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T. L. GANTT.
•WATCHMAN, WHvT OF THE
NIGHT?”
••'I'. c ! >ud><l and threatening.
The -kv ■» gening oVrcast. and v >u
can hear the rumbling of distant
thunder, mingled with the clash of
the rival forces. a« they meet on the
«kirmi>h hoe.”
rhea -' - to-dav a true pic
..... lion of our cor.>
A STRONGER GOVERNMENT.
fir ?r
We have senous doubts about
our liberal.: republic^ standing
much longer, but believe that be
fore many years the chains must be
[Havs.1
Mr. George W. Malcolm had his collar-
j , , , bone broken while wrestling,
ightened and the hberlies of the . n . *
.gn.cncu uuu ...c ..oe...ea »• ruo Mrg Marril J» c k 80n ig quit e low with
people contracted. Our populationi*-j~— 3
Mr. Will J. Bentley was married to
me
, e ueil up " 'he iieid. a-.d
a mine has been laid beneath eveiy
business and industry, that at any
hour may explode and wreck all
around it. There is strife and dis
trust on all side, and we find capi
tal slowly ami stubbornly retreating
before organized labor, llow tar
it will fall back we cannot sav, but
that his preparing lor a pitched and
decisive battle, any one has but to
view the situation to sec. That
this is a most unfortunate situation
fot the country, and that it even
threatens the foundation of our re
publican government, all reasoning
men must sec and and admit. There
is not a person so rich and power
ful, or humble and ob-enre, in
our broad land of liberty, but what
must and will feel the results of the
pending strife, and we very much
fear that before the contest is over 1
our statesman and rulers will see
the necessity of a stronger and more
dictatorial government to cope with
such emergencies. The future is
dark and threatening and the storm
will doubtless break upen us the
coming summer in its lull force.
I.AISOU VS. CAPITAL.
getting too dense in many localities,
and we have too great a mixture of
nationalities, to much longer per
mit all the liberties enjoyed by our
native citizens. America has of late
years become the refuge for all the
dissatisfied and insurrectionary ele-
nents in Europe, and they bring
with them to our shores the same
loctrines that made them exiles
i their own homes. The riots
.in ; i.:bt»r troubles now prevalent
ci the country are directly trace-
uoie to Jhese toreigners. for while
our home laborers and mechanics
contend for their rights, they are
opposed to any violent or lawless
measures. It has been discovered
that the very men who were engag
ed in the Chinese riots out West
vt-re themselves foreigners, and had
.o more rights than the Celestials,
many of them not being naturaliz
ed. We arc always glad to wel
come the right sort of emigrants to
our land, but do not want the pau
pers and serf labor of the Old
World, withaheir communistic and
insurrectionary doctrines. They
will force upon os the necessity of
-lengthening our government, and
result in the destruction of the free
republic of wnich our people
ait justly proud.
If the Knights of Labor will dose
down those shops and mills in the
East and West that have been flood
ing the South with shoddy and
worthless goods and machinery,
our farmers will give them three
cheers and a tiger.
As will he seen by tetereuce to
aiticle in another column, copied
from (he New York Star, the man-
ufacturers and capitalists of the
country are now combining and or
ganizing with a view of resisting
the growing power of the Knight-
of Labor. Before the summer is
ovei we look to see the war between
these two great interests waged in
earnest, and it will necessaiily ie-
sult in both loss of property and
destitution and suffering among
the laboring classes. The Knights
of Labor may as well make up
their minds to meet with stubborn
and organized resistance from cap
italists, for it is not reasonable they
will sit with folded hands and see
their interests placed at the dicta
tion ol the ’ employes. The K. • •!
L. ha\e ’ll'.' time cauglv capital .:.
L-'islanci. i; wii:
tore thu
; equally a.- i • .
ganized.ind as widely extended a?
their own power, and it will be a
war of giants, too. The head offi
cers of the K. ol L. should restrain
their men, and i.ui permit them to
aggiavate capital any more than
possible. They little know the la
tent power they are arousing. Let
the workingmen use their present
victories with moderation, and
not to make flesh enemies.
We would like tor the K. of L. to
order a strike in those Connecticut
wooden nutmeg factories. We see
they have called a halt in one of
the hig Western white pine wagon
-hops.
ELBERTON NEWS.
Miss Mary E. Bullock.
The new hotel is to be ready for occu
pancy about the first of May.
The last grand jury recommended the
building of several new bridges.
Mr. John B. Sorrels, Jr., hasopened
a family grocery store at the former sa
loon stand.
It ih reported that Mr. W. H. Wood,
who mysteriously left the county some
weeks ago.has been heard from in Texas
whence he wrote of continued troubles.
Mr. A. II. DaTidson, representing Mr.
Julius Cohen's merchant's tailoring es
tablishment of Athens, was over last
week. He has many good qualities as a
business man and successfully looks af
ter the interestof his house, which has
a good patronage here.
ELBERT COUNTY.
[Leader.]
Dr. A. S. Oliver is having a two-atory
granite building erected on the south aide
of the public square.
Madam Rumor says that another dou
ble wedding in high life will occur at an
early day in Elbcrton.
Mr. A. Jacobs will visit his mother in
Czamikan, Germany, in a short time.
On last Friday evening a barrel of
whisky arrived in Elbei ton, and on Sat
urday the boys were all “on a high.”
Miss Amanda Smith has brought suit
against the town council for (500 for an
encroachment upon her land for a side
walk.
Mr. A. O. Harper was in town this
week. He has recently visited Madison
county and says that the impression is
abroad over there that that county has
three senatorial aspirants.
——"-WEEKLY- BANNER-WATCHMAN TUESDAY j- MARCH-1886
3
JACKS ON
riff McElhannon .
Thompson’s mills again.
Mr.'Andrew W. Park is dead.
