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A FEDERAL COURT AT ATHENS.
Congressman. Carlton has intro
duced a bill to hold two terms of the
United States Circuit and District
Courts in each year at Athens, and
the Judiciary committee of the
House has reported it favorably. No
more important and useful measure
to the people of Northeast Georgia
has been proposed since the war. A
large proportion of the revenue cases
which are now tried at Atlanta arise
in counties which are nearer to Ath-
ensthan more accessible from Athens
and Atlacto. The people who are
interested in these cases are gener
ally poor, and the expense of attend
ing Court at Atlanta, is much great*
er than it will be at Atlanta. A great
saving to the people will be effected
by the passage of this bill. The
people of Madison, Franklin, Oconee
Jackson, Hart, Oglethorpe, Elbert
and Greene, who have business at
the Federal Court, can come to Ath
ens, and stay if necessary, for much
less than it now costs to go to At
lanta. Besides they can try their
cases nearer home and nearer their
nciglibors and friends.
The bill is right. The Southern
District has Courts held at Savan
nah, Macon and Augusta, and there
ismore business in the Northern
than in the Southern. The Federal
Courts ought to be brought as near
to the door of the people as possible,
to save expense and delay.
Of course the city of Athens will
be greatly benefilted. Two terms of
the United States Court in each year
held here, will bring a large number
of people here who would not other
wise come. Athens is now easily
reached from all parts ot the country
around ns, and by the time this bill
goes into effect, the G., C. & N. will
be bnilt, which will make it still
more convenient for the people to
reach Athens.
AN IMPORTANT RAILROAD-
The Dablonega letter, published
in our paper yesterday, has created
considerable discussion in Athens,
and meets with hearty endorsement
rom our citizens. We realize the
fact that nc road can be built that
will add more to the retail business
of. our city than a direct line pene
trating the Northeast Georgia moun
tains, and Dablonega is a most de
sirable point to tap. Then to extend
the road on to the M. «fc N. G. will
give us a connection with Knoxville
and the Yi est, and place Alliens on
an equal footing with an}- other city-
in Georgia. We do not think there
will be the slightest trouble about
getting control of the charter to
which our correspondent refers, as
the gentlemen who own it are enter
prising and public-spirited citizens,
and will not stand in the way of the
prosperity of their respective towns.
Let oor North Georgia friends in
terested in building this road start
the ball in motion, and they can con
fidently count on hearty and liberal
assistance from Athens. Our peo
ple are all anxious for this road, and
stand ready to do their share when*
ever called upon.
Murder at
llorrible and Atrocious
Memphis.
Memphw, Jan. 17.—[Special}—A hor
rible double murder, which occurred in
a suburb of the city Monday night, was
niorning. The murderer
is William Baker, a skilled negro work
man engaged at the Southern Oil Mills,
and his victims were Martin Wheeler
and his eight-year-old daughter Nellie,
also colored. Wheeler and Baker
S*. r . ked &£ eU ? er m the Southern Oil
Mills. Wheeler wanted to take a triD
and he asked his friend Baker to take
charge of his wife and child. Baker is
an unmarried man and he consented to
the arrangement. Wheeler went off
and was gone several weeks aud only
returned last Monday night, lie ink
mediate y went to his home, and aa his
**»?‘dready gone to bed he pulled
OU his clothes and weut to bed. Baker
had become criminally intimate with
™?i V £ > .T n ? Un “K Wheeler’s absence,
and when he heard of bis return he
secured a long dirk knife and went to
Wheeler’s house. He opened the door
and went into Wheeler’s sleeping apart-
“ c n n ‘f» here Wheeler, his wifelnd his
daughter were asleep. Baker plunged
! lto the sleeping man’s
stomach before he could rise, drew the
knife across his stomach and partly
across his back. Wheeler tried to rise,
and as he did so his entrails slipped out
in the bod. Awakened by Wheeler’s
* he wife and daughter
? wl P» n B the blood off
k , n,f e D*® g>rl jumped up and ac
cused Baker of murdering her father.
Not being satisfied with the one crime
he had committed, Baker seized a ch-.tr
and struck the child on the head, scat-
tenng her brains all over the room.
He then attacked the mother, but she
escaped by a window. Baker then fled,
and, although several officers are on
c is
his track, he is still at large. Wheeler
and the girl both received prompt med
ical attention and were both alive this
morning, but are not expected to live
tbrought the night.
Sonnsus & Smith.—in this issue of
appears the advertisement
of this live new| Arm. Their business
has been very good, indeed, sinee they
opened un ..few weeks ago. The pre
scription department has been crowded
and will continue so as the prescrip
tions are carefully and accurately com
pounded by Mr. Smith, an experienced
druggist, wcll-knowned to our people.
