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JOSEPH I.. COBB. FELIX N. COBB.
('ORB & COBB,
Attorney# and Counsellors at I.atv.
CA RROLLTOX, GEORG I A.
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iness intrusted to us. ( ollections a spe
cialty. Office in court house.
Dr. J. W. HALLUM,
CARROLLTON' - - - - GEORGIA.
lias his office* in number 2, Mande-
ville brick building, lie makes a specialty
of OSTETRICS and DISEASES OF
WOMEN and CHILDREN. Cal! on
him. Consultation free.
IDS,. J. IF. COLE,
CARROLLTON, GA.
Is devoting most of his time and atten
tion to surgery and surgical diseases, and
is prepared for most any operation. His
charges are reasonable.
G. W. G UTH REY,
Boot and Shoe Maker,
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA.
Thanking the public for the liberal pat
ronage which they have bestowed upon
him in the past, woidd solicit a continu
ance of the same. Home made shoes for
women and children always oy l)and.
gtgp'Shop in the hack room of'the post-
office building.
JOHN R. STEWART
Wishes ro say to the public that lie is
still prepared to do all kinds of
PHOTOGRAPHING and FERR0TYPING
in the latest style and at reasonable pri
ces. Also keeps on hand a fair stock of
Frames, Cases, Albums, Etc.
Copying and enlarging a specialty—
can make all sizes from locket to 8x10
inches. Remember that two dollars will
buy a tine, large picture framed ready
for your parlor, at my gallery, Newnan
street, Carrollton, Ga.
Evans, The Jeweler,
Is now in the southeast corner of the
public square, where he will be glad to
see his friends and the public generally.
He keeps on hand a full line of goods,
consisting of plat(*d ware of all kinds,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
n specialty.
jgjp* All kinds of repainngj.m his line,
done promptly and in good style.
To Those Interested.
You have been indulged twelve months,
and surely can pay what you owe the old
firm of Stewart. & Son. The estate
must be settled. I greatly prefer settling
my own business, but will have to put
the claims belonging to the estate of J.
W. Stewart & Son, in the hands of an at
torney, if not settled soon.
W. J. STEWART.
From the Savannah News.
Reagan’s Inter-State Commerce Bill.
One of the important measures
that congress will he required to
consider is that providing for gov
ernment control of inter-state rail
roads. Mr. Reagan, of Texas, is the
champion of this measure, and he
has already urged it upon the at
tention of three congresses. It
passed the house in the forty-fifth
congress, but met with little en
couragement in the forty-sixth and
forty-seventh congresses, for the
reason that the committee which
had it in charge was not friendly to
it. In the present congress Mr.
Reagan, in all probability, will he
the chairman of the commerce com
mittee, and will see that it is re
ported early in the session. The
purpose of the bill is to prevent un
just discrimination in freight rates
by inter-state railroads. By pool
ing and by discriminating freight
charges the great trunk lines are
able to inflict incalculable dama
ges on the business interests of the
country. The favors granted to
the Standard Oil company by
the railroads, for instance, have
about broken down all the rivals of
the Standard, and made that com
pany one of the most tyranieal and
oppressive monopolies in the
country. Other instances could be
mentioned where the discrimina
tions of the great railroads have
wrought ruin to legitimate business
enterprises. M$. Reagan does not.
propose to fix traffic and travel
rates. TTis object and aim is to pro
tect inter-state commerce and
shield legitimate business underta
kings from the hostile acts of pow
erful railroad corporations. There
would he no necessity for such leg
islation if there were free competi
tion among the railroads. Compe
tition, however, is destroyed by the
pooling system. When the North
ern Pacific was completed it was
thought there would he cheaper
freight rates between the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans. Before the cel
ebrated last spike was driven in
the Northern Pacific, an agreement
was made which retained the old
monopoly rates. The hill will un
doubtedly meet with the strongest
kind of opposition.
The Columbus Times very sensi
bly observes: “It is always well
to say something favorable about
a person instead of maligning him,
because numerous enemies often
show that there must he much
good in the person abused. A man
without enemies is a weak individ
ual anvway.”
