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BATTLE Of BULL BUN. GRAPHIC STORY TOLD ST A NEW HAVEN SOLDIER. , “Were you at the battle *f Bull jtuua New Haven veteran was re cently asked. “Well, yes—l was there. I wasn’t ecacUy in the battle, but I helped the run B* 1 * *> f il * u 1 entile, Kan wa*i,® name for iL It was a race—the biggest, ske daddle there erer waa on earth. I saw more ridiculous sights that list Sun day afternoon, aud laughed mote *bau a man will ordinarily laugh in ten years! You see the time of the three month* men was out but the army was ready to wrave forward; on M.—,*.. and the regiments took votes to decide whether they should go forward ft demand discharge. There was a company of New York artillery well* to-de men -butchers, I believe they were—who hod pro vided their own battery and outfit aud who voted logo home. And as they moved to the rear a perfect storm of hoots aad jeers assailed them, but they didn’t notide it. I didn’t know of any others who voted not to g*forward. At that time I was de tailed to drive a four-lforee team for General Key*, who had command of these Connecticut regiments and the Second Main*. It was my business temovehisperstmslbsggsge, and I had a splendid team of horse*. Th wagon had a white canvae top which •peued at soth ends. I sat outside the top, the front cnrlaiu closed bo hiud me. I moved out te Fade Church, ain* miles into Virginia, theu moved forwards to Centervillo. At tw* •’clock, on Sunday morniag July 81, the general's iness-chest, tan gstlon of whisky, groceries, two offi. cere’ tenta and two young colored girl# warn loaded into my wagon and I was ordered to drive ahead. Onr troops were close upon the Johnnies, end a battle that day waa considered a dead moral eertaiaty, and an over whelming victory was believed to be quit* cure. The two colored girl* ware going to the front ss officers’ cook*. A ceutiuual ilretm *f army wagon* was ponring along the road, and these civilians on horse back and in carria ges abd baggies containing Washiug tenian* whose voices wore mill for war, and wore ambitious to take part in it by aye-eight at very safe dis tance. It was seven o'clock before I was allowed to swing into the long current and move forward. It was sluggish stream. A* I reached the top of a hill Quartermaster Hodge of our brigade ordered in# to turn out and halt under the shade of a tree. I did so. The contents of the wagon were removed, a fire built and the girls prepared breakfast, I took a share; then lying down beside my wagon I fell asleep, for I had slept little or uone for two night*. It wa* near uoon when I awoke, aad firing ' had been board at the front for seme time. There wss alull for an hear, and then i| wasaeaiimed ttoroorthen ever. In a not her hour horsemen and carria ges came tearing down the road, their riders and drivers shouting : ‘Turn back! turn dackt Drive for your live*, the reb* are upon u* I’ “Along cam* a hick containing &iH L ~Gsfigrea*n*en. Each man , sat with cockod revolver in bis hanyTand ail vailing to the driver to drive for hie life. I expected to be made pris oner )a a few minutes and the proa pact waa net a pleasant one, but I had te atop the work ot loading op my wagon and laugh at thoaa four heroic legislator* brandishing their pistols, threatening their driver in one breath and offering big wealth in the next if he would get them back to Washington. The current in the nar row road turned and rusted hack ward*. I watched my chance and turned into it. As I did *o a big Dutch suiter, with a wagon load* of good in turning around upset his wagon into the ditch beside the road. He jumped to the ground and took to hit heels, leaving his horaaa strug gling to free theniselvo* from the harness. It seamed as if the vary horses had caught lh* panic and were aa anxious to go North as the men. Every few rod* I came to wagon* deserted or broken down in attempts ingtQ ge( ahead by turning out. I ■aw teamstera (iraw th* tailboards of their wagona and let their freight fall ont jpto the read while ascending hills. 'Pb* tjclds on either side of the road swarmed with horse* and eelr diere in full rout. Artillerymen h*4 cut the trace* from tbs gun* and bad ridden away before a shot came near them. “These were regular army men, and lif njy fonr year* at the frout the poorest soldiers I saw were regular army men. If ever mca made good time these soldiers did. Th* after noon was terribly sultry and hot. The men ran iu all stages of nndress uniform, even to shirt aad drawer*. Few knapsack* were to be seen. Many had thrown away their guns, but some trailed them on the ground behind I ham. I waa troubled with but few applications for a ride, be cause my team 1 * papa fM slew. Suddeuly a big drum major, bart headed, bare-footed, and hia uniform covered with dirt ond dual, climbed up beside me and pitched himself headlong into the wagon, groaning, ‘Oh dear! oh dear! I never waa so tired in all my life, I don't believe in war anyhow.’ I saw a chance where by turning out into th# field and driving fast, I conid cut iato the road again much further on. No aooner did my bold drum major notice that I had left the road than he throat hia j head through the curtaiu end shouted, I “Where are you going?’ “Oh, out “tSfe fc the country a littleway to rest the team.’ ‘Then count me out.’said he, and tumbled to the ground, land ing on his head, but picking himself up be rau to regain th* road. Then I THE WASIMTOB GAZETTE. < * ( .. - f- ■ _ f YOL. XIX. discovered that my two colored girls had caught the new panic and were making their exit through the rear. ‘What’s the matter with you ?’I shoal ed. ‘Us niggers is gwine back to Washington mists, we is, we didn’t ceme out here on no picnic for the Coufoderatet to ketch.’ It teok me several minutes to explain my move ment aad induce them to return to tho wagon. Along came % parts af Ellsworth’s zouave* worn out and foot tore, who offered me handsful of gold to allow them to ride; but I had to use *ll alike and kept them off. “At about 7 o’clock next morning I reached Falls Church, at which place I had been ordered to halt. Next day 1 Was ordered to Fort Cor coran, where the brigade followed the day after, and from thence wa was* sent to Washington and dis charged.” i uvuranrix tax south. The Manufacturer’* Record, of Bal- appears from our dispatches pablisbed yesterday a statement show dag the smeuat of capita!! invested in maanfkcturiof andiaiuli.g enterprises in the Son tb daring the month of Jan aary and February ef.this year. The smouut, according to this statement, I* 188,300,000, Of thi* sum Georgia TUieis a very remark able showing. At this rate it will hot he iaauy years before the South will become the chief manufacturing section of the country. There is no doubt that Northern capital i* quiet ly bat surely Sowing into the South in vast amounts. The amount of the capital it not realized until a summa ry like that of the Manufacturers’ Record is made up and published. Thera is n* reason to doubt that in- Yost srants hi the South will increase from mouth to month and from year to year. They certainly will continue to increase as leug as they prove to be profitable, and there I* no reason why they should not prove to he profitable for au indefluite period. The South i* rich iu agricultural aud mineral re source#, and she has advantage* for manufacturing possessed by no ether seetton. She hss au excellent climate and plenty of water-power. She now manufactures iron more cheaply than it can be manufactured any where else in this country, and with a little more experience ami capital she will be able to manufacture all kind* of cotton good* as cheaply as they can be man ufactured in any other part of the world. The valne of the sweet• gum and other wood* of the Seuth is Jgst beginning to he appreciated. It will not he long before factories will be es tablished to manufacture these weeds into furniture and into railway pas senger and sleeping cars. Every dol lar that is invested In the South it pretty certaiuto cause the investment of two more dollars. The exposition at New Orleans, beginning next De cember, will make the South’s unde veloped riches far more generally knewn than they are at present, and will drnwte her both immigrants and capital. The manufacturers’ Record will be able henceforth to show, doubt less, that every month the investments in factories ami mines at the South are greater than the previous mouths. —Savannah News. brutal number or a son-in-law at baurvillb. A dispatch from Nashville Tenn. says: Thi* morning Win. Spence •hotand killed his son-in-law, Edward 8. Wheat, at the Merchant’* Exchange corner, opposite tho telegraph offioe. Spence was formerly United States Marshal for the Middle district of Tennessee, and was succeeded by Wheat. The trouble ares* from a disagreement in tha settlement *f business matters. Spence bad follow ep Wheat for more than two blocks. He called t* Wheat once aad the lat ter turned his head, but did not stop *r reply. Spend* overtook him an tha street creasing end fired the first and fatal ahol