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THE iil(i COAT IN THE CLOSET.
,Y. E. Freemason.
The lodge of Freemasons nt Woodstown.
finding their Lodge-room growing more and
more dingy and dusty, determined that it
should be cleaned and renovated as fur as
soap and water could do it. The job must,
of course, be put into feminine hands, and
it was voted to employ Mrs. K., the village
charwoman.
The door-keeper, well aware that Mrs.
K. was one of the independent investiga
tors. who like to see ana judge for them
selves, went early the next morning, bor
rowed without leave a neighbor's billy
goat, and notwithstanding some vigorous
protests on the part of the animal, convey
ed him up stairs, placed him in a closet
opening out of the Lodge-room, and secured
him by turning the button, but without
locking the door, put the key in his pocket.
Then, with a face as serious as if lie had
just heard of the robbery of a bank where
bis aunt, of whom he had groat expecta
tions. kept her trunk, he wended his wav
to the dwelling of Mrs. K., and requested
her to come to the Lodge-room immediate
ly after breakfast, that he might give her
the necessary directions.
An hour later the woman put in an ap
pearance, “armed and equipped” with
broom, brushes, pail, tub, etc. She found
the custodian of the premises awaiting her
arrival.
“ Now ma’am,” said he, “ T'll tell you
what we want done, and how we came to
employ you, The Brethren said it was
difficult to get anybody to do the job and
not meddle with the secrets in that little
closet; wo have lost the key, and so can
not lock the door. But 1 assured them
that you could be depended on.”
“ Depended on? I guess I can. My poor,
dear, dead-aiul-gone husband belonged to
the Freemasons, or Anti-Masons, 1 don't
know which, lie let me into all secrets of
the concern, and showed me all the marks
the heated gridiron made when he joined,
and told 1110 how they fixed poor Morgan;
and sure as 1 live I never mentioned a
word about it to a single soul to this day.
If nobody troubles your closet to find out
your secrets till I do, they'll lay there and
rot—they will.”
“ Yes, I thought we couldn't do better
than give you the job. Now I want you
to commence in the corner, and give the
whole room a thorough cleaning, and re
member, I have pledged my word and hon
or for your fidelity. Don't go into that
closet .” With this parting injunction em
phatically uttered, lie left Mrs. K. to her
task. The village of Woodstown was
small, and centered about the post-office,
store and meeting-house. Mrs. K. did not
see that the sober-faced door-keeper just
stepped into the post-office on the first
floor of the same building, and awaited the
result. She only listened till she was suro
he had descended the last stair, then turn
ed to gaze at the prohibited door.
“Don'tgointo that closet!” she repeat
ed, in p utitpc whisper ; “ 1’" thorp
is a gridiron there, or some nonsense just
like the Anti-Masons. '1 will just take one
peep ; who’ll bo fhe wiser? 1 can keep a se
cret. Besides teat loset will be on my
mind till l see what’s in it, and I never
could work worth a cent when there’s any
thing on my mind.”
Stealthily on tip-toc, she approached the
closet, turned the button, the door swung
open, and—bah! Billy, aroused from his
nap by the sudden flood of light, making
a spring to regain his liberty, almost upset
her ladyship. Both started for the door,
which alas was barricaded with house
cleaning paraphernalia. The momentum
of the charging party was not to be retard
ed bv such slight obstacles and all went
down the stairs in one avalanche.
The crash brought to the spot half the
people of the village, headed by the sad
eyed door-keeper. He released the goat
first, a cripple for life; then he assisted the
charwoman to arise from under a pile of
tubs, pails, brooms, brushes, etc. No
bones were broken, and strangely enough,
she was but slightly bruised externally;
lier injuries were nearly all internal, her
feelings were terribly lacerated.
" Have you been taking degrees ma'am?"
inquired the sympathetic custodian of Free
masons' secrets.
“ Taking degrees ! If you call tumbling
from the top to the bottom of the stairs,
with the devil after ye, taking things by
degrees, l have; and if ye frighten folks
as ye have me, and hurt them to boot, I'll
warrant they’ll make as much noise as I
have."
There hadn't been a more wrathy wo
man in Woodstown for many a day.
“ I hope you did not open the closet ?’’
said the imperturbable door-keeper.
"Open the closet? Eve ate the npple
when she was told not to. If you want a
woman to do anything, tell he not to, and
she’ll do it certain ! Open thecloset ? You
said the secrets were there, and of course 1
wanted to know 'em. 1 just unfastened
the door, and out popped the critter right
in mv face. I thought the devil had me,
and 1 made for the stairs the devil butting
me at every jump. 1 guess I’ll go home,”
she added ; "you may get somebody else
to clean up your old room.”
