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THE spinal stairs.
Lho uiil. “our children are
,l*w, and my husband and
V ,Jt„ u .r lire much aa we did
0 nra i*mi lo widen the
If,, i. „>nu-ttilng like a spiral
* . are all Il>e time coming
,1,,. ri|iot we started from,
ui.ree further op the Hairs.
,,„..ttviilu-trathii,” remark
ed, musingly, gaslng Into the
.1, which radiated a pleasant
the many windowed stove.
w we cannot stop toiling np
J we cannot, and lor myself I
J,„ u ll w ith that necessity, pro-
■advance in life la not attended
V or suffering, for I have
• of that. Not long aince
I utterly broke down. My ays-
nil of ’malaria. My digeatlon
rnighly Uiaorderad. and my
.in n wretched >ta e. I ««
. little n.id that »-ithoui en
nui liad no strenth or anitn
rform even my light *»□•••
i. Midleal treatment fail™
■e seat of the trouble, roe
^attacks which my physician*
1 to l>e sente congeatioo ol
The last «•>«? *”*
and I •«* K |ve " a P
' l ,e , .s , 'a'n' invl«orantlniu..
ndne I «** It and .el-
,1s at once. It appeared lo
—l.o.lv, as though 'he blew-
ugof new 'Hie hwl com® to me. Taking,
H|Kedieine I ennunn.-et. lm-
now in belter l.ealtli than
(lor a long lime."
1 i interview with the wife
Vr. v, pastor of ltaptiat
nnk, Mass.
: advance in cotton lutures
brk. ^
A Nobis charity.
.nkiiijr ol the Christmas din
ttar lS. disc i, to relieve the miserc of
LgSyiaAnfortunnte ones. Nn bettor
lorra to do this .-an he found than to
» the world-famed Chnrity How
Orleans, nnd invest »r,
fetfe'ittH. Grand Monthly Distil*
ie Isuiisiana State Ioitterv.
gfco Idtll of January. 1884. under the
rare'anil supervision of Gen’tt. O.
i\ Beauratntard. orl.»., and Julia I A-
Karlv.ofVa., when over 9315.003 will tw
we,JleretAroadi ist in sums of |7.i.(P0
down to (SI. The full detail* ol which
ran lie hatflrotn M. A. Dauphin, New
Orleans, Ivt.
|ria is prevailing lo an
extent in Maine.
Jfenrorit's Broad Preparation.
.ijflv reh-iM -, |,isr... and ipialitv al-
a ms Brained. Send for The lima-
I Cork B—k to Hu.»ford Chemical
rks. ■hvldellce, It. I.
DECAPITATED BRIEFLETS.
Gnano collection* were never
better than thia year.
Messrs. Baldwin ft Burnett gave
their salesmen a fine teal ring apiece.
It it predicted that 1SS4 will be
the hardcat times seen since the
war.
The boss Sewing Machine and
organ man, J. B. Toomcr. Let all fol
low. And he must lead.
The Gospel Pilgrim Society is in
a tearful muddle, and is having a big
lawsuit.
Burnett says that every bird Char
lie Baldwin kills costs the house $20,
in loss of time and ammunition.
Just received, finest lot of organs,
13 stop organs, 6 feet high, fully
warranted, 965. At J B. Toomer’s.
Congressman Candler has been
placed on several of the most im
portant committees of the house.
Sewing Machines, all makes, at
prices lower than any house north
or south, $25 to $35. At J. B. Toom-
At Il
men flu
The friends of Mr. S. A. Atkin-
. .. 1. «im ■ --- n * on ' n Athens will be pained to
th£criHi»has partially pass- learn of his death. Mr. Atkinson
}an ,l in-ard ol the merits ol was once owner of the Southern
Banner, ol this city.
J. B. Tooiner, Clayton street., has
the finest lot of biblcs, albums, and
poems ever brought to Athens, will
sell for cost or on monthly payments.
Mrs. Cornelia Garrecht, who has
been in the employ of Mr. Solo-
mtm, lelt yesterday for Anderson,
Bill Hodgson yesterday demand
ed a new pair of hoots from Bald
win & Burnett, because the ones
they sold him over three years ago
had a hole burned in them.
The Banner-Watchman carriers
were generously remembered
Christmas. Some subscribe! s gave
them as much as 92 each.
Travel during the past few days
has been enormous, and conductors
state that there seems t» be a gen-
eral disposition among the poorer
classes to try their fortunes in the
Far West.”
The city liquor dealers should not
forget to register with the Ordinary
by the first of January. Aprd was
the time previously, but the law
was changed hv the last legislature.
Emory Speer’s chances for hav
ing his nomination for District At
torney in Georgia confirmed arc said
to be brightening.
Hodgson Brothers gave each of
their clerks a handsome ring as a
Christmas present. This is a gilt-
edged house --n every respect.
5t. |..Im’s r'mt theOrangc-
iii,l showed no fight.
l'r. I.. aL Guild. of Ailanl*
|rrr niihfrv mi l viiii-m
vhn •
lino 11 11
on lib v !»•» «:■« ••iinsl of:»
horn rUftHO*' S. min’ i. with «•»»«• *i* i*l*’
Iwtitlpof 1L II. It. \'*ri?s* »•* him alsout
the cate.
Vrank Jo*cpli. .1 *•«.- or wi. At
lanta,; n « •«» *»:dI :t -l.tiiL'liinir,
vt-sbfulmit tilfi r i*’»* m*-** 1 ;, ami linn
IsiMt bia hm.* • *1 v* ^ i -•»»* - tlmling *»« re
lief. On**l«*• • t'“i" !*•. I*». IV hiatal the
' »li<» poi«'»n C oin hi:
hhwwt, r» aiin hU ahjht, iin«l pliuvil
hi’tt Kit the tI t«* llh.
Jay Gould and family will j*o on
a tour to Mexico sine* the West In
die*.
TIm Pair Arouied from tbrir Bridal Couch al
an Athens Wags# Tard.
Proceedings Already Bogun I*
The Bride Rctnm Home tilth H«r FaUttr and
the Gloom Goes to Jaehso* Ceanly.
KENTUCKY
* the 'ft#*! e-»m
* ; tr*i5fc* Whn .
whlcIgWa tho
vhat inn? he railed the
Ol.” making whluklea
•I price*, uppeal to the
i aii*! fJfVf'oj) the only true
Anvar and toiii|ii'*t that lilcnilAc* an«l dietin'
' mshe* Um^u itfrul ••oil of Corn." J. W. liar
Stlmn Couuty Whtnkry it o ttandard Ken
A Whlski J. H D.-BKU44«£ UUiH
ileh hrCnt th*
nt cultlvatet! i
p)i\>hrai pain.
The total cotton receipts at all the
>ort* since Sept, l, are 3.4010855
jalei.
1 A KAIR OFFER.
,Tic Hk.i.t t'o , of Marshall
i»« ml !>r. Dre> (Vlebrat-
It nn«l Kleetrie Appliancea
thirty (lava, lo men, old and
|#*d with "nervotia debility,
nnd manv oilierfllaeuaea.
i#etn«*fit in thia pajxr.
Two boys were accidently killed
near Greenville, S. C., while out
huntinf
vijrorotialy puali a htiai-
th to atitdv lor a p-ofewlon,
n‘t?ulate a household.
Ido a day’s labor without
|)o yon desire strength ?
you are broken flown, have no e.....
