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HENRY J. LANG,
ATTGftMRY AT LAW.
Lincolnton, Ga.
H. C. RONEY,
ATTOBNKY AT LAW.
THOMSON. GA.
CS~ Will practice in the Aug:sta. North
era and Middle Circuits. noljl
PAUL 0. HUDSON,
ATTORNEY AT LA IF,
Thomson, Ga.
Will practice ia the Superior Courts of
the Augusta. Northern and Middle Circuits,
and in tho Supreme Court, and will give
attention to all cases in Bankruptcy.
Aug. 20, 1i74, ts
Central |)otel.
BY
MRS. W. M. THOMAS,
AUGUST A, GEORGIA
Mplltf
DR. A. G QUILLIAN,
RESIDENT DENTIST,
Thomson, (ia.
FAV!L!BI HOTEL,
Charleston , S. C.
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Rates, *8 '■<> per day Proprietors.
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*. DEi-LFR IN
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looking plates,
LoOiCtNG OI.ASSES IN F*AMK»,
PICT CUE COLD AND TASSELS,
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RUSTIC and OVAL TRAMI'AS,
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t, , ■ • 3tf.ro r> *.sr> V.tLiß,
AUOUSTA, f :A. jaw*
raniut n Ho -9IP flhftll
l dini ii lib udii uJilj).
rpy. undersigned respect-felly informs
J[ the citizen-. of McDuffie and surround
ing counties that he has opened a shop on
Main Street, in Thomson, where he will re
ceive orders fir Painting. Tapir Hanging
Repairing Furniture, &c.
CANINC. CHAIRS AND GLAZING
specialties. Patronage solicited.
A1 W. It. HADLEY.
JUDKINS & SHAW,
KELT SUPPLIED WITH
\m, BYSTIRS, Gill,
VDOET ABLER. Partridges. Doves Squir
rels. Ducks, Chickeus, Butter, Cabbuges.
Potatoes, Eggs NORFOLK OYS * EAS,
m;k etc. CiTOprlers from the country
promptly filled. Address
JUDKINS * SHAW,
IfelritotA Sftreih, neirt to the New Dost Of
fice. B2a§
Citation for Letters ofDimission.
GEORGIA—MCDtTFFiE Cocxtt.
ATTHEKEAJt. Win. P. Crawford, adminis-
VV trstof of Charles A. Crawford, re
presented to the Court in his petition, duly
filed and entered on record, that he ha«f fully
administered iflbarles A. Crawford's estate :
This to cite all person* con
cetned, kindred and creditors, to show cause,
if any they *an. wbv said administrator
should not be discharged from his adminis
tration, atfS-receive letters of dismission, on
the first Monday in March. 1876.
X)ec.6,lh7. r )-3m A. B. THRASHER.
*» ' Ordinary
B A~N CUOFT ? &
ifMIA PROLIFIC
HEBLQNG COTTON,
THE finest find most prolific of all the
improved varieties.
Bancroft’s Prolife Cotton.
(A careful selection of the Dickson Prolific.)
For pjrtieniars and description, send for
circulars.
EDWARD BANCROFT,
Athens, Ga.
The above superior seed, can be obtained
of the subscribers.
WHITE A COMBS. A OEM';.
Thomson, Ga.
(The imclutffte Oijraiw Jo mural
l 11 A us w; u
VOL. VI.
ro THE
Planters, MercMs,
AND
JKstjrtrFxertrSMSs
of McDuffie and adjoining coun
ties.
VITE would call your attention to our
YV large stock of Carriages, Buggies,
Wagons, Harness, Saddles and SadcfleYy
Hardware. Carriage Material of every de
scription. Springs, Axles, Hubs, Rims,
Spokes, Ac.,
Also, Harness. Upper and Sole Leather.
Shoe Findings, Machine Oil. Gum and
Hemp Packing, and Belting, all widths, at
Manufacturer* price*.
CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES
in great variety.
All kinds of Carriage Rnilding and Re
pairing at short notice by experienced work
men. at prices to suit the times.
Sole Agents for the celebrated JACKSON
PLANTATION WAGON.
