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How a Dying Chilli Was Saved! t , ... p .,! vi.-si.r-ix Co., Iso., Sept, 19, 1 SSI.— 1 , ,11 , .V lag Is a true account of what your s ; 1 , i; done foroiir little daughter, Hazel, " When old w f .,.*• years old. 12 months a ,J./ . ;.,,cv.(*donherhoe!,\vliich ’ri. slowly grew * ",;,1 r. family physician thought it was !,y a piece of broke** glass or needle, M.t fa it* J t, bring anything to light. The , becainu feebler all the time, seeming to Ithe use of her log, and dually quit walk- in emit iy. The middle Huger and thumb m , ithei hand U-oame enlarged, the flesh be- a hard. The hip Joints became Inrolv. s i that when seven :eeu mouths old she i not stand, having lost the use of leg £ ,„1 ;,rm Pcrllat curvature of the spine also f rowed. The nervous system was wrecked, muscles contracted, and there was general rtusiing of flesh and muscle. At eighteen m ,n;hs of ago s!i» was placed under the t * nent of a pnnilnant physician of Boe- i n, Ms-a, but at the end of ten months she had 1 lined to such a degree that she was in a .’.ylug condition. This was in April, 1S£6. UV* took tuo clllid array not knowing what t.i do. In this dreadful dilemma we were „ver persuaded by friends to try “one bot- t). * of Swift’s Specific, which we did, and I,..foie It had all been taken we e*w a change f. ,r the better In her symptoms. We kept It up, and have done so to this day, and will k»ep It up. If the Lord wills, for many days income, forii has brought our dying Hazel t , life, to vigor, to strength and health again. The ashen hue of her cheeks has changed to a rosy tint. She Is able to walk anywhere, her languor and melancholy have passed away, and she Is now a blithe, cheerful, hap¬ py rom.p'ng child. Should you wish to In¬ crease },.ur testimonials of proof of the virtue of S. S. 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BELLAMY Copyrighted by by the Author, with and bisn. pul*, arrangement CHAPTER III. AN l/XWILLING GUEST. Philip thought things were going a little too far, and ;*.*.; 1: * walked along with his un¬ desirable host he began to plaiy escapes. Up on tho hill to his left lie could see, now and then, between the houses, his own home and the lights in its window streaming wel- come to him. Tho tense mood relaxed in him, old habits of thought and association made themselves felt again; the poor man walking heavily by his side seemed a thou¬ sand miles removed from him. “Here .we are,” said Graves, as ho led the mill owner’s son up a couple of rickety look¬ ing steps to a doorway. Philip was not pleased at all; he hiul seen enough poverty to-night; he did not care to particularize. What was the use of distressing himself over this man’s private, miseries and discomforts! Wasn’t it written in all the books of political economy that—but Graves opened the door and waited for his unwilling guest to go in before him. The poor man’s heart was warm in tiie unwonted exercise of hospitality. With an ungracious frown on his face Philip entered the dimly lighted room, his great boots sounding with startling effect on the bare floor. Tho top heavy kerosene lanif was turned down, but with the heartiness of a true host, Graves turned up the lamp so that Philip could li ■■■ k about him. There was little enough to see—a round pine table with a little blue, cracked crokery on it, a rusty l ooking stove, two or three dingy, unpainted chairs, a high backed rocking chair, with a faded, shajieless chintz cushion, and what reined to be a sofa in <ric corner. At llrst Philip thouglfc rlie room had been unoccupied, but as Graves turned up tho lamp a trifle more he saw it was a woman lying upon the sofa—a woman with sunken black eyes awl wan, colorless cheeks, whoso loosely bound hair, gray before its time, fell down over her shoulders. “Tho woman is sick, or she’d get up and speak to you,” said Graves, with a new gen¬ tleness in his voice, as he looked at tho wife of his youth. “They say she might get well if we could pay doctors’ bills. Eh, Jennie.'” The girl who stood in tho doorway had her mother’s eyes, not quite large enough, but with a rare sheen in them; it might be her mother's face, too, but with the bloom of perfect health lightening up its olive. Involuntarily ho rose to his feet and bowed, but as the girl only seemed to regard him as one might look at a circus tumbler, Philip relapsed into his seat, in the humilia¬ tion beauty can put upon the greatest of us “Nothin’but cold potatoes! Well, I guess thoy’ll do with a little salt and a piece of breach” “Did Curran speakr asked the girl. “Yes,” answered Philip. “And who is lr>. —a common laborer?” Then lie bit bis lip But nobody took offense, no one suspected their guest of being anything above a com¬ mon laborer. “Only a laborer,” answered Graves, “a weaver, but lie's got some book knowledge somehow. There aint many can beat him at talkin’, is there!” Tho girl’s eyes were on Philip now, impa¬ tient, as he fancied, even for his poor tribute to her lover’s praise. “He is wonderful,” he assented, “but what I don’t understand is, that lie can be such a man and still a weaver Where did ho learn it all?’’ _ “Have enough to eat? Well, you got knowledge has got pretty well through all classes now, for those a)> wants it. It’s there for all who have eyes or ears for it. Why, friend, where have you In ert all your life! Brains and hearts don't go by station. I’ve found smarter men in shops and mills than most we send to congress. There's thousands like Curran, if they only got the stirrin’ he’s had some way. Now, Jane, it’s about t ime you got this man’s bed ready.” Philip's heart Jumped. Of course ha couldn’t stay, but what excuse could he give for coming at all, then! “Be you lookin’for a job?” asked Graves, after Ills daughter had loft them. It occurred to Philip that lie had one, if ho wanted if—to put one spark of happiness into such lives ns these, but ho nodded. Tho nutu looked him over rather disparagingly. “Well, wash yourself up and black your boots a 1 lit, and l guess I can do somethin’ for you in the milt. It’s hard work .aid small pay, but we never had better, you and me. We don’t well know what we miss bein’ poor, wo miss it such a big ways.” “How long has Curran lived here Tasked Philip incoherently. The man stared at him a moment . “Oh! Curran, he ain’t been here morc’n a six month. He aint got no folks; lie lives down to one of them factory boardin’ houses, but don’t have no friends, or talk about any¬ thin’ but what you heard to-night. But it’s all useless.” Graves looked gloomily on tho floor. “We aint got uo show; the rich are too many for us. I guess it's human nature for one man to boss tiv* crowd, or it wouldu t a always been so. There’s tlie girl, she 11 show you where to sleep. Be up early in the morain’, now.” bo to Tiie only course for him seemed to follow the girl, and Philip rose to his feet. “Good night," ho said. The sick woman I opened her eyes in surprise. Such people as I they found no time for amenities in their i dreary home. Graves looked around. “What? Oh, yes. gqodby, but I’m goin’ to see you i:i the morain'.” Hi. bedroom, on which the roof encroached greedily. wa,; newly whitewashed, or else was seldom used. Ilis lamp sat on a wooden chair with no back to it. crowded by a tin wash basin, with his portion of water half filling it, ami a round black ball of soap. Then Philip turned to look at the Ix*d they had made for him on a slat, bedstead with low headboard but n< ‘ ■> low as the thin pillow. How many times must anybody double the pillow to make it fit for his head? For a count orj>au-* ’ /as tiie girl s plaid shawl; he had seen it on a nail down stairs. Poor little girl, she would, want it very sarly in the morning. Then he glanced in the eight by ten looking glass that hang on the wall. Disguised! his own father would not have known hint, and he had a sensation of double consciousness as he saw' his own flection. Perhaps Graves was disguised too, au;l all tho ill dress. A men he had seen that evening, who suffered as much in wretched lives a; he could, who could enjoy all that brightened his own as much. And clothes made difference between him and them, ly. perhaps really. The world manage**! ac¬ cording to the clothes standard—for the man who could borrow a broadcloth suit, forts, consideration, happiness—for the in overalls, weary days, cheerless houses, hunger sr*;|—I*.**!* T*!n!]! t> nulled off great boots and threw them angrny across the room; ho did not know what to make of it aU. He did not propose to spend the night here, of course, and face the family and his job in tho mill in the morning, but he might as well lie down till tho house was asleep and escape became possible. But ho could not lie down with all his ]>amt on and spoil the poor little pillow. So he takes off his yellow whiskers, and makes such good use of the basin of water and the ball of soap that when he next looked in the little mirror he saw no longer the road dusty tramp, but the fresh, kindly face of a young man who lias never tasted of the bitter foun¬ tains of life. He started as if he had been shot; the windows had no eurtaius, and an}' passerby might have seen his transforma¬ tion. Then came a heavy step on the stairs. He blew out the light and buried himself in the bedclothes. In a moment more the door opened and Philip was breathing heavily. “Asleep?’ it was the voice of his host “Well, I s’pose the morning will do. Pretty tired, I guess; wonder how far he came to¬ day?’and Graves closed tho door after him and went down stairs again. - Of course Philip was not going to sleep, but there would be no harm in just closing his eyes, ho could think so much better. Here he was drinking in the very life of the jK>or, a strange, terrible life he had never really imagined before. He had seen how worn and broken were their men, and read tho pathetic lines of despair and sullen wretchedness written on their faces, as if in silent reproach to the providence that had inflicted the unsoftoned curse of life on them. He had seen, too, their hapless girlhood, which beauty cannot cheer, which love only makes blacker, os the path of lightning a starless night. And their sic-k, too, with no nursing, no gentle words, no comforts to as¬ suage one hour of pain. Then he seemed to bo in the hall once more, and thrilling under the eloquence of the man Curran. Suddenly he opened his eyes wide. It could not l>c he was going to sleep, the bed was too hard- absurd—there could l*o no danger. But in five minutes the heir of the Breton mills was sound asleep in John Graves’ garret room. How long he had slept Philip had no more idea than Kip Van Winkle on a former occa¬ sion; indeed it took him a ridiculously long time to separate dreams and facts enough to got his bearings. Was that moonlight in the east, or dawn ? Perhaps tho family were all up and escape would be impossible. He bounded to his feet and clutched at his false whiskers, but alas! his paint was all dis¬ solved in the tin basin. His only chance was in getting away unnoticed, and in two min¬ utes more he was groping out of his little room and down the steep stairs, boots in hand. Ho slowly opened tlie door into tho sitting room. What if Graves stood within curiously watching. An odd guest, this, stealing out before daybreak. Again Philip wished he had stayed at home that night. Thank God! no one was in the room. There was tlie cracked, rusty stove and the sofa the sick woman “had lain upon; there was the dish of cold potatoes on the table and tho chair he had sat in while he tried to eat. But somebody must be up in the inner room; a stream of light made a white track through the half open door. Would that l»olt never slip—there. It slipped with a vengeance, and Philip drew back into the staircase in mortal terror. The light streak on tho floor began to move, and in a moment more a white figure stood on the threshold of the tied room It was Jane Graves, with her long black hair about her neck and white night dress, and her eyes glistening brightly. She held the lamp above her head, and let her drapery cling as fondly as it chose about a form that would have charmed a sculptor. As she listened he could see her wavy lmir rise and fall over her beating heart. Would she notice the open stair doo** and come for¬ ward! What then? He must push her rude¬ ly to one side. He imagined her startled screams and the father’s figure hurrying into the scene from another room to seize the in¬ terloper. No, she returns to her room. In another instant he has opened the door and is walking along the street. His escape was well timed, for tlie gray dawn of another day of toil and weariness is creeping over the factory village. The houses were all alike, the front doors just as soiled, the steps equally worn, tlie paint the same cheerless yellow to a shade. Through the windows of one of them ho caught a glimpse of a tall gaunt woman building the kitchen fire, her face and form lighted up by the flames she was nursing, His ready imagination pictured the wan* featured man who mast be her husband, out of whose eyes had faded so many years ago the last lingering gleam of tenderness. Ho imagined their old faced, joyless children be¬ grudged the scant play hours of childhood. Trooping behind them all, he pictured a long line of special wants and sorrows, the com- | Mi n i ,U It teas Jane Gcures. pan ions of their days, the specters of their nights. Tlieir houses looked all alike as he walked along, so their lives might seem just alike at first thought. Ten hours for each in tho same mills—who got almost the same oittance for their hot work—and must s] tend their pennies for almost the same necessities. But infinite must be the diversities of their sufferinr _ CHAPTER IV. CRYING FOR THE MOON'. The