. ft‘«l as if life wan hanlly worth liv-
•ic, von can Ik* relieve* and*restored! to
ohtiat htttlth and atn*ngth by taking
.rown’l Iron ritteis. n »ure cure for
v*|HViaU, mnlaiia, weakneaa and’all
tiaeaaM requiring a true, reliable, non-
ttc tonic. !: a-*ta «n the|blnod t
and mum-les :iiul regulates every
|avrt o( jpe system.
— — —— C— ' ■ ■ ■ ■■
i France is pushing the war in
'China.Kind preparing to bombard
feral towns.
In Twanty Four If or r*
's Cupeine I* uvuis Plaster*
liltin' lia< k in gf hours.”—J.
•re, sure. -'.ic.
(hotly of a man was found
mong some willows behind a little
treatm near Cumm trsville, Ohio,
esterdav. A rope was about the
qfKck^ilit the tongue protruded.
E Loat rutb w rfejalrlu..
Tiiere ar* iinnitner.ili'a instanees
.here three have la-eti effected by Seo-
.'Ul's 8arss|.Miilia, or Klnnd and liver
fvrup, lor all disea.es of ||,e blood,
* hen ibo patient had liven given up hy
It is one of the liest reme*
offered to the pulilic, and aa it
Hi with the greatest rare, as a
nr retrain diseases, it is no won'
it alinuM be moreeffeetoal than
^riuen nml carelessly |>te|iare<l
otis. Take Seovill’a Blood and
lor all disorders arising
lire blood. It is endorsed hy
Hug piotessional men
Mabxii.i.ks, Dec. 2S.—M. Gam-
hetta, father of the late statesman,
deniaa the story that he has married
his aairvant.
Mules and Horses.
Mr. \V. S. Holman lias just receiv
ed a lot of fine horse, and moles,
und will have more to arrive to
morrow. lie is offering them very
cheap.
Oglethorpe Burglars.
Mr. James Young’s store at An-
has been visited nocturnally
for some time hy mean, of a false
key. Considerable goods have been
taken out. Several parties ate be
ing watched.
Congressman Candler.
A private letter received in Ath
ens yesterday Irom Mr. J. T. Mc
Carty. of Washington. I). C.. form
erly of Elherton, says: “I have met
Col. Candler here. I find him
shrewd, working man and he has
made a most favorable impression.”
Water Works.
There are only about 200yards of
piping now to lay, and it will he
finished in a few days. The en
gines are being placed in position
and as soon as this is done water
will be turned on ready for use.
These works are a magnificent job
—the fincLt in the south.
Business Changes.
Mr. II. O. Johnson is closing out
his stock and will next year clerk
for Nicholson, Sanford & Co.
The Hampton Bros, will move to
the store now occupied hy Mr. G.
Jacobs, on Clayton street.
Bed Langford has moved to Oco
nee and Jim King will fire tip at
Alaysville. Joe Phillips goes to Ai
ken, S. C.
Guano Storage.
In the event that our City Coun
cil granted permission to the Geor
gia road to store guano at their tie-
pot, the dealers of A then, also have
petitions prepared asking a right
to bring it into their warehouses.
The only hope for the Georgia road
is to connect with the North-East
ern, and this will doubtless be done
by next summer.
A Good Man Gone.
Yesterday the news of the death
of Mr. Wed Barber was received in
Athens. He died at his home in
Barberville at 8 o'clock Thursday
night, after a short illness. Uncle
Wed was one of the oldllandinarks
of Athens, and was known and
loved by all. It can well be said
about him that he was one of the
noblest works of God—ar. honest
man. He leaves a wife anti a large
number of children to mourn his
loss. His funeral will talc place
to-day at 10 o’clock.
Gold Mines.
Col. Dcverill, a gold miner of
Oglethorpe, was in the city yester
day. He says that Col. Colburn
will soon visit that county and try a
new experiment on the Morgan
mines for separating gold from sul
phurates, which is thought to be
successful. Col. D. says if it works,
every acre of land in this section of
Georgia will be worth a fortune.
He is hopeful of the ultimate suc
cess of the Oglethorpe mines.
Mr. Q. A. Stewart i» » prosper-
ous and highly respectable farmer,
who resides in Oglethorpe county,
about five miles from Lexington.
He is a consistent member of the
Primitive Baptist church, and has
raised a large family of children. If
Gus Stewart has an enemy, we do
not know it. He is an honest, up
right, God-fearing man, who has
the esteem of all his neighbors. He
was a galiant soldier in the late
war, and by his courage on the bat
tle-field won the public praise of
his General. He was a hard-work,
er, and had given his children a
good cqmmon-school education,
and what was still better, attempted
to rear them as good members of
society. His oldest child is a daugh
ter named Hassie, aged 22 years,
and she was quite pretty and enter
taining. Last spring Joseph I.
Stewart, a brother aged about 19,
and who lived in upper Jackson
county near the Hall line, came to
live with him, and after the crops
were laid by went to school to
Prof J. S. Baughn. Mr. B. tclisus
that Joe was an apt student, and he
looked upon him as one of his mod
el scholars. Soon there was notic
ed between Joe and his niece, Has
sie, a tenderness of manner that was
most too kinly, and Mrs. Stewart
spoke to her husband about it. He
scouted the idea of his brother s
unnatural love, and attributed his
marked attention to the fact that
Miss Hassie’s health was bad, and
that Joe felt a sympathy for her.
But woman’s eyes are far more
penetrating than a man’s, and Mrs.
Stewart became so incensed at the
deportment of the uncle and his
niece that she refused to speak to
Joe. Last fall he returned to his
home in Jackson county, hut during
the Christmas holidays came back
to Oglethorpe in a buggy, bringing
bis sister, a young girl of about
20. with him. Last Thursday night
all the young people of the neigh
borhood attended a little sociable a
Mr. Baughn’s, among them Joe and
llassie Stuart. Their attent.ons
were so marked that several of the
company noticed it and commented
thereon. The next day Miss Has-
sie's father, Mr. G. A. Stewart, v-ent
on ; a bird hunt with some of his
neighbors, which opportunity his
daughter availed herself of by pack
ing tip Iter clothing, and while iter
mother was not watching, got into
Joe's buggy and went to Lexing
ton, where,being unknown to Ordi
nary Gilham, they easily secure ! a
license and were united in marriage
at the store of Mr. William Gott-
heimer by Justice J. T. Johnson.
None of the officers knew the par
ties, and thought it only a runaway
match. They were accompanied
by a brother of the brV", aged
about 20, and a sister of the groom,
who is of the same age as llar.sie.
The newly-wedded pair then got
into their buggy and started to the
groom’s mother’s, in Jackson coun-
ty, J Mrs. Stewart soon missed
her daughter nnd brother-in-law,
ami sent for her husband. He at
once came home, and upon being
made acquainted with the facts at
once started to Lexington, when he
found that his wife’s suspicions
were too well founded, and that his
daughter had contracted a marriage
forbidden both by God and man.