We invite all who appreciate good goods
and the saving of money to give us a call.
DAY, TANNAHILL A CO.,
to W. C. Jessup,
k24-c*. AUGUSTA. GA.
Economy js Wealth!
THE UNDERSIGNED respectfully in
forms the public that he is prepared to
REPAIR OLD FURNITURE,
of all kinds, at a very moderate cost. If
you desire your Bureaus. Wash stands,
Wardrobes, Sofas. Settees, Chairs, or any
kind of room ®r parlor Furniture made to
look as good as new, bring them along.
Satisfaction guaranted. Can Be found at
J. M. Curtis’ Shop. iNTTerms Cash.
GEO, C. ATKINSON,
al2-tf. Main Street, Thomson, Ga.
For Sale lr Rout.
IZ A TSA I 8. I. i;
With good Dwelling, Store, Ac., Ac.. farm
for one to three horses. Also my home
farm, with comfortable dwelling Ac... farm
for one or two horses. Good neighborhood,
healthy, good water, fruit. Ac.
V. M. BARNES.
tHTApply to Editors Journal.
11-ts.
I. S. & P. C. TANT’S
.Meat House,
SSftfltfSl Augusta Ga.
Fine CAROLINA, TENNF.SSE and KEN
TUCKY • v \
JE2 jE? JF3 ,
Pork, Lamb, v eal. Mutton, Hog-head
Cheese, Sausage, Mixed, or AI L FORK, as
ordered, Corned Beef. Pork, and 'l'ougues.
A fuli stock alyvays on hind..
WrigTitfcboro High School.
r r
I HE Spring Term of this Institution wiH
begin Monday, the loth day of February.
INTO The Academy building has been en
closed and tvid bo supplied with new fumi
tc.re complete.
Tl* terms of tuitiou are moderate and
tho course of study thorough.
A complete course of plain and ornamen
tal T’e miHLship will he given Ktudents; also
to private parties on application to the
Principal. K. N. WARE.
Meirt I Fib COIAVFY
Tailoring and Gutting Notice.
rpjlE Kul) criber will L.- preparr-d tc carry
jon the busine sos fA§L oR!fi 3
CUT fjh,f? b a)i ds brau: h * .<1 the store
of A. <. Adkius 'L ho in son, on and after the
first day of "obi-nary, IST*;,
His long and \aried experience in the
above business warrants him in prorrriaing 1
the greatest satisfaction t- all who uiay
favor him with their patrouge.
He would especially solicit a visit from
the many friends and aeqaaintances which
he made while he wns superintendent of the
clothing department of the Georgia Relief
and Hospital Association at Augusta during
the war. Respectfully.
JOHN NEIL ASMS.
Augusta. Ga.. Dec., 1875.
We take great pleasure in recommend
ing Mr. John Neilep to the community of
Thomson and the suiTouliding country as a
faithful and competant workman in his
line. Having been the cutter for Messrs.
Broom and Day before the war. and also
connected with the clothing department of
the Confederate fctates, at Augusta during
the war. j. J. BROOM,
CH ARLIE B. DAY,
J. M. NEALY.
GEO. H. CRUMP.
LAST CALL.
\T OTICE is hereby given that all persons
who are indebted to estate of George
O Dillon, deceased, are earnestly requested
to come forward and make satisfactory
arrangements with the undersigned bv
mep rst of March. All who fail to comply
by Ihe time specified will find their notes
and account# in the hands of an attorney
for collection.
11. W. GERALD,
Authorized Agent of W. G. Dillon, adin’r
estate of Geo. G. Dillon. FeblO’7C-lm.
EXECUTOR'S SALE.
GEORGIA—McDuffie CouiwrY.
* ILL be sold to the highest bidder be
V\ fore the Court Hou.->« door :n hom
son, said county, on the first '1 ueaduy in
March next between the usual hours of bale,
the following tracts of land, viz :
One in Lumpkin county containing 40
acres, and one in Pierce county containing
R*o acres. Said lands belonging to the
estate of Aaron Adkins, late of McDuffie
county, deceased. Sold by consent of the
heirs for settlement.
