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V. A. M&THESON
Who has Special Bargains in Various
Lines of Goods.
FINE DRESS GOODS 5
NOTIONS, HATS, ETC,
—ALSO—
HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS.
Farmers’ Tools. Wacron an 1 Buggy Ma-
Blacksmith s Tools, Hinges,
Locks, Bolts, Doors tmd S»t>h.
—everything in the—
HARDWARE LINE,
LOOK nft STOVES. STOVEPIPE
AND WOODWAEE,
- ALSO -
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
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the TbeymVy' orkman of materlais W ed and the skill of
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Are the Leading Organs of the World.
Thclrpurity Because they ore the best.
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peso Of touch ihJ rich full nr l ®fKan-like nreoe MLa * tone -« I has
won tort hem I!1 ’hr hl^t.c. t praise . and admiration
r *11 II n ‘"> i have seen and heard them.
I tmy contain many valuab e improvements,
which are ev elusive feat urea Fohliu" Pedals
Three- , ly Bounding Hoards, Book closets und a
inagnittcent
Chime of Swiss Beils
creating the most harmonious effects, and which
can bo used with or without the reed«. Th ese m-
stnimems have taken Medals and Fir : t Premium
wherever exhibited Agents wanted tu territory
not already provided fur.
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80 Fifth Avo., New York.
Factories Xcw Ilaven. Conn.
A J TTCW A VOICE S^StS-^JK: is a
$20 He write*: “Was «t work on a farm for
fffctSO a month; I now have an agency
A for K. C. Allen & l.Vs albums anti publi-
ationt aud often make #»3£0 u day.”
A (Signed) W. H. Garrison.
William Kline Harrtsbu rg, IV.
Ik writes: “I have u_ never • known not
anything YestertlHv to sell like your c lbu um.
I took orders enough h to
pay me over UVS. " w. j. J. El-
more, liu inpor, Me., writei s: “I
take an o rder for your alb um at
‘Mb. -‘most ev •ery bouse I visit. My
profit is often as muchasIftSftO
fetor a single day's work."
r Others are doing quite as well;
■■■tracts e have not space to give ea-
from their letters. Every rry
opt Shall who takas we hold start ofthUjrrand VOU business in this piles un business, grand pro fits.
reader? Writ* to us and leam all about it for yourself. We
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another gets ahead of you In your part ot the country. you
Cake hold you will be able to pick up gold fast. tfcjT" Rend-
On account of a forced manufacturer's sale l!35 f OOO ten
dollm* for I*liOlognt|»li JjjlSc Bound Album* are to be Silk sold Velvet to the
naople each. In Koval Crimson
Flush. Charmingly decorated insides. Handsomest albums in the
world. Largest Size. Greatest bargains ever known. Agents
wanted. Liberal terms. Big money for agents. Any one can
become a successful agent. Sells itself on sight—little or no
talking necessary. Wherever shown, every one vapidity wants to pur¬
chase. Agents take thousands of orders with never
before known. Great profits await every worker. Agents are
waking fortunes. Ladies make as much as men. Vou, reader,
can do as well as nnv one. Full information and terms t're ‘p.
*0 those who write for same, with particulars and term i» for our
Family Bibles, Books and Periodicals. After you ki iow til.
should you conclude to go no further, why no harm is s don*
Addms K. C. ALLEN A CO.. AUGUSTA , Maine
w • H . Bl« U C E,
One of the Oldest Mercantile Houses in Toccoa,
Here you can find bargains
STAPLE DR\ GOODS.
Boots* Shoes Provisions of ail
Kinds. BACON, FLOUR, FEED. ALSO THE BEST VARIETIES
FBBTIMZER8.
1Double 70ck 7>/ocA\ loccoa, Georgia*
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TOCCOA, GEORGIA
m mmtmt
And Manhinory Supplies, Also, Kepairs All Kinds of Machinery.
Peebless KOINES %
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
geiser separators
Farmers and others in want of either Engines or Separators, will
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. 1 am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
^JESTEY ORGANS .^ 0
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills Syrup of
Mills and Eva porators. Will have in by early Spring a Full btock
\AT OTTIT v^l'FAAT’T IM Ct T\/f 1V1 A » C -j H TT\rnn IN
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McCormick mm n i 4 Reapers, Mowers ana aeii-Binaers
Which need only trial their Superiority. . . Lall 11 and 1 see me u tie-
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cre you biU’- Duplicate parts of m achinery constantly on band.
TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS.
The Undersigned, is Prepared to Furnish MARBLE,
£
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an ’or.
FaYoriteS1 ^ er
j I HIGH ARM $ 25 . 00 .
m Each Machine has a drop leaf,
fancy cover, two large drawers, full
with nickel rings, and a set
of Attachments, equal to any Sin-
ger Machine sold from $40 to
$60 by Canvassers. A trial in your home be¬
fore payment is asked. Buy direct of the Manu*
fact-urers and save agents’ profits besides getting
certificates of warrantee for five years. Send for
testimonials to Co-operative Sewirg Machine
Co., 269 S. nth St.. Philadelphia, Pa.
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Will practic • in the^ounties of Haber-
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Circuit, and Frauk! u an 1 Banks of
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be g vea to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have spi c-
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scales, together with o
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Sealer accuretely fitted !id ctl „ r , , Th® T
are and adjusted an . are -v>- nted
» n fvery respect, and are only offered at tins price fell, sent
t»encourage agents aud olheis to handle our (tnede. Vve t le “
dollar raah order from our mammoth circular ‘.•ID
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WAGONS, BUGGIES
—AND—
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Of all kinds.
JA.RRETT & SON,
IOGCOA, GEORGIA,
Uiu Miiontits
Of All Kinds and Styles from ;he
plainest and lowest prices, up to the
m *st elaborate and costly. Au work
delivered, set up tt and satisfaction guar-
an toed. Cali my yard, examn^
sat 1 pies and '.es.ro. prices 1 efore l’or-
elsewhere. Address
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TUwvOA) V«Ai -
SLEEP.
Thou best of God’s choicest blessings—Sleep;
Better than earth fean offer—wealth, power,
fame.
They change, decay; thou always art the
same.
Through all ths years thy freshness thou
dost beep;
Over all lands thine even pinions sweep,
The sick, the worn, the blind, the lone, the
lame,
Hearing thy tranquil . footsteps bless thy
name.
Anguish ir soothed, sorrow forgets to weep;
Thou open - st the captive’s cell and bid’st
him roam,
_ Thou & vet the . huntei ^
rs a S e t freest the
&!ave ‘.
, loLT UtCaSt Pit> ... ^ the
° ’ ““
Beggar au<l K.g
uai .
. e for our loved ones, wealth, joy, honors
cra ' e ’
But God, He glveth His beloved Sleep.
—Thomas kelson Parje.
1 ---
The Queen ol the Gnomes.
Nobody would ever have imagined that
re f g.q- m i Dg ,oohada T iI 1 on,,,,„v n
,
°.^ a She W ? 9 ® ny thl ? g but a charming
, ato - ™ the feminine , . flotsam and
jetsam cast by the relentless sea of cir-
^instances upon the barren shore of ex-
istence. Her mouth was irresolute, her
eyes anything but determined looking,
yet in Peggy s ease appearances were de-
Jidudly ble ,^ 111 deceptive. of h ^ r ow n She luckily had an for undenia- her and
>
for the querulous old t mother dependent
U P0 Q her exertions
o°r Peggy s life had been one tu-
mubuous struggle ever since her father
died.^ He and had left his that wife and daughter the full
even was not
extent of their discomfort. Mrs. Leam-
^gton felt thatsne liad appearances—the
bane of existence to keep up; in fact,
S ^ G WaS P erfectl y Willing to live in
threadbare uneasiness, if she could only
succeed in convincing the world that she
was basking in the comparative sun of
luxury.
Peggy had sewed industriously night
and da y for a large wholesale shop that
paid her but a miserable pittance, yet
afforded her the means of keeping from
the door the wolf—that terrible black mas-
ter—tne cruel extorter of so much blood-
money. Mrs. Leamington saw her little
flat ever bright and pretty, she ate many
a luxury that Peggy pathetically pre¬
tended she herself didn’t like, there not
being enough to “go round.” Her life
was as free from care as an unselfish
little could make it.
Then, there was Jack—Jack Ruffing-
ton. Since he had come into Peggy’s
life things have been much more endur¬
able. lie had met the little lady at the
house of one of her old school friends,
and Peggy’s flaxen locks and azure eyes
had charmed the susceptible young man.
