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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
The New Orleans Picayune has sug¬
gested the importance of establishing in
that city a technical school for instruc¬
tion in the rnanulacture of sugar.
The cremationists have lost fifteen pet
cent, of their strength in the last year,
and it is believed by the Chicago Herald
that another year or two will finish them.
The New York Herald furnishes the
cheerful information that “the South
never began a year with a brighter out¬
look than the had at the beginning of
1889.”
All this talk about a national flower
for this country is superfluous, jocosely
observes the Chicago New*. Of course
the only flower suitable to be the emblem
of the United States is the daisy.
T.ondon is to be fortified by a girdle
of forts on its south side. The defenses
will in many cases take the form of in¬
trenched camps, in which large forces
may be gathered, Does John Bull fear
an invasion?
There lias been a bill introduced be¬
fore the Michigan Legislature making
it no longer incumbent upon the woman
to mention her age in the wedding
license. That, explains the gallant New
York Commercial Advertiser, is in defer¬
ence to the blushes of sensitive women
with younger husbands.
A curious novelty was introduced to
help a man find his cab in the wilderness
of the vehicles during tho Harrisca and
Morton inaugural ball. A sfcireopticon
screen was erected’ on one of the corners
of tho Pension Building, and when a
gentleman desired his carriage he gave
his numbei to the operator, who flashed
it out where all tho hackmcn could
sco it.
An English writer says that we no
longer produce remarkably gifted men
because our average of intellectual
power has vastly increased. Fifty years
ago our statesmen, poets and orators
loomed up among the first of the world.
Where are they now? Tho intellectual
average has risen to such a height that
the genius of half a century ago would
uow seem commonplace.
The well-informed Joe Howard assorts
in tho New York Press that “in spite of
its splendor, in spite of its wealth and its
mad round of pleasures, Fifth avenue
does not hold the happiest homes in
the city. You can see the glare and tlid.
glitter of the false metal all around you;
but if you would find tho pure gold of
domestic happiness you must seek it iu
more modest scctious of New York.”
The euterprising Washington corre¬
spondent of a Western paper recently
telegraphed to his paper an imaginary
interview with Dr. Wharton, the
acknowledged authority on international
law. JYhen ho saw the paper the next
morning he was horrified to learn that
Dr. Wharton had died early the previous
evening at tho time when he was repre¬
sented as chatting with tho corre¬
spondent.
“The original Harrison man” has at last
been found, and he’s a woman. A well
known Indianapolis woman has pro¬
duced a letter written ten years ago
and addressed to her son, at that time in
Montana, introducing to him Russell
Harrison, who was then going to the
same Territory. The letter incidentally
remarks that Bussell Harrison should be
received well on account of his father as
well as for hhustlf, “for General Harri¬
son is a great man, and is going to be
President some day.”
The present year will witness the ad¬
dition to the l nited States Navy of at
least five new vessels, the Vesuvius,
Yorktowu, Charleston, Petrel and Balti¬
more, with the possibility of the Con¬
cord and Bennington joining the num¬
ber. The Philadelphia and Newark
will also be launched this summer from
Cramps s jards, . so that , the , coming . fall , „
will see the trial of naval vessels follow¬
ing ouc upon the other in quick suc¬
cession. The work on the Concord and
Bennington is being pushed steadily
forward, and it is expected that both
vessels will be launched before July.
Ad vm C. Tannkr, of Canton, Ohio, has
cu appointed Chief of the Appointment
JiviGon, Interior Department.
' The President has made the following ap¬
pointments: Frank the Phimley, District to be United
States Attorney Knight, for be United. of Vermont;
George A. to States
Marshal for the Northern District _ of Texas,
KNOW THYSELF.
Bnk y® the battle-ground, where be tit* tea¬
men found
Worthy thy steel?
Ifb Alexander need sigh for a grander
World to reveal.
Oh, there’s a world to win back from the
hosts of sin,
Sorrow, and death:
#n with the warfare, then—close with the
foes of men,
Bating thy breath.
Nut with the clash of arms, not with war’s
loud alarms,
Hurl thy defiance;
Not on the tongue or pen, not on the strength
of men,
Place thy reliance.
