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A SHIP OF m
Bj_BBET HABTE.
[Copyrighted by Houghton, Mifflin ft Co., and
published by arrangement with tbem.l
CHAPTER L
It had rainctl so persistently in San
Francisco during the first we*./ of Janu¬
ary, 1854, that a certain qih. ymire in the
roadway of Long Wharf had become im¬
passable, and a plank was thrown over Its
dangerous depth. Indeed, so treacherous
was the spot that it was alleged, on good
authority, that a hastily embarking trav¬
eler had once hopelessly lost his portman¬
teau, and was fain to dispose of his entire
interest in it for the sum of $2.50 to a spec¬
ulative stranger on the wharf. As the
stranger’s search was rewarded afterwards
only by the discovery of the body of a
casual Chinaman, who had evidently en¬
deavored wickedly to anticipate him, a
feeling of commercial insecurity was added
to the other eccentricities of the locality.
The plank led to the door of a building
that was a marvel even in the chaotic
frontier architecture of the street. The
houses on either side—irregular frames of
wood or corrugated Iron—bore evidence of
having been quickly thrown together, to
meet the requirements of the goods and
passengers who were once disembarked on
what was the muddy beach of the infant
city. But the building in question ex¬
hibited a certain elaboration of form and
design utterly inconsistent with this idea.
The structure obtruded a bowed front to
the street, with a curving line of small
windows, surmounted by elaborate carv¬
ings and scroll work of vines and leaves,
while below, in faded gilt letters, appeared
the legend “Pontiac—Marseilles." The
‘■the snip.”
effect of this incongruity was startling.
It is related that an inebriated minor, im¬
peded by mud and drink before its door,
was found gazing at its remarkable facade
with an expression of the deepest despon¬
dency. “I hev lived a free life, pardner,”
he explained thickly to the Samaritan who
succored him, “and every time since I’ve
been on this six weeks’ jamboree might
have kalkilated it would come to this.
Snakes I’ve seen afore now, and rats I’m
not unfamiliar with, but when it comes to
the stara of a ship risin’ up out of the
street, I reckon it’s time to pass in my
checks." “It is a ship, you blasted old
soaker,” said the Samaritan curtly.
It was indeed a ship. A ship run
ashore and abandoned on the beach years
before by her gold seeking crew, with the
debris of her scattered stores and cargo,
overtaken by the wild growth of the
strange city and the reclamation of the
muddy flat, wherein she lay hopelessly
imbedded; her retreat cut off by wharves
and quays and breakwater, jostled at
first by sheds, and then impacted in a
block of solid warehouses and dwellings,
her rudder, port and counter boarded in,
and now gazing hopelessly through her
cabin windows upon the busy street l>e-
fore her. But still a ship despite her
transformation. The faintest line of con¬
tour yet left visible spoke of the buoy¬
ancy of another element; the balustrade
of her roof was unmistakably a taffrail.
The rain slipped from her swelling sides
with a certain lingering touch of the sea;
the soil around her was still treacherous
with its suggestions, and even the wind
whistled nautieally over her chimney.
If, in the fury of some southwesterly gale,
she had one night slipped her strange
moorings and left a shining track through
the lower town to the distant sea, no one
would have been surprised.
Least of all, perhaps, her present owner
and possessor, Mr. Abnei - Nott. For, by
the irony of circumstances, Mr. Nott was
a tar western farmer, who had never seen
a ship before, nor a Larger stream of water
than a tributary of the Missouri river.
