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IvruSß M PEKPLKS.) I Miron no Proprietor. | 1 Thp util until Ij,U«H*D SVIiRT nnt*\ M I k£ EPLES & BOWLES. ■ bs‘ k,p, ,oN kates : ■ T l 2 itos., $1 50 in advance. Eytjmos., .75 in advance. Kpj 3 uios., .50 in advance. I Enough for Everybody I - AS— ■ A ilrert is in u Med iu tn H dERALD is unequaled bq ■ "fits extensive circulation amt Krtut/.v t° u ' ra!es - businessmen Hi/ umentber this. HmKS BLAIvKo ! BLAS KIND* neatly printkd] Hr sale at t h e Mm AD JOli Oil li 1 ■\ 4 (Ol'N I V DIRECTORY HI|\CLAV SMITH, Mayor. councii,. Vloiin 1 , K It Herrin. W K Brown H)|IU All DKRARIIKK OK TRAIN from Suwannee. 5 fiO p m lor Suwannee, 7 a- in. |SD DKTARTI'RK OK MAII.S. Arrives 12 in. ilepurl* 1 Mon-lay and I'hursday. Stork—Departs o a m ar pm. Monday and Thursday . Arrives 111 a ni, de ■l p m.—Daily. Kivkr.-- Ari ives I 2 in., de ■ . " Welnesday mid Sutnn:uy. ■ HII lUIiVKY, I’. M. H I'UIRrHKR die Ist and Itli Sundays. S. iiiH.i.- Al' I’attillo, Supt |H .Sunday at 2 p in 11. \ .1 K Met l< hand. Min' ,; 3rd Sunday m eaeli >. 11 ooi -T U I’owell. Supt. at D. 3 i a in - H I VII IK M *si,M. 1 I iIIO.K R W M . S A llagoml, S \V„ JM . Meets on Tu, sdav l“-lo t- lull moon in each Charter, \o HP, H A Spence. H P, a T I’atiillo |H V 'l'd Fi iH ay in each month. SfPKRioR Court —\. I . Judge, (,’oiiveoes on the Ut : March and September. COUNTY Omi KRS. M D .Spence, Chair. X Bennett, Jeß’ersonßritt, .1 J K Cloud. J M Patterson. T Isimkin. S C—D T Cain. Pharr. ei.i,rotor— J C Lowety. R X Robinson i'l Jwin sionnl tizeus ill lie le resi icaue . roved them eaper ita. , ■, • "la. i IrJi , the Slobe die ac I sr nrsi rornpt :e the ES. r THE WEEKS, GWINNETT HERALD MISCEI liANY. AN UNLUCKY ? HOI ‘\Y ell, here we are at last, any hor ; and now we'll Le aide to get things ship shape a bit." So spoke the first officer of the Britania, as her anchor splashed into the smooth water of Port of Spain roadstead, in the West Indian island of Trindad; and the first smile that had been seen on his hard old face for nearly a week broke over it as he locked around him The view was certainly beauti ful enough to have drawn a smile from any man living. The first rays of sunrise were jwst stream iug through the gorges of the Maracas mountains, and lighting up the stately palms and dark gieen orange groves that clothed them almost to the summit. Below them lay the broad plain dotted with trim white houses, half burried in clustering trees or green, feathery sugar canes, while in the fore grouud the quaint, half Spanish streets and gardens of the town straggled along the curv ing shore of the bright blue sea. Bat tlie finest landscape in tLe tropics woula have had little effect npon Mr Joht. Jawiey—whom the crew were wont to call “Jawing Jack,” when there ans no risk of his heaving them—and if he smil ed, it was not from any admit a tion of scenery, but simply because he was glad to find himself snug ly at anchor ogaic. 4 nd well he m'ght be. Ah the way across the Gulf of Mexico the pool old Brittania had had the wind as deed against her as if (so the boatswain muttered savagely,) “somebody had got up nearly eve ry morning and turned the wind round 'he wrong way.” With the wind had come floods of rain, as if that wao not enough, the sea be.-t in the sky light scuttle, and come pouring down below, washing Lalf the passengers out of their berths and setting a whole fleet of carpet bags aid portmanteaus afloat in the saloon. As for the officer’s staterooms, they were so completely flooded that the purser, who was a bit of a wag in his way, had proposed to paste up a notice in the compan ion way, offering a h tndsome re ward for the discovery of a pair of dry pants. Altogether, the first officer had good cause to be out of temper first and foremost, the captain was ill, and Mr Jawiey had to take the whole charge of the ship himself. Then the salt water had spoiled his new uniform, and had damag ed a box of handsomely bourd books which had just been sent him from home Thirdly, he had given his nose a tremendous kuook, which bad made it swell up as big as a pear ; from all which causes combined he looked, as the old quarter master remarked with a grin, ’’bout as li*ppy as a skinned rat in a pickle barrel." “What on earth are those creep ing fellows on shore about?” growled Juw.ng Jack. “They must have seen us and yet there is no sign of any boats coming off. We’d belter fire our gun end wake ’em up a bit- Where's that sii> ual gun ?” “Down in the after hold, sir, answered a sailor. “You told us to put it there ,totlier night, to be out of harm’s way.” “And did I tell you to keep it there for ever after, you lubber?' roared the officer turning fiercslv upon him. “Up with it, smart, or there'll be a row !” The gun was slung, and hoisted up iu a twinkling, tor the men knew by experience tint Jawing Jack was not to be trifled with But when he attempted to load it, it proved to be half choked with something which, whatever it might be, would plainly have to be got out before the charge could be got in. Again and again did Mr. Jawiey thrust in the rammer as fiercely as if he was stabbing au enemy but the obs:ruction would not yield. “YY’ho's beeu meddling with the gun?” thundered be, glaring j aroniul him tike a tiger about to j spring. Lawrenceville Georgia, Tuesday June 3 1884 There was a dead silence, and all the sailors seemed trying hard to look as if they were somewhere else, while the purser, who was al ways the first to be suspected when any trick had been played prudently drew back out of sight knowing well, that Mr- Jawley. when fairly aroused, would have thought nothing of knocking down an admiral on Ins own quar ter deck. Receiving no answer, the first officer thought he might as web clear the gun first, aud find ou t the author of the trick aftenvard ■‘Hand up the powder horn, shap!' oiied be, and he was instant lv obeyed. Scraping the touch-hole clear with his knife, he dropped in some powder and flashed it off. hoping to burn away the obstruction from without if he could not rake it out from within. Instantly there arose a smell so horrible that al! the officers jumped back as if they had been shot, and even the roughest sailors made wry faces But Mr. Jawley, whose iron vis age changed no more than if the scent had been rose water, drop ped in pinch after pinch of pow der, tiil he thought he had b urn ed away enough of he gun’s con tents—whatever they might be to make room for a charge which should blow away the obstruction matter altogether. “Wheel it to the side and point down into the water,” order ed he. pouring a goodquarter of a pound through the touch-hole. So ' completely had every one been occupied with the gun that nobody noticed a small boat putting off to them from the shore. Pulled by four stout negroes, it came briskly ou, and ran alongside just as the gun was fired. The re port was followed by a yell ro ter rific that it s artled the wnole ship, Mr. Jawley sprang upon the bulwarks and saw. to his horror three men lying in the boat and seemingly dead, wl ile fourth wip ing a great splash of crimson from his black face was screaming out he was “blowed all to bits.” The boat was at once hoisted on board and the four victims were taken down to the doctor, who came up a few minutes later with a very puzzled face. “I don't know wliat to think of those fellows,” said he- “There’s not ihe least sign of a weund any where about them, and I eanuot imagine whers on earth all that blood can have come from. “I think I can,” chuckled the second officer, holding up the crushed body of a young rat which he had found in the Loat. “The brutes must have made a nest in the gun when it was down in the hold, and Jawiey’s mashed all i life young rats to pulp with his laimner, and then tired 'em right in among the poor fellows! No wonder they thought, ihey were blown to pieces." The laugh that followed shook the very air, while Mr. Jawiey looked as if he were going to burst on the spot. It was noticed from that day forth that any one w o wished to throw him ; nto a furious rage had only to ask whether there were auv rats down in the hold. “Surely you can trust me?” lie said in pleading tones. “No” the lady replied sorrowful ly. “I can pu no more trust in men. My experience has been too, too bitter.” “Bnt J swear by yonder ” “Do not swear," she interrupted “it is useless. You must forget what Las passad between us. as she walked to the back endiof the store and sat dowu * under Hie counter, He was trying to buy a new spring bonnet for his wile on tick ••• In Athens, the other day, sever al little negroes, while piayiug up on the street, discovered tnat one of their number, aged about sev en years, was afraid of frogs. Tbsy beguu to throw caips at him telling him they were frogs. One of the chips on his neck and sliped down his back. It se up a fearful scream, when its compan ious ran away laughing. The child was found iu the street u i h a spasm and carried home. For two days and nigh’s oneapastn fol lowed in quick sneession and it is doubled if it cau live. 