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THE WEEKLY (i\| I . u vi PKKPI.KS. - 0 HERALD i- u.n bJ Ib-bH' p k ,|.,.0N KA.KS: si -,u iu advance. f liUlJ ' ,7.j iuatlvauee. ,It a*OB- ’ r i(| 1U , 3 ui«*> gw b'.very body I*- :o: _ s - , mRAM* ‘ s u ' ,e 'i ,,alfl ,Ul ‘ Jna I n mnakr Kg SAL. E TT H K WLjtJl J( I 1 ■ K , t ' ( ,CM V MItKI’TOKY ■ -0 ■ lH y.'|.\V SMITH, vtaoK. ■ iduni'il- I, h|> Hr-1.11l \s K Hi'uwii ■ B(u«u iSD UKK»KH.KH OK I'KII'. Suwuniuv. fi,.o |* hi ■„* lw S.,*oUni'-K-. 7 »■ in. ODUKKIKTIKK oK Ulll.K. ■ Arrive If ill, il“(iurN I H Holiday will I hurnd ,y. HwoShikr -iVpurls ti a "i 1,1 Monday ami I’liurs.lny . HdiMiliK. Arrivt-s 111 a in. Jr Hip x. I Hilly HudiKivkh Ail ivir Hi 111-, Jr ■.,,,1, Weli.mlii) ai.il Suiunmy. I II II H.iKVKY »' u I I'IIUKI'HKI ■noui.i-.Krv .1 H King, I'aalor Knuntbr Ist and .'llli Sunday.), ■ltd Si hik.iA T l*attillo, Supt ■ Sumlay ut 3 p Ul ■unmans- llrv .1 K Mi l lrllui.il. ■,3mi<v« on 'ind ami Alii .Sundays Hr) montli, ■mm Si’uiaii. I K Rowell. .Supt ; Sunday m S.3U a nr ItIKIVII I I \l l-il.vli I.oDuk it it, W M , S A Hagood, S W., Kin JW. Mrt-tK on Tuesday no or Moi k lull moon in racli A. iVrrson Uhaptrr, No 3J), R A JllSprint, H R, A T Raltilli), Hwo Fiiday night larlorr llir today io oach month. lIiSKTT SIKKKIOK Coi'KT N. 1.. Aits,.l udae. Convenes on the lot lay io March and September. wm (imrKKs. ■mummo—l 1> Spence, Chair Clnk, M Heunett, .IrHersonßi itt, J #P«i», J K Cloud liifF—J M Patterson. IPiRY--J T I .a itt Win. Mill s 0—1) T Caiu. it He .ivin-tl W Chai r. i>lfci.ntrT"*-.:j (' bowery SUCIKI, |{ \ Rohinson miMrJl KX.iT'? 1 " 1 ? *«» tiwiH ihiua pV‘ l ‘L > *“* H’H'tH'ticm t„ an ~t t| |* wi || • J a !*."■ Ivsid * ?,u '*‘ 11: H*** rest ll "“» 34tii l(#4 (imy Loans. lf *"J** r on improved Middle and Northern 7“' B »ff°tiated on cheaper ‘“'“JOMiu Atlanta. Addres, FRANCIS FONTAINE, Filter Building it, r imo Atlanta (la. a he X 'iWcE Films, ga .he 2ttth ins,., .I* open the Glob* «Uwren° f or the ao of tb ;Hl^\«a SSS^-tss ""Who patronize the ®ouse. lor 1% , *- J ' f ‘ HATKti. * J Wtb- ’B3- ts. HHl' 'nil *1 "f <»llli hi *7iwl4. a*u.i. s^afe^^s , 'i:;r..»rcrT=.- Hl* Houvriud KtjaU Mrs. Jacobs slid Mr? Willis, uiariied women of luidc'le agy ~a i ue out togetLei od the charg of disturbing the peace Yout Honor, began Mrs. Jacobs before she was fairly in the room “/ warn you to do me a great fa vor." Certainly, wbat is if? Send'this loug necked, raw bon ed animal up for fifty years." •Judge. - added Mrs, Willis, you look like an awful good man. Your duty to society demands tint this loug legged, tootblesr o.d fowl be packed away iu the work house for the rest of her natural lifi.” Hin 1 understand that you two women are neighbors? ‘•Heaven .orbid!” gasped Mrs. Jacobs. „ . ••Neigh l ors ! I’ll defy anybody to get into her house for dirt!” ad ded Mrs Willis. “You live side by side and quar rel over the back fence. Way back iu the misty past there was a r w about flat-irons, or wash boards, cats or dog*, and the chasm hat never >eeu bridged. All this summer you have been slandering eaoli other and keep ug the fires jo hate alive, and yesterday ibe climax came. You met on the walk. Neither would turn out. You collided, clinched, fought and drew a crowd, and here you are. “Send her up, y» ur Honor,” shouted Mrs. Jacobs. “(Jive her twenty years, Judge, aud I'll furuish your all the butter you can eet this wilder!" piped Mrs. Willis. “Ladies; the sentence of this court is—” • Wive it to her, Judge !’’ •Make it for life, your Hot*- or!” “ —la, thu each of you must pay a tiua cf $5." “Never!” “Never!” “Then each of you will pass the uext thirty days in the cooler.’’ “Shainef tl!” “Moustroub!” They, however, concluded to pay. “A fellow feeling makes ns wondrous kind," but for all that they had a tight at the door, and barely escaped a second arrest, PROBABLY MISTAKEN. It was a colored man, though so badly faded and battered and titled out with old clot' es that one had to look twice to make out what it was: “Is this Napoleou White ?" •‘lt air, suh, eben if I do duusay it myself.' “Rather old to be iere, Aapole on.” “Dat's so, sah, but when ap’lete man taks you by de front uud says he’ll j«rk de butesoff ytr fee' if ye ilotur prailed along wid him. what yer gwiueter do ?" “Napoleou, the charge is suspi cion. You are suspected of Lav iug stolen a watermelon from a grocer. Ho says he pursue! you half a mile, but you gave him the slip.” “Haw ! h tw! haw! Does he say I run’d?" Yes.” “Wid a mellyon?’ “Yes " •Haw! haw! ha v! Says lie |>re suiued me for half a mile, eIC “Yes." “Jedge, ize got to lass—got to do it t r bust! Haw! haw! haw!— w -•—w! Oh! haw! but if yere haifi’t pumpikitiß growin’ on d* trees!" “iVapoleou,” said his Honor, whm the prisoner had got h:s evo balls back to their old slampiug ground, “this is a serious chuage." “Data so, sah. It’s so serus dat I'd like to luff all day. We run fur half a mile! Jedge, obsarve me!” He hobble, hitched, wobbled aud drugged bin self about five feet, tie was knee sprung spiavin ed, ring-boned and eplit-hoofed. Hr eoldn’i have traveled two miles an hour if there had b«eu a prairie die behind him. “An’ as to waterusellyoue." he observed as Ue slowly squared abound, “dey gave me de jholera iu ’64 au’ I’ve hated de sight of ’em eber siuce. Dat grocer must Lawrenceville Georgia. Tuesday Lev bin cross-eyed " “1 guss ther vvis a mistake ■•Probably, .ledge—p-robably. I reckon you doan want to fool around w ill me any mo?" "No; yon can go." “K’rect! Observe me, ,ledge - observe me as I skip oui!” And during the four minutes it 'ook him to travel thirty feet his tfonor was asking Bijah ho v many men it took to arrest him, aud whether his captors had to call f„r help from country consta hies. NTOppeu OFt- .vr VI UitK V A m .n, seemingly about. t»0 years of age, was telling the people in t ie waiting rooms at the I’hird it reef depot yesterday that he had been Aasi to old Massachu setts to see his sisters. and that on the way back he stopped ofl' at. Ni agara Falls. “That is a place that I never saw," remarked a woman with a poke bonnet on. “Yon didn't! Well, ycu've missed the awfullest sight on earth ! I wus jest stunned.'’ “ What is it like ‘Wei l , there’s a river, and the falls, and lots of hotels, aud sever al lujnns, ami itie bridal viel, and land only knows what else. If my old woman had i-been along she would have willed rigid down." “There is water there I sup pose V “Ob, heaps of it. It pours and thunders and roars and foams and humps around in the most tenible manuer. You have bi l on a shirt button in a piece of pie haven't you ?" •‘N<>, sir.’’ "Well the felling was aliout the same—kinder shivery. Why, the biggest man that ever lived that ain’t half as big as Niagara Falls ! Let him stand thar and see that ere water tumbling over them’ere rocks and he can’t help but feel what a miserable boss fly he is. You've falle.i out o' bed haven't you ?” “Well, the feeling was abou. the same thing, you wake up and find yourself on the floor, and you feel as if you had oen stealin, or robbin’ blind men." “WhAt portion of the falls did vou most admire?’ she asded. “The watter mum.” he prompt ly replied. 