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fcK AN OLD SOLDI r ^Twei'D y*'* 1 * * inc * the ti." , ,1 aiin ol Anguet» 188J. the 1,1 ' .1 . lav *UH as Hie J " v’Vni wilil**KMj* h Sharp, <f 1 .1.. ..nil (mill* spoke of in mult spoke of v".< ■*'!,*• •»><>. "I l,le '* " .>f till- llltllt* Of .irii . .if tin- sight* | Will* finally «lls- Julliv, resulting from .... home, miserable in . „> enfeeble- 1 tlml I ||,i- -lightest exposure llil.-i.nto ' ; i lived '.ilil enough,” *'•>* .,'i»o cigars. • responded Mr. Sharp; ' || Outgrew It? Sol n i„ i hut condition I be- 'i'.,rk.r’- Tonic, sn.l my i,.m't-.l to improve right i», onisb.Hl »t it. and no ‘, 111it—l --it tin- lb-nil ami ihii.-. My ambition lilax- I nTu-ml in business, ami thill I have to take rare .’niiM-ll to tbe hot nun—I 'i wan the Jay 1 enlitiU-J. th.-re are in IliiiiKe— ml* kill; Barker's Tonic , ...ration, which ha* lieen l-arkor-. GingerTonic. will 4 ll, M | >iiii|>ly i»Ton- r ’’ ilt*nli*rf an? con- tln*ir « u>toiH**rH by . . ini«*ri«»r article* under tlie rnT .»•»'. iiml i»»* ilinuer in really | M ,‘t ingredient. *e Urop ll»e word. t hanjre, however, In ihf* , itM*lf. Mild nil bon lea re- ,, t|„. Ii.iikIm of ttealern, wrap- r ti,.-ti »m»-of l*:»r\er*H Ginger the genuine medicine if J ,,i,. .i^iriliire of Hist ox <k Co. It .timn of ihe oulnido \vn»|»|Hr. of Abyssinia i* massing at Atina, threatening itie* identiral rlnin kith . DECAPITATED BRIEFLETS. JACKSON COUNTY. The boss Sewing Machine and organ man, J. B.Toomer. Let all fol low. And he must lead. At a public sale in Oglethorpe county cows sold from $2 to $8, and mules front $1.25 to #50. Just received, finest lot of organs, 13 stop organs, 6 feet high, fully warranted, $65. At J B. Toomer’s. Sewing Machines, all makes, at prices lower than anv house north or south, $25 »o $35. At J. B. Tootr.- er’s. The friends of Mr. S. A. Atkin son in Athens will be pained to learn of his death. Mr. Atkinson was once owner of the Southern Banner, ol this city. J. B. Toonter, Clayton street., has the finest lot of bibles, albums, ami poems ever brought to Athens, will sell for cost or on monthly payments. Jkkff.rsos, Ga., Dec. 21.—Her ald : The Methodist Sunday School will have a Christmas tree on Chi ist- mas Eve night. We hear that Prof. A. L. Barge will return to this settlement next year. We have j never seen wheat look better for the time of year. Mr. Tom Arnold has oats that are large enough to hide a rabbit. Over fifteen fami lies a, iii move to Jefferson by the first of January. Mr. Osscy Lanier has turned his attention to the man ufacturing of bycicles. ELBEKT COUNTY. Mamed. Mr. Jim Murray and .Miss Nellie Langford, of Watkinsville. 0NF. THOUSAND Cherry trees, (Black ) one to two years old, at five cents each. Ap ply to W. A. Jester. A Bis Tax Payer Mr. F. Phinizy, of Athens, pays over $3,000 tax. This is quite a pile for one man to drop into the public till every vear. Tbs Carterton- Free Pt.fi. The legal advertising ol Bartow * Otr.r s-l t sini- Onlx real Simon Pure, whirl, ,1,011 uml eoniprtition, : , u itl, it In efficacy, as a i.,| li,-;,lili ami In-anti*, mu v - „nv r,'|irn-rtlt itinll to the It rall-r- tlm teeth In gleam , , i»..rv. 1'i-iiiaitiK tin Imrtfill t grateful tfa- county has been transferred from the Free Press, Dr. Felton's organ, to the American, an organized democratic sheet. 11. u h troops havi .! 1 Inis make a in the Tnmiuin captured victorious w a r -brim—01 rnfalmh.1 »: Is ilii-- Th» Gainesville Eagle. This paper has been purchased by a stock company, and its puhli- cation continued. Mr. Smith, the former editor, will start anew pa per in Gainesville. Elberton, Ga., Dec. 19.—New South; Our talented young friend. Jas. M. Carlton, will teach school next year, at Spring Vale Acade my, Franklin county. Miss Willie Callaway, of Athens, is visiting Misses Tommie and Alice Oglesby. Mr. Jas. L. Harper is now with his friends at home. We are glad to state that Rev. A. M. Thigpen is convalescent. The poor house will be removed nearer Elberton. Mar ried, Mr. Robert T. Cartledge, of Madison, to Miss Theodocia E. He well, of Elbert. OGLETHORPE COUNTY. Lexington,Ga., Dec. 21.—Echo. Mr. E. H. Barret, one of our sub stantial citizens, will move to Oco nee county in a short time. Mr. M. P. Briscoe, formerly of this county, will open a store injeflerson in a few weeks. Misses Lamar Ruth erford, and Flory Carr, of Athens, are visiting Miss Lena Latimer. The Crawford Dramatic club are go in ahead making arrangements for their first play. Mike Fleeman anti the negro woman sentenced to the penitentiary are still in jail. Judge Gilliam sold three licenses Tuesday evening. Mr. Belk will move to Madison next week. Judge W. B Brightwell has just killed thirty-two bogs. Religious P** par. The Methodists of the Elbciton district will soon begin tile publica tion of a church pa pc- at Carncs- xillc, called the Elberton District Herald. Ip imii-intoxli-atiii k-ll all tli-sin* for w ami will k- and A Uootl Lign. Oconee lw* fewer mulatoes than anv county in (ieor^ia. This speaks well for theinoials of that section In our founds through that county we never saw hut two instances of a mixture of races. Mlhl.-, • ivith a Judge. 1 1 ip a tie Ogle tiidgeE. 11. Arraigning : lua -iluinn ed t tbo-; c Echo goes lor j l’ottie without gloves, and shows where there is no equ;* ity about bis tines and piinishmetits. The Echo also hir ts that the Judge is biased in bis action by outside parties. WALTON COUNTY. Monroe, Dec. iS.—News: Gov McDaniel’s home is still unoccupied. Charles Z. Blalock, Esq., and Miss Mattie Selnian are married. Mr. W. II. Nunnally, of Good Hope. 011 one acre of land, made ninety-three and a quarter bushels of corn. There are only four bar-rooms in town now. Mr. W. D. McCarty having retired. Mr. Albert Varner wa married to Miss Mary Avcock Cock fighting lias been all the rage here for a month. Covington i have three newspapers. Sheriff Ammons has six inches of the rope that broke the neck of Andy Taylor in Tennessee. Messrs. B. S. Walk er and W. J. Ray have formed partnership in the law practice. What lias become of Candler's Christmas excursion? The young people speak of a grand masquerade during the Christmas. ratine a-d liti- i.valiialil- fur e- ii-r.nl .l.-litlin : ■ii-lid'-ii-, *sIn-ill. 1 /U.I X «' .1.1 l v dri 1 I-,- ! tegro in Savannah -Ini the Baptist. Recoidof Slavoa. A prominent gentleman in Alli ens has a record of all the slaves his family owned,one thousand in num ber. and is confident that some day- lie or his descendants will receive pay for them from the government, when am era of right ami justice dawns upon the people. Yesterday Dr. Jones Jones invad ed our sanctum and laid upon our table two bottles of very fine toma to catsup. "I want you to test that,” he re plied, “and give me your opinion as to its merits, as I am going to begin its manufacture next year on an extensive scale. We southern farm ers must begin to look to something else besides cotton, and I have se lected tomato atsup for my special ty. This year I planted about an acre in this vegetable and made them up, and my success has been so flat tering that next season I will in crease my area to probably five acres. 