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County Directory:
Superior CouiiT.—Hon. Juo. T. Clarke, Judge. J.
H. Guerry, Solicitor General. J. IV. Alexander, Clerk.
L. E. Black, Sheriff. Regular term, lßt Monday in
April and October.
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ry. Regular meeting, Ist Monday in each month.
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ard, \V. C. Sheffield, R. 11. Lanier, J. L. Harris. Reg
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Coroner —James But^y.
Town Council of Blakely:
Chairman —R. H. Powell.
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Dowell, A. J. Singletary.
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"BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
R. hTsHEFFIELD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND REAL ESI ATE AGENT. All business will
receive prompt attention. Office in northwest
room of Court House.
Blakely, Ga., June 3, 1886.
Dr. T. M. HOWARD,
Dentist & Physician,
Blakely, - Georgia.
~ E(l. L. FRYER,
PROPRIETOR OF
lIVEKY, SALE & FEED STABLER, northeast cor
j ner of public Bquare. Best teams at lowest prices.
Ample accommodation to Traveling Salesmen. Atten
tive hostlers. Give him a trial.
Blakely, Ga., September 3, 1885. ly.
B. H. ROBINSON^
DEALER IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE, comes to the front
with one of the most varied and best assorted
Stocks of Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Boots,
Shoes, Hats, Hardware, Sic., to be found in Blakely.
Store one. door north of News office. Try him.
September 3, 1885. ly.
Mrs. A. Y. THOMPSON,
MILLINER,
HAS JUST received her Spring & Summer Stock of
Millinery Goods, and is now prepared to accom
modate her customers with latest styles of goods in
her line, at prices that defy competition. Store in the
Bass building, northwest corner of public square.
Blakely, Ga., September 3, 1885. ly.
8 11. POWELL, Agent,
DEALER IN
DRY GOODS, Notions, Groceries, Shoes, Toilet
Goods, Tinware, Glassware, Wood ware and Wil
low-ware. Stock kept constantly replenished with
choice goods. Store on southwest corner of public
square.
Blakely, Ga., September, 3, 1885. ly.
SMITH & JAMES,
DEALERS IN
DRY GOODS, Groceries, Hardware, Notions, Cloth
ing, Boots, Shoes, Hats and General Merchandise
of all sorts. Stock kept up to the highest standard by
constant addition of fresh goods. Store on west side
Main Street.
Blakely, Ga., Sept. 3, 1885. ly.
Dr. W. R. STANDI FER,
PHYSICIAN & APOTHECARY,
TENDERS his professional services to the public.
Prescriptions carefully compounded, and calls at
tended promptly day or night. Office east side of the
Public Square, Blakely, G-a.
September 3, 1885. ly
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AGENT FOR THE
ORDER DEPARTMENT of John Wanamaker’s
Clothing House, Philadelphia. Spriug & Summer
samples just received, and he is now ready to take
orders. Suits guaranteed to fit. Headquarters at
H. C. Fryer k Sou’s Store.
Blakely, Ga., September 3, 1885. ly.
S. L. BUSH,
BLACKSMITH,
C1 HnsMITH aud Wood-workman. Will do all work
T left with him in first-class style. Horse-shoeing
also done. Prices very low. A liberal share of the
public patronage solicited. Shop on west side of Cuth-
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Blakely, Ga., Sept. 3, 1885. ly*.
Win. A. JORDAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WILL PRACTICE in all the courts of the Patanla
circuit. Collections made a specialty. Office in
the Court House.
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Land for Sale.
TIIE UNDERSIGNED is offering for
sale Lots of Land Nos. 255 and 266,
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Road Notice.
GEORGIA—EARLY COUNTY:
Clerk’s Office, Commissioner’s Ccurt.
ALL PERSONS interested are hereby
r.otified that, if no good cause be shown
to the contrary, an order will be granted
by said court, on the first Tuesday in Sep
tember next, establishing a new road, as
marked out by the road commissioners, com
mencing where the Columbia and Blakely
road crosses the east line of lot of land No.
348 in the 28th district of said county, and
running a due northerly direction to the res
idence of R. 11. Brooks, thence to the Blake
ly and Chancy mill road, thence cast along
said road passing the plantation of B. Chan
cy, thence north to Washington Nobles’,
thence to the five mile post on the Fort
Gaines and Blakely road, thence to Cain’s
bridge, passing the residences of John Hud
speth, 11. J. Hayes and Dr. J. J. King.
