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WEEkLY BANNER-WATCHMAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 18S4.
SUNRAYS FROM HART.
. evidence of their ailmira-
the greatest living Geor-
" hand ot llartwell
■The Bob Toombs
.,1 the bras
vt . chosen
r .i" ac their name. .
One Harmon Martin -s running
,position to Hon. Seaborn
jne eighth district. He
‘,'hcen making a still hunt, but
litll e -c.-ei.ie has been ihscov-
Hi> name appeals on tne
"'ihbcan tickets, and nearly all of
; ‘negroes have one in thei- pock-
1.0 escry democrat go 'O tin.
, Tuesdav.
\\ li'dain Cleveland, of '»rt-
. undoubtedly a remtive oi
,enter Cleveland, lie hands us
t u r from Edmund Janes Cleve-
( .\ p|- Elizabeth, N. J., containing
,;,,ted record oi the Cleveland
Viiv. which shows that the fam-
liaine was derived from the
me of the town of Cleveland in
'countv of Durham, England,
surname is a corruption 0!
,.1’e u-ul. and is of English origin.
nr. Bt-sanko.
. nuiiii- has ‘s-.-oin : so familiar with
n prop e Ihronghout the Unit-
Mites that it is hardly n,-cessar) to
ee’-isa' or is 1 he origiuaior of thegre-
j„. Iio-ank'i Cough and l-ung Syrup,
p, ..ptr's favorite remedy, wherever
' n. ior Coughs, Colds, Consumption
,11 ailirti* 113 of the Throat and
Pure, Ml cent- and $1.00. Kohl by
MISS BROWN’S LOVER.
. r.lse Placsd Upon a Broken Heart Over in
Carolina.
Reducing Wages.
Wc learn that the wages of all
the employees of the North-Eastern
railroad will be cut down, and one
or two parties lose their places.
Heme Again.
Rev. Sam Jones, the eloquent
Methodist ev: ngelist, who was re
cently so ill a Waco, Texas, b’s
returned to lit . home in Cartels * l ie
convalescent. Mr. Jones has many
fiiends in Athens who will be glad
to hear of his rest iration to health.
Charging Employees.
i he management of the Georgia
railroad has instit ited the custom of
charging all employees of the road
one cent per mile, except when
they are on railroad business. There
is a good deal of grumbling over
the arrangement.
A Good Appointment.
^ Gov. McDaniel has appointed
Gen. Jackson, formerly of this
place, to take charge of all the
goods sent from this state to the
New Orleans Exposition. Gen.
Jackson left for New Orleans a few
days ago, to take charge of his new
position.
Radical Documents.
A white scalawag is now engag
ed in distributing a lot of republican
literature among the negroes. He
dues his dirty work at night, and is
evidently ashamed of his degrading
task. We had rather he a suck-egf
hound and bay a moon made of
green cheese, than such a creature.
MEETING OF DIRECTORS.
m* NortB-Eutern Makes Some Changes.
At a meeting of the D*rectors of
the Noith-Eastern railroad, the fol
lowing officers and directors were
elected for the ensuing year:
OFFICERS.
Pope Barrow, President; R. K.
Reaves, Vice-President; H. K. Ber
nard, Supt.; A. L. Hull, Auditor;
R. L. Moss, Treasurer; E. R. Hodg
son, Secretary; Sol Haas, Traffic
Manager; Mercer Slaughter, Gen.
Pass. Agent; J. H. Drake. Acting
General Freight Agent; L. L. Me-
Cleskey, Assistant General Freight
Agent.
DIRECTORS.
Buford, A. S. Hodgson, E. R.
Baker, Geo. F. Hood, C. W.
flu- HrownMcNeil suit lor dam-
tor breach <>t promise has
settled by the payment of
n by McNeil to Miss Brown.
A nr J last Miss Mary F. Brown.
: ,.\pbfville, brought suit against
,!,n McNeil for breach ot promise
l m.i'i iage. She laid her damages
.-10,000. At tile time the case
f.i-.vi' a gieat deal of inteiest, and
v scandal lovers will regret now
; :t will not be regularly tried, a-
iuc rich and rare disclosures have
, i i, expected.
M:-** Brown it about 25 years
,ami 55 summers have passed
mer McNeil's head, lie is a fun
,eking man, and after the war iva-
r some time a salesman in Ervvin’-
,:ore. on King street. He own?
considerable property and ha,
i te a literary turn. In the inirlsi
las business McNeil has found
; nie to make love; indeed, he is a
aid of genius in this direction, it
i — s Mary Brown is to be believed.
,r she declares that he looled hei
. in- honied phrases until she fell
Victim to his passion.
Tne story is a thrilling one. Me-
s said, commenced paying
niion to Miss Brown about the
i.ng of iSSo.and under [mini
mal riage succeeded in ru.n-
1. He agreed, it is alleged,
eial occasions that he wool
her, and the day was live
l-i u i a! limes, but he alwavs mai
_c,l lo postpone the wedilin
ilmut discontinuing his visits t
ie trusting Mary, About tlte 20!h
• February last, while McNeil was
a \1s1t to her. she determined to
lout tlte matter to the test and sent
ia] justice to come and marry
McNeil, hearing the trial
iusta'c enter the house, made In,
ape tlnough the window, and
lefuseil to right the wrongs ot
I \ -s Biown. From the final set
n ent of the case as stated in the
|.M 1 evilie Messenger, it seems that
idence was agin him," as
n Abbeville, 01 .Mr. Mc-
(Neil never would have paid Miss
I Man Brown if 1.500.
AM I.ISA I'ATTI,
Not Consumption.
A young lady in a neighboring
county was thought to be suffering
with consumption, and her triends
despaired of her recovery. A few
days since she was taken with a
violent spell of coughing, and eject
ed a button that had been in her
lungs since childnood. Her health
began at once to improve.
A Heroic Moke.
There is li tie darkey near Craw
ford who has earned quite a reputa
tion as a fireman. When Mr. Ar
nold’s gin caught he rushed into the
flames and saved more cotton than
ujiy one, and so fearless was his
course that the flesh from his
■■ers was burned to the bone. He
ought to be given a medal.
HOW SLOW TIME DRAGS.
Mv life was like r desert waste.
"Without one lount of hope or loYe,
Until you, darling, t russed my path
Like some pure untel from altove.
foj gave me that which T inoet craved—
For which my heart had hungered long:
i love as true anti undeHled
A* ever told in prose or song.
[ live on only thoughts of thee.
-* lips
my love I’ll greet.
[Home Circle.
Childs, A. K.
Clyde, Wm. P.
Cobb, Howell
Cohen, Julius,
Deadwyler, G. E.
Dobbs, S. C.
Nickerson, R.
Oakman. W. G.
Reaves, R. K.
Scott, Geo. S.
Phinizy, Billups.
White, James
THE STATE FAIR.
TACKSON’S DEFALCATION.
Yancey, G. H.
WHITEHEAD WICTlMIZED.
u Sever Buy a Pig in a Bag."
Col. Whitehead, the life insurance
fiend of Athens, was in at Long &
Co.’s the other day, and while a
democrat, was prophecying the elec
tion of Blaine next Tuesday. Dr.
Long took him up to the tune of ar.
X, when the toriner remarked that
he had made a $30 bet that he
thought probably he would lose,
viz: that New York would go dem
ocratic by over 30,000 majority.