In a spirit, half of fascination, half of
speculation, he had bought her at the
time of her abandonment, and had since
mortgaged his i-anch at Petaluma, with
his live stock, to defray the expense of
filling in the. land where she stood and
the improvements of the viein^y. He
had transferred his household goods and
his only daughter to her cabin, and had
divided the space “between decks” and
her hold into lodging rooms and lofts for
the storage of goods. It could hardly be
said that the investment had been profita¬
ble. His tenants vaguely recognized that
his occupancy was c sentimental rather
than a commercial speculation, and often
generously lent themselves to the illusion
by not paying their rent. Others treated
their own tenancy as a joke—a quaint
recreation born of the childlike familiar¬
ity of frontier intercourse. A few had
left, carelessly abandoning their unsala¬
ble goods to their landlord with great
cheerfulness and a sense of favor. Oc¬
casionally Mr. Abner Nott, in a prac¬
tical relapse, raged against the derelicts,
and talked of dispossessing them, or even
disnymtling his tenement, but he was
easily placated by a compliment to the
“dear old ship,” or an effort made by
some tenant to idealize his apartment. A
photographer who had ingeniously util¬
ized the forecastle for a gallery (accessible
from the bows in the next street), paid no
further tribute than a portrait of the
pretty face of Rosey Nott, The super¬
stitious reverence in which Abner Nott
held his monstrous fancy was naturally
enhanced by his purely bucolic exaggera¬
tion of its real functions and its native
element. - This yerkeel has sailed, and
sailed, and sailed,” he would explain with
some incongruity of illustration, “in a
bee line, makin’ tracks for days runnin’.
I reckon more storms and blizzards heJ
tackled her thea yon ken shake a stick at
She’s stampeded whales afore now, and
sloshed round with pirates sod free hooters
In and outer the Spanish main and across
lots from Marcelleys where she was rared.
And yer she sits peaceful like just ex If
she’d never been outer a pertater patch,
and hadn’t plowed the sea with fo’ssila
and stnddin’ sails and them things ca¬
vortin’ round her masts.’
Abner Nott’s enthusiasm was shared
by his daughter, but with more imagina¬
tion, and an intelligence stimulated by
the scant literature of her father’s emi¬
grant wagon and the few books found on
the cabin shelves. But to her the strange
shell she inhabited suggested more of the
great world than the rude, chaotic civili¬
zation she saw from the cabin windows or
met in the persons of her father’s lodgers.
Shut up for days in this quaint tenement,
she had seen it change from the enchanted
playground of her childish fancy to the
them re of her active maidenhood, but
without losing her ideal romance in it.
She had translated Its history in her own
way, read its quaint nautical hieroglyphics
after her own fashion, and possessed her¬
self of its secrets. She had in fancy
made voyages in it to foreign lands,
had heard the accents of a softer tongue on
its deeks, and on summer nights, from the
root of the quarter deck, had seen mel¬
lower constellatibns take the place of the
hard metallic glitter of the Californian
skies. Sometimes, in her isolation, the
long, cylindrical vault she inhabited
seemed, like some vast sea shell, to become
musical with the murmurings of the dis¬
tant sea. So completely had it taken the
place of the usual instincts of feminine
youth that she had forgotten she was
pretty, or that her dresses were old in
fashion and scant in quantity. After the
first surprise of admiration her father’s
lodgers ceased to follow the abstracted
nymph except with their eyes—partly re¬
specting her spiritual shyness, partly re
specting the jealous supervision of the
paternal Nott She seldom penetrated the
crowded center of the growing city; heT
rare excursions were confined to the old
ranch at Petaluma, whence she brought
flowers and plants, and even extemporized
a hanging garden on the quarter deck
It was still raining, and the wind, which
had increased to a gale, was dashing the
drops against the slanting cabin windows
with a sound like spray when Mr. Abner
Nott sat before a table seriously engaged
with his accounts. For it was “steamer
night"—ns that momentous day of reck¬
oning before the sailing of the regular
mail steamer was briefly known to com¬
mercial San Francisco—and Mr. Nott
was subject, at -such times to severely
practical relapses. A swinging light
seemed to bring into greater relief that
peculiar encased casket like security of the
low timbered, tightly fitting apartment,
with its toylike utilities of space, and
made the pretty oval face of Rosey Nott
appear a characteristic ornament. The
sibling door of the cabin communicated
with the main deck, now roofed in and
partitioned off so as to form a small pass
ago that led to the open starboard gang
way, where a narrow, inclosed staircase
built on the ship's side took the place oi
the ship’s ladder under her counter, and
opened in the street.
