Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893, April 20, 1883, Image 1
DEMOCRAT & Volume 7. STEPHENS AND His MOTHER. Mr. Stephens carved his name when a boy. Thespring ww his favonte resort at hat unoii 6 back and looked through the'tops i nw up sky and of the trees tewards the watched the flying clouds. My mother I had only heard of from others, and when I was very young I used to come here and SKI"™ might know how my heart longed for and her.”] A summer's day— with grasses green, Where fields and lanes And iambs at light play. that fell between Bathed in the The clouds that floated far away, There gentlv flowed Along its way a crystal stream, Whose surface showed The trees and rocks, as in a dream, That in the sultry sunlight glowed. A barefoot boy, mother , love Who had not known a s In filial joy— had winged ,, her flight .. .. above, . , For she Where sorrows never more annoy— Wandered alone thoughtful, mood, In careless, but in Where he had known The happiest hours of solitude And carved his name upon a stone. With thought intent, letters There, one by one, the grew ;— But what they meant— Then carved he better than he knew His name upon a Continent. From sea to sea, southern bay, From northern lake to For chivalry, could take away, That gold he never made his plea. With eloquence Prone on the grass, and half-shut With languid form eye, He watched them pass; sky, The clouds across the summer Hike figures in a mavic glass Saw through the trees, (Devoid of coffin and of shroud) Borne by the breeze, His mother’s spirit in a cloud— A bul k afloat on quiet seas. O, vision fair! overhead. With guardian-an gel He followed where led That gentle spirit thorned ever with ; care, The path of duty Sulfbrlghter^grew Which that humble name, now appears honored loll of faint*, High ’•'“•""lltSiU on tli6 ALL AROUND US, UATHBBI5G THE NliW tSFROM OUR exchanges. -- THE DOINGS AND IIAX > I > ENINGS V. Tr ov.e".tv 4 '.«'# ffl X 3 - S ^CONDENSED EOR orit READERS— OGLETHORPE, WARREN, GREENE AND OTHERS. HANCOCK. Iehmaelite mid Sunbeam. Mr Caston Brown, is still quite sick. The Ishma elite says we find that the cash in advance system pays best. Mr. Toinmie Northern, is still con fined to liis bed with acute rheuma¬ tism. There is a gentleman in Hancock who says that lie is to die on the first tlav of May next. The Linton Stephens Council, Royal Arcanum, located at Sparta, is now doing well and ready for applications for member ship. Miss Florence L. Little, of Sparta, was married Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’¬ clock to Mr. R. D. illancy, of Macon. Miss Florence is the eldest daughter ot Hon F-L. Little, of Hancock coun¬ ty and Mr. Blancy. better known as “Duff,” is one of the most jovial and popular young men of Bibb. WARREN. Warrenton Clipper. ^ Mr Bland has recovered and return ed to Augusta. • Rev ’ Uriah Langford preached Methodist a l»hnreh ve sermon at the Sunday night. T R Uodv and Miss Hattie E Jeweil were united church in marriage at Jewells in the on Baptist church Sunday evening the 8th an o clock. An attempt was again made to break into Smith & Son’s store -.at urday nigbt. T^ bolt of the rear window was drawn and the shutter opened, but the burglai fled befoie ef fecting an entrance. \Uss Todie Hill of Alabama, died M? a Hill the residence n£r Norwood of her uncle EH Sun day night at 10 o’clock. Dr. R. W. Hubert, upon examination of the de ceased, pronounced it poison, admin istered by her own hand. She was a lady of the highest standing in society, The cause of the suicide isi unknown. Her remains has been taken toAlabama. GREENE. Herald The election for municipal officers on last Saturday passed off quietly. Gotton planting will begin soon, and in some localities has already commen ced. The city officers for the ensuing year are James B. Park, sr., Mayor : J M. Storey, J. B Park, ]r., J. J. Burke, Henry C. Thompson. The remains of Mr. Roger Dickin son arrived in Greenesboi-o on Wednes day