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A sky darkened by cloud* hurrying
before driving winds,* sea gray-fiteed and
wrinkled, (oaring restlessly beneath a
niaM of barren rook* upon which stood
a (all light house, made up the dreary
picture Holdah Donne was gating upon
with such wistful Intentneass. Her gray
oyea preaently toltewed (be swoop a* ao
osprey, and hi* aftpr-flfebt upwards
with hia prey iu hi* talons. ; al ' '* : u
*•1 would rather be thatfish-hawk
tlinn Huldah Deane." ate: Midi, giving
expression to Mir gloomy thought*, “I
must stay bore day in, year out—hero,
whore nothing tepputeL whore the 8*%
fret*, and
Captain’* pipe, tomb the tower and do
chores for the dame. Wife rates (that
else 1 do or what become* of me? Yea
old sea, I’d rather be a fish-hawk and
suatch the tiah from you, than be Hul-,
dah Deane. Oh, dear! If something
would only happen! If I coulddo
thing great or wonderful-r-ga out lu a
life-lx-at to save drowning folks or—"
“Huldah! Huldah Desne!” the quick,
iiu|mtient call reached her, even above
the roaring of the surf. It way Captain
1 >ut ton’s voice. "Come right in a spell,
an’ I can’t make It out."
Huldah obeyed In awed silence. A
spell the captain couldn’t make out must
la- very had. she thought. What If site
or anybody elso could could pot make it
out? And, alas! who could understand
the fixed stare of tbs dame's kind eyes,
or the pinched shrinking of the features
ho suddenly grown unfamiliar40the two
who dwelt under the same roof with her ?
“She's got to hcv the doctor, as aeon as
lie can 1k- fetched, Huldy."
“The doctor from shore?'-’ questioned
the girl. . , > ■ . «.
-’Certain, There's pone closer* as I
know. Do you?"
-•No,” she gravely answered, “but the
main land's a long way off, and a storm
i> rising."
•‘It makes no difference," said Cap
tain Dutton, stubbornly. “She’s been a
I mother to me, un’ site’s in a bad
lix. The doctor’s got to Ik- fetched,
that’s all ”
l.i bis rough good-natured way, the
Captain loved his mother as he loved
mulling else.
•‘hi s),e should die, I want her to know
sbomeliow as 1 tried to do my duty by
her la't of all. And lliily"—laying liis
hand on the girl’s shoulder—“I ain’t
coneetued hut what she’ll be took care
on as fi.r as you can do it child. It’s
hard ii.u-s to leave a young one like you
here w ith such trouble, but there’s no
help (or it. I’ll fetch the doctor as soon
as 1 kin, leastways 'fore the sun drops.
No sailor kin say as Kyle Dutton missud
lightln’ the beacon wl’ the Inst ray o’
sunshine, or turnin’off lamps as the sun
step|Msl cn**t the horison.”
••l,ivin\ l’lf be hero in time for that,
duldy."
lb- nodded and went away.
Huldah shivered as she glanced down
at the motionless figure on the couch be
low. Maybe she would be loft thus ut
terly alone for hours—for days. Her
breath came hurriedly. It seemed to
her more ihnu she could bear. Franti
cally she forced open the window, and
thrusting her head through, shouted
herself hoarse in a vain effort to make
Capt. Dutton hear lier above the miring
of llie sea. The boat tossed from wave
to wave, plunged further and further
away.
salute. The storm moaned and shrieked
too, hiding her face in her ahawl.
flfbat happened? Again the winged
And it was tmt a few hours ago that
Huldah lm<l wished she might have hud
an opportunity hi do some,heroic deed.
Now she said to herself: “You. were a
pitiful ooward then, Huldah Deane. You
brave enough to go into a life boat to
save drowning folks! You deserve to be
notliinglietter Ilian a tisli hank. Be
cause Daiue Dutton lies ill yonder, and
the Captain goes off to fetch a doctor, is
that any reason you should go into
s|atsiiia of fright? For shame, remember
what father told you that night he sailed
away never to come back any more:
"l>o your duty always, Huldah." Isn’t
it your duty now, foolish girl, to get
right down from here and sec to poor'
Mrs. Dutton?”
Closing the window, she descended
front her perch to renew herexertlons
for >he relief of the poor Dame. But
toil, as she might, nothiug she could do
would change the fixed attitude, or calm
the quiek drawn breath that told of bit
ter suffering.
Presently tlie -lay began to wane. The
clouds range ! themselves in solid mass
es, and darkness and storm besieged the
sea-girt tower. Crossing to the clock in
the corner, she scanned its face. “Five
o’cloekSo late ? Why the sun is down
in less than halt an hour, and the cap
tain will lose, his place if the beacon is
not lightened by sundown. But what
. an I do? It’s the order, be says, that
women and children shan’t have any
thing to do with the lights."
“Well, I’m hardly a child, I suppose,
but neither am I a woman. Ships may
be lost if the beacon is not lit. Then
lighting the lantern the captain always
used, she hung it on her arm, and after
one more look at the sick woman, left
the chamber.
Almost at the tl reshhohl began the
seemingly endless stairway, winding up
into regions of height and loneliness. She
did not allow herself to hesitate now,
but began the ascent hurriedly. A tear
ful journey it scorned through the dark-
neas, broken only by fitful glimmerings
of her lantern, and now and then cross
rays of light front tlio alita of windows
in the thick walls. Clasping the iron
rails, she toiled on, her limbs failing,
her heart thumping, and her brain In a
whirl. Not until she had icached the
top step did she drop down to rest. Ex
hausted liy fatigue and nervons excite
ment, she had to recover strength before
she could even open the door Into the
lantern room.
Fortoaatoly tha goal. JUBMMM
wearied and dripping plumage. Ah!
no«r she understood. Once Captain Dot-
ton had told her of a storm bird break
ing one of bis transparencies. Attracted
byitjteMght, doubtless, this wanderer has
against the glass.
There was one thing to bejdone. She
coold not hope to relight the lamps until
those blasts were shut out. She must
find another frame and transparency.