A dash of rain against the window
caused Rosey to lift her eyes from her
book.
“It’s much nicer here than at the ranch,
father,” she said coaxingly, “even leaving
alone it’s being a beautiful ship instead of
a shanty; the wind don’t whistle through
the cracks and blow out the candle when
you’re reading, nor the rain spoil your
things hung up against the wall. And
you look more like a gentleman sitting in
his own—ship—you know, looking over his
bills and getting ready to give his or¬
ders.”
Vague and general as Miss Rosey"s com¬
pliment was, it had its full effect upon
her father, who was at times dimly con¬
scious of his hopele sticity anil Its in¬
congruity with his -mndings. “Yes,”
he said awkwardl. with a relaxation of
his aggressive attitude; “yes, in course
it’s more bang up style, but it don’t pay
—Rosey—it don’t pay. Yer’s the Pontiac
that oughter be bringin’ in, ez rents go,
at least $300 a month, don’t make her
taxes. I bin thinkin’seriously of sellin’
her.”
As Rosey knew her father had experi¬
enced this serious contemplation on the
first of every month for the last two years,
and cheerfullyignored.it the next day,
she only said, “I’m sure the vacant rooms
and lofts are all rented, father.”
“That’s it," returned Mr. Nott thought¬
fully, plucking at his bushy whiskers with
his fingers and thumb as if he were re¬
moving dead and sapless incumbrances in
their growth, “that’s just what it is—
them ’8 ez in it themselves don’t pay, and
them ez haz left their goods—the goods
don’t pay. The feller ez stored them iron
sugar kettles in the forehold, after trying
to get me to niake another advance on
’em, sez he believes he’ll have to sacrifice
’em to me after all, and only begs I’d give
him a chance of buying back the half of
’em ten years from now, at double what I
advanced him. The chap that left them
five hundred cases of hair dye ’tween
decks and then skipped out to Sacramento,
met me the other day in the street and ad¬
vised me to use a bottle ez an advertise¬
ment, or try it on the starn of the Pontiac
for fire proof paint. That foolishness ez
all he’s good for. And yet tbar might l>e
Buthin’ in the paint, if a feller had nigger
lack. There’s that New York chap ez
bought up them damaged boxes of plug
terbaker for $50 a thousand, and sold ’em
for foundations for that new building in
Sansome street at a thousand clear profit.
It’s all luck, Rosey.”
The girl’s eyes had wandered again to
the pages of her book. Perhaps she was
already familiar with the text of her
father's monologue. But recognizing an
additional querulousness in his voice, she
laid the book asiJe and patiently folded
her hands in her lap.
“That’s right—for I’ve suthin’ to tell
ye. The fact Is Sleight wants to buy the
Pontiac put and out just ez she stands
with the two fifty vara lots she stands on.”
“Sleight wants to buy her* Sleight*”
echoed Rosey incredulously.
“You bet! Sleight—the big financier,
the smartest man in ’Frisco.”
“Wbat does he want to buy her for?”
ask yd Rosey, knitting her pretty brows.
The apparently simple question sud¬
denly pnzxled Mr. Nott, He glanced
feebly at hie daughter’s face, and frowned
In vacant Irritation. “That's so," he
said, drawing a long breath; “there’s
suthin’ in that.”
“What did he say’” continued the
young girl, impatiently.
“Not much. ‘You’ve got the jPnuUae,
Nott,* sex he. ‘Yon bet!'sez T ‘What 11
you take for her and the ! ■: stands
o®?’ sez he, short and sir me tel¬
lers, Rosey,” said Nott......* a cunning
smile, “would hev blurted out a big Ag¬
ger and been cotched. That ain't my
style. I just looked at him I'll wait
fur yonr Aggers until next Me , v day,'
sez be, and off he goes like a He’s
awfully sharp, Rosey.”
