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TheWandering Jewess
Etta Libschitz’s Search for Her
Faithless Husband.
SIXTEEN YEARS OF MISERY.
The Strange Romance Narrated in
Essex Market Court.
To those who heard the affidavit of Etta Libschiti
road in the Eesex Market Police Court last week,
in which she charged William Eachs with aban
donment, .there was nothing to indicate that un
der the bald formulas of the complaint lay the
material of a romance as strange as any that graces
the pages of fiction. The intense earnestness of
the eomplainant’s appeal to the Court and her
display of mental excitement, which at length
found rent in hysteria, may hare .excited a tem-
porary interest; but only when the case was sifted
it was learned from the complainant that this for
eign, haggard looking woman’s appearance before
a New York magistrate was a chapter of an event
ful history that began sixteen years ago in aPrus-
so-Polish village. As she narrates it, there is a
tele of love, blighted in it* beginning, and suc
ceeded by a religious dread of evil she had not
herself invoked, but which constantly oppressed
her and made her endure toils such as lew wo
men coaid essay.
Hidden away in an obscure province of Prus
sian Poland, known as Kamnitz-Podolsk, is the
Tillage of Heisen, where her parents resided.
Their name was Blettermann, and they were hon
est,thrifty people, noted perhaps for little but their
profound attachment to the Jewish faith and its
traditions. Heisen is a quiet, primitive place,from
which old time beliefs and usages have not been
crowded by modern thought, and in which inno
vation is deemed little less than sacrilege. J ne
customs of centuries ago accordingly prevail, and
it was judged only their duty by the liletterman s
to admit to their home one day a poor student
who came there seeking his fortune, so to speak.
He had been an orphan from infancy, bad been
jostled about by the world all his lite, but being
possessed of considerable tact and good native
talents had managed to pick up a fair smattering
information, and in Hebrew learning was a mar
vel for his years. The simple Blettermans were
delighted above all things tc find a boy of a dozen
summers able to read the Mosaic law and discourse
profoundly about it, so they made him a member
of their household forthwith, and were every soul
of them convinced that there were the makings of
a great man in their protege. Aaron Libschnz
that was his name—did nothing to lose their good
opinion, and it waB not long belore they offered
him their daughter Etta in marriage.
JOINED IN WEDLOCK.
She, for her part, was quite infatuated with
the young man, so their nuptials were satisfac
torily arranged and were celebrated, she says,
on the 18th of July, 1801, in the village of Hei
sen. There they resided together for about six
weeks, when one day Aaron in speaking of their
future prospects proposed that they should go
together to the abode of some relatives of his
wife who were possessed of ample means and
would not scruple-giving him assistance. She
agreed. Then he gathered up whatever valua
bles they had, secured them and the family pa
pers—among them the matrimonial certificate—-
upon his person, and they set out together. At
evening the drosky they were travelling in, drew
up at a station on the road and Aaron helped
Etta out, attended to her bodily comforts, told
her he wa6 going to look after some business
but would be back presently, and hurried away.
Evening deepened into night but Libschitz did
not appear, and when another day passed his
waiting wife awakened to the realization of the
truth and dragged herself to her parent’s home,
a broken hearted and deserted woman. A while
she lived there, nursing her grief and vainly
looking for news from him, and then a sudden
resolution seized her and she left her native
village to seek for her absent husband over the
world.
THE JEW OF IVANOFKA.
About this time there resided in the district
of Ivanofka, in Russia, a landed gentleman
named Wassail Nicholovitz Balazel, who lorded
it over a large domain and a numerous serf ten
antry. Wassail was not very paternal in his
government, but he was strong in his personal
likings and it was his pleasure at times to ele
vate some of his dependents to positions of trust
in the province. Above all things he detested
the Jewish abiders in the neighborhood and he
was very much gratified to come upon a very
gifted youth among them, a stranger in the
place, who was willing to accept his favors and
obey his behests, even to the renunciation of
his faith. The Russian proselytizer was in rap
tures when his clever protege publicly gave ov
er Judaism, entered the Greek Church and
adopted the name of Alexander Wassail, in hon
or of his patron and godfather, Positions of
advantage were given him, and he made good
use of them. So it came about that in the year
1868 the young apostate was postmaster of all
the districts of Ivanofka. It was one Sabbath
evening in the autumn of that year that the
keeper of a subordinate station, saw upon the
road without a young woman, haggard and worn
and soil with toil and travel. He invited her
inside, and while preparing to despatch his
postboys to the chief village of Ivanofka he in
quired what motive one so delicate had to jour
ney about as she did, and what trouble was it
that seemed to oppress her. The woman un
bosomed herself to the kindly station keeper
and a couple of his assistants, and when she had
told them how years before she was abandoned
by her husband and had since travelled alone
over all Poland and a part of Russia in quest of
him, they pursued their inquiries and asked
her more about the man. She described him
minutely, and the keeper suddenly awoke to
the conviction that Aaron* Libschitz, the poor
wayfarer’s runaway husband, was no other than
his own superior, Alexander Wassail, the apos
tate Jew of Ivanofka.
