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the democrat. A live Weekly Paper oa Live Issues Published Every Friday Morning, at t'ravrfordville, Ga. W-L-SULLIVAN Proprietor RATSS OF SCBSVRTPTIOX: Single Copy, (one year,) . . . § 2 00 Single Single Copy, (sta months,) . . . 1 00 Copy, (three months,) . . . 50 and JOB Advertising PRINTING rates specialty. liberal. LOOK Prices a to suit the times. MISCELLANEOUS. she had ‘ arrow kept in her quiver. “Your son, Grantley goes aver the hill to the Burdock's prejty often, Mrs. Webb,” Raul she, i don t know it if he does,” replied the ° ‘Naturally ^ he wouldn’t ... X*. tell you until last, after old Burdock’s quarrelled with his father, ” said the neighbor—“but everybody else knows. It’s said to be a settled thing. ssjssst’j Why Keziah saw him r: kiss even motionless at the door. ’ It was some moments before she even thought of going in and casting herself into her chair, but she did it at last, and fell to t?. hemlt iU thiS Wi9e <. b it s worse than anything that ever happened to me. I’ve had trouble, heaven knows, hut it was the kind I had to bear sent it, hut this doesn’t seem right, My Grantley to marry Steven Burdock’s the child of the very worst enemy his father ever had, a girl brought up by woman I despise! Sarah Burdock never had the ways I liked, nor did the things I right for a woman to do. Every thing is so different with the Burdocks, so Like ought to marry like, or never be a happy home. But that’s way with men; a pretty face strikes and away they go, and Grantley is like rest. W liy should he choose iSarah Burdock’s daughter ?” She rocked to and fro as she spoke, letting neglected knitting drop into her lap. ‘I here’s fanny \\ bite,” she murmured, ( nice, thrifty girl; and Minnie Holm. her mother is the best friend I have. are plenty of girls I could have made my mind to; though I don’t know why should marry anyone yet. But Burdock, with her showy ways, and her and graces, 1 never can welcome her, never. I must go away and live by myself if she comes here to lord it over the ; and her mother, no doubt will come sit and talk in her foolish flighty way; the sisters will sit in the parlor win and take Up the table. They’ll be t iiw, at! make nobody ofme. kiiuw 1ub inu’rL 4 my (\ri\ntley ooils But it can’t he! It Just then a foot struck the floor of the the window raised a little, and tin*aperture came flying two let One a yellow, vulgar-looking missive, other a little white envelope with a upon it. The old lady looked up. The postman, who had thus easily deliver his letters, looked over her shoulder, and and nodded at her as ho hurried with his leather hag upon his arm, she put on her spectacles to read the The yellow envelope had only one of circulars with which tradesmen of all are in the habit of flooding the country, white one was not addressed to her, to bet son, and the monogram was a very pretty silver and blue A. B. “Ann Burdock,” said the old lady. “It’s a note from her. Now, 1 wonder what she written to my boy ? I’d like to know, It’s very easy opening these envelopes. as if they were sealed; and what harm would it he for a mother to read to a letter to her son ? I’ve half a mind to do it. Only he'd be angry, maybe. Well, then. I’m angry too, and with more Yes—I will.” A little old-fashioned copper kettle and bubbled upon the stove. A little spirit of steam arose from its spout, The old lady looked at it Then risimr she crept across the floor in a guilty sort of fashion and held the envelope with its flap close to the mouth of the spout. She held ft for a few moments, and then softly touched it with her thumb and finger. It was quite damp, and one fold peeled away from the other very easily, and there lay the little note in her hand. She might read it if she chose; if there were secrets in it, Miss Ann Burdock should have secured them better than she could with the little touch of mucilage the maker of those envelopes had bestowed on each one. Mrs. AYehb took off her glasses, wiped them from the steam that had gathered upon them, and still standing, opened tlie sheet of paper adorned with a monogram like that upon the envelope, and read as follows : “Dear GrantleyYou went away angry with me on Sunday evening, and said that if I would not take back what 1 had said you would never come to see me again. And 1 was ton proud and too angry to say a word to keep you. But