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THE
•JESUP HOUSE,
Cor sr Brw. ms i Ctwj 8u, (
J ES IT p, <3 EO H OIA.
Jur.rtsoB Atbatie «n4 tiWM, xed Ataeou *nd Bruoj
»l*k Bait, re ads.
‘"to sltonltem a! the tuT-'ln* pukVe i«- ton* u- i «,
th* loaueem- hi* iff -e-i tfeevs by th * Hou *.
The kh-» ri -n ol thi* Boun )* oa elet*m1 .-. moiJ
MJ OlrepU? nud 0-r«»» w lie top.-t St 18 well ..... |. ,< *S
VI a water d;a; ^ 4 w alii U ft:t* i hr -.. . . *,.,
W CTWJ cemfori t-i * >nt eln» ll..t« .
Atatev-tt Jtvnila <»*»* *S«*W Veal* M tvntat
by trie **t>s «j* U»» V. e» k #v.
uacuii Mteoi .vr ■.*<* 1 'ami.ssba
Tv* Taw * vj)l -•» a SeadSn^ fsuiire ef tbe Jr- - -
m-uae, lira eropiteloi, o - r .i uabwr tiie Mipo: v ,
u( uo ^iui or e*>* *• ■ *.1 I ,
to niakB O mo*l ties ®oSiri ,
to 'ft® . *».-« , wi
man tame*.« U. utd (MM B*1 4 I/e. o,
T. pratnCEFigta. Pr •) r. »Uir
Vutsimn Leaves,
An effective method of decorating a
wall or panel with autumn leaves is to
cover the space to be oraamoated with
tulle, tho meshes of which are m large
a« hide P<-c the -il.iie, This at a distance does not
paiutisg or the paper on tin
wail, and it makes an excellent ground
work on which the leaves and ferns can
bo pinned to form very ornamental de¬
signs, Picture scraps me excellent for
decorative purposes, Bmall rt«nns, and
nurseries, and afterward ospeciahy, jmperod with them
varnished, afford great
entertainment; ot them cornices may lie made
t* * run around all the wall paper,
with about two inches of gold roll be*
tweon each, and a black bordering
Wooden firc-lioards and Holland mats
may also be cove-red with them ; tln-s.
mats should be varnished. Com¬
mon, garden flower-pots can boat be made or¬
namental and then by giving them a of paint
flowers painting on them landscapes,
the emboaetid or figures. If you canfiotepautt,
par.b'«i picture Bcrajis can be
oa ana afterword varnished,
Rleachod skeleton ferns mav be kid on
pnotograph . , book
covers, wooden trays,
and blotting biKiks, and varnished,
t hey hxik especially well on black paint*
«» wood ; if laid close together they re
sembio an inlaying of ivory. A plain
table with one drawer makes quite a
round^the pretty writing table by staining it black,
tel'raUf/nnf also applull tf 1 & Sfvelvct i l,ort ^ ir
The ferns can |«
franitsi, owA when the whole should bs cov
with white tulle of the finest and
most invisible description. An elegant
dm.board may he mode in tins way.'
Where Women Were. Needed at the
Fulls.
David Hopkins and Gustave LfetJfcff
were ctmdidates for School Tiruwee in
District No. 1 of New Lots, L. L, at the
last election, Mr. Hopkias ia a farmer,
and wws seeking re-ele'ctkia. Mr.'Bckt
loff is connected witli an insurance com
pany in this city and fa a well-known
reddest of the town. The friends of
closing Mr. Hopkins, of about an hour before the
danger toe polls, perceived that there
was of their oaadkkn ’s defeat.
A coasaktaiou was held, and it was d«
eidad to utilize the new law giving wom¬
en the privilege of voting. Accordingly
several farm wagons were procured and
sent through the district h> gather in
the farmers’ wives and daughters. The
wsgoas ratetnwd to fee polls with IG7
w* men, all of whom voted for Mr. Ecjv
kins, thus saving him from defeat, it
wa» too fate to use a counter-poison, ~
Nrw York World.
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Title
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A whSiD-vtateHi mmnmgvr <sw»»
A ad *ffceo& by my* «td* one .
It Xhea ** i ftfcw ota C(®« *&*&$**
siifca.% awsj.
tow S.j'rlrrl'S, from sa
Uyeud »«i tear* m«MBfe
To mj tome tbe »«**■”
I fw» wwtdd hewq»erti«B«a more 1
’Kin the wee. fair Uiicv ni boo*. (peak
B:it I frit that m««*ase won'.tl for nie
When tbe day of umuta ftowid come.