THE POSTMASTEE’S WIFE.
The postboys »nd underliDgs at the station
had heard the woman’s story and the deduc
tions drawn from it, and, as persons of their
station are apt to do, bore the news to the chief
postmaster’s ears that very night. If he was
taken aback at the information he did not show
it, but sent to the station keeper a letter which
is still preserved and of which this is the trans
lation:—
To My Highly Esteemed Abram Alexandrovitch:—
Be you so good as to speedily send me my
wile who stays with you. 1 have been waiting
for her with impatience.
The postmaster’s name was appended to this,
and the station-keeper honored it by at once send
ing the desolate Etta to him. There are those
living in the place who saw the meeting between
them—the woman happy, tender und hopeful ;
the man calm, cold anil saturnine. He admitted
his relationship ; but as he had ceased to profess
Judaism he knew there was a barrier between
them which would force the daughter of the pious
Blettermanns to seek a divorce according to their
law. t he did so when she saw herself slighted
and turned away by the man she had come so far
to see, and the Hebiew residents added their soli
citations to the request of the broken and dis
heartened woman. Aaron, or Alexander, as he
waa now called, asked for time to consult his pat-
During their discussions the Doctors differed
frequently; there was much non-concurrence,
but all finally resolved into harmonious measures,
that moved without friction.
Doctor Sargent, of Baltimore, impressed us
much with his appearance, being nearly four score
years. His closing life reminds us of a gentle
sunset in a summer sky, after the heat and dust of
the day has subsided. The cares, joys and sorrows
of life are nearly over with him. How the vir
tues of a pare life are reflected in his peaceful
face.
The sparkling wit of brother Winfield, from Hot
Springs, Arkansas, has left a pleasant echo with
us. His constant effervescing spirits have added
much to the harmony of many important move
ments.
The lay delegation was well represented. Some
of them talked a great deal; their powers of lo
quacity were fully exercised, while others had
nothing to say, but always voted right.
The Lone Star State was equal to any emergen
cy. She is proud of her prosperity, and also of
her strength in the Methodist Churoh.
Where is to be found another brother Winoh ?
He is a lion in size and strength, and what a
voice! None could say, Mr. President! with
the same startling effect.
Farewell dear brothers t May the great Bishop
of souls keep your hearts and minds pure daring
your stay here below, and finally give yon a bless
ed and peaceful rest beyond the swellings of the
Jordan.
A Visitob.
A Few Words about Giants.
BT SAMCBL LEW.
First Methodist Church of Atlanta, Ga., where the General Conference was held.
ron, and meanwhile promised that he would go to
the city of Bachmoot, in the province of Katrin-
aschlava, in the latter part of October, for the
purpose of according the woman a divorce accord
ing to the Hebrew custom. Thither his deserted
wifi wended her way and there sought the hospi
tality of people of her faith till Alexander’s com
ing. The provincial nobleman, in whose service
the postmaster was, had too deep an aversion to
the Jews, however, to allow his favorite to have
anything to do with them. So he forbade his tak
ing part in any ceremony with his Hebrew wife,
and advised him to let her go her way unnoticed.
“ nE COMETH NOT.
