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WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.
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VOLUME XXI.
NEWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26,1886.
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’ U \irirl>u e .S”t mu.t ho
str'u-tlv in advaht*©* ,
' \ddress nn'communioationsto
.\nures. , B. CATE.~, Newnan Oa
oked solemly
look his head
,’tis pity;
id Bartley,
pair, “you
a wife than
arn yacht or
Hard table.”
to tell me
irlied Df. Dale,
t already. If 1
iss Clarke to-
riding that she
of acceptance
uogling young
best to kee;
nations in the
Ion,” observed
yearningly
nightin-
all the culti-
has received.”
a winning way
ties that make
tley. “Haven’t
nereafter she is
s, then, man!”
“Clissy Clarke is
i but a society belle,
[want is a helpful, willing
of a wife—one who
>u with heart and hand to
t-limb lib’s hill. You saw Miss
Ciauke at ihc Winfield masquerade
last night in white satin and
I earls V”
“And vi ry beautiful she looked!”
<•!it d tlie young physician, firing
suddenly up at the •recollection, of
M is.-, Clai he’s auburn hair, all twist
ed with ropes of seed-pearl, and vi
olet blue eyes, sparkling with a
M.imation.
look like a poor man’s
dt of it.”
“Tin n be warned,” said Bartley,
shortly.- ' Remember the old story
of the moth scorching its wings in
the “audit- flame.”
1 r. Dale was Silent. lie had
j rn'iiise-.t hiais* If the pleasure of a
cal', on Clarissa Clarke that, very af-
tt i own.
M ere was something about the
£j[pK hat attracted him with almost
magnetic foice. 'the tender light
of her eyes, the sweet intonation of
her voice, the rosy flusl.es of color
read her cheeks when
it, wa re all seperate
knew lha»
ch romance,
i
lat he had
'.Clissy about
Cottage that
himself.
^following the
his heart-, he
Ih Spartan re-
library.
he case ail the in-
kolera microbes,” he
Jn expects to make
lirofession he must
these modern
lence.’’
ired into one or the
prary with his med-
memorandum
a scrap of ribbon, or a panel of vel
vet until you’d think it was made
hy a French dress-maker. I de
clare, I wish I had her back. Papa
is always grumbling about my bill*
But that ain’t all. Do you know?
She gives Bessie Laytonjmusic les
sons, and earns quite a nice little
income for herself. And she writes
book reviews and things for the
newspapers, and keeps Mr. Clarke
in books that way.”
“De«r me!” said the other, with a
yawn, “who at the party last night
would think it?”
"Humph!” remarked the other.
‘She’t? live and die an old maid,
see if she don’t. Such girls always
do. Come, here are our novels at
lasL Let's go.”
The perfumed silken flounces rus
tled out of the library, the sound of
chattering voices died away, and
still Dr. Dale sat, with his pencil in
hard, staring down at his memo
randum-book. It seemed that the
gloomy veil which dropped between
him and his future life was lifted,
in his heart he could have blessed
he agile tongues of the?e idle, gos
siping girls.
Ciissy, then, was no mere butter
fly, but a true, noble-hearted work
ing-girl!
He carried back the ponderous
medical tome to the assistant libra
rian.
“Much obliged,” he remarked,
succinctly.
“Uof through with it pretty quick,
haven’t you?” said the doctor,
cheerfully.
He went straightway to the cot
tage on the outskirts of the village
where Clarissa Clarke lived. An
apple-chet-ked little brother came
to the door to answer the knock.
‘Yes, Clissy’s at home,’ said he.
‘But she’s fixing a chicken for pa
pa’s dinner. And then she’s got my
trousers to mend. Clissy can’t come
up-stairs.’
But Dr. Dale laug-.ingly pushed
his way across the threshold.
‘I'll come in and wait,’said he.
Aud in five minutes Clissy came
in, looking even prettier, if it were
a possible thing, than in the white
satin and pearls on the evening be
fore.
How he managed to speak out
the dearest wislf of his heart Dr.
Dale never quite new. He had pre
pared a form of words on the way,
but they vanished utterly out of his
mind when the eventful moment
came. He could only remember
that she stood before him in all her
fresh young beauty, like a human
apple-blossom,and that he loved her.
But after he had her hand in his,
one arm caressingly thrown around
her waist, he told her of the morn
ing occurrence.
‘Until then, dearest,’ lie said, ‘I
looked upon you as a sort of unat
tainable Inxury—a star to be wor
shiped afar off only. I knew that
1 was nothing more than a village
doctor, witli more ambition thau
practice—for the present at least.
