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HOW I GOT PROMOTED.
‘Tom,’ said the chief, ‘there has been
a rather mysterious robbery at Bar-«
rowtown. and it's likely to give ‘locals'
some trouble. So J wish you to go
down as soon as passible.’
This order I received one hot day
in August, on the day after the rob¬
bery bad taken place. Of course I did
not let much times pass befoie I waa
at the station and fairly started.
Once there, Barrowtown is a quaint,
picturesque little town like many
another in goodly England, It seems.
almost too dull to be able to boot the
doubtful lionor ol having had a lull
bull like the quiet little town, , for
It was there that I gamed my first
promotion. 1 was met at the station
by the local inspector, a stout,
pompous, excitable little man, who
looted doubtful as to the prudence of
the Scotland lard authorities in
sending down such an ordinary look-
ing mortal as myself.
•Oh,' he remarked at last! ‘so it s
you, young man, is it? I don’t thins
we are litely to troul.le you much
this time. The fact is, ahem! we have
caught the culprit ourselves.’
1 merely bowed and expressed a
w.sh to sec the prisoner, and we both
set otf for the county jail, perhaps a
jni .e <>i so aw.i},
H ell, it certainly seemed as plain
as day to me that the unhappy wretch
on Whom Inspector Muggridge had
laid bis fell grasp could easily have
proved an alibi, had not that worthy
officer continually interrupted him
with, •Hotter keep all that for your
exam,nat.on, my good fellow, or it IJ
all be brought up against you, my
man, 3 ou know.
I told him seriously, as sxm as 1
could, in private, that the man he had
arrested was no more guilty than 1
was; but he smiled incredulously,
and asked who else could be the'
culprit, as tins was the only really
abandoned oharsoter of the town, and
it was plainly , . , thc work , of
1 J some one
who , knew the place. Beside, , he
1
added, ’ *it isn't very likelv that one
could , beat me on my own ground
which really unanswerable argument
he accompanied me to the scene of
the robbery, where we were shown
over the premises 6 y the mistress ol
lln' iiouse.
ffuenl saw the ground floor
window by which access had been
gained to the house, J quite agreed
with the worthy ‘local that it was the
work of a new hand, and that his
footprints, wheietet wo could tiace
tliera, showed no hesitation, hut
ratlier a tliorough acquaintance with
the grounds, the culprit, whoever he j
was, must have had some ppportuni
ty of visiting the scene of operations,
and probably lived somewhere in the
neighborhood.
Jt seemod that thc thief had em
tered the Iiouse by a window in thc
year, and carried otf a spiall box of
valuables from the room of the master
of t he house, who had been staying
at the residence of a friend on that
pight, Both these facts showed an
intimate knowledge of the premises
on the part of the culprit, and
strengthened our former belief. We
were informed that the lost casket—
an ordinary tin cash box—had been
almost filled with various articles of
jewelry, and therefore the loss was
rather heavy. Of course the knowl¬
edge that there would be a good
reward for the recovery of the missing
property did not abate my zeal-
gtill. in spite of my eagerness to
discover the culprit, I could make but
little of the case, and might even have
come over to the opinion of the
‘local,’ but for one very important
fact, namely, the footprints in the
garden bed were all smaller thap
those of the prisoner. Now, although
a man may wear boots too large for
him on occasions, yet he can hardly
walk with comfort in shoeg an inch or
so too short.
Very much anno} r ed at my want of
success, aud dreading the chaff I
would be sure to get when, compelled
to give it UP, i should return to
ei next morning to see Mr. J/uggridgq
come up the road to thc house ac-
companied bj r the editor of the Bar-
rowtown Weekly Banner, who had
determin , . . , . ., .. .,
to . write t
, 1 sai , up ie
account of the robbery himself. But
there was noescape ; and so, prepared
TOCCOA NEWS
By Edw SCHEAFER- 1
VOL. IX.
for a host of questions, I was
s1owly to mect them> when
wa£ caught by sometbi bright
among tbe bushes bv the roadside
yes , here couM beno doubt of it :
therc , the , ost box> em t of
'
00urse , witho „ t stoppingi howcver>
j wa)kcd as caImly a3 poS8iblc on to
the inspcctor . and wa3 intro duced to
M{ shMWi the editor h was 3iraply
won derful how obliging I had become,
, even whcn Mr . Muggridge hinted
tbat he wa3 pres3ed for time, volon-
tccred b) • e Mr sbcara tbe informa .
tion hc wished> and go ovcr the
ise3 Wlth him . 0dc(! Ieft alone
with the zealous representative of the
pre33i j gava that gcnUeB)an all the
point3of;tbeca8ei and a lew more,
„ yQa shaU 3ce .