cemetery. noon and He were^interred died in San m Antonio, our city Texas, and was aged twenty-two years. He formerly came from Taliaferro TOuntaand was a step son of Mrs. D. H. Sanders, of this county. Mr. S. A. Torbert, of this city, does something in • poultry way. About ten days ago one of bis brood hens CRAWFORDVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 20th, 1883. came off her nest with eleven solae means the first hen was aud the eleven young chickens were motherless. Hen no. 2 seemed to ap i preciate their loneliness, and, of her own accord, took them under her pro tecting wing, and now clucks, struts whole aroundi all(1 scratches with the WILKES. Gazette. Improvements are still going on in town. The new style sulky is very popular here now. Horseback riding is popular with some of our ladies. Shipments of carp are still being re¬ ceived here every few days. A farmer near town says he has a hen just seven months old that has laid fifty-three eggs. There is a baby in town just one year old that weighs forty pounds. It is a fine specimen of Washington babies. The mule which was stolen from Mr. Josiah Bailey last week has been r >und in South Uaroliua, and has been sent for. W Cotton is coming in so freely that it looks as if our receipts for the year will be in the neighborhood of twenty thou¬ sand bales At the residence of her father near Independence church on last Tuesday at 12 m. Miss Lizzie Prather daugh¬ ter of Mr. II. W. Prather, departed this life, for a better one above. On last Sunday our townsman Dr. Mulligan had the same accident to be¬ fall him 'hat befell the queen of Eng¬ land a few weeks ago. He had to use a crutch for a day or two. hut we are glad to say that his knee is much bet ter. The executor of the lamented John C. Stummer has turned over one hun¬ dred dollars to eacli of the churches in town, in accordance with the will of that kind-hearted man whose memory will live long in the gratitude of the town. OGLETHORPE Oglethorpe Echo. Mr. J. It. Appling, who lives about two miles from Lexington on the Mal lorysviile road, one day last week killed a wild turkey near his home that weighed is pounds. It was reported in Lexington last week that wilsou Weems, a.negro well - • ' killed 'JgtfnVy, by ~W/’ shot and m Wasiiiugtou an¬ other negro. There were no particu¬ lars given. On last Thursday, Mr. Wink Taylor, of Elberlon, a revenue officer, made a raid in this c uuty and arrested Mr. Joe Tiller, i.viug near Sandy Cross. The gentleman arrested was not distill¬ ing at the time, hut was caught at his still-house feeding some hogs on tilt slops made at the still. Mr. O. II. Arnold, wlm bought the Gresham lot in Lexington, speaks of rebuilding or greatly repairing it and will perhaps t inake a hall above, or it may he made into an office for the Echo. Several improvements besides this will probably he made in Lexing¬ ton duiing the summer. On last Sunday the Sheriff of Madi son countv was in Lexingten looking for the negroes that broke jail in Dan ielsville a short while ago. He put Sheriff Doster on the track of the boy who killed Beolah and about dark that night he was captured on Mrs. Z. H. Clark’s place, about four miles flop Lexington. There was in all 8100 re¬ ward for him. -ii , , -»r m b informed him that some one was climbing up the side of the jail. Mr, L. made haste to the place where lie found that a man living in Lexington had climbed up the wall and was talk ing to Jones thiough the window next to llis cel1 - 1Ie w /} s rn ade to cou1 ? 