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World.*
mi of Aleppo,” said Sir Philip
• l,n.l mastered every secret it*
V' the roblcr magic st'eks to
H,. discovered that the true art
• is to assist Njitore to throw olT
“ to cnmtno t. as it were, tlie
i. .1 to ejec. the eoemy that
i ,m a part. Hit pro, esses all
r-’-i Avigoiotion of the prin-,
. the Eastern sage merely antic*
... or.tetice of the !ie«t physicians
What like itself is, nobody
n—t-ohody knows now. Hut
l. arne.l some hing of the rea-
■t> o mysterious tide rises and
hovided the g eat organs of the
,...t irrepar h!-d- .royed.med-
..., ( ta*w vs relieve, and often
, „o re ittt’-hle phvsirian now
l, ( the hit bar.. is and" stupid pro-
.i..,,lotion, sue!* as bleeding. by
was attempted to cure disease
the t out’s: liditv to resist
1-dav* we do Ilf, tear down
to l„lp the -i.rris.in—we
i i -] jt and henitleen, work
t .[• Parke’s Tonic leads
I . ’ iues. As an invigorant
,, ! , and powerfully upon
• i and the organs o." diges-
- Nr. ire the assistance
a. i: 'f.dlo.%* that all ailme its
.pi.. . s and liver a e at
; :'r ri'f No other prep-
> tin- sa i.e qualities or
.odiar r, -nits. It t> delicious
- : i,..' known .mti-intoxi*
•j and if 1. Hi ,ox A Co.,
plague is rava-
ota a Physician,
ocomposition .f B. It. B.,
hod it with signal success
.I' Scrofula, Khi iiniatism,
. h.dney Trouble*, Blood
rh, etc. As a quick and
1.1 Blood I’m tiler it is su-
tliing 1 ever used, and I
commend it as a sale and
;,. | ha\c known one hot*
cine of Scrofula. Jt does
mil..-rul or vegetable pois
.1. P. I MUMt'.ool.K. >1. I). •
c$l.HI.i',.r$.‘>.0U.
liners were killed by a
Colorado.
Daily Mail. - ,
A daily mail route has been estab
lished from Tallulah to Clavton, in
Rabun county, to take effect on the
first day of April.
Georgia Matches.
The Gainesville match factory is
turning out 500 gross per day and
have fifty hands putting them up.
We were shown some from these
works. They arc painted red and
sure fire.
Hogs Dying.
A great many hogs arc dying
around Athens from a strange dis
ease. They are attacked with a
choking sensation and nothing can
relieve them. Some farmers have
lost every hog on their place.
Work From Afar.
The Athens foundry and ma
chine works are now doing work
for parties near Birmingham; Ala.,
and frequently ship work toArkan-
sas and Texas. This institution has
a splendid reputation abroad as well
as at home.
Boy in Picfcwlclc.
..d teeth, -,-cing that he
!■ ! ll»t-11.nst sitbnan-
m ilu- short,-1,1 notice.
I.J cstsl appetite so
.1, u-’.irc.- of eating, as a
..-i s, r.i possess then*,
, greatdentd invigora-
iig agent*'. Yellow car-
1 grow pearly white and
1 iidiiinc-s; 'and form a
p. the snowy hue of the
lost by the
,-xplc
enllv cured bv
at large, and
rcahouts.
Distillery Closed.
The Maxey’s distillery closed this
week, as the proprietors had a large
stock of liquor on hand and no sale
for same. They made, the most
popular brand of corn whisky in
Georgia and wdl doubtless soon
clear up and be running again.
Pitches In.
It may be just exactly as you say,
young man, but, rer-ember, the
man who thinks that the world
owes him a living will find that his
claim will go unpaid unless he takes
off his coat, rolls up his sleeves and
pitches it* to earn it, and bjys his
jewelry of Skiff, the jeweler; it is
just exactly as he says it is.
A Gigantic Bond.
On 10th inst., our esteemed fcl
low citizen, Mr. Hamilton Huggins,
in Gainesville, Hull county, Ga.,
gave his bond for one hundred and
four thousand five hundred and
twenty-five dollars, as administra
tor of the Riley Garre., estate. This
places Mr. Hamil .on Huggins and
his noble lady in possession of their
property, after four jears of unlaw
ful litigation.
Rumored Railway Sale.
Yesterday was the day appointed
for the Richmond ,V Danvil'c syndi
cate to close the trade for t'te D;ih-
lonega railroad. If it passes into
the hands of this company it will lie
made a broad-gunge, extended to
Dalton and used as a through line
from the west. It is a pitv that
Athens was not prepared to control
this road.
standi'
Startling Jersey News.
An exchange says the Hon. C.
M. Clay says that the Jerseys are
the native cattle of Russia, and he
could load a fleet with them at from
$3 to I to per head. Mr. Clay was
fownerlv United States minister to
Russia, is a Kentuc'tian, ard a bree
der of fine cattle himself. If he has
been correctly quoted, the fact he
mentions is important and interest
ing, and should receive the atten
tion of our Jersey breeders. The
writers lemembers seeing some
vears since, cattle bred on the Isle
of Pines, off the coast of Cuba, that
were as beautiful in form and color
as any Jerseys we have ever seen.
They were good milkers, made
good oxen and furnished most ex
cellent beef. They gave all the in
dications of gentle blood and high
breeding. Reared in a climate
warmer even than ours they might
prove well adapted to our uses and
free from the diseases that render
heavy investments in imported cat
tle risky.—Macon Telegiaph.
German Caip.
“It is said on good authority, and
admitted by those who have exper
imented mostly in tde raising of this
fish, that it is inferior in quality even
to our common rpjd cat in taste or
flavo -, and is unworthy of propaga
tion. They have cost the govern
ment about $1,000,000 to introduce
them, and perhaps a million more
has been expended in building
ponds, etc. The American Agri
culturalist sajs: “Carp a-e not a
first-class table fish, but they are
immensely superior to no fish at all,
when a fish dinner is wanted. They
are not as good to eat as the bull
head cat fish.’ ”—Elberton New
South.
We have eaten the carp and must
dissent from the above. The scale
carp tastes very much like trout,
while the leather species are simi
lar in flavor to channel cats.—[Ed.
B.-W.
A TERRIBLE ANNOUNCEMENT. .
TS* Whole ’VorU Wisppea In a Mantis of tbs
WATCHMAN, TUESDAY,. MARCH 18, 1884.
I NB
Clover and Grass Seed at Lyndon’s drug store-
ami It,Ti
lin’ worst
No one
sing Wil-
• ■ 1 li'itim-n-. It absorbs
■■u.4, nets 1.8 poultice,
1 1. l'lvpnr.'d only for
the piiMit.i parts, noth*
,1. Si. Cott'entmry, of
“ I have 11-O'I scores of
.1.'. nils-me pleasure lo
.. \ei- imiitu anything
.... <l ut - ami uml per
il:. \t ill.am-’ Imlipii
- ,1 hy .iruggists ami
•f p i. e, $1. Fra/ler
1 .p’s. 1 levelaml, Ohio.