By ordeT of slid court, this August3d, 1886.
J. W. ALEXANDER, Clerk.
BLAKELY, GA., THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1880.
THE HIDDEN CHARM,
I have in mind a gentle friend,
One whom I often meet;
Sometimes within a country lane,
Oft in a city’s street.
Ilers can’t be called a handsome face,
Or even pretty, yet
To me ’tis like a jewel in
A kingly coronet.
Her features are not regular,
And she’s a wee bit shy;
But oh! the charm which lies within
Her honest, deep gray eye!
Wbat smiles well to the very brim
Os that fair, precious cup!
What wealth of love and tender joy
From its depths bubble up!
'Tis not for me to claim the store,
But 1 can look and long,
And tunc life’s instrument to catch
The measure of her song.
And often when night’s shadows drift
Across my chamber floor,
Aud ghosts of other days steal in
At my half open door.
I sit and wonder if when all
• Life’s turbid flow is past,
Those deep gray eyes will turn to mine
With love in them at last,
Making the paradise of God
Far better for their light!
For surely the eternal lamps
Can’t be, I know, more bright!
Marie Oliver.
A STORY OF COUNTERPARTS.
BY CLARA AUGUSTA.
A quiet, uneventful life was mine until I
left the shelter of my father’s roof in Gorham,
and accepted the desk of a book keeper in
the wholesale clothing establishment of
Shears & Prescott, in the busy little city of
Weston.
But there, one fine afternoon in October,
just in the midst of the Indian summer, I
invited Lillie Prescott, with whom I was
very nearly in love, to walk in the park with
me.
Her little hand in its delroatc primrose
colored glove rested on my arm, her black
eyes were lifted to my face. I felt particu
larly .tender anl confidential, and at peace
with all the world. We were speaking of
the gorgeousness of the distant hills, clothed
as they were, in their mantles of crimson so
liage, when I was brought to a stop by hear
ing my name pronounced in a tone neither
sweet nor agreeable.
“Mr. Smith, I’ll jest trouble you to stop a
minnit!”
I looked up. A woman of fifty, or there
abouts, eflectually blocked np the Sidewalk
before us; indeed her proportions were colos
sal. If ever I have seen the personification
of indignation, I saw it in her expressive
countenance.
“Madam!” I exclaimed, retreating a little
from the battery of flashing gray eyes which
she brought to bear upon me.
“You needn’t madam me!” cried she,
waxing redder. “I’ll just trouble you to
settle this little bill!” As she thrust an om
inous piece of paper before my eves, which
read substantially:
Richard Smith to Juliana Diggins, Dr.
For six months’ board, $196 00
For “ “ washing, 12 00
S2OB 00
I returned the bill to her.
“I owe you nothing, madam. I never saw
you before iu my life.”
“You needn’t lie to me!” cried 6he, set
ting her arms akimbo. “I baint kept a gen
teel boarding house fifteen years for nothing,
sir! You’ll either fork over on the spot, or
I’ll take the law!”
“Take it, remarked I; you’re welcome to
it.”
“You think to sarso me, young man! Re
member what you promised! I’ll have you
took up for it, ns shure as my name’s D.g
gins! I’ll larn you better than to deceive a
trusting widder woman in that wayl You
desateful hypocrite!”
“Madame, you insult me! I—”
“Oh, it looks well for such as you tC stand
on your dignity! Mighty lofty, all at once!
You’ye forgot the cream flapjacks I used to
make you, and the kisses you used to give
me after the rest of them was gone to
bed! You’ve forgot the half dozen shirts I
made you and never charged you a cent!
You’ve forgot that you solemnly promised
that you’d marry me last Tuesday morning!
You’ve forgot that, have you?
“Yes—yes—l never! no!” stammered I,
dropping Miss Lillie’s arm in consternation.
“Do you dare to deny itl” cried she in a
rage.
“Yes; forever and a day afterward!” I
roared out. Do you tiliuk I would marry an
old termigant like you? I’d sooner wed my
grandmother!”
I saw the fire flash up in her eyes. The ,
widow was waxing dangerous. I dodged
the reticule she aimed at tiiy head, and fell
over backward ns she charged upon me with
her half-mourning parasol. Miss Lillie turn
ed and fled. I thought discretion tho better
pait of valor, so I leaped over a garden fence
near at band, and was immediately attacked
by a large watch dog that sprung out of a
kennel near by. I seized a dahlia pole, and,
hurling it at the belligerent, made good my
escape by fording a duck pond and reaching
the next street, from which I burred home
at the best pnee 1 could command.