This explains why Etta was furnished with the
following certificate, which the Russian Consul
pronounces authentic:—
I, the undersigned, testify that the bearer Etta i “““ L !'' u ! ,u
. ’ j . tv. J ,, caught steH oi him, however, and with a cry hur-
m my presence and together with me in the month - ® ’ • - - - s
of October, 1868, have searched in Lower Iva-
notka, where dwells a converted Jew, Alexander
Wassan Libschitz, who, after many denials, con
fesses Etta to be his lawful wife, and that he is
England and took ship for this city. She began
inquiries here at once but failed for a time to get
any clew to Aaron’s whereabouts, till an old man
attached to a synagogue in East Broadway and
well versed in Hebrew lore, remembered that a
man who once applied to him for instructions and
made most miraculous progress, had confided to
him that his real name was Libschitz. Through
this Etta was enabled to learn that her husband
was living on Third street under the name of
Sachs and that he had married a German Jewess
and was the father of two children. To his home
the woman went, determined to meet him face to
face. There she met his last wife and of her in
quired for hirn. Sachs was at home, but the
news that ^jaggard, wornout Hebrew woman
was waiting* .0 see him awakened his suspicion
and he triei’lto slip down stairs unperccived. She
ready, according to the custom of the Hebrew
dogma, to give her an absolute divorce. But his
godfather, a provincial nobleman, Wassail Nich-
lovitch Balazel, on whom he depends, prevented
his fulfilling this ceremy; so he, in pity, neverthe
less, made this engagement that he would meet
her in the city of Bachmoot, and give her the
divorce. But, although he sent dispatches that
he was coming, he has not appeared to fulfil his
promise, on account of which Etta leaves Bach
moot in sore disappointment. To all this, she re
ceives this certificate from me.
Judah Isbaelovitch Danidovitch,
Citizen of Bachmoot.
So the forlorn woman was forced to journey to
her native village, dispirited and with the bond
which united her to the renegade still unbroken.
For his part, he continued to prosper under the
protection of his patron, and before long he mar
ried a Christian woman, a servant in the latter’s
household, which still further gained him the
confidence of the wealthy Balazel. But in spite
of all this the postmaster was not contented. His
apostacy was known all through the province, and
while his Russian associates slighted him on ac
count of hio extraction, his own people despised
him for his renunciation of their faith. His ear
ly teachings, too, began to recur to him, and the
reproaches he received from such as dare utter
them stung him sorely. One day he gathered up
his wife’s effects and his own, collected what
money he could and fled secretly from the pro
vince. The Christian woman he had abandoned
complained, Wassail Nichlovitch Balazel stormed,
and there was a great hue and cry for the fugitive,
but Alexander Wassail appeared no more in Ivan
ofka.
searching a continent.
Meantime Etta Libschitz lived with her parents,
but consciousness of her still being the wife of
the apostate tormented her. The Jewish ceremo
ny of divorce had not been performed and a reli
gious fear of the consequences of her union op
pressed her and led her from her home again, re
solved to seek out Aaron and insist on the obser
vance of the rite. At Ivanotka she heard of his
disappearance, and, disheartened, but not defeat
ed in her purpose, she began her wanderings in
quest of him anew. All over Poland and a great
part of Piussia did the woman travel, at times
without means, and with nothing but the charity
of her people to depend on. Then further
south she went until her quest was carried into
the very streets of the fallen capital of her race—
Jerusalem, But all was of no avail, and, after
many years of fruitless wandering, Etta found
herself again at the village in Ivanofka, where
her husband had once been. They had news for
her there. A letter had come to them from New
York—from Alexander Wassail himself, now
Aaron Libschitz once again. He had begged
them all to forgive the scandal of apostacy, stated
that hejhad returned to Judaism and had read the
law in the synagogue. At once the injured wife
determined to cross the sea after him and in the
far away land demand a fulfillment of his duties
toward her. From the resident Jews of Ivanofka,
who knew the circumstances of her marriage, de
sertion and meeting with the postmaster, she se
cured letters vouching for the authenticity of her
story, and she had other credentials from the rab
binical heads of the province, recommending her
to the good offices of people of their faith all over
the world and especially in New York.
THE QUEST IN NEW YORK.
Armed with these, she left Russia, traveled to
ried after him. But the recognition lent wings to
Sachs’ feet; he jumped into a car, hurried away
and packed off that night to Cincinnati, where he
stayed three months.
On his return Counsellor Isaac L. Sink, who
had been apprised of the woman’s trials, had
him arrested on a charge of abandonment, and in
that way the case came before the public. At the
court a very painful scene occurred when prison
er and complainant were brought face to face be
fore Judge Otterbourg. On being asked if that
was her husband she became quite excited, beat
her temples and breast as though invoking God to
witness to the truth, and at length was carried off
in a swoon.
The defense's story will appear at the examina
tion, when the papers certifying the truth of the
complainant’s narrative will be produced. Sachs,
it is said, admits that he knew the woman in Po
land, but holds that their marriage was not a legal
one, and was celebrated only in accordance with a
sportive custom common to the peasantry of the
country.