Col. J. U. Merritt, formerly from
Cleveland, White county, Ga^ haa loca
ted' at Harmony ' Grove' to pracGoela'w'.'
. Tobe Duke is making from fifteen to
forty gallons of liquer daily. t i
A great deal ef sickness is reported
through the country.
Married, on last Sunday, Mr. Will
Yearwood and Miss Josie Lyle.
Bryant’s bridge, across the Oconee riv
er, is completed and ready.
The justice court at Harmony Grove
this week was in session two deys and a
half. , • 1,
The stock law election will be held in
Newtown district, March 30th.
Wm. M. Ross died at the residence of
John M ullinax, of Habersham county.
His death was from the effects of a tall
from the verandah of the upper story ef
the residence of Mr. Mullinax. Mr. Ross
was a brother of Captain Thos. L. Ross.
He had been a deaf mute from earliest
infancy.
ouely
CARNES ViLLE.
pit-part
not lie in
counter ;
Jav Could and his Texas i^..toads
deserve no sympathy from South
ern men in their present troubles
with the Knights of Labor. Gould
is a hitter republican, and tries his
best to lorce social equality on eve
ry railroad in the South that he
controls. \Ve hope the Knights
will hpnkrupt Gould and place eve
ry railroad he owns in the hands of
a receiver. The K. of L. are the
chickens roosting on the shoulders
of our old perseculors and enemies.
Winding Up Court—Tba Stock Law Deci
sion—Other Interertlng Newt.
E1.BF.RT0x, Ga., March 12.—Thursday
the criminal docket was taken up. The
case of Barney Gcter, charged with
burglary in the night, was first taken up
in the morning. He was found guilty,
and sentenced to two years' in the peni
tentiary. A motion for a new trial has
been made.
The next case was that of a negro,
who was charged with stealing a water
melon on Sunday. Found guilty and
fined $20 and costs.
Another was tried, that of Mrs. Max
well. resisting arrest. She was no doubt
acquitted.
'he fence contest was represent-
• r John I*. Shannon and J.
A. A orlcy, of Klberton, and Mr. Colley,
1 \\ ashington, for the stock law. Fence,
M. P. Reese, of Washington, and Mr.
> inborn, of Klberton. Both sides were
confident, and after the Ordinary gave
his decision, the stock law men were
jubilant. The fence sido were, as ngen
eral thing, very much dissatisfied. A
great many of them wanted the law (if
they were to have it) to go into operation
at once. Many of them say that they
don't intend to abide by the decision,
ami that they will keep up their fences
anyhow. They charge that the will #f
the people has been defeated, and hence
the decision is unjust. We think tha.
the advent of the stock law in Elbert is
opportune. The counties surrounding
her have the law, and the farmers would
have a great deal of expense to build a
line fence. Like all of the rest of the
fence men in other counties where the
law has been carried, the anti-stock law
men will become satisfied with the law
in a short time and be strong advocates
of it. , , 1
Hog cholera is prevalent in the county.
Many farmers have lost some fino stock
by this dreaded disease.
[Gazette J
Mr. Wm. G. Bullard, one of the oldest
citizens of this county,is dead.
We hear good reports from the wheat
crops in the upper counties.
A petition has been filed with the Or
dinary for an election on the fence ques
tion in the 18th district of this county.
Trains are running within eight miles
of Lowndesville on the SaTannah Valley
railroad.
Messrs. James T. Carlton and A. S. J.
Stovall graduated at the Medical .college
in Augusta recently, Mr. Stovall taking
the first honor in the class.
There will be but little, if any, reduc
tion in the amount of cotton planted this
year in comparison with that of last year.
In the war at the North between
the manufacturers and the Knights
ol Labor, our sympathy is with the
laboring classes. These capitalists
did all they could to oppress the
.South, and had no mercy on us
while ground beneath the heel of
radical tyranny. Now that they are
in trouble, we propose to shed a
very limited amount of briny tears.
“Lay on, McDuff, and dammed to
him who first cries, hold! enough!”
It is a notable fact that the most
brilliant men of the South were op
posed to the democracy. Wise,
Toomha, S'ephens, Hill, jones Ilas-
kill, ITenrv, Menifee, Prentiss, Ben
iamin, and others, were Whigs until
the Northern wing of that party
joined the anti-slavery party. Then
the surviving members of that or
ganization in the South joined thr
democracy.
Georgia 1
Labor, • I ii-
*>•' my p lit
against can
tent. M.
Split ill Mr
woe, w
ays to the Knights ot
1 keep your hands off
and you can war
iti' to tour lu-rnts' co
DOWN THE ATHENS BRANCH.
A Few Freeh Newe Items Culled From Ex
changee.
Last Sunday a mad dog was killed at
Woqdville.
Mr. J. M. Maxey, near Maxey’s, is
dangerously ill.
The Georgia railroad has been laying
steel bars on the Athens branch for the
past week.
Hr. Sam Durham, of Oconee county,
has opened an office at Maxey’s.
Mayor Reaves, of Athens^ has made
Major A. T. Briglitwell a present of a
one hundred dollar pointer dog. We’ll
bet that dog is as good a marksman as
Gus Briglitwell.
Mrs. Ann Durham, at Woodville, is
quite sick.
Davidson Bros., at Woodville, arc
building an addition to their store.
i’apt. Smith has a school of over fifty
scholars at Woodville.
The steam mill at the I’oiut is now in
operation. 1.
Mrs. Joe McWhoTtor, of Antioch, is
still improving.
The authorities have given the Athens
branch a new and neater smoking car,
to- »inch our people feel grateful.
r-li'lc '.>011 •
n >ci otic
Hi' ihe men
zation that attempts it!”
MOST PERFECT MADE
Prepaml with special regard to health
Mo Ammonia, IJmo or Alum.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO..
CH1CACO* ST. LOUIS*
HEXTRACTS
' MOST PERFECT MACEI
SSSSRUSS
Price Bazin* Powder Co.'