1 f you’d pu' 10,000 kegs of beer on the roof of this building and set them all running thev couldn’t begin with Niagara, it’s the ttrriblest appalingest sight ever patented.” “Cost much ’"inquired a gentle man. “’Bout sixty five cents. It’s pjooty tight times, aud sixty cents don’t grow on every bash, but I ain’t sorry. It’s southin' to talk sbou. for twenty years to come. There's a chap in our town who used to ravel with a circus, but he'll take a beck seat when I gil home. Fip ffoppmi’ around in a circus don't begiu with Niagara Falls. ‘So, on the whole, you were pleased, oh ? ’ Pleased 1 Why, I was tickled hall to death ! Ite l you, if T had one on my farm I wouldn’t sell it for S6O in cash ! I ve looked into a field whar’ 750 fat hogs was w u - iu’ to be sold for solid money, but ii was no steh sight as the Falls. I’ve seen barns afire, aud Loses runtiin away, and the Wabash River on a tear, bin for downright appalling grand tier of the terri bleet kind giiu me one look at the Falls. You all oner g) thar’. You can’t half appreciate it till you've gazed on the rumpus.” “What’s the matter, oil fellow You look sick . ' “I am." ••Business dull r “No. “Health bad ?” “Yes. Dyspepsia. ’ “That’s too bad. Your cooking is not very good, is it ?” “No.” Wife gone awqy ?” “No girl has." Lord Wolseley will be given command of the expedition for the relief of Ueu J/ordou HE VOTED TO NEWS, LITEHATFHJ THEOPIi n Il k KIT I » ways bailn 1 orvor nf cpia ates of all kinds. They are so se duclive and so still in their opera lions. They steal through the blood like a wolf ou the trai 1 . an.l they seize upbu the heart at last wuh their white fangs till it, is still fc rever. Up the T.atamia there is a cluster of tanches at the base of l the medicine. Bow. near the er.d of Mountiiiu and in sight ol the gliiteriug, eternal frost nf Miowy range these runclits are the homes of young men fiom Massachusetts. I‘ennsylvania and Ohio, ant now (hire nre several “Younger sons" nf Old England, with herds of Lories s'ears and sheep, worth millions of dollars- These young men are not ll;e kind of whom the Mstrop'i'an ass writes “yonbetcherlife," and call iig everybody "pardner. There are many of them college gradua tes, who can brand a wild Maver ick or furnish the easy gesture for a Strauss vn’ z. They woil • human clothe®, lalk in the Fnited States language and have a bank net ount. This spring ♦hey may be wearing cliaparajos and swinging a quirt through the thin air, and in July they may be at Long branch or coloring a meer sebautn pipe among the Alps. Well, a young min wee ill Curtis lived at one of tl ese ranches years ago. and though a quit", mind, your owo Imsini ,vhohad absolutly mo enemies among his companions, lie had the irk fortune ts incur the wrath of a tramp sheep herder, who wavlaid Curtis one afternoon and shot him dead as lie sat in his l nggy Curtis wasn’t armed. He didn’t dream of troub ble till he drove home from town ai.d as lie passed through the g:Tte of a coiral saw the hairy face of the herder and at the same mo lueut the flash of a winchester rifle. That was all. A rancher came into town and telegraphed to Curtis’s father,and then a hall a dozen citizens went out to help capture the herder, who had fled Io the sage brush of the foothills. jf’liey didn't g el hack till to ward day-break, but they brought the herder with them. 1 saw him in the gray of the morning lying in a course gray blanket on Hie floor of the engine house. He was dead. I asked the reporter how he came to his death, and lie told me opium ! 1 sail “Did 1 understand you to say Topiuni ?" They said no it was opium. 