Accompanied by J»lr. J. S. Baughn
heat once started in pursuit ot the
pair, and reached Crawford in time
o catch the night train, and arrived
n Athens about seven o'clock. He
knew Joe to have only about $5 in
money, and as he could not reach
home that night, calculated that he
would hunt some cheap stopping
place here. They first took out a
warrant for the arrest ot the par
ties and visited Fowlet’s wagon-
yard, but learned that the pair had
not passed through the city. They
then retraced their steps, visiting
Carither’s place, near the old Geor
gia depot. It was about half-past
seven when they got there, and the
house was still, its inmates having
retired. Mr. C. was called to the
door, and stated that a young couple
were stopping with him that an
swered the description of these
wanted; but as his wife was sick
he begged that the-penons would
make no disturbance. The father
consented to remain out doors while
Mr. Baughn went to the nuptial
chamber as mediator. Knockingat
the bed-room door, he found that
the couple had already retired, but
were not asleep. The groom asked
what was wanted. “Put on your
clothes at once, Joe, and come here-
for 1 wan’t to talk with you.” re,
plied Mr. Baughn. Young Stew
art recognized the voice and in
stantly complied. He seemed
somewhat frightened at first, but
b tre«* <
,forest<
I hat I
Th* Umbo ot Things Lost.
1 ha* engnlled many a trumpery
■h. |>a*te and powder, since
ha* Introduced to publie no-
that standard article atlll re-
■bee In general estimation aid
■ xipularity as the years wine,
hose teeth have been Haved by
gratefully in its behalf, and
al endorsements ol it multiply
b/
abo, who murdered his wife
ut, was taken from jad and
He made full confession.
> Wrought ta tbs Fsrtst.
pressing it is to see acres of
in the nii**at ol a noble
1 saddening it is also to see
, in the midst ol your otb-
dent lialr. Stop it at once
tot Parker'* Hair Balsam.
1 efficiency this famous article
tlie head of Its class.- Elegant
illet, delicious In odof, and res-
(originalcolor to gray or faded
pnomical, as a slight, occasional
ion keeps the hair and scalp in
sv City, N. J, Dec. iS—
dies of a man and woman
bund under an overturned
I body this morning, frozen to
upon being assured by Mr. B.
that no harm would be done him
if he acted upon his advice, Joe be-
" tni
Hi’s Peptonized Beef Tonic,
fpre pa ration ol beef containing
ki nutritious properties. I; eon.
iking, force generat ng and life
Hi properties; Invaluable lor
1. dyspepsia, neruons prostra-1
■al) tonne of gratml debility;
fell enfeebled conditions, whetb-
bull of exhaustion, nervous pros-
Overwork, oracute disease, par-i
ril
from pulmonary
Hazud ft Co.,
Sold by drng-
Reducing Wages.
We learn that the superintendent
of a large cotton factory in this sec
tion is seriously considering the ne
cessity of reducing wages, as they
cannot compete with the low prices
now paid by northern mills. We
predicted this some time since, but
yet hope necessity will not arise, as
tt would work very hard on the
operatives. Our manufacturers are
liberal gentlemen, and it would deep
ly pain them to take this step.
Last His OvtrcozL
When Gallaher, the genial young
Augusta Chronicle agent, *- as
Athens the other day, he attended
the theatre, and at the door g ave „
jittle negro his overcoat to hold.
After the performance both the
coat holder and garment had disap
peared. This week Capt, Oliver
got a telegram asking him to hunt
up the'missing property, but beg.
ging that officer not to let the press
know anything about it. Of course
the Captain complied.
Hsw to Ttil Oltsmargariae Iran Eutsr.
The Detroit Free Press sa Vs that
any housekeeper can proi e the
honesty of her grocer, or his butter,
by melting it. Pure (butter melted
produces a pure, limpid, golden oil,
and it retains the butter flavor. Melt
oleomargarine, and the oil smell. 0 f
tallow and looks like tallow, ant j a
scum rises to the surface. Bctterioe
is a mixture of dairy butter bed fats.
Melt that and the butter oil wifi rise
to the top. Pour this off. md the'
fats are at the bottom, Wiitish in
color and emitting quite a.dsagree-
came calmer. Mr. Baughn then ex
plained to him the heinousness of
the offense he had committed in
contracting a marriage with his own
ncice. for there was a penalty of
from one to two years in the peni
tentiary attached to it. He told him
that he must at once give up Hassie
to her lather, and consent to a disso
lution of the unholy bans, for there
was no country in the civilized world
in which they could live together as
man and wife. Joe seemed dumb
founded at this news. He said that
Hassie and himself had long loved
one another, and they thought there
— raar .
un-
was nothing wrong in getting n
icd;that kinfolks made such
able odor.
ried.
ions every day. He did not want
to get her into trouble, but if torn
from him now it would break her
heart He at last contented to Mr.
Baughn’s proposition, and told hit
bride to dress and meet her father.
She reluctantly did to. The meeting
between the heart-broken parent
and his erring daughter was most
touching. He received her kindly,
however, and in tears she left her
young husband and accompanied
him to the Clinard House, where
they spent Friday night, and left
for home on the early train yester
day morning. Joe Stewart was ad
vised to rcturn^ojacUson county, as
his presence ifevvglethorpe would
only augment the excitement over
the matter. Mrv Stewart employed
W. G. lohnson, Esq., tb begin suit
to break the bans, which will be an
easy matter, a* the'law does not
recognize such unions. Gus Stew
art has the deepest sympathy of nil
the people in lit* trouble, for no one
r t«» rear his fami-
We have notices for sometime
that Tooraer said to be doing a good
business in sewing machines, and
sft ihat every than, boy, wo
man ana child in North Georgia had
bought a machine by this time, we
conuudbd to fire into him and see if
he w as really doing a good business
or only making the people believe
by his actions that he was trying to
do something.
“Am I selling many. machines?”
said Toomcr, as he straightened up
from marking a New Home that he
was shipping to the mountains.
Young man, I am kept busy from
morning till night shipping ma
chines and organs. 1 cannot com
plain at my business. I landed in
this town ten years ago with that
old string-halted horse and he is the
bent one on earth, and forty dollars
in 1 loney. I have stuck closely to
but ineta and have tried to treat the
Dae pie right about the machines I
nave sold, and I have made a good
lhring, bought property, and laid a
little by for the rainy days.
lam now selling every sewing
machine known on the market, and
I tun prepared to sell ten dollars
lower than any one north or south.
I have sold this year 293 machines
which is a pretty good sale I think
for Atheqs.
I am the only dealer in Northeast
Georgia that keeps needles and at
tachments for any kind of a ma
rine.
You want to know about the or
gan trade. Well, you can see that
■ keep a good stock, and I guaran
tee to sell #30 lower than any dealer
in Georgia. I sell the 5 stop organ
at $45, and the 11 stop organs at $70.
As to the prices of machines I have
got them at all pi ices. I sell the
Genuine Singer at 9zo to 9^5; New
Haven, 924 to 940; Domestic 930 to
$50; American 925 to $35; Hartford,
$30 to $35; Household, $30 to 940;
Royal St. John’s, 915; Est'ey, 9^4 to
935; White, 935 to930.
“ I suppose you think I am in the
machine business front the above
list, I am selling them to and at the
prices I named.” We left M*\
Toomer’s nicely arranged little cot
tage store on Clayton Street, with
the firm belief that the aforesaid
Toomcr was doing a good deal to
wards helping the ladies of North
East Georgia in making their hus
band’s clothes.
Trespass Notice.
The following notice was copied
from a tree on a farm near Athens:
“Gentelsmans you Will I’cleas
Not trant pass ons My Persimasess
With out Comishen & you ar Hilt
Reosponbel for What Ever Nit B
dun With out Hit.”