. Itnuuhy, Athens, (la.
all.-i. wholesale agents,
Toiumony-
Mr. John IVarson,
hi- bu.1 with wliat
m pi ion of t lit? worst
unify lii’il •fieri with
,erpt Ins hall broth-
, 1 te 1 a-certain am!
ning all the reme-
.1 reso ■; sent tor u
. ig Restorer, anil it
e eo , inuetl the use
ei ha- been fully ro-
■ far a= 1 couh. Uis-
1, ami Brewer’s
AjNarrow-Gunnge Fromjthe West.
Col. Sage, a prominent railroad
man, was in our city a few days
since, in the interest of a narrow-
gauge road ex .ending from the Mis
sissippi river to Wilmington, X. C.
The proposed line passes direct
througli Athens, and if built will be
a grand thing for this place. A s pit
dicate of capitalists is now being
formed to construct it as soon as
practicable.
Slill Better.
For February, Mary Ann of St.
Lambert, the famous Jciscy cow,
made 67 pounds 6 ounces of blither,
and for nine months of her test the
made 7SS pounds <V, ounces of tine
butter, without any forcing what
ever, but simply on'her usual food.
Capt. Yancey's bull Rubanna Ri ot
ter is 96! per cent, of the blood of
thiswomlcr.ul cow. To how 1 hat
Mary Annhas not been lorced, she
is giving more butter at present man
last November.
Got Left.
The Athens water works compa
ny owes our foundry $-;So, besides
several other bills in the city and
Chattanooga. The creditors are
getting rather restless, as no steps
have as yet been taken to pay them,
and the works are heavily mortgag
ed to N w Yor.t capitalists. This
company- also owes Mr. II. B. Mc-
Ginty $3,000 for brick work on the
dam.
Minister Silenced
The Baptist church at Shady
Grove, Stewart county, Georgia,
has excommunicated their pastor,
Rev.JJ. W. Fackler, for drunken
ness, profanity and cruelty to his
wife. He carries a letter of certifi
cate of membership of that church,
and the public is warned against
the impostor.
A Cake Baker.
Mr. Caughy was yesterday in
quiring the whereabouts of Laura
Billups, the famous cake baker of
Athens. He says that this colored
woman has a reputation as a pastry
cook in New York and other Nor
thern cities, a.id is better known
among the epicures there than at
home. Mr. C. says at several feasts
North he has eaten her cooking,
and it ranks as the best.
■>l his liio
!. I >. lUrnesvillu, Ga.
u;ty ul tho South,
rmnn, a popular travel-
nun i’alltimore, writes;
Vm u.dm’s Neutralizing
a« li all' ciions with the
:- .in r:;v**lleut me<lu-im*.
ul * without.”
A.
i \\. A. M. !>., ol
ual University,
ve found < oMen’h
rt of
am
tor sale.
Tfiis nan
culnrly useful in
re- «•! < .'tisumption, wcak-
11, ami all nervous ath c-
jii.int women it ha< Ihimi
t’Vrry oilier article of
rej-rt» (I. Palatable anti
ion. Take no other.
msiiul Californa trout
i at Chattanooga for dis*
A CARD.
■•• «u lit'ring trom th«* error* nrd
h, nervous weakness. early
ul. Ac., I will s.cu'1 a recipe
KKKKOK CHARGE. This
•rowereit l>y n nttgfiinnary in
i«l u self luMressotl envelope
Inman, station />, Se
marC-tlAwly
I.orillard will retire
lie has offeted his
at lslip, Long Island
How He Voted.
Capt. Oliver, our Chief of l’idice,
says that in the last gubernatorial
race he voted for that grand old pa
triot Herschcl V. Johnson. Upon
being informed that Mr. Johnson
had been dead four years, the Cap
tain blushed and explained that he
referred to the Presidential race,
when he supported the claims of
Andrew Jackso.i. The Captain
was born in F.lbeit county, and rep
resented Banks in the state legisla
ture. Mayor Dorsey has now en
tered him fur a term at the free
school.
Receive Their Deserts.
Nolan and Fisher, the two des
peradoes who escaped from Clarke
county jail about one year ago and
were recaptured at G'eenesboro.
have been sen'enced this week to
the penitentiary for live years for
break ng open cars at Woodvillc.
They are bad men.
Northern Swindlers.
The Gaynor gold mining com
pany, that was in business last yeqr
“London, March 10,. 1SS4.—The
Sultan Sooloo is dead. He leaves
one thousand wives.”
Yesterday, while the rain was
pouring down in torrents and a lo
cal famine stared us in the face, we
chanced to pick up the New York
Herald and-our eyes rented upon
the above bri-ff but heart-rending
dispatch. We were not prepared
for this startling announcement, so
it came upon us like a streak of
greased lightning from a clear sky.
Great gaubs of brine trickled from
our lovely orbs of vision and our
heart-strings have not received
such a wrench since We last paid a
pilgrimage to the tomb ot our de
parted friend’s beloved kinsman,
Crackloo. It is indeed hard for us
to realize the tact that poor Sooloo
is no more! We can even now hear
the wai!« of his thousand widows,
as they tight and scramble for a
place of honor near their beloved
husband's grave! It was only those
who knew Sooloo best who could
appreciate his many virtues. He
.would never carry off anything be
yond his reach or too great for his
strength, and his heart was large
enough to find a resting place for
every good looking female slave
put upon the market. Only a few
months since was the world para
lyzed with the sad tidings that the
Tycoon of Schwaat was no more,
and before the eyes of our universe
were dry the announcement of Soo-
loo’s demise is given us to masti
cate. There is consolation in the
thought, however, that Sooloo is
not dead, but only gone before.
His road to the Mohammedan para
dise has already been paved with
the bodies of slaughteied slaves,
and he is now sweetly sleeping
upon the breast of the long-expected
Prophet. What consolation can we
pour upon the troubled breasts of
his multitude of disconsolate wid
ows? We are not able to buy them
a spring bonnet apiece, or in
cur the expense of manipulating
a thousand ’ sets of bangs,
or our way would be clear. They
will doubtless, however, find the
successor of the mighty Sooloo pre
pared to take them all in, for what
is a thousand additional wives to a
man who is patriotic enough to run
his heart through a sausage grinder
and have it chopped into the most
minute particles for distribution in
his harem. But we will forbear,
for doubtless Senator Brown, with
{ an abler pen than we can wield,
will come to the rescue of the mem
ory of this muchly-married nabob
and stir the sympathy of the coun
try as did his great Mormon speech.
In conclusion, however, we must
pre test against the press hurling
such thunder-bolts of grief at a sym
pathetic people as these tidings.
Why could not the Herald gradu
ally prepare us for this calamity,
like the English journals did the
loyal subjects of the Queen when
she sprained her ankle? They
'were then looking for some mar
vellous tidings from the throne, and
when Victoria administered her
life of John Brown to her patient
subjects they received it in that
meek and resigned spirit as be
comes true Christians. The Herald
might have cabled one day that
Iloodoq was indisposed; the next
that Foo-Choo had a boil on his
nose, and so on unjil it had [worked
th>- world up to a slate of resigna
tion that would have broken the
force of the shock occasioned by
Sooloo s death.
ate cyclo
DMb ana Drttnethm Orartttn a Tunny at
Loads aiaa who stored tram Gwinnett County,
Ga.
