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“Are there four of them ?” she
asked, with, some appearance of sur
prise. “I only exppeted'three.”
“Four,” he said, but he volunteer
ed no further Information.
The widow udfolded the papers
while the lawyer watched with pro
fessional narrowness, and as she
looked them over the color flushed
yet more in her somewhat florid
cheeks.
“Did yon succeed in selling that
ten-acre lot to Mr. Woodhofflea?”
she exclaimed. How perfectly
splendid! Why, Mr. Sharperson, I
«un positively getting to be.tjoite an
Welress. ' Isn't there some' - mis-
ARNAiJL BRO’S
“Here in Westerly ? Oh, very well,
■ Mr. Sharperson, but who is there iD
Westerly for me to marry? I as
sure you I wouldn’t think of Mr.
' Smithers, with his live small ehil-
i dren; I never could endure Mr
• Green, the tailor; I’m sure you don’i
mean for me to marry Mr. Church,
the butcher; and Mr. Stinchfield i-
too odious for anything. You see
don’t you, that I can’t marry am
one of them ?”
“Yes.”
“Well, who else is there?”
“Me.”
“You!”
“Me.”
It was done at last, and if the law
yer could but have so far conquer
ed the habit of half a century of
bashfulness as to follow up his ad
vantage, everything would have
gone on swimingly.
He was, however, almost stupe
fied by his own temerity, and while
the widow on her side of the fire
place cast her eyes down coyly, be
lieving that now at least he would
take the initiative, Mr. Sharperson
on his side none the less abased his
glances out of sheer bashfulness.
“Heavens!” thought the widow,
slily reconnoitering out of the corner
of her eye, “have I got to get up and
rush into his arms ? Was there ev
er so aggravating a man created ?”
She coughed softly, she patted the
hearth with hei trim slipper tip, se
cretly determined that nothing
short of the most absolute despera
tion should make her break the si
lence this time.
At length when there seemed an
eminent prospect that the pair
would consume the remainder of
their mortal existence in staring
wordlessly into the coals, and just
as the widow reached that point
when she felt that she must speak
or go mad, Mr. Sharperson did re
new the conversation.
“Well ?” he queried.
“Well!” she echoed.
“Eh!”
The lawyer was wholly unpre
pared for having the burden of the
talk thrown upon him, and beyond
this rather incoherent exclamation
could say nothing. The widow
looked at the fire and looked at her
taciturn wooer.
“I must say,” she observed, with a
touch of sarcasm in her voice, “that
I have seen more ardent lovers.” 1
Mr. Sharperson looked rather 1
An Amiable Wood-bo Husband.
Ma—“I have my doubts about Mr.
layfellow, my dear, and wish you
had not said yes before consulting
ne.”
“Daughter—“Why, what is the
natter with him?”
“He has no trade, business or pro
fession that I can discover, and has
certainly no expectations, as his
relatives are all poor.”
“But. ma, just think what a good
husband he will make.
album!
ill, WiJ
Outlive.-,
WUhgfV'i
rittgn through
lie or true.
GHas-Ls 1 ! Glass ! Crla^s
2,000 BOXES IN STOCK.
S!U ;Sizes>, Siqrfle kqd Double Tlpck.
Prices to Suit the Times,
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
F. J. COOLEDGE & BRO„
21 Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
DRY GOODS, FANS! GOODS,
NOTIONS, HOSIERY,
Clothing. Hats and Shoes*
STO^K 1971.
Family Groceries.
A LACONIC WOOER.
Mrs.; Ab* Jtil ' WidgftLI a buxom
widow of four and forty, sat sewing
in the winter sunlight which fell
through the stand of geraniums and
petunias
window.
There won’t
be a quarrel from one year’s end to
the other.”
“You think so now, no doubt.”
“Oh! but, ma, I am sure of it. He
is so amiable.”
“Perhaps his amiability has not
been tested!”
“Ah! but it has. You know how
most men hate parents-in-law.’’
“Yes.”
“Well, he said he would not ob
ject at all to living with you and
pa.”
before her sitting room
^ cheerful wood fire
burned on the hearth, its flames;re
flected in the glistening brass fire
dogs glistened only less brightly
“Mr. Sharperson, I have thegreat-
est mind I ever had in the world to
kiss you.”
chase of our slock, we have BOUGHT CHEAPER THAN
EVER BEFORE, thus being enabled to offer
Bargains in all Kinds of Goods
The Widow was astonished at hav
ing elicited a monosyllable of such
a character from the bachelor that
she almost forgot to bridle, but for
tunately remembered in time what
was expected of her sex.