“But if he is sharp, father, and he
really wants to buy the ship,” returned
Rosey, thoughtfully, “it’s only because he
knows it’s valuable property, and not be¬
cause he likes It as we do. He can’t take
that value away even if we don’t sell it to
hint, and all the while we have t he com¬
fort of the dear old Pontiac, don’t you
sec?” '
This exhaustive commercial reasoning
was so sympathetic to Mr. Nott s instincts
that he accepted it as conclusive. He,
however, deemed it wise to still preserve
his practical attitude. “But that don’t
make it pay by the month, Rosey. Suthin’
must be done. I’m thinking I'll clean out
that photographer.”
“Not just after he's taken such a pretty
view of the cabin front of the Pontiac
from the street, father! No! He’s going
to give us a copy, and put the other in a
shop window in Montgomery street.”
“That’s so,” said Mr. Nott, musingly;
“it’s no slouch of an advertisement. ‘The
Pontiac,’ the property of A. Nott, Esq., of
St. Jo, Mo. Send it on to your Aunt
Phoebe; sorter make the old folks open
their eyes—oh? Well, seein’ he’s been to
some expense fittin’ up an entrance from
the other street, we’ll let him slide. But
as to that d-d old Frenchman Ferrers,
in the next loft, with his stuck up airs
and high falutin style, we must get quit
of liim; he’s regularly gouged me in that
ere horsehair spekilation.”
“How can you say that, father?” said
Rosey, with a slight increase of color. “It
was your own offer. You know those
bales of curled horsehair were left behind
by the late tenant to pay his rent. When
Mr. de Ferrieres rented the room after¬
wards, you told him you’d throw them
in in the place of repairs and furniture.
It was yonr own offer.”
“Yes, but I didn’t reckon thcr'd ever tw
a big price per pound paid for the darned
stuff for sofys and cushions and sieli.”
“How do yon know he knew it, father?"
responded Rosey.
“Then why did lie' look so silly at first,
and then put on airs when I joked him
about it, eh?”
“Perhaps he didn’t understand your
. joking, father. He’s a foreigner, and s-liy
and proud, and—not like the other-. I
don’t think he knew what you meant
then, any more than he believed he v. as
making a bargain before. He may he
poor, but I think he’s been—a—a—gentle¬
man.”
The young girl’s animation penetrated
even Mr. Nott’s slow comprehension. Her
novel opposition, and even the prettiness
it enhanced, gave him a dull premonition
of pain. His small round eyes became
abstracted, his mouth remained partly
open, even his fresh color slightly paled.
“You seem to have been takin’ stock of
this yer man, Rosey,” he said, with a faint
attempt at archness; “if he wnrn't ez old
ez a crow, for all his young leathers. I'd
think he was makin’ up to you.”
But the passing glow had faded from
her young cheeks, and her eyes wandered
again to her book. “He pays his rent
regularly every steamer night,” she said,
quietly, as if dismissing an exhausted .sub¬
ject, “and he'll be here in a moment, I
dare say.” She took up her book, and
leaning her head on her hand, once more
became absorbed in its pages.
An uneasy silence followed. The rain
beat against the windows, the ticking of
a clock became audible, but still Mr. Nott
sat with vacant eyes fixed on his daugh¬
ter’s face, and the constrained smile on
his lips, lie was conscious that lie had
never seen her look so pretty before, yet
lie^could unalloyed not tell satisfaction. why this was no longer
an Not but that
he had always accepted the admiration of
others for her as a matter of course, but
for the first time he became conscious that
she not only had an Interest in others, but
apparently a superior knowledge of them.