Let but thy guiding star, shining from skies
afar, Illumino
the way;
Let hut tho in: er voice whisper, and make
thy choice
Clearer than day.
Thou art the battle-ground—thyself the foe
man found
Seeking thy life;
There is a world within—oh, what a world to
win—
On with the strife!
Then, when the fight is done—then, when the
field is won—
Know’st thou thyself.
Let the loud paeans roll, on through the glad¬
dened soul,
That, beyond fear or doubt, thrills with the
inward shout,
“Victory! victory!
Conquest of self!”
Elliott Cou.es, in Lippincott,
TWO NARROW ESCAPES.
An English lawyer once said that cir
cumstantial , evidence ., would ,, , hang the.
Kmgof England. While that was pui
ting it pretty strong, it is admitted that **
a chain of circumstantial evidence has
often sent men to the gallows. If a cir
cumstauce can be explained away, it is 1
but a mere shadow If it cannot be ex
plained away, it becomes a menace to
tho prisoner s life. A witness may be
bibred, abducted, or impeached. A cir
cumstauce is a l:on in the path demand
in f*u 00d A
ft has often , been asserted that innocent
mon have been hung on circumstantial j
evidence. There may have been such
instances, deed. but they have been rare in
In my own experience in law arid
detective . work I have seen some curious
things is, about circumstantial the evidence. chain It;
in one sense, strongest
which cau be forged, m another the very
weakest. i
About twenty years ago I was detailed
on a murder case in a Kentucky town, j
It was not to work up the case, but to
save if possible tho young man arrested
for the crime. AVhen I got the facts and
details I felt hopeless to accomplish any- ;
tliing. He was a young man of 28, ,
named Grnliam, and was of respectable
fainily. He had been engaged to a
young lady of the highest respectability, :
but they had quarreled about something.
Common friends had brought about a
reconciliation, peared but a new suitor had ap
upon the scene, and Graham’s ,
jealously had had provoked another quarrel,
He not visited her in two weeks, ;
when, on the evening of Sunday, Octo-;
her 80, one of Graham’s friends met him 1
and said;
“Your rival is up at I ossing’s, and
seems bound to cut you out. Adele
seems very sweet on him.”
Graham truly loved the girl, and this
speech made him wild. lie turned pale,
trembled, and finally said:
“He is au adventurer aud an inter
loper. Let him look out for himself!” ,
An hour later ho started for Lossing’s.
He passed several peoole who saw that
he was excited. The* house stood back
from approached the road in by a grove paths of trees, drives and j !
was two or
from the front, t.-raham fully intended
to enter the house, but when he came
upon the grounds his courage failed him.
He was afraid he might say or do some
thing rash in his present mood, and very
sensibly decided to return to day. town Next and
defer his call till tho next
morning his rival’s dead body was found
on one of the drives, about half way be
tween the house and the fence. He had
been struck down with a bludgeon. murder Con
elusions are always jumped at in
cases. Two of the servants were at once
arrested, but before noon they were set
at liberty and Graham was taken into
custody. The chain already contained
several links. Others were added the
moment he was arrested. He was dread
fully agitated, hesitated to acknowledge
that he had been near the place, and a
blood stain was found on the right
sleeve of his coat. Before he hud been
r » his father be
lieved him a murder. He was examined
and bouud over, and it was only after
that event that he began to protest his
innocence. The girl who had been the
cause of it came nobly to his rescue.
While she truly loved him, she had been
willing to make him jealous, aud when
tad corae of ii, « talio aud ed
she felt terribly conscious striken
anxious to believe in his protestation of
innocence.
When I came upon the ground, the
g tate had its case all worked up, and
when I went over it to look for a flaw
I could find none. I had to acknou rndge
that 1 was without hope. Indeed, I be
Meved Graham guilty. His own expla
nations rather strengthened that belief.