How the descent was accomplished
Huldah could never think without a
shudder. At the very outset, when sh?
had grouped her way to the landing,and
succeedeo in relighting her little Jantora,
the door which she latched behind her
flew open, giving outlet to those terrible
wludB, which tore at her clothing sav
agely, extinguishing her light, an I leav-
ing her again In darkness. Of necessity
she Stood atill until the currents had
strangled each other, and sunk down In
to the depths of gloom below her. Then,
ttettlng her eyes tightly, she went on
her perilous journey. j
From the basement stores she procur
ed the frame and fixtures, and running
With them by the same winding route
upwards, found it not such a difficult
thing to unbinge and replace the shat
tered transparency, the tempest having
lulled slightly, and the force of the wind
being broken. Yet by the time her task
was completed, and the lamps relit, her
strength failed her. Vaguely thiuking
that maybe she was going to die, she fell
upon the floor, and with a deep drawn
sigli her eyes dosed.
******
Four hours later, an inspector from
the mainland passing to the islbnd light-
huus was hailed by tiie Captain of a brig
which had weathered the storm and
come to auchor for repairs.
“What ails the tower light, sir?" he
asked of the officer, nodding towards the
the beacon, through the transparencies
of which ft steady stream of light was
still pouring through tlie sun was doing
its best to dim Us glory.
Tlie insjK-ctor frowned. “I only know
that the keeper's neglecting hia duty.”
The sailor shook his head. “Some
thing more’s amiss, I’m thinkiug. The
light comes near playing us a jack-o’-
lantern trick just before day. She put
on her night cap all of a sudden, and
’twas like the polar star had let loose o'
tlie compass needle. A little tuorn’n
we’d ’a dished upon the reefs, only site
waked up and showed us her shiners.
And not a wit.k had she took since.
Somewhat’s wrong. Cap’ll. Dutton’s
been prompt as the sun these twenty,
years.”
‘•Captain Dutton? It’s Captain Kyle
Dutton that’s keeper of the lighbouse
yonder?" asked one of the brig’s pass
engers, starting forward, excitedly.
“Yes, Kyle* Dutton. He’s a queer
chap, but he ain’t the fellow to shirk
duty.”
In a moment tlie stranger had asked
to be put ashore.
The landing was effected with little
risk, but those of the boat’s crew' who
ascended the cllft and sought entrance
to the tower, found themselves baffled.
The ladder was gone, the iron door bar
ren, and their pounding awoke no re
sponse, other than muffled echoes from
the interior.
“We may get in through a window,"
said thF inspector “Hodges, fetch the
boat-hook."
1 he hook was brought, and at the
second throw, caught over the iron bal
cony uuiler Dame Dutton’s window.
The inspector climbed the rope, fol
lowed by the others, and soou admission
was gained to the room beneath. ■ - —
“neru’soneof the “Seven Sleepers,"
said Dick Trail, going up to tlie couch.
He started back. “Why, It’s the Cap
tain’s mother, and she looks as if she
wei~ dying.
Two of the men gathered closer to see
what they could do ior the poor w oman,
and the others began to search the tow
er. No clue to the mystery, if mystery
uJmfSESym excursion left 1
city for Henry county that was des
tined to meet with many strange ad
ventures. The party consisted of about
fifty young ladies and gentlemen,yell
known In society here, sndstri in
D. R. Castle-
Mrs. /George W.
the young' gentlemen
to a Commercial re-
her fate.
After l
what a e<
trimmed and supplied. with oil. Every
part of tlie machinery was also in work
ing order. Capt. Dutton was one of the
must careful of the lighthouse keepers.
“And he shall see that I do not mean
him to loose his place for oae night’s
failure to light the tower,” Huldah said,
her heart wanning for the first time to
the silent man who had, In hie way done
Ills duty by her as well as by the place
of trust he filed “Who knows, though,
hut this light may fall upon the very spot
where he lias gone down to the bottom
of the sea."
Again a shiver crept over the silent
figure, and only the blasiug forth of the
beacon dlspsP^d Iri* *ivM-fotriy* - One
by one the lamp* fluttered up,- and were
turned into place. The reflectors, pel
ished to the uttermost, caught the cheer
ful rays, and win them iu * ftp-teauhed
circle of radiance out through-the dark-
nan and the storm, to give warning to
those who were ‘gone down to sea in
ship*.*’
Bet this was only thu beginning of
Huldah'a work. It wa* a chief pkyt of
the keeper’s duty, she knew, to see that
the light* burned undimmed throughout
the night. Now. however, *tte must re
turn to attend to the dame awhile. But
a* the turned to go, (bore waa a audden
creating of the glass about ter, a whirl
ing awoop of soma swift-winged creature
overhead, a gust ot wind, a Hating circle
of lights, and then darkness, rsylerie.ab-
it contained, was found below. Togeth
er in silence, they mounted the winding
stairway.
A flood of mellow light poured npou
the group as the officer opened the door
into the lantern-room. There upon the
floor bathed in the glory, lay Huldah
Deane. To her locked senses, lulled into
unconsciousness by the roar of the storm-
laslied ocean, the tumult ill the tower
had never ceased.
She was only awakened now by feel
ing herself lifted in a pair of stout arms,
and strained to tlie breast of the stran
ger seaman.
“ Huldah! Huldah! My little one! my
daughter!” she heard a tender voice
■nurmurln, and in her glimmer of con.
scionsness, felt hot tears dropping on
.face. „
the first wild emotion of joyi
_ _ sense of rest the child had, fed-
iuganns of her father. For the stron
ger, who had endured shipwreck and
danger, was none other thau Huldah’s
father.
With the name of Dyle Dutton, who
lia<l taken Hnldah from the orphanage
where he had placed her before sailing
on hia last voyage, to ' furnish him a
clew. Captain Deane, after a vain
search of months, had been guided into
the presence of the child by the beacon
her little hand had lighted.
