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VOL 1 —NO. 10. L
Finaneieriaf in Veergia.
Four or five of us were waiting on
a hotel veranda in a Georgia town
for the ’bus to drive up and take us
to the depot, says the New York
Sun, when a colored man came along
dragging after him about the mean
est-looking dog you ever saw*.
“What are you going to do with
him?” asked one of the group.
“Kill him, sah!”
“But why?”
“No good, sah.”
“Then soil him.”
“Can’t do it.”
“Then give him away.”
“Nobody would dun take him.”
“I’ll take him. Bring him right
up here.” ... —-
“You is foolin’ saR”
“No, I ain’t. Here, give him to
me, and here’s a quarter for you.”
He tied the dog to a chair and ran
over to a hardware store and bought
a collar. Then he went to a dry
goods store and got a half yard of
blue ribbon, and in ten minutes the
dog was blanketed up and bowed up
until he did look fancy. He was
taken to the depot in a ’bus. and we
had scarcely arrived when a white
man, who sat on a box whitling, came
forward and said:
“What ye got thar, stranger?”
“Chinese fox hound,” replied our
friend.
“Shoo! Never saw one before.”
“This is the only one in this coun
try.”
“Cost a heap.”
“Given to me by the Chinese con
sul at Washington, but I wished he
had him back. He’s so wild after
game that he bothers the life out of
xne.
“Is he all right for this climate? ’
“O, yes.”
“Good-natured?”
“A perfect baby.”
■“How much’ll buy him?”
“Well —urn! I never set any value
on him. He’s a present, and I sup
pose I ought to keep him, but as he
is a fox dog and this is a fox coun
try, some good man around here
ought to have him.”
“Will you take $20?”
“Um! Make it $25.”
“Can’t do it. J ust got two tens
here for the dog as he stands.”
“Well, I suppose you’ll use him
■well, and it will be better for the
dog.”
We rolled away on the train as the
purchaser headed for home with his
dog. None of us could say a "word
for a long, long time. It was the sell
er .who finally spoke, and he said.
“Gentleman, think it over, and be
ready to name your drink when we
reach Atlanta.”
The Little Boss.
Mrs. H. J. Langdon of Weraville,
Cal., the only woman mail contrac
tor in the United States, is in Wash
ington, and has considerable business
with the postoffice department. She
is known to all the stage drivers and
mail carriers in the west as “The Lit-
tie Boss.”
She tells a reporter how she came
to be a mail contractor: “It happened
rather strangely. My first husband
had been a large contractor, and I
was familiar with his business affairs.
A.t his death he left a will bequeath
ing me twenty-five unexpired mail
contracts, and left me sole executrix
of the will. lat once assumed con
trol, and after they expired I began
to bid on my own account, and was
successful in obtaining contracts.
“It is now nearly twelve years
since Ihegan to work for myself, and
now that I am married again, I have
to bid in my husband’s name. I am
the only woman who carries the
Wells-Fargo express, and from July
1 to the time the snow shut in we
carried SIOO,OOO in gold dast. We
have nineteen agents under our, con
trol. At present the longest route
we have is 115 miles, from Wera
ville to Susanville, and 250 miles, or
ona-quarter of all the contracts, is
under my personal supervision.”
“Black Bart” made his maiden ef
fort at stage robbing on one of her
routes.
THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE.
SHE HAD HUSBANDS GALORE.
The Marriage Trick- Played by an
Englishwoman.
Paris, April 6.—A woman who
has actually gone through the mar
riage service with forty-three men
and swindled all but one of them
within three hours after the ceremony
is the latest product of the Parisian
police. Six years ago Eveline Leal,
a handsome young English girl, mar
ried a Frenchman. With in a month of
the wedding he died, leaving her
with no money and plenty of debts.
To “square” herself with society
Eveline resorted to what is known in
police lingo as the “marriage trick.”
Her method of proy^UF^. was sim
piSand ingenious. She advertised
stating that a widow possessing 1,-
200,000 francs wished to marry a
gentleman in good circumstances,
belonging to the nobility or to the
high commercial class.
