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About The Hawkinsville dispatch. (Hawkinsville, Ga.) 1866-1889 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1874)
' • ; ~ .■ , T "T~ ' HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH. VOL. Mil. Onr Paper Ibr 1874. We arc nedviug many new sub sefftefa from all parts of the country while the old ones' encourage us by their prompt renewals. Letters are coming to us that clubs are being organised for 1874 and that the people everywhere are well pleased with the Dispatch. Our list of snbserils-ra has grown ho large that we are enabled to paper in itjSjutfHcnt large and iiandsome form andthci year ut tli« same <*kl priee or two dollars a year. We thank our friends everywhere for their lil>eral patronage, and assure them wo shall strive more than ever to merit its continuance. “Nothing snocecdsTike success.” Ihslec County Items. Podge county made this year nine hundred and thirty bales of cotton nnd forty-six thousand and seventy three bushels of corn. This is nearly nn average of forty-nine and a half busls'ls of com to the hale of cotton. The )>eople of Podge county own nine thousand head of sheep, nnd six thousand and three hundred head of cattle. Mr. James Bohannon, one of the largest planters in Dodge county, is Master of a Orange of Dodgers. Dodge county mised the wind this yeer oil eighteen thousand two him - dnil and seventy-four bushels of po taloes, two bushels of dried |m-hclios and twelve bushels of dried apples. Gcnl Foster, of Kastman, is pre wiring to move to Alabama, and will take with him quite a crowd of per sons. Grog Shops, The Grand Jury of Houston coun ty, during its session last month at Perry, adopted strong measures against grog shops, or “gra hall's” as they are sometimes called. In order to suppress them, the Jury recoin mended their representatives in the Legislature to secure the passage of :m act to raise the license in Houston ceqnty to two hundred dollars. Col. T. J. Smith, Master of the Oiorgia State Orange, happeiteil to a serious accident at his saw mill in Washington county, a few days ago. While walking about the mill he made a misstep and fell, with his left Imnd against the saw, while it was turning. The little finger of his left hand was cut oir, and his hand and other fingers considerably mangled. He was suffering considerably with it on Sunday, and it is probable that lie will not hare the use of his hand again. Sound jTnlk. Col. It W. Phillips of Kehols, writing to the Morning News, closes a very able Liter on the situation as follows: A planter in Thomas county this season lias gathered from four acres of pine land three hundred and twen ty bushels of corn, and from one acre of laud seventy bushels of oats. An other in Lowndes has picked and ginned for market eight bales of cat ton from seven acres of land, and there is now growing upon Mr. En glish'* farm, in Kehols county turnips with salad that will measure four feet across the top, and it is understood that as much cane can lie grown iqioii one acre of laud as will make from eight to ten barrels of sugar. Why these grand results? Is it not be cause our people are lieginning to learn to cultivate the soil, and will it not requires less nutnlicr of hands to do it, under such a system, which, if generally adopted, would save thous ands of dollars that arc now being thrown away in purchasing stock, sup plies and in employing idle, worth less. laborers that you cannot con trol ? Let you” broad Adds, thou my countrymen, be seeded with rye and oats for your stock, and turn your at- j tcution to raising fertilizers for the ' coming year; discharge your large flocks of laborers, who, like an army of cormorants, are eating up your substance, impoverishing your lauds, and bringing you aud your children to poverty There is one other item to which I invite your attention, and it is this : Raise your own bread and bacon and your stock at home. So loug as your corn-cribs and your meat-houses are kept west of the Cumberland, you cannot be an independent people. If you cultivate cotton principally as you have been doing heretofore, your condition will soon boas bad as that of Old Ireland. Whenever the pota to rot makes its apjtearance in that country, a famine usually follows. The potato is one of their principal articles of support; aud the same tiling will be truly said of us, for whenever cotton declines, men can not pay their debts. Neither have they any money to buy bread with, and a famine must necessarily fol low. Oil Tuesday, 16th ult., Dr. A. Mathis, of Sandersville, war married to Miss Nannie Gibson, only daught er of Dr. Thomas Gibson, of Twiggs county. On their return to Mauders vill# they were serenaded by the Brass Baud. — Two bushels of oom will pay for the Dispatch one year. Register In Bankruptcy. Colonel S. Wise Parker, of Paw son, (la., has teen appointed and qualified ns Register in Bankruptcy for the Second District of Georgia in cluding the foil -wing counties, .to wit: Baker, Chattahoochee, Clay, Cal houn, Dougherty, Dooly, Dodge, De