He didn’t think he was susceptible, hoiv-
ever. No man does. Peggy, with as
much dignity as nineteen summers could
command, had asked him to call and see
mamma.
“lam sure you would like her,” she
said, after she had met Mr. Ruxfingtou
several times at this accommodating
friend’s house. Then she added, wiclc-
edly: “You can come and see her of-
ten, you know r when I in out, ’
Peggy did not have many Opportuui-
^ , indulge in those little
es harmless
coquetries so necessary to many women,
Stern realities claimed her almost entire-
Jj- \ 1VC , The ^ flltte utterfl d y P ast beauties he y- of Cold life seemed solid
»
facts , remained. 1 Try and be coquettish,
young women, in the presence ot these
fa ?. ts ’ lf y0 ' 1 Cal ' Uc] l ItUffing t ° l !
called at , Mrs. T Leamington 3 modest 1
apartments. He called once reluctantly:
then again, with less timidity; filially he
spent Ins almost every evening there, and
seemed to enjdy it, too. There is no use
beating about the bush and pretending
that it was Mrs Leamington s brilliant
COU ^T tl0 n b f eu ^ aanted lum> /J hat
' vouldbe absurd i , for f 70 reasons, hirst,
because the poor old lady when she
spoke at all talked of nothing but the
oetter days she had once known* and,
second, because she Was generally im-
polite enough to sleep long before Mr.
Ruffington ioo.v his depaiture. 1 eggy
was the attraction. She listened to all
.Jack s stones, sympathized with his plans
.or the future, and while she pied
ueedl ® a “ d 8t,tched awa 3‘ tor dear llfe
and the dear life of her mother,gave him
the benefit of her girlish advice; Those
were tie fiat delightful evenings. The stuffy lit-
was a far-extending paradise; the
dreamy little clock a cruel, inconsiderate
Then the night came when Jack asked
Peggy to be his wife, and she in her en-
thusiasm utterly ruined a dainty lace
ruffle that she had been manipulating;
“Vou must wait for me, Peggy,” lie
said, looking at her blushing, coy face,
“The governor has promised to raise me
as soou as ever I step into Smith's place,
and then Peggy—we’ll have a flat larger
than this, and your mother shall live
with us—and—and—oh, Peggy, shall
we Peggy not be happy!”
actually shed tears of joy as she
looked upon the glowing picture painted
by the anticipative imagination of Mr.
Ruffington. Might he exact a lover's
privilege and take a kiss? Peggy crim-
soned at the question, but nevertheless
held up her face at a very kissable distance
and Mr. Jack made not the least cere-
rnony. Two days later an unpretentious
little engagement ring encircled Miss
Leamington’s pretty finger.
The girl sat thinking of all these pleas-
ant moments one cold, dark afternoon
when the days had slipped away from
autumn and were speeding winterward
as rapidly as possible. Since her en-
gagement have nothing but ill luck seemed to
fallen to her lot. The very next
day she had received a letter from her
employers at the large wholesale shop
that had kept her supplied her with
Business was verv bad. said the
i ett „, 0 .^ m ^ g™. to«.
duce expenses. Perhaps at some future
{ime the services of yuss Leamington
might be needed, but at present-
It ay as bard very hard* Peggy felt com-
pletely dazed. What could she do? She
could not remain more than a fortnight
without work. If she did, the small
hoard of savings that she kept as an
emergency fund would be exhausted.
Site trotted patiently downtown and
visited each of the big stores, determined
to obtain work by some means. But the
polite answer she received on ail side*
rendered argument impossible. She had
thought of making some sort of desper-
ate appeal to these frigid autocrats. But.
once in their presence and she found it
impossible. Reasoning was out of thc
question.
yeux sddreas’’ was the
balm volunteered, and what balm that is
to the workseeker!
On her way home from this discourag¬
quest, her eyes were attracted by a
poster, fitfully lighted by a neigh¬
lamp. In big blue letters the
was made that a glittering
would shortly be presented at
Niblo’s Garden, with “bevies of beauti¬
ful girls and hundreds of stalwart men.”
A sudden inspiration came to Peggy.