Answers were to be sent to the
postoffice. Her accomplice, who oc
cupied the position of companion,
seems to have had the opportunity
of choosing the victims from among
the applicants. At any rate, the
suitor was never admitted into Ev
elin’s presence unless his personal
appearance was in his favor, and then
he was granted a rendezvous either
in a sumptuous apartment on the
Champs Elysees or at one of the best
hotels.
Naturally Eveline took a different
name for ever> r occasion. For some
suitors for hand and fortune she call
ed herself Mme. Ferbank, Mme.
Rappy, Mme. Decomay and Mme.
Burnelly. She always began by
making some objection to an imme
diate marriage. Sometimes assum
ing the character of an ingenuous
miss, she said her mother considered
that she was too young for marriage,
and that the applicant must wait
awhile. On other occasions the for
tune or social position of the suitor
was not what she desired, but in the
end she always allowed herself to be
captivated with these personal quali
ties of the would-be husbands. She
often managed things so cleverly
that she received rich presents from
her suitor, and after getting as much
as she could, suddenly disappeared.
In several cases she considered it
better policy to seture possession of
the wedding gifts by agreeing to a
marriage ceremony. For this she
invariably crossed the Channel, ex
pressing a preference for the wedding
to take place in England. After the
clergyman had in all good faith pro
nounced the nuptial benediction she
turned with her victim to the hotel,
but always managed to disappear
before night, never, however, leaving
the wedding gifts behind her.
Eveline victimized 32 presumably
intelligent men in this way before she
fell into the hands of the Paris police
in the autumn of 1887. She was sent
to jail for two years, obtained an ear
ly release for her good conduct, re
sorted to her old tricks and victim
ized ten lovers more without detec
tion. The swindled ones were too
much ashamed to inform the police;
but her forty-third victim gave the
police information which lead to Ev
eline’s second arrest on Good Friday
at the hotel Maurice, Rue Rivoli.
Her dupe this time was a French
viscount who had ruined himself gam
bling, and was anxious to regild his
armorial bearings with the 1,200,000
francs of the charming widow. It
would even seem as if he were really
in love with the adventuress, for he
journeyed with her and a companion
(a Mrs. Caba), believed to hail from
New Orleans.
They traveled in England, Bel
gium and Norway, the viscount pay
ing all expenses by borrowing money
right and left on his expectations.
He made Evetine rich presents
wherever they went. At last back
in Paris, the viscount insisted upon
having a day fixed for the wedding,
but to no avail. Miss Reynolds—
that was the last name she had as
sumed —was inexorable. He must
wait. The fact awakened the sus
prisions of the viscount, who laid the
case before M. Goron, chief of detec
tives. When the officers presented
themselves at the hotel Maurice Eve-
FORT GAINES. GEORGIA, FRIDAY APRIL 10. 1891.
line was greatly astonished, but fol
lowed them' bravely to the police
station. As for her companion, Mrs.
Gaba, she was absent from the hotel
when Eveline was arrested, and has
not been seen there since. This time
fair Eveline will probably get a sen
tence that will probably put her out
of harm’s way for many years.
She is the child of a well-to-do
farmer in Shropshire, the fer
tility of whose acres made it an easy
matter to provide handsomely for his
family, composed of one daughter
and two sons.
Eveline, like many others in the
same position, being the pet of the
father and brothers and fairly good
looking, soon learned to command,
and grew up in the belief that man
kind was created to do her homage
and minister to her wishes.
Story of Spanish Jewels.
The First National Bank of Pitts
ton has made public two long letters
received from a priest in Spain with
reference to a treasure buried in Lu
zerne county. Signor Mateo, the
letter says, was one of the favorite
courtiers of Alphonso de Bourben,
who was crowned King of Spain,
as Alphonsjo XII. Queen Christina
became intensely jealous of Mateo on
account of the king’s great devotion
to the ladies, believing he was instru
mental in the alienation of the king’s
affection from her.
Nov. 22, 1889, the king lay on his
death bed and summoned Mateo to
his side and instructed him to go on
an important mission to Paris with a
casket of jewels. For this service
Mateo received 1,000,000 francs,
which he put in a box with his own
jewels, amounting to nearly as much
more. He accomplished his mis
sion.