I was resolved that I would not remain in
Weston a day longer. Evidently there was
in the city some other Richard Smith, for
whose notorious sell I was mistaken.
I penned a hasty note to my employers—
giving my reasons for leaving them—packed
my trunks, paid my board, and, marking
my baggage "Richard Smith, New Hamp
ton,” I entered the curs for the locality spe
cified on my trunks.
In selecting New Hampton as my destina
tion, I had no very definite purpose in view;
but in a place of its size I had no doubts of
being able to secure some lucrative situation,
and the office of the “Boots” was better, if
I could be left unmolested, than the station
of president, if I must lose my identity, and
be attacked by viragos in the streets.
It was near noon of the next day when
the train whirled up to the depot at Nett’
Hampton. I alighted, and was hastening
down the platform to look after my baggage,
when I saw a young lady, in a brown silk
walking dress, earnestly regarding me. As
she caught my eyes, sho threw up her veil
and sprang towards me. As the veil swept
back it revealed the loveliest face I had ever
looked upon. I had never even dreamed of'
anything half so beautiful. In involuntary
admiration l stood still. She threw herself
into my arms —her arms fell around my
neck—her vel”et cheek touched mine—and
such a kiss as sho planted full, on my lips.
My face was in a blazo. I felt as if I had
been stewed in honey, with lavender for fla
voring.
She repeated the kiss—munificent little
angel!—exclaiming—
“Dear, dear Richard, how delighted I am
that you liuye come at last!”
I was dumb. Mv mouth was sealed up
with the sweetness of her kisses. I dared
not speak lest I should dissolve the spell.
“We have been expecting you for four
whole days! Only think what u period ol
suspense!” went on the soft voice of tho la
dy, as, clasping my hand, she drew me un
resistingly to a phaeton in waiting. Isn’t
it pleasant to be waited on, Richard?”
The arch brown eyes sought mine, as.
drawing up the fur-lined robes, my compan
ion shook the reins over the white horses,
and we were whirled rapidly away.
“Pupa is so anxious to see you once more,
Richard; but bis rheumatism is worse to
day, and be could not drive dowfi. William
is absent on an errand for the bride. But I
would come! I wanted so much to be the
first one to greet you, dear Richard! Alice
is so beautiful! and so deeply, beautifully
happy! Richard, you ought to be the most
grateful man alive!”
“I—l believe I am!” exclaimed I, as,
reaching up her sweet face, the little en
chantress favored me with another kiss,
which, this time, I repaid, with compound
interest, and then blushed boiling hot to
think of.
At this moment the phaeton stopped at
the door of the fine old mansion on an aris
tocratic street, and mechanically I alighted
and lifted out my companion. The hall
door was flung open. Tho clasping hand of
the young lady drew me gently within the
vestibule —her musical voice culled softly at
the door of a boudoir—
“ Alice, Richard has come!”
Instantly the door flew open, and a dark
haired, beautiful woman came forth. She
gazed at me an instant with unutterable
tenderness, and then embraced die, with a
mingling of fervor and shyness absolutely
bewildering.
Verily, I was a favored individual!
An elderly gentleman, supporting himself
by a cane, now came forward and saluted
me, calling mo his “dear son,” and cutting
short everything I attempted to say by his
joyful volubility.
• The folding doors separating the sitting
room and parlors were thrown apart. I
heard the subdued hum of voices, the rust
ling of heavy silks; and, waiting iu the nl
coved arch of an east window, I saw a: cler
gyman in gown aud bands.
The elderly gentleman took the hand of
the dark haired Alice aud placed it in mine.
“Take her,” he said with emotion; “and
may God prosper you! We will have tho
most important thing first, and dinner after
ward. The guests are already getting im
patient.”
I glanced at Alice’s diess. It was bridal
white; and her beautiful hair was crowned
with a wreath of orange blossoms. i
Tho sight gave me a tremor. I felt weak
and faint. My pallor must have alarmed
Alice, for she clutched my arm wildly, and
gazed into my face with painful anxiety.
“What is it, Richard? Are you ill? Mer
ciful heaven! Helen, look at him! He is ill!”