catur, Early, Houston, Lee, Mitehell, Macou, Miller, Marion, Pulaski, Qnit tnan, Randolph, Sumter, Schley, Steward, Terrell, Worth, Wileox and W ebster. County Court for Houston. The late Grand Jury of Houston county recommended that owing to a large number of bills for small offen ses brought before that body, the nu merous cases brought before the Su perior Courts which would be within the jurisdiction of a County Court, ami the delay and exjionsi/ generally of administering justice under the present system, it was the sense of the Grand Jury that a County Court be organized as early as possible. They recommended to Governor Smith the namo of David M. Brown as a suitable person for Judge of the County Court. Negroes Leaving Houston County for Vrkiitisns. , The Fort Valley Mirror says large numbers of negroes are leaving that part of Houston county for the swamps of Arkansas. One man was preparing to ship one hundred before Christmas. Ben Cobb, a very influ ential negro with his race in the neighborhood of I’erry. has been tell ing the negroes that Arkansas is the place for them to get rich in a few years. The Mirror concludes thus: If they are bent on going let them go; it will lie a Hod send to tile |*oor er class of whites. Large farms will have to be divided into small ones, ami instead of wretchedly cultivating •me hundred acres, when real I v our farmers have laltor and manure to cultivate only twenty profitably. A sclnf. Tn congress. Alexander Stephens Taking the Oath. ♦ • * s -•> , A \\ ashiugton City cjnvspan lent draws the following interesting pie turem t e Unit-1 States Home of Representatives: “Chiefof them was Alexander 11. Stephens. General I*. M. B. Young : and General Waddell, of North Caro lint, supported the brilliant, intens,-. j magnificent tactician of other days to his feet, lie took their arms anddis paused with the significant crut dies that had been stacked in front of his desk. • lie s ood right at the begin ; ning of the middle aisle of the House.; By felicitously dramatic accident or happy design, all the rest of the many ex-L'onfodcrates ranged in a j semi-circle on either side of their for mer Vice-1 ’resident. Then the mod- ; iiied oath was taken by them with u(>- i lifted hands, and assented to with an j unanimous and quietly elegant bow. There were many magnificent looking j men in the company ; 1 doubt that i any one observed them ; the pale, suf [ sering, distinguished little man in the ! middle was the cynosure of all eyes.! He was dressed in exquisite black, as j if in mourning for his country. In | sitting, he had wore his hat to protect him from the draught. “In standing, he dispensed with it. and disclosed an abnormally large j head, pierced with intensely black j and deep eyes and covered with a 1 short, disordered growth of iron-grav hair. Wiien he responded to his j name the strong soul in him was man ifest, for his clear, sharp, penetrating voice, the echo of that soul, was heard distinctly all over the house. Toe ! etherial part of the man is as strong i as ever. The physical is a wreck. It' was a historical se me. He who for fifteen years before the war had been the leader jtar excellence of the House j returned to subscribe to the oath ad-; ministered by a Speaker who was never heard of when Stepiiens left C ♦tigress. or three years thereafter. In all the House were but two men who ka4 Imsui his Congressional con temporaries—‘Sunset’ C’ox, then of Ohio, and John IS. Clarke, then and now of Missouri, who had a three ! months of notoriety fifteen years ago by flinging John Sherman's endorse ment of Hinton Rowan Helper's’lm (lending Crisis’ at John Sherman's head, and thereby defeating him for! Speaker, though Henry Winter Da-j vis’ single vote elected William K. Pennington, a Jersey Republican, to that otHcc. Well could Stephens say he stood dyiug the solitary survivor , of many great dead. Gone was Thad. Stevens, the incar- ' nation of hate ; gone was J. R. Gid dings, the Abolitionist, whom Steph- • ens himself loved: gone was the courtly ex-Governor Briggs, of New York, and the uncouth Mike Walsh; gone was the fiery Keith, and gone the fearful and wonderful John Cos j vode; gone the eloquent Lovejoy and the mellow Mallory ; gone llerschcl | ! V. Johnson; gone Bocook, and Yu- I lee, aud Kdmoiiston, and Clingman and the impetujus Brooks, and Pot ter, and Rector, and l’hclps, and Rol lins, and Winter Davis, and a thous and once statesmen of either party, and there was the man on whom twenty years ago Death had appa rently set his seal, survivor of them ail, and representative of the greatest district of the Empire State of the South. Background this contrast with tin fearful four years of inter ' sectional throat-cutting, and the dra matic facts of the occasion stand out. i grim with graves aud lightest by in tense cerebral fire.’’ HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1 1874. Tho Slavo-Laitr for Chorgi* Fai’mers- The Grand Jury of Troup county I at its late session made the following allusion to the. Lien Law ol* this State: Before concluding this report, we cannot forbear alluding to a question that very nearly concerns the peace : and prosperity of our jieoplc. Wc refer to the “Lien I.aw.” Enacted I doubtless for teneficent pur|*oscs, it j has become an instrument of oppres sion add destruction; intended to en gender a mutuality of interests, it has 1 rostered if WIHSt form of j selfishness; devised to (Icrelopc a j spirit of mutual reliance, it has resul- I ted in the destruction of atl confi -1 dence. Set tip as a sure beacon to : guide us to wealth and affluence, it lias proved a "will-o-lhe-wisp,” that i is now leading us through the Digs | and fens of nn abject poverty. En grafted u]K>n our statue book as an 1 element of soundness, healthful in its appearance it has changed to a gan grenous excrescence, that stinks in the nostrils of our people and unless the “Kcal|H-l” of a prompt nnd decis ive legislation be quickly applied, tile whole laxly of our material wealth will be covered with its corrupting in fluence. The sons and soil of our | grand old commonwealth cry aloud for its instant repeal. “We are opposed to every sjamies of class legislation. A commonality of interests op| loses every law that, in its operation, exalts the few and degrades tiie many. The exigencies of the present demand tlie*repeal of any law and all laws that by their provision penult any special branch of trade to tower upward and over shadow every other branch and shade out and destroy as surely as the “deadly Upas.” We therefore earn estly recommend to our Representa tives in both branches of the Legisla turo, a careful study of tlie present “lien law” of this State and at the ap proaching session of the Legislature, labor earnestly for its repeal.” To which the Atlanta Herald re spanks: There is a general desire all over the State for the repeal of the obnox ious law. which has done more to crush, by degrees, but the more sure ly, the material progress of Georgia, than did the four years war through which we paste;*. Lured on to the tsUjal mistake of cultivating cotton almost exclusively, by fancied dreams of making fortunes by it. the planters are greatly crippled with debts hang ing over them iu the shape of liens upon their property fur which they received plantation supplies at ruin ously high prices, which produce uiei clinnts exacted from them, compelling them to cultivate cotton almost to the exclusion iff provision crops. This re-pii.ement was exacted n« the only terms upon which they could get supplies with which to fe«l their laborers am! stock. fii -gran 1 jury of Troup county have spoken the truth fro.n sad and deplorable experience. They have seen this “Upas tree,” year aler year, destroying the hopes of the peo ple an 1 paralyzing their energies un til they now speak out boldly for help fiom the Legislature, asking it to re peal the odious, damnable, oppression that clings upon the people like ail anaconda fastens its slimy coils upon its victim and crushes it to death, the agricultural energy of this Stale. It is not only a deadly l’pas, but it is the coil of the serpent that binds and crushes all subject ed to its require ments. The “Lien I,aw" is a grim monster that shadows with frowning ini|H‘riotis sway over the very vitals of Georgia’s material progress, and drags her people to (loverly and dis tress. carrying terror to every house hold more terrible in its results than war itself. Under its baleful influen ces no people can ever prosper—no people can be free ; but as long as it remains upon the statute books of the State there can be no general pros perity an 1 happiness to our people, but it will subject them to a slavery more exacting than the tenant sys tem of down-trodden Ireland. No man is a freeman who is a victim to the operations of this bad law. No man can be free iu the exercise of his judgment in the cultivation of his farm as long as he has a master hold ing over his he id a lien upon his property, requiring him to cultivate only such crops as lie chooses. Let the people—the toiling farmers —cry out aloud against this monster of hideous mien, until their represen tatives listen to their appeals, and blot the “Lien Law" from th * statute books of the State. Death of >1 rs. Grant’s Father. Col. Frederick Dent, father of Mrs. President Grant, died in Washington ! city on the 16th ult., at the age of eighty-eight years. The. old fellow resided for a long while at the White House, and was the guest of his daughter. Colonel Dent wa« a strong Democrat, and never abandon ed bis Democracy. His forcible de nunciations of the prevailing faction in its highest places has been one of the features of the Executive man sion. He ate his breakfast and smoked his cigar the morning before be died. Eli Perkins on the Cuban War Path. HE IS RECRUITING FOR TIIE SPANISH WAR IN INDIANA. lam here in Terre Haute. The room where I now write once resoun ded with the eloquence of Abraham Lincoln To-morrow a Chicago | drummer will occupy it to sell sheep eludings. It fa a shame—a national J shame—that a room once occupied