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A TORNADO StiIIKUOE.
The Perplexing PreUimment of „
Old Afeld end sn Old Bachelor,
A-queer incident Jwas caused by
the recent tornado in Whitley coun-
ty, Kentucky. On lhe edge of a lit
tle!.urg there were tjro old log hous
es, in one of which ' rc.-.ided an old
inaidnamed Baltic and in
the ot hcr an' old ns toed
John Robin-on. The blizzard came
along and blew thettre houses into
a confused criss-cross pile of logs,
beams and lumber. And in the midst,
in a small space, the Old maid and old
bachelor wert inextricably penned np
together, though, strange to say,
neither one had been injured in the
least. They had to stand so close to-
gether, as to touch elbows, and aa
there was a neighborhood enmity be
tween the two, the situation can be
more easily imagined than described.
Bailie sniffed and trembled violently,
while John grow not and cold by
turns, and finally blurted out a hear
ty oath. r. ,e* :* •
“That's right, Jslin"Robu)9oi), get
mad and swear; <|pMVs just like
your impudence alter dtarjug my
hea.se all to piedeH”
“Why, SaiHe—that is Miss Wil
liams—l didn’t touch your bouse.”
“Ves. you did, John Robinson; You
came along in your eld, tumble-down
cabin and knocked down ny house”
emphasis hard on house—“you pro
fane old wretch!”
“Why, you cantankerous old wo
man ; I didn’t go to do it—l couldn't
help it!”
“Yes, you could. What did yon go
on fl.ting about with your old cabin
knocking folks’ houses down for ?j
If you and your cabin Lad stayed at'
home my bouse would not have beep
hurt. I’ll have the law on you, John
Robinson, aa soon as I get out.”
“Kut how the deuce arc we to get
out? We’ll have to slay here two.or
three nights, probably, till somebody 1
finds us out.”
Sallie gave a blood-curdtingscreech
and burst into (Mr?. This subdued
Jehu at onco. JIo never could aland
a woman’* tears, so Be set himself te
console Sallie. Edging up to her John
cooed:
•‘Now, don’t Hiss Satlle; there’s no
use In crying! somebody’ll he sure to
And ns before many hours, anil VU
pledge you mr honor that you'd he
safe while we are iogether.”
Sallie sniffled and sniffled, and
looked at John with such a itr. n't
sort of a look that lie couldn’t tell
whether Sallie was pleased er dis
gusted with his proposition. John
was In despair, hut he did, Anally,
what a mail always docs uuder such
circumstances —he “stuck up” closer
and closer to Bailie and pul his arms
around her.
Bailie shook and shivered, but fi
nally quieted down. Then John
talked and talked and Sallie jawed
back in a coining M of a way ; and
the hours sped along till nlglit came,
and the night pasted in dozing and
talking (ill morning came.
“My gracious, John Robinson,
fwhat’ll we do? How people will
talk about nty staying in a lumber
•pile with you all night? 800-hoo
hoo!"
Then John 800-heed in sympathy,
till finally a bright idea struck biui.
“I<et us get married, Sallie, before
we leave this pile.”
Bailie agreed to this. So, when the
first men to past that way discovered
them and proposed to release them,
John and Sallie both objected rud
asked that a minister bo sent for.
The discoverers concluded that the
storm had made them crazy. Never
theless, one of litem set off for a min
ister,who was soon on the ground.and
began to talk soothingly to tbatn.
John bad* him stop all that and
listen to their story, and concluded by
asking him to many them.
Tho minister climbed up io the top
of the pile of debris, so that be could
see them down at the hollom of the
hole, lohl them to join bauds, and
soon had them tied good and tight.
Then the neighbors dug them out ol
their wcdding-liols, and they came
out siuiliug, and they are now living
happily together, - Washington
Hatchet.
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DON’T WOll It Y AUOITT YOUHUKEF.
To retain or recover health, per
sons should bo relieved from anxiety
concerning disease. The miml has
power over the body—fora person
to think he has a disease will of
ten produce* that disease. This we
see effected when the mind is exlcn.
lively concentrated upon the disease
of another. We have seen a person
sia-sick in anticipation of a voyage,
before reaching the vessel. We have
known people to die of cancer in the
stoniache, or any other mortal disease.
A blind-folded man slightly pricked
in the arm, has fainted,and died from
beHevhig that ho was bleeding to
death. Therefore, persons, to remain
Wfll, should be cheerful ami happy:
and sick persons should have their
minds diverted as much as |)o<%ible.
It is by their faith that they die. A.
a man thiuketh, so is he. If he wills
not to die lie cau often live in spite
of disease; and, if he has Utile or no
attachment to life, he will slip away
as easily as a child will fall asleep.
Men live by their minds as well as by
Jhcir bodies. Their bodies liave no
life of themselves; they are only re
ceptacles ef life—tenements for thc]r
- minds, and the will has much to do in
continuing the physical occupancy or
giving it up.
