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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.