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% TKUNKSSEE MOTHER'S
TBAUI€ HEATH.
SHE 18 TAKEN FROM HER BED BY ROB
BERS AND HANGED ON A HOG GAL
LOWS —THE HOUSE ROBBED AND
THE MURDERERS ESCAPE.
The Nashville Banner of the 16th, gives
the details of the murder of a Mrs. Hous
den on the previous night, at tyer house,
on the Noleusville pike, nine miles from
that city, it is supposed by robbers, who
secured but SIOO. The Banner says :
Mrs. Housden was a widow, having an
only sou, wha was married and lived at
her house. Not long before night he went
to Mill Creek to fish, leaving his mother
and wife at home. His wife says that her
self and mother-in-law retired for the
night and went to sleep. She had not
been asleep very long before she was
awakened by the screams of her mother
in-law. She immediately got up, saw the
door open, but did not see her mother-in
law. She then ran over bra Mr. Barnes’
house, from two and fifty to three hun
dred yards distant, and told Mr. Barnes
that tiiere was somebody over at the house;
that she had not seen anybody, but from
the screams of her mother-in law she sup
posed someone must be in the house
Mr. Barnes came down to the road
which separates their places, and there
met Robert H. Patterson, who, having
bejird the screams of Mrs. Housden, came
down with bis gun for the purpose of
rendering her every assistance possible.
They then proceeded to the house, Barnes
telling Patterson on the way thither, what
young Mrs. Housden had told him. When
they entered the house it was found that
the bed and bed-clothing in Mrs. Housden’s
room had been thrown off the mattrass
and were lying upon the floor. They then
instituted a search about the house and
premises for Mrs. Housden, but failed to
find her. They had concluded to give up
the search, after repeatedly hallowing for
her, and had started toward the spring, id
going away, when they were greatly as
tonished to find one of her garments. This
was the only clue they had discovered as
to the direction she had been taking, and
they followed the path to the spring,
where they were astounded to find her
hung to a gallows which had been used
by the Housden’s for the hanging of hogs
after they had been killed. Yesterday
morning the large tracks of a bare footed
man were found leading from the house
to the place Mrs. Housden was hung, and
the traces of another who had worn shoes.
These tracks also led off from the gallows.
When Coroner Everett had reached there
about half-past five o’clock the body of
Mrs. Housden had been cut down and
covered with a quilt. Her feet were
entirely free from mud, and this of itself
was sufficient to justify the opinion that
she had not walked, but had been carried
to the gallows upon which she was hang
ed. The rope had been tied so tightly
around her neck that it had cut into the
skin. It had been drawn tightly by means
of a slip-knot, and the rope had been
wound around her neck (besides the noose)
four times. The rope had been so closely
drawn upon her neck that it had to be
severed with a knife. She had been drawn
up so closely to the pole of the gallows
that the hair of her head had been rub
bed off.
Mrs. Housden was about sixty years of
age, of small stature and weighed about
one hundred pounds, so that she was inca
pable, both by reason of her age and phys
ical weakness, of making more than a fee
ble resistance to the \ illains who took her
life.
Coroner Everett summoned a jury,
which, after an investigation, returned the
following verdict.
“That the said Mrs. Housden came to
her death from being hanged by the neck
with a cotton plow line, and it is the opin
ion of the jury that she was hanged by
some other person than herself.”
No one can realize what could have
prompted the perpetration of so heinous
a deed upon a defenseless, inoffensive, aged
woman. The whole affair is wrapped in
mystery, and it is to be hoped that some
clew will be obtained as to the perpetra
tors of the crime.
Mr. Housden returned home with a
string of fish, to hear the dreadful story of
his mother’s death, which he would doubt
less have prevented had he been present.
Mrs. Houston is said to be the third of
four children who have met with violent
deaths. One was frozen to death, and ODe
drowned in the James liiver.