strident voices of 400 looms would seem to be too much for human nerves, but the walls of the weave room Number Two of the Breton mills are hung with soiled plaid shawls and chip hats, the livery of the fac¬ tory girl. Their restless forms are busy among the rattling machinery, their swift cunning fingers moving harmlessly where mutilation would seem certain. It is a mere matter of habit; one look at most of the set pale faces would show there was no brain , force in exercise. Why, the overseer will tell you those girls are os much machines as the frames and belting: though they un¬ doubtedly have one advantage for the em¬ ployers, the girls are cheaper. The wonder¬ ful mechanism of those looms, the skillful system of belts and pulleys and the enor¬ mous water wheel cost a'fortune. Girls can t>e bought in the market any day for a crust of bread. Is not that figure familiar—the one that stands this moment leaning against a dingy white pillar, while the rustling belts and slid¬ ing frames seem hurrying the faster all about her? T ~ *s on tbc iu***' i ' of ws»J? ?»tw»».*n Die t*,o j*w. im* wtnuoHs nearest to tier hangs th“ plaid shawl Philip Breton had for a coun¬ terpane only last night. Her dress is soiled and ill made, and her hair tied up in th« closest and ugliest coil to escape the greedy machinery, ever reaching out for new vic¬ tims But the warm, soft tint of her checks anil the moist sheen in her black eyes were always the same, and many a young nrnn would rather look at her this minute than turn ■ "If an extra cut, they call it, of e’o’h at twenty cents. Her days used to lx* more t " '; t o ! • r even than now. She had v, ry morn i.i„ that she might die betoiu night, and at night that God would take her before morn¬ ing; lake her, she cared not where; no place could lie worse, certain. But she was slowly growing, she thought, into the ’ ul calm that all the rest had learned;and how she hated the great massive mills, /resistible giants that held her with deathless grasp, grimly contemptuous of her writhings and foolish struggles. The overseers, too, how she Imp'd them; their sharp words stung her like the lash of so many taskmasters, and tho paymaster who doled out to her the few dol¬ lars, t he wages of her blood and life, as if that could bo jiaid for. She had longed so many times to throw back his money in the milling, patronizing face; but tho poor can¬ not afford the dearest of all luxuries, pride. Suddenly the mill bell rang out above the roar of tho wheels, and at its voice the looms stopped, ami the breath of their life taken away, the tx*!t.s ceased from their endless race. Another day's work was closed, and tho poor girls hurried on their shawls and hats as if at last something pleasant awaited them and went out in chattering groups. “What is it, Tonunie?’ A broad shoul¬ dered young fellow had left tho crowd and followed her shyly up the bill. “Nothin’ much, only may I walk home with you?’ “Will that do you any good? Hurry up then.” He was an honest faced young fellow, and h little better dressed than most of the group that waited ubout the mill yard gate. “What you want to walk round here with me for I can’t see. They can’t work you very hard, Tommie, if you want so much extra exercise.” It was rather a contemptuous laugh she had for him, but she showed a row of small w hite teeth that poor Tommie thought were very beautiful: “1 wanted to say somethin’ particular, Jennie." And he reached down his big dingy hand for a stalk of grass, and began pulling it nervously to pieces, as he kept up with her quick feet. They were just passing Mr. Ellingsworth’s house, and father and daugh¬ ter stood in the doorway. No doubt Mr. Ellingsworth had just come home to tea, Ha held ilis tall lmt. in his band, while he waited with his Iieautifulslaughter to enjoy the sot spring mildness. Jane Graves could see in behind them. How could they bear to stay outside? She saw a white spread tea table glis¬ tening with silver and rare china, soft tinted carpets and pictures in rich gilded frames, far prettier, she was sure, than anything nature had to show. The girl’s face, as she stood resting her white hand on her father's shoulder, was as calm as the twilight itself. “How has she deserved it all more than 1! She was never tired in her life, and I never lie down at night but my hands and fret ache. See what she gets for being idle: sea what l get for my ten hours’ work, every day since I was a child.” “We've known each other pretty long, Jen¬ nie, and—and”—he had pulled the grass all all to pieces—“and I s’poseyou know how I’ve —I moan how