There were honest tears in tlie eyes
looking upon this tennion; neither did
owfUfthose strong hearts fail to respMAT
with a thrill of admiration, as thedaugh-
ter recounted to her father the trials to
which her fortitude and courage had
been during the past night of tempest
and awful solitude. ‘ -
It was several hours later that Kyle
Dutton returned from the mainland. His
boat had been washed ashore 2!id only
after a terrible struggle had ha succeed
ed In reaching a place where there'were
kindly hands to succor him. With him
came ffie physician he had gone to seek.
The thailpw of death that hung over tlie
lighthouse during that terrible night waa
lifted, and before many days the, good
dame was able to join In tljfc rejoicing
over tbs happiness that had come to Hulr
dull Deane,
e care at New. Castle
in wagons to Dren-
r e had hardly reached
there when It began to rain, and we
all huddled into an did chapel tojvait
UUtJfojjalc. wns «v*jjh Prasetely fbe
sun came out bright and warm and
some off|£jira proposed that we
have a swim. Aa the young ladies did
not cg||1»fD'>tetMMhom i n tie chap
el anlbatertodhwfor'the creek. JI don't
know the name of the Infernal place,
but the rain, whiejh waa rather heavy,
had made it ratter deep. We didn’t
‘hang our clothes on a hickory limb,*
like the girl in the song,-Milt Waded
out of thicreek and
laid them carefully on a big flat rock,
where they wouldn’t get wet. Then
we started in fer a good old time. We
splashed around in the water, jump
ing and swimming about for half sn
hour or more. Unconsciously we got
further and further away from Die
rock where our clothes lay, nor did
we notice that the creek was slowly
rising. After a time we got tired of
the water and started for our clothes.
We waded down the creek, and the
water, which before was just above
our knees, now covered our waists.
We looked for the rock, but could see
nothing of it. One of the young men
happened to look down the creek, uud
away off fifty yards from where we left
our clothes he saw a part ol his under
clothes floating on the stream.
"Then we knew what had happen
ed, and tlie nature of our calamity
struck us with fell force. Here we
were without Mottling and without
any visible means of getting anything
to put on, nearly ten miles from any
town, and with thirty pretty girls to
take home. What in the devil were
we to do? we asked. It was out of the
question to go to the young ladles in
our fix. We couldn’t stay where we
were. We couldn’t walk back to New
Castlewlthout clothing. Soon some
one suggested apian. fifre were to
draw lots to see who would go back to,
A line of trees, some ten or
yard, apart, extended up to
they were.
The man to whose lot it fell to see
the gjrls waa to crawl along from one
tree to, another till he came within
hailing'distance, tell them-wliat was
the matter, leathern go back to town
and aeiiid us help. We had Jnstabout
dscided on bis plan when the enemy
Half a dozen of tlie
ies got it into their beads to
o _ an exploring expedition, and
sauntered off to the right and left of
the trees. A snake couldn't crawl
between the trees that these girls
couldn’t see. We began to get cold
and were huddled together in a bunch
and every time t&e breeze struck our
bodies we shivered dismally.
Just at hub*time Will Caplinger
happened along, and we told him our
trouble. He volunteered to help u».
He started off to the girls and gother-
ed thetp all together. Then he broke
the news to thorn. Most of them
laughed till they cried, and then, af
ter a short consultation, they-stgieed
to help us. They said it; would be
foolitfo to leave ua there all night till
they got aid; tbe best plan would be
to get some of their clothes. “We
have plenty of underclothes and
tilings," • said a pretty little girl,
blushing deeply. The girls all went
into the old chapel and began to de
cide what articles they could beet dis
pense with. One young lady con
tributed her overskirt, another her
undershirt, and a third her immacu
lately white petticoat. Besides these
there was a dozen other articles that I
won’t name. When the girls came
out they handed the things to Mas-
terson and he carried them over to us.
I hardly know how we did get them
on. I had a petticoat and an under
shirt- pinned back after the iatest
fashion and some rigging about my
shoulders, the name of which I do not
know.
“One of tlie other fellows had on a
kind ofanight gown, with tucks and
ruffles and lace and things.. It bad
plenty of lace on it, too. We were a
hard looking crowd, and a comical
crowd, as we got into the wagons and
started back for New Castle. It would
take a man to see us to have any idea
how ludicrous we looked in those
girl’s dresses. A big gang was wait-'
ing for us at New Castle, and you
ought to have heard them cheer when
the man with the night-gown, low-
neck, short sleeves arrangement got
off. They fairly howled themselves
hoarse. Most of us lost our watches
and all our clothes and money. A
few saved their shoes and under
clothes, and one or two their coats.’’
with
Mr. J. B. Toomer, we visited' oar
triend Mr. Wkn-'^- DedOtite psteent
owner of the CstPpotliifeffDe fltece,
situated on thy Lexlnteoyfoafliftbout
five miles from this' city.' This, spot
is known throughout.Utis’ state, being
for nearly a century a great watering
place for travelers. The house seta
back In a stately grove,while immedi
ately in front bubble* up aboldppring
of oryi-tal water; while stretching aa
for as the eye can reach, up and down
shoal creek, are the very finest bot
toms, now verdant with lnxuriant
crops of corn and cotton. You can
stand in the piazza of the house and
see stretched before ypu a small world
of crops. Mr. Dean is certainly an
enterprising citizen. Besides bring
ing his fields up to a high state of cul
tivation, he is greatly Improving that
place and patting tbe buildings In
splendid repair. He has just com
pleted a new gin house, to be operated
by steam, that is certainly one of the
most convenient we have ever in
spected. It is constructed on an en
tirely - a—t mM, Mri M -*"
horse'wagou.
, and te ifloved^the^ef-
. Iwss standing beside
road as they passed, and noticed
rear> *
<art. He Wl .
teen years old, but
boy of ten or eleven,
and in hte,flhirt-
ueer-looklng "ob-
my attention ‘at
manly, Independent
prob'ab 1
ftHfliMtoUlkteMpri SfrCtew#IP
ed Idjniaboirt-the probable rawWstte
forMr- HUl’sphuxsin'the United State*
senate from Georgia:?; Our -friend -m*: i
marked that two or three worthy gentle
men were mtetionteltt'the place, but
that!’nCtblrig definite'tffcS ^ct knowh of
- IhllSlVi) .VWifroedli* if
with much less expense than the
generality of them. Attached to hfo
engine he has a wood *iate"
with which he prepares all
his stove and fire wood, at a great
saving of labor. He also intends to
add a corn mill, cotton seed crusher,
and other splendid improvements to
bis farm.