1 be speech of Senntor Kcnna in
'hi senate Friday is pronounced
•he finest delivered before that body
years. His presentation of the
controversy between the senateand
1 he President was masterly and elo
quent, and has elicited congratula-
'ion on all sides and enthused dem-
i-cr.its in Washington to a remark
able degree. Edmunds has been
annihilated.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Thu Powder never varies. A -vrrvel ot purity
irtBsth sad wbeleeoaenesa More «< onomlc*
heathe ordlearv Made, imdcsaSw Be said ta
competition with (Bate attitude of low Hit, shor
walnut, slam er phoipkets Bowden, tala onl
laeaae. ROYAL ARUMtOWEBB 00.. I*
Wallet. N Y. soddftwi
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
[Echo.]
I)r. W. W. Burkhalter will locate in
Gainesville.
Mr. Lewis Saxon and Miss Mary John
son are married. It was a runaway
match.
A negro house in Mr. J. R Cheney’s
yard at the old Deupree place was total
ly destroyed by fire with its entire con
tents.
It is against the law to hunt birds o?
other game after the 15th.
Miss Maggie Knox went to Elbert to
take charge of a school.
The whites of the Glade district are
disposed to let the negroes emigrate if
they want to.
Mr. Albert Wynn has a school at Chan
dler's Hill.
There is already thirty-five hundred
dollars in the treasury to the credit of
the new court house.
The Washington monument at Augus
ta was cut from Oglethorpe granite.
A handsome slab has been placed over
the grave of the late J. H. McWhorter.
Mias Mary Sanders will probably lose
the sight of one of her eyes.
The plumbago mines in this county are
being inquired into.
HART COUNTY.
. ■ 1 J [San.]
William Hartwell Cole was the first
baby born in Hartwell.
Marshal Carter nabbed Kelly, the bar
ber, and George Mantz^on Wednesday,
for infringement of revenue laws.
Tugalo Grange, of Franklin county, Is
the largsst Grange in the state, number
ing 249 members. It has a commodious
hall and school room.
Married, Mr. J. W. Morris, of Hart
well, and Miss Mary E. Jones, of Ander
son, S. C.; also, Mr. S. M. Phillips and
Miss M. E. Vickery. 11
Died, March first, Mrs. Nancy Winn,
wife of Adolphus Winn.
[Leader.]
H. B. Nelms has rented the Carnesville
Hotel and has taken charge of it.
Dr. W. C. McEntyre will move to town
in a short time and will open up a family
grorery business.
The Register will receive a power press
this week and enlarge its size to a seven
column paper. Its nc^t issue will coi -
taiu a full account of all the facts of the
Mauldin murder at Toccoa.
U ncle Bob Smith, an old citizen of this
county, died Saturday. He had quite a
checkered life. Had lived in South Car
olina, Texas and Georgia.
HORRIBLE HANGING.
FORD AND MURPHY'EXECUTED
WHILE UNCONSCIOUS.
Revolting Scene tn New Orleans Friday
Noon—Insensible Men Launched Into the
Presence of Their God bp the Hangman-
Spectators sickened at the Fearful Sight
—Instantaneous Death of the Unfortu
nates the Only Redeeming Feature of the
Execution.
New Orleans, March 12.—
Probably the most revolting hang
ing yet recorded in our history was
enacted in New Orleans to-ilay.
While the crime for which Murphy-
ami Ford were sentenced to pay the
death penalty was one of the dark
est in New Orleans annals, it cannot
compare with the scenes enacted si
their execution to-day. and the wis
dom of such proceeding can cer
tainly be questioned. When the
jailer visited the cells of the doomed
men during the morning to warn
them that their last hour was fast
approaching, the prisoners were
found to ba in an insensible condi-
t on, having during the night previ
ous taken of poison. The Governor
was notified of their comatose co .-
ditioti, but ordered that their sen
tence be cairied out. All efforts to
revive the men proved ineffectual.
Between 12 and 1 o'clock the death
warrant was read to ears witho 1
bearing and to eyes without sight,
the unfortunate victims dragged to
the scaffold* and, unconscious of
what was going on, tvere launched
inta eternity. The men werejear-
ried to the scaffold at exactly 12:45.
It was indeed a miserable spectacle.
Al the gallows they were placed in a
sittingposion with their backs to the
wallto give them support. Nearly all
present involuntarily turned away
from the sickeningsight,some even
having to nerve themselves against
a fainting fit, and to hold fast to the
balcony rail for support. Fortu
nately there was not long to wai .
It only needed a few minutes for the
executioner, in domino and mask
to adjust the ropes and black caps.
He then as quickly re-entered his
cage. Almost instantly a sharp
“swish” of the axe was heard as it
cut the rope.and simultaneously the
trap fell and the bodies shot down
ward eight feet, rebounded with a
jerk ami then fell back, stretch'ng
the cords to their utmost tension.
Death was almost instantaneous.
The bodies were allowed to hang
25 minutes, and were then cut down
at 1:15 p.m. The same jury whi 1
witnessed the hanging viewed the
bodies and gave a verdict ot deaih
by hanging. The necks of the two
men were dislocated. The bodies
were taken in charge by the Ford
family.
slaughter-house on
-upied by the pig
- l that time he ba
the community,
ly ha aaUmatofi
gg dollars it swelled into
-yes, It was simply fabulous 1
r, it was quite natural that, finding
him so abundantly provided with gold,
society should recognize Michael as its darl
ing. All at once it was discovered that
w’-r-riTil possessed rare qualities of head and
heart and that his wife was a lady of ex
. ccedlng beauty and. (
WILKES COUNTY.
paiette.]
Mr. Coxwell killed a wild turkey 10
years ol(l, that weighed 40 pounds.
Mr. A. Franklin has purchased Mr. S
I). Heard’s plantation.
