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VOLUME XX.
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ANIGHT OF PERIL.
It was my fortune some time
since (o take a trip in one of the
splendid floating palaces which
wing Iheir way daily up and down
the Ohio river, and carry their liv
ing and commercial freight so safe
ly and speedily in comfort and
pleasure to their destinations.
That it was not always so I wa
n-minded hy a story which I heard
from an old gentleman who was a
fellow-passenger and whose ac
quaintance I pleasantly formed on
deck; and, finding him to tie a rela
tive of a Kentucky family with
whom 1 was on intimate terms, I
accepte I his story as perfectly reli
able, and will give it as nearly as I
can in his own words.
“It must have been nearly a hun
dred years ago, not later, any way.
1800,” said Mr. Hobart, “that m\
grandfather, Horace Hobart,settled
where the city of Frankfort now
lies—it was a mere hamlet then.
He wits tho owner of a flat boat, so
tlie settlers always called him Cap’ll
Hobart, and used to hire him to
make trips down the river for sup
plies for the settlement. Housed,
sometimes, to go as far as Pittsburg,
and tiring powder, lead, and groce
ries, very often stock, or a small
company of emigrants and their
plunder, to points along the shore.
“Ono trip lie made—if 1 remem
ber rightly it was ISO:) or 1.801— in
the fall of the year, which lie car
ried the marks to his grave. His
cargo that time was mostly of pow
der, lead for bullets, and cured ba
con—a very desirable prize to the
Indians who were lurking up and
down the shore. At Pittsburg he
met a party of a half-dozen emi
grants for central Kentucky, who
gladly availed themselves of the
opportunity to go as far as Frank
fort on Capl. Hobart’s fiatboat.
Well laden, the little party,among
whom were two women, set out on
th - return voyage, going on prosper-
o isly a groat part o( the way. Capt.
Hobart knew that the danger lay
between tlie Big Sandy and Ken
tucky rivers.
“After passing the mouth of tlie
Big Sandy it would be necessary to
proceed cautiously until they left
the Indiana shore and turned into
tin- Kentucky river, where they
would lie comparatively safe.
“Nothing occurred, however, for
some days. The weather was glo
rious, tlie river smooth, and they
were enjoying tlie trip very much,
when one morning two men hailed
1 In-in trom the shore.
“What’s wanted?” demanded
Capt. Hobart.
“Want to go down tho river.
Hand and take us on board,’ was
tho answer.
‘“Are there only two of you?’
sliouti d Capt. Hobart.
“•That’s all. We’l! be no trouble.
Pull in anil get us,’ the men shout
ed hack, evidently growing impa
tient.
“But Capt. Hobart knew where lie
was, and meant to be careful. He
turned to one of his boatmen, an old
icllnw named Osage Jo, who had
spent his life in that region and was
thoroughly trusty.
“‘What do you say, Jo?’ asked
Capt. Hobart.
‘“1 don’t like it, captain,’ said Jo,
leaning on his paddle. ‘Nothin’ but
a decoy, to my notion.’
‘“To mine, too,’ said Capt. Ho
bart. ‘I’d hate to leave them if 1
thought they were honest—’
“ look like rascals from
here, captain,’ says Jo. ‘Them
woods, liker’n not, are lull of In
dians, and we’vegot weemin aboard
’ 1’ivon’t do, captain.’
“ ‘No, Jo, we won’t risk it.’ Capt.
Hobart then shouted to the men:
‘■You’ll have to wait for the next
bivit. We’re full.
“The fiatboat passed on, leaving
the men making a profane exhibi
tion of anger on the shore—a proof
that they were not what they claim
ed to be.
“The travelers proceeded very
watchfully and cautiously down the
river, hut saw no signs of trouble
until near sunset.
“They were passing a very thick
ly wooded spot, when two men, car
rying a third between them, came
[down to the shore and hailed the
K'ilt.
•Hello!’ answered Capt. Hobart.
"Come in and take us on board,
$as the next call.
‘What is the matter?’ shouted
tie captain.