iby Abraham Lincoln and myself should ever echo to the trafficking votcEof s commercial traveler. ATasl we live in evil times. Only yester« day 1 saw them using Mr. Lincoln's two-hundred-dol'ar monument, ovci in Sprin field, as a profane theatrical bill-board. They were posting the yellow hand-bills of a minstrel troupe on it. “Go, base i in'tat ion negro ! leave this sacred monument,” I said ; but he kept on pasting the bill as he re marked, ‘ If Mr. Lincoln was alive. Judge, iie would he the hist man to object to a poor negro minstrel past ing up a few handbills oil his monu ment-.” WAR. Yesterday, when I arrived in Terre Haute to staj over Sunday, i regis tered my name, “Col. Eli I’eikins.” My arrival caused great excitement. It was un lerstood that 1 was going to open a recruiting office tor the Ca ban war. All the old soldiers here who don't hold lucrative offices in the “Granges” are most enthusiasm: for war. A good many rebel sold er* have come over the river from Ken tucky to live iu Terre Haute. They are f r war. too. They all desire to be colonels or generals except one man, who said that his heart throbb ed so for the .Stars am! Stripes that he was willing to take a s'Jtk-rship I have telegraphed General Gruul that Terre Haute alone can supply one thousand officers, and all that the Government will have to do will lie to appoint a few pi ivales. Colonel Gapin says lie is ready to fly to arms. lie has probably flown before this. He says his heart boms tor the American eagle, ami lie can hardly keep from rushing on to New York, where he can be llrat to sav “good-bye to the brave Cuban pa triots.” Adjutant Sterne gays he fought nil through the late war, sometimes on on ■ side mid sometimes on the other, and, rather than see America kneel ing at the feet of* Up.iiwr tlt- #Stdd gladly welcome war—war to the knife—an l accept a paymastcrsiii:>. He is so enthusiastic for the cause that, in ease of no Vacancy in our ar my, he has tclegrap'i ■ l fir a place on the staff of a Spanish General. DRILL'NU FOB WAR. This afternoon wc all assembled in the Square to drill—nine hundred Union olllecis, two hundred Re 1 el otlLers. and several sutlers and quar terma-lcrs. We all agreed with Mr. Alex. Stephens that a foreign war would heal domestic troubles—ce ment '.s together. This is why I lend my influence to war. lam anx ious to heal up our national wounds —anxious to put my arms around my Southern brother nn ! sell him some more dry goods. As the palrio's came out they brought their old battle flags with them. Our officers brought out their battle banners which they had carried all through the late war. ~Vs they shook out the folds we saw inscribed on them, “Gettysburg,” “Lookout Mountain,” “ Antictam,” “Spoltsyl vania Court House,” aud “Vicks burg.” The rebels pulled out their flags and unwound the inscriptions, “Ball’s Bluff,’’ “Bull Run,” “Seven Oaks," and Red River.” When our fellows saw this they didn’t "cement”—they didn’t “heal” to any alarming extent. Th v «aid they didn’t enjoy looking at battles where they got licked, got wounded nnd captured, and cut up generally. Tiie rebels said they didn’t want to fight under any such inscriptions as “Antictam” and “Vicksburg,” ami one fellow saiil if we didn’t take the d—d Yankee rags away they’d charge us out of the square. This made our fellows forget all aiiout “cementing,” and “healing,” and. in stead, in ten minutes we had a li’lle one-horse rebellion on onr hand. As usual. I was first in battle—coming towards the hotel. And now. Mr. Editor, i don’t see how we are going to “cement” and “heal" much. I don't see how we are going to get the rebels to help ns much in the Spanish fight till wc get our flags changed—till we ear-y out Mr. Sumner’s ideas. At least. I’ve postponed my recruiting office in Terre Haute till we get a sortol gen eral flag to fight under. What do you think of it ? May heaven bless your newspaper and preserve it, from yours, truly, Ki.i I’f.bktss. ’Possum Hunting. Mr. Medlock. of the Sandersville Georgian, publishes the following sin gular incident connected with a re cent ’possum hunt in Washington county: • A few nights ago several young I men went out ’jiossuni hunting. Their dog went to an old well on an old plantation, and liegan to bark. The young men cut a i>ole and put it ! in the well, and one of the boys went down and found an opossum. There was no water in the well, and he was nearly perished. There is nt> telling how he came there or how long he had l»een there, but he was very poor, and would eat roots or almost any thing when presented to him. A ne gro has him now fattening for Christ mas. “New corn meal and jsissmu fat,* Many poor nigger died for that.” The Golden Cross. K BY MARY REED CROWELL. ms “You can hardly consider it a gift, Maggie, because I shall split it iu two nad keep half for myself. George Wayland looked straight into Maggie Carroll's brown eyes as he spoke, and saw the sudden glow of love in them as they met for a second las anient gaze, and then hid under tSeir Muo-veined, silken-fringed