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7, containing epigram
, / v ,e»»iouH from Col Rob
c*
latest lecture'
just we do to be saved
(e read the tract and the
lec'uiv If this is truly In
-1 “creed, the Colonel is not
lof the’way. Re is coming
I maybe. He manages to
osidertible scripture inio his
>8 lie tets it forth. There
of bore, there is a greit
I certainty for the Colonel.
N°>a a few articles of this
creed, just to show fiom
tool lie got his declarudon
test industry is as goed as
dieness, says the Colonel.
L that s all right. That's or
r le B.ble says die same
N Mid it long before 'lie
1 thought of it.—“Fa”.h
P‘sieved the temple 0|
r 1 e the heart of iuau.—lu.
’s ordiodox 100. We
porship him i n the spirit.’’
|' e no * that ycare the tern
| ! " Holy Ghost,"
M t > Leuven I want to
pitason with me— lngoi
P Urs <?; and so yon will, “f«r
I«• through a glass dark
I there face to face: now I
pin but then I shall kl\ JW
renown 1 Corrin-
I>B a dagger with which liy
I Busina'os the soul’’—ln
r* f= w «l g ispel, and “per
iOsteth out fear. ’
P® Smith ten dollars, and
p‘Hs me. that doesn't pay
• 1111 ; the prayer of
** “Forgiven our
[*« for give our debtors,’’
l mun anything.
I' ' 3 l 0 hght of the souh
f la ' eu t the right to fol
|7 hav *yo# u right to
r lll gersoll,
I ( ‘hurc|i I hud rather
f* words with my uuder
hi my voice f might
W: lßhlK '’‘ titan ten thou
| ' e ‘-ot children iu under
l i u \ )t)
17; ’ uliu understanding
f lCo '-. 14,19, ao
“If you go to hell, it will be for
not practicing ilie virtues which
the sermon on the Mount pro
claims’—lngersoll.
That’s all ortbordox. "If ye
know these things, happy are ye if
ye do them.”
“The men who saw the miracle
all died long ago. I wasn’t ac
quainted w ith any of them.’—lnger
soil.
Same way with the men who
saw Servetus burned. But the
Colonel most firmly believes Serve
tus was burned.
“A little miracle now, right here
—just a little one—wou'd do
more toward the advancement of
Christianity than all the preaching
of the last thirty years,”—lnger
poll.
“If they hear not Moses and
the prophets, neither will they be
persuade 1 though ene rose from
the dead.”—Luke 17, 31.
“If there is a God into universe
he will not damn an honest man—
Ingersoll.
“A false balance is an abomina
tion unto the Lord ; but a just
weight is His delight.”—Proverbs
G, 1.
“There is only one true worship
and that is the practice of justice.’
—lngersoll.
“Render therefore unto Ctesar
the things which are CYesar’s, and
unto God the things which bo
God's.—-Luke 20, 25.
God will not damn a good citi
zen, a good father ora good friend
—lngersoll.
‘‘A. good man shovveth favour,
and leaded] . he will guide his af
fairs with dscretion. Surely, he
hall not be moved forever ; the
lighte iuh shall be henl in ever’ast
ing remembrance.’’—Psalms 22, 5
li.
’ ** ■* »JV»( ,
in preference to tho religion ui
soul. A nealthy body will give a
healthy mind, and a healthy mind
will destroy superstition.”—lnger
soll.
That explains why the Indians
have no superstitions
“People who have the smallest
souls make the most fuss about
saving lhem.”—-lugersoll.
Of course, Colonel, they are the
hardest kind to save.
“I ?il! never ask God to treat
me any fairer than I tna' my fel
low meu.”—lngersoll.
Well, that’s perfectly orthodox.
“For if ye forgive men their tres
passes, your heavenly Father wilj
so forgive you ; but if ye forgive
not men their trespasses, neither
will your Father forgive your Ire 3
pas.-e.s." For with what judge
ment ye judge, ye shall be judged
and with that measure ye meet, it
sliull be measured to you
“Upon the shadowy shore <Y
death, the sea of trouble casts no
no wave.”—lngersoll.
