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By the Eagle I’viblisshing Company.
VOLUME XXXVIII.
HOT • WEATHER
Is Here I AmlWithlt
K. E. ANEOE & ED.
Are showing all Kinds of Hot Weather
Goods.
Straw Hats,
Wash Suits,
Lightweight unlined Serge Suits,
Neglige Shirts,
Gauze Underwear.
Umbrellas and Parasols,
Oxford Ties and Slippers in all
the latest lasts, toes and colors.
Immense bne of Embroideries, Laces and
Ribbons.
FANS—a beautiful assortment of colors, shapes
and sizes.
Wash Goods,
Organdies and Silks.
Pattern Suits and all the new Trin mings to match.
OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT
Is full of nice fresh goods, and our prices are right.
Come to see us. We are glad to show
| you through.
R. E.ANDOE & CO..
14 Maljti' St.
Telephone O.
*• HIBIISOIIIUIT,
JW iWb Marble Dealers.
Monumental Work of all Kinds for
jg~~lg the Trade «
We want to estimate 1 f lIWUQUIT T D fl
all your work. ) UnlrlDu llLLti, UH.
Thomas & Clark,
Manufacturers of and Dealers in
HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES,
\IV * '* Blankets and Turf Goods.
Fine hand made Harness a specialty. Repairing neatly and quickly
done.
Thomas <& Clark.
Next door below Post-office, - - - GAINESVILLE, GA.
Venable & Collins Granite Co.,
ATLANTA, GA„
.Dealers In
All American and For- Monuments, Statuary
eign Granites and and Mausoleums.
Marbles.
Quarry Owners Blue Building Work of all
and Gray Granite. descriptions.
We have a fully equipped cutting and polish
ing plant with the latest pneumatic tools
to compete with any of the wholesale
trade.
OFFICE 30 and 32 Loyd St.
Plant Cor. Onllatt St. & It. 11.
THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE.
HYNDS MFG. CO’S
Midsummer Clearance Sale
£
OF— *
Organdies, Lawns, White Goods, Etc.
‘"J
• •'** £
Our buyer leaves for Eastern markets within the next few days, and
and we must reduce our heavy stocks pf order to make room for
new Fall Goods. To clean them out we have decided to cut prices
into HALF 1
Large line line printed Organdies and Lawns,
7c, 8c and 10c quality, cut 5c yard.
Large line printed Organdies, 10c, 12 L2c and
15c quality, cut to 7 l-2c yard.
Large lot Checked Nainsook 7c, 8c and 10c
quality, cut to 5c yard.
Large lot Checked Nainsook, better quality,
12 12c and 15c grade, cut 71 2c yard.
One case White Goods, Checks and Plaids,
striped, have been 10c, cut to 5c yard.
One case White Goods, finer quality, 12 L2c
yard.
Every buyer should examine this stock without delay.
Every article mentioned will prove
a genuine bargain.
J. G. Hynds Manufacturing Company,
Retail Dep’t, corner building, Main and Broad Streets,
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
AND
CONNECTIONS.
For information as to Routes, Sched-
ules and Rates, both
Passenger and Freight,
write to either of the undersigned.
You will receive prompt reply and
reliable information.
JOE W. WHITE, T. P. A., A. G.
JACKSON, G. P. A., Augusta.
S. W. WILKES, C. F. & P. A., At
lanta.
H. K. NICHOLSON, G. A., Athens.
W. W. HARDWICK, S. A., Macon.
S. E. MAGILL, C. F. A., Macon.
M. R. HUDSON, S. F. A., Milledge
ville.
F. W. COFFIN, S. F. & P. A., Au
gusta.
-The-
uiimuu inunm
A full line of all the best old and
new varieties of Fruit Trees—Apple,
Peach, Pear, Plum, Grape Vines,
Raspberry and Strawberry Plants,
Roses and Ornamental Shrubbery.
Every tree warranted true to name.
All trees sold by these Nurseries
are grown in Hall county, and are
thoroughly acclimated to this section.
No better trees nor finer varieties
can be found.
Don’t order till you get our prices.
Addrese,
GAINESVILLE NURSERIES,
Gainesville, ca.
EHTtL blinhed in 1860.
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 30 1898.
