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From Blackwoods Magazine.
IN LIFE AND IN DEATH.
A PAUE OF FAMILY HISTORY.
CHAPTER I.
A long, old-fashioned, magnificent
room, growing dim and shadowy in
the twillight; a room fit to be haunted,
lined with shelves full of hundreds of
old books; a room that seemed really
to be haunted, as the white busts gleam
ed out spectrally through the growing
darkness. Far-stretching, silent, and
solitary ; so large, that the one living
figure in it was almost lost and swal
lowed up in space ; so dreary in its
vastness, that it was wonderful any
living creature could endure to stay
there.
Four great windows, side by side,
looked out on a terrace, where a foun
tain played, and cold white nymphs
stood as if turned to stone while they
danced. The terrace was solitary,
like the room that opened on it; only
at one of the windows, leaning against
the frame, and keeping a steady watch
through the glass, was a man. The
light was so dim even there that his
figure was but just plainly discernible;
hut it could be seen that he was not
old —not, perhaps, quite young, but
under middle-age—slender, pale, worn.
His profile against the window looked
almost too delicate for a man ; and his
hand was painfully thin. That was all
that could be seen—even that only now
and then when he held up his watch to
catch the light on its face.
Suddenly a soft, almost stealthy, foot
came along the gravel. A woman wrap
ped in a large cloak, with the hood
drawn over her head, came on to the
terrace; the library window swung
open and she stepped in.
“It is really you, Helen, at length!”
“Am I late? I could not come
sooner.”
“ Not very late—but you come so
seldom now. I suppose I am impatient.”
She let him take off her cloak, and
stood quite passive while he looked at
her for a moment and then bent down
and kissed her. She was in a very
simple evening toilet; a little woman,
but finely and fully proportioned; old
enough and beautiful enough to have
suited a much richer style of dress than
the plain white she wore; and with a
kind of steady calm about her, even
while she met her lover.
“Close the window, please,” she
said, in her composed musical voice;
“I want to have a long talk with vou,
Philip.”
He obeyed gladly'. “ I have scarcely
seen you for a week,” he answered,
“and I have good news to-night.”
“You see me three times every day—
is not that enough f”
“If you call that seeing. Are there
to be no more lessons, Helen ?”
“I am afraid not. I did not make
much progress last winter. My aunt
noticed it.”
His face glowed. “ Last winter ?
No. But it was not altogether my
fault. How often did you miss coming?”
“ Several times, certainly. And,
Philip, you know my reason.”
“ Lord Daintry was here, and you
were often occupied.”
“Other people as well as Lord Dain
try were here, and I did not wish our
secret to be discovered. You would
certainly have ruined yourself if I had
not been cautious for both.”
“ Perhaps you are right. But,
Helen, it is hard to see so little of you
as I do now.”
She was silent for a moment. She
had sat down in the great carved arm
chair that stood near the window, and
he, standing opposite to her, leaned
against the projecting side of the recess,
and kept his eyes constantly on her
face.
“Listen !” she said, looking up at him
with a faint color flickering over her
calm features. “ Don’t you think that
this constant dissimulation has lasted
long enough ? Don’t you think this
eer r«'t-k-«i'Y>ir.g ought to be put an end
to ?”
“Do you consent, then!” ho cried,
eagerly. “ Will you risk all at last and
lot me speak ?”
“Hush! hush! You misunderstand.”
“ For three years,” he went on, quick
ly, “ we have been living a lie ; better
the truth with any penalites it may
bring, thaii to go on like this!”
“Yes, I am glad you think so.”
“ My darling, I began to fear 1 can
not tell what. Only to-night, as I
waited, I thought you had tired of me ;
and now you will give yourself to me
openly!”
He klielt at her feet—he took one of
her hands and covered it with kisses.
“Stay,” she answered. “Don’t de
ceive yourself, or let me deceive you—
that, at least, I.have never done.”
Something in her voice sounded as if
she were trembling, and forcing herself
to stand on the defensive against any
accusation. She laid her other hand
over his two with a kind of reluctant
caress.
“ I moan simply,” she said, “ that
our engagement ought to be broken oft'.”
The clasp of his fingers relapsed. He
fell back a little, as if he had been struck,
then grasped her hand more firmly
than before.
“You are jesting?” he asked. He
dared not assert that it was so—Helen
Fortescue seldom jested ; but he asked
it in an agony.
“ No,” she answered. “ Y’ou are
hurting me. lam quite in earnest.”
lie got up, turned away from her,
and went into the darkness of the room,
staggering and catching at the tables
and chairs as he went. She sat still by
the window, with the pale light falling
upon her golden hair, while she consid
ered what she should say next to him.
He went all the length of the room,
and came back to his former place op
posite her, deadly pale, but ready to
listen.
“ I do not know,” she began again,
“why I have not said this before. I
have thought it for some time. We
were very foolish three years ago, both
of us ; but We are not children now—
not boy and girl, that we should not
be able to give up our romance. My
aunt’s health is giving way, and, as you
know, her income dies with her; when
she is dead my uncle will have to live
less expensively—he will think, first of
all, of ridding himself of useless incum
brances. In tact, my home here, such
as it is, is every day in greater danger.
I ought to thiuk of the future.”
“ Have you not thought ? and I for
you ? Helen, you have been faithful to
me so long, don’t, don’t change now.
For Heaven’s sake be patient a little!”
11 Is it a question of patience ?”
“ \ es, only that. To-day, this very
day, I have had an engagement offered
me
•She raised her head a little with a
quick inquiring movement. She had
loved him once, in her fashion ; perhaps
did still. She had been used to think
that, with his foot on the first step of
the ladder of success, he would certain
ly reach the top. If he had the first
step now, she might still be true to
him. Hut it struck her that there was
a singular hesitation in his manner.
“ It is a good thing,” he went on,
“almost unhoped-for fortune; and yet
it has its dark side. I should have to
leave you for a year.”
“ Well 1” she said, impatiently, as if
that were a light thing.
“ And it comes from a quarter I don’t
like.” '
“ Can youafford to have preferences?
I can not.”
“No, truly. But this is from Mr.
Stuart, Lord Daintry’s brother. He
wants a private secretary, and will take
mo It is in itself a much better thing
than this, and will lead to something
more.”
“ And yet you do not like it ? Why
not, Philip ?”
“ I think you know. You will say, it
is foolish ; but except for the sake of
making sure of you, I would not take
it. With your promise, and for your
sake, I will."
“ And that very promise would de
prive you of it. No, Philip, you must
take it—the first chance of prosperity
which has come to you ; but you must
take it without me.”
“ Never. Why, but foryou, should I
care for it? I have all the necessaries
of life here—and you.”
He came to her side and laid his
hand softly on her hair, which still
gleamed golden through the half-dark
ness ; but she leaned back in her chair,
moving her head from under his touch.
“ I have something to tell you, also,”
she said, “ and you will not like to hear
it. This morning I had a letter which
is of importance to both of us.”
She paused a moment, shook off all
hesitation, and went on quickly:
“ Lord Daintry wishes me to marry
him. He is rich, and I am tired of
poverty; he is anxious to give me a
home, and I am certain soon to want
one. Ought Ito refuse him ?”
“ You have accepted him ? Your
word to me is nothing, Helen ?” He
spoke brokenly and harshly.
“ Not yet. I must answer his letter
to-morrow.”
Suddenly he fell, half kneeling, be
fore her, grasping her hands again pas
sionately.
“ You can not do it!” he cried. “You
are mine, and I will not give you up. I
could not live and lose you.”
“Hush, pray hush, dear Philip!” she
answered, soothing him as if he were
an intractable child. “ You see that I
have come to consult you. I have done
nothing, said nothing, yet, that you
need complain of.”
“ You come to consult me ?” he re
peated, bitterly. “Do you come to ask
me whether I will give you up to this
man who is rich, and can make you a
Countess ?"
“ Honestly, yes ”
“ And you say you loved me 1”
“ I did—l do. But you know what
I am, and what our prospects, both of
us, are I don't think I could bear to
live in a small house, to have every
thing about me poor and miserable and
straitened. It has been bad enough
here as a dependent. It grows worse
and worse as I grow older. I am weary
of my life. Release me, Philip. Let us
each seek something better for ourselves
than this hopeless waiting.”
“ I too am weary of my life.”
He got up and stood facing her!
while she also, started by something in
his tone, rose, and waited with her
hand upon the arm of her chair.