Grantley dear, I’m sorry for it now. You were in the right, and I was to blame, and 1 take it all back—every word I never meant it. You are so downright you think one mean all one says, but indeed I never it. And so forgive me and come next Sunday night. I find that life be a very sad thing for me if we quarrelled. l ours forever, Ann. “So!” muttered Mrs. Webb, her teeth. “It has gone so far, then; -ne lias been showing her temper angering Grantley. Well, if he has enough to .stay away one week, h*? ii spirit enough to stay altogether, Then she gave an angry stamp. “Why do I comfort myself with that she said. “I know this letter will call back toner, and he’ii be more in Jove The Democrat Vol. 2. “She droped Ann Burdock’s letter upon the fire. There it lav, a black ■»,<! shrivelled fold of tinder, as her sons step sounded in the hall, and she covered it from sight with the kettle. In came Grantley, his face bright with ^ the outer cold, ®°Ming 5 0U rself on fire, mother ?” lie asked. “I smeli something scorching.” “It’s notroy dress,” she answered, and busied z&zz herself ssjzt*- with the teapot, and - •*** the bell for the tea-things. with an eager look in hU face. “No,” she answered faintly. “Bid you ' expect one?” “Not I,” said he, his brows contracting “ But 1 met t!,e P° stra!U1 the hill, m and he called out to me to hurry home and get my love letter. IBs joke, I suppose.” “It was impudent of him," said Mrs. Webb, not daring to meet her son's eye. “That’s a love-letter, is it ?” She tossed him the tradesman’s circular, He glanced at it and put it down, How sad he looked. What gray tints there were about his eyes and temples! How thinner he seemed than he did a a week week ,,r so ago! Was it all that quarrel with the Burdock’s girl ? Would it have been better that he should had that monogrammed note? The mother put the thought from her. She spread the little store of dainties be ----- Mre her sou and tried to make him eat; Ms ■Hid and tliouph though questions, slip she host had Lon*» been frightened j "by X she could not help ap proacliing the dangerous subject herself. “Are you going out to-night ?” she asked. “No," he answered : “I think not.” “The neighbors were telling me you went over the hill to the Burdock’s rath 1 often,” she went on. “Well, if I have, mother,” he answered, “that is no sign I shall go again.” “Well, there are better places than the Burdook’s” said Mrs. Webb, “and I thought you’d never think of a girl whose father quarrelled with yours, and may the evil temper of her mother. She's a flirt, toe, they say .* Then s\ie bonne,d qat of the r.li.l v\iaesrau6 «®im- wick >^-*uinu-y had gc. upstairs. She hoard the hoards of his bedroom iloor creak as he walked up and down for hours, but she did not sec him again that night. “Well well,” she said to herself, “lie’ll ITt over it. But whatever the feeling was, love anger, grief, it did not agree with Grantley Webb, lie grew thinner and thinner, lie took less interest in that which went on around him. lie. avoided all the other young people of tin; place, and seemed to have neither youth nor spirit left; Could it be all about that girl Ann, old Mrs. Webb asked herself, trying to cheat herself into the idea that the boy was only iff Butin vain she made him warm possets and howls of herb tea. Even if he had drunk them, which he did not, for they all went to water the grass of the orchard— even if he had drunk them, they would have done him no good. Only one thing could help him—the only tiling that seemed to him impossible as he sat at his window, staring through the starlit midnight at the roof of the Burdock dwelling, never guessing that under its eaves Ann Burdock sat, at once angry and sorry, thinking of him and none other. He had not answered her note : he was unfoigiving ; hut she had vexed him, She was partly to blame. T,le Mdy in the ruffled night-cap wl ‘° lrf ten started from her sleep i«i the big front bed-room of the Webb home with a dr ‘‘ am of |ptters Mat curled up into tinder over th « red coal—had more on her con science than she knew. Fot though Ann grieved she did not wear lu ' r ,lpart l, P on her sleeve, but was out¬ wardiy gayer than ever, and flirted as she never had before, until at last the same neighbor who had brought the news of " f Orantley’s love affair to his mother, 'Mopping into tea, gave Mrs. Webb and her son a !,it of Kossip as they