Terms on the day of sale.
_Febi<>-4t J. F. ADKINS, Executor
NOTICE.
r PHE,Books of J. S. Jones Son, C. W.
X Arnold A Cos., have been placed
in t ie hands of Messrs. Paul 0. Hudson and
Hi C. Roney for collection, All notes and
accounts not satisfactorily arranged by the
first of March will be sued.
J. S. JONES & SON.
Thomson. Gfp. Feb. lfth, I*7^.
M. O*BOWP,
Cotton Factor, Grocer and
Commission Merchant,
253 BROAD srp.E|iT, AUGUSTA. GA.
HaYING rte»si}ly rttnrie-I from the
Northern Markets, aft h.aving purchased
a large and very carefully :-elecicd stock of
Groceries, etc... of the first quality. I am
now prepared to offer s o my natrons and
the trade gc ncr.dly, the following at lowest
prices, and of w hich hull make a special
ty, viz:
Sugar, Coffee. Bacon
Lard, Flour, Butter,
Clieese, Mclas&es, Syrup
Pickles and •Canned
Goods, Brooms, Buckets
Etc.
My stock of TEAS are superior to any
ever brought into this market, ami which I
offer at
Greatly Reduced Friees
A trial is respectfully solicited.
SPECIAL PERSONAL ATTENTION
will be given to all consignments of Cotton.
Ac. Commission for selling Cotion, 60c.
per bale ; storage, S6o. per bale.
I«-f»
e II A NOT
taoTiiieiirao!
C O T T O A O ETI O X !
EUREKA, EUREKA!
I will Kell to the cit-izenn of McDuffii* and
adjoining counties the
EU RE K A GUANO
for $50.00 per ton cash, freight added.
SOO.OO per ton on time, with Gotton option ,
at 15 cents per pound, with freight added.
THT TUK jR&IEtXCKA»
and you will always use it. It is a standard
Fertilizer, one of Hie very- beat sold.
PAUL C. HUDSON, Agt.,
a5-c*. Thomson. Ga.
Atlanta Millstone Manufactory
TO MILL OWNERS. .
FOR THE BEST '
MILLSTONES,
Bolting Cloth,
3mnt Machines and
Improved Mill Findings,
Address.
WM. BRENNER,
ATLANTA, Go,
AND MIU FURNISHING DEPOT.
JULIUS H. OPPENHEIM,
No, 143 Reynolds Streot.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.,
WHOLEfIAIiB DEALER IN
IRON, METALS, RAGS
AND ALL KINDS OF
Paper took, Hides, CVool,
WAX, Etc.
H2-a§
CL J. TL BALK’S,
No 180 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
Will offer duiiDg tke nexc ten days a
large stock of Blankets, Shawls, Cloaks,
Worsted Dress Goods, Calicoes. Jeans, and
Cassimeres, Flannels, Bed Tickings, Dom
estics, etc., at prices that will make it to
the interest of the readers of the Journal
to send an early order if in want of any
thing in that line.
Fine white red bound 10-4 Blankets, at
$3.50 worth $5/00.
Fine silver-grey Blankets, at $2.00 worth
$3.50.
Fine white ribbon bound 11-4 Blankets,
at $5.00 worth $7.50.
All woo! red, white and blue Flannels,at
20 and 25c.
Two yard square, all wool Shawls, at
$2.00 and
Good Jeans for Pants, at 20 and 25c.
Good Mattress ’j joking, at 10 and 12}c.
Ticking warranted te hold feathers, at 15.
20 and 5c
Bes* heavy unbleached Drilling, at 10c.
Best undressed bleached Homespun yard
wide, at 10 and 1 2.j0.
Children k knitted Socka. at 40, 50 «t 75c.
Splendid black Alpaca, at 30. 40, 45 & f>oc.
Good Calico;**?, at 7, 8 and lOc.
\ wide, heavy unbleachedßhirtiog. atfije.,
and many other goods at temptingly low
prices.