The Arm proposes to do an immense
jobbing trade, and the merchants in the
surrounding counties will do well to
consult them before buying. Dr. Sor
rel, s is a new coiner, and is a clever aud
A Statesman Speaks.
No man in the South was more generally or
more tavonibly known, and no man’s opinion
was more highly reverenced than that of the
Governor Perry, of South Carolina. For some
time previous to his death, Governor Perry
was a sufferer from indigestion. He took l)r.
Westmoreland’s Calisaya Tonic and wrote the
following letter:
Sans Sorci.
Gentlemen.—I most cordially recommend
Dr. Westmoreland’s Calisava Tonic. For sev
eral years past I have been troubled with indi
gestion and dyspepsia. My son, Dr. Hext M.
r er *T. of Philadelphia, who knows the ingred
ients which compose your Tonic, spoke fav-
orably ofit. In the course of two months
past I have used four bottles, and I am entire
ly relieved. Yours truly, etc.,
n . ... B. F. Perry.
v , Westmore and s Calisaya Tonic is sold
by L. D. sledge A Co., at 50c and $1 a bottle.
RICHES-
It yon desire them no use fooling sway
time on things that don’t pay : but send $1.00
at once for a magnificent outfit of our Great
New Stanley Book. If book aud terms are not
satisfactory we will refund your money. No
nsk. No capital .ceded. Both ladies and
gentlemen employed. Don’t lose time in
writing. “Step in while tne waters are troub
led.*’ Days are worth dollars. Address,
B. F. JOHNSON A CO.,
1009 Main St., Richmond, Va.
Dec. 28-d-lmo.
FOIt SALK.
Good house and lot on corner of Strong
and Lumpkin streets. Call and sec us
right away.
Shackleford & Hattaway,
Heal Estate Agents.
Bueklen’s Arnica Salve.
The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rbemn, Fever,
Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions and pos
itively enres Piles, or no pay required. It
is guaranteed lojpve perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price 25 Cents per
box. For side by John Cinwford & Co.,
and L. D. Sledge & Co., Wholesale and
Retail Druggists.
For lame hack, side or chest, use Shiloh’s
Plaster. Price 25 cents. For sale by
John Crawford A Co.
CROUP, WHOOPING COUGH and
Bronchitis immediately relieved by Shi
loh’s Cure. For sale by John Crawford &
Co.
SHILOH’S VITAL1ZEU is what you
need for Constipation, Loss of Appetite,
Dizziness, and all symptoms of Dyspepsia.
Price 10 and 75 cents per bottle. For Sale
by JoIid Crawford & Co.
SIIILOU’S COUGH and Consumption
Cure is sold by us on a guarantee. It cures
Consumption. For side by John Crawford
A Co.
LUCY HINTON IS QUEEN OF THE
TOBACCO WORLD.
Tnlmadge Bros.’ are headquarters aud
factory agents for T. C. Williams & Co.\-
Lucy Hintou. Mnltaponi, Jay Bird and
Panther tobaccos. They are always relia
ble, uniform, and liest on earth, for prices
at which they arc sold. Try them.
13-flm
The best razors and the best pocket-
knives, at the lowest prices, at Talmage &
Brightwcll’s. dec7lf
CoaUiraaaBlMd DWenaca.
Unleers, aores,pimples, itch, salt rheum, etc'
are evidence# ot conlageous blood disease, ft
ia manifestly a duty to eradicate blood poison
from tba system by a use ot 11. B. B. (Batanic
Blood Halm) thus enabling the sore places to
beat, and t .ereby removing all possibiiitiy of
other meinbera of the family becoming like
wise affleted. Send to Blood Balm Co , Atlanta,
Ga., foi book that will convince.
J. H. Outlaw, Mt. Olive, N. C., writes: “ .
had running aores on my shoulders and armsl
One bottle B. B. B. cured me entirely.”
!>. Johnson, Belmont Station, Miss., rites*
“B. B. B. lias worked on me like a charm. My
bead and body were covered with sores,and my
hair came ont,B. B. B. healed mo quickly.”
W. J. Kinnin. Hutches, Texas, writes: “B.
B. B. bas cured my wile of a Urge ulcer on
her leg, that doctors and all other medicine
could not care.”
M. J.Rotsmsn, a prominent merchant ot
Greensbiro, Ga., writes: “I know of several
cases of Blood disease speedily cured by B. B
B. Two bottles cured a lady of ugly scrofu
lous skin sores.