A truer sentiment was never
uttered than the following from the
8a van ah News: The influence of
the press is very great when it is
in the right. It is a grieveous error
to say that the newspapers of a
country can ’mould public opinion
right or wrong. Arguments must
be founded on solid common sense
to carry conviction, and the news
paper that sticks to principle and
reason will always he the one to
command the confidence and
respect of the people. A vacillating
and time serving policy, or one that
abandons the rights of the people to
advocate specially favored interests
on the part of the press is the
surest course to destroyitsinfluence
The celebrated case of Mrs. Mary
Clarke Gaines vs. the City of New
Orleans, is expected to come up
before the Supreme Court of the
United States at its present term.
The property involved is valued at
about |2,000,000, and the cost of the
printed records was $10,000, which
was paid for by the city. The
volume unbound is two jjfeot high
and weighe over 200 pounds. Mrs.
Gaines is now over seventy-five
years ohl, and has been engaged in
in this suit in one shape or anoth r
ever since she was twenty. Tt is
one of the most remarkable cases on
secord, and if she lives to gain it
she will be one of the wealthiest
women in America.
TURNER and CHAMBERS,
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CA KROLLTOX, GK<)K(! XA
—Dealers in—
General Merchandise,
Are still at their old stand on Rome
street, ready to sell you goods as cheap
or cheaper than anybody. If you want
anything in their line, give them a trial
aud they think you will trade.
We would say to those owing us that
WE MUST HAVE
AVliat is due us. We have indulged
you as long as we can and we now want
.mo money.
An exchange printed tho follow
ing: On the Etowah river, above
Cartersville, Ga., is a vein of gold
which for extent and richness, is
excelled by few, if any, mines in the
United States. The vein is double.
One of them is 280 feet wide, every
inch of which shows gold. Some
of this assays $10 per ton. The
same company own over 500 feet of
another vein, varying in thickness
from 4 to 21 feet. This vein extends
three miles through the company’s
property, and yields from $10 to
$11 per ton. The Etowah river cuts
these veins, and it will yield a pow
er sufficient to run 1,000 stamps.
About 800 stamps are now running,
and a quantity of machinery is on
the ground ready to pw4 up and
start. This mine can be worked at
$1 per toil. The company owning
and working it is knowm as the
Franklin and McDonald company.
Brother Gardner in Detroit Free' Press.
Points for tlie Unmarried.
“I understand,” began the presi
dent, as the meeting was opened in
due form, “dat quite a number of
de members of dis club am gwine
to be mar’ied doorin’ de summer.
Dat’s all right, an’ I wish ’em much
joy, an’ shall be glad to witness de
obsequies of each an’ ebbery one.
But I want to say a few words in
general. In the fust place, am you
gwine to mar’y fur love or fur a
sort o’bizness partnership? If you
answer fur love, let me warn you to
be sartain dat you don’t mistake
the sentiment. Many a young man
who thought his heart torn by love
has plunged into matrimony to dis
kiver dat he simply had an admi
ration for a $30 set of false teeth
and a high instep. If you answer
fur a sort o’ bizness partnership, let
me warn you not to expect too
much. You won’t*, love de woman
and she won’t trust you. It will be
a sort o’ boss trade in which both
parties will be cheated and both
continuer to he mad about it. You
can get along after a fashion, and
people who see her on your arm at
a circus won’t know how you fight
at home. If you mus marry let
common sense have a show in the
transaeshun. Derail’ go off your
feet because you meet a gal Who
can sing like a robbin, smile like a
rose, and jump off a street kyar
widout bodorin’ de driver to stop.
A wife will have much to do be
sides singin’ and cultivatin’ dim
ples. If you am gwine to marry ax
yerself how fur $10 a week will go
when divided up fur clothes an’
pervishuns an’ incidentals. Befo’
you fall in love wid a gal who looks
too sweet for anything in a red
plush saeque, figure on how many
sicli duds yer income will afford
her. Befo’ you am broke up ober a
gal who plays de planner, talks
French, paints landscapes, an’ reads
poetry jist sit down an’figger who
am to cook yer meat an’ taters,
patch yer close, darn yer socks, an’
help yer make $12 buy $lo worth of
things. Befo’ yer let a pa’r o’ flasli-
in’ eyes an’ a connin’ dimple capti
vate yer, look aroun’ a little an’ see
if de owner has got a temper like a
wild cat. Marriage am a lottery
simply bekase people take each od
der unsight an’ unseen.”