How did she know these things about this
man, and v. h bad rhe only now accident¬
ally spoken of them:- lie would have dona
so. All this passed so vaguely through
his unrefleetive mind, that, he was unaMa
to retain any decided impression, but the
far reaching one that his lodger had ob¬
tained some occult influence over her
through the exhibition of his baleful skill
in the horsehair speculation. “Them
tricks is likely to take a young girl’s fancy.
I must look artcr her,” he said to himself
softly.
A slow regular step in the gangway
interrupted his paternal reflections.
Hastily buttoning across his chest c . ; < a
jacket which he usually wore at home as
a single concession to his nautical :r-
rouudings, he drew himself up with a: no¬
thing of the assumption of a shipnio.-t -r,
despite certain bucolic suggestions of his
boots and h s. The footsteps approached
nearer, and a tall figure suddenly stood in
the doorway.
It was a figure so extraordinary that
even in the strange masquerade of that
early civilization it was remarkable; a
figure with whom father and >’„•
were already familiar without abate -a- ,t
of wonder—the figure of a rejuvenated ..hi
man, padded, powdered, dyed and panned
to the verge of caricature, but without a
single suggestion of ludierousucss or
humor. A face so artificial that it seemed
almost a mask, but, like a mask, more
pathetic than amusing. He was dressed
in the extreme of fashion of a dozen years
before; his pearl gray trousers strapped
tightly over his varnished Ix-oto. ids
voluminous satin cravat and high collar
embraced his rouged cheeks and dyed
whiskers, his closely buttoned frock coat
clinging to a waist that seemed ,v.< a ted
by stays.
He advanced two steps into the cabin
With an upright precision of motion that
might have bid the Infirmities of age, and
said deliberately with a foreign accent:
s “You-r-r nc-coumpt?”
In the actual presence of the apparition
Mr. Nott’s dignified resistance wavered.
But glancing uneasily at his daughter,
and seeing her calm eyes fixed on the
speaker without embarrassment, he folded
his arms stiffly and, with a lofty simula¬
tion of examining the ceiling, said:
“Ahem! Ro*a! The gentleman's ac¬
count.”
It was an infelicitous action. For the
stranger, who evidently hud not noticed
the presence of the young girl before,
started, took a step qniekly forward, bent
stiffly but profoundly over the little hand
that held the account, raised it to his
lips, and, with “a thousand pardons,
mademoiselle,” laid a small canvas bag
containing the rent laeforc the disorganized
Mr. Nott and stiffly vanished.
That night was a troubled one to tha
simple i tin Jed proprietor of the good ship
Pontiac. T'liable to voice his uneasiness
by further discussion, but feeling that his
late discomposing interview with his
lodger demanded some marked protest,
ho absented himself on the plea of busi¬
ness during the rest of the evening, liap
pity to hi* daughter's utter obliviousness
of the reason. Lights were burning bril¬
liantly in counting rooms and offices, the
feverish lif.- the mercantile city was at
its height. With a vague idea of enter¬
ing into immediate negotiations with Mr.
Sleight for the sale of the ship—as a di¬
rect way out of Ids present perplexity, he
bent his steps toward the financier's office,
but paused and turned back before reach
ing the door. He made liis way to the
wharf and gazed abstractedly at the lights
reflected in the dark, tremulous, jelly like
water. But wherever he went he was ac¬
companied by the absurd figure of his
lodger—a figure he had hitherto laughed
at or half pitted, but which now, to his
bewildered comprehension, seemed to have
a fateful significance. Here a new idea
seized him, and he hurried back to the
ship, slackening his paco only when he
arrived at his own doorway. Here he
paused a moment and slowly ascended
the staircase. When he reached the pas¬
sage ho coughed slightly and paused
again Then he pushed open the door of
the darkened cabin and called softly:
“Rosey!”
“What is it, father?” said Rosey’s voice
front the little stateroom on the right—
Rosey’s own bower.
“Nothing!” said Mr. Nott, with an af¬
fectation of languid calmness; “I only
wanted to know if you was comfortable.
It’s an awful busy night in town.”