I’ve felt. I am doing a littlo better now.” The young man’s eyes bright¬ ened, “I’ve got a little money left me, and you know I’m just made second hand.” “IVhat is that to me, Tommie?’she said, impatiently. Her woman’s soul was longing for the beautiful life of the rich, whose house she was passing, and sho felt, too, the admir¬ ing glance Mr. Ellingsworth hail given to her graceful figure. Why was this awkward boy by' her side to spoil the effect? Tommie Bowler winced, but ducking hit round head to avoid the sharp look he feared was in the beautiful eves, he went on dog¬ gedly. “I s’posed we’d been agoing together quitu a while, Jennie, and I was goin’to ask you when you was willin’ to lie married." “Married—to you?’ Ah, Tommie Bowler, what were you think¬ ing of to want to marry it girl who had such a tone its that for you? iears of shame started into his eyes. “I aint so low ; I never thought hut what you would before.” Hhe gave him a look half curious a i half pitiful. He might as well have cried for tho moon. < ‘ould it be the lad thought that just because ■ ho was pretty sho could make his homo happy for him—his? “I’m not going to have a hand at making another poor man’s home. People like us bad better lie single; there’s only half the trouble that way, Tommie.” The broad shouldered young man, who did not know w hat was good for him, fell lack from the v, nan his heart hungered for as if he was shot. A nd sho wal ked on, with hard¬ ly another thought for the foolish lover who Imagined they two could be happy together. Why couldn't she lx.* rich? They had al¬ ways told h* r sho was beautiful. If she only had a chance. They say men are fools over pretty womet . .. 1 that is the only hoi>o a woman has of winning !u*r way. If she only had a chance. A delicate gray mist floated over the river below tho village, and the green forests and fresh meadows on the other side smiled through it, like a fair woman through her teal's. A fired soul might have drunk in its beauty and been rested, but Jane Graves cast her eyes down on the dusty road before her and walked along with a set bitter curl on her brignt red lips, and did not once look at the gift of God’s mercy to the poorest of his creatures. For her part she despised the poor; she didn't pity them; great strong men who submitted to lie trodden on and ground under the feet of the rich; whose blood and muscles and quivering flesh were weighed in the balance against a few dollars of the spec¬ ulators. 1 was good enough for them long as tbev submitted to it. She didn’t blame the r.i ’*; they were the only wise ple: she on! ivied them. They did well take ail th* could get and walk fiver mapy thou*. *d, as would fall down G f*.:- them. Oh. if she could only wiu her way their ranks. But the rich men do not into the wr .* room for their enslavers. Sudd uly i o hearil a step behind her step sho kne w from all others in the and the whole air seemed to tremble with new, strange, heavenly impulse. “Good evening. Jane.” Sho turned with a new, sweet shyness. was Curran, the agitator, who was her. A soft flush was on her cheeks, a light in her eyes that had grown larger him in delicious surprise. “Who is that young fellow who just you?’ “Oh, one of my lovers.” she eoquettishly, dropping her eyes before his. “He your lover!” repeated Curran in imperious fashion ‘You’re not for such he, Jennie.” /jleet Her heart fluttered in fear at meaning she thought in hirjrords. 8he trying to walk very slowly, but how they seemed to pass the houses. “So I told him," she said. “Yon did well then.” aud he looked admiringly on tlw girl. * V on are a tme wo¬ man. I don’t suppose you know it.” Jano Graves tried to look a* if IV wa* news to per, and Curran went cm. “Few women are prettier There arc fine prizes forluch a* you in this world if you will only wait." He continued thoughtfully, “Men have to work for distinction; a pretty face brings it to women.” trusted ■What sort of prizes’” And she herself to look up at him. How grand ho was, with his firm, strong fare. If he only had a touch of weakness in him that might bend down to her. “Position, money, power.