• ‘Got a man hurt here; want to get
up to the forks. Come and
elp us.’
l“Cant. Hobart took out his poek-
-teleseope, hauled it up to his eye,
nd took a look through.
‘It’s the two we met this after-
on!’ he cried.
• ‘I thought so,’ chuckled Jo, close
side him.
' “‘Well, they won’t trap me,’ said
?apt. Hobart, and then he shouted,
lustily: ‘Can’t stop for you!’ and or
dered his men to help the drift all
they could with their paddles.
“‘Captain,’ says Jo, ‘take a look
through your glass at that clump of
hushes. What’s under ’em ?’
“The captain looked, as directed,
where the trees hung far over anil
the hank was in a deep shadow.
I “What d’ye make ?’ eagerly asked
| Jo.
“It looks like an old fiatboat, but
I can’t surely make out. Jo, if
they’ve got a boat we’re in a had
fix.’
“‘Fact, captain. An’It’s goin’to
he a moonlight night, full moon, an’
coinin’ up airly. Weemin aboard,
too.’
“Well, Jo, we’ll prepare for ’em,
and then run our best. It’s all we
can do.’
“As if to prove their suspicions
were correct, an arrow was hurled
at them from the shore, falling
short of its mark, which was, prob
ably, the tall form «f Capt. Hobart,
is he stood boldly up in his boat.
“This decided him. He called to
gether the men, including the emi-
jrants. There were only eight
nen, all told. He directed the wri
tten to lie fist down in tlie bottom
if the boat, and made all the prep
arations he could for a fight, in
case it came.
“They did not need to wait very
long. Even before the moon was
fully risen they could see that the
woods were full of moving, painted,
ialf-naked forms, and heard yells
which could come from none but an
Indian throat.
“Keeping a careful watch they
•ould, after a time, distinguish a
lark object upon the water, and as
it drew nearer they saw that it was
i fiatboat filled with Indians.
“It must be the old thing that
-j.se to lie up at Port M son,’ says
•Jo. ‘If it is we kin sink ‘era.’
“Wait till they get near, men,’
<aid the captain,’ ‘and then aim low
ind give them the first fire.
“Breathlessly the men crouched
in the bow of the boat, near which
the Indians were rapidly drawing.
\s soon as they came within rifle
range eight bullets sped at the
.cord of command and made havoc
among the pursuers.
“Shouts and groans followed, and
tho savages poured a fierce volley
into the little group. One of the
horses was killed—there were
throe in the boat—but not a man
fell.
“Load quick,” ordered the cap
tain.
“Swiftly and silently his order
was obeyed; not two swiftly, for the
Indian boat was rapidly drawing
nearer and nearer.
Another volley, and three of the
pursuers tumbled overboard, hut
as they leturned the fire one of our
emigrants dropped groaning at his
post.
“Steady and quick! Fire in suc
cession,’ordered the captain. They
aim too low. Disable ‘cm before
they can board us.’
“The hows of the two boats al
most grated together, and one dar
ing savage sprang upon tho fiatboat'
gun whale. Capt. Hobart sprang
forward, but before lie could raisi
his rifle a shot passed through hi-
shoulder. He staggered, but with
lesperate courage rallied and fired,
his adversary falling backward and
over into the river.
“Maddened at this, for the assail
ing Indian was their leader, the In
dians made a rush to the craft. In
the impetuosity of their onset,
the old, unseaworthy tiling
capsized, and the swift
current was full of struggling,
screaming, wounded, and drowning
savages.
“The violence of the shock gave
the other boat a shift, which sent it
directly into the middle of the river
and drifted it rapidly down, too far
from the shore for any danger from
litrkers on the bank and safe from
its terrible pursuers.
A great shout of joy at their de
liverance rose up from the little
crew, at least from all who were able
to shout. Capt. Hobart lay senseless
in the bottom of the boat, one man
was dead, and three others badly
wounded, leaving but three unhurt
to care for the rest. With the help
of the two hm-e women, who had
not uttered a cry during the fight,
they did this, and after their arrival
home the three men recovered, as
did Capt. Hubart. Capt Hobart
carried to his grave a shoulder scar
red with the bullet received in that
tierce fight on the Ohi > riv?r.
