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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