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THE WEEKLY GWINNETT HERALD: K vi KKKI'LKS.I lit* W*™"' , \„|, their jriahtt' an>l cu-lomris to cell andexamine theirttook of PALL III) wr\ ni'm- , , , , M> "IMtL a lull II,„■ of I >re*4 U0«,1.. Calu-n™ Tiekittß., lertiee Sle*. „f .|| kiml , » (lie \ vvl J| Wti t4o<>lJ **’ MOTIONS, or AIjL Kluruo, aiiANaWAUM, OHOOKBH.Y, OrMOOSinina I BOOTS and SHOES A SPECIALTY. In fact a oomple e lineofNOener.il Merchandise which they propose to sell a»cheap as the rheauesl r „ 1 v f!a. Oct 14 ISB4 . j r ( THE inn do flllll.lMHKll KVKLY -JI V»lj A \ II I'E£PLF.S &. BOWLES. SUBSMUI»riON KATES : 1 copy 12 mos., #1.50 iti advance. I cu py i) iiios., 75 in advauce. I copv M mos., .50 in advance. Low Enough- for Everybody S AuAdverfisnii/ Mediuth Tile tl KHALI) ik iiiti it/ famuli, of tin t rleusme circulation anu rtmrkuM'i Luo rates, btiinestimen .hoitl'l niuemhcr this LANKS (Al.l. KOMIS NKAfI.Y ERINTHO) fOR SALE ATT HE 111 It A D JG 1 . i.J IK J rows \ COIJN I V DIRECTORY JOHN Cl.\Y .SMITH, Mayor, council A I. Vlnor,'. K ii Herrin. VV K Brown VV J llrown ARRIVAL AM) DKI'A RTIMiK OF TRAIN Arrives from Sfiwanmv. sf>op. m Ix-ax-t* lor Suwannee, 7a - ra. ARRIVAL AND OKI*ARTURS. OS MAILS. Jssfkrsoh Arrives 12 in, departs i p.m., Monday and I'liursdny. I'kVolks Si'ORS. Departs ti ain ar rives g pm, Monday and Thursday. I,loam ills. Arrives 10 a in, de parts I|i in. Daily. Ykllow Hivkr.— Arrives T 2 in., de part' ii a n,„VVe luesday and Saturday VV. 11. H AItVKY, P. n CHURCHES Methodist—liev J R Ring, Pastor. Seiviceson the Ist and ;lth Sundays. Sunday School.— A T Patlillo, Supl Everry Sunday at 3 p in PrksbytkkiaN--ilev J K McClelland, Pai or, Services on 2nd and 4th Snndays in each month, Sunday School.— l' li Powell. Supl. livery Sunday at 9.3 ) a in- Lawrknckvillk Masonic Loduk. — 3 1* in, W M., ,S A llagood, S \V„ S I,Winn ,1 VV. Meets on Tuesday •tight on or befoi e lull moon in each month. Mr V krson Chapter, No 39, it A M.--J II Spence, II P, A T Patlillo See Meets Ftiday nigh* be,Die the 3rd Sunday in each mo it It. jmtnnktt Superior Court. — N. L. Hutchitis, J mlge. Cotiveues on the Ist Moaduy in March and September. OOUNI Y OKKIcERs. Commission Kim--.I 1) Spence, Chair and l Ink, N Bennett. Jelieisonbi itt. J K Hopkins, J K Cloud. Shrrikf—J M Patterson. Oruinary-—,l T l.umkiu. 1 i.hik S C—ll T Cuin. Tax KkoMVKR.-ti VV Pharr. 1 ax Cut.i, Kotor—,l C Lowety. ’Trkam her.—K N Robinson TkasLtarJl Raxing m-ontly located in (Jxviti nett County tenders his profession!! services usa Physician 10 the citizens Prompt attention to all calls w ill lie given. Otliee mid residence ill tin- I'esi deuce of A Cain oil the Hurricane Shoals road. Marcli 24tli ISSi Uuio Farm Loans. Five-year lours on improved fnrtiiK in Middle and Northern Georgia, negotiated on cheaper terms than any one in Atlanta. Addres, Francis fontaine, Fitter Building, Atlanta (3a. April 19th.—lmo. Cotton, Presses Cane Mills, Uto, BROOKS’ cotton press Es . for hand or steam BOWER 2 3 HOLIER OANE MI MLS. M vGARTH I S HORSE POWER LNOINES. boiler-}, pulleys, shift ing, etc. McCombs, Tayi.or, A'Cu . Atlanta, Machine IVoiks 1 TIIK.HOWK Til IT INIIAFI*!- EHT." I ( Oh ! lou dens are lightened That many hands hear, And pleasures are heightened That many hearts share ; ; Ai», 11lie home that is happiest, Brightest and best Is where they all labor, And where they all rest. Then mot her has leisure To laugh with her girl <, She shares all their secrets ; They.smooth her soft curls, And fondly declare i That never was mother | So winsome and fair. And father is jolly ; His stories aud fun Are the life of the hotishohl ; lie lias not a son j Who does not think father \ K nows I vest, and is best, Ami would not workdouble 'That he might take rest. So, helping each other In labor or play, in happiness ever The years pass away. Kor pleasures are brightest That many hearts share, And hu’-deus .ire lightest That many hands hear. Abbe Kiu.ie DYING FOR HIS MAS TER A SHEPHERD DCo’s