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„f i:r year* old. When 12 month! old a
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j arm. Partial curvature of tho spine also
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BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY.
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CHAPTER I.
A MOT’,’RE AND ITS CRITICS.
“Let's take a squint in.”
It is on the i leivulk in front of the fine
residence of Ezekiel Breton. Surely every¬
body w ithin the length aud breadth of a hun¬
dred miles must have heard the name of the
wealthy mill owner, whoso energy and
shrewdness have passed into a byword. The
house is brilliantly lighted, and the windows
wide open as if to invite tho attention and
admiration of the humble passers by.
Thri e men, laborers, if coarse, soiled clothes
and dull, heavy tread moan anything, have
come down the street and now stand leaning
against tho tall iron fence.
by shouldn't we see the show, boys?”
continued the long whiskered man, with au
unpleasant laugh. “It's our work that’s pay¬
in’ for it, [ guess IIow long do you think it
would tat; • you. Jack, to scrimp enough to¬
gether to buy one of them candlesticks?
Hullo—ilure's the boss himself,” ami he
thrust his hand inside the iron picifUk to
point out a portly gentleman whose bald
head wax fringed with silver white hair.
Mr. Breton had paused n moment before the
window.
“Come, let’s go on,” urged the man with a
clay pipe, edging <>!!’ a little into the shadow;
“he’ll see us an,! ! :• uiad.”
“V, hat's tii - mi.:. if he does?” and the
speaker frowned at the rich man from be¬
tween the pickets. “He can't get help no
cheaper than us, can he? That’s one good
pint of bein’ way down, you can’t tumble a
mite. But just look at him, boys; big watch
chain and gold bowed specs a-danglin’. See
the thumbs of his white hands stuck in his
vest pocket and him as smilin’ os if he never
did nobody a wrong in his whole blessed life.
There now is somethin’ purtier, though.”
The old gentleman moved unsuspectingly
aside and revealed a young girl, large and
fail-, with great calm blue eyes. She wore a
pale blue silk, with delicate ruffles at her
half hared elbow and at her neck, kissing the
warm white skin.
“Well, 1 suppose my girl Jane might look
just as good in such clothes as them. But she
wouldn't no more speak to Jane than as if
the girl wasn’t human. And as for a poor
man, he might pour his life out for her purty
face and she wouldn't give him a look. A
few dollars and a suit of clothes makes the
odds.”
“What’s she laughin’ at?” said the tall man,
taking his clay pipe from his mouth.
“Can’t you see? There’s the boy standin’
jist beyond her. Breton’s young hopeful.
Nothin’ less than the biggest kind of game
for her, I minute."
“I never seen him before,” remarked the
third man, reverentially. “I s’pose he'll bo
our boss some day."
“He’s to-c.) to college polishin’ up his wits.
’Taint ;;,oi .' be so easy as it was to grind
the po« r. 7 cl! man now didn’t need no
extra scko-i:
“I r.iut : ■ ■ now," said tho tall man,
blow; at ruaih of smoke. “The boy
looks i i ,. kind about his month and eyes.
See lil.i look at the girl I enl’late she don’t
think to'. very bad.”
“Wnii till he gets his heel on tho necks of
a thou • t of ns, as his father has. Wait
till he ii-: ’.j wo aint got a penny ahead, nor
a spot < !' oil's earth for c*r own, but lio at
his i:v ; -. ,See how kind he’ll be then.
’Taint t . . nature of the beast, Bill Rogers.”
Bill Rugo;-. took u long look at the slight
form of !.!:■■ mill owner's son—at his fresh,
young ! i e and small, pleasant black eyes.
“I wi -h l lie lad had a chance. I believe I’d
trust him, Graves. Hadn’t we better be
startin'.’ The mootin' will begin purty soon."
“What's the hurry? Ctrran is always late
himself. Well, come along, then.”
Just now Mr. Breton is leaning lightly on
the mantel near one of his pet heirlooms—
the si ver candelabra. Near him stands a tall,
elegantly formed gentleman, only a trifle
past middle age, w hose clear chiseled mouth
lias tlie merest hint of a smile on it, as if he
had just said something bright. Itwasasmile
be always wore when he had spoken—a smile
with an edge to it. But Mr. Ellingswortk
had to make that smile do good service, for
he never laughed. The funniest jokes had
been told him—the most ridiculous situations
described to him—but he only smiled.
“What am I going to do with the boy?”