^” “No woman cares for those,” And she t>e- lievcxl it as she spike, looking away over the river. ‘•What then?’ ho asked, smiling “Those tilings iire what all men are working for, I suppose.” but . thing.” “Women care for one Sometimes the climax of a character is reached only in old age, when storms have wreaked their fury for a lifetime on a soul. Sometimes it comes in childhood, with three¬ score years of decline to come after it. It woa at this moment that this girl’s life reached its moral height If she could but have kept it. “That is love,” she added softly. “It is their lives; they hop* only for that; they dream only of it. ” Curran laughed, but gently, as he took her hands at parting, pressing them perhaps un- consciously. yet no man can be wholly care¬ less to such beauty as hers. “It is only because women are more foolish than men, not because they are more d<*- voted, that they are able to make such ui*- surd mistakes.” She smiled on him as radiantly as a red petal’s 1 rose unfolding its glowing heart to the morning sun—the sun that gives every¬ thing and wants nothing, and stood half turned watching his retiring form. The road at this jioint passed near a deserted ruin, once a brick sawmill, which hail shorn tho hill* and valleys around of their pride, now a favorite trysting place for lover* of moon¬ light nights like this would lx*. Curran was just entering under an arch, where once had swung a heavy oaken door which long agd had served some shivering family for a week’s firewood. Ho went in and did not once turn. How cruel men are. Perhaps, sho told herself, he 1s to meet there some messenger of tho Groat league he hml told her alxiut, and they will plan together some bold stroke. It was beautiful to have such power, even if it made him forget this one pxir girl, whose heart longed so eagerly for another smile. Tho whole world seemed glorified to tho girl as sho walked on. Hhe had loitered so long that the sun was now almost setting, with his flowing robe of carmine alxiut him, and the whole landscape seemed in a rapture of silent worship. Jane Graves was like ono in a dream— her home, which she could tell from its cheap dreary counterparts, might have been a palace; the path along in front of it, beaten by so many faltering footsteps, seemed only pleasantly famfliar to her. \Vh t ’ 1 ’* onto envy in anybody's lifo that. Uau Hoi. her dear hope! But down tho hill comes a great, w hite horse, tossing his mane and curvqtlng in the pride of his strength and ix-auty. Its rider who held the rein so gracefully must bo young Philip, the mill owner’s son; he harl just finished college, they said. Ho that was tlie young man Bertha Ellingsworth wu engaged to; not ill looking, and he nxle well. The girl smiled to herself. “But Bertha Ellingsworth had not seen Curran.” “Di<l he lift his hat to me?’ Hhe looked inquiringly alxiut her. “There is no ono else, and his black eyes seemed to know me, too, how odd!” thought the girl, os sho walked on more hastily, and the horse and Its rider disapjiearod in a cloud of dust. ‘ And it ‘ oenis as if I had seen him some¬ where, too ” [TO -K CONTINUED.] Rule Nisi. Writer T. Miller, i February Mortgage, Ac. 18x8. versus 'term, AdolphusC Schaefer, )■ Superior Spalding Court County of surviving partner of | A. C. Schaefer & Co. J Georgia. Present, the Honorable James S. Boynton, Judge of said Court. It appearing to the Court by the petition of Walter T. Miller that on the first day of April in tho year of our Lord C. Eighteen A Hen Co., dred and Seventy-two A. Schaefer a firm composed of A. C. Schaefer and Geo. Y. Barker, made and delivered L. said Wal¬ ter T. Miller a certain mortgage in which the sum of Six Thousand Dollars was ac knowledgeil to be uue the said plaintiff, which said mortgage deed bears date April 1st, 1872, to secure the payment of said amount due, whereby they conveyed to said waiter T Miller the fo lowing described property,to-wit: That tractor parcel of land lying or being in the, 3*1 District of originally Monroe, then Pike, distinguished now Hpalding in County, plan of and known and the . Forty-seven (47), Seven ty nine (79), Seventy-eight Two (78). Hundred and Fifty- und one (5l), and One-half each containing Seven- Two (‘202)^) acres; also, five (75) acres in tiie northwest corner of lot No. Seventy-seven (77); iot also, Fifty (50) acres in southeast part of No Forty eight (48), all in same district, containing Thirty-five in the aggregate Nine Hundred and (.935) acres, more by or land less, then in the known entire tract, Jno. bounded north as G. Lindsay’s land and others, east by land then known as land of Dr. Pritchaid and others, south by Buck Creek, and west by land of Squire Masse it and others, being premises conveyed February by Philip E. 1868. McDaniel dtscrib to said defendant* 4tti, as ed in foregoing petition; conditioned that if said firm of A, C. Schaefer A Co. (of which A. C. Schaefer is now surving partner) should pay off and discharge said debt of Six Thousand Dollars according to its tenor and effect, that then said Deed of