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The Newkan Herald. PUBLISHED EYEKY TUESDAY. A - B. CATES, Editor and Publisher. TERRS OP SL’BSCKIPlqv : One copy one year, in advance ?l^o If not paid in advance, the terms arc $2.00 a year. ' ' :,b ' ,r s ‘* allowed an extra copy. Fil'ty-t wo numbers complete the volume. THE NEWNAN HERALD. WOOTTEJf ft CATES, Proprietors. WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MO DERATION. TERMS:--* 1.50 per year in Adruea. VOLUME XXI. NEWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 19 1886. NUMBER 53. FheJNewsan Herald. PUBLISHED ETEBY TUESDAY. RATH'. F AU.SAISISP One inch one year, *10; car, *100; less time than ‘Jjmn and 50 »i 00 Derineh for first insertion. «na cents^dditional for each snDsequeni ’Notices in local column, ten cents per inofor each insertion. Literal mYang ncnts will be made with those anven mr bv the quarter or year. . Yll transient advertisements must b jaid for when handed in. „ Announcing candidaAes, Ac., f urictlv in advance. Address alUommmucanons to^^ ^ after the war. It was a clear, cold afternoon, such as are wont to have in New York in Enid-winter. If the old English saw keeps its teeth in our New England civilization, this Christmas would make a lean churchyard, for although the brilliant shop windows were smartly decked with green, the streets and the roofs were white with snow. There had been a heavy fall the night before, and the moist flakes had heaped themselves into a soft and fleecy cushion a foot thick; then in the morning had come a sharp frost, freezing out the water from the snow-hanks cast up by the plows of the street car companies, and by the in dividual efforts of the householders. And now ;t was Christmas Eve, and the hurrying multitudes, anxious or joyous, happy or gloomy, some expanding un der the glow of the merry season, some shutting themselves only the tighter in their shells—all tramped up and down Broadway, crunching the hard, dry crystals beneath their feet, and shaking from their heads the continuous hail of tiny particles which blew from every housetop. Amid this throng of men and women buying the final, forgotten Christmas gifts, and hurrying home for the Christ inas rejoicing and rest, walked Alfred Rollinston, so deeply absorbed in his own thoughts that he did not see the people as they passed him. He was thinking of the letter lie had written two days be fore. He had asked for an immediate answer; the mail should be in New York by this time; and in a few minutes more that answer ought to lie in his hands. He could hardly doubt what it would lie —yet he lioped faintly that it might not be what he expected. The hope, vague and slight as it was, made him a little less unwilling to get the answer and know the worst at once. His letter had been written to Susan Hallett, to whom he had been engaged for years; and it was to ask her to meet him two day* hence, tiiat they might bo married with out further delay; and lie was hoping feebly that her answer would reveal some just cause or impediment why they should not be joined together in matri mony. I( was the breaking out of the war which first parted them. He was only 14 years old, but he went to the front with the first company from the cape, and as a drummer-hoy lie saw four years’ hard fighting with the Army of tin* Potomac. In all those years he was able to get home only once to see her and to see his mother. Just before his brigade left Appomattox to take part in the final grand review of the armies of the Union, there came to him a letter from her, with deep edges of black, tell ing him of his mother's sudden death, hut saying nothing ol the loving care and comforting service which she had lav ished on that mother, left alone while he was doing his duty in the sharp tussle of war. What kindness there was in the simple words of that letter! He re called every sentence of it, though it was eighteen years since he had read it. All his recollections of her in the days of her youth were gra cious mid tender, and as his mind went along old (racks of thought, and as his memory gave up numberless instances of her womanly goodness, his hear! smote him, and he reproached himself lie even wondered at himself, and h dimly dreaded the day when she should disco* er the change in him. His rapid walk up Broadway brought him to to the intersection of Broadway and Fifth avenue at Twenty-third street, lie crossed the street and en tered the Fifth avenue hotel. As he stood before the counter of the office, liio clerk nodded to him in cheerful recognition, and said: “i do not know whether the ladies are in yet. Mr. Rollinston, but 1 can send your card up." Alfred Rollinston flushed to the tem ples, as a man may do when he discov ers suddenly that another has noticed what lie supposed lie had kept close. “Thank you,” he said with an imper ceptible effort, “but I can not pay any visits this