When Mr. Dean first took charge of
this place the bottom lands had been
for years thrown out, and were a Wil
derness pt swamp and BertaH&UBiflfo,
The first thing he did waa tocute
ditch over s mile long to , confine t^e
ilaln
creek within its banks; and having ia
splendid fall he soon had the land
drained. But be encountered an ene
my, if possible worse than the water,
in Bermuda grays,- Hia neighbors and
stated that they-would doWMtedq>8
to cultivate the land tor pU it would
make; Hut hews* notto- be -deterred
and began tbe work of exterarinatthg
this enemy to agriculture. First he
purchased a small Pony plow, to
which he hitched two males
and thus easily turned the cod over,
the.sqme.bgjflg.'fiHt jrltft * JKatt Jjftlg!
front of the plow. This accomplished
he waited undl a rain bad fallen, and
while the ground waa gamp putp re-
voicing harrow to Work and succeed-
ed in tearing all the rails loose -front'
the earth, after which its extermina
tion was an easy matter. He says it
is folly to attempt to kill this grass by
plowing it with rippers, but you must
turn it over, so as the teeth of the har
row can get at the roots.. The coq#K
quence was he nakdA a Amt trap, tha
first year, pad has certainly got the
enemy in aj&)Uw|k^ of extermination.
He gets rid of bull rushes the
Bermuda gr|A. ( 1
We took a stroll with Mr. Dean over
his crop, and a finer prospect we have
never seen. He has ohodt' one-third
of his bottoms planted in cotton, that
is very vigorous and well filled with
bolls and blooms, wlth a late seadou
he wUlonntost of this land make a
bale per acre. One patch, belonging
to Mrs. Dean, a practical farm*? days
will make two bales per acre this year.
Bast season this lady, with her cook,
made five bales of cotton, and it was a-
poor crop year, too. Mr. D. says that
cotton pays him better on bottomland
thau corn, where It is well drained.
We walked' through *, mlle of aa fide
corn as our eyes ever beheld, much of
which will average, it la thought, fif
ty bushels per aicre. It seems- that
Mr. Dean will not only be able hereaf
ter to “live at home and board at* the
same place,” but will doubtless have
corn to sell. He has 1,200 acres in title
track, but other farms adjacent
that aggregate between 3,000 and 4,000
acres.
Besides his farm the dairy, under
the supervision of Mrs. Mayne, moth
er to Mrs. Dean, yields a handsome
revenue, for her butter has such a rep
utation that it Is taken by an Athens
house the yearrontad at thirty cents
per pound. We Inspected her dairy,
which is a model of neatness. They
churn now about fifteen gallons per
day. Mre. M. has the best invention
in the way of a churn we ever saw. It
is double, with oue compartment for
the milk and another for the warm
water, with a thermometer to tell
when the cream is at the right tem
perature. This-lady says it is but*
moment’s work to bring batter wi^h
any churn when it la at tha proper
temperature.
We spent a delightful day.
D ‘tfie point, and ,. f „
‘ ‘ ‘ every woed.heJa.-nal-tenasindrfKouhtnet eo soon vacate
sresa ttrsuKiJi«
- Csstfiy Guards will tote
“ Allen through in our county, if the
other.sectiona will do their duty."
Bermuda Grave.
An illopement.
Tb* DenghUr cfOol. All— OeaSlar •» «ke Hue-
Bridge Christy for Candler.
JJanirltriUe Monitor.
When wo took charge of tlifi Monitor
we dm not expect to take aides actively
either wsyft^he Congressional canvass.
But having become thoroughly .convinced
of tfafi fact that BXr. Speer bos been try-
barter the'rights and- Interests of
ou Ipte fog * miserable insss ofGov-
cn ntal pottage', a stern sense of duty
‘ impels us to
■ Wanted m Discount.
J =
After Necker’s third wife was buried,
Dan Ptdter presented a bill to the bereav
ed husband, who had already married
again:
“Todlgln grav fur y< r 3d wife—f8 dol-
lers.”- “Thunderation!" exclaimed
Necker: “that’s too much when I give
ye all my business In that line. I’l
give ye a bushel of beans an* call It
square.
“Can’t do it," said Dan.
“Well, then, after this I’ll dig t.vy own
graves," said the economical Necker,
of influence towards
.uently we this
ner to the breeze,
of Hon. Allen
uf the recent
as ovr candidate
intt\ district,
demon. iA every
the posUiuju of
are satijjlrd be
every particle of
to advance the
people and sec
Xtew. w gAnevyr be any room tor
^nt against him tliatgH) used bis
appointment of
tut bffices. when
found, white men much
better qualified tor
whojlrojil.l b»ve filial
-tlie people,
lie'
that
in these .
ever influence wo may have, in this cam
paign, fot Candler and against Speer.
While a Georgia farmer was digging
' uoes, a few days ago, barefooted, bis
toe worked up through the loose
uu., which he mistook for -a snake's
head, and with a violent lick cut It eff
Wlththo hoe.
positions, and
them far more
Atlanta Herald. *
From a passenger who reached Atlan
ta to-day from Gainesville, Use Herald
learns that Sunday last, Miss Gena C*a-
dler, the fourteeh-year-old da
ter or Col. Allen D. Candler, of Gaines
ville, eloped with Mrs William Ate
of that place.' The couple left Gaines
ville in the atoning, giflng In IfhUllilflt
in Forsyth county, where they were mar
ried yesterday. This morning Colonel
Candler received the information ol his
daughter’s marriage to Mr. Ashford,
is stated tbss i another ample from
Gainesville, accompanied them for the
same purpose. Whether this couple .was
alike successful, our Informant coqld
not state. •*••» - i ‘
Whet wee
Bailed on an A ere’.