It is said of her that she was a hard
working, industrious economical woman,
and a devout member of the Methodist
Church.
About twenty years ago she was com
pelled to quit the place upon which she
lived on account of the non-payment of
rent. On retiring from it she made a vow
that she would live to own it. Fortune
favored her. She bought valuable prop
erty in Nashville and Edgefield, and finally
purchased and lived on the farm of her
choice.
Facts for the Idle. —Hang this in
the library, parlor, ofißce, store, shop or
some other place where it will be seen.
“What does it matter if we lose a few
minutes in a whole day?” Answer —Time
table : —Days in a year, 313 ; working
hours in a day, 8 :
Time. D. 11. II
5 minutes lost each day la, in a year. 33 5
10 minutes lost each day is, in a year. 9 6 10
20 minutes lost each day is, in a year 13 4 540
30 minutes lost each day is, in a year 19 4 30
00 minutes lost each day is, in a year 39 1 30
Two hundred and seventy thousand
dollars of the special school fund wilf be
ready for distribution by Ist of July.
WOMAN.
SOME I'L.VIN BUT VERY KIIAKt* TALK TO
FEMININE IDLERS BY A GENTLEMEN OF
MEUI*niS.
In the columns of the Appeal and other
journals of Memphis there has been going
on for soveral weeks a spicy and remarka
bly earnest controversy in regard to the
employment of women in which botli
sexes have freely taken part. Friday's
Appeal contains a letter from which we
extract the following:
Your doctrine that women should have
the same wages that are paid to men,
whether they do or do uot earn as much,
is gallantry, but not business. Nobody
denies “ woman’s right to work at any
thing for an honest living.” The trouble
is that they, as a class, do not want to work.
They prefer to play the twiney, viney and
whiuey and marry for support. Everyone
wishes them to work, but they won’t do
i; if they can help it. You justly say tlmt
■ the want of a trade makes loafers and
< urtesans.” Ask thirty women to learn
i trade, and twenty eight will consider
1 emselves insulted. You can find any
i umber who are willing to accept places
< ease, honor, and profit, but nature lias
t >t seen fit to bless above one ten-thou
-1 ndth part of them with the capacity re
-1 ;ired for such places. Not able to be
1 ad, they refuse to be anything. Woman
Ins had for a century her destiny in her
own hands, and she alone is to blame for
her misfortunes. She has herself sneered
out of the pale of “respectability” her nat
ural avocations, such as housekeeping,
cooking, nursing, dress making, etc.
If there is a position at once more
naturally delicate, responsible and honor
able than that of a nurse for children, I fail
to see it; but Where will you find a so
called "respectable” young woman wlio
will nurse any one else’s child for even five
hundred dollars a month ? Eveu wealthy
mothers are either compelled to Dtjrsc their
own children or to entrust them to the
mercy of hirelings with whom they would
not dare leave their uulocked trunks.
The natural avnues for women’s labor are
on every band, and the demand for it at
high wages is enormous ; but the women
steadily refuse to fill them. This will al
ways be the case until mistresses learn to
give not only the pay, but the courtesy—
due competency in the lines of industry.
Where will you find a mistress who will
sit at the table with the woman who saves
the family from the horrors of indigestion ?
Merchants have vainly tried to put sales
women behind the counters. With very
few exceptions none but the utterly irre
sponsible, will accept the situation.
Female purchasers fail to encourage it, for,
with rare exceptions, these ladies prefer
to trade with salemen, because, as they say,
saleswomen are lacking in that knowl
edge of business and obliging suavity of
manner so charcteristic of the dry good
clerk. One of the largest houses in this
city has failed, after a trial of dozens of
saleswomen, to procure a competent one
to retail ladies’ underwear.