LaviYearrillc Herald. -
In our last issue we stated that
John Pool, a soa-in-law of Isaac
Strickland, of this county, with
several members of his family were
killed by the recent storm. We
met Mr. Mathew Strickland last
week, who.has just returned from
tne scene of desl-ucoon who fur-
furnished us with man® of the de
tails of the destruction on the farm.
Mr, Pool, his brother-in-law lived
in Catawba Valley,. about three
miles from Leeds, on the Georgia
Pac : fic railroad. He had a com
fortable residence and was a pros
perous and well-to-do farmer. On
the day of the storm he ar.d several
hands had come home to dinner,
and the entire family were gather
ed at the residerce, Besides the
immediate family consisting of John
Pool, h's wife, Ali.e, Alon-o, Lou
is, Willie ard the baby, Mrs. B-.ss,
Mrs. Davis and her two sons were
in the house. Two croppers that
worked on the place and two hi-
groes who were passing by with a
team, had gone into the cellar as
they saw the rtorm approach.
The cyclone strvck the house
acout one o'c'ock, coming from the
direction o f Bi”ninjham. In
an instant the hou’-e was bodily
lifted from the ground and torn
to fragments, except one small
room, the floor of which remained
intact. The inmates were carried
by the whirlwind with the flying
timbers f;om twenty to one hundred
yards from the house, John Pool
was so badly bruised that he died
that night,
MR. TILDEN.
Intervltv With Onr next Pr*dd«at on the Polit
ical Outlook.
Clarke Howell, of the Atlanta
Constitution, has had an interview
with Mr.Tilden, from which wc
cull the following:
Imagine my surprise then on
hearing the footsteps on the hall
way, to see as I turned, Mr. Tilden
himself advancing towards me.
True, his s.ep w.isnot cha - acterized
with the easy movements of one in
his prime of years. Nor on the
other ha.id did it strike me as being
mo e feeble than could be expected
from oae who had turned his three
score years and ten. The nervous
prostration which a life of exertion
had caused, showed itself in the
tremor of his hand, but his eyes,
the windows of his brain, were far
more clear and steady than those of
nine-tenths of the men who have as
yet but turned their sixtys. He
wore a plr'.n cloth suit, his collar
GENERAL NEWS.
The Texans have suspended fence
cutting operations.
A Boston man correctly guessed
the number of beans in a bag.
The new directory of Philadel
phia contains the names of nearly
3,000 Smiths.
A New Hampshire. milkman’s
house took fire, and he extinguish
ed the flames ivith milk.
A Massachusetts woman is. sue-
ing her mother-in-law for $25,000
damages for alleged slander.
One of the curiosities of invention
which a German proposes to make
is a cannon of silk.
Freddie Gebhardt has not yet
challenged John A- Stevens on ac
count of his attachment tor Mrs.
Langtry.
We see it stated that by the re
cent tremendous flood in the Ohio
SACRIFICE AND REWARD.
fitted closely around his neck, his , r jver the losses sustained amount to
ly bi
w Jas. Pool had his neck
broken, Alice was killed, Louis died
in about a week, Wiley is s.ill alive,
Alonzo and the baoy were not bad
ly hurt, Mrs. I^ool was so badly
bnrsed that she has not been able to
get out of bed since, one of the Da
vis boys was killed, another is so
badly injured that he cannot re
cover and Mrs. Bass is expected to
die. Mrs. Pool was in bed sic
when the storm came, but held on
to her baby and saved it, although
she was carried seventy yards.
There is not a plank that belong
ed to the residence six feet long but
what is shivered into splinters, and
five or six inches of the top of the
earth under the house was blown
away. The four parties who took
refuge in the cellar were unhurt. A
bucket filled with eggs was in the
cellar and not one of them was bro
ken. The gin house and stables
were blown away. A cotton bale
was blown into and half of it is en
tirely gone. A crib containing Soo
bushels of com was blown down
and 500 bushels carried entirely
away. Many other strange freaks
of the storm king were related by
him.
He says it is impossible for any
one to appreciate the utter desola
tion there was in the track of the
cyclone unless he had been there
and seen it for himself.
“YES! I KNOW.”
BY J. C. D.
CONUNDRUM AftSlYEREO.
Editor Banner-Watchman: Will
you inform me through your paper
wh.it is the emblem of stamps put
on: 1st, with the head up; 2d,
down in Oglethorpe county, vie- down; 3d, head to the left; 4th,
head to the right; and oblige?
Dr. Bos&nko.
fins 1110 so f:tniiii:i
people throughout the
p's, that i: is h.xntly necessary
r, he is '.he originator of the
1! iMink i’s t'oncli and 1-nnjr
I* 1 e.tple’s favorite remedy,
,110a it, lor eolith-, folds, con-
iiel all utlertiuns of the throat
l’riee 1 cents and fl.tK) Sold
(and K. S. Lyndon.
| Saaisoa's Lsgi ana Locks.
eiilnli clipped off $amson’s
iniirhty athlete became "a*
li ft rnnld lie proved that
(8-1 m oi luxuriant hair would
to tear open ’.ions’ jaws,
, .. on lo he driven wild in
apply enough of Parker’s
to meet the demand. As it
prevents your hair from
d restores the original chi
ld or gray. Besides it is a great
ie toilet iuble simply as a
.0 Colquitt will oppose the
his hill to pay Georgia'
thousand dollars for money
ed in the Indian wars.
hot a Cure-All.
i's Neutralizing Cordial is not
|i. and we do not recommend it
ill “which tile llesh is heir.”
Il'iii nothing more than is elaim-
ji th" name of this excellent
It neutralizes the acids and
the stomach, makes digestion
gives tulle to the' debilitated
A Cyclone Pit.
Mr. John W. Jarrell, of Ogle
thorpe. was in the city. Wednesday,
and tells 11s that he has just com
pleted a cyclone pit near his dwel
ling. The excavation is S feet deep,
S feet wide and 30 feet long, the
roof being supported with heavy
post-oak logs, so as to prevent ar.y
object trom above falling in. Mr.
J. says his neighbors may do their
laughing at his precaution now, but
when a cyclone comes it will be
his turn. A cyclone can always be
heard far enough oil to give plenty
of time to seek a place of safety.
Mormon Women.
Hon. Samuel Lumpkin, of Lex
ington, last summer took a • trip
over the west, spending several days
at Salt Lake City., lie says the
Mormon women are a homely and
care-worn set, and carry the stamp
of degradation upon their faces.
He conversed with a number
o1 them, and they freely discuss
polygamy, not being at all careful
in their choice of words. While
ort the train a woman w ho had de
serted the faith came near having a
fight with a female who still advo
cated a plurality of wives. Mr. L.
says there is not a living thing in
Salt Lake, and the waters are so
bouyant that it is impossible for a
human body to sink in them.
Firs at Harmony Grove.
Yesterday morning between 12
and 1 o'clock, the two warehouses
of W. T. Stapler, adjoining each
other and in a few yards of his
blacksmith, shop, were consumed
by fire. Origin of the life unknown.