W.C. Birchmore A Co., of Msxey, Ga ,
writes: “U. B. B. in curiug Mr. Robert Ward
of blood poison, effected one of the m >st won
derful cures that ever came to our know!-
edge.”
Some men earn $10 just by the way of exer
cise.
No sufferer from sny scrofulous disease, who
ill fkirlv trv Avar’s Siurusnunlla «##>1 <1^.,
uU, and infuses new life and vigor throughout
the physical organisation.
It doesn’t take much of a marks-man to draw
a bead on beer. \
Stop that congh, by the use of Ayer’s Cher
ry Pectoral!—the best specific for ail throat and
Inngdiseases. It will alUy inflammation, aid
respiration, and strengthen the vocal organs
i frr * ‘
Ayer,s Almanacs are freo to all. Ask for one.
, The man who tore his cost thinks rants are
increasing.
Their Business Booming.
led ;
Probably no one thing bas cause? Bitch
general revival of trade at John Crawford Co.
and L. D. Sledge Co Wholesale aud Retai!
Drug (Stores as their giving away to their cus-.
tamers of so many free trial bottles of Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Consumption.
Their trade is simply enormous in this very
valuable article from the fact that it always
cures and disappoints. Cough, Cold, Asthma,
Bronchitis, Croup and all throat sod lung din-
eases quickly cured. Yon can test 'it before
buying by getinga trial bottle free, large size
$1. Every bottle wairarted.
The chief symptom of a cold in the head is s
hankerehief.
To prevent thedisease of babyhood from at-
*«kijig jour child, W iVtiine br. Bull's Baby
best remedy for children. Price 25c.
The ill effects from imprudent eating may at
*»• prevented, and toe dyspepsia for
estalled by the timely use of Lexador.
IfoUieraaay how good you are, ask your
self if it is true.
A New Strike.—The working els es have
struck attaints high priced cough medicine, and
indorse.Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrup. Price 25c. hot-
“The first bringer of unwelcome ne#s hath
» it *» ®° •‘•PPJ people prefer to
tell of the terrible pains they have eared with
Salvation Oil.
News of the season—N
monia.
end Pneu-
Epoch.
- P^e tansition from long, lingering and pains
fal sickness to robast health murks sa epoch
in the life of the mdividoel. Such a rema t
able event is treasured in the memoir and th
agency whereby the goodbealth has been s
Uined ^ gratefully blessed. Hence it is that
so much is heard in praise of Electric Bitters.
So man. f.«l they owe their restoration *o
health, for the use of tli e Gnat Alterative and
Tonic. If you are troubled with any disease of
Kidneys. Liver, Stomach of low
Kidneys, Liver, Stomach of loag or short
standing you will surely find relief by use of
Electric Hitters. Sold at 5Cc. and $1. per hot-
Ue at. John Crawford" Co.' or (TblsiedKe
Co. Wholesale and Retail Druggist
The old toper does not need ice when he gets
on a ‘-skate. 6
They make one feel as though life was worth
living Take one of Carter’s Little Liver Pills at-
rel.s is a sietv coiner, and is *t clover aud 1JWJ * ^ver Pills at.
popular gentleman and v,c predict for H dig0fl '
Hie uow driq grout success. 1 H »«g°rw we system,
TRACED IN BLOOD;
on
The Little Old Man of theBatignolles.
EMILE GABORIAU.
CHAPTER L
When I was finishing my medical stnd*
* es “ was high time, for I was twenty-
three years old—I lived in the Rne Mon-
sieur-le-Prlnce,almost at the corner of the
Rue Racine. There, at thirty francs a
month, attendance included, I had a fur
nished room which would now be well
worth a hundred; it was so large that I
could easily put my arms through the
sleeves of my overcoat without opening
the window. :
Leaving early in the morning to go to
my hospital, and returning very late, be
cause the Cafe Leroy possessed irresisti
ble attractions for me, I scarcely knew by
sight the lodgers in the house, who were
all quiet people of independent property,
or small tradesmen. There was one,how
ever, with whom I gradually became In
timate.
M. Mechlnet was a man of middle
height, with a commonplace countenance,
always scrupulously well shaved. The
concierge treated him with marked con
sideration, and never failed to hastily
raise hia cap whenever he passed his
room.
As M. Mechinet’a door opened upon •
landing directly opposite to the door of
my room, we often met, and on these oc
casions were in the habit of bowing to
each other. One evening he came in to
ask for some matches; one night I bor
rowed some tobacco of blm; one morning
we happened to go out at the same time
and walk some distance talking together.
Such were our first relations.