The friends of Dudley 'DuBose, Esq.,
hope he will consent to enter the race for
the legislature. ‘
ReV. Sam Jones will come to Wash
ington as soon as his Chicago engagement
is over, which will be in the course of two
or three weeks.
The failure ef Mr. S. D. Heard, bar and
billiards, of this place, is announced this
week. The liabilities are about four
thousand dollars, real assets fifteen hun
dred dollars.
GREENE COUNTY.
[Home Joaraml and Herald.]
At the residence of Judge Wm. H.
McWhorter, Mr. John Gorham and Miss
Fannie Me W.horter were married.
Mr. J. E. Reynolds, near Union Point,
lost his dwelling by fire one night last
week. He saved most of his household
effects, but lost a good deal of his provis
ions.
The corn crib and fodder house belong
ing to Mr. W. V. Griffeth,on tho Jackson
place, near Veazey, was burned. It was
supposed to have been the work of an
incendiary. Mr. Griffcth had enough
com and fodder to do him the year and
it was entirely destroyed.
There is no school at GreshamviUe for
the present year.
Mr. Davi j W. West and excellent wife
were assaulted by a mad woman, who
inflicted some ugly gashes upon the per
son of Mr. West. The woman’s name
is Mrs. Mollie Haynes. She was arrest
ed.
Mrs. A. L. Griffin accidentally shot
herself in the hip by a pistol she had un
der her pillow. -10
Aaron Parker, a young boy fifteen
yeare old, was bitten by > mad dog one
day list week while plowing in 'the field.
His father coming up at the time gather
ed hold of a pole and killcd it
‘ -Rev. F. M. Haygood, aged three score'
and ten, with his agedi wife, has gone to
New Mexico to preach the goapel aa a
missionary. ._. ijy'v ijj
nq.II
Harmon Hamilton, a Uniterm
States prisoner, from White county,
died in Fulton county jail Thursday
night.
THE HAUNTED MAN.
Ffiattezwittapredocs
them homage in the thousand delicious ways
known only to society. What wonder was
it that Michael’s head was turned and that
his wife was wheedled by these smiling
hypocrisies? How should the simple stable
man and the innooaot restaurantgirl know
aught of the ways of tho society world?
It was not long before Michael found it
necessary to build a residence, for his family
was increasing and society. m«H.
demands which required honoring.
His mother had died — God rest
her honest soul!—and he had the humble
birth of no other relative to be ashamed of.
So it was a magnificent mansion be erected
on tha moat fashionable avenue in the city—
a palatial dwelling, surrounded by a beauti
ful park, and furnished in a truly regal
manner. And here lived Michael and his
family in sumptuous style. Their neigh
bors were the ornaments of society—people
of as large wealth and gentle blood os
Michael and his spouse. To their right
dwelt one who bad begun life as a peasant-
vender on a railway train; to their left
lived a merchant prince, who had peddled
suspenders in his early days, and who had
married a batcher's daughter; over the way
was the splendid brown stone mansion of
the wealthy broker who had but recently
returned from Canada by. tha grateful
grace of the statue of limitations. OK it
was, I can assure you, the most aristo
cratic neighborhood in all that great city.
It was about this time that Michael
changed his name. One of his aristocratic
friends assured him that Grady was not a
worthy name, and that Michael was posi
tively vulgar. So, by paying *500 to a very
scholarly gentleman who made a business of
tracing and providing pedigrees, Michael
learned that he was a lineal descendant of
that grand old Norman knight, Michel
Grayde, who come with William the
conqueror into Great Britain, and was
awarded one-half of all Ireland for his valor
and his allegiance to his sovereign. It was
developed that this Michel Grayde had a
wondrous coat-of-arms—a shield accosted
vert, bars gemel purpure, stags counter
courmnt, a falcon issuant and recursant, a
unicorn at gaze; chevron gules and a ban
ner tlotaut dexter. So it came to pass that
Michael Grady became Michel Grayde, and
flaunted, as well became one of his pedigree
and wealth, a splendid coat-of-arms.
Was Michel happy.’
He literally rolled in wealth. One mill
ion hogs per annum sei-.ed as a mint to
swell his coffers He lived in a sumptuous
home Society worshijied him. He wore
broadcloth and diamumls His wife arrayed
herself in the costliest silks and the finest
jewels His sons were cliivalrous, and his
daughters were beautiful. Tho boys were
being educated in Europe, and the girls were
already reigning belles
Was Michel happy?
No; he was utterly miserable. And this
Is how it came about. One night he Hd
returned from a grand party at the home of
jmm _ . , _
you,please. Human eyes never beheld a
more grotesque sight. One old razor-back
hog, whom the others called “Missouri ” in
sisted upon gnawing at the carved acorns on
prided herself on bar*— * —
grace. The newroaoen P rided herself on having lived in
s*?r mrfsSSrSSi''*-**? *•)**;,tha tb£,'g>U°H
[Eugene Field tn Chicago News]
In a rude cabin on one of the beautiful
hills that environ the city of Cork there
once lived a hod-carrier whose name was
Michael Grady. Ho was so very poor that
his only possessions wore a ftw pieces of
household furniture, the honest hod with
which he plied his trade, and a speckled sow
which had been given him on a St Patrick’s
day by a more prosperous neighbor.
Michael's family consisted of a wife and a
bright little boy who had been christened
Michael Small as his family was it re
quired a vast amount of thrift on the part
of Michael and his good wife Bridget
to keep the bailiff from their cabin
door. However, by the death of an
aunt, who had been housekeeper to a priest,
Michael fell heir to several hundred dollars,
and upon this money Michael and his fam
ily emigrated from Ireland to America,
taking with them to their new borne the
honest old hod and the equally honest old
family sow. Bnt in lets than a year after
hit arrival in America Michael, having par
ticipated too generously in a political cam
paign, was prostrated by disease, and, feel
ing that death waa at hand, summoned hie
family about him, and with bis last breath
made a distribution of his Uttle property.