aftemoqn. I came to see if you had a letter for me. I’m expecting one by the afternoon mail—and I asked to have it addressed here, as I may dine here before I leave the city to-night.” The impassive but observant clerk glanced at a handful of letters and said, “There is nothing for you here, Air. Rollinston.” “There is perhaps hardly time for it just yet,” replied Rollinston as he turned away. He drew a long breath of relief, like a man reprieved. As he walked out of the hotel and across the broad avenue to Madison square, lie wondered how the clerk had come to notice his visits to the hotel. Surely they had not been enough to ex cite remark. Once in the square, he turned and gazed up at the windows of one of its apartments. But in the dusk of the twilight there was nothing to be seen at these windows, the shades of which had not yet been lowered. Alfr*’ Rollinston turned abruptly and began U walk up Fifth avenue. With approacli- in* T night the air seemed more chili, and hefastened another button of his over coat Suddenly, from the tall mast ir the center of Madison square, tfceru flatbed out the electric light, etching ox the white grass-plots the bare limbs of the ice-clad trees as sharply as though they were bitten in by a pungent acid. tj 'and down Fifth avenue the sidewalks were illumined by the blue glare of the electric light as it fell from the high _ost*al t he street comers. Its azure radiance and the jingling of the distant ear-bells recalled the moonlight sleigh- rides and the other frolics of the little Cape Cod town, the winter after the * When Alfred Rollinston wai netted bv all the old folks and allowed liked. He wondered now - that he did not then see that ., Hqllett loved him. It was not until two rears later that he found out lier. It was m the spring of when he was just 21, that lube 68 ’,. congous, all at once, that hii f ' his own. but hers. He re- ail doul^ and hesitation* all th. delicious seIf- r ortuno of a young in love, ill the abounding joy " n unexpected proposal frank- accepted. Of course mar- riage was not t0 - be Ulou « ht or nu no was able to support a wife. Until then he had led a happy-go-lucky life, making out as best he might. It was understood that she was to wait for . him, and that they were to be married only when he had at least begun to make his way in the world. And she was wait ing yet! | At first he found it difficult to settle down. Four years of army life, good as ! its discipline had been in many ways, , were n%t altogether the best training for ' making money. He tried one thing after another, and he staid nowhere long. H e remembered his last day as an auction eer’s clerk and his first attempt as a re porter. In time, his heart began to fail him a little, and he discovered that he had not the grit to gainstand burly mis fortune. He reflected on the text, “Un stable as water, thou shalt not excel,” from which lie absent-minded minister had preached the morning he was bap tized; it came back to him with all the force of a prophecy from the pulpit. When he was most despondent about his future, and well-nigh ready to give up the struggle, Susan came to his rescue Not only did she cheer him with lov ing words, but she induced her father to get an old friend in Boston to give him another chance. It so happened that the new situation fell in with his wayward mood, and he took hold of his work in earnest. In another year or two he had an assured position. And as Alfred Rollinston reached Thirty- fourth street and began to retrace his steps, he remembered that it was on a Christmas Eve, just ten years before, that his employers had given him the in crease of salary which warranted his writing to ask her to name the day. But in the four years which had nearly elapsed since their engagement, her cir cumstances had changed. Her father had made unfortunate investments, and his health had begun to fail. She was an only child, and she could not leave her father alone. They must wait a little longer yet. She had a deferred hope that her father might be persuaded to move to Boston, and then the marriage might take place. But the old man clung to his native town. His little property shrunk into nothing; and his health faded until lie took to his bed at last. Then, after lingering two years, he died. Susan Hallett settled his affairs, paid his few debts, and collected the scant $100 which remained. Then the wedding day was fixed, after long years of wait ing, and, a week before it arrived, the firm by which Rollinston was employed, failed, under the pressure of panic and long-drawn depression, and he was once more thrown on the world to begin again. She had an aunt in a little town in Ohio, and she went there and began to teach school. He started again on the search for work. And again th* taint of instability in his character was made evident, and he did not prosper. So it had been for years now; whatever lie turned