About this time Dr. Hale came in
and remarked to the proprietor of
the store that he would like to take
down their wager. Whitehead,
supposing that reference was made
to the $30 bet mentioned by Dr.
Macon, Ga., Oct. 28.—So far as
the crowd is concerned, the fair is
a success. The exhibits art very
good, and all the departments are
full, especially that of machinery
and agriculture.
THT STOCK
is fine, ? id so-* of it surpasses any
thing tfc it I ha>- ever seen. The
Jerseys predon mate in numbers
and beauty. A vicious Jersey bull
broke loose this morning, and tor
awhile created a perfect conster
nation. The manager of the
grounds ordered him shot, but as
there was nothing but a cannon to
shoot with, and it could not be
brought to bear on him, the order
was not executed. He was finally
subdued without doing much dam
age.
THE ART DEPARTMENT
is beautiful and very lull, and is in
charge of those who understand
their business thoroughly.
the horses
are beauties. This line of stock at
tract a great deal of attention, and
deservedly so. Some of the finest
colts that I ever saw are here, and
represent the runner, trotter, pacer
and draught horse. The attention
of the horse raisers seems to be di
rected principally to the latter.
Every species of gambling is car
ried on’at the fair grounds, from
“let her roll” to betting on horse
racing.
the racing
is good, and some fine horses of
that kind are here, and their owners
are ready to back their speed with
plenty of money. To morrow and
next day are the great racing days,
and will attract a large crowd.
Every train brings in a large dele
gation, and adds to the confusion of
DEFYING THE LAW
Long, pricked up his ears and pro-
posed to Dr. H. that he would give, t j, e now already crowded hotels,
him $2 cash for a half interest in the grand lodge of masons
the same. The trade was at once
made, and Dr. Hale turned the
money over to Dr. Long to credit
on his account. It was then discov
ered that Whitehead had paid $2
cash for a half interest in a very un
certain bet of only $1. In other
words, even in the event of his
winning, he was still $1.50 out of
pocket. The Colonel spent an en
tire day trying to get his money
back, but it| was no go, and he is
now a sadder if not a richer rnan.
FROM THF FARM.
A CARD.
ill M-U.l »
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nu, FKKK OK CHARGE. Th
s diwo voted by a missionary in
Scud u *«*lf-n<1dr«**n.‘d envelop*
Ai-H T. Inman,Staium 1>, Sex
in»r6-dAwly
COMING
i’.l’Ll.DOZKRS
NORTH.
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Is It True?
It is reported that a prominent
manufacturer refused
cash some orders from his hands, to
the Cleveland chili, remarking that
Blaine would make a good enough
President for him. If this is true
we would like to ask, under what
flag is that party fighting? The
money, however, was ^advanced by
one of his hands.
A Big Fox Tale.
The biggest fox tale we have
heard latclv, is told by Capt. Mose
Maddrey. He says that while he
was in the army of Northern Vir
ginia lie saw a large, red fox eating
out of his haversack, and that he
slipped up and caught him by the
hind legs and the' hack of his neck
and bound him with his gun strap.
There were a large number ot foxes
stay ing around the soldier’s camps in
Virginia.
Rev. Sam Jones.
Constitution: Rev*. Sam Jones
was in the city yesterday and paid
the Constitution a call. He is look
ing feeble. He was in bed thirteen
days at Waco with malarial fever
He is now getting well again, but
will he unable to do any pulpit
work for foul or five weeks. We
suppose his next regular engage
ment will be in January with Dr.
Talmadge, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
While in Waco he had application
from all the leading charges in the
state, with work enough to have
kept him there twelve or eighteen
months. He was very much pleas
ed with Texas, especially with
Waco.
The Missing Girl.
The Walton County News says:
“In our last issue we published the
fact that Miss Fannie Robertson, the
adopted daughter of Mr. Jas. C.
Robertson, had strangely disap
peared from his house. Since then
the matter has become more myste
nous. It is said that she did not
carry any oi her clothing with her.
as published last week. And we
learn that she was enciente. and
foul play is suspected, as not a thing
has been heard of her since the
night of her strange departure. Mr.
Robeitson lives in Broken Arrow
district, in which Mrs. Mitchell
was killed, and it is already famous
for mysterious murders.”
Pledger Advises the Negroes.
We learn that W. A. Pledger has
ordered the negroes of Clarke coun
ty to cast their vote for Presidential
electors whether they have paid
taxes or not, and the government
will see that they are protected. If
any such attempt is n.ade there will
be trouble at the polls, as the Cleve
land club has appointed challengers
and a working committee, and will
. see that no illegal votes go into, the
tin* Jlou>e, among them are Hons ballot-box. A negro who follows
R- A. Little, of Muscogee and L. Pledger’s advice simply sentences
M. L, mar, of Pulaski, while as can- ( himselt to 12 months in the chain-
iLiaics lor President of the Senate,
Hoiis.ll. H. Carlton, of Clarke,
Kim S. Davidson, of Richmond,
a '*J \V. R. Rankin, of Gordon, are
named. The session will not last
uu- fiiitv days* Among the mat-
u*rs to come before the assembly
a ill be tiit- election of a U. S. Sena-
tl,r - Hon. Joseph E. Brown will
s.Mil.tU-st be re-elected witnout op
position.
11.1.1:. Tenn., Oct. 31.—
I I'll t v 11 egtucs left here this after-
o accept appointments as
|l mini States deputy marshals at
tae polls in Indiana on election
<:.iy. The republicans have agent.-
:inuiiglimit the state emploving ne-
gnes load as marshals at the elec-
!i - - iu the state named and also in
i...*Li;s,.m;*.. They are to leave Ten-
i.csscr on tin- 31st inst. Bloodshed
noth Louisiana and Indiana is re
'dice.I a- inevitable if the said mar
I -: 1 - should attempt to interfere
with tin* lieedom ol the ballot.
Alary uunnuTs Faith Rewarded.
Mu.' I'uiiidll. an Irish girl, with Mr.
Llwanl fl.* 1 1, No. limit Spruce fit; hit*
- I.itils- Inriiiii" : A hard working ilome-
—stii- ha-fl"i.oOn, Shei-onununit-atei!
a rt-]i.irirr I tint months ago, she heard
I he Louisiana State lailti-ry, anil de-
' i "ii an uivesiiDf nt. Her heliel in it--
1 idly la mest principles were not shak-
. "Ii n -te- drew a bland for our times
■ ipic-nl. uor did -tie fail to invest
.-H.il.lv.hy mail.fl.nowilli M. A.Dau-
.. Uii-hiiigton. I). C. !she has jusi
11 tils-,1 that Ihe ticket, or.e-fifth of
1 aid* -t.e holds. No. 70,-liaS, has drawn
fa ff.Vtr m prize.—l’lnla., (Pa.) News,
I >• ;■!. 2t..
GcncraljjAsscmbly.
II.eGneial Assembly will meet
tM Wednesday in the state capi
>*1 at Atlanta. Several honored
have mentioned for Speaker
Mr. R. T. Pittard has a cherry-
orchard now in full bloom, which
presents an imposing appearance.
Bird hunters commenced hunting
too early this tall. Large numbers
of the birds are now only half
grown. We hear of an effort being
made to amend the game law of
this county, to insert November in
stead of October, which will make
the season one month later.
During the hard times likely to
ensue the coming winter, stealing
will be of frequent occurrence, and
the best way io stop it is to trace
up every case, small or large.
