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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." '