Without being either curious or suspi
cious—paople are not at the age I was
then—one likes to know something about
the persons with whom one is acquainted.
Therefore, I naturally began—not to
watch my neighbor’s life, but to think of
his acts and movements.
He was married, and Mme. Caroline
Mechinet, a fair, plump, merry little
woman, seemed to worship her husband.
But this husband’s mode of life was not
very regular. He often left the house be
fore dawn, and the sun had frequently
risen when I heard him return to his
domicile. Sometimes he disappeared if t
weeks.
How pretty little Mme. Mechlnet could
tolerate this was what 1 could not nndw
stand.
In my perplexity, I thonght onr con
cierge, who was usually as talkative aa a
magpie, might enlighten me.
Wrong! I had scarcely uttered the name
of Mechinet when he sent me about my
business, saying he was not in the habit
of being a spy upon his lodgers.
This reception so increased my curiosi
ty, that, banishing all shame, I set about
watching my neighbor.
Then I discovered things that seemed
abominable.
Once I saw him come home dressed in
the latest fashion, his buttonhole adorned
with five or six orders. The next day but
one.I met him on the stairs attired in a
dirty blouse and with a ragged cloth,
which gave him a most sinister expression,
wrapped round his head.
This isn’t all. One beantiful afternoon,
as he went out, I saw his wife foUow him
to the threshold, and passionately em
bracing him, say:
“I beseech yon, Mechlnet, be careful;
remember your little wife.”
Be careful I Why? For what reason?
What did this meant Was the wife an
accomplice?
My astonishment was soon redoubled.
I was sleeping soundly one night, when
some one suddenly knocked hurriedly at
the door.
I rose and opened it.
M. Mechinet entered, or rather rushed
Into the apartment, his clothes torn and
disordered, hia cravat and shirt crashed,
his bead bare,his face covered with blood.
‘‘What haa happened?” I exclaimed in
terror.
He signed to me to be silent. '
“Lower,” be said, “somebody might
hear yon. It may be nothing, though I
am suffering terribly. I thought, as you
were a medical student, yon could doubt
less attend to mol”
Without saying a word, I made him sit
down, hastily examined the injury, and
gave him the necessary assistance.
The wound, although it had bled freely,
was very slight. In fact, it was only a
scratch, commencing at the left ear and
stopping at the lips.
“Well, I’m safe and sonnd this time,”
said M. Mechinet, when the dressing was
finished. “A thousand thanks, my dear
Monsieur Godeuil. Please say nothing
about thii little accident to anybody, and
good night.”
Good night!' I was very likely to sleep!
When I remember all the absurd ideas
and romantic fancies that passed through
my brain, I can’t help laughing.
M. Mechinet assumed fantastic propor
tions in my mind. The next morning he
quietly came in to thank me again, and
invited me to dinner.
It may be supposed that I was all eyes
and cars when I entered my neighbor’s
home. But it was in vain that my atten
tion was on the alert. I detected nothing
calculated to dispel the mystery that so
greatly perplexed me. From the time of
this dinner, however, our relations be
came more intimate. M. Mechinet bad
evidently taken a fancy to me. A week
rarely passed wlthont an invitation to eat
his soup, as he expressed it, and almost
every .day he joined me at the Cafe Leroy,
and we played a game of dominoes to
gether. '
So on a certain evening in the month of
July—one Friday about five o’clock—he
was on the point of beating me, when a
man of very shabby appearance, it must
be confessed, entered and whispered
in his ear a few words I did not under
stand.
M. Mechinet started up with a troubled
face.
“I’ll go,” said he; “run and say I’ll go.”
The man set off at full speed, and my I
old neighbor held oat his hand to me,say- i!
ing—
“Excuse me; duty first—we’ll continue
our game to-morrow.”
And as, burning with curiosity, I
showed great annoyance,saying how much
I regretted that I could not accompany
him: —— .
“Well,”he mattered, “why not?~Do
yon want to come? Perhaps iUaUl be in
teresting.” 1
My only reply was to seize my hat and
we went out. ^ ig
Racine, elbowing the passers-by as If his
fortune had depended on his speed.
Luckily a fiacre passed us at the Place
de l’Odeon.
M. Mechinet stopped it, and opening the
door, said, “Get in, Monsieur GodcuiL”
I obeyed, and he took his seat beside
me after calling to the driver in an im
perative tone—“Rne Lecluse, 89 aux Bar
tignolles—and be qoickl”
The distance drew a volley of oaths
from the driver. No matter, he gave his
bor es a violent blow. Mid the carriage
rolhid on.