iato Wheat's back, tb* bal let penetrating the heart. Spence walked around him and fired a second shot into hi* breast, the bullet shat tering a watch in hi* upper vest poek el, entering his body between th* seventh and eighth ribs. Wheat groaned after tlte first shot, but never •poke, aad died alipqst instantly. Spenoe was immidiatejy taken into custody and his pistol, a self-cocking Smith £ Weston, with twa barrels discharged and all the others loaded, wa* taken from him by a policeman. He was committed t* jail under a beach warrant. The trouble i* said to have originated from a business dispute of some year* (tending' Wheat wa* 4? year* oM and Spence is 6i. _ At 3 o’clock in the morning a Dong le* Justice was awakened by anxious pleading*. Going ont he touad at tha gate a young roan with a lady balding hi* arm. He banded a paper across th# fence, which proved to he a marriage license, end pulling off hi* bat, he said bluahingly, “I want yen to marry ma.” In a few minutes the two were made one, and thay went on their way rejoicing. They were W.K. Harris and Mis* Sarah E“iller, who had escaped parental vig tnce. . Hold on to the truth, for it will rve you well and do. you good through enternity. Hold on to virtue, ilt Is beyond price to you at a|l times 1 and placet. Hold on to Dr. Bull's I Cough Syrup* for there i* nothing like lit to cure a cough or cold. HOW SOMK BONDS WERE FOUND. The Augusta correspondent of the Charleston News & Courier narrates the following interesting item: “F*ct is strauger than fiction. A merchant of Augusta regained pos session of about thirty thousand dol lar’s worth of bonds a short time since in a very peculiar manner. In 1864 this merchant, then a resident of Nassau, sent twenty thousand dollars •t State of Georgia bonds, issued in 1856, toNew York, to be sold. When the box in which the bonds had been paoked reached the metropolis, itwas discovered that U contained nothing but brown paper. Of course the bonds had been abstracted on route, but how or when could net be ascertained. Every effort wae made for their recovery but in vain, and the owner finally gave up the search in despair. Nearly twenty years had elapsed when one day he received ia Augusta a mysterious comranucait ion from Montreal in which the writer stated that he knew of the wherea bouts of the missing bends and offered te restore them for the sqm of five thousand dollar* in gold. He made it a condition that the merchant or his duly accredited ageut should go to Moutreal with the money and rc g-stsr under a fictitious name at a designated hotel. As the bonds, prin cipal and interest now amouat to over ♦3o,ooo,the merchant promptly accept- ed the conditions and sont Isis ran, who was living in Chicago, to Mon treal t* pay down the money and re ceive the bonds. The envoy reached the hotel agreed upon in due time and registered the fictitious name. As he turned ttway he was accosted by a stranger: ‘ls this Mr. Blank ?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Well, I would like to see you in rooas 23.’ ‘I will meet reu in half au hour,’ said Mr, Blank. ‘No, you must see me at once,’ was the energetic reply. Mr. Blank had no alternative; he proceeded to room 23, put a table between himself and the stranger, pulled out a loaded revolver with one hand and laid a bag of gold on the table with the other. ‘Now, have yon the bonds?’ said he. ‘I; have,’ replied the man. ‘Alt right. Here is the five thousand dollars in gold. I intend to keep faith with you amt in tend that you shall also keep faith with me. Produce the bonds.’ The man carefully drew out a package from an inside pocket. ‘Toss them on this table and stand where you are until I sso that they are all right,’ said Mr. Blank. The bonds wore thrown on "tße Mr. Blank then ran tvsr then. THyTspldly. They were all there. ‘Now, take your money and go,’said he. *1 will remain in this room half an hour, according to our agreemeut.’ The stranger grasped the bag of gold, counted the mouey and disappeared. Mr. Blank left on the next train, came eu te Augusta aud placed the bonds in his father’s hands. When they were presented in Atlanta for payment the Governor of Georgia made some denser, as they were long past due, but wheu satisfac tory proof of their genuineness was made ami the manner of their disap pearance related and substantiated no farther opposition was made and the mosey was paid to Mi 1 . Blank. Or CtmlODO HBAK STORY. 