The Colonel inns Lave been
singing that g»od old by mm
“Wheu I can read my title clear,’
in which occur the lines:
“And not a wave us troob o roll.
A ross my peaceful breast.”
Tli«‘ l aiini Jacket ul tiraj
The New York Commercial Ad
vertiser. a Itepubiisau sheet, says
that “Jtfferson Davis and liis
cause areas dead as Julius Cicsar,
and the Sun hern people are show
iug so unmistakably that they'
know this that the bourbon Sena
tors are quaking in their shoes.”—
Tt e malicious lie is altogether
worthy of the malignant pen which
wrote it and the base mind which
conceived it. TheAimighiy doubt
less would have withered the
trembling hand wmch guidei the
pen and paralyzed bis foul heatt
had he no' deemed it wise to let
him live ills author of such a mas
terpiece of mendaei y until a small
and sclec pit, deeper ai.d hotter
than any yet dug by the devil for
lying republicans, can be prepar
ed for his reception !
“Jefferson Davis and his cause
live in the m -liiory of a hundred
hard-won fields, iu tlie hearts of a
proud and valiant and uneouqtier
ed, but overpe wered people, in the
heroism of the dead who sleep in
thousands o f most honorable
graves from the plains of Manasas
to the pi arias of Texas, and in the
glory of a grand principal immor
tal as the White Wmgrd seraphs
which circle the great white
Lawreneeville Georgia, Tuesday February 19, 1884
throne !
The neign of the iron horse and
the song of the spindle mingle
merily and the new South sweeps,
as upou eagle’s wings, to a great
and glorious future; while the old
South in her weeds, and with bow
eil bead bends lovingly over the
sacred ruins of a brave but bitter
pest. But the South is still the
South, and the grief of the old ,
shall never he forgotten in the
grandeur of the new, for between
the two there h«ngsa sweet memo
lial which binds our hearts to the
past, even while our hands are
building the future. The faded
jacket of gray!—the violet’s breath
is not sw eter than he memories
by which it, is hallowed, nor the
shimmering stars more beautiful
| than the glory amid whicl it i g
j folded! A thing inanimate, it yet
speaks with eloquent tongue.—
Every buttou has its memory,both
dark and bright, Every seam im
age some deed of patrietio daring.
I Its solid front tells of the dust of
buttle and its ragged edges speak
jof scaired veterans. Its very si
j lence is pathetic with the story of
the honored dead, and its every
feature thrills the heart to tears
for the cause which was lost. The
faded jacket of gray it not confirr
ed to any one household in this
j sunny land. It hangs alike in the
hut on the hillside'aod the man
shut in the city. In many, alas !
how many instances is >t hung up
on the vacant chair, never more to
giace the form which long ago fill
ed a Southern soldier's grave. In
this land of 'lie South the faded
jacket of gray is a common herit
age freighted with a common woe.
Wherever the orphan’s cry is heard
and the widow's prayer is breath
ed, there you will find it. Where
fjm the family^,ciyc^
Laud of war, we turn our eyes to
this and behold through our tears
thiß faded jacket of gray.
It tells a solemn but grand sto
ry, this faded jacket of gray. 1/
tells of thousands of bright swords
which sprang from their scabbards
at the call of duty. It tells of the
liery charge—the stubber.. fight
lie bleeding hero—the dead pa
triot—'be adroit retreat,—the can
nou s sullen roar and the field with
corpes strewn. It tells of those
God-like men who sacrificed life,
liberty, property, for what they
conceived to be right. Look at
it. and the majestic form of Jack
son rises to view. Look at it, and
the calm, noble face cf Lee, peers
kindly upon yon from amongst the
buttons and lie braid. Mother,
look at it and the pale fa eof your
son eonicS back from a soldiers
grave! Son, gaze upon it, and
the honored form of your dead
father se<*ms to rise from the fresh
earth. Wife, look upon it, and
tho fond husband who exchanged
it for a shroud is o'ce mote be
fore you. Sis;er look at it, and
iiuce again you see the gentle face
of your lung lost, brother. Be
they living or dead, we honor the
men who wore the faded jacxet of
gray. Palsied be the hand that
would strike one star from the
crown of their fame, which will
brig! teu to the fcfid of time.