his hand to crushed within his grasp. At last, however, it looked as though luck had changed; and Alfred Rollinston quickened his pace, and raised his head. Across the square, on a screen high above the heads of the people, was a magic-lantern advertise ment, just then setting forth the best, cheapest, and quickest route to Omaha. Tliis struck him as a good omen. Sam Sargent, the great speculator, wanted a man with a wide experience of life to take charge of the Omaha division of the Transcontinental Telegraph company, and u ith the new year Alfred Rollinston was to begin this new work. So he had written to Susan Hallett, asking her to marry him and to go on with him to Omaha; and lie had requested her to answer him by return mail; and ho was Imping against hope that there might come a refusal. As lie crossed the double street before the Fifth Avenue hotel, he looked again at the windows of one apartment. He saw it was lighted up; and as he gazed, a slight, girlish figure appeared at one of the windows and lowered the shade. For a moment her outline was visible; then all was dark, as the inner curtains had been dropped. He knew the roon and its gracious inmates, and he had been made welcome there more than once in the past few weeks. He sighed bitterly as he entered the hotel. "Has that letter come yet ?” he asked. -Nothing for you as yet, Mr. Rollins ton,” answered the clerk, “But we shall have our mail in a few minutes now.” Rollinston went out again into the open air, and drew a long breath. He thought how man changes in time, and woman also. In the dreary years of waiting, he had become very different from the strippling who fell in love with Susan Hallett. She, too, had altered. He wondered if he had changed for the worse. He knew he was not good enough for her—and he caught himself wishing she were not quite so good. If she had -ot been flawless in character, he might have loved her longer. It was not that he resented her moral superior- itv exactly, though at times he could not but chafe under it. Her code of life was almost too exacting for even- day use. Even as a girl, there had been a trace of rigidity in her man ner. She was a* gentle and as kind as any one, but as she grew older she stif fened and hardened. She had led a plain and simple life in the country, while he ha4 enjoyed the gaieties and -’sasures of the city,not always as whole some they might be. On the rare oc casions when he was able to be with her, be began to feel ill at ease. He thought that she had seen the constraint which grew on him in her presence. With wider and diverging experience of life, thev seemed to him less well-mated, and the'marriage at last appeared less de sirable. They had developed in different directions, and a difference of taste in the enjoyments of life may strain the affec tions severely. He felt the tie between them loosening, andhe was conscious that they were drifting apart, although she seemed not to suspr ' it. She kept all her J’tt.e country ways, and she clung to these provincialisms wun a strange persistency. She had the simple and natural good manners of her ancestors, hut these did not always accord with the higher, artificial code Rollins! >n had learnt to obey. His every nerve tingled when he noted some phrase or act of hers which eeemed to him a lapse from the false standard he ac cepted: and she was always making these lapses; he suffered at every one, and he suffered silently while waiting for them. When he saw har last, she wore her hair in a bunch of curls at the back of her head. They made her look like a “school-marm.” He had told her they were old-fashioned and “western”— a term or Diner reproach in his mouth. She had colored and said nothing then, though after ward she remarked quietly that she supposed she was getting set in her ways and quite like an old maid. He remembered that she had been more thoughtful and serious afterward. It was true, though; she had lost the pli ancy of youth, while be was as flexible as ever. Then, as he thought of the past—of his boyhood, of his mother’s death, of the happy courting, of her patience and ten derness—a pang of poignant eelf-reprorch seized him, and he wondered whether he had allowed any of his dissatisfaction to leak into his letter to her. He was afraid it was cold, and he knew it was not cordial He had written to her as lov ingly as he could, trying to keep back his weariness of the bond that bound them, and his longing to break it asunder. Would she be sharp enough tosee through him? Small minds are easily suspicious, and as easily quieted, but a large mind, like hen—for she had a large and noble nature—is slow to suspect, but sure to probe to the truth when once aroused. He meant to keep his troth in good faith, to abide by the letter of the bond—the spirit was beyond his control already. He had read in some book of maxims that there are times when to act reasonably is