sat at the table together. ‘‘Ann Burdock is going to be married at , “I believe weddings when I see them now,” said Mrs. Webb. “But Mrs. Burdock herself, told me tnis,” said the guest. When she was gone, Grantley, who sat before the tab)a still, with his elbows upon M dropped his head upon his arms, and there was a sound of quick breathing, For a little while his mother watched him. Then she. went close. “Grantley,” she said, to a trembling voice, “wliat is it? What ails you? Tell me!” “I’s only that I’m a fool, mother,” answered, “But—Grantley, what about! IIo up his young, worn far— then, and swered— “Mother, don’t you know? It’s Ann Burdock Its been very hard to ^ 1 ut ,l,i j £ <iots i... .f. ma ^ I r -' thin *">'<*«* Aft e worth having. “Life do^sn t a em worth having, if have Ann l r * the mother said, in puzzled sort of wav. “But why, what therejnher?” 1»’ Crawford ville, 25, truth iboit \ ,fn W let him know “Grmtlev dear-she falt«r«l ’ "vm, > ou “ vou v hada nuarrel “Yes,” he answered -But if she had written to beg vour pardon you’d have forgiven her ?” She almost hoped that he would say “No"—that she need not go on. But he answered— “Yes—but she never wrote.” "r sr It—it think you cared so. You ’see it—it fell into the fire.” “Why did you not tell me before?" cried Grantley. “Well, 1 somehow didn’t like to ” was all the mother could say. “And why don't you go ask her abo^it, and see what it was?” Poor Mrs. Webb, when her son, after many questions, had taken her advice, cried bitterly. She might have felt even worse had she heard what Aim was say Mg. The story had been told, a reconciliation effected, a declaration made to the effect that Mr. Millet had never been loved. And then Ann Burdock said, with a laugh— “But Grantley, your mother burnt that letter on purpose. Only a man could believe the story you’ve told me. She did n °l want me for a daughter-in-law. 1 owe her no grudge—remember that, and don't tell lioi* what X say ** Grantley never did. And old Mrs. Webb has often been heard to say that Ann Burdock lias turned out better than could have been expected. - •— Auction of Young Ladies. An interesting and novel experiment is to be tried soon in one of our churches, "'Mch is as original as it is successful in the purpose for which it was insti tuted. The object of the institution to ite treated of is to raise money for church purposes, and a more fruitful so .free of revenue, Httsssi* in connection with me K »t idea from some churches in some.of our Western cities. The modus operand! of the game, as it may be called, or auc tion, is about as follows : All the young ladies are mustered into the service, and are completely ,^ enveloped by the auction eer j n s i )et K0 as ji re vent their r l 8 ' hv hy mo means ms of or tneir their dresses uresscs. I Mar then pretty faces, like those of the lmklsli ladies, are completely veiled pillow-slip or something of that sort is drawn down over it. They are permitted to have eye holes to look through and mouth holes to breathe through, but nothing more So they have ‘ them dismiised ' entirely hevnnrl re " ... U ' T) H “ „ auctioneer ti 110 - ceeds to auction ( . them off as partners for the evening to the young men, and even to old men, if their wives will per mit them to bid. The bidding is almost sure to lie live¬ ly. At a recent Western auction of this kin d, the lowest price at which a young Mdy was auctioned off was one dollar and a half. The fun in the thing is the young men don’t know who they are bid ding for, and the unveiling of the rnaid e ns is looked forward to with great ex f. oectation The ‘ P cent has ' to 10 attend dUU ‘ U tn 1 '** , , , * ' U ™‘ 8 J , , to see her home at the close of the festi val.-i ittsburq Leader $50 for a Wife, and Credit at That. Baledonia county’s sensation is a wife-trade between Noble C. Smith, a United States whiskey detective, and Marcellus Colby. Some few years ago Noble took unto himseif a wife from \\ est J»urke. a comely lass, who in the absence of her liege lord, fell into the way of admiring Colby. Colby, being of a mercantile disposition, concluded to gain the woman of hi3 affection by diplomacy and trade, and soon a bargain was struck. Smith agreeing to take and accepting 810 in cash and a note duly signed and indorsed for 840, in consider at ion for the wife of his lxisom. Mrs. Smith consented, and bag and baggage were transferred to the domicile of Colby. The note matured, but was not paid, and discovering at the conclusion of a justice trial that the consideration was not a valid one, and that he not recover, tie determined to revenged, lie went before the Jury and complained against Colby adultery, suppressing the business of transaction. Colby was indicted, tried, and convicted, and on the nature of transaction being made known in State’s attorney determined prosecute Smith, but be is not to f oun( i .