••Nor braver bled for a brighter land'
N or hi ifelitei land had a cause sogrand*
Nor cause a chief like l.ee.”
Smith Glaytom.
Mettcru Courtship
“And you really love me V lie
asked, as he coiled his arm around
her wasp-like sys ein. “And you
will always love me so ?”
“Always, Frederick; always so.
"And you pledge me to so beau
tify my life that it will always be
as happy as now ?"
“With uiy last breath, Freder
ick-”
-And darling you will mend my
•)
fcOC* —
“Your what sir T
•Aon will mend uiy social ways
and draw me upward and onward
to a better exstance T
“It will be the pride of my love
so to do, my Frederick; J will sac
tifice all for your complete happi
ness."
"I know that, sweetness: lint
suppose that in the fullness of
lime some accident should happen
to my tron—”
"You forget yourself, sir. To
DEVOTED TO NEWS, UTEHATUKE AND IXH'AF AFFAIRS
your what ?’’
“To the trousseau; would it de
fer the hour that makes you mine?'
“Nevei. Frederick: I wti yours
mild and heart and naught can
separate us.”
"But what I want to say is, tba l
should my puut—”
“Begone, sir. What do you
mean f”
“Hear me, my life, I say if my
panting bosom should grow could
in death, would your love still
warm ii T”
“As the sun melts the iceburg’
Frederick, so would the rays of
my affection thrill your heart again
"rind you will care for me ever,
my sould and 1 for you, for :ho’
I may never iiave a shir—”
“Enough! Leay me forever.'
“Bui listeu. Though I may
never have a shirking disposition,
I shall sometimes, perhaps, in the
struggle of life, forget the plain
duty—”
“And 111 remind you of it, Fred
erick, in tender actions, and make
the duties of existance so pleasant
of performance that to avoid them
wilt be pain.”
dud so that’s mode' ll courtship
Lots of alls'raet swash, but mani
fust disinclinations to contemplate
such conveniences as buttons,
socks, tionsets and shirts.
W e make the foilwing extrac
from a eonespondents letter to
the Macon 7'elegrapn, giving a
■report of the v omarks by Bishop
Pierce, on the evening of liis wed
ding on tho 4th. ;nst:
Tite Bi*.iop responded in a
most felicitous speech of about half
a’t Lour, the most inteiesting and
eloquent I ever listened to. It
was a brief review of bis labors
for the pas fifty years, snd a tri
umpbaut vindication of his choice
fftci*'*VeVss' sent to Savannah a
young man, anil required, on ac_
count ol some difficulty between
some uember ts the church, to
keep bachelor e hall in the parson,
age rather than board with eithei
of the contending factions. He tried
this for ona year and. determined
to get sotae one to keep house
for him. TI« found his present
wife who like himself, poor in ttiis
world’s goods For he had deter
mined never to marry any woman
who had more than he had. He
did not intoud to have it thrown
in his teeth in after years by any
woman ibat she hail supported
him. or by her mony lifted him
up. He courted her and ihey
married at the end of the year.
He had eleven dollars and she
had five dollars, and with this they
started life iu Charleston, IS. 0
tie had foil id a good and safj
counsellor and friend in ill ihe
past years. They s urttd poor
and had held their own
fully. Tot they had never v\an
ted. T.iey Lai raised and educa
ted tlioir children all of whom
were present. Unpaid beautiful
tribute to his children for their
kindness and urvotiou to their
parents. He wound up the tvhole
by atlojffiug the old custom, aid
saluted his bride with a kiss. After
this followeduhe salutations of the
large concourse present. W e were
then invited to the table, where a
most elegant spread had been pre
pared byLovick Pierce theßishop’s
only son. I need not say that it
was eujoyed. We then returned
to the parlors, and spent an hour
or two in social conversation. The
whole was closed by family prayer,
devotions lead by Dr. Pot er. All
uni e 1 iu singing two verses of an
old and familiar hymn—being I
“Hero I'll Raise my Eledezer” j
The crowd then disperced. This
morning an artist took the family |
group representing the Bishop
and his a tire family. Rarely, ifj
ever was there such a mee itig ,
and happy wore those of us who j
were allowed to be prosont.