A strange monstrosity in the shape
•fa cat lias been born in Berrien
ceunty. It has eight legs and feet
and two tails. lihasa set of' legs
and feel in front in the usual place,
and a set on it* back. Back of these,
Its body developed, into two prongs,
each of which has a tail and act of
tags-and (feet. ‘ "ZSn&t-'ZxSSS’
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. XIX.
COLD PERT.
“Well, he is a perfect brute, though
he is as pleasant and good-lyjarted
any man you over saw. Hc>*is *
jolly good fellow, never drinks, btrt
he makes fun of my feet. Not about
their size, for you can see for your
self that they are children’s sizo, hut
about their being cold. Me sage they
are regular refrigerators, and wher-.
ever they touch vegetation eeasSs ’to
grow, aud everything becomes an ar
tic waste. Hu says his spine has
turned into an icicle,and the perspi
ration that oozes from tho skin be
comes hailstones. Ho oar* these
things just to bother me. .though E
thiukheis proud of my ‘small feet,
and only talks ‘about ibeSt-'ctilditcss
to attract attention to them, lie an-,
uoys me nearly to death. If I go
with him to buy shoes he asks the
shoe man if he hasn’t got any shoes
lined with zinc and tilled with saw
dust. If the ice cream at diimeris a
little too soft ho hands his plate over
to me and says ‘Martha, just frieze
that a little moro forme,’ and those
at Hie- tabic know that ho refers to
my fleet. He had me a pair of stock
ings made once of this oil-cloth floor
coveriug, and presented them to me
in a crowd on the anniversary of our
marriage.
“When they had the trouble last
winter in freezing tlio exposition
rink, on account of the warm weather,
he catue home one night when I had
/sonrn of our church folks to tea, and
told me to harry up and get through
supper and we would all go down to
the rink. The company alt wanted
to go, and then with an idiotic laugh
he said he had hired mo out to the
rink managers to walk around in the
water barefooted and tfeeze it,
“I stood all of these things until
this winter, when I bought one of
■those fur-1 hned foot wnrmcrs to pul
in our sleigh. I didn’t buy it bccauso
my feet were colder than other peo
ple’s feet, but because they were a
very comfortable thing to have in a
sleigh on a cold day. You have seen
them, with two holes in to put yeur
feet in. Well, we had been using the
foot warmer in the sleigh for about a,
mouth, wl on one night we had a lot
of company, gml they were having a
high old time, playing cards and
laughing, when my husband took tlio
gentlemen \\y in the smoking room.
As ho went up stairs he said to a vil
tiau who always helps him joke me
thou, my feet, that tie Hid tin Mi;
found a scheme to keep a man from
being Irozen to death by his wife's
(act, and lie would show it. Several
of us girls heard it, and we wonder
ed what it was and pretty soon we
heard the awfalest shouting in the
smoking room, and a lot of ns went
up to see what the row was. I hope
to die if my husband hadn't had
straps sewed on to that fur foyt
warmer, and he had strapped it on
Ids baek, buckling the straps in front,
and he was explaining io those vil
tlans how he wore it at night on his
hack with tiie toes downward, so 1
coohl put iny feet in there, and not
tench his back. He said he hadivt
had a particle of rheumatism or ucu
ralgia since, and his spine was grad
ually thawing ent, and he thought h)'
next summer lie could takolhe weath
er strip off his back bone and tho
storm door off the small of his hack,
and that vilUan of a friend of im
husband marched him down stair*,
marched him Ihrdiigli the rooms
where the company was, and ex
plained, in a sort or a panorama erif
t lon, he wit worked and that it was
patented, and individual rights were
f’orsale. Oh, l thought I would sink.
But half the men present said that
they would take one, fipr nsc at home,
and I was glad, for it showed that
ether women were abused the same
i. ay.—Peek’s Sun.
THE LIVE ®F MAN.
Man born of woman is of few days
and no teeth. And, indeed, it would
be money in his pocket sometimes it
be had less of cither. As for his (lav
lie wash tli one-third of them, and as
for Ids teeth he has convulsions when
he cut* them, and a* the last one
comos through, 10, the dentist is twist
ing the first ono oot, and the last end
of that man’s jaw is worse than the
first, being full of porcelain and a
roof-plate built to hold blackberry
seeds.
Stone brnises line his pathway lo
manhood ; Ms father boxes hisearsal
home, the big boys cuff him in Iho
playground, and the teacher whips
him iu the school-room. He buyctli
North-western at 110, when he hath
sold short at 96, and his neighbor un
loadelh upon him Iron Mountain at
83*$, and it straightway brcakelh
down to 521a, He riseth early and
sltteth up late that ho may dll his
barns and storehouses, and- lo I his
children’s lawyers divide the spoil
among themselves and say ‘‘Ha, ha!’’