J. & P. Ceate’ Best Six Cord Thread sold
to the trade at 67Ac. doz., at
C. J. T. BALK,
136 Broad-St., near the Lower Market,
Augusta, Ga.
THOMSON. GA. M^WCiB76.
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I ’■ ■•...>•• i’ll jm
Ilf- Iri hit.;
Your better nature spuron
To act the spy on him or his—
Just mind your own concerns.
Yes, mind your own concerns, my friend,
And presently you’ll find
That all your time is occupied.
And you've enough to mittd i >
What need you care if Snooks or Spooks
Should wed with Sally Joues?
What matter if your neighbor 0.,
A half a million owns ?
The money ih not yours, my friend,
Though golden stores he earns;
So do not envy him in wealth,
But mind your own concern*.
Yea. mind your own concerns, my friend,
It is a better plan
Than always to be spying out
The deeds of brother man.
Remember that all persons have,
Though hidden from your view,
Thoughts that to them of right belong,
And not at all to you,;
And also bear in mind, my fiient\,
A generous nature worms
No secret from his neighbor’s brwist,
So mind your own concerns.
Burglariously & Feloniously.
Wo had just locked .up the saf®, and I
bad put tho koy in my pocket—[ am tha
accountant id the North and South of
England Bank at its Pudsey Branch, W.
it. Yolks— i had got my lint on, and hail
taken Hp my umbrella, when a man came
running into the bank with a bug of
money in his hand.
“Am liu time? ’he cried. I shook
my head.
“Donee tides it 1” he said; “and I’m
off to Liverpool by the n oik train, uud to
America.”
“Sorry for it," I said ; “hut wo can't
tuko the money.”
“Well, then, what is to ha don.!?
Here’s twei.ty-two thousand pounds in
this bag, and those drafts of mine come
due in a couple of days. \vvlf, you’ll
have to take ’em ivo,'' 1« isuid ; 'id imn’i,
unless you take the motjFv in to-night."
I know that those drafts were coming
due, and that our murnurer was a little
anxious about them, for they were rather
lieaVy, and the other names on them were
not very good. Black, too, (that was
the man with the money-bag)—Black
was a upitsil customer ; and not only a
good customer himself, but he brought
good accounts with him, and we were, a
young branch and on our mettle.
Well, here was the money to meet the
draffs, anyhow, und I should have been
a great fool to send it away just because
it was after hours. So I counted it all
over; there was about nineteen thousand
in chocks and notes, and three thousand
iu gold.
“Gome and have n glass of beer with
me,” said Black, “on the way to the
station.”
I put the bag of money; in my desk,
nnd locked it up. I would come back
presently, and have it plated in the safe.
I walked to the station with Black; we
had some beer together) and then he
went off Ainericaward, amt I am on the
way to Nomophillar Vilifiß. Yon see, X
was rather in the habit (if calling for a
glass ol beer as I went liome, and then
going on ; and, consequently, from the
force of habit, I’d ilmost got home be
fore I remembered the bag of money.
It was vexing too, because we had a tea
party that night, the first since our mar
riage, and it begau at 6 o’clock, nnd I'd
promised to lie at home at an hour earlier,
to draw tho corks and help to get things
ready. And here it was 6 o'clock, and I
had to go all the way hack to the bank.
All the way back I went as hard as ]
could pelt. However, the money was a l
right in my desk, aud now I’d put it in
the safe. “Tell Mr. Cousins”—our man
ager, you know-I said to the servant
who’d let me in, “that I want the key of
thesafe.” But,you had it in your pocket,
say you ; which shows that you are not
acquainted with the rules and regulations
of the North Rnd Soutf- England Bank,
which say that _kWt or cashier
shall be |«Bue custody
J# It-:
the daytime, ft all
anil securitiesvlly secure.!
within the ph shall
secured by which shall
be the .utnager,
•he second in io nktconnlaut m
cashier. But
you had one ttn< ‘' id you want
with two? Thej^^pggoregulations
are obscure. Th<ff }rawu up by
somebody without® tW * in ®vry skill; if
they’d consulted me t ./ ’em, I could
have suggested a go /n many improve
ments. What they .Jcanl to say was,
that the safe was to Y. secured by two
locks, and that a key of each, not iub r
chaDgoabla tho one with the other. Vlin
to be iu the custody, etc. No*you un '
derstand why I wanp-d Mr remain* key.