'The yellow fever is killing' a good mmy more people in Cuba than Aguero and all his band com | bined. DEVOTE) TO NEWS, LITERATURE'. AND LOCAL AFFAIRS *li«t for Eighty Ontw EfFAUi.A, Aca., May 27.— At Col. J L Pugh's place a mite from town. Henry Melvin shot Milledge Hob this morning with intent to kill, for 80 cents. Melvin's wife h id been working for Holt and he owed her the sum mentioned, which she told him not to pay Melvin, but he decided to collect it, and s'ated to several persons that if it was refused he would kill Holt. With this purpose he took a gun and went to a field where Holt was working aud with out a word took aim at him add empted a load into apart of Holts abdomen. Holt fell and Melvin deliberately proceeded to load again, when another party appear ed who was ask d by /7o)t to take the money out of Hia (Holt’s) pocket and pay Melvin, and not let him be killed for eighty cents When the money was handed to Melviu he said it was all right, and 1,1 at iliat was all he wanted. He then look to his heels. H T h»n last, seen he was on. the borders of Henry county running like a wolf. Holt is reporled dead this afternoon. The parties are ne groes. BI.AI\E‘S H( XZIX« BEK Washington, May 2t. —The Blaine men claim that the appar ent increase of Arthur’s strength has actually been favorable to their candidates. They sav that it has centered the fight down be. tween those two appearentlv, and many poli ieians who had candi dii'es whom they preferred to Blaine have gone over to him now feeling that tluy have to select be tween die two. In this way they claim, Blaine’s most earnest and reliable supporters, who has re ?antly returned from New York and who is in constant .communi cation with Mr: Blaine, said to the S ai to-day that he knew it to be true that, Conkling and Grant have expressed themselves openly in favor of Blaine. Conkling came out positively and emphatic ally. he said without giving any reason for his action, and Grant gave as his reasou that he felt that Logan’s chances were gone an d he had to choose bet ween Arthu i> and Blaine, and selected the lat ter because the partj must put up a positive and aggressive man if they hoped to win. The Blaine men think that they have another cause for re joicing. They say to night that the Dezendorf-Blaine siraightout delegation will be admitted in preference to the Mahone-Arthur delegation at Chicago. A better opinion seems to be that either Mahone will be admitted with his whole delegation or that half of each delegation will be admitted A Bun iu Hot Sipi-iiigs Liitle Bock, May 27. A special from Hot spri gs says that the Hot sprins Natioual Bank closed its doors to-day owing to a run on the bank caused by a reported absence of its President Andrew Bruon. It liabilities are s<!(),- 000. A WARRANT FOR Tilt. PRESIDENT. Another special from Ho*- Springs says : A warrant was is sued this afternoon for the arrest of President Bruon, of the Hot Springs bank, on charge of having falsified bank accounts, bu' he coul.f not be found. Ouo of the directors stated that the bank as eis, if properly handled, will pay all the depositors without assess ment bnt will leave the stockhold ers nothing. A WOMAN IN THE CASE. Little Rock, Ark., May 27, 11 30 : P ni.—lt has been learned that President Bruon of the suspend ed Hot Springs Natioual Bank arrived in Litdeßock on Friday last, nit was not seen by his ac quaintances until to-day, when bad? goodby to a woman named Steel, who went north on ihe af terernoon train .Ylr. Bruon ia a married man, aud the Hot Springs Uozettc s ay» that it has been dis covered that he became infatuated with the woman mentioned and abandoned his wife for her. No ef fort Ins been made here to arres' ! l‘in» A run lias commenced on ihe | Arkansas National bank of Hot ! Springs, which is undeistood to Ibe iu good condition. There iis great excitement, at Hot { Springs. OI»l Mo thers Grant always talks with a cigar in bis mouth ; Sherman never does He lays it dowt. when he goes to make a remark, forgets where he puts it, and lights a fresh one when he has finished wha' he wanted to say. The res ult is that his desk or the fnrni tnre around the room in which he happens io be smoking, usually is loaded with several half-consum stubs. At his headquaters. when he was in Washington it was gen erly the case that these stubs were to be found iu every room that he frequented, aud the staff officers called thorn “Sherm’s old soldiers.’’ The «reenbuck ('•uveulioii Inuianapous, May 27.--The at teudence at the Greenback uaton al convention which meets Imre to-morrow, will be much laiger than has been expected. There are now about 500 delegates in the city, and 200 more are expect ed. The conven ion meets at 11 o’clock to-morow morning, and all the iudicatons point to the uommination of ex-Govoruor Bul - for President A well deliin ed opisition to the uominnution of Govoruor Butler exist, and is led by solonJCbaseJMaiueJand Geo. O. Jones of New York. There however no probbability of its gde velopin g enough strength to de feat Battler An attempt has been made to work up a boom for Jesse Harper, of Ilinom, and the Maryland delegates will vote tor him, but the movements seem to have but little strengtlEelewhere | Ger VYestof Mississippi, appeals >o be unanimous choice the delt- i gates for Nice President. U-en Tyler ot Florida, will be made tem orary Chairman of the cunvention Gen. Weaver of lowa, the perma nent presiding officer. m •*— A man stopping his pat or wrote •‘I think folks otteu to spend their ! mouny for paper, mydadda did- j dent abd everybody said ne was the intelligentest man in the coun try a«d had the smartest family of bcis that ever dngged tatters." The difference between a cat anil a comma is that one lias claws at the end of the paws and the other has the pause at the end of the clause. A Detroit paper gravely anuoun ee»;in its advertising columns : ~ “To Rent an elegaatly furnish ed room to a gentleman already heated.” Among the artistic ad vertising notices are the following j “Two young ladies want washing” “Teeth extracted with great pains.” Can you paint me a sign at once ? “Yes, what kind of a sign do you want?” “A sign of rain.” A clou 4 lowered on the face of the painter, and fearing a storm the humoiist left. “What kind of sauce will you have with your steak?” asked the waiter of a dinner restaurant where the condiments were ser ved with the orders “If the steak is as tough as yesterdavs’s send in a couple of circular saws." Patient—“ Doctor, what do you do when you have a cold in the head?” Dactor —“Well madam, I sneeze most of the lime." Canadian Hotel Keej er—“l doi’t see how we are to get along The bouse is about empty, yet it is impossible to reduce expenses. Look over the American papers and see what the news is.” Hotel Clerk—“l have looked over them. There has not been a big defalcation in the United States for two weeks.” Canadian Hotel Keeper—,‘My stars ! W 6 will be ruined. I never knewtin.es to be so dull.” Atlanta, Gn., May37—Much com plaint'bas arisen in this State ov er the removal of efficient railway postal clerks and the substitution of illiterate negroes in theii plac es. These removals have been general and to such an extent that the attention of Congress will be called to the matter, when an investigation doubtless ensue. The charge is made that the changes are made for political rea sons. An English temperance society has offered prizes amounting to $5,000 for some uon-intoxicatiug drink that will be a substitute for beer. It would first be in order,we think, *o devise si me non-culpa ble iniquity that would be a sub stitu e for sin. —Boston Transcript. Petersburg Va May,27.—lnges A Mahore, large tobacconist of this city, have ma le a deed of trust for me benefit of I heir credi to.s . Their liabilities and asse s are not known. The Junior mem hereof the firm is the oldest son of Senator Mahone. OF.NKRKL NEWS Counterfeit $5 gold pieces are in circulation. There a'c 85.000 Hebrews in New York city Prince Bismark does not admire eloquence. The Empress of Austria sets type with grace and skill. General Grunt never bites off tue eud of a cigar. The number of volumes in British museum is 1,800.00. The Prussian people believe that Bismark is superstitious. James Q Blaine sedulously avoids the Senate Chamber. A cremation society has been or gauized in Boston. The Prince of Wales Private debts are pushing him again. King Ilmnburt is fond of read ing books on military affairs.. The new City //all in Philndel phia has already cost $8250,900. English colleges have suffered greatly by the Agricultural de pression. The Episcopalians will build a $500,000 Cathedral at Albany, N. Y. A