“Helen,” he went on, “there has
been one inequality between us always.
You have, where you choose, an iron
will. lam naturally weak, easily per
suaded. You have made up your mind
to break your word to me, and to mar
ry this Earl. You will do it. But lor
once lam asresolute as you. Here, in
this very place where three years ago
you promised solemnly in the sight of
heaven to be my wife—here, where you
have over and over again repeated
your promise, I tell you L never will
release you from it. Go, marry whom
you will—get all the good you can
from your bargain; but, married or
single, rich or woor, living or dying,
you are mine!”
He had raised his hand with a threat
ening gesture. His words sounded like
a curse. For all her steady nerves, she
shuddered.
“ tulip! Hear reason—let mo speak,”
sho cried.
“No more. If I have been blind, it
has been willfully. Now I see. But
you are bound, now and for ever, in
Lifeaudiu Death.”
He broke from her; and rushing
away through the window, past the
white nymphs, was lost instantly in the
darkness.
CHAPTER 11.
The little church at Gaysnorough
stood within the park. It was older
than the present Hall—small, quaint,
and very peaceful in its aspect. The
Hall has seen many changes—has had
its days of splendor and of utter ruin
of renewal and of gradual decay, fol
lowing the varying fortunes of its lords;
but the church, through its centuries of
existence, bad lost little and gained
much. It had been draped with black
for many a funeral; it had been decked
with flowers for many' a bridal; hidden
away in its old registers lay' the chron
iclo of each generation from Sir Hugh
Gavsborough, in the time of Henry
VIII., to Edward, last of the race, who
had been obliged to marry a rich
woman lest the scanty' remains of his
father’s land should slip him even while
he lived. And to-day there was to be
another wedding from the Hall.
The morning hud been fair and love
ly—village children were out early
gathering flowers and weaving gar
lands, according to their custom, to
strew the bride’s path; but at ten
o’clock all changed. A heavy black
cloud rose up from the horizon, and
passed before the sun ; a strong, fierce
wind seemed to follow it, and, shriek
ing round the church, swept the flow :
ers from the path, and tore down the
arch above the gateway'. It fell with
a crash upon the roof of the carriage,
which that moment passed, carrying
Helen Fortescue to her manage. The
startled horses plunged, and could
hardly be drawn up at the church
door; but the bride stepped out, calm
as ever, though her face was deadly'
pale, and its delicate lines drawn into
unnatural hardness. Her uncle, a
feeble, querulous old man, followed her
trembling, and as they passed into the
aisle the storm burst. Sheets of rain
fell like a deluge, vivid flashes of light
ning shone, and quick terrific peals of
thunder rattled over the building. The
party' gathered round the altar, bnt
there was a minute’s pause while the
clergyman waited for a lull in the
storm before he commeuced the ser
vice.
The lull came—heavy, death-like,
ominous. The darkness seemed to
increase, but through the silence the
clergyman’s voice was heard, low and
unsteady at first, but rising fuller and
clearer each moment, till he came to
the words, “ If any' man can show just
cause why they may not lawfully be
joined together, let him now speak, or
else hereafter forever hold his peace.”
Then, at that instant, a peal of thun
der, louder than before, shook the
building ; crash after crash it came,
and in the midst of it a voice cried,
“ There is cause. Before God I forbid
this marriage.” But the thunder and
the voice ceased, and the speaker was
invisible. The frightened guests looked
at each other, and then into the dim
corners and recesses of the church, but
there was no one but themselves, and
the old sexton cowering, and trembling
behind a monument. The bride caught
at the altar-rail, but neither cried out
nor fainted; the bridegroom glanced
round haughtily, hiding his dismay un
der a show of pride. The vicar, step
ping back, called aloud to the unknown
to come forward, but none answered.
A second and a third time he called,
but in vain. Then they began to say
that it must have been fancy—that the
thunder had sounded like a voice—and
that the marriage should go on.
So it went on. “I require and charge
y'ou both, as y'ou will answer at the
dreadful day of judgment, when the
secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed,
that if either of you know any impedi
ment why y r e may not be lawfully
joined together —”
A strong shuddpr seized the brido,
and (shook the cloudy folds of her vail;
but she repressed it, making no sign of
hesitation. Then in the pause after
that solemn adjuration, there came
auotlier mysterious response, audible
through all the church; an inarticulate
sound, that was neither sigh nor groan,
but more full of despair than ever was
either. And still there was no one
visible. It might have been some
strange effect of the wind, which still
swept in stormy gusts round the build
ing, rattling the windows and whistling
through crevices in the stonework.
But, whatever it might be, it was not
repeated. The marriage went on, and
Helen, Countess of Daintry, turned
from the altar to receive the congratu
lations of her friends.
“ But oh, my dear,” said one old lady
to her grand-daughter, as they drove
homo to the Hall, “it is an ill-omened
wedding. She tried hard for him, and
she has got him ; and I believe in my'
heart that she is a woman who would
get what she wanted if she had to step
over the body of her best friend to
reach it. But it is a strange wedding!”
“Grandmamma, don tsay' such hor
rid things! She is excessively hand
some, and clever, and charming. I
don’t wonder he fell in love with her.”
“’Charming!” and the old lady laugh
ed scornfully'. “ Yes, they say' poor
Philip Conway found that out long ago
—as well as others.”
“Philip Conway? Her uncle's sec
retary ? Why, grandmamma, you
would not let me be civil to him.”
“ You? that’s a different thing. He’s
her cousin a few times removed, and
quite as good as she is. However, it’s
not my affair—nor yours. Ugh ! what
rain 1”
The bridal party' reached the Hall
while the storm was still at its height.
They sat down to breakfast; and the
depression and sense of awe which had
been inspired by the tempest, and by'
the interruption of the service, passed
gradually away. Speeches were made
and toasts drunk, and the bride looked
calm and lovely', and—except that she
appeared perhaps a shade too calm—
was perfect in her part. But she staid
not one unnecessary moment. Her
silent will broke up the party, and she
found herself for the last time in her !
own simple solitary chamber. Her
dress was changed, and she was ready'
lor her journey, but at the very last
she desired to be left alone. Then she
locked the door, and listened intently
lor a moment. She took a key from a
hiding-place in the back of her ward- i
robe and unlocked the only drawer
which was not empty. Even in that j
there was not much—a small packet of
letters and notes, a small likeness done
in water colors, a book of verses. She
took them out, lifting them with
j strange tenderness, and carried them
Ito the hearth. That morning she had
j said she was chilly, and asked fora fire
—it still burned brightly'. She moved"
the coals, making a hollow in the hot
test place, then quietly put the whole
pile of things she held down into it.
i Then she clasped her two hands
I together, almost wringing them, and
| with a long, sobbing sigh, watched the
; fire gradually devour them,
j But when she turned away and open- ;
| ed the door, and met her uncle coming j
; upS to fetch her, she went forward I
I smiling to take his arm, without a !
cloud on her face. The old man was ;
trembling and infirm, and they' went
slowly along the gallery till they drew
n*ar the staircase, when there were
voices heard speaking loud and angrily
below. All at once they' ceased, and
Philip Conway, dripping with rain,
splashed with mud, torn, disheveled,
panting, rushed up the stairs in great
strides. Face to face with the uncle
and niece he stood a moment, laboring
to speak—then suddenly his figure
swayed, and he fell heavily forward at
f their feet.
One shriek burst from the new-made j
Countess Her husband, standing be
low waiting for her coming, heard it,
and came to her.
Others, servants and guests, came
too. They lifted aside the body and
let her pass. “He has fainted,” she
said, in her soft, steady voice; and
behind her they said, “ He is dead!”
The carriage stood at the door. Why
should she delay her going because
Philip Conway' had fainted, or died, in
her sight? The Earl and Countess
were well upon their way' when the
surgeon said those few words to Mr.
Gaysborough, “Quite dead. Disease of
the heart.”
chapter in.
Ten y'ears since Helen Fortescue,
poor and handsome, was changed into
Helen, Countess of Daintry', rich and
powerful. Ten years since Philip Con
way was lifted, dead, out of the bride’s
path. Nearly ten y'ears since Gay'sbo
rough passed into the hands of stran
gers, and the story of that ill-omened
wedding-day began to fade among the
other traditions of the “old family.”
Bnt in a distant county' Lady .Dain
try shone as a star and reigned as a
queen.
