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Advertisements.; xaRDINARY’B OFFICE, ' C/ Spalding County, Ga. To nil whom it may concern: Seaton » arlntland, administrator Mrs. Susan M. , deceased, having in proper form • P-iilisrwne for leave/) sell the follow “fidlmSty. Two shires of the Kincaid urwW' istock No; 89. Two shares nriffln Compress stock No. 35, Two shares the Griffin M’fg. Co. stock 196, four shares The Merchants* Planters Bank stock No. 181 One 2nd preferred Central Income r k Bond No 8911, and for the purpose erecting monuments over the graves of Dadd J. and Mre - Sußan M. Bailey, deceased. Let all persons con ”, rn ed show cause, if any there be, before tha Court of Ordinary, in Griffin, Georgia, ® the fl rat Monday in January. 1899, by io oclock a. m„ why such order should OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. To all whom it may concern: W. H. Moore, administrator, Henry and Virginia r. Moore, deceased, having in proper form applied to me for leave to sell one (1) undivided one fourth (J) interest in a forty (40) acre tract of wild land being all or part of Lot No. IM, 21st District, 2nd section, formally Cass now Bartow coun ty. Georgia. Said interest being a part of the estate of Virgin iaL. Moore, deceased, and that for the purpose of division it is necessary to sell said land. Dec. sth, 1898. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. Whereas, E. A. Huckaby, administiator de bonis non of Nathan Fomby, represents to the court in his petition, duly filed and entered on record, that he has fnllv admin istered on Nathan Fomby’s estate. This is therefore to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his admin istration, and receive letters of admission on the first Monday in March, 1899. Dec. «tb, 1898. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. i.-- i '■ STATE OF GEORGIA, ng Spalding County. it may concern: R. H. in proper form ap- 7 letters of ad **." Hn*n the estate of Henry E, said “ ount y> this is to cflMßnd singular the creditors and next of kin of H. E. Williamson, to be and ap pear at my office in Griffin, Ga., on The first Monday in January , 1899, by ten o’clock a. m., and to show cause, if any they can. why permanent administration should not be granted to R. H. William son on H. E. Williamson’s estate. Witness my hand and official signature, this 6th day of Dec. 1898. " J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. Commissioners appointed to set apart twelve months’ support to Mrs. Anna B. Williamson and her minor child, having performed their duty, and filed their re port in this office. Let all persons con cerned show cause before the court of or dinary, at the Ordinary’s office, by 10 o’clock a. m., on first Monday in January, 1899, why such report should not be made file judgment of the court. Dec. 6,1898. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. Whereas, B.R. Blakely, administrator of Mrs. Melvina Couch, represents to the court in his petition, duly filed and enter ed on record, that he has tally administer ed on Mrs. Melvina Couch’s estate. This is therefore to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if sny they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his admin istration, and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in March, 1899. Dec. 8,1898. J. A. DREWRY, Ordinary. Guardian’s Sale. ORDINARY’S OFFICE, Spalding County, Ga. By virtue of an order granted by the Ordinary of Spalding county, Georgia, at the December term of said court, 1898, I will sei. to the highest bidder, before the court house door in Griffin, Georgia, be tween the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in January, 1899, the following real estate situated in Griffin, Spalding county, Georgia, bounded as follows: north by Shattuc place, east by(ls) Fif teenth street, south by J. D. Boyd’s estate and west by B. C. Randall, containing five acres, more or less. v Also, one house and lot bounded as fol ®ows: nort hby Mrs. Sallie Cooper, east by Thirteenth street, south by Solomon street and west by vacant lot, containing halt acre, more or less, and sold for the pur pose of encroaching on corptfs of ward’s estate for their maintenance and education. Terms cash. December sth, 1898. Amanda E. Doe, Guardian her minor children. y Administrator’s Sale.* STATE OF GEORGIA, Spalding County. By viriue of an order granted by the Court of Ordinary of Spalding county, Georgia at the December term of said ; court, 1898,1 will sell to the highest bid der, before the court house door in Griffin, between the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in January, 1899, Three fourths (}) of an acre of land and a three room house in the western part of the city of Griffin in the said county, being a fraction of lot No. two (2) adjoining lot M°- qne (IT, situated near the Christian Pburch aha near the Central railroad of Georgia, and for the purpose of division among the heirs and legatees of said es tate- . Terms cash. W. H. MOORE, Administrator Henry Moore, deceased. December Sth, 1898. * 1 from V.S. Journal of 'Micbu <■ I - Prof. W. H. Peeks, who ■ makes a specialty of I I I &. 