8w Bruin Tenderly Cared far a Child Ht Had Carried Of Mr. Georgia Swift, a ranchman in the Grand Valloy, tell* a story which shews how unenviable is the life of the stock raiser in that wilderness. A short time ago Mr. Swilt let hi* Urse-yeai-old daughter ride upon bis horse, and after she had ridden about forty reds from home he lifted her off iheiniiiultud told her toj. u him*. On returning about sn hour later he found that the little one had net reached home, and, going to Ihc placo where he had last teen her, be found bear track* In thejsaml. A posse wa* fronted, and all night was spent in searcliiug for the lost child. In the morning, a* tho searcher* were passing a swampy spot where the undergrowth wa* thick, they heard the voice. They called le the little girl to come oi|t qf the bushes but she replied the bear weuld not let her. Then the men crept through the brush, and when near the spot heard a splash in the watev, which the child said was the bear. They found her standing upon a log, ex tending half way across the swamp, and it seemed as though the bear hail uudriuken to cross the swamp on the log, and,being pursued, left the child, and got away as rapidly as possible. She received some scratches about the face, arm*, and legs, and her clothes were almost torn from her bady, but the bear had not bitten her to hurt her, only the mark* of his teoth being found upon her back, where he had taken hold of her clothes to carry her. Tho child told her rescuer* that the bear had put her down occasionally to rest, and would put hi* nose to her face, whereupon oho would slap him and he would bang hia head by her side and pnrr and rub against her like a cat. Her father asked her if she bad been cold during the night, and she told him the old bear lay be side harand put hi* “arms” around her and kept ker warm. “Ah I I’m saddest when I sing,” she sang in plaintive key, and the neighbors yelled: “8o are we I so are we!” WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1884. GLEANINGS. One hundred divorce cases are pending in Clarke county. Tho timber business in Southwes tern Georgia continues to grow in value. A negro girl iu Athens speaks Ger man. She has boon reared by a Jew ish family. A negro ha* just died of hydropho* bia at Eatonton after suffering terri ble torture. Cobb eeuuty has been carried by the Prohibitionists by four or five hundred majority. The work of rebuilding the burned .district at HUledgeville with brick h* been commenced. J At Athens April 1 the go into effect. All dogs found en the street without a collar will he shot. Dr. Drake, of Thomasten, ac cidentally cut off the ends of his fingers last Sunday morning while chopping some rough food for his horses witb a feed cutter. W. F. Reynolds, of Romo, wliil* hunting Saturday, accidentally Shot himself in the hand, injuring it se verely aud necessitating the amputa tion of three fingers. At Newnau a horse belonging to Wyatt Baxeu ran against a piece of timber in front of tho Baptist Church last Friday. It struck him in the head, killing him instantly. Thro* negro beys, aged betwocu 9 and 15 years, burglarized a store at Rome, securing S2O. One of them left his hat, which betrayed their identity aud led to their arrest. There is a prisoner in the jail at Lumpkin who is trying to starve him self to death lie was locked up on Thursday of last week, and has ber sisteutly refused to cat anything over slue*. George Hill, who chopped a coin ride’s head to pieces with an axe, and Jerry Marshal, who murdered his three-year-old child, will both hang on the ilth of April, in Cherokee county. James R. Chrisler is a fugitive from Atlanta, where he has left tho third of his living wives. The last was trapped in Texas and brought to At lanta, where she was informed of her husband’s duplicty, aud has brought suit for divorce. Justice S. Tudstill, tn old and well to do citizen of Brooks county, w B found burned to death Tuesday. A fire was raging on his plantation, and he was trying to put it out, wlion in some way ho fell ia the fire ana was afterward found dead. A crazy negro woman lit* been ar rested at Rome white endeavoring to set fire to a dwelling. She is crazy on religion. She says she is the Ho ly Ghost; that the world is about to bo burnt up, and ills her duty to start the conflagration. She will be •ditto the asylum. While a dance was in progress at Dallas a pistol shot suddenly rang through the room, and one ef the young ladies fell to the floor with a painful but not dangerous wound iu herleg. It is supposed tliatoueof the daneers had a pistol in his pocket which was accidentally discharged. The culprit did net divulge his iden tity. The Tcunillc correspondent of the Saadcrsvillc Mercury ays: “At * sale of property of an estate a few miles below here corn bronghl $1.