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Rates of Subscription. One Y EAR t- S Months - 1 o Six K Tiikke Months Tl’I E 1)EA1I LINE, —— \l oN T (i WHICH THE CYCLONE MADE ITS WAY. \ Harrowing Story from Heard County—A Family Floating Down the Swollen Wa¬ ters—The Origin of •the Storm in the Red River Country. s n-citsl* to the Atlanta ronstitutiun. Hogansville, Aprl 25.--Sun dav night’s storm was fearful around this place, but what we suffered was insignificant compared to the dam a re In Heard county. Every bottom stream overflowed there, and the lands are almost ruined for the pres ent year. The loss to the farmers in instances . al¬ is very heavy, them some for the most upsetting from settle¬ year. Au awful story comes Franklin.— a ment ,j. six miles beyond the best known j> Roop is one of citizens of Heard county. He is thirty and well-to-do. He lived on tiie banks of the Hillahatchie creek, usually a small stream. Besides a farm he owned a good grist mill, and a store well stocked with goods of various kinds. He had a good house, with a gin house, smoke house and other buildings around it. His family consisted of a wife and three children and *t brother, who resided with him. Sunday night they all retired as usual. In the house slept also a negro boy.— The rain began to fall in torrents early in the night, and continued without intermission for several h< airs. The roaring of the creek was dis¬ tinctly hearth and it became evident that the water was rapidly rising.— About midnight the tempest lulled little aud the family were able to eep. rain to have coutmued The seems up tlieereek, for the water kept on rising, until it had swept beyond the highest mark it had ever reach¬ ed before. The Roop family slept on, unconscious of the awful doom that was creeping on. o'clock Between one and two the water had risen high enough ’ under the house to lift it from its Kill*. It swayed to and fro in the awful tide. The motion moused Mrs. lloop, who was trying to wake her lii'sband when the torrent rush r-d hi ihe doors and the house be g.i: to float down the stream. The scene of terror must have been appalling, the children were screaming and tiie poor .woman was almust frantic with grief. Roop, 1!,. >ugb almost a giant in form, stood helpless in the awful storm. The | rain had become harder than ever; the wind blew fiercely, and there v as an almost incessant fiasbingof liglhuing. Tiie house, turned and reding reached the Current of the creek, anil then dashed swiftly on with the maddening waters. After going a hundred yards vio¬ or so it struck a tree with such lence that the shock shivered it to a mass of floating ruins, Roop caught a mattress, and as he was curried away in the resistless tide, he could see in the glare of the lightning his wife and children struggling for life. It was beyond hi* power to reach them or give them the least assistance, and soon tliev were lost to his sight forever. j Down tiie torrent he dashed on Iris mattress raft, unt’Y it seemed that he bad been carried miles away.— The mattress lodged for^an h»twit ee i’t man cHte Hld tie clnnhed up ul the ^ current ' • r,7Z was sjo rod J - 7 ll nprt swimmer nit he D inve of the ■ mitten ,h“ WsaLlldm ee Hoi Hoi ling ling ^ on on to to a a limb all night he must have suffer¬ ed untold agony, for he realized that his loved ones must be lost. When day dawned hesa" that ho was three-quarters of a mile from home. The Ihe creek creed , had hnd become * \nt calrner, and gone down some, but lie wasi still ft hundiei anc 1 1 | -from shore. He had strength to j strikeout and swim that di*.am .. He went hastily toward what was his home. Though he knew well; how awful the storm had been, he . was not prepared for the reality.