On the death of the king an order
was issued by the ambassador of
Spain at Paris for the arrest of Mateo
on the charge of having stolen a cas
ket containing 1,000,000 francs from
the royal palace at Madrid during
the king’s illness. He eluded the
officers, sailed for America, and re
ceived a latter from his wife which
told him to bury the treasure. His
wife becoming very sick he returned
to Europe and found her dead. He
was arrested in Spain and thrown
into prison. While in prison he drew
plans of the place where he had bur
ied his treasure in America and
placed them in a satchel, which was
afterward taken by the tribunal, but
was not disturbed, as the government
had no knowledge of its contents.
Mateo while in prison confided all
these facts to the priest, who wrote to
the bank at Pittston. The priest be
lieves, from conversation with Mateo,
that the treasure was buried in Lu
zerne county. Mateo died in prison
soon after making his disclosures.
The priest writes to the Pittston Na
tional Bank, which is in Luzerne
county, making an offer to give one
fourth of the treasure to pay the
costs of a suit which may be necessa
ry to prove the ownership of the bur
ied treasure.
The priest also sends a document
bearing the seals and signatures of
Spanish court in Madrid certifying
that a delay of four months has been
allowed the priest in which to secure
the money and redeem the casket of
jewels. The Spanish government is
willing to dismiss a suit which is
pending against the dead man’s es
tate if the costs are paid and the jew
els returned. Mateo’s own jewels
and money, which were also buried
with the treasure from the palace,
will belong to the finder.
Ton Must Not Smoke.
Quite a sensation occurred on the
Georgia railroad accommodation Sat
urday night.
It was brought about by reason of
Mr. J. R. Floyd, a young white man,
passing through what is known as the
colored people’s car with a cigar in
his mouth. Mt. Floyd had either
started from the smoking car, which
adjoins the baggage car, into the
back cars, or else he had intended go
ing from the back cars into the smok
ing car. As Mr. Floyd was in the
attitude of passing through the negro
coach one of the passengers accosted
him and wanted an explanation as to
the reason why he should dare pass
through the car smoking. From all
that could be gathered, it seems that
it did not take Mr. Floyd long to ex
plain himself.
The negro attempted to put Mr.
Floyd out of the car, whereupon a
hand-to-hand combat ensued. Mr.
Floyd sustained a very slight injury
under one of his eyes, from which he
has not lost any sleep. Mr. Floyd
claims to have hit the negro three
times in the face, so it’s reasonable
to suppose that he must have peeled
the bark. Just as Mr. Floyd was
getting himself in position for a good
lick, Capt. Boyd, a worthy peace
maker, appeared upon the scene and
separated the two men.
A HARD CORNER.
The age of 30 is a hard corner for a wo
man to turn, and 35 is still harder. She
feels that she is fast leaving her youth be
hind her. But there is no reason why a
woman should be faded and passe at 35* or
even 45. The chief cause of the >'ar!y fad
ing of American women is found in the fact
that many oLthem suffer from some form of
female weakness or disease which robs the
face of its bloom, draws dark circles about
the eyes, brings early wrinkles and sallow
ness, and stamps the face and figure with
signs of ill-health. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription will cure all these troubles,
will bring back the lost bloom, and remove
the pains and ailments which made women
grow old before their time. Guaranteed to
give satisfaction in every case, or price(sl)
refunded.
The visitor from Hawcreek, says
the Chicago Tribune, had been in
vited to address the Sun lay school.
“I am reminded, children he,” he
said, “of the career of a boy who was
once no larger than some of the little
fellows I see here, before me. He
played truant when he was sent to
school, went fishing every Sunday,
ran away from home when he was 10
years old, learned to drink, smoke,
and chew tobacco, play cards and
slip in under the canvass when the
circus came around. He went into
bad company? frequented livery sta
bles and barrooms, finally became a
a pickpocket, then a forger, then a
horse thief and one day, in a fit of
drunken madness, he committed a
cowardly murder. Children,” he
continued, impressively, “where do
you think that boy is now?” “He
stands before us!” guessed the chil
dren, with one voic.
Consumption Cured.
An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formular of a simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and per
manent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis,
Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Lung
affections, also a positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Com
plaints, after having tested its wonderful
curative powers in thousands of cases, has
felt it his duty ro make it known to his
suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and a desire to relieve human suffering, I
will send free of charge, to all who desire
it, this recipe, in German, French or Eng
lisg with full directions for preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addressing with
stamp, naming this paper. W. A. Noyes,
820Powers’ Block, Rochester, N. Y.