One case fine 36-inch Percales, Merrimacs and
aocl Majestic brands, always sold for 10c and
12 l-2e, cut to 7 l-2c yard.
Ladies’ Shirt Waists, 75c quality, cut to 38c
each.
Ladies’ Shirt Waists, $1 quality, cut to 53c.
Lot Men’s Shirts, Silver brand, bosom with cuffs
detached, the world over; cut to 40c.
Crown brand, equal to above and better line of
colors, detached cuffs, formerly sl, cut to 50c
Soft bosom Negligees, standard quality, lowest
ever sold before sl, cut to 50< .
GOOD FRDIT TREES.
There is nothing better under the
sun than for a man to 'enjoy the
fruits of his labor.
A change of diet is essential to
good health, and of all diets, fruits
are the most palatable and the most
healthy.
Fruits were the only diet provided
for Adam and Eve, and while part
was forbidden them, nothing is de
nied us, but we (nay feast our ap
petites year in and year out, if we
but judiciously select and buy trees,
etc., from a well-known and strictly
ieliabie Nursery—one whosn honesty
and fair dealing is thoroughly estab
lished in the South-Atlantic and
Gulf Slates.
The proof of the pudding is tast
ing it; in like manner, men who
bought nursery stock from the At
lanta Nurseries 15 or 20 years ago,
will tell you that they never patron
ized a nursery that gave them better
satisfaction.
The Atlanta Nurstries deals not
in second-hand stock ; but keeps, and
has in stock now, an immense stock
of fruit, ornamental and ever-green
trees, small fruits, flowering shrubs
ano roses, all of which have been
INSPECTED BY
The Entomologist Georgia State Experi
ment Station,
and have been found free from ALL
diseases and insect pests.
The salesman can not see all the
people in the county this season, but
he respectfully solicits the trade of
the people in Hall and its frontiers
make your wants known by mail,
and they will receive cheerful and
prompt attention.
Special discounts given on all
orders for 500 trees, or more than
that number.
P. B. SIMMONS,
GAINESVILLE. CA.
Salesman for the Atlanta Nurseries.
To the Citizens
—OF —
Hall County.
I have been engagaged in the real
estate business here for a number of
years, and have been of service to
many of you in selling your prop
erty. I have spent a great deal of
time and some money in advertising
our section and holding out induce
ments to people to invest their means
here and thus help themselves and
us. lam now better prepared than
I have ever been to aid you in
SELLING
your property, and to help those de
siring to come among us to get what
they want. I have connections with
the railroads throughout the North
and West that place me in direct
communication with those who are
looking this way for homes. I have
properties of all kinds in hand for
sale, but want more, so that I car
give every man just what beis looking
for. City property, farms, water
powers, mines, and large tracts for
colonies. Leave a description of
your property with me and I will
probably find a purchaser, as I now
have inquiries for all these properties.
I will sell several lots at prices
ranging from S6O to SIOO, one-third
cash balance one and two years at 8
per cent interest. These lots are
convenient to Cotton Mill, Shoe Fac
tory and Tannery. Hobbs’s Chapel
on adjoining lot. They are high and
dry and every one a good building;
site. Go out and select your lot,
then come in and close trade.
C. A. DOZIER,
Real Estate and Insurance, No. I,|
State Bank Building, opposite
Post-office.
“IF I GAZE IN WOODLAND STREAMS."
If I gaze in woodland streams,
Thy responsive glance I see.
If I seek the land of dreams,
Thou art there to welcome me.
If I search the farthest skies.
Thou art in their quiet deeps.
’Tis the flashing of thine eyes
When belated morning letups.
Everywhere I meet thee thus.
Dearest, it must ever be!
Life nor death can sever us—
In my soul I carry thee!
—Arthur L. Salmon in Chambers’ Journal.
A MADMAN’S SEARCH.
BV CHARLES B. LEWIS.
We were lying at Singapore in the
brig Albatross, waiting to take on a
few tons of freight for Liverpool,
when an American named James
Granger came aboard. He was a
man in the prime of life, tall, stout
and handsome, and he had a person
al magnetism beyond any man I
ever met. His business was with the
captain at first, and he had a singu
lar story to tell.