—.Jiutland Corresixjwlenee 0tott ~~7 _ ^ __ ~ President Bascom, of the .... of Wisconsin, comes out emphatically of the mixing of girls and boys ' ’toria Comparatively Poor. j“?srs=ras btato 4 Her nt ie, whatever it may be, has come were matEftthe fromjdie.ous Prince mvestmenta Consort. which Ho waS favesteV* * nio.rf^acious 1 directions business which man, have and yielded luc^we returns. You have uo idea what ^JP ststo up an es tablishmei H’Wheu Dr. Langley was Archbmt- mww entitled to j livings wife yield was nearly £200,000 per annum.and yet such was the pense of tl orchiepiscopal position he died it .penury; and were it not that the (.fen secured the admittance of his daug’-er to Hampton Court, she would bavuieen without a roof to her head. ThtUarquis of Bute has an income ftcj his estate of £500,000 a year, but ».auch of this has to go back to keep up ita estates that his actual net incoin-, less than a twelfth of this amount. ■» the case of tho Duke of Chatwort, X) servants sit down to his tables, ami hey in turn have each a ser vant to wf on them. The same thing prevails ewywherc, and applies to the Queen as. i all others.”—Cor. Cktca <jo Titnt> ' - T Take An Ex^j-iniental t\ empty Telephone. oyster cans and a stout smish string. Let a mnnll holo be made 4- the bottom of each can, through Gch tho string, can say fifty . hund feut or a '* in Mngth, is passed and securd. Then let the experiment¬ ers set Hi their talking telegraph by choosing Ktr’ched j nr station as far apart as tightly string will permit, and while one if tfie operators holds one of oars > one of the cans, and his coiiipanioj eudif hi* mouth to tiie can at the other the line, they will find that a cqpversfion can be carried on so that Mwrir aid even a whisper, will ho Hlatuir. • ^ceptilile. What usually astoj; vi who make this expert -.-«. "■«»»»«■* the person speaking at the other end of t lie string,' hut to issue from the can . . > .Held to me eat , or me k 'tener. 1 his at first appears to be a deception, but it is really so. Tlie ear tells the exact iiuth. J Jio voice oi the s l ,(, nker communicates sound producing vibrations to the walls of the win with which his voice is in immediate contact. These vibrations are cumniiinicatcd G>e string, but so changed that tiny no longer affect the ear. A person limy stand by the string while the sound is l ws 'Mig, and yet hoar nothing. At the °tM‘r end Vf the string, however, these bidden vibrated produce themselves as —.—■«*-. ----- I Battled. | Charles H. Smith, a Telegraph opera- ; of Munster, Illinois, was returning | New Year’s night from a party, walking along the railroad track, when on the middle of a trestle bridge twenty-five feet high, he was by an armed tramp, who forced him to throw up his hands and surrender Ids revolver, 800 in cash, a valuable gold watch and some jewelry. “Well, old boy,” said the highwayman in delight, “you are, pretty well heeled,” and lie ordered his victim to hand over his ulster, dress coat and vest As Smith took off his vest he watched an oppor¬ tunity, and with a desperate push hurled the robber from the trestle work upon the ice twenty-five feet below. Ilurry ing back for assistance, on bis return ) je found the highwayman lying sense less, seriously if not fatally wounded, ())1 the ice, with all Ills plunder, and the man was soon in jail, --- A romatic story is told at Cole-brook, Oonu., of a couple who were divorced in Ohio seventeen years ago, tho husband coming back to live with a sister in Connecticut, A few days ago the wife that was, learning of her husband’s whereabouts, came to Colebrook, drove up before his door, and sent in a note asking if he would receive her. lie respond ed by coming out to her with open arms, and they are now enjoying a second honeymoon. JJnrt/onl lirn'i. * ' A few days since Mr. W. Miller, of Uniontown, who keeps a pack of fifteen hounds, captured an earless wild hog in the mountains of Fayette county. The animal not oniv has no auriculat -d 1 ' pend ages, but no orifice in the head for the admission of sound. It has also but one eye, which, however, islarge enough for two, being nearly two inches in diameter. The animal weighs about one hundred and sixty pounds, and is ferocious as a bear.