ENCOUNTER WITH A RATTLESNAKE. “My nf.me is Thomas WHman, and 1 live in Philadelphia, where ,ny son Harry is i ptomiueu/ bus -1 mess man. Thirty-one years ago I mai-iieu, In Great Barrington Mass-, as jiretty a girl as that vtl liage (.famous for its pretty girls) ever sheltered. She had been well brought up, but had no for tune. I had #1,500 which I had made by running a sawmill. \Ye were young and had «.ne world be fore us, aud «e concluded to go West. Going West in those day didn't mean, as it setms to now going beyond the Mississippi. Go ing into ‘York (State was going Rest tber. I had a cousin in Cat taiaugus, a little village on the Erie Railway, 30 miles east o Dunkirk, aud we concluded to go there. It was late in August when we reached Cattaraugus. My cousin gave us a hearty welcome, and 1 set about looking for a spot to build. Ce/taraugus is A curious sort of a place. The viliiage i s surrounned by hills, and the won der to me is that it dosen’t slide down iuio the washbowl-like vat ley on the side of which it is built. A little creek ruus through the viliiage, and a mile to the wist finds itself in a deep, narrow val ley, with almost perpendicular sides, 100 feet high. This valley is called Skinner Hollow, aud is one of lie moai picturesque spats j oil the Eiie Road. I went down in:o the Lolloxv prospecting. The ! sides, where they wete not too sleep, were covered with a heavy growth of firbt-cliss pine, and for miles around the hills were thick with the same timber. I *w here was money in a sawmill right down in diat hollow, and I bunt one on the stream, which I could see was a good-sized creek mobt of the year. It is <ne of the bran ches of Cattaraugus Creek, which etnplies into Lake Erie 30 miles west of Buffalo. ‘ I built my mill there, and close to it a lit le hou.i», so close) i.. fact, that the two joined, 1 took Katie, that is my wife, down tlmre, and we began housekeeping That was well into the winter, and I began logging at once. I hired a gang of men to help me, raised money by contracting my lumber ahead, ami started in. We cut logs on the Dill J close to the mill rigged up slides, and ran them down to the logway. 1 tell you it was music to me when the saw ripped into the first i-jawrenceville Jeorgia, Tuesday October 14 1884 log and a clean cu* slab dropped away from the teeth. We Lad a little jollification. Thai was the first log ever cu* in Skinner Hol low, and people drove miles to see it. “Business was good. There wis lots of snow which made it easy work getting logs to the mill and drawing the lumber to the viliiage, besides giving me ail the water T xxanied. In fact wa ter was running over the tail of my flume every hour from the lime 1 turned i' into the race till the middle of July. Then a dry spell came on. and I had to shut down for two or three hours every day to lei my race till up. “But I didn't mind that. I had had a tip top season and had made money. I had logs enough at my door to keep me busy for a year and I knew where there were plen ty more when those ran o-it. And, besides, I had two *o look afier in stead of one. You wouldn’t think if you’d see Harry, with all his re fined vvays and education, '.hat the first music he ever heard was a “aw tea»'iug through a pine knot. Butit’B 80. He was a pioneer's son and knocked around a sawmill till he was into his teens. Well, when busiuness was slow I work ed around the house, fixing up things here and there for Katie, so as to make her more comfort able. Sb. coaldn’t have been mere contented. (She used to tliiuk that sawmill was just, about the pleasantest place in the coun try- Hour after hour she’d stay out there with me, and we’d keep up the eonversatien wnile'lie log was running back and stop when it went up to Ihe saw. Dear me! Dear me! Why, I can see her as she used to look in those days in that little sawmill just as plaimy as if I stood there with her to day She used to jump on the log and ride up pretty close to the 3aw and thu-n. just as I would get seated