He was a New York shipowner,
he said, and had taken a trip to
China and Japan in one of his own
vessels—a brig called the Red King
—for the benefit of his health. She
had been cast away several months
before in the China sea, and all
hands lost save himself. He man
aged to reach a small island, and
after two weeks was taken off by a
native craft and transferred to an
English merchantman.
A part of the island was sterile and
rocky, and amid the rocks he one
day found a robber's cave. There
were, he contended, thousands of
yards of silk and other valuable fab
rics, boxes of pearls, chests of jew
elry and kegs of coin. He had count
ed out $200,000 in gold without
counting it all, and he roughly esti
mated his find to be worth $1,000,-
000.
He was sure that the stuff had
been hidden away for long years,
and he discovered that portions had
been taken from vessels which had
mysteriously disappeared in the
China sea years before. It was the
cave of a band of Chinese pirates,
and the entire band had been lost or
captured at sea. He had with him
two pearls, a diamond ring and sev
eral gold coins as proof of his state
ments.
What Granger wanted was to char
ter a ship-to fetch away the treas
ure, and he had boarded us because
he had heard that we were to dis
charge cargo at Singapore and re
load for Bombay. He talked with
our captain for two hours, and then
the chief mate was called into the
cabin.
The story was all gone over again,
and then I was called down. No
man could tell a more plausible
story, nor could any one have de
manded better proofs. The only
weak point was that he was no mar
iner and could not locate his island—
that is, we knew there was no such
island as he described within 200
miles of the spot where he insisted
it was.
Had our captain been free to char
ter I think ho would have taken
chances. Had the chief officer not
been impatient to get home and
marry and take command of a ship
I am sure he would have been ready
to sail a craft to the island. As nei
ther would go, Granger turned to
me. If our captain would release
me, I was free to go, and as I under
stood navigation he need have no
fear that I would hit the spot aimed
for.
Sailors hear a good many yarns
about buried treasure and pirates’
caves, and I was not ready to give an
answer offhand. I agreed to let
Granger have my decision next day
and he went away after swearing us
all to silence. Then the three of us
went over his story in detail to try
and satisfy ourselves. The result
was that the captain said:
“Well, it is the straightest story!
ever heard from a castaway, and if
you want to go with him Fll release
you. If you get the treasure, you
can quit the sea; if not, you will not
have lost so very much.”
Next day I gave Granger my de
cision and went ashore with him. I
found that he had plenty of money
and was in good standing with busi
ness men. He went to more pains
than I demanded to prove his iden
tity, and be insisted on a written
contract that I was to have a gener
ous share of the treasure. In the
course of a week I got hold of a
schooner which was for charter and
ten days later had fitted her out for
the voyage. I saw Mr. Granger two
or three times a day during this time
and grew to respect him very much.
He seemed to me to be a very thor
ough business man and was well
spoken of by all. It was given out
that our object was to search for
other survivors who might have es-
I caped, and as there happened to be
a surplus of seamen at Singapore
just then I had no trouble in secur
ing a crew of first class men—all
English speaking.
We cleared for a port in Japan
and got away with a fair wind, and
during the two weeks it took us to
work up to the locality of Granger’s
island all went well with us. He had
located the island as being about 50
miles to the east of the island of
Hainan.
My chart showed a clear sea for
300 miles in every direction, but in
those days uncharted islands were
being reported every month and it
was possible that the bit of land on
which he had spent a month had
been missed in the surveys. I was
not at all disappointed, however,
when we failed to find it.
W’e overhauled junk after junk to
be told that no such island had ever
been heard of, and-when at last I
sat down with Mr. Granger to learn
what we should do it struck me for
5J1.00 Per Annum in Advance.
the first time that there was some
thing queer about him. He did not
betray the disappointment one
would have expected, and I thought
he glanced at me in a furtive, cun
ning way. I asked him to go over
his story again, and to my astonish
ment he doubled on himself. He had
said in the first place that his brig
was bound to Japan when lost.
He now declared that she was
homeward bound. He got his days
and dates mixed up, and if I hadn’t
concluded that he was under the in
fluence of liquor I should have
thought him crazy As near as I
could figure out from the statements
he made the Red King was between
the capes of Siam and the Philippine
islands when caught in the typhoon
and driven to the eastward. The
Philippines are counted by the hun
dred, large and small, and it would
not have been at all strange had he
landed on one of the westernmost.