Another* 'M&@k JKB..1 they mm&t
htnH fer xm
Of work to be ia.ihtt c&wm of
Axul «oas«teupe. Mid woTk to Ami aguGe,
But ofl an thry by,
Bo pnr*. au<i wiate wfifii eeis*,
Meiiiougbi A record vt t couid «Lu w.ttfe trace »tsi.o. Uaeir aaowy wings
its
I pUd But would ! ilicj have *M 0*51 ea them. !
u. 'atm* u» »!•*«! 1
And tb«* 1 turn would. obiiS«r&te
If bffrm to t&e c ehottu
Time o m darn mei rum np»d <m
rU' to-nlsht, nsy ill* ni<‘st done, .
3)io Octne g)nMit» beck cf to u»s a ktte-wlnged by messenger* J
ma cue one. ■!
Wb&t Kegioci, alm»e, ihvlx: m& roproach t j
e r ea $i*t <li«Lh j
Of its tir bright *&t o- U»i»l to my cha.r.g% j
An X wiii ba-teu temih.
** Wh& s.?& ih&u t u We’re mvoy* of
To HOW wliMP you tliisak, bar &iul do.
W *t whisper of thou lic«'d'»t it not
Owe tfiootd masi true,. * ‘
Thy F«tb«T hath «en t ns in !..v»;
Wft hall fmra a f&h ««■ cttcee.
Thou ••fill'et U8 ttoiumta vctiile ver. s.re here ,
When cone* Uwm ojOi'st u«
A fatal isheritamoe.
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BY I.EIOH L. mtOOKNEB.
" Ts this artist’s blouse becoming to
me?” asked Brasilia Sterling of her !
Cousin Lucrece.
“ What matter whether a garment be
always comes you graceful or not? and Your fascinating. attitudes are it j >
If
wero for this alone it would bo worth j
while to lie the daughter of a dancer. I j
wondt-r what Maxwell St. Ives would i
say if lie knew that ?” j
Brasilia's anger was at white heat, !
but so great was her self-control that to
an seemed ordinary perfectly observer she would have
calm. Her voice was
unusually Lucrece’»m>rufnl smooth and low ns she replied
to sneeeh :
“Thank you for your compliment,
though it. is not by any 'am means new for
me to bo told that I graceful. As
for St. Ives knowing the story of my
parentage, I mean to tell him u soon d*
occasion little interested demands; at present he is too
in :ue or my affairs to
about the ‘
care story ”
Poor Lu felt that' her thrust had been
without effect. Jt was rarely nhe al
lowed herself to be so bitter, but snrriv
eyed, she had pale-faced, occasion. Hero was this sonmi*
iiblmrn and ill-bred
had creature, Laceroe’s who, by some elfish witclu rv
won handsome lover from
l.t r
From the first moment Roy Sebert
heard Brasiflai’s voice he had bee,a ready
to follow her through the world. Only
two months from England, and already
so unfortunate as to have caused an afli
aticed lover to be unfaithful to liis vows 1
It was rumored that a young curate ,. Q
tho Other side of the water had com
mittod suicide for her sake. |
hen her cousin left the room Bra
su a sat down before the pier-glass and
,"® 1 at herself steadily, andly.
My fate follows me. I am doomed
to make trouble wherever I go. Luis
jealous, and therefore, unjust. 1 have ;
tn. never, it to by the her lover. slightest Yet conscious Roy is. hand- act,
wm ;
some, and the temptation lias been very
strang somet.mi«-s. i
U was a source of deep humiliation to ’
Brasilia that her mother had hens m
ftoavsf and, , when , she remembered , her , .
cousin make hyr a taunt, she resolved to try and
“ I will more deny unhftppy. myself the |
Wing amiable Roy Robert pleasure of i
to no longer.
If Ootisin La, with those lovely dark ;
of hers, j
eves win not enchain a lover, we j
will see what the daughter of a dancer •
Cft l« hhe lifted small green-velvet ]
a shade
fram tne toilet table and placed it over :
her eyes. An intense and unremitting
devotion to philosophical studies had
made her nearly blind. Certainly, her I
eyes site said. were not I certainly pit aaont to loc-k at, ami ;
“ wish to shock P°
one by my hnhviusuess.” S’-rls.-p* siic
was also aware that th© dark velvet shadu
would make her forehead tiie fairer bv
contrast. Shu was tall and well devef- •
oped, would not take at to all be the sort of woman on©
what her female fnonus * coquette. called This was
the geaUenma without her, but
it exoeption deuiod
“Slui is simply a lovaW© woman, and
wins our interest without effort,” said
her gentleman admirers.
" She ia so artful as to conceal art,
^ ** bitt<iT aud UuloVed of h " OWli
sex.
Out* day, a. .lie .at telkiiig to Max-
5-year-old well St, Ives, the door opened “Sir. and little
come.” Floy said, Devine ia
Maxweifs lip curled, and he remarked :
“ I did not know this was publie-recop
tiwn day, I will cab again,”
“Prav W m, «, T t‘ A . T 1
have friend*° *7 LkJTL* ou , w ^ on .