1 am satisfied that there is a handsome profit in this business, and that I will have no trouble in making sales of all lean manufac ture. Of course I cannot compete in price with the inferior stuff now on the market, for I make mine ex actly by Mrs. Hill’s recipe; but its quality will overbalance that small difference.” “What is your estimated profits per acre, Doctor?” we asked. “Frobably $300 net, after all ex penses are paid. You see this be-ts cotton.” “And tlie-amount of labor requir ed and mode of cultivation and man ufacture?” It requires but little work to raise the plants. I bed up the land as if for cotton, sprinkling manure in the rows. One plowing and but little work with hoes makes the crop. In fact, you can cultivate an acre in to matoes as cheaper cheaper than the ame land in corn. As to gathering the crop, it is not near so hard to pick the fruit as cotton. I am now prepared to make up a hundred aliens of catsup a day, but will in crease :.iy capacity as fast as busi ness requires. I shall have bottles made to order and handsome chro me labels printed. In fact, I intend to make Long's Tomato Catsup one of the standard dishes on all tables, and keep up its merits. I shall put a drummer on the road as soon as my catsup is ready for market, and sell all the leading dealers a small order. I want to have it generally- introduced. so as to plant my whole farm in tomatoes, and go exclusively into the business.” AYe think this a move in the right direction. Southern farmers have always looked with contempt upon these small industries, and placed their reliance solely in King Cotton. The shrewd Yankees saw the mon ey in this business, and have usurp ed the market. We feel no fear in predicting that Dr. Long's catsup experiment will prove a grand sue cess. CAREY’S SI,AY KIt TO BE AY KN< i ED I-os'Iio N, Dec. tS—It is reported that the Lord Mayor has received anonymous letters containing threats to blow up London Bridge and .xewgate I’rison. The detec tives who were withdrawn from the 11 yesterday after the liangin pr. - ui tilt- skill. -Ja niath of Ur. S. J May*. This noble old Christian gentle man breathed his last 011 \\ ednes- dae night last. He was one of Ath- i ciis’ oldest citizens anti was cstceni- - 1‘lnlrr ; ed anil honored by all. llis bereav ed relatives have our deepest sym pathy. •liri-iiL-li ■ -11. December jo—About to day Giiilfordson, color- i-xeeuleil at Kingston for '.1 assaulting Mrs. Eliza 1,low. t l‘i r»<J iiinrnt Jia-tnr* It. the M-r-il of-.III- mnl lea I ik eitv.” writes Rev. < lii-aei-. '*failiil to ’s i-|iili-|iH>-, wliieli be- of -airit-ii-z i-to in-an- ur.-vi.li-:,,-e ,,f Co.) Nervine. :-lul it ellri-,1 gist keeps it. tl.,10 telescoped near Bur- 1, and a number of pas- i*i I. No Exchange of Siam pi. It seems that the dispatch circu lated all over the country last week that the Postmaster General had di rected the exchange liy postmaster* of stamps of different denomina tions for 3-cent stamps was a hoax. How the report originated is not stated. of O'Donnell have therefote been replaced and an extra force of po lice has been stationed on and about tile bridge to watch the arches, examine all crafts under neath the structure and to scrutinize all persons crossing it. THE MORGAN MYSTERY. A AVISE H i MAX. lira,n 1- I lH.iiini.-sl .-xtraet ns it.,- hi-sin sn,| 11.1-llivvly wni- 1 I.iIitv. N-tvoiisiii-ss, -. nimatiiral ’ losses, a-i-l all l—u.-rafivi- Kvst.-ni; it n*»vi-r 1 kaire: H fur $.Y At ilritit- Ml'-n's riiarmarv, Hl.i First V- I j Hymeno&l- \f -,rri.,,1 :.i ihi- residence P. II. Bariett, near Wintcrvillfc. at the resilience of the bride's father. Miss Clara Barnett, the prettiest I,ride we have seen lor a long while, and Mr. J. L. Ashury, a rising young attorney residing at Clayton, Ga., Rev. J. G. Gihson. officiating. A Walton, (Ga.)ladv. meditatirg on the ravages of the liquor traffic, said: “1 know something of the evils of rum. I have buried three husbands, and all were hard drink ers. But I ain glad to say,” she continued, “that I didn't tight with them. As soon as I found that they would drink I got them to insute their lives heavily and let them go ahead. All, me! each one of them died from the effects of liquor; but, thanks to a kind Providence, each death netted me a clear $10,000.” A white tinisjbt a ’-■mid th woman in Baltimore has suit for divorce on the it lu-r husband is a mu- I Tin- V.-llait- l'.i'li On., of Marshall. BM • I, . "IV.t iii m-iul l'r l>y*-’» r*li-hra- Is I Y.ilmii- lh-lt an-1 i-'.i-rti 1- R|>|ilianri-a, 0 trial f..r tb’rty ilavr t«» men. old anil alllii-tnl with irervnns liability. I' li'aiiiv. anil litany .,th»rilisi-aa««. ■ S.-.- :,,lv*'i-tis(-nient in tliia pa|M*r. An Oconee Nimrod- Bob Moon borrowed a line setter from Mr. Reese and has liecn shell ing the woods down in Oconee .'or a week. A telegram received by us yesterday front Farmington stated that Bob had killed his first bird—on the ground. The neigh bors threaten to Boy cott any nicr chant who sells Boh any more am munition. SHOOTING A WOMAN. V.M.nosTA, Ga., Dec. 19—This morning about 4 o’clock F. R. Smith shot Kate Thompson in the left breast with a pistol. Dr. Lang was called to see the woman, and is doing all lie can for her, but says that she cannot live longer than to night. Mr. Smith was for several years Marshal here and has held other offices of honor in his com munity, but his relationship to this woman lias brought him to shame. . ’ Smith left soon after the shooting ml has not been heart! of -i 11 cc. I )c -ami cotton operatives in north east Lancashire are idle ill con- H-nco of the strike. Not til Gaorgla Oonftranca. The statistical report of the North Georgia Conference for the year will show the following figures: Number ol members in the North Georgia Conference, 67,982; local preachers, 423; accessions during ourteen ^3, 6.230; deaths. 659; infants baptised,' 1.792; Sunday Schools. 665; pupils, 40.137; churches, 6S3. I l i It Cat hurl it: in thr bui*t rliaMf liwr pill known, iw li the most olistiiitttecjuMB, vinMo—1"»»•*!»!«. Suicide in Madison. j . r ,,, • - On Tuesdav last Mr. W. J. May, j t u ' of T . ower eVer . S ' n ^ J‘ S . . z. . ' .. . . : tliErDVprv nnfi no one else knew The anti-Masonic agitation which reached its climax in 1S31, and was lost sight ol in the struggle which grew out of President Jackson's ve to of the United States Bank char ter itl 1832, and the removal of the deposits in 1833.it seems has only- been dormant.’ Every few years some new crank conies to the front with Quixotic chivalry to bring himself into notoriety by attsekin the ancient and honorable Masonic order. The derlh of Thurlow Weed, who devoted his life to the anti Mason and anti-slavery agita tions. seems to have suggested to a few visionary and obscure men the idea of a renewal of the various stories, with variations to give them the spice of freshness, about the al laged kidnapping of William Mor gan in 1839. The latest candidate for fame in this field is one Rev. M. Stoddard, who lectured last week in thesmall village of Newfane, near Lockport, N. V. The lecturer exhibited a solid block of stone nine inches square at the base and twelve inch es high, with an iron ring fixed by means of a staple to the top. which he declared to be the \ eritable sink er with which Morgan was drown* near the mouth of the Niagara river. In the stone near thi staple, was cit the number 35. :t is alleged that this stone was found in the channel where the average dept is 60 feet by Peter T nver, of Ni- agjra county, who w. s engaged in dragging the river for V jrgans body a short time after his <!i-.ap: earance. The body of Morgan w; • never i found, indeed it has beer asserted that he died Australia a few years ago, but Mr. Stoddard is --ure that stone must have been attached to I it, but how it became separated from the body in the short time that I had elapsed before its discovery is ] not yet explained. The speaker aid that the stone lias been kept in Mr. Er Lmha, of Atlanta, Want* Goorgla to Fnrcban 1JW0 Aona of Land and Balld a SUta HoiuolnltiUaatra. Our sanctum was visited, last Wednesday by Mr. Er Lawshe, a genial and intelligent gentleman of Atlanta. In the course of conver sation we asked his views about Georgia s new Capitol. “Although I am a citizen of At lanta, I had sooner see the seat of government moved back to Mil- ledgeville than have the Capitol built where it is proposed,” was the reply. “Please state your objections?” was our request. Well, the idea of the great state of Georgia building her Capitol on less than three acres of land is re- diculous! I know the exact size of the lot, for in 1S4S it was offered me for $375, and I refused to pay any such exhorbitant price for so small and undesirable a piece of land. It is entirely unsuited for the purpose proposed. It is bounded on one side by a railroad and on the others by a grave-yard, churches and pri vate residences. While it may an swer temporarily, the day is not far distant when it will be cooped in and rendered a perfect sweat-box. It is too public and there will be such confusi- * in the neighborhood that it v.. -*e impossible tor state officers and members of the legisla ture to transact business in that qui et manner demanded.” “What do you propose?” “It is this: For Georgia to sell this property and with the proceeds purchase say 1,000 acres of ground on the outskirts of the city, and in its centre build a state house that will be a credit to her. She should not think of completing a Capitol inside of twenty years, and the tax payers would not then feel the out lay. Let her lake the convicts and go to Stone Mountain, or some oth er granite or marble quarry, and get out the material for its construction. The only expense would be sustain them. The hands not needed for quarrying could be set at work laying otl the grounds, that should he devoted to an experimental farm, where the people of Georgia could come and see a practical test ol all manner of crops. There should he one hundred miles of drive. In fact, make it a state park. Hotels and cottages would soon spring up, and members of the legislature could bring their families with them and have a home life, if they saw lit.' This hotly would be in a little- world to themselves, and their de liberations could be conducted with conilort and in quiet. The cost to the state woulu not be much more than the proposed building, for she could sell her city property for nearly enough to buy this land. It she did not need tie thousand acres, when the Capitol s built on it she could sell oil'a part it an enormous profit. This idea wis seriously con sidered by several ofriie legislators, and I hope that at thtnext session of this hotly they wil reconsider their action and not buid our State House on any such lotis donated by Atlanta. In twenty ears thev will have to demolish it -nd move again.” A BURIED WESTERN YIE.AGE. A buried village has been found by the Hc.i. Amado Chaves . niile from his home near Sc-ccoro, 7. M. Mr. Chave writes to the Sant Ft- Review: “It is built of Sine. The outer walls are three feet *d e and the city is large enough ,* 0 have accommodated 3.O0 souls. I have already cleared foti rooms in the upper story and twt on the first floor of our house. The 1 dimensions of the first floor rooms just furnished are eleven by twelve feet, while from the floor to ceiling is about fifteen feet. The village is almost square, and this building is situated on the nornwest corner. The large room has a large door leading to the outside of the wall, but no windows whatever. In this room I fountl the skeleton of a girl. The hair is in a perfect state of preserva tion. It is fino and of a chestnut color. I also found there a string of white coral beads, another of long ivory beads and a ring set with a black stone, on top of which is a piece of ‘turquoise. All the timbers of the roof are burned to a char I have ar rived at the door which appears to lead to inner rooms^and I air. full of curiosity to open it, but the second floor is only supported by the stones and debris about the door, and should I attempt to remove these the upper story will tumble in and fill up the lower rooms, just clean ed out, with a mass of stone, char red timbers and debris who resided itl Goshen district, - , -• ... .... t tilt secret until recently, when low- Madison county, during a drunken spree, cut his throat from ear to ear with a pocket-knife anti died almost instantly. There was no cause for the rash act. except that it was pro duced by low spirits caused from excessive drink. lllUt is jii.-balily no use sliiunaMe life ill a itv 1- a t, .1 iirli ,>ne mi your ta-aniy. >••111 *, lass ,,1 *let-|> anil mentalex- ■nt Milt leave you by anil by whorit •se heaiuihil tresses which . rew - iiri.na-l von in oilier years. Arti- ■ lift it ales can never pass for those mi l elos-y l-s ks. Barker's Hair in Hill snip your hair from falling 'e-tote a* natural color and *»ft- aml prove cleansing anti liencllcial -ealp. Pol'ODWl by Water- Friday J- H. F. McIntyre am : tamilv, from Banks county, arrived Larithcr*. in Rome. Nothing after an be came dangerously ill, the symptom in each case pointing to poisoning. Remnants of the f-md which the family had eaten wire found harm less, and it is believed that their ill ness was caused by water which had been drunk on the train. Death was feared at first, but all were*on the road to recovery at last ac count. Marrying In lfadlion. Mr. James Connell and ML lie Hampton. Mr. \Y. \V. Kev and Mis Nei ll!:: lames T. Meadows and Miss Jo- sie Glower. Lee Wilson and Miss Christian. The above marriages took place on Thursday last. A stranger named Franz Riden i.initUil suicide in Weinmeister's - til. Atlanta. This makes twosui- "ies in one week for the Gate An InUrrt*w with Wyoming Bill, who la Nowon a Visit to Our city. Reader, did you ever encounter a cow boy—one of the regular hyena fighting kind, who whip people as they come to them? YVe had one to give us a call yesterday, and he is not near the bad man we have been led to believe he is. Mr John Bird came into our office yesterday and introduced us to Wyoming Bill, a genuine cow boy from the wilds of the west We immediately grasp ed our six-shooter and prepared for war, until we glanced at Wyoming \\ r illiam, who is a man about six feet high, with a good looking face, a mild blue eye and a smile circling his nicely curled lips. “Are you a cow boy?” we asked, our hand still on the trigger. “Yes, sir,” he remarked, “I am one of those blood-thirstv ctew whom the newspapers have made out the worst men in the west.” Do you really kill folks for breakfast?” we tremblingly asked, shifting our bowie-knife into our right hand. “Well, no. not exactly. I have seen a few men bite the dust. But you fellows out here have a tine idea of the cow boy. There are some nice, polished gentlemen among them, and you rarely ever hear of a cow boy fight, unless it is a crowd that goes to some town and one of the party get into a fight, when his comrades generally stick to him, and they then make things lively. There are gentlemen among the cow boys, and as well as any where else, there are also had men.” W e now commenced to feel a lit tle easy, and asked Wyoming some thing about the cattle and show business. “Well, I have about quit the rounding up of cattle. I have been at it a long time, and have had some pretty hard times, and some good times. I have been in several little scrimmages with the Indians, and have never been hurt. The life of a cow boy is tolerably easy until the general round-up commences when we have to keep on the move right lively. After the round-up is finished, we then lay around camp and cat and sleep and run horse owners - races. 