She had been to the theatre but twice in
fi er life and knew very little about it, but
she had seen girls much uglier than she
was joining in stage crowds and playing
small, unimportant parts. If only she
could get a chance in one of the “bevies
of beautiful girls!” It would pav her
better than the sewing and it would be a
p ifcasa nt cha D = e : Wi ; hout ? iviu ? berself
. , ,
and asked to see the manager of the
pany that was to give the production.
He came to her and she did not faint
when he appeared. On the contrary, she
was very much on the alert and answered
all questions with a self-assurance that
en,| 3 r r I ' Medthe « entleman ' rbo i ,ut
JfL'SHEff d id st ooSn sort o“TSde ?
wi En ahe t
wasn’t at all accomplished, because man-
agers very rarely meet that kind of per-
son. Applicants for positions on the
stage are nearly always the greatest
people on earth—in their own estima-
tion .
“I will give you a chance, young
lady,” he said at last,” and will cast you
f or a small part called the Queen of the
Gnomes. You have but a few lines to
speak, and have finished at the end of
the second act, when you can go home to
your mother.”
For Peggy had told this kindly-
looking manager everything. She was
delighted at her luck and went home
“on air.” It was not till later, when
her mother had fallen asleep over her
knitting, that Peggv She* began to feel a
little doubtful. would not dare to
tell Mrs. Leamington what she w T as going
to do. The old lady had a perfect horror
n f theatres, and, after all, Peggy re-
fleeted, it would not be necessary to di-
V ulge her secret. She could look for
work in the shops every day, and then
when she found it she could resign from
her queenship of the gnomes. It was ab-
solutely necessary that she earn money,
Starvation stared them in the face with-
out it.
And Jack—no, she could not tell Jack.
Mr. RutRngton would certainly not care
to imagine that his affianced wife was
every evening a queen of the gnomes for
the benefit of a critieal public. Poor
Peggy! She rebelled at the idea of de¬
ception. It is easy to be frank and
straightforward when there is no reason
why you should be otherwise. One thing
she remembered with joy. Jack was
obliged to work every night now. He
would not miss her. They could spend
their Sundays together just the same as
ever. So Peggy went to rehearsal, and
was pronounced entirely competent. The
work was very distasteful to her; the
people with whom she came in contact
disgusted her. But she associated with
them as little as possible, and was careful
to avoid giving offense.
Peggy’s trials began during the first
week. The King of the Gnomes per-
sisted in persecuting her w r ith attentions.
jj e W as a very objectionable creature,
and she tried hard to let him see that
she thought so. She longed to confide
{ n Jack—dear, old Jack—but there she
was without a soul in the world to whom
she could tell her troubles. In herpnnci-
pa l scene with the King of the Gnomes
s he had to tear from his face a black veil
which he wore ’ and manifest astonish-
raeu t at his feature? which she was sup-
posed fiever to have seen before, having
married him by some weird rite. The
King always seized this opportunity to
sm ii e sweetly aud to press her hand af-
feotionately as possible.
One night as she reached her home
she was going to her room, tired and
discouraged, when, standing his m the par-
] or , with an angry pallor on face, she
saw Jack In an agony of apprehension
s h e tried to mentally formulate some ex-
cuses for her absence before she went to
him, but he gave her no time. He rushed
meet her, and flrew her into the room.
“Peggy,” he said, his eyes big with
reproach, “you out alone at this time of
flight t Where have you been?*’
Peggy was silent. Her load of woe
seemed really greater than she could
“j as ked vour mother,” Jack went on,
looking into'her tear-dimmed eyes, “and
sb e told me that you were out every
n j gb t now, working. Is that true?”
“Jack”_Peggy gulped down a big
sob—“how do you think we should live
if 1 didn’t work? Do you suppose we
have an income or—or—that it—it rains
money s”
“No, dear,” he said, tenderly stroking
the smooth little head, and the light of
deepest compassion in his eyes—which
sb e couldn't see. “I know you go to
work, but I do not believe that you still
d 0 the sewing as your * mother thinks.
Am I
Peggy * moved away from him, indig-
nant. ;
“I refuse to answer,” she declared. ; j
“You have no right to question think me. best. I I
am old enough to do as I
When I am your wife you can command
me, but until then—no.”
