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Rome, Ga., at one Time.
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INTERESTING REMINISCENCES.
How the Love of an Indian Maiden
Caused John Howard Payne to be ,
Arrested in Georgia in 1837.
On the spot where the proud
city of Rome now stands the Cher
okee Indians once.ruled.and made
their happy habitations. John
Howard Payne, whose name is
immortalized by its connection, as
author, with “ Home S weet
Home,” was spending sometime
in this section at. the time of their
removal, and becoming veiy much
attached to them, he even went
part of the way to the Indian Ter
ritory in their company. Con
nected with his visit is a pretty
romance that is interesting.
In the harvest time of- 1837,
when the hearts of the Cherokees
Were filled with sadness, there
comes a pale face among them
who seemed to enter into their
sorrows on account of their
early removal to the land of the
setting sun. His tender manner
was in sharp contrast to that of
the rude, gruff soldiers, who were
sent to escort the braves and their
squaws to their reservation in the
far west. He was a valued addi
tion to their councils, a careful
adviser, and just the one who was
so badly needed to calm the ex
treme agitation of some of the tur
bulent and rebellious spirits. By
the gentleness of his manner he
won himself into the heart of Ok-
olona, the prophet of the tribe,
and the one to whom the same
homage was paid as to the chief.
Our poet and dramatist courted
the favor of Okolona for his
daughter Itla Bena, (Fairest
Daughter) who was the most
beautiful maiden in all the coun
try round. As the day for the
removal grew nearer and the
hours to romp, on her native
heath waned, the heart of Fairest
Daughter was sad and heavy, but
And now to him she gave the
name Towahma, (Dreamy Stran
ger) and she swore to him that of
all her suitors, none seemed half
so fair as now did Towahma. He
repeated to her the soliloquy of
Hiawatha:
As unto the bow the cord is,
So,unto the man is woman;
Though she bends him, she obeys
him;
Though she draws him, yet she follows;
Useless each without the other.”
And so went on their wooing
until the day arrived for their de
parture. For days previous the
confusion and lamentations had
been going on, but on the dawn
of the fateful day the climax of
grief and sorrow was reached and
the pall of gloom that had hung
ovtjr the village, now seemed to
paralyze every heart. The forti
tude of the Indian was tested, and
it gave way before the rush of
feelings of home love. Many
fond backward looks were taken,
as the orderly band passed over
the crest of the mountains, on
their westward march^-seared in
heart, and torn from the land they
had lived to bless, there seemed
nothing now to live for.
Though Itla Bena was unused
to the vigor of such a long march,
the severity was allayed by the
constant presence of Dreamy
Stranger, who had cast his lot
with the Cherokees forever, as he
thought. Old Okolona favored
his suit, and so soon as they were
settled in the west, all of their
blissful dreams of connubial hap
piness were to be realized. But
the soldiers eyed him with suspicr
ion for accompanying the Indians
as such a close friend. They
feared his councils boded no good,
and so on a technical charge, he
was arrested before they had got
ten across Alabama and sent back
to Rome with “ Big Jim ” Under
wood as his guard, who kept him
under surveillance until the In
dians were far beyond the “ great
water.”
Thus wrenched from Fairest
Daughter, he plunged into poli
tics, and was soon appointed Uni
ted States consul at Tunis, Africa,
where he died a few years later.
Although he never made an at
tempt to regain his promised
Iowa Man Descrites the Phe
nomenon he-Witnessed.
IT MAY OR MAY NOT BE TRUE.
But it Will Appeal To The Interest of
Those Who Fear Thunder
and Wind Storms.
now the pale stranger had come , •s , , . a , .
\ 6 bride, yet her influence over him
into her life to cheer the sadness
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of her darkened dreams, and
their acquaintance ripened from a
fancy fascination to the pure love,
the desolate gloom gradually faded
away. A sympathetic strain fath
ered their devotion and their ex
change of feeling of harmony was
the outward sign of the placid
surface of their lake of love. Who
w ould not love this beauty, garb
ed in the fringed dress of a chief’s
daughter and her raven tresses
forming the bounds of her grace
ful features ? As agile as a deer
and just as tender and gentle as a
dove, and- as loving. Strolling
under the trees of her native
woodland, their songs of love were
accompanied by thousands of the
forest orchestra in sweet accord,
and as she softly plainted her song
of the glories and conquests of
her tribe, he murmured his own
immortal lines:
“ Mid pleasures and palaces, though -we
may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place
like home,
A charm from the skies seems to hallow
us'there, i.
Which seek through the world, is ne’er
met with elsewhere,
Home ! home ! sweet home !
There’s no place like home ! There’s no
place like home !”