CONFERENCE NOTES CON
TINUED.
What has been Accomplished—
Concluding Services—Fare
wells, Etc.
The General Conference has closed, and the
brethren left us with their benediction.
During their stay all the citizens appeared to
vie with each other in trying to make them hap
py, aud last of all Mrs. Colquitt gave them a re
ception at the gubernatorial mansion. It has never
been our privilege to see so large a body of dis
tinguished Christian ministers collected together
enjoying the recreation of social intercourse.
They were all unanimous in the conclusion that
they had been entertained during their stay in
Atlanta in a most hospitable and courteous man
ner, in lov*ily homes among warm-hearted, loving
people. _
In their deliberations ecclesiastical law has un
dergone no radical change, but church trials have
been greatly simplified and improved. Many
valuable changes have been made in various por
tions of the Discipline. Ratio of representation
has been reduced about one-third. A constitu
tional law was adopted for a woman’s missionary
society, which suggests raising means for the pur
pose of sending women to teach their own sex in
China and other heathen countries, this field of
labor being inaccessible to male missionaries.
The great absorbing question of all has been the
Publishing House at Nashville, Tennessee. This
was referred to a committee with full powers to
sell, or take such other steps as they see proper to
relieve the house of its present unfortunate em
barrassment.
What a noble band of Bishops, which time fails
us to mention in detail. Where is the superior of
Bishop Wightman? His winning ways endear
him to all: while he observes the parliamentary
rules of propriety with such rigidity as to have
become a synonym of precision. When he speaks
it is like breaking the box of alabaster, so gentle
an influence is felt pervading his presence and all
those ground him. His dignified and diversified
talent renders him almost a necessity in the Con
ference.
The name of Bishop McTyere, from South
Carolina, comes to us with pleasant memories. It
is attributable, in a great measure, to his influ
ence that Vanderbilt University now has an exis
tence. His clear, cool deliberation in all matters
of importance, make his decisions invaluable to
the Conference.
"Writers invariably, before they are pleased to
favor their readers with some important fact,
which is to give weight and value to their sub
ject, commonly indulge themselves in profound
remarks, and a postponement of the important
truth which we want to get at—two bad habits,
which we dislike, and after the manner of the
old Roman writers, prefer rather to dash abruptly
into our subject: Giants their history, etc. Ac
cording to Talmudical tradition, Adam’s height
before his fall reached to the firmament; but after
his fall, God put his hand upon him, and com
pressed him. ihe Holy Bible establishes to us
distinctly several races of giants, as the Rephaims
the Anakins, the Enims, the Zonzonims, etc. The
Anakims are descendants of Anak, now the in
habitants of the land which God promised Abra
ham to give to his seed. They were the giants
who were seen by the spies, sent by Joshua, to
whom the children of Israel were but as grass
hoppers. The Talmud informs us that Og, king
of Bashan, was one of the giants who came from
the intermarriage of Angels with the daughters of
men. His footsteps were forty miles long, and
one of his teeth served to make a couch for
Abraham. When the children of Israel came
against him under the command of Moses, he in
quired the size of this camp, and hearing that
it was three miles in extent, he tore np a moun
tain of that size, to build upon them. Grasshop
pers were, however, sent to bore holes in it, so
that it fell over his head on to his neck. His
teeth also grew, and were entangled in the rocks,
as the Psalmist says, ‘Thou hast broken the teeth
of the ungodly.’ Moses, however, overcame
him. When Joshua entered the land of Canaan,
he slew the descendants of Anak, who inhabited
the cities of Hebron, Dabir and Anab, and only
spared those of Gaza, Gath and Azoth, where, for
many ages, the tombs of these giants were seen;
and where, we are informed by Josephus, that in
his time, bones of monstrous and incredible size
were yet seen.
The Rephaims descended from Repha, and con
tinued to exist up to King David’s time. Goliah,
who was slain by King David, was ten feet, seven
inches high, and was one of the last branches of
that family ; there are four others
brought from Arabia to Rome, was ten feet high.
Orlando, nephew’ to Charlemagne, slew the great
Ferragus 18 feet high.
In 1691, there was found in Macedonia a skul
which held 210 pounds of corn.
In 1516, there was found near Mazarine, Sicily,
a giant 30 feet high, with a head as large as a
hogshead, and teeth weighing five pounds.
In 1548, there was one found near Palermo,
30 feet long, and in 1550, one 33 feet long.