Another week will see the last
ol the cotton crop picked out, and
he report now is only two-thirds of
an average.
The corn crop is nearly gathered,
and the crop only averages one half
of last year. This applies to this
mmediate section.
The ground is now too hard to
plow, which greatly impedes oat
nd wheat sowing.
Our farmers are blessed with an
uuusual supply ot hogs. Acorns
are plentiful, if corn is scarce, and
they will be in tolerable orde' by
the 20th of the month.
The colored brother is now out ot
employment. The cotton ou , no
railroad wood to cut and no rival
candidates lo badger. It will be a
tight squeeze until chopping time.
Seed wheat and oats are in de
mand. and if the price is low, an
immense crop ot small grain will be
planted.
Next year if complaints come up
from cotton manufacturers of dirty
and badly handled cotton, you can
afely say it is a chronic complaint
they are affected with. The CTop
this year has been the most cleanly
handled since ihe war.
Another item of great importance
to every farmer, is the removal of
stones and stumps from every acre
of cultivated land. One day’s work
with the grubbing axe now is worth
two next April. Find time and
clean your land of these encumbran
ces.
Turnips are a total failure, and
sweet potatoes only half a crop.
We advise farmers to commence
turning their land so as to be best
benefitted b) the winter freezes,
stubble land especially, should be
turned before Christmas.
is in session here, and is represent
ed by a fine delegation of about
five or six hundred men. The
lodge is a model of beauty and con
venience.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Judge Cobb made a great mis
take in not coming down to see the
poultry, which is one of the most
attractive exhibits of the whole fair,
and would make the Judge and
Calvin Parr feel good for a month.
The fair grounds are beautiful, but
the dust destroys all the pleasure of
a visit to them. The prospect for
rain seems very favorable to-night,
and if it does come it will add great
ly to the success of the fair. Macon
is a city of bar rooms and drinking
saloons. They are on all the high
ways and hedges, and are well pat
ronized by visitors, as well as the
citizens.
The weather is uncomfortably
warm, and operates against the ex
hibitors, as well as against the arti
cles exhibited. H.
Tha Eatarpnn Mills Ssrlouly Onpplsd—Ttis
Sum Involved $100,000.
Augusta, Oct. 29—The Jackson
failure and the Enterprise lactorv
complications are the all-absorbing
topic of conversation on the streets.
A number of parties in the city
have lost by the failure, under the
most trying circumstances. The
experts are still at work on the
books of tl'2 Lnterprise, of which
Jackson was presment, aDd their
disclosures are of the most startling
nature. A deficit in the neighbor
hood of $100,000 has been discov
ered. Maj.Jackson has resigned
the presidency, and Jno. A. North
been elected president pro. tem. N.
VV. Armstrong, secretary, has also
resigned. The fraudulent manipu
lations date back for a period of
several years, but have been skill
fully and systematically concealed.
About one year ago a statement
was made showing a profit on hand
of $50,000 and a dividend declared.
It now transpires that the profit
was fictitious and the money to pay
the dividend was borrowed. It is
charged that the funds misappro
priated were used in speculations
and developing the Magruder gold
mines in Wilkes county. A meet
ing of the stockholders will be held
November Sth, when a lull expo
sure of the affairs of the company
will be made. A criminal prosecu
tion of the president is threatened.
W. H. BARRETT FAILS.
W. H. Barrett, wholesale drug
gist, had a creditor’s bill filed
against him to-day and sold out to
his son, Glascock Barrett. There
are liens on the stock to the amount
of $30,000.
M. J. Verdery & Co., brokers,
have failed. Their liabilities are
not stated. They were rated at from
$10,000 to $20,000.
AFl'ER FOUR WEEKS.
NEGROES AT PARKSVILLE, SOUTH CAROLI
NA, IN ARMS.
They R-eift Arrest and Defy the A-thoritieg—A
Constable'e Posse Fired Upon end Mr. James
^Blackwell Killed—Intense ExciltmeKt in Park*•
ville and Further Outrages Feared.
Augusta Chronicle.
Yesterday Mr. S. J.* Bethea, of
Parks ville. S. C., a small town on
the Augusta and Knor.ville rail
road, about 34 miles from Augusta,
was in the city for the purpose of
procuring a coffin fora man that
Had been killed by a party of ne
groes who were defying the author
ities of the place. He reports the
situation as alarming, and, in addi
tion to telegraphing the Governor
of South Carolina the condition of
things, he was trying to get a com
pany of men from this place to re
turn with him.
Mr. Bethea says for some time
past the negroes in that section
have been very offensive in their
manners. They carry pistols and
lose no opportunity to insult uu-
armed white men. That they plant
themselves in the middle ot the
sidewalks and make the white men
walk around them, and are openly
defiant to the authority of the offi
cers. On last Sunday morning the
white people had a church dedica
tion at Parksville, and during the
services the negroes congregated at
the depot, some 200 yards distant,
and began firing pistols. Owing to
the existing state of feeling, this
frightened the ladies in the congre-
TALMAGE’S POLITICS.
“The Upper Foroet” at Work la the Preeeat Cam
paign.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 26.—Dr.
Talmage continued his series of ser
mons on public affairs to-day in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, choosing for
his object “The Upper Forces.” The
opening hymn was:
“The morning l*ght is breaking,
The darkness disappears,
The sons of men are waking
To penitential tears.”
Before the sern.on I'r. Talmuge
read and expounded passages of
scripture appropriate to the subject
to be presented. The text was: II.
Kings, ri., 17: “Aud the Lord open
ed the eyes of the your.g man and
he saw and behold, the mountain
was full of horses and chariots of
fire round about Elisha.” We give
the following extracts from the ser
mon:
As it cost England several regi
ments and $2,U00,000 a year to keep
one troublesome captive at St. He
lena, so the King ot Samaria sent a
great army to capture one minister
of religion—perhaps 50,000 men to
take Elisha. During the night the
troops drove in and surrounded the
village ol Bothan where the prophet
was slaying. At daybreak the man
servant of Elisha rushes in crying:
“What shall we do, an army is after
you and we must die?” But Elisha
was not scared, for he looked up to
the mountains and saw that super
natural forces had gathered for his
defense, and if there were 50,000
Assyrians against him, there were
perhaps 100,00(1 angels for him. In
’answer to this prayer in behalf ol
the frightened man servant the
young man «aw them too—horses of
fire harnessed to chariots of fire, and
gation, who expected a riot, and r cuariois •« ure. anu
The services were temnorarilv inter. dn ' erS °f. fire P u ,n S reln8 of fire
LATEST FROM RABUN.
Miss Bailie Goes Some a Corpse.
The latest from the Rabun trage
dy is enough to make one shudder.
Miss Addie Bailie, one ot the vic
tims of Beck’s pistol, died Thursday
evening at 5 o’clock, and her and
her sister, Mrs. Beck, were brought
down on the train yesterday. They
were carried to their father’s home
in Gumming, to be buried. This is
one ot the saddest and most inhu
man tragedies that it has ever been
our duty to chronicle. Beck is in
jail and seems at his lucid intervals
to regret the deed very much.
Beck Leaves Rabun.
Eugene Beck, the murderer, was
brought down to Tallulah and car
ried to the Gainesville jail for safe
keeping yesterday. He has sober
ed up considerably since the mur
der, and says he has nothing lo look
forward to in this life.