He growlelh and is sore distressed be
cause it raineth, and he bcateih npon
his breast and saycth “My crop it
losti” because If raineth not. The
late rains Wight his wheat and the
frost bileth his peaches. If it be so
that the sun shincth, even among the
nineties, he sayeth: “Wo is.me, fbrr
perish,” and if the northwest wind
sigheth down in forty-two below he
cricth: “Would I were dead!” If
he wear sackcloth and blue jeans men
gay: “Heit a tramp,” and if ho goeth
forth shaven and clad in purple and
fine linen all the people cry : r ‘STioot
the dude!”
He carryelh insurance for twernty
fiye years, until he hath paid thrice
over for all his goods, .and then Jio Ibt
eth his policy lapse one day, and that
same night fire destroyed! his sjoro.
He luiildcth him a house in Jersey and
Jiis first born is devoured by mosqui
*toos; lie pitcheth liis tents in New
"York, and tramps devour bis sub
stance. He meveth to Kansas apd a
cyclone carrieth his house away over
into Missouri, while a prairie fire and
ten millions acres of grasshoppers
tight for bis'erop. HAscttleth himscl 1”
fo Kentucky, ami is shot the peat da ■
by a gentleman, OoloWel avtd a state: -<
usan/tbaesnae, sah,.he roavinb
a than, sah, ho did net like, sab.”
Verily, there is no rest for the sole of
his foot, and if he hud it to tie over
again he would not be born at all, for
tba day ot death is better than the day
’Af one’s birth.”—Tt. J. Burdette, in
Philadelphia Tunes.
HASTY MARRIAGES.
The Methodist conference in ses
sion in Philadelphia took very sensi
ble action in reference to the celebra
tion of marriages by ministers, advis
ing them to bo loss hasty in joining
persons in marriage, and to make a
thorough investigation beforehand
as to whether all the provisions of ‘he
law had been complied with. It was
very generally agreed by tho confer
ence that umluo haste is responsible
for many unhappy couples in this
coil ntry.
Without looking into the subject
at all, without finding the conditions
or roialions, the ago or character of
the'persons candidates far wedlock,
without even asking any questions,
some ministers rend tho servicos over
them that legalized their nnion.
Nowhere elsaare marriages so infor
niaily made as here. There are no
prerequisites or formalities, no banns
to bo published, nothing to be done.
A moment’* notice, at any linio of
day or night, at any place, in the
open field or even on lire water, a few
words from a minister suffice to make
the marriage.
In all other lnpds the applicants
for matrimony must satisfy the civil
authorities that they arc in a condi
tion io wed and are not prohibited
by sente oilier tie or bend. Here
alone the most perfect freedom is al
lowed. It is not to bo wondered at
tfmt with -neb freedom, utjbapps
marriages shahid be numerous, a'in'*
that thousands should he joined to
gether hastily and unwisely. Easy
marriages make easy divorces.
Tids, His Methodist conference rec
ognized, and it accordingly advised
ministers in the future to mane i.neg-e
thorough investigation and inquiry
beforo performing the ceremony, to
-utisfy themselves that the law has
been fully complied with and the
contracting parties can legally mar
ry. Should other religious sects fol
low this example (hero will be an
end of hundreds of tho hasty, silly
npß'riages now contracted every
f’cfir, ami which nearly always wind
*l> in separation or divorco.—Tinics-
Deraocrat.
A STOItf WITHOUT A MOBIL.
TAJolin Obcult wealthy?
lie is well to do.
Then he is doing well ?
Splendidly. lie belongs to no less
Ilian half a dozcu secret charitable
societies.
Tstiiatof any advantage to him?
Why, look at Charley Grips case.
Charley only belonged to two societies,
and when he died lie had a hang-up
funeral. Both lodges turned out with
full ranks, and marched all over town,
in stunning regalia, and headed by a
drum corps. And than yon ’ought to
have seen the flowers! The interior
of llnfrhftfth loolfed like a conserva
tory.
Yes, dial must have been very grat
ifying to Charley, supposing that he
was fond of Hovers; but didn’t .they
do any tiling for his widow?
L>o anything? They did everything.
They passed splendid resolutions,
rli urk full of allusions to “anall wise
Providence,” “our belovad brother,”
“love and regard,” “heart-felt sym
pathies,” and sit that Sort of thing,
slid printed them in *ll the newspa
pers, besides sending her a copy. If
two lodges did that, what might not
one expect of six? That’s why I say
John is well-to-do.—Boston Tran
script . ““
On Wednesday night’ the crack of
a pistol lii the quarter 'aroused a
crowd, and en investigation it was
found that Aleck McNeil had shot
Dan Purdy. It seems Aleck had
some words with Dan’s wife a few
hours previous lo the shooting, and
Dan waylaid him with a barrel stave;
:uul as Aleck passed in the night Dan
gave him several pounces with the
stave, wlicn Aleek/lrew a pistol am)
fired at him, the ball entering abou
an inch above the rigid nipple,
ranged up lo the shenlder joinl j
Then down just below the shoulder
blade and lodged. Dr. J. A. McCrea
iprobed for it and found that it had
'passed through the right lung and ta
flceii the above course. It Is thought
Fhat Dan will not recover.—Berrien
jountv News.
