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VOL 1 —IS'0 71. III 0 0. T.HOMASVILLE, GEOEG1 A, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, UNCLE BEN DUGGER. In the Roll of a Warm, Live Young Lovor. Blue Ridge. Oa., July 31.—The Post of to-monjpw will continue its biography of^Uncle Ben Dugger, which has been so widely read throughout Georgia. The present chapter deals with the courtships of Uncle Ben whose heart beat warmly in his callow dtiys as ever heart of gallant thumped at the sqjjnd of fair lady’s voice. Once Uncle Ben received quite a heavy “mash { ” The young lady was all sweetness, but like all lovers, Benjamin had some ambitious rivals to encounter. He says he loved her to kill, and his rival gata him great deal of trouble and sleepless nights. He was awfully afraid some one would “cut him out,” as the coun try dandy expresses it. At last, how ever, he thought he had the thing se cure. He thought she was about to become his, aiid his nlonc. Exclu sively his ! How he gloated over the prospects of seeing his downcast rivals suffering the utmost agonies of disap pointment. jL One Sunday he started mjf see her and who should lie meet on*? the way but one'of his bitterest rivals who was looking seriously despondent. How- ever, on Dugger asking the cause of his despondency, he replied that their old sweetheart had just married at nine o’clock to the “other fellow.’’ DUGGER WAS COM tM.ETEI.Y STAC GERED. It was almost beyond his compre hension. The more he and his form er rival talked the matter over the sicker they grew. Dugger got so sick he had to vomit. Ho says earnestly that this came very near killing him This sick spree and that caused by Bledsoe electioneering against him at Ellijay, he says, were the severest strains to which his constitution has ever been subjected. In order to di vert his miud from this great calami ty he set in to courting another girl and was so unfortunate ns to fall love with her. The more lie courted her, the more be loved her, until at last he actually proposed to her. She thought lie was joking, and told him all right. He procured his license and had an expensive dinner (infair as the cracker calls it) prepared. He secured the services of a justice of the peace, and invited quite a number of his friends; and started for his girls’ home to get married. When they arrived THE YOUNG I.ADY REFUSED TO HAVE HIM. He threatened to sue her for breach of contract, hut she would not be scared into coupling up for life with Benjamin Carter Dugger, nor any body else. The party then left, and Bcnjnmiu was suffering intense men tal agony. He tried to sell back the lisense at half price, but the ordinary would not receive it at any price. The idea! He soon recovered from his shock and started out with re- renewed energy. After some consid erable prospecting lie “tackled” one who would not talk to him. He be gan to love her so hard that he could hardly wait for Sunday to come. He would talk about her, and write to her at least twice a week not to let any one “cut him out.” He *was afraid some of the boys who lived closer to the girl than he, would beat him. He secured the services of a young man who lived near her, and went to COURTING BY PROXY. The young fellow let on to Dugger like the girl thought more of him than her own soul. Dugger thought lie had the world trottled. But his proxy, iustend of courting for Benja min, was really putting in full time for himself aud was making a tool of Dugger. One Sunday Ben shaved and put on a clean shirt, qqd started to sec her, thinking of her every step. On his arrival he found his girl ai d the fellow who had pretended to be his friend on the floor and a minister performing the marriage ceremonies. Benjamin Carter fainted, but- his friends brought him back to l{fe by dashing a bucket of cold water in his face. He explained his swoon by saying he had accidentally swallowed some tobacco juice. He felt that his cake was dough.. He was getting out of date. HE WAS AN EASY VICTIM to nlmost any shrewd young man who came along. Upon the recommen dation of some of the young folks, he began courting an old-like girl. They told him flattering tales of her en chanting beauty. Dugger wrote her, giving a complete discretion of him self. In due time a reply came, con taining a marvelous account of her self and wealth. This was too) much for him—he was just obliged to see her in person. He started to see his now mash, 150 miles away. When he arrived at the town where she lived, his friends shined him up, and he put an a standing collar and big cuffs. After they hud thoroughly drilled him and instructed him how to act in C OMPANY OF ARISTOCRATS, they took him over and introduced him and left. He found the reverse of what he had expected ; his brilliant drenras were far from being realized. She was a perfect hag 1 After some minutes of paiuful silence, she re marked to Dugger: “You are much older than I ex pected.” “You are much uglier than I ex pected,” retorted Dugger, and