“Won’t you trust me, Peggy?”—very
diffidently. !
cannot_just vet.” '
Peggy cried bitterly when Jack had
gone. Of course, he had the right to i
question her, but she resented his inter- j
ference. Then she was afraid of his
anger when he learned what she was
doing. But men were so inconsiderate,
she thought. They would sooner hear
of a woman starving than working for
her livelihood. If Peggv had applied to
Jack he might have helped her, but the
independent little lady would have cut
out her tongue rather than apply to the
Joung mau
The idea of work next night sickened
her. She went to the theatre depressed
and ill. Queen of the Gnomes’. How
utterly silly the term queen sounded
applied to herself. She felt she was the
most inferior gnome in the gathering.
Then the thought of meeting the King
face to face again! How horrible it was!
Was life always to be as dark and un-
pleasant as it seemed just now? Peggy
donned her black goblin attire with the
strongest inclination she had ever felt to
tear it to pieces. She was thankful
she had not been called upon to be one of
the smiling radiant fairies. She could
not have smiled upon this occasion.
The curtain rose upon the dark, sub-
terranean cavern, where the gnomes had
home. Peggy was thinking told of
all the time. If only the had
what she was doing! She would have felt
more at her ease, at anj rate. Thii
weight on the conscience was killing her. j
She would tell him to-morrow. Further
concealment was utterly impossible. r. !
felt better sftcr .v site bud come to .
this determination and nerved herself for
her work in the second act, when she had
to meet the king of Gnomes. She had
not seen him behind the scenes at all to-
night. Usually he was a most determined
lounger, although he was not obliged to
appear until the second act.
Ah! There he was. As she saw him
approaching she turned awav in an ir-
repressible ecstasy of repulsion. He did
not attempt to come near her, while" strange to
sav. He stood at one win- she
waited at the other. A L »fing of grati-
tude t00k Possession of her. Perhaps he
|T“ t ° “* »—*“
Five minutes later and she was upon
the stage, and the time for the unveiling
of the King had arrived. Peggy trera
bled at the idea smile,"of of again suffering this
wretch's brutal feeling his hated
arms around her waist. Well, she re-
«“<*;.» o»»m
the vt, wSho^t
ing into his face. The dreaded moment
was at hand, llis arm was around her
waist. He was unnecessarily close. It
'
was horrible. It was—
In a frenzv of wrath she looked up
words of burning indignation on her
lips. They were never uttered. The
color fled from her cheeks; her eyes were
rounded with a vast surprise; her breath
came and went most alarmingly; she
would have fallen but that the King held
held her firmly and masterfully in his
arms.
And in this King she recognized her
own Jack Rufiington.
♦
“How did you manage it, Jack?”
asked Peggy, excitedly, as they were in
the street, on their way home.
Jack laughed. “Dearest girl,” he
said, “did you imagine that you could
have done anything for anv length of
time without my knowing it? A week
ago I called at your house aud found you
out. I make your mother promise not to
tell you of my visit. Next night I dis¬
covered what you were doing—no matter
how. Last night I gave you an oppor¬
tunity to confide in me. No, you were
too self-willed. So I puzzled the thing
over, and finally decided upon this
scheme. I knew the stage manager of
the company, and also the manager. It
appears that the fellow who has played
the King of the Gnomes left suddenly
after last night’s performance. They
have engaged somebody for Monday. I
persuaded them to let me go on to¬
night. ”
“Oh, Jack!” exclaimed Peggy. She
could say nothing more.
“Well, Miss Leamington.”
“Will you ever forgive me, Jack, for
my deception. I am vere awful,I know:
but( but—oh! I had to do it!”
Mr. Ruffington put his hand into his
an fl pulled out an envelope,
p rom be extracted something that
] 00 ]j e( i fibe a check, and presented it to
p efT gy #
“That,” he said, “is a receipt for one
month’s rent in advance of a lovely little
flat in Harlem, beginning from the 1st of
next month. I’ve been ‘raised,’ Peggy,
and—and”-
“What Jack ’ dear?” asked Pe^cry
i nnoC entlv
“r an ’t vou ^uess?”—bashfullv
“You’ve betm ‘raised’ you tell me, and
you show me the receipt for the rent of a
flat j SU p pose you are going to live
there ?fl at is it , isn’t it. Jack?” (All
this wit h the most bewildering uncon-
sc iousnfcsS.)