— A more desolate scene is hard to imagine. Every building that had Stood oh the premises was gone. sign Worse than all there was no It of children or brother. seamed ahnosta cruelty to have 1 " 11 1 t ’ iv,,,,," 1 1 K neh " a ni \ y'ir'Z r „ 1 Mr v Lntt .Merrill, an l Bto tns borne n was ■- al dumohshed. H , so ft loukt have been , lost m t .1 J - ne o spend the night vv 1 1 • • 1 datives. ..nil Kmd neighbors came to theneip of Mr. Roop, as best they could, lmt his awful trial aliflost broke him down. All his earthly effects and dearest loved ones were gone. A ‘-oarch was begun for the sis irodies. Late in the afternoon die remnius of two of the children were found a mile awav, where the re ceding waters had left them. All Monday and Tuesday the search fov thelwlios rtf Mrs Rood the lost brother 1 tire child and the ne , " hfi c ’t't’j - i withou .1 f be. 1 - • - It i 1 * * n pp ; sed they must oeve Uen |pan-d into Rome of the d use ‘M.mps er covered 111 the great mi jDuni .*• I $ TIMES iff tor ', i 1 a VOL. XI. of driftwood-amitrash caught in the Hood. Those w ho saw it its Irigiit say it was seve’al hun feet w ide, and rushed w ith in¬ force. U p to Tuesday nothing had been of the los* bodies. Mr. Roop almost ruined. The property lost must have been worth thousand dollars. He hue noth¬ left but liis land. Mr. Merrill’s loss is nlso very Tiie Wreck in Dougherty Albany, April 25.—Many of the attending Monday’s cy¬ in lower Dougherty appear The inly expression parties who visited the track the storm is one of surprise.that could have lived through A part from the losses to life personal injuries already re¬ the disasters in Dougherty be briefly summed up as fol¬ : On Dr. Patillo’s place, across a portion of which the swept, two* houses were away, and three hundred of young cotton, which was and of remarkable good stand, It literally swept away fencing, and the timber was Domestic fowls and were killed by ihe thousands. The destruction of mules and cattle the pathway was complete. TRESTLE BADLY INJURED. •f Ccthbert. April 25 — Iu of Sunday night, trestle a large between tree blown across a iibert and E ifaubt. The trestle so badly injured that the train from Macon on fell through. The engine and boxes were thrown from the No lives are reported lost. adds another to the many ac¬ of this road the present THE STORM IN THE BLUE RIDGE, Dahlonf.ga, Apiil 25.—A terri hail and rain storm swept along Bine lvidge from west to oust H 6 IouS g 'side n of'the the it blew quite a hurricane.— was the case at the head of the river, where the timber fences were blown down in a section of country. We have of two dwelling houses that blown dowu, Mr. John Hood’s a Mr. Gouelie’s. Ephraim Lee’s cnugl t on fire and was con¬ with all its goods. This was beyond the top of the ridge in track of th'o storm. TV IN LI>.CO t tvcoln . A\D * TALIAFERRO ‘ J ’ The storm was destructive to me property to Lincoln county. Anderson a imlls the bouse of Brooks was destroyed -ms wire killed, and Ins son and liiruself if not fatally injured. A of gin houses and negro in Lincoln and Taliaferro counties above here were t eyed. Tossed Up in Newton. Newbern, April 25—So far as inquiries go, it appears to have the vicinity of Gaither’s mill Bear creek, about eight miles southwest of this place. Here of destruction was contined t, ,,,,j sm nl] huildinus • T were blown ih wn pro In its onward march struck Mr Geo McOolor’s place, “*y uuu e liia residence and de several sn aH buddings. hui • Olin Pitts heard the storm . Mr. and children into a cellar his smokehouse, where they re in perfect safety, while itself was blown down door-head. The chimney building on south-west end of the l.l.w,, .lo,v„, Thi» In falling it passed thromrh ceiimg, tearing it ofl, and lodged the floor, where some of the were asleep a few minutes e oie - r The Cyclone in Elbert. Elbert, April 25.—The storm passed I. over this section Bun ht WRS more destructive than was first thought to be. The fJ .^ couuty is thought to exceed * (i(X) The cyclone that struck - > ] passed *. J 0JJ V over a por - _ llie-ungiii •storm 01 • ’ . New URLEANS, April zo. frou^ _ a special totheTimes-Uemocrat that WestEoint, Mlssissipp 1 , states two cyclones passed over f,lay coun tj on Sunday; one about noon pass ed over thy western part of the county, and the other, a torn t one o’clock, over the central and south ern part. Beth were terrific, lev (ding houses, fences and trees and ; - death and destruction in their paths.’ Near Hoheulinden „ re reported to have been an d near Pine Bluft’ teen families ran were reported killed. A namber oti person^ , . ^ kil | P( m different p< ^ b howmanx ) t K v oea 1 ' Innate of the^ atjro^ _ be the Did vv PSSOI , V^terday, ' the hands ooul n u e •• Tot f», , The following ia a ■ at Wesson: Ford • M AYilker Mibb Baltie son and son. thechdd of -<1^. win, Sam Benton, the chud of +i,An Tooftins, four nephews of ot Gilu°J the ^ child of Mrs. Mis. 1 r pfci , d A mm . Jo b n GEORGIA, TILTHS I) A V, MAY :l, 1 Willie White, three negroes, names unknown, George Holloway, and child of Mrs H i Carter. THE FIRST ri.M-F- TOUCHED. *, re, toh©d *■' ‘'>' ‘^ clone vn % 8, on .\ m11 11 S ^ H J fu 1 ’ thut phee and Mn , n vicinity y.°f th e were resuieut^of assembled m w the Methodist church, the quarterly circuit being in session. 'J’he cyclone struck the church, anti one of the side walls fell in up on the congregation. The minister Rev. H. 15. Lewis, had his skull fractured and his chances for re¬ covery itre very slight. Mr. Savage who insheil out of the -church, was instantly killed by a falling lynb.of a tree, breaking his neck. J. Home was slightly injured, asNvas a Miss Steele. Mrs. Alien was hurt. The large congregation with had the exception a most won¬ of derful escape, those above named. When the cyclone struck the church, as if by inspiration, bench- they r ft j] u ,, ou their knees and the es shielding them, they escaped W ith trifling injuries, church by \ colored near was a ; HO destroyed. Three of the wor were killed and eight, ” l or ten severely f^ .^ Wff ~ nfi r mn 0 am it to j a j' that I should stay in Should I go to the front, as is I might be killed, and who may lie woutded, for medical attention. I prom gentlemen, to discharge ‘ s ( as a surgeon) to the best tree of charge, applause, the conclusion of Dr. Herr address, the company and headed by Captain soon on their way to the of the supposed within a short distance the light of the camp visible, and the company It was decided j tbe negroes, and, if c *P*" re th< ' m without bltKV,shed resolved to let none escape. ingly the . . company was the camp of the supposed ma surrounded. given signal a rush was man with his ” .mil in hand ore (1 . to die .. ii . . necessary. ,,,. I he . bitant of the camp, however, >oor old one-eyed and tied m-erro ’ who had been ‘ an ,l Im-isc g 1 r these quadrupeds, , , was t , f or i,; s supper. a d nun was heard” as thdr wny resolved Ins . . 1 one in own - to say anything about ; s adventure, and if it had ‘ .g HE Times reporter was • f - , . . ' ‘ ' . that would . vmg it never made public. -- - - w,,, ' k ,,f tIle Belief Uommittees. . e committees appointed by in ’s - meeting * to solicit aid lone Bn(r rer8 are dist . har » m n duties in a most efficient . Ml - 11 J - Sa PP- the -i disburisngcommittee, we the amount of cash i e citizens of this . (Lees) /T , . dis .. ! U P to this time is t has algo ^ contri b ution(l . l«y of merchandise to ,* of about $125. ■ h other districts have not iqeard from. B - tie Girl Writes About the |, ,, , „ batl wimt by a lit A‘i tle .Abu av die i ca ,-» me Jim Bruce’s place was destroyed, and he and his wife killed. Green Bruce was killed and hs wife badly wounded. James Black and family were all wounded. The excite raen t has subsidedaud every one gone to work. Picayune’s Jackson, . The Bpecial says: Three white men, two negroes and two Indian Jren were killed four miles from cyclone’ Morton and others wounded. J ^ passed up Leaf river, in * . nt Jen dishing thmg unt 1 it K came.