> 11Lviv- tktrm vD
jnd a' very strong on*f.‘ !l
la’nofefetto why - th* gov'CtVofc-ti
not be in the n2X u lH^'hIs , ‘fidlMMi'u^‘
hiqs^pri^nu; aa governor, ant*,*#!
teiV’f. wJhfctfeto teTSlcvtW-. He
P*»W*S*-adptfryjqn,
°f»n|»fete!yi!Mte fWtferfiQflPWfo-
Governor Colquitt hpa,
mtitmpl *.»f-
*«w Mv jfwrtte,
tattoii ftutafctawA .w-*rgmiftfc
»*>!*»*««* jp Jhe jea# of ,
U. because Jtft JX*a jcgi^trs
eelings of commendable delicacy.
>*&fcme'-hbw?te»eVer? thiUhe’tehybe
considered *qaatelM»tfce'Wc«'"w.>*’
hot th*-^bforli6r now perSbhally
fcffiepttdtflrt?!’ " •’*» »*» <*«
*‘Ye», ’*ff.“ The ‘l£ovdrftor is how in
possession«f an amfrfe fortune. He has
realized vety bandshAely from business
operations of the past two years, and-his
connection with the Georgia Pacific rail
road has netted him, with Gordon, near
ly a quarter of a million of dollars each.
The governor has been all over the state,
bunted down and.piud up every debt he
ever owed; lias purchased one or two
plantaUous, and is, I should say, very
comfortably off.”
“Then Governor Colqnitt lias more
business sense than many people would
give him credit for?"
“Bless me, yea. It is a mistake to
suppose that the governor is not a man
of thrift and business capacity. He is a
man of fine ideas and financial ability.
l k „ e . pt .. t .J 1 A 8 “ P . His embarrassment of late, years has
lieen owing to the failure of a firm upon
v-hose paper lie had - placed his name,
end with whose misfortunes his own
possessions disappeared. Hut he has re
covered his footing and is able to hold
his own with tha world.’’
“ WiUho have Governor Brown's influ
ence?" ' l " ,
‘*1 think it very llkely. Tlie two gov
ernors are warm personal friends, and
the support of the one may l>e safely
counted on "for the other. They'would
work together harmoniously as col
leagues in the senate."
•’Who else are spoken of as candi
dates'?” ‘ ’ '■* e '” , ' * ■'
I hear the name* of °hief Justice
James Jackson and of JHon, N. J. Ham
mond mentioned in this connection
Both have strong friends and are men of
marked ability. General Gordon will
hardly oppose Governor Colquitt."
“How about Mr. Stephens?”
“Mr.' ^teteepS hiss Aeelinai! to run.
finl
determined,
and just as ( honorable and honest as
human nature ever gets to be. What
ever^* NtfiHpHBM ff)it
wellj.be It plowing hia oxor teaching
school. He was one of the most inde
pendent, boys, too, you ever «aw,~ahd
would resent an affront at tbe drop of
the bat. Some one told him once
that Mr. Pruitt had complained about
his not doing his duty In tbe store,
where he was clerking. Allen made
no reply, but putting on his hat
marched atraight to the house, when
he reported to his employer what he
had heard and tendered his resigna
tion. Mr. Pruitt denounced tb? state
ment as false and told Allen that lie
w*8 : worth his weight in gold to nim.
Alfon always waa a book-worm, and
would Study until late at night after
gettlbgthrough with his business. He
sr close-flsted nor stingy,' but
lent and aa feat as he saved up
money would-gif to school for a few
months. He would then to go work
agalif, wnd kept this up until he was
able to graduate with the highest hon
or at Mercer University, I think. Af
ter this he opened a school in Banks.
1 made oue of tlie best teachers we
■e Over had there. The first money
earned after getting Iris education
a appropriated toward buying his
mother a nice home, that he settled
on her. When the war broke out he
was one of tee first to enter service,
and when it ended lie had the 'Tauk
of Colonel. I have talked witli a num
ber of boys who were with him all
through the war, and they say a bra
ver man or better sola ter never lived.
He wasjust like a father to bis men,
and while he was strict, would divide
hia teift crust with the private soldiers.
When a Colonel, the boys say they
haveUbkn him get’off hia horse mafiy
a time and stw, to let some sick scl-
dier have a lift. I have sorter lost
sight of Allen flar the past few years,
except what I read about him in the
papers. He is a great man, and a
pod one, too. Can he equal Mr.
{peer on the stump, you ask? Ifhc
hasn’t lost* great deal of his brain
sipoej knew hint Allen Candler can
hold his hand with any man.' He is
ry flowery, but his words are
adato' the point, and what is
There is no grass better adapted to t he
South than Bermuda. It seems to thrive
luxuriantly in a hot sun and endures
drouth. If the same pains were taken
with it as with other grass, there is no
telling how much it would yield per
acre. It loves a rich soil, and thrives
best where It can have good manure.
There is nothing more abused and un
derrated 1 than Bermuda grass. It is
looked on as a pest and a curse by some
farmers.
If the same grass was in some locali
ties in the North, the people would grow
rich by it. As it is, most farmers do
not value it in the south, but a Missis-
ipplan, writing to the Courier-Journal,
seems to appreciate its value to some
extent. He says: “One must go to
where a thing is scarce or not to be
fonml, in order to see it highly appreci
ated. ,,TJiu8, in Georgia, many planters
dread the Bermuda grass and take pains
to exterminate It. They think it hard
to subdue when it once gets a foothold,
while they all acknowledged it* value as
a fertilizer and a cure for washes.”
A Grand Gulf, Miss., correspondent of
the Courier-Journal roundly asserts tbat
Bermuda sod will sustain more stock
per acre, by half, than the finest cultiva
ted grass on earth, not excepting the re
nowned Kentucky blue grass. He quotes
tbe authority of a grazier near Corpus.