“Ah! so we’re going to the Batig-
noiles?” I asked, with the smile of a cour
tier.
But M. Mechlnet made no reply. I
doubt whether be heard me.
A complete metamorphosis was taking
place in him. He did not seem exactly
agitated, bat his compressed lips and the
contraction of hia large, bushy eyebrows
betrayed intense preoccupation of mind.
His eyes, fixed on a vacancy, seemed to be
studying the terms of some insoluble
problem.
He had drawn ont his snuff-box, and
was constantly taking immense pinches,
which he kneaded between his finger and
thumb and raised to hia nose, bnt did not
inhale.
This was a trick I had noticed, and
which greatly amused me. The worthy
man, who had a horror of tobacco, was al
ways provided with a snuff-box worthy of
a stage financier.
If anything unforeseen occurred,
whether pleasant or disagreeable, he
pulled it ont of his pocket and began to
take snnff furiously. The box was often
empty, but his gestures remained the
CHAPTER H. . / f
, * was certainly far from suspectlngthat ’
A Was Inking one of those apparently in- ,
steps Which have a aeciaed in- •
flueuce on the whole life. 1,
AndfaUof foolish satisfaction, I tret-
?* By M. Mechinet’a side. 1
* a7 L°, tt< l d ’ becauis0 1 really had some \
difficulty in keeping up with the worthy
_He walked on and on .along Jdi* TOn*
I afterwards knew it was a trick of his
to conceal his impressions and divert the
attention of his questioners.
Meantime we drove on.
The fiacre ascended, not without diffi
culty, the Rue de Cllnchy, crossed the
outer boulevard, turned into the Rne de
Lecluse, and ere long stopped at some
distance from the address given.
To go further was impossible, the street
was so blocked by a dense crowd.
Before the house, bearing the number
89, two or three hundred persons were
standing with outstretched necks and
sparklipg eyes, panting with curiosity,
and with difficulty kept back by a half-
dozen policemen, who vainly shouted in
their harshest tones, “Pass on, gentlemen,
pass on!”
Alighting from the carriage, we ap
proached the house, forcing onr way
through the loungers with great diffi
culty.
We had already reached the door of No.
89, when a policeman rudely thrust us
back.
“Stand back! No admittance here!”
My companion eyed him from head to
foot, and drawing himself up, said:
“So you don’t recognize me. I am
Mechinet, and this young man”—he
pointed to me—“is with me.”
“Pardon mel. Excuse me!” stammered
the man, raising' bis hand to his hat. “I
didn’t know—walk in."
We entered.
In the vestibule a stout woman, evi
dently the concierge, redder than a peony,
was talking and gesticulating amid a
group of lodgers.
“Where is it?” M. Mechinet asked
ronghly.
“On the third floor, my dear monsieur,”
she answered; “third floor, right-hand
door! Oh Lord, what a misfortune! Ina
house like ours! Such a good mcnl”
I heard no more. M. Mechlnet had
darted np the stairs, and I followed, my
heart beating as if it would stifle me.
The right-hand door on the third floor
stood open.
We entered, crossed an antechamber,
dining-room, drawing-room, and at la «+-
xeached a bed-chamber.
If I could live a thousand yearalahonld
never forget the spectacle that met my
eyes. As I write, after so many years, I
can see the smallest details.
Two men were leaning on the mantel
piece opposite the door; a commissary of
police, with his scarf round his waist, and
an examining magistrate.
On the right, seated at a table, a young
man, the clerk, was writing.
In the centre of the room, on the floor,
amid a pool of black, coagulated blood,
lay the body of an old man with white
hair. He wqs stretched on his back, with
his arms extended. Terrified, I stood
rooted to the threshold, so near fainting,
that to save myself from falling I was
obliged to lean against the door.
My profession had familiarized me
with death; I had long since conquered
the terrors of the hospital, but this was
the first time I found myself confronted
with crime. For it was evident that an
Abominable crime had been committed.
. My neighbor* less impressionable than
I. bad entered with a firm stop..
“Oh! It’s yon, Mechinet,” said the com
missary of police. “I’m yery sorry to
have troubled yon.”
‘‘Why?”
“Because we sha’n’t need your wits.
We know the criminal. I have given my
orders, and he most be already ares ted."
Strange! From M. Mechinet’a gesture,
one would have supposed this assurance
-annoyed him. He drew out his snuff
box, took two or three of his imaginary
pinches, and said: —
"Ah! the criminal is known.” v.
The examining magistrate answered?
“And known in a very certain and pos
itive fashion; yes, Monsieur Mechinet.