“Eh, my !” said the servant, opening
her month wide, “and what might you
want Mr. Cousins’ key for?”
Just as stupid as you, you r,ce. I was
mad with the girl. I own I always get
out of temper with those Yorkshire
;peopK If you ask 'em the simplest
question, first they open their mouths
and gape at you. When you’ve repeated
the question twice, they shut their
mouths and think for a bit. Then the
idea seems to reach the thing that does
duty with ’em for brains, and excites a
sort of reflex action, for, by jingo I in
stead of answering jour question, they
go and ask you one. And that makes
me so mad. Oh, they’re n very dense
race, those Yorkshire people.
“Why, to open the safe, yon stupid,"
said I. “Where is lie ?”
“Don't yo know,’ says she.
“Know- ?” I cried, in a rage. “What
should I ask you for, if I did know?”
“Didn’t thau know he were at thai
house ?”
Ah !so he was. T’i nearly forgotten
that he was one of the guests at my wife’s
party. Clearly, I couldn’t get the safe
open, and I didn’t like to lei.ve tho mon
ey in my desk, so I put it in my pocket
and took it home, thinking I’d give it to
Cousins with my key, to put iu the safe
when he returned.
A nice mess I got into when I reached
home; for you see it had been arranged
that I was to go up stairs aud dress be
fore anybody came; and that then our
room was to be made ready for the ladies
to take their bonnets off—for they were
not all carriage [ample. Well, you never
saw such a thing! When I got homo
ami crept up stairs to dress—the people
had all come, as the servant said—there
were six muffs, anil four hoftnets, aud
five pork-pie hats,’and half a dozen every
day curls hanging over the looking-ghr s.
Upon my word, 1 really didn’t like to
perform ray toilet among all these femi
nine gear ; and there was no lock on the
door; and ray dress clothes were alj
smothered up among these muffs and
things. But 1 got through pretty well,
and had just got one of my legs into my
trousers, when bank-atrop-dop-dop ! such
a rattle at the knocker, aud I heard ray
| wife seutling away into the hall. They
I were the Markbys, our trump cards, who
j kept their own carriage and everything
grand.
“So kind of you, dear !” said my wife,
kissing Mrs. Markisby most affectionate
ly; I could hear the reports where 1
stood.
“£)o delighted 1 Beally, how nicely,
how benntifitl you arrairge V/erythiug, I
can’t have things so nice, with all my
servants, and"—
“Ituu up stairs, dear, do!” said my
wife; “you know the room—my room,
right hand at the top of the stairs.”
I heard a flutter of female wings on
the stairs. What was Ito do? If I
could lmvc managed the other leg, I
wouldn't have moi led, but I couldn’t.
I hadn’t worn those things for a good
while, and I don’t get any thinner as I
grow older. No, for the life of me, I !
couldn’t dispose of that other leg at such I
short notice. What could Tdo ? T could i
only rush to the door, and set my back
against it. Did I tell you this was our
house-’,wanning party? 1 think net.
Did J tell you our landlord altered the
house for ns, making our bedroom larger
by adding a slip that had formed a sepa
rate room ? 1 think not. And yet I
ought to have told you all these cireum
stauces to enable you to understand the
catastrophe that followed. In a word,
the door opened outward. I’d forgotten
that peculiarity, never having had a room
no constituted before, and never will again.
The door went open with a crash, and I
bounded backward into Mrs. Marksby’s
arms. Smelling salts and sal volatile,
was there ever such an untoward affair ?
Kum-tid-itimity-tnm-de-de! The music
struck up for the dances as I hopped
back into my room. I hid my head
amoug the bolsters and muff’s, aud almost
cried ; for I’m such a delicate-minded
man. Yes it hurt me a good deal more
than it did Mrs. Marksliy, for, would
you bolieve it ? She told the story down
below to the whole company, with pan
tomimic action, and when I showed my
self at the drawing-room, I was received
with shouts of inextingnisbed laughter !