Physicians in Sweden. —One morn
ing, says a letter writer, I went to call on
a Swedish acquaintance and found her
doctor with her. He was merely paying
a complimentary visit, as bis services were
not required. I learned that an arrange
ment is made with the medical man ; a
small sum of £5 or £6 a year contents
him, and for that he attends the whole
family, however often they may happen
to be ill. The difficulty seems to be to
get hold of him quickly enough in an
urgent case ; for if be has gone his rounds
he finishes every visit before be goes to
the new patient. A lady with whose rel
atives was slightly acquainted bad a bus
band who had always very delicate health,
and upon one occasion, when they were
staying with her, be was seized with a
sharp attack connected with a heart com
plaint. They urged her to send at once
for the doctor, but she only used some
simple remedies, because she said lie had
just dismissed her Usual medical attendant
and had made no fresh arrangements with
anybody else, so that she could not ask
any one to come to her assistance. A
p .or lady while I was there lost a child
ft >m water on the brain, and she sat by it
fi hours in the most terrible anxiety,
v iting the doctor’s time for coming. To
p iple accustomed to command prompt
a vice in illness, Stockholm, or, indeed.
£ 1 eden, would not seem to be a desirable
p ce to bo attacked in.
A Prediction Soon Verified—The
“Dig Sensation” has Come. —Less than
tv r> weeks since a correspondent of the
I w York Graphic wrote {hat when ocean
sleamships, “as at present constructed are
crowded, something must break before a
great while.” In concluding his commu
nication, he said :
It is so secret, and it Is scarcely denied
that they do crowd the Inman and White
Star ships. There has been and is a fierce
rivalry between the ships of these lines.
They are what are called “wet” ships, from
the fact of their being long and narrow,
and equipped with powerful machinery.
Their models tell the story. They are
built to run, and they are run simply for
the glory of who gets there first, and with
out any regard to safety of the passengers.
During the past winter there has been a
sharp race between several of competing
lines, and in nearly every instance the ships
have been delayed, machinery has given
way under the strains, and in some in
stances lives have been lost. The facts are
carefully kept from the public, and to the
public everything appears to be lovely.
Keep your eye upon these steamers, and
you will have a big sensation to illustrate
before long—and from skethes not taken
on the spot.
“The "big sensation” did come, sure
enough, at a cost of human life that chills
the blood to think.
Atlanta has a hospital in which no ten
ant has remained more than a few days.
The Agents offer it rent free.
MACON, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1873.
Don’t Read Is!
Wf It ore now in receipt of it fresh and invl-
VV ting stock of
CHOICE
Family Groceries
Consisting in part of tho following:
Fresh Fulton Market Beef,
Ferris’ IV. Y. lining (unexcelled)
Choice Beef Tongues,
Keeker's Sclf-mising Flour,
Canned Fruits and Vegetables,
Fresh Crackers,
Illc., llle., Fie.
PARCHED
Rio and Java
COFFEES,
GROUND FREE OF CHARGE.
Oolong and Im
perial T,gas,
AT 70 AND 80 CTN. IKR 1.11.
OKRMAN
GROCERIES
A SPECIALTY.
Segars! Segars!
PUTZEL’S DELIGHT ”
AND
“ PUTZEL & JACOBS' FA
VORITES”
Are the most popular Segars in town.
Try them anti you'll smoke no
other*.
OUR PRICES ARE LOWER THAN EVER.
GIVE U 8 A CALL.
PDTZIL & JACOBS,
Second St., Humour's Block.
marls
jRECUL AT Dr]
•'••*' ' - - - 4fli<m(y< • '‘ih^
For over FORTY YEARS this
PURELY YEiiETABLE
LIVER MEDICINE lias proved to be the
Oreat Unfailing Specific
for Liven Complaint and the painful offspring,
DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice,
Billious attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Colic,
Depression of Spirits SOUK STOMACH,
Heart Rum, Ace., <vsc.
After years of careful experiments, to meet a
meat and urgent demand, we now produce
from our original GENUINE POWDERS,
Till: PREPARED,
a liquid form of SIMMONS’ LIVER REGU
LATOR, containing all its wonderful and val
uable properties, and offer it in
ONE DOLLAR BOTTLES.