lids. t 1? shall prize it highly, 'George. ’wtTthe more m>m the fact that voir wear one-half while I wear the other.” “But will you wear it always under all circumstances ?” “Always, under all circumstances,” she merrily. He neatly severed the narrow, tliiu cross, and fastened one section to his watch-chain, and the other to the piece of narrow black velvet Maggie hail bought, and that he tied for iier around her white throat. “1 like it better than a ling. George,’ she said, shyly; “tecause every one knows who is engaged by just looking at their left han I." “As if 1 wouldn't like every soul in the town to know 1 had won you, my shy, brown-eyed darling ! I am too proud and too happy ....” Maggie interrupted him, playfully. “Despite the visible jealousy of a certain young lady, who considers me ahold rival ?” “Despite even Cora Adrain’s fool ish Jealousy; while 1 feel several inch es taller thin poor Nod Morrison, whom 1 did cut out mimcrciftillv, didn’t 1 r A little shadow pa-.sed over Mag gie’s face, ami instinctively she clung closer to her lover’s arm. “Oh. George, I am actually afraid of Ned lately ! Only last night he said I’d be sorry yet that I refused him. He’s so morose and sullen since—since ” She blushed a little, and George magnanimously hdped tier through. “Since I asked and was not refused by those sweet lips! Never mind Nid, Maggie. Naturally lie feels jealous. 1 would, myself, under re versed circumstances. But all this lias nothing to do with our promise to wear the little gold cross while we are separated fjr these three mouths that are so close at hand. But, Mag gio. my little girl, if ever tin- time . honld come—mind. I have no idea it 4. til Imt W ii should Tome, that von want to be released from me, nil you’ve to and >is to send your half of the cross to me. It will lie the mute token of my misery.” But Maggie suoled up ill hi.-, fae cheerfully. “If all the misery you cvctantici pate comes by m \i»s of tiiis little messenger,” and s| R . laid her band lightly oil the glittering trinket, “rest assured you'll have little of it. But, Sir Knight, suppose you weary of im Colors ? What then ?” He foldtal her tightly in his arms, and kissed her. “As if I could ever change!” So the two, in the blisslV.l. painful parting that seemed ages to them, re newed their vows. The old, old sto l*y, yet ever new. The cheerful rays of the astral lamp on the round crimson covered table, beamed over Maggie Carroll's white lingers and flashed like a spark of liquid silver on her tiny thimble and polished needle as her hands flew gracefully over her work. She had cleared away the tea dish es, and her parents had gone to a friend’s. Little Bessie lay sleeping on the lounge, with the light shaded from her eyes, and Maggie, with a garment she was making for one of her bridal outfits, bail settled happily, cosily down to her. evening's work, thinking, with every stitch she set, of George Wayland, by this time away out in Omaha, where he would make ,a good many hundred dollars in (Hit ting the machinery in anew mill— money that would start them so nice ly house-keeping. Maggie's pleasant reverie was dis sipated by an impatient rap on the sitting-room door, followed, before she could unfasten her work from her knee, and go to the door aud open it. by Ned Morrison. “Don’t get up. Maggie; Lean find a lmir for myself. I've been here often enough to make myself at home, haven't 1? for all I don't a|» pear to Ik* particularly wanted." Maggie's cheeks flamed at the in sinuated want of hospitality, but she very pleasantly arose and placed a chair near the fire. “0 no, Ned; you only imagine we don’t want to sec you. Sit down. Ain’t you cold ? Mother and father are gone ” “I don’t care where they are gone. 1 came to see you, anil none but you.” He drew bis chair away from the fire and near the table where Maggie sat. ‘AYell, Ned, here lam for yon to see.’’ She was determined n >t to allow her annoyance to escape her, so she assumed from the first a friendly, cheery tone. And it mollified Ned. ns she intended it should. “I was a little rough on the old folks, Maggie ; but the truth is since —since—you and that Wayland fel | low have been such friends 1 sec pre cious little of you, any way." -Maggie could have bitten her tongue to have prevented the blush she felt surging over her face. “I would natural y see mory of my betrothed husband limn merely n friend. Ned, please hand ine the scissors." She did not lift her eyes, but snip ped her thread silently, and went on ! sewing, while Ned 'oyed with the ,>cissors moodily. Finally, almost 1 abruptly, he spoke: “I’ll get out and leave yon in peace. ! Maggie, if you’ll give me one of your curls to remember you by.” Maggie smiled indulgently, secret ly, so lhankfai at such a cheap re lease. “You may have any curl you want, Ned, and welcome. Only, you must t or take it as a pledge of banishment, Ned.” And now Maggie laid down her sew. iigand looked into his moody ( half-scorn lot face. “I wish, for your •sko, it had been as you so desire. But as it is sot, as I am so