He agreed with me in my deduc
tions, and the schooner was put
about and ran to the south for three
days.
When we finally got among the
islands, the difficulty was in locat
ing the right one. Granger had been
swept ashore at night. He had land
ed on one side of the island and been
taken off on another, fie claimed to
remember certain landmarks, how
ever, and for ten days we threaded
our way among the islands, and he
took a long and close look at each
one. His queer demeanor passed
away soon after our talk, and I
found myself fully believing in him
again. No man could have heard
his story and doubted it. He went
into each minute particular, and you
felt certain he had passed through
all he claimed, and back of all were
the souvenirs he had brought away
with him. It might have been on
th© twelfth day of our search that
we came to his island, and the find
ing of it gave me a queer feeling.
There were no such landmarks as he
described, nor was the lay of the
ground according to his description.
It was a totally different island in
size and appearance, but he stoutly
insisted that it was the one he had
come in search of.
We carried deep water to within
half a mile of the beach, and then
the schooner’was anchored and we
pulled ashore in the yawl. This was
just after noon on a certain Wednes
day. There would be plenty of time
to overhaul the island and get the
more valuable stuff aboard before
dark. The schooner was snugged
down and three men left aboard,
and it was only when the boat was
ready to set us ashore that I told the
crew the nature of our errand.
We had come to carry away a
great treasure, instead of looking
for castaway sailors, and Mr. Gran
ger authorized me to say that each
man might look for a handsome
present in gold coin when the plun
der was safe aboard. This put ev
erybody in good spirits, and Gran
ger’s demeanor was such that I had
no doubt of beholding and handling
those boxes and kegs within an hour.
We landed on a sandy beach, and
Granger headed into the forest with
out hesitation. After walking for
half an hour he began to recognize
certain landmarks and said the
treasure was not far oft. Just at
that moment we entered a well beat
en path and saw two or three goats.
He had never said a word about
there being goats on the island, but
I did not give it more than a passing
wonder. He cried out that some
thing had worked into his shoe and
for us to keep right on till we reach
ed the rocks, and as he sat down and
began unlacing his shoe we went
ahead along the path.
We found no rock. We found oth
er paths and saw other goats, and by
and by we had crossed the little is
land and stood on the beach. Gran
ger had not yet joined us, and after
waiting 15 minutes I sent one of the
men back. He had not only gone to
the spot where we left the men sit
ting, but as far as the beach, and he
reported the yawl gone. All my sus
picions were now aroused, and the
crowd of us started into a run as we
headed back. We reached the beach
to find the yawl gone, but next mo
ment we sighted her alongside the
anchored schooner.
As we were about to hail the craft
we saw Granger and the two men
descend into the boat and shove oft
for the beach. His going aboard
alone was a matter to wonder over,
but I was thinking he might have a
plausible explanation when the boat
touched at a wooded point running
out below us and the two men got
out. We could plainly see and hear
that they were forced out at the
muzzle of a revolver. As *6OOO as
they were clear of the boat Granger
threw an oar over and began scull
ing her back to the schooner, and
all our shouts brought no response
from him. No man but a sailor
could have used that sculling oar as
he did, and one and all remarked it.
What sort of a trick was he play
ing us? Each man asked this ques
tion of another, but no one could
answer. When he had returned to
the schooner alone, his pretense was
that he had forgotten something,
but no sooner had he reached the
deck than he ordered the men into
the boat. As he was armed and look
ed dangerous, they did not think it
wise to resist.
Well, here we were, eight of us,
ashore on a small island and an in
sane man in possession of the an
chored schooner, and a council last
ing an hour did not bring any satis
faction. The man had firearms, and
we had only our knives.’ It would
have been no trick at all to swim off
to the schooner but for the sharks.
Look where you would, you could
see their dorsal fins cutting the wa
ter, and it would have been rank
folly to swim 30 feet from the beach.
After awhile we retired from the
NUMBER 26.
beach and took a tramp over ine is
land.
We found fresh water and fruits,
but no signs that the place had ever
been inhabited by man. The goats
numbered fully 200, and the original
pair had probably been landed by
some whaler or had floated ashore
from some wreck. As the weather
was warm we were not so badly off,
but of course we were anxious about
our position.