1 Epilepsy, has without ■■W ■ ■ Wk doubt treated and cur- II 'll ed more cases than any 1 II living Physician; hi* X 11 ,kj urn-tas riwAife j large &%XWA?ra£? E “pX , .”d I S'S aX.Ssywe.aay one wishing a cure to address "■•“•JS* HKBO, P. 4 Cedar St., ITewTork moonlight in music. story Os Mow Beethoven Created Hi. Wonderful Sonata. Beethoven’s famous composition, the Moonlight Sonata,” is said t 0 have been composed under the following cir cumstances: One evening. as Beethoven and a friend were hurrying through the streets of Bonn, they heard the familiar notes of the “Sonata In F. ” Something ma ® ,c * on ’ a toDch attracted the attention of Beethoven, and he stopped and listened. Suddenly the music stop ped, and the despairing words of the musician came to them through the open window, “Oh, if I could but hear some really good musician play this wonderful piece 1“ tnd the words ended in a sob. “Let us go in,” said Beethoven, ibey entered and found the’’ player a young girl, poor and blind. Beethoven sat down at the old harpsichord and played as he had never played before. His listeners were spellbound. “Tell us,” they begged, “who are you?” For answer he played the opening bars in the ‘Sonata In F.” “It is Beethoven!” they exclaimed in awe and admiration. Suddenly the candle flickered and went out. Beethoven ceased playing and bowed his head upon his band. His friend threw open the shutters. A flood of beautiful moonlight entered the room. Its transfiguring light touched up the poor old instrument and rested upon the noble figure bowed before it. The profound silence was broken at last by the musician, who said: “Listen! I will improvise a sonata to the moon light. ” Then was created this wonder ful sonata, beginning in a sad, tender movement, the embodiment in sound of the gentle moonlight transfiguring and glorifying the dark earth. Suddenly the music ceased, and with a brief farewell Beethoven hurried home to put upon paper this famous composition.—Philadelphia Saturday Post. A REALISTIC ACT. An Story of Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle. While he was playing Rip Van Winkle at Chicago Jefferson once went to the theater very much exhaust ed by a long day’s fishing on the lake. As the curtain rose on the third act it disclosed the white haired Rip still deep in his 20 years’ nap. Five, 10, 20 min utes passed and he did not awaken. The audience began to get impatient and the prompter uneasy. The great actor doubtless knew what he was about, but this was carrying the realistic business too far. The fact was that all this time Jefferson was really sleeping the sleep of the just, or rather of the fisherman who bad sat eight hours in the sun. Finally the gallery became uproarious, and one of the “gods” wanted to know if there was going to be “19 years more of this snooze business!” At this point Jefferson began to snore. This decided the prompter, who opened a small trap beneath the stage and began to prod Rip from below. The fagged comedian fumbled in his pocket for an imaginary railway ticket and muttered drowsily, “Going right through, ’ductor.” At this entirely new reading the au dience was transfixed with amazement, vjhen all at once Jefferson sat up with a’loud shriek, evidently in agony. The exasperated prompter had “jabbed” him with a pin. Consciousness of the situation came to him and the play went on after that with a rush.—Phila delphia Post. A Binding Chinese Oath. We are accustomed to all manner of swearing—that is, of course, legal oath taking—in this country, but we do not recollect hearing of so queer a medium of attestation as a “guillotined black cockatoo.” That is what the police of a country district in New South Wales had to provide the other day for a fin icking Chinaman, who obstinately de clined to swear on anything else. Head less fowls were brought, but in vain. Even a black swan, a luxury surely for a Chinese witness, was declined. After many days a dead cockatoo of the required hue was discovered in a hut of one of the other “heathen, ” as they call the Celestials, who mulcted the officials 10 shillings for a fast decom posing bird. Then the solemn and pe culiar oath was duly administered, when the difficult witness blandly declared that he knew nothing about the case and sat down smiling.—London Chron icle. Revised Geography. A correspondent reports an occurrence which took place at a night school. “Williams,” asked the instructor, “which is the largest island in the world?” “It’s either Asia or Africa,” replied the young man to whom the question was addressed. “I am speaking of islands, Williams. Those are continents.” "I think not, sir," drawled Wil liams. “When the Suez canal was cut, it made islands of both of ’em, sir. Come to think of it, sir, the largest is Asia and Europe. It’s all one piece of ground.”