^to came to . where , oxer the - roid.thence to^ Hiilsto.ro | | much property was destroy ea, a on (ihioroad, to jiointH the other °” ,h fork ; A , the Vicksburg and Meridian ^wei.t 1 Ihw is the one that struck i he Wind in Laurens County. imbliu Host. l’he following items of losses tained were furnished us by Mr. J ’ Eillis M s C OiIHh’ fences all down m,' fences Miller had all the t w«i houses piantations blown off, and the ami outbuilding*, the exception of his 8wep i t .wav. and even that was j A ' ''to*-;rt- Arter Davis jr and ‘ t rr Davis lk ik sr ^ sustained sus a 1 damage, tvery ouiming ra^ed x jn their dwellings were ground. head Out 01 stock between, they sixt; have 6eve nty only found 01 live f u r one ^lead ihe carcases of eleven have been discovered. Mr. Curry hadhis gin house blown down anil six bales of cotton de sti oyed. Ishara Branch's house Mr. was blown down. Several hurt, but no one killed. Mown Mr. Towns' ox-cart was Rway> anil has not been heard of gmce A leather ehair bottom from some unknown quarter fell in the yard u f j| r Seaborn Brwcewell, who ] j V0( ] 8t » vi .ral miles from the traok t j ie g j orul> A COLD-BLOODED MURDER. A Virginia Vili.ain Murders a NY ofeo, Part ok a -Scheme to-Dk < FRAUD AN INSMUNCK COM¬ PANY. Danville, V a., Ajwil 24.—William T. Dodson, of this city, was arrested at Franklin Junction, Va., for the murder of a negro man, reported yesterday. He confesses he hired two negroes to bring him a body for dissection, pretending be-was a ph y¬ sician. He says he carried it into an upper room of tiie house, then oc¬ cupied by himself alone, wrapped it over it, fixed a lighted candle on it 'Isays, and went away. Ills mistake, he was in cutting the candle so datj long that the house did not take on Sat l' 1 ' 1 ’ during the night, it being hi* pur ,jl * pose to burn ,the house and have it appear that he himself had been 1 “^burned in it, and thus enable his seei family to obtain the amount of his ((life policy recently procured. iel, The Right Sort ot a Man. and caul You will find, a* a rule, that the cess men who are favorites with men, are jjtlie best and truest in their relations "to women. Yes, the men who like p(ipi S ometime 8 to turn their backs on all lts awomen “and go off with the other caiitfeliows,” and have a good 'boyish nns time on the water or mountain, or in c’r some other man's den. Women need en 'never be afraid to trust their happi theiinegs to those whom other good men C.esteem good fellows; but if a man is new voided by men, however much wo ‘ j men aJinire him, shun Inin. It is lie who has flirtations that comes to '“‘“nothing, and has “not been very mg nice” to the girls who have broken mulithcir engagements with him who, cove whcn marries, w rings his wife’s j. "'temper heart, if she has one, and spoils her if she is naturally an angel, P r;u 'Manly men are the best lovers, the appenest husbands, the best companions store 01- the women just ns womanly wo venti lU-n al ° tlu! b,;st sweethearts and „h ,h vs^**’ Whnt <l0 we think of women l .'\bo are shunned by their own sex, HO instr.bem? Wiowcver charming seldom, men if may that find, It is ever, *•“«’- bis T -.i’erhaps \ay it may he explained in this : Friendship of a suhlimer sort ,n '' s lis what lay# beconms after a year or Rhilso of marriage, and he who is Triondr Wly to the very depths of his souj e« t . nn dters into this state happijy, and is tint reai *y *° r ' ,be that follow. j 1 But the man who is capable of noth ““‘"ing but a fleeting affection, which pleaever pursues a new object and cares bo y,jfor no wopian whep she is won, hates Q,' h"<i d/jpyjstic ties and becomes de * 8tfthk ' m consequence. It is the unl 1 . n Gmn who would die tor his Ineud. couitmd for whom hts friend would die, w hetFho makes a miraculously happy vUirf ife of the woman to whom he scarce y j V knew how to make line when he ()[ our ted her. I t’ornmou Sense. Jm One pound of . learning . Hill, requires <\v<n>™ y ff^This "iiTrelT whyT» ^enhany «lln««on outstrip men with thousands hut a limited o our oduen- col was fege graduates m the race tor wealth an(l tr men of all professions and trades jj .ducation is a good tiling the best »'«h 1 ,a t ,„y out to h battle for himself. But t | often do we see graduates of colleges left far in tiie rear by men 01 rut one-tenth their knowledge of >ooks, j 1,ut far above them in pncticM com m°n s< nse, and persisteiib inte lgent '“ T.v du8tr y ru . g ^ ’’ J , t | jvy pos ' Y, £ . eommU , * ^ , ! ' r ' mbm j The Eastman Times, ~ under the head of the “The First of the Sea son,” tells of a man that killed two rattlesnakes about the last of March, can beat it. Mr. Wallace Rowe, : one of our neighbors, killed on the 1 26th of Rd.ruary a huge rattlesnake : with nine rattles and a button, and . on Mn „ di emboweled, was found to contain a full grown rabbit. On {1ic geeenteenth of April, and within „ ne hundred yards of tbe same place, be ki |led another one with nine rat ; ties and a button.