•Broke” *»«i Change.
A very seedy, yet extremely dig
nified, elderly individual emerged
from an adjacent bucket-shop and
joined the crowd of excited specu
lar* collected in (1 unblera, alley.
“That man,” said a habitue of
the locality to a repoter, “was
rich a few years ago. He had
cash in the bank real esta'e and
securities enough to make him
worth SISO,O'M)! Now he hasn't
a dollar, I verrily believe. How
did be lose it? The same way be
made i—speculation, and a good
deal of whiskey nixed into qaiok
en the process es getting rid of bis
wealth.
"He is a fair type of a class well
represoned around here," lh°
speaker continued. "There are
abou l n dozen of them who at
some time have 1 een positively
rich, and numberless other«in Hie
different grades of well-off to com
fortably fixed and indipendant.
To all alike a five dollar bill is
now a rarity seldom poaessed.
There is one who less that five
years ago made $150,000 in a sin
gle deal tint never saw a dollar of
it. He hung on to make more,
•met when the market turned lost
not only every penny cf that big
profit but. all he possessed besides
and bis membership certificate in
the board also. The shock affect,
ed his mind a little. Another had
$125,000 and lost all in a few
mouths. Another, two years ago
was a big commission merchant,
rich and influential now a wreck.
Another draw $2,000 every month
from his commissions and lived
nearly up to it; now ho hasn’t a
dollar There are plenty of them
elderly men generally too old to
begin anew.
‘ Usually liquor is as much to
blame for their present ria'e as
he change in their luck. They
hang around the game they can
no longer play. Its fascination is
just as strong as in the days of
their good fortune. Still posses
sin* - a large circle of acquaintan
ces among the commission-man.
they are the bate noir of brokers,
ives. One of tli win wili walk into
hiß old broker's office and beg him
to make a trade for his account.
so. Usually it’s a loss and the
broker has to p eke! it. But that
doesn't boter ihe broken-down
speculator. He repeats the ra
quest again nul of course is refus
ed although it’s unpleasant and
hard to tha commission lmm iosay
‘no.’
“They rarely racover lest fortu
ne, or any part of it. Their luck
might change, but their bibits
naver do.”—Chicauo Tribune.
Het Sqrings, Februiry I),—A
terrible tragedy was enacted on the
streets of the city this Horning at
about II o’clock. Three brothers
named Frank Jack and Willian
Flynn were procee ling home in a
hack when a party of seven men,
armed with d luble barrel shot guns
and Winches er rifle®,stepped out
from the door of the saloon and
opened fire. The Flyms were ar-*
mod but the attact was totally un
expected. Jack Flynn was shoi
through the fore hea I by a ball
from a Winchester rifle, and died
in a few minots. William wa*
shot through the breast, and ike
wound will pro 1 -ably prove fat»l
Frank renewed a shot through
the hand, inflictitiga slight wound
Frank Hell, driver of the hack,
was shot through the back snd
died an hour afterward. Robert
Hargrwave a bystander was shot
through the breast, //e will prob*
ably die. J. H. Craig, a promi
nent lumberman, receive 1 a charge
of I aek ot through the back sin
his coiidi ion is oonsidesed preea
rious. The difficulty originated
some week* ago in an effort of Frnk
Flynn to prevent one Doran from
opening a gambling house. It
culminated at the time in Doran
making a cowardly a tempt to assus
sinate Frank failing in which he
fled the city. He returned a few
nights ago, but Flynn was uua
ware of his prose/ice in the city tin
til the fatal volley opened on him.