I think I called the Yorkshire people
dense just now, didn’t I ? Well,YU add
another epithet, coarse, dense and coarse.
I told 'orn so ; but they only laughed the
more.
The guests were gone, the lights were
out, slumber had just visited my; eyes,
When fight into my brain, starting me
up as if T’d been shot, came a noise, a
sort of drill bursting noise.* : I wasn’t
really Certain at first whether I had
heard a noise 6r ouly dreamed of it. 1
sat tip in lied and listened intently. Was
it only mv pulse thumping in my ears,
or Were those regular beats the tramp o'.
somebody’s muffled feet 1 Then I heard
an unmistakable sound—creak, creak,
creak—a door being opened slowly and
cautiously. AH in a moment the idea
flashed into my lie.-ui—Twenty-two Thou
sand Pounds. You see, all this dancing
, u; d junketing, and laughing and chafing
,'md completely driven out of my mind
• all thought Os the Sum I had in toy pos
session. 1 had left it in my greatcoat
pocket, which was hanging in the hall,
ilmvn
I Puff I a gust of wind came through
! the house, rattling the. doors gnd win
i dows ; and then I heard a door slam,
; and a footstep outside or someone steal
-1 iug cautiously away.
(Away down stains I went like a mad
man, :nv one thought to put my hand oa
that greatcoat, ft was a brown great
-1 coat w ith long tails, and two pockets bo
| hind, and a little cash pocket on the left
| hand side in frUut, and this breast pocket
\ in which I had put the bag of money.
This pocket wasn’t, as is usual, on the
left-hand side, but on the right. Thera
was no other coat hanging on those rails,
ouly my wife’s waterproof. Wlmt?
j whoop 1 mode to get hold of that coat,
I (lent heavens! it was gone !
J I had carefully haired and‘Chained the
; rant door before 1 went to bed—now it
i tiuiastcned; I ran out into the
-t, and looked up and down, hopeless
slid bewildered. It was a'dark, damp
ght ; the lamp at the corner threw a
long, sickly my down the streaming pav
ement, hut there wasn’t a s. nl to be seen.
Everything sti i, cold arid dark,
rim money was clean gone ; y..s it was
gone. 1 repeated these voids mechanic
! ally to myself, as 1 crawled lip stairs,
j All the r'-stilts of this loss pictured them
| selves clearly Inf re me—dismissal from
; the bank, ruin of all my prospects, utter
! ruin, in fact? What could I do? to
I what turn ? The blow that bad fallen
| upon me was so heavy that it had be
j numbed my faculties.
| Then the thought came to mo ; should
T go to bed and say nothing at all about
! it ? No one knew of my having received
j that money, not a’setd but H ack, the
j man who had deposited it. I had given
! no receipt for it, no acknowledgment.
! Black haul gone to America—a hundred
■ things might happen—he might never
j return ; ut all events, here was respite,
| immediate relief. I could go to the bank
| next morning, hang up my hat as usual,
| everything would go on as before, l!
I Black returned, my word was as good as
l his. The notes and checks could never
Ibe traced home. But I don’t think J
j retained this though*, iou". Do you evo
| consider how much resolution and force
j of will if takes to initiate a course of
crime aud deception ? I’d neither til"
I one nor the other ; I should have broken
: down at once. I couldn’t have met that
| fellow's eye and told him I had nev«r
! had h a money.
I I woke my wife—she’d slept through
' all the trouble, “Mary,” I said, “we’ru
I ruined—there’s been a robbery.”
I “A robbery 1” cried she, clasping her
| bands ; “aud arc the men gone ?”
' “Yes,” I said.
i “Oh, thank Heaven,” she said, “then
we're safe 1 Ne ver mind the rest, Jack,
; as long as our lives are safe. But there's
|my Water-proof. Jack I —oh, do run ur.d
. sea if they've taken that.”
Then I told her the story of the twen
ty-two thousand pounds. She wouldn’t,
believe me at first ; but when she heard
the whole story she was frightened
enough. Yet she had wits about her
more than I had.