What Janies did.
One day a very pious clerical i
fr»end, who had consumed an hour j
of his valuable time in a small talk, f
said to James Harper, the publish-1
er: “Brother Harper, I am cu
rious to know how you four men j
distribute the duties of the estab
lishment between you.” “John,” I
said Mr Harper good humoredly |
“attends to the finances, Wesley]
to the correspondence, Fletcher to
the general bargaining with authors
and others, and don’t yon tell any
body,” he said, drawing his chair
sliU closer and lowering the tone
of his voice, “I entertain all the
bores.”
The Moving Sand Mountain.
BY APACHE GEORGE.
I have just returned from a thirty
days’ scout across the Great Mohave
desert after a hunch of desperados,
five in number, whose leader was
the notorious Aleck Buchanan.
For the past nine months they
have been working every road west
of Prescott, and have been unusual
ly successful.
We ran upon their trail at Aubrey-
City and followed them up the Col
orado river to Fort Mohave.
We were pressing them pretty-
close, and they must have got word
of our intentions, for they “outfit
ted” at the fort, and, fording the
river, struck out hold across the
desert toward Mount San Bernar
dino.
We determined to follow them,
ind, supplying ourselves with thirty
lays’ rations, we crossed the river
ind took up their trail.
The Mohave desert is a desert on
V in name; for, although there are
wide stretches of sterile alkali land,
these plains are interspersed with
beautiful little savannahs, well wa
tt-red, and affording most excellent
pasturage.
In crossing one of these alkali
stretches, wc suffered considerably
for water, and our horses got weak
from lack of food.
We made three “dry camps,” and
when we finally reached water and
grass we were obliged to lay over a
lay to rest. .
The trail of the desperados indi
cated that they were not many
uiles in advance, end when men
ind horses had recovered trom the
■fleets of three days of alkali desert
we mounted and continued the pur
suit.
We had hoped that there would
be no more “had country,” but the
savanna on which we hail camped
proved to he a very narrow stretch
of watered country, separating two
great alkali plains.
We broke camp at'sunrise, and
before 10 o’clock, had struck the
confines ol the second desert.
You cannot conceive a country-
more wretchedly forlorn and deso
late than the one into which we
were entering.
Under foot and in front of us, far
is the eye could reach, was a bil
lowy sea ot glaring white dust, so
strongly impregnated with alkali
that men and horses suffered ex
cruciatingly from its inhalation,
anil several of the boys were render
ed almost totally blind for the time
being.
Nothing relieved the monotony of
the dreary- landscape except an oc
casional clump of giant cactus,
whose long, prickly branches
stretched towards us like skeleton
arms.
There was no wind, and nothing
disturbed the solemn stillness save
the grinding chump of the horses’
feet as they sank fetlock deep into
lie burning sand.
It was desolation of the wildest
;ort, and we rode along, hushed to
ilence hy the solemn awe that
ironded over the desert.
We camped the first night on the
•dge of one of these cactus groves,
ind bright and early, although little
refreshed hy-the night’s rest, pushed
forward.
The sign made hy the desperados
grew fresher every minute, and our
ipirits rose at the prospect of soon
iverhauling them.
We had bee» riding along a nar
row valley, flanked on either side by-
rolling sand dunes, when suddenly
.t came to an abrupt end, and, when
we painfully climbed the divide and
reached its apex, we could scarcely
refrain a cheer, for there below us,
iess than a mile distant, we dis
covered the men we were in search
of.
They had stopped to rest at the
foot of a conical-shaped mountain of
sand, which stood alone on an al
most level plain.
There was nothing to shelter us
as we rode toward them, and, dis
covering our numbers, and purpose,
the outlaws hastily mounted to seek
•safety in flight.
We knew now that it would be a
running chase, and, drawing our
Winchester rifles, we spurred for
ward.