Mortgage should be void. A d it further appearing that said debt re mu* ) unpaid; it is therefore Ordered, that sai- \. C. Schaefer, thia surviving partner first as afoi said, pay into Court by the dat of the next term thereof, th‘* inn re-1 and cost due on said Mortgage, show cause to the contrary, if there be and that on failure of said A. C. 8cbaefer, surviving partner as aforesaid, s. to do, equity of redemption in and to said mort gaged premises he forever thereafter and foreclosed. And it is further Ordered, That this be published in the Griffin News once month for four months, or a copy of served on the said A. C. Schaefer, ing partner as aforesaid, or his special or attorney, at !ea«t three months before n* xt term of t! is Court, i’j tbe < ii*i. Kebrnart 8th, 1888. JAMts'H. BOYNTON, Hammond, Petitioners Judge 8 Attorneys. C^F. C. Hal! A I, \V M. Thomas, Clerk of the Superior Court of Spalding County, Georgia, do here by certify the above to be a true from Hie minutes of said Court at ?< ’ •'». i l'eiiu, 1898. W. M ” 11 -iv - fl*-9. :;! 4 n C'le’4. 8 C > * . Notice io Oebtors and Creditors. All persons indebted to the estate of Ja» T. Eliis, late of Spalding County, Gearg : deceased, are hereby notified to coll on undersigned and make settlement of such debteducss at once; and ail persons demands against arid estate are notified present their claims properly ELLIS. proven. Exeentor- feb7w6.* JA8 R March Sheriff’s Sales. IXTILl. BE SOLDO* THE VIB8T TCI* TT day in March next between the leant hours ef talc, before the door of the Court Honre, in the city of Griffin, Spalding conn ty, Georg -gU, the following dllowing described drecribed proper ty, Sixteen to-wit: acre* ef land more or leas off a lot 107 in die ?d District of originally Henry now mid Spain from Sunny ing county, Side Winded Griffin east by the to and sooth by the roed leading from the. Griffin and Sunny and Side by road remainder to ii. T Patterson’s, said north west the of lot tram her 107; stid tract so levied on being 840 feet square. Levied on and sold us tiie property of /. T Dorrey by virtue of a II fa issued from Spalding Superior Court!-* fav¬ or Dowry. of Niimy O Had aw ay vs. Zathaiiah T. Tenant io possession legally noti¬ fied. **5.000. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold twenty acres of land in a »quare cfl of lot number 58 in the 4th District of orieinst ly Fayette number now Spalding county, bounded east by lot 5‘J, south by the Savan¬ nah,Uriflin A North Alabama railroad, west and north by reraaider of said lot. levied on and rold to satisfy ax the tw o property 11 fas. one cf irsoed Lucy from K. ewe* Si ul'ing County Court in favor of B- R. Binki*ty i*. Lin y E. Keeres. and one In Spain fav or •« *> Re- \< - f . n*i* of ■ Dice, a of ii*g -up* run *' *'ui i-. W » Reeves and Mrs. I n«*> K- i v. *s ! .uc v L Keevee, ten- mu in | . i. < iy notified. $fl.00. x l-o. i“ he * * tim nil.I lilaoe, will be - Id f* .* u.e 11 malty, to-w>t: one •id I! j• . ' I Itu llpcll which it is built, el. - i ie.1 . Ur ren.ed 111 u and b> < < 1 iii.tynf ink Body, Spalding n oc.ru or boun de i fol <>» *. ninth by Meriwether street, running ah ug raid street twenty *ne feet, east by VV. i I ramui’ ll tunning back ,1fiy fret, south by prop* rty of T A, Warren, held ns f unrdiuu ot tie Warren clfildrott, Warren and we»l by Warren property held by as guar dimi. levied on n» the pn jierly hsld by T. A. Warren guardian of T J. Warren by vir tue of a fl fa issued from thq, Justice Court of the 1001st District, G M., In favor of J. R. Cleveland vs. T. A. Warren, guardian. Prop rrty printed out D. by plaintiff’s L. attorney and levicJ on by O. Johnson, C., and levy tamed over to me Tenant in possession legally notified. 16.(90. Also, at the same time and place, will tie sold one quarter of an acre of land In the city of Griffin, bounded as follows : On the wret by Sixth street, on the north and eeat by J. w. Little and on the South by an "Al¬ ley levied on and sold as the property of J. W. Little by virtue of a tax n fa issued ttix by J. W.Travis,T. C., for State and W. County for the year 1887 versus J. Little. Levy made by J. W Travin, T. C., and turned over to me. Mrs. II. H. Padgett, ffi tenant in possession, legally notified, 00 Also, at the same time and place, will be sold one vacaut lot in the city of Griffin con’alning oae-hal? acre, more or less, bounded as follows : On the we.