“You must run off to the town hall, i
Judt,” she said, “and set the police to;
work. They must telegraph to all the 1
stations, to London, and everywhere !
Oh, do go »t once,'Jack, this very mo
ment,, Every second lost may be rain
to us.”
Away I went to the town hall. This
was a big, classic place, with an immense
porlieo and a huge flight of steps ; but
you didn’t go into the. portico to get to
the police office, but to the side, which
wasn't classical at all, but of the rudi
mentary style of architecture, and yon
went along a number of echoing stone
passages before yon reached the Super
intendent's office.
When I'd told the superintendent the
story—“Ah,” lie said, “I think I know
who did that job.”
•‘Oh 1” said I, “how thankful I am 1
Then you eau pnt your hands upon him
and get back the money ? I want the
money back, Mr. Saperintendcnt never
mind him. I wouldn’t mind, indeed,
rewarding him Cor his trouble, if I could
get the money back.”
“Sir !” said the superintendent severe
ly, “the police ain't sent into the world
to get people’s money back ; nothing of
the sort. We aren’t going to encourage
composition of felony ; and a* for putting
our hands on Flashy Joe—for he did
the job, mark yon—well, what do you
think the liberty of the subject is for?
Where’s your evidence ?”
I was obliged to confess I hadn’t any ;
whereat the superintendent looked at me
contemptuously
“Now, let's see into this matter,” Said
he after he’d made some notes on a bit
of pap :. “How came they to know
you’d got the money in yonr coat ?”
I said I, didn’t know.
"Ah, but I know,” said the superin
tenddiit. “Y'ou went to get a glass of
ale after you loft the bank, young m.*.u ?”
I was obliged to confess I had done so.
“That’s how property gets stolen,”
said he, looking at me severely. “And
what’s more, you had a glass with a
frieud? Au 1 1 knew you had. And
perhaps you got talking to this friend of
yours ?”
“Yes, iudeed I had.”
‘•Very well ; and mentioned about the
money you’d just took ?”
“Veiy likely.”
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•‘Then this Joe, depend upon it, was
in the crib at, the iiuie, uqd he heard
yon : and he followed you back io the
bank : and yon haven’t got blinds, hut u
wire-netting over the w indow! and iuv
‘>odv outside can see you counting
gold and silver. ”
•‘That’s true,” I su'd.
“Yes ; I see it ail,” a.i l the siinWui
teudeut, “just as Jog saw it. lie. follows
you up from here to yonder, and ho aces
you put your money into your coat pock
et, aud then lie follows you lidfaie, and
whan all’s quiet, he cracks the crib. Oil,
its ail iu a nulshuil ; ami that's how
property goes. And then you come to
the police.”
“But if you know it's Joe, why don’t
yolf send after him and Caleb ilim V”
“Oh, we know mif»,wu business, sir ;
jam leave it «il to us ; vY shall have Jou
right enough, if not ion yiK job, anyhow
lor the next. We’ll give biih« bit of
rope, like. ” ;\y ~
I couldn’t put any fire into the ityui,
I<> what I could ; he was civil; that, is,
for a Ybrkshiivmau ; impassive ; he'd do
what •was right. I’d given the iufor;na
iiou ; very well, all the rest was his busi
ness.
So I carae homo miserable, despairing.
11 was just daylight by this time, and as
I opened the shutters, the debris of, our
feast was revealed ; the lees of the lob
ster, salid, the picked bones of the chick
ens, the melted residinum of die jollies,
while about everything hang the faint
smell of sour wine! I sat down amid all
this wretched mess, and leaned my head
on my arms in dull miserable lethargy.
Then I sprang up, and as I "did so I
caught sight of myself in the lookiug
glass. Good Heavens 1 was this wretched
j hang-dog fellow myself F Did a few
| hours misery chango a man like this ?
j Why, I was a very felon in appearance ;
and so I should be thought to be. Who
would lie!.-eve this story of n robbery ?
Why, the police didn't believe in it, else
.they'd have taken a different tuue. No ;
I should hi, looked upon as a thief bv all
he world.