All day the sun had been obscur
ed hy heavy clouds, but the heat
wa-> stifling, and there was no breeze
to temper it.
Suddenly, as we clattered down
the thune to the plain below, and
the inpalpable dust inclosed us in a
-suffocating cloud, a puff of cold air
blew away the dust and cooled our
perspiring faces with its icy breath.
It was as cold as the air in an ice-
chest, and even the horses shivered
and whinnied ominously-. m
The dust laised by their feet clear
ed away, (ind another and a sharper
blast caused us to reach for our
slickers.
“We’re going to have a norther,”
muttered Sergt. Warren, who was
in command of the squad.
Little Jeff Haskell, pointing to
ward the desperados, who were
scrambling op the side of the sand
mountain, added;
“Those fellows will make it hot
enough lor us. They’re going to
make a stand on top of that sand
mountain, and nothing but starva
tion will drive them out. It’s a reg
ular Gibraltar in sand!”
The sergeant reined up his horse
and we clustered about him.
Haskell had told the truth. The
desperadoes, knowing that escape
was impossible, had determined to
make a stand and fight to the bitter
end.
“It will be a useless sacrifice of
life to charge them,” said the ser
geant, meditatively, “Let's wait. If
they halt on top we’ll surround the i
mountain and wait for them to
come down. I reckon we can hold
out as long as they can.”
“In a few minutes the outlaws
reached the summit of the moun
tain, and there was borne to our
ears a defiant cheer.
All this time the wind hail been
rising, and the black clouds dropped
down until it seemed as though you
could almost reach their dark and
ragged edges.
Suddenly, without premonition, a
terrific blast swept toward us, near
ly blowing us from our saddles.
The stifling dust ingulfed us in its
suffocatingeinbrace, and every man
dismounted, pulled off his saddle,
and throwing a blanket over his
horse’s head, crouched to the
ground, shielding his own face as
best he could with his slicker.
In less than a minute the sand
storm had passed, and as we rose to
our feet anil pulled the blankets
from our horses’ heads there was
borne to our ears a chorus of terri
fied cries.
“Heavens, men!” cried the ser
geant, pointing toward the sand
mountain. “Look at that!”
The conical dune on which the
outlaws had taken their stand was
actually in motion, and moving
across the plain, from base to apex,
with a hoarse and sullen roar, at the
rate of thirty miles an hour!
The outlaws, discovering their
danger all too late, were flounder
ing in the whirling mass, in a vain
effort to reach the plain.
With a crash like distant thunder
the sand whirled higher and higher,
dashing the wretched men about in
its maelstrora-like vortex.
A cry of horror involuntarily-
burst from our lips, hut we were
powerless to cope with this mighty
force of nature.
For the space of ten minutes we
waited, breathless with horror.
Suddenly, without warning, the
wind died away; the whirling sanil
sank to the earth, the clouds brdke
and the sun came out.
In the distance, about five miles
away, stood the sand mountain, as
motionless and sphinx-like as when
we first saw it on the plain below.
We rode around it anil circled its
base, which was about six hundreJ
yards in circumference.
None among us had the temerity
to climb to its top. We could dis
cover no signs of the five men who
had taken shelter upon it, aud, re
tracing oui steps, pushed hack to
ward Fort Mohave, confident that
Aleck Buchanan and his followers
had found a living tomb in the
bosom of that mysterious and inex
plicable phenomenon of the Mohave
desert, th3 famous Moving Sand
Mountain.
He Told Her So.
On the rear seat of a Tremont
street car Boston were two gentle
men indulging themselves in that
vice only- allowed on the three rear
seats. They- were strangers to each
other. .However, they* exchanged
a few commonplace remarks about
the veritable New England weath
er and finally the younger of the
two, spying a female down on the
front seat wearing “a ridiculous
old trap of a bonnet,” which was in
fact the latest love of feminine
head-gear, jocosely gave expression
to his thoughts and closed hy in
quiring of his neighbor if he didn’t
think the bonnet “most ripe enough
to shoot”. “Yes, I do!” said the el
der man emphatically*. “Now
that’s my wife,” he added, hy way
of explanation, “and I told her
when she brought the thing home
that some fool would make fun of
it before she’d worn it twenty min
utes.”