7’ne mur derer had taken poison when lie found that escape was impossible. I was present at the inquest so that I could report the case. There was verry little testimony blit, all the evidence seemed to pi int to iLefact tl at life wasexonet and a verdict of death by his own liuud was rendered. It was the first opium work I Imd ever seen, ami il aroused my curiosity. Dea 1: by opium it seems, leuves a dark pmrpie ritig arotuid tiie neck. 1 did not know tliis before. People who die by opilum also lie iheir hands togeth er before 1 liey die. This is one of the eseennieities of opium pois oiling that 1 never seen laid down iu ilie books. I ocqiieat.'i it to medical science. Whenever 1 run tip against a new scientific Jiscov cry I just hand it right, over to the public without cost. Ever since the ab *ve incident I have been very appreusive about people who seem to be like’y to form the opium habit. I l is on ol the m.st deally lialcotics, es pecially in a new country. High tip in the pure mountain atmos phere 'his man could not secure air to prolong life and he expired. In a laud where clear, crisp) air, de lightful scene ry are abundant t.e itimed his back upou them both ans passed away. Is it not sad to contemplate ?’’ ••Hi! Mikev! let’s play brokers- You give me your cigar: thai’ll be the capital, and I’ll blow you the smoke; that’ll be the interest-” •Mtkey—‘But you'll use up) till he capital. F. M. K—“ What’s the matter wnl yer; ther ain’t that ther way brokers do?” A le; ti r ii mu |ln says • This t nil, the - eei |HCllllal ci one t. e, jns^ fviv I ' |'m i f rniani^B ■ i'i ' M U over ie| || in pie ill m i 11 sr men the^^^^^^^^H O C I g I man i ■ .'in: • M r ' ' H I ■ I • r ■ ■ fIH flj dm burhiiH : jfl fl lie l-i^H J| the ■ ■Bffts. S 1 uouulbl his efforts to find tire thief, but after h tlf ail hour pass ed in searching every nook of tlie great edifice, he was more mystifi ed tuan ever, for lie not only could not find the offender, but lie could Jiicover no place where he could have come in or gone out. Jut before he determined to give the a'unq he thought of the c rpse lying down below the chancel tail in the Jiad-jw. and the idea came Io him ilia l perhans there be something wrong about it, — Lighting a i audio, he stepped -olt ly to,the peered into the face <’f the supposed dead man.— As h«, looked he noticed that the e\elide of the “corpse” twitclnd lievoijsly under the light, and at t’ same instant his own eyes fi li i n some of the glittering jew-1 els which lay beside the man in j i he coffin. Ovtrj >yyd ai finding the thief lie sicristtan thrust his revolver into the face of the “corpse, and onh rod him to get ml. Theco'd s idonll.f min’s f-ttvhoad con vinci d l.iui ti ll' lie order mils/ be ,ln iye r.a'd a most cxlraoidit a r ry i< tin Hum took pin e then and ilieic. Wiicu the innti ha 1 gaine 1 It's feel, I lie sacrisl an, still covet ing him with his pisbJ, galheri 1 up the jewels, and then much 1 the cn'prit In h.- piiest’s house, wlicm he was I true I over to the po'iri . .Several (iMi’V'W l'e til'll Rlwi iotitii ill :he chlircll, tnd wll.