—Dublin Gazette, - Senator Joseph F.. Brown has j^n *|»oken of as the successor of General Roscreans, as chairman of 1 the Dei ocratie National Executive committee. ' ■ __ j Jefferson Davis is a grand old ma». Hi* enemies rnav sneer as they please, but he has lived nobly and will tiie game. i ' - Scientists te}l us that rain-water brings alainonia‘,ar down yearly about 12 pounds ' ai-rewf ground. ^ 1 ’ e ; amount of of amInoaill at 6 cents per ,*,uml. ,, , ^ f „ r mer manuria’l $‘» 8 S an 1 M v»!ue STALKY’S SUICIDE. _ A Hokkible Sight in a Young L vov’s Fari.ou—Prose Upon i h to .Floor is a Pool of 45 loo d. Knnxville Tribune. Monday night about 11:150 we were startled and horrified by the re¬ port that W. 15. Staley, had jr., committed a son of Chancellor Staley, suicide at the residence of Mr. lohn Hack Loues, which is just beyond Black Oak Ridge, on the Knoxville anti .Ohio railroad, about seven miles front Knoxville. On entering the doorway the first object was the form of young Staley, lying upon his hack upon the floor, his head and face coveted with blood, his hair mattou in elots**if gore and ht's brains ooziing front a hole in his forehead, 11 i* feet were towards the door and his head to the right. lit* right hand was upon his breast and ltis left by bis side. A small pistol which lay the floor by the young man’s left side told the terrible story of the misguided yonfig man’s death.— Young Staley was yet struggling for breath. 'I here was yet a hollow in his throat, but the taint told that life was ebbing away.t hail long since fled. fact, the soul had departed with flash of the pistol,- but animal still clung to the body, There no indication of Buttering, no of the limbs or tw itching of musclng. The only audible in¬ of life was the struggle for The only occupants of the were J)r. O’. Deadorick, who was over the body', and Robert brother of the unfortunate The deed was .committed 8 and !) p. in., lmt there wtts one else in the room at the time. the corner of the room, to the right the front entrance, was a table of elaborate construction setting across the corner, The was surmounted by a large and in front of the mirror a largo cabinet-sized photograph W. B. Staley, jr., in a handsome He had probably stood be¬ the mirror with his pistol in his pointing with fatal aim against { s own forehead. When he pulled |, v trigger there was a smothered B muflled report, and the bullet (»riiKliin<r liis brain. entered the forehead just above the edge of the right eyebrow, and the inner corner of the right As young Staley fell his head the corner of the desk, bespat it with blood. The wall was. copiously sprinkled with blood, Between the corner of the desk and wall, on the floor, was a pool of and a quantity of brains. Af falling upon his face, Staley turned over on his back in first struggles, and remained in position until we saw him.— was a large pool of blood in the young man’s head rested, ,id upon the carnet near were sev splotchc*of bruin matter, The was one which few could bear upon. The report of the pis of course, brought the inmates the house into the parlor and have Sta de i e y waH found about as we fjhe him. cause of young (Stagey \ sui WB s undoubtedly unrequited love.For many months lie has been in Jove with Miss Emma Lones. Young Staley has visited her often and of ten deedared his love, and many times besought her to marry him. lie liai been most persistent^ in his appeals, but the young Juoy deelim J to hen. him. telling him kindly, hut. plainly, that she did not love him. This to have little effect, lor voung continued his visits and his importunities. k He threatened on VH ous <H . casiolJh to ta ke his own. b£ she d£|£ T’m-Hv"^ atu . nlionM fn , UI him, sent back h,s J>n . seutH wh( .