Damask is from the city of Da
mascus; satins from Zaytown in
China; calico from Calicut, a town
in India formerly celebrated for its
cotton cloth, and where calico was
also printed. Muslin is named from
Mosul in Asia. Alpaca, from an an
imal of Peru, of the llama species,
from whose wool the fabric is wo
ven. Buckram takes its name
from Rochara; fustian comes from
Fastol, a city of the middle ages,
from which the modern Cairo isde-
seended. Taffeta and tabby from
a street in Bagdad. Cambric from
Cambray. Gauze has its name
from Gaze; baize from Bajoc; dimi
ty from Bamietta, and jeans from
Jean. Drugget is derived from a
city in Ireland, Drogheda. Duck
comes from Torque iu Normandy.
Blanket is called after Thomas
Blanket, a famous clothier, connec
ted with the introduction of wool
en in England about 1240. Serge
derives its name Xerga, a Spanish
name for a peculiar woolen blanket.
Diaper is not from D’Ypres, as is
sometimes stated, but from Greek
(lisaprou, ffg. Velvet is from the
Italian vellute, wooly (Latin, vellus
—a hide or pelt). Shawl is the san
serif sala, floor, for shawls were first
used for carpets and tapestry.—
Bandan is from an Indian word
meaning to bind or tie, because
they were tied in knots before dy
ing. Chintz comes from Hindoo.
Dalaine is the French of wool.
A negro at Conyers, Rockdale
county, Ga., found a pocket hook
containing one hundred dollars.
He was an honest man, and return
ed the hook and the money to the
owner, a white man. The man was
so proud of his money that he gave
the poor negro twenty-five cents.
Such liberality should be made
known. We have known some
men so stingy that they would
stint themselvs on water unless
there was a freshet in the river.
The Conyers man woulden’t do
that.
The Christmas tree is infinitely
diversified; it is large or small; it
finds its way into the cottage and
the palace; it produces strange and
sometimes very singular and dis
similar objects; hut, whatever the
size, whatever the place, whatever
the fruit that is found thereon, it is
always richer and far more beauti
ful than any other, for it is inspired
by the spirit of affection and self-
sacrifice, by that tenderness which
is born of devotion to the interest
and happiness of others.
From tlie Savannah News.
Judge Adams and Court Loafers.
Upon the opening of the Sujierior
Court yesterday morning Judge
Adams called the attention of
those persons who are in
the habit of attending court
that the court and grand jury rooms
were recently placed in the best of
order, and he hoped that they would
be kept so; hence he requested all
who were in attendance, and oth
ers whofrequented those rooms
from time to time, not to spit upon
the floor of the rooms or of the lob
by, and that he might not he misun
derstood he added that the request
would be enforced, and any person
discovered spitting on the floors or
defacing any of the walls would be
punished. The court thereupon di
rected the sheriff and bailiffs to ar
rest any individual whom they
might see disregarding the man
date of the court. His honer then
directed his remarks to the occu
pants of the gallery, and said there
could be no reasonable objection to
any person having an interest in
any of the proceedings in attending
the sittings of the court; that fre
quently parties were influenced to
attend the court because they or
some friend have a case there,
which was probably more or less
interest to others as well as those
directly interested in this issue be
fore the court. But it was observ
ed that certain individuals were in
the habit of taking seats in the gal
lery, day after day, and that some of
themtook groundnuts and luncheon
and ate their meals there. After
meals some of these people went to
sleep there. “It is presumed,” the
judge, went on to say, “that these
people have nothing else to do and
that they are vagrants. The gal
lery is not intended to be a loung
ing place for such persons, nor will
any one be permitted to throw pea
nut shells on the floor of the gal
lery, the rooms of the court or of
the lobby. The subject will not be
referred to by the court again, and
tho sheriff is directed to arrest any
person who may be found disregar
ding the notice of the court in these
particulars.”
From the Kansas Methodist.
One at a time.
A hoy watched a large building
as the workmen from day to day
carried up bricks and mortar.
“My son,” said his father, “you
seem taken with the bricklayers.—
Do you think of learning the
trade ?”
“No, sir; I was thinking what a
little tiling a brick is, and what
great houses are built by laying one
brick upon another.”