Mr. Breton’s voice was always loud and
sharp as if making itself heard above tho
roaring of his mills. “Why, marry him to
your daughter the first thing. Eh! Philip?”
“ Why, marry him to your daughter the,
first thing.’’
Would tho bo angry, proud and reserved
as she was? Philip shot a furtive glance at
Bertha as she sat slice™ atJKhc piano idly turning
over the music But the girl might
not have heard, not a shade of expression
changed in her face. It might as well have
been the sources of the Nile they were dis¬
cussing so far as she was concerned, appar¬
ently, but as she |iessed her white hand on
the music sheet to keep it open, her lover's
eyes softened at the dash of their betrothal
diamond.
“I should think your hands must be pretty
full already,” suggested Mr. Ellingsworth in
the low smooth tone, as much a part of his
style as the cut of his black coat, “with a
thousand unreasonable beings down in your
factories. And by the way, I hear that
Labor is claiming its rights, with a big
L. As if anybody had any rights, except by
accident.”
“Skeptical as ever, Ellingsworth,” said tho
mill owner with all a practical man’s distaste
for a thing so destructive to industry. “But
no, 1 get along easjly enough with my help if
q Yacks and tramps would only keep out of
the way; though there is some kind of an
agitation meeting to-night; somebody is
r-; in- tie- mischief omonj them?* I wish I
knew who it was,' amt Mr. Breton IookciI
impatiently around ttie room ns if ho honed
to nei» the ipceadiary in some corner of lit;
own parlor.
Ho met Bertha’s blue eyes wide open in a
new interest, erne nad half turned ft-oro th«
piano, but her sleeve wiu caught bock on tho
Dtlge of the keyboard, revealing the fair full
contour of her arm, which glistened whiter
than tho ivory beneath it.
“A mystery, how charmingF’ she smiled;
‘‘let me picture him; tall, with clustering
auburn hair on his godlike head”-
“Pish—excuse me, my dear—but more
likely tho fellow is some low, drunken jail¬
bird you would be afraid to pass on the
itreet. Some day they will find out there is
no good making working jieoplo uneasy.
They want the work, and they ought to lie
jlad the work wants them. Their interests
ire identical with ours.”
"No doubt," assented Mr. Ellingsworth, in
fils suavest tones, that seemed too smooth for
satire, “but perhaps they think you get too
large a share of the dividends.”
“You like to round your sentences pretty
well,” retorted Mr. Breton, flushing slightly,
‘but do you moan to say you, of ail men,
ivrutilize with this labor reform nonsense.”'
Ellingsworth smiled and shrugged his
shapely shoulders just visibly.
“Yon ought to know me, Mr. Breton. 1
ij'nqiathize with—nobody. It is too much
trouble. And as for the sufferings of the
lower classes—they may be very pitiable—but
l don't see how the nether millstone can help
-tself, or for that matter lie helped either.”
Then he glanced curiously toward the piano.
“Why, where are our young people?’’
After considerable dumb show Bertha had
become aware that Philip had some intelli¬
gence of a startling nature to communicate.
5o it hapi>ened that, at tho moment Mr
Ellingsworth inquired fur them, tho young
people stood just inside tho door of the cozy
little room called “the study.”
“I am going to have some high fun to-
light, Bertha; 1 am going to that labor meet-
ng. I want to see the business from the iu-
' fide, when the public show isn't going on.”
The girl looked at him in astonishment.
•They won’t let you in.”
“That’s just where the fun is coming. It is
joing to be better than all the college devil¬
try, and—wait here two minutes and I’ll
show you.”
Bix>k shelves ran up to the ceiling on the side
a: tho room, opposite the door. A long of¬
fice table stretched across tho center almost
to the high window looking toward the
street. But all tho business associations did
lot oppress this elegant young woman, who
:hrew herself in luxurious abandon into tho
solitary easy chair. She apparently did not
find love very disturbing. No doubt she only
untied at its poems, fervid with a passion un¬
known to her calm, even life. Her young
lover had often been frightened at the firm
outline of tho cold red lips, with never a
thought of kisses on them, and at the sprite¬
like unconsciousness of her blue eyes that
looked curiously at him when love softened
iiis voice and glorified his face. Sho was not
listening for his returning footsteps, not one
line of eagerness or of suspense was on the
dispassionate face, while she played with the
flashing jewel her lover had placed long ago
jn her finger.