“Really,” she simpered, “you are
positively dreadful! 1 wouldn’t have
believed itof you!”
She paused to give him an oppor
tunity oi adding something more,
but Mr- Sharperson had already ex
ceeded the ordinary limits of his
habitual reticence, and by a not un
natural recoil was now more silent
tiian ever.
“I shall soon begin to look out for
fortune hunters,” remarked Mrs.
Widgin, archly. “I hope you’ll pro
tect me from them when they
“Retired From Business.”
“Yes,” he remarked to his friend,
“since I ”
“Telegram, sir,” interrupted his
clerk. “Wabash up one point.”
“Wire Smith to sell 10,000. As I
was about to remark, since I ”
“Another telegram, sir,” again
interrupted the cleric. “Union Pa
cific is down three points.”
“Order Smith to buy 3,00:1. Yes,
since I ”
“Mr. Wilson wants to know
whether you will be at the bank
meeting this afternoon," interrupt
ed the clerk for the third time.
“I’m going down at once, tell him.
As I was abou. ... h contin
ued, “since l retired from active
• usiiit-as 1 have never felt better in
Ml my life.”
exaininati m o! o ir goo i- and ail inquir
t is necessary to convince you that ours is
■ALSO A FULL STOCK-
THE GREAT BARGAIN STORE!
1). P. WOOD ROOF
THE UNEIYALED
[New Farmer Girl
COOK STOVE.
such entire willingness to under
take the defense ot his fair client
that he evidently did not feel it nec
essary to put it into words.
“I don’t know,” pursued the wid
ow, gazing abstractly into the fire,
“but I shall have to look altout for
somebody to take care of me. What
do you say, Mr. Sharperson ?”
“I ?’’
“Certainly; you. .You know my
business aifairs perfectly, and can
Farmers as Business Men.
survey which the black eyes made
of the room indicated some desire
that everything should be right and
trig for the coining guest, and show
ed, moreover, that the newcomer
had been expected.
A moment later and Tilly, the
trim maid, had ushered into the
room a dapper little man with a
markedly legal air, shrewd, twink
ling eyes, and a shining bald spot on
the top of his head.
“Good afternoon, Mr. Sharper
son,” the widowsa’d, briskly, rising
with hospitable alacrity. “I began
to fear you were not coming.”
“Good afternoon,
It- has largo flues and oven, patent ovon shelf
swinging hearth pla!e,cleep ash pit, and ash
P3n door. The cross pieces all have cool air
braces, and the covers aro smooth and
heavy. Large singlo oven doors, tin lined,
with handsome uiekle panels. Every stove
fully warranted.
•laim noveltiosand attractions that <ie
yourself before purchasing elscwrior.
beautiful in
•oine and examine foi
id see something
"impetition-
'leas ■ come
orated
A. O. LYNDON, Sole Agent, Newnan, Ga.
CELEBRATED MITCHELL WAGONS,
can think of. Now, to be perfectly
; frank, what say you to my being
married again ?”
“Nothing.”
“Oh, you think I ought not to talk
so plainly about it. Well, very like
ly not, but you’ll at least allow that
there might be circumstances which
would make it best for me to marry
again.”
“Yes.”
“I’ve been a widow five years,
and if the right man turned up ”
She paused with the secret desire
to shake the gentleman opposite, to
see if by that operation his taciturn
tongue might not be loosened.
“If,” echoed he significantly, as
she paused.
“Why, of course,” she retorted,
“you will allow that there must be a
right man somewhere, if one could
find him.’
“Yes.”
“And, perhaps,” continued she, a
mischievous smile revealing to the
lawyer’s eyes a quite new dimple,
hitherto wholly unsuspected, in her
cheek, “andperhaps you would even
let me come to you for legal advice
in my choice, if I paid well ?”
“Certainly.”
“Well, then, advise,” cried the
widow desperately.
She had been perfectly sure for
two or three months that Mr. Sharp
erson was longing to propose to her
could he hut get the words pver his
tongue, and she had said to herself
that this afternoon he should do it
if feminine wit could devise a way.
Anything short of deliberately pro
posing herself she was prepared to
do and she began now to fear lest
she should be forced to even that
extreme measure.
