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THE CORRESPONDENT.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CRAWFORD COUNTY.
littered in the post-office at Roberta, Ga., as
second class lrtail matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
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Three months 50
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«ents.
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Special rates ou large contracts.
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unless otherwise agreed upon.
Subscriptions must be paid in ad¬
vance.
Address all correspondence to
The Correspondent,
Roberta, Ga.
THE IRASINIORY TRflHF
Miss Eliza Brown was alone.
She sat on her front porch, cheek anu
now and again cooled her by
k, nervous jerk of her palm-leaf chaii
fail. The rockers of her
gave forth a dismal squeak, as her
small but weighty person swayed
forward and back. She was much
discontented and very nervous—
unstrung, she would have said—
and her flushed face and aggrieved
eye Mies proved Eliza’s her no liar. included
character
two very opposite qualities, a quick,
high temper and great timidity.
Yv'e see this combination in men
very often, but in women it is
rare. Miss Eliza had the arched
nose and valiant coloring of Eng¬
land’s Virgin Queen, contradicted
by a mild, and eye, an insignificant
mouth a double chin. Her
height was figure not much to speak of,
and her was of the down
cushion order, soft and puffy.
Hei thoughts just now were
troublesome. They hovered per¬
sistently about a conversation she
had listened to the night before,
while taking tea with a neighbor,
The subjects of this conversation,
instead of olfiivibn, remaining decently
buried in haunted her.
They wore rather a ghastly The first lot,
taking them altogether.
was set going had by a girl who said
that there been more tramps
hanging before round this far’s summer than
ever as she knew.
Then followed stories of the bad
jbehavior of those horny-footed and
light-fingered evil deeds gentlemen, gypsies, tales of
the of thieves
and murderers, of the viiliany of
Italians and the wily ways of the
peddling flesh Jew-man, till every one’s
began girls giggled to creep, hysterically; and the
younger Eliza’s
till Miss crimson cheeks
tfaded to a faint heliotrope, and
Miss Eliza’s niece, who was pres
sent, trembled with delicious ex¬
citement. Alter it was over these
two found their way home through
the gathering gloom, the one with
boldness of speech and an eye that
shunned shadowy corners, the
other leaf and thrilling inwardly at thirsting evory rustling
for ad¬
venture.
Nov/ Miss Eliza was alone.
“The girl,” Miss Eliza’s helpmeet,
bad gone to visit her mother, and
Pauline, Miss Eliza’s niece, was
spending the afternoon with a
friend, about half a mile down the
road. The house seemed very
empty and isolated, just the place
in which to enact a tragedy of the
deepest dye. Miss Eliza reflected
that in all tales told the night be¬
fore the bloodiest misfortunes ever
befel the lone woman who lived a
half-mile down the road, and
could there be a fitter subject for
such horrors than herself?
After a half-hour of watching
and fearing, she calmed a little,
and went into the house for her
sewing. What was her dismay
when she stepped forth again upon
the porch to see a very ragged
tramp come toward her up the
gravel Ho stopped path and mount the steps.
when he reached the
step below her and smiled.
He was a young man, not over
22 or three, maybe younger, and
rather handsome, but his black
blows were very deep sharply shadows marked,
and there were un¬
der his eyes, which gave him a
deadly look, and the smile
now lifted the corners of his
mouth brought to Miss Eliza only
a more lively idea of how he would
look as lie gloated over her man¬
gled remains.
"Go away,” she said.
“I’d rather stay you.” here, ma’am,
it’s the same to
“WM do von wart?” she do-
“X yer don’t mind sittin’ down
ho in unfin’ to mu for a 'few uiin
.V*. i'J ten yer.”
Miss Ekza, being scarcely able
to siand, did as was suggested.
The tramp also took a ciiair. He
began to speak in the same hollow
voice.
“You ask me, ma’am, what do 1
want, and I’m a-goin’ to tell yer.
First, I want the silver spoons
and candlesticks and the teaset
what’s in the dinin’-room; then I
want the stuffed hummin’ birds in
the front parlor, and the silver
cake basket what stands on the
corner table. After that I want
yer eroid watch and chain, and
that Tiair brooch yer a-wearin’, and
all the other trinkets, ornaments
and jewels what yer keep in the
under drawer of yer washstand;
and, the pi# last and but cake not least, I want all
yer was makin’
this ■sornin’, and all the goose¬
berry on the top shelf of yer
storeroom. And if yer don’t care
to give it to me,” the tramp
winked slowfy and made a motion
as though to draw a revolver from
his breast, then repeated and went
on:
“Yer see I have porvidrd myself
with a place to stow ’em in,” and
ho brought forth from under his
coat a large and rather gaqdy cal¬
ico bag. He spread this out be¬
fore him, then fell to shaking
again wiiA his. horrid, suppressed
laughter. "Please,
won’t you leave the
cake-basket?”
The Empress Augusta’s Extravagance
It is not generally known that
the German excellent Empress, in spite of
her many and qualities, is
very extravagant owes largo
sums of money to many of tlia
-Berlin tradesmen, one- firm alone
having a bill of 800,000 marks, or
£40,000, against Her Majesty.
The Empress never wears either
a dress, a mantle or bonnet the
second time in public and every¬
thing that she buys is of the very
best. It is all the more surprising
when it is recollected how ex¬
tremely simple her surroundings
were before her marriage to Prince
Wilhelm of Prussia, and even
after her marriage, until her hus¬
band succeeded to the Empire. largely
The Emperor is also very
in debt in spite of the handsome
present made to him last spring
by the Empress' Frederick, who
ad vanced him a million and a half
of marks.