-t by Nsw Orleans street, on the C. north P. Newton by College end street and on the cast by on the sooth by George fits ' **. Levied on and sold as the property o' • *>ry Batts, to satisfy one tax fi fa for?' I County tax issued by J. W. Travis n favor of Stats and County v 4 j Starke as agent for Henry Butu j made by J. W- Travis, T C., snd turned over to Tenant in Doeseasion legally notified. M Also, st the same time and place, will told one house end lot In the city of containing one half acre, more orb* ded as follows : John On the Tillman north by' street, east by lot, south by land of W. T. Trammell, on tho west by land of J. D Boyd. L- vied on snd sold aa the property of Dick Flcmlkter, satisfy one tax n fa issued by J. ff. Travis, T. C., for State and Count; taxes for 1W7 in favor of State and County vs. Dick Pleaa* ister. Levy made by J. WV Trsvia, T. C., and turned over to me. Tenant in sion legally notified wifi Also at the same time aud place, b* •old one acre of land in the Hill city of Griffin, the bounded on the west by street, on north by J. B. Mills, on the south and east by W. Vv • W wv . Hammond’s lit* til lA.lv/UU s children. Villi Levied on and ..... sold as the property of o W. W. Bam- one mond's in favor children, of State to satisfy and County two VS **“{? tiu Hammond for children, and one in ref State and County vs J B. Mills, agent for Hammond's children. Said fi fa* levied by J J.W. Mills, Travis, T.C., and possession, turned over legally to ms. B. tenant in no¬ tified. K S, CONNELL. Sheriff, i Ordinary’s Advertisements. QRDINARY’S tt. Georgia, OFFICE. January30th,IMS.—E. Srappi H. Blood worth, Guardian of Minnie Bliiodworth has applied to me for letters of Dismission from said Guardianship, Let all persons concerned xhuw cause bo- fore the Court of Ordinary of said county, at my office 1888, in Griffin, o’clock, on tbe first Monday ia March, by ten a. m., why such lette's should not be granted. _*3 < *> E. W, HAMMONNP, Or dina ry? / ORDINARY’SOFFICE, Qkokoia, January Sr.u>«» Cock- Manghum W xt, has anpliied tonte 81st, for 1888.—J. letters J. of Administration, de bonis non, on the estate of Jno. C Maugham, late of said county, de ceased, Let all persons concerned show cause be¬ fore office the Court in Grlflln, of Ordinary of first said Monday county, at my on the in March, .’888, by ten o’clock a. m., why such letters should not tic granted. fS.00. E. W HAMMOND, Ordinary^ f \/rr, \KBINARY'S OFFICE, Jsnuary31st, SFiLnwo 1888—J. Cotw- J. Geoeoia, Administration Maugham has applied the’estateof to me for S. letter* W. Many ot on ham, late of said county, deceased. Let all persons concerned show cause be¬ fore the Court of Ordidary of said county, at my office 1888, in Griffin, o’clock, on tbe first Monday such ia March, by ten a. ro., why let’ers should not be granted. $300. K. W. II 4.MMOND, Ordinary /\MDINARY’S OFFICE, January SrauuxaCoca \ J tt, Georgia, 31st, 1888.—Jas. R. Ellis has applied to me for letters of Ad¬ ministration, de bonis non, on tbe estate of William Ellis late cf said county, deceased. Let sli persons concerned skew cause before the Court in Griffin, of Ordinary tbe of first said Monday county, at my office on in March, 1888, by ten o’clock a. m., why sceh letters should not be be gra ranted $3.00 E. w . HAM MOND. Ordinary. /'’hRDINARY’S OFFICE, ■■ tildixo tjoun- V/ tt, Georgia, Jan. 9th, 1888.—W.B.Hud- son, admini-tntor, has applied to me for let ters of dismi-* ion from the estate of Thos. Lyon, ail late of i* .idcounty, concerped deceased. Let perron* show cause be- fore the ( out l of Ordinary of said Monday county, tn at my office in Griffin, on the first April, 1888, by ten o'clock a. m , why such letters should not be granted $6,15 K W. HAMMOND, Ordinary. /"kRDINAK i '8 OFFICE, 8 pa ldwo Coc*. rr, Gxoaou, Feb. 3rd. 1888 —John H. Keith es administtrator on estate of W-8. Brow n and has lot applied belonging to me to for said leave estate, to sell a house front ing on Broadway street on the north: bound ed west by an Abbie alley, Wilkins, north by Broadway T. street, east by debts south by A. Warren sold to pay due by laid *s [ stele Let and all persons for distribution. concerned show cause be fore the Court of Ordinary on the first Mon day in March next why tbe application should r.ot be E.W. granted. HAMMOND. Ordinar $3.00. y /XRDINAHY’8 OFFICE. Hfaldiro Coen- Vri tt. GxoKeiA, Feb. 3rd, 1888.—John M, Bishop, Administrator of estate off Giles Biah op, deceased, has tendered his resignation as such administrator and Henry administration. K. Bishop has consented to accept said The next of kin are hereby notified to ap¬ pear at tbe Court of Urdinatyan the ffiat Mondv in March next, by ton o’clock a. m. and show cause why said Henry B, Bishop ,h $3*i*° 0t Ordinary