'
i' Foster Brothers’ brick business
block at Madison was struck by light
ning Wednesday, and narrowly escap
edbeing burned.
WASHINGTON, GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1884
THE LITTLE PISTOL!
Was it an Attempt to Assaaalnate Ek-
Governor Smith.**' "
About eight o'clock iijl't Sattfirlqy
night Randolph street was thrown
into Intense excitement by theyeporis
fit*three shots in rapid euw'estdoi,
near the post-office corner...aftdr
whicli a man hurried aorooe tiro
street north and was grabbed whflit
about midway, by officers EllfsOn and
Duncan. In a few moments.'aTtet aii
excited crowd had gathered, apd
from parties who. eaw it the Times
, eepartectygleaned the following/aplsj:
Yfovd-rntsrSmilh wnst:oniing ttp- Rtni.
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light whiqj) acrosf the .walk
Trointhe weatern door of the post
office, a man who afterwards proved
to he Evans Wright, fired three
shots down tho Walk in the direction
of the Governor, though neither shot
took effect. Wright waa taken to
the gunnlhauso by the police, and
the Governor passed on down to the
Ritilklll House, where he had started
ta call on Hon. Robert Crawford.
Governor Smith says he does net
know whether tho shots were fired
at hint or,not, but Le coolly remarked
after the last shet, i‘you will have to
try that again.” Two pistol ball belts
were found in his clothes.
Parties lookiug at tho occurrence
from the opposite side of the. street
say the pistol was pointed'directly at
the Governor when Hielast shot was
flrod, and as ho rather stumbled over
the cellar door of Passmore’s store a!
the same time, they thought ho wits
struck.
The grand jury will doubtless give
the wlio|o piatlcr such a searching
investigation when they meet Mon
day,as the gr#fity of the case de
mands, and the nmos of all tho wit
nesses who can throw any light on
the subject should l>e furnished them.
The friends of Wright claim that
he was wilder the influence of liquor
at tlie time, and merely tired oft' his'
pistol to croato a spns|t(i<)i|.
Evans Weight is a brother of the
lamented Jesse It. Wright, who was
killed by Ben Mitchell in July, 1882,
and Governor Smith was leading
counsel for Mitchell, who was acquit
ted yesterday.
No warrant was issued for Wright’s
arrest last night, hut he was confined
in the guardhouse, and will doubtless
be held till aetion is taken by (he
Sf'il'ld jury-—Coluuibii* Times.
I-A ri a.—liii has been released on a
five Hundred dollar bond.
HINO ALCOHOL,
The history of King Alcohol is a
history of shame and corruption, of
cruelly, rage and ruin.
He has taken the glory of health
from the check and placed there the
lino ot tho wine cup,
He has taken thclustre from tliceye
ami made it dim and bloodshot.
Hq has taken the vitality from the
blood and filled it with poison and
seeds of decay and deal h.
He has entered the brain, tho tem
ple of thought, dethroned reason and
made it red with folly.
He has taken the iniprcsiefe noblcd
manhood from the face, and left the
marks of sensuality and brutish
ness.
He lias taken the beauty and cornel.i
ness from Ibe face and aud has left il
ill-shaped and bloated.
He has jaken the firmness am} e|ps
ticity from the step and left it falter
ing and treacherous.
Ho haß taken the vigor form the
arm and left flabbiness and weak
ness.
He has bribed the tongue to niter
madness and cursings.
He has taken cunning from the
bunds and turned them from deeds ol
usefulness to become instruments of
brutality and murder.
fie has broken ties of friendship,
aud sown seed* of enmity.
He Jins made a kind and indulgent
father a Brule, a tyrant arid a mur
derer. s *,
LULA HURST NO. .
Klu Mtittlo Fries, tbs Magnetic Girl.
fbftllon Citizen Stb Ir.tt ]
The above young lady exhibited
her wonderful powers at Trevitt Hal!
on night last. We were as
tonished at what we saw. Thcpow
cr she possesses, whatever that pow
er is,, is indeed wonderful. Tha
(here is no deception about her per
formance'wft were fully satisfied from
the tssTs made orlier sTngniar power
on this occasion. She is a yotnij
unlettered comitry girl, about four
teen years old and physically not un
usually developed for a person of hoi
age. At the ,cimmenccment of ihc
entertainment, the manager invited
any gentleman in the audience to come
on 1 lie stage and lest her powers bv
;hclding or sitting in a chair. Sever
al went, one or two of them of great
physical strength, and each in turn
would bold a chair in front of him
firmly grasped in both hinds, and
Miss Price, by. placing her hands on
the back pf tjic chair, would move
the one holding it about over the stage
with the greatest ease. Again, she
would without the least apparent
exertion on her part, raise a chair
from Iho floor, while two pr more
strong men vero exerting themselves
to hold it down, by aipiply laying,tier
hands on the hack of ft. One ef Mr
teste was marvelous—the twisting of
a large hickory slick nearly in two,
held in rise-like grip by two strong
meu, by toucliitig tho palm of her
haud to tlie-end of R. And another ope
of her feats was very astonishing—
thatof lifting and hurling a chair
through the* air with tremendous
ifores, by tho satnc process ot laying
her hands gently oh the top of it.