It is not thought to be a direct act
of an -incendiary. Loss estimated
between $1,400 and $1,500; insur
ance $1,000.. The loss, consisted of
plow stocks, plow timber, etc.,
which belonged to W. T. Stapler A
Co., and the tiro houses belonged to
W. T. Stapler. The fire was well
under headway when discovered,
and there being no fire company
here, it was .impossible to extin
guish the fire. Other houses wopld
rave been burned, had it [not been
for the rainy and damp night,
timized a number of houses in Ath
ens. They slipped off their ma
chinery and left a’l bills unsettled,
and there is no way to reach them.
A Dry Town.
A gentleman who passed
through Spartanburg, S. C.. which
has lately gone dry, says the first
object that met his eye was a man
being carried to the calaboose in a
wheelbarrow, being beastly drunk.
Report Denied.
The reports going the rounds of
the press that there were twenty-
nine persons killed by the recent
cyclone in Putnam county is denied
by the Eatonton Messenger. There
were not half a dozen killed.
AugiuU rattlesnake melon iced at Lyndon’a.
LETTER FROM OCONEE.
Rescued From Death,
pi .1. Coughlin, oi Somerville,
Ays: In me fall of 1S7U I was
th bleedinN of the lungs lollow-
leveru cough. I lust uiy appe-
I lloh, and was confluedlomy
L 1*77 1 was admitted to the
The doctois said J had a hole
png as big as a half dollar. At
9 a report went aronnd that 1 was
J gave up hope, but u friend told
Jr. William Ball’s Balsam for the
I gota bottle, when, lo my sur-
euiufnonecd to feel belter, and
[ feel better than lor three years
nucl Garcia, a prominent citi-
‘ New Orleans, who died the
[day, was the father of twenty-'
“lildren. , .• •
slffiSaJa^
i hum for '
Salem, Oconee Co., Ga., March
12.—Mr. Editor: Having seen
nothing in your paper from Oconee
in a short time, and believing that
Earl Overby has failed to do his
duty as reporter, I concluded to
write you a few dots in regard to
our prosperous little county. We
are to be envied our efficient county
Treasurer, as he is always wide
awake to the interests of the coun
ty. While we frequently differ
with him politically, there is no
man in Oconee we would support
in preference to him. If our coun
ty commissioners ever want any ad
vice in regard t . the best and most
economical ad 1 inistration of the
atl'airsot the county, they do not go
to the expense of consulting an at
torney, but advise with him, who is
a very safe adviser. I, for one, am
in favor of abolishing the cqunty
commissioners, and having him ap
pointed county trustee as well as
treasurer. We do not mean to de
tract from our other officers, for we
challenge any county in the state
to show a better set, with the ex
ception of our representative. We
make this exception from the fact
that we have been told that he re
fused to introduce a certain bill in
the legislature, (which he was pe
titioned to do by a majority of the
voters of the county) because there
were three men in the county w'no
did not sign it. Nov,, we h
tl at if he was the representative oi
Oconee, he represented more than
three men. But, however, it may
have required these three men's in
fluence to elect him, and he was
Pabl Renese.
If the missive is fron a young la
dy the emblems are: head up, you
are beneath my no.ice; head down,
‘ should blush to snicker—take me
as I am, bangs and all; head to
the left, I will give you an answer
as soon as I find whether the other
fellow means business or not; head
to the right, I expect you to take
me to see tne $unlight pictures to
night.
If the letter is from a gentleman
to a lady the emblems are: head up,
" don’t care a|pewter nickel—if you
don’t have me some other gal will;
head down,' I spent all my money
last night for drinks and cigars—
get the old man to carry you to the
show and I’ll escort you home:
head to the left, you needn’t throw
out any hints, for I am not in a
financial condition to see the ice
cream sign; head to the right, your’s
until death or some other better
looking girl comes along.
A SAD STORY.
of Judge James D. Pittard.
Afttr long months of great sut
fering, the above well-known gen
tleman passed away on last evening.
Judge Pittard was; one" of Athens’
oldest and most honored citizens.
His heaTt was as tender as a wo
man’s, ana his whole life marked by
love find charity. A truer or more
honorable mar. never lived. Judge
Pittard was born May 10th, 1829,
in ClaTke county, Ga., and moved
to Athens in 1053. He filled for
many yegrs the olhce of Justice of
'the Peace of this district, and was
Mayor of Athens for several terms.
H« tost his health camping out du
ring the war and had been confined
* 1 his last illness
deceased, be-
to his room during h
forei months. The
A Little Child Waiholtromlt’e Mother** Arm»
la Gwinnett County and Drowned.
. Qwinncll Herald,
One of the saddest deaths' we
have heard of in this county for
years occurred last Saturday even
ing:
Richard Upchurch, who lives
near Bethsada church, started with
his family, consisting of his wife
anti three children, to visit some
friends. When they arrived at
came Menember of the M. E. church
in May, i&S^. He leaves a wife and
ttyo’children. ’ The funeral service
“I take place from his residence
r morning W r o’clock.
•••u •- tfH 77T-.- ••••
troubled much, however, about
politics.
There has been considerable feel
ing in regard to an article in your
paper headed _ “A New Use for
Whisky.” Pink Price says he
knows it was not intended for him,-
for he did' not get any whisky until
he got to Payne’s, and Willie
Mayne says he knows it was not
intended for him, for he is sony to
say he has no boy.
I understand that Dr. Price is
being entirely cured of rheumatism
by carrying two Irish potatoes in
his pockets. _ If this be true, it will
be a consolation to those who suffer
from this affliction.
As far as I can learn, our county
is solid for Reese for congress and
Hardeman for treasurer.
A.B.C.
Hold ou to the truth, for it will ser
you good through eternity. Hold oa to
virtue, it is beyond Price to you at all
ttanwSMdtkma. HoldaatoDr.BMi
The ladies were earnestly talking,
when in the delight of conversation,
the name of a young man was men
tioned in connection with that of a
young lady, whom he was said to
love most tenderly; one of the la
dies exclaimed, “What! He! Why
he is a drunkard!” The young
man alluded to, having heard of
this remark, said very sadly and
tearfully, “Yes! I know! I know I
am a drunkard; but she ought to
know the story of my life before she
shuts me out from all sympathy.’
“Yes! i knowF’
I know I mm—a drunkard! Need I tell
The torture, like the agony of hell
That rages through my heart and brain—the
The woricUeu suffering, as from serpent’s fangs?
“Yea! 1 know!”
The fascination of the damning bowl
Has made me sacrifice my very soul!
Shattered my manhood to its very root.
Till, to myself, 1 am less a man, than brute!
“Yes! I know!”
That In the revelry of drunken fit,
fool, or sniveling wit;
e,— beast
simpering f<
raging madn
or groveling beai
filthier jests did
feast!
Or raging
Whose filthy lips on
•‘Yes! I know!”
This bloated face tells not what I have been;
These staggering steps proclaim my damning sin;
These very rags, which seem ashamed to cling
To such a thing as I, add to the sting!
“Yes! I know!”
A drunkard! bat I've prayed, and hoped and fell;
And struggled up upon my knees, to tell
My God again, to give me strength to stand;
And clutched at hope with trembling heart and
hand!
I’ve
The
To save her damns l _
My soul went up in prayer in ev’ry breath!
“Yes! I know!”
But, let me tell the sad and sickening truth,
How I began the drunkard in mj youth;
How came this thirst that burned through ev’ry
vein.
Like liquid fire, till every pulse is pain!