The seven men who did the shoot
ing were wrested and are now in
jail. They are S. A. Doran, two
Pruitt brothers, a man name I
Howell and three others. The
most intense excitement prevai*
sud strong threats of lynching
the prisoners a-e made. The
citizens ■ re )< ud in their condem
nation of the morcerous and cow
ardly act. Judge Wood has been
telegraphed t > by leading citizens
requesiiug him to adjourn court at j
Malvern, and return hers, and J
hold a special session to try i lie \
murderer*. If he consems the
law will probably be allowed to
take its course. If not the citi
zeos boldly threaten to burn
the jail and bang the prisoners.
correspondence
Editor Herald: —Tn your issue
of the 22nd. ult., in which you pub
fished tlie 2nd meeting of the citi
zctis of this (Berkshire) district,
von proceeded in a lengthy edito
rial to lampoon the good people
of this district for what they say
in those resolutions. I hope you
will allow rue. through your col
unis. to answer some of the points
von make, This is a question in
which l have no more interest than
any o her citizen, and 1 have no
friends to reward or enemies to
puuisA. I have no ax to grind.
lam also satisfied that the new
Court House is a fixed fact and
that anything I may say or do will
not in the least relieve tho people
of tlie county from the burdens of
the fax
I' is believed by many that it
w is a Lawreneeville movement and
aud that selfishness was the pro
pelling power. Wo do not pre
tend to say that it will materially
benefit the people ol the town per
tonally, but we do say that we he
lieve the object was to ornament
and beaivity the town. The peo
ple of the country are not willing
to he taxed for that purpose more
especially when Miev are unable to
ornament their homes.
T do not pretend to say this was
an organized effort of the citizens
of the town to get tho recomrnen
tioi> through Hie Grand Jury but
1 do believe that there was infln
ence brought to bear upon that
body that cause 1 them to make
the recommendation. That the
new Court House will ho a great
er benefit to tin- people of the conn
try tb m the people of the rwt, gs
tm argument that is ho overrhelm
ing aud withering Hi a I will not
"Hemp UJ answer it. i will say
for the benefit of I? irkwliiro that
they have no prejudice aga usl, the
ppopleof Lawreneeville on account
of their opposition to our effort
'o be cut off fr >m the county, and
tha' fact was not named in our
meeting tba 1 I know of.
You have no' a Located a new
court, house in your columns, i«
true, until now. Any person who
reads your editorial can easily see
where you stand. You say that
the present court lions* has prov
ed to he totally inadequate 'o the
growing wants .if the people. Can
you point to a single instance
where any person has escape 1 jus
lice on account of the inadequacy
of the court house ? If Gwinnett
is the second county in the circuit
I say let it remain so, and not try
to break the people up by taxa
lion. Ido not protend to say that
*be former building committee can
be legally held re spoil able for
their want of skill in architecture,
(as you say) but I will say they
would m ike very poor hotel keep
ers in my opinion, / do not know
wh i composed that committee
You think we go too far in mak
ing a test lor official position. 1
think that the officers of the coun
ty belong to the voters of the coun
ty, and they have a perfect right
to say who they will give them to.
If their public servants recklessly
squander their money, as they are
doing iu the present case, they
hare a right to call upon them to
giro an tieconn' of their steward,
ship and turn them out at the next
election That the county author
ities ire honest men, the people of
Berahirc nor I, have never ques j
tioned, but we must in all cand ir
be allowed to say tha* we hold
them responsible for their official j
acts, and we know of no better 1
way of doing it than through the
ballot box. I have now answered ]
(r noticed all your points, that you
make in your lampooning.