(10 per bushel, meat 19 cents per pound, lard 17 cents,and everything else high in proportion. Cause of boom: Credit with security until Ist of Jan uary next. Of course such a chance was not allowed to go by.” Several days ago, in Clay county, a negro man and his wife were in the Arid at work burning brush. The woman was standing near a burning heap when her dress caught on fire. She gave th* alarm and her husband rushed to her assistance, hut before the Aamct could be extinguished she was fatally burned. She lingered through the day and night and died the next morning. Dr. E. F. Way's residence at Haw kinsvillc has been burned. The loss is $3,000 aad the insurance $1,400. Nothing at ail was saved from the burning building. The family, cou sistiug of Mr. Way, hie wife and son aad two daughters, barely escaped in their night clothes. The tire origina ted in the kitchen, and was all Over the house in fifteen minutes after it was first seen. Incendiarism is sus pected. The Athens Banner-Watchman says: “Near Big Creek Church, on the lint of Clarke and Oglethorpe counties, is a large hewn stone,weigh ing many tons, that is upheld by four pillars, at a height sufficient to per mits man to walk beneath. It is evi dently the work of hand, a* the tops of th* pillars are chinked with small er stone* to level the slab. The first settlers found it there, and have al ways called it the‘lndian Pulpit.’ A gentleman who iris seen this stone says it is one *f the greatest cariosi ties in Georgia. An embankment en circles it for a mile, that was evident ly thrown up for a fortification. Some sue has en nk a hole beneath tha slab lia search of buried treasure.” The Warrantan Clipper say* that there was a gentleman in Warrenton ana day laat weak, a resident of Glas- cock county, who is doubtless the worst burnt person to bo alive on record. He was burning off anew ground on his farm last year, and from over-heat or some other cause, foil in a fit by the side Of a burning log heap. While in this unconscious rendition one of his legs was entirety burnt off between the ankle and knee, and up to the knee joint every parti cle of the flesh was burned away, leaving the hone perfectly naked. Th leaders of the other leg were burnt to a crisp, and between the knee and foot the scarred skin clings tightly toihe bouo. Notwithstanding his miifortuue, however, ho contrives to moke an honest living by drawing shittgles. r* ■ * jfStlcd buzzard, whose flight •*v£rtho western counties of Georgia has aroused so much superstitious fear among the ignorant whites and blacks, passed over a field near Tay lorsville Tuesday where four men were plowing. One of them, a negro, quit work at once, aud said that tho bird was warning the people of an other cyclone, iu which hundreds of people would be killed. The story of this celebrated bird is an interesting -out- Neatly two years ‘ago it was a pet in the farm yard of a farmer named Freeman, iu Paulding county. One of his’childrcn one day attached a sheep hell te the bird’s fool, and the tinkling sound se scared it that it im mediately flew away. be. maiiv walker in thi kins. She Blsaln n African's Optl*, an* Knocks lilia Ont Iu an* Hound. A dispatch from Washington city, says: Dr. Mary Walker, Washing ton’s celebrated female character, who insists upon appearing at all times in maleattire, indulged in some pugilistic exerciso at Ihe capital this afternoon. Between 12 nnd 1 o’clock tho entered the room ef the House Committee on Claims to attend to soipe private business. Before she did si! she lifted her silk hat and set it down upon a box in the corridor beside the doer. Entering the reom she took a seat at the committee’* table, and begaii rummaging over some papers. In a few minutes the dooropoued ami in stalked a colored messenger. On his head was cocked in * saucy manner, Dr. Mary’s hat. “Is tliis yo ur tile, Dr. Mary ?” he in quired .la a. tone she thought alle- .oo’iyipudunt. “i,, * y lmt, iMtmnk you, ’’ she re plied ;''‘nfiff what arc you, you black rascal, doing with it en your head t” Tho colored man tipped the tile, smiled, nnd handod it t* her,aud then withdrew to the corridor, Dr. Mary followed him with rage beaming in Mr eyes : “I want to know what makes yon s* impudent, you puppy?” the contin ued, when the tw* were in ilie cor ridor. Then she uncorked the jug of her wrath, and poured it out upon the unsophisticated head Of the