and jump io drag her away off sued go. “Nobodv was ever happier than ne wete, and we have never been as happy since, though wave been pretty happy and are yet.” The yellow sunlight tl uttered into the room where the two sa/ and the wine looked like blood as the dancing rays shone through it. The old man was lost in hun py reverie.and the young man ven 1 tilled to remind him that there was a snake story piomised. True," said the old man, sfart : iug, “I’m just coining to that. I i los my self thinking of those old ; days. There was snakes, and we | had killed them. I aitlers used : to come out on die ledges of locks I and lav in the hot sun. One or two hud come around tne mill,and ' I had shot one in cur door yard. But we thought nothing of thut. i People living in the woods or in 1 wild places gei use.-l to things that | would fi 1 them with hoiror in a j settled country. We expected to ' find snakes, and as long as they kept their distance or gave us a J chance too shoot them when they | got too near we didn’t mind j them. As I told you, I fixed up these i things around the house during 1 slack time. One of the hi’B of I furniture 1 knocked together was a bedstead. It was more like a broad lounge than a beds'ead. it had neither head nor foo hoard One end was raised a little line a t ouch, and that was the head. We had some bearskins and blankets to sleep on, and more blankets to cover us. It was a big improve ment on the floor where we had been seeping, and after a hard day’s work handling logs I used I I think it about as comfortable a spot as I knew. “Well, it got along into /he fall DEVOT'F.D TO NEWS, LITERATI ! AND I(Xa 1. AFFaIHS and we begun to have chilly nights. The equinoctial gave us a big rain, and for a fortnight 1 hitda'l the water 1 cou'd use. Then it got dry again. One after noon, after several days of threat ening weather it began to lain. Hour after hour the rain ccme down till about nine o'clock in ihe evening, gwlien suddenly ii cleared off at d turned cold. It was la*e in October ami we kept a fire burning on “n the hearth nights, more lor tlie baby’s sake thin fir our own. Our bed was panel with the fireplace and stood out near the middle of the room. We had an English shepered dog named Leo, w Inch we took with us from Massachu seits. ile was a black aud white beauty, and my wife who had rain ed him, thougtit about as much of him as she aid the babv or me —at leabt. 1 und to ‘ell |,u- so. The dog was fond of me aud 1 made a great pet of I im. He was a noble fellow.and ail he waut“d was for me ‘o whistiejjustouceami lie’ll come over the foot of the bed and wake Katie by licking her f»ce. "That niglu wt were just going to bed when it i urnsd co d I threw an extra pine kaot on the fire and went to the door to look I slia/i never forget diu/ look, for it was the last time I ever stood there and saxv stars above Skinner liohow 1 clost-d the door and went to bed aud soon fell asleep. I skpt oil the side of the bed near est the hearth, my wife slept on the further side and the baby be tween us. For some reason I dicin’/ s/tep 'oiig, and whm I xvak ed up I couldn’t go to sleep again Finnully I got out of bed and threw another l;uo/ ou the fire Leo was stretched on* on the floor with his noss between Lis paws He eyed me sleepily as I walked around ilie rcorio and gave me a loving look as ’ stooped do-vn and patted his head. J went hack to bed and fell into aD uneasy sleep. All at once I wakened with a start It must have been passed midnight. I seemed to be fully awake the moment I opp«u ed my eyes, and such a sight as they rested cn God grant they may never see again. I was lying on my left side facing my wife who was lying her on right side. The baby was lying between ns. \s I oppeneil my eyes a dark ob ject glided from off tbe baby, and jusi /hen the knot burst into flames and flooded the room wi/h light. A rattlesnake, fully five fee! long, had slipped down from between my wife and myself where it had been stretched out piesum ably