-ll tue Il.jyif’s c n'e h rates arrive 1 in | flic morning they were taken into cti--|edy. Al first they denied a 1 , knowledge of h conspiraev, but after a litfe whih lie of them c n fesst d mid tf-ld the hle souy. He said they intended t i tro tin i the forißs of a funerd c. xm.ii'V. and thoi carry heir fiiernl out to I die cemetery, and, afier 'ett'! l ;: ! him out of the coffin, bury i . mul ! davethe country : s speedily as : ]jo sib'e 7 hsy wi'l he rev rly 1 | unishe 1. Lond a:. Aug. 2fi. -The Tim - | i f-orrespon le it ssml i bi*“her m- I t’liiv eJ 'he hoilil uidiiien 1 i Foo j Chow Oil Friday, ■•The Chinese looted tile CniKUhi e buildings ear’v in the engagement, comp etc ly gutting them 7’he bombard i incut iv described as sickening. The French allowed no quarter, and shelled ihe disabled Cjinese ; vessels a, long as they remaineiT I above watir. The French hull I eight iron clad iqcn of war in ue i tion. while the Cliiuose had liiuoj Ismail gunboats, all but two of | j which wire des roytd. English' j vessels saved many wounded Obi | ne.se who were floating in the wa | ter.” for the pm stocks end some lent or s'raps M Cut linger, however, was suffer iug such exlret.i i pain tin*, at Ins own request, il was deci led tha* Key should descend for help),while Fremont r nuaiued with die wound td limn. The cold became intense aid the guide ei deavored to keep) up) the heat in M (iuttmger s body by rubbing him, but this could be only partially dons on account. of tue many wounds in the body.— For two or three hours the suffer er tossed about in great pmin, but ut nil ’ o'clock h" s- cm I to .i,io , i). Ini j lii a '.r lo .i.iio o ,iiilo.iij s„,i o 1 up, and muttering 'some unintelligible words, lie died in tlnJguide’s arms. For five dreadful hours after teis Fremont renamed with the body, and was himself ail but frozen to death ; but at two o’clock Hey re turned in company with a num ber of other guides. Within the punt week, the dent ocratic pirospects have brightened greatly, and it really seems now that Cleveland’s election is assur ed. '/'lie candidacy of St. John is pit ying sa i havoc with tin- re pmbiican vote in several Western states, while it is conceded that Ihitlei wilt take as many votes from the republican ns lie demo cratic side The gcandull on Mr. Cleveland has proved a hoomei ago io the originators* and recoil ed with fearful force upon tliei* own candidate. Now iliat the first shock of these charges has piassed away, they leave him even s ron ger than bufore. The New York Hi.iv.id contends that the demo- cratic ticket can be successful without New York, and inti care fully prepared table gives it 277 votes, and the republicans only 124, or 7<i votes imuv th u are necessary to elect. Lock dhy we hear of bol.t ts front the republi can side, while the d tnoc ary are as firm as the Rock of Gibraltar. Charles Sehurz, the undoubted loade r of the Geru’au vote, is by far the most valuable recruit out party has gained. With his assis tance. Indiana is assured to us be yond thef'shadow of a doubt, while Ohio and several strong republi can st'bs in the West tire trem bling iu the balance. 7 lie repiub licans tire sick ami dishcai toned, for their forces arc lire.king at every point. Even the govern ment employees, upon whom thev depend for tlio hulk of their cam paign funds, positively refuse to entire thirty i.vo pioopile wore at tacked. 7'lie mule first hitter, made a fe rocious a'tack oil .Mr. DoiiglititM.n Saturday last. After hitting the an pnal lie was tiding, turn D nightie dismounting he had a race for life with tl e mad beast, an ! escaped only by the narrowesi chances the mule running against a fence piost iu his wild charge and being knock ed senseless, just as Mr. Doughtie wus scaling the fence, The mule was shot and killed by Mr. Dough tie afterwrnls. The mule bitten by this animal has shown no signs of hydrophobia yet, but pircsents every indication of poison, and the Doctor says that the animal can not live, Two days ago another dog was attacked with rabies and killed, but