The door opens behind her, but she does not
turn her head—no doubt he will come in
front of her if he wishes to be—there he is, a
slight figure, looking very odd and disagree-
ible in the soiled and ill fitting clothes he has
put on, with no collar or cuffs, but a blue
flannel shirt open a button or two at his neck.
His faded pantaloons were J'oughly thrust
into the tops of an inuuense pair of cowhide
boots which apparently had never been sc
much ns shadowed by u box of blacking. His
black eyes sparkle as he holds out to her a
bandless felt hat which shows tho marks of a
long and varied history. Bertha looked at
bim in dull distaste. What a poor mouth he
had, and how* unpleasantly his face wrinkled
when ho smiled.
“I wouldn't ever do this again,” she said
joldly.
A hurt look came into his eyes; he dropped
his hat on the floor and was turning dejected¬
ly away.
The fun was all gone, and her words and
her look he knew would come back to him a
thousand times when he should bo alone.
But sho put out her hand to him like tho
generally scepter of a queen. “Nevermind—you will
wear better clothes than these,
won’t you ?”
“But I wouldn’t like to have that make
any difference,” said Philip, looking wistfully
at the cool white hand ho held. “Supposing
I was poor”-
She drew her hand away impatiently. If
he had known how he looked then, he would
have chosen another time for his lover's fool¬
ishness.
“Don’t get poor. I like pretty things and
graceful manners and elegant surroundings;
that is the way I am made. I should suffo¬
cate if I didn’t have them.”
“But,” urged Philip uneasily, “you couldn't
love anybody but me, could you?”
Sho smiled charmingly. “You must not
let me!” Then she rose as if to dismiss the
mbject. “Are you all ready?”
In a minute more he was, after he had
fastened on his yellow whiskers and bronzed
over his face and neck and white wrists.
“Your own father wouldn’t know you!” she
laughed, as they opened the outer door.
Philip went down two steps.
“You shake the foundation with those
boots.” He was quite recovering his spirits,
now that she was so kind with him. “And
you will tell me all about it, and whether the
leader has auburn hair as I said ? How long
before you will come back—an hour? Well.
I'll be here as long os that."
Ho pulled his great hat well down over his
;yes and started, but at the gate he turned to
look back.
Bertha stood in the doorway, tail and
queenly, the red gold of le v hair glistening
in the light like a halo about her head. He
could not catch the look in her face, but as
she stood she raised her hand to her lips
and threw him a kiss with a gesture of ex¬
quisite grace.
In a moment more he heard her at the
piano, and he tried to Traviata”* keep clumsy step to
thestrain from “La that came
throbbing after him.
CHAPTER II.
MASQUERADING.
Philip pushed open tho door of Marki t
hall and looked in. About sixty men were
scattered over the beaches in all conceivable
positions, A number held pipes between
their teeth, filling tho room with the rani;
smoke of the strongest and blackest tobacco.
Here and there two men appropriated, a
whole bench, one at each end, for a sofa. But
more of them were settled down on the small
of their backs, with their knees braced
against the bench in front. He saw in a mo¬
ment that, though he was worse dressed than
any of them, yet there was a difference in
kind also. There was more meaning in one
wrinkle on their well worn coats than in all
his ingenious parapbern ' ia. He felt ashamed
in the presence of these pathetic realities, and
turned to go back, but bis great boots creaked
incautiously. Only two or three looked
around; a poor man more or less does not
count for much with the poor or with the
rich. Two or three grave, worn faces, two
or tliree pairs of tired, hopeless eyes rebuked
him uneonseionslv for the idle freak that
brought turn there. W hat rtgnt hast ne there,
who came out of curiosity to watch tho un¬
healthy symptoms of the disease called pov¬
erty! What an insult to their bitter needs
were his mock tr imming?, in which he cama
like one masquerading among a graveyard
full of ghosts!
“Hold on, friend, ye needn't go,", and a
long whiskered man beckoned to him.
He found his way to a seat with a hang
dog air, the best piece of acting bo hail done
yet. The some stolid look w is man's
face, bleached to a setthil | , from the
confinementof years in the . . . of the mills,
and there was a bitterness about the mouth
and nostrils as if he had not ki>-ed the rod
that smote him.
“No call to be shamed, young rein I nq>-
pose them’s the best clothes you t . Your
heart may be just as white as it .on had a
better livin’.”
The jioor don’t talk except when they have
something to say. Bo Philip said nothing, to
act in character.