“ Hut ma'am you are in possession of
the great secret of the Order, and must go
up and be initiated and sworn in, in thcreg
ufar way,” remonstrated the door-keeper.
" Regular way? Regular way, indeed!
You don't suppose I am going near that
place again, to ride that critter without a
saddle or bridle? No, never ! No ! never!
I’ll never go nigh that place again nor your
hall neither ; and if I can prevent it, no
lady shall ever join the Freemasons. Why,
I’d sooner be a Maltesian, and be broiled
on a gridiron as long as a tire could be kept
under it, and be pulled from garret to cel
lar, with a halter around my neck, just as
my poor, dear husband was. He lived
through it, but l never could live through
Such another ride as 1 took to-day.”
We would remind our lady readers that
the "Brother” to whom Mrs. K. owed
her sad experience is not to be taken as a
representative Mason. A good Mason is
always the champion of the fair sex “gen
tle or simple.”
MlnrcllnneoitN linns.
Tn a western town, in answer to a call
for a speech, as the train was moving off
from a dinner station, Grant said : “ I like
your gravy.”
“Oh, I’ve loved before?” said a Detroit
woman to her fourth husband, as she took
handfuls of hair from his head because he
objected to hang out the week's washing.
Revenue Agent Clark sent a squad of
deputy collectors to Rockdale countv. in
the First district, and captured six illicit
distilleries and four hundred gallons of
crooked whiskey.
The blackberry crop in Whitfield county
will tie almost an entire failure, much to
the disgust of tramps and lazy freedmen
who have placed their hopes of getting
safely through the summer on that crop.
“ I say, Paddy, that is the worst-looking
horse you drive 1 ever saw. Why don’t you
fatten him up?” “ Fat him up, is it? Faix.
the poor beast can hardly carry the little
mate that’s on him now,” replied Paddy.
The twenty-seventh Senatorial District
has made the following nominations for the
Constitutional Convention: Clarke, Rope
Barrow ; Oconee, Andrew Jackson; Wal
ton, T. A. Gibbs ; Newton. S. M.Tace and
0. S. Porter; Rockdale, E. B. Rosser.
An Irishman newly arrived and a mem
ber of the O’Regan family, was heard to
exclaim ns the steamer Oregon was pass
ing : “ ()-r-e-g-o-n ! O’Regan—he jahers !
only four weeks in Amcriky and a steam
boat called by my name.”
“If I was a horse now,” mused a big
boy as he struggled up a Detroit street,
“ T’d be stabled, rubbed down and fed;
but I’m a boy and I’ve got to go home,
clean off snow, bring in wood, tote water
and rock the confounded old baby for an
hour or two.”
Creditor. —Didn’t you promise to nay
me that bill when you got back from Bos
ton?” Debtor—“ Well, you promised to
wait till I got back from there didn’t you !”
Creditor —“ Yes, I did.” Debtor —“ Well,
that’s where I’ve got you, for 1 han’t been
to Boston yet.”
“ Father.” said a boy, w r ho got kicked
in the face by a mule that he was annoy
ing, “will I ever be as good looking as I
was?” “ No, my son,” answered the pa
rent, “ T don’t think you'll be as handsome
as you were, but you’ll know a great deal
more.”
A fashionable young mail lately present
ed his sweetheart with a string of pearls.
As she hung them joyonsly on her neck a
cloud came over her brow, and she cried,
* Beloved, do not pearls betoken tears?’
‘ Nary a tear,’ w r as the response ; them’s
imitation.’
An Englishwoman, who was bornwith
out arms, has just had twins. She wears
her wedding ring on her toe, and does all
the housework with her feet with a dex
terity that is .surprising. How she will
imvnnvo to nurse her twin babies is a prob
lem yet to- be...solved.
A little girl asked ftvuvwmAer f What
kind of a bear is a consecrated cross eyed
bear?” The mother replied that she had
never heard of such an animal. The child
insisted that they sang about it at the Sun
day school. “No,” said the mother, “it
is “A consecrated cross T bear.”
A Milwaukee girl, while out walking
lately, lost one of her shoes on the railroad
track. Half an hour later a freight train
ran into it and wrecked sixteen of the cars,
knocked the end out of the engine boilers
and killed two hundred head of cattle.
And of such is the kingdom of heaven.