To hie wife he gave *200 in money, ehd to
Michael he bequeathed the old fondly sow.
Having thu*. disposed of everything, and
having invoked the blessing of Heaven
upon ihe tearful group, the stricken father
fell hack on his humble husk mattress »wi
The ' mother soon found employment to
which her ar and humble condition suited
bar, and the son set out in the world to earn
hit own living. Being at this time about IS
years ot ago, Michael rented a sty in the
rear of a certain stable, and in this he
boused the old .sow which had been given
him by hit moribund parent He himself
was employed ‘About the stable, and there
fore his care of the old sow partook largely
of the nature of recreation. His kindness to
the amiable creature was duly rewarded,
for one morning she presented him with
thirteen as beautiful little piggies as ever
ehwH.i rte ditL, .11
squealed in chorus dr gladden a'mother’s
eyea In
quite a handsome sum on this brood, for if you
ha vs ever texted roast pig you will admitthere
never waa a more savory viand served on _
platter, and you can depend upon it there
were epicures in the city where
lived.
Now, having profited so considerably by
this means, it occurred to Michael that three
awaited him a goodly ft
him a goodly fortune in, the pic
and, with tha capital ha now had
in hand, be retne/ed his soar to the suburbs
of the city, where he ensconed her in a
larger sty, near which she soon established
a capacious and odorous wallow. In these
improved quarter* the old sow duly became
the mother of eleven piggies, and, in bat
than eighteen months thereafter, she was
the grandmother 0< threescore and ten
grandchildren, male and femalet So, you
sea, Michael, by practicing frugality and
industry, had, in' a comparatively short
time, became exceedingly well-to-do. Hs
leased other Stirs and other wallows un
til the. whole, neighborhood wherein
he lived . seemed - to be devoted to
the pig industry. . Then Michael bufli
a smoke-house, and it was not long
before hie hkasS-and haooo came to be
known as the choicest in tho market Mean
while the number of his pigs increased, and
both near and far was Michael called the
a great parasite whose familiy pandered to
the vanity of the rich, and he had just got
into bed and pulled the silken, quilts over
him when he beheld a strange apparition
approaching the couch. This ghostly
visitant, intangible a* the mists, ap
peared to be In the shape of a monstrous
pig. Slowly it approached the bed, and
never once did it take its sullen, bead-like
eyes from Michel’s trembling form. Michel
tried to shut out the horrible wraith by
drawing the curtains of tbe couch, but the
specter waved one ghostly foreleg threaten
ingly and Michel tank, back cold and terri
fied QDGG
“Do you know me!** demanded the spec-
ter, in hollow tones, and each particular
bristle on her ghastly back stood erect
“Yea,” gasped Michel: “you are—the—
tbe old sow—the old family sow!”
“Say rather I am the old sow's ghost,”
said tho specter, in a sepulchral monotone.
“The old sow is dead; many years ago she
fell a victim to a hired assassin's blade ”
Michel made no reply. He quivered in
speechless agony.
“How could you forget met” demanded
the specter. “How could you forget those
days in distant Cork, when you used to
come, an idle, ragged Uttle boy, to scratch
my back and participate in my gambolst
Many a time have you pillowed your head
upon my grateful bristles—many a time
have you fished out crusts of bread from
my hospitable trough But you forgot all
these things, base ingrate that yon were.
You took me from my native isle to a
strange country to immolate me and my
progeny upon the altar of your sordid ambi
tion! Forgotten are the days when my
sporadic grunts were sweet lullabies to your
sleepy ears—when you cuddled your shiver
ing Uttle body close to my warm bosom,
when ws lay cheek by jowl, at it were, and
slept the summer afternoons away!”
Michel remembered it aU now, but he said
nqthing—be merely paled and trembled aU
tbe more.
“Ungrateful man,” continued the specter,
“your gold has hardened your heart to all
but flatterers You forgot that it waa I
who made you what you are—that it waa t
who brought you riches—that it was I who
gave you this fine house—yes, and this soft
bed upon which you now loU supine. Da
you heart It was I, the old speckled, fam
ily sow.” . . /
Poor Michel! How he shook end stam
mered and sweat Oh, it was terrible!
“Enjoy thesf things if you can,” contin
ued the specter, “but you shall never for
get that everything you are or efrer can be,
and everything you have or ever can poa-
aess, is pig, pig, pig—hog, hog, hog!”
And with these awful words the specter
vanished into air. And at that very mo
ment Michel’s ears were filled with a din as
if the dying wails of 30,000.000 pigs had been
focused in that chamber. The sound was so
dreadful that with a great groan Michel
lapsed into unconsciousness. When he came
to, it was broad daylight The sunbeams
creeping through the windows and between
the velvet curtains danced over the axmin-
iff ter carpet.
“It was a dream,” muttered Michel, but
he trembled as he thought of it
When he went down-stairs that morning
and entered his parlors hs was well nigh
stupefied to see written across the face of a
magnificent painting that hung over the
marble mantelpiece the word “Hog”
in deep, broad, black letters, as if 1c bad'
been burned Into the canvass 1 with a
branding iron. Michel tottered, rather than
walked, to the mantelpiece and touched bis
fingers to the canvas where this word
seemed written. But the canvas wax
smooth; it was evident that no word waa
branded thereon Yet, Michel removed his
hand, there again waa the reproachful word!
Ho spelled it out—Ko-g, bog—there could ba
nothing plainer.
“I must be going mad!” thought Iflohel
“The specter was no dream; it was a real
ity!”
Near the big picture hung a Uttle one.