But now I feel that I may \entme
to hope. Will you run the risk .of
sharing my scanty fortunes,Clissy ?
“Willingly, Junius” she answer
ed, looking up into his face with her
frank blue eyes. “Aud to tell you
the truth,’ she added, smiling a lit
tle shyly, “i am almost glad you
are not a rich man; because, dear,
I shall be so glad, so proud to help
you a little in uiy humble way.’ -
So they were married. A few
weeks subsequent to their bridal,
Franklin Bartley married a rich
southern heiress.
•It’s like Hartley,’said Dr. Dale.
“He always looked out for the main
chance.’
At the end of five years, however,
Franklin Bartley came back to his
native village, a moody and disap
pointed maa. llis money had ail
been dissipated in unwise specula
tions and his wife had returned to
her friends minus her fortune.
“ ‘A young man married is a
young man marred,’ lie qttoted
gloomily. “Except, perhaps, in
Dale’s case. He seems to have
TIMELY WARMX6.
Estelle Conway stood in the deep
recess of a window, whose heavy
folds shielded her from view.
A shadow was on the smooth, open
brow, and the sweet blue eyes had
a pained look in the sunny depths
as they rested on a group of young
men that had gathered around
sideboard at the other end of the
room, and who-e gay sallies and
merry laughter seemed to jar harsh
ly on her eai.
“One glass more? cried Henry
Joy to Philip Bussell, a fln<-!ooking
roan, whose stately head and broad
shoulders brought him very con
spicuously into view.
Ph ! Iip smilingly allowed his glass
to be filled,,though his flushed face
and sparkliug eyes showed that he
had already taken more than was
good for him.
But, just as he was raising it to
his lips, he felt a soft, tremulous
touch upon his arm and a voice
whispered, too low tube audible
to any ear but his:
‘Beware! there’s poison In the
speaker, a»d wh« has quite taken
the h»arts of Ihe people by storm of
late, especially on that subject. You
must both go.”
“Russell!” exclaimed Estelle, with
brightening eyes. 1 used to know
a man by that name; but, oC course
it can’t be he.”
Nevertheless, her heart beat fast
asshetooka seat in the crowded
hall.
One glance at the platform, in the
back part of which a tine-looking
man was sitting, showed that
her half-formed suspicion was cor-
cup!
grown rich by degrees. And he is
happy, too, even in the obscurity of
a country physician’s life.”
“Thanks to my helpful little wife,”
said Dale, with a glance of pride
and tenderness toward Clissy, who
sat- oh the doorstep with two chub
by children playing about her knee.
“We have worked together, Clissy
and I, and our reward has not been
withheld from us.”
Reversing the usual order in sneb
cases, A. S. Powell, of Tennessee,
has filed his suit in the Circuit
Court of Logan county, Ky., against
Miss Maggie M. Flowers for an al
leged breach of the marriage con
tract. Mr. Powell avers in his peti
tion that he was ready, willin’, and
She finishes her a waiten’ to perferm his part of the
contract, but that Miss Flowers
failed and refused, and still contin
ues to refuse, to comply with her
promise. He says that he has been
greatly mortified, wounded, lashed,
and humbled in his feelings, where
fore, he prajs judgment in his be
half for flO^OOdamages, and for all
other proper relief.
Philip turned his head, but only
to see the retreating form of Estelle
Conway as she glided out of the
room.
The glass fell from his hand, shiv
ering into fragments at his feet.
“Why, man alive!” laughed Hen
ry Joy, “what are you about ? What
did Miss Conway say to turn your
face to such a color as that?”
“Oh, nothing, nothing,” said Phil
ip,-forcing a laugh. “The glass was
slippery, I think.”
“Let me get you another.”
“No, thank you; I will not take
anything more to-night.”
When alone, Philip reflected on
the strange warning he had receiv
ed.
“Could it be possible that she—
that any one—considered him in
danger ?”
His cheek burned at the very
thought.
And yet, with the half-resentful
feeling it aroused, was mingled a
dim consciousness that his feet were
standing on slippery places.
When Philip and Estelle met
again there was a visible constraint-
in the man tier of the former, though
it wore away under the gentle cor
diality of her look and tone.
He had hitherto regarded her as
a pretty and amiable woman, but
with nothing to di-tinguish her from
the usual order of such.
Now he looked at her more at
tentively, and was struck by the
goodness so clearly visible in her
works and ways.
Many times the impulse came
over him to allude to the warning
she had given him and to inquire
what- she meant by it. At last busi
ness suddenly summoned him to a
Western state.
The evening before leaving he
called to bid her good-by.