darkey until he wss blacker than midnight. Finally the colored .man began to sass back. usiko mn fists. ’ *’ This preqipitaled the sterm. Swel- 1 iug with rage, she rushed at tbq colored man remarking, “Take that," and she planted a well delivered blow iu the immediate locality efTiis optic* lie staggered, regained hi* (boting and fled precipitately Dr. Mary djid not pursue him. Ilis.eya began swel ling and it is said that the punish ment proved severe. A wag who saw Dr. Mary entor the committee room put up the prank and peruaded the colored man to don the hat. Those who saw the encounter take sides with the woman and say the cas tigation wasajnstoue. Thera were no arrests. THU social. STATUS Ht II Roumania is famous ffertht facility of its divorces and. the laxity of If* roarsli. It is, however, not so gener ally known that the usage of th* iaxest society in Europe imposes tho severest restraint upon the innocent social intortOttsc between the young of both hsxcb. A lady writing from Bucharest sends the following dismal account of the way in which the Roumanian Mrs. Grundy tyranui/.ee over the unmarried woman: “GirU have very little liberty here. If a gentleman is seen dancing more than twice during the same evening with a youjig lady lie Hue much comproiniredA* tho un happy maiden herself, and immediate ly pounced upon ly a score of relative* demanding his intentions. No Con versation can take placo between the young couples, as directly after the daiic? the gcidfcmUn must trotliU partner back to tjie maternal wing. A young girl Hallowed t* have little tr no intercourse with men, and a harmless'flirtation’ would be ruinous to liar reputation In Bucharest. How can a girl’s mind develop under these and the accompanying circumstances? No wonder she accepts tho first offer of marriage as a means of emancipat ing herself, neither is it .astonishing that men never trouble themselves to talk for any length of time to an un married lady.’’ “Are angel* ever sleepj 'f” asks an, exchange. Just watifli your best girl when you read a scientific paper to her after it is time for yon to go out and dodge the big dog in the front yard. A LEAF-TRAD ljmbODß. Can I forget that winter night In eighteen eighty-four, When Nettie, charming tittle sprits, Oame tapping at the doorT “Good evening, mtsa," I blushing said; For in my heart I knew— And, knowing, hung my prstty head— That Nellie came to woo. She clasped my old, red hand,and fall Adowu upon her knees, And cried: “You knew I lov# you well. Bo be my husband, please!” And then the swore ahe,d ever be A tender wife end true— Ah, wbat delight it was to me That Nellie came to woo! Bh*’d lace my shoes and darn my hose And mend my ahirts. she said, And grease my comely Roman nose Bsoh night on going to bed; She'd build the Area and (etch the eoal. And split the kindling, too- LortV perjuries o'erwhelmcd her soul When Nellie came to woo. And aa I, blushing, gave no check To her advances rash, She turined her arms about my neck. And toyed with my monslachei And then the pleaded for a hies, While I—what could I do But coyly yield me to that bltas When Nettie came to wool I am angaged, and proudly wear A gorgeous diamond nng, And I shall wed my lovely fair Bomctime in gentle spring; I face mv doom without s sigh— And so, forsooth, would you, If you but loved at fond as I, And Nellie came to woo. —Chicago Wows. HUMOftUOS. There are some marriages which remind ns of the poor fellow who said, “She couldn’t got. any husband and I couldn’t get any wife; so we got married.” A woman doesn’t consistently use profane language, but the way she says “gracious H When she slips down, is full of subtle meaning and inherent fores. “Shot dead by a doctor I” S-iuch is tho startling caption of au article in an exchange.' Ho must be a very un skillful physician who has to resort to powder and fealTto get rid ofa pa tiont, ‘ Yes,” said Mr. Snaggs, I’ve found a way te keep that cow in tho pasta re. After tho boy turns her in I go and put in an hour #r *• trying to drive her out Of course she won't ge, aud it settles her for the day/’ “Uncle, when sss sings In the choir Sunday nights why decs shego behind the organ and taste the tenor’s mous tache?” “Ob, don.t bother me, sonny; I suppose they have to do it to find out if they are In tune.” . Woman who ha* been looking over blankets in,a Main at rest store: “Well I didn’t mean to buy. Am jast look ing for a friend.” Clerk, politely,; ‘•Don’t think you will find your friend in theso blankets. We’ve looked’em; all through.” “What U