content, let it all be forgotterr. Which curl will you She leaned her heat! toward him cixpictCsbiv; aud be, a k minify, tremblingly, ctlt one off close to her neck, so close, the cold steel made her start. The moment he had severed it lie threw down the scissors thrust the curl in his pocket in a wad and arose from his chair. “I saiil I’d go. Good-bye, Mng gio ” Almost before Maggie could recov er from her surprise at his wild, ab rupt way, lie was oil - , h s foo:steps ringing lon l on the frozen ground. llis eyes were brighter than usual, and Ids face fairly worked with exul tation as In- drew the tangled black curl from his pocket, aud with it a lund of black velvet, to which a tiny, plain, gold cross was attached “Little did u»y lady know I cut the velvet with the curl, and only teggeu 11 io hair that 1 might secure the cross. Little did the lovers— curse ’em—know 1 overheard their sugar-candy romance about the token •*f the cross ; but if George Wayland don’t get this back before I’m a week older, it’ll be strung?. Trust either of’em for an explanation; they’re too pi igned proud." And Maggie went on with her sew ing for another hour in blissful un consciousness of the loss of her treas ure. Afterward, she and Bessie had a game of romps before lies ie went finally to lied; and still later—at half past nine—she and brother Bon went down to the last mail to see if there was a letter from George. Ii was not until she had retired to her own room, and stoo-1 before her dressing bureau to arrange her hair for the night-, that she missed it at the vcr . tir-t glance in the glass. It was down stairs, of conisc, on the floor, where it had fallen when she and I Jessie had their game ol fun ; or, 0 ! suppose she hail lost it on the street on the way to the post olliee* It was very probable, very ; aud when site bad crept softly down stairs, lamp in h Mid, and tlioionglily searched the sitting room in vain, she kii 'W it was really lost on the streets. Wh it would George say to her carelessness ? how could the vel vet have come untied? and with a little lit of i ryitig over her loss. Mag gie went to bed ai.d dreamed of wad ing ankle-deep through gold crosses. Georg.- Wayland, on bis way home IV a a liar-l day's work stopped at tlie post-uUkv. in the far <>ti' Western •'.ty for the bong delayed letter from .Maggie Carroll. It likd been a fort night now. since he bad received tin last, and a worried sort of feeling took possesMoti of him at the delay. Was Maggie ill ? away from home. —or—George baled himself for the ugly thought that more than once flitted unbidden across bis mind— was it possible that since bis short absence, and Ned Morrison’s heirship to a long disputed estate, that Mag gie could have changed her mind ? Yes. it was barely possible, and tiijl was all. George decided ; and when the mail at last opened, and the rush at the boxes was lessened somewhat, and George actually saw there was one for him. lie felt it was very im (to-sible. But lie shook with surprise and -tick fear to -ee Ned Morrison's hand writing. What was the n.w, in the sealed envelope? lie tore it rudely open, and. wrapped in a tissue paper, dropped in his trembling hands, Maggie s gold cross! Not a word, only this mute sign, the very token he had suggested! How contemptuous the blank sheet of paper seemed to him. and how tit le* r:iI»1 v mocking did his name,in Ned Morrison's handwriting, appear. .So, not only possible or probable that -Maggie could throw him over, but actnallv. unduniably the fact that she hid done so. And he, away out West, with but one friend, hits com panion in labor, Maggie’s cousin Jim, and stinting to save money for Mag gie. and working day and night for Maggie's sake. (), was it any wonder lie gnashed his teeth in a rage of grief? lie crushed his letter into his pocket an l pushed his cap down on his eyes, and strode on, dumb from the blow, never seeing, never hearing of Jim Carroll, who hail got a letter from home, and having read it, was waiting to deliver messages to (Jeovg 1 . “What can ail the man?” thought Jim. «onderingly, and he started af ter. and stepped on some little hard object as he put his foot down, lie stooped and [licked r.p the little gol den cross. “George's lost h olf his watch chain, 1 suppose." lie put it in his p icket and went on, intending to overtake W ayland and give him his lost trinket. But, by dint ot fast walking, maybe, George was out of sight, and Jim did not sec him that night. And on the morrow one of tin; hands gave him a penciled note from Way land : ‘•l’ve a little bushiest to attend to further down for a week or so. Keep things going ou. Back soon as I can. U- W.” Then, when Jim started off on bis ,[ a v's work, it suddenly occurred to him that, as Geoige would be away probably more tliau a week, he would send his cross home to Maggie for sale keeping. He knocked around so among the machinery that it might get broken or lost, and, lie NO. I knew Geoige prized it highly. So. and the fates ordered it that lie had no time to write a line tefore he went ou he thrust it into an envelope ly ing on Geoigo’s desk, already direc ted to Maggie, and sent it on its ill omened message, all unconscious of the mischief he was brewing. Tho long winter had passed away, some how or other that -Maggie Car roll hardly knew how. It was enough for her that she had been very wretched and unutterably miserable since a day, mouths past, when with out a word, or sign of warning, she had received from Georg*dy*Ybswd the cross lie swore always to wear for her sake. Ned Morrison too had seemed so delighted when he learned—how much pitiful facts do leak out—that it was all over with Maggie nnd George, and full of pomposity and self-importance over his inheritan.