John Weirand Capt. Oliver would
do well to paste this warning in
their bats the next time they go
hunting.
The Cotton Crop.
Col. S. C. Dobbs estimates the
present cotton crop at 6.500,000
bales, and would not be surprised if
it equalled that of last year. The
;ooil weather this winter matured
hundreds of bales that would other
wise have been lost. Receipts at
the ports continue far in advance of
last year. In Athens merchants
have thousands of bales stored
waiting for an advance. If sold
now they will lose 95 per bale. An
advance in price would help them,
but not benefit the farmer much, as
his crop is sold and the money
spent. There is no prospect, how
ever, for any increase in price, as
manufactories are closing, and
consequently no demand.
Trouble at a Court.
During the progress at a trial be
fore Justice Jewell, at Crawford,
Friday afternoon, one gentleman
gave another the lie in court, which
was followed by a blow. As both
sides had a number of friends pres
ent, a general fight was the result,
in which a dozen or more pe- sons
were engaged. Happily, the diffi
culty terminated without serious in
jury or bloodshed, as sticks were
the most weapons used, and the
house was too much crowded t > put
in fatal licks. As all parties are
leading and clever citizens, the af
fair is greatly regretted, and we
hope it will be yet amicably adjust
ed. About 92.50 was the amount
involved, we learn.
A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY.
FtorfUl Besnlt of a FamU j Fond—Two Man
Killed Outright.
Allendale, S. C., Dec. 26.—On
Christmas day a riot and street fight
took place in Allendale, persons
from the country coming in an en
deavoring to take the town. Two
] tersons were killed outright and
1 ive others were more or lpss serf
ously wounded.
The circumstances of the riot were
as (ollows. John Houlett, one of the
marshals of the town, and his sons
John and Tom, and his grandsons
Evan and Joyce Strange, had an al
tercation and fight with one
Frank Weaver and Uley Middleton
between whom there has long been
bad blood, in which the two Strange
boys were wounded. Returning
from this fight which had been car
ried op until Weaver and Middleton
>ot nearly ont of town, they met
L B. and Frank O’Bryan ana Gus
Allen returning from a dinner party
when one of Strange boys insulted
them, and when Frank O’Bryan re
sented the insult a general fight
ensued between the five first nam
ed on one side and the O’Bryans and
Allen on the other, in which sticks,
knives and pistols were freely used,
and which resulted in the killing of
Even Strange and Tom Houlettjout
right and the wounding severely of
the two John Houletts. The two
O'Bryans were also wonded slightly
L B. O'Bryan’s life was saved by
his shirt collar, which was split
about five inches in front across
his throat and the skin was slightly
cut
HiiMiii
has striven hi
ly properly,
not realise ’
fense, and
The daughi
as chaste as
we hope there is
ahead for her.
kille/by
snapping a
of their of-
ly penitent
oher home'
itted it, and
y future yet
playfully
at her.
KILLED BY THE GUARD.
A ChThfwlT. Tragedy—A CoarloVe raWl
Effort for Liberty.
Jtowu Courier.
The convict camp on the Blufl
Road, three miles below Rome, was
the scene last Saturday of a sad
tragedy, resulting iu the death of a
convict The following are the
facts as a reporter of the Courier
obtained them from a member of
the Coron’er’s jury.
About S o’clock Saturday after
noon, George McCrary, colored, 1
convict sentenced to twelve months,
at the September court, for cruelty
escape and was shot down by the
gnsra. By some means McCrary
succeeded in breaking loose his
(Hackles. And when he started to
the guard—a Mr. John L.
led to him to halt, cover-
him'at. the same time with
louble-barrelled - shot-gun. The
irisoner paid no attennon to the
i
d
8*
command,* but, heading for the
woods made a desperate dash for
liberty. As the guard called out
“halt’ 1 the second time, McCrary
turned.his head to look back, and as
he did so, the guard fired, ztnd the
prisoner fell forward. with a groan.
Five balls took eflect in his psrton;
the fatal bullet entering just above
the eye, passed through the brain.
The prisoner died within five hours.
Etopez wltb H«r SUtar.
Macon, Ga., Dec. 25.—Egbert
S. Sinclair, the only heir to a Loui
siana planter’s fortune, was married
in a romantic manner last week.
The nuptials occurred at a candy-
pull given bjr a prominent mer
chant. Miss Lizzie Jones, a charm
ing young blonde of eighteen, was
one of the merry-makers. Sinclair
fell violently in love with her. The
attachment proved to be mutual.
Toward the close of the candy.bee
Sinclair whispered words of love to
the fair Lizzie and proposed mar
riage. To his surprise, she accept
ed him and insisted uppn being
wedded oa the spot. A resident
Congregational clergyman who
was present consented to perform
the ceremony, and did. With both
hands full of candy, they stood
in front of the fiteplace
while the knot was tied. It was
the sweetest wedding ever known
in this city. After a tour through
the southern states they returned to
the young lady’s house to spend a
few days before going to New Or
leans to live. There Sinclair saw
his wife’s sister for the first time.
She is only fourteen years old, but
the acknowledged beauty of the
High School. Sinclair became in
fatuated with her pretty face and
winning ways. He was constantly
at her side out of school hours. Be
ing a fine musician, he volunteered
to oecome her tutor. They spent
hours together at the piano. The
young wife became jealous and with
tear-dimmed eyes implored her hus
band to lavish a little attention upon
herself. He treated the matter
lightly and said his conduct was
merely that of an affectionate broth
er, and she appeared satisfied. ’
At midnight yesterday a coach
drove up to the old mansion. The
driver was a negro. The blinds
parted from an upper window, and
a manly face appeared. It was Sin
clair’s. He gave a low whistle, to
which the driver responded with a
flourish of his whip. A minute la
ter Sinclair, accompanied by a little
woman heavily muffle-J, hurried
from the house into the coach; the
horses were urged forward, and in
moment the conveyance vanished.
Early this morning the young bride
was thrown into convulsions upon
ascertaining chat her husband and
sister had eloped. They ate sup
posed to have gone in the direction
of Montgomery, and detective s are
now in pursuit, one of whom is ac
companied by the young lady’s in
dignant mother.
SENATOR BROWS SCORES AN
OTHER.
CartemvilU Free Pre*s.
The great combination of rail
roads in Georgia scores another
tightning grasp of Senator Brown’s
power in Georgia. It virtually
gives him supreme power in the
management of the railroad system
of the state. Of all the men that
ever lived in Georgia, Senator
Brown wields the greatest power
in the affairs of the state, and the
people pay to him a tribute that
would bedazzle a prince. They
•ay him a handsome fortune in the
ease of the state road, and in that
of the state convicts. lie is United
States senator, besides having his
fingers in other pies that belong to
the people.
When we think of all these
things we must know that the rate
combinations of the railroads of
Georgia is but the scoring of mote
wealth and power for Senator
Brown. If he should live ten or
twenty years longer, and continue
to grasp power as he has since the
war, he will be the autocrat of
Georgia, as he is the “boss” of the
organized democracy, at whose
bidding the organized democrats
yield the most servile obedience in
all matters pertaining to the policy
and methods of “the party.”
A SENSATIONAL STORY.
The Prexldint Threatened with Qarfield'i Tato—
He le Badly frightened.