1 . ' __ . —- a TEXAS METEOR. - % Happening That Has Surprised and Frl g * Ut eued the Citizens of Brown County. - Fort Worth, Texas, April 16 Adis patch from Williams Ranch, Brown eoun. ty, says that about 2 o'clock Sunday Morn mg a great meteor fell in the outskirts of town, killing several head of cattle and destroying the dwelling house of Martinez cj arc i a , a Mexican herdsman, who, with bis family, consisting of a wife and five c bii dr en. are buried benjath the ruins. In descent the meteor resembled a massave ball ot lire, and thfc shock was atinilar to 2S2S “ttT^ULU^S' ab iy one hundred [feet and towers above the surface about seventy, and will cover abou t one acre of ground. The concus sion was terrific .nearly every window in the town being shattered. People were hurled violently from their beds,and goods jn st , rehoU ses were thrown from their she lves.N .lives were lost as far as known, except Ind L those of the Mexican herdsman family, aithough several buildings V was filled with su ij,f mrous gaa. The wildest confusion prevailed, as it was a long time before any Sody could even conjecture what it was. This is the largest meteor that lias ever t»Uen to attract great attention for months to come It has occasioned great excitement . surrounding not only here, bnt in all coun try, PECK'S BAD BOY. From Peek’s Sun. “What is it a boy or a girl,” said the grocery man, winking at an old lady with a shawI over her head who was trying to )|d nolu 1 p pitcher p of yeast with her thumb. “How in blazes did you know anthing about it,” said the boy as he looked around in astonishment and with some indigna¬ tion. “Well, its a girl, if you must know and that’s enough,” and he looked down at the cat playing on the floor with a po¬ tato his face a picture of dejection,’’ “Oh, don’t feel bad about it,” said the grocery man, as he opened the door for the old lady. “Such things are bound to occur. But you take my word for it that young one is going to have a hard life, un¬ less you mend your ways. You will be usiug it for a cork to a jug, or to wad a gun with it, the first tiling your ma knows.” “I wouldn’t touch the darrn thing with the tongs,” said the boy, as he rallied enough to eat some crackers and cheese. “Gosh, this cheese tastes good. I liain't had nothing to eat since morning. I have been all over this town trolling for nurses. They think a boy hasn’t got any feelings. But l wouldn’t care a gol darn if ma hadn't been sending me for neuralgia med¬ icine, and hay fever stuff all winter, when she wanted to get rid of me. I have come into the room lots of times when ma and the sewing girl were at work on some flan¬ nel things, and ma would hide them in a basket and send mo off after medicine. I was deceived up to about four o’clock this morning, when pa came to my room and pulled me out of bed to go over on the West Side after some old woman that kuew ma, and they have, kept me whoop¬ ing ever since. What does a boy want of a sister, unless it is a big sister? I don't want no sister ‘that I have got to hold, and rock, and hold a bottle for. This affair breaks me all up,” and the boy picked the cheese out of his tooth with a slivei he cut off the counter. “Well, how does your pa take it ?” said the grocery man, as lie charged the boy’s pa with cheese, and saffron, and a number of sucli tilings. “(), pa will pull through. He wanted to boss the whole concern until nia’s chum, an old woman that takes snuff, fired him uut into the hall. l>a sat there on my nfid h^d-sled, I thou ght a perfect it won HI picture He a klr'Kesw of despair. to piaylfon mter i loutul the eat, asleep *.■ , the bath room, andjt rolled the cat up in a shawl and brought it out to pa and told hiin the nurse wanted him to hold the ha. by. It seemed to do pa good to feel that he was indispensable around the house, and lie took the cat on his lap as tenderly as you ever saw a mother hold an infant. Well, I got in the back liall, win re he couldn’t see me, and pretty soon the cat began to wake up and stretch himself, and pa said, s-h-h-tootsy ; go to sleep now and let its pa hold it, and pa he locked back and forth on tile liand-sled and began to sing ‘by, low baby.’ That settled it with the cat. Well some cats can’tstamlmusic> anyway, and the more the cat wanted to get out of the shawl, the louder pa sung, and bimeby 1 heard something rip, and pa yelled “scat you brute,” aud when I look" ed around the corner of the ball tiie eat was bracing himself against x>a’s vest with his toe nails and yowing and pa fell over the sled,and began to talk about the here like the minister does when he gets excited in church, and then pa picked up the sled and seemed to be. looking for me or the cat, but both of us was offul scarce. .......... boys and cats are kind of few arouna their accustomed haunts ? la don t loo as though lie was very smart, but he can hold a cat about as well as the next man. j} U t I am sorry for ma. She was just get ting ready to g0 to Florida for her neural gia, and this will put a stop to it ’cause she has to stay and take care of that voung one. Fa says I will have a nice time this summer pushing the baby wagon. By the great horn spoons, there has got to be a j dividing line somewhere between business j and pleasure, and I strike the line at wheeling a baby. 1 had rather catch a “. ** *' to wheel all the ba . bies ever was. They needn t pr xmre baby on my account, if it is to amuse me I can’t see why babies can’t “be sawed off onto people that need them in their busi ness. Our folks don t need a baby any m oro than you need a safe, and there are pe0 pie just suffering for babies. Say, how w ould it be to take the baby some night a nd leave it on some old bachelor’s door s tei>. If it had been a bicycle, or a breech leading .hot gun. I wouldn't Ian eared. ^ iTt » sorr y pa allowed me to come home, after b e drove me away last week, i guess all he wanted me to come back for was to hu miliate me, and send me on errands. Well, I must g* and see if he and the cat have made up.” And the boy went out and put up a pa- 1 er sjgn * in front of the store. "Uaeiy^ir meagre f*r .affronMa’ _ The Sandersvilie artesian well has reached the depth of feet. —Sunday afternoon, about 3 o clock, Mrs. Denton, mother of the senior mem. b« ton, of while .be lira, out walking Denton with * Lyn two D , ^ of her grandsons was struck in and the instantly <«me^ry killed of that by village^ light n ng A Valentine Mr. Stephens. From the Atlanta idfT itl|ny South. “Did lever si you this ?” asked a lady friend as she placed in our hand a large brown c ivelope. It had once been closed with <f sealing wax, and it bore altogether i antique look which indicated that i had passed through the postoffice tnrnv a day ago. In one corner was Mr ”j*«ph6ns’ Jibe ‘*M. well-known autograph wi * (1.” which sent this packa o on its travels free of charge. The ?■ rees was uot in his own hand. O; ‘fling this brown wrap¬ ping, there wa another wrapping of hner paper, an '*bother still, and tlien a sheet of thv ,e paper one half of which was plai out the front was fig¬ ured and cove in? around the bor ders, leaving . •( .seem the centre for writing some ''inoent. There were printed two s . ;ota of a song touch sung forty yetd .go. Tliese lines ex¬ pressed kind' f«*s, esteem, admiration even, for the *>»« to whom they were addressed, but conveyed no hint of any warmer feelllf’- Enclosed was a small ornameutal pon which was print¬ ed another que ..ion expressing a high estimation timent of ol li fodest lines worth. corresponds The sen¬ ex¬ actly with wlut the recipient, then a fair, lovely lfaiden, beautiful now grandmother, an almost aged but still remembers the C^A|*tIentions she They receiv¬ ed from gressman. were not at all lover-like, but more brother¬ ly and often uore thaM ha'f fatherly. Having known her in her early girlhood hj Watched, ha development of her womanly grai $witu shifted a kindly interest, which she apn all the more Le¬ cause slie v-s # favored with no ad vuuatge of ■••calth or social rank to constitute a Am upon his regaid. He manifested a - Wy concern in the ques¬ tion of her Marriage, and to the day of his death ontinued to honor her, tie? husband 1 her children with his friendship. at no word or act on his part, not eviji the sending of this val¬ entine, flitteed her vanity into the suspicion tut. he ever entertained the slightest theight of being tier lover. We are imbed firmly convinced that all represent; tfftns of his haying played that role ar. fhire romances. When fresh from e Hadison dege during that gloomy half year at he may have in¬ dulged in s['ne of the reveries of a bachelor in Mtilefi young men of tint age tuke a rd pleasure, and he may have drean’d that t lie rosy-cheeked maiden win took a hold on his fancy would add !