with that he picked up his hat and uncere moniously left. He went home just as quick ns he could get there. He says only those who have such trials, know how any one feels to get into such a fix. He says it .is just awful to get disappointed in love. He repeat edly made love to an old neighbor until his dear "Polly" cut her out, and put a stop to his* courtship by marrying him, and he has been the happiest of mortals ever since. This closes his enpid column. Then and Now. George Stephenson was the engin eer who introduced railroads into England, and consequently into our country. His fust locomotive was constructed at Killingworth colliery, not very efficient, but improved sub sequently up to the “steam blast,” and Stephenson, in 1821, was appointed engineer for the Stockton and Dar lington railway. In the same year the pYoject of a railroad lietween Liverpool apd Manchester was start ed, to be managed by Stephenson. Proposing, as he did, to run at the rate of twelve miles an hour, stamped the .project as a bubble. “Twelve miles an hour!” exclaimed the Quar terly Review; “as well trust one’s self to be fired off on a congrcve rocket.” After many difficulties the line was completed in 1829, Then Stephen son’s‘engine pulled through at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour, one of the directors exclaiming: “George Stephenson has at last delivered ltim- Sauabbling Over the Seals. It is very difficult to predict what part the British meu-of-war will tako in the complications in Behring sea There arc now three British gun boats and three American armed cruisers here, besides the English Champion, w%ich has sailed for the north to join her majesty’ssquadron. The fact that England, America, Japan and Russia have entered into aconvention for the protection of seals on their .breeding grounds, gives this country the right to seize and impound all crews found in Behring sea on this mission. The whole case amounts to about this : The seals begin to pass from the Pacific ocean into Behring sea some time in May. This they do to reach the coast of Alaska, the only place in the world where seals arc known to breed. Alaska is . owned by the United States, and the duty of protect ing the fisheries during this season devolves upon this country. England can only be present in Bill- ring sea as a spectator, or to aid Amer ica in police duty’. For during the three months of the summer the reck less shooting of seals, without regard to age orsex, threatens toexterminale the principle industry of Alaska and to cut short the seal supply of the Pacific, which is of value to all the nations. When it is known that over 50,000 seals were unlawfully destroy ed in 1880-’87, some idea may be form ed of this work of extermination. The Russian Frigate Cragorc, the American frigate Thetis and revenue cutters Bear aud Rush, nnd the English mcn-of war Swift-sure,’Icarius. Amphion nnd Champion, may be relied upon to make things lively in the cold regions during the heated term. Meanwhile the seals rather enjoy the complication.—Augusta Chronicle. The venerable Peter Cooper invent ed the first locomotive” built in the United States in the shops of Reed- side, Stockton and Stokes, Baltimore, Richard Finlay the directing me chanic. The boiler stood upi ight in the car, not much larger than a modern kitchen range, the cylinder three and a half inches in diameter, and the speed gotten up by gearing and a blowing apparatus used to generate the steam. Cooper made a trial trip carrying the officers of the road to Ellicott’s mills, making fifteen miles an hour. Stockton A Stokes had their fine span of gray horses attached to a return car on one of the tracks for the return of Cooper’s party, and, taking an even start, by the misfor tune of a band slipping off the blow ing apparatus, Cooper’s iron horse was beaten by Stockton’s into the city. The world has moved, moved with startling rapidity. And the surprises ore not all exhausted yet. A Startler for Masons. Chicago, July 30.—A special from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, says: An action was begun yesterday in the district court at Marion that will startle Masonic citizens more than anything else, perhaps, of late years. Judge Preston, of the eighteenth judi cial district, on the petition of C. E. Barnes, of Burlington, J. C. Graves and Henry Bennett, plaintiffs, aud grand officers of the Iowa consistory of that branch of Scottish Rite Mason ry, commonly known as the Cernau, ordered a temporary injunction against the grand lodge of -Iowa, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, restraining them from puttingiutoeffect the legis lation of the last session of the grand lodge referring to the Corcnian bodies, and which commended Master Masons to leave the consistory of Iowa of that rite under punishment of expulsion. ALLEGATION OF THE PETITION. The petition states that as the body represen ted. by tlie’plaintills docs not confer blue lodge degrees and tbe grand lodge or its subordinate lodges do not confer 2!