to get warm, aud startled no doubt by some movement 1 liad made in waking,had thrown itself into ac3l on the bed at the b: - by’s feet ju-t opposite my knees. ••Soim body asks if life is worth living- I think it is as a general tiling, if life bad many such mo ments as that I should say emphat ically that death was preferable. For a uiomeut I lost my head 1 did not move, fortunately, but I seemed to drift entirelj out of all conciousness. For a moment only this lasted. Then my senses came back to me. and 1 felt that from the reaction I would proba bly tremble frem head to foot. How I ever managed to keep my body rigid I don’t know, but by an awful effort I did. I knew that to stir was death, perhaps for myself, perhaps for my boy, per haps—my God,the thought was agony—for my wife. Outside I could hear the lain dripping from the eaves, and I could de ed the sound of wa'er running to waste over the flume, jfo-morrow, I thought, I’ll have plenty of waier again. To-morrow! Would I ever see to-morrow again ! And if i did would I not meet it alone? In spit eof all I could do a blind der ran through my body. “Tbe snake felt it and raised its head. I could see its eyes glisten and dance in the fireight and the brigb/ rays glanced over the undulaiing coils. I could see that the snake was irritateu. and 1 knew tlia/ it was liable to spring a any moment. Who would it I strike? Eulier of us was within i easy distance. Ii seemed to me that I could see the hegiuuing of the muscular contraction which woul 1 preceda the spring, “AH this, of course, passed in a fraction of the time I have occup ed in telling it. My wife and boy slept on. I prayed that they might not move, for ii they did ■lie simke would throw itself for ward. I moved my head slightly The snake's head again arose, and lor the first time i 1 hounded its int He. Insiatnly m*- wile opened her t yes, and some way they rest ed on ihe snake. I could see that overy vestige of color had left her face, but she did not move a tniis cte. Then her eyes slowly left the snake aud up to mine. "Looking back over Hie nearly thirty years which have elapsed siti :e then I can see the look iti her eyes yet. We hail sometimes I talked of meeting death together j Now it /ay between ns and in u none hornble form than we had ever dreamed of. Yet the look of perfect confidence in me which my wife’s eyes almofct spoke was someihiiig a man does not. see more than once in a lifetime- That see tried to say. for baby]s sake,and j iika a flash l b. eniio as cool as I ;uu at this niomei,/. I could not j speak but my wife understood that she must keep perfectly quiet and jump. When the time came slowly and wi ll iniiui e cure I rais eI my u ead till I could look down the bed io the floor beyo., l. My wife s eyes followed mine, aud we both aw the dog. The hide ous eyes ot the snake swayed io and lr", I knew that what was done must be done quickly. I lojked at my wife uiid she realiz ed my plan. Her eyes tilled wi.li tears bul gave consent. With a prayti for help I moistened my lips and gave ouejslier bh irpjwhi-i tie. The snake didn’t kuo * wlmt o make of it. but the dog Leo divl. As the dog s hod/ tose in the air my wife caught hold of the baby's garmentb and rolled off'. I rolled out on my side, graspeJ jmy rifle, which stood at he head of the lied and turned. The dog and /he snake were rolling togeth er on the bed. I caught sight ot the snak s head and fired, the rep tiie hud pa."-ed doing any ha> in,the dogbtageredoft he bed o the floor shivered in a ej once oi twice, looked from my wife to myself with morel ve than I ever saw before or sin.ieiti any animals eve a d die I “At day brink next mort iug we buried t! e dog mid .started for the Tilling*'. I sold my null arid home to a man who was visiting uiy cousin, ai d before sunset we wete on our way to Masiachusetts o/L --er childten came to in ikeour home happy, aud /here are grandchild ren now. But young man, if pi v erty stood on one hand and even a glimpse of Skinner Hollow on the other, we would take poverty cheerfully and think we had made a good bargain. Innocence is like polished arm or, it adorns aril iZ defends.