Tonne ’ p . 1 ’^ W '
llefred houor’m© and R tUBe yoD
' *
ta»nor me witt with your , presence more rare
* The
DrasUlaTwhitekidrfov^TbafsCh^ Miw ha»? tee a
left in the village retuling-raom She
fulness took them with «L tilavks tor his thomrht tEm
and i«“r as talked tvrtet Ets A iJoel
carelessly by tmmfe Fnta *
this seemingiv trival incident. He
was romantic and not a little aupereti
Uomi, for tadweeii tii© palms of th© glove#
he hadplaced » dainty nine violet, say
tng to himself I will let this blossom be
the symbol of my fate. If she plac-s it
i at her throat or iu her hair, if it in anv
i I ^aUhope. attention or tout’d gives pleasure,
As She the gloves
I the flower toll broken and uw-
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1880.
accompany yon to the head of the stairs,
J want to scold you a little for somethifig
I have heard. With this dreadful shade
that I am ohligo.* 5 to wear I cannot find
my way without stumtitmg Wdi yon
excuse me fox the merest moment, M r.
<34. JW»g ? M
Now, it was not really necessary for
Brasilia to be led about in ft house where
s he wa „ I>er feotly familiar, but she wished
to influence Fred, and knew of no way
more .certain. hand thrilled
How her soft, magnetie
him. Why, She her talked tightest touch ©nrm.-fstlr was like to a
cores*. very fondues* cards
him about Ids growing tor
and win tv Saul she had hesrd such
maors, but would not J»-licvo thorn
Would he prbiaiac that the gossip s booh!
lie without foundation? He would prom* i
ise anything. He would reform f
Ro-eiitc-ruig the parlor, she remarked
to Maxwell: "My brothers, college boys are so
much to me like I can reprove
and admonish them in truly orthodox
style- without their resenting it. They
ink d s> me one to scold the ia a little
sometimes?,’’
Maxwell said, in his abrupt, argu
montative way: “ Fred Devine doe* not
consider thinks himself merely a and boy friend ;
lie himself a man comes, a
wooing,”
The color crept into Dru*ilia's pale
ime believe “Hush, Maxwell reg:ird St. Ives, for I will
not is different it My own him tlus
lad so T want to re
gard me as and a friend ; to I want him for to look
up to me, come me counsel
and synijmthy; 1 want ins esteem;
in short, friendship, I want earnest, respectful,
beautiful instead of fickle,
passionate., fatal love f
She was much excited. All the con¬
trol she had shown when Lu taunted
her was swept away. She had suffered
so much through love that she could
bear no mention of what had darkened
her wholelite.
“ Whenever and wherever I tty to os
tablish a friendship, it is shortly trans
formed into reckless and despairing
love.”
All that she said was received in utter
silence. marble. Surely this he was such not man but
All w-as deep grief to
her, and he did not care. Any other man
would have expressed some sympathy ;
not so this impassive Northerner, who,
cynical (’* uad bbt« r, thought beeh it a fin*- bit
f a< v !a f<- He Last drawn toward
f •“*, o!d r 1 a J ^ Is to ,’ “V, 6 beware /" 11 •* au!, .V® J Brasilia “' !< Lb- r bter- hud
ot
lm f, that she w.m an actress by Girth,
:ind «tt*n-ly without
l!i ' brom taut tune he had been on
Lss gunra.
l’arden my emotion, she haul, after
* raooteut's pan c. “ Pardon me also if
^ tk>My more of iuvs« it
I w,uit vou to ka »' v lf «here is any
. - .
. the past hy
reas.m m w rov
present shon.d be so tqll ot passion and
i >Q Lav< ; ,w ‘ l,w '” ,Urtv a<--cn><.u tue
do not mean 8 to be. ! IVlnit I do “* V I T ,1UI cannot ,r [
help. toll It is a deep and sad fatality. Let
m..: you tin- story of ray birth that
you to inherit may judge birthright for yourself how I came
my of Borrow,
“ My father was on Engiinh artist and
marra--a woman 1 who m.we *<> her ^*atera. living
"f 8,I1irm « °, K * fct
as dec:ntful as she wm beauti
,u {- My old nurse Jeanette has often
ton! me how Bsotlier would eay to her :
* The Englishman ia an ogre.' But t»>
him she would sav: ' You are grand
like the guds.’ She v- u him, not i
cause sin- loved him, b.ut because he
her was suppo-ed with his to unagmatiou to-wealthy. He loved
rather than
with hie heart He whs very sueccp*i*
blc to beauty and gracefulness, aud both
wre her's too »- markabte d. R ree. Ti:c
fc«it that *h*. wit.-, jnorri d d;-l not pre
vont men loving lmr. She .bed when I
was but thri’c days old, and father ami
Jeanette brought me to England,
“From my tenth year I have been con
‘•-clous of p'wscs it g r.-n motht is lata]
fault of fascination. There is nothing 1
much dcpiorc, inf I Lave my father'd
honest English heart, and would win love
only bwt where I could return it. Until the
few months I have, never known
what that ward nabtaat. You are #till ri*
lent. I have lost, vonr esteem by con
tossing my mother’s profession. Oh,
M its well St. Ives, I trusted vou! Ai
you not still mv friend ?”
la her cane. »tu<-ss she laid both her
little oarestang hands over both of
his Ail his reserve and riceptuasm
w ere swept aw ay. He pressed her hands
like rose loaves in his own, tatd an¬
swered :
“ For life—for (hath !”