Chrlsti, Texas, who, having a tec-acre
patch of Bermuda, declares it gives more
pastnrage than any hundred acres of
mosquite grass on his ranch.
Our Mississippi friend says that his
milch cows and beef cattle keep seal-fat
on Bermuda alone, and, when driven off
to the cane-brake, will iuvarikbly find
their way back to the Bermuda; that he
sad his neighbors htva cut Bermuda,
from ono-and-a-half to two-and-a-half
to the acre; and iu fine, for all pur-
poses of hay, grass and pasturage, there
fs nothing on earth to compare with it,
phi||e, as a fertilizer, everybody agrees
(hat there is notliing equal to it.
On light, sandy soil, covered with this
pass, the sod will thicken every year,
ive'nwhefi submitted to tbe exhaustive
Ich no other
•ond adoubt, the
utilized, will be
ef* the most valuable of all Boutbe
-ssdeste**' Applied to our asternal
ier lov^r m iSOI, aua vvi^cTi cause.. - -
58: m&SSt «i«Ki¥
ntry. hole^ through which ne^
l td pass to gain admission to fhe'
eavel is abqutj&e {$St squaKs onj the
m Sin witfdwS
Silly as to almost
•sW
&fl°?r.
.... .. JWed,P !
which have fallen front
‘oh-through'-a narrow
forte* eeiituD-'g te—r lt*iw>tli
ble;‘howevfe?, fliat fytq
resign his Iseaf'befote ms^ term
The climate of Washington does uot
agree with bis health, Ond he is not am-
bitious, at least fo.* re-election. In such
an event l|r. Stephep* would be readily
elected to that chamber, the threshold
of which he has never entered, and
chjje has declared he would to be oca thousand, fee 8 io length. Opcn-
raalcy^Wih_^^<3MTJI)XTi», >
B WoU-lMW' Ut pf
ueNtteiVhnMi-lnN
aolillSeiknd ipdelliMy f!xes uponl
^Ue bhune.in this mptlWofeoi. i, t
;.( ,U wyil Uc rcmcTrihcrexl that Mi'. L.i-
vis.jor^ardeila petition to lYaatifng-
(oii^ sJJjjlcirby pearly all of our biisl- ’
ness 'men ,' :uui“inani r of the leading
white citizens .of* Athens, urging his
apfiolntinyht as postmaster.- While
wi? -kinc<S' -iic whs a republican, Mr.
1 wis 'hdHt'wHic the confidence and ■
Esteem of our people and would have
inode qiVufi' qeoeptable to all paf-
Ittet.'kWS-.l HqiJce his endorsement.,
tb.scouts Ahpt, Fresideu^ Axituub was
no ways inclined to give this import-
piit position to a race which comril)-
jite but nitle to the 'support of the pos-
tal department, and' seethed most fa-
vorably imttesS.eti'wfth'Mr. C. W. Da
vis, and Wak rh tfte act of appointing
that gentleman- when Mr. Spkkr,
hcefing-wbathe was about, marched
to the .BrcaidCnt, and by urgently
pleadibg-ifor . the appointment of his
colored ,tWM
presence i^Atfhqns. would co more to
dj£fpnt,t]ag democracy than any oth-
ecmftn,—and finally prevailed upon
Mir. Arthur to reconsider his detcrml
nation and-thua give the most import
ant office til the ninth district to the
negro race. Mr. D.vvis, in his letter
which wc publish to-day, does not go
into these parti julars, hut such are
the facts as stated by him before he
left Athens. The manner in which
he discovered Mr. Si-eer’s treachery
and responsibility in the matter was
as follows: He has a friend in Cincin
nati who is a leading and influential
republican, and'who was using liis
power to secure hint the appointment.
When this friend learned that a color
ed man h&d been appointed In place
of Mr. Davis, lffc was very indignant
and went on to Washington to inves
tigate the matter.. There lie had an in
terview with President Arthur, who
gave him the above account of the man
ner in which Mr-C. W. Davis had been
ousted, offering, iu extenuation for
his course, liis zeal to build up the re
publican party in Georgia, in which
cause Mr'..Speer" was rending him
such efficient aid, and further stated
that it would have been bad policy to
antagonize him by refusing to appoint
his colored friend, who is a stalwart
republican. These are facts, and they
catr be substantiated.
So Mr. Speer has now thrown upon
his shouldets tlie sole responsibility
of our'colored postmaster. To secure
Mat Davis’ appointment he not only
stayed the hand of the President while
in tin- aut of appointing a whit© man,
but the fa .'or was accorded him as a
reOognitioi. for the great aid and com
fort he- was extending tho ra.iical
party.iu Georgia.
Mr. 11 a vis states that while he looks
upon Mr. Speer as a traitorous i..an,
at "the s.ime^lnhe, as a true republi
can,’J.e would cast his ballot for him
of.tetMui»*Hi.s-|ii!»-vfhiolbAltaiilin.i w fi’'jj 1 '' jOSx'Wu ‘ at - he
lltising in majestic splendor |. e % tl V J 11 ' cerhiinly the repre-
inaroom
pieces of
thdroof. h
passage-way about flvefeet in' lAKgth' wte"
next come to a circular room, some eigh
ty feet in 'diameter. Iti this ‘rH> u the'
is a most excCllefl't spring of ice-cold wa
ter, so pure Slid' good to the taste that
one longs for it now as he thinks of it.
Fastening one end of a ball of twine to
the wall in this room, the'tourist can
now proceed in safety; but if he is rash
enough to neglect this precaution, he
may rest assured that his fate, if he be
not sought for by outside friends, will be
that which awaited Crain and Merri-
fleld, and which overtook the poor mor
tal whose bones lie scattered In the little
room some six miles further on.
Leaving tho pjrcplaz room, the way
agaiu becomes very rocky and steep, de
scending At an angle Of, about thirty de
grees, and not more than four feet high.
Gradually thu way lessens until there
is barely room for one to crawl along on
bis hands and knees, At length, after
traversing about two hundred feet in
this way, the tired explorer emerges into
a most beautifqj,avenue aboutone thous
and feet in length. Through it runs a
stream of water with sufficient force and
in sufficient volume to produce water
power for an ordinary flour mill. Where
this stream of water goes, I cannot tell.