A Kentucky girl glories in a head of
hair which is seventy inches long and
very thick, but our chief glory is in the
number of cures made recently by the
use of Dr. Bull’s Cough Svrup, Ihe best
remedy for coughs and colds.
THE DOG BOY.
Fleetwood, Pa., Oct. 29.—The
community in this vicinity was
shocked yesterday when the infor
mation was received of a horrible
murder that was committed some
three miles from this village on the
farm ot James Madeira. The vic
tim was a German farm laborer
named James Medlar, thirty-eight
years of age. He was for several
months employed by Charles Ep-
ler, a tenant on the farm of James
Madeira. When he asked Epler
for his pay he refused to give it to
him. Medlar went away and se
cured employment elsewhere, but
called again about a week after
wards. Strong words were ex
changed, and the farmer became so
enraged that he ran into his house,
grasped a seven-shooter and fired
three shots at Mealar. They took
effect in the abdomen and the man
died shortly afterwards. Epler dug
a hole in a fence corner and buried
his victim in it. This occurred four
weeks ago, and nothing was discov
ered of the crime until to-day, when
information of it was obtained from
the children of Epler, who gave a
graphic account of it, and stated
their mother was crying for the
past few weeks because their papa
might be hung for shooting a man.
MARRYING HIS OWN DAUGHTER.
Troy Time*.
A singular case of domestic rela
tions is reported in a Schoharie
county town, a few miles from
Schnectedy. A son ot a farmer
eloped lS years ago with a 15-year-
old daughter of a neighbor, and
ihey settled in Esperence, Ia. A
daughter was born to them. While
the child was an infant the mother
eloped with atcommercial traveler,
taking the girl with her, and they
went to Chicago. When 14 years
old the daughter, whose name was
the same as her mother’s, ran away
and on the cars met a man, who,
taking a deep interest in her, obtain
ed for her a situation. The ac-
qaaintance ripened into love, and
they were finally married, taking
up a residence in Schoharie county.
In some way the girl’s mother
learned of her marriage and decid
ed to visit hei daugoter. The wo
man appeared unexpectedly, and
with the other interested persons
was astounded in discovering that
Theodorejo Jo, a boy of sixteen,
well known among the curiosity
folks as the human Syke terrier, ar
rived in New York by a recent I her child had married her own tath-
steamer. His face is covered by a er and the husband whom the mo-
gang. Clarke comity will go dem
ocratic next Tuesday. Paste this
on your memory.
Prisonous Cigarettes.
Capt. Bradeen worked for sev
eral years in a tobacco and cigar
ette manufactory, and tells us that
the latter are rank poisonous, and
will ruin the health of any one to
smoke them constantly; that the
wrapping paper is saturated with
arsenic, and no inducement could
get men who make cigarettes to
smoke one. The Captain further
says there is the biggest soit of a
profit in smoking tobacco, as it
costs the manufacturer only about
15 cents per pound.
Surveying the Oconee.
Capt. G. C. Locke, an attachee of
of the U. S. Engineering corps,
was in the county last week for the
purpose of prospecting the Oconee
river, to ascertain the nature and
probable cost of the improvements
necessary to make the stream navi
gable from Fontenoy mills to the
railroad bridge.—Greenesboro Her
ald.
A Phjfticiab’a Testimony.
1 »a« oall.*. 1 to a<*e .Mr. John Pearson,
wu- i-outii ed to his tied with what
j!'l** : 'ii--i io In* consumption of the worst
1 ri". As all ot his family hud died with
-■>l or.-.id disease (except Ills halt broth
er , hi-.hath was regarded as certain end
■’"u. After exhausting all the reme-
’h.s. 1 finally as a last resort sent fora
■"■'ie til Brewer's Lung Restorer, and it
“ •ed Ilk. manic, lie continued the use
■1 it 1..1 some time and haabecn fully re-
•'ti.red in health. So far as I mould dis-
co' er licliaj coiMunip'ion, and JJrcaar'e
, (‘k Restorer saved his life.
J -11- Uoi.uuay, M. D. Barnesville, Ga
Dr. J. G. Westmoreland
•'ilnitflfift the Ireatmeul of «*broi»tQ
1 •••s*ea, wttn •hk'h.from experience and study,
:* M •• consumption andiutbma, with
, *-
u .
, htiwlder, und urethml »od uterine dU
- fjpej-Ul application. AddreMoroon
A Good Many Failure*.
During the year J88H there were 10,508
failures in business in the United States
ami Canada. Some ofthese were big eon-
cernRy aik) Bom« were very small. Fail—
ure ia sorrowful business to any man,
especially it it is his health that fails A
great many times 10,»08 people fails in
health in the course of a year. Many of
them might be saved if they would take
Brown’s Iron Betters, the great family
medicine and restorer of wasted health
MORE MATRIMONY.
On yesterday morning at the res
idence of Mrs. Vincent, on Hancock
avenue, the Rev. John Calvin John-
son united in the holy bands of mat
rimony, .Mr. John Gtlleland and
Miss Mary Francis Heard. The
groom Is oreof Athens’ well known
citizens, who has eluded until now
the power of Cupid’s dartsibut has
had to finally eupewmb. »nd he has
the congratulations of nis numerous
friends on chaneing his preconceiv
ed ideas of single blessedness, as
well as the wisdom displayed >n the
uiode ortnhaiuiion. Piles by the p«io- . „ A <xmn>>ninn for life. The
ol lu-rraanent curein leu than »week; choiCC of a COmp a OlOH I
bride is well known in Athens, hav-
ing resided here for some time past
and in that time surrounded herself
by a large number of friends who
join us in wishing for her and the
choice she has made a life ot unal-
loved pleasure and happiness. We
understand that the happy couple
.ill take up their residence in
Wilkes county, where Mr.Gilleland
wili nursue.the vocation of farming
with which ne is already thoroughly
..Anvemnt Tbe good wishes of a
host oT friends follow them, in
which the Banner-Watchman heart
ilyjoinfh-
, .. ... appi —
nt s«»utb Broad street, Atlanta, Ga-
Savannah, Oct. 31.—A fire in
'he Central railroad yard here to**
damaged 150 baies of cotton.
'he loss i s $6,000.
Backus'* Arnica Salve.
TIi.- B esl salve In the world Tor Cuts
“'X'k**, Korea, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe,
r Korea, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chll-
™. | i | ». Corns, and all Skin Rrupctona,'
“'1,1 positively enres l*iles, onto pay-ve-
’ l , ti * B“»r»«teog to give perfect
“ti-fxcllon, or money refunded. Price
per box.' For sale by B. T.
brumby &Co.
Baptist Centennial.
The entire proceedings of the
Georgia Baptist Centennial, held at
Washington recently, will be pub
lished in good substantial form in a
short time, and everybody can have
a copy by paying 25 cents; as but
few of the great Baptist family were
able to be there to see and hear, no
doubt every one would like to have
a copy.
First Verdict.
At the last term of Oglethorpe
court the first verdict was granted
in the divorce suit between Joe and
Hassie Stewart. It will be remem
bered that this couple were uncle
and niece, and their marriage crea
ted quite a sensation in Athens
about a year ago.
Decline In Flour.
Floor has declined $1 on the bar
rel, for the best, withjn |he past tew
days. With the abundant crop of
wheat made in the country the past
seasons we cannot see why this
life-sustaining product has not de
creased in price long since.