1 have seen a great deal of money change hands on a little- horse race, which is very exciting sport with the cow hoys. I expect to go back from here to North Platte, Nebraska, where I expect to join Buffalo Bill in the show busi ness. Buffalo Bill will have a big show, which will he something on the order of Dr. Carver’s. My principal business in the show is to ride the wild horses. I can ride any horse on the continent, but it is more dangerous to ride them here than out on the prairies, where there are no trees for them to run against. Dr. Carvel had just got out a cat- load of horses, which I had been breaking for him before I left At lanta. He speaks of stopping his show somewhere i.-t Georgia, and taking all of his horses and Indians to a farm until next season. He has made a great deal of money since he has been out, as his show is some thing new, and takes in this country. Everything is strange to me here. I never was in a cotton mill or fac tory until yesterday, and it is quite a curiosity. I am very good with a lassoe, and can catch a co.v at full speed on either leg or horn.” We tried to induce W yoming to give the Athens people a test of hi- skill, but he declined on the ground that became here to rest ior a sea ; son, and did not care to ride after a lazy Georgia cow. Wyoming Bill lias a pleasant face and seems to he- man of good education, The Elberton fertilizer company expects to organize with a capital of $20,000 Gilmer county people drive eighty miles to get their truck and produce to market. YVpycross Reporter: Jennie Mur ray, colored, shot and killed her step father at Nahunna last week. A gentleman in Monroe county has given his children $40,000 since the war. He is a farmer. A man was tried and convicted of stealing ati umbrella, the other day, in the county court of Morgan. By a vote ofS9 to 13 Hartwell has decided to issue bonds for the building of a new school building. Water is said to have been sold in Southwest Georgia for five cents per glass in several instances re cently. Mr. Munroe Cason, before Hart well was settled, killed two deer at one shot where the public square is now located. Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, and Congressman Millikcn, of Maine, are said to resemble each other as closelv as two Dromios. A criminal was fined $175 and costs, or twelve months in the chain- gang, in Morgan county court, for buying seed cotton between sunset and sunrise. It is said that emigrants coming from Europe to Georgia are told upon their arrival at Castle Garden that they would be sold into slavery in the south. Mr. Wirt. Everett has a plan for taking the taint out of meat. He says by slicing the meat and soak- t. fiveorsiq hours in strong soda water it*is as good us ever. Two farmers in Laurens county sold to one firm $5,000 worth of wool. The sheep from which the wool was shorn ran in the woods still were not a dollar expense to the Once upon a time, two ehUdron By the name* of Tom amt Belts, With their kind. Indulgent parent* In this thriving town did dwell. Bello wasa gentle creature, Tom a noisy, romping lad. Belie was always good and patient-* Tom, per contra, very bad. And his rude, unseemly conduct Madelhia parents only sad. Or. lomaa would reply deriding, “Cheese it par-l—-null down you- vest:-' '. if mamma mildly pleaded »V pleaded With her naughty, forward boy, H® would, scorning her entreaty, Seek new methods to annoy. And, with intonation vulgar. Onerv ralmlr "IVhiit il'v*- • Query calmly "What d’ye soy?” But not so his pretty sinter. Gentle and onedient B,*ilc, Whom, for her discreet u j>onii o it, K.vervbody IotciI so weh. Daily Lied she to her lessens, Nsverabaen* never iate. Never poundtug the piano, Never swinging on the gate: Let them grease her nostri'.s nightly. And her castor oil took htraigbt. Found the gentle little Belle. Followed her unseen aoout. Saw her goodness o her parents, Ever dutiful aud mild: And old Santa Claus ooserving. Stroked his hoary head and smiled. Saying, “On the Christmas morning Hair ’etn-BCare ’em: Bang*. The llmbg of the law are suited with breeches of promise. The riches which always take to them* selves wings: Osb-riches. M What relation does a woman want to bear to cold weather? Sealskin. “He’s a man of nostandlng,” remark ed a passer-by ol another who slipped down. Every cloud has its silver lining. The boy who lias the mumps can stay away from school. Who was the straightest man in Bible?” “Joseph.” “Why?” -‘Recalls 1’haroah made a ruler of hint.” A man in England purchased a wife for a quart <>f beer. What that quart ol beer wanted a wife for is not stated. t neglect this child.” Out into the noisome alley Good old SAntaClrtus tho Lo! the naughty little Thot With a gang or hoodlums played ayed. And, engaged at low amuse i Dealt iti exclamations bad Even swore while Santa listened With a countenance most end, “Ah.” he sighed, “there will be nothing Christmas morn for you, my lad.” Christmas came, and Belle’s stocking Boomed with presents, rich and rare Peanuts, dolls, confections, sashes. Costly articles and fair. Language fails us in describing Belle’s gratitude and joy; But in little Tommie's stocking neither cake nor toy*, irretted There Aud poor Tom He hi »late 1 He had been a naughty l>oy. No-i id p'. No kind word is heard wii . scorn; Good ami had are justly trenud Ou the merry Christum* morn. Good folks’ stockings burst with ftillnes Bail folks’ stockings h.-.ug forlorn. HOYV BUFFALO |G DIED. Dahlouega is wild over the re cent discovery of a gold mine 1 i miles from that town. The find is pronounced rich and inexhaustible. It is said that a double handful of ore panned out about a dessert spoonful of gold. Senator Colquitt, of .Georgia, was asked the other day if it was true that ex-Gov. Tilden whispered in the ear habitually ot anybody with whom he had an audience,; and he answered: “Yes, but he whispers mighty good sense.” “Walker county lumber,” says the Savannah News, “is bringing forty dollars a hundred in Chatta nooga.” Pretty stiff figures. Wal ker county had better move up at once and bring all her forests with her.—The Tradesman. om his general appearance, we t think there is much danger in , unless you make him mad, and G-n we think he would be hard to hvdle. H e will stay here for sev- er *days, the guest of Mr. John B'A before lie starts for the great west OaklA],' Cal., Dec. 19.