Before they parted they were betrothed
lovers. Brasilia had some misgivings,
and said;
“Gan yon go to your proud mother
and tell her that von have ©spoused the
dim^teraa dmWrF’ '
Brasilia Sterbng I can say any
T ’ r yOU ar< ‘ true
sr.^-r^^rTr. gYbSSi'X^SSS .
Wm'?• '
oh© feb Per h~,rt ,, , 1,1 >
pjfo ’ «a*«tietovecasoto prove v un- nu
first happy glad ? hour O, it.wns too 'sati that ia this
of betrothal there should
be a shadow of impending evil. She
loved him so! It was cruel that ah©
e«ald not b© free from forebodings. At
tiie moment of farewell she aolibcd if
her heart were breaking, and h© bad
scarcely followed reuchcd liis home when a note
him, saying :
“ MaxweUj fyr. Ives; As I lav# yon
, lmusttowI I would
wl, “ ui ^/ f £ te ,ra ^ ior ! ou « et tmbappiuraa. m taul farewell It j» my
* ”
; “ with love and regret,
“Barsinua Hieiilixo.”
Jt was hardly the kind of letter to send
j | a destre man 1 tho No world’s jwssible width from combinatiou his heart’s of
; words could lmv© boon more certain to
bring him to her side. No pleading, no
tenderness, this could have bren more potent
than dec^»iy-<Wpondtsnt dtemissal.
Wl»t would he not venture for her of
hvtion ! Other men might love her
I they must tow her if they but entered
her mood bad changed and she was sab
dued by a desire her to that see Mia. he know. He had But
some power will over He
his own Was weakest. mast see
her. He must hold her in his arms, if
only weeks for a moment. his last- It visit. was That evening,
two from very
afternoon Boy Hebert had returned from
found a fishing Brasilia excursion, and in at the 8 brilliantly- o’clock he
alone he
lighted parlor Never hod
seen her bo well dressed, she
Was careless .about her attire in general,
eshe had put on her one rich dress, a
myrtle, green silk, bought, I think, to
Kiiitch her emerald ring and necklace,
Brasilia had persuaded herself thatMs-.x
wcll would visit her that evening. Ob,
could she but have known on what a
fatal errand, she w ould never have let
Boy lift her hand to exnmuae the quaint
device on her ring. Before she could
prevent it. Boy had pressed her hand to
his lips. Bhe snatched it. angrily away
and at that in-iaut the words flashed
through her brain, “ God help him who
comes hoi wee H US. ’’
At DrusiUa s command ttoy instantly
loft the rotiia. He liad ixsen gone but a
m nieiii when “he b> ard the report of a
pistol, and, fearing the she b»w not find what, her
sue rusUea into hall only to
worst fears confirmed. Roy Sebort
th- re upon the tt<K>r in a lust agony, toe
Good issuing from a wound in hi»
heart.
Sun ft aft Drusilla had been Lucrece
wa« there before her. She was down
upon h<-r knees trying to stanch the
blood. Her face was distorted witli hor
ror and grief. SFn; was still as death
uutii she found her efforts vain, and,
when her lover fell a lifeless burden
from her arms, such a shriek echoed
through the house as could never lie for¬
gotten and by those who heard it Father
mother knew in that instant that
their beloved only daughter was a hope*
less maniac. Glaring wildly around,
h(>r glance fell ujrsan Dmsillrt, und, re¬
her garding her cousin as the murderer of
insane tov<T, she sprang toward her with
furs It required the united
strength hand of loosen Mr. Sterling and his farm¬
to her hold of Brasilia's
throat! O what a night of horror was that!
Brasilia lying between life aud death,
Lucrece raving of her lover, and accus¬
ing Brasilia as his murderer.
Only one person knew the truth of
the affair; that was John Miller, the
hired man. He had been to the village,
and, on his return, he saw Maxwell St.
Ives standing by tho gate, look mg
toward the house. Tie- man glanced up
to find what aUraoted liis attention, and
there, plain as day, saw Roy Sebert kiss
Brasilia's hand. The next instant Max¬
well went rapidly up the walk, entered
tho house without an noun cement, and.
almost immediately afterward, retraced
hr- steps, mounted his horse, and rode
rapidly AU away.
this was elicited the following day
at the Coroner's inquest, and the fa. : t
that Maxwell fit. Ives was missing was
a® that was needed to confirm the v« cr
(tiet, ami free i'nuuUa rrom any s US
der. pinion Y-. of direct complicity after weeks in of the illness, mur¬
t when,
she c-ftHie back to reason and life, she
felt that she could no longer remain
under her uncle's roof.