Granger was certainly insane. He
could not run away with the schoon
er, but he might sink her at her
moorings or set her on fire. He re
fused to show himself or answer our
hails, and when night came I was
inclined to believe that he might
have committed suicide.
We made our beds on the grass
that night ami slept soundly enough,
and when morning came and Gran
ger still refused to answer our hails
we began the work of building a
raft to float us to the schooner. This
work was carried on around the
point where he had landed the men,
and by noon we had knocked to
gether a structure which would float
at least four of us.
If this raft were dragged around
the point, the tide would set itdown
on the schooner, but we had to wait
until 10 o’clock at night to get both
darkness and tide in our favor.
Then I selected three men to accom
pany me and started off. If Granger
were on the watch, we were sure
to meet with a warm reception, but
crouching low on the raft we drift
ed down on the schooner’s broadside
and were not challenged. Five min
utes after getting aboard we found
him hanging by the neck in the
cabin, and the state of the body
proved he had been dead for hours.
• Who was Granger? I discovered
that he was not the New York ship
owner of that name. He had been
cast on an island, but the Red King
was not wrecked. He had proofs
with him in the shape of pearls and
coins, but where was the island? He
had paid a round price to charter
the vessel, but seemed to have no
other object in view than to trick
us. He had over $5,000 in cash
among his effects, and although it
was turned over to the authorities
at Cape Town they have never
found an heir to it. We believed he
had been a sea captain, but the lists
showed no such man for years past.
No man could say he was insane,
but why did he commit suicide? A
score of other questions might be
asked, but they would throw no
light on the mystery. I sailed the
schooner back to the cape and made
a report of the case, and though 20
years have passed away the real
identity of the man has not been es
tablished or his singular conduct ac
counted for. That he was an Ameri
can I am sure, and he seemed to
know all about New York, but not
one of the advertisements regarding
him in the American papers ever
brought a reply. He simply came
and went and left a mystery behind
him.
The Origin of Tallyho.
As quaint a mixture of words and
interjectional cries as I have met
with is in an old French cyclopedia
of 1763, which gives a minute de
scription of the hunter’s craft and
prescribes exactly what is to be
cried to the hounds under all possi
ble contingencies of the chase. If
the creatures understand grammar
and syntax, the language could not
be more accurately arranged for
their ears. Sometimes we have
what seem pure interjectional cries,
thus, to encourage the hounds to
work the huntsman is to call to
them, “Ha halle, halle, halle!”
while to bring them up before they
are uncoupled it is prescribed that
he shall call “Hau, haul” or “Hau,
tahautl” and when they are uncou
pled he is to change his cry to
“Haul la y la la y la tayau!” a call
which suggests the Norman original
of the English tallyho.—Primitive
Culture.
The Prince and the Gambler.
In Austria and Germany the army
laws against gaming were and still
are very strict. When the duchy of
Baden was occupied by Prussian
troops after their suppressing the
insurrection of 1849, the officers
quartered at Rastadt were warned
against playing at Baden Baden.
One summer evening King (then
Prince) Wilhelm strolled into the
gaming rooms and noticed an officer
in civilian's clothes sitting at play.
He had won twice on the red and
was about to pick up his money
when he caught sight of the ptince
watching him Terror stricken, he
sat quiet, not daring to reach out
for his winnings. The red turned
up a third and then a fourth time.
As the maximum was quickly reach
ed the prince touched the officer on
the shoulder and said gently, “Take
up your money and go, lest one of
your chiefs should find you here.”
Os course the soldier did not re
quire to be told twice; He got out
immediately. Two days later there
was a review at Rastadt, during
which Prince Wilhelm sighted the
culprit and sent for him “Lieuten
ant ,” be said, “after you went
away the red turned up four times
more I prevented you from win
ning four times the maximum,
which you would certainly have
staked. You will draw on me for
that amount. But take my advice—
do not gamble again. ” The memoirs
of an old German general w’ho lived
to see his last victory at Sedan have
stated as follows: “It was the kind
ness of the lesson that cured me of
gaming. For me it was better than
a year’s imprisonment.”
First Banker—What a breezy fel
low your clerk is!
Second Banker—Yes, but he s not
responsible for any of the drafts.—
Boston Courier.