“Very true, my son; never forget
it. So it is with all great works.—
All your learning is one lesson ad
ded to another. If a man could
walk all around the world it would
he by putting one foot before an
other. Your whole life will be made
up of one moment upon another.—
Drops added to drops make the
ocean.”
“Learn from this not to despise
little things. Be not discourged by
great labors. They become easy if
divided into parts. You could not
jump over a mountain, but step by
step takes you to the other side.—
Do not fear, therefore, to attempt
great things, Always remember
that the large building went up on
ly one brick upon another.”
A New York man has imported a
pair of Inddian mangooses, the first
that ever came to America. They
are a little larger than a good sized
rat; their bodies are covered with
brown hair, variegated with white
stripes. The importer will breed
these animals and sell them as ver
min exterm it .tors. It is claimed
that they have no equal in that bus
iness. One mangoose will rid the
largest house of rats, and they de
stroy snakes with wonderful avidi
ty and are the inveterate enemy of
every species of vermin. But they
are gentle and harmless to human
beings.
It is narrated that a Pennsylva
nia farmer puts his dog to a novel
use. The dog follows the old man
to town when he is hauling grain,
and when the team is driven on the
scnles the dog walks gently on and
lies down under the wagon. As the
cur weighs about forty pounds, and
there are only thirty-two pounds to
a bushel of oats, he helps the load
out. When the farmer comes hack
to have the wagon weighed the dog
forgets to be there.
A Texas Sensation.
The Globe Democrat, of St. Louis,
as appears from our dispatches this
morning, is authority for the state
ment that a citizen of Texas, who
was a union man during the war, is
about to begin in the Court of
Claims at Washington, a suit to re
cover the value of his emancipated
slaves. It seems a little curious
that such a suit should be begun at
this late day, hut the delay may
have been due to a failure to dis
cover sponer the ground on which
it could be based. The constitution
of the State which was appooved by
Congress at the time of annexation
contains, it appears, the foundation
for the suit. It is not improbable,
however, that the dispatch oontains
very little truth. The possibility
of sustaining a suit of this kind may
have been discussed, hut that the
beginning of proceedings is serious
ly contemplated is rather doubtful.
The fourteenth amendment to
the Federal Constitution expressly
prohibits the United States from
paying any claim for the loss or
emancipation of slaves. If there
is anything iu the Constitution of
the State of Texas which renders
this amendment inoperative, there
is a surprise in store for the lawyers
of the country. If loyal Texans
could maintain suits for the value
of emancipated slaves there would
be no immediate occasion for devi
sing plans for getting rid of the sur
plus revenue. The Texas claim
ants would take care of the surplus
for a year or two. The number who
would be shown to have been loy
al during the war would not be the
least interesting feature of the
new class of claims. It will proba
bly he discovered however, that the
Globe Democrat’s news is of that
sensational character which doesn’t
bear investigation.
A Beautiful Incident.
A naval officer being at sea in a
dreadful storm, his wife sitting in
the cabin near him, filled with
alarm for the safety of the vessel,
was so surprised at his serenity and
composure that she crid out:
“My dear are you not afraid ?
How is it possible you can be so
calm in such a dreadful storm?”
He rose from his chair, dashed it
to the deck, drew his sword, and
pointing it at the breast of his wife,
exclaimed:
“Are you not afraid?”
She.immediatly answered, “No.”
“Why ?” said the officer. *
“Because.” replied his wife, “I
know that the sword is in the hands
of my husband, and he loves me too
well to hurt me.”
“Then,” said he, “I know in whom
I believe; and that He who holds
the wind in his hand is my father.”
From the Cuthbert Enterprise.
It Does Look So.
We would like to ask that clever
fellow over there who is such a
strong advocate of whisky what it
has done for him or his friends that
he should indorse it so warmly.
Has it helped your business, im
proved your health, elevated you
in society, made you happier, and
given you a better prospect for the
eternal future? If it lias, very
well. You are seasonable in the
zeal you display. But if on the oth
er hand, it has taken away your
money, driven you from the com
pany of good people, affected your
health, reddened your nose and
eyes, and bloated your whole body
and brought misery to your mother,
your wife and children, then
wouldn’t it he a good thing to let
go?