“Yes I’m goin" to live there Peo-wv ”
sa ifl j ac k “with you as my wife, if you
win ^ »
T en< though they were in the street,
he gave her a tender,unmistakable kiss—
a most disgraceful proceeding—and she,a
wil ling accomplice, raised not the least
ob j ect j on . Luckily it was very dark and
thc neighborhood was deserted,
u You haven't given 0 me my answer,”
gaid Jack at last
“Well” ' declared Miss Leamington and'paid
(£as vou have secure d the flat
^be rent in advance I don’t reallv see
whv £ * vou can ^ t take ra y answer for granted.
Bu lor the sake of f orma Iity, Jack, I
will saV ves . I should not like yout
plans 1 to be spoiled bv such a trifle as-
wife ”—York World.
Some _ Rare 01,1 Bonds -
It was while Judge Folger was Secre-
(said an old treasury official).' One
an old man came in to me wiio
from a New England State. He
that about twenty years ago he found
old stocks or bonds among the
of an uncle (mentioning his name);
had been a man .of had national reputa-
for ability, aud a Comfortable
for those days—that is, from 1350
1840—and he had come to the United
States Treasury to find out if they were
anything as they seemed to be
United States bonds, I looked at them.
They were ten of the “old debt ’ bonds,
aad were indeed curiosities. They were
old and yellow from age, but were worth,
principal arid interest, years'interest in gold, $70,000,
for there was ten due on
them. You can imagine the old man s
amazement when I told him this. “Why,
I would gladly have taken $5000 for
them,” said he, “and I offered them to a
Boston banker for less than that, but he
rather superciliously and contemptuous-
ly declined to buy them at any figure.
I took the old man in to see Judge. Fol-
ger. who was very much interested in the
matter when I explained it to him. He
had any ot the “old loan ^ se-
never seen
curities, and after these were paid and
canceled I believe he directed that one of
them be framed and preserved. Well, m
less than half an hour', time the old New
Englander walked.out of the building
with a check in his pocket on the New
York for »»,«<» m gou.
How that “smart Boston banker must
have cursed his own ignorance and stu-
pidity when he learned what he had
thrown away. St. Louis Republic.
Romance of an Egg.
Early last summer a young girl at
Summerside, Prince Edward Island,
wrote her name and address upon an
egg, which subsequently found its wav to
Boston, Mass., among other shipments,
The parents of the young lady visited
Boston recently, and, strange to say, were
introduced to the young Bostonian who
had received the egg and who asked tmem
iftbew knew the young lady :ue:r ov.-l
daughter. Explanations followed and &
correspondence was opened. The wed
ding is to uute place shortly .—Chkay
2few».
Burning at the Stake.
*‘Burning at the stake is the most
P ainful ® ud horrible manner of death
J to ever a Chicago witnessed, Herald said a writer. traveling “I man am
# * n___ pLe ■» i v it * •
8aw the *took mid dle of July, at'Aoon one duy.^bmit
1859, at Marshall,
Mo., eighty-four Tlie miles from Kansas
named City. John, victim who was l a colored man
b mged to Giles
Kiser, a farmer. On the evening of
May 13 John had murdered young Ben-
jamiu Hinton at his st anibont wood-
vard on the Missouri Ri\er, between
Lnynesviile and Miania. John murder-
ed young Hmtou for ms money, and ob-
tftined $52, someof which hed stributed
T f f
Sixth Distnct, granted a motion for a
'gZlZ
in the forenoon. When the court a 1-
j mined for a nooning the p eop’e, impa-
tient at the law’s delay, burst upon the
Sheriff as he w as conveying the prison-
ers b‘ om the court room to the jail, took
*!’ SSi e ^ the jS. off cers, toT?. and there in the
m
^ S&SZ&EVS .ho fl.me. &
fire suffocated him. His face, arms and
breast wee scorched frightfully, and the
lower portion of h s body was a charred,
ah ape ess mass. Judge Hicks was so in-
dignant at this outrage that he resigned
from the bench. No trouble to those
concerned ever resu.ted fiom the case.
Oriental Beggars.
thriving Beggary throughout the East is a
profession. There are guilds of
beggar.-, besides the numerous commu¬
nities of dervishes, who me semi-religious
mendicants. Many families hive been
beggirs for generations, and tire
mendicants from choice. !Some of these
profeisional beggars are actually wealthy.