-Pittsburg Dispatch, __ ( _ _______ Ben You has made 8100,000 *,r» m cigar trade in Han Francisco and turned to China. Don’t you wish it Ben You? No. 4. Industrial. They raise vegetable tallow tn Aus v. milliner, The production of tea in India has reached million pounds recently, Reading car shops are overcrowded with work, the men working twelve hours a day. Mobile lias three times the population it luwl at the outbreak of the war. A florist on Fifth avenue has a sacred palm tree ovor five hnudrod years old. Three thousand sharks have been caught for premiums at Melbourne, The Western woolen trade is reported generally fair. Tuscaloosa, Ala., cotton mills are now regularly at work, Fort Bend, Texas, sugar crop runs two hogsheads to the acre, Owensboro will market 25,000,000 lbs. of tobacco this seasou. Shipbuilding is improving in the East, but coutiuues dull gu the Pacific coast. A Louisiana Sugar Planters’ Associa tion has recently been organized at Now Orleans, A Capital of 8500,000,000 is ropre sont«l by tho National Steamboat A»»o of tho United States. Georgia supports 99,415 cauines, who during the year ending April, 1875, destroyed 28,025 sheep. The acreage in wheat in East Tennea soe the coming season is exuectcd to excel any crop ever raised in that section of the Stato. Great Britain’s largest contribution to her revenue is Bass, tins brewer, who averages 85,000 for every working day in the year. Charleston shipped 20,170 bales of cot¬ ton last week. Sixty-six vessels were in Hie harbor last Sat urday. Duo ship for Havre took out 805,088 pounds of cotton Tlle American girl is a success at cigar Three thousand are now at TPO,dt * n the co-operative shops of the ^ ew York strikers. H * 3 estimated that it will take 26,000 ,f ” tt0 m “ bales. f 1 ™ ,) lo 1,0 **• The premiums offered liy the Connecti¬ cut State Poultry Society are worth 85,450. The exhibition will be held at New Haven, January 9 to 12 inclusive. It is estimated that 5,000,000 cans of lotimloes coru, etc., grown and packed in the second district of Maryland, will bo shipped from Aberdeen and 1’erry uiansvillo this season. Twenty thousand oil wells have been iVunsvlvinia urnl Vin/inia “ at an aggregate cost oi 11 , id, 000 , 000 . J be lias reached 88,000,000 barrels, valued at tho wells at 8500,000,000 or 8100,000,000 at the seaboard. Tim population of Richmond, Va., lms doubled since the war, and her manufactories now number 301. The H ahw in 1870 reached the sum of 822,424, K0U , her wheat and corn mills producing 82,857,000, her forty-one tobacco factories 12,038,300, and her iron works 82,038, 'The Dallas (’Texas) JJertilil paints gloomy pictures of the labor market in that city. It says : “Every fresh ar riving train blit adds to tho miserable multitude that suffers, starves, and final %1'ts its way hack East again. Be fore the door of nearly every house there daily begs a swarm that would sadden the hearts of a satyr.” Promptly Hang-ed. A schoolmaster m Lucknow, Indiana has recently died a martyr to the theory that “discipline must be maintained.”— A boy returned to the school after play¬ ing truant for several days. The school¬ master locked him up in a small room in which there was a large snake. The child cried, “A snake ! a snake I” and begged him to open the door. The schoolmaster kept the door closed.— About noon the boy’s father came to in¬ quire after him, and on opening the door beheld the snake near the neck of the dead child. 'This little incident created so strong a prejudice against the school¬ master that liis loyalty to the principles of schoolroom discipline was forgotten, and he was promptly banged . Holne5)0 ,- )y Pnteri ll lhc c liurcl\ at Foxville, in this county, recently, and ; stole the doors belonging to the stove, tLfcjr<A>y rendering it worthless. The 0D j cause possible to be assigned why r0 gues didn’t take the stove is | it wag U)() hot What j# tI)is nati „n C oming to, anyhow, wiien even the (i()0rs ot a churc |, stove are not safe from iril p ioU3 i, an( j 3 ?