“I suppose you think you’re pretty hard
up,” resumed the big whiskered man, who
was no other than Graves, the man who had
peered into his companion’s parlor window
only au hour ago. And he glanced signifi¬
cantly at Philip's l)oots and soiled panta¬
loons.
“•Test look at that little chap over yonder,
all bowed up. Ho don’t look very hearty,
does he? Up to his house there’s a wife all
faded and broken, and two little cripples for
children, a whinin' and a screeebin’ from
moniin’ to-night. He would chop his head
off to help them, but he is slow anil weak,
and don’t git but ninety cents a ilay, and ho
can't save them babies a single ache, nor ease
their poor misshapen little bones one twinge.
It takes every penny to keep the wretched
breath in ’em all, and him and his wife, once
as purty a gal as ever you seen, has only to
stand and see ’em cry. They used to cry
themselves, too, but that was long ago.”
Graves looked about him. “Do you see
that lean faced man wjth the hurt arm, at
the end of the seat ye're on! Well, he's got
the smartest little boy in town. All ho
wanted was schoolin', and his father and
mother saved and scrimped so he could have
it. You oughter seen how proud they was to
see their lad struttin’ off to school while they
kept a thilikin’ of him all day long in tho
mill. And they was never too tired to hear
the boy toll them over the hard names
he had learned. And then they would
tell the neighbors, who sometimes got
jealous, how they was savin’ every
cent and how their boy was goiu’ to col¬
lege like old Breton’s son. But there was no
call for the neighbors to be jealous; the
sick, woman wcut to work one day when she was
and caught her death o’ cold and it took
a mint of money to miss and then bury her.
Then the man fell and got hurt and the little
boy cried enough to break your heart when
they took his books away.” The face of tho
long whiskered man softened an instant, but
he turned his head away.
"Ho needn’t a cried,” he said gruffly; “I
don’t know as he was any ^better than the
rest of us.”
Now there came a little commotion <>n the
A man who sat head and shoulders above
group on the platform rose to liis full
height like a young giant and came forward.
He looked down into the upturned faces for
moment in silence, and Philip felt his
blue eyes piercing him like a sword.
“Men,” he liegan. Then he stopped speak¬
ing a moment. “Yes, men you are, in spite
of. all the degradation the rich and the pow¬
erful can put upon you. The time is coming
when the principles of equality vaunted on
pages of so many lying constitutions, and
on the lips of so many false tongued
shall be fully realized. The
time is coming when the Work shall not lie on
one side and the reward on tho other. W'e
not always wear rags as the livery of
masters. Not always shall the poor rise
and toil late, wear their skin till it be
like parchment, and their bodies till
be read}' to drop into the grave for
only to pluck the fruit of God's
earth for the lipe of the idle and the
to taste 1 . The gracious favors of ten
smiling hills and valleys are gatli
only for tho few, and those whftse nrro-
liardness of heart have least de¬
them. And they tell us it must lie so;
the few who are more capable and pru¬
should thus bo rewarded for their
They point to six thousand
oppression of the poor, and say
has been must Is*. Yes, for six
years tho groans of the poor have
up, and as long the few, for whom alono
the beauty and bounty of the great earth
to blossom, have answered with
and contempt.” Now his magnificent
seemed to expand; his voice lost its pa¬
tone and rang out like a trumpet.
“But the knowledge they have given to
us better slaves is bursting our fetters
their frightened eyes. The astonished
see at last the black and monstrous in¬
of their subjection. They have num¬
their hosts*as countless as the sands of
sea. It is the strength of their arms has'
the earth with unceasing streams of
It is the ingenuity of their brains
harnessed each of the untamed forces of
to service. The infinite numtier of
cunning fingers has woven the fabrics
clothe Chris!': lorn, and their red blood
out on n thousand battlefields has
vain triumphs for the pride of their
His lips suddenly curled in majestic scorn.
how long will your patient, calloused
build palaces for the great, while you
in hovels? Ought not such strong ann¬
yours be able to win enough to make one
home happy, if you were not robbed i
world is full of cheap comforts; the
are boundless, the storehouses burst
but each worthless pauper has as good a
as you who make the wealth. You cause
increase; your hands till the teeming laiuli
work the tireless looms. Your shoul¬
bow beneath the products of your toil
muzzled oxen beating out the grain for
masters. Why will you endure iti
tell you it is only right; their book:
gentle submission; their oily tongued
soothe you with proverbs and con
maxim i. but all the wise men of cen¬
and all the hundred thousand printing
of today, heaping up boo!- i>, <-Y<-r.
language like anew tower of Bni* i, ca.nioi
a lie into the truth.”