Now when everything had boen
so admirably worked up to a speak
ing point tor him, instead of utter
ing the decisive word the lawyer
only smiled and was silent To tell
the truth he was as eager to get the
important question asked as was
. the widow, could he but overcome
, his natural laconic habit and the
bashfulness which jnst now exag
gerated it Mrs. Widgin’s month
: set- itself a trifle more firmly than
before.
“That is always the way if one
: really wants advice. If I didn’t
: you’d probably be ready enough to
. give it” This was so obviously ab
surd that they both smiled, and
both, pretending to move nearer
the fire, moved their chairs a little
nearer together.
“I see,” Mrs. Widgin said, with an
air of mock despair, “I shall-have
to make it a catechism. Do you
think I had oetter get married: yes
or no?”
“Yes,” he replied, with a signfi-
cant smile.
“Have yon any idea where I had
, better look for a husband ?”
“Yes.”
“Good! Now we are getting on.
Where is it?”
* -Bate.”
Thanking tin* public fur patronage i:
fortli tlcir cost oflorts to please all who n
•1. K. DENT.lr. is with this houso and
him, that ito may servo thorn.
the gentleman
returned, allowing his hand to be
shaken vigorously.
“Sit down by the fire,” pursued
the widow, bustling about with the
tiesire of doing something, yet not
quite knowing exactly what to do.
“It must be a cool day for all the
sun. The snow crunches too much
for one not to know that. You
found it so, didn’t you?” she con
cluded, knowing by experience that
short of a direct question
G. G. McXAMARA.
N. ROBERTS.
ed with more vigor. He aroused
himself by great effort and with
some warmth:
“That showed it more.”
“Come,” the widow thought with
some complacency, “we are getting
on; it is something to elicit a speech
of that length from him.”
Aloud she said:
“Very well, that- showed it more,
if you will. How am Ito judge,”
she continued, smiling,and glancing
up in a manner which no man with
blood in his veins could have resist
ed, “how am I to judge but by what
I see ?”
For reply Air. Sharperson commit
ted the most remarkable deed of his
entire life. He rose from his chair
with the utmost deliberation, took
a step across the wide hearthrug to
t haside -of his hostess, threw bis.
arms around her neck and kissed
her with'great heartiness and ap
parent satisfaction.
“Mercy!” cried Widow Widgin,*
making ineffectual efforts to disen
gage hersei f. “ Who gave you leave
to kiss me? I never saw such im-
-DEAI.ERS IN-
IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC MARBLES AND GRANITES,
AND IRON RAILINGS
TNG THE MOST SOLID AND
SUBSTANTIAL WHEEL POS
SIBLE SAVES REFILLING
AND IS STRONG WHERE THE
,SQUARE TENON IS WEAK.
THIS KING OF ALL WHEELS
TAN ONLY BE FOUND ON THE
WORLD FAMOUS
Studebaker Wagon.
how to handle with ease and accu
racy the business forms and meth
ods which commercial men by long
practice and experience have re
duced to a system.
nothin;
was likely to elicit a response from
I he taciturn lawyer.
“Yes,” he answered, briefly.
“Uncommon cold, I should say,”
vent on Mrs. Widgin, seating her-
!f opposite her guest and spread-
ig out her plump hands to the
blaze as if talking of the tempera
ture made her more sensible of it.
‘ Colder than usual for the season,
don’t you think so?”
“Perhaps.”
“Oh, it certainly is much colder.”
“No response.
“But then it is, after all, the time
of year, when one expects severe
weather.”
Still no reply.
“‘The days begin to lengthen,’
you know the proverb, ‘the cold be
gins to strengthen.’ ”
Still unbroken silence on the part
<>f the lawyer, and the hostess was
forced to abandon the weather for a
more promising topic.
“You brought the papers for me to
sign, I suppose, Mr. Sharperson.”
. “Yes.”
“Of course, you know that they
are all right. I trust it all in your
hands. I never did know anything
about mortgages.”
It was in Mr. Sharperson’s mind
that for one who knew nothing
about legal documents the widow
iiad managed her property with re
markable shre wdness, but it not be
ing his custom to waste superfluous
words by putting his thoughts into
speech, he made no remark.
“I will sign whatever yon tell me
to,!’ his client continued with really
touching confidence. “It is hard
for a woman to have nobody but
herself to lean upon. Pm sure yon
don’t know what I should do with
out you.”
Again no response.
“I quite depend upon yon.”
Still no reply, unless a faint sniff,
more or less scornful, might be so
considered.
“Where are the papers ?”