No one had yet begun to say' that
the star was paling, and the queen
losing her inherent right or power of
ruling. The Earl was her first subject
—no more. Over him, and over the
rest of the world, she maintained her
ascendency' by' two forces, distinct but
allied—her beauty and her will. As
for her beauty, it had not waned by' so
much as a shade. It had shone out,
after her brilliant marriage, in the most
wonderful perfection—a beauty not
only above question, but above criti
cism—imperial, absolute. She might
have been a beggar-maid, or a king’s
daughter—peoptAsoon ceased to trouble
themselves with her antecedents ; she
mado her beauty' serve for family, for
tune, and training. Thus she gained
her throne ; having gained it, her will
kept it.
And now that she had been so long a
successful woman, one class of persons
alone spoke evil of her. To her maids
she was no divinity'. There were
enough of them ; for she seldom kept
one about her more than a few months,
and they all went away in the same
mind.
“ Sho has an awful temper,” they
said, “ and seems as if she never could
be quiet for a minute. All the money'
in England would not pay one to face
her, as she looks sometimes.”
One other strange thing was known
about her. She had consulted—no one
knew on what subject—a certain clair
voyant, or dealer in supernatural mys
teries, and had, moreover, been observed
to change color when ihe subject was
named, and to shudder involuntarily
when disbelief in it was asserted in her
presence. That she herself did believe
in things not dreamed of in philosophy,
was the consequent opinion of her
friends—but it was a matter on which j
she refused to speak.
It was the Earl’s pleasure as well as I
hers that their house in Blankshire
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
should be a hospitable one. They spent
most of the y'ear there, and they' were
never alone. No matter how unpromis
ing the season, they' had al way's a party',
and almost always it was both large
and gay. There were perpetual morn
and evening amusements, a continual
ebb and flow of dinner-guests, and every
thing to make a dinner-invitation worth
accepting
Perhaps this was the aspect of the
case which presented itself most vividly
to the masculine minds of the neigbor
hood. A fine house, a pleasant host, a
beautiful hostess, a faultless dinner, and
wines not to be equaled in the county —
every man could appreciate these; every
man accordingly prized the Countess’
invitations.
One of these invitations -was the sub
ject of a little discussion one evening.
It had been sent to Ralph Murchison,
a y'oung squire of the neighborhood,
and he going to his letter-case to find
something else, had just pulled it out
and tossed it to his friend and guest
Captain Conway.
“ It includes you,” he said, “ all right.
I was over there playing croquet yes
terday, and took an opportunity' of tell
ing the Countess I expected you. Be
fore I came away she begged me to
bring y'ou with me to-morrow, which I
promised. So y’ou are booked.”
“ I don’t believe there’s a soul I
know there,” Conway answered, twist
ing the note round his fingers.
“ More shame for y'ou, then. There’s
the jolliest people in England always
there, and it’s the jolliest house to meet
them at.”
“ Lady Daintry can’t be very young,"
Conway said, irreverently, after a little
pause, and through a cloud of smoke.
Ralph went off into a fit of laughter.
“ By Jove ! it is easy enough to see that
you have nevfcr seen her! The bare
idea of talking of a woman like that
not being very' young!”
“ Well, upon my word, I don’t see
the joke.”
“ Why', man, she is scarcely a woman
at all —she is a goddess ! Do you sup
pose that because when we were small
boy's in Lower Fourth at Eton she was
turning the heads of all London, there
fore she can’t turn any' now ? If you
do, you are considerably' mistaken. By
jove, there is not another woman in
England to compare to her!”
“ i’ll tell you my opinion to-morrow
night.”
“ Oh, I know it beforehand. You
can’t help yourself. But, do you know,
I had a kind of half idea that she and
you must be related ?”
“Had you? So we are—distantly.”
“ Explain it, old fellow. I only' wish
I could make her out a cousin of mine."
Conway knocked the ashes off his
cigar, stretched himself comfortably
back in his chair, blew a whiff or two
lazily', and then answered, in a provok
ing deliberate manner between the puffs
“Her great-grandmother and my grand
mother were sisters.”
“ Is that humbug ?”
“No; truth.”
“You seem to be pretty' well up in
the relationship after all ?’’
“ Tes, I am. Don’t y'ou know that I
was brought up by' a maiden aunt?”
“ And she made you learn your gen
ealogy?”
“Not exactly'. I remember that par
ticular relationship for a particular
; reason.”
“ What was that ?”
| “ Can’t you let a fellow smoke in
peace?”
“Not if peace means silence ; I had
j enough of that before you came. Go
! on.”
“I remember it because I found
various allusions to it in some papers
which belonged to Philip, my elder
brother.”
“ Never knew you had a brother.”
“Perhaps not He died ten years
ago; about that time you were speak
ing of when we were in Lower Fourth.”
“ He must have been a great deal
older than y r ou.”
“Fourteen or fifteen years. He was
my half-brother, and i scarcely ever
saw him. He was my guardian, how
ever, the little time he lived, and a good
one too.”
“ Did he know Lady Daintry?”
“ Helen Fortescue she was then. He
could not very’ well help knowing her,
for they' lived in the same house.”
“ How was that ?”
“Philip was the secretary to old
Gaysborough of Gaysborough, who
was a distant relation of ours, and who
had married an aunt of your friend’s.
She, I suppose, was an orphan—at any
rate she lived with her aunt, and mar
ried from there.”
“Well?”
“ B ell, that’s all. Poor Philip died
there—died suddenly of heart disease,
and what few papers and so on he left
went to my' aunt’s, where on her death
I found them. There ivere notes and
memoranda, and Miss Fortescue ,was
sometimes mentioned.”
“ I shall introduce you as a cousin.”
“ As you please ; but I think it would
be as well not.”
Their talk rambled off after that to
other subjects, and never came back to
the relationship between the beautiful
Countess and the young soldier until
the two friends were driving to that
dinner-party which they' had discussed
over their cigars.
“Well, Charlie,” Murchison then
said, “ willy'ou go in for cousinship or
not?” 1
Not at any rate not at present;
so please keep quiet on the subject.”
“ Asy’ou like. Here we are.”
They' were all but late. So near it,
indeed, that Conway had but one mo
mentary' glimpse of Lady' Daintry as
sho received them before dinner was
announced. He found himselt, how
ever, at no great distance from her at
the table, and Murchison smiled to him
sell as lie saw liis friend’s ey r es turn in
stantly' toward her.
|i“Ah,” he thought, slily, “he’ll be
glad enough by-and-by to claim kin
dred.”
Hut as dinner progressed, Conway
still looked at the Countess. He said
nothing to the lady, beside him—he put
away the dishes that was offered him—
he did nothing bui stare fixedly at his
hostess. Again and again his introducer
glanced across the table at him; with
surprise and displeasure he noticed this
extraordinary behavior, and tried to
attract his attention. No efforts were
of the least use. Conway, when spoken
to, either answered shortly or not at all
when merely looked at, remained
evidently unconscious of the look. One
after another the people who sat near
seemed to become aware of something
singular in his demeanor; the Countess
alone paid no heed to it. Perhaps she
was too much accustomed to admira
tion to be discomposed by the regard of
a stranger—and yet the one now fixed
on her might have been embarrassing
from the very fact that it was not ad
miring. What did it express? Fear?
surprise? incredulty? horror? Ali
these, perhaps—nothing less strange
and misplaced.
“ Wnat the deuce does the fellow
mean ?” Murchison thought to himself
uneasily. “Has he gone mad all at
once? or what is it? Everybody is
beginning to notice him. Won’t I give
him a blowing up when I get hold of
him 1”
But as the long ceremony of dinner
progressed. Ralph grew more and more
uncomfortable. He saw that the influ
ence of his friend’s silence and strange
behavior was making itself felt —it
seemed at last even to reach the Coun
tess. She still talked with her usual
grace to those beside her; but she grew
slightly paler, and once looked for a
moment steadily' at Conway. Murchi
son watching anxiously, was struck by
the fact that, while her eyes evidently
rested for that moment on the young
soldier’s face, his did not chango or lat
ter, as if ho met her glance, but rather
seemed to look over or beyond her. She
continued her conversation and he his
'shze.
At last, when dinner seemed to have
lasted twice the ordinary time, Lady
Daintry' rose The moment the ladies
had passed out, and the door was shut,
Conway turned to the gentleman next
him, and in a voice full of horror asked:
“ Did you see it ?”