Philip sat leaning forward, his eye- fi’.i
the speaker in a strange excitement. Cur
ran's words came into his soul like molt'
tire, consuming the chaff of years and lea\
ing a path of light behind. He was full < I
wonder that he had been blind so long, imxe
with joy at his new piercing vision. He had
forgotten how he had come there, and felt f
sudden desire to take the hand of every pool
in the room and pledge him his help
But no one seemed touched as he was. Tin
hard look was on each fare, the mast
the poor assume to cover their distress, btr
the eyes of them all were centered on the:. 1 i
orator.
"But you are poor, and with your wive
and children are hungry for even the crus
of bread your masters cast you. Though yoi
were a million to one, you are held to theii
service, no matter how unjust, by the daiij
recurring facts of hunger and cold. Look
the fields arc white with theii' harvests, thi
filled with tbpir cloths, -but th“ la* 1
I makers uml tneir pnikm police are in
fiay. mid y<*i must bow your mrek necks
thank your masters humbly for tlie
their greed vouchsafes you.”
Philip's heart thumped painfuli} within
faded coat. Could the speaker give no hope
U» the wretched listeners hanging on his lips?
Must they cringe forever at the foot of
power? Their thin, worn bands made tho
bread, but it was snatched from their months
tnd doled out in scanty allowance as tho
price of hojielcsn slavery. He had never seen,
it before.
"Whq is hef he whisjiered to his compan¬
ion. The man did not even turn his face
from the speaker
“It is Curran. He belongs to the Labor
league.” This, then, was the agitator his fa¬
ther spoke of. And Bertha had pictured him
rightly, with his clustering auburn hair. For
i moment he stood silent, while under the
iivitic- light in his eyes the souls of each one
ripened for his next words.
“Alone you can do nothing, but united wo
mn shake the world, and all over the land
the oppressed are banding together. We are
weak now, but when the long stifled voice of
your wrongs finds utterance, the answering
moans of millions will rouse your souls t-> tho
resistless martyr pitch. Then it will sc«m
sweet to die—yes, to starve—with your dear
Dues about you inspired with the same eu
thusiasm. When the generation is lmm
which dare starve but has forgotten how i
yield, and even for the bread of life will un-
•oil its children into eternal slavery, then
will tho gold of the rich rot worthless in
their white hands till they divide with u.s our
■oimnon heritage.”
He stopped and sat down, and as his en¬
thusiasm faded from his face, Philip saw ho
was not handsome. The eyes that had seemed
*> wonderful were too deep seated beneath
his heavy brows, and Ids smooth shaved face
was scarred from exposure to sun and storm;
yet, while he had been speaking, pity and di¬
vine wrath in turn melting and burning in
his eves and lighting up his rugged checks,
he had seemed beautiful, like an archangel.
Tho audience sat in silence a moment, then
Due man shuffled Ids feet uneasily, then an¬
other, and then till rose listlessly to their
feet. Philip thought their zest in life had
gone so long ago that they did not even into
it; then he remembered what Ids life was,
bright as a June morning. Did God love
him so much totter than these weary crea¬
tures, whose only refuge was in hopeless¬
ness? Then he thought of Bertha waiting
for 1dm. and ho hurried out, glad that, ho
icerned to Is) escaping notire. Where was
the funny adventure ho had to tell his sweet¬
heart? A new world had been revealed to
turn; a world within tho world he had played
with, that know no such thing as mirth, but
fed forever on bitter realities, and bus little
spark of happiness seemed smothered in its
black night. Each one must have a family
rirele of his own. There were hungry eyes
that looked to him for tho cheer his poor
heart was too dead to give. Suddenly a heavy
iiand was laid on his shoulder.
‘Traps you aint got no place to go to,
friend.” 1* was his big whiskered compan¬
ion in tl. ■ hah, Graves.
“I sort o’ liked your looks in tho mootin’
to-night, and you're welcome to a bet! at my
house if you want it.”
“Oh, no,” stumbled Phil ip,’at his wit's end.
“Oh, no? Why not, then? Where to you
goin’ to stay?” and tho man took his hand
from the young man’s shoulder and eyed him
suspiciously. "Why, he v/antod to go home
ind lay off his f-trever. Bertha,
all radiant in all that wealth cun add to
beauty, was awaiting hint. He had so much
to tell her,” but he had nothing to say aloud.