“ I must live by myself,” she said,
sadly ; household “l bring I sorrow cuter,” and death into
••very
-So it was planned that « cottage
should be be bought, and Jeanette and should
sent for as companion servant.
I w;ih visiting a friend in the country
who told mo the story. She said to me,
one afternoon when we were out driving,
“'Would y -t like to pail on Dnrnila
Sterling? It there beautiful is the cottage. ”
was a place, llmre were
English roses trained about the low
g '•’.eh, A woman in French cap met ns
at the door and conducted us into tlie
room w here her mistress sat reading. A
stately aud smalt woman, black wearing that, a black dress
a cap with its cor¬
onet outline marked royal by tiny jiearb,
looked like a small crown. The
eyes were clear and dark, but infinitely
sad. Of late years Jeanette had read
to her mistress until Dnuulla’s over
taxed eyes b .ul, by rest aud carefulness,
become as bright as in youth. Her
mouth was large:, but curved and sweet.
She was so grateful to us for earning;
she admitted that her life was lonely at
times.
When my friend said, “I have told
Miss Brwikner your »torv, and she gives
on her love and sympathy,"she reached
u-r right hand out to me. I can never
forget the clasp of those soft, care,-sing
lingers. By-and-by 'and she was led to talk
of th© past of Maxwell St. Ivea. A
n tion an of answering him had to the advertised descrip¬
,N Orleans died of yellow fever ia
« one year after that sum
mer-night tragedy.
Setra-Shmung In Norway.
0{ ldl tlu , ,„, dl!v exerciBP8 j know of
there is none in my opinion that can
l—Al liiifi • •"in
U. W1..1
the spiendid sonsatit.-n of flying huuTy across
“>c deep snow a, the rate of miles
a „ j,* if,out hurdlv moving a nuns.
fie? in hand, And then,'going exertion down hill, staff
no necessary "gliding other
t'uau to keep the balance, while
softly but swiftly onward. Unlike tho
Canadian snow-slwes, these «ki (pr<>
muinced she< ) of the Norwegians are
often fully twelve feet long, curving up
w:tr l nt the prow, and arc uot broader
than three or four inches. Throughout
th© wholn length they are provided with
«• for the pxtroom of keeping
th ' f flipping when going at an
dowl1 hli • Although by no means
slow when lined across level ground, it is
yet downhill that they are most offec
|t'c. for !lie<.-- long length and their poL
' a’sm^l’more w’,'u jX> ^vitmTf g ' an m',v
" "
ah.-r motion *'.’ ! l.-n< )
TV tab ; t ^ t f rr F ‘, famotr-n k /,' •„ *i
i v , ’•
~ bear'^ff
friz«. 8 t Chritai-inia £ the^comnetiS gmierOlv ll the
U?1 V 11’ ti fa
om uowsnaocr'n to istmu-e , t
i fH . 8 | of
tQU! HERN NEWS.
Hinds is the m* s populous county in
Mississippi.
There «re nine cotton sited oil mills in
Mississippi.
The cattle drive of Texas this year will
reach 100,000.
The State Treasury of Texas coata'in
nearly fl,000,000.
Jasper county, Ala., voted to repeal
the prohibition law.
Western Texas is fast being turned
into pastures with barbed wire.
Beaufort county, 8. C., has 2,438 white
and 27,752 colored inhabitants.
The State offices at Little Rock are
still heated with blazing pine knots.
There are 2,170 members of the An¬
cient Order of United Workmen in Ten¬
nessee.
The new public school hnilcing at
Little Rock will be? heated with hot
water pipes.
A gentleman has recently settled at
New Sstyrua, Fla., with twenty-two
hives of bees, brought from Ohio.
Preparations are being made to light
the Engle and Pho nix Mills at Colum-
1ms, Cut., with the electric light.
Of 122 Greenback newspapers in the
United .States only sixteen are published
south of the Ohio river,
8. If, Cox, of Oglethorpe county, Ga„
presented, the Rev. Air. I rev with a
plantation worth $4,000.
There is but one member of the forty
of the last Georgia Senate returned to
the present Legislature.
There are fourteen thousand six hun¬
dred and fifty-two more females than
males in South Carolina.
The Pratt coal and coke company, five
Billets from Birmingham, Ala., are get¬
ting out 6CM) tons of coal per day.
The Commissioner of Immigration of
Florida thinks that 18,000 people have
immigrated te that (State within two
year*.
.-Vis elegant new steamer is being built
to run .-a the lire between New York.
Port Royal, Fernamiina and Jackson¬
ville, Fla.