“It is I gasped. “On
ly, I cannot—cannot marry you! I—”
“Oh, heaven!” cried Alice, in horrified
dismay; and seeing that she was about to
fall, I flung my arm around her for support.
At this moment the hall door was opened,
and turning at the sound, I saw, with my
ott'n eyes, my second self enter the room.
My exact counterpart! Richard Smith,
No. 2.
Ills fierce eyes took ih the scene at one
swooping glance, lie rushed towards me
with a wild ejaculation, and, tearing the
halt fainting Alice from my arms, ho plant
ed his firm grasp on my throat. I put my
hand on the same locality of his body.
“What are doing?” ho thundered in my
car.
“What are yotl doing?” I thundered in
response,
“Your life shall pay the forfeit!” he ex
claimed, with mad violence-. “Tho man who
has dared to win Alice Hereford’s love shall
die!”
“Gentlemen,” interrupted the sweet
voice of her whom they had called Helen,
“be patient; there is some mistake. Which
of you is named Richard Smith?”
"I am!” replied I.
“I am!” replied my counterpart.
But which of you is Richard Smith—son
of Archibald Smith?”
“I am,” said my second self.
“I am not,” said I; “my futher was named
Robert.”
Helen looked at me a moment, half in
doubt, evidently, how to treat me after wlmt
had occurred. Finally, sho hold out her
hand.
“I beg your pardon, Mr. Smith; it was
all a careless mistake of my own. Can you
forgive me?”
I thought of the kisses she had given inc,
and wished the sable mistake might he made '
over again, though I was wise enough not
to make known try wish.
“Let me explain,” she continued frankly.
“We were expecting my brother Richard
home from tho South, where jio lias leen
some four or five months past; and were
quite sure that he would arrive on the train
which brought you; lie has beer some years
engaged to Miss Hereford, and tbe marriage
ceremony was to take place immediately on
his arrival. I went down to the depot to
welcome him, and because of tho striking
similitude in your respective personal np
pearance, I mistook a stranger for my bro
ther. That is all. Brother Richard, Mr.
Smith is entirely blameless of any wrong.
We gave him no time for explanations. Let
me present ycu to each other as friends.”
My counterpart shook hands with me, and
begged my pardon for dislocating my neck
tie. I granted it, and begged bis pardon
for committing a like depredation on his
neck-tie.
And then, nt a sign from tho elderly gen
tleman, we ail walked into the drawingroom,
where, in n brief space of time, my counter
part was made the husband of his blushing
Alice.
The acquaintance so singularly begun
with the Smith family, soon ripened into
friendship, and became one of the most prec
ious of life's blessings to me.
Helen Smith had kinsod me, and she could
not forgot it. If a man can get a woman to
think of him —it hardly matters in what
way—he has a claim on her; and so it wus
in my case. I believe that I never met Hel
en hut she blushed at the memory which
stoic over her.
Three months nftcr our first meeting, sho
kissed me again and called me “Dear Rich
ard.” Ai.d this time she was well aware
that she was not addressing her brother.
Is it a fortunate, or an unfortunate thing,
to have a counterpart? When I think of tho
boarding-house keeper, I say, “No;” but
when I look at Helen and recall the circum
stances of our introduction, I am accustom
ed to answer, “Yes.”
Saved His Life.
Mr. D. I. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave, Ivy.,
says he was, for many years, badly afflicted
with Phthisic, also Diabetes; tho pains
were almost unendurable and would some
times almost throw him into convulsions. ;
He tried Electric Bitters and got relief from
the first bottle and after taking six bottles,
was entirely cured ard lmd gained in flesh
eighteen pounds. Says h; positively be
lieves he would have died, had it not been
for the relief afforded by Electric Bitters.
Sold at fifty cunts a bottle by the Central
Drug Store.
° • :
Two little tots were standing at tho gate a
few nights ago. Said one, gazing upward:
“What do you suppose the stars are?” |
“Well,” said tho other, “I dess they’s the
sun’s chickies. Dor.’t you know papa says 1
the sun sets!”
NO. 11.
A Father’s Wish Sufficient-.
William 11, Vanderbilt was an inveterate
smoker when in the middle of life. But bis
father hated the hurtful weed. lie and his
father sailed together on a voyage to Europe-.
They were on the steamer "Northern Star/*
bound for St. Petersburg. They were air
ing themselyes on deck. AVillinm was puff
ing away at his cigar as if the luxury was
most enjoyable.