Crawford's Amusenenlj.
The thriving town of Craw-
lord has one of the handsomest lit
tle halls in the state, and is arrang
ing to put some good attractions on
the board*.. Mr. Martin has written
to try and get blind Tom to take
them in. Crawford would be a
good switching off place for shows.
Will Yah Suffer wlm Dripep.il and liver
long wavy mass of silken hair,
which in color is between light red
and silver gray. It hangs upon his
brow down to the eyes, parting in
the centre and waving off to either
side like that of a fancy terrier. It
droops from his cheeks in long
wavy locks, grows from the nos
trils and hangs from both ears. The
length of this luxuriant growth of
hair varies from two to four inches.
The eyes of the dog-faced boy also
resemble very closely those of a
terrier. They are slightly bluish in
color, also perfectly round, and the
whites are visible entirely around
(he pupils. His mouth is furnished
with only the two canine teeth
above and two inclosers below, and
all four are thin and sharp, resemb-
bling miniature tusks rather than
human teeth. He speaks Russian
and German with tolerable fluency.
CHINESE OUTRAGES.
Bollglou* Emblems Dwtrojod — ftmalv Inmates
Bavisksd.
San Francisco, Cal., Obt. 30.—
The Arabic brings Hong Kong ad
vices of October 1. A Swatow
correspondent, under date of Sep
tember 22, writes that Roman Cath
olic priests under French protec
tion were last week ordered to
leave by the Chinese authorities.
When those at Chao Chu Fu had
left the place the Chinese soldiers
went to their houses and destroyed
everything they could find, and it is
said, outraged the female c inverts.
The mob destroyed not only the
Roman Catholic places of worship,
but those belonging to English,
Presbyterians and other missions.
The Wesley chapel at ChanTsung,
•a large trading mart a few hours’
journey from Canton, was destroy
ed September 14 by a mob.
THE DRUMMERS’CANDIDATE.
ther had deserted years ago. The
woman promptly withdrew and
has returned to the west The sep
aration of the husband and wife, or
the father and daughter, who have
one child, will follow.
MURDEROUS CONVICTS.
Rio Janeiro, Oct. fi.—A 1 San
Paule, on the night of the 2d, twen
ty-eight convicts succeeded in
breaking out of their cell and sui-
prising and disarming a sentinel
and then the guard of twenty-four
police and an officer. The officer
they butchered in his bedroom, and
they wounded five of the police—
two mortally. Apparently the po
lice, though armed with rifles, were
completely cawed, as twenty-seven
of the fonyicts spgled the high gate
and got away, only one being drag
ged down, The leader of the con
victs seems to have been a wealthy
planter, condemned to life impris
onment for murder, and he defend
ed the escalade and was himself the
last to effect it. Up to last date
only five of the jail breakers had
been caught-
the services were temporarily inter
rupted and great uneasiness was
felt. Several men from the con
gregation went down to the depot
to talk with the negroes and secure
quiet; but they refused to put up
their pistols and were quite defiant
in their manner and language.
Tuesday warrants were sworn out
for the arrest of several of the ting
leaders in Sunday’s disturbance,
and early yesterday morning the
constable and a posse of several
men started out to arrest them.
About 6 o’clock they reached the
house of one of the men, several
miles distant from Parksville, but as
they advanced toward it a volley
was fired by men who were in am
bush, and James Blackwell, one of
their number, fell mortally wound
ed. Seeing it was impossible for
their small party to storm a barri
caded house, that probably contain
ed two or three times their number,
of armed negroes, the little party
retreated, and the rioters are still at
large and defying the authorities.
The little town of Parksville is in a
state of excitement, and outrages of
any sort are looked for, as negroes
from all reighboring sections are
collecting there.
The leading spirits in the insur
rection and the parties lor whom
warrants were issued were Jake
Gilchrist, Tom White and Am
brose White.
LATEST FROM PARKSVILLE.
Nesf2rday morning, Trial Justice
Parks issued warrants for several
negroes for carrying concealed
weapons. The constable was una
ble to make the arrest and forthwith
summoned a posse and proceeded
to the place where the negroes
were. Upon arriving on the ground
the posse found a large crowd of
negroes fortified in a log house,
armed with double-barreled shot
guns and rifles. When the negroes
saw the constable and posse they
fired upon them, mortally wound-
ng James Blackwell, his whole face
and head being literally riddled
with buck shot. He is now just
alive and will not live till morning.
Great excitement prevails as the
negroes have made this morning
severe threats. After Blackwell
was shot down the crowd fired and
another crowd of negroes came up
armed as the others.
These last were arrested by the
posse and are now in the custody
of the constable, and will be sent
tojail to day. The Trial Justice
has issued warrants for the parties
that fired upon Blackwell and pos
se. The posse has jusr. left and will
proceed to Mr. L. T. Harmon’s
plantation, where a large crowd of
negroes have assembled to resist ar
rest. Some trouble is expected and
perhaps more bloodshed. Mr.
Blackwell is a peaceful, law-abiding
citizen and will leave a widowed
mother and sister entirely depend?
ent upon him for a support, The
community feels very greyly out
raged,
Last evening two well armed citi
zens of Parksville arrived in Au
gusta an the A, & K. R, R. train.
They are looking for the ring lead
ers of the riot who, they think, have
made their way toward Augusta,
They proceeded to the court house
and gave the names and description
of the parties to Lieutenant Twiggs,
on duty there a s officer ot the night,
They reported to the Chronicle ev
erything quiet when the A. & K.
train passed Parksville at half past
five o’clock yesterday afternoon.
They are looking for tne captain of
the company, which fired upon the
posse. They think the whole
trouble was arranged by the ne
groes, but do not believe that the
affair originated in political compli
cations.
universal massacre some of us hat e
guessed, but God omy know. That
this was avoided I ascribe not to
the honrsty of righteousness of red-
hot infuriated politicians, but to tbe
upper forces of the text. There were
chariots of merey, the wheels of
which were not hiard,
and the flash of which were not
seen, hut the mountains of the
North and South and East and
West were not full of them, and
though the liOufs did not clatter, the
cavalry of heaven galloped by.
DORIS' CIRCUS.
A GEM FOB EVERY MONTH.
JANUARY.
By her who ia this month is born
No gem save garnet* shouW be worn;
They will Insure he* constancy,
True friendship and fidelity.
FEBRUARY.
The February bora will find
Sincerity and peace .of mind;
Freedom bom passion and from care,
If they the amethyst will wear.
MARCH.
Who in this world of oare their eye*
In March first open shall be wise;
In days of peril Una and brave,
And wear a bloodstone to thei: inwj
APRIL.
She who from April dates her years,
Diamonds should wear lest bitter tear*
For vain repent mce flow; this stone
Emblems 01 innocence is known.
MAY.
Who first beholds the light of day
In Spring's sweet flowery month of May
And wears an emerald all her life;
Shall be a loved, nappy wife,
JUNE.
Who comes with summer to this earth.
And owes to June her day of birth,
With ring of agate on her hand.
Can health, wealth and long life command.
JULY.
The glowing ruby should adorn
Those who in warm July are born;
Then will they be exempt and free
E roill It)"®’* llfutht. and A.st.tn
doubts and anxiety.
AUGUST.
’Tis said must live unloved and alone.
SEPTEMBER.
A maiden born when antumn leaves
Are rustling in September's breeze.
phire c
should bind—
\ sapp]
Twill cure disease of the mind
OCTOBER.