to act like a cowar<k He knew it was unreasonable for them to marry now; but was he not a coward to confess this even to himself? He felt mean in his own eyes when he thought how he had hoped there might be some unforeseen obstacle to her acceptance, Just then he was aroused from his reveries by the hoarse cries of newsboys proclaiming an extra, and announcing a horrible loss of life in a railroad acci dent. He bought the paper with an in voluntary hope that perhaps the train which had borne his letter to her might have been destroyed; for, in that case, he would have written differently. But the extra was a catch-penny, and the trifling accident it described was in California. Again he looked up at the windows of one apartment in the hotel: and in the room next to the one where the shades had been lowered he saw the bright glitter of a resplendent Christmas tree. Evidently the occupants of the apartment had forgotten to close the -urtains. He could see the lissome figure of the graceful girl who had low ered the shade in the adjoining room. Then the door was opened, and a troop of laughing children oame pouring in, dancing with delight around the one girl, who began detaching the presents. As his eyes followed her about the room he did not notice an elderly lady who approached the window and suddenly dropped the heavy curtains, shutting him out from all share in the innocent gaiety within. Rollinston started, shiv ered a little, and shook from his shoul ders the snow which had begun to fall e few minutes before. He went over to the hotel to ask again for the letter, the only Christmas present he was likely to receive; and whether it was to be a gift of good or evil, he did not dare to con sider. “Here’s your letter, Mr. Rollinston,” he said. Alfred Rollinston seized the envelope and tore it open hastely. Then he hesi tated. He walked into the bar-room, drank a small glass of brandy, and took a seat in a quite corner. At last he un folded the letter, and read it with-a rapid glance. This is what he read; “Ever since I saw you last, Alfred. I have feared that our paths in life would part sooner or later. Your letter makes the parting certain. We have grown away from each other. I release you, I forgive you, but I shall never forget you. Go where you will, my good wishes shall go with you. r Susan Hallett.” —Bl ander Matthews in Belgravia. Columbus' "FsTorlU" Birthplace. Calvi in Corsica has been making a great to-do about setting up a tablet to commemorate the birth of Columbus within its limits. Unfortunately, as one historian has remarked, Christopher's favorite birthplace was Genoa; at all events, he seems to have been bom there more frequently than anywhere else, so Calvi lias a bad lookout in this direction. It certainly can not rival the tablet let into the wall of a house at Cogoleto, sixteen miles from Genoa, so far as grandiloquence is concerned: “Stop, traveler! Here Columbus first saw the light. This too strait house is the house of a man greater than the world. There has been but one world. ‘Let there be two,’ said Columbus, and two there were."—Chicago Herald. Uti Image In Snow. Michael Angelo's statue in snow, carved to gratify the whim of a capri cious patron, is instanced by Lawrence Barrett as the representative of the actor’s art. “The sculptor and the archi tect, the painter and the poet live in their works which endure after them; the actor’s work dies when he dies. He carves his image in snow.”—Exchange. Th, Rubber TnrMn. A turtle of the species popularly known as “rubber turtle” in southern latitudes, where its home is, was capt ured off the Massachusetts coast re cently. It was twelve feet long, and, when it was landed, a tent was erected over it and a big business done. —Chi cago Herald. Disparage and depreciate no one; an insect has feeling, and an atom a shadow. -Fuller. The Vnlne of Cleon Linen. Fox himself was not so particular as regarded his personal appearance as were many of his Quaker followers. He was careful to be always neat and that his liie:. vas spotless, and there, so far s- he was concerned, the matter ended. Once, shortly after the commencement of his self-imposed mission, his fondness for clean linen did him good service. Being arrested at Partington, ostensibly as a vagrant, but in reality because he was suspected of being a Royalist spy, be shook oat all the linen in the bundle he carried to satisfy the magistrate that he had no letters or papers. Convinced to this, the justice ordered him to be set at liberty, remarking that no vb- grant would have such clean linsB.