„ he would send them a nd finally declined to see him. She dec l in «l to answer any of l„« notfs. b ut he continued persistently to urge Tlli , ....... . U,inl atU;,, H ,t at 8l,i,ilk ’ al1 tl "“' being made at the residence of Mr. Ij0ne( ,. If e at first took morphine, an(( WJia rPS b M ^[ |,y a physician witb diifieulty. Next he took only ra j about two months ago, and t | K i most prompt medical treatment waved his life. Miss Emma Lones Utt * heW1 visiting tLc city tor several days at the residence-of Dr. rank R ; U, ' M, V ; Yesterday she went home; - VV. 15. Staley, jr., went out stupj,ed on same train. VV hen the train at the slide, near the residence ot Lones. Mr. James Homer, the eng in cer, escorted Miss tomes to home, which was only a few hundred yards off. Staley followed. He sat awhile in the front yard, hut finally, about dark, went into the parlor. Miss Lone* excused herself, telling Mr. feu ley that she was very tired and unwell. As she started to leave the roonf 4 HuIct caught hold ot her and besought her to marry him. .She refused to listen to him, and tv again threatened to kill himself if she would not iMcome his wife. She had heard these threats many times be fore and thought little about thejit, though she believed the young ##an to be partly deranged. She left the l-^lor and went into the silting room. Jn 9 few minutes she and other inmates of the house heard P««"l-hot W hat must have been ber wt “‘ n « he I “ aj,n »nd found the young man strug g lln f? w ‘ th ueath, Mr. Lones came to this city im meiliafly for rocdi:al and l>r. Dr. Frank A. R. Ramsey Deuderick resismded, reaching th dying young man about two this morning. When we left the residence of Lones this morning at 3 NO. 17. young Staley was still breathing faintly, lmt the physician* thought lie would expire before daylight. He was not yet twenty years of age, and was a young .man of great promise, lie was a sett of our respected chan „ eellor, Judge W. 15. Staley. Voting Staley possessed rsre talent, bot-l as a writer and a speaker, and his ter¬ rible death ' ill l”' a loss to the com¬ munity. '1 he parents will have the hearilelt sympathy of the out ire com¬ munity in this their awful bereave numt. Their sorrow is too great for the intrusion of the outside world. Judge Staley i,s now at Sevierville at court, and ha* probable not yet heard of the death of ins son. Coroner A. S. lliuiiburg was sent for, and, upon arriving at thesliouse ul Mr. I.oties yesterday *Huuaiing, summoned a jury of inquest, Tim roudered the following verdict: April 24th, 18811. We the under¬ signed, summoned as jurors of in¬ quest and sworn by A. S. lliuiiburg. coroner of Knox county, to investi tho cause of tile death of M il Haiti B. Staley, jr., alter hearing Ihe introduced, we are satisfied that his death was caused by shoot¬ ing himself in the head with a pi* No. '32. John TutineU, Tom Wade, William Bayless, AlfordCox, 15. Barker, J. C. Tunnell, Tom From a conversation yesterday a friend of young Staley, we learn that his suiemle was not lines peeled, lie hud twice before, at the residence of Mr. Lones, under the eii'enmatiinensand Ibr the same attempted to take hi* own by swallowing morphine or chlo¬ On Monday afternoon a friend young Staley at the depot just the Knoxville and Ohio train left. Staley was in the ear sitting .Mis* bones talking to her. turned She no attention to him but head away, doelining to speak to As soon a* he saw a friend him he left his seat and out of the car to where he w as. was very much agitated and rather disconnectedly, lie his friend how lie looked and Ids cravat was tied straight, lie was going out to Black and wanted look his best. Hi* fiend asked Imn when lie was com back. Staley replied that w hen came he would bo brought buck foremost. Hi* friend began to to him seriously about the rash¬ of his eolirsc and pleaded with him not lo leave on that train but to back up town. Staley said that mind was made up. As lie left shook In* friend by the hand and he would never see him again, ire leaving lie handed his friend postal