“Yes, father.”
“1 i tl.ui'» tons o’ gold goin’ to the
states to-morrow.”
“Yes, father.”
“Pretty comfortable, eh?”
“Yes, father.”
“Well, I’ll browse round a spell, and
turn in myself, soon.”
“Yes, father.”
Mr. Nott took down a hanging lantern,
lit it, and passed out into the gangway.
Another lamp hung from the companion
hatch to light the tenants to the lower
deck, whence he descended. This deck
was divided fore and aft by a partitioned
passage—the toft a or apartments l»eing
lighted from the ports, and one or two by
a do r cut through the ship's side com¬
municating with an alley on either side.
This was the case with the loft occupied
by Mr. Nott's strange lodger, which, be¬
sides a door in the passage, had this inde¬
pendent communication with tiie alley.
Nott had never known him to make use
of the latter door; on the contrary, it was
his regular habit to issue from his apart¬
ment at 3 o'clock every afternoon, dressed
as lie has been described, stride deliberately
through t lie passage to the upper deck and
thence into the street, where his strange
figure was a feature of the principal
promenade for two or three hours, re¬
turning a: regularly at 8 o'clock to the
rdiip and the seclusion of his loft. Mr.
Nott paused before the door, under the
pretense of throwing the light before him
into the shadows of the forecastle; all was
silent within. He was turning back when
lie was impressed by the regular recur¬
rence of a peculiar rustling sound which
he had at first referred to the rubbing of
the wires of the swinging lantern against
his clothing. He set down the light and
listened; the sound was evidently on the
other side of the partition; the sound of
some prolonged, rustling, scraping move¬
ment, with regular intervals. Was it
due to another of Mr. Nott’s unprofitable
tenants—the rats? No. A bright idea
flashed upon*Mr. Nott’s troubled mind.
It was de Ferrieres snoring! He smiled
grimly. "Wonder if Rosey’d call him a
gentler.n u if .-he heard that,” he chuckled
to himself as he slowly made hfs way
back to the cabin and the small state
room opposite to his daughter's. During
the re d of the night lie dreamed of being
compelled to give Itosey in marriage to
his strange lodger, who added insult to
the outrage by snoring audibly through
the marriage service.
>f- .ime, in her cradle like nest in her
tia leal hover. Miss Rosey slumbered as
li; !y. Waking front a vivid dream of
V. -c—a child's Venice—seen from the
sv. .. o of t lie proudly riding Pon-
tin -he was ro impressed as to rise and
crus nu tiptoe to the little slanting port¬
hole. Morning was already dawning over
the fiat, •trugglin;,' city, but from every
count in. ’ and niagszh * '.he votive
tap: :--, i ' ■ fi-verlsli worshipers of trade
and mam: • ,-r-ie -till flaring fiercely.
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January Sheriffs Sales.
\\7 V i LI. BK. SOLD ON THE FIRST 11 K8-
V day in January next, betwi #■*, ilm !c-
ga! hours of pale, before tbe Moot i.f the
Cou-t House, in the city of Griffin, Spalding
County, Georgia, tbe following cb !
property, to-wit;
1 !’< undivided in!< :\.~' .. .,
acre-o*'lend, number not Kuo an, in the
ing thiru . -t of origina'ly ed Henry land now of Bpald- It. T.
Patterson, eou..'i mn cast by Mrs. Ben Beall,
west by land of land
south by land of J. H Elder, north by
of Tbos. Hand. Levied on and sold by vir¬
tue of a Justice Court li fa issued from the
1068th District O. M. of Spalding County in
favor of W. P. Wilson vs. Martha B. Beail.
Levy made by B. C. Head, L. C , ar.d turntd
over to me. Tenant iu possession legally
notified. $6.00
R. 8. CONNER’. Sheriff 8. C.
THE INCURABLE
CURED!