The crime having been committed, the
Assassin fled, believing that his victim
bad expired. He was mistaken. Provi
dence watched the deed. The unfortunate
man still breathed. Summoning all his
strength, he dipped one of his fingers in
"tho blood .that was flowing in streams
Irom the wound, and wrote on the floor
ibis murderer’s name, thus dunnnnning
Urim to human justice. Look.”
Thus informed, I perceived what I had
mot noticed at first.
On the floor, in large, Ul-shapcd, scarce
ly legible letters, was written with blood:
-MONIS.
“Well?” said M. Mechinet.
“That,” replied the commissary of po
lice, “is the beginning of the name of the
poor old man’s nephew—a nephew of
-whom he was very fond, and who is named
^Monistrol.”
“The devil I” said my neighbor.
“I don’t snppose,’’continued the magis
trate, “that the scoundrel will try to deny
■St. The five letters are an overwhelming
•charge against him. Besides, who profits
by this cowardly crime? He alone, the
sole heir of theoldman.wholeavesalarge
^fortune, they say. There is more evi
dence; the crime was committed yester
day evening. Well, yesterday evening
mo one visited this poorold man except his
nephew. The concierge saw him come in
About 9 o’clock and go out a little before
midnight.
“That’s plain,” said M. Mechinet,
“that’s very plain. This Monistrol is a
r—
.ool.’
Then, shrugging his shoulders, he con
tinued:
"Did he steal anything, did he break
any article of furniture, to put people on
a wrong scent in regard to the motive of
the crime?”
“Nothing seems to be disturbed,” re
plied the commissary of police. “The
scoundrel hasn’t gone away. When he
finds that he’s discovered, he will con
fess.”
The commissary of police and M.
Mechinet then retired into the recess of a
window and conversed together in a low
tone, while the magistrate gave some in
structions to hia clerk.
SS& »
CHAPTER m. * ,
Henceforward my mind was settled.
-I had wanted to know exactly what my
mysterious neighbor did. Now I knew.
Now his desultory mode of life was ex
plained, his absences, the late tours at
which he returned, his sudden disap
pearances, bis young wife’s fears, the
wound I had dressed.
But of what use was my discovery?
I had gradually recovered my senses,
the power of reflecting and deliberating
bad returned, and I scrutinised everything
around me with eager curiosity.
From the place where I stood leaning
against the door, I could survey tho whole
apartment.
Nothing, literally nothing, betrayed the
scene of a murder.
Everything, on the contrary, revealed
comfort, but at the same time parsimon
ious and methodical habits. Everything
was in its place; there was not a fold
awry in the curtains, and the frames of
the fnrnitnre glittered, implying daily
polishing. Besides, it seemed evident
that the suppositions of the magistrate
and commissary of police were correct,
and the poor old man had been assassi
nated the evening before, just aa he was
preparing to go to bed.
In fact, the bedclothes were turned
back, and on the quilt lay a shirt and
nightcap. On the table at the head of the
bed I saw a glass of sugar and water, a
box of matches, and an evening paper—
the PatrU.
On one corner of the mantelpiece glit
tered a candlestick—a huge solid copper
candlestick. Bnt the candle that had
lUnminated the crime was consented, the
murderer had fled without blowing it
out, and it had horned down, blackening
the alabaster save-all on which it was
fastened. .
These details I had perceived at once,
without effort, without, bo to speak, any
exertion of my will.
My eye performed the part of a photo
graphic object-glass, the scene of the
murder was fixed on my mind aa If on a
prepared plate, with such precision that
circumstance was omitted, with
such permanenoe that even now I ooold
draw the chamber occupied by the
“little old man of the Batignolles”
without forgetting anything, wlthont
omitting even a cork half covered with
wax, which I can still see on the
oor, under the clerk’s chair.
The faculty of investigation, which has
been bestowed upon me, is a very extra
ordinary one. I had never before had oc
casion to exert it, but it suddenly revealed
Itself.
At that time I was far too deeply agita
ted to be able to analyze my Impressions.
I had but one obstinate, burning, irresis
tible desire—to approach the corpse, ly
ing two yards away from me.
At first I straggled against this wish.
Bnt there was a fatality about it. I ap
proached.
Had my presence been noticed? I think
not.
At sny rate, nobody was paying any at
tention to me.
M. Mechlnet and the police officer were
still talking together near the window,
the clerk was reading in a low tone hia
report to the magistrate.
So there was nothing to prevent the ac
complishment of my plan.
Besides, I most confess, a sort of feverish
eagerness had taken possession of ms,
which made me Insensible to external cir
cumstances and utterly isolated me.