— London Society. A Long Wba Rove. A manufacturer in France hag just made a wire rope over three miles Img weighing sixteen tons. It is two ani three-quarter inches in drenmfergne* -end has a breaking sgrint at thirty-miaa THE SCORPIONS OF MEXICO. Habits of a Common l’«*t—Effects of tho Sting—A Happy Family. One of the most common pests in Mexico are the alcarans, 01 scorpions, for during certain seasons of the year they are as numerous as flies around a sugar-house. They are within the cracks of the wall, between the bricks of tiles of the floor, hiding inside your gar ments, darting everywhere with incon ceivable rapidity, their tails (the “busi ness end” which holds the sting) ready to fly up with dangerous effect upon the slightest provocation. Turn up a corner of the rug or tablespread, and you dis turb a flourishing colony of them; shake your shoes in the morning, and out they flop; throw your bath sponge into the water, and half a dozen of them dart out of its cool depths into which they had wriggled for a siesta; in short, every article you touch must be treated like a dose of medicine—“to be well shaken before taken.” The average scorpion is mahogany- hued, and about two inches long; but I have seen them as long as five inches. The small yellowish variety are consid ered most dangerous, and their bite is most apprehended at midday. In Du rango they are black and so alarmingly numerous—having been allowed to breed for centuries in the deserted mines —that the government offers a reward per head (or, rather, per tail) to whoever will kill them. Their sting is seldom fatal, but is more or less severe accord ing to the state of the system. Victims have been been known to remain for days in convulsions, foaming at the mouth, with stomach swelled as in dropsy; while others do not suffer much more than from a bee sting. The com mon remedies are brandy, taken in suffi cient quantities to stupefy the patient, ammonia, administered both externally and internally, boiled silk and guaia- cum. It is also of use to press a large key, or other tube, on the wound to force out part of the poison. As most of my readers are aware, this species of insect—a genus of Arachnida, of the order Pulmonaria—are distin guished from other spiders by having the abdomen articulated, with a sharp, curved spur at the extremity, beneath which are two pores from which the venom flows, supplied by two poison- glands at the base of the segment. The anterior pair of feet, or palpi are modi fied into pincers or claws, like those of the lobster, by which it seizes its prey, while the other feet resemble those of ordinary spiders. Naturalists divide the genus into sub-genera, according to the number of their eyes, whether six, eight or twelve. They eat the eggs of spiders and also feed on beetles and other insects, piercing the prey with their stingers again and again before beginning the meal. When alarmed or irritated a scorpion “shows tight” immediately, run ning about and waving his sting in all directions, for attack or defence, evi dently aware of its power. The young scorpions are produced at astonishingly frequent intervals, the mother displaying far greater regard for her offspring than their vicious nature seems to justify. During their brief in fancy she carries them about clinging in great numbers to her ba ck, limbs and tail, never leaving her retreat for a mo ment, unless, overburdened by theii weight, her hold relaxes from the wall and down falls the whole happy family in a wad. The ungrateful children gen erally reward the maternal devotion by destroying the mother as soon as they are old enough, tearing her piecemeal with the greatest ferocity. Betsy and I amuse ourselves by study ing their habits, and have become ex pert in catching them by the tail with lassos of thread, afterward suspending them in bottles of alcohol to send to mi croscopically inclined friends. Happen ing to be out of alcohol one day, we put a captured scorpion into an empty bot tle. Remembering it a week later, we went to look, when lo! where one had been were now fifty-seven; but whether it was only the mother and her children, or if the original scorpion had arrived at the dignity of a great-grandparent in that length of time, was food for con jecture. Happily this rapidity of in crease is offset bj’ their bitter enmity toward all others of their kind, and the perpetual warfare they wage upon one another thins their ranks more than any other cause. Scorpio ns are said to har bor an especial spite against brunettes and to leave blonde people comparatively unmolested. The Indians eat them, after pulling out the sting—a “crunchy” sort of morceau, as delightful, no doubt, to them, as are snails, frogs, crabs and similar delicacies to American appe tites.—Fannie B. Ward in Boston Trans cript. Scotch Land and Cattle Companies. There are in Dundee, Scotland, eight companies dealing in mortgages and cattle in the western and northwestern states. In Edinburgh there are eleven, and in Glasgow three. The land and cattle companies in the United Kingdom operating in the United States hold in fee simple 2,016,883 acres, and by lease 1,445,796 acres. Their dividends in 18S3 averaged over 8 per cent., but fell to only a little over 4 per cent in 18S5. The causes of this decline are found in the rapid growth of capital in the United States and the gradual decline in the rate of interest which has occurred all over the world.