•Yes! I know!”
But, let me tell the storv to the end,
Then blame, or pity; I do not say defend:
Jfy father was a drunkard! from him came
Thi$ everlasting heritage of shame!
“Yes! I know!”
But 'twaa this fearful alchemy of hell.
That makes my veins withlfiery thirsting swell!
Upoo the natal day that gave me birth,
A drunkard’s child appeared upon the earth!
‘Yes! I know!”
Upon the side-board stood, when friends came
in.
The si>arkling demon of my deadly sin;
And, tipping glasses, drank each other’s health,
And drank again, till reason went by stealth!
Yes! I know!”
As touching glasses tingled round the board,
Full many a joke and anecdote was scored!
A jeweled hand poured oat the wine for me
“ drink her health ia childish mimicry!
ory yet.
Id forr “
hair was brushed back from his
forehead, and as he leaned towards
me with:
“You come to see me from the
Constitution?”
I felt as I replied in the affirma
tive, when I saw his calm and steady
glance, that the magn'tude of the
mind before me oveshat'otved even
the frail bod) which he’d it.
The report of his brother Henry’s
death at New Lebanon had reach
ed h'm but this mo-n'ng, a.id though
his voice was scarcely above a
whisper, yet it carried with it the
emotion which filled his soul. He
spoke tenderly of his brother, Gtnd
though his death had been expected,
yet it shocked him. I sat near him
as he spoke, that I might
catch his x\ o ds, for his utterance
was feeble and scarcely audible at a
short distance, through some troub
le with his throat. But the compar
atively strong man whom I sat be
fore had agreeably surprised me in
that he moved with ease, certainly
portraying not the characteristics of
a confirmed invalid. • His conversa
tion was quick and he seemed to
take tnuch interest in subjects of
which he spoke.
“No, I am not so bad as I have
been pictured,” said he, in reply to
my expression ot surprise as to his
health. “I am feeble and prostrated
fiom a life of exertion, but my doc
tors are positive that my vital or
gans are perfectly sound. Oh, no.
I am being made far worse than I
really am.”
NOT STRONG ENOUGH FOR THE
llAtjK.
I touched politics incidentally, and
told him of the strong sentiment in
the sourh for his re-nomination. It
was almost humorous as he leaned
to me and smilingly said: “We are
all against the old ticket in this
house.”
“But the general verdict of the
party now seems to point to the cer
tainty of its renomination at Chica
go!”
“Yes, and I appreciate it, but I
will not allow the use of my name.
I know that I reformed the politics
of New York ten years ago.. I was
more able then than now. It would
be a herculean task to undertake to
reform now the matters of the gett
eral government. After twenty
years of mis;ule and mismanage
ment, corruption has become fixed,
and the most vigorous efforts will
he necessary to eradicate it. I don’t
feel my condition would allow me
to cope with it. In my letter a few
years ago I stated why I would not
allow the use of my name. It was
discredited. The' same reasons I
now urge. They have become
stronger, for 1 am four years older,
and am more infinp now than then.
I would urge that the idea be dis
continued, for it is not right that I
should undertake to do that which
I am unable to do.”
AVAILABLE CANDIDATES MEN
TIONED.
Whom, then, do you consider
the most available man for the dem
ocrats?”
He slowly shook his head as he
replied:
“Well, I don’t know. Ileadly is
a good man. His strength in the
western state- would add much to
his chances for success. With the
German vote he is very popular, and
he would prove generally accepta
ble. Payne would be strong and
could make a splendid race.”
And Randall?”
An admirable man and one who
would serve his party and country
over $30,000,000.
A young man in Hinsdale, New
York, has entered into an agree
ment to work seven years for his
employer’s daughter.
Now Cincinnati is talking about
investing the petty sum of $20,000,-
000 in hauling in dirt on the sections
of that city subject to overflow.
Mr. Tilden paid more than fifty
thousand dollars of the expenses of
the last presidential campaign for
♦he democratic party. This was
rather free for a penurious man.
The Sunday law is being en
forced very strictly in Memphis.
AH the saloons are hermetically
sealed on Sunday, as are the bars
on the local packets lying at the
levees.
General Grant is reported as re
covering his hehlth at Fortress
Monroe, and is taking much inter
est in the Copiah and Danville
troubles, as bloody shirt issues in the
coming Presidential campaign.
Fred Douglass, the “tempest-
tossed” and his adorable “tosser,”
are conspicuous attendants of the
Female Suil'erers Convention at
Washington. The old man,poses
as the “missing link” between the
races
The high license law seems to be
having the des ; red effect in Ne
braska. Since its [adoption,'. the
cities of Omaha and Lincoln have
lost half their "bars,” while the de
crease in the smaller towns is said
to be even greater. It costs $i,ooo
for a license in the cities and .$500
in the villages.
The least destructible portion of
the human body is the hair. In
Egypt it has been known to sur
vive 4,000 years. And the Egyp
tian women were not as careful of
their hair, either, as' are the women
of the present day. They never
took it oil'at night and hung it over
the back of a chair to prevent it
from getting worn out.
At El Paso, Mexican dollars are
worth eighty-five cents in Ameri
can coin. At Pas del Norte, just
across the river, American dolla-s
are worth eighty-five cents in Me::
: can coin. One morning a car
driver started from the American
side with a Mexican dollar. On
his arrival at the Mexican town he
took a drink of cha ; n lightning,
which was fifteen cents,
and received an American dollar in
change for his Mexican. On his
return to the American side he
took a drink of equally bad liquor
and received a Mexican dollar for
his American, and so repeating the
drinks at intervals during the day
and at night he closed up business
with the Mexican dollar he started
with in the morning.
BY K. LUtWOOD SMITH.
, •‘Upon my word I Just what might
have been expected! Selfish) Heartless!
Cruel!” ,
The above ejaculations fell from the
Ups of Mrs. Carpenter Wainrlght, as she
sat before a fire reading a letter.
A lengthy letter, too, closely written
1 four large pages of paper.
As she folded it, she said sharply—
“Well, thank goodness, her mother is
no relation of mine.”
Evidently the news, whatever it was,
about the woman who was no relation
of hers, touched Mrs. Wa'.nright deep-
Her brow was clouded, and, as she
mnsed angry flashes sprang more than
once Into her Urge dark eyes.
Upon all sides of her were ev'dcnces
of comfort, and her own dress, though a
morning negligee, was costly and in ex
quisite taste,
She was not young—past seventy—
yet she carried her figure erectly still,
and her eyes were brilliant os those of
youth.
While she sat in profound thought
there was a tap upon the door followed
by the entrance of a young girl, just
touching eighteen, with a fair, swept
face, lighted by eyes as dark as Mrs.
Walnright’s own.
“Aunt "Cora,” she ^tnd brightly,
“shall I read to you now?”
The old lady looked into the sweet
face with a keen glance, as if question
ing herself |somewbat about the girl;
then she said abruptly—
“I have had a letter from’Mrs. Pope
this morning.”
“With news from Mill Village?” the
1 girl asked, with a look ot pleasure on her
ace.
“You are very fond of Mill Village?”
“No. I like town much better. Still
there are some people in Mill Village I
am fond of."
“Theoda West?”