Washington, December 27.—A
sensational story has just come to
light concerning Arthur’s recent
visit to New York. When he at
tended the Evacuation day cere
monies he stopped at the Fifth Ave
nue Hotel. A suspicious character
was caught prowling about the cor
ridor in the vicinity of the Presi
dent’s room. He was arrested and
taken to police headquarters and
disarmed of bowie knife and loaded
revolver. He declared that he in
tended to serve the President as
Garfield had been served. There is
no doubt he intended to assassinate
the President. He was discovered
by a guest of the hotel. The mat
ter was kept from Arthur until he
returned to New York, when he
found that they had changed his
rooms at the Fifth Avenue, and an
explanation was made. Two detec
tives guarded his new apartment.
On the last trip the President was
much scared.
The Uaqghter or a Wealthy Banker Attempt.
her Ltre-Mm Heine Wert, the Victim ot a
Gambler, Found Almost Llfelea in a Chicago
Hotel-Her Brief Bomance.
Chicago, Dec. 24.—A little girl
ish figure stood before the clerk in
Brown’s hotel Saturday evening.
The clerk looked up and met the
gaze of a pair of dark brown e)'e:,
which peered at him from a poke
bonnet.
“Y’ou will plea»e show me to a
room,” she said.
With great coolness she inscribed
upon the register, “Nellie West,
New York City.” She paid for a
room and before retiring requested,
in case any one inquired for her,
that she should not be called. After
she had been in the room a short
time she sent t6 the office for pen
and paper. No more was heard
from tho girlish lodger,and the clerk
dreamed of big blue eyes, chestnut
hair and baby face dancing before
his mind.
At 10 o’clock a man entered and
inquired whether a girl named - , ,
“Maud” bad been there that even- Rome, on Monday night, and atlast
ing. He was young, well-dressed. | accounts had not come down, and
1. •* - . !s la.a n-IC rffitta I ft R
wore diamonds, and was very atten-
tachc.
The rain was general.
Dra Carver will spread his tents
n Savannah next week.
Congressman Hammond is still
improving and will soon take his
seat in the house.
Pork has recently been sold in
Lumpkin county as low as lour
cents per pound.
Senators Brown and Colquitt
have been placed on important sen
ate committees. Senator Brown is
on foreign affairs.
It is estimated that over a thou
sand jugs of whisky have been
shipped out of Atlanta to the dry-
counties during the past three days.
J. R. Saussy, Esq., of Savannah,
is being urged by the bar of that
circuit and by bis friends for the
United States district judgeship,
made vacant by tiie resignation of
Judge Erskine.
A man went up in a balloon in
A KILLING LONG AGO.
Union amt Recortler.
A writer in the Darien Gazette,
referring to the memorable killin!
of Lem Smith, the actor, in Mil-
ledgeville, by young Flournoy, of
Putnam county, says: “lie killed
by mistake an actor in Millcdge-
vtlle and fled the state on horse
back on account of his crime.” This
is not history. Lent Smith was :
brother of Sol Smith, the world re
nowned actor. Flournoy killed
Lem Smith at a house of bad re
pute in this city. It was a brutal
murder. Flournoy was rich and
had plenty of rich friends. Col.
Augustus Kenan has told us repeat
edly, that he was paid one thousand
dollars in gold for detending Flour
noy in Baldwin superior court. He
was cleared by a jury of this county,
Some time after the trial Flournoy
met Sol Smith in Columbus, Ga.
and “begged him to kill him, for he
had never seen a happy moment
since he killed his brother Lem.”
Sol left him without a word. Short
ly afterwards, Flournoy was going
Irom Columbus to Montgomery
Ala., in a stage. The Creek In
dians attacked the stage and Flour
noy was butchered and burnt by
them.
live to a small, dark moustache. His
air of extreme nervousness, coupled
with the request of the girl that no
one be allowed to see her, led the
clerk to deny that any young girl
had been there. The man left. In
tha morning the different occupants
of the house arose, but no one
thought of Nellie YVest asleep in
room 36.
About 3:30 o’clock .in the after
noon a strong odor of gas was per
ceptible in tlie neighborhood of
room No. 36. Porters finally open
ed the door. The gas that rushed
out was suffocating. On the bed
lay the litttle lodger. A tranquil
smile seemed to hover about the
well-shaped mouth, and the chest
nut hair in a tangled mass formed a
halo about the little head. The
eyes were closed. Her face was
white and still, and on the table a
half ounce bottle of laudanum was
found with only a little of tlie dead
ly drug left in the bottle.
Dr. Tunis was called. At first he
thought the girl was dead, and he
gravely shook his head when he
saw the amount of poison taken
from the bottle, and realized how
long that stream of gas had flowed
into the room. lie went promptly
to work, however, and within an
hour she was able to talk.
“Send for Mrs. Geo. R. Clarke,”
was all she said. Then she turne!
over on her pillow and wept, at
which the physician folded up his
medicine-case and said:
“She will recover.”
Mrs. Clarke arrived, and at once
recognized Nellie YY’cst as the girl
whom she had rescued from the
hands of a gambler who was about
to take her to Omaha. Mrs. Clarke
locked herself in with the betrayed
girl, giving strict orders that no one
be allowed to see her. The girl’s
history was published a few weeks
ago in connection with an account
of her rescue by Mrs. Clarke from a
ambler who was bearing her oil
to a life of shame. She is the daugh
ter of a wealthy banker. She ran
•way from her borne two years ago
because she did not like her step
mother. Her father soon recovered
her and locked her up in a convent.
During her brief time of freedom
she became acquainted with tlie
man from whom Mrs. Clarke res
cued her. By his assistance she es
caped from the convent. She tun
away with him to New York. Af
ter some months of residence there
they came to Chicago. Through
her missionary work Mrs. Clarke
became acquainted with her. She
was closely guarded by the lady for
some days and appeared contented
with her surroundings. The gam
bler seems, however, to have re
gained his influence over her and
lured her away. She is very ill still
and may die.
DEAD ON”HIS BOY’S GRAVE
Sulcldo of a Man who Could not LIts Happily
with hit Wlfo and Baby.
-V. r. Herald,
A policemen belonging to the
Greenwood Cemetery force was
patrolling his beat yesterday fore
noon on “Meadow Hill,” near the
Eighth avenue and Twentieth street
entrance to the cemetery, when he
noticed tracks in the snow which
led into one of the plots and for
which there were no corresponding
tracks leading outward. Following
up this trail, he came upon
the prostrate body of a
man stretciied across a childs’
grave. Turning the body over lie
made the startling discovery that the
man h tdbecn dead for several hours.
Blood upon the snow, a bloody hole
in the man’s clothes over his breast
and a revolver which lay beside him
showed manner in which dcathwas
reached. The child’s grave was that
of John Thonta. three years old, and
investigation revealed the fact that
the suiesde was John Thonta. the
father who in life was a tailor,
living at No. 332 Sixtli street, this
city.
GORDON’S FIRE.
CONFEDERATE TREASURE.
Washington, December 27.-
Nine miles from this place, on the
Danburg road, a small oak tree was
blown down by yesterday’s storm.
Mr. John Frank saw something
shitting as he was passing and ex
amined the roots of the same. In
the hole left by the tree he claims to
have found almost a peck of gold.
The jewels were diamonds, rubies
and pearls, and parties who have
seen them say they are worth $15,
000 or 920.000. The belief express
ed by the few who have been for
tunate enough to see them is that
they are a part of the lot lost by the
Confederate cabinet,as they were on
that road when they were lost. It
is supposed that the party that
bnriea it was killed soon after, and
consequently they were never un
earthed.