It disappears through a hole in the wall,
and we see no more pf Uj At the end of
this avenue are several passages, leading
off In different directions. Tying our
selves to a ball of twin,; we started reso
lutely on through the largest opening.
After passing ihr. : >ugli_.-evi rul i-.K-m- va
rying in dimensions . £i;oiu twenty to |
.igbty feet square, and after qsing un i
several more bal tk of Swine, wo-oaiue to |
one of the grainiest natural c-AV'-rn- ever-
dreamed of bytmon. It-nnide one think j
of the (lay of the Arabian Knights, ami
lAooHsra* siote,—eoiiiiiin*.p
of sock stand more than a hundred feet
high, supporting a roof which glistened
like shimmering steel as tlie light from
our huge torches i lit - ,up 1 the inclosure.
This roora-’Waa some eight hundred or
nine hundred in breadth,- slid appeared
nd washed soils, It will reclaim them
rithont labor. It wfll furnish invalua-
de pasturage far beeves, sheep, goats
ad hogs. It Will supply tbe country
itli rich milk and butter, w-ann d be
Ad with judgment it Is easyto *X- (
isate. The shade of grain and
i will snbdne It fully In r- single! <
nqver step until he has hia credentials aa
a Ua Had (States senator.” <*th a
tM v« —r— .
Natural.
bera»,»b-
wsyaibehapi^ and contented to live to-
gethte*,- dtrifug? Do yon really believe
that you can give up ail the world and
its vanities, apd settle tight down like a
madelbusbapd shooldtlove? You will
never wish.t^stay out all night ‘with
the boys,’aa they Call it. Y’ou are quite,
quite sure you wHl not?" and two blue
eyes gazed a sweet Interrogative Into his
eyes.
“You can put your whole pile on that
to win, sis," be murmured. “
“You will never, never sigh for some
other, fairer than I? You will never
read me poetry that you sent to your
first love and hint that you can only
love once in a life time ? Y'ou will nev
er call me by some other- girl’s name in
your sleep ? Ah, you will never do that,
will you,darling?" i
!JNot say," he whispered, throwing
hU off arm about her more or less sup
ple form ond giving her one on the lips
for luck. . {.a • . . - • i. .
“You will si ways tell me everything
that passes in your busy life, darling?
You ivlll fiave no secrets from your own
little wife? Not a single little tiny one,
you are quite sure? You will let me read
all your letters, and tell me all about
your business? We shall be truly and
really one in' everything, shall we not,
ducky?"
“Well, you can just bet your life we
will,"die said, giving her another bump
on the lips, with a good hug thrown in
by way «C interest. ./
“You will never smoke in bed, or re
fuse taesabe- paHs,- or dislike mother, or
compel me to ash you for money, or be
cross because I have a headache In the
momtng,-«r*J' -*v*w »w<i. !•;.<- ..
“See here,sia r "-saliUie,a8hlsarm re-
jied his.lioh) sbqiit her form. “1
WeMR AUBffiW b « fo «
?WfyMM iWJflS^ , Jtyfi. one, »M then
Ir^'emiiv onjnjs to tlteeudof
! .'•foP* 1 ’
od, and putting the
.
’TO it.fo pe.stralgjit?" he
A fanner living 1* Maine xwdtefta
statement of what he raised last yesr pn
an acre of - land—almost enough, we
should-thinht to snppoct a family. 4|e
planted lato hali of .hi* acre fithFPRb.
and usually produced thirty bushel* uf.
good corn. Tilis quantity Wte snfflcitflt
for hU family, and tor fattunMjg tpopr;
three large bog*. From the saraoground
on which the corn stood« be raised two
or three huudred pumpkins, and an am
ple supply of beihs. From a bed six
yards square, he usually obf J ~
bushels of onions; these ho i
33 it
il /(.Kt 1 [
hitshel, which ainouut
flour for one year. Thus.. — 7 —
of an acre, and tut onion bsd, be obSaln-
ed his breadstuff*, and two or thieefcoa*
dred pounds i. # pork,
the ground wasap;
* Nte * '
He
A Brutal Nagro Hung
“ , ( w |
Moirrooxxar, Ala., August 37.T-T3tet I
negro named Leonard Coaker, who const n
fitted the outrage on a woman-named
ne' Harris, and then murderiM'
last Monday, about thirty miles
jing from this -huge, mighty--room, are
many smaller ones, aathough- fitted np
for bed rooms for the goblin?, which
one almost: erpeots to see starting ont
from the shade roof the hnge pillars.- In
one of these rooms,- a small' one at the
- -darther sld^’ wteer ’a^tMM) ted-passage-'
way through which %<? had come, ate
'scattered the bones* ot .what at one time
oertalnly was a human being, and a dog.
The bonus of the human body are scat
tered, and many gone. The humerus,
femur, bonep of the skull, part "of the
tibia, apd teeth were plainly recognized
as those of a large person. Maybe some
Indian hunter and hiB dog, sought refuge
from a storm, and, losing their way,
perished miserably. Who knows ?
Leaving this apartment the curious
seeker for knowledge goes ou and still
farther down. No marked change from
that which has been seen is to be met
with, and after traveling through these
strange silent passages, situated a mile
beneath the surface of the ground, for
eight miles or more, and spending eleven
hours in them, tired and sore, we re
turn, pausing only long enough to en
grave our uaiues in the soft sandstones
.piled promiscuously around. All vain
glorious mortals do this, we presume,
and,as it’s just the thing, of course wc
do so too.