October’s child Is born for woe.
And life’s vicissitudes must know
But lay an opal on her bieast,
And hope will lull those woes to rest.
NOVEMBER.
Who first comes to this world below
With dreary November, fog and snow,
Should prize the topaz and her hue—
Emblem of friend and lovers true.
DECEMBER.
11 cold December gave you birth.
The month of snow and ice and mirth,
Place ou your baud a torquoise blue.
Success will bless whate’er you do.
KILLED ABOUT A POTATO.
PEACE AT PARKSVILLE.
Joe Mulhatton, the drummers’
candidate for the Presidency and
the prije li*r of the world, is the
son of a Presbyterian clergyman.
He was born in 1853 near Pitts
burg, educated in the high school
of that city and later became a
drummer for a Pittsburg hardware
firm. He traveled through the
South and Southwest for different
firms. At present he is in the em
ploy of a Louisville firm. His rep-
utation as a liar is based upon his
stories of a big metepr thgj fell iq
Texas, crashing Jioqses, ppnetrqtjng
the earth 900 feet and projecting
into the «lr jlp fteti of 4 tlidflen
river under Birmingham, Ala-; of a
sea lull of icebergs, eyeless sharks,
etc., under Litchfield, Ky- His
greatest joke was the suggestion in
1876 that the remains of Washing
ton and Lincoln be placed on exhi
bition at the centennial, and 50
cents be charged for admission, tbe
proceeds to be^evoted to the com
pletion of the Washington monu
ment. It was seriously discussed
by many of the papers.
Vr. George T. Jackson, of Au
gusta, says he cad be found at home
when wanted.
Georcctown, S. C., Oct. 38.—
The particulars of the murder on
Ehrich’s turpentine farm yesterday,
are as follows: John Bradley and
John McRae, both colored, quarrel
ed over a sweet potato; when the
former took his old musket and
emptied the contents in the abdo
men of McRae, killing him instant
ly. The gun was loaded with bird
shot, and Bradley stood about fifteen
feet from him. There were eight
negro men who stood hy and allow
ed the man to be murdered and
then let the murderer escape. They
left the man lying on the groilnil
where he was killed, unnoticed and
unprotected,
■ ■*! 1—
AEON’S WITH THEIR DEAD
MOTHER.
In a room of a wretched house in
East Williamsburg, Coroner Robin
son, ot Long Island City, found the
corpse of a woman yesterday, with
two young children crying over it.
The woman had evidently difd of
starvation, anil the children were
suffering froqt wanf of food.
yoroner Robinspn gpt sorqe food
fpr thp chddreq, aqd \heq fold up
inaqest qvf r *fo'T mo, her. The ryo-
tpgn W4S J*nc A“U frost. She
had been living in the village two
months, and little is known about
her. —N- Y- Herald,
Tto Whits People In Anns and the NagToes Mak
ing No Farther Dexnonstiatlons.
Parties on the incoming trains on
the Augusta and Knoxville railroad,
yesterday, report everything quiet
at Parksville, and state that no fur-
ther demonstrations have been
made by the negroes. The white
men ol the place and vicinity are in
arms, and their numbers preclude
any probability of further disturb
ance from the negroes. Several
arrests have been made, but it is
not believed that the ringleaders and
instigators of the affair hpve yet
been secured,—A.ugustq Chronicle,
A HORRIBLE DEATH.
At l'lainville, yesterday, Mr. Nat
Goss met with a sudden and most
on bits of fire, and warriors of fire
with drawn swords of fire, the bril
liance of that morning sunrise,
eclipsed hy the galloping splendora
of the celestial cavalcades. “And
the 1 ord opened tbe eyes of tlu
young man and he saw. and behold,
the mountain was full of horses and
chariots of fire round about Elisha.”
For two Sabbaths I have spoken
to you of the Assyrian perils that
have marched upon us to capture
the nation—the bribery, the low
morals, the drunkenness, the politi
cal abandonment. To-day I Bh*»ll
consider the upper forces, that ure
sent of God to fight on our side. If
the low levels be filled with armed
threats, the mountains of our faith
and hope and expectations are mil
of the horses and chariots of divine
rescue. The troops that lide down
lrom above are mightier than the
troops that ride up from beneath.
Notice that the chariots of divine
rescue are not made of brass or gold
or ivory, but of fire. Isaiah and
Ezekiel and John, sketching the di
vine equipage, always gave it as a
wheeled and haruessed and uphol
stered conflagration. Not chariots
like that which other kings or con
querors mount, but organized and
compressed of fire. That means
purity and justice and chastisement
and deliver! nee through ourning es
capes. All of our national disen-
thrallments through scourging ago
nies and red disasters. Verily, char
iots of rescue, but chariots of fire.
Through tribulation the individual
rises; through tribulation nations
rise.
But how do I know that the upper
forces ot the text are on the side of
the American nation? By the histo
ry of 108 years. Annricau revolu
tions starting from the point of John
Hancock’s pen in Independence
Hall, Philadelphia, 1776. Colonies
without guns, without ammuni
tion. without ships, with
out trained warriors, without one
famous General at the start, without
prestige, without foreign, friends.
On the other side the mightiest na
tion of the earth with the greatest
armies and the grandest navies and
the most famous commanders and
ammunition inexhaustible, and
nearly all the world to back them in
the fight. What nothingness against
what-immensity! American pros
pects down to the zero at the start
must sink lower by the quarrels of
our generals and by the jealousies
of little successes and by winters
that surpassed their predecessors in
depths of sqow and horrors of con-
gealmcnt.
Elisha surrounded by armed As
syrians no worse off than thirteen
colonies encompassed and oveishad*
owed by foreign invasion. What,
then, must have settled the contest
in our favor? The upper forces in
the text. The White and Green
Mountains of New England, the
highlands along the Hudson, the
mountains of Virginia, and the Ap
palachian ranges, were filled with
flaming reinforcements, which the
young man Washington saw bv
faith, and without complaint his
men endured the frozen feet and
the bleeding wounds and the ex
hausting hunger and the long march
because “the Lord opened the eyes
of the young man and he saw, and
behold, the mountain was full of
horses and chariots of fire round
about Elisha.”
The opening war of 1861 was
thought by many at the North and
South to be national suicide. It
was not bravery against cowardice,
wealth against poverty, great States
againsDsmall States, hut heroism
against herpistn, great resources
against great resources, the affluence
ol generations on the one side against
the affluence ot genetations on the
other side, the prayers of the church
North against the prayers of the
church South, one-balf the nation
in armed wrath against the othir
half in armed indignation. What
could there be but extermination?
The c»mmander->n-ohief of the ar
ray of the United States at that time
was a dear old man with gout and
vertigo and asthma, incompetent to
mount a horse, and who rode upon
the battlefiela in an easy carriage—
the driver directed to go slowly lest
the occupant bp jolted- On the cth-
ei side a general in mid life, the
blood of a whole line of warriors in
his veins, himsslf the hero of Cheru
buscc, Cerro Gordo, Contreras and
Chupullepec. But as the red scroll
of carnage unrolled on both sides
there came forth to confront each
other and a determination and a
strength such as the world never
Seqael of tha Row that Cccm-red Between Tbom
uvUle and Albany—A Compromise.