“See what?” the other returned,
and Ralph leaned across the tabic to
listen.
“The figure that stood behind the
Countess—a tall man, who mimicked
every thing she did.”
The stranger drew a little further
away; he evidently thought his neigh
bor was mad ; and Ralph, coming round,
took the empty' place.
“ Did y'ou see it ?”
“ I saw you behaving as if you were
out ofy'our senses. What on earth did
it all mean ?”
“I don’t know—except this. As we
sat down to the table there came a—a
thing-and stood behind Lady Daintry’s
chair. It seemed to come with her into
the room. It stood there the whole time,
now on one side and now on the other.
What ever she did, it did ; and it fol
lowed her away’ just now.”
He shuddered, and Murchison shud
dered too. There could be no doubt
that be believed he bad Been this thing.
“ But what was it like?”
“Like the shadow of a man —if it
was like anything. A shadow having
substance, if you can understand that.”
“ I daresay it was a shadow.”
“ Look at the place where it stood.
The light is full, bright, equally diffused.
No shadow could be there.”
“Imagination, then.”
“As you will ; only' never ask me to
sit in the room with it again.”
Murchison paused for a moment. He
tried to persuade himself that Conway
was practising a foolish hoax—that he
had had too much wine —even that this
might be the first illusion of a coming
fever. But none of these theories would
stand. Conway was of a cool, insouciant
temper, not the least given to practical
jokes; ho bad not swallowed a single
glass of wine; and be had not the faint
est sign of physical illness about him.
What he did show were strong, unmis
takable symptoms of horror, and of per
fect good faith.
Yet it might have been some fantas
tic effect of light and shade: and if so,
it would certainly not reappear in the
drawing-room.
“Come,” he said, “let us go and join
tho ladies. If it was a shadow it will
stay there."
“Itis no use. And, to tell the truth,
I shall be glad to get out of the house
Make some excuse for me—there’s a
good fellow.”
“ And let you go away with the idea
that you have seen a ghost ? I thought
you had more pluck.”
“Look here Ralph, it is no use talk
ing in that way. Isay nothing about
ghosts. I only' say that I have seen
and I don’t know why you should not
have seen too —what I described to you.
Isl saw it again ever so often it would
make no difference to me, except that
it is uncanny —more than that, horrible
—to see it standing there, mocking
every thing she does.” He shuddered.
“ And I suppose you don’t entertain
any' idea of trying to lay the ghost, as
you call it. I doubt whether the Coun
tess would thank you.”
“The Countess? Do you imagine
she has any consciousness of it?”
“ How can I tell ? All I know, you
know.”
“ Very' well, then, como into the
drawing-room and try to find out some
thing more.”
He was obstinate, being fairly divid
ed now between belief and unbelief;
and Conway was obliged to yield. There
were about a dozen ladies, young and
old, ,n the room when they entered.
Lady Daintry was sitting on a sofa
talking to a dowager in black velvet
and diamonds. They’ were a curious
contrast—one old. wrinkled, and shriv
eled, gorgeous in black and scarlet and
flashing light; the other is the very'
perfection of beauty, in a rich quaint
dress of pure white. But behind them,
standing so that the Countess’ golden
hair seemed to touch its breast, stood
the dark shadow. Conway told Ralph
by a look that it was there.
They separated immediately, and
Conway found himself near the lady be
had taken to dinner. She was the only'
person with whom he had the slightest
link of acquaintance, and she, after his
neglect, was not disposed to be very’
gracious. He turned his back upon
that sofa, and applied himself to being
civil to her.
But it was a task beyond hispowers.
He felt himself drawn back irresistibly
to look at the Countess. Other men
had now come in, and she had left her
seat; but wherever she went the sha
dow followed her, moving as she moved
and keeping always so near that it
seemed as if she had but to put. out her
hand and touch it. Seeing this, Con
way soon ceased to be able to see any'-
thing else. He found a quiet corner
and pretended to look at some photo
graphs, but his eyes continually follow
ed the specter.
Once Murchison came to him.
“ Well,” he said, “is it there still ?”
“It stands in the corner, between
her and the piano. There, that girl
who is going to play almost touched
it 1”
As Ralph strained his eyes following
the direction of Conway, he became
aware that Lady Daintry was watch
mg them both. She moved abruptly
from the place where she stood, and
cast a rapid, almost imperceptible,
glance backward over her shoulder. He
fancied he saw her lip quiver and her
color change. Next moment, however,
she deliberately crossed the room, and
coming up to Conway, spoke to him.
It was only some question or remark
about those photographs which he had
not looked at; but while she spoke,
and he answered a curious scrutiny was
going on. Ilis looks, instead of rest
ing on her face, went past her to the
thing standing close behind ; hers seem
ed to express suspicion, distrust, uncer
tainty. Her words were very sweet
and gracious, her voice soft and uncon
strained ; but Murchison said to himself,
“ Does she know of it? Does she fear
any thing ? Is it real after all ?”
Then he became aware that the
Countess had asked a question to which
Conway gave no answer. She stood
waiting, the expression of her face
deepening into an indescribable mixture
of pride andterror, as he, bending a lit
tle forward, was wholly absorbed in the
discovery, as it seemed, of some new
revelation. Murchison made a step
forward. The Countess turned sudden
ly away, pale as ashes, and Conway
drew a deep breath of relief and turned
to his friend.
“ Ralph,” he said, *• I must go. Heav
en knows wl y I should be the only
person to know her secret, but I can’t
stay hero longer and keep it. Are you
ready ?”
“ What was the matter just now?”
“ W Jiat could possess her to come
and talk to me ? 1 told you there
seemed to be a dark mist about its
bead. Well, while she spoke, it leaned
over her shoulder, and the mist seemed
to open. I could see its face almost
distinctly.”
“ What was it like?”
“ A corpse ! The features set and
pinched and white—that was all I
could make out.”
“ She suspects something. Come we
had better go ”
They moved slowly toward the door,
Murchison stopping here and there to
speak to an acquaintance as he passed.
But at the last moment he again turn
ed to Conway :
“ Look once more,” he said ; and as
he spoke he felt himself shudder, for
the horror of the vision had begun to
infect him. “ Take one last deliberate
look at her, and don’t carry away any
fancies.”
Conway obeyed; He glanced round the
room in search of the Countess. She was
quite at the further end, aud had her
hand on the handle of a door, as if going
out ; hut at the moment when the two
friends paused, looking at her, someone
spoke to her, and she turned from the door
to reply. Murchison just perceived this,
and then, trying in Conway’s face to dis
cover what he saw, took alarm at the
awful pallor which crept over it, and drew
him quickly out into the hall.
“For heaven's sake, what was it?”
For a moment Con way seemed unable
to answer. His lips were white anti stiff,
his hands trembled, and lie grasped his
friend’s arm to support himself.
“The mist was utmost gone from about
it,” he said at last. “It is a corpse, long
dead, decaying, livid, phosphorescent—l
don’t know wnat to say—it glimmers—it
has shreds of a shroud hanging about it.
Oh, it is horrible! it is horrible!”
He trembled convulsively. Murchison’s
own nerves thrilled.
‘'Come into the dining-room a minute,”
lie said, “there are two or three men there
yet, and then we’ll be off.”
They went in. It was still early, and
the host sat patiently wailing the ending
of a political argument. Three or four of
tire guests were absorbed in it; they formed
a little group at one end of the latde. The
rest of the room was empty. The two
young men, after exchanging a word or
two witti the Karl, sat down apart, and
Murchison asked,
“You saw it more clearly, then ?”
"Yes, quite clearly, Dufl’t ask about
it now. I’ll answer ail your questions af
ter.”
“Better do it now. It iseither fancy, or
else the most awful visitation that ever
mortal was subject to.”
"Fancy !” I tell you it is no fancy. You
saw her Lake her hand off the handle of the
door when that girl spoke to her? Well,
the—the tiling put its horrible hand on the
handle as if to open the door, and its other
arm was round tier—not close, not abso
lutely holding her, but making as if it
would open the door aud draw her info the
next room. But the horror was, that it
loosed the handle, aud raised its arm, as I
looked, and looked at me and beckoned ! ’
Their talk was suddenly interrupted.