Plain. Rat N«*t Conspicuous.
The following interesting conver
sation occuried between a Mays-
viile, Ky\, attorney and a witness
in a reeent case in which a certain
tree played a prominent part:
Lawyer—“Did you see this tn e
near the roadside?”
Witness—“Yes, sir, I saw it very
plainly.”
Lawyer—“It was very conspic
uous, then!”
Witness—“Well, I can’t say
that. I saw the tree very- plainly
though.”
Lawyer—“Well, now I would like
to know why, if it was plain, it
wasn’t conspicuous. What is the
difference between plain and con
spicuous? Answer that, sir, will
vou ?”
“Well.” replied the witnesss, “it
is this. I come into this court-room
and glauce over the bar. I see
you plainly* among the other law
yers although you ain’t a darn bit
conspicuous.”
That lawyer is trying to trade his
sheep skin for a pack saddle.
The general growth of Socialist
tendencies and the success of Par
nell’s tactics in the English Parlia
ment combine to lend interest to the
position of the small group of So
cialists in the German Reichstag, or
Parliament. They have been for
some years the thorn in Bismarck’s
side, all the more because they op
pose his own semi-Socialistic re
forms as mere blinds to reconcile
the body- of the people to personal
despotism. A writer in the August
Harper’s, Mr. Edwin A. Curley, is
to give a sketch of the personnel
and progress of this group which is
likely- to attract no little attention,
The Socialists have had to fight
their battles under the most vigor
ous repressive measures Bismarck
could devise, and curious stories are
told of their ingenuity in electing
their candidates. One morning at
Munich, an appeal to “Vote for Voll-
mar” was found posted all over the
district with such strong pa-te that
the whole force of gendarmes spent
hours scraping the little posters off,
whereat an ingenious bill-sticker
quietly pasted one of the offensive
bills on a gendarme’s cartridge-box,
and made him a walking canvasser
for the Socialist candidate. Anum
her of portraits will illustrate the
article.
A Comfortable Beast.
(Sumpter Republican)
A gentleman living about two
miles from this city had a large pile
of oat straw in his field. A negro
living near lost a steer and for
weeks conld not find him. One
day- seeing from a distance that
quite a number of cattle had gath
ered around the straw pile, he went
there, hoping to find his long-lost
steer. In walking over the pile he
felt something move under his feet.
The New York Nation printed in
its issue of June 25, a retrospect of
the twenty years of its existence
which were completed with that
number. The Nation was founded
in July, 1865, in recognition of the
new order of things which was sure
to follow the end oi the war and the
abolition of slavery. It at once
espoused the cause of pure, unparti
san administration of the National
Government; and the present con
dition of civil-service reform is ow
ing to it more than to any other in
strumentality. It has been conduct
ed, in its two leading departments,
Politics and Literature, by tho same
editors from the first number, and
holds to-day, as for the past twenty-
years, the first rank in each. It is
the medium of the most thoughtful
and cultivated discussion in the
country—is, in fact, the only truly
national journalistic foruin. Its for
eign correspondence is unrivalled.
Its hook reviews (by the leading
scholars of the country) jiossess
the highest authority. Each num
ber contains a careful news summa
ry, anil the bound volumes are priz
ed as the best obtainable chronicle
of current history. 21 pp., quarto.
10 cents a number; f8a year. 210
Broadway, New York.
In A Trip on the Ottawa, Har
per’s for August will give an inter
esting account of a summer pleas
ure-trip through the heart of Cana
da, written by-Mrs. Henry Sandham
who has found his artistic field
chiefly in the British provinces.
The journey was from Ottawa, the
parliamentary capital of the Do
minion, down the river to its mouth
and past the Lachine rapids to Mon
treal. One of the most curious
sights of the journey was a visit to
the TrappLst monastery, where a
colony of the monks exiled from
France but a few years since has
found refuge. This is said to be the
strictest of all the religious orders,
and the brethren are denied even
tlie indulgence of conversation with
one another. There is no corres
ponding order among the ladies.