The vote on the legislative amendment
to the constitution respecting the fraudu
lent bonds, as far as the counties have been
officially heard from, stands : For ratifica
tion 18,469; against ratification, 170. There
are yet to be heard from twenty-eight
counties. According to this proportion,
the whole vote will not probably exceed
twenty-five thousand.
Mr. lla) r es, in an interview with an Ohio
editor, which has been given to the public,
thinks that the Republicans will lose Ohio
this fall, and that w ithin two years they
will gain South Carolina, with Wade Hamp
ton as the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, and that Louisiana will also w r heel
in line. Mr Hayes can see as far into a
millstone as any other man.
We are pained to learn tliat while Rev.
E. F. Anderson and wife, of Oconee
county, were in this city on Saturday last,
a little son, whom they had left at home,
while playing, was attacked by a ram goat,
which butted him in the temple, from the
effects of which he died in a short time.
We deeply sympathize with the afflicted
parents in this sad bereavement. —Athens
Watchman. 1 nth inst.
A Parisian manufacturer has received an
order, from Turkey for a large number of
white shirts upon which extracts from the
Koran arc to oe printed in sky blue letters.
Upon a number of white woolen under
shirts is to be stamped the signature of
Mohammed. The articles are intended for
distribution to Turkish soldiers when upon
especially dangerous duty, to stimulate
their courage under the impression that
they are talismans.
“ The baby has got anew tooth, but the
old lady is laid up with a cold in the head,”
remarked a gentleman yesterday afternoon
to a defeated candidate. “ What the —do
I care ?” was the reply. “ Well,” said the
gentleman slowly, before the election, you
used to take me to one side and ask me
how my family was coming on. and 1 have
been hunting you all over town to tell you,
and that's the way you talk to me. But
it don’t make any difference, I voted for
the other candidate anyhow.
DISSOLUTION.
TIIE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existing be
tween the undersigned, under the tirni name
and style of PEEK, STEPHENSON & CO., wan dis
solved, hy mutual consent, on the 2d day of April,
1877. The books are in the hands of \V. It. Stephen
son, and all persons indebted to the late firm are re
quested to make settlement at once, either by cash or
note. JOHN PEEK.
WM. R. STEPHENSON.
36 39 THOS. H. ROBERTS.
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Hart County Directory.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary —Fred. 0. Stephen Hon.
Clerk Superior Court —C. A. Webb.
Sheriff- —J. Robert Myers,
Tax Receiver —J. M. Thornton.
Tax Collector —James L. Johnson,
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Surveyor —Allen S. Turner,
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Councilmen —E. B. Benson. James W. Williams.
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Hart County Religious Directory.
METHODIST.
Rev. XV. P. Smith, Pastor.
Bethesda —lst Sabbath and Saturday before.
Hartwell —2nd “ “ “ •'
Mt. Zion —2nd “ at 4 p. m.
Gokesbury —3rd Sabbath, and Saturday before,
Providence —4th “ “ “ “
Rev. John Quii.uan. Pastor.
Fellowship —lst Saturday and Sunday.
Center —2nd “ ‘ “ “
Redwine —3d “ “ “
Macedonia —4th “ “ “
Pennington's Chapel —2d Sunday at 3 p. m.
Newtown —3d Sunday at 3 1-2 p. m.
Samuel Gilliland's —4tli Sunday at 3 1-2 p. m.
BAPTIST.
Rev. H. M. Barton, raster.
Hartwell —4th Sabbath and Saturday before.
Shoal Creek —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, mo’ly.
Rev. J. T. AY. Vernon, Pastor.
Milltoicn —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly.
Rev. L. W. Stephens, Pastor.
Hendry's —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly.
Rev. James H. McMullen, Pastor.
Line. —3rd Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly.
Reed Creek —4th “ “ “ “
Sardis —lst “ “ “ “
Rev. I. H. Goss, Pastor.
Cross Roads —4th Sabbath anil Saturday before.
Rev. John D. Adams, Pastor.
Cannon's —2d Sabbath and Saturday before, monthly.
Rev. J. R. Earle, Pastor.
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Pleasant Hill —-3rd Sabbath in each month.
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DISSOLUTION^
THE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existing be
tween the undersigned, under the firm name of
THE HARTWELL STEAM SAW MILL COM
PANY, is hereby dissolved by mutual consent by
the withdrawal of I). C. Alford, having disposed of
his interest to Dr. W. A. Skelton. The business
will be conducted as heretofore.
R. P. BRADLEY,
L. O. WILLIFORD,
May 1, 1877 D. C. ALFORD.
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