I ventured to kneel down by the body,
to see it better and more closely.
Far from thinking somebody was going
to exclaim: “What are you doing here?”
I moved slowly and steadily, like a man
who, having received a mission. Is going
to execute it.
The unfortunate old man seemed to be
about seventy or seventy-five years old.
He was small and very thin, but evi
dently been strong, aud likely to live to
be a hundred. He still bad a great deal
of hair, of a yellowish white color, curled
on the back of his neck. His gray beard,
strong and thick-set, did notseem to have
been shaved for five or six days; it must
have grown since his death. This cir
cumstance, which I had often noticed
among subjects brought to the
for dissection, canned me no surprise.
What did astonish me was the unfor
tunate man’s face. It was calm, nay.
smiling. 3
The lips were parted as if for a friendly
greeting.
Death had been terribly sudden, stnos
he had kept that pleasant expression.
This was the first idea that presented
itself to the mind.
Yes, bnt how could I reconcile these
two irreconcilable circumstances: a sud
den death, and the five letters—Monte—
which I saw in characters of blood npon
the floor?
What effort must it not have coat the
dying man to write that! Only the hope
of vengeance could have given him such
energy. And what mast have been bis
rage to feel himself dying, ere he could
trace the whole name of his assasslnl
Yet the face of the corpse seemed to
smile at me.
The poor old man had been struck in
the throaty and the weapon had ent the
neck from ear to ear.
The instrument of the crime most have
been a poniard, or rather one of those ter
rible Catalonian knives, aa wide as the
hand, which cut on both sides and are as
sharp as a needle.
Never In my life have X experienced
sensations bo singular.
My temples throbbed with unprece
dented violence, and my heart swelled as
if it would burst.
What was I going to discover? *****
Urged on by a mysterious and irre-
eistibla power which annihilated my
will, I took between my own hands
rigid hands of the corpse.
The right one was clean; it was one of
the fingers of the left, the forefinger, that
was stained with blood.
a ?.®°Jl d man hm * Witten with
Ills left h&nd! Come, come)
by * • ort °* Kiddinsss,
with wild eyes, bristling hair, and a face
paler than that of the corpse lying at my
feet, I started up, uttering g terrible pry.
“Great Heavenl"
AH the others, startled, surprised and
bewildered, exclaimed in a breath—
“What is it? Wbat is the matter?”
I tried to answer, but my emotion
stifled me; it seemed aa if my month was
full of sand.
I could only point to the dead man’s
hands, stammering—
“Therel there!”
Quick as lightning, Mechinet had
thrown himself on his knees beside the
corpse. He saw wbat I had seen, and re
ceived the same impression, for, starting
to his feet, he claimed—
“It was not this poor old man who
traced these letters.”
And as the magistrate and commissary
of police stared at him With mouths wide
open, he explained to them the circum
stance that the left hand alone was stained
wih blood.
“And to think I didn’t notice It,” said
the commissary, mournfully.
M. Mechinet took snnff furiously. "
“That’s always the way,” he remarked.
“The things in plain sight are the very
ones that are not seen. But no matter,
the situation is entirely changed. Since
the old man did not write the letters, his
assassin did.”
“Evidently,” assented the commissary.
“Now,” my neighbor continued, “can
we imagine a murderer stupid enough to
denounce himself by writing his name
beside the body of his victim? No, that
isn’t it. Now let ns conjecture.”
The magistrate had become anxious.
“It is plain,” said he, “that appearances
have deceived us. Monistrol is not the
crimlnaL Whoishe? It’s your business.
Monsieur Mechinet, to find ont.”
He paused. A police officer entered,
who, addressing himself to the commis
sary, said: •'*>.
“Your orders are executed, monsieur.
Monistrol has been arrested and impris
oned. Ho has confessed everything.”
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A MINISTERIAL MUDDLE
A Baptist Preacher Rises to
the Pres*has Done Him
, — —— iujufjti
Some tune ago tin- Hanskr ■« ]
most every other •5..ii;h,. rn j 0 ,V"^*Hq
an account of a little difficult- ,,
curved in ajFlemingsbuig
during the week of prayer.* it Urc l
most ludicrous account that w„' V!u ‘
over tho wires, and said that whii ^
Presbyterian minister was prav , ^
was interrupted by tho Baptist n.?* •'t
who difered with him in |,j„
about certain points in toe
riar. creed. The Presbyterian mn/ 1 *'
answered him while still prayi„» ,, H
words ledjto further words until tin*? 1
a fight was imminent. The coiunSj
» ugm, n.io imminent, me COiiuro v C
tion crowded around and stoi> D ftf*’ - |
fcwolkin;irrelink Hna.iv ..
twojqmirreliug,preachers. Such atU? 1
were the reports that went out t,» t?
press. i«i«. Mi. *. -iv. wraob rise.7
remark that such accounts are n r 7, ,
Rev.' Mr. R. M. Grabb*-”
to be false by the following facts;
PfOVftl
1. The pastor of the Baptist iwl
was 35 miles away from Fleiuiier^J
at the time the quarrel is said tou >l i
taken place.