In the growing and fattening of
the large mutton sheep it is im
portant that their feed he abundant
and nutritions, so as to insure rapid
and early maturity. The profit lies
in making them attain heavy
weights in a very short period of
time. These sheep reach the great
est perfection in their native land,
be followed here to obtain the best
results.
. .. . . . , England, and under the English
and, upon digging down, great was ,, . » , , .. .
, . . , _ ,* 6 ,. farmer’s system of feeding, and
his surprise to find his identical bo- /.. _ , . ,,
, , , ... very much the same system should
vine, happv, fat, and healthy. The
ox had eaten his way to the middle
of the straw pile from the outside,
and had made himself roomy and
comfortable apartments, safe from
the observation of the world and
free from the burdens of taskmas
ters.
It requires from ten to thirty-
acres of range to support a single
cow on the plains, the year round—
a rather prodigal use of soil, if not
of grass.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Treasury Department refti-c-
o grant an extension of the bonded
term for export whisky.
Gen. Lord \V dseley has tr msfer-
•d the command of the troops in
the Soudan to Gen. Stephenson.
Col John Gibson, Seventh infan
try, has been appointed Brigailer
General, vice C. C. Augur, retired.
Fifty-four out of '.K> eounties in
Tennessee have organized Boards
of Health under the recently-enact
ed State law.
Thr^e regiments of cavalry and
one of infantry have been ordered
to Fort Reno to protect the settler
agiinst tho Indians.
At' Port Jervis, New York, on
8unday evening, July 12, hail-stones
tHe size of hickory-nuts fell in that
vicinity to the depth of a foot.
Agricultural statisticians estimate
the wheat crop in Indiana at <>1 per
cent of an average; in Illinois at 10
per cent, and in Ohio at 58 per
cent.
The Hessian Hy is destroying the
wheat in Wayne county N. Y. In
some places the farmers are burn
ing the wheat fields in order to ex
terminate the insect.
Maj. Thompson, commander of
the Salvation Army at Detroit,
charged with creating a disturbance
by marching through the streets
anil beating a drum, has been sen
tenced to pay a fine of $50, or sixty-
days in jail.
A hail storm passed ove.* Sind
Beach, Michigan, Thurs lay night,
the !>th inst. Great damage result
ed to standiu ; crops, and even the
ives of men and animals were en
langered. The hail-stones weri
ine to four inches in diameter.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has sent a circular to col
lectors of internal revenue direct
ing them to continue the system of
supervising the operations of fruit
listilleries which has prevailed the
past three seasons.
The summit ol Cotopaxi, the loft
iest ol active volcanoes, has never
ieen reached. This greatest of
mountain wonders is 1(5,00!) feet
higher than Vesuvius, and shoots
forth its fire from a crest covered
•>y 8,000 feet of snow, with a voice
that has been heard (ioO miles.
In North Borneo and western
Texas are the two greatest deposits
>f bats’ guano in the world, that in
the latter place covering an area
of more than two square miles to the
depth of fifty- feet. This guano is
is rich in ammonia as the best Pe
ruvian, and is now- being shipped
to England and France in vast
quantities.
Nebraska, scarcely settled at all
by white people only thirty years
ago, has now about 250,000 acres of
growing forests, on which have
been set about 600,000,000 young
trees. Besides this there have beeD
planted over 12,000,000 fruit trees,
over 2,500,000 grapevines, a vast
number of berry hushes anil plants,
ornamental shrubs, etc.
There have been over thirty
thousand cases of cholera and thir
teen thousand deaths from the pes
tilence in Spain since the inception
there. This is indeed alarming,
and the fact that cholera feeds on
filth and will not thrive in cities
that are clean and properly drain
ed makes the matter all the more
deplorable. The United States will
be fortunate if there is no invasion
from this dreadful scourge.