In Nicholas county, W, Va., James
Austin, aged thirteen, and George Mas
tin, aged sixteen, killed during a week’s
hunt, four deer.
V tii e has been given that a bill will
•be introduced into the next. l*eginlature
to increase the liquor license of Telfair
county, <3a., to $5,000.
The shipments of cattle and sheep
from Southwestern Virginia are now **>
heavy that it is with difficulty that oar*
can lx: procured for their transportation.
The machinery for « Clement Attach¬
ment hi* been received and put in posi¬
tion at 'Mt. Pleasant, Gadsden wunty,
Fla. It took three cars to carry the ma¬
chinery to that place.
A sale of $20,000 in Tennessee bonds
was made ia Na-hviUe at forty-six cents
on the dollar, a heavy advance on the
rates which have ruled for some time
i!
One thousand feet of tubing for the
artesian well n ha* , arrived . . m - Little , Bock,
,
and work will be at once resumed in pre
paring the well for further boring. The
directors believe that a large volume of
will .... be. obtained, , , . t
water
A- man in Madison countv, : Tex., gath
©red on his . r farm 1, , m, H) * bushels ... of , pecans
and sold them in San Antonio for $3.40
per bushel Just $25 covered the ex
pense* of gathering and marketing, so he
,..a,,.,. or »a. cto P .
In Augusta, Ga., a velocipede tourna
ment tor the small boys ts held every
year, the merchants of the city eontnbu
ting the prizes, which consist of knives,
balls and other articles best suited to
, . f
’
-
There will be uve colored men in the
.h ? StipH.v,
one from Tipton and one from Davidson
county. T. A* Sykes, the colored mem
her from Bavirtson. was a memlter of the
Non,, C*ja. Ug,.U..r.,
The i’.tpitolfonimissioners appointed
i.o a®,
tlte validity of the title of the city of
Atlanta to the City Hall lot, which was
deeded some time ago to the State for
»»u«» ku* cpiioi. u.„ m* .
meeting and decided to accept the City
Hall lot.
A 'dirts, lex., Maj. • t> lend ,i baptized j
thirteen convicts, old men and women,
middle-aged and young people, in tiie
river. Long before the hour arrived tor
the immersion ... the town commenced . pour
mg forth it* citizens till the hanks of the
river on either side was a mass of
«■» "**'»** -«•»*•»'
tin season. ,
The h • «' »•.•• ;«•!•• of Sew Orleans,
who have decided to employ white girls
a* waiters, -av they have no trouble iu
**
j lovers mid their guests
NO. i:j.
Three crazy persons, two negro women :
and a white'man, all d Newnan, (in.
passed through Mae# Thursday, on their
way to the a*ylum at MilledgcvlUe.
Singiihtr to say, all three went crazy
through jctsloHsy The negro women cm
account of the infidelity of their hus¬
bands, aud the white man from the same
on the part of his w ife.
The Knoxville City Council now has
pending before it an ordinance providing
that manufactories hereafter wtablish•ed
. Knoxville with . , capital ..... of
in . a fvi.OtH) or
more shall be relieved of taxation for
fifteen years. A tlanta, Chntbmnogri and
other Sautbern cities long ago adopted
this policy, aud now hate their reward
in extensive and paying manufactories
of various kind*-.
Judge William Cothran w'«s on his
way to Lexington, Miss., to hold Circuit
Court, when he was* suddenly taken sick
at Winona and died in a few Lours, He
was seventy-fi ve years old, and had been
Circuit Judge six years before the war.
He was elected by the people since the
war and was removed by Governor
Ames. He was appointed in 187(5 by
Governor Stone for six year*.
The Now Orleans Picayune has some
statistic* altowing that before the civil
war the South had more taxable property
on her rolls than Now England and the
Middle States combined. After the con
test and five years of peace, she had sunk
$300,000,OOO b- low the Now England
State* alone. In 1 SCO forty percent, of
all the real and personal property as¬
sessed in the United States was in the
Southern -States, while now they have
only ourteen per cent.
Some English capitalists own 300,000
acres of land in Alabama, on the line of
the Alabama Great Southern railroad,
which are very rich in timber and min¬
erals and which they intend developing.
For the present chief attention will be
given to developing the mineral resource*
of those lands, which are almost bound¬
less, but the fanning interests will not
be neglected. Arrangements are now
making to induce immigration of En
lish farmer*, and at an early day a num¬
ber will probably settle on the lands.
Dellvillc (Tex.} Times : W. E. Crump,
near his plantation on the Brazos river,
last week discovered an alligator on the
bank, some distance from the water. On
riding up quite close it reared up to at¬
tack him, when he dextrously threw a
strong rope over its, head, and wheeling
his ho {-ho rod* quickly off. The alliga¬
tor followed so rapidly that it were fully
a hundred yards before he succeeded in
tightiling the rope around his neck. Af¬
ter a desperate struggle Mr. Crump suc¬
ceeded in dragging hi* prize home, where
he dispatched it at fab leisure. It
measured over ten feet.