Michel’s son Armand had sent it from Paris
with the criticism that it was a chef
d'oeuvre. Michel did not know what a
chef d’truvTe was, bnt as the picture was a
marine he took it for granted that “chef
d’oeurre was a nautical term. On this chef
d’ceuvre at this moment he av, as distinctly
as he had seen the word “Hog” on the larger
picture, the lees ostentatious but equally of.
tensive word “Pig” written in bold chacasten.
And upon the splendid rosewood case of the
grand pianoforte he beheld “Hog” scrawled
in large, sprawling letters—ay, and now
that he cast his eyes about the parlors he
•aw “Hog,” “Pig,” “Pig,” “Hog,” written
everywhere and upon everything—the care
pete, walla, chandeliers, tables, curtains,
chairs, sofas, ottomans, and all; yes, and
even the superbly frescoed ceilings were de
faced with a monstrous legend “Hog!” It
was not wonderful that Michel fell into a
chair and hid his face in his bands, as if to
shut out the hideous spectacle
Everywhere Michel went that day he waa
haunted by “Hog.” He found it written
above the door of his grand carriage- he
»»it branded upon the flanks of hla thor
oughbred team; he recognized it all over
the Uvery of his driver and grooms; when
the harness squeaked it sounded like the
squeak , of a pig—oh, !t was dreadful!
Michel saw “Hog” everywhere, and aU the
sounds be heard were porcine sounds—or. at
ftastto tiwyagteed. And when bed^w
hU plethoric silk purse from Ut pocket, lol
,lt was a sow’s ear, and his gold was dull
His eldest daughter, Pauline T—xii M
itdaaiahet
waA about this time tha* Michael be-
came enamored of a pretty girt who waited
“ ‘ oniied in. the corner
that ahe reciprocated
he propiaed marriage, w„
csptecL and in time was wedded to the ob
ject of
to him that afternoon and told him zhe had
received an offer of marriage from young
Sr^'SSowSSS* *• m t 04
“You accepted him, 1 hope?” mid Michel
.-‘71* P*P».” *epUed Pauline Isabel,
bluxhingly, “and. here is our engagement
It was a magnificent bauble It must
have cost a fortune 1 Michel saw then waa'
•ome lettering on the inner tide of tho ring,
and be asked what It waa -1: . ' i -“*■
'‘.? ur »** i i“*. P»I*, mid Pauline Itabel,
raffing joyfully. “See, is it not prettyl
'P. L G. from H. O. G.’ ” .
Add'turned pale He saw
the old specter again. • uert '“q
“Itmeana ‘Pauline Isabel Grayda’-from
*’ explained**,;
g.btrt he made* wild
Isabel stole away, won-
ironnd the chamber up and down the wall*,
and across the celling; yes, up the bedposts
md down the curtains for you must know
that specter hog* like other specter*, ars
endowed with supernatural powers. Here
and there lay the sleek, plump white 5 pig* r
of New England, grunting monosyllabically
m if they pinod for their old-time ration* of
potato paring* and sklm-mUle. Hogs every-
where; y««, hog*, pig^^boam, sow*, bar
row*, and shoata, and they grunted
•queeled, gamboled and rpoted, in solos and
symphonies, in chorus and concert, and in
weird hog harmonies. The wildest orgies of
the Valkyries could not have equaled it
“Michael,** said the old family sow, con
tinuing to point the index prong of her foot
reproachfully at .trim, as her tiny dead-
mackerel ' eyes steadfastly regarded him;
“Michael, we have come bock to enjoy your
good fortune with you. We are numerous.
For twenty years you have been butchering
us at tbe rate of 2,000,000 a year! Think of
It; 20,000,000 hogs massacred to gratify your
greed for gold! Well, we are here to revel
id the finery. And why should we not? We
gave you all you possess. These things are
as much ours as yours. We will enjoy
withyou’*
They had indeed a hilarious time; it was
in vptv truth a porcine saturnalia. All
night long tney gamooiea ana rooted nnq
wallowed in tbe , chamber. A dozen little
piggies with cute white curled taily took tbe
bronze clock on the mantelpiece and set it
on the floor and played gleefully with
it. Guileless little specters! it
them to see the wheels go buzzing around.
The older pigs groveled lazily about, and
several of the more dignified bogs reared
back in the armchairs and looked very wise,
for, as you know, in the brute creation as
well as in the. human there are owl-like
hogs.
“How do you fancy the spectacle,
Michael!” asked the ghostly old sow. “Does
it please you as much as the sight of your
grand coat-of-arms! Why did you forget
us when you hired that coat-of-arms in
vented! W hy did you not pay our memory
the simple justice of a sow dormant or n
boar rampant or a shoat adossedf Why is
there no gore splashed on your proud shield
to represent the blood of 20.000,000 hogv who
have perished for yoOr nuke! Mi haeJ. * > >
are a fraud—u coarse, unfeeling, ungiai. i .
fraud!”
Then the other hogs gave a prolonged,
scornful grunt in chorus, and all the little
pigs went squ-e-o-eak in tones that well ex
pressed theif bitter reproach. And then
they all rooted and wallowed and sozzled
around in the most brutal manner.
Michael saw and heard it all, but what
were his protests against the stubborn will
of these malignant persecutors! The next
morning he found hog tracks and pig tracks
everywhere, and everywhere there was the
smell of hog* and pigs. Even the bouquet
of roses his wife placed on the center table
was redolent of trying lard and hot
drippings!
This condition of affairs lasted for many
months. Each night the phantom hogs
invaded his chamber and ran riot there;
each day he beheld inscribed on all he
possessed the ghostly words “Hogs” and
“Pigs.” It was simply agonizing.
And everything seemed to conspire to fret
this poor man—yes, even the most trivial
happenings. For instance: One evening
Michael and his family went to the theatre;
this was something they frequently did,
and it was very good of them to patronize
the drama. But on this particular evening
a Shakespearean drama was to be per
formed, and Michel had bespoken a box; it
was box P, section I, aisle G—which, by tbe
way Michel soon discovered stood for Pig!