The girl hesitated; then lifting her
brighteyes she said frankly:
love Aunt Mary, but I don’t think
am so fond of Theoda. She is 4 very
handsome, very accomplished, and too
fond of patronizing time.”
“Ah!”
“You see she has been a pupil teacher
and learned all the extra brauches to
teach again.”
“White you were making dresses?”
Yes. Aunt Mary may let you choose,
and I knew I could make a living at
dress .making.”
“Your Aunt Mary was very kind to
you?”
Very. She took me when poor mam
ma died, ten years ago. Sbo eoi:Ul not
;lve me luxury and pleasures as you
lave done in the last year, but she nev
er made any difference between Theoda
and myself.”
“H’m yes. She is your mother’s sister,
am your father’s. She gave you a
share in the house of care and poverty.
I have taken you to this one, and will
not forget you in my will."
The girl’s face flushed under the sar
castic emphasis ol' the words.
“I never weighed one obligation
against the othe", aunt,” she said, q.ti-
etly, “you have been very, very kind to
me.”
“Your Aunt Mary Is an invalid, too?”
“She is in consumption. We have fear
ed every winter would be the last.
“Well, mj news is that your loving
cousin, Theoda, has eloped with the
German teacher who had taken a situa
tion in London.”
The fair face grew deathly pale, and
an expression of horror looked out of the
soft, dark eyes.
There was a pause of silence that was
painful. Then Estelle Mason spoke in
a choked voice:
“I must go to Aunt Mary.'
“Goto her! Nonsense, cl ,.d—what
claim has she on you?”
“The claim of gratitude.”
“But what can you do? you have no
money.”
“I can work.”
“Havel no claim?”
“Only second to her. You have been
very good to me; but you have so many
relatives who would be glad to come
and fill my place. You are strong and
well, with money for every com.'ort. She
is feeble, sick and poor. Oh, how could
Theoda desert Iter—how could she ?”
“Bo you know who this German
teacher, James Kent, is?”
“No.”
toms, they found the creek swollen
by the recent rains out of its banks.
He decided that he could cross, ais
though his wife expressed fears a-
to his safety. He was driving one
horse hitched to a wagon, in which
were all the family. He drove in
and as soon as the horse struck the
main current he was carried down
by the force of the water, and the
wagon overturned in the stream.
There was no help at hand, and I
upon him hung the lives of his fami
ly, by heroic excurtions he saved
his wife and the two younger chil
dren, but when he got on the bank
exhausted, he found that his oldest,
a lutie gir'. abcul six years old, was
missing. lie- began the search in
which he v. a- soon joined by the
neighbors, but she was not found
until r.houi, 11 o’clock next day
Her remains had drifted two or
three hundred yards below and
lodged. With sad hearts the fami-
therefore their representative, and
not Oconee’s. The fanners are not ly returned to their home to bury
their first born.
t born.
Georgia’s Stats Politics.
The executive committee o£. the
democratic party will convene in
Atlanta on Saturday, April 5th, at
10 o’clock,'a. m n in the parlors of
the Markham house. Members of
the committee are earnestly request
ed to attend in person, as business
of importance will be transacted.
Democratic papers in Georgia will
please copy.
Hen
Ibnry Jackson, Chm’n.
(pSfSa’fiS’SS^Siiigl
m»de from in. formal* ef the medicine men or
the Cherqtee Notion, 1«
mullein pleat, bet ho.
eviction, inrgww
. by Waller A. Teylor. Atlanta,
• Taylor* fremitus OgiKnw
But memori .
be! Would 1 coul
here must name, which for year*.
I’ve read upon the tombstone through my tears:
Yes! I know!’
Mother!—forgive me if I speak of thee!—
And sister, darling! on the bended knee.
At mother’s lap,—her hand upon our heads t
e said. ^Our Father!” ere we sought our
beds.
“Yes! I know!”
But mother put the wine-cup to my ’ipa
And sister smiled to see the childish sips
And “smacks” they taught me how to make!
They fed this thirst that drinking cannot slake!
•‘Yes! I know!”
a drunkard! But, pitying God!
re no hope, that ere beneath the sod
My young bead lay, that I may be reclaimed!'
Reclaimed to Thee; to her whom others named!
•Yes! I know!*
I tow it now with thoughts no lips can speak,
I vow It Chrift, beneath Thy blood-stained
cross.
McNUTT DOTS.
McNutt, March 15.—There is
talk of an industrial school for train
ing young ladies to cut and make
both ladies’ and gentlemen’s wear.
This is a long felt necessity, and
should be established.
Capt Frank Daniell left last
Wednesday for Birmingham, Ala.,
where he will become an operator
on the Georgia Pacific railroad.
Success to him in his new home
and business.
A lady friend informs me that
there is a secret society being or
ganised among themselves, for the
sole purpose of devising some, plan
to secure the attention and presents
of the young men.
Next week Mr. Jesse Daniell
will convert his meadows into pas
tures, eighty-five acres of which will
be well set in Bermuda grass. Any
one having stock to graze would do
well to patronize him-
Mrs. Emma E. Coplidge, daugh
ter bl General Gisha, of Mobile, and
cousin of Governor Porter, of Ten
nessee, was arrested in Philadelphia
yesterday for attempting • to abduct
her'son Alfred. She was pat under
$1,500 bond. Her previous attempt
to kidiiap her children here was
widely published at' the timti
faithfully,
THE REl’UItl-ICAN NOMINATION.
“Where in your opinion will the
republican nomination be placed?”
“On Blaine or Arthur, I sup
pose.”
THE WATCHWORD FOR THE CAM
PAIGN.
“What, Governor, do you think
will or should be the leading issue
of the democracy?”
“Reform,” he replied, “reform
should be the issue. Alter a mis
rule of twenty years the people will
stand by it. The party has it in its
hands if it will but take advantage
of it.”
“And if you are considered to he
the one to save it, you could not re
sist its call.”
‘ I should have to. I have served
it faithfully until now I am unable
to undergo the exertions which, in
case of election, I should have to
make. It can be done without me.
I could not stand the physical effort.
I would not disappoint my party.
My name must not be considered.”
This was said jvith positive firm
ness, and as he concluded with a
comment on the love of his party
and his devotion to its principles, 1
was more than ever convinced of
his grandeur as a statesman. "Yea,
he seemed a patriot to me, as he
slowly arose, and taisinghis voice
above the whisper in which he had
spoken, repeated:
I could not stand the physical
effort. I would not disappoint my
party.”
THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION.
His conversation (hen became
general, and but one more political
topic was touched, and that in re
ference to the electoral commission.
In reply to some questions concern
ing he saiil:
“Yes, I supported it. I was in
favor of it, but its act was one of
great wrong and injustice. I know
the people sympathize with me, but
it is too late. It’s past, and is a
wrong that can’t he lighted.”
A DEADLOCK IN PEANUTS.
Norfolk, Va., March J12.—The
deadlock is growing in the peanut
market here out of a^dispute be
tween buyers and 'sellers, the
sellers claiming that the
schedule of weights and prices laid
down by the buyers is arbritrary
and nnjust. A meeting was held
to-day, hut no adjustment was effec
ted. The sellers will appeal to the
f rowers, and in the meantime the
usiness will be at a standstill. The
peanut trade is a large one here,
amounting to millions of dollars an
nually.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Whisky carried the election in
Thomas county Monday.