—A few ghts agc, ls M rs . S. J. Merchant as in B| S li street, she heard a swishing til, t |, e a ; rj a „j was artled by : L -iiig a large mass of owing matt. f al) directly through the air and in*. he roa dw:iv ahead of her. Her aroused, she titi ei ] ant i rau down Thirteeth street She rushed lull tilt against an ri gentleman, and the collision th^ v i, L . r to die ground, with hn widow, now in her 84th year, was persuaded to allow it to he ex- exb.ted by the lecturer and his coad jutors as a corn icing proof of Mor- ;an’s fate, and they propose to deposit it soon in the “sacred ar chives” of the Anti-Masonic temple 111 Chicago. SY.MMKS- SEARCH FOR THE IN SIDE WORLD. BERNHARDT IN A PASSION. KENTUCKY ' »i *a l •®nirv” ol what may We called the jht A’lutkvv Interval.” making whUklt-e ^ bring the hi(hv«t price*, appeal to the cultivated taste* and develop the only true r and l*unjust that identiflea and diatln- the l-mu I it ml “Oil of Corn.” /. W\ Mar Stlmtn County Whinkry j( a rUiutiard AY* Whisky. Hold by J. H. D.BKU8HE, Athena Arraigned by Bla Flock. A colored preacher in Athens is at war with his church because it is teported that he said in a sermon that there is not a negro in the Geor gia penitentiary but deserves to be there, and that one-half the colored women of Georgia should poison their husbands, and if they had not the poison he woud furnish it to them; also that ilhis race would work more and hold fewer conven tions that they could educate their own children independent of the whites. The week in Atlanta has lxen ptolitic of crime and casualty. Two '•ncidrs indicate that two men felt that this world was not worth ding- : to. Opt; f En.lD.mt Dr. R. 8. Bt«u*rt. Prvildan Maryland lloapital. BalUmorv. “ * • • I have ttseil Colilen's l.ie- Liquid Extract ol Beef and Tunic hivisturator tor more than a year. It iii-liii.es tin: virtues of food and tonic in a rt-utarkalilo way, and 1 am aatlslied has saved life when no other medicine '---uld do so.” (Remember the name Yuldeu’a— take no other.” Judge Tompkins is in Washing tun, whither he has gone to have the case of the Banks county ku hlux reviewed by the supreme fourt. It will be brought up by writ of habeas corpus. - air. T. C. A., of Atlanta, dealres to > • V that “1 have been a constant anffer- " villi G. and G. for over two yeara; have (ailed to aeeura relief from any source until I obtained Bonkocine. two L-ttles of which effected an entire cure without any lou of time, dlMMi of diet nr tli« use of auy Internal medicine.” One bottle of B. B. B. Ill purify your blood, • ' Carp Culture. About two years ago Mr. Ruff Lester, of Oglethorpe, received ten golden carp from the goxernirfcnt. and he placed the fish in a small pond about the size of an ordinary room. Tite water got very low and he had the pond seinetl, but saw no signs of the fish, and dccid ed that they were all dead. But this summer he drew off all the wa ter, when !o and behold! he dis covered floating on the mud eight beauties, some 12 or 15 inches long. Mr. Lester says these fish can root in the mud like a hog..ml it is im possible to sein them out. CARD FROM OCONEZ. She Attacks the Author ol a Biography ul Causes a free right. Paris, Dec. 19.—The satirical bi ography- of Sarah Bernhardt, writ ten by her former friend. Marie Co- lutnbier, has been the cause of a duel between the friends of the wo men, and of a scandalous quarrel between the actress and the author. Sarah, incensed because she was described as a she Barnum, asked the police to seize the book. The police replied that she must seek redress at the civil tribunal. Sarah, with her son, proceeded on Tues day to Marie Columbicr’s residence and struck the author of the book in the face with her riding whip with full force. Marie fled, pursued by Sarah, who smashed everything in her way. In the meanwhile friends of the women indulged in a free fight in another part of the house. It is stated that the affair will lead to a number of duels. Th* Stack LawOompromiM. If we were in Og'ethorpc county we would vote against the proposed compromise of the fence and no fence issue. If the fence men car ried the day the question should be decided in their favor, and visa versa When a compromise is made one side or the other acknowledges it is wtong, and it is illegal to compro mise a wrong. If the compromise, that postpones the operation ol the new law until January, 1SS5, is ac cepted, it will result in a good deal of bad blood, trouble and litigation, for there are contrary men in every neighborhood who will refuse to ac cept the agretment, and they can legally turn oit their fields and hold owners of trespassing stock liable. The new law should either be put in force at tit time ordered by the ordinary’s pnclamation or another Oconkf. County, Ga.. Dec. 17, 1SS3.—Editor Banner-Watchman: I see in your paper of December ltlh, under heading of “Oconee Monitor,” the following: “Hon. F. P. Griffcth, of Oconee, was in the city yesterday. He says the reason he did not recognize the was that if Kentucky can afford' to raise election held The n-sthetc movement In England has entirely 4od out, because—well be cause people think there is more good common sent > in taking a bottle of Dr, Ball’s Couglj3yr u ban in carryIrg a Illy. temperance petition sent him, that it would abolish bar-rooms the country, and still keep them in Watkinsville. That had the peti tion been for total prohibition, he would have acted otherwise. Now. sir, the writer of the above para graph must have misunderstood Mr. Gnffeth. I think, for I am slow to believe that he would make such statement. The facts in the case are wholly at variance with such statement, as a thousand persons (six hundred of them voters) in the county know. The writer of this has seen the petition sent to Mr. Griffcth, and also the bill which was drawn up by a distinguished law yer in the legislature, and he knows that both petition and bill were for total prohibition, and he knows that Mr. Griffcth knows it, too. Oconee. Lady, render your skin white wth Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. Pike's toothache Drops cure in one minate, Sational Ilf publican. Mr. Symmes, of I^ouisville, the son of John Cleves Symmes, of Symmes Hole, or north pole fame, lias written to Capt George E. Ty son, the well known Aretice ex plorer, stating that lie intends fit ting out an expedition to sail next May or June for the Arctic via Bobeson channel, and asks Capt. Tyson to take command of the ex pedition. It will be remembered that Symmes, Sr., had a theory that beyond the nineteenth degree of dorth latitude hole existed, extending south ward toward the equator, where race of giants exists, amid a foliage of cocoa and other palms and an equberance of tropical fruits. Mr. Symmes writes that he promised sufficient subscription in the West to defray all the expense of the proposed expedition, and Capt. Ty son has said that he is willing to command such an expedition, but that he frankly expresses his lack of faith in the theory. she stated the reasq for llcr head long pace. The V; n i t y at the me was deserted hV t u save t h c wo. The burning <V ct threw a strong but wavering li^. The old gentleman advanced CViouslv to ward the source of the follow- ' at a respectable V tnce liv ed stock Boltins. Toon Powell, of Greene county, ntends