miracles connected
with thorn, that the Christian Brothers,
of France, have established an agency
in the United States for the purpose of
furnishing the water to those who need
physical healing and spiritual strength
ening. A case is related of an Iowa
conductor who was healed of a gan
grened limb, and of a girl in Missouri
“who was made to leap like a hart.”
If the stories of this water are true, it
will discount Saratoga and the medical
springs of Virginia.
Air. Bonner has driven different
horses to road wagon in the fastest time
ever made in that way, at all distances
from a quarter of a mile to two miies.
He has driven Startle a quarter of a
mile to road wagon in 33 seconds, which
is the fastest time ever made to road
wagon for that distance. He has
driven Dexter half a mile to road
wagon in 1.05.1, which is the fastest
half mile to road wagon ever driven ;
aud the same horse a full mile in
2.21 J, which is the fastest full mile to
road wagon ever driven. Lady Pal
mer and Flatbush Alaid he drove two
miles to road wagon in 5.01 i, and that
performance for the same distance has
never been equalled. — New York
Sun.
On one of the trips of an Aspinwall
steamer, the steerage passengers were
so numerous as to make them uncom
fortable. The sleeping accommoda
tions were aptly described by a Cali
fornian, who approached the captain
and said: “I should like to have, a
sleeping berth, if you-please." “Why,
where have yon been sleeping these
last two nights since'we left ?” “We’ll,
I’ve been sleeping a-top of a sick man ;
but lie’s got better now, ami won’t
stand it no longer.”
The Comptroller Gen ral has ilecid-
ed that parties holding cotton claims,
and the cotton crop of 1872, prior to
the 1st of April, 1873, are required to
returned the same as other property,
otherwise tax receivers should proceed
to collect as in other property. The
same ruling applies to planters, who
loan instead of selling theiy crops. The
value thereof, should be returned to tax
receiver.
Some one asked Col. Titos. How
ard, of Georgia, the other day, if he
thought a certain Radical in that State
would steal. “Steal!” said he; “why,
by Jove, if he was paralyzed and.
hamstrung, I wouldn't trust him by
himself in the middle of the desert of
Saltara with the biggest anchor of the
Great Eastern. Steal! I should think
Ltrator of It. J. I). Herrctt, deceased, vs. James
lUce. John O. McCurry and W ill lam Jones. Ah
m», sundry other fi. fas. in wv hands vs. said
James Rice. The above land is sold subject to the
old 11 oiliest end of 1 Still.
Also, at the same time and place, Twenty-five
Acres of Land, more or less, to be surveyed ol! of
the Cochran tract, adjoining lauds of Eliza Cochran,
II. Tyler and others. Levied on and sold as ihe
property of Eliza Cochran, to satisfy a fi. fit. in fa
vor of A V. Milford vs. said Eliza Cochran, issued
from the Superior Court of said county, returnable
to the Septentl*er term of said Court, ISTB.
Also, at the same time and place, >vill bo sold,
another tract of Land in said county, on the wa-'
‘tors of Lijjhtwood Log creek, adjoining lands of
Henry Allen, Hugh McLane, Sr., and others,
containing One Hundred and Thirty Acres more
or less. Levied on and sold as the property of
Samuel Askew, to satisfy a fi. fa. in favor/if J. H.
Skelton vs. Sam’l Askew, re tv rtvable to the July
term of tlie County Court of ISCfi. Also, sundry
other fi. fas. in my hands.
Also, at the .wine time and place, will Ik* gohf,’
Three Hundred and Sixty Acres of Land, more or
less, lying and being in said county, on the waters
of Cedar creek, adjoining lands of George McCur-
Icv, J. H. McMullen and William Myers, liette *
known as the Home Place of T. L. Stowers, to
satisfy a li. fa. in favor of Solomon Marcus vs. T. L.
Stomers, and sundry other fi. fas. in favor of varl**
ous 1 unties vs. the said T. L. Stumers.
A1* i, at the same time and place, Two Hundred
and Sixteen Acres of Land, lying on the waters
of Cedar creek, adjoining lands of the above de
scribed place, Caswel Farmer, and lauds lielotig-
ing to the estate of Mary IHghsmitli, deceased,
belter known as the John Watson Place.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold,
One Hundred and Two Acres of Land, more or
less, on the waters of Beaver I him creek, levied on
aud sold as the property of M. A. Johnson, to sat
isfy a fi. fa. in favor of George Pullain vs. M. A.
Johnson, George G. McCurry, Hauiel M. Johnson
and l^iuchlin M. Johnson. All levied on ns the
property of M. A. Johnson. Adjoining lands of
J. W..Jones, Jr., Win. (Finn and A. J. Brown.
Said fi. fa. returnable to the Superior Court, March
Term, 1S61. Principal, Two Hundred Dollars.