A shriek, ringing through t. e house,
broke it off. Doors opened and shut in
all directions, and the whole parly, rush
ing into the hall, found servants hurrying
wildly about, and the Countess’ French
maid screaming and exclaiming :
“My lady ! my lady 1 ISlie is dying—
she is dead—sin- is poisoned! Malheu
rewie q - c Je hum
iStruggliug ou with the crowd, the two
friends reached the door of a email draw
ing-room opening from the larger one.
In a low chair, near the fire, sat the Count
ess, her eyes closed, her face white and
rigid. A coffee cup had fallen from her
baud, aud lay bo.ken on the floor—a
stream of the dark liquid marked her
rich white dress. Beside her, ou a table,
was a small case, and the room was full
of a subt e deadly odor.
As the holder and more intimate visitors
gathered round, following the Earl, Con
way laid his hand on Murchison’s
shoulder.
“There it is!” he said, “close beside her,
bending down. It puts its arms round
her.”
Ibe rigid figure, so still in the midst of
the terrified excitemenl, suddenly moved.
The Countess opened her eyes. Hhe
turned her head slowly, as if looking for
someone clf.se at her side.
“At last, Philip!” she said, distinctly,
and died.
THE BISHOP PILL!
THE BISHOP PILL!
THE BISHOP PILL!
Not 'BrandrethV—not • Ayer’s*-not ‘Wright’s,’
BUT
“COSTAR’S” BISHOP PILL,
'•Which in bound to lake the pi --e of all others;
a purely vegetable Pill (sugar-coated), ai.d of ex
traordinary efficacy tor 1 ostlvenees indig-st on,
Dyspepsia, Headach • Nervous Debility, Elver
Complaint, etc.”— Medical Journal Kept 8.
Positively the nest Pill in the world.
Thousands of boxes now used.
All Druggists in Macon sell them.
Aformng Paper Aug. 2t
'! “it Ml ! Hilt MV! 1 cant stand It; hut
he did, tor he sent rig t.t i tl and got a box of
COSTAR’S CORN SOLVENT I
“And It cured him.”
Thousands of boxes sold.
All Druggists In BL'KFaLu sell It.
“ COST A R. ’ S ”
Standard Preparations
ARK HIS
BEAUTIFI E R !
THK
Bitter-Sweet and Orange Blossoms.
One Bottle sl.oo—Three lor $2.00.
HIS
“Costar’s” Bat, Roach etc.,
Exterminators,
“Costar’s” Bed Bug Exterminators,
• Costar’s” (only pure) Insect Powder
“Duly Infallible Remedies known.”
“18 years es.ablislied in New York.”
“21100 Boxe ■ and Flasks manufactured dally.”
“!!! Be ware!!! ol Spurious Imita' ions. ”
"All Druggists In Macon sell them.”
Address “COSTAH,” 10 Crosby St., N. Y ■
Or, John F. Hknky, (successor to)
Demas Barnes A Cos.. 21 Park Row, N. Y.
Sold in Macon by
.1. H. ZF.iLIN & CO.
I w. HUNT & CO.
apß-t&w-tmr3 HAURXSS, CRAY’ & CO.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS""
8188 COUNTY.
8188 (SHERIFF'S BALES
WILL be sold, before the Court Hou«e door in
the city of Macon, between the Real hours
of sale, on the first Tuesday in May, 1809, the fol
lowing described properly, to-wlt: Paris ol lots
1 and 2, square 40, fronting about 39'eet on Sec
ond Street. and running hack to an alley on Hie
west; the lot being about *OS feet, being hounded
on the west by the said alley, on the north by the
lands of Findlay A Seymour, on the east by See ■
oud Street, and on the north by the lands of Me
grath A Patterson, and distant on tne southside
about 110 feet from Poplar street Jeremiah Fuss
vs. Thus J. Flint.
Also. 120 acres of land, more or less, about lour
miles from Macou, bounded by the Macon and
Western Kailroad, and land of Mrs. Townsend,
Asher Ayres, and others. W. D. Williams vs. O.
A. Lochraue, maker, and M. S. Thomson, en
dorser.
Also, all that tract or parcel of land situated In
the village of Vlneville, containing two acres,
more or less, it being part of 20 acre lot No 4
according to the survey of Richard Ellis, with
improvements thereon, it being the house and
lot where Mr. Taylor now resides. ureen J.
Blake vs. Win. Taylor, and Geo. F. Snldei vs.
Win. fay lor.
Also, me one-half undivided Interest of Jas
F. Winter(it being the one half)in lots No.oand’
6, in square 41, with Improvements thereon said
improvements being a cotton warehouse occu
pied by Adams, Jones A Reynolds. There is,
also a grocery ou the corner, on First and Poplar
streets, occupied by Walker A Cos. W illiam A.
Haywood vs James F. Winter and Joseph S.
Winter; Robt. Fi. Rivers vs. J.F. Winter, and
olher 11. fas. lu my hands.
Also, part of lot No. 1, In square 40. in the oily
of Macon, fronting 31 feet 7E inches on Second
street, running hack the same, with 101 feet 3
Inches on lot No 2, in same square. T. K. Bloom
vs, C. D. F’ludtay, administrator ol James N.
Findlay.
Also, all of that certain lot or parcel of land
lying and being In ihe Third and F'ourth Dis
tricts of originally Houston, now Bibb County,
containing lfifl acres, more or less, and formerly
well known as the Yauu Place, and now occu
pied by J. R. Hedge. U. A. 1 harpe and T P.
Stubbs vs James Koquemore.
Also, lot No. 1, in block No. 50, inthesouthwest
corner of the city of Macon, bounded on the
north by an alley, south by Calnoan Street, east
by Elm Street. and west by lot No. 2. lu said
block, containing one acre, more or less. 14. B.
Lewis vs. Wm. H. Moughon
JAMES MARTIN.
ap7-30d Slier iff.
KORGIA—BIBB COUNTY—Whereas; Patrick M.
Carroll, administrator of the estate of E iztbeth
and William D. Tucker, deceased, apples to me for
letters of di-missi n : These are therefore to cite and
admonish all and singular the kindred and • reditors
of said deceased to be and appear at my office on or
before the first Monday in June, 1869, to show cause,
if any they have, why letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand officially,
dc!2-m6t* C. T. WARD, Ordinary.
CiiAWFORD COUNTY.
Crawford County Sheriff’s Sales.
rjntK SHERIFFS SaLEh OK CKAWKORIi
1 County will lierealter be published in the
Journal and Messbnokk, Macon, Oh. This N< -
j vember 21, IStiH. ANDREW J. PRESTON,
In VO-dAw if eiift
/ 1 EOKOIA—C A WFUHD lAlUetl ~li
IT Alien K. Davis, aouiiuistraloroti the estate of
•S. lomon \V. i.’Hvjs, deceased, applle- lor tetters
| of dismission from said administration: These
are therefore to cite and Hdluotitolt all persons
I interested to he and appear at my office within
the time prescribed by law, an I show cause, if
any they h-tve, why said letters dlgmissory
| should not he granted the applicant. Given
j under rny hand aud official signature, February
20:h. 1869. JAMES J. RAY.
I leb24-6m—pt *7 Ordinary.
■ *—ORAWPORDt (
! may concern—Whereas, Lewis O. chapman, ad
mit iterator upon the estate of Giles M. Chapman. late
of said county, deceased, apple tf.r letters of di-mis
sion from tne administration of said estate : There
s re, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, are
hereby cited and admonished to file their oljec tons,
i any they have, in my office in terms of the taw.
Otherwise, letters dt«mi<sory will be granted lh» an
plioant St the August term next of the Court of Orb i
| nary f, r said county.
■ Given und rmyhandandofficialsignature.thisJan
! nary 6th, 1889 IAMBS J. KAY,
j jalSßm OrJmorv.
ADMINIhI 11A iKIX VS rs A L,K~
i>Y virtue of authority iroiu the Com L of Ordi
1 nary of t rawlord county, I will expose to
i Halo at. public outcry, Iretore tiie Court House
door in Knoxville, ou the first Tuesday in May
next, within the leg ti hours of sale, three hun
dred acres of land if ore or less, belonging to the
estate of W. J. Kmeth, deceased, )»'e of satu
e unty. Hold for the benefit ot tiie creditors and
heirs. E. SMITH,
mar2fttos--.pt sr> Adru’rx of VV .1. Smeth.
(1 I. 'ki.lA —. RAWFORD COtWTY.—Mrs 1, G
j V* Parsons ha- applied for exemption of Personalty
and netting apart and valuation el Homestead, end 1
will pass upon tbe same at 10 o’ctoctc.A m , on the Ist
I day of May, iB6O, at my office in Knoxville.