card folded up and asked him to deliver it to another friend, him. We learn that the had written upon it tin - follow¬ ing lines, addressed to a friend and by Staley: “1 am going out to Black Oak. Look out for something to happen.” There was a wild rumor on the yesterday evening whiih at¬ to give currency to the theo¬ tiiat young Staley did not die by his own hand, but that some other person killed him. This is almost absurd and ridiculous to he no¬ ticed, There is not with a single whole eiieum af stance connected the fair winch would wanunt the most visionary or isensation-thirsty iudi vid ml in founding such an i uprob able theory, There was no human eye witness to the horrible deed, yet every i jietiniwUnev goes to prove beyond a doubt that young Staley pulled the fatal trigger which sent ihe bullet, crushing through his brain. Wit do not see how any ensihje person could arrive at any Dtlur doncJunion. A Bird's Grief. A year or so ofthe am,a little Erie" girl living ]ine Rail w.-n, two ."is miles nr' se!,u'l from withai'airof Rathbonvilla N. doves! Y., They were in the habit (L.I., of flying lb* to th„ weeks ago they were flying across lbe ra ilwuv track, whsn the male bir( j cnine in collision with the smoke 8tac ^ 0 f the Pacific express, which , )UHK ,, S that si>ot about seven o'clock •„ tb e morning. The bird w as killed f tbe shock, and instantly thrown 0 lt 0 f sight & of its mate. Thef’e lrial<; , ir d al)OUt the spot for a few Jri i| lutM i n evident amazement at the hUddt . a diiappcaracce of her mate, q| 1(! ( b( . u fl evv p, a mile-post near by, ;UK j f or ;l |„ (1 g time gave utterance to the plaintive nutes characteristic of tb e dove. Suddenly she seemed to rPul ize wdiat had carried her mate tl{ ,m her sight, and she rose in the llir nfltl fiew swiftly in the direction the (rain had gone. She did not re t ,„u until about w«n, She alighted ut ll( . r ,„ te ere she remained the reB t of the day, utfprii.g her plaintive Xext wording just about 7 0 ’ ( .lock she was seer; p; flysway and ta ke a position on tl*fc mile post near tb « spot whgty the hist saw her mate the day ^ before. When the express s^g she flew g.tgofce at tbe stack e* jrjne hovered about the a«oun«i the cah, *» if lopkiag for [ le( . nia t*.. site aeeompauied the lo COII1(>t ive for a mile 01 t*o, and then again returned to her cote. Every ()av gjnce tomduct. t hen she She has repeated look the st range to out tw tlll . train at precisely the 4ailie time every morning, and waits till the train comes along, no matter how late it may l>e ; She never goes further than about a mile with the train, returning then to her cote, and piteously all day. The Georgia Press Association will hold its fifteenth annual sessm 1 on | Wednesday the 9th of May, in cns. JOB WORK Neatly and Cheaply Executed —AT THE— Job Office. Coming Home at Last. (On tin- removal lo this country of the lemum* of .loliu How.-ird Payne, author of ‘Home, Sweet Home,’ which have lain in hi* tar away grave at Tunis, Africa, for more than thirty years.) Tiie banishment was overlong, Hut it will soon he past; Jibe one wiio wrote Hume’* sweetest song 1* coining home at last! For vears his poor abode wag seen In foreign laud* thundered alone. loud between Am! wave* have i he *ingcr and hfc own. But lie will soon la) iout itey in# To friends across t Ii#* *ea; And ^rnrider tlmn of arty kins Ul* 1 welcome ho i t* *hall Ih» f lie wandered o’er the dreary earth, Forgotten uiid tdoiie; He who could teach Home’s match teas worth Ne er had one of hi* own. ’Neath winter’s cloud mid summer’* surj, Along the hilly road, lie Imre hi* great heart, and had nouo To help hull with hi* load; And wheresoever in In* round He went with weary tread. Ills sweet pathetic ahead! song he found Had floated on Oe heard the melodic* It made Conic pealing o’er and o’er, From royal music baud* Hint played Before the palace door; lie heard It* gentle tone* of love From many a cottage creep. When tender, eruiiiug mother* sleep; Mtrove To slug their Indies to And wheresoe’er true love had birth Tills thrilling song Imd flown; But he who