Jersey cow was recently sold at auction in New York for $0,200 There are in England 1,0G!),25)G paupers in a population of 28.700, 000. A colored salvation army has just been organized in Charlotte. S. C. I’resi lent Arthur seldom wears the same necktie two weeks in sue cession. John Habertou, author of Hel en’s Babies, has published anotner book. The Georgia S ate Democratic Convention will meet in Atlanta in J me 18th. There are supposed lo be about 1,000,000 species in the animal kingdom. Enormous steaks 3f wh«at, o,vs. barley niul maize crowd the Con don granaries. Beer brewers in England are obliged to make beer out of hops and barley malt. Yictoi Hugo lvas been selected as ths president of a baby allow, in Paris in July. PriDce Bismark’s annual revo nms umount to about $25,000. He lives quietly. The total number of newspa pers in Now York State is 1,523, against 1,399 in 1883. MDe Lesseps' company pays out 75,000 francs a day for work on the Panama canal. A good way to increase the effi ciency of the public schools is to pay teachers better salaries. Near Vienna, Ga., two women run their ewn farm They raise cotton an 1 garden vegetables. A lady stenographer in New York has bought and paid for a handsome property out of her earnings. Four boys of Springfield, Ohio, have run away Iron) home ami gone west to annihilate the Indi ans. Lord Lome is going to intro dnee ihe whilefish of the lakes in to several rivers and lochs of Scot land. In Miissachuse-ls there were five times as many signers to the woman suffrage petitions this year as last A member of the Zanesville mili t'.a who participated in the Cinein nati riot has become insane from exciteruent- English capitalists have been buying up biuck walnut in the west in large quantities for ship mi v o England in Aiihit u ti e law prohibits a woman from imurying unt,.l she is is 18 years o ! d,‘und a m»n cannot marry until.he is 2L The London Times says it was to show what a < tat abstainer cou:d do that Wesion walked Ins 5,0U0 miles in 100 days. A sheep epidemic prevails in La Pru. ,<, C'.-ma In, wl icu entirely de prive j; lie sheep of wool and ren i.ets it, meat unfit for food. liobeit Rainey, 1 S ft, would like to Lave the Cousiiuvion amende.l so that uo citizen could own niiM'f) than ten milliou dollars wmth of property. If Mr Rod in v is afraid of owning more than ten million dollars himself, he cau easily giveaway his surplus wealth wi l hour an amendment. As for the rest, of the people, there are couqvira'ively few of them who are troubled in that way, aud i when they ure they will manage to get along under the present Constitution, says an exchange. A Clifton girl who r arried a poor young man. who has in conse quence been practising domestic duties, has lost faith iu the entire social system. The other evening her husband came in at 6 o'clock | H, tpper handed a paper folded j and sealed. “W hat ia it dear,” she said ten derly. “An insurance policy on my life darling for $19,000. W by, love, you already have one. What do you waut with au. other. ‘,Angel mine, 1 i.ti two pieces of that pie for dinner. Merchant. Tru velar . A well-known citizen had been arrested on a charge for forgo ing a check. A number of iicquuiu tances were discusing the sensa lion, when one of thorn remark ed : “I never had any confidence in him." “I had unbounded confidence iu him,' respondeda blear eyed man I am something of aj, physogno mistandthe first time I saw the fellow I trusted him.’’ “How.” “1 borrowed a couple of dollars I of him, and so s'oadfast has faith in his integerity that, I have never ssked'him toallowme to return the amount. ’— Srkunsaw 7'rauelar. Pour I* of Tkoiiglit ft is vanity to seek after perish ing riches and to trust them. It is vanity to desire to live long and not, care to live well. Perfection is the point for which all should steadily aim. It is vanity to strive after hon ors, and climb to high degree. Next to love, sympadiy is the di v inest passion of the human heart. If yoi wiah to remove avarice remove its mother—luxury. Charity and personal force are tile only investments worth any thing. Many words do not satisfy the soul ; but a good life eomforteth the mind. NY bo hath a greater combat limn he that laboroth loovercome himself ? Uecolediion is the only paradise which cannot be turned out. Affect not to be otherwise, bnt acknowledge thine own ignor ance. Learned men are never anxious to seten to others, and to beealled