Lossing’s house faced the east. I he
highway in front ran north and south
The lawn was twenty yards w.de. aud
one drive led from the north and the
othe" from the south end. Graham an
moached from the north. He would
naturally turn m at the first drive, but he
claimed to have gone on to the second,
He followed it to the house, passed
iround it, played for two or three min-
utes with tho do"s, and then circled
about the the fishpond, and and took the a road, short
cut across grove struck
not hitting the north path at all. The
dead man had come from the village as
well, and on foot He had. come and at
tempted to return by the north drive.
If Graham was innocent who was
guilty? had
Not the slightest suspicion been
directed elsewhere. It seemed hopeless
to look. I questioned and cross-ques
tioned him, but be could not give me
the slightest foundation for a clue or a
theory. What I got came by accident,
I asked to see the blood-stained cloth
ing, and I found it to be a single daub
of blood on a white vest. It was a
curious mark, such as I had never seen
before, and when I quietly investigated
further I discovered that the murdered
man had been struck on the back of the
head ancTfallen forward on his face. He
had very thick hair, and, while the blow
had crushed the skull, he had bled but
little. The blood would not spurt from
such a blow. The body had not been
lifted, and so how did Graham get that
Wood stain? Accident gave me the
knowledge. I was looking the fourth the ground fifth
over at Lossing’s for or
time, when one of the dogs came and*
loaped upon me in a caressing way. Los
sing sing observed observed it it and and remarked: remarked: fond of
“Old Fan was always very
Graham, and I believe she misses him.
Here, Fan, let me look at you paw. Ah!
it’s about as well a3 ever, isn’t it?”
“What vyjuiit ailed uncu her uei paw?” paw* x 1 iumuu, asked.
“She got a terrible cut on a piece of
S Ia ----r:---- ‘” a few weeks 1 -----» ago.
“About the time Giaham was ar
rested?”
“Yes.”
“Then it was her bloody paw that
made the mark on his vest that night!”
“Good heavens, but it must have
been 1”
I had a clue and a hope. Everything
changed in an hour, and I now believed
Graham innocent and went to work to
aecure proofs. I posted up to Louis
villc v hp, and and examined examined the the police nolice records
for arrests. to"their"fmish' I followed a score or more
of of cases cases to their finish, but but got got nothing. nothing.
[t was my belief that a white man com
m uted tho crime, and that he meant
ro bbery, but was frightened looked off. I re
turned to the village and every
body over but „ ot na satisfaction. The
d a y 0 f the trial was coming and I was in
despair, but accident came to my aid
again. I happened into the hotel barn
a3 t ho landlord pulled a lot of rubbish
ou t 0 f a stall. Hidden away with it
was a fine saddle, and as it was brought
“Hless light the man exclaimed:
me, here is the dead man’s
saddle!”
“Was it missing?” stoleFon I asked.
the ni^lit on’ of his
mur der. That’s tho rea he went
down to Lossing’s on foot.”
Who stole it? What for? An
s ;der, who stole the saddle for its worth
would have carried it off. An insider
only would have stored it in the stall,
Who was inside? A white man and two
co lored assistants. Within au hour I
h ad ascertained that the white man,
whose name was Foster, was absent
f or an hour on the evening of
t ]j e murder, and that since he
had ac ted very queerly. I arrested him,
charged him with the errne, and he did
no t hold out fifteen minutes. His mo
t ; ve was robbery. He did not intend to
hill his victim, but only to stun him.
had just struck him when the dogs
barked greeting to Graham, and, over
come by sudden fright, Foster dashed
away and dared not return. He thought
he had only to keep still to render him
se if safe, and. but for my being present
when the saddle was found, he might
aever hare been suspected. hanged. Graham
W as cleared and Foster was
The change had been brought about
the fondling of a dog.