JAMES J. R*Y,
splS-2t—pfs2 Ordinary.
HOUSTON COUNTY.
<i l A ill >IA N'S SALE.
! \A r ILL ire sold, iretore lire Court House door. In
i * V the town of Perry, Houston County on the
I first Tuesday In June next, lot of land No. 105, in
ii lie 10th District of Houston C runty. Hoid by
virile of Hti orde of the Court of Ordinary,
; Houston County, a- the property of Robert E.
H ripling, minor of Thomas stripling, deceased.
■ Terms cash. .JOSEPH 8. PUGH,
j ai.-22-id—pf *1 ,‘tt Guardian.
; ’T'HIR’IY days after dale application will he
I 1 ma e to the Court of Ordinary of Houston
! County lor leave to sell a part of the lauds be
longing to the estate of K. W, (faddy, late of said
county, deceased. April iOth. lftt.9.
MARY R. GADDY,
i ap22-aQd-pi $8 Administratrix,
f t KORUIA—iIOt.'.S Ton COUNT
" * P-axetnore, administrator of C. J Bazerrior*-, oe
eeaafd, respectfully show-th that he has fully dts
cha'ged i ts duties as such, and now asks to be dis
missed : Triese are therefore to cite at) p-rson* inter
ested to fie and appear at my office on or t»*f <r the
■ first Monday io July next, to show cause, if any they
, have, why the request should not be granted, (oven
j under my hand aud official signature, this 21. t Deeem
i her, I Stß. W. T. SWIFT,
dc2S-nitd—pf *8 O. H. C.
/ ' BGIA Hrl BION COUNlY.—George iia--
xX lain, Hr., and John C. Humph, administrators of
Mi-s Kuphronia C. Humph, Jat-iy deeeared, having
app-.-d for dismission from raid trust: These are
j therefore to ette and admori *h alt per-ens interested
| to oe and appear at my office on or before the first
Monday in July, 186 V and arrow cause, if any they
; have, why saiu lette-s dismisaory should not tie
gran-, and said applicants. Given under my hand and
official s gnatute, this December 4th, 1868.
_ dei:B mtd--pf»B W. T BWIFT, O. H, C.
/ 1 E'IKGIA—HOUSTON (XiUNTY.—Where -. WJl
* J Jam Means, administrator of Sanders Love, late
. of -aid county,decea-ed, hss app led to me for letters
; of di-mi-sion from said trust: These are therefore to
! cite and admonish alt parties interested to be end ap
: pear at my office on the first Monday in June, 1869. to
, -r ow cause, if any they hsve way s’ud letters should
not t.e granted. G vrn i nder my hand and cfficia
Signature, this Novemtjer Zi >. 1868
UV2S 6m—pfsß W 1 ■ SWIFT, O. H 0.
/THOiml •--imr-jii.s i,■ > I'N id >rrJl
'J Office f ,r said ConDty—Whereas. Pat rjdf H.
Carroll, administrator de trouts non cum test .-
ment > annexe of Jarnea Vrnsnn, deceased, peii
llotiS tile undersigned lor idlers of disraLaion
fom s ltd trust: Tneseare therefore to cite and
admonish all persons interested to he and appear
at toy office ou or bet ore the l»l Monday in Hep-
UTubfr next, to show cause, if auy they have,
why said letters of dismission should not be
granted. Given under my official signature, ibis
2t.th February 1869. W. T. iSWJFr,
mr2-td—pffS o H. C.
7 toSt>KGJA HGUHTUN to) UN PY. W herea g,
' J Francis M. Jones t'as applied to the to url of
O.dinary f.r letters of administration on the
estate or Henry Jackson, iate of this county, de
ceased: These are. therefore, to cite all pernors j
interested to tie and apt»ear at ray office on or I
before tiie first Monday in May next, u. show
cause, if auy, why letters of administration
should not be granted the said applicant. Given
under nuy hand and official signature, March 25
I86». W. T. SWIFT, O. H. C.
marfto-30d—pf *4 00
/ ’ rOKGIA, HGUsToN COUNTY—AnnuI, i D.
' 7 Ktlleu of said county, having applied lor
I.ettersof Guardianship of the persons and pro
: perty of James U. Mary C„ John J., Bailie H.,
ami , tan Infant unnamed,) Birch, all minor
orphans of John L. Biren, ,aie of said scanty, de
ceased : Now these are to cite and admonish all
persons to appear at rny office, on or before the
I first Monday in May next, to scow cau-e, if any
exist, why said letters should not be granted as
prayed tor. \V. T. SWIFT, O. H. C.
j mar:iV-3()q_ p|»4
OIXIA u.j be ... C application will he made
ij to tiie tomn of Ordinary of Houston Countv
tor leave to -.11 one-half intere-t in lot of land
lying in‘ rawiord County belonging to the estate
of Up,sis Voung, deceased. -priJ2,l-69
JAS. WL PohTfLL.
apb-’d Administrator.
MACON COUNT V.
MACON SUPERIOR COURT, M ARCH
ADJOURNED TERM, 1869.
John F\ Williams i Rule ui. si.
VS. V to
John Kelly. ) Foreclose Mortgage.
IT appearing to Ihe Court by the petition of
Johu F. Williams ibaion the sevenih day of
November, lu the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, the defendant made aLd delivered
to plaintiff his promissory cole, hearing date the
day and year afore-said, whertby the defendant
prom std, on or before the first Jay of Januarv,
1869, to pay to the plaintiff one huudi e l dollars
fur value received, md that afterwards, on tin
dev and year flisf aforesaid, Ihe deteudant mort
gaged to plaintiffoOacres of laud ou the northeast
j corner of lot No. .30, in the 2d District of Macon
County, the better to secure the payment oi said
note; and It further appearing that said note rt
mair.sdueaud unpaid. It la therelore
Ordered. That the said defendant do pay Into
this Cou- 1. on or befirerhe first day of the next
terra thereof, the principal arid interest and cost
due on sai l cote, or show suse to ihe contrary,
if any he can; and that upon the failure of the
defendant to do so. the equity of redemption in
and to said mortgaged premises be forever there
after barred and foreclosed ; and it Is further
Ordered, That a copy of this order he published
lri the Georgia Journal and Messenger once a
month for lour months, previous to the next
I term of this Court PHIL. COOK.
Petitioners’ Attorney.
A true extract from the in mutes ot Macon Bu
terior Court. JNO. M. UREt.lt.
April 20Mi, 1869, Deputy Clerk.
_«p2l in4t.
M ACON SUPERIOR COURT, MARCH
ADJOURNED TERM, 1669.
Mlttle Wise )
vs. i- Libel for Divorce.
Robert Wise.)
IT appearing to the Court by the return of the
Sheriff that the defendant 1* not to he found,
R is therefore ordered bv the Court that service
be pertected by publication in the Journal a.mi
Mes-sksolk in terms of ihe law
PHIL COOK.
Attorney tor Libellant,
A true extract, from the minutes of Macou .su
perior Court, April 20tli, 1569.
JNO. M. GREER,
ap2l-lao 4m D-nut.v Clerk.
Macon superior couri, march
ADJOURNED TERM, 1869.
John M.Greer. Administrator)
of David L. Wicker, deceased, | Bill to Marshal
_ . vs. > Assets,
Francis Leonard, Wm. W. 1 Injunction, etc.
McLendon, et al.
IT appearing to tne Court that Thomas F. Tar
rant, in right of his wife, Lou F'. Tarrant, and
Henry Coon, two of the delendants in the above
bill, reside without the State of Georgia, it is
tiler, fore ordered by the Coart that service he per
fected upon the defendants byth- publication of
this order for four months next b fore the next
term of this Court in the Journal and Messenger
puoUshed In thecitv of Macon, In said state
ROBINSON A ROBINSON,
Complainants’ Solicitors.
A true extract from the minutes of Macon Su
perior Court, this the 20th dav of April, 1809.
„ JNO, M. GREER,
_ap2l-m4t Deputy Clerk.
(A EOKGIA-MAi ON COUNTY—Whereas, Jno. F.
VT M. Harrell, administrator on the estate of p. A.