Hon. J. C. Black is spoken of for
United States senator, as Senator
Brown’s successor.
Mrs. Loo Chong, nee Fulcher,
who married # the Chinaman
Waynesboro some time ago, hav
ing been cruelly beaten by her
husband, has returned to her fa
ther.
B. W. \V renn’s dog, that bit his
little boy afewjdays ago, Monday at
ternoon attacked Albert W. Wrenn.
at the passenger depot, badly
wounding his face in several places,
and biting a piece out of his throat.
A crazy negro woman has been
arrested at Rome while endeavor
ing to set fire to a dwelling. ' She
says she is the Holy Ghost; that
the world is about to be burnt up,
and it is her duty to start the con
flagration.
A test case of the constitutionality
of the prohibition law was made at
Jonesboro, Saturday. A barber had
been giving away liquor to his cus
tomers. He was arrested and tried.
His counsel made several points
against the constitutionality of the
law. Judge Hammond prom;
overruled them all. The case wil
not be appealed.
The Berrien County News says
“In the recent cyclone which passed
through Alapaha, a rooster on Mr.
Shade Dorminey’s place was taken
up by the wind and carried to
height' of several hundred yards.
He was set down a few hundred
ieet from where he was blown up,
and was unhurt with the exception
of being entirely stripped of his
feathers. Our informant, who was
an eye witness, states that when the
rooster struck the ground he imme
diately flapped what was left of his
wings and crowed, no doubt proud
of his trip.”
The Washington Gazette says
“A desperate negro named Abe
Hill was killed on Major R. M,
Willis’ plantation in this county,
yesterday, by another negro named
Jake Bradford. Abe had whipped
his wife and she ran off and went
to Jake’s house. He then followed
his wife, and, entering Jake’s house,
raised a difficulty with him. He
attacked Jake .with an axe, when
the latter took his shot-gun and
blew Abe’s brains out. The killing
is pronounced justifiable by all who
know anything about it Jake is at
home, but has not been arrested.”
A Clayton correspondent of the
Telegraph & Messenger describes
the wonderful feats performed by a
woman of that place, which justly
entitle her to the name of “cham
pion chair mover” of the, state. It
seems that her husband came home
a few nights since “slightly off," as
it might be called. She met him at
the door and the exercise* began,
the only difference being that the
man was not sitting in the chair, but
tried his best to evade the blows
showering upon him, much to the
delight of a crowd of spectators as
sembled. It is not known yet
whether she will travel or not
H
Thjrt was all, but the Joy of thetono
waa too warm to be hidden.
“Yoa are glad to aee me? Estella said
brightly. ,
‘Glad, child, glad! .-My. own loving
little girl. I have missed you so sorely,
Estelle. But,’ she said, suddenly, ‘you
have not quarreled with your Aunt Co
ra?’
‘We heard you were alone,’ Estelle
said, evasively, ‘so I got permission to
mako you a long visit. Aunt Cora gave
mo one hundred dollars for hottsekeen-
ing.’
What causes the rush at Long & Co’s
Drugstore? The free distribution of
sample bottles of Dr. Bosanko’s Cough
and lung Syrup, the most popular rem-
■ edy f or Coughs, Colds, Consumptionand
was Bronchitis now on the market Regular
else 50 ccnti and $1.00.
“Why, what zre you putting that on
my feetfor,” sseil a man with a heavy
cold. “Why, to draw the cold out of
your bead," answered the considerate
nurse. -“The deuce you say, I would
rather it stay whole it is. than be drawn
the whole lengthbf my body.” At any
" — *- a more pleasant metod than
that, go and get a bottle -of Dr. Bull’s
Cough S^rnp?’
“He is my husband’s nephew. Not
njine; but all my wealth came from my
husband, and James Kent, knowing me
to be a just woman, expects a handsome
legacy when I die. Probably when he
told Theoda he would be a rich man
some day, he did not tell the name of
the aunt who had money to leave.”
“I never saw him,” was Estelle’s only
remark.
He displeased me. I do not keep
people near me who displease me.”
Again that cutting emphasis of tone.
Estelle did not answer, and Mrs.
Wainright spoke again.
“I expect, therefore, that you will
abandon tins romantic scheme of return
ing to Mill Village. There arc asylums
where your aunt can be received.”
“Not while X can work for iter,” Es
telle said very firmly.
“Mrs. Pope writes that she will prob
ably sell her cottage, and live upon the
price in the same place."
“Poor Aunt Mary. You will let me
go to her.
"Ido not pretend to control your
movements,” was the reply, in a cold
voice. “When I took you from a life of
poverty and tcil, to take your place here
as my neice anu heiress. I expected to
have a loving grateful companion.
Since I have been mistaken, you can
leave me whenever you desire it. Only
I wish it understood that you must
chooBe between your Aunt Mary, final
ly.”
Estelle’s eyes were full of tears, but
she controlled Uer voice hy a s rong ef
fort to say—
. “I am not ungrateful, aunt, though I
never considered myself your heiress. 1
thank you front my heart, and if y
were poor and sick, you would not find
me uugrateful. But my di-ty seems so
clear to me that I cannot hesitate. Even
at the price of your displeasure I must
go. But, she added, timidly, I hope you
will forgive me.
Oh, I shall not quarrel with you,
child. You may go certainly. Only do
not flatter yourself with the idea that you
can return here when you are tired of
your sentimental duties.”
“There, go to your own room, and give
me yonr decision at dinner. Not a word
now.”
So dismissed, Estelle went slowlyto
the room, where every adornment spoke
of her aunt's care for her.
She was young and bad endured pov
erty for many years, so it was not with
out some bitter tears for herself that she
faced the situation.
She fully appreciated the difference be
tween Mrs. Wainrigbt’s heiress and a
dressmaker toiling for the support of
two women; between the petted child
of this home of luxury, with servants to
obey every wish, and the drudge of a
little cottage with an almost helpless in
valid to care for. Yet she never falter
ed.
And when Mrs. Wainright saw the
pale resolute face at dinner, she knew
that she mhst lose one very dear to licr.
Now for the first time, she regretted
her own residence abroad for fourteen
years, when site might have been win
ning Estelle’s love as this invalid aun
had done.
•I see,’ she said, when the silent, al
most untasted meal was over, ‘yon still
cling to idea of duty. Go then.' Take
with you whatever I have given you, for
I want no reminder of your ungrateful
desertioD. I rather spare myself the pain
ol any parting scene. John shall drive
you to the station in the morning, and
this will help you until you obtain work.
She placed a note in the girl’s hand
aa she spoke, and turned coldly from
her.
But the girl now sobbing convulsive
ly, caught her hand and ki&sed it warm
ly.
“Do not think me ungrateful,” said
she, her tear* falling fast; it breaks my
heart to offend you. Please kiss mo
and give mo one. loving word before ‘
go.’
“There, child, never make a scene.
Good bye,’ and she kissed the pleading,
upturned face.
“May I write to you ?"
^ “Just as you please. I shall not expect
And keeping her cold impassive face
Mrs. Wainright went to her own room,
bolted the door, and came out no more
until Estelle had taken her departure
the next day for Mill Village.
worn most unlike that in
which Mrs. Wainwright had taken leave
of Estolle, that the young girl entered
late in the afternoon ot the following
day.