Mr. S. Gordon, White Bluff, Ga.,
says: “Brown's Iron Bitters has quite
zeueved me of rheumatism, with which
I long suffered.”
it is (eared that he has gone to
country where there are no tin
horns nor cannon crackers.
Near Trenton, Ga., extensive
beds of ochre of different shades,
brown, maroon and red, have been
discovered and preparations are
now being made to erect a large
paint manufactory to be known as
the Chattanooga Faint Works.
About twenty-live negroes front
the neighborhood of Colquitt’s
place, in Walton county, boarded
the train in Monroe, Monday, for
Louisiana, and there arc thirty-five
or forty more to go yet. The ma
jority ol them leave without any in
telligible idea of their future wel
fare.
On Thursday the Rev. J. W
Black’s family, who reside in YV al
ton county, were drying up lard in
one of the rooms of his new houses
that cost about fifteen hundred dol
lars. The chimney of the room was
built in the corner, and there had
been a large lire
that morning, but as
nearly through with
lire had burned down to a few
coals. They were careful with the
lard, knowing that hog’s fat is a
danger-us thing to work with
around a blazing fire—the least salt,
water or bread dropped in it cau;
ing it to pop out and ignite. Jus*
as they thought the danger was
nearlv over some one on the outside
cried “fire.” This created confu
sion, and all parties ran out of the
house to find the half story above
in a blaze. In twenty minutes af
ter the fire was discovered the
house, lurniture and ali was a total
wreck.
GENERAL NEWS.
Tho Principal Business Housos Rcducod to Ashos
and no Insurance.
Gordon, Ga., Dec. 26.—Yester
day morning some of the principal
business houses of Gordon on the
Central railroad 20 miles east of
Macon, were destroyed by fire.
The flames werediacovered at about
20 minutes past 12 o’clock, issu
ing from the store of George YV.
YVoods, and the alarm was given
and soon brought every man in
town to the scene of the conflagra-
tion.but little could be done to save
the badding or stock, the building
well as those adjoining being frames
quickly succumbed to the destroy-
ng element.
The l’ike’s I’cak railway will
propably be completed by July 4th,
1884.
A very large proportion of the
foreign emigration now goes to
Texas.
Small pox exists on several plan
tations in Washington county, Mis
sissippi.
Long John YY’cntwortli says
Blaine will be nominated by the
Republicans.
Henry YY'ard Beecher bavin
abolished hell now proposes to anni
hilate protection.
General Martin,who has just been
elected mayor of Boston, was
dray driver less titan thirty years
ago'.
Quite a number of laundry girls
in various places north have struck
against a merciless reduction of wa
ges.
It is reported that a great many
of the Mahonc Readjusters are
now returning to tire Democratic
camp.
The city authorities of New Or
leans are discussing the propriety of
taxing telephone poles $5 a year
apiece.
Alfred de Rothschilds, now
living at Hdtton, England, has had
his carriage lighted by electricity,
in order that he may be able to read
during his evening drives from the
station.
One of the latest inventions in
fraud and swindling is the disap
pearance of a well known person
at Fall River, Mass., and procuring
a dead body from a New York
College to personate the individual
at a funeral, provided as a cover for
the absconding citizens, and the col
lection of his insurance.
BV ROSE TERRY COOK.
“ Yt , I’ve driven a stage for.forty odd
yean. mong-t these mountaius, and I
did tr- t of hate to give it up and settle
dow i o keepln’ summer boarders. But
rl-ei -u .iiz is any man’s naster when it
gits o dof him; and at forholdin’ s ! x
liorsj t i.t with a lame si sulder, it can’t
be don .
“1 -1 some better row. and I do drive
folks -.to ut’ down YVashin’tcn once in
a wh’li, out regular stagin' of it I’ve
give t 1 >. Railroads, too, has set in
mos <:• < rywhere, so’t there isn’t any
gre.-t ct 11 for coacnes mor’n up anil
dow 1 to thr Glen.”
“You an <t have had a good many
adventures,” I suggested.
“Adventures! Land! What could hap
pen a feller driving along the road and
minding of his business steady?”
Evidently I liad been too direct in ray
question. 1 must tty another bait.
“You didn’t drive all winter, 1 sup
pose?”
“No,you better believe I didn’t! 1
took a mail contract one year, and after
snow come l carried tlie bag on a jmng
or a boss back, as tlie case might be.
Once in a while I footed it, when there
was a thick crust. I had snow shoes,
and I didn’t weigh in them days as much
as I do now.”
Twa’n't but once a week there was
any mail, and folks were skeerco up here
wintertimes. Nowand then there was
a house iu the intervals, and the folks
were i’o great letter-writers at lhat.
Newspapers was took, for they give 11s
all the news we had. There was the
Plymouth Journal and such like-one-
to one man and another, and w„s lent
a-ocul considerable to them that
couldn't pay for ’em.”
“lfow early in the year did snow !«- 1 '
gin to stop the travel here?” I asked. < c
“Well, we generally calculated to si >p -j
about Thanksgiving time. There was
most always some to coin*- homo f-*t ■ ■
that, and go back Sat’day. So we called I : a
the Sat’day after Thanksgiving our !a-t j
trip,and- most years we got through ; m
without a real heavy drifting snow, to
Once I got ketehed,-.though.”
He settled himself down in his* arm !
chair, crossed one leg above the other, ! e
laid down his pipe, and took liohl'-f hi
foot with one hand, while tho o'-h,-:: 1 o
(irmly grasped the arm of his chair, i
knew what that meant. Ho a!way, -
took that attitude to tell a story in. Then |
Ms rugged face grew thoughtful, and hi i
dull gray eye lit up and seemed to see j at
tho past.
“ ’Ttvas thirty years ago com'- a- \! !
November; bless you! ’twas forty.
, ., . , deems as though the years run hy as j
rr, and there had [U j c k as a f ;ls t trotter. Well, to’
in the lire place V t he beginning, ten miles below here. ! -:
they were a piece up the Scioto Valley, there wa
the lard the a feller by the name of Mills, Inal a in. j
little farm set in amongst the moan- | m
tains, jest like a bird’s nest into a t:v . ;
“He hadn’t more’ll fifteen acre-, j <
countin the hill pasture, but tenon’t
wasmedder land, so lie made what lie | p
and his folkseat, and they used to spin I .-.
some and knit some, and buy some oi j r.
tlie old peddler -’t come twice a year, -:i
ami they was well off for this country I d-
and them days.
“Mis’ Mills was a smart woman and i
a good woman, with lots of nut urea .
iier. But lie was rather hard:jj hard- |
favored, hard working, and some . '
hard hearted; hut I dono as he |h
He wasn’t a man to tell every:!
Bo,to a. I don't say they wie; b3»--
Bostoa folks—well, mabbe you're •
Bo-ton woman?’’
I laughed,, and be went bor.k toblB
story.
“Them folks being on my beat, I made
bold to .-.sk ’em if they knew one Poll
Shattuck. And, land! They couldn't
have said much more about him if he’d
been th e I'osilo Poll. They told how
well off ho was, ar.d what, a big house
his folks aad. They said he (etched
home a beautiful young gai from the
mountains, and put her right in his
mother’s house, for to be taught mast2
aud-eeibandnadniarTe.: liar, and what
el li
ras reu ly
ml JS uncy!
• wa» f r.nd h<»\v clever he.