—Dr. South. The amount of suffering that /hax can be endured depends largely upon the spirit in which it is borne. A 4'olorctl UeurKla Prodigy “Are yon really deaf and dumb? This whs tbe question address ed by a Times reporter yesterday to a dwarfish looking negro boy, who was leutiiug against a brick wall on Market sireet. He is small thick set and coal black. He lias large, wide, open eyes, but his features have * lie dull stolid look so commonly seen in muies. As the reporter spoke, noticed tha* the colored boy was eyeing him very carefully, and when lie finish ed the boy opened his note book ami wrote in u scrawling baud : “ Fes.” “Can you teb, by the move uitnts of tny lips what I am say. mg !” He nodded affirmatively. ••Who will testify that yon are deaf and dumb ?” He turned to a gentleman from Boyce (Station, who explained to the repoiter that tbe colored boy was named Henry Bell; his age 23: he was born at Cave Spring, Ga., and could never bear nor speak. For several years he has been employed by Capt Taylor, at Boyce Station, aud he kuows positively that he is a genuine mute. Wow for the si range part of the story . The rt porter placed lbs finger tips very lightly on /lie boy’s shoulder. Ho wore a heavy coat, and the touch was so light that the heavy folds were next depress ed. The bov turned /ds head so lie could not bee die teporter, and the latter said almost n a whisper “Do yon know what I am my irg now ? Henry wiote in his book, -Yes ’ “H«w old are you and where wtre you born ? ’ tbe reporter again whispered, Fetry’s head still being turned. He wb te, “My nan *■ s Henry I) .I wa binat C. x Springs, Ga, mui am tw nty dine years old. I know anything you say by the feeling in tny shoulder.” 1 long conversation was thus car ried on, aud the boy unders'ood every word. Dr Holsclaw, who witnessed the test, also conversed with the boy in ihe same manner, and explains his strange sense as follows: “As all miles, his remaining senses, es peciully that of touch, are very hcu'c. When you speak, the v bration of your vocal cords are transmitted to jour mucular tistn es aud when you place your lin gers on his shoulder the vibration ß are transmitted to him through the 'ipe. His sense of fee'ing is so scute this vibratiau acts on his shoulder just as sound waves act on the drum of the ear and he vir t.tally hears through his shoulder Instances of blind mutes interpret ing speech by placing their fingers on the muscles of the throat ate fnqueut, but an iustaine like this is very vare.’ - Ilenry wrote that Le has been practicing many ye/irs nt this mode of in erpreiing “peeeh. By look ing nt one carefully while they spunk he knows every word that is uttered Harvest never comes to such at sow not. A saw- mil at Jndsonia, Ark., is shipping walnut lit nber to M usa chusetts. A tart temper never mellows wi ll age : anil a f harp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. True wealth consists in bea'th, vig or. aud courage, domestic quie , concord, public liberty, plenty of all that is necessary, and con tempt of all that is superfluous. RAYS OF MIRTH No wotider Bismark wants to keep out the American hog. He never could stand a rival. Talk about a man turning a wo man's head ! It is passing auoth er woman with a new bonnett. that tloes it. Husband—“ Mary, lias the dog I been at this meat t” Wife—“No dear, I carved when you were, away yesterday." Tile most noted men who have made the wealth /hey possess were bachelors. Well there’s a cause for every effect. When a maiden becomes a lislt i-r of men shw should use genuine bait Men are shy of a hook that | is “too fly,' as the Futglish say. While it is belter »o lie born lucky than rich, it is belter to mar ry a poor gill with a sweet lempcr than a rich girl with a read head ed one. “Sixteen feet make a rod,” say the old iirithnietics. But then the | Chicago