Tbe next forenoon, as soon as a
copy of the Banner came to the house
w , )ere , be robbery had occurred _l
|m( , for thc , a9t tw0 day3 3p(!nt from
thc forenoQn until dusk there -I
turne( , to the end of the colbmn
deyotcd t0 ^ , GrCftt Robbery> . and
readwitbacb „ ekle tbc announcement
that . the lo33 of tb e jewels would be
lcs3 felt bad tberc not been between
tbe bottom5 of tho l)ox almost lwo
hundred pounds in bank-notes, of
v unfortunately, J the numbers
^ not bcen ak<!n ..
t| , e i nteniger .t reader sees
, , platl , hut cer . ain ly / did not
ohose to explain it to SI r , Mwggrlclge.
w , aH hour )at9 tbat wortby but
excitable .. . , gentleman rode , hot , ,
‘ very
and , very red, , up „ thc shadeless .11 road, ,
to ^ complain . . ot .. having . made ,
my a
conlounded mess of the account. 1
sim pl v advised him to wait for a few
1 — - n, -
Tbatevcning , as j, eft the
dsatdnsk aftcr spending thc
raost of tho day in watching-though
„ pparontIy cngaged in something
e| 3 ,,—wt,ether anyone near the spot,
afcw hundred yards from the grounds,
wbcrc ], lv the box on which I espec-
}a „ de pcndcd as a bait to hook thc
thu ; f % wa i king slowly> [ man aged
to , ct tbe sbadcs gf ev e„ing close
around me before I was fav beyond
Gle gpo ^ wbere j bad made up mv
mind to watcb and wait .
Eight! Nine! R'ere they never
coming? and was my trap laid and
baited in vain? Ten ! Surely the 3 '
should have come by this time. Still
—- Was that a pound on the
road? Yes, and coming from the
village. There were evidently sever¬
al of them, and I began to regret not
having brought some help. Nearer
they came, laughing and talking, as I
cautiously drew farther back from the
road. And now they were opposite
the spot where the box lay hid. But
—what! The 3 ' have gone by, and in
the hearty guffaw of the man farthest
away of the three, I recognized far¬
mer Lobbins, an honest fellow, whose
acquaintance I had made during m 3 ’
short stay, -dfter this sell, I had
almost given up, and was actually
making up my mind to abandon the
affair, when a faint sound from down
the road made me crouch as low as
possible once more. It was no hoax
this time. A short, thin mail, whom
I easil 3 ' recognized as a man of all
work who had been helping the gar¬
dener that day, was creeping stealth¬
ily down the road, close to the bushes.
As soon as he reached.the spot where
the box had been thrown he lit a
small lantern to aid him in his search.
This time 1 felt sure ; and so, when
the man blew out the light, after
securing the supposed treasure, the
capture was made.
Ohl wb} T , } T es, observed the
worth}' Mr. Muggridge, who w*ag in
^ le °ffi ce trhen I brought in the
•sratsitisasc aloug.’
The man made confession; indeed,
he was caught in the act, and could
not deny it. The jewels were all
recovered, and thc reward proved
ver y use f u i j u helping me to marry
a nd settle down quietly, when one
mouth later. I received my promotion,
Devoted to News, Politics. Agriculture aud General progress!
TOCCOA, GA., APRIL 8. 1882.
THE LATE COLONEL
SON,
Atlanta Cor. of Savannah News.
I have looked in vain for a single
feature in the life, labors and death of
the late Colonel William Tappan
Thompson to call for regret or
row. Tme, it is, that we shall all
miss him, but we can hardly mourn
his departure at this time,
Ripe in years, full of the honors
that pertain to his profession, es¬
teemed and beloved by his associates,
surrounded by a family circle to which
he was most tenderly endeared, and
comforted and sustained by an un¬
shaken faith in God, he passed from
earthly scenes and labors and associ¬
ations to a world of novor ending
^
bliss.
He might have lived a few } T ears
longer, but at the peril of infirmity
and pain as his constant companions.
There were no higher honors to be
attained, no greater worldly wealth to
be accumulated, no errors of the past
to be outlived, no enemies to bo oblit-
erated, no broken ties to be reunited.
Death came to him peacefully and
kindl 3 T and in good time.