1 o !..>• I t'b yet: 1
ar N:.acy wasn’t in 110
' day bat one befort
-va:: down Co Plymouth
u:d dx bosses, for I mis-
,- dli.ig weather, anil
and I was going
-- h up to Crawford's;
f°u -h-ak? who should
•i 'he stage when I
: i y, bu: Poll Shattack
hoc in a minnit, though
V-' up in fur and velvet,
' th. n eves and cheeks
' •' ■ ■ carting; and lie
1 ~ t .'.-10 was clear sug-
ke-nv me; for T was
r t’other ray, to I-'ran-
■ sta i driv never had
everybody, nor lie wasn’t one of
smilin’ sort, but lie wasn’t one oi
d lor
o-d at
id sc;..
worst that ever was, nor yet til.-■ \ ’ 1 !>.-.
“There is folks enough like hi;i., ! -a . .h,- ca;t
guess, mostevery where, hut most :;i wa v, ;- a : .
they have one spot in ’em, and id., hi ‘ . . .-.. icy :. or :-. kvhi-
wns his girl Nancy. Sin- was about . ; . if Lc-r
sleek-looking a girl as you ever s o- .rad -:. 11 ■ _• h arms
straight as a spruce amt lively a.* a 1 -•!- 0, and sez .. , finder
olink, redeheekssnd red lips, big !•:. 0 —
eyes, ns soft and sliy-like as a stjuirn-'.'.-. *. fi P.-r!'
and liaii’almost down tolii-r heel .shil
jest likea still brook, aud about the b
or of tlie yellow-brown water whrn : :
sun .shims on to t. ;
“She was the pick of the country, I done ’ And •• dragged 1: rto’.lic bed-
tell, and lier folks set tlieii
There was a boy most ten years young
er: the children that find come l-'.twi
thout had died, three in one week and
two in the next, of canker sore throat.
Nancy was up to Upper Bartlett to
aunt’s, so she didn’t ketch it. They ach-
reckoned ’twas fetched to tlie house le
some travelling (oiks that had a dredful
sick baby, and persuaded Miss Mills
take them In one night, when a thiuid
storm overtook them in amongst !
hills. | “Timm till
“There wasn’t any young fellers in open, aud th
them parts, but what there was all come J ! -
bti/.ziti round ’Liab Millses’ like hoes oil aifie. !:.-fi
to a thistle head. But Nancy didn’t |_ 1.1 -.!> foil L
take up with any of ’em, and tlr.it j -t :\. .d io
suited her (oiks. They wouldn't part sin: ..
with her lor the hull world, they used to j ;-!i e, we a’l put to. French
say. | brandy in a vial in my’ pocket, that tho
“But gals is gals, and if they shake woina-i who leapt the Plymouth Tav-
off the bees, they’ll be sweet to a butter- ern had obleegad mo to put in my coat,
Ilyas often as not. And they’re just when wo started, ior fear o. cold, hut I
like some bosses that you can’t drive I hadn’t touched it. Spirits do no good to
■md it 1
’! naan he should
- Lot - I : - e but Mrs.
- the' d, her eye 1 cIob-
!• cited face having the
- ive one screech and
to tho bed, and
rt< after into l:er arras with
-> oui 1 have woke the dead,
ite, s:r,:t eyelids riz right
kind :yes looke-i at the
, and ti e arms rtirred a
0, 1 run for the doctor, and
onto his kneer, and prayed
to bo merciful to him, a
with a whip no way ; but you can talk
and coax ol ’em into a boghole—ef you
know how. |
“There came along up to Bartlett the
summer that Nancy was twenty-one, a
dredful spry young city feller, io paint
pictures and sech; a real highflyer he
was, smart as a whip, climbin’ every
where and drawing out things to the
life; trees and brooks and rocks. YVhy,
vou’d think you heered the water bub
bling and dancing and tumbling over tho
stones, and the wind squealing in the
piney woods, when you see ’em, they
was so everlasting natural.
“Nancy she come up to her Aunt fid ar-
cy’s, and she fell in with this feller [ hand to Nui
mighty quick. Fact is, lie sec her to
mootin' and was took at once. No won
der, for she was pretty’n a posy, aud a
sight to behold any day, particular when
she got on her Sunday bonnet with a
pink ribbon onto it, and a pink gown
and white cape, as tasty as an apple
blow.
“He was smart, tco, and more than
common good-looking; eyes as keen as
but it cahie iu handy
iiea
now.
“Wo got her to. swaller a drop, and
they rubbed her with hot flannels, and
pet, hut bricks to her feet, and lo yon!
she came hack to her re.1.-as; dreadfrl 1
weak, hut alive), aud sinking, and hold- -
ing on to Iv T.ey’shuudas though 'twas
a sheet at eh at lbll s cay.
b : e rihuttick till he saw
the!:: -ri .- . .; a coming fcafle to'hip
wif-’s r-.-d g . up offeu his knifes
to:.-te!i her somethin, and then his loco
kinder hardened—fi. i lor auiinit—but
he he'.rd Nancy say:
’0, mother?’ and lie held out his
husband, and shook
FASHION NOTES.
Bride’s dresses are long-ttaincd.
The blouse bodice is in high fa
vor.
The hair is worn higher in the
back.
YVhite bonnets are restored to fa
vor for evening wear.
Chenille appears in various forms
on hats and bonnets.
Redingotes for evening wear have
short shoulder capes.
Combinations of brocade and shot
glace are very fashionable.
The most fashionable stobkings
still come in dark colors.
Combinations of stuffs are us pop
ular for cloaks and dresses.
Tiny checks gre fashionable in
both silk and : Uffolen fabrics.
Short silks at*d stripes of velvet
and satin are worn by Parisians.
Velveteen is the favorite fabric
for re-trimming old woolen dresses.
Dog collars of velvet, silver, pearl
and jet are again in high vogue.
Birds’ wings, pompons, aigrettes
and ostrich feathers are all fashion
able.
Velvet and satin raya, or strips of
velvet and satin are in high favor in
Paris.
Lace trimmed handkerchiefs are
not so fashionable as embroidered
and hem-stitched ones.
IRON. GOLD AND MICA.
Valuable Minerals !on the Hampton Mill Tract.
Mr. Tom Hampton, accompanied
by Prof. Barrow, yesterday visited
trie mil'tract, six mi'es from A.'-
ens, belonging to ’te Hampton e -
tatc, to see if there was any iron
ore or mica on the place. They
made a thorough investigation, and
Prof. Barrow thinks the iron ore is
splendid and is worth looking after.
They discovered a great deal of mi
ca, some very large, but could not
tell how much there was of it. Four
shafts sunk on the place it looked
like some one had been prospecting
for gold, and after questioning an
old miller that had lived on the
place a long time, Mr. Hampton
found out that Mr. Colt had, a num
ber of years ago, sunk a shaft for
gold, and had found it in paying
quantities. Mr. Colt was a peculiar
old man, and would never tell any
thing about it. There once lived in
Athens an old man who would go
out on Sundays and bring in three
four do’lars worth of gold at
night. He would never divulge the
secret, and we feel confident that
this is the place he found it. If
there is no gold tlie Hampton heirs
have a good fortune in the iron and
mica that is to be found. Mr.
Hampton is receiving quite a mim
her of letters in regard to the iron
and mica, and we hope soon to
chronicle the fact that Tommie
Hampton owns a line or two of
steamers and aevcral trunk railroads
with any number of short lines,
Good luck to you, Tom; we hope
you may strike it rich.