J* Kyuftx, isEl M,wd
tz v* u *
w«* la venr poor --------- —
of <lf*K a gtout. 8. S. I Afi*r I ■eoarw
toot * aat, UK)
talMi ■am 4*11
«-*le y an e me. twain*. It It Yoor* to to a • rwprctfajjy feoarehoWTi tMMMoMd 5£h?
Mao TlW ftottMs.
left cfemk. ft had «
• •wo Cure mi n> in* jr Tha pTnr»kitoty> KradlMJu.
arm* 1 aorta. o'.nauttad many
w. .a hat! wot ututbin u.
audit las sim M.ore rlruteat Urns erer; *o
mart to-toed, that my fatally Inatotod
that I *li<»«<4 leave oft the meriiemo. I par-
atoteil In Ii»lnu IU* 8. & X At.tha end of two
month# the nme iraa entirety healed. Think
oo(h» after, a rery Might h#*ii!n* oat
appeared, r«i. 1 at once itao hena fli*»pf*»#l»«. a«ain ok *. X. at.
and now orw that la I have
»VTJ *»#xf faith in •. it haa (ton* me more
than l nil the doeiort and other nwdl-
cinei ever took. Y«lira truly,
A. B. Snari-*,
triStJO*. X. Cl. April IS, W57.
Oetittomen—Two or three yearn ago a ran-
-----’ faee. It toon grew to be
I ember general I
tinned the ■HOT ____ ttmoi __J bars cob
to present -
result. tW cancer t “
ttxtr> rraiseMaims_____ no <
ranee __________
to haa good lawn now, In and year*.' my I nppotHchotter S3 old, than It
1 am year* and
Corn.’ today V' inn only, working In Joxaa tha field Lwaac-n. planting
-jn
for .---- Gentlemen—I had a tore on my upper Up
eight -----— tear*. - Seven i different donor* at
,
amah tempo-d ill vain ________ to beat I It. One gave me a
via) *1 for for are (tv# dollar* dollar*, which waaa “ cer¬
tain cure.” It l» needles* to any that it did
m* quite no good. About ople tWo thought yean ago I had I became
uneasy, I as |k a can¬
cer, and took a coarse of eighteen bottle*
of s. H.& The result baa been a complete
cure. The ulcer or caneer healed beautiful
It. leaving l x-rreelya perceptible sear. From
that day baer been in excellent health, the
Specific ha* on; purified my blood thorough¬
ly, digestion, tnercaard iu my appetite wen!, I amt fee! perfected like wy
a * new
Woman, entirely. and, Iwst Your* of all, the eight year ulcer
to gone sincerely, Csfraot.
Mk*. W. P.
Trenton, Todd Co., Ky , Peb. JA.ISSJ.
Treatise on Wood and Skin Dteeaae* mailed
free. Td» Hwure Si-ecine Co.,
Drawee i. Atlanta, tta.
Administratrix's Sale
By virtue of an order granted by tl»e Court
of Ordinary of Hpalding highest County, Georgia, I
will sell t • the bidder before the
door of the Court first House Tuesday Id Spalding in February County,
Scorgia, on the the of sale, fol¬
next, during legal hours the
lowing described property tt-wit: 257
acres of ttnd, more or less, It Jit. /jm Dis¬
trict, the place Spalding where County, R. P. C-owdepilred Oeorgla.ftuowa the aa
at
time D of his and death, 8. D. and WUlftTyhn, b^gfit^pa east south by by F. E. J.
re wry Yur^WfrK
J. Bowden and Mrs. west by W.
B. Crowder and J. L. J’ w)'. .ndnorth by
O Norton. Terms of mi!*-, * • i. Sold sub¬
ject to and a mortgage Trust Company. in favor oi the Georgia
Loan .
Thie property having been, on the 1st
Tuesday in December, bid off by R. Cod
Crowder for 12,300 and he having failed to
comply with the terms of sale aud pay the
amount of hts bid and the Administratrix
having offtred hint a deed, the above proper-
! y is sold at the risk of said K. C. Crowder.