As they walked she led him in
turn to the ‘fond .scenes of her
girlhood—told him that here un
der this spreading oak, Lallynano,
a handsome warrior from the war
like Chalula’s wooed her, but her
father’s objection sent him away
dismayed. Also on these sloping
rocks by the bank of the pellucid
waters of the Oostanaula, Ogee-
che, a life-long friend of her fath
er’s, had : laid his wampum at her
prayed that she would
ighten his tepeer, but for a fair-
was noticed through the rest of
as his life, and it is to be regretted
that he did not seek Itla
not seek Itla Bena
for no doubt he would, under her
inspiration, have blessed the world
with many more poems the equal
of “ Home, sweet home.”—Ed
ward H. West, jr., in Rome Trib
une.
The Correct Answer.
The statement has been made
that the Hon. Thomas Jefferson
was the father of more kinds of
democracy than any man who
ever lived. The Tribune would
iike to know if he w is alive if he
would claim as his offspring all
those named below:
“ Sound money democrats.”
“ Free silver democrats.”
“ Cleveland democrats.” *
“ McKinley democrats.”
“ Protection democrats.”
“ Free trade democrats.”
“ Randall, or sound money-pro
tection democrats.”—Rome Trib
une.
He would not. There is but
one kind of democrat and but one
democratic party. A man only
is a democrat—-and that party
only is democratic—that stands
by the party platform, the party
organization and the party nomi
nations —Atlanta Constitution.
Great oaks from little acorns
grow, and even the tornadoes,
which sweep over the- western
prairies have small beginnings.
O. J. Clark, of Sibley, la., saw
one of these storms in its early
stages and describes it as, at that
time, a small affair. The next
day he read of the destruction of
St. Cloud, Minn., by. the same
twister, and of the killing of ma
ny people in its path. Mr. Clark
is a prominent Iowa attorney and
his statement naturally carries con
siderable weight. His story will
furnish food for thought among
those who have delved into the
mysteries of the origin of the tor
nado. The following is from a
written statement made by him
and duly attested by two gentle
men who witnessed the phenome
non with him:
“ Concerning the cyclone which
started in Osceola county a num
ber of years ago and which is be
lieved to be the one that did so
much damage at St. Cloud, Minn.,
I say, in beginning, that I do not
remember the exact date, but it
was seven or nine years ago.
“R. O. Mauson, A. Lansing
and myself were duck huntiug
about five miles east of Sibley, in
the corn fields. It had been a
dismal, cloudy day, with occasion
al showers, and just before sun
down a wind came up from the
south so violent that it seemeff
impossible to stand up against it,
although we braced ourselves
against our guns resting on the
ground. The wind blew a per
fect gale for about two or three
minutes. Its violence was such
that it blew most of the water out
of a small pond lying directly
south of us. The pond covered
from a quarter to half an acre and
was about six inches deep in the
deepest place. The water made a
blinding, drenching rain, which
soaked us through. Then the wind
ceased almost instantly to an ab
solutely dead calm. There seem
ed to be a vacuum where we- stood.
It was difficult to breathe—that is,
it seemed like being high up on
the mountain, where the air is
pure. ''This seemed to last from
one to two minutes. The sun in
the west breaking through the
clouds just at the horizon, was of
a dark-red color and looked omin-
were watching, be-
At Independance, Mo., the other
day a young lady recited “Curfew
Shall Not Ring Tonight.” Ever
since she has been sad because in
the climax she reversed a couple
of words and said: “Go, your liver
loves,” said Cromwell.”
■ suitor she reserved her hand, confederates.
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The Waycross Herald questions
the honesty of Carroway’s hypno
tism. Thinks he worked with
ous.
“ W hile we
tween us and the sun r more than
five or six rods away, a white
puff of what looked like clear,
white steam, about thet size of a
large basket or barrel, came up
out of the ground, and, with a
swooping motion—not straight up
-arose quickly to about thirty
feet in the air and there became
stationary. Immediately thereaf
ter another puff exactly like the
first came out of the ground,
about twenty feet to the northeast,
from where the first one came
from, and with the same irregular
motion^ ascended to and joined
the first. Then another.puff sim
ilar to the others came out of the
ground to the southeast from
where the first arose and ascended
to and joined the others.
“ This small, white cloud hung
there some twenty or thirty sec
onds. Then it began mixing up
rolling and tumbling, so to speak,
for about half a minute. In this
short space of time it grew ‘ from
a small, white cloud to the size of
an ordinary dwelling house. Then
it assumed a rotary motion and
moved off toward the northeast,
rising and falling alternately, but
not coming nearer ‘than thirty or
forty feet to the ground. Still it
made the corn stalks fly around in
the air beneath it.
“ At the northeast of us, about
half a mile away, was a dense
black- cloud that reached to the
ground, but had no motion as far
as we noticed. This cloud, I
should think, reached up in the
air about a quarter of a mile. The
moving cloud gradually turned
from milk white to black, as it ap
proached the stationary one and
finally went into the black mass.