They were quite by themselves,
ami, after conver.-iug a few minutes
mi different .-Ui-jecl.-, Philip said :
-.Mi s Ct.-nv,ay, i liBft- long Wish*
o I to ask you a qm s>Vi- Do you
remember the words you whisper
ed into my ear a few weeks ago? ’
Estelle’s lace fl i.-hed deeply.
“1 remember them,”, was the low
and unfaltering reply.
“Why did you give me that warn
ing?”
“Shall I answer you truly.?”
“Yes.”
'And you will not be offended?”
No.”
Because I thought you needed it.”
1 J see that you are offended," 1 add
ed Estelle, breaking-the silence th|t
followt d. .
“No! no! I could r ot be offended
with you t But I never thought It
wrong before to take a social glass,
tiiere were others with, me; why
did you give the warning 7 to me on
ly?”
-^Because I take a deep and pain
ful interest in you.”
Philip’s heart beat fast at- this ac
knowledgment.
Estelle continued:
“There was one very dear to me,
whom you strongly resemble. He
was kirm-hearted, noble,and gener
ous; but, alas! like you, he thought
there was ho harm in the social
glass. I had a brother once; I have
no brother now. He fills a drunk
ard’* grave!”
Here tears and sobs choked the
utterance of the speaker.
“My dear Miss Conway! I am
sorry to revive such sorrowful re
membrances!”
“I shall be more tfaan repaid for
it if you will only take warning by
bis fate!” '
“From this hour not a drop of
spirituous liquor shall pass my Ups!”
“God give- you strength to keep
this resolve!”
Our next scene opens two years
later, and in a Western city, whith
er Estelle had gone on a visit to an
uncle.
“There is going to be a lecture at
the city hall on. ‘Temperance* this
evening,” said Mr. Conjray, -as be
entered tbe room wberti his wife
As the speaker stepped forward
their eyes met.
Estelle knew that hesawand rec
ognized her. A warm glow suffused
her cheek and filled her heart, and
during the hour that followed, she
sat entranced by the eloquent words
that tell so musically from his
tongue.
With the many who pressed
around him at the close of the lect
ure Philip had no chance to give
Estelle more than a smile and a
warm pressure of the hand. Buti
in the morning he called on her.-
“I have kept my promise, Estelle!
It brought a rich reward in itself;
and still I am not satisfied. I warn
one still more precious; will you
give it to me ?”
Estelle’s only response was to
lay a little tremulous hand it: his.
And Philip Russell took her lov
ingly to his heart, who was lienco-
forth to be its joy and blessing
and whose warning word had sav
ed him.
Hl’IOtOVi.
A paragrapher tei • of a country
man who on seeing the yacht Psy
che, exclaimed: “ P-s-y-c-h-e! Whai
away to spell fish!”
The Teacher wanted to give his
class the benefit of what he knew
about an inevitable circle; hut be
fore doing so he asked, “What
can’t be4quared ?” No answer for
a few seconds, when a treble voice
piped out, “The account Jim Clark
owes father.”
The old lady came down to break-
A Womin’sltlea of Men.
“A great deal has been said,” re
marked a lady clerk in the treasu
ry department to a Philad Iphia
Press correspondent, “about why:
our girls don’t marry. So far I hare
only heard the men quoted, and
they say a great deal about the girls
losing their charms anil becoming
less feminine by mixing w'ith the
business world, and about wanting
to better their condition by mar
riage.- Now, if you reporters really
want to know something about the
matter, why don’t you go to the wo
men themselves? I’ll just tell you
one thing, and it’s what-1 believe to
be an important reason: When a
girl is kept at home and surround
ed by girls, and hears of the great
ness of the masculine part of genns
homo, and only meeting him at pic
nics and in the parlor, she ci aeeive-i
rather an exalted idea of what he
realty is. Then, when she secures a
position aud meets him as they are
aw -yfrom gaslight’s uncertain glit
ter, her idea of the actual fact falls
considerably from what it was in
her experience, even if she still re
tains the ideal in her mind. The
fact is, we are like Diogenes—we
are hunting for an honest man.
We know more about them than
we did, and so the right man is nat
urally harder to find.”
The boom of Human Hair.
A startling prediction comes from
the Nineteenth Century Club. Dr.
Wi.’liam A. Hammond advances
the opinion that in about one thou
sand years, which will carry us to
the yearofOur Lord 2885-6, all man
kind will be bald. Unless the gen
eration living in that age should
choose to counterfeit ther ancestors
of the present day by wearing wlfes
only smoothly polished heads desti
tute of capillary covering will be
visible from tlie family circles of
theatres or the galleries of chich-
A Big Difference.