—Chicago Herald. All the Gold on Eenrth. Some one with & mathematical mind has figured it out that all the gold on earth to-day, in whatever shape—that is, mined gold, or, to put it plainer, the gold in use in all nations and the pro duct of all ages—if welded in one mass, would be contained in a cube of less than thirty feet.—Exchange. The Earth’s Inhabitants. All the people now living in the world —say 1.400,000,000—could find standing room within the limits of a field ten miles square, and by aid of a telephone could be addressed by a single speaker. In a field twenty miles square they could all be comfortably seated.—The Argo naut. There should be only one aristocracy —that, the aristocracy of intellect. Heads Tour Pity. The most repulsive man or woman, tho creature full of deceit, treachery, venom, needs your pity and help of •D tiie most, for that man or woman, through generating evil thought, is gen- —pain and diseam for himself <* l—Prentte? Muiford. GENERAL NEWS- The Hydrographic Bureau in its October pilot charts states that tropical cyclones may be expected. The public debt of E lgin;.<! is given at $3,701,653,270, of France. $4, 197,059,145, of the German Statss about two thousand million dollars The loss by fires in the United States and Canada up to October 1st lor the year 1880 was $83,000,000 an increase ol $13 000,000 over tho same months of 1835. The Boston Herald “ays; “The universal testimony of people who have traveled through the West i~ (bat business is active and confi dence strong. The same evidence comes from the East. The regularity with which storm center’s enter our Gulf from the southeast, the great damage they do to property along the coast and in the interior bu f emphasizes the necessity for better facilities for giving notice of their approach. In the Bulgarian election tor members of the Great Sobranje, to electa successor to Prince Alexan der, all the government candidates have been successful. M. Karave- Icft, a pro-Russian, received 59 votes out of the 1,500 cast in his district. The seven Chicago Anarchists iiaving finally finished their blatant S[ eeches, were sentenced to be hanged December3. Unfortunately, however, the sentence wilt not be executed on that day, as an appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court of the Stall. The Treasury receipts in Septem her amounted to $31,680,801, and in the first quarter oi the fiscal year to $93,518 999. In September the expenditure^ were $20, 583,191, ami in the first quarter $78,895, 896. The surplus revenue in September was $11,103,509, and in the first quarter $14,623, 629. A dispatch from Nunna says that at a meeting at Rusteliuk M. Storanow read a dispatch from Prince Alexander declining money voted to him by the Sobranje, and saying that he was prepared to ac cept the throne ot Bulgaria if re elected. It is rumored from Washington mat Secretary of War Endicott contemplates the resignation of his portfolio because his position is not congenial to him. This completes ■ tie list. Ths rumors will now go back to Secretary Bayard and start down the line again. There is no longer a doubt that that fine old Mississippi gentleman, Lucius Quintus Cineinnatus Lamar, Secretary of the Interior, is soon to he a blushing bridegroom. The wedding is announced to take place some time between the 7th of No vember and the convening ef Con gress. 31. Neklindoff, Russian ambas sador, has addressed three notes to the Bulgarian government and for eign consuls. In the first note he says he will resume diplomatic re lations with the government in ac cordance with the instructions of Gen. Kaulbars, but condemns the Bulgarian circular, which he says may lead to rupture. In the second note he says Russia will declare the elections illegal and invalid, and in the third he officially protests against the attack on the Russian agency and peasants who had sought refuge there. None of the large pork packing establishments at the union stock yards in Chicago have opened Ihrir doors and none of the sixteen thousand men usually employed in these departments have offered to return to work on the ten hour ba sis, as proposed by the owners of the packing houses. There is a tremendous crowd of idle men in and about the yards; but no dis turbance. The new passenger depot at Au- hurn, Ala., was destroyed by fire October 11. The office records, a quantity of freighf, telegraph instru ments, express matter, more than >300 in greenbacks and one Louis ville and Nashville freight car load ed with tombstones were destroyed. The loss is fully $5,000. Five of tin- thirteen wiresofthe Western Unit n Company were melted and broken down. The Southern Company’s lines were not injured. The build ing