With his mind clear and bright, his
heart warm and full of Christian love,
his tfevoted wife to comfort him in
his last hours, and his loving children
to stand about his bedside—all these
were granted him in the home where
Sic had lived so long as a fond hus¬
band, a tender father and a beloved
neighbor, llow few have all these
blessings and privileges to make
smooth the pillow of their dying rest
and shed a halo of peace aud J 03 '
around their death bed.
His was a gentle, loying life, and
its close was in keeping therewith.
Socially, editorially and politically,
knew him Well, We were members
of the National Democratic Conven-
tion that nominated Seymour for
President, find were together in the
Georgia Constitutional Convention
of 1877, and the last Democratic
State Convention—he as a member
and 1 as a correspondent, In all these
conventions he was a quiet, modest
participant, making no speeches, but
faithful in voting and in committee
wor/t.
I frequent^' differed with him as to
certain men and measures, yet I can
reeall no instance in which he ever
treated me as other than an equal and
with the utmost courtesy. Beneath
his mild and gentle demeanor there
was a strong undercurrent of firmness,
and he was uP 3 'ielding when lie
believed himself to be in the right.
His long and successful connection
with tfie Morning Aews is the best
tribute to his worth and abilit 3 r as an
editor.
In social life his genial, gentle
nature more thoroughly asserted
itscll. A stranger would hesitate to
pick him out as one who had won
extended fame as the author of
‘Major Jones’ Courtship’ and other
popular humorous works. On many
occasions I noticed with surprise his
modest retirement when these literar}'
ventures were referred to in terms of
high praise by men of culture and
standing, 1 never heard him speak
boastingly of his own literary
productions, but frequently did he
commend the labors of others. His
last message to me, only a day or
two before he . died, called my
attention to the beauties of a new
stor}’ by a Florida writer.
I olose, as I commenced, with the
expression of an opinion, that in
Colonel Thompson’s death we have
no cause for mourning. Such a calm
and beautiful life—public, profess*
ional and domestiewwith a close so
full of peace and jo} r and comfort.
Who of us whom he has left behind
to miss him in many ways can hope
for such an exit from earthly scenes—
so little of pain and sorrow and
regret, and sev much of peace and
hope and love. Long will he live in
the hearts that loyei him so tenderly
in his own home, and long will his
memory be reverently cherished by
his old associates and friends, Jnd
when the name we so honored in life
shall have become obliterated from
the marble monument above his
grave, both his name and his fame
wiI1 be kep . fresh before tbe world in
his rare
THE USE of WEALTH.
There thousands • -
are of rich men
who are pot sMnfiints, who have the
reputation of being so because they
have never been known to have done
any special good with their money.
A man who is worth $50,000 can do
more to make himself loved and
respected b}* all with whom he comes
in contact, by the judicious expendi¬
ture ot a thousand dollars in charity
than by giving the whole fifty thou¬
sand after he is dead. It seems as
though it would be mighty small
consolation to a millionaire to leave
raone y t0 some charitable . ^ purpose,
after death, and be so dead that he
Couldn’t see the smiles of happiness
that his generoSlt 3 r had created.
Suppose a millionaire who has
never had a kind word said of him
except , by fawning „ . hypocrites , who ,
, hope V to get J of his
same money, should
, lay out a beautiful , , park worth ■, am.l-
lion dollars, and throw it open tree to
all, ,, with walks, ,, dnve*. , . lakes, , shade , ,
an e\er\ thing. on t you sqpos.
if he took a drive through it himself
and „ thousands , of people having
saw
a good , tunc and , all „ looking , , . their ... love
and resppet a for him, that his heart
would ” ., be watmed up ‘ and that Ins
'
day would , , be lengthened , , Wouldn’t
every look of thanks be worth a
thousand tu dollars to the man who had
much money that it. made lira
round-shouldered? , . ,, Wouldn „ T ,, , a t , he have ,
pleasvtrp . tfian he would cut ,
rqore in
ting otf coupons with a la" n-mowe ? —
Peck’s Sun.
SPRING CLOTHING.