“Joseph” saitl one tattered tramp
to another, “what is the difference
between the great elephant which
w-as killed and yourself?”
“Because one is broken up and
t’other is broken down.”
“Naw; its because one is Jumbo
and the other is ‘bum Joe.’ ”
Dr. Hammond does not undertake
to predict to what men and women
of that distant era will resort to
supply this deficiency ot hair, or
whether they will regard it as a de
ficiency at all. He only makes a
proposition based on' his observa
tion of the steady increase of bald
ness, without even expressing an
opinion whether the decline of hair
will be a blemish or an ornamenta
tion. Perhaps the esteemed Doctor
is inclined to regard it as the latter,
since his own head emulates the
days 012885, except as to a light
filamentous fringe which borders
the base of the skull.
It is difficult to conjecture to
what this . universal baldness may
lead. If the present fashions should
prevail in those days, it is not im
probable that ladies may employ
distinguished artists to pains Mika
do figures, birds of bright plumage,
or indescribable animals on their
heads, and enterprising men of bush
ness may use.the smooth space for
advertising pu. poses. Ifladie* de
cide upoawearing wigs the busi
ness of the hak-dresser and the la
dy’s raaiefwill be considerably light
ened. x
If Dr. Hammond is correct in
his prediction, it is certain that the
termagant wife of 2885 will not be
able to take as firm a hold upon
her husband as the wife of the pres
ent time. It may also be question
ed whether the politicians of that
.date will be any more bare-faced
Lthan those of 1885, even il they
eJmnld be more bareheaded.—-iff. T.
Bedrid.
dessing her son said:—“Charlie, did
you leave that whisky bottle on the
parlor tabl-??” “No; I guess dad
left it.” “Why do you think your
father left it ?” “ ’Cause it’s emp
ty!”
At the recent examination of a
bankrupt, it was observed that he
kept a great many bank ng ac
counts. “I see,” said the learned
judge, “that you have had six or
seven bankers—what could you
want so many for?” “To overdraw
them, to be sure,” was the frank re
ply.
A Parisian author has translated
Shakespeare’s line,“Out! briet can
dle”, into French thus:“Get outyou
short candle!” That isn’t as bad as
the translation of an exclamation
of Milton’s by a Frenchman, who
rendered “Hail! horrors, hall,” thus:
“How d’ye do, horrors, how d’ye
do?”
Before marriage she was dear and
he was her treasure; after marriage
she became dearer and he treasur
er; but they were not boisterously
happy after all.
“Charles” she said, as she brushed
his hair back from his forehead
when he sat reading the morning's
paper, “why is a watch dog smaller
in flte morning than at night?”—
He ain’t”—“Yes he is, because he
is let out at night and taken in in
the morning.”
Waiter—Will you.have a salt with
your eggs? Guest—No, thanks;
they ain’t at all fresh.
“Chinese barbers shave without
lather." This reminds me of ar old
schoolmaster who would lather
without shaving.
A little girl of seven years exibit-
ed much disquiet at hearing of a
new exploring expedition. When
asked why she should care about it,
she said, it they discover any coun
tries, that -dll add to the geography
I have to study; there are countries
enough in it now.”
GENERAL NEWS.
A bill will be introduced in Eng-
H-.li Parliament permitting women
to vote in Parliamentary elections;
also, providing for a whippiug-posi
for dynamiters.
John Kelly, so long a great (low
er in - New York politics, is in so
precarious a condition that his
friends despair of his recovery.
It is claimed that a gold mine,
the ore from which yields from $65
to $300 per ton, has been discover
ed in Texas. Prospectors are rap-
ad& Mly taking up claims.
FOOLISH KXTUAVAGAXCE.
Husband—A Wall street man, it
is saiu, has just paid $34,000 for a
seat-in the Stock Exchange.
Wife—What dreadful extrav
agance! Considering the few hours
each day that are given to business
in the Stock Exchange, I should
say that sensible jieople,rather than
spend so much in >ney,would prefer
to stand up.
THE FOKTU' SIDE OF IT.
Indignant Citizen—Ah! ah’ what
have we here? A gas bill! Great
Scott!
His wife—How now, Adolph?
‘Nothing, but the usual gouge. By
the way, whenever I get a gas bill
it reminds me of a famous poem.”
“A famous poem ?”
"Yes the ‘Charge of the Light Bri
gade.’ ”
A SFCHKTIAKTRANSACTION.