A Water-Wheel Story.
Some one tells the following story,
which serves to point a moral: “There
"'era two men (in about ldff3), Stiek
penny mill and Whewcll, who owned a saw¬
near Old Town, Maine, in common.
The arrangement under which the mill
all was operated was that each had the mill
Lj himself during alternate weeks,
Sttekpeuny Wh !1 was a an an, rusty old chap.
‘ >w « waa » shrewd, investigating
young man. fhe mu! was run ova
cradts wugh kmd o[ au un a e rahot
wheel, that gave very little rx>w«r for the
amount of water used, so that the.
?ra* often short. Whewcll wanted to put.
tQ coming a new iron but vipind-vunt then just
^ V,i out. do KtickjK-nny would have
“8 *>. wah it. Ho wasn’t going
«»lay that.' out Finally, money SiVhewell fur any ‘such a job as
bills, said he would
pay all the to which Btickpouny at
‘ !Lst agreed, ‘lmt provided you put the
ln 1!> - v<jm ' f he new
Wlth “•'tod aooufound that by plugging
K’gT £ te ftSSTlhST JCi Zy
were all open. So he plugged them up
during ptogs his week, aud always pulled the
all out again fur Stiekpemiy to op
orate with. Suou it began to be noticed
that somehow or other Whewtdl always
ocma-ged to *aw a couple of thousand
the tS
pond was,
“ Whtft:well Finally HMekpestiny wont down to
se<: alaiut it. Say* he, ‘Who
St &?£ *1 ™
“Y turn comes round?’ Says
ain’t 5^’25'jrte’ar^ been
treatin’ of me fairly iu this
matter. It's ag’in nature. Y< on cant
?*!*** *° *** “f we zszfrs ^ I’ >r y° n ,w
lieve that, and went away. But still the
mill went cm turning rmt regularly more
lumt>er tor Whewcll than Stick penny
managed latter to get oat of it • »», final What’s I v, the
came round, and sa d. ‘
y°ttr bill? Fll pay my shara.’
d aud thereafter Htick
lively I’cniyy managed to saw lumber just as
fellow, as Whewdl did. •Well.' said the
old M always know that the folks
wound here were ail ug’iu me, but I
phmotion of it at all.”
Jones.
“ I don't like Jones,” said Hnotignow,
“ No,” he tWfeied, fdicr a pause, “ I don’t
like him. The fact is, Jones speaks so
mueh of himself, he tells leave so much, you
kttnw, that doesn't any room
fur the imagination.” Does anv reader
know Jones ?
PITH AND FOOT. /
A.sd notv Lady Godiva is sard to bo *
myth—© bare Waohood, aa it wore.
Actons should be watched olo*ely on
election day. They are profenaioanl ro
pesters.
Bean aft© inquires; “ Where bare all
the ladies* belts' gone ?” Gone to waist
long ago.
If ft m«le bad as many legs m a cock¬
roach thin country wouldn't be so thickly
populated.
The Iwbtsiiled horse spends liis whole
existence in lamenting ma hick of ter*
aiiaaat facilities.
A ooicfohtob who cannot ogre© with
i»L* wsfa says be must have taken bar
oat of the wrong f rut
: Wax is the discovery of the North pole
like «a illicit whisky manufactory? Be*
cause it’s a secret still.
It requires but a short time for a
young lady out shopping to leura all tbe
eoiuiu i-siges of the cfiy'-giaxls trade.
*- t «ot thtok;" say* Piek,
11 V, t.Kt ti»i op i.-v «^a.es srow <y> IMcJto’
w Yoa J» sal t *#! :«i,” mjm H*rrv,
“ Ho’* g«t a (•*!£ Uwy Siai« to wry,”
Tats Eye says it was a Bloomington
man he who hit the nnil on the head, but
montueil the los* of a tiuuub by tiro
transaction,
h>-OM Adam they took a ribbons to
P UlJlu w “‘- ***
been made m> with nblxin ever .since.—
JHofjttiinffiott _/-/ye
Piiysiotaks now say that the telephone
is injurious to the our. We presume
it’s the strain of listening and hearing
nothing that does the harm.
Os it of the first requisitions received
from n newly-appointed railway station
agent oil was : danger "Send lanterns.’*' mo a gallon of red
for the
Is Texas there is a township called
Gin, and in it a town called Brandy, and
the name of the poatofik* is Rummy.
No State could ask for anything better.
di‘-n. A very nephew, disagreeable charged old with gentleman the duty
A
<>f preparing his epitaph, suggest* :
“ Deeply regretted by all who never
laiew him.”