Then toy wife came down stairs, aud
with a few touches, restored a little or
der end sanity, both to outward maltem
and my mind. She brought me some
bread and butter, aud.nlter I had eaten
amt drank, f didn’t fuel quite so bad.
“Jack,” she said, “you must go to
London at once, au 1 see the directors.
Have the first word, and tell them nil
about it—all the particulars. It was ou
ly a little bit of carelessness, after all,
and perhaps they'll look over it.”
“Yes, that's all very well,’’ I said.
But how am Ito get there? I've got no
money. This v.retclied party baaoleared
'it’s right cult.”
“Borrow some of Cousins.”
“He asked me to lend him a sovereign
lust uiglit, and I couldn't.”
Now, you’d say -. “Here’s a man with
out resource. Y-’hy didn’t he pawn his
watch ?” To tell the. truth, that’s what
I did the week before, aud the money
was all gene. “Theu these circumstan
ces,” you'll add, “it was immoral to givo
a party. ” But,' you'll bear in mind, the
invitations had been out for a fortnight,
and then we were in funds.
“Weil, Jack,” said my wife, “you
must get the muu—the P. B.—to give
you some, more money on the watch. Sell
him it right out. It must be worth ut
least ten j nnds- for it cost thirty, and
ymf ve only had five upon it. Sell the
ticket. ”
Yus ; but where was the ticket ? Why,
iu tile iitlle cash pocket of my brown
greatcoat. Still, 1 had heard, that if
you’d lost a ticket, you could make the
man give another ; and Brooks, the
j pawn-broker, was a respectable fellow,
| who perhaps, would help me out of my
: difficulty. 1 went to him, anyhow, on
Imy way to (lie station. 1 felt l,ke a
i licket-of-leave man as I weut into bia
shop, but 1 put a good face upou it.
“Brooks,” I said, “that watch—you
know the ticket—it's stoieu.”
Brooks gave a most porleutions wink.
He was a slow-spceched man, with a red
face, and a tremendous corporation.
•iNny,” lie says, “my lad. thou’rt
wrong there."
“Vv hat do you mean ?” I said, color
ing up furiously. Every one suspected
me, i’. seemed.
“vVUoj, it might ha’heeu stolen once,
hut it aren't now ; aye got it here. This
is how it were. A cadging sort o* chap
comes in, and he says ; “Master, what'd
yon give me for this here ticket ?" Now,
you know the hact don't allow us to give
nought in tLat kind of woy, hut I says
to tne chap : “Let's have a look at it
aiiu theu l saw it was yours, aud I said
to the min : “.My lad, you aren’t come
houest by this.”
“And you gave him into custody—he’s
m prison ? Old Brooks, w Vat a capital
teiiow you me 1”
“Nay, ’ he said ; “I know’d better nor
that, D. you Hunk I’d hexposo a cus
tomer ? I know you gents don’t care
aboii t these little matters getting abroad ;
and so I maps my list on the counter,
and I says < ‘Hook it !’ just like that.
And away he went like a lamp-lighter.”
I sank down on the counter, overpow
ered with emotion.
“And what's more,” vent cu Bioojoq
“he never took uia the money I’d tent
him for the coat f”
“V. hat Cl■at?" I cried.
“Avery nice brown coat he put up
with me. About fit you, I should thifik.
See, h-ero it es. ” , , ~ ,
It was my identical brown greatcoat,
wrapped up in a I nSdle, and tied round
with my oiiu handkerchief. I made a
dart at it,-opened it, plunged my hund
into the breast pocket—there was the
money, there were the twenty-two thou
sand pounds.
How did I get to the bank that morn
ing, ov legs or wings ? And how cud I
get home, as soon as I put the money
sate away ? Mary knew by my face it
was ad right; and didn’t we have a
dance of joy all round the house.
My burglar had been only a sort of
suenk after all, who got in at au- open
i window and bolted with the spoils of the
. hall ; but if lie had taken the pains to
i look into the pockets of the coat', I
' should have been utterly and deservedly
; ruined. J