I will now say that if there was
no court house in the county, this
would be a poor time to build'one
Last years crop in many parts of
the county, was almos 1 a total fail
ure. Many good farmers are not
able to make another crop without
help in the way es indulgence.
i think it a great hardship up
on the people to be taxed to build
a magnificent Court House to or
nament the county town, when
they are unable to build a comfort
able school house to educate their
children in. Outside of the towns
of Lawreneevilie, Norcross, Du
ludi and Buford, 1 nm informed
that there is n«l a respectable
school lu use in the county. The
Grand Jury who made tho reeom
simulation I have no doubt are *
respec'able and homvt set of gen
ilumen, but that they did wrong,
many of them are n»w free to ad
mit. The county Commissioners
are all, so far as 1 know, gentlemen
and some of them are my w " u per
soiial friends, / am tru'y sorry
that they have made such a l.lnn
der. Between all men who
aided or abated in saddling this un
ncctssary taxntior upon tho peo
ple and future official position,
there is a great gulf fixed that they
never can pass. They have wound
«ul the packatt nerve so terribly it
never will heal.
W. B. Bautswaiii,.
Mr Editor:—-! send you a few
dots of our Flarida trip.
We left the writer’s home Nov.
21st. Our little party consisted
of NY T Miner, SII Pickens, my
self and two negroes At Flat
Shoals we met Mr A J Goldsmith
and George Stickland, of DeKalb
county, this made seven in our
party
Tha first six days wo saw neith
er sun, moon sor stars,fyel it rain
ed but little—just enough to keep
everything wet and nasty. After
that tho weather was dry and pleas
ant, in fact, rather too dry. In
In the lower part of Boor gin and
upper part of Florida it. was diffi
cult matter to gat water fcor our
stock, and in some places for our
selves.
Wo reached Ocoee, our destina
• t iau Dec 12th., just three weeks
on the tramp, 480 miles,. Wc
found our friend, .I H(1 Maguire
and finally all well and well pleas
•d with Florida. Tho hsalfh />''
himself and f imily Inis been better
i littti it was in Georgia. They
suetu to think tin re is no plac ( ,
like Florida.
We settled down to write as
soon 's we go I here, consequently
have not scon much of ihe ccuntry
but Jam wed pleased with wlmt. I
have send. There are some very
fine lands in this section, both
hanimoc and pine lands. It i«,
no doubt, one of the bcsl sections
in t he Sla'e, ns our lands arc equal
to any n the Sla'e and our coun
Irv is fast settling up with good,
industrious people, nearly all from
Georgia 15 from Gwinnett. And
last but not lea ul , we have a good
climate, being i u me South side
of tkc lake which gives us wliat is
called ti winter protection. That
makes our climate equal to one de
gree South without Use water pio
lection.
We have 40 acres fenced, 11
cleared, G in liainmoc, 5 in in pine
lands and will set it all in orange
trees. Wall ve 4 acres planted in
cucumbers and will set 4or 5 in
Tomatoes. Tlie vegetable busi
ness is a big thing here. There
are hundreds of acres devoted to
vegetables in this section, hut lit
tie attention is given to anything
hut vegetables and tropical fruits.
Some few plant corn and sugar
cane, but no cotton.
Lake Apapka is said to he tLe
next largest lake in the State. It
covers 300 square miles. We will
have a l>oat ou it in a short time
as we have been hauling stork and
lumber for several days to build
the first boat that wi.l run on
Lake Apapka. But Ido sot tbisk
the transportation will be equal to
the demand this year, as th« boat
son a small scale, bnt think we
will have good transportation by
another year. At present our near
est transporta'ion is Orlanda, 14
miles.
Perhaps it is too early for snake
ofories in your section, but I will
send you one from Florida.
While woijdng in our haminoc
on the 21st of Dec., we killed a
rattle snako nearly 7 feet long and
ten inches around, nine rattles aud
a button. A few days after near
the same place we found another
five and a half feet long and nine
iuehes around and had six rattles
and a button. We captured him
alive and wdl bring it borne to
show our Gwinnett frj nd* some
of the pro nets of Florida.