Charging a 110-Toa Gun.
There are nine 110-ton guns in
the British Navy -at the present
time. The projectile fired from
these guns when attacking ships
or forts weighs exactly 1,80 j
pounds and leaves the muzzle with
a velocity of 2,105 feet per second,
and has a destructive energy equal
to 55,305 foot tons. Whoa these
monster engines of death are
turned upon an army of men or a
flotilla of ships they are loaded
with cylinders of steH, each of
which is filled with 2,200 four
ounce bullets. The amount of
powder used behind such projec¬
tiles is something enormous—060
pounds to each charge.
A Sad Predicament.
She—If you don’t let go .my
hands, sir, I’ll ring for the ,.... ■
vants.
He—But if I don't lot go, how
pn n von
SIi* (thoughtfully)—That’s Be¬
am! —and poor mamma’s got- a
headache, so 1 dare not screain.
Washing Out the Stomach.
Some physicians in treating
summer complaint in young chil¬
dren resort to the operation of
washing out the stomach. Par¬
ents generally protest against it,
fearing that the littlo ones aro
likely to be injured thereby. It is
a very harmless procedure, and
occasions much less discomfort
than the observer would suppose.
Doubtless there are many cases
where this operation promises bet¬
ter than any other, or the use of
medicines. In no case can it dc
injury. dona in this
It is usually way :
A soft rubber tube is used, on one
end of which there is a glass tube
five or six inches long. The other
end is slowly passed over the
tongue, and down the throat into
tho stomach. When in place, by
water is poured into the tube
one of the various means. After
the stomach is filled, the current
of water is shut off and tho
end of* the tube lowered, so
the contents of the stomach
bo syphoned out. This operation
is a very simple one, and tho
younger tho child the oasior
performance.
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will sell goods cheaper than they haveg ever been sold before.
will find at myjjstore a splendid’assortment of DRY GOODS
NOTIONS, Sl’OES, HATS, &c., at slaughtered prices.
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Dont buy another $dolIars$ worth of goods until you have seen
MY stock- •I mean business. Call to see me.
R. L. DICKEY, Musella, Ga.
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B. F. V
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Georgia—CM soM
Will be
on Jan. 7th lV
dence of J. Kn
ed, “in said coH
property horses, to-w| mill
cane
other personal e:
W. A«
J. R. v
GEORGIA, Crawford C’oivH
By virtue of an order of the RoolH
and council of the town of
Will be sold before the door of qH
council chamber in said town on witflB
first Tuesday legal in January next
in the hours of sale, the follow¬
ing property to-wit: An encroach¬
ment of twenty five feet on Mathews
street aloug the entire length of
block “T” according to the original
survey.of said town. Sold on peti¬
tion of the adjacent land owners and
to perfect titles to said encroach¬
ment. December 1st 1892.
A. J. Danielly, Mayor,
E. E. Dent, Marshall.
Beatty.s Tour of the World.
Ex-Mayor Celebrated Daniel F. Beatty,
Beatty’s Organs aim
Pianos, returned Washington, home New Jersey,
has from an exteuded
tour of the world. Read his adver¬
tisement in this paper and send for
catalogue. 9-10
BEATTY’S - PIANOS !5,!Ik UKffi
for- catalogue. Daniel F. Beatty,
Washington, New Jersey.
BEATTY S ORGAAS Are the best.
Write for cat¬
alogue. Washington, Address Daniel F. Beatty,
New Jersey.
Noti<&.
All parties indebted to us are re¬
quested to come fovwaid and sottle
at once, or they will find their papers
in hand of officers for collection.
Wilson & Mathews.
POWER OP SALE.
By virtue of a power of sale con¬
tained in a mortgage given by J. B.
Wilsoh to C. G. Gray, president of
the Exchange Bank of Fort Valley,
said C. G. Gray president, will sell
at public outcrv, before the court
house door of Crawford county, in
Knoxville, Tuesday, January 16,
1893, the following valuable real es¬
tate to wit
Two and one half acres land, with
all the improvements thereon, con¬
sisting of dwellings and out-houses
in the town of Roberta, Crawford
county, Ga., andboundedas follows:
—On the north by public road lead¬
ing from Roberta to Agency Ferry,
commencing at the northwest cor¬
ner of the land owned bv W. W.
W ilson and running along said pub¬
lic road to a point that equally di¬
vides the lands purchased by W. .j.
Wal er from Mrs. Virginia Lewis,
thence South far enough to make
two and one half acres, "hounded on
the East by Mrs. W W. Wilson’s
land, on South, by Mrs. Amanda
Hartley’s land on the West, by W. J
Walker’s land, North, by said public
road—same being the place known
as the J. B. Wilson place.
—Terms of sale, Cash.
C. G. Gray, Pres’t.
Exchange Bank, Et. Valley, Ga.
$100 Reward $100.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in a^l its stages
and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh
cure is the only positive cure known
to the medical fraternity, Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, re
quires. constitutional treatment
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken inter¬
and nally, acting directly upon the blood'
mucous surface of the system
thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up th©
constitution a nd assisting nature in
doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative
powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fans to
cure. Send for list of testimonials
Address. F. J. CHENEY 4 CO *
| I Toledo, O. *>
$sy"Sold by druggist, 7oc. *