HARRIET R. 8. CROWDER,
Administratrix of P. C~ >v Tor, dee d.
$6 00 .
Mortgage Foreclosure.
GEORGIA—Spa ldixo Co emir.
Whereas, C. 8. Collins did on Jan. Blanton 12th,
1887, make ami execute to B. P. ft
Co. of bin $206.66, promissory and note for the due principal Oct. let,
snm to become
1887, with interest at eight per cent, per an¬
num from date If not punctually p*. 5. and
for ten per cent, for attorney’s fee*; ana
wberoas, the said C. 8. Collins did on said
day mortgage to said B. P. Blanton d Co.,
to secure the pa* ment of > aid note, ninety-
six acres of land in Orr’s district, Spalding
County, known as Brooks place Bounded
north bv county fa m, south and west by
land tea SIVA ofH. A At . Alda E. Williamson, M liJiauinvuf ouu and wi eastby land
of Allen Thomas, and in said _ did
B. P Blanton Co. the mortgage right
give to sell said lands & said debt, and
power to to pay
principal, of interest, advertising attorney’s the fees in ai d cost
sale, by Sheriff adver same toed, the in man¬ the
ner t bat sales arc
event that pay me t of said debt waa not
made, and in Mild mortgage the right is giv¬
en io the said B. P. Blanton A Co. to transfer
the power to sell with the mortgage Hcn.and
whereas, the said B.P Blanton ft Co.did trails
fer the said mortgage and the power of tale
Herein given to Joseph D. Boyd on March
Ifitb, 1887, and whereas, the said O. 8. Col¬
lins has wholly D. Boyd, failed to pay said debt. B. P. Blan¬ Now,
1, Joseph transferee of
ton ft Co., do hereby declare that I will be
fore the court home door in ibe town of
Griffin, on aforesaid the firs described Tuesday in lands January.1888,
sell thi at i dblic
outcry to the ibe highest principal, bidder, for the and purpose
of paying interest attor
ney's fec-s due by the terms of said contract
and the costs of advertising and < f the sale.
1 C. will Collins execute could the title to the purchaser that
8. make.
decStds JOSEPH D. BoTD.
Ordinary’s Advertisements.
✓ ORDINARY’S OFFICE, i- paddixo Coc*~
V/ tv, Georgia, Oct. 7tb, 1887.—John H.
Mitchell, executor, has applied to me for lei
ter# of dismission from the estate of Bhat-
tleen Mitched, late of saidcooniy, deceased.
Let all persons concerned show cause be¬
fore the Court of Ordinary the of said Monday 'ounty,
January, st my qflice 1888, in U- iflin, o’clock on first why such in
should by ten granted. a. m.,
letters not be
80.15 F. W HAMMOND, Ordinary.
/"ORDINARY’S OFFICE. Spauhno Cora-
V/ tv Georgia, December 5th, J. 1887.— Ellis, Maty has
E. Ellis, Administratrix of W.
applied io me for leave to sell the lands be¬
longing to the estate of the said W. J. Ellis,
late of said county, deceased.
Let all persons concerned thow cause be¬
fore the Con -i of Ordinary of said county,
at my office Grift h, on the first Mondsy
iu January, 1 - 8, by ten o’clock, a. m., why
such leave t!i old net be granted.
*3.00 L W. HAMMOND, Ordinary.
r\RDINAl V8 OFFICE, Spai.ding Cou.v-
tt, GEO- •.«, Decemberitb, J887. —N M.
Collins, Administrator of James DonetRhas
applied to me for Inave to sell the lands of
the estate of James Doraettjat* of said coun¬
ty, deceased.
Let all persons concerned show cause be¬
fore the Court of Ordinary of said eonnty, at
my office in Griffin, on tbe first Monday in
January, 1**8, by ten o'clock a. m., why
such $3 leave should E. W. not HAMMOND be granted. Ordinary.
00.
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