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I l BRIDAL Tor; .
BV ;.'K sKiS.SLIl.
When I married my second wife,
ehe was dreadfully set about going off
on a hridal tour. 1 told her
better wait six months or aj'ear, and
I d try to go with her, but she said
slic'd rather go alone - when a woman
was travelling a naan was an out and-
out humbug.
.So I gave her seventy f )VC cents
and told her to go otf and have a
good time, 1 never begrudge money
where mv wife’s happiness is con-
cerned My first wife never o
5. f or
Tin < 3 fierce to go otf on
good time myself, and always was.
I don’t pretend to say how many
1im<‘S , took her out to see the engine
squirt, and there was no end to the
free lectures / let her go to. The
neighbors used to say : ‘It does beat
nil how the dinners do go !’
When Signor Blitz was in Slunk-
villo, with his wonderful canaries, he
gave my wife a complimentary ticket.
I not only sold that ticket for my
wife, but I gave her half the money.
J don t boast of it though; I only
mention it to show how much /
thought of my wife’s happiness.
I don’t think any man ought to get
married until he can consider his
wife’s happiness only second to his
o w n. John R ise, a neighbor of mine,
did thusly and when / got married/
conclude 1 I'd go and do like ise.
But the plan didn’t work in the
case of ruy second wife. No, ‘should
.sav not , I broached the subject kindly.
‘Mv tibia,* I said, ‘1 suppose you
are aware that 1 am your lord and
master.
Not much you ain’t,’ she said,
‘Mrs. Skinner 1 replied, ‘you are
fearfull v demoralized. You need
reorganizing at once. Von are
cranky.’ AnJ I brandished my sixty
two cent umbrella wildly around her.
bhe took the umbrella away from
me, and locked me up in the clothes-
pr ,‘SS
j am quick to draw an inference
an i the inference / drew here was
that l was not a success as a rcor
gam cr oi female women
A f or this 1 changed my tactics-
1 I her have my own way, and the
plan worked like a charm from the
very first. It's the best way of man
aging a wife that I know of Of
course that is-between and me
So when mv wife said she was
t ound to go o a bridal tour anyhow,
<•< rdially ass«. lit. d.
•Go, Matilda,’ l said, ‘and stay as
long as you want to ; then ii you (eel
as though you would like to slay a
while longer, stay, my dear, stay.’
She told me to stop talking and go
up stairs and get her red flannel night¬
cap, and that bag of pennyroyal for
her Aunt Abigail.
Mv wife is a very smart woman.
She was a Baxter, and the Baxters
are a very smart family, indeed. Her
mother, who is going on eighty, can
frv more slap jacks now than
these primped up city girls who
rattle on the piano or else walk the
streets with their furbelows and fix¬
ings. pretending to get mad if a young
chap looks at em pretty hard, but
getting mad in earnest if you don't
notice them at all.
Ah! girls ain’t what they used to
b.i when I was young, and the fellows
are worse still, v\ hen I went eourt-
ing, for instance, I never thought of
staying till after 10 o’clock, and only
went twice a week. Now they go
seven nights in a week and cry
because there ain’t eight. Then they
write touching notes to each other
during the day, *l)ear George, do
you love me as much now as you did
at a quarter past 12 last night. Say
you do, dearest, and it will give me
courage to go down to dinner and
tackle them cold beans left over from
yesterday.*
‘ IFell, well, I suppose they enjoy
themselves, and it aiu t for us old
folks, whose hearts have got a little
calloused by long wear, to interfere,
Let them ge together and court if
they like \l, and /think they do. I
was forty seven when I courted mv
present wife, but it seemed just as
nice to sit on a cricket at her
feet and let her smooth mv hair, as
it did thirty years ago.
As I said before, my wife is a very
smart woman, but she could not be
anything ^ else and be a Baxter. She
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By Edw SCHAEFER- F
VOL. X.
used to give lectures on woman's
rights and, and in one place where
a a
title of LL. D, C her, but o
wouldn’t take it. ‘No, -
,
said she, ‘give it to the poor, She
was always just as charitable. She
gave my boys perm.anon to go bore-
footed all winter, and insisted on it
so in her kind way that they couldn’t
refuse her.