Sold subject tothe old Homestead oflSGX
Also, at the same time and place, will be sohr;
all the Interest of C. W.--Temple* in a Tract of
laind, lying in the said county, near the town of
Hartwell, adjoining land* of John Peck, J. P. San
ders aud others, containing Eighteen Acres, more
or less, said interest being a Bond for Titles.
Also, a’tlic same time and place, will be sold
an Ox Wagon, levied on as the property of said C. r -
W. Temples. All to satisfy a fi. fu. in favor of La-
Favettc C. Coojierand Jesse F. Langston, admin
istrators of T. F. Cooper, deceased, vs. Clark W.
Temples as the next friend of Madison E. G. Tem
ples, issued In the Superior Court of said comity,
returnable to March Term, 1870. Also, another
fi. fa. in favor of LaFayctte C. Copper an if Jesse K/
Langston, administrator of J. F. Cooper, deceased,
vs. John Temples, Clark W. Temples, and Madisou
D. C. Temples, issued from the Superior Court of
said county, returnable to March Term, 1870.
Also, at the same time and place, Fifty Acren of
Land, more or less, lying in said countv, < n «hc
waters of Reed Creek, udioiuiug lands of F. fc/
Harrison, George Grant and others, levied oil ns
the property of George Grant, to satisfy a fi. fa. in
Cavorof J. M. Bradley vs. Win. Estes, T. J. Cason
and George Grant, issued front the Justice Court
of the 1112th District, G. M., returnable tot re May
Term of said Court, 1863, for Thirty-Seven Dollar*?
principal, lieside* interest and cost, xikl Fifty
Acres to he cut off of the Home Tract of George
Grant, It being the tract whereon Mrs. George
Grunt now live’s.
Also, at the same time and place, will l*e sold,
another Tract of Land, levied oh as the property
of F. <J. Stowers, containing Three Hundred and
Six-tenths «>f^Acres,moro.or less, adjoining lands of
J. It. Alford, II. Tyler and HI but Cochran, to satis
fy a ti. fa. in favor of Cicero If. Chandler vs. said
F. G. Stowers, issued from the Superior Court of
said county, returnable tothe September Term of
said Court, 18G7.
At the same time and place, another Tract of
land, containing Twenty-Six Acres, more or less,
adjoining lands of J. B. Alford, N. Hanks and S.
V. Milford. Levied on as the property u£ F. G.
Stowers, to satisly the almvc-stated ti. fa.
W. A. HOLLAND, Sheriff.
Liver Medicine has proved to K wie ..
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('..lie. Depression of Spirit., SOL'H SXOMAUI,
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The Powders, price as before, ...$1.00 per package.
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ATHENS,
And for —if* liy Merchant. !rener*1fr t nnd St
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A Great & Wonderful Discovery
MADE BY
MRS. L. JC. BUSH,
JVtt TAVERN. WALTON POP XT Y.* GA.
H EBE is WHAT gave rise to the Wonderful
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severely burnt on her cheek with an egg. After
trying everything the n.ost learned Physirinn of
this count v recommended, and nil accmedtado no
good, my little daughter continued ti grow worst*
ami worae. In a few weeks Kite begao to break out
in ninning sores, all over, ami I naturally became
planned ah *ht her condition. 1 droppeu-all. els**,
l»egan to compound a niedh fhe of my own, which,
after the first application, I discovered produced a
great change, ami in five days my little girl pared
off without a sear. *
Mrs. Bufe’s Specific Cure
BURNS AND scaLds
Mr. mR.
aceuu for Clarke count,. .Mr. KAN|>OLrtt nnd
Mr. HARRISON RRIUUF.A ure Ageftli fflfjnck-
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H art superior court,
March Term 187!**,—Ann tC. rievcl.tml,' vs.
Henry Cleveland—Libel for Divorce. It appear
ing to the court, by the return of the Sheriff, that
the defendant, Henry Cleveland is without the
jurisdiction of thl* Court, no that service cannot
he Jierfcotisl ujmui him ip person. On motion, it
is ordered that service be perfected l»v publication
once a mouth, lor tour months, In the North-East
Georgian n public Gazette published in Athens,
State of Georgia* March
A true extract from the minute* of said court.
V. A. WEBB, Clerk.
DANIEtC
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In March last, my wife was afflicted withrsevere
‘ ’* * r left shoulder and arm. I ap-
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Rheumatism in tier-left shoulder and arm.^I ap-
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found nothing t«» relieve the pain until Frapp!
Daniel’s Magic Gil, which gave inuuediste relief
after the second application. L. WiVfBnKNH.
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M. 1*. DA YL>, Chief Police, Athens, Ga.
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amt Dealers. We beliere Ihst we ran soil as low
us the .wune qualities and quantities can 1* pur
chased tnr where in the South. Saiujiles nnti prt
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