that man yeUing at?" asked a farmer of hi* tapy.; “Why,? chuckled the boy, “he’s yelling at the top of his voice.” A friend of ours who left the editori al fraternity a year ago, is now on gaged in raising pigs. So he ha* taken the pen in hand. M t*. Homespun who has a terrible time every morning to get h*r young brood out of thoir bods, says she can not understand why, children are called the rlsiag generation. “One half the world don’t know how the ether half ll*w,”exctaiaaad a gossippiug woman. “O, well,* said her neighbor, “don’t worry about It; ’tisn’t your fault if they dank.” A poet sends us a contribution enti tled, “Why Do I Lire?” After a care ful reading of,the twelve stance* of the conundrum, we are reluctantly com pelled to give it up. A youiig lady bed a narrow eeap* at a flic a few night* *iac. About half of her back heir wa* burned. Fortunately she was not In the build ing ut the time, having put on her other hair and left the bouie only an hour before the lire broke out. Somebody put a small 'mud-turtlo, about tbe sue of a silver dollar, iu a bod at a New Jersey hotel; and the itrauger who wa* assigned to that room, om preparing to retire caught sight of it. He at once re sumed his clothes, remarking “I.ex pected to have a pretty lively night of it, but if they’re as big a* tjiat, I doh’t propose to get in with them.” Avery good Kit was made recently by a defeated candidate. 4 gentle man approached him with t “Well,” said he, “I feel, t suppose, pretty much as Lazarus did.” “As Lazarus did?” said the first speaker; “how is that?” “Why,’ said he, “Lazarus was licked by dogs and so was I.” When the stranger remarked that he was from Arkansas, one of the passengers suddenly turned and asked : “You are, eh ? Maybe you are from Crittenden county ?“ “I am that.” “Perhaps from James’ Landing ?” “That’s it, exactly,” a “Then, maybe, you know my broth, er, William Henry Jones, from this Stale?” “Stranger, put it tharl” exclaimed the Arkansas traveller, as he extend ed bis hand and smiled all ovor. -Bust my buttons, if I didn’t help hang your brother for cattle stealing Jist before I left home.” NO. 12. Jl Milkman's idea. A short, ruddy-faced, wagging tongned man told me he was returning from the West, where ho had been traveling tor pleasure and with a view to making mining investments. Sc was not at all backward in giving mo the impression that he was worth money, and upon inquiry I found he was just as free to tell the manner of its acquirement. “I have been In the milk business in an Eastern town for a good many- years,” he said. “In, fact, I am in the business in a num ber of towns, aiid have a pretty good thing of it. Of course you are think ing right away Opt I put water in the cans, but yM arc mistaken. I never watered * milk-can In my life. There is an kouester, surer, safer way than that to get rich in the milk busi ness, and'l’ll give you the secret, as I know you’re not in the biz. When I first started, driving my own wagon fourteen years ago, I quickly found that nothing, not even good milk and low prices, would bring customers like gossip. Yes, sir, gossip—some town scandal, family secret, bit of news or something, Well, I used to take pains to have something of that kiud every morning. If there had been any births or deaths during the night, ac cidents, fires, arrests of town-folk, a new scandal or anything, I had it on my tongue’s end, and while drawing the milk would spit it out at a lively rate. You would bo surprised to soo how the mistresses on my route got to coming out after their own milk, Instead of sending the hired girl. Why, they used to bo on the wait for ma and take au extra pint or more. Before long I, had more customers than I could serve, though I claimed better milk than anybody else and Bold it one cent higher. Then I branched out —hired other drivers and bought a dairy of my own. Every cue of my drivers has to be np to snuff in the gossip, though. When there isn’t anything elso for ’em to tsl( I invent little, short stories and strings, nof improper ones, but- don ble—double—what do-you-call-’ems ? —double intenders, and they catch on big. The result is I have a practical monopoly of the milk business in four good towus.end am making money handover fist. If you want to build up a trade in anything you must study to please, you know,” end the ruddy cheeked man laughed and seemed to feel reel geod. , l “See boro, my friend, that deg of yours killed three sheep of mine last night, and I want to know what you propose to do about U?” “Aro you sur) it