__
The „ second , occurred , . .
case m no,
toW11 t far lrom Cincinnati. .
m a n °
A young man Frank Meyer had-become
infatuated with a widow older than him
se i f -, His father aud tnends made ry
e ^ or f; to break it up. ?
final.y brongh .
was o see ® e T r ^
ways, but "heu le a e p e; •_
the tie the woman soug i i. -
dllis .
threats. an lp r n
dul ged in . some hard j talk n _ of , what , he ,
f r ould J}? m ca I e
. Thus matters stood when he set
out one evening to see h
last attempt tc et • ‘■
night and they were seen walking m the
suburbs of the town. T y •
heard in ang:ry t. v - ^ *
Here turned disarranged, homepaleandexcitedh.s and ius face bloody , ,
do thing
mg from scratcnes. -
A, raid
uigh*. He did not even assert h i 3 inno
fence. It was omy on his exammation
h ® ’
t , lultv T hanpened fES
. liv rdatincr *tha inei
d *“ t!,ol t one I have ahead? narr-ited
^ . .. « sent for tor me me and and
told m ® A * Y'brmV
L^intment We’ Mrs on”
by a R® ; walked ‘ on
^ , , , . h ^
rnat . - ^
r V tur51 cd with . her, Vut a5 T
^he little It, bridge she ordered me to thin<»a leave
b e “ .^d* to do desDerate °l
^ ; not relent by the morrow as'our
n t ret urn by the highway,
mee jq Drr wa3 a secret one and I did not
? knoW n. I crossed a corner of
' a
^ e „ raveyard) fell 0 ff the fence as I did
” ad ther face scratched by
e mv was J
tne ;
3 den ed your guilt,” * I
•
.,
8ai “
Because I con.mea . - and , stunned . ,
* was
by my arrest, and because 1 saw no use
of it, he rep.ied. I have to.d you the
truth. I want you to hely me prove my
self clear. ’
I left him with the feeling that , he was
lying'to me, and that nothing could b«
done*in his case. Ten or twelve days
had elapsed, but there had been no
rain. I went to the bridge, crossed
the creek at the point he told me
to, and soon came upon his trail. At
the graveyard fence I found a broken
rail and the place where he had fallen,
I found the briars broken and crushed.
and from the thorn3 I gathered several
small fragments belonging to the suit he
wore. Further he had stepped into a
ditch where mud was soft at the time.
It had now dried hard and preserved the
print. I measured it, and when I re
turned to town I had beg n to believe
that Meyers was either a good talker or
an innocent man. His story was all
right in one sense, but all wrong in the
other. Did he make the trail while
leaving the woman alive or dead? with
An old saying always goes an ar
rest: “If he didn’t do it, who did?”
Somebody must be held responsible,
After two or three interviews with young
Meyers and his parents, I doubted if he
could have choked the woman to death,
H« was frail and in poor health, and she
was robust and strong. She had scarcely
struggled at all, proving that she had
been attacked suddenly and that the grip
was a forcible one. He neck was dis
colored as well as her throat, proving
that two large hands had been employed. had
However, no suspicious characters
been seen in the neighborhood, and the
murderer, if other than Meyers, had
made his escape. I was completely
blocked, and could only hope that ac
cident would help me out.
It had been said that the body had
not been robbed. The only theory
seemed to be revenge. If it was not
Meyers, then it was some former lover,
and I went to Cincinnati to make in¬
quiries. On the way up my watch
stopped, and my first call was at a
jeweler’s. I had not been in his place
sixty seconds when in walked a stout,
strong fellow, who laid a lady’s watch
on the showcase and said:
“I am going away, and I want to sell
this, it belonged to my wife who is
“We don’t buy second-hand watches,”
replied the jeweler, but he carelessly
picked the watch up, examined it, and
then said;
‘‘This is one of our watches, I re
member selling it two or three months
ago.” the reaching out
for “ Yes,” replied man,
it.
“l et’s see the name,” continued the
jeweler, as he went for a book,
“Never mind,” replied the man. “If
you don’t want to buy, very well; I’m
in a hurry.” said
“Sold to Mrs. Albright of
the jeweler as he handed it over,
“The woman who was murdered!” I
said to the stranger. “Were you hef
husband?”
“N—, yes 1” he stammered,
“And you have not been near ?
That is strange! You will go with me
to the police."