What this mysterious power is we are
unable to say; but that it is truly
wonderful and without deception
there can be no doubt. To find out
what It is, and whence it comes, w*
leave to scientific investigation. We
glye it tq)—we don't know 1
A SOLID HOME VIRTUE.
*[* is a virtue which is need
*e<l everywhere. No matter If persons
are rich or have large incomes, thoy
should bo encouomical. Te waste ie
wicked. There are better ways te
spend money and good* than te waste
them. It ie tha pooreet use they can
bo put to. Many pceplo would be
enconomical if thoy knew how. It is
an art to practice economy. Te do it
wall one ptust know the art- All can
have it if thoy will, Ills an arith
metical art. It is the conclusion of
numbers. AH must live and ought to
live well, but how to live host at the
least expense Is the work of figures to
tell. We must count tho cost of ways
and compare them. Many people use
expensive articles of food and dress
when cheaper ones weuld be in every
way bolter and more serviceable. Es
pecially in regulating the tablo expen
ses Is there a great want of economy.
A little useful information concerning
tho qualities of food, the amount and
kind 1 of nutrition they contain,
the wants of tho hnmau system and
the best way of cooking, would often
save fully one-third and, fn many in
stances, half the expense. A wise
economy in table expenses is favorable
to health, and in this way saves time,
drugs, expense anddaetor’shills, flesh,
strength and happiness.
A SUNDAY ADVJCNTUBK,
Thrilling Experience of n Wrl Jervis
Forty of Black Snake Huntsra.
A party of gentlemen on Sunday,
says a X’ort Jarvis, New York special,
visited a famous snake hole on the
farm of the late W. T. Galloway,
near Montgomery, armed with horse
whips, for tho purpose of killing black
snakUs, which abound in that ncigh
borhAid. After killing as many they
copifjtn'rl, they separated for ihe pur
pose of batanizing. Later one
of their mini hep could not be
found. Returning to the snake
hole, the ridssing one was ob
served standing in front 1 of the hole,
apperently spellbound, uorceuldany
amount of calling attract his atten
tion. On going closer his friends were
horrified to see an immense black
snake just ready to coil itself around
him. The man was rigid, while his
eyes started from their sockets. The
snako was moving itself in a wavy
manner aud slowly getting closer to
its almost entrapped. The situation
was at once understood, and’ his
snakeship was dispatched, while the
nia i was placed in a wagon. He was
completely charged, saw beautiful
colors and experienced a perfectly
peaceful sensation, which would not
permit him to go away or resist. II
his friends had not arrived as they
did it it probable he would have been
strangled to death, as these black
makes will coil about a person and
chake him to death. Tho snako was
a large .one, measuring nine feet in
length.
NOTBD BONUS.
On scing slot of human bones ly
ing iu * box, between G, C. Hall’s
store anil the postoffiee, one day last
weok, we were led lo inqaire from
whence they came, and were inform'd
that they were the remains of “Old
Dennis,’'a desperate negro man who
was hung In this county about the
rear 1836. He and his sou murdered
x gentleman by the name of Drew
Dunn, and robbed him of a consider
ihle amount of money. The son was
sioared Iu a trial and Dennis was hung.
The crime was such a brntal outrage
die.pcopl* cut Ids head from the body
tud put it on a pole, up high in the
air. The pole bee ring the savage’
head was erected in Lexington near
die academy, where It remained sever
al months. The body was tltrown
into a creek near Lexington.J,The
bones were taken from there anib jire
sdjbjiDr. AVillis Willingham, ol
Lexington. Dr. W-M. Willingjiani.
if this place, now owns the hones.
Almost the entire skeleton is nojrin
that box, near the poslotHeo, a
of it being knitted together. Fjirty
eight yeats liavo flown by since* this
• murder took place.—Crawford News-
Monitor.
One day this week Mr. E. A. Car
ter fed hie horse on Western corn,
which made him sick for several
hours. Not suspicioniug the 'cause
of the horse’s sickness, upon Ids appa
rent reowveiy, Mr. Carter fed him on
the same coni, When
ho was taken violently
sick,and died in a few hours. Wc
hear that some of onr farmers have
had their mules made sick from the
same cause. We would advise our
farmers to beware of this Wcstorn
corn.—'Waynesboro True Citizen.
The crop reports from Middle Geor
gia continue to be very favorable.’
A VERY SAD STORY.