not before bittuiff a small dog on th . lot, which is now housed uud will be trea ed experi men'ally fora cure. The greatest .error exists throughout the entire beat on account of the fact that the first .'eg is still at large among the cattle and hogs. Dr. Johnson, who is an able physician; says that he would not be surprised if the majority of thirty pieopi'e attacked sliou'd su • cuiiio to the disease, as the p>re monitory symptoms arc of lie most dangerous character. The medical fraternity are greatly in teresied over Ihe developmnmt. of he cases. 7'iie peopile generally are excited and the victims and their families are terror-stricken. A community hum has been pro piosed for the pflir uit and cipture es die mad dog now at large. Cuat auooga, Tenu., Aug. 28. A few days since two masked men went to the house of Joe Davis, a miner, and damauded his money. The robbers reminded him of his boasts of his wealth, aud swore they would kill him if he did not reveal where the money was hid i’tiey were about to carry ilu.it threats iuto execution when Davis gave them It s money, ainoiin ing o$l,t)()(). Bevel al parties went in search of the bold thieves. Tues day afternoon the mangled re mains of a white man were found on tlu Cincinnati Southern track a short distance from Glen Mary jt was at first supposed that the body was that of a tramp) who h id been killed by stealing a ride, but Further oxiiuina'ion disclo c l it startling and terrible crime. It was found that the deceased was a ymiug man named Franklin, who ha I be u living in the pdaeu for some time. He was suspweted as having been oue of the piarties who robbed Davis. Them were two bullet holes in his head. The i in caught him, but others say it was a large turtle. We are informed t-init Col. t’olt, once of Social Cir cle, put u young al igator in the .llcova, near the Circle, soon after the war.—Walton News. Ot'awa, Out., Aug. 2(l.—A far mer named Leblanc, living near Shrewsbury, went to (lie woods to work, directing on starting, that his little daughter be sent with his dinner, dtilp in., no din ner having arrived, he started for home. Having gone some Ois lance lie saw a bear feasting on sonic object, lie tired and the an imal dropped dead, and a its feet tfie lionfie.l funner saw the body of his daughter mangled almost beyond recognition, and in her hand the can which contained her fathers dinner. “1 say, Jimmy, yer al werv hard link, an’ L fc.d sorry for yer, said a small boy to a companion. “W’a''s ilo matter? I Iniin’t go no hard luck,” “i>o vi r nit an ter say yer don't know wots go in’ on up> at yer house?” “No, I ain’t heard uonin’. What is i>?" “Dere’s ain in unloading cord wood iii der lane.’, They were sitting on the sloop) and as liepiat ted her little cheek he asked: “Clarihel, what is I lie reason that your etc. eks are so warm?" “I don’t know, ' she answer, “tin le.'H.i* is iha' I haven’t Imd any ie cream this evoniug ” And then they both looktd out on the lake ami watched ihe play of the pule moon on the silent wa ters Swret Innocence—‘*Mn, is it wrong to kiss a man you ore not engaged to ?”* Ma—“ Certainly, my dear, very wrong.” “There now, that’s just what I told them.” “Told, whom!' “Why, Dick an 1 Jack, and Torn Charlie, and Aiuhnr and Will, and i>ob and Ah, and Sam and Cus, and ” Bui ma had fainted- A famine is raging in Mysore India. Air. Blaine Iras regained his health. Some negroes in Macon,through m dice, burned their own church. A negro was lynched iu Jean ne te, La., for rape on a white girl. 3The America!’ party has \vi h di awn in favor ot S 1 John and Daniel.