-e, had tormented Maggie half crazy to accept him. An l now, when even his dull head had been ma le to know it was im possible, an l lie had transferred hi* attentions and atftetions to Auir Harrow . In- was t<> lie married and George Wayland and Jim Carroll were coining home on the same night. Now it was sundown, and in an hour they would meet, for George was obliged to see Maggie’s father on business at the earliest moment. And >o she dressed herself iu the self-same ■nil she had worn that night George bud tied the velvet around her neck, a dark, claret silk dress, and in a painful of that dear past, fastened the cross in its old place. George Wav land should see she had kept her word, if he had ifot. She would let him know that though carelessness lost her hers, still she would wear the one he returned, liecause she wotial he true to him no matter how false lie was to her. And so. when her lather called her down from her room, she went w ith slow, listless footsteps, and wildly throbbing heart that wobld not te still to meet the man she loved so dearly, the man who had c >ated to regard her almost a . soon as he was out of her presence. She heard his voice, so round and full, and so sweet t > her hungry cars, before she reached the door that stood ajar. “Ned Morrisson to te married to-night to little Amy Har row ! \\ liy, 1 thought ” aud that very moment Maggie walked quietly in, her face pale as death, her blue e ves burning like stars. “George. I am gli I t > *.>•> you. How do you do ?” She extended her hand, and looked him frankly, freely in the eyes. Why should she not? Mm had no qualms of conscience as lie must have, and yet. how sti ii'e it was that he was markedly agitated. Maggie had naturally Biip|»u*cd lie would have been perfectly careless, utterly differ ent. and here, he was trembling like a man with an ague. Had he been conseicne - mitten at | sight of her loyalty Haunted -so openly iu the very lace of Ids treachery '! “Yea,” Maggie was deciding, “it was the cross that make..” and then George' , voice, this time low, intense, addressed her. “Maggie, can you explain away this sickening mystery ? I find, to my utter demoralization, that Ned is to he married and not to you. And yet the cross came to me in his hand writing.” All over Maggie’s face flamed the red surges. Her lost treasure found by Ned Moriison. and sent, oh, so maliciously! to George Wayland. And then a giddy, blinding rush of happiness almost choked her. *• Oh. George, I lost it somewhere I never knew how. Did you think, really, I could have teen »u ” Her tears, welling thick and fast, choked her. “But this cross, Maggie, that you have on ?" “It came in a blank letter one day. two or three weeks after 1 got mine, and I supposed you wanted to get rid of me. You know what you said.” Wayland looked utterly thunder- j stricken. I have mine r.t thi* moment. I have teen true as steel. Sec !” lie threw back his overcoat; there , was the tiny cross attached t;* his w atch-cbain. Oh, George /” 1 Maggie, my own darling!” It was utterly incomprehensible to them, but they loved each o 1 her, aud what did they care ? That evening, when all the family, with the two guests, were sitting around the fire, Jim Carroll asked Maggie if she ever received the little cross ha sent her, and then it was as plain as sunshine, although none of them ever knew of Ned Morrison’s theft, nor ii. tneir new blissful hnppi uess did they care. If ■iii'i-ItciiiltiiK Accident in Washington (fount;. A sad accident occurred in Wash ington county on last Thursday about six miles from Sandersville. Mr. J. E. Whiddon was hauling corn from his field, and allowed bis little boy aged about two rears and nine months, to go witii him to the field ill the wagon. A negro was driving, and was up on a basket which was placet! on top of a load of corn. The driver was holding the little boy. while its father was walking in the rear of the wagon. In passing out of a gate of tin; field, the wagon went down a slanting place, and the driver in pushing with his feet against the front end gate of the wagon, to steady himself, caused the end-gate of the wagon to bulge oil’, and the driver, with the child, fell over amongst the heels of the mules. The mules became frightened and ran, and two wheels of the wagon passed over the body of the child, killing it almost instantly. The father ran to it, and [licked his precious little boy from the ground, but iu a luomaut its little soul left the body.