“I won’t take no refusal," in fled the man,
taking Philip by tho arm. “No words; Jane
will get along easy with an extra for once.
I presume you’ve slept in wuss places.”
I TO .r* CONTINUED.'!
Rule Nisi.
Walter T. Miller, | Mortgage, Ac.
Adolphus versus C Schaefer, | ; February superior lerm, Court 18x8. of
surviving •partner of | Spalding County
A. C. Schaefer it Co. j Georgia.
Present, the said Honorable Janies S Boynton,
Judge It of Court.
appearing to the Court by the petition
of Walter T. Miller that on the first day of
April in the year of our Lord Eighteen IIu»
dred and Seventy-two A. C. Schaefer «fc Co.,
a firm composed of A. C. Schaefer und Geo.
Y. Barker, made and delivered to said Wal
ter T. Miller a certain mortgage in which
the sura of Six Thousand Dollars was ac
knowledged to be i.lie the said plaintiff,
**hich said mortgage deed hears dale April
1st, 1872, du to secure whereby the they payment of said
amount •'alter T. Miller -, conveyed to said
ihe fo lowing described
property,to-wit: That tractor parcel of land
lying or being in the 3d Distri t of originally
Monroe, then Pike, now Spalding County,
and known and distinguished in the plan of
said district as Nos. Forty-seven (47), Seven
ty n no (79), Seventy-eight (78). and Fifty-
one (51), each containing Two Hundred and
Two and One-half (202%) acres; also, Seven-
five (75) acres in tlie northwest corner of lot
No. Seventy-seven (77); also. Fifty (50)
acres in southeast part of lot No Forty eight
(48), all in same district, containing in tlie
aggregate Nine Hundred and Thirty-five
(.935) acres, more or less, in the entire tract,
hounded north by land then known as Jno.
G. Lindsay's land and others, east by land
then known as land of Dr. Pritcha d and
others, south by Buck Creek, and west by
land of Squire Massett and others, being
premises conveyed by Philip E. McDaniel to
said defendants r ebruary 41 ii, 18to. as describ
ed in foregoing petition; conditioned that if
said firm of A, C Schaefer A Co. (of which
A. C. Schaefer is row surving partn.r)
should pay off and discharge said debt of
Six T'hiusand Dollars according to its tenor
and eflVet, that then said Deed of Mortgage
should oc void.
A ! it further it appearing is therefore that said debt re
join unpaid; Schaefer, surviving Ordered, that
said \. C. partner as
ator -aid, pay into this Court by the first
dav f the next term thereof, Un principal,
intt-re- t and cost due on said Mortgage, or
show i at.se to tlie contrary, if there be any ;
and Unit on failure of said A. C. Schaefer,
surviving partner as aforesaid, se> to do, tlie
equity of redemption in and to said mort
gaged premises be forever thereafter barred
and foreclosed.
Ai.dit is further Ordered, That this Rule
he published in the Griffin News once a
month for four months, or a copy there
of served on iho said A. C. Schaefer, surviv¬
ing partner as aforesaid, or his special agent
or attorney, at !oa«t thre e months before tlie
next term •>; t> i- Coerr,
1 ?> the C.mi:* February hllqltos.
J.YMt* s. BOYNTO -,
Judge S C. F. G.
H'lil A Hammond, Petitioners Attorneys
I, W M. 1 horns-, Clerk of the 8u mr
Cou't of Bpp.lding County, Georgia . ' ru¬
by c rtify the above to be a true extract
from tlie inii.ntes of said Court at iV ■ >
term. toV* W. M " i: ,;
fet 9 »au. S Clerk >
Notice t„ Debtors and Creditors.
All persens indebted to the estate of Jas.
T. Eliis, late of Spalding County, Gearg a.
deceased, are hereby notified to call on the
undersigned and make settlement cf such in
debtedoess at once; and ail persons haring
demands against sa<d estate are notified to
present their claims properly proven.
feb7w<5.* TAfl R ELI.18. Executor
March Sheriffs Sales.
W T ▼ ,LI day * BK in March SOLDO* xt THE betYff*n FIRST the THE#
n< i«g*|
hours It 0*1 t- -J of mi, ■, b fore the *1. .. floor of ... if Si the _ Court J ■ ** .