, The litUe cottage where Mrs. West
wept for her unnatural child’s desertion,
had but four rooms, all counted, and
these were furnished very simply.
In one qf these, stooping ovwi* sew
ing machine, stopping often to congh, an
elderly lady, la plain mourning gar-
ments, was seated, whenEstolle came,
in.
Every trace of agitation was carefully
‘Alone,’ thcpoormothersaid.piteous-
ly. ‘Theoda has gone, Estelle. My child
whom I never denied any pleasure intny
power to grant. Oh, Estelle, it wilLkill
me.’
And looking into the deep, sunken
eyes, the hollow cheeks, Estelle knew
her aunt spoke truly.
The littlo remnant of life in the con
sumptive frame was surely to be shorten
ed by the cruelty of her own child.
But by every ‘loving device the self-
saorificinggirf stroye to keep the feeble
flame of life still burning.
She let it be known in the place that
she was anxious to obtain work as a
dressmaker, and soon found employ
ment.
Some curiosity was expressed at this
suddon return from the rich aunt who
bad taken away a year before, but Es
telle told only the simple truth, that one
aunt needed her while the other did
not.
Work, none too well paid, came to the
little cottage, and the household duties
were shared while Mrs. West could keep
about.
It was in November that Estelle came
to iter, and before February she was un
able to leave her bed.
Thedutles'thenof nursing, and still
keeping up with her engagements for
dressmttkiug, pressed very hardly upon
Estellq, but she never faltered.
Day after day the invalid was tender
ly comforted, and yet the busy click of
tiio sewing machine was heard far into
the night.
There was kindness shown by the
neighbors who helped in this labor of
love.
Some came to sit up at night whon the
invalid required such watching.
Many a dainty dish senttp tempt Mrs.
West's appetite, proved a sulllcieiit meal
for both, and there was never wanting a
kindly word of sympathy.
So the dreary winter wore away; and,
to the surprise of all, Mrs. West lived
through the bitter March weather.
How tenderly she was guarded and
nursed in that trying month none knew
but herself; but as the warm spring
days came she brightened visibly.
Theoda wrote occasionally, seemingly
glad that Estelle had come to take the
post site had so heartlessly abandoned.
In one of her letters she wrote:
‘My husband bids me tell Estelle It is
as well, perhaps, that she did not build
any strong hope upon Walnright’s ca
pricious adoption of her, as lie will cer
tainly inherit his uncle’s money.
Estelle made no comment upon the
message, but in her heart wondered if
the money could ever be put to any good
usein.hands so selfish as Theoda’s or
iter husband's.
It seemed a bad precedent for any no
ble action, this desertion of a dying pa-
rent'.
Summer stole away, every day lessen
ing the invalid’s strength, and winter
loomed up threateningly in the future
All oi Mrs. Wainright’s gift was gone,
and poorly paid, often interrupted sew
ing was hut a slender provision for co'.d
ami sickness.
Yet the wasted face grew paler every
day, pleaded silently for many comforts;
anil Kstel'e spurred by. the sight, wrote
to her Aunt Cora.
It was otic of many long letters, but
the first that asked for aid.
Kstcllc wrote—
‘Tne doctor tells me that Aunt Mary
cannot live many weeks longer, and she
requires almost inocssantcare. X find I
cannot supply the comforts she needs;
so I turn to you, not to beg, but to bor
row. Will vou loud me one hundred
dollars, and I will faithfully work till it
is paid when Aunt Mary no longer needs
my time?’
There was the usual curt reply to this
letter, but the loan was sent, witli a
brief intimation that the promised pay
ment was expected.
Early in November the end came,'gen
tly and painlessly, the dying breath
spent in blessings for tha faithful nurse.
Never once had Mrs. West suspected
that her niece was forbidden a return to
tiie luxurious home she had quitted for
her sake, so she had made no disposi
tion of the little property in iter power
to will away, the cottage and the garden
around it.
It had seemed to Estelle,, young and
ignorant of business, only a matter of
course (lint she should continue to live
and work in the cottage where she had
nursed her aunt’s last moments.
But, Theoda, who came to the fnneral
informed her she should put the place
into a lawyer’s hands for sale, aud she .
must look for a lodging elsewhere.
BewildercJ, weary with watching, sor
rowing sincerely for the dead, Estelle
turned from the words, issued almost
insultingly, with a sick faltering of her
true heart.
‘A letter, Miss Estelle,’ said the post
man.
Only two lines.
‘Come and work out your debt to mo
here. Cora Wainkiciht.’
It was a temporary home, at least, and
the desolate girl obeyed promptly.
In tiie November twilight, as they had
parted, these two had met again.
Tiie stern cold woman who had so
harshly put the duties before tho
warm-hoarted girl, wae waiting when sho
entered timidly.
‘bo you have come back,’ she eaid,
looking at the pale face, and drooping
eyes.
’ ‘To pay my debt,* - waa the gentle re
ply.
‘I’nv it here!'
And Estelle found herself enfolded in
an embrace so warm that the,.tears
sprang to her eyes,
“Hereon my heart,’ said Mrs. Wain
wright, ‘craving such a love as you give
tender, self sacrificing little Estelle!’
‘I tried you Sorely, child, ouly to find
you true! We will not part again, Es-
teile, till the grave closes over another
old aunt.' ;
Aud wiien that bout came, comforted
by Estelle’s love, Mrs. Wainwrlght’s
will was found to leave all her property
to her ^cloved niece, Estelle Mason.’
And thus the sacrifice Estelle liad so
nobly made met with its reward.
HON JEFFERSON DAVIS’ ADDRESS
TO THE I.EGISI.ATURE.
. Timce-Demoerat.
Jackson, March to.—Hon, Jef-
lerson Davis was received to-day in
the hall of the house of representa
tives, in the presence of the joint
convention ot the two houses, the
governor, state officers and judges
of the supreme court and an im
mense throng of citizens and Iifdics.
Ex-Governor Shans received him
with an eloquent speech. The fol
lowing are the salient points of the
response:
“Thanking you for this honor, in
briefest terms, but with deepest
feelings, do I respond to the senti
ment just expressed by your presid
ing officer. I have been reproached
for not asking for pardon. - Pardon
comes after repentance, and I have
not yet'repented. I would do the
same thing were it to occur again.
They have robbed me oi that which
none, are deprived; in sweeping
terms, not even to race, color, or
previous condition, but they have
not robbed me of the high privilege
of still being a Mississippian, as a
waif tipen the political sea. Seclud
ed in my lonely home, I still have
the interest of her at (heartland so
long as that heart will beat will con
tinue to hold.those interests eacrcd
above all others. The south has not
declined.'any in intellect* or other
wise, and my prediction' it she:will
yet hold the Lhelm,- a directjthe ship
and safely ride through the storm.”
1 Mr. Davis regretted he could not
deliver the address on the life of S.
S. Prentiss, on account of physical
inability.
> Mr. Davis was . listened to with
deep attention. The audience was
often touched by the pathetic feel
ing expressions of the speaker.
There was no unusual demonstra
tions; though he was warmly ap
plauded. • j $ iv- asmy/t,.. •
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