to turn his plantation into a large stock farm, and compete with thc Kentucky breeders on horses and mules. A great deal of his place is covered with Bermuda grass, that affords good grazing the year round. Toon wisely argues stock on land that costs $50 an acre, he can do soon just as good grazing fields worth only $10. Jin five years he can have a clear income of $10,- 000 per »-ir.urn from the increase of his stock. He is also raising an im proved breed of beef cattle, but don’t take stock in mild-eyed Jer seys, Mr. D. C. Bobbins, Savannah, Ga., SKVS: “I was cured ol annoying syuirv toms of dyspepsia by using Brown's Iron Bitters-^' a Druggist"* Story. uggist I navi Newburg, N. Y., write; u»: “I nave for the I last ten years gold sereral Rros* of DR. WIIXIAM HALL’S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS. I have I never beard a customer speak of It but to F raise its virtues in the highest manner. have recommended It In a meat many cam ol YVbooplng Cough, with the hap piest effects. I have need it in my own family for mauy years; In Cart, always have a bottle in tbemdldne cloget ready foruaev A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE. Georgetown, Dec. 19.—While Mr. Harvy L. Carter was absent from home, attending a celebration party of men went to the house, about twenty-five miles from Jtow and deliberately shota load of buck shot into the bed wherein they sup losed him to be, no one being lome except the ladies of the fain ily, consisting ot an aged lady and the two Misses Carter. The fences around the dwelling were also burnt about fifteen panels was consumed when the females mustered uf courage to venture out and subdued the flames. On Saturday night they wenf back and shot down the only work animal Mr. Carter owned a fine mare, for which he had been offered, only a few days previous, $i5a No cause is given for the outrage, except tha*. Mr. Carter, as a good citizen, and as the constable for Trial Justice Spivey,had been ac tive in presecuting parties for selling liquor without a license. "’A; it A LOST COMET. Lady AV n i s h.ul by tbo Fall of a Mass Body of Fire from tha Heavens. • superstitious tears prostrate over her. They regatn\ their aiu] Mrs. Merchant. He the corner and his e\ , vitpon a strange phenomenon. 1 1 iL c roat ] ay A ball of fire about tw\. et - n diameter. It was blazingh. e a fully ignited cltu-ik of ci% n a grate. The heat from the l>V vas o intense it effected the ohsA,,.^ eves and he was forced tO-.,n back. Mrs. Merchant \ (( summoned courage V advanced to bis side. Together t^ contemplated the mysterious sp tacle. They noticed that the seetl ing flames were gradually reducin' A party of Jasper county emi grants came to Madison, last week, to take the cars for Texas. There were about 20 in the party, and it required 8 two-horse wagons and several buggies to tiring them and their baggage to the depot. A few days ago the train on the Hartwell railroad ran into a pile of cross-ties which bad been put across the track a few miles front Hartwell. No other damage than the breaking of the glass in the headlight of the engine was done. It would go hard with the perpe trator if caught. The man who iuvedted the horrible screaming and crying steam whistles should hereafter lie tied to one that will be eternally turned on. “Guilty or not guilty?” asked a Dutch Justice oY a prisoner. “Not guilty.” Den what do you want here?” Go about your pizness. A Toronto bridegroom is SJ and his bride is !I0. Poor young tilings! How little they know what is before them in the troubled sea of matrimony. In Mexico, women dro not allowed to attend (uaerals. They are, however, magnanimously accorded thc privilege of being present at all weddings. “Why is a young lady’s age after site has reached twenty-five like a fiorai lding-bell?" asked an outsider. And he says it is “because it is never tol’d;” but that is a libel. A young man out in Waupttn, YVis. organized an accordion corps. At hist accounts lie was still half a mile ahead f tlie inhabitants, but things looked aite encouraging, as he was very much ut of breath. In the Atlanta cotton mills was started Saturday the first loom ever made in the south. It was made by the “Georgia Mill Supply Com pany,” at Atlanta, and Governor Bullock says it is thc best loom in the mill. The Georgia Supply Company can undersell the eastern loom makers, because iron, coal, labor and wood is cheaper here. They have just finished an order for fifty looms, and have several hun dred others ordered. They also make spools, bobbins and spindles, and other mill supplies. GENERxYL NEWS. Judah .1'. Benjamin looks very much as be did thirty years ago. Isaac Sprague, the living skele ton, has been married seven times. A prize light between two wo men for $10 a side was a recent nov elty in Austin, Texas. Mrs. Senator Bed:, of Kentucky, was a Miss Thornton, a grand niece of Geo. Washington. There is a negro jailed at Alex andria, Va., who is said to have eaten nothing for sixty days. There is a woman in Clinton, Iowa, who takes regularly each week 180 grains of morphine. A man in a Philadelphia hospital, with liis throat cut from car to ear, is fed through a tube run up a nos tril. Fifty-one matrimonially mis- mated people made application to be divorced on one particular day in Chicago last week. The South Carolina legislature has passed a bill declaring unlaw ful all contracts for the sale of arti cles for future delivery. A German chemist announces the bulk of the ball, and that thA „ t he has discovered that diph- heat was growing less and lesi strong. They continued to pro gress nearer and nearer to the ob ject. Finally, sheltering bis face with his cloak, the old gentleman approached the mass and thrust his cane into it. The part of the cane probed in was instantly consumed, and the investigator’s hand was singed and slightly burned. He re sullied liis position on the corner, and before twenty minutes the flames had spent their force, and darkness once more reigned su preme. In company with Mrs. Merchant he went up to the spot ain. To his surprise there was not a vestige left of thc burning body. The ground was hot and blackened, but not a trace of the meteor, if meteor it was, remained O'DONNELL’S CAREER. Patrick O’Donnell was born ia attacks fowls and the disease communicated to persons; has been picked up .at f the coast of Portugal, which ns a watch, an a.tilude indi- 4.700 reis and some clothing. , “Yini; married couple were foun“ • - wh call leep in their chairs . janitor went around to turn „ as aftcr New li conceit A del >n. Ohio. nan who, five years ago, was l >a -aoooa vear by a Brook lyn church , oa( ; nK arouru l the :s of the Connecticut drunk. A room U V ground, 12x19 leet, was discovel<j nthe jail d the city Itksburg, Miss. It an’s bones, but has yet been Th® Merry, Merry Christmas Tims. The joyous holiday season brings to mind tli 3 olennt gifts presented in the city ot New Orleans on November IJtli, by the I»t3d Grand Monthly Distribution of The liouisiana State Lottery, under the sole cure and managemen tot Geti’ls G. T. Beauregard, of La., and Jubal A. Early,of Va., when over $205,000 was scattered broadcast. The same thing will take place again Tuesday, Jan’y IS, the lull particulars of which can be had from M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La, S35, in