She fairly doles on my children,
and I’ve seen her many a time go to
their trowsers pockets and take out
their pennies after they’d got to
sleeo, and put them in her bureau
drawer for fear they might lose
them. * * *
I started to tell you about my
wife’s bridal tour, but the fact is, 1
never found out much about
myself. I believe she had a good
time. She came back improved in
health, and I found out, before slic’d
been in the house twenty-four hours
that she'd gained in strength also. I
simply say l found it out.
In conclusion, I would say to all
young men : marry your second wife
first, and keep out of debt by all
means, even if you have to borrow
money to do it.
SKETCHES OF THE NOMINEES.
the official career of Alexander
II. Stephens and Thomas Ha
DEM AN.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens of
CrawfordvUie, was born in that part
of Wilacs county, Georgia, which now
forms a part of Taliaferro county,
February 11, 181*2; graduated at tiie
University of Georgia, at Athens, in
1832 ; taught school eighteen months ;
was admitted to’the bar at Crawford
villein 1834; was a member of the
House of Representatives of the
Georgia Legislature from Taliaferro
county in 1836, ’37, '38, ’39 and *4u
and was a member of the State Sen¬
ate from Taliaferro county in 184*2 ;
was elected a Representative of the
Tvvcnty-eigth, Twenty-ninth, Thirti-
eth T in r t v * ii rs t, Tlii n
Thirty-third, Tu.rty-four.h, Thirty-
fifth Congresses (that is from 1843 to
1859) when *.e declined a re-election ;
was run as a Presidential elector for
the State at Large in Georgia, on’the
Douglas and Johnson ticRet in i 860 ;
and was elected to the recession
Convention of Georgia in 1861;
opposed and voted against the
ordinance of Secession in that body
but gave it his support after it had
been passed, against his judgment as
to its policy; was elected by that
Convention to the Confederate
Congress, which met at Montgomery,
Alabama February 4, 1861, aud was
chosen Vice President under the
Provisional Government by that
Congress ; was elected Vice President
of the Confederate states for the term
of six years under what was t. ruied
tiie permanent Government in No
veuiber, i861; visited ttie bnate o.
Virginia on a mission under the
Confederate Government in April,
1861, upon the invitation ot that
State; was one of the Commissioners
on the part of the Confederate Gov-
eminent at the Hampton Roads
Conference, iu February, 1865; was
elected to the Senate of the United
States, in 1866. by the first legislature
convened under the new Constitution
made under the Johnson policy, but
was not allowed to take his seat; was
elected to the Forty third Congress,
in 1873 to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Ambrose R. Wright ;
was elected to the Forty fourth,
Forty fifth and Forty Sixth Congress-
es as a Democrat, receiving 11,148
votes, without opposition.
Col. Hardeman's Life.
Colonel Hardeman was born in
Putnam ejuuty fifty six years ago.
He was graduated ia Emory College
in 1845 , an i read law in the office of
Judge R. V. Hardeman at Clinton,
with whom he formed a copartner-
Devoted to News, Politics. Agriculture and General progiess-
TOCCOA, GA., JULl r 29, 1882.
ship, being admitted to the bar in
1847. Col. .Hardeman's father moved
frora Putnam county to Macon in
1836. I n 1848 he married Miss Jane
Lumsden, of Putman county. After
a short residence in Clinton,
lie moved to Macon, and in 1S51 he
was elected to the Legislature from
Bibb county, and served lbr several
terms as an old line \V big until that
party went to pieces in 1855, and as
a member of the Union party until
1859, when he was elected to Congress
from the Third Georgia District as a
member of the American party, and
served until the State seceded, He
defeated lion. Hlex M. Speer. \V hen
the war came on he entered it as the
captain of the Floyd Rifles, and when
that company went to Norfolk and
was formed into a battalion, he was
elected major. He stayed at Norfolk
for a year, and when his battalion
was disbanded he was elected Colonel
of the Forty fifth Georgia, and was
wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor
being shot through the lung and thigh.