The Powders, (price as before;! 1.00 perp’kge.
Sent by mail 1.04
car caution : i j&i
Buy no Powders or PREPARED SIMMONS’
LIVER REGULATOR unless in our engraved
wrapper, with Trade mark, Btarnp and Signa
ture unbroken. None other is genuine.
A. 11. ZEILIA Ac CO.,
MACON, GA., and PHILADELPHIA.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
lan 81-523
I.TIPOBTAST TO
CAPITALISTS!
X HE City Bank is authorized to receive sub
scriptions for the State Bonds authorized to- ire
issued by an Act of the last Legislature.
The Bonds to have the following strong
points to commend them to such as are seek
ing investments:
They bear eight per cent, interest.
They are free from all taxation, and irrepeal
able prevision is made In the act of authoriza
tion for the prompt payment of the interest
and the Bonds as they fall due.
Wall street says the State of Georgia has no
credit since the report of the Bond Committee
in 1572.
Georgians, hurl back this libel on your fair
fame by promptly taking up this loan In the
interest of your State.
marSl C. A. NUTTING, President
CASES AM CASKETS
TIIE FINEST,
THE BEST,
THE CHEAPEST
METALLIC CASES
A N D
C A 8 K E T S,
WOOD COFFINS,
CASES AND CASKETS,
A T
A ItTII Fit L. M OOD *.
Next to *• Lanier House.”
Night and Sunday calls answered from
the “Lanier House.” feblO-3m
GEORGE T. ROGERS’ SONS,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
fFLOUR A SPECIALTY,j
CHERRY STREET,
MACON, ------ C^A.
Flour! Flour ! !
5 CARS
FAMILY FLOU It,
in 50 and 25 lb. Hacks.
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY A CO.
Potatoes T
50 BARRELS
POTATOES,
WILL BE SOLD LOW TO CLOSE
CONSIGNMENT.
SEYMOUR, TINSLEY & CO.
BROOMS.
BUCKETS
and TUBS,
JUST RECEIVED BY
Seymour, Tinsley & Cos.
mar 23 tf.
ESTIMATING AMD BUILDING
I AM now prepared to make estimates and
contract for the erection of any kind and
style of building needed, and would solicit a
share of the patronage of the public. I will
undertake the building complete when de
sired—brick-laying, carpentering, plastejing
and painting. *L C. KEEL,
na 30-1 Hi
~ WANTS,
f Adyertisements of five lines under this head
wiil he inserted 3 times for SI.OO in advance.J
WANTED— A good cook without extra in
cumbrance. To attend to the cooking
and general housework of a small family. Must
corne well recommended. Apply at
Tula Office.
CAPITAL WANTED—In a well established
business. A capital of S3OOO required.—
address, with real name,
“ Livinostouk,”
Enterprise Office.
NEWSBOYS— To sell the Daily Enter
prise.
WANTED
To Purchase Immediately.
ANY person or persons having a small
MARKET GARDEN from two to three
acres, not over one mile from the city, for sale,
can hear of a purchaser by applying at THIS
OFFICE. On the place must be a dwelling
house with from four to five rooms and all ne
cessary outbuildings. The place must he in
thorough repair, to coet not exceeding SI6OO.
ap!s
W. & E. P. TAYLOR,
Cor. Cotton Avenue anil Cherry Street,
DKALIRB IN
FURNITURE, CARPETS & RUGS,
SOIL CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES, etc.
■
Metaiic Burial Cases & Caskets,
Fine and Plain Wood Oofiins and Caskets.
LgUOrders fly Telegraph promptly attended to; 791f
IMPROVED GIN RE AR.
SOMETHING NEW.