the town of Mannaclady, county Donegal, in the north oflre- land, where several of his family now reside. When four years of age he came with his parents to America, but returned shortly after to his native land. He seems to have formed a strong attachment for this country, and visited it fre quently since his boyhood. Accor ding to the London Times, he serv ed in the war of the rebellion. He took out naturalization papers in the United States, and he has lived for brief periods in Toronto, Can ada; Philadelphia, Pa.; Cleveland, Ohio, and Denver, Col. He is powerfully built man, six feet in height, with gray eyes and dark hair. It was on the 29th of July last that he killed James Carey, the informer, while the latter was being conveyed from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth on the steamer Melrose. P;". r , of , R \d socks 2,000 years old has bceV covercd an Egyptian tomb. . are , oose , kmt of fine shecpY, and t ,/ e foot is finished m allow the sandal strap toY betwecn them. A number of provi it is stated in a Hers sembled recently a England, to witness honors the cremation Hanham. The ceremony orate and sensational. Masons, cial, as- ctshire, asonic arden Romantic Episode In lSo History of Fort Concho— Sto-c of a Desperate Woman's Downfall and L:f on the Texas Plains. Unlike most of the army posts in tlie West, old Fort Concho, Texas, has Lead- fast ly refused to budge an inch in the way of “progressive civilization," and as a result is rapidly goiim- to decay. Little or nothing remains of what was once one of the mo>- nourishing trading posts ill the We.-, but ruins. While talking over the good old times of Fort Concho, with one of tlie first settlers, I learned a romance that is inseparable connected with the history of the place. “What became of old Bulialo Jo?” I asked. “She is dead algo,” he answered, and then added: “It was sadly pathetic.” I pricked up my cars and heat closer. “I knew Uullah he said, “away back in the fifties when site lirst Canu te Fort Concho. You remember her only as a hardciud woman, steeped in vice. I saw her when she was a fresh- faced, modest girl. You know that she was a woman of great intelligence. She was as relined and gentle as well as she was learned. Her father was old Col onel Debo, and in the happy days when she presided at the head of her father’s house, was as Miss Josephine Debo, the belle of the (tost, I think was about 17 when site first met Major Doyle. He was nearly 40, a man disliked by liis brother tdlieers and hated by the com mon soldiers. He wasa good oliicer, so far as bravery wa- concerned, but lie was cruel and tvraun cal, mean, selfish and revengeful. 1 don’t knew at the time what subtle influence he exerted over that gentle girl, but any way the whole post was very surprised when it became known that they were to he married. “In those days the oincers placed for heavy stakes, ami it cattle out after old Colonel Deho’s death—he died about a month alter the wedding and while Un couple were spending their houcvinoon in the States—that lie. hud lost'thous ands of dollars to Major Doyle, and to save himself from disgrace lmd sold liis pure and innocent daughter, body and soul, to a man who had no mercy.-" “Out day, the Major returning sud denly from a scout alter Indians, found a handsome lieutenant in company with his wife. Hut words passed lietivcen the two men, and the lieutenant struck his superior ollloer. The latter, mad with passion, drew liis pistol anil laid the young man at liis feet dead. It was then that liis wife’s hingsliimbcring pas sion was aroused. She threw herself on the body of her murdered lover with piercing screams, and when the Major attempted to raise her she shrunk from him with loathing. "I hate you!” she cried, and her eves blazed. “I hate you—-1 have always hated you! You bought me, and lor love of ray poor father, and to save him from ruin and disgrace 1 consented to the sacrifice. You have murderod the only man 1 ever loved—tor I did love him. Henceforth 1 go my way and you yours.” Colonel Doyle was court-martialed for the shooting, hut the commission exonerated him. Mrs. Doyle took up with a gambler named Davis, and they lived together. She never recognized her old acquaintances, and of course, they never noticed Iter. A few months after the separation Colonel Doyle was transferred to a post in one of the North ern territories, and husband and wife never met again. Mrs. Doyle remain ed at’.he post and she led a very gay life. To drown sorrow she began to drink. The gambler shook Iter and she became the mistress of a buffalo killer named Fletcher. She accompanied him on his hunting trips to tlie staked plain. •Site lost all her modesty, and in tlie rough life site led on ritie range all traces of tender womanhood disappeared. It was while on the range, where, as you know, she did her share of tlie killing, skinning and rendering with the rest ol the men, that she acquired the name of Buffalo Jo, by which she was known down to the day of her death. Site would hunt all day and gamble all night. After Fletcher died—he was killed at Fort Doyle by Arizona Alt in ls?t;—Jo drifted from bad to worse. “Dovle died in tliespring of 1SS0, and Jo disappeared shortly after the news reached us. She did nut turn up again at the post until after tlie Victoria raid in 1880. One day she came on the over land and two hours after her arrival was roaring drunk. She was swaggering along, when three girls passed her. Two of them were officer’s daughters, and tlie third a friend who was paving them a visit. Jo leered at them horribly and tlie three girls turned and ran screaming with fright. Jo followed them, yelling wildly. “During the chase she tripped and fell, cutting a deep gash in her bead on a sharp stone. She lay there speechless and without motion. Tha two oflieers’ daughters continued their (light lint their companion retraced her steps anil knelt beside the prostrate woman.. She wiped away tlie Muud with her dainty liaudkerchicf, and laid her soft white hands on the depraved woman’s face. Thankee,” site said, and would have passed on, but the girl detained her. “I am very sorry it. occurred, and I would like to do something for you— that is. if vim will fit me.” “ ‘What’s your name?’ was Jo’s ques tion. “ ‘Minnie Doyle,’ was thc answer. “She did not notice the sudden loot of pain which shot acro-s Jo’s face, and she failed to hear the convulsive sol which rose to the fallen •» ••■n an’s lips. Minnie Doyle!’ feiH-ated Jo, me chanically, and then paused. ‘Will yon kiss me?’ Yes,’ was tlie brave answer, and tlie young I’ps, as yet unstained and un- ixilliitcd, were upraised, and just touch ed Jo's swollen and repulsive mouth. The girl repressed a shudder, and Jo turned abruptly away ami walked straight to the jacal where she made her home. She drank no more whisky that day, and about midnight the post surgeon was called in to attend her. She was violently ill and sinking rapid ly. After examining her ease very crib ically the surgeon declared that all hope of recovery was past. “She will die before morning," he said. “What’s that,” cried Jo, starting up. “Leave the room, all of you,” she cried, “I have something to say to the doctor. “The crowd filed slowly out, and the dying woman held a few minutes’ iriiis- pi-red conversation with the doctor. lAt its cIohc he hurried back to tlie tiost anil Jo sank back oil the bed exhausted^ When the doctor returned he was ac companied by Minnie Doyle, and when they entered the room Jo started up with a glad cry. ‘“Minnie! My daughter!’ site cried, and hild out her arms. “‘Mother!’ answered the girl, through A young butcher was presented with a pair of twins. Wishing to inform liis parents of the occurrence, lie sent them this short, if not very lucid note: “I have just become thc happy father of twins. More next time. From your son. A—.” It rather annoys tlie woman holding a pug dog in her lap in the street car to hear a learned looking gentleman remark to a friend: “Do you kuou-|thc female ourang-outang at the museum has form ed an attachment for a small dog, and fondles it constantly?” A conceited young country parson, walking home from church with one of tlie ladies of liis congregation, said, in allusion to his rustic audience, “I preach ed tliis morning to a congregation of as ses.” “I thought that,” observed the lady, “when you called them ‘beloved •brethren.’ ” Plantation philosophy: Fear ain’t based on judgment. A hog will run quicker from a brickbat den I10 will from a gun. I’s spi -ious ob de mail what is always claitnin urbeworkin’ in de in trust ob udder folks, ’cause he forces me terone ob two conclusions, dat he is eder a fool or a liar. WHAT A BLIND BOY HAS DONE. Thin- was in Forsyth, the other day, a young man whose history, while not extraordinary, shows such a 'triumph ov er diiliculties, and is so different from what would generally be expected, that we have thought it would he interesting to our readers. Mr. George W. Stone, Jr., of Oxford, Ga., Is tlie person referred to, and he is well known to the merchants of Forsyth as a manufacturer ■ >f brooms. M r. Stone, is a son of I’rof. W. IV. Stone of Emory college. When a little boy, less than ten years old, George lost his eyesight this” way. He was one day playin 'with a pet goat. The goat hud liis head down, and while George was lien-ling down over him, the goat sud denly threw up his head aud struck liis horn against one of George’s eves. The blow was so severe that the sight of that eve was destroyed, and the other went blind from sympathy. Totally deprived of signt, wl hat could hi- future promise? Under some cir cumstances, a child of liis age would have felt it to he the death knell of all hope. But not so in this case. Under the blessing of kind Providence, an in stitution for teaching the blind had been established in Macon years licfore. In this school kind and competent teachers take charge ol tlie unfortunate children, who are entrusted to their care, and here George was placed. Possessing naturally a quick, reten tive mind, he made good progress in his studies, and in course of time mastered the course laid down for the students at tiie Academy for tlie Blind. The acade my lias, in addition to tlie literary and musical schools, a department of handi crafts, in which George learned to make brooms. After completing his course at tlie academy, George returned to his homo in Oxford. Not satisfied with his at tainments, liis mind longed for still deeper draughts at tlie Pierian spring. Aided by liis parents and sister, he took a course, of in Emory college, and gradu ated with a degreeof Bachelor of Science. He had mastered all tlie studies of the ular curriculum excejit Latin and Greek. Tints, Oil the literary foundation, which had been laid in Macon, he built the superstructure of a thorough colleg iate education, and had all tlie acquire ments—with tlie exceptions named >ove—of thc regular graduates of the illege who were able to see. But ho was not content with that. He was no merely satisfied to learn; lie felt that it was his duty to do as well as to know. Utterly rejecting tlie idea so common among the blind that their misfortune disqualifies them for work and gives them a dependent claim among others, he determined to put to service tlie knowledge of broom-making that he had learned in Macon. On a very small scale he began to make brooms and sell them. He met with success, and soon his trade grew so large that he hud to ,-mploy another to help hint; and then mother: now lie has three hands stead ily employed ir. his broom factory. He finds a good demand for all the products of his,little factory. At intcr- als ho takes trips tjirough Georgia to ell liis brooms to merchants. Wherev- r he travels he is well known ami very popular. lie never asks that the deal ers buy his brooms because he is blind; hut lie pubs them—as he has done from the first—squarely upon their merits. It liis brooms are not good, and are not as cheap as other makes of tlie same quality, he does not expect to sell. But lie does sell right along, and-Iocs it be cause there are no better brooms titan lie makes. Merit always wins, and ho stands upon merit. Ills customers and other friends are always glad to see him. He possesses intelligence of a rare order, and liis so cial qualities are very fine. He is fa miliar with all the standard authors, keeps abreast with current literature, and is as well posted iu tlie news of tile day as any man w ho reads the daily pa pers. He is affable without being In- quneiotia, anil is one of tlie most com panionable of men. fit addition to liis broom factory, lie runs a two-horse farm, near Oxford, quite successfully. Titus lie shows that ho possesses, in addition to his education and industry, good business talent. George Stone has shown that blind people need not be beggars or depend ents. Tlie general idea is that a blind man can do nothing hotter for himself than go around and gather upclinritable dimes by playing thc wheezy accord eon, or giving dismal, ouc-nian concerts lit deserted villages. The gentleman in question lias done much by liis manly course, to dispel these delusions, and to show that misfortune need not make one a mendicant. He is occasionally morti fied by well-meaning persous offering him pecuniary aid gratuitously—when all he wants is such a share of patron age as the merits of his business will warrant. We have written tlio above to show what can bo done by energy and deter mination, in the face of tlie adverse cir cumstances; and also to indicate tooth ers, who are not deprived of nny of their senses, that there is no need for discour agement iu the battle oflife; hut that tlie right sort of pluck and perseveranco will bo sure tobringtr eirreward. There is much in the career of George Stone to excite emulation as well as admiration. John Singleton, olJ boy of Waterford, N probably dying from the rc queer accident. A few dai he stood in front of his p: house blowing on a little tin tie, another boy came up and him in the back. The whistle into the boy’s throat, and the doclher tears, and springing forward, clasp- | came and tried to force it into tkl the wretched creature In her arms. ’ hut it is thought it lodg«“ ‘Thank God!’ whispered Jo faintly, 1 the windpipe 8 B \d with a new and almost beatific flight The “madstone” ■ humbug has been finally exploded. The famous Taylor madstone, of Indiana, pos sessing, it has been alleged, the faculty of overcoming hydrophobic poison, was applied to the bite of a mad dog on the 16th inst. at Terre Haute, without effect It failed ut terly. *i .1 Mrs. H. Q. BntlegnwiVj