Johuß. Gough tolls the following:
“A minister of the gospelftold me one
of the most thrilling incidents I hare
heard in my life. A member of hia
congregation came home for the first
time iu his life intoxicated, aud his
boy mot him upon the doorstep, clap
ping, his hands and exclaiming, ‘Papa
has come home 1’ He seized tno boy
by tlio shoulder, swung hint around,
staggared and fell iu the hall. That
minister said to me, ‘I spent the night
in that house. I went oot and bared 1
my brow that the night air might fatl
upon it and cool it. I walked up aud
down the hill. There was the child
dead I theca was his wife in strong
convulsion*,’ and he asleep.’ A man
about thirty years of ago asleep, with
a dead child in the house, having a
mark upon his temple where tho cor
ner of the marble steps had come In
contact with the head as he swung
him around and a wife upon the
brink ot the grave. said
Tuy friend, ‘J cursed tbo drink. He
had told me that I must remain until
he awoke, and I did. When he awoke
he passed lijs hand over his face and
exclaimed, ‘What is the matter?
where am I? whore is my boy-?’
‘You cannot see him.’ ‘Stand out ef
my way I will see my boy.’ To pre
vent confusion I took him to the child’s
bed, and as I turned down the sheet
and showed him the qprpse he uttered
[ a wild shriek, ‘Ah, nay child!’ That
minister said further to me, ‘One year
after that he was brought from the
lunatic asylum to He beside his wife
in tho grave, and I attended his fune
ral. ’ The minister of the gospel who
told me that fact is to-day a drunkett
hostler In a stable In Boston. Now
tell me what rum will uot do. It will
debase, degrade, imbrute and damn
everything that is noble, bright, glo
rious and God-like in a human boing.
There is nothing drink will not do
that is vilo, dastardly, cowardly,
sneaking or hellish, Why are we not
to fight till the day of our death,”
A THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Philadelphia Mlnovs Who Struck a Bo
nanza In the South.
Probably the largest solid gold nug
get that has been discovered in the
Eastern United Statoe since the re
bellion, says the Philadelphia Times,
is now in the posessioii of Mr. G. W.
Russell, of this city. This remarkable
spocimeu was found some vows ago
in a North Carolina gold mine, and
has recently attracted the attention of
the Academy of Natural Sciences of
this city. It was even made the sub
ject of a special report by Prof. 11. C.
Lewis to the Academy in December
last, and was then referred to by that
gentleman as one of the most striking
evidences of the existence of pure.gold
in a natural state ever found in this
country. The nugget weighs over
four pounds, and contains much less
than per 1 cont.of any other substance.
Its intrinsic value hasbeen estimated
by Prof. Lewis at not less than sl,-
000. A short time ago the famous
nugget was sent to Europe to ho ex
amined by scientific authorities. In
1861 a nugget said to havo weighed
thirteen pouuds was found in tho same
locality.
MONKEYS AS COTTON PICKERS.
The project of using monkeys for
ttou picking has long been discussed
and last rear Mr. Huger who Is a
wealthy planter, living noar George
town, S. C.. tried the experiment. lie
imported ten Chimpaazoes, which
were young but well tamed. Each was
furnished with a sack, tied to their
necks and sent to the field with the ne
groes. A monkey will alwaysimitate
a maa ; and after a little practice each
one would lake a cotton row and pick
tho cotton much faster than tho dar
kles. As soon as on* would get his
pack full he would throw up his tail
and scamper hack to the eart to empty
it and run back (o work at full speed’.
But tbo trouble was they would pick
bolls aud all, and when they raced
with each oilier," would actually fill
the sack with earth. When left to
themselves they would go to playing,
hut on anybody appearing would go
to work instantly. They proved im
practicable, but it ie evident (bat
with, proper training they could ho
utilized. ,
“DRUNK AM A LORD-'*
The Er| of AylcifordU l>erbjr De
bauch Endi In a Broken Lpg.
Loudon, May’ 29.—The Earl it
Aylcsford, well kown iu America as
tlie owpey of an imni.etiso ranch on
the Staked Plains of Texas, on which
he resides most of llw time, and where
he has vast herds of cattle, has late-!
ly been prominently before the ltf\y
cpilils of fcojtlnmliii the role of an
Injured husband. The young Duke
of Marlborough is Urn villian. Thy
Earl has recently defeated Lady
AjrTfesford’s claim for alimony, on the
ground (hut slio had Been gtiiUy of
“imlestaflqn,” by appropriating his
■ second* tide, “Lord Guernsey,” ;for
her illegitimate child by the Duke of
MarH) (trough.
ThO Earl of Aylesford got intoxica
ted aUhc Derby yesterday, and was
as “di-link n lord” when he cftml
hack from the race* to London Bridge
in the liilrd-class carriage of an ex-*
cursion train on (he Dover ami Chat
ham railway. The train wag crowd
ed with roughs, and a succession of
mall skirmish?*desk s*<!ft Wwn
NO. 23.
the guards and the passenger* ail tjie
way up to London. Lord Aylesl'erd
was not only drunk, but obstinate,
and ho absolutely refused to surren
der his ticket to the inspector atjboa
don Bridge. The official persisted
in his demand snd the Earl hit IpjiV
on the head with a stout walking
stick. A struggle ensued,, iu, tM
course of which Lord Aylosford was
thrown heavily to tho ground.
When the Earl was ptefced up. it
was found that one of his logs had
boen brokon in two places, and he
was taken to a cab and driven home.