Four-hud-tweuty years ago the writer
well remembers a case. 'i he Chief Beg¬
gar (the title was not conferred in deri¬
sion) gave his daughter in marriage to a
substantial farmer. The girl’s dowry
consisted of two freehold hous< a, the
rooms of which were entirely ti led with
dry pieces of bread, and the sale of these
begged crusts subsequently realized a
considerable sum, beiug disposed of as
foo I for cattle. In the east there is no
organized chanty, but Mussulmen are
exceedingly charitable, many giving
away a tiih and even a third of their in¬
come.
The Wife of Columbus.
While at Lisbon, Columbus was accus¬
tomed to attend service,says Washington
Irviner, at the chapel of the convent of
All Saints. There he became acquainted
with a lady of rank, named Dona Fell pa,
who resided at the convent. She ua-
the daughter of Bartollommeo Mo ris de
Pallestrello, or Perestrello, on Italian
cavalier, lately deceased, who had been
one of the most Henry distinguished Portugal, navigators and
under Prince of
had colonized and governed the Island
of Porto Santo. The acquaintance soon
ripened into attachment and ended in
marriage. It appears, adds Irving, to
have been a match of mere affection as
the lady had little or no fortune.
The Tiger’s Choice.
The Java Bode records a singular ad¬
venture which recently befell a govern¬
ment surveyor in the wilds of Sumatra.
After a hard day's work on a mountain
side he passed the night in the open air
in a hut ha'tily‘run up by his coolie3.
As be was falling asleep alter long watch¬
ing, the sight of two fiery eyes glaring paiul- m
at tlie entrance of thc hut almost
ized him with terror, An enoimouB
royal tiger soon glided in, smelled him
fill over, and then set to work devouring
the remains of his evening meal to the
last morsel. Afterward bis terrible guest
disappeared.
According to the New York Commer¬
cial Advertiser, since 1860 more than 60,-
000 bodies have been buried in the Pot¬
ter’s Field on Hart’s Island. There are
no single interments, The bodies arc
placed in trenches, dug in regular rows,
forty-five feet long, fourteen feet wide,
and ten feet deep. Each of these pits
will hold one hundred and fifty bodies.
The builder of the famous J iggins’ ralt
that went to pieces in the ocean n year or
two ago, is goinir to try the experiment
again with a still larger raft. It will Le
750 feet long and contain 60,000 logs,
and will stait from New Brunswick to
New York in May.
A shell, believed to be one fired dur¬
ing the revolutionary fight on Long Is¬
land, ov< r one hundre 1 years ago, whs
exp od< d rfrhile two boys who un. artbed
it were trying td open it. Both were
knocked kown, and cifo seriously hurt.
A N«w Kind of Insnmnc-
has berfl put in operation by the manufac.
turers of Dr. Pierce’s medicines. His Golden
MedjCat Discoverv” and “Favorite Pre-crip-
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facturers’ positlvi Guarantee. Either benefit
or a complete cure medicines is thris Retained, returned. or mone> The
paid for these is
certificate of guarantee given in connection
with -ale of these mo Hemes U equivalent IH),,* toa
policy of insurance. Ihe
Discovery” cures ail hum >rs and h ood taints,
from whatever cause ari-ing, »kmand ecaP
<i'sea‘-e3. Scrofulous sores a ail tho-e de-
ramtements ^nd ‘ weaknese^peculiar to wo¬
men. _____—
.js-aggavwarjnas 1
Remedy. ______.
What is our life but an endlessflighr<f
winged facts or events ! In p eodul rar.euy
the-e Chanted come, all putting questions
thehrimstm spir
Dangerous Tendencies
The foul matter dropping from the bead Into the
bronchial tube* or lungs may bring on bronchitis err
consumption, which reaps an Immense harvest of
deaths annually. Hence the necessity of giving ca¬
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cores catarrh by purifying and enriching the blood,
restoring and toning the diseased organs. Try the
peculiar medicine.
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of the brouchlal tubes aud terrible headache. 1 '—R.
gibbons, Hamilton, Ohio.
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Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. L HOOD * CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
One Dolla r
____
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C Swiss' ofai«tioa. By SID
p
Beware of Oli lm< a.o lor Catarrh that
Contain .ticr*«ry,
as Mercury wiil surelv de-troy the senee of
smell end comp'ete>y Utrarg** he whole sys¬
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to ihetrood you i-ftu p » -ih y derive from th-m
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