About The Newnan herald. (Newnan, Ga.) 1865-1887 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1884)
• ' ' r ; The Newnan Herald, TL’BMSHEii EVERY TCESHAX III ¥ TUESDAY RATES OF ADTKBTISI A. B. CATES,JEilitor and Publisher. One inch Tine vear, $10; a column one voar.jaOO; less time tharHibnQPJarmlliff, ?T.00perincn for first insertion, and 50 cents additifTnal forcactr snbsconent ii»— sertion. Notices in local column, ten cents per line for each insertion. Liberal arrange ments will be made with those advertis ing by the quarter or year. All transient advertisements must be paid for when handed in. Announcing candidates, Ac., ftl.OO strictly in advance. Address all communications to A.. B. CATES, Newcan, Ga. TERMS OP SlBSIHIfTIOS One copy one year, in advance . ? If not paid in advance, the terms A Club of six allowed an extra copy Fifty-two n end rare complete thefoltime “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. 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Its free [seed distril - ’Orders attended to at any hour day or night,, THOMPSON BROS., Newnan, Ga. ■eplti-iim .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. — —— WOOTTEJi A CATES, Proprietors. -r WISDOM,. JUSTICE AND MODERATION. TERMS 50 per per year in Adrance. VOLUME XX. XtWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1881. NUMBER 11.