Between acts the young folks fell to discuss
ing the authorship of Shakespeare’s play,
and Michel was sadly discomfited when he
heard Henri Osmund Grummond, his daugh
ter’s lover, advance the startling theory that
Bhakespeare was not Shakespeare, but
Bacon. During the rest of the evening
Michel thought of nothing but bacon be
was very miserable,
When the phantom hogs assembled in
Michel’s bed-chamber that night they were
in high spirits, and when the ghost of the
old family sow, who on all such occasions
officiated as the presiding spirit, referred to
young Grummond in complimentary terms
there was an outburst of approving grunts.
These porcine phantoms seemed ever ready
to applaud whatever drove tho iron into
Michel’s soul
As for Michel’s wife, she never was
troubled with any of the frightful halluci
nations that made Michel’s life a burden to
him. She was happy because she all
the money she wanted and because society
acknowledged her as its queen. She wore
the costliest gowns and bonnets ever seen in
the city, and her diamonds were simply
regal; she was courted and flattered—of
course she was happy. She did not see that
everything she had bore upon its face in
flaming letters “Hog” or “Pig.” Happy
woman!
But unhappy Michel! Even the sough
ing of the breezes distressed him. And at
last, worn out not so much by his practical
dealing* with bacon, sides, cut meats, fam
ily mess, short ribs, sweetepickled shoulders,
green hams, spareribs, leaf lard, scraps,
green shoulders (New York cut), link sau
sages, and sweet-pickled hams—worn out,
we say, not so much by these things as by
the old family sow and her legion of procine
follower*, he died. His sightless eyea be
held no longer the horrid legends of
“H-O-G” and “P-I-G” inscribed on all his
glittering possessions, nor did the phantoms
of the Missouri river razor-back and the
Kansas prairie-racer affright them.
But when he was dead, everybody criod
“Hog” and “Pigw_ ye ^ now that
Michel was gone, everybody railed at his
memory and vowed there was in the will he
left behind an aroma of pork and bristles.
Or, perhaps we should not say that every
body railed, for to its utmost capability did
fashionable society mourn tho loss of Michel
Grayde, its brightest ornament.
And lo! just as Michel bad dismembered
and cut up the old family sow and her
progeny, so did Michel’s ungrateful heirs cut
up the will and dismember the estate
left behind him. . !v ,
Oh, what a ghastly sequel it was!
fair girl artlessly
Michel said 1
SK* ndI
That night tho spocta’ of : tte old family I
sow returned agaii to MicKel’A twLehamba-
anrterltes, irtUte e^eFlteerelytho* ReJ
Oeroe glance. Kasatfl toiyfaroa fcia bearFt !
mm w wii. wm wnuiwu w uo oi. . w the old family sow waa not
hia affoettoox. The followloa rorfna V*” eras with her a legion of
otuer porkerx—boars, sow*, hogs, nigs,
Very Much Like aa Engliihman.
[Gentleman's MscazlneJ
If an Australian aboriginal feels hungry
and finds himself without food he betakes
himself to belaboring his wife with the
nullahnullah, awl derives great comfort
from this self-made consolation; just as an
Englishman, whom, a foolish custom pre
vents from using a, to him, more natural
weapon, turns on his wife with Irritable,
bitter tongue, and is only to be mninfOvt
with soups and .meats—flesh, man's aim and
object, and woman’s defense, her chief one
in Australia, and only second to tears with
us—just as a myall is with hunks of h 1 * 1 ?
raw wallaby or smoky kangaroo.
Meeting with Poor Luck.
[New York Sun.]
Tramp (at tha backdoor)—Will you please
give me something to eat?
Woman—Not a thing.
Tramp—Nor nuthin’ to drink?
Woman—Nor nuthin’ to drink.
Tramp—No cast-off clothes?
Woman—None.
Tramp—Well, would you tell a poor, un
fortunate man what time it is?
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
Congress will pension Mrs. Han
cock.' ‘ „
The fund tor Mrs. Hancock foots
up *40,636.
Senator Colquitt has been lectur
ing in Chambersberg, Pa.
Moonshiners stote a captured still
fren the depot at Locust Grove,
Ga.
The house committee on educa
tion postponed until April 3d the
various bills before it extending
government aid towards common
School education.
Strikers Friday pursued and dis
abled an Iron Mount*ip locomotive,
were in turn pursued by officers,
fired upon and arrested,. The race
of the engines created excitement,
z The long and striking li*$ of fa
talities in tbe Bayard families has
just been added; to by the death of
-Mrs. Richard H. Bayard, • an aunt
ot the. Secretary of State- ,
Augusta, Ga., March is.-—Thos.
A. Scalee. thd young man who at
tempted suicide St the Globo Hotel
a fqw weeks since, died from’pneu
monia.
jeflerton Davis' Hits accepted' atf
invitation to lecture in Montgomery
in behalf ef the monument f6r the
. He ha** made
in behalf of the
Confederate dead,
an exception in this case, and Vrill
' si ill bsilad j »d?
Bruce, the colored _
Mississippi, i* to be appointed Civil
Service Commissioner* i* aujborre
tatively denied. His name has not
been considered by the President.
proprieto,
•totky
Extracts, and in fact everything to be found in a City Drug tore.
Braces of! every description,m $' 1 up. Fine Stand Lamps, only
price, $2. At the New Drpg Store you will find nothing but
Every one .will find it tQ their interest to call at the New Drug Store and get prices bef jre buv^n
ing the public will give me a liberal sharge of patronage, lam, respect fu y
G.W. RUSH
CHEAP ADVERTISING.
Certain papers soliciting business in
Athens, and taking column advertise
ments at from (25 to (50 per column a
year, and we know one leading(?) jour
nal that lately contracted for a column at
(35. This is a regular cut-throat busi
ness, for no country paper can be sus
tained that sells its space for less than
(100 a column. An editor who accepts
such rates must be pretty low down in
finances. Such parties had better quit
journalism, and go to editing a plow-
stock and a Georgia mule. They will
certainly starve to death trying to run a
paper.