House, in the city of O: :Bn, Bpalding conn
ty, Georgia, the following described proper
ty, to-wit:
Sixteen acres of Dnd more or lea* off o
lot 10! in il>< ;u E.nUirtof originally Henry
now Kpal .yg county, bounded east by tlie
ro id from hunny side to Griffin snd tenth
by the road leading from the Griffin and
Sunny and bide road to It. T. Patterson’*, north
west b* tlie remainder of taid lot nan
! tor 107; mid tract to levied on being 840
feet squrre. Levied on and roid as the
proper y of Z. T Dor»i*y by virtue of a ft f*
issued from Spalding Superior Court »■• fav¬
or !■! S:u,ry (I Uad*way vs. Zaebanah T.
Doi. t y. 1 enant iu possession legally noti¬
fied. 46.000.
M«7, at the same time and place, will be
sold twenty acres of land in a square eff of
lot number .VI in the 4th District of original
ly Payette now Spalding 52, county, bounded Savao-
oa -1 by lot number south by ihe
i n:fh, Grillln A North Alabama ail road, west
and north by r< maider of haul lot. J evied
' d rold the property of Lucy K.
'Ui ui ns
beeves to satisfy two (i fas. one totted from
8i aiding County Court iu favor of B. R.
Blakely v.« R, Lory E. beev* and one in fav
or of V\ . H i for u-c t) f . Hire,* o?8paid
ing,■-litienor Csort *». \V,B l!e«v<s and Mn*.
1 tiey K. Reeve* Mis. Lacy E. Heeven, ten-
!.’•! :n j -.-ion, legally notified. 6'00.
Also. Rt '• lie same time and ulnae, will be
• id ihe followinc property, to w t: one
"i • .1 shop n- il 1-bii upon which it is built,
ii the i d) of Griffin and* uitl?of bpuldiug
b w occupied or reroed by 1 ink Ea<y, boun
i.’t ; P I i. a . moth by Meriwether street,
running uten ; raid strt rt twenty back one feet,
east by V\ . i. 1 raintnelt, i unniny ”ity
fee?, south by protn rty of T Warren, held
as guardiano: the Warren children, and west
by Warren property held by Warren m guar
<11 ui. Warren Levied guardian on ihcpr J. perty W held by by vir T,
A. of T. arren
tna of a ri fa issued from the Justice Court
of the 1(M)let District, G M , in favor of J. R.
Cleveland inb'd vs. T A. Warren, guardian. Prop and
• levit rly p i by O. out D. by Johnson, plaintiff's L. vtlorney C-, nd levy
mi #
tinned over to un T enant iu pmftemion
legally notified. $8.00.
sold Also, at the same time end place, land will in the ba
one quarter of an acre of
cily of Griffin, bounded as follows: On the
west by .Sixth street, on the north and east
by J. W. Little and on the Bouth by an al¬
ley Levied on and sold as the property of
J. W. Little by virtue of a tax fi fa issued
by J. W.Travis.T C, for State and County
tax for the year 1887 ver,us J. W. Little.
Levy made by J. W Travis, T. end
turned over to me. Mrs. H. IP. Padgett,
tenant In possession, legally notified. $8 00
Also, at the same time and place, wilt be
sold one vacant lot in the city of Griffin
containing one-half acre, nu-re or less,
bounds I as follows : On the *--1 by New
Orleans street, on the north Newton, by College end
street and on tlie cast by c. P.
on the south by George fits ' •. Levied on
H'ld sold as the property r r iry Batts, to
sjtisfy one tax ii fn for r ’ County tax
issued by J . W. '1 ravl* u favor of
State and County v _ j Starke se
agent for Henry Buti. , made by J.
W Travis, T. C., and turned over to me.
Tenant in noesession legally notified. will $6CM) ba
Also, at the same time and place, Griffin,
old unc house and lot in the city of
containing ouo half acre, more orb m, boon
ded an follows : On the north b} College the
street, east by John Tillman lot, on
rout i by land of W. T. Trammed, on the
west by land of J, D. Boyd. L vie i on and
sold us the property of Dick FI "mister, to
satisfy one tax li fa issued to .j. W. Travis,
T. C. t for Slate and Count) taxes for 1887
in fevor of -State and County vs. Dick Flcm-
ister. Levy made by J. W. Travis, T. (L,
and turned ov,' 1 !* to me. Tenant in posses¬
sion legally notified will $8 00
Also at the same tiuio and place, ba
sold one acre of land in the city of Griffin,
bounded on t he west by Hill street, on the
north by J. B. Mills, on tlie south ant east
by W. VV. Hammond’s children. Levied OB
and sold a* the property of W. W, Ham¬
mond’s children, to satisfy two tax fi f*s
one in favor of State and County vs. W. W.