—Youth’s Companion. Illa First Client, In an address delivered at Hartford the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale told the story of James Russell Lowell’s first client as Lowell had told it to him. Lowell had hardly opened his law office when a stranger appeared. Tlte young lawyer deferentially offered him a chair, took out his notebook, talked of the weather, and when he finally came to business found the stranger was a bill collector. “What willlfotne cost of the wn» s " asked Queen Augusfo when French and Germans grew belligerent “Only a Napoleon,” replied Bismarck. A fine ostrich is calculated to yield (2,000 woitb of feathers. A QUEER CALCULATION. Tire Power That Wenlff Be RegwireA to Move the Earth. Statisticians sometimes have queer ideas. <X)ne of them has amused himself by calculating how much energy, water and coal it would take to move the earth a foot, supposing that it was sub jected throughout its mass to a force equivalent to terrestrial gravitation. This is a gratuitous supposition, for in spite of its enormous mass the earth weighs nothing. Starting with the fact that the earth’s moss is about 6,100 million-million million tons, our statistician calculates that we should require 70,000,000,000 years for a 10,000 horsepower en gine to move our globe a foot. The boiler that should feed this engine would vaporize a quantity of water that would cover the whole face of the globe with a layer 300 feet deep. The vapori zation of this water would require 4,000 million-million tons of coal. This coal carried in cars holding ten tons each and having a total length of 80 feet, would require 400 million-million cars, which would reach 80,000,000 times around the earth. This train, moving at the rate of 40 miles an hour, would take more than 5,000,000 years to trav erse its own length. It would require for storage a shed that would cover 1)000 times the area of Europe. .If we realize that this fantastically huge amount of energy is nothing at all compared with what the earth possesses in virtue of its rotation about its axis, its revolution about the sun, and its translation in space with the solar sys tem, of which the earth is but an in finitesimal part and which itself is but an infinitesimal part of the universe, we may get some idea of the impdrtauce of man in the universe and estimate his incommensurable pride at its just value. —Nature. DANGEROUS PIGS. The Peccary Is Wholly Fearless and Will Fisht Man or Beast. A writer in the St. Louis Republic says that the most Vicious and fearless meipber of the brute creation is the pec cary, or wild hog, of Mexico. This ani mal seems utterly devoid of fear and dis plays an intelligence in fighting man strangely at variance with its apparent ly complete lack of mental attributes. Their ability to scent men is particu larly marked. The only thing to do when they get after you is to run away from them as fast as a horse can carry you, and then there is no certainty that they won’t catch you. They are nearly as swift as a horse, and their endurance is as great as their viciousness. A friend of mine encountered a drove of them in a wild part of Mexico a few years ago, and his escape was almost miraculous. He very foolishly shot and wounded a number of them. Then he took refuge in a tree. The peccaries kept him in the tree all that day and through the night. They circled round the tree, grunting and squealing their delight at the prospect of a feast. He soon exhausted his am munition and brought down a peccary at each fire, but this had no terrors for the beasts. Toward morning they began to eat those he had killed, after which they formed in line and trotted off. If they had not had some of their own number to devour, they would have guarded that tree until my friend, through sheer exhaustion, dropped from his perch and allowed them to make a meal of him. The wildcats and tigers that infest the Mexican wilds flee from the pec caries with instinctive feAr, and even rattlesnakes keep out of their path! A Bit of London Weather. Our weather is grown decidedly good for the last three days—very brisk, clear and dry. Before that it was as bad as weather at any time need be. Long con tinued plunges of wet, then clammy, glarry days on days of half wet (a kind of weather peculiar to London, and fully uglier than whole wet) —a world of black sunless pluister [a soft mixture, neither one thing nor another], very unpleasant to move about in! The in cessant travel makes everything mud here, in spite of all that data [a clat, a wooden scraper J and besoms can do;. A kind of mud, too, which is as fine as paint and actually almost sticks like a kind of paint. I took, at last, into the country, with Oavi clothes and trousers folded up. There the mud was natural mud, and far less of it; indeed little of it in comparison with other country. We dry again in a single day of brisk wind.—Carlyle Cor. in Atlantic. Not Very Pathetic. An Ohio ra»n visiting Boston for the first tinjflßftgpn doing the sights. “I had thrill down at Copp’s ground, ” she said. “Yes, the place for the historic emoti<Ng ’ commented her in terlocutor. She’sJniled. “As soon as my sister-in-law and I got into the place,” she said, “I found myself almost stepping upon a grave with an inscription on a queer little iron cover sort of tomb. I jumped back, feeling the way you do when you step on a grave, and read the inscription, just three initials, no name or date. ‘lsn’t it pathetic?’ I said to my sister in-law. ‘Oh, I don’t know,’ she answer ed, ‘B. W. W. means Boston Water Works. ’ ’’—Boston Transcript. Hourgla»»e» !