Hp npw threatens an action for dam
ages against the Dover and Chatham
Railway Company, ,bul if he attempts
this the company Kill, undoubtedly,
retort with a prosecution for assault
and battery upon the inspector.
TUB DEAR LITTLE BABY.
Katie Andrew, a well-dressed,
pretty little wife 10 years old, with a
baby six months old hi her arm*
charged Spencer C. Andre**, her
husband, 20 years old, iu the,’ Quarter
Sessions Court to-day, with deserting
and falling to support herand theba
by.
“W.kat i* the cause of this trouble ?”
asked Judge Allison.
“It is thio, ir,” she answered, sob
biug; “he wanted me to live with his
parents, and I wouldn’t do it.”
“And she wanted me to go live
with her parent*,” interposed the boy
husband, “and I wouldn’t do it.”
“My dear children,” said tho Judg*,
“go settle this difference between you,
and whenever you llvo together, be
mutually forbearing, and I am sure
you will bo happy.”
Katie looked at Spencer, and Spen
cer looked at Katie and both looked at
the baby, lying smiling in Katie's
arms.
‘ Katie, ’ said Spencer, as he took
the baby up and kissed it, “the Judge
has a level head, Let us go.”
He gave the baby back into her
care, but as they wore going out the
baby turned around and laughed a
merry little laugh. Papa took hold
of the baby’s dimpled hands and held
them while ho tickled the baby’s nose
with the soli down on his upper lip.
The baby’s laugh grow louder and
merrier, and the half score of older
wives and other mothers watting in
the court room to (ell their dismal
Stories, forgot their- woes lon
enough to smile ttpl apertsc'".
“Se how the baby finks them togeth
er,” said apparently the oldest and
saddest looking of theso. “Oh, my!
Oh, my! Tho dear little baby."—
New York Times.
1 rank Henderson has been confined
in the Henry county jail for some
weeks, and oq Saturday last was re
leased by Mr. Goodwin for the pur
pose of visiting his home tro get some
clean clothing. Henderson had a
long trip from the jail to his homo
and Sheriff Goodwin let him take one
of his mules on which to make the
trip. Henderson proved migratory),
and has not returned to jail, neither
has he sent the mule hack.
At Columbus, Sunday morning,
while a crowd of children were play
iugon the turn-table of Ihe Colum
bus and Rome Railroad, a little
daughter of Charles Ferguson, the
watchman, had her legs caught in
the timbers and terribly mangled.
A gash several Inches long and ex
tending to the bone Was cut in the
right (high, and the flesh of the left
thigh was terribly torn and lacerated.
Wlille tho wounds may not prove fa
tal, they are considered quito danger
ous.
A baby left with an Atlanta for
tune toller named Mrs. Ramsey died ,
and investigation resulted in a ver
dict of death from starvation and
criminal neglect on the part of the
child’s parents, who arc unknown.
Mrs, Ramsey says that a man and
woman agreed to pay her for the
keeping of the child until they called
for it. This was aix weeks ago. Now
the parents are not to be found. Tins
man provided money and food at
the commencement of the contract for
the baby.
A New 1 ork special summarizes
the recent financial disasters in that'
city in this scntcnlioiis way: The
llst yf crooked transactions are not
yet made up, hut it is probable li.at
° r *“ t * Ward wrongfully converted
$4,000,000 Qf other money,
Mr. Eno |2,f1h090, Fisk & Hatch!
and A. W. Dimock sucsesdedi
iff running a saVflig 'flfnk and
promising a telegraph pompany. iff-
Sency lost llio Presidency of Ids
bank, ind turned ills roal estate!
over. ' . .. j
Two Massachusetts capitalists have
just purchased a tract of 4,400 acres
df land in Honslon comity, Ga., on
which they propose to establish a col
ony of New Englanders. Ten fami
lies will oecupy the land at once, and
twenty families will fellow in the
fall. A village is to lie located on the
land, anil a-large chair factory will
bo put in operation. The purchasers
propose to give Georgia aji example
of New England push, and are confi
dent that they are but the advance
guard of many settlors iu Georgia
from New England.
The city council of LaGrangeha
put a tax of $3 per gallon on all liquors
sold by druggists. Asa coasaquenw,
the pricehas doubted;; ri 1 ' . ; ’
w iWiKMHEPr
A good stM As !<>ld of a .Bishop.
He recently addressed a iargd’assem
bly of Sunday school children,-and
wound up By asking in a very pater
nal and coudosceiidlng way- “And
-rwwy is-thsp# or
a-a-u-y little girl who. would, like to
ak me a question ?” After a pause ho
repealed the qustion : “Is there /t-a*n*y
littlo t>oy 01 ' a -a-n-v little girl who
would TIEeToKsk me a question }” A
shrill: , voice called out, <*£leaso,
sir, Why did 4he angels walk no and
downJacob’4 BfddifW when * they had
wings ?” “Ah, ah, yes—l see,” sskKtho
Buhep P'anJ Sow, IffThere a-a-n-y
-milo- buy or a-a.*.y liHlo giH who
would like to answer . Ijttle Mary’*
question?”’ . -'r.'X -4! lenrwdM,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are nineteen candidates for
the Legislature fffOoßb county, and
others are expected to emerge as dirk
horses. - ’ • t
The first thing that the Buriians
did hero Was to fall upon jboir know •
the naxt was to fall upon ihe aberb
sjinos. . ■ ■ -**
The be*t Wheat crprfl for fifteen
years, is the report from East T*nns
ec, and harvesting will begin this
wc*k west of the mountains.