Ilammond for children, and one in favor of
8tatc and County t* J. B, Mills, ftgent for
Hammond’s children. Said fi fas levied by
J.W. Travis, T.C., and turned over to me.
J B. Mills, tenant in possession, legally no¬
tified. $6.00.
R 8, CONNELL, Sheriff, 8. C.
Ordinary's Advertisements.
/ VKDINAUY’fl OFFICE. Bpaldisq Coun-
ty Georgia, January 30th, 1888,—E. H.
Bloodworth, Guardian of Minnie Bloodwortb
has applied to me for letters of Dismission
from said Guurd’fluship.
L -t ail person* concerned show cause be¬
fore the Court of Ordinary of said county, at
my March, office in Griffin, by o’clock, on the first Monday in
1888, ten a. m., why such
lette * slum Id not be granten.
83.00. K W. IIAMMONND, Or dinary
_
U / xltDiNARY’S OFFICE, BpaLDISj Coux-
;t, Georgia, January 31st, 1888.—J. J.
Administration, Maugham has appllled tome for letters of
au bonis non, on the eetate
of Jno. C Maugham, late of said county, de
ceased,
\a t all p< rsona concerned show cause be¬
fore the C ourt of Ordinary of said county, at
my office in Griffin, on the first Monday In
March, >88, by ten o’clock n m., why such
ictlcrs should not be granted.
$3.00. E. W HAMMOND, Ordinary
/ \RDINARY S OFFICE, Spai.diiw Codk-
\ / ty, Geoboia, January 31st, 1888—J. J.
Maugham Administration has applied tlie’estatcof to me tor 8. letter* W. Maug of
on
hum, late of said county, deceased.
Let all persons concerned show cause be¬
fore the Court of Ordidaryof said county, at
my March, office in Griffin, cm the first Monday such in
1888, by ten o'clock, a, in., why
let ers should not ba granted.
$300. E. W. II iMMOND, Ordinary
/ YKDINAKY'r! OFFICE, Spalding Coca
\ J ty, Georgia, January 31st, 1888.—Jas.
tt. Klii* has applied to me for ieiter* of Ad-
mini-1 ration, de tionls non, on the estate of
Wi Siam Kills late of said county, deceased.
let all persons concerned Shaw cause
before tlie Court of Ordinary of said county,
at my office in Griffin, on the first Monday in
March, 1868, hy ten o’clock a. m., why such
letter* “hould not to granted
$3CU E. w. HAMMOND, Ordinary.
/ \KBINARY'S OFFICE, -paldiso Cocx-
tt, Georgia, Jan. 0th, 1888.—W.B Hud
son, admin! tr tor, has apt lied to me for let
ter* of disini-. ion from the estate of Thos.
Lyon, late of • :dcounty, r ecessed.
Let all per- ■;.* concerned show cause be¬
fore the otu -f Ordinary of said county,
at my otto-e i biffin, on the first Monday In
April, IVvq ty ten o’clock a. m, why such
li tters should • >t to granted
flap 15. 1 V. HAMMOND. Ordinary .
/ V-/ r 'hKDtNA! I S OFFICE, 3rtL SPAiLDniaCoux-
tv, Georgia, Feb. 1888.—John II.
Keith an aduiiiiUttratoron estate of W- 8.
house Brown has applied belonging to roe for said leave to sell front a
and lot to estate,
ing ou Broadway street on the north: bound
ed west by an alley, north by Broadway
street, cast by Abbic V\ ilkins, south by T
A. Warren sold to pay debts due by said es
slate and for distribution.
Let nil persons concerned show cause be
Lire the Court of Ordinary on the first Mon
day in March next why the application
should tot be granted.
gli.CO E. VV. HAMMON D. Ordinary
/ \KD1NAHYS OFFICE, Spaudiso Cotx
V/ tt. GnonetA, Feb. 3rd, 1888.—John M.
BKhop, Administrator of estate of Giles Bish
op, deceased, has tendered hi* resignation as
such administrator and Henry H. Bishop
has consented to accept said administration.
The next of kin are hereby notified to ap¬
pear at the Court of Ordinary on the that
Moody in March ntxt, said by ten o’clock a. m
and show cause why Henry II. Bishop*
should it ( 10 not be E. appointed. W Hammond. Ordinary
.