A preacher at Kinderhook, N. Y.,
has been in the habit of saying
“Gosh hang it!” and “By gum!” but
his case has been investigated and it
has been decided that he must quit
right off and not "even exclaim “Oh
sugar!” when he steps into a post
hole full of water.
In the last ten years no less than
sixteen different patents have been is
sued on umbrellas, and yet none of
them have been accepted by maker
or buyer, because the umbrella as it
is, is good enough and can’t be made
any better. It is like old wine,
Pleasant Plains, Ala., )
January 29, 1891. f
I and my family suffered with La
Hrippe for several weeks before we
tried Johnson’s Tonic, but when
we did we found speedy relief.
Have not had a bottle returned or
complainedfof. Yours truly,
S. TEMPLE.
A school is to be opened in New
York to instruct people how tg, carry
an*umbrella so as to protect the toes
and coat-tails at the same time. One
has only to keep his eyes open on a
rainy day to realize that only one
person in twenty, man or woman, un
derstands the “art.’’
Dyspepsia, distress after eating. sour
stomach, loss of appetite, a faint, all-gone
feeling, bad taste, coated tongue, heartburn,
all relieved and cured by P. P. P. (Pricklv
Ash, Poke Root and Potassium). It will
regulate the system, gives an appetite and
makes you well.
SOMETHING ABOUT TURTLE
Farming—2o,ooo Terrapins in One
“Patchs
All the city restaurants of any
pretensions regularly announce terra
pin soup on the bills of fare. Inas
much as diamondback terrapin cost
from S4O to S6O a dozen it would be
supposed that the restaurant keepers
were particularly solicitous to tickle
the palates of their patrons. In point
of the fact there arc few places even
in the largest cities where the gen
uine article is served.
There are several amphibians that
ariswer the purpose of making “ter
rapin soup” besides the expensive
diamondbacks. There are the strip
ed-head turtles of the Gulf of Mexico,
living in fresh water and weighing as
high as 50 pounds; there is the soft
shell turtle, also living in fresh water
and regarded as very fine in flavoi
when properly served, also weighing
as much as 60 pounds; and the enor
mous sea turtle or loggerhead, which
are abundand in the Florida latidude
and weigh several hundred pounds
each.
All these do duty as “terrapin
soup.” But the genuine diamond
back is a smaller animal, weighing
scarcely four pounds. The connois
seur never is deceived by a substitute
for the diamond back, for he has
made his history a study and can
give many interesting points about
the little animal. He knows all
about how the diamondback is culti
vated and where he comes from.
Many of them, the rarest of all in
flavor, are found for the fishermen
long the beaches of Long Island’s
numerous coves. Old superanuated
fishermen, too rheumatic to go to sea
and work the trawls, bunt for the
diamondbacks along the shore. If
they find them in summer they build
little pens partly on land and partly
in water, where the terrapin are kept
for the winter market.
But the bulk of the supply come
from terrapin farms on the shore of
the Gulf of Mexico. In common with
other kinds of the turtle family the
terrapin propagate by making a hole
in the sand with their feet and de
positing their eggs therein; then they
fill up the hole and Leave the eggs to
be hatched by the sun.
There are three or four terrapin
farms in the United States, but the
largest is said to be located at Cedar
Point, Ala., thirty miles from .the
city of Mobile. There are 20,000
diamondbacks on this farm, in size
from four ounces to four pounds. The
farm consists of several acres sur
rounded by a board fence. There
are ditches filled with water through
out the farm and embankments
throws up covered with fine shells
and sand on which the terrapin sun
themselves.
The rising tide freshens the water
in these little canals continually.
The farm is stocked by hunters who,
with trained dogs, scour the reedy
shores of the Gulf in May, June and
July, when the terrapin crawl far up
on land to lay their eggs.
Crabs and fish are fed to the little
*
captives on the farm. The crabs
and fish are cut into small pieces and
distributed in the canals. The noise
of cutting up their food is a pleasant
sound to the terrapin, and when they
hear it 4,000 or 5,000 heads immedi
ately peep above the water and make
toward the feeder. Thousands of
hese terrapin are shipped to North
ern cities during the season, which
lasts from October to Mav.