Waddell, deceased, applies for letters of dismission
from said administration : These are therefore to cite
a I and Sirguiar, the parties interested, to be and ap
pear at my office on or before the first Monday in
August next, snd show cause, if any they have, why
said letters of dismission should not be granted,
t.isen under my hand and official signature, January
28th 1869. JNO. L. PARKER,
ja29 ni6 f —pfs7 Ordinary.
and 4 EOKUIA MACON COUNTY —W nere- s, r tan
"T cts D. Scarlett, administrator on the estate of
F'ranklln P. Holcomb, dec’ll, applies for letleis of
dismission from thesaid administration : This is
therefore to cite and admonish all persons con
cerned to he and appear at my office liy Ihe fiist
Monday in September next, to shaw cause, if
any they have, why said letters of dismission
should not be granted as prayed for. Given un
der my hand and official signature, March l, 1869.
JNO. L. PARKER,
ms3-td—pf $7 Ordinary,
/8 EORGIA-MACON COUNTY-Whereas, Ta
'X leb F’. Hill, administrator on the estate of 1.
I Bryan, lale ol said county, deceased, applies
to me for letters ol dismission from said admin
istration : This is therefore to cite and admonish
ah persons concerned to he and appear stray
office on or before the first Monday in July next,
and show came, if any they have, why said let
ters dismissory should not be granted. Given
under my hand and official signature. Decembei
22,1868. JNO. L. PARKER,
dc2-l-unit—pf tl Ordinary.
Georgia MACON COUNTY. Whereas,
Lucy Halliburton, adminlstrairix on the es
tate of David Halliburton, deceased, applies to
me for letters of dismission from said adminis
tration: This Is therefore to cite and admonish
all persons Interested to he and appear at my
office on or before the first, Monday in July next,
and show cause. If any thev have, whv said let
ters dismissory should not he granted to said ap
plicant. Given under my hand und official sig
nature, December 22,1888.
, JNO. L. PARKER,
dc2t-mbt—pf *7 Ord inure.
GEORGIA— M A CON CO UN iY— Whereas John B-
M 'thews, of said county, spp i,s for the guar
dianship of Anna. Mary, and Joseph Crutchfield mi
nor children of Rie ard E. Crutchfield-, deceased:
This i u therefiro to cite a-d admon sh a'l parlies con
cerned to appear at my office on rr before the first
Monday in .urie next, and show cause, if any they
have, why letters of guariadu-hip should riot he
granted to said applicant April 22d. 1869.
ap23-td J N't) L PARKER. Ordinary.
UORGIt —M AtdN ror.VI Y—W l„ ress .l-s-e g.
\T Barfield, executor of the estate of Jesse Barfield,
deceased, applies for letters of dismission from hi
said trust, he having settled up the estate of his tes
tator in lull with the legatees : Tnis is therefore to
cite all persons concerned to he and appear at my
office on or before ihe first Monday in August next to
show cause, if any they have, why letters of and amis
sion should not he granted as prayed for. Given un
der my hand and official signature, ihis April 22 1869
ap23 3m JNO. L PARKER, Ordinary.
PULASKI COUNTY.
CuIJ S J Y—Wher*an. t>e«>rge
»V hf*en applies* to rn- f»r Letters* of DiPmiasion
frem toe ion of the estate of Joel Taylor,
! Into of naiJ county, a* i: The-e are tnereforoto
cue and admooih a I interested to be and.
appear at my office within the time prescribed by lair,
and show CiUiF. if any they have, why and letters
ahould not be granted aaid app icaot Oct. *24 ISt>B.
<w-29-6fn J. I NI'AKK'iW Or4iir.a*y.
(’ EOKcJTa-PUJ-vSiii idjr.N IY-rt n. it-as, JoliU
.X F. McUioud applies to rn * tor letters of dieinia*
sioa from thn of the eetate of jane
Ri*«V, deceased; i'he-e are, therefore, to cite and
adni mish ail person* interested to be aod appear at
iny office within the time prescribed by law to show
caut*e, if any they hare, why said etter* of dimoission
should not f*e granted the applicant liiven under my
hacd officially, this November 13th. 18fi8.
J. J. SPARROW.
r tovlfl-ftm Ordinary.
TWIGGS COUNTY
JAMES GLOVER, Executor ofl BILL FOK DIREC-
Luniel W bhine, aeceaaed, JTION, INJUNO
vi. \ TION Ll C. IV
COLUMBU3L RED WINE, etal |TWiOG3 BLPE-
and C'redstor.s of aaid ! RIOR COURT.
I>. W Shine, dxct&aed. j
JT appearing to tH*} Court that Jones and hia
Hifcs, Mary Jones and Ida Bt ine and BaraVi .* hine,
letDiteea of mhiu D. W. reside in the Htate of
Fioiida, and are intT* feted in th« estate of said testa
tor a id are de'enoaot* t«> said hill.
It is therefore, on motion, ordered. That said de
fend*mt«, Jodcs and wife, and mid Id* and Sarah
Bhine app-aratthe next term of thiß Court, to be
heid on to fourth Monday in September and
ar swer. p.ead or demur to sa«d bill, and that service
of said bill be perfected ou said de;e dant* by a pub
licatioo oi this oidt-r on<-e a r oom f i four m ntha
in me Journal and Mt:«Br>oEß, publ»yh»d weekly in
(he city of Macon, Gt orgia, helote said term of «aid
Court
By the Court: B. HILL,
Solicitor for Complainants.
A true copy of the order Irom t e imau.e»| of
Twi Superior Court. April 12tb. ltgt®
at 14-m4rn J. W. BUKKETt, Clerk
(vEOKGIA —TWIGGS COUNTY—Sixiy days alter
X date, application will be ma tv io ihe C /ur. of Or
al..ary of Twiggs County Georgia, at the first regular
teim after th« expiration of tw # rnxith* ir-itu ttUri
notice, for leave t-i s-li tiie wild lands belonging to
the « state ol Daniel T. Knp* iate of s»ai i county, de
cea-‘d, for the b-netic of ihe he rs au 1 creduors of
said deceased. This April &:h, 1809
HI y EOS TH u KP,
E. Ei P-, Adm niftra ors
ap7-td—pf |8 O r Daniel T. Kprn dec^asad.
/ * EOKGIA—i WIGGS COU.NJY—To ail whom it may
VJ coscero Wh-reas, Witnarn Bryan, Exe< ut r
upon the esta'e of Rer jamia Bryan, decea-ed. applies
for letters of dismission from the executorship of
sad ♦‘state: the ref r-, the kindred and creditors of
eai i deccas**d are hereby o Pd and admonished to file
their ot)—et onfi, if a* y th«y h*ve, in my office, in
terms of tbo law, othejwise fetter** dismisaory wih Of*
grar ted the applicant, at the August t* rro, next of tbe
Conr: of Or-Hilary of m-d couatv. Given under my
hand and c fficial signatur.* tins January 18th, 1805*.
jail-dm—pf *7 WM H. KELLY Ordinary.
I* 1 EOKGIA—T i<> CUUM Y—Whereas Green B.
vX Wood, executor of the will of Isaac Wood, de
ceased, appl.ea to the undersigned for letters di.mis
sory from b-h executorship: Therefore, all persona
concerned are hereby required to show cause, if any
they have, why m.<l executor, on fir»t Monday in Sep
tember next, should Dot b** discharged Given under
my hand officially, this February wth, 1%€9
WM, S. KELLY,
f**blMim—pf *7 Ordinary.
( 1 KGRGM—T WIGGS COUNTY—To all whom it m^y
" X concern— Wnliam Bryan, executor on
tne estate * f Daniel Massey, late of said county, de
c*a>« and, app ies fur letter- of diem ss’on from the ex
ecutorah p of said estate: therefore, the kindred aod
creditors < f .-aid deceased arc hereby cited and ad
monished to fi e their otjec ions, if any they haye. in
rn v office, i,, terms of the aw, of letters and »-
misHory will be granted the applicant, at the August
term. u» xt, of tt.e Court of Ordinary for paid county.
G ven under my hand effi" ally, ihi>* January I'. 1809.
ja3l-6m—pf tl WM. *S. KELLY, Ordinary.
(GEORGIA— TWIGGS COUNTY—A- B. F. McWil-
X iiams. administrator on tt.e. estate of Ja»-ob W
Collins, having pet!ti*ined to be diachatged from said
adminisira'ion; all persons who are concerned are
required, within the time fixed bv ia.*. to -how cause,
if hdy they have, why p a and A. B E McWilliams should
not be discharged, according to the player of his pe
tition. Given under my baud, ibis 11th da* of Jan
uary. 1869. WM. S. KELLY,
j*»2l 6m—pf f7 Ordirary.