The Banner Watchmen is not
speaking of honest men in the
following paragraph: “A man will
take a newspaqer for two or three
years, and if you stop his paper he
gets mad and will not pay for the
time he has been taking it. All
newspapers should adopt the cash
in advance system and then there
will he no chance of any one
getting in his debt.”
Chicago claims to exhibit a three
headed girl who sings soprano, con
tralto and alto all at the same time.
Won’t her husband catch it when
she gets married. He will not only
have to buy three new hats every
month, hut when the chorus of trip-
le-tongued complaints begin they
will pierce his ears as if sharper
than a three-edged sword.
Ex-senator Speneer now claims
that president Garfield and
Postmaster General James gave
him writ of indulgence providing
that he should not be called as a
witness in case he furnished the
Rev. H. C. Christian, who has
been pastor of the Methodist
church at Barnsville for this- year,
has been transferred to the Califor- j evidence at his command, and he
nia Conference. He wil go direct
to Sacramento where he will take
charge of the Southern Methodist
Church of that city.
How A Pig Made a President.
About this time in knots about
the sunny corners and around de
pots, and hotels, when political sto
ries are in order, you will occasion
ally hear some old stager remark
that “a pig once made Andrew
Jackson president.” It was never
my fortune to meet one who could
remember how it came about, hut
in a, copy of the American Travel
ler for December 19,1828, being vol
ume IV., No. 50,1 find all the par
ticulars. which I copy for the bene
fit of the society for the perpetua
tion of old stories.
It appears that away back in the
early dawn of the nineteenth cen
tury, in the town of Cranston, R. I.,
Mr. Somebody’s pig smelt a cab
bage in a neighbor’s garden—he
rooted through the fence and de
molished said garden—the garden
owner sued the pig’s proprietor—
James Burrill was the prosecuting
attorney—the prosecuting attorney
was a candidate for the United
States senate—the senator was cho
sen by the state legislature—in that
body there was a tie, occasioned by
the absence of one of Burrill’s party,
who stayed away on account of
lawsuit aforesaid—the said tie was
unravelled by the casting vote
of the speaker in favor of Burrill’s
opponent, Jeremiah B. Howell—
Jeremiah voted for tlie war, which
James would not have done—the
war was made by a majority of one
in the national .senate—that war
made General Jackson popular—
that popularity gave Jackson the
presidency.
A Drunkard’s Wife
The Supreme Court of Iowa has
given practical application in a
recent decision to the okt proverb,
“ As you make your bed so yon
must lie down in it.” John York
made a contract with Sus*b Moeier
by which she was to become hia
wife and he was to make pecuniary
provision for her. They were duly
married. In less than tww months
the bride abandoned her husband
on account of his drunkenness.
Soon after John died, and the
Widow sought to enforce the
terms of the antenuptial contract;
but the court decided against her.
It appears that Jflhn was a drunk-
arfi before the marriage, 1 and the
court held that the wife was not
justified in leaving him; that, in
short, she had not lived up to her
part of the agaeement. The widow
urged in extenuatron that he had
promised before marriage that he
would reform, but the court
answered: “His failure to keep thie
promise did not justify her in
deserting him. All the world
knows that such promises,made by
a drunkard, are always broken. In
a few words, as she knowingly
marries a drunkard, she should be
content to he a drunkard’s wife.”
The decision in this particular cane
seems to be a hardship, hut the
lesson contained in it should be
taken to heart by women who hare
not yet elected to become the wives
of drunkards.
. To Husbands.
Always complain of being tired,
and remember that nobody else
gets tired.
Your wife should have everything
in readiness for you, hut you should
not do anything for her.
When your wife asks you for
money give her a nickle; ask her
what she wants with it, and when
slip tells you, ask her if she can’t do
without it. Then go down town
and spend ten times that amount
for cigars, for they are a necessity.
Go down town of an evening,
stand on the street corner and talk
polities; it’s more interesting than
to stay at home with your family.
Charge your wife not to gossip,
but you can spin all the yarns you
wish.
Have your wife to get up and
make fires, hut don’t get up your-
sely till the rest of tlie family are
eating breakfast, as you might
catch cold.
Wear old clothes and make your
self as untidy as possible until your
wife’s health fails; then it would be
best for you to fix up some, for in
all probability you will want ano
ther when she is gone.
From Detroit Free Press.
Fraternal Tie*.