was my dog ?” '-Yes." “Well I hardly know what to do. I guess I had bettor sell him. Yoqdon’t want to biay a good dog, do yo?” , oh • " —• O' ■ "■ ~ Show Cashs manufacured by Mo- Bride hi Cos., Atlanta Ga., also give close prices to dealers in looking glasses, crocaery, wood and tinware. silv4r plated ware, glassware, best •American and Imported table and poeket cutlery i 11-ly Mcßride A Cos. Atlanta Ga„ can give to dealers bottom prices on show oases, looking glasses, crockery, glass ware. bar fixtures, lam ns of all kinds Lamtretb’s improved fly fans, Beth Thomas docks and Mellvillo atmos pherie fruit Jar.' IIRALME! Tnar Gan at. Brucine fob Neuralgia Axd Hbadacmb irtl Internal SnaMr, contalnln, na QiMm, Opium, CRtorotorui. OWeral or murooUa et any Mud. Ssfssod unt.k la Ul .. tt.n.-St ! mayot! office, > • 'Lnanuno, t,., April is. ISTS | M*m„. Hotchumou k Ban- It atords ms uleaaure to testify to tbs mut tistusS sf year *SJmim”ortfc for* s( Mam sat alsb headaehe. It Is tbs bsst rsmsdy for neee msst dittrasains osmalsints I bars star assd. U absmM be In srsry family la tbs country. Tsars truly, Oas. B. HBas, Mayor ef Lee.bnr,. Tu. ATLANTA. 0.., Tab. 1. lift. If mass. Horcaissos k Buo.t Ost!su>su— I bars used yout "Nsurslgtus,” sud bars boss rs- Itsrsd by It. All who suffer Irola neer.lgla win do wsß to firs you u sail. It isasslsas to snfler whoa W# bars a rsmsdy at our Soar: . ; *. w. Taowsa. Of n. W. Thomas It Cos., ra rollers Desists, ar a 1 .j .. i NEW YORK HERALD Weekly Edition, One Dol lar a Year. It contain* all the nowi of tho Dally Edition of tho Herald, which liaa the largest circulation in tha United Hiatus. Independent in Wlitica it |s tho most valuable chronicle of political nows in the world, impartially giving the ecourrance? and opinions of all parties, so that ail aides may bo known, la the department of foreign News tllft Herald has always been distinguished by the fullness of ita cablo dispatches. The new tron*- Atlautic telegraph cables will increase facilities The Farm Department of ths Weekly Herald is practical. I* goes to tho point and does not give wild theories. Tho tanner will ears many more than < ■ < On# Dollar a Year from the suggestion? of the farm depart want alone, concerning soil, crttle, cro a. trees, buildlggs, gazdoulng. poultry and agricultural economy. •ITho Home*' qy tracts tho honaewife and the children in .*d 0 economical and tasteful new dishes, tho fashions nd tho making of homo comforts. Iu addition are given latest reports of trade and Flrodttoo and Markets, the condition of money, columns of Miscellaneous Heading, Poetry,'a Complete Blory every week, JokOO and Anecdotes. Sporting News. Popular Science, the doings of well-known Persons of tha Woch*, a department devoted to Sermons and Religious Notes, While tha WEKKJSY HBBALb gives the latest and best Hews of the World, it is also a Journal lor tho Subscribe one dollar, at any time, for a full year Postage free to any part of the United Ntatos or Canada. { 1 *„: Tint New Yomx Herald in a Week- LT Foum, One Dollar a Year. NEW YORK HERALD, Broadway ut* Ann Stmt. JOB PRINTINGS Larg, Stc#!i ,U Kind, Wlilta and Colored Paper, Envelopes, Cards, Etc. ON HAND. The Finest Job Printina Of Every Variety don© at very Reason* able Rat*s. credit ! Having of late been faevuently asked for, I most respectfully call the at tention of the public to the fact that I desire to do a CASH! Business only. lam putting mno bids lor a CREDIT! Trade; and although it is my eamoet desire, to sell to OTeryfeody*in the known world, the CASH! Trade is only solicited either for WORK or &00D8. All silver and gold token for such prices as I can get for it in New York in exchange for Goods. Spring and Summer being now at our doors, the prices of goods will be reduced when possible, while the quality will ha kept up as heretofore. Do not ask for Credit as somebody might get mad at a refusal. Respectfully, HENRY CORDES.’ Georgia Railroad Company. Officb General Manager, > Augusta, Ga., Not. 17,1885, f pOMMENCINO Sllßd.y, Ist mt., VukliMa Branch Train* will rua aa iuilows, daily • Trains run by 90th meridian tiaa, 22 nia nlowar than Atlanta lima. oara Washington ...0...11J1 a. M •• F1ck10n...... ii.n m *' Raytown -..1M1 , * Arriro at Barnett ....11.4# • " Athena f.M • " Atlanta.. „ IAJ • M Mil let! g0ri11a.4.40 ** •* Macon 1.41 a “ Augusta in LeT AaguaU..... „ 10. sea. IS * Macon f.io •• “ Millodgevillo •• ** Atlanta.. B.M * M Athena..., ~,t , g.©6 • u Barnett..,. ........... 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