—Saihlern vilte Herald , Dec. 19(A. * A Strange Mtdrtf A Jody who was some time ago left a widow with a small fa lily of chib ilren, after much tribulation succeed ed in bringing tip to manhood one son, who proved himself aide and will ing to be a support no', only to her, bnt to his younger brothers and sis ters. About a year after becoming of age he was offered :l lucrative |*osi tion iu the West, mid emigi.lod thith er, aud settling there permanently, soon married. New tics, i. merer, did not absorb old affection, and as he prospered iu his business lie sen! regularly to his mother the means necessary for her siqqiort and that of her family. The years passed on and brought many changes, but still regularly us the quarter came, so al so di<l the ample remittance of this model sou and brother. When the tide of emigration turned to the far (Vest, this son was carried with it to Omaha, where he invested his enrn :ngs in town lots, which speedily rose in value and made him a man of wealth. At least this was the *!nteb digerjeo sent to lbs mother. Lately while*'visithpl* Auburn, his- parent was invited to make the tour of the Mate Prison, nnd while pissing tlirough the ward she accidentally encountered one whose presence caused her cheek to pale and her heart to temporarily stop its beating. 11 was her son, her good and well beloved boy who had fer years tefn her pride an l support; for a moment she was speechless, but at length nursling into a torrent of tears in which the pr soner joined, said? “Oh, my son, in\ son! How came you here?” His history being tol l do vcloped the fact that lie nad. by trad ing with si range, s, come in posies mou of large quantities of counter feit money, anil that in ignorance of its character, he being ou u visit to New York, had attempted to pass if. had teen arrested as chief of a gang <»f counterfeiters, and having been id. ntificb as having endeavored tef circulate it. was. in spite of nil evi dence of previous goo 1 cniu-t fried con vie te l and sentenced to serve out a term in the St te Prison. His wife with whom lie was in con stant correspondence, had aided him in keeping his incarceration a secret from his mother, and ii 1 1 regularly remitted the quarterly allowance, together with letters from the priest In him. But for the uafort imato visit the mother would have remained for ever unaware that her son was serv ing out a penal sentence f>r a eriuio never committed by him. She learn ed. however, that by the rise of land lots he hud purchase!, lie wag a wealthy man, ami when he should come out of pri on, he. through the skillful stewardship of ins wife, would find awaiting him the sum of not less than JioO.UOO in U. S. bonds. Such are the vicissitudes of Ii e. Floyd A (Joule, Attorneys at Law, Montezuma, Ga., hive dissolved uo part nership. The saw mill. o:t th • B.iimwiek and Albmy Roilrovl hive resinned business, an 1 have orders for all the lumber thev can furnish. The enterprising treasurer of the IVashiugton county fair c unpiny is calling upon the shareholders to pony up the cash, accepted drafts oi approved notes. Tile Atlanta < 'on-iitutilia leans from an authentic source that the Atlantic and Richmond Ai -Line Railroad lias licen sold to the Penn sylvania Central Railroad. uKo w. juiiu.i.N. .iox.vrn.tN iuvkkj* JORDAN & RIVERS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, in u kixsvillk, ga., Will |ifw?tic«* in ilie coun irs* of ilic o»*»ncc Circuit, T\\L r .> xml Wilkinson, .llhl JUiytVlM're in lilt? I y vjwcmi run < >i!i< ;• up L*i. > in Hit* ol 1 i ’ourt llgiim*. J. H. WOODWARD, A T TOP NK t T LAW, VIENNA. - GA. Will coiuimii- the practice « Law as heretofore. \lt 1. i ness entrusted to his care wiil rect i..- pioniiit atti'llii./11. OFFICE —Vienna, Ga. nor 13 if I. L. TOOLE, Attorney at Law, VIENNA. GA. novt.'J if O. C. HORNE, ttoritov & (Antnsellor ul Law. IIAWKINSVII.LE. G.Y OFFICE—At it- L Stapler’s Store, neai tie- Hirer. jwnel ts W ISA BROWN. /At corney - at - Law, VIENNA, GA. Wn.i. prsieliee in the Su|x-riiir Court* of * lie U.-onc,. Circuit, anil elsewhere in the Slate by sjreei il contract. (olleclious and oilier business prom pH j attended to. :‘-13-l>\ CHARLES C KI3EEE. Attorney and Counsellor »l Tor*.- m h .v; ymv a*. ! Will prieij.-e in Mie Circili' and t»t-:••••« I Coat' - oi llr- United Suite-, tor lire So'.*’ ' i m !)i.*irirt «*f i.teorg n.uiul in ilie Sii|k*ii(W ICo i*t> «>t * *«><>! v, Viil iNki. !.*«»- i r j*. \\ ii* *iv . I < lf»»n hw\u .ul i Coimii' s. .min .’ll-1* JOHN II MARI IN. Attorney at T.^w AM) REAL ESTATE AGENT. ii.uvi.irfwrn.i.K, «#. i Will pr.x-iif!* hi lire Counties of Piii»»'.-| j ijouston, Dooly, Wilcox, Irwin. Teltnir Dodge. atul Laureus. i»'.\22 L. C. RYAN, attohnky at law, hawkinsv K.LE, GA. UT ILL prweiicc in Hie conn tie* of l*s laski, lion- ton, Dooly, Wilcox, Tel | lair, Laurens and Dodge, ami try spi-ciai contract, in any t - art in the Siniv OFFICE- Next (10,-r to Mo'alt-v A .Tom* er"s stole.