In the Lime Kiln Club Judge
Chewso arose to ask for informa
tion. He wanted to know how
strong the fraternal ties of such a
lub should be considered. How
far was he obligated ?
“Brother Chewso,” replied the
president, “I will read the fullerin'
fur your benefit:
“1: A11 meet heah on terms of
equality, hut de member who
blacks stoves an’ saws wood am not
'speeded to he so familiar as to ssk
de barber aimin’ $17 per week to
lend him his toof-pick.
“2. If you find a hrudder in dis
tress, aid him. Dar am no pertick-
ler objeckshun to fakin' a mortgage
on his stove, in erse he wants to
borry fo’ dollars in cash, but give
him a little show befo’ foreclosing
“3. Excuse a hrudder’s faults as
fur as you kin, but arter he has
spit on your butes about three
times you kin conclude dat he aches
to he licked.
“4. Speak well of each odder;
avoid wrangles and slander; bo
ready to give good advice; encour
age sobriety and industry, hut don’t
let a man kick yer dog simply be
kase he sits on de stool nex’ you in
Paradise hall.
This item from the Chicago Dai-j
ly News should he published far (
and wide. Here it is: “Why not
reverse the phrase, a solid South
means a solid North ? So long as
partision papers in the North are
filled with mistrust and hostility
toward the South, solely because it
is Democratic, so long will it re
main so. When the Republican
party of the North ceases to be soiId
against the Democratic rule in the
South, the cause which fosters and
perpetuates that rule will he re
moved. It is nonsense to talk of
‘fraternal feeling’ between the two
sections while politicians make ev
ery election a pretext for tearing
open afresh the wounds of the late
war.”
A novel case is on trial at Car
tersville, Tt is that of R, H. Jones
against J. T. Shepherd on an open
account. Jones is a large carriage
manufacturer, and sometime sin ce
in an advertisement, offered a re
ward to anyone who could find a
single instance in which his work
was not just as lie represented it.—
Shepherd claims to have found sev
eral, and pleads the same as a set
off against the account, and asks
judgment of the overplus in his
favor.
A remarkable cedar tree is re
ported as growing in the negro cem
etery at Americus. From appear
ances it was planted in a large
pitcher at the head of a negro’s
grave about ten years ago. It hurst
the bottom out of the pitcher and
still encircles the bottom of the ce
dar, and is without a crack. The
tree fills the pitcher eonipletly, and
is al*nut eight or ten feet high. It
must have grown from within the
pitcher, as it could have never got
there otherwise.
i says that he originated the whole
j of the star route prosecutions.
I That is indeed remarkable if true.
! You may be wise enough to he
able to say your prayers backward,
i hut if your life is not correct you
j know what you are, and so do other
j people.
The Three Wishes.
A gentleman while sitting at the
dinner table with his family had
thse words said to him by his son,
a lad ofleven years: Father I have
been thinking, if I could have one
single wish of what I would
choose.
To give you a better chance, said
the father, suppose the allowance
be increased to three wishes what
would they be? Be careful Char
ley!
He made nis choice thoughtfully;
first a good character, second, of
good health, and third, of a good
education.
His father suggested to hhn that
fame, power, riches, and various
other things are held in general es
teem among men.
I have thought of all that, said he,
but,'if I have a good character and
good health and a good education,
I shall he able to earn all the mon
ey that will^be of any nse to me,
and eyerything will come along in
its right place.
A wise decision indeed, for a lad
of that age. Let our young readers
think of it and profit by it.-Selected.
From the Henry county Weekly.
How a wicked Merchant was Circum
vented.
A hale of cotton was brought to
town the other day by a neighbor
ing farmer, against whom an exe
cution was held by one of our mer
chants for $22K. Tlie irferchant
placed the fi. fa. in the hands of an
officer to execute^ and the cotton
waslevicd on. The defendant claim
ed that the account was unjust and
refused to submit Jto the levy. He
accordingly employed a lawyer to
defend the property against seizure
and gave him a ten dollar fee for
his service in settling the matter.—
The lawyer conferred with the
plaintiff, paid off the ft. fa.’ with
thirty-five cents additional as cost,
and had $7 50 remaining as his fee
in the case. The defendant seem
ed much elated at his success in de
feating the wicked merchant and
and went away satisfied.