The Athenians found near their city a skeleton
150 feet long.
The giant Israel, whose tomb was seen in the
suburbs of St. Germaine, was twenty feet high.
In 1G13. in Dauphine, France, a human skele
ton was discovered entire, measuring 251 feet long.
His head measured five feet in length, and ten feet
round; the lower jaw was six feet round the chin
from joint to joint. The eyes were about the size
of a desert plate, and his teeth the size of an ox’s
foot. Each of the collar bones were four feet
long, snd his shin bones the same.
At Totu, in Bohemia, in 785, a giant’s bones
were found measuring 110 feet.
Maximinus, Emperor of Rome, was eight feet
and a half in height. He was very cruel, and
despised of all men; and verified that old adage,
‘That high rooms are always ill-furnished.’
Boccace tells of a giant found in Sicily 300 feet
high. This is supposed to be the skeleton of
Polypheme.
Funnam, a Scotsman, who lived in King Eugen
the Second’s time, measured eleven feet and a half.
A great many writers are of the opinion that
those bones were those of elephants, whales and
other enormous animals, while others, who have
seen and examined them, have pronounced them
to be real human bones, which proves beyond a
doubt that giants have existed.
CHARLESTON AT SUNSET.
From the Note Book of an Atlanta Ex
cursionist.
We were steaming np the harbor. A deep
qniet fell upon the noisy highlanders, who erow-
ded the deck of the Sappho. A sense of beauty,
of sublimity and awe filled every soul. Afar
behind ns tho Atlantic stretched its bread ex
panse and peeping above the water line that
marked the horizon, the white canvas of some
ocean ship oonld be seen rising above the danc
ing waves, and projecting itself proudly against
the southern sky. A little to the left the Light
house in the distance, rose over Cummings
Point. On onr larboard side Sumpter, like some
great sea-turtle, lay flat upon the bosom of the
water. And this was historic Sampler X it was
not the Sumpter of onr pictorial histories, for
shot and shell had left their imprints on the
walls of stone, and had taken one story from
its height; it was not the Sumpter my boyish
fancy had pictured when I sat npon my soldier
brother’s knee, and heard of the bristling guns
in doable tiers frowning from their ports. I re
member how my yoang blood tingled, and the
longing that came over me to be a man, and a
soldier, as he described the bombartment of
the fort by the fleet of Admiral Dahlgreen, the
sinking of the Keoknk, and the noble work old
Snmpter did.
But now only three or four large cannons
oonld be seen lying lazily npon the ‘parapet
like bnll-dogs on the watch.
We passed between Snmpter and Moultrie,
the latter on Sullivan Island. Monltrie, from
the water, presents the appearance of a long
breastwork of sand. I looked for the Palmetto
logs of revolutionary fame, bnt they were gone,
or covered over with sand and sod.
But we were hurrying on. In our front appa
rently resting on the water, Charleston present
ed itself to onr admiring gaze. The tumbling
waters; the graceful little yachts skimming over
a sea of diamonds; on our left a large British
merchantman riding at anchor; the shipping
fringing the wharves on the Cooper river, boats
loading and unloading, sailors climbing upon
the masts. Then the Battery with its drive
and promenade, the park, and peeping above
the green trees, the great square white houses
with double piazzas fronting on the sea; while
above them all, and against a background of
bine sky and white cumuli that piled them
selves on the western horizon. St. Michael lifts
its spire. As we were returning down the Ash
ley river, we passed half dozen negroes in a
fishing boat, returning home doubtless after a
day of toil on the river. They are bending to
the oars, and keeping time to the steady stroke,
givirg back to the witters a song such as only
the African can sing,
“A song that mingled joy and pain,
And memories old and sadly sweet
While timing to its minor strain.
The waves in lapsing cadence beat.”
It carried me back to the log-rolling songs of
the old plantation life.
How different this peaceful scene from the
stormy days of sixty-one and three, with the
continuous roar of artillery from Moultrie and
Sumpter’s walls, while from the enemy’s fleet,
the big cannon return the fire and belch de
struction on our ranks, and from the sides,
batteries Beauregard and Wagner m return
rains Bhot and shell upon these iron monsiere-
of the deep. While from the marshes of J&me&
Island the “Swamp Angel” or more properly
the “Demon of the Swamp” with infernal roar
hurls its missils of death, among the sleeping
women and children of the defenceless city of
Charleston in the agony of Laocoon writhing
as the toils of the enemy are slowly wound
about her.