2. The pastor or the Baptist chnrJ
sonic! have blit little objection to th«, I
■client Presbyterian preacher’s conf
could
eellent Presbyterian preacher’s eonf I
sion of faith and certainly would nJJj
himself more decent thou to ishow snll
objection at a union prayer meeting j
3. The three evenings the
pastor spent in the meetings weniLj
pleasant and harmonious.
A great deal of excitement lua wj
stirred up in the newspaper reports ay I
in th- ministerial circles of the Sum)
it has amounted to quite a sensation tj
say the least of it.
Habitual Oostiveness
Cannes derangement of the entira mh,
and beget# diacaaes that are tuuardou*toH?
Peraona of costive habit are auMent t. ?
o'- 'muiuuuuuouotnlltV
Peraona of ooatlve habit are auMeet to IW
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nnflts tho aaflferer for baalneaa or urtnS
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Has always on hand
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Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should al
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Important.
Individuals ami clubs wishing to
avail themselves of wholesale prices on
high grade fertilizer and Acid Phos
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confer with ns as we sell the manufac
turers the justly celebrated. Moll’s (Jot-
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Come to see us or address,
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jl9-dlt w2m
Many Persons
Are broken down from overwork or household
Brown’s Iron Bitters
rebuilds the system, aids digestion, removes ex
cess of bile, and cures malaria. Get the genuine.
Has Received a Full Assortment of j
Toys, such as Dolls, Bedroom
Parlor, Kitchen, Toilet & Wash
Sets, Carriages, Drums,
Horns, Jumping Jacks, Clowns, Tnj
Carts aud Wagons, Drawing Slabs
Velocipedes, Decorated Cups
Saucers and Mugs.
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-FOR-
.COTTON GINS
A Chance to Hake Honoy.
Mb. Editor :—I bought one of Grif
fith’s machines for plating with gold,
silver or nickel, and it works to perfec
tion. No sooner did people hear of it
than I had more s]>oons, knives, forks
and jewelry than I could plate in a
month. The first week I cleared $31.30
the first month $107.85 cash and I think
bv July first I will have $1,000 cash and
give my farm considerable attention
too. My daughter made $27.40 in four
days. Any person can get one of these
machines by sonding $3 to W. H. Grif-
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r circulars by addressing them. You
can learn to use the machine in one
hour. As this is ray first lucky streak,
1 give my experience, hoping others
may be benefited as much as I have
been. Yours truly,
M. O. MORE HEAD,
Richmond, Ind.
Mr. H, C. Clarke, of this city, Sots $30,000
from the Louisiana State Lottery.
“Is it actually trno that you have re
ceived a part of the capital prize iu the
last drawing of the Louisiana State
Lottery?” asked a reporter for tho
Star-Sayings or Mr. H. C. Clarke, a
young lithographer employed at Au
gust Gast’s and residing at No. 712 N.
Compton avenue. “Yes,” said he, I
have received $30,000 in cash. The
money was paid to me by the Conti
nental Nat. Bank, of St. Louis, is now
in nty possession, and a pari of it will
go into an elegant little home for my
self and my family. My ticket was
number 03.”—St. Louis (Mo) Star-
Sayings, Nov. 25.
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Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, m
Staffs, Glass, and Patty.
Frc:h supply of Landrotli’S GARDEN
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We mako a specialty in preparing tiie-e go*"
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Ben Franklin or some other “Irishman” was authority for this state*
ment, and very true it is. To fatten an animal, give him good, rich, whole
some food in sufficient quantities. To rfiise a boy to be a stout healthy
man give him a plenty of good substantial diet that is suited to his cob- j
stitutioB, and to raise a good healthy stalk of cotton, or grain that wojl
produce large returns, feed your land with Fertilizers that, are compos^ •
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Magnolia Aoid,
x*«
<3- 33L» !Dls. Bones,
Matchless Cotton Q-row*
Morryman’s Am. Bis. Bonos-
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Yours, Truly,
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satr Fw prices, SC., caSl on W. V. Otr, At Webb a vrawford’*, im ilf“WWf
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