wise. Never Too Kale tol.earo. Socrates, ut an-extrema old age learned to play on musical instru ments. Cato, at eighty years of age learned to speak the (/reek lan guage. Plutacb, when between seventy and eighty, eornenced the study if La'iu. Boeaccio was thirty five years of age when he commenced his light literature, yet he became one of ihe greatest masters of the I usexn dialect, Dante Petrarch be ing the other two. Sir Henry Splemuu neglected the sciences in his youth, but commenced the study of them when hr was between fifty and sixty years of age Afier this he became a learned antiquarian and lawyer. Dr. Johnson applied hicrself to ihe Dutch language but a r ew years before his death. Ludovico Mcenaldsco at the grt-.i age of 115,'wrote the memiors of his own times. Ogilby tausalator of Homer and Y’irgil, was unaquaiuted with LAin and (/reek until he was past fifty. Franklin did not fully com mence philosophical pursuits till he reached his fiftieth yeat Dry den, in his sixtyeighth year, c imiuenced the transaction of the I/iad, bis most, pleasing pro duction. Jacksonvili.i, Ylay 27,.--The Missouri editors visited St. Angus tine to-day. They leave to-raor rom for <> ala, Palatka. -Sanford and Tampa, and will then come buck to Jacksonvill. They are de lighted with what the have seen I of Florida. jVol. XIV.—No 10 Farm aud bardru Motes Plan your work and save wor ry. Let tool borrov ers he sorrow ers. Make manure fins before using it. Yellow corn is surest for cold land The best hired help is the cheap est. Plaut beets, peas and potatoes early. “Good fences make good neigh hors." Fight stock vermin and plant insects. Keep dirt, etc., out of the wool sacks. Chopped beets are good for milch cows. Sowing impure seeds brings evil weeds. Keep all farm tools, etc., iu good repair. Sow 'resli ground plaster with grass seed. Plaster is “no good” on damp mucky soils. Blnegrass clover makes the best pasture for hogs. It takes only mie season to grow horse-radish in perfection. Wood ashes is an excsll ent fer tilizer for onions: none better. Use a currycomb ou the cows to take out the loose hair. A good tanner may be known by the way he cares for his ma nure. Salt fish are quickest aud best freshened by soaking in sour milk Excessive and late cutting will help to run down an asparagus bed. By pinching back the buds of yatir orleander yeu may make it bloom in a pot next, winter. The Virginia creeper is a fast grower as a vine around the house In autumn ii is of a beautiful col or. Sugar of lead rubbed on the er option caused by poieon ivy is ben eficial. It is poison if taken in wardly. Give your bens pieces of old cabbage or hang a cabbage by a limb and so near the ground that they can peck at it. A n English authority feeds to cows only the bottom of tha tur nip after the crown has been cut oft, thus preventing the turnip flavor. Linm beans are grown more successfully if planted in rows, s e.eds six inches apart, than if planted in hills. The rows should bo about three feet apart. An Englishman will carrv mel - on seeds in bin pocket a long time before planting, thinking they are benefited by so doing, the heat tending to perfect them. A farmer who has tried the ex periment recommends mixing coal and wood ashes together, and applying liberally to young or ebards in the spring. A British medical journal says that cows drink filthy water for its saline taste, and pioposes an antidote in the shape of rock salt, kept always in reach of the cows Among the other remedies for lice on live stock which are going rounds of die press, it is claimed that the water in which potatoes have been '>oiled is quite effica cious. A remedy for balky horses, which works well, is to put a small stone or sand in Ibe horse's ear. Generally the horaewill start oft' at once at a lively gait, unless he balks from fatigue. It is a good plan to make a thorough cleaning out of oribsand graneries at least once a year, in order to get rid of rats and mice If every vestige is removed the new crop will sutler much less loss than by usual careless methods. Wheat kept for years in gran aries is liable to be infested by the weevil, which is very destructive. “Gan you give me a little mom ey on that account of yours tnis morning?'’ “No, 1 don’t believe [ can this morning.'' . “Well, will you appoint a time when y<?u can? You have traded with me a great deal and have nev er paid me a cent.” “I know it- I am a free trad er.”