1 read the resolutions of the
Berkshire meeting and endorse ct
ery ward of them. Tdo not know
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who nor bow r any composed ‘hat
meeting, but I do know that their
resolutions expressed the send
moot* of the people of Berkshire
unanimously. I also lead Keno's
attact on them, but his argument
s too thin to have »vy effect on
sensible men. A few of t.lieOener
sis, Colonols, Majors and Judges
around the city of Fjawrenceville
make up the few who advocate the
new Court House.
Now Mr Knno, do you think it is
r ght ihut one man should say
•say what Ittrt should do 1 Ido not
l.eavs it to a vote and let us hear
what the people say.
A. N. Mi von.
Ocoee, Fla, Jan 27th Is,SI
Savannah, Februaay 9._Great
preparations are lieing made for
the reception of the State ngricult
ural society which convenes here
nexl I uesday The foil wing is the
anounced programme of exercisas.
First dly convention epens wi'b
prayer at it o'clock am. Adress
of welcome by Hon. Rufus K I.es
ter. mayor of Suvauah. Res police
for the convention by Hamilton
Yuncy, of Rome Anuai address
of president Hardeman. Resolu
lions and privilege question. An
esay—“System in Farmirg o Nec
cessity," by Coin el James M. Mob
ley, of Hamilton. Ga . Calling
and perfecting roll of delegates.
Adjournment for dinner. In the
afternoon session, an ossnv
—“Technical Education in Geor
gia,” by Hon. N. E. Harris, of
Macon, Ga, An adress—“Farm
He morny. by Hon. \V, .1 North
ern of Spurt", tin. Deferred
business, new business, adjourn
ment. An experience me* tiug
will be held at, night; on the sec
ond day, the programme will be
report of experiments at univer
sity farm, with an esay on “com
posting,’’by l’lofesser H. C. White
of Ath* iih. Georgia, an essay, “in
ocj s " ,“sTi nr-li->j *n —-jgmtbern
• agriculture.” by
Ri’ey, entomologist of die United
Sla es agricultural department
an essay, “intelligence „„ a factor
in successful farming,” by Rev. I).
A. .1. Ruitie, President of Msr
c*t University, Macon Georgia.
Adjournment for dinner. The
afternoon session will hear re
ports of committees. An ad
dress. "the tidal lands „f the
south Atlando coast,, aad the uses
to which they may bo devoted
other than tlm w 11 1 1 nr*» of rice,
by Colonel Joha Screven, of
Savannah, Deo.'g.a. Itesolu'ious
and closing business. Aach ad
dress or report of eemmittee will
!>• followed by short discussions
| Convetion opens at it o'clock
a m an*l .‘t o'clock p,m.
A widow, ye ting, good looking
and lively, had many adrmrers.bat
H ho was ho impartial that when,
just ■about a-year from her hus
band s death, she gave public invi
tat ions to her wedding, nobody
could tell whether the favorite one
was a certain widower, a bache
lor, or one of two young men, and
to keep the secret, she declared
she would be married in a burn
of hers m the dark. The minister
too, entered into the spirir of the
altair, and to mistify the people
still more the bride enter d the
barn alone at one door an l tli°
groom at another. There were at
1 ass two hundred present. The
ceremony proceeded in darkness,
and at its close the crowd brake
for the bride and carried her
home in triumph in a chair But
where began the trouble, the wid
ower, the bachelor an ,i fj 10 tu((
young men each swore that he
held the widow's plump hand and
was married to her; the crowd
could not decide, the minister
didn’t know and the widow' was
puzzled, for all claimed to be en
gaged to her, for although the
widower was her choice, he might
Lav been jolted aside; indeed* be
acknowledged that somebjdy tri
*d to choke him in the dark. The
four men fought, but that didn't
settle ,t. The guests ducked two
of them in the brook, but still no
light. Finally, the widower com
promised with the others by giv
ing them one hundred pounds
each, and reigned as her lord.—
The affair has never been explain
ed. One of the young men is mar
riad. but still declares he was miu
ried to Widow Dodsworth in the
big burn The other also pro
tests that he iaher lawful husband
The bachelor is dead, bat main
tained to the end : ‘T married
her—l ought to have her.”—Lou
don World.