Young man—I am willing to lend
you $20, Gus, but -you musn’t say
anything to anybody about it If it
riiould become known that I had
out you money I should be impor
tuned to death.
Gus (pocketing the money)—
Thanks! I pledge you my 'word that
I will never speak of it to a single
soul.
Youi% man—All right. About
when willyou return me the money,
Gus ?
Gus—‘Sh! Mum’s the word, old
boy.
FRCglSE or IIPMTEHENT.
Two newly married persons leav
ing the mayor’s office: “My dear
adored,” says the husband, “how
happy I am that- we ' at last are
united. But you appear to be agi
tated—overcome with emotion. You
conld scarcely articulate the word
'yes’, when the magistrate asked if
you would be my wife.”
Tbe Bride'(nervously)—Ah, dear
friend, I will try to be more calm
next time.
Col. James Q. Chenowitli, former
ly of Kentucky, where he is widely
known, but now of Bonham, Texas,
was confirmed by the Senate as
First Auditor of the Treasury.
John Sherman has been re-elect
ed to the Senate by the Ohio Legis
lature. The Democrats cast their
votes for that foremost of living
American statesmen, Hon. Allen
G. Thurman.
The House Committees on Public
Buildings and Grounds has adopted
a rule forbidding the sale of spirit i-
ous liquors in the House restuarant-
Secretary Lamar has sent o the
Attorney General a communication
expressing his opinion that a suit
should be brought in the name of
the United States to test the validi
ty of Bell’s original telephone p it
em.
Representative J. Randolph
Tucker, of Virgini •, has written
a letter, in which he declines a re-1
election to Congress. Mr. Tucker,
at the conclusion of his present
term, will have giv.m the Govern
ment twelve years t-f •arnest, faith
ful and valuable service.
The colored people of North and
South Carolina are pouring into
Arkansas in great numbers. They
are settling chiefly in Chicot, Desha
and Drew counties, where the Re
publicans have majorities and di
vide the county offices with
their colored allies. It will be ob
served that the colored “Arkansaw
Traveler” has an eye to the main
chance.
Senator Payne, of Ohio, is said to
be much annoyed by the charge
made by 8. K. D.mavan, to the ef
fect that his election to the Senate
was brought about through bribery.
The Ohio Legislature Wednesday
took cognizance olf the matter and
appointed a committee to investi
gate the charges, so far as they af
fect certain members of the Gener
al Assembly who were mentioned
in the Donavan article as having
accepted bribes to vote for Mr.
Pay ne.
A Nihilist resort has been discov
ered opposite the Amiitchoff Palace
in St Petersburg.
Hon, E. C. Walthal and Hon. J. F.
George have been re-elected to the
Senate from Mississippi.
Flying columns of troops sent out
on rcconnoitering expeditions have
returned 1o Mandalay. The losses
are several men killed and wound
ed in a skiimish with Dacotts.
A Gern.an-American citizen
named Hans Jessen, the manager
of and the heir to a flax factory at
Newbnrg, in Sleswich, has been ex
pelled from that town by the Gov
ernment.
Hamilton county, Ohio, sent ten
Democratic Representatives to the
Lower House of the Legislature.
Nine of them were ignominiously
fired out by the Republican majori
ty of that body. The tenth was ad
mitted. By the way, the tenth was
opposed by the only Republican
candidate who happened to bo a col
ored man. The Ohio Republicans
could stretch their consciences
wide enough to admit nine white
men, but not one colored man.
The President approved of the
act providing for the performance
of the dutie a of President in case o
removal, death, or inability of both
the President and VicePresident.
The Government of Spain has
drawn the attention of France to
auspicious movements of Carlists,
Republicans on the frontier, and
asked her to prevent any hos
tile demonstration against Spa in
from French territory.
Montana is knocking on the back
doorofthe Union and asking to be
admitted along with Dakota. A
statesman hailing from out that
way thinks that Montana, being a
Democratic Territory by a small ma
jority, will be admitted as an offset
to Dakota. But has Montana the
genuine material for a State ? That
is the question.
The Gray Telephone people seem
to mean business*: They promise
to start with a $10,00:),033 capital
and do business in the cities
throughout the country generally
They also premise a belter and
cheaper service than the one now
rendered. They will give bonds if
the owners of the Ball Patent in
terfere, which they claim lhat the
United States Court will accept
pending the validity of the Beil
Patents.
Senator Blown has had a num
ber of letters from, all parts of the
country .bearing testimony to the
strength of his argument on the sil
ver question, and many or them
conveying compliments unusually
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Dr Hammond says dot in a tous-
gnd years all mankind will be bald.”
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