Air. Sharperson rose with great
deliberation, and from the green
baize bag which, on entering, he had
deposited upon the table, produced
a small package of legal papers. He
turned again to the widow and fire,
his eye dwelling appreciatively up
on the cherry proportions of both,
Ikj^thoat speaking', he handed the
.¥jr widgin.
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.the fe.pst so easily, and proceeded
with unction to kiss her again.
“I declare,” she exclaimed, yield
ing with good grace to what she ev
idently could not help, “by the way
you go on one would actually think
we were engaged.”
Whereupon the lawyer gazed at
her with great satisfaction, and pro
prietorship shining in his twinkling
black eyes.
“We are,” he said.—Boston Cou
rier. **'
The mining of coal is one of the
protected industries, the tariff being
75 cents a ton, and yet with the prod
uct in good demand, the owners
of the mines, always clamorous for
a high tariff because it enables (hem
to control the market and pay liv
ing wages to their workmen, enjoy
the market, and the duty they are
enabled to add to the price of their
coal into their own pockets, and pay
their miners starvation wages.
THE ONLY WHOLES VLF, AND RETAIL DRY GOODS HOUSE IN
THE STATE THAT SELLS STRICTLY FOR
We were in the Northern Markets this season just right to attend the
big auction sales of
J PURGATIVE
Plantation Philosophy.
“It is said much of the poetry of
the Esquimaux refers to the return
ing summer and rushing water.
Evidently “Spring poets” are treat
ed more leniently there than thej
are in this country.
blankets. Flannels
Knit Underwear, Shoes, &c.
A lazy man is er man ’o judge
ment. He alias picks oat the
easiest place.
Fseafeered o’ a stump-tail dog,
’case, habin’ nothin’ ter wag, I doam
know whodder er not he is in er
good humor.
Sometimes yer meets a wise man
dat looks like er fool, but more often
yer meets a fool dat looks like er
wise man.
• De ’oman whuf Is keen to get mar-
rieddoan often make er good wife.
De little fish is more ap’ ter bite den
de big on e.
-Idoan like fur man ter perten’
ter besich a frien’. Biiin’ water,
flnng up on a cold day, will freeze
quicker den cold water.—[Arkansas
Traveller.
And win completely change the blood In the entire pyitrm In. three mouth.. An.
pemon who will take 1 Pill each night from 1 to 13 oetki, may he reatored to aonni,
health, IT inch s thing be possible. For Female Complaints thcae Pins have no equal.
Physicians nae them for the cure of LIVES and 1UDXZI discueea. Sold everywhere,
or sent by mail for ZSc. in stamps. Circulars free. I s. JeussoS & CO.. Cmteti. **—
A lawyer in Columbia, Ohio, spell
ed client in three different ways oi
Lie same ]r<t_re of his brief, am
while the papers were poking fun ai
him he went ahead and won hir
case and pocketed a fee of $500.
Finest to the Commonest Goods
JOHNSON'S AWOSYfir
n*o. Hir ring Cocgh, V/i.oc r C '
Diseases of the Spice. Sold kv.-zjttjct
kept by a Dry Goods House can be found in ours. Onr motto is.
“Your Child Can Buy as Cheap as Yourself.”
.- * —Andour GoMeVfttitle,
It is a well-known fict that n»r*ef of fbo
Hone and Cattle PwnJ*r mid fn this cnor.
try Is worthless; that Sheridan s Condition
Fowder is absolutely pore and Terryaioatoie.
Nothing on Earth will make bens
lay like .Sheridan'* Condition Pow
der. Dose, one teaspoonfai to each pint of
An eminent physician says that
lemon juice is better than quinim
to cure malaria. We always did
call for lemon and sugar in ours in
preference to quinine.
enables ns to guarantee asaving ofTO per cent to those who buy of u;
CLOAKS A SPECIALTY
IBLEY’SSEEDS
The wheel snake, which takes its
tail in its month and so trundh s
over the ground, is to say the least,
regardless of dress and its appro
priateness. His walking suit con
sists of a swallow-tail.
fi9®“Send ns your orders or corue in person and we will satisfy
A milkman who was nearly
lynched for selling watery ryilfe
says, the whey of the transgressor is
hud.
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WOOTTEJi A CATES, Proprietors.
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WISDOM,. JUSTICE AND MODERATION.
TERMS 50 per per year in Adrance.
VOLUME XX.
XtWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1881.
NUMBER 11.