Nearly50,IKK) cattle on the drive
from Texas to the Pan-handle o'
Texas and Colorado have lieen forc
ibly stopped and prevented from
passing over the common trail for
such cattle through the Indian
country,the Cherokee strip and Ne
man’s Land, and are now stopped
there by an armed hand of men in
the pay of a rival cattle interests.
Admiral Juett, who has been in
the vicinity of Panama for the
past three months, has been order
ed north with the Tennessee and
Yantic, the two remaining vessels
of the North Atlantic squadron,
which were sent to the Isthmus at
the beginning of the recent troub
les there. Some days ago the Ad
miral sent a dispatch to the Secre
tary of the Navy, in which he ex
pressed the opinion that it was use
less for the vessels to remain long
er. The officers and crews of the
Tennessee and Yantie have been
suffering trom sickness.
One of the best evidences that th<-
American people live better than
their fathers did is found in the
steady* and rapid growth of the
trade in tropical fruits. It is not
many years since the great majority
of people scarcely knew what a ba
nana was, and considered oranges
and lemons as luxuries to be afford
ed only in sickness or on great oc
casions. Now, not only these, hut
other tropical fruits are bought and
eaten almost as generally and free
ly as apples, and the consumption
of melons, peaches, pears, piuru.s
and berries is on the same univer
sal and extensive scale.
Arnall Bros <& Co.
Is the place to find the prettiest and largest line of
DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS,
NOTIONS, HOSIERY,
Clothing, Hats and Shoes-
ALSO A COMPLETE STOCK OF
Family Groceries.
THEY ALSO SUPPLY FARMERS AND GINNERS WITH
BAGGING AND TIES.
Having watched for our chance and been very careful in the pur
chase of our stock, we have BOUGHT CHEAPER THAN
EVER BEFORE, thus being enabled to offer
Bargains in all Kinds of Goods.
A visit to our store, an examination of our goods anil an inquiry
of our prices is all (hat is necessary to convince you that ours is
THE GREAT BARGAIN STORE !
ARNALL BRO’S & CO., Newnan, Ga.
W. B. ORR <fc CO.
\re receiving daily additions to their stock ol GENERAL MER
CHANDISE, which is varied and too numerous to itemize. Full
iine of Ladies, Gents and Children’s
Something extra in hand-made, and every pair guaranteed.
DRESS GOODS,
Lawns, Organdies, Nuns Veiling, Cashmere, Berlin Cord, Checks,
Nainsook, Swiss and Mull Muslin, a complete assortment of Cotton -
ades, Checks, Bleached and Brown Shirting and Sheeting.
READY HADE CLOTHING AND HATS,
naking a specialty of them, and they must go. We invite one and
all to come to see us. Thanking you for past patronage we solicit a
continuance of the same. W. B. ORB & CO.
THOMPSON, BROS.
Bedroom, Parlor and Dining Room Fnrnitnre.
Big Stock and Low Prices.
PARLOR AND CHURCH ORGANS.
WOOD and METALLIC BURIAL CASES
Orders attended to at any hour day or night. mfk
I v THOMPSON BROS., Newnan, Ga.
$1 o o
PREMIUM BUGGIES
JAMES A. PARKS.
1 wish to call public attention to the fact that I am still in the Buggy
Businessfand have a greater variety in stick than ever before. I also
offer a premium valued at ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS to be distrib
uted with every ten buggies, to be divided by the purchasers, as agreed
upon by themselves, when the tenth buggy has been sold. J. A. Parks.
GLOBE SKATING RINK
Open Three Days and Nights of Each Week.
Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Ladies will have the privilege of skating free of charge each,
‘““^’morning of the above named days. Gentlemen
will he excluded from tho morning ex-
ercises if the ladies desire
Afternoon, admission free, skates 10 cents; nights, ladies free,,
" gents 15 cents, skates 10 cents m/9. 4-. '
L. J. HURD, Manager.
BRING US YOUR
JOB WORK!
An I let it Done in The Latest Styles.
We Guarantee Satisfaction.