was one of the handsomest de pots in the state, and was the pride \ of the town. The fire is supposed j to have originated from sparks from I a passing freight train about 12 j o’clock at night. Interest in the jute question is re- i viving. The zYmerican Jute and \ Fibre Company of New York has a machine for preparing jute mr market which has lately been per- j feeted, and of the success of which j i he company is extremely sanguine, j In fact, there is now some grounds ! for hoping that if the jute machine problem is not already solved, it is j so near solution that it is only a question of a short time when jure and ramie will be prepared for market by machinery, and at an j expense which will enable the farm ers of the South to account jute and ramie among their most profit able crops. WENT OUT WEST. A Romance i;i IL-al S : i Re- nnited to Hi- Fai.isir After an .Unenre < f ieariy Twenty Years. The Durango Herald of a la* late has the following siory, one o’ he kind that i-common enough i: lolorado: Twenty years ago in La c «U< •uunty, Illinois, Mrs. II. E. Sanborn, new of- this city, lived with lui amily in peace and plenty—tin parents and five children. That year, nowever, the western fever, that lias broken up so m«ny homes, «t- tiCEedthe father and lie started west, leaving his family well pro vided f rm.ti he should return wit the riches that the wild west alwny.- promises. Fora year frequent letters passed back and forth, and ail went well until the terrible news reached the I linois family that the husband and father, John E. Wilson, wilh his entire party, had been massacred by Indians. All communication with his part of the country was '.hen cut off by the savages. Thus it was that years passed by with no further news. Then the bereaved family removed from the old home at Odell, and, as is the case all over the world with busy people, letier writing was uot frequent and com munication with old friends and even relatives was by degrees broken off. The past summer, however. Mrs. Sanborn felt compelled by some strange intuition to write D ick to an uncle in Pontiac, Illinois. From him she learned Hut! m r father, so LOXG MOURNED AS DEAD, had been alive up to 1KS<>, in New Mexico, but had then died leaving a large property, called the Homc-s- tako Mine, at White Oaks. E. E. Sheer, of this city, was able to give some more information concerning the owner of the Homestake, and a very convincing description. John Wilson, son of the lost man went immediately from Durango to White Oaks to look into the matter and, if possible, to get possession of his lather’s body. Ou the stage, at Corinth, Mr. Wil son learned that it was not John E. Wilson, of the Homestake, but his partner, John Winters, who na.i died. The excitement with which he •.hen pursued .is journey can better be imagined than described. At White Oaks the sun approach ed the father in a general business way until thoroughly convinced of his identity. “Have you a family?" he asked. “Yes, but don t know where they are. This fall I mean to lo»K them up.” He gave all their names, and, as John Wilson says, they tallied to a dot. Next the son asked: “Anything familiar about me?” “No; can't see anything.” “WEED, I’M YOUR SON JOHN.” “No,no,” the father replied, “it can’t be.” He didn’t seem able to realize it; thought it all a joke. This man! Why,he was iu short dresses twenty years ago. “Come into the light,” he said “and let me see you with your hat off.” For a full half hour they looked at each other, exchanged letters and photographs, and it is needless to add that each man’s identity was thoroghly established, and an affectionate reunion followed. The old gentleman, still a hale man at seventy-three years, explain ed how letters had failed him, and finally even of the old Illinois triends he could hear nothing of hi family. Then, disheartened, hp drifted westward and devoted him self to gaining wealth, always hop ing and dreaming of a reunion some time. The rest of the story is told. The reunion is to come next month, we are told, when Mr. Wil son is to visited his daughter in this city. The happiness of ali con cerned is too great to taik about. D. I. DOUGHERTY & CO, ATLANTA, GA. THE FALL CAMPAIGN IS OPEN! The Races Have Begun. Trot in Your F astes“. Nags and Watch us Look Ba< k into Their Faces! FsbI of Our Poise oi Yon will Gel tlie Lowest State of 1 Dry Goods Market For Atlanta! From ourc >mpetitors, during the next ninety days you may look out lor a high barometer, with prices rooting upward, and a slight tendency to nervousness, fol lowed by more or less fever, when our prices are mentioned. D. H. Dougherty & Co. Now vhile •low dwwp have passed the first quarter pole and are le almost every body knows how we did it, we w: n a leal and tell you that it was i full five lengths ahead, and ill here take occasion to turn : Silk Dress foods, and everybody says they iir Dry Goods before you examine our many BBC AUISE We sell a beautiful four button kid glove at 50 cents a pair! Because our five button scallop top Kid glove is a perfect beauty, and is made or a fine, soft; skin, and is under the market in price. _ , , .. Because we don’t advertise to sell an article .vorth 40c.for 15c, for we can t doit, you know; but we do sav that our Knit Underwear for Ladies, Misses, Children and Gents, arc bi_i values. 