This cave is without doubt, one of the
most wonderful in tlie world. It is situ
ated about ten miles southeast of Union-
town, and is visited by many curiosity-
seekers, who can be g'tided to the en
trance at the top of the mountain by
any of tlie dwellers at Fairchanco Fur
nace, Fayette county, Pa.
vy and c^udjdateof the radical
which Speer’s success" 'would ’
Old Brandy.—'At the close at the
war, when the Federate were raidlug
through this section, a family near
Athens buried several jugs of peach
brandy in their smoke-house. After
wards they thought they excavated I ed tlie information that tlie 1st assist-
all, the Ridden jugs, and iu time the j ant postmaster-general, Frank Hat-
building iu which they wexq interred ton, said that I ,did riot get theap-
was torn away, and. the ground be- j poiufment of postmaster at Athens
came a part of the yard. X short time i because Emory Hpeer, when lie iieard
since, a negro woman on the place ' that I was about to get it, rushed to
struck her foot against tile mouth- j the president and worked directly
piece of a jug, when an investigation - against me. Now, I have just learn-
whisperdd.
riYon can treat me' always, love,l' she
lisped. ***sal'( wnlvodai
“Well,'tea*, on the dead level, are you
idaidtrauGdow?’.’ , ,u >i
‘f Why.you borridthlng ’.Of co
kte m»iriuli’* Alui i
fte» atetetei*«te tte^
wiooq oril difw
‘LW«U, ilttedOC^thpnght. I ~
oa«BQch| dtntwtedge in*yoqr qne»|: {
esttte n
this Diace. ou the WesteJii
road, was captured yesterday alteraodOi' oistotto qWWlpfftjiefles M St > 4
He confessed the crime, as the evidence “Oh, mamma told me toask
‘■'hisguilt eras overwhelming, poftaana ’
her clotlilng being found-inter the! !
neof the outrage, and he had "
froin ohe-thlrd’ g*£ed In asearoh for him, and when he
wlieu ho
of v^etables,Jtor fi^h summer *n4_*In* . What gives a healthy appetite, an itre
“Tliat settles
else ten '
he said; "somebody
ns>^M|(Mllk >
was captured , he was curried fofiie rp»t 1 A-’ -Blfl Cao^l
where he murdered his vlotim and hung aflSeTAtdbjNtefdENtlie was* M|UM*ya»T
to * tree until he was dead. who ‘farmed- op the Lexington road,
Mn from toten, had S,ttOO pounds
1 cotton picked, and lacked*
ra roe mua- tHfoiJteteBjralOBtfiO <hrte.ttete.ipto .
cite.Md,(Son*to the nerve.» Brown’4 ^ ind£tetetldn. -Theretotttefolffit A
IraaBOtteii* ' i?!ba' >.i~“>re."*4tew
it-! ' t »hl
sen tali v.
party, wliich Si-eeR’S success
strengthen and build up.
White men and democrats of the
ninth district, ore you so blinded by
the personal magnetism, flattery and
folse promises of Mr. Emory Sfkek
as to sink your party, your country
and your principles, that his selfish
ambition may be gratified? Mr.
Speer claims to be the champion and
friend of the laboring classes. Was
there ever a falser profession! .He has
neither sympathy or affiliation with
them. He was born in the lap of re-
slnement and luxury—his family be
ing wealthy for generations past—and
ufitii he 'started out in quest of votes
he never mingled with the people. At
heart he cares no more for the work
ing men than for so many chattle. He
never earned a dollar in his life by the
sweat of his brow. It is against the
laws of nature for such a human exot
ic to suddenly become such a great
friend to the poor; and it seems to us
that when ho whispers those sweet
words of love and promise in your ear
that common sense might tel! you
that Mr. Emory Speer is only work
ing for your vote. There is not a man
of more eloquence and refinement
in the state than our young congress-,
man, and you had as well try to mix
oil and water as to bring him in sym
pathy with the laboring class.
THE ATHENS’ POST-OFFICE.
▲ Lettor that Places Mr. Emory Spoer V/her#
He Propely Belongs.
For the Ito:»ncr- Watchman.
* Cincinnati, Aug. 25,18S2.
Allow me to promisp what follows,
by saying that had I known that Mad-
son Davis was in any way an appli
cant for the Athens post office, under
no circumstances would I have en
deavored to secure the office in appo
sition to him, for T'helieve that few
if any republicans deserve greater
recognition at the hands of the repub
lican party than the present postmas
ter at Athens.
Before leaving Athens some .of my
friends were aware that I had receiv-
followed ■ that TtneaVtlU-d a deml john ed that in his Athens address Speer
fell : of the' fidest okl Tiench brandy, ( said the reason why I did not get the
thkt had been overlocflted when titd r position was because he knew noth-
afraid to touch It, lest the brandy I'ten to him I would have been succesa-
poteon, although they remember the Vfelf -That’s it exactly. I did not ask
time and circumstances under wfiitflF bis in title uceonoway or the other; X
-** IWflBto'^5
MlE’ft'.V. Srifcrt' iprtsidlrit% hands from Athens, Iteck-
^8
_ ft
teased by
PVfld fWM
JriVersation he ident
fVantagei jfd»> ~
HfUM^s^riilBty: acttei «f >
- ptenUMitlJrlsh potatee*forslilp
*4s»the northerrtiOHlWfie.
make mareiolear **flj|ey, wlth Jamlas» ‘that hewould letrn agalnat. Howevbr,
money, tklfti ifitbo l%nd jrast planted, .notwithstanding all thtesbOukUhefi*
-• •- the ninth distriot at election time En»-
' vote! Now
__ petlt^ml uTider
i#W an-a&iptat that kind
~ :op»of those, kind of
“—iwr *—
ould wither a tree
Howevbr,!
ili-cotton add the Q»q>igddat(^ tent* the ninth dtetirtot at election time 1
ityand'around the ooat-tall ofthoee
high in authority Is so-tveUknpw u to.
the pen,,. Ben., Butterworth and aB
the oth5r republican congressmenthat
he w (easilyAflade to ddQrelr bidding
. r .. _ ... and’weddln^ ?whea *heroU.te«aUe«l^ votogtlnra-
teid*'iusttecfM«te.itlj^»,<*Qte- , . J,, f ■5f»rire»(te?.,naHi C-W. Davis*
.ttrevta ed? fso 1 " . rffstqre K-s Sq itot! IK if v»%: »£ , . ; :i." '