He was forced to resign, being disa¬
bled, and was subsequently appointed
Adjutant ueneral on Gustavus \\ •
Smiths staff, a position which beheld
until the close of the war. Since the
war he has been in the cotton corn-
mission business at Macon, as a
member of the firm of Hardeman A
Sparks. He was in the Legislature,
and was Speaker of the House during
the administration of Governor
Jenkins. He was a candidate for
Governor in 1876, but withdrew in
favor of Governor Colquitt. 11 is
name has been associated with the
Governorship for several years, I [c
is a man of fine physique and a gen¬
tleman of wide personal acquaintance.
BROWN’S BENEFICENCE.
A NORTHERN PAPER DISCUSSES THE
$50,0 JO DONATION TO THE STATE
UNIVERSITY.
New York Tribune,
Senator Brown, of Georgia, appears
to have chosen a particularly happy
plan for the administration of his gift
of $50,000 to the University of the
State. He directs that it be known
as the Charles McDonald Brown
Scholarship Fund, in memory of his
son of that name who died last year,
and who would have inherited the
amount of the fund from the family
estate had he lived ; and that it be
invested in a special State bond,
running fifty years and bearing seven
per cent interest, This annual
income of $3,500 will be loaned
to poor but promising young men, to
enable them to pursue courses of
study at any department of the Uni-
yersity, or at the North Georgia
Agricultural College, $2,500 being
appropriated for the former and
1,U00 for the latter institution. This
is tube loaned in sums of not more
than $200 annually to students at
the University, and not more than
$L50 each to students at the College,
1 he beneficiaries are to be selected
impartially troni all parts ot the
State, Senator Brown's tour surviving
sons having the right each to choose
annually. On being graduated the
young men are to begin paying four
per cent interest on the loans, an d
are to repay the principals thereof as
soon as they have earned a sufficient
amount in addition to
living expenses. This interest and
the repaid loans are to be added to
tfie pnucipal fund, which will thus
constantly be increasing under the
potent influence of compounded inter-
Young men studs iug for the
ministry, it snouId be added, will be
required to repay only one-half
tmhr ioatis. Now, not ail siudents
availing themselves of the fund will
require its full benefit. It will prob- ;
ably, therefore, enter twenty young
men to begin with. But at the end
of four years, when the first c ^ ass is
graduated, its members will owe the
$700 each, or $14,000 in all, on
inch the aggregate annual interest
will be $560. At this rate, within
twenty years a hundred students may
be supported by the fund, and Senator
Brown’s sons may live to see several
times that number granted the best
educational advantages of the State
by means ot their father s generous
and well planned endowment,
HOW MEXICAN MARRIED COU¬
PLES
Pleasantly Interchange Cour¬
tesies.
Lampazos letter in Galveston News.
The Mexicans of the wealthy or
well to-do classes have a custom in
married life which seems to me a pret-
tyonc. Husband and wife have on-
tirelv separate apartments, an(1
neither is expected to enter the apart-
meats of the other except on invita-
tion. When the husband desires the
company of his lady in his apartment
he writes a note of invitation in terms
of the most formal and lofty polite
ness, encloses it in a perfumed
envelope, seals it and sends it to her
on a silver tray in the hands of a ser
van. The lady acknowledges the
invitation in the same way, and if she
accepts, which she is probably most
likely to do, she appears at the door
of his apartments at the appointed
hour, in bridal costume, escorted by
one or more of her ladies in waiting,
these then retire. The husband
receives Her at the door, leads her to
a little Table, where he treats her to
chocolate or tea, cake, fruit, etc. In
the midst of his apartments he has a
room furnished in the most exquisite
way he is capable of, which he holds
sacred to his lady, and never occupies
unless she is present. This room is
his pride. unique' He spares no expense to
make it as and charming as
possible. 1 When the gentleman has
received , his , . lady i . in . his i . apartments . „ . it,
, . . nt -i t T„.
have" breaLsted, which .. „ does not r
usually occur until 9 o’clock.