»■■<■> —
B. B. King, Adrian, S. C., 3ay« “John
son’s Tonic beats the worlifor La Grippe.”
Sold under a guarantee to cure for 50 cents.
Farmers, don’t chant your own re*
quiem through a guano horn this
spring. Make your fertilizers at
home and keep out of the debt.
Georgia is ready for war. She has
more colonels than it would take to
supply a dozen armies, and majors
and captains ad lib.
T. T. Shuptrine & Bro., wholesale and re
tail druggists, Savannah. Ga., say. “We
have sold lot -of Jchnson’s Tonic for La
Grippe, and hear nothing but favorable re
ports.”
i SI.OO A YEAR
It Co’t Be Bone.
Ail this last winter the occupant
of an office in the Buhl block has had
a sign on his door reading: ’•Pleaw
shut this door.” Naturally enough,
fifteen'out of every twmtv people
have gone out and left the tb-vt open
behind them. Yesterday, iu< ited bv
the seeming advent of spring, he re
moved the sign, and substituted one
reading. “Please leave th* door
open.” He had scarcely got saated
at his table after tacking up the sign
when a man entered and inquired:
“Are you sure of the date when
Christopher Columbus discovered
America ?”
“It was 1492, if the books are
right.”
“Thanks! Ah' been putting up a
new sign, eh? Good idea. Weil. «o
long.”
And he went out and carefully
closed the door behind him, and even
tried it after it was closed, to make
sure.
The office man hadn't a word tn
say- He simply walked over and
tore the sign down and pitched it in
to the alley.
Special Notice.
Office of Cai.dwejj. < ommismon
Co., Chicago, 111., Jan. 21, IR9O.
A. B. Girardeau, Savannah, -a.:
Dear Sir: My son, a man of 3ft
years, was attacked with La Grippe
and, believing it be of malarial or
ig.n, took your Johnson’s Tonie m
directed for chills and fever. The
result was he escaped the lev»r
which follows the severe aching,
and was able to bo at work the
second day. 1 was taken with the
disease. Every’ bone in me began
'to ache, and my suffering was
great. I was compelled to go
home and to bod. I fully expect
cd to be there a week. My eon
told mo of his experience, and
urged mo to take Johnson’s Chill
and Fever Tonic. I did so, look tl
with regularity and through the
night, and was agreeably aurpriaad
to see that no fever came. I con
tinued until I haa eight doses—
felt weak and exhausted, but no
fever, and aching disappeared.
Next morning I had a good appe
tite for my breakfast, felt quite
well, and went to my business a 5
well as I ever was. Since then I
have tried it with like result* on
two other cases. Yours truly,
W W. Caldwell,
President and Manager.
La Grippe corresponds very
nearly with our Biokon Boh* re
ver or Dergue Fever. Johnson a
Chill and Fever Tonic is a specific
for any malarial trouble, hence it
cures La Grippe.
For sale by all druggists, and
50 cent bottle guaranteed to cure
in every instance, or money refund
ded.
The editor of The Week, a piper
published in the Indian Territory, re
fused to insert a death noth e free,
and the man who brought it in pulled
his gun and poj ped th** editor over
with the remark. “All right! I'll
give yon a chance to put in one for
yourself for nothing!” lie will, how
ever, hang.
Farmer Little, of Ohio, li«gan
sneezing the other day and couldn’t
stop, nor could the doctors do any
thing for him. The hired man hauled
off and hit hio. on the proboscis and
the sneezing disappeared as the blood
came, The sneezer was grateful, of
cdurse, but he is going to li k the
hired man some day this spring.
The pardon, in Tennessee, of tha
father of triplets, who was found with
a pistol on his person, i* generally
approved. The father of triplet*
does right to carry a deadly weapon.
Somebody might try to steal those
babies and distribute them.
Texas is to have the largest soap
manufactory in the world. This en
terprise should be discouraged. A
Northern man going into Tew
might any moment be stabbed with a
bar of soap.
As the gold of Ualifonua has beea
worked out, what is the t’aiiforniaa
to do, if he is not to go to the Leg is
lature and sell his vote for $2,00^?
Must he go to raising "renins’
The enemies of Texas have called
the State “hell;” but it appears tn
a hell that is not quite romforlaMa
for the money Berik