•» a Loudon Church. Nearly everybody is aware that at one time it was the custom in many churches to regulate the length of the sermon by an hourglass, which stood on the pulpit immediately fronting the preacher. Quite a number of these curi ous relics are preserved in various eccle siastical- edifices throughout the land, but the British and Foreign Sailors’ church, situated in what was formerly Ratcliff highway, is the only one pos sessing four. They are in perfect pres ervation, and are fixed all together in a framework of solid brass.—London Tit-Bits. .-x ■atertataiac Copper. It was a bitter ccl<! night, and a night policeman in Lombard street no ticed a light in the bank window, and, going to the door, rapped. "Is that you, policeman?" asked a voice from within. “Yea,’’waa the reply. “Come in and have a drink,”, said the voice. The policeman stepped inside and en countered a dapper little fellow sitting at a desk. "I’ve been detained tonight straight ening up accounts. ” The policeman wanned himself at the rousing fire that blazed on the hearth and went out again on his beat. An hour after (he policeman came that Jay and, still seeing the light through le window, rapped again. "Is that you, policeman?” "Yes.” ‘ "Come in and warm yourself.” The polioegian accepted the invita tion. "It’s a howling cold night,” said the clerk. "You’re right, sir,” said the police man. So he got another drink and returned to his beat He was rather surprised next day to find that his friend of the night before had got off with some |50,- 006 of the bank’s funds.—London Suc cess. An Attack on Sevastopol. From where I was stationed I could see the dense masses of the attacking columns advance up the slope. Then the torrents of grape which met them would obscure their ranks for a mo ment and hardly a man would be seen to remain. lat one time saw a body of men many hundreds strong so complete ly swept away by one discharge that only a few of the rear rank remained when the iron storm went past I The dead and dying could be clearly distin guished lying in piles on the hillside, and over their prostrate bodies fresh troops crowded on to meet the same fate. Many a manly heart and nervous arm went down in the deadly struggle on that green hillside. No valor avail ed. The cannon’s force was greater than the strength of man. How many ardent hopes were extin guished ! How many home circles de stroyed and lives rendered miserable by the havoc of that hour none can tell, no more than they can imagine the bodily agony or the grief for home and friends which was there endured! What would be the value of what is called "glory” if weighed on the field of bat tle among the dead?—Good Words. Altama or Altamaha? There can, I suppose, be no doubt that in the lines in “The Deserted Vil lage”— To distant oUmes, a dreary scene, Where half the convex world intrudes between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go Where wild Altama murmurs to their Woe— Goldsmith is alluding to the River Al tamaha in Georgia, the colonization of I which had taken place not long before. But his expressions are not very accu rate. So fan from being torrid in the strict sense of the word, the latitude of the mouth of the Altamaha is more than 81 degrees. No part indeed of the present United States is located within the tropics. But, besides this, although there are certainly rattlesnakes and, I believe, scorpions of a certain species in Georgia, there are no tigers there to “wait their hapless prey,” which the poet reckons among the horrors of the region where some of the inhabitants of Auburn have gone.—Notes and Queries. Snow That Is Alive. A most curious phenomenon in the northwest of Canada is the appearance of millions of minute black insects whenever a thaw occurs. During the winter the snow is dry and crisp like sand, and nothing what ever can be discovered of these insects, but as soon as a thaw oomes they are found everywhere in large patches, looking like a dusting of soot. They are generally known as snow fleas or snow lice and have slight hop ping powers, being able to leap some three or four inches. They entirely dis appear when it freezes again, and not a trace of them can be found. They do not fall with the snow as there may have been no snow for a month or more before their arrival and are probably analogous to th'e “red snow” of arctic regions. Second Time I» Out. The hotel stood on a comer of a main street and a comparatively unfrequent ed side street. One evening I overheard the little old black man talking very savagely with another around the cor ner on the side street, and i inion g other things he said: “Yes, suh, an es I hits you dey woan’ be but two licks struck. I’ll hit you an you’ll hit de groan’. “You done heah whut I say.” —Den ver Poet Her Ufuld Voice. “Your wife has such a liquid VC ice, ” •aid Mr. F. admiringly to Mr. T. “Yes; that’s a pretty good name for it,” replied Mr. T. Mr. F. looked up inquiringly, and Mr. T. added immediately: “Don’t you understand? Why, it never dries up, you know. ” —London Fun. Not Disposed to Delay Him. “I would go to the end of the wwld for you, ” ire exclaimed -pas sionately. “I’m sure I wish you would, “she answered coldly, “and—then jump off. ” —Somerville Journal. During the siege of P arts no fewer than 22,000,000 letters »tiled, out trf the city in the 54 balloons dispatched be tween the 19th of September, 1-870, and the 28th of January, 18 71. 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