After the lapse of some days—/ do
not know how many—etiquette re-
quires that the lady shall return the
husband’s compliment by a similar
invitation, nicely sealed in a per¬
fumed envelope on a silver tray. He
ackno.vledges the invitation with
many thanks, and ifhe accepts,which
it is presumed he is quite sure to do,
he first indulges in the bath, prigs
himself up in bis best array, patron¬
izes his perfume bottles and his
pomades, and at the appointed hour
appears promptly at the door of his
lady’s apartments. She is there to
receive him, dressed like a queen,
wearing orange blossoms in her
hair and on her bosom. Ske conducts
him to a little table, where he is
.
offered wine and cake or chocolate
and cake and fruit. After this peas¬
ant repast she regales him with song
and music on the guitar- She also has
in the midst of her apartments a
room which she holds sacred to her ..
husband and which she never occupies 3
nn ] C ss be is present. Jt may
su pp 0 sed that this sacred room is her
*p r ide above all things and to adorn
an q wa f C fi over it the chief occupa.
^ on an fl joy of her life They remain
together in the lady’s
un tji breakfast, after which they
again se p a rate. Thus there is a con*
£i nua i interchange of courtesies and
a perpetual courtship. *
EDGAR A POE’S DEATH.
--
statement of the hospital physi-
cian who attended him in his
last illness.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Dr. Jonn J. MoraD.ot f alls Ghnrch,
Fairfax county. Va , who was
physician at Washington University
Hospital (now the Church Horae and
Infirmary), on North Broadway, from
March. 1849, to October, 1855, visited
the institution for the first time since
the dissolution of his official connec-
i TERMS-$1 50 A YEAR.
NO. 3.
lion therewith. Dr. Moran pointed
out the room occupied by Edgar Allan
Poe, and related the circumstances
of his death, which occurred Oct. 7,
1849. The doctor states that on the
6th of October, about 9 a. m„ Mr.
p oe NVag brought to the hospital in a
aolc driven bv an Irishman, who
stated that he had found his passen¬
ger on Light street wharf. In’reply
to an inquiry whether the gentleman
was intoxicated, the hackman stated
that there was no smell of liquor
about him, and that he had lifted him
into the carriage like a child. Dr.
Moran did not recognize his patient
until tllc haekm8n Presented a card
bearing Poe’s name. Mr. Poo was
unc °nscions and very pa e. e w as
placed in .he third story room of the
turret, attho southwest corner of the
building, about seven by ten feet ...
9ize ’ A nurse was stationed at the
door, "i 11 ' in struct.ons call Dr
V,ora " ^en the patient awoke, winch
° ccufre< ’ 5,1 twent y mlnute8 ’ Tl,c
doctor, being much interested in his
patient, went immediately to his side,
A glance sufficed to show that Mr.
Wm was extremely ill, and lie was so
informed. In reply to a question he
*aid he did not know l.ow long lie had
bee » sick, and could give no account
oflumself. He was much surprised
wlien i«f«™«d that he was „. a bos-
P' 1 ^- He stated that he had stopped
at a hotel on Pratt street, where a
l ™nk containing his papers and
manuscripts had been left, The
trunk was sent for, but the owner
made no farther reference to it.
Dr. Moran proceeded to make a
diagnosis of the case. The patient
was very weak, but there was no
«>• Umb f; *» ° f
body, no smell of liquor on the
breath or person, nor any symptom
of intoxication Owing to the wen,c
condition of the patient, Dr. Moran
decided * to administer a stimulant
and informed him. »
so Mr. Poe said: .
Df I thought its potency would trans-
P“* me to the elys.an bowers of tne
undiscovered spirit world, 1 would
not tonc lt ‘
Di, Moran then proposed an ano¬
dyne. when Mr. Poe rejoined : ‘Twin
sister to the doomed and crazed in
perdition.’ Mr. Poe continued to
to converse most despondingly, but
was relieved by short intervals of
sleep. As his body grew weaker his
mind retained its force, and his
conscious moments were marked by
vivid flashes of his characteristic
genius. Near the end Mr. Poc became
as gentle as a child.
lie died an hour past midnight,
sixteen hours after his arrival at the
hospital. The cause of death was
exhaustion of the nervous fluid,
caused by exposure, hunger and other
tilings acting upon a sensitive organ-
ization.
The remains were laid in state in
the rotunda of the college, where they
were viewed by many persons. Fully
fifty'ladies recciwd locks ot the dead
poet’s hair, that fell in jet black
ringlets about his brow. Ihe funeral
took place on the afternoon.
THE ‘MASHER.’
‘Is he a rare bird?’