2k? each for Ladies* Pants and Vests, good quality. -5c each lor Misses* Pants and Vests, good quality. The Misses are sizes lo to .U. Becaus r ur stock of Worsted and Silk Dress Goods arc the handsomest in the country, and high prices are out of fashion. . . T * Because our Plain and Striped Blush and Volv^tNovelties and Beaaed and ^.Tet Trimmings match the Worsted a' •iro cheap. Because you can’t afford to buy iiargains. . . , ., Because our Jersey Waists for Ladies and Children are going at such rock-bottom prices, and our sales are double any we ever made. _ . Becaus? i: ;<i nonsense forusto say we sell goods worth 75c foro0, and wc goods ■or This is bosh, and it can’t he done. Don’t you listen to such deception. \Ve siniplv sav that we are selling many lines of goods cheaper than any house in \tlanta,and it is your duty to LOOK. BEFORE YOU Bl'5 , and this is all we ask. REASONS Why we beat the race could be and shall be mentioned. Again we say that our combination Dress Goods. Choice and Grand Novelties, both in Worsted and Silk (Joods, Velvets and Plusnosare unsurpassed in quality and price. Once more. A word al>o;it our Table Linens, Napkins, Towels, Etc. We have a Superb Stock, Great Variety and Great Big Bargains--Bigger Stock and Bigger Bargains tic* h anybody over offered in this town, ami we will stake our reputation on the assertion. And as for HOSIERY, why, wo bull the market on low prices, excellence of goods and handsome designs. Our low prices here are a winning AND DON’T YOU FORGET Our CLOAKS, Short Wraps and Jackets. They are in handsome designs and at prices largely in favor of the buyer. “Comforting” Thoughts Pardon this chestnut, but the truth is. o ir i-o nforts. Rlankets and “such like ’ arc in bv whole carloads, and you can keep warm this winter on the very, smallest •‘outlay’.” This is no joke, but a solid truth. FOR MEN AND BOYS, We aave brought out a superior line of Jeans and Cassimers for Pants, \ ests, Coats and Overcoats, whice are lower than anybody will sell. , . In other words, we are •*Forcing the Fight,” and have got the goods and prices to back us up in anv statement containe 1 in this or any other advertisement in print. We don’t care a snap what others say, you come to us; we II satisfy you unless you want the earth—and we’ll give von a large slice of that. D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO., Atlanta, Ga. THOMPSON BROS. Bedim Parlor and Dining Room Furniture Big Stock ami Low Prices. PAROR AND CHURCH ORGANS WOOD AND METALLIC BURIAL CASES /^■Orders attended to at any hour day or night. crT iplfi- tv THOMPSON BROS Newnan. Ga. The Garfield Family- Five Septembers have passed since the death of President Gsr- fl‘»ld. Of the Garfield children this is said: “The two older hoys have just begun a course in theColumlea College law school, and Harry, the e’der, has been teaching in some eastern school. B ith are graduates f Williams College. Janies R. Gar field has been studying law with Judge Boynton, in Cleveland,and is I. oked upon by friends r,f his father as the son most like him in every way. He has his father’s size, com plexion, eyes and manner. Both sons are now men, and have, it is said, great ambition. Miss Mollie, the only daughter, is now a young women, taller than her mother, and has about finished her studies. Tiie two younger sons, } brain and Irwin, ere at school on the liudson.” —Philadelphia Press. The greatest mental effort that a dude makes is when he has to de termine whether to take oat his cane or hi3 umbrella. E. VAN WINKLE & CO., Manufacturers and Dealers in r Wind Mills, Pumps, j Tanks, Etc., ALSO Cotton Gins, Cotton Presses, Oil Mills, Etc. CONSTRUCT Public and Private Water Works, Railroad Water Supplies, Steam Pump*. Pipe and Bra*« bloods. Send for Catalogue and Prices. E. VAN WINKLE & CO-, 52-13 Box 83, ATLANTA, GA. TH ILKIR^iLACHlAFCa Manufacturers of ENGINES, . r 0 r l GOOD STOCK “rAns| W- OF wilder’s patent t ferr second-hand WATER WHEELS. Mjll Machinery, IKO* AND BU.4SH CASTIN GS f BOILERS CHATTANOOGA, TENN. DEALERS IN— Gins, Presses, and Com Mills. WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. The latest improved “Brown” Gin is the best and cheapest. and vou don't bav to pay for it until December 1st. Re-boring Cylinders and Improving old valves a Specialty. SAW MILL IN 11 MARIE II P- S.—New is. the time to buy new Engines and Boilers cheaper than ever L^rat terms given on any machinery when desired. Send for prices and cat