tmiglit Home's matchless worth Had no home of hi* ow it. The banishment waa overlong, But it w ill soon be past ; The one vv ho w rote Home's *w eeteat song Shall have a home at last! And he shall rest where laurels wave And fragrant grasses twine; llis sweetly kept and honored grave Shall he a auered shrine. And Will pilgrims with glad eyes grown dim loudly bond above 'J’he mail who sling the triumph hymn Of earth’s dlvlnest love. The First Engine. The death of Peter Cooper recalls the memorable trip made by his Tom Thumb engine in 1830, the first jour¬ ney ever made bv steam in America. At that time the Baltimore aud Ohio railroad was a horse ear railroad, extending from Baltimore to Elliott City, and from there westward. Steam made its appearance on tho Liverpool and Manchester railroad and attracted attention in this coun¬ try, but the English road was nearly straight, while the American road was exceedingly crooked. This difficulty waa considered unconquerable. But Peter < ooper was satisfied that steam engines, if they could be need at all, could he applied to curved roods, and he visited Baltimore to test his faith. His engine was an odd-looking con¬ trivance, with a boiler about as largo as that attached to a modern kitchen range, and a smoke stack looking like an aggravated oil can. This was the first locomotive for railroad purposes ever built in America, and drew tbe first passenger ear ever propelled world. by steam upon any railroad in the The passenger coach resembled an ordinary row boat on wheels, and was filled with directors and officers of the road and tt*eir friends. Mr. Cooper acted as engineer. He opened the throttle; the little engine with its load moved gracefully forward. On the trip to Elliott City the curves w ,. n * passed without difficulty at a g , HH . | 0 f fifteen miles an hour, and (, bl . grades were ascended with corn punitive ease. T he day was fine, and ,,very one was in high spirits. Some their gentlemen pulled out atlhe Hiemoranduiu books and when |,jg||,.„t, sq.m-d, which was eighteen and mil,.* an hour, wrote.their names „«• vortrl sentences to show that such , v thing was possible at a velocity so great. ' 1 ’lie trip, a distance of thir¬ teen miles, was made in fifty-seven minutes. From the Relay House to Baltimore, a distance, of seven miles, there was a second (rack. Upon thia the great stage proprietor of the day had placed a gallant gray horse of great beauty and power, attached to an it her ear. From this point it was determined to have a race home be¬ tween tin 1 engine and the horse. At a signal away both sped. The horse hud all his energies from the first, while the crude engine hud to wait until the steam got into working or der. 'J’he horse was over a quarter, of a mile ahead when the thin blue vapor issued from the safety valve; the blower whistled, U 14 speed in¬ creased ; the engine reached tiie horse; it soon passed him, and a loud huzza from the passengers greeted the tri¬ umph. But at that instant, Jua,t .as the driver of the horse was giving up the race, the band slippe I off the fly wheel, Mr. Cooper, in attempting to release the band, lacerated his hands. The engine lagged b< hind ; the horse gain**! on the machine, passed it and won the race. Matters were, after a delay, fixed, and steam again did its best, but too much time had been lost for it to gain tlm contest. Mr. Cooper's accident w: s perhaps tiie first casually to be re¬ corded in history. m<l tiie gray s victory was the first an t last race won by a ho se over steam. At the Baltimore Sesqui-t entennial Mr. Cooper was the gir ■ 1 of lbe city, and himself and his lmomotive were two of the most conspicuous b at urea of of tiie trades pr ee*- ion. Dogs are ihe only thing* that have a money value 'oaf are not rigar ed as property by the law* of Georgia. A dog tli' - is valuable should la taxed accordingly, ami on* that is worthless snoui l-e killed ia order to suppress a n -'»noe. law u..» e**n passed tu Mata pro. hibiHng killing of birds and ram<* on s ni ay. but an amendment to pro' b’t 4<bing on that dry wa# nr I dov n with a