> higher degrees, the grand lodge lias no jurisdictioji what ever, and its action is illegal, arbitrary and oppressive of their individual consistories and Masonic relations and hurtful to their staiwling as good and reputable citizens. This is the first time a Masonic body lias appealed to tbe state courts, aud the action of the supremo court, to which it will finally go, will be a pre cedent for other states. The time for hearing arguments for a perjtotual injunction will be during the October term of court at Marion. “Why the Norsman” Grieves. Northern “hot journals” arc once more stirred up on the negro ques tion. This time it is not.the political but industrial phrase of the sombre prob lem which engages them. The negro question has been a boomerang to the Northern fanatic for lo 1 these many generations. Let us see: • At first the negro was a failure at the North. The climate was too cold for him. His habits were too slovenly. So the New England slave trader sold him to. the unsuspecting Southern brother, who put him to work i i the cotton patch. The negro throve nnd the Southern brother grew wealthy. This excited the righteous rage of the Northern man and he sent down his barn-burn ers to stir up the negro to insurrec tion. The seditionists were hung and then the North organized an army and succeeded in freeing the negro and made him a voter. Then the South got the benefit of his representation in Congress nnd the electoral college. Once more did the Northern philanthropist foam at the nozzel. lie called for bayonets and leputv marshals. Now comes on another harrowing phase for New England. In some sections of the South the negro is be ing utilized in the factories and found ries. The labor is tractable and cheap and the men teachable up to a certain point. So Southern men threaten to become competitors through their old field bands with Northern manufac turers. Their greatest bowl -is over this last. The Northern fauntieswore that tbe negro was not getting good wages. But the Chattanooga “Trades man” 1ms examined into tne matter and says that the negro labor is get ting good pay in those industries where be has been tried. Now what is the Northern brother going to do about it? Is be going to banish the brothcr-in-black ? The brothcr-in-black docs not propose to be banished, and the people of tbe South do not want him to go. Failing, from their own “holes in the sky to tee the black heels upon white necks,” the Northern brother is sad. More than this, he is mad.— Augusta Chronicle. PRICES! AT- LEVY’S Mr. Benuing Moore, of Bumph A Moore, the great fruitgrowers of Mnr- slmlvillc, says: "There e:, 1 three things we want here,anil we arc going to have them before the next fruit season. They are, first a crate factory, next an ice factory, anil thirdly a canning factory.” Thomasvillc has the ice factory ami the crate manufacturing establish ment. Now let her add a cunning and evaporating establishment. Brunswick threatens to boycott Sa- yannah. Don’t. He Explained the Law. A Washington lawyer, with a coal blank skin and a deep bass voice, re cently said in the trial of a case : “De crime ob laheeny consists in de takin’ ob a t’ing Bum whar ’tis an’ pu tin’ ob it tvhah ’taint. De intent, gemmen ob dc jury,” Itc went on, with the most solemn earnestness, "am what makes de crime. Foil instance, yoh looks into a ficl’ and yob sees a horse; yob says to yoh’sill, ‘Dat’s a nice horse, I’d like to hah dat horse.’ ’ faint laheeny yii. Yoh goes into de fief an’ yoh puts yoh han’ on dc bridle. ’Taint laheeny yit. Yoh leads dat horse out into dc road. ’Taint laheeny yit. But do fus’ t’ing yoh knows yoh say to yoh’se’f. I’se gwinc ter keep dat horse fob myse’l an’ deprive de owfialt ob him.’ Den it’s laheeny.” A Poor Joke, But a Costly One. It seems that the members of the legisla ture regarded as u joke the resolution that they should accept no pay for the days of the session on which they do no work. How do tlie taxpayers regard it? Each day of the session costs the taxpayers about $1,500, and it tlie legislature adjourns from Fridays to Mondays each week, it would seem as if they paid for sometkiug which they do not receive. It receiving pijy for days on which tlie legislature is nothin session is a joke, it is at tlie expense of tile taxpayers. The above, from the Savannah News, hits the nail on the head. The press of the state ought to air this abuse thoroughly. It needs airing badly. I.ilc is made up of greetings and farewells, of good mornings and good nights. ’What we call “experience” is only the vale between sunrise and sun set.—Brunswick Times. Our Mr. Levy is now in New York making Fall purchases, and lie lias sent; us word to KNOCK DOWN PRICES on all sum mer goods, and make room for our immense Fall and Winter stock that is coming. So, from now on, all Spring aud Summer goods go at old “Knocked Down Prices.” Remnant table full of choice bargains every week. Levys Dr; Buds Hotsi Mitchell House Corner.