HEMORRHOIDS CURED
Dr. A. L. Nance, Jug Tavern, Ga.,
cured me of a case of Hemorrhoids of
14 years standing. I had paid out over
(3<J<) and received no relief. I live on
the Clarkesvillc road, on the Kendrick
farm, three miles from Athens, Ga.,
where I can be seen at any time.
Very Respectfully,
mar2w4t. T. A. THORNTON.
CRANFORD I DAVIS,
—’•■•DEALERS IN w—
Paper, Blank Books,
Pens, Pencils and Inks,
Commercial Printing a Specialty.
CRANFORDIDAVI
—* DEALERS IN — ■
Pianos and Orgad
•Ban’:3, Guitars, Etc "
Red Front,.
ANOTHER RAILROAD ON OUR EAST.
The Augusta News says that a civil
engineer of New York will reach Au
gusta early this week, and will at once
begin the preliminary survey of the
route for the Augusta and Chattanooga
railroad. The proprietors of the road !
are determined to make it a success, and
they have no doubt that it will be under
way in a short time. The road will be a
great benefit to Augusta, giving another
western connection, which it greatly
needs.
No other medicine is so reliable as
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for the cure of
colds, coughs, and all derangements of
the respiratory organs tending toward
consumption. It affords sure relief for
the automatic and con-uraption, even in
advanced stages of disease.
HALL’S RECENT ELECTION.
Gainesville, March 12.—The consol
idated returns on the election show that
“for the smle” carried by 371 majority.
The antis earned 13 out of the 16 voting
precincts. Blue badges are at a discount,
and banners are furled. The “Prohibs.”
take it hard, but so it is. 0ver2,100votes
polled. The mayor and council met in
called session last night for the purpose
of fixing the retail license. The follow
ing arc the rates: Retail liquor dealers,
(500; wholesale liquor dealers, (250;
drug stores, (250; lager beer, (60.
PEACE MAXES.
Those workmen who All up the gaps
and smothe away the rough spots and
finish up the work that others have left
undone. as Skiff the Jeweler is doing,
are true peace makers and worth a
whole army of growlers.
PAY OF FACTORY OPERATIVES.
The average pay of the factory opera
tives at Fall River, Mass., is (5.64 per
week, or 94 cents a day. If this be the
case we don’t blame them for striking.
No one can more than exist on such
wages, and meet the necessary expenses
of a family. There should be a more
equml division of profits between the
hands and the mill owners. . : „ ,
HOG CHOLERA. V,
We see that the cholera is playing
havoc wit^ the hogs in Elbert county.
An old citizen tells us of the following
remedy which he pronounces as a certain
cure: Take some poison ivy leaves that
grows on the river banks and mix them in
with some barley and slop. Feed on it
for a day or two and your hog will live
a walker. , „
A countryman came into Athens yes
terday, who says he walked from home
to Athena; a distance of 32 miles; by ode
o’clock. He says-he can walk sixty
miles s day and never get tired. '
HARDWARE STORE IN HARMONY 0R0VI
Messrs. Williamson 3t Hardman are
winding np their business preparatory to
opening a large hardware store in Har
mony Grove.
Columbus, Ga., March t».—
Bush Martin, an old citnen of Tay
lor county, committed suicide
Wednesday night by shooting him
self through the bend. He was tir
ed of living. /
The colored politicians in Wash
ington endorse the Matthews'ap
pointment at an honor to their race.
As Matthews is' nearly white, if»
hard to say what portion'of the bon-
‘ ‘ Fill
or belongs to the full blooded negro.
ECLECTIC. ’:
DR S. D. DURHAM,
■ mares'
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY.
Cht’rgvt very moderate.' . ,
Mabtey;' : * - '^oorBlift.
marclilfiwly. bus ■ 1 urb
NOTICE
A LL persons hsving demands against
(Km astnta <x( I<xk» Wl.t.. iZei^At 1
the etteteof John Winter, late ol
•jgiethorpe County, deceased, are here
by notified to render in, their demands
to D. H. winter, ih cart‘of H:K. J Ntcli-
ofaon tk Co., Athens, Ga., according to
law slid >11 persons Indebted to aaida&i
oeaaed are required to make immediate
^ment *( the atote of; JohuiWlntef*
merits.'' Wthtervllle, Ga.i'Marrib 12. 8&
“ M A KOAKKTT WINTER,
marchlSwGt.. ;,.!, _,t Executrix.'
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.... _ a Clarks.Cwintyyi
The report that former Senator to present the same la '
ruce. the colored statesman
ment. March IZ 188 'taiioa' 1
JOHN T. BRTTAIN,
marcnlQwGw. Administrator*
HAMPTON & WEBB,
MANUFACTURERS OF ALL Kl.MLS OF
C A N D1
M*DE OUT GF PURS fiUr.AR
Stick Candy a Specialty, Coeeanut, Peanut, Bars 61
Prices guaranteed as low as any other markets. 8rn<1 orders -or Mtnpl-1
xrehlldAwly. f. HAMPTON A WEBB, Lumpkin 4 kw It I
HODGSON BRO!
Desire to call attention to their large assortment ol
T0BACOS.
THE CELEBRATED
PLANE ROAD MCI
Is justly popular. We clain there is no better f tr t |
money. -Try it.
01 PE 1
CEDAR GROVE
Also some of our Favorite Brands for which
are Sole agents. Give us a ball and be Convinced.
JOHN CRAWFORD & CO,
WHOLESAlsS and. retail
DRUGGIST & SEEDSME!
Athens, Georgia. Opposite Post Office, Clayton St |
marchlfiwly. •. r ■
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