I 113 'ears past, as spring approaches
we have cautioned our readers in
regard to thc too early adoption of
spring or summer apparel. We might
well set this down as a good subject
for every writer in 3Iarch. The ap-
pearance of green lawns, s bright s 1111
shine and singing bir ls m quite
calculated to allure one to adopt light
flannels and less protecting covering,
Bear constantly in mind that air in
motion is colder than air at rest,
With March winds, the thermometer
above the freezing point may entirely
misrepresent the effective tem-
perature. We have before
illustrated this proposition by refer-
ring to the habit of using a fan in
summer, When the thermometer is
in the nineties and the face is bathed
with perspiration one is able to keep
comfortable ppql by air set ia motion
b 3 ’ that little device wc pall a fan . It
is questionable if in the New England
and Middle States the clothing should
not be thicker and warmer in March
than in January. It certainU’ will
not do to throw aside the winter
overcoat nor the sealskin cloak, nor
even the heavy underflannel. When
finalh’ the change is made and winter
garments are put aside they cannot
safely be laid awa 3 r for the summer
until all the chilly da 3 ’s and still more
chill 3 r nights have entirety passed
away. Always bear in mind that
when one experiences a chill, or when
for a long time one feels an unco in-
fortable sensation of coldness a cold
is being contracted.—Dr. Foote’s
Health Monthly.
Contentment abides with truth, and
’ you will generally = suffer for wishing
to appear more learned, The mask
soon becomes an instrument of tor-
ture.
Men’s evil manners live in brass—
tlieir virtues we write in water.
{ TERMS—$1 SO A YEAR.
NO.
AN INJUNCTION FILED
TO PREVENT THE RAILROAD
SIONERS FROM ENFORCING CIRCULARS
20 AND 21.
Friday the Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company, Represented by
Messrs. Joseph B. Cumming and A.
R. Lawton, filed a bill of injunction
in thc Superior Court of Fulton
county, restraining the Railroad
Commission from enforcing circular
No 20 and circular No. 21„ so far as
relates to the Georgia Railroad and
its branches. The bill goes on to
recite the provisions of the charter of
the road which it is claimed granted
certain privileges and the right to
charge certain rates of freight which
are in conflict with the rates fixed by
the Commission. The bill further
recites that while thc company has
acquiesced heretofore in the reduc¬
tions made by the Commission, it did
so under protest and‘not because it
believed that the rates were just and
reasonable. The bill prays that the
act of October 14th, 1879, be declared
null and void, and that thc Commis¬
sion be perpetually enjoined from
prescribing rates of passenger fare and
freight ° on the Georgia . Railroad, T > i i or in
anv manner enforcing „ . .. the
orovisions
ofthe aot of October 14tb. 1879, and
especially ;„o of circulars No. 20 and to, 2F
xbe , )Ui prays that tho Attorney
bc restrained from instituting
any suit ot any sort against the
‘
petitioners . for , the ,, .
purpose of cnforc- „
the . . the
mg . ot ,. act referred c ,
provisions
L to. A lI temporary _ lniunctiqn . . . has , been .
granted . , and , the case . will ... , be heard . ..
in
Mac(J11 „„ tbc 10th bef(>re Jud
^ Judge Hillycr
^ di Med Tbo case )iscs
, bc . '
, to interesting . one,-^-Augn§ta .
an
Chronicle, . ,
CONCERNING POPULATION.
Our country began the present
century with a population of 5,308,-
000; it has now 50,i55 000. The in-
crease has been nine fold in
3 'ears. The growth in the last decade
was over thirty per cent. This
growth if continued will give us
65,000,000 in 1890.and 84,009,000 in
1900 - a growth from 5 308,000 to
84,0i 0,000 in the round century, and
it will enable the teity'ear-old chil¬
dren of to-da 3 '. when the 3 r shall have
readied middle age, to look upon a
population of 100 , 000 , 000 , and the
time the 3 ' shall have reached three
score and ten, to look upon a popula-
tion of 237,000,009. These arc stag¬
gering figures. It is hardty conceiva¬
ble that our present rate of growth
will be maintained for sixt 3 T years to
come, for even if emigrants should
continue to come to our shores in
such armies as now, it would be nec-
essar 3 ' to take measures to repel them-
[here are few children, if an}’, now
living who will be willing to see
200 , 000,000 souls packed together in
this countr}’. The time will come
when we shall cease to court more
population, and shall say ft is
enough.—St. Louis Republican.
KILLING OF SHERIFF
WHILE ROBBING 1113 OWN OFFICE
STOKES COUNTY, N- C.