Mr. Edward Charleston, Savannah,
Ga., says: “I have used Brown’s Iron
Bitters for heartburn and obtained per
fect relief.” •
Mrs. Martha Parsons, a sister of
Mr.Jno.R. Tuck, died at her home
Oglelhorpe county, Thursday,
and was buried near our city Friday.
Silk Culture.
About forty years ago, Col. E. L.
Newton established a silk farm
our town, but the worms took a
disease and died. ' We understand
that between 25 and 40 bushels of
worms were on nand when attack
ed by the unknown disease.
A Michigan boy ate a bar of soap,
drank a lot of sods water and went to
bed to cure his cold. The doctor had s
hard time to pull him through, but the
boy new says the next time he catches
a cold he will uae Dp. Bull’s Cough Syr
up. [
A' terrible fight in Arkansas took
place between a Sheriff’s posse and
a gang of horse-thieves, in which
sevem persons 'were killed and
wpnndea.
•I tell you, K
Tliauksgivisi’
\.u ilidu’thave tvroer-
JR-ut Jay, I never e:nr
: -! ::u !
•i troto day-rise till dinner, aniiLiub
i-tave ia.-.nks to-ttro tablelike a bora par
ti, wioiu Mrs. Mills lay pale and siuil-
inyou the hed.-alooldnj»u through the
door, i:::J Boldin’ Tiauiksgiviff’ under
her breath to think Nance was homo
it; ey
a hawk, and shiny black hair c-urliu’ on- | agin, a- happy and rosy and well-to-do
to his head, straight, slim and well set 1 as heart could wish,
up. I tell yc, Nancy set by the ground I “I> - tor said it was a sort ofeat’Jepsy
he stepped on before long. I Mis’Mills hau, and'the shock of Nati-
‘YVell, ’twas tlie old story. Her folks j ey’s voice ki,.- Jofiiifokeitup.. I thought
;ot word somehow or nother—a inwardly, whut if firiup:;,- hadn’t co.no?
:iird in the air’ll carry sech matte -g, ye i Would fioha’ ererkhowed ’ftyas caFlen-
know-—that she was keeping company j sy ?
with Mr. Poll Shattuck, a Boston feller; “u„t host to ask too many
and Ifiab Mills lie was mad. Yoa'see, I qttesti.-tts, bad I tves mortal glad we
he hadn’t no great faith in city folks, j come tu- nubeforq-.they: buried her. tf
There was some hard ones come up sum- we hadn’t No cov’d have had a mighty
tilers to tlie mountains, unde the idee
that amongst the woods, where there
wasn’t no great of folks, they could <lo
as they was a mind to, and they did;
and ’twan’t real good behavior, now, 1
tell ye! So ’Liab got sot against that
sort, and when he h-erri Nanev was
keeping company with Shattuck, he rar-
ed right tip.
“And he did tho most impolitic thing
he could. Ho w hisked tip to Miss Mer
y’s. and he tore round like all pos-ess-
d, and fetched Nance hum quick ns she
could bundle her clothes up, and kept
her tight as a string night and day, a
settin’ ids shotgun close to the door and
forbidding her so much as to think of
that city feller again.
“Miss Mills, shecried night nnd day,
they said. She felt for Nancy, ye see,
lira she knowed that Liab was" tho kind
that| never let up on nobody. Well,
the upshot was that Nancy, after teliing
lier mother she was going, ran away
one dark night; rail with Paul Shat
tuck, on abuckboard, down to Plymouth,
and so was off.
“She sent word to her mother that she
was mat riud, and 1 hcerd afterward that
Mis’ Mills got it: but she never licet cf
from Nancy again. Not but what Nan
cy writ to her, for Lizy Mann, whose
pa kep tlie post office down to Conway,
told afterw ards that there were letters
come for Miss Mills from Boston; but
quick as Liab took ’em out he’d sti’p
round into Mann’s kitelieu andjjhuck
’em into tiie fire.
“YVcll, Miss Mills she grew peaked
all the time. She'd been a real good
looking woman, lu.lfaecd aud siiglitlv;
but she was thin a. a lath before fall set
In, and Liab kep a telling her’t Nance
wa’n’t worth crying for. Slic’d married
a poor beggar against Ins will, and was
like enough serubbin’ for bread now,
and served her right.
“Now Nancy did not do just the right
thing in leaving her home without trviilg
the better to convince lier fattier that
her beau was worthy of her. But Liab
ought not to have made tbatUieoc-.-asioii
of torturing liis wife. It Was .a hard
case any way, but tho poor woman was
not to blame. Come full of the year uqxt
after that when Nancy went, tt did look
as though Miss Mitls would.give up the
ghost, she was so weak and ieeble; ai.t-'
finally Liab seemed to seo it, anil he go:
a doctor down front Bartlett, and Miss:
Many fer to nuss her, and-I-urany Mann
she come up to do thechoies. .
Now, Nancy had not bus
from her mother all tl
Mills did not know whero.to
Nancy she’d writ cow at
Mann, and heard from
things wore going on up to
“YVhen ’twas along ah.
week this November, lazy
know how hor mn. was, 1
doctor said—or didn’t s.-v
queer spells she' had.. -
Nancy from some folks .
who ciiiiii- up thatSepr.-uihc
poor kind of Thsnksgivin’.”
A DOG REVEALS A MURDER
no 'loan; . :r Utsln ard is riot, tut tis
lira’s ficcy t* four.i.
GltOHGEVOV.’N, Ky, Dec. 24.—YV.
J. Ro '. .veil has been missing since
last February. He had recently
separated from his wife, had soUI
al! his .property, turn was preparing
to return to Virginia. The night
before .his internled departure a
dance, was given ill. the neighbor
hood, which lie attended. About
:2 o’clock jic started Koroetoard, ac
companied by two. young men of
the vicinity, and was never seen
alive again. Mr. Rothwell owned
a small dog. tn which he was much
nitachyd, and. the strange conduct of
the animal caused, some, corpmeut, •
For months ;this dog visited-nightly
a.lonoly^pot on Eagle Creek, some
milesXrom apy rciddeccp.-and kept ( ...»
tip n fttr'oas brrklng during tbp./vraft
1 ours.of dm,- ;nws.,. A \$cel. or tjvo •
ago some qneshot the dbg. . At
about- this time,.however, a ladyr of
the vx'mjty ,$iriv the pr'ntof a Woodv
haiid on -an old tree, r.wnielt gioztsmJ
some cui'ofity. .An iux'estigntion. ’
followed, resulting jn.finding'a por-
tion'of the decompofed remains of
a r.imr in the .-creek, rear, the spot v
where the dog had kept h : ;i nightly
--
vig'.l-r for,so lhuoyjRQtt'ks; A:pot r
tipni oLthe .c’dthiy-gtrfiroame^, but
the lieatj.• WJO; .WA,kind • o.id ' eg of
tlie fuan were gone", A^'jKawgfe,-' :
ton irertiaihed with the vempanjro.f : ri/
dotliing left, which tbm fohHMtVvilc r -
pf Iv othwell identifldd asjbelongihg'
iohltn. v . v'fi ' '
1 ■ rrr y 1 r:v . f; ■
C:t*ABLOTT*p.-jr.- C, Dec.
While a freight train war
the bridge over.*
CTfastena