girl did not figure so , largely in literature as she does j now. “Ma,' 1 casually remarked Finder the other evening us the twoslood at die front gate waiting for Fitz gootier to come home, “What ! relation is there between you and I alune? “Me aud a lane?" asked Un lady a pu/./Ud look crossing her face “W by do you ask stn-li uqnes j liou!" "Well, nothing much," roplied Finder, “only I heard pa talking so the widow about you. “ Wlmt did they suy ? demanded Mrs Ftlzgiober now quite intei j us'ed, “She to!d pa /hut it was a won der to her how he m tiagcd to g< I along with you." “What did he dien say, “He sorter winked at her and 1 said, -don't you fret, my pretty lass its ii long In in- tha has no turn ing.’’ There is a man /raveling over i the country telling this story us jan obligation to thu stock law : //e says that while traveling in a no fence county in South Carolina he saw a man standing under a persimmon tree holding a long pole in his hand. He asked the fello v what he was doing, and he said lie had no corn and no past* ure aud he was just grazing his hog on the B : mmons uptn the tree, and he looked up and saw a pig noi higgei than his fist tied on the end of tl e pole. This is a fair sample of the yarns that axe being told the ignorant vo/er.s of the country. Nineteen lepers were sent back to China from San Francisco on the steamer Oceanic One ol them escaped before the sailing of the vessel, hut wits recaptured Tbe city paid the full passage mon ey ol the lepers an-1 jjave each one five dollars.—, Special dispatches receiv ed in San Francisco from the Hast about ])r O’Don nel. ami his two lepers have caused much amuse ment, th it is known he hits no lepers with him, Tke champagne of youth pro duces the real pain of age Favorable weather for hay wak ing when It rftius pitchforks. Never judge a man by the um brella he is c irrying. it may not be his own. it is impossible to be a hero in anything, unless one is first a he ro in faipi. |Vol. XIV. No 29 ODDS AND A'NDS. , _ Blaiue K fit) Tilden is 70 Hewitt is 02. Butler in 6(k Edmunds i 8 JG. Eec; Lincoln is 43. Fayue, of Ohio, is 74. There are 9,009 French Canadi dirtDs in Loweii Mass . I'ig brandy is the name of a new California drink. Kerosene wasfirst used for light ing purposes' in 1825. Brazil’s navy consist of 3,000 men ano fifty vessels. Jhe first copper cent was coin ed in New Heaven in IGB7. In /he English northAasiern ports 137 ocean steamships are idle. Ihe first priming press in /he United (Rates was worked in 16- 20. Six new Persian war vessels will he lauched within three months. Motsit-ut tie Fursis, the l’aris executioner, gets 6,000 francos a yea/. I' :s proposed to make a direct road for cyclists from Loudon to Brighton. 1 lie average life of a locomo tive is thirty five years. ' said an old Erie Railroad engineer. flit- (jit mans increase their na vy. Many new vessels are now under construction. There are 81,717 clergymen and 17,267,878 church c unmunicanis in the United States. Tbe number of lives lost thro' disaster in the first quarter of the present century was 2,154 I he late John Callauioie, of Boh Urn, left to hie family an estate worth more than $1,000,000. 1' rancis MurpLey has secured mere than 4,000 signatures to his temperance pledge in Chicago, lift 7wo slaves formerly owned by Jest Davis now own uis plantation for which they paid $200,000. Naples is the t dirtiest, most rag ged and septal id city ci/y in .Eu rope It has a population of 600, IMHI. The first telegraph instrument was suecessfu ly operated by S. t. B . Morse the iuuent >r, in 18- .15 Ihe unfavorable condiiion of Ira: cens regards the increase of population is more marked than ever. The National association of euter Oarsman hold their next an ual rehatta %( Watkins, August 18 and 18-3 A Yonng and well known Een glish nobleman is the owner of thirty-five cabs and seventy hora 68 in London. Thousands of hores and mules have been killed in the upper swamp conn ties of Mississippi by bnffaio gnats.