“Atv’r that a lovely critter, John ?” said
leopard’s Jerusha, m she stopped opposite the
cage. “Wa’aL yes,” said
John, “but then he’s dreffully freckled,
am’ t he ? *’
“I think, dear, the dew has com¬
menced falling,” lie said in his softest
accents been “Ye.*,” hear she- adieu yawned, "I’ve time.
didn’t hoping to for some
He call the next evening.
The Whitehall Timex says the fish in
.Lake Champlain have been so long with¬
out water that when it began to rain, for
the first time in six weeks, they warn
seen running about with umbrellas over
their heads.
A tors® woman in Denver flung her¬
self into a cistern, but she was fished
out. A local paragrapher advised Ivor
as follow-: ' ‘ Ois {turn from vour evil
ways,” But he won't joke that way
when it comes cistern,
A poet asks : “When I am dead and
lowly laid, .... who’ll And elude fall heavy
from the spade, think of me ? ”
Don’t worry. Tailors and shoemakers
have retentive memories, and yott’ll not
bo forgotten .—Norristown Herald.
Fate Be of trust a jilted in drill); butcher to drown . hi#
Aart found (sars*,
tbere no relief;
But Vou daily grew nier# Wne> srief. Iwgms*—
never
At set hi* weary soul found rwt,
H is wmiw now are o'or;
Ko ftoi « lua.d now trmshie* him—
TorW reacber, be'» no more.
in Qne the Sunday moonlight, night unusually we were sitting silent, out
al¬
most eti.?-l(K)lring sad. Suddenly with some gentle, one—a lovely p<>
la in man, a
m —said, a low tone, “ Did yon
ever think of the t>e«utifui lesson the
stars teach us ? We gave a vague, »p
prcciativo murmur, but some soulleaw
clod said, “No; what is it?" “How
to wink,” he answered, with s sad, sweet
voice.
Simple Language in Sermon*.
In addressing the multitude, rimplio
able, ity of there language being is the always duugi-r highly donir
of tho un¬
learned attaching very different (and
sometimes very awkward) meanings to
the grand aud uncommon words which
even careful clergymen may be 1« frayed
into using in the pulpit. One of those,
when in Lis study and in the net of eom
; a sermon, made use of the term
“ostentatious tiuui.” Throwing down
his pen, lie wished to satisfy himself,
©re he proceeded, of liis congregation a* to whether a great
portion prehond the meaning might said com
of the term,
and adopted the following method of
proof, lhuging the la’ll, his footman
appeared, aud was thus isddressed by his
master : “ What do you conceive to l*j
ostentatious implied by an ostentatious ?” said man Thomas. ?” “ An
man, sir
“ Why, sir, I should say ,r a perfect gen
tlernan." “Very [his good, said the Vioar,
“ Send Ellis eoachnuiu j here.’ “El¬
lis,” asked the "Vicar, “ what do ?’’ you im¬
agine iui ostentatious man to ts: “ An
ostentatious msut, sir?” replied Ellis,
“ Wli v, 1 should say an ostentatious man
meant cue©—a-jolly wlrnt we eaiia~-«aviug good fellow." your jmes- need
It
scarcely be told that the Vicar substi¬
tuted n less “ ostcutatium ’’ word. —
£Via mbc r s’ Jm tm a t.
Crashed*
A dashing young fellow was very at¬
tentive to n young lady who secretly cbd
not favor las attcnt.io.uM, -and who was
blessed with au olmerviag little brotlier
of only a few summer’s growth. Tho
holy’s admirer was visiting her when
the little chap broke into their presence,
and, mounting the dashing young man s
knee, said: “Haven't yon got a fine
room?” “Oh, yes,” proudly replied
the dashing evidently young fellow, whoso vanity
touched by tbe remark.
Seeing, m opjsirtunity he tlionght, iu make the eireum- favor¬
staners an to a
able impression on fhii sister, he gave
lus Biustedho an, extra twist, and reitwr
a ted h is re >ply room.” with omphasis thought : “ so," Oh
yes, a very fine “ 1
wud tin* young hojxful, so?" musingly, said
“But what made you think tit©
young lady's "fully admirer, his curiosity '‘Beoauso, by
this time crusliing aroused.
was the reply, “Sister M»g
said your room was better than your
ccmpaiiy.”
Learn to be Short.
i. ng visits, long stories, long exhnrta
nogs , long prayers, and long editorials,
soldi mi profit those who have to do with
them. Life is short. Time is short.
Momenta are precious. Livirn to eon
dense, abridge, and intensify. We can
endure many an ache and ill if it is soon
over, while even ptoasuros grow insipid
and pain intolerable, if they are pro¬
tracted beyond the limits of reason and
convenience, hetttt to b© short. Lop
off branches: stick to th© main fact in
your case. If you speak, tell your mre
sitge, xml hold your f>©aoe; boil down
two words into one, and three into two.
Always learn to bo short.
T:a* amount of butter now made in
lows , estimated at 00,000/
creameries is
000 pounds per annum.