Danville, Va., April 1.—Informa¬
tion has just been received here that
Sheriff William Estes, of Stokes
count}', N. 0., was shot on the 30th
ult., while robbing his own office. He
left home, to be absent some day's,
and directed his wife not to allow any
one to stay all night, and at the same
time gaye her the safe key,
dark one of the neighbors came
his house, and Mrs. Estes
raised no objection, he went off to the
room to spend the night. After he
had retired, two men came to the
bouse and s4:ed leave to stay, and
Mrs. Estes objected. They, however,
went in aud demanded the safe ke;»
threatening to kill her if she refused
it. She ran up stairs and informed
her guest, and was told by him to go.
down, deliver the key, and sat/ noth¬
ing of his presence. The men then
proceeded to rob the safe, and while
thus engaged Mrs. Estes’ friend came
down and killed both of the men.
Upon examination, it was found that
one of the men was the sheriff, who
had disguised himself, and the other
was one of his neighbors.
SOME SHAKES.
EXPERIENCES WITH THE ARKANSAS
AGUE,
‘Spearin’ ’bout the ^Jrkansaw ager,’
said the man with the sandy goatee
and squint eyes as he leaned back in
his chair, ‘that’s whar you saw my
heart-strings, in case I've got any
left to saw on. Gentlemen, gaze on
me.’
The crowd gazed.
‘When I moved down into Arkan-
saw from Tennessee risin* of sixteen
years ago 1 was purty —1 was for a
fact. I had a dozen sknlcmarms in
love with me to onoe, and hang me
upj if every gal in the ballroom
wouldn't brea£ her neck for the honor
of dancing with mo! Yes, I was
purty, and 1 was good. I was so purty
that children cried after me, and so
good that I iy^s taken for a preacher
on more’n a hundred occashuns,
JPhas has m 3 ' purty gone? Why, I’ve
got to be the infernalist alligator in
the hull swamp, and I'm growin*
meaner at the rate of a mile a da}-!
Fact—a solemn fact, and that can¬
tankerous ager is to blame for the
hull of it. I’ve got a squint to m 3 '
eyes, my nose has bin driven back
an inch, and, what teeth I’ve got left
have to be wedged in ever 3 r Sunday
with pine pegs or I’d swallow ’em,
Purty. \ Wh}', the sight of m 3 ' phiz
down in Si. Louis killed a Texf^s
steer dcad’rn a door nail, and I was
tryin’ to look handsome, at that!’
‘You said 3 'ou had the ague.’
‘Said so! Do yon ’spose all the
other calamities in this hill kentr 3 *
could have busted me up in this
way? You bef / had’er! I strug-.
gled right along fur ‘leyen straight
3 ? ’ars without a let up. Gentlemen,
let me harrar your souls with a few
timel 3 r remarks. Your Michigan ager
is a grasshopper, and one dose of
k\'neen knocks ’er dead. Out in
Jlljnoy the ager is bigger—about like
a squirrel. In Missouri she’s about
of a woodchuck, and when
s h e strikes down into Arkansaw,
ghe's a wo ]f three feet high, seven
feet long, and built to take hold like a
thousand buzz saws. Great slams!
but what tussles I’ve had with that
ere critter! Say, did 3 ’e eyerride in
a one-hoss wagin’ over a stone quar-
ry? Was 3 'e ever seated on the top
rail o’ a fence when a hurricane
moved it at the rate of six miles a
minit? Did 3 ’e eyer have a cyclone
pick 3 r e up and mop 3*011 over forty
acres of river bottom, wallop 3 ’e
through ten aores of woods and use
ye for a tool to knock down a hundred
acres'of cane brake. Well, that ain’t
the ager —not the Arkansaw kind}
it’s only the first faint preliminaries.
stopped to relight his cigar,
and then continued:
‘I hain't long to live and don’tkeor
to stretch thi 3 thing an 3 ’. Tellin’
the truth has alius been m 3 7 strong
pint, and alius will be, Ma 3 *be ye’ll
get some idea of the Arkansaw ager
when I tell 3 ’e that I oitce unjinted
both shoulders in shakin’, and it was
a light shake at that. When I had
on one of my reg’lar double-back
action shakes I could jar a jug of
whiskey out of the crutch of a tree
twent}* eight rods off. Nobody dast
pile up cord wood within half a mile
of in}’ cabin, and that’s a solemn fact.
I devoured k}’neen just as you eat
corn* beef, and my hull system
finally got so bitter that a dog who
smelt my l e & couldn’t get the pucker
oqt of his mouth inside of ten days,
Gentlemen, I do not wish to prolong
this agony. M}’ failin' is grub. Fust
/know I’ll jump the ager and begin
on Arkansaw skeeters, and when I’d
get there I’d harrer yer souls till }'e
couldn't 9 leep fur two weeks. We
will now have some licker, and I will
seek a few needed reposes.’—Little
Rock Gazette.