.‘‘Do yon believo in spirits, Mrs
McGinnigle?” “Ido, ma’am I Whin
the weather is eowld a little drop
doos me a power o’ good."
Eight negro men passed through
Cuthbert on Tuesday chained togath
*r, hound for the penitentiary camp.
This was Stewart’s contribution.
Tho largest school in the world is
said to be the Jews’ free school at
Spitalfields, London. It has a dtfly
attendance of over 2,80& pupils.
Harry Bandars was knocked from a
railroad track in Atlanta on Wednes
day by a switch engine. Hi* head
was badly gashed, hut he was not fa
tally injnred.
The Ishmaelitc *ay* the stock law
dqc.su t seem to be working vary great
disaster to niilk and buiter consumers
when good butter can be had for 20
a pound and butter milk for 5 cent* a
gallon. •
Marietta Journal: A child, with a
snake head, keen oyes that pierce you
through, is living iu Cobb county.
Its mother, while eiiciaaie, killed ft
snake, and the fright and shock she
received at Hie time,was clearly shown
upon her child afterward.
“Pat, you shot both barrels into a
regular jam of ducks, but I don’t be-
Uevo.yoßjJrilied many,” said the hun
ter's companion. “Oi didn’t, did
Oi ?” exclaimed Pat. “Jus’ look in
the wallter there, will ye* ? it’s faiiy
,ly alive with dead wans I” .. iV
“Dootor,” said the grateful patient,
seizing lbs idiyoiciau's band, shall
never forget that to you I owe my
life.”, “You exaggerate,” said the
doctor, mildly; “you ouly owe mo
for fifteen visits; that is the point
which I hope you will not fail te re
member.”
“What is more awful to contem
plate,” said the locturer, glaring
about him, “than tho relentless pow
er of the maelstrom ?” And a hen
pecked-looking man in the rear of the
house softly replied: “Tho female
strom.”
A dash, a crash, ’twas awfal rash.
But the ro.twr skates upset her.
A slip, a rip, she out her lip,
But the|a ext tiihe she’d do better.
A slide she tried, the skates were snide;
Tjjey proved to be a fetter.
No more she’ll soar tho rink all o'er,
Because her ma won’t let her.
“I shait’l be gone long,” remarked
Juniper as he left the housefthe other
evening, “Not going anywhere in
particular; only going outto take the
air.” “Be careful Wat jrou don’t
come in airtight,” was the injunc
tion of Mrs. J,, whose knowledge of
Juniper’s failing had no.t begotten
confidence.
An old lady from tho country,
who attended tho opera for" the first
time, entered the Academy of Musio
jyst as the troupe wire all Binging to
gether in chorus. "Ah t” she 're
marked, “they don’t eat#' now that
they have our money. See, thoy are
all singing together so that they can
get through sooner,”
“What kind of a dog is that ?” asked
the major of a colonel as he saw a
lean,’ hungry looking canine poking
kia head and neck through the front
gpUr*tmVX
the owner proudly. “Is he a good
watch dog ?” “Well, I guess so. I ft
takes iny wifo and myself over half
our time to watch him for fear he’ll
oat up everything in tho liousbj'*’’'*
€ on Wednesday night in Bavf|jui*b,
Buford L. Dean phot Ids brother Da
vid J. Dean, killing him instantly.
Four shots were firofi,, tfiT f&iig ef
fect. David had . seduced Buford’s
daughter. The murderer is a police
man and the victim an ex-policeman,
’t he murderer surreudtKftfaffikaafrw
iujall, ■■/ ~ t-;eiß)owi -i
This from ibo Haiicook Bulletin:
“It becomes cur this
week lo chronicle another sad death.
Hardy, Culver, a god thirteen years,
and son of Mr- G. x J . Culver of this
place, was fatally wounded oil Satur
day, tho 17tli iust., while taking his
guu aet:os a fence. The little ftbow
stood the pain manfully, aiid died
without a ipurmer. It, ia no£ often
that death claims one *s, youqg and
promising. But wc*ll must diesoeq
er or later.”
j 1-- o '■> <•
Wc have Ihc largest'and most varied
asorlmeirt of lAiiip goods error bHs tight
South. Parlor and hall Lamps, Gibs
and Brass Lamps,Reflector Lump* and
Lantern Shades, Burners, Mil ChUh.
Boys. Yon svao a good profit in
freight and our . peioot are as low,aa
any market,.-i Itobi-ts'
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