But now the scene had changed,peace reigned,
and the stars and stripes’ floated above the
Custom House, and flapped lazily in the breeze.
And the last rays of the setting snn, reflected
from St. Michael’s spire, fell in a golden sheen
over the white houses and died away on the
tremblmg waters, and all was quiet save the
murmuring waves kissing the peebles on the
beach. £,
A Marriage Game.
AN UNNATURAL FATHER.
He Destroys an Fntire Family of Helpless
Children.
Augusta, May 12.—Jason Soribner made a fa
tal assault with a spade upon his family yester
day. He assaulted his son, aged five, a little
girl aged three, another son aged aleven, and a
year old baby. He afterwards attempted suicide
by cutting his own throat, bui was arrested be
fore suiciding.
The deed has been a theme for conversation
to-day. Hundreds visited the scene of the tra
gedy. The little babe one year old died at mid
night, making two victims, while the oldest,
aged five, lingers in spasms, but will probably
die before morning. Scribner’s embarrassed
condition, and the effort made to take care of
him by legal process, weighed npon his mind
and had much to do toward hastening this fear
ful result.
He was a terror to the neighborhood at times,
and threatened to burn the buildings of his
neighbors, who through fear did not complain
of him and have him arrested. Opinion is gen
erally entertained that he must have been par
tially insane when he committed the awful deed.
His mind was evidently considerably shattered
by leading an intemperate life from youth,
thongh he quit drinking some two years since.
Johnson.—“Get money ;‘stiil get money, boyt
no matter by what means.”
Sidney.—‘‘Many-headed multitudes.”
R. B. Hayes.—“He serves his party best who
serves his country best.”
A Young Widow the Stake*
A bassino marriage game was recently played
in the staid old town of Franklin, Mass. One
of the guests at an evening reception was a
charming young widow, and another was an
available gentleman of means. Several couples
had tested their skill at a bassino board, and the
gentleman suggested to his partner that they
should try their skill at the pins. The chal
lenge was accepted, and the lady playfully pro
posed that they should play for a wager. The
gentleman gallantly assented, and asked her to
name the stake. Seeing her confusion the host
jokingly said:
“His hand against yours !”
The lady demurred, and was turning to leave
the table, when the gentleman, after a moment’s
thought, said:
“My hand for yours if I win, or at your dis
posal for any young lady of respectability (her
consent being first obtained,) if I lose.”
The wager was accepted, and the company
gathered around the board. The lady led off
with a king strike worth 45, while her partner
missed “little bassino” and made a muff with,
the third ball. Undaunted he continued play
ing, and his fair antagonist followed with equal
spirit until the seventh inning, when the score
stood: He 215; she 164. The excitement was
now intense, and the widow flushed, and tremb
ling, played very nervously. At the close of
the run she had lost instead of gaining ground,
the score being. He, 385; She, 138.” The hostess
advanced, took the feebly resisting hand of the
fair widow and placed it in that of the winner,
who said something very sweet to her, and then
turned to the host and begged permission tc
keep the mace as a memento of the blessed eve
ning.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
PRESERVING CORPSES!
To the Citizens of Atlanta, and Surrounding Cities and
Villages, and to Undertakers in Particular :
Now that warm weather has commenced, and all of us
are continually exposed to sickness aud death, 1 would
say to yon, gentlemen, that I have in store a full supply
of Egyptian Balm, which is a sure and effective corpse
preserver. Anybody can administer it. aud it makes the
nse of Ice useless. One bottle of Egyptian Balm does
more towards preserving a corpse than any amount of
Ice you may he able to procure; keeps it life-like and
natural, to which hundreds of onr own citizens can tes
tify. Call on me before the corpse becomes rigid, or as
soon as death has taken place, and I will guarantee to
keep the corpse for any length of time you wish. Refer
ences given from first families in the city. Office and
ware-rooms, No. 26 West Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
METALLIC AND WOODEN BURIAL CASES,
of any style and size constantly on hand.
FRANK X. BLIhEY, Undertaker.
124-ly
Attention Ladies!
Enclose twenty-five cents to H. 8. Mozart, Eastman,
Ga.,andgeta recipe that will, in a few minutes, drive
every fly from your room. No poison ; ro humbug. In-
greuieuts in every day use in every family. The use of
traps, poisons, etc.; have conclusively proven that it is
impossible to destroy flies as fast as they multiply. The
more that are killed the greater the increase, hence the (
necessity for something to drive them out, 124-2t