‘He is that. The species used to
be so plenty that every city had them
by the score ; but of la.e 3 ears tiie
Fool Killer has got in his work so well
that only about a dozen J/ashers can
now be found in the whole United
States.’
‘He has a sweet look.’
'‘Certainly ; he has stood before the
glass for hours to practice on that
look. IFben he parts his hair in the
center, waxes his little ^pustaclie and
takes his dear little cane in hand for
a walk on the street, he calculates that
sweet look will knock doivn every
second lady he meets.’
‘His plumage is very fine.’
-Oh, yes. The Masher always gets
the best, because he beats his tailor
and leaves bis washwoman to sing for
her money.’
‘Is he a valuable bird?'
‘His carcass is valued at from two
to five cents per pound, according to
the price of soap;*
‘Ttyen the species Will aodh become
extinct?’ ---
‘Yes; in a few short years the
Masher will be known on earth no
more. The Smithsonian Institute
and two or three medical colleges
will have specimens preserved in
alcohol and skeletons on exhibition,
and old gray headed men have a dim
recollection of having once seen the-
animal promenading the earth.’—*
Detroit Free Press.
A PUT UP JOKE.
Free Press.
‘Now when you reach Macon you
go and see Colonel Blank,’ thoy said
tome at the Constitution office in
Atlanta. ‘The Colonel knows every¬
body- for miles around, and he will
post you on everything-'
•Thanks.'
‘But he’s a peculiar man,’ contin¬
ued Grady, ‘You’ve got to strike
him just right or he won t talk for
shucks. He’s strictly temperate, and
yet you must take a flask along and
ask him to drink. It’s an old Southern
custom, you know, and while he won t
touch a drop, he’ll expect to be invi¬
ted to. You can fill the flask with
water, and boTl never know the
difference.*
When / reached Macon I arranged
for a call on the Colonel, I bought
a pint flask at a drug store, and told
the clerk to fill it with something good
to soothe a sore heel. I didn’t ask
him what it was, but a snitf or two
convinced me that sweet oil and tar
formed the greater portion, With
this bottle in my pocket 1 entered
the Colonel’s office and told him who
I was and what / wanted.
‘Yes, sir, glad to see you—sit
down,’ lie replied, and as soon as lie
had sealed his letters he turned and
began :
‘So you want to know what we can
raise here, do you? Well, my boy*
you can say everything—everything.
We raise wheat, corn, oats, potatoes,
yams and —
Just then he looked over to the
water cooler, and I put in with—
‘Say, Colonel, have a drop of some¬
thing good, put up by the best house
here?’
•Thanks—that’s just what I was
hankering after,’ he replied, as he
held out his hand for the flask.
How I got out of there alive I can’t
remember, nor can 1 recollect what
became of the bottle, but there is a
whole newspaper staff in Atlanta who
tna y look upon themselves as doomed
men. The Colonel took his quart
daily, and it was a put up job to get
bold of mv dead body for a new med¬
ical college at Atlanta.
THROUGH THE HEART.
A SON OF CITY RECORDER DELING
LITERALLY BUTCHERED AT NAftll-
VILLE.
Special to the Courier Journal.
Aasiiville, July 20.—A horrible
a ^- a j r occar red on Cherry street to
night. Shortly after 8 o’clock Charles
yj a | cern0 re and Tom Duling, son of
Recorder Judge 8. A. Doling, got
j nto a fight over some lewd women*
w fien, after a few blows were passed*
jy la h em0 re d ew a knife and stabbed
p)q], n g t Q Hie heart, miking a terrible
g as h in that organ, lie also received
a terrible gash in the left cheek,
splitting it from the car to the corner
of the mouth, and his left hand was
nearly cut off in his effort to take the
knife from his antagonist. The most
singular feature of the matter is that
after the terrible gash in the heart,
Duling walked back to the rear of
Fite & James’ store, whore he fell
like a beef, but rose again and walked
to the pavement in front where he
tell dead.
Both young men resided in Nash-
ville, and are about twenty seven
years of age, Blakemore escaped, it
is said, through the aid of Bm»
Turner. He was last seen going
toward the wire bridge, and at this
hour (11 o’clock) he has not been
arrested. Young Duliag’s body was
taken to Groome's undertaking
establishment, where, at 12 m. tq
morrow, an inquest will be held,