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VOLUME XXI.
NEWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 19 1886.
NUMBER 53.
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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