He tried to d aw his pistol, but I was
too quick for him. and The police bad charac- recog
nized him as a bully a
ter. and inside of half a day I had es
tablished the fact that he was acquainted Then I
with the murdered woman,
traced him to the depot, and on the
tram to the village, and later on found
two villagers who remembered of seeing
him there that night. When I had got
him reasonably sure I confronted him
with my facts, aud he broke down and
made a full confession, lie had come
out to see Mrs. Albright that night, and
he had found her on the bridge and quar
reled with her. She was desperate and
defiant, and in a fit of passion he had
choked her to death. He had seized the
watch, but left all else, and so the Coro
ner’s jury had been misled,
The fellow, whose name was Dan
Cummings, was a craven as well as a
bully. He confessed all and cleared
Meyers, but while awaiting his trial
committed suicide .—Aew York Sun.
Riding to School on Broncos.
jyj anor> Texas, in that sparsely
settled country along the line of the
Houston aud Texas Central Railway, I
came to a large wood-colored building
surrounded by a caravan of horses. I
counted up ward of fifty, all saddled and
euoh hitched to a tree. Everything
about the house was as still as death,
. . It must be a funeral ” I said. Sud
denly the scene changed. The doors of
the building f> burst open and out broke
Jifty schoo ch;1 dren. “School’s
they shouted, and a caravan of children
scrambled for the horses. In a moment
the -^ ters h ad mounted and’were
rid helter-skelter over the prairie,
The Texas mustangs seemed to scent the
frolic and kicked up their heels as they
g al: °F ed home Wlth the schoolchildren,
their of dinner-pails tbe saddles, jingling and on then tha
pommels and > ckots in the wind,
dresses waving
*** » f
Bedouins.
‘* How far dld L ou ccme? ” I asked a
little tot who sat behind his sister on a
speckled mustaag .
tum dood tum ”
he's six mles,” inter- .
come
runted his sister. “Jimmy is only five
«*• ». doesn't knoo- how far he
does come.”
“Hut I live eight miles,” said a little
[ord , l a m.lcroy on a dancing bronco
“but I can ride it in an nour and have
doue lt in th,rt y minutes.” Then he
s F urr f d bis horse till he leaped away
o^® r tbe prairie.
14 15 ver 7 common to see school chil
dren . paring spurs m Te .as. Texas has
the richest school fund of any State m
the L mon, but she lacks the children,
■ ?°.f e c^nties have as much a * $50,000
laid up for school purposes. They are
just waiting for the children to grow.—
York World.
Emotion*, it . . held, . come to persons
is
far of*.ener by contagion than they spring
up of themselves in the human breast
_
If any dealer says he has the W. T.. Douglas
Shoes without name and price stamped fraud. an
the bottom, put him down as a
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W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE FOR
GENTLEMEN.
Ifcoo »*..-<> HAND-8EWKI> POLICE AND FAKMEKS* WELT SHOE. SHOE.
S‘J.50 EXTRA VALUE CALF SHOE.
ns All made in Congress, Button and Lace. shoes
W. L. DOUGLAS
FOR
LADIES.
Rest Material. Best Stylo. Best Fitting,
jt not sold by your dealer, write MASS.
W. L. DOUGLAS, BROCKTON,
For Sale By
C J. EDGE,
Columbus Oa.
S. G. RILEY •
Physician and Surgeon.
HAMILTON GEORGIA.
Office at the Drug store of Riley & Wil¬
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night.
II. II. P.
Is an old reliable family medicine, that
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No Cure, no pay.
Man’f by the Barret Drug Co.
For sale by Riley & Williams.
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These Pills are justly the most Cele¬
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GUARANTIED, ami Man’f by the
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Augusta Ga.
For sale by RiLev& Williams.
J, W. HOWARD & CO..
1st Avenue, Columbus, Oa.
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RMS MS Bagging’, HIDES, Furs,
[>Ul Cotton.
• Bees ware,Old Metal.
Vr !rfcon in the Seed and Cotton Seed
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—And dealers in—
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. Bags, Etc,
Promptly F Ped,
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THOMAS F. FARLEY
Furniture, Stoves
— AND —
All Kinds of Hon33 Furnishing
GOODS,
1 248 Broad St., 2nd dock south
of 13tii Street,
COLUMBUS, GA.
BARRETT’S TONIC
This Tonic is prepared from Pure
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Manufactured by the Barrett Drug Co
Augusta, Ga.
For sale by Biley & Williams.
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