In the Americus Recorder of
yesterday we find the following,
which gives the sequel to the row
among Doris’ circus people repott
ed in these columns last week:
Monday atternoon Sheriff Swin
dle, of Mitchell county, and Col. C.
O. Davis came up from Camilla for
the purpose of attaching Doris’ cir
cus. It was the winding upofthe Wear a sardonyx, ol for thee
trouble which occurred on the cir- The C Au|u“t-vithouVthte none
cus train between Thomasviile and
Albany, when some twelve or fif
teen negroes were thrown off the
train by the white employees. One
of the negroes thrown offdied from
his injuries, another is in the Mitch
ell county poor house, and nine
others who were injured are being
cared for by the Mitchell and
Dougherty county authorities.
The negroes entered suit against
Doris for 824,000 damages through
their attorney, Col. C. O. Davis.
An attachment was levied on the
circus property by Sheriff Swindle
Monday atternoon, and it began to
look as though the show would
quarter here for a short time. Doris
claimed he had a right to point out
the property to be attached, and
wanted Swindle to take his ele
phant and hyenas, which the sher
iff politely declined. The mattet
was finally compromised by Doris
paying about $300 damages.
Sheriff Swindle also had war
rants for a couple of white men be
longing to the circus, but when
they were looked for it was found
that they had skipped. Mr. Doris
claimed the trouble grew out of a
row between some of the white and
colored hands in Thomasviile, and
while the show was on its way to
Albany the trouolesome negroes
were ejected from the train by the
white men.
The negroes say the circus was
due them wages, and after they had
requested a settlement some white
men threw them off the train to get
rid of them, after which they sued
for damages and had an attachment
issued on the concern. The matter
was adjusted and the circus pulled
out Monday night.
BURIED ALIVE.
ASUNDER.
Once, when tho sun, in .‘lowlv i
Sank, sending crimson smiles
Whem In the twilight, eyes looked true and tea*
‘•Tell me,” you «ftid, “how great your love for
Darker and darxer grew the se*.before u*:
1 saw a an adow at your side;
Mist filled the sky and hid the pale star o’er us.
As tho.*<e who spe..k iu dreams my lips replied:
“Some measures love by gold.
By endless time, by soundless sea;
But I—Jove you well enough
, To leave you, love, if needs be.”
Words^thouj;h11 ess words! but breathing doubt
Fears, foolish fears! that love must lull to rest,
y. ou . or 1 knew then the meaning hidden,
\ eiled in those words you deemed au idle je
Now, love! with paths divided, hands asunder,
Now we have learned tlte meaning, you aud I,
words you deemed au idle jest;
Hid in the misty sky, the dark se&anler, *
Hid iu those words I spoke and knew not why
“Some measure love by gold.
By endless time, by soundless sea;
... .... .Ii,
3ut 1—I love you well enough
To leave you, love, if needs t>
WHEN HE CAME HOME.
Just over the county line in Pauld
ing county, lives Mr. Manning Pnil-
lips. He has a well 45 feet deep,
walled up with rock 40 feet. He
could get no one to go down in it to
finish the work desired, until last
Monday, when Tames Poss, a fear
less able-bodied fellow, said he
wasn’t afraid to go in the old well.
A rope was fastened to his body
and he was lowered nearly to the
bottom, when those standing
around the well on top of terra firma
heard a rumbling noise and were
horrified to see the rock wall and
dirt tumbling in upon the living
man in the depths below There
came up a faint cry for help. His
audible voice invoked the presence
and prayers of the preacher. The
holy man of God replied, “I’ll do
what I can for you, Jimmie.” And
thus completely walled in with
rock, above him, below him and
around about him, he was unable to
move his body, but managed to get
his hand to his mouth and push the
dirt away. The rope around his
body was cutting him fearfully.
The men above thoughtlessly tug
ged away at the rope and were
about to pull him in twain. He
succeeded in getting his knife out
of his pocket and severed the rope
that bound him. The men worked
for dear life in removing the rock
and dirt and to rescue Mr. Poss
from his suffocating tomb. For
seven hours and a half he was thus
imprisoned. When he was reached
he was almost unconscious, but the
fresh air soon revived him. He
thanked God and his rescuers for de
liverance, and said he went down
in that well a wicked man, but
from henceforth he would lead a
different life. “All’s well that ends
well.”—Marietta Journal.
A PROMISING PARTNER.
horrible death. He was engaged
in hauling cross-ties to the railroad
at that point, and while unloading
his wagon yesterday he found spipe
difficulty in lifting qq unusually
heavy tie to the top of tfo p'fle, and
in his efforts tp do «0. Ills foot slip
ped; fl? fed forward on fils fape and
thq foavy Jig gam? down with ter,
TW? for?? w.pon the back ol the un
fortunate man's head, crushing his
skull and causing almost instant
death,*^Rome Courier,
Alt ImporUBt DiKjT.ry.
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which tiring, tbe most good to the great
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for Consumption, Coughs, and Colds,
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Not only does it positively cure Conaunip-;
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If you doubt this, get a Trial Bottle Free
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The mothers that always disagree
about the beauty of their respective
babies, always agree on the fact that for
the croup, and colds of their babies noth
remedy, Dr. Bull’s Cough- Syrup.
Sir Moses Montefiore Proslraje^
London, Oji m—Jt is reported
that Sir Moses Ji^onteflore has been
prostrated by bis recent exertions
consequent upon the celebration of
his one hundredth birthday. He U
suffering from bronchia) affection
and some anxiety is felt as to the
result of the attack.
“Yes, that fellow Bitting over there is
my partner,” remarked a young man
in the smoking car. “We’re following
the County Fairs with a little racket,
and making money too. That partner
of mi no is a hustler. You wouldu’t
think It, he’s so quiet-like, and look so
neat and innocent. But he’s a sleek
one from Slippery Creek, he is. One
day we were in Louisville, busted. We
hadn’t a cent. We wanted *3.50, but
had pawntd everything and hadn’t a
show to raise a red.
“ ‘Wait here a Sew minutes,’ said my
pard,' ‘and i’ll get the money.”
“He went down to the wholesale dis
trict, went into a big store, and going up
to the boss, says: ‘I want $5.50.’ The
man looked him over in astonishment,
and said: ‘What for?’ Then my pard
made up a story about his being a stran
ger in town, aud his sister being sick,
and must have *3.50 for medicine. ‘1
don’t wan: to beg,' he said, 'I’m willing
to work. Give me a job, if only at a
dollar a day, so I can cam some mon
ey.’ Tlie man took him into the ce.lar
and put him to work carrying up boxes.
My pard worked hard—to,sing boxes
and barrels as if he had done it all his
life. In fifteen minutes the boss called
him up, gave him *5.50, and told him to
get the medicine for his sister, and come
to work in the morning. Ill fifteen min
utes more we Were over in Indiana ma-
kin’ fu* a county fair. That’s the ad
vantage of a man havin’ an honest face
like my pard’s there.”
GIRLS IN ODD STOCKINGS.
“Hand me that collar-button,” de
manded George Wcllsby, turning with
an annoyed nir toward his little girl.
“Learn to let things alone, will you?
There now, tune up and howl.”
“George, don’t speak to the child that
way,” said Mrs. Wellsby, depositing a
shirt on a chair.
“Well, why can’t she behave herself?
Every time she sees that I am getting
ready to go any place, she makes a point
of hindering me. Let that cravat
alone.”
“Put down papa’s cravat, darling.