SUPERSEDES ALL OTHER HORSE POWER
IT IS NO HUMBUG!!
fTMIE settling of the Gin House floor linn no effect ou the Gearing. King Post of Iron and all
JL the work boltud to iron.
IT IS MADE TO LAST, AND TO RUN TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. LIGHTER THAN ANY
OTHER POWER IN USE.
Cali for vouaself.
I bui.u a Portable liorso Power that challenges all other MAKES, bat it will not do the work
with the lame Draft that my PATENT GIN GEAR will.
All kinds of Machinery made and repaired ut
< IIOFKFTT'N IRON WORKS
108-186 Near Brown House, Macon Georgia.
OF *lo^o
cropJLo a &
PloYcr and (1 ras Seeds.
RED CLOVER,
CRIMSON GLOVER,
SAPLING CLOVER,
HERDS GRASS,
LUCERNE SEED,
BLUE GRASS,
ORCHARD GRASS
&c., &c.
J nut received,
HUNT, RANKIN & LAMAR,
Wholesale Druggists,
146-815 46 and HI Cherry Street
ANNEXATION!
WE have added to our large and varied
stock of Choice Family and Fancy Gro
ceries, Wiues, Liquors, Fruits, etc., the fol
lowing
LUXURIES!
250 BARRELS FLOUR, all the favorite
brands,
15,000 lbs. SUGAR CURED “GOLDEN'’ and
“MAGNOLIA” HAMS,
40,000 lbs. BULK SHOULDERS and CLEAR
RIB RIDES,
00,000 lbs. BACON SHOULDERS and CLEAR
RIB RIDES,
75 BARRELS POTATOES, embracing
every variety,
70 CASKS McEWAN’S ALE and BASS’
PORTER,
DIRECT importation:
Terms Cash, unless other arrangements ure
made at time of purchase.
CREER, LAKE & CO.,
<’or. Cherry and Third Ila.
moh24-tf
EDWARD SPRINZ.
N otary public and ex-officio jus
tice OF THE PEACE. I can be found
for the present at all hour* of the day at my
oifl- e adjoining the law office of A. Proudflt,
over the store of Jaquea & Johnson, Third St,
Macon, Ga., to attend to aU Magisterial busi
ness.
118-830.
Volumk I.—Number 305
ES'^W^WANS.
S6O, SBO, SIOO. sl2, Etc., Etc.
Tlie Cheapest and the Best.
UN RIV A LLF.D for beauty of tone and finish,
durability and thorough construction. —
Endorsed by the best musician* of America arid
Europe. Largest manufactories ip the world.
UIIlLi’OKI), WOOD At CO.,
General Agent* for Georgia, Alabama, Florida
and South Carolina, Importers and dealers in
i’ianos, Organs, Music and Musical Merchan
dise. marlß
Cilice Leaf Lari
A Very Choice Lot,
JUST RECEIVED,
IN PACKAGES TO SUIT THE RE
TAIL TRADE.
For side by ,
15. 11. WRIGLEY A CO.,
Commission Merchants.
mariS Macon, Ga.
SUGAR GREEK.
PAPER MILL!
M AK tJFACTUBE
BOOK AND NEWS
See the Knteio'hisis for specimen of paper.
Highest cash price paid for OLD NEWS, un
sized BOOK PAPER, and pure WHITE PA
PER SHAVINGS.
W.M, McNAUGHT & CO., .
iuar3l Atlanta, Ga.
THK
EMPIRE STONE FOES.
IHAVE opened a STONE QUARRY near
the Cemetery and am now ready to contract
and till orders for Stone and Stone Work of
any kind required.
My attention will be especially directed to
the enclosing of lots in the Cemetery with good
substantial and lasting walls, ana would he
pleased to receive orders for that kind of work.
Being convenient, prices will be reasonable.
1 will also build foundations, basements, walls,
sewer*, gutters, in fact any kind of BPONE
WORK wanted. P. H. WARD,
Firm of Ward <fc Nelson, Cherry Street.
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