■■ Lfw happiness of his life. But after h -d entered upon the ca reel - which de hhu so illustrious, duty amt JU>on . alike forbade e di 1 - ^ hiiT pas^d while on u , eu ■, jj«\y >, nll ../ visit 1 amon g tnsiljZes that they would question lilyfun regard to his chance heart the ex perieuces. fly a fortunate conversation soon after entering, took such a turn that it came quite opposite for one of them to ask, “Did you evei a lady in your life V' “Why no !” replied he in the well known tone in wl.icti lie negatived a proposition which he, regarded as preposterous. “Well,” rejoined another, “Miss says you once asked her to marry you, and that she nas letters of yours to that effect, now in her posession.” “ir his has,” replied he,rather rising in and speaking with emphasis, “she certainly forged them.” Aside from the truthfulness which formed so emi aent a trait of his character, lie was too ingenuous to disavow any honest sentiment. On the other hand there is nothing tr.orenatuial than that some writer of romance should attempt to ins celebacy by telling of an unfortunate love, or that some faded beauty should whisper it around when he cannot deny the story that she might have been Mrs. Stephens. (Aid men whose sole taste of military life was a militia drill sometimes delight young by shouldering sticks to how fields were won. So the withered spinster, who perchance never had a beau, delights to qell how for scores her sighing swains were anxious smile. The oft told lie bee nnes a truth to the teller. . From tlle Detroit Free Press. T | lis js the 8eaS0 r. when hens run mad an d will not be comforted unless (j^v can hide away somewhere and sit da y and night on a wooden nest egg or an 0 ld door-knob. tins Several men were discussing question in a grocery store one evening recently. A man who owns a n >ck ol Dorkings remarked, “Not even an act of Congress can break bieak up up a settm’ „ Ever tried jammin’ ’«ra under a barrel and pourin' water on emf de m ,ided the man oil the sugar barrel. “Yes,” said the Dorking man, '-r.e water on ’em ’till they grew ed, like a blamed duck, and af e . s found’em in an old coal hod settm “‘uml on« wing.” «Z£T SfeSS chrotno,” “Might’s well offer ’em a 3a j,j the Dorking man. “I tied a whole ted W oolen shirt on one last spring,and do g my cats if she didn’t make a nest of it and set three weeks on the but tons!” said Then the grwer it w close up and eaci t.^ia^i g)irdied up loins and slowly filed out. ---- . ^ -Jeans pants 50 c; Nice Summer Coats “0c; Straw Hats 5c; Wool Hats , f , ; 0jl G1)lth 25 C . 1>e r yard; ’ Sum Clottits *3 50; ”‘ g „, U.ndon f . ner yard: w Cords Mui.n.* 01c. p*-r -5c. per Everything new hardsome and , at C. A- Davis k Co’s., Cieeues- I so I D ■» For the Cure of Coughs, Colds] Hoarseness, Bronchitis,Croup, Influ¬ enza, Asthma, Whooping Cough, In¬ cipient Consumption and for the re¬ lief ofeonsumptive persons in advan-l ced stages of the Disease For Sale I by all Druggists.—Price, 25 Cents.! J. N. CHAPMAN, at A WF 0 RDV 1 LLE, ---- GA. Has on hand a full line of BUGGIES, AND Wagons, Harness, Etc. I liaye*the fullest and most complete lot of Buggies, and Buggy and Wagon Harness ever brought to this market and which I am selling at BOTTOM PRICES. Give mo a call when you need anything in my line, inch 16,;tm J. N. CHAPMAN. Richmond & Danville R. R. PASSEFGER DEPARTMENT. On and after May 21st., 18882 Pnssenge Tniin Service on the Atlanta and Chau lotte JMr-Limi Division will be as follows : MAIL AND BXrilESS. MAIL Eastward—No. fit. 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