/ 1 EOKGIA—TWIGGM COUNTY.—Whereas, Ar
*X chibald McCollum, Acl ml mat rat or of William
Chnppeli, iate of said countv, deecaaed, repre
►enta to ihe t ourt, in his petition, dcly and
enter* and ou record, that he has tully edmir.Utered
William Chappell's estate: This is, therefore, to
cite ail persons concerned, kindred ami credit
or*, to gho w cause, if any they have, why said
administrator should not be discharged from his
administration and receive letters of dismission,
on the first Monday In June. ]*-«*.
WM. 8. KELLY, Ordinary.
( 1 F.OBGIA—TWIOOs <’OUNTY—To all !whom
VX it may concern —William A. Holland, having
ti;ed his petition In pioper f >rm to me p aying
tor letters of administration, with the will an
nexed, on the estate of Daniel Holland: Thl» Is
to cite all legally interested in tbe execution of
this application, creditors legatees, nexi of kin,
and others interested to be aud appear at the
next > ay term of tiie Court of Ordinary of said
county, and show cause. If any they can. whv
letters of administration, with the will annexed,
should not be granted to said William A. Hol
land. This Match 19ih. IMJO
mr24 td-pt $ i WM. 8. Ki- LLY, Ordinary.
EXECUTORY MALE.
(“i EORGIA—TWIGGS COUNTY—By virtue of
X an order from the Court of Ordinary of said
county, I will sell, on the first Tuesday in June
next, before the Court House door ot sa'd county,
within the lawful hours ot sale sixty (60) shares
of the stock, of the Macon a* and Brunswick Rail
road Company, . eloi ging to the estate of James
Bryan, iat*- of Twiggs County, deceased. Hold for
the benefit o? the creditors of said deceased.
Terms ca*h. April I6tb. D69.
MATTHEW E. BLAPPEY,
ap!9-td—pf 86 Ex. of Jas. Bryan, dec’d.
TELFAIR COUNTY.
TELFAIR SHERIFF’S SALE.
\1 r ILL be sold, before the Court House door. In
M the'town of Jacksonville, within the 1. gal
hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in May next,
the following lots of land, to wit: Lots Nos. 338
and 351, in the Sth District of Telfair County.
Sold as the property of James W. Rawlins, to
sat 1- fy a fi. fa, issued from the Superior Court of
Telfair County, In lavor ol John Earky vs. James
W\ Rawlins. Properly pointed out by defendant.
Levy made by L. C. P. J >nes, constable, the
Min riff being a party iDteresti and. pi 63 50
: Also, al the siime ti,n» and place, will he sold,
: i 1-. of land Nos 371. Bf>6. south half of No. 352,
i southeast hall 65 and tue east Halt of 373, In the
j Bth District. Levied on as the property of Ke
i becca Parker and M. M. Campbell ti-aiislya it.
fa. issued from the County Court in favor ol Jo
j soph Williams vs James K. Kinchin, M. M.
s Campbell, and Rebecca Paiker. and transferred
i to Mathew Rawlins. Property pointed out by
Mathew Rawlins. March 2oth, 1869.
JOHN DARKEY",
i mr29-td—pf S3 50 Sheriff.
UPSON COUNTY.
I PEON SHERIFF’S SALE.
ON the first Tuesday in May next, will be sold,
at Thom as ion, in said county, within the
legal horns, lot No. 1, in the northwest corner in
said town known as Brooks’corner, in the JOth
District of said county-, with Us appurtenees
Raid town lot is well improved. One-hall inter
est in said lot levied on as the property of Wil
liam Ragland, to satisfy a fi. fa. issue i irom the
superior Court of Talbot County, in favor of
Moore, Trimole <£ Cos. against saiu W illiam Rag
land. Property pointed ont bv W. T. Weaver.
March 26ih, 1869. O. C. BUAKM AN,
Pir29-td— l.l 83 .VI Sheriff.
UPSON' MUR i'O AOE SALE"!
W ILL bes Id ou the first Tuesday in June
t f next. b< forethe Court House door in Tho.u
aaton, Upson county, Georgia, between the legal
hours ol sale, the lollowing property, 10- wit: lait
of laud No. 258, lliewtst ha fol lot of land No
150. also parts ol lots of land Nos 151 and 156. all
lying in tiie llth district originally Monroe, lmw
Upson couniy, containing in all four hundred
and eighteen and one-half acres. Levied on by
virt tie of a mortgage fi. la. Issued from the Supe
rior Court of Upson couniy in favor of William
R. Mur hy against Donalu McDonald. Adminis
trator ol Charles Willet deceased, as ihe properly
of said estate The said lands pointed out in the
mortgage ti. fa. Marcti ’.6,1869
G. C. SHARMaN,
mar29—nfX7 sheriff.
GEwKula; IEIF AIKCOUNTY— Where!.s, WiE
11am H. Berryhill applies to me tor letters c-f
an ministrat ion ou the estate of Emri Sermons,
late ol said county, deceased: These are there
fore to cite and admonish all concerned to be and
appear at. my office within the time prescribed
by law, to show cause, it any they have, why
said letters should not be granted. Given under
my hand April 7th, 1869.
W. P. CAMPBELL,
ap 12-305—pf 13 50 Ordinary,
“ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
\\T ILL be sold at the Court House in Thomas
-11 ton, Upson county, on the first. Tuesday- in
May next, the following property belonging to
the estate of Dabuey S. Thompson, deceased,
(o-wit: One undivided half of Ihe Livery stables
and Lo's attached thereto, and the like halt of a
small vacant to', all in Ttioniaston. aforesaid.
Sold by order of the Court of ordtuary ot said
county, for the benefit of the creditors of said
deceased. Terms Cash. March 17, 18 9.
E. B. THOMPSON,
inrrl9lds—rf $5 60 Administrator.
/ 1 FIURGiA—UPSON COUNIf i -Wli«e»s, Mrs.
VJT Dellla Gro-s, applies for the administration
ol i he estate of Dudley Gross, late ot said county,
deceased: Th se are therefore tociie and admon
ish the kindred and creditors of said deceased to
file their objections in my office, ll any they have,
hy the first Monday in May next why said ad
ministration should not be granted. Given uu
iev my hand, this 23d March 1689.
WM. A. COBB,
mr26-td —nf 53 50 Ordtnarv.
/ A i-.oR.GIA—IRWIN COUNTY—Sixty days alter
VT dale, application wLI be mane to the Court
ot Ordinary- of su'd county for leave to sell tne
real estate of David Hanes, deceased. This April
5th,18’9. ELlas TURNER.
np’O td—rf?6 Administrator.
/ ' rORUIA—C PNDN COUNT Y —Thomas P. Hol
vT lowav has this day applied lor exe-i ptlou of
personally; and l will pass upon the same at my
office in Thomaston, in said couuty, at 12o’clock
m on the 28th day or April, instant. April 17th,
1869. WM. A. CORK.
ap2l-2t—pfs2 Ordinary.
~ WILCOX COUNTY.
t-j EORGIA—WILCOX COUNTY —Where*-. Joseph
” aid Jane Reaney. administrators of Benjamin
Reaney, dr ceased, apply to me for letters of dismis
sion from raid administration : These are therefore to
cite and admonish all persons concerned to be and
appear at my office within the time allowed by law, to
show cau-e, if any they can, why raid letters should
not be granted. Given under mv hand and seal of
office. thi«3d dsv of December, 1868.
dclO-rnfv —pfs7 _ __ D. C. MANN. Ordinary.
GEORGIA WILCOX COUNTY - Whereas,
David Cason, administrator on the estate oi
Willis Cason, deceased, will apply at ihe Court
for letters of dismission from the administration
of the estate of said deceased : These are there
fore to cite and admonish all persons concerned
to he and appear at my office within the time
allowed by law, and show cause, if any they
have, why said let’ers should not be granted the
applicant. Given under my hand and official
signature, this January Bth, 1869.
D. C. MANN.
feh24-6m-nf»7 Ortnarv.
No i FUe7
ALL persons Indebted to ihe estate of Wood
son Wilcox, deceased, are hereby notified to
come forward and make immediate pa\ meat; -
and those bolding claims aga.nst said estate
will present them within terms of the law.
CLARK WILCOX,
apl2-w4Ud Administrator.