She’s too young to kuow any better.”
“No, she isn’t. Other people’s chil
dren know to behave. I.’ll bet I’ll miss
the train. I am sometimes tempted to
wish she had never been born. ”
“Oh, George,” exclaimed the wife,
“I wouldn’t say that.”
“Confound it, she worries me so. I
haven’t more than time to catch the
train,” hurriedly kissing liis wife.
“Kiss me too, papa.”
“1 ought not, you are so bad,” stoop-
ing and kissing her. “Good-bye. Will
he back in three or four dayB.”
Mr. Wellsby is a commercial traveler,
a kind and tender-hearted man, but sub
jected at times to nervousness. Seated
with several vivacious acquaintances,
speeding over tlip country, a little voice
would steal in between the merry roars
of laughter and say:
“Ki*s me, too, papa.”
In the sample room of tile village ho
tel, between the inquiries of purchasers,
he could near the voice, and at night
when he lay down he could see the lit
tle hands reaching toward him and could
hear, “Kiss me, too, papa "
At morning, when the sunbeams fell
across his bed he thought of the bright
little face at home and said:
“God forgive me for wishing sho had
never been born.”
“Wellsby, what’s the matter, old lel-
low ?” asked a companion.
They were iu a conveyance, riding to
ward an interior town.
“I don’t feel very well to-day.”
“Do any business back here?”
“ Ye3, did very well.”
“1 didn’t do anything, but I* won’t let
it weigh medown. Got a letter from the
house this morning. The old bov is
kicking about expenses. Got a bottle of
cocktail here?”
“I don’t care tor any.”
‘•Then, there must be something the
matter with you.”
On a night train going home. He
could see the little hands. “Clack, clack
—kiss me, too; kiss me, too.”
“What’s the news?” he asked a friend,
when he had stepped upon the platform
and called a hackman.
“Nothiug, I believe, everything’s qui
et.”
“No scarlet fever or diptheria rag
ing, is there?”
“No, not that I have heard.”
The familiar scenes brought rest to
his mind, lie looked back upon his
trip with a shudder,like one who awakes
and contemplates a nightmare through
whicii he had just passed.
“Goodnight,” he said, paying the
hackman. “A light burning. Julia is
expecting me,” he mused, ascending
the steps.
A ghastly face met him at the door. A
voice in agony whispered: “Oh, George,
our little girl is dead.”
8uw. And what but extermination
could result from the contest when
Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jack-
son rode in front opposite sides, and
Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney John
son swept in from North and South,
and Grant and Lee, the two thun
derbolts of war, clashed each other?
Rut we are in peace and prosperity
to-day. It w s but the upper for
ces of the coDtesf. The battle of
Lookout Mountain was said to have
been fought among the clouds, but
higher than that were tbe horses
and ch riots of fire, come Horn God
to save tne American nation.
In 1876, a: the oiose of a national
election, famous for its devilish fero
city came the darkest hour in Amer
ican history, for the resnlt of the
election was in dispute, aud revol u
tiong not in sections, but in eveiy
town and city and neighborhood of
America, was imminent, and the
peri! was that New v ork would
dutoh New York, and Washington
Washington, end New Orleans New
Orleans. Some said Mr. Tilden was
elected, some stud Mr. Ha^es was
. elected. And how near we came to
“Scarlet stockings? Yes, they’re all
the go,” said a Chestnut, street hosiery
dealer yesterday. “But that isn’t the
latest craze by any means.”
“What is the latest fashion then?’
"Why, on Saturday morning I had
three voung lady customers who came
in and bought three pair of red aud three
pair of black hose. I was somewhat
surprisedand asked theobject. In each
case I was told that it was net consider
ed tne proper caper to wear two red
stockings now, any more than it is to
wear two black ones.”
“Well, what on earth wero they go
ing to do?”
“Wear one of each kind—a scarlet
stocking on one foot and a black one on
the other. It’s a fact, I assure you.
And the fashirn is gaining ground, for
this morning I have hail several more
customers on the same errand. Black
and red, you know, are striking and at
the same time becoming contrasts.”
A BEAUTIFUL BIRTHDAY| GIFT.
“I have purchased such a beautiful
birthday present for my husband,” said
Mrs. Smith. “He is fifty years old, you
know, next Tuesday.”
‘Yes,’ replied the visitor, ‘and what
is it?’
“It's a box of cigars. He will be de
lighted, I am sure. I don’t altogether
approve of hts smoking, but be seems to
find such enjoyment In a 'quiet cigar,’
as be calls it, after dinner, that I just
bought him a whole box fall. Such
beautiful ones they are, too. each wrap
ped in tin foil, with a little picture in tne
centre, and do you know,” she went on
with conscious pride, “I onl v paid *2.50
for them, box and all."
Dr.- J. N. Moore, ot Lawrence
ville, U dead.
HUMORS OF THE BATTLE FIELD.
Many humorous incidents occurred
on battle fields. A confederate colonel
ran ahead of his regiment at Malvern
Hill, and, discovering that the men were
not following him as closely as he wish
ed, he uttered a fierce oath and exclaim
ed:
“Come on 1 Do you want to live forev
er?”
Tbe appeal was irresistable. and many
a poor fellow who had laughed at the
colonel’s queer exhortation laid down
his life soon after.
A shell struck the wheel of a Federal
fieldpiece toward thecloseof the engage
ment at Fair Oaks, and shivering the
spokes, dismantled the cannon.
“Well, isn’t it lucky that it didn’t
happen before we used up all our ammu
nition,” remarked one of the artillerists
as lie crawled from beneath the gun.
When General Pope was falling back
before Lee’s advance in the Virginia
Valley, his own soldiers thought his
bulletin and orders somewhat strained
in their rhetoric. At one of the numer
ous running engagements that marked
that disastrous campaign, a private iu
one of the western regiments was mor
tally wounded by a shell. Seeing tbe
man’s condition, a chaplain knelt beside
him, and opening his Bible at random,
read out Sampson’s slaughter of the
Philistines with the jaw bone of an ass.
He hail not quite finished, when, aa the
story runs, the poor fellow interrupted
the reading by saying:
“Hold on, Chaplain; don’t deceive a
-lying man. Isn’t the name of John
Pope signed to that?”
A column of troops was pushing for
ward over the long and winding road on
Thoroughfare Gap to hea*' ofi Lee alter
his retreat aersss ttie Potomac at tbe
close of the Gettysburg campaign. Sud
denly the signal officer who accompanied
the General in command discovered (bat
some of his men, posted on a high bill
in the rear, were reporting the presence
of a considerable body of Confederate
troops on top ot the bluffs to the right.
A nalt was at once sounded, and the
leading brigade ordered forward to un
cover the enemy's position. The regi-
meuts were soon scrambling up the
steep incline, officers and men gallantly
racing to see who could reach the crest
first. A young Lieutenant and some
half a dozen men gained the advance,
but at the end of what they deemed a
perilous climb, they were thrown into
convulsions of laughter at discovering
that what the signal men took for Con
federate trooops were only a tolerably
large flock of sheep!
As the leaders this forlorn hope-
rolled oh the grass la a paroxysm of
merriment, they laughed all theloude.r* -
at seeing tlte pale but determined faces-
of their comrades, who, of course, eame-
up expecting a desperate hand-to-hand,
It perhaps needless to say tho. brigr-
ade fed on mutton that evening, iloPhSW