We did not see it again, as the
black cloud obstructed our view.
When the moving cloud passed
into the black one it was-, about
the size of a triangular acre of
laud and stood on end with the
small end down. We then got
our team and drove home.
“ The following morning we
got the news of the destruction of
St. Cloud, Minn., by a cyclone,
which followed the night ^ follow
ing our experience above narra
ted. We then thought, and still
think, that it was ‘ our cyclone ’
that did the mischief, as it started
in that direction and was seen by
farmers after it emerged from the
black cloud that shut out our
view, still going to the northeast
high in the air. It naturally
would have covered the distance
from its starting place to St.
Cloud by 3 or 4 o’clock on the
following morning.”
Astounding Revelations From
the Defalcation.
HINT THAT OTHERS ARE GUILTY.
Georgia’s Savings, Loan and Banking
Company Hasn’t a Cent of
Assets.
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ant upon the
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suffering and
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its anticipation one of misery.
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and the serious accidents so com
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OS. M. BROWN, CHAS. E. HARMAN,
Traffic Manager, ^ Gen. Pass. Agt.,
Atlanta, April 26.:—Henry A.
Cassin, the cashier of the Georgia
Savings, Loan and Building com
pany, who yesterday confessed to
being a defaulter to the extent of
•f45,000, and whose friends agreed
to pay up his shortage to keep him
out of jail, is tonight behind the
bars Of Fulton prison. At a meet
ing of the board of directors of the
institution which was fobbed, held
this afternoon, a brief examination
of the books was made and this re
sulted in the astounding disco very
that the bank, which was supposed
to be one of the most prosperous
in the State, had barely a cent’s
worth of assets.
Instead of the shortage being
$45,000, it will be several times
that amount, and instead of young
Cassin being the bearer of the en
tire guilt, it is now believed thai
at least one other conspicuous
official will share a cell with him
within the next few hours. A re
markable chain of evidence has
been the immediate result of
Cassin’s enforced confession.
When President G. Y. Gress, of
the bank, and the board of directors
agreed with Judge Hillyer, Cassin’s
father-in-law, to make good the
shortage, the matter was believed
to have been settled. As the
amount of
Defalcation Steadily Increased,
however, Morgan Gress, who. is
the son and sole heir of the bank’s
president, went into court with an
application for a receiver for the
concern. Judge Lumpkin set
next Saturday as a date for the
hearing. At this Judge Hillyer
withdrew and a warrant was sworn
out for the arrest of Cassin and he
was taken at once into custody.
Almost immediately application
was made for a receiver for the
United States Bond Company, of
which Gress was president and
Cassin cashier, and the court im
mediately appointed them.
The company has over 400
agents at work in different cities.
Several hundred thousand dollars’
worth of its bonds have been held
as gilt-edge securities by people in
Memphis, New York, Boston,
Philadelphia and Chicago.
Immediately following the arrest
of Cassin the board of directors
and stockholders went into secret
session and it is said arranged for
the swearing out of further war
rants.
Mr. Gress, the president of both
corporations, is a resident of New
York and is president of the pho
nograph manufacturing company.
The stockholders will probably be
in session all night, for tha books
of both companies are in veiy bad
condition.
Soirje Medicines belong to
oq c
season and soine to another.
Dr. King’s Royal Gerraeteur
IS IN SEASON ALL THE
YEAH BOUND.
IN TH-£ SPRUNG
It purifies the blood, removes lantn
smd depression, invigorates and *2?
arates the whole system. -
IN TH-^, SUMMER
It overcomes the relaxation and debilit
caused by hot weather, and com,3
bowel troubles that are so prevaEU
then. Besides, it makes the most
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from that cause.
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WILL NOW REST.
After a Swing: Around the Circuit Holding
Spring Terms of Court.
Judge- Fite and Stenographer
William Graham returned from
Dalton Saturday afternoon, the
term of Whitfield court having
been adjourned. With the ad
journment of this court the first
round of counties in the Cherokee
Circuit was completed and the of
ficers of the court will have a rest
ing spell until July when the Bar
tow court will convene. In every
county wliere he has held court
Judge Fite has won the good opin
ion of the people for his able,
fearless and impartial administra
tion of the law. In this he has
been ably assisted by Solicitor
Maddox, who has proven a terror
to evil doers.—Cartersville News.
The attention of all parties thinking of
taking a trip to the West is especially
called to the famous Memphis and
Charleston railroad as being by far tbe
best route.
If you desire to get the fastest time,
and avoid layovers, which are always a
source of much worry, waste of time and
money, you should call upon or write to
J. L. Smith, Pass. Agent, Dalton Ga..
who will interest himself in your trip
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In effect November 15. 1896.
Stations.
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