“Bill,” said the father to the sort, “I wish
you Would give up that stocking habit of
yours. I’ll give .you ten thousand dollars if
you Will.
“You need not pay me anything,” was tho
son’H response. “Your Wish is sufficient.”
And as the words were spoken, tho cignr
wns fluHg into the blue wayes. lie never
afterwards smoked' another cigar—so it is
said.
Wlmt manly deference did this show to
the desire of his father! lie valued the fa
ther’s Wish more than ten thousand dollars.
And if there be any boy Who is learning to
love the cigar, let that hoy consult his pa
rent’s wish. Let that boy honor his parent’s
request. Let him fling his cigar with con
tempt to the winds, and never taste another.
And that, not will be of more value to him
than a cheek for ten thousand dollars. Will
not a sweet remembrance of self-denial bO
worth more? Will not a pleasing conscienco
he Worth move? Will not Victory over tho
disgusting habit be worth more? Will not
protection from that which defiles the body
and the soul.il not the spirit, he worth more?
Learning to smoke the cigar is taking the
first step toward the snlocn* Another step
may never bo taken, yet it can readily be
taken. Take no step in that direction. Tho
noble hoy Will ask his father for permission
before he will smoko tho first cigar. And
the father who Ims tie thousandth pnrt of a
grain of common sftnse Will grant no such
pernicious permission.
A Very Wicked Triekv
Not long ago a young gentleman employ
ed in tho offioo of the county clerk at Gene
va, 111., received at the hands of a friend a
small sample Clip of oleomargarine made by
a Chicago firm. With a victv to determin
ing about how ntucb tho dairy farmers
around Geneva knew about butter lie show
ed the sample to them ns they came at odd
times into the office, telling them it was a
sample of Elgin butter. Every last man of
them smacked his lips and declared it to bo
as good butter ns he had ever tasted.
“Isn’t it a burning shame,” suid the wick
ed young man to one innocent dairyman,
“Hint oongress doesn’t hurry up and pass a
bill prohibiting the manufacture of that
miserable, greaßy, tasteless stuff, oleomar
garine?”
“Yes, it is,” said the honest yeoman; “but,
then, let ’em make nil the oleomargarine
they want to, there'll nlwuys boa market
and good prices for such butter as that,’*
“Yes, but think of the poor people who
can’t pay high prices for butter. And, then,
too, think of the ignorant iolks who don't
know good butter like this from ilastv bull
grease.”
“Well, all I’ve got to say,” replied the
dear old granger, “is that any man who
can't tell that kind o’ butter from oleomar
garine ought to be piseaed with the bogus
stuff.”
If that farmer’s eye should happen to fall
on this story that Wipkcd young man will
probably get something like his j ust deserts-,
Chicago News.
The Old Man Wan Thankful.
“Ob, there's plenty of patriotism left in
the country,” said a journalist from Indiana,
at the press headquarters yesterday. “It
flames'up in all sorts of men on occasion. I
was working at the polls in Indianapolis on
election day, 1880. The fight between the
Garfield men and tho'Hancoek men wns hot,
I tell you. A venerable man, one of our
best citizens, rushed up to me late in the
afternoon, pale and agitated, and cried out:
“ ‘Bro. Thompson, the other side are buy
ing votes—buying them)’
“‘You don’t say so!’ I answered, ‘How
much are they giving?’
“ ‘Three dollars, the infamous scoundrels!’
‘Well,’ I answered, ‘we’re giving s4.'
“ ‘Really?’
“ ‘Sure; and we’ll raise 'em out of their
I bootsi no matter how high they go.’
“Tears cnnie into the aged eyes, and in a
trembling voice he said:
“ 'Thank God, the cause of good govern
ment is safe! - ” —San Francisco Post.
Miraculous Escape.
W. W. Reed, druggist, of Winchester,
Ind., writes! “One of my customers, Mrs.
Louisa Bike, Bartonia, Randolph ccunty,
Ind., was a long sufferer with Consumption,
and was given up to die by her physicians.
She beard of Dr. King’s New Discoyerv for
Oonsuu ption, and began buying it of me.
In six months t>me she walked to this city,
a distance of six miles, and is now bo much
improved she has quit using it. Sho feels
she owes her life to it. Free Trial Bottles at
tho Central Drug Store.