_Fredre* (Ml.) Times, ____ , m , We always admired the cheerful and hopeful spirit of the colored man, who , when struck by lightning, simply rubbed the abraded spot of his skull, and re nirl1 , ° . t .. ‘^ , f ief llnrH r ’ 1 ,n ' y( , been struck , ; now I shoold’t wonder « it let me alone.” - Hobsm s r f ho ice—-Min. HobeAn. THE DEMOCRAT. ADV'ERTISIXO RATOS s One Square, first Insertion S 1 One Square, each suliseq dent . , , One Square, three insertion ‘ 71 One months . 1* «• Quarter Square, Column, twelve months . . H w Half twelve month* . , to at Column twelve months , .eve* One Column twelve months . uw os , t-if~ One Inch or Less considered aa a square. We have no traction* of a square, all tractions of squares will be counted m squares. liberal deduction* mad* oa Cow tract Advertising. A smart thing is a mustard plaster. A great hardship—an iron steamer. The first thing in a Liot is the last. Noah’s clock went on the first Ark tic expedition. When Oliver Wendell makes a joke, its Holiues-pun. Cross-ties—Married couples who do not agree well together. " —P • ■ • » A proper use of the poker is a yrat* help to a struggling fire. “Let’s codfish around,” is tho Black Hills invAMion*to dance. Two widowers in Perry county, Tuxt», married each other's daughters. An old bachelor in Boston wants to adopt a girl baby eighteen years old. Is it quite correct to suppose the coal dealers necessarily belong to the ton t Why doesn’t Sweden have to send abroad for cattle? Because she keeps her stock-holm. “At last I have found an opening,” he exclaimed, mid tumbled through the coal-hole into the cellar. The poet Wrote of the “Patience on a monument,” but the physician’s patients are generally found under it. As a politician the cut is a success. Nono can beat him in his efforts to maintain a position “on the fence.” It is said of a hank nipt Michigan firm : “The schedule of liabilities is fifteen feet long, assets very small,” ... — ■ • - - ^ —i— A wag suggests that a suitable open¬ ing for many choirs should lie: “(> Lord have mercy on|u» miserable singers ” “My Lord, wo find the man who stole the mare not guilty,” said the foreman of a Welsh jury when giving In the Ver¬ dict. Two energetic young ladies nave charge of the Forsyth post office, and it is newlless to remark that they have full control of the mails. A Nashville man answers a Chicago advertisement, “How to win at poker” and received for ids two dollars the fol¬ lowing : “Hold four and don't poke.” IVhat is the difference lietween good news and a newly married couple ? There’s no difference. One is happy tidings, and the others are happy tied ’uns, too.” •— • — A man out in Western Iowa lias lieen sentenced to the penitentiary for ninety nine years. lie thinks it is tho longest sentence on record since Mr. Evarts lost his breath, What is the difference between a person going to Plymouth church and one about to ask a lady a favor? One is going to see Beecher and the other Is going to beseech her. A young man sent sixty cents to a Grin ini Michigan who advertised a re to Invent had dreams, lie re¬ cwv< * 1 a w! 'J' of l’ a '* !r on whicU WWI written ; “Don’t go to sleep.” When 1 ? “Charles Henry Cooper, are you it negro?” asked the court of the thick-sot vagrant. “No, sir!” was the indignant reply. ‘T low long hap that mud and soot and coal-dust been accumulating on your face 7” “Is It any use of a ragged and penniless feller like me washing my face?” queried the man, “When did you set down to a table last, Charles Ilenry ?” “I duniior” “When did you comb your hair last 7” “1 ditttnof” “When did you sleep In a regular, lawful tied last ?" “1 dunnor.” “When did you last have a five-dollar bill?” "Ust spring. I guess.” “AU around.” "Charles Henry Cooper, you were one# somebody’s darling, There was a time wl| <-n your childish was like heaven’s music t0 a fon,t lm,lh er> ear*- You use to be rockcdi " a lilt,e ,; ratllc, and angels use to Wk'fqlri Henry and then ga/.e *m yourself now! No angel with any self-respoct would hover within a hundred feet of yon!” “Can I eat cold slsp jacks, and sleep In barns and look and act liken gentleman?” pretested Mr. Cooper, V ou can t, and thirre s no use tryin * Go to th « rwrve Mr four ; months and study thf* ways of the ant. < ^Couldn't suit me I>ctt«*r if vou'd gin mo j a ferry-boat!” muttered the man, and he went in and figured the April nuns would I come out icr»n afo-’i him. Wm Pr-*»