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Dawson, Ga.. Aprtyl, 1884. tf
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and Henderson s most prominent citizens.
Mrs. 8. E. Whipple, Decatur, Mich., writei
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ttTM s Rslni s offers her *ln«ere thanks to the
members of the flr»* depat tment, by whoae nolde
efforts she whs Fat ed fmtu n-riou* loea during the
fire, and enaMe<l her lo greet her friend* at the
place where they have *•* long been arcusU med
to find her. uprtUti
LIQUORS,
BEERS,
CIGARS,
ZXto.a Btc.
I Lave and alwaya ke. p on hand a full i>ii(>ply ol
Imported nnd Domestic Liqnorn, Beets, Cham*
pagte, Clg-irs, etc,. He., which I am selliug at
LOWEST MARKET l'RICEB. Also*a Fresh
Assorted Stock of
The passionate grief beside the dying bed;
The passionate longing (br tho vanished bliss;
The passionate yearning for the glory fled;
Of each we ask, •‘Can life bear worse than this?”
Aye-answer weary lips and tired eyee,
To \ Riant sorrows solace Nature gnu.te;
Worse than the world’s supremest agonies
Are all Its empty blanks-lle hopeless wants.
When vivid lightnings flames and Umndste era«h,
When the fierce winds lash the sea to storm.
We seo tho bencoas by the lurid flash,
The toeing spray-olovdl glittering rainbow*
form; * . :
But when below the sullen drop of ram
The waters fob along the hollow shore.
’Tty bard to think the aun can shins again,
The doll waves gleam to living light once more.
When time taps alowlystrength and hop* away.
And the black gulf yawn* by ths lonely path.
When the dumb night creeps on.the.empty day,
And the one clew of ell is held by death,
L^ok not to faded joy or llngaring love
To wake the powers youth and faith had given;
Take patiently tho lot we all must pr.ve,
TIM the great bar.ewlnjs back and shows us—
Beaten, f „ V , } U fff
—All the Year Rom.d.
Aunt Hannah’s Hearing.
I think it was Carlyle who said
“Against stupidity the gods arc
poweiless.”
Sly husband is r.n Englishman,
solid, practical, with stock of com
mon sense that is inexhaustablo,
and a fervent belief in the capabili
ty of a very stupid little wife.
I am a Yankee girl, and fond of
of domestic life. Tliat suits Cas
per, and we bare ns cosy a little
home ns any two people in the
world could desire to liaro who
possess only a modest competency.
But 1 may ns we!I admit it—I am
very ambitious, and was only too
anxious about getting on in the
world in a financial way—in fact, I
wanted lo be rich.
Casper and I had little encount
ers of wit occasionally, about what
I called the English and lie the
Yankee, of our habits nnd peculiar!
lies, but ns he had left London
when a mere boy, bis Cockney dia
lect was not very pronounced, at
least, not more than mine was in
the other direction, for if he said
“beg pawdon," when lie fell over
the cat, I said “I guess,’’a dozen
limes a day, instead ol the “I pre
sume so,” of Britain, and wo man
aged to average our virtues and
defects in a manner satisfactory to
both.
Oil morning Casper referred to
a letter be was reading and said:
Lottie, my aunt Hannah incom
ing to visit us. I forgot to tell you,
and she will oo here to-day.”
“How provoking,”! answered.
Fate saved me from ill-naturo.
Casper supposed I referred to the
fact of his not telling me sooner.
Yes, it quite slipped my mind,
hut I will order a joint at tho butch
er’s, and you can make a pudding
or tart, and do try and amuse the
old lady, for she Is very low spir
ited. She writes that she lost her
hearing while in the South, and is
much dejected over it.”
Deaf! Good gracious, this was
worse than all! Then j .remembered
that Aunt Hannah w'sb very ricb.
U’h.at was to prevent her leaving
us all her money—on better yet,
setting Casper up in business with
a portion of it at once? I bad never
seen any'of Casper’* relatives, who
bad only recently come to the
United States, and I determined to
show her what a treasure of a wife
lie bad. I would be cars to ber,
and site would learn to-depend on
voico even at that awiul altitude.
She was looking alter ber boxeB
and bundles, and merely frowned
, in answer to my stentorian wel-
I come.
| “Allow me, aunt,” I shouted in
; ber ear as I took her band-bag and
shawl.. Then I paid the driver
and dismissed him, and, followed
by Aunt Hannah, entered the house
As deaf people talk vciy loudly
themselves, I was surprised to hear
the visitor say in a somewhat sharp
voice:
“So this is Casper’s house?
Very nice, 1 must say—quite ele
gant."
“I wish it was a thousand limes
nicer, for your sake,” I exclaimed,
or rather shouted. “Take off your
things, and make yourscirat home.”
“What arc you screaming at?"
asked Aunt Hannah, petulently;
“anyone would suppose 1 wos
deal.”
I was not surprised at this re
mark, forit is a distinguishing trait
with deal people to dislike auy no
tice taken ol their infirmity; so I
bawled in an even higher key that
she must not he offended, I hat loud
speech was a peculiarity of mine,
and I begged her not to notice it.
But by that afternoon I was so
exhausted that every word I utter-
cd was a torture of the keenest de
scription; fortunately a friend call,
ed, and as my aunt was not inclin
ed to talk, I lowered my voice,
moistened my fevered lips, and
gasped in ray natural tones:
“Oh, Julia, it’s positively awful.
She’s as deaf hs a door-post, and
has come to stay a month. - I shall
die, I know I shall.”
‘I wouldn’t try to talk to her,"
said mv friend; “let her amuse her.
self. You’ll only tnako yourself
ill. You look as ifyon bad a lever
on now."
“But I must bo civil to her,” I
Bald, looking straight at my re
spected aunt in-law, and using my
natural tones. “She’s Immensely
rich.”
"What’s that?" asked Aunt Han
nah, with sudden interest. Who
is it that has tho itch?”
“Thera,” I said, “that is just
as much as she bears—deaf as a
stone—or an adder, but full of cu
riosity. Don’t go, Julia; keep me
company tiH Casper comes. 1
shall have diphtheria—ray throat is
raw now—if you leave me alone
with her.”
I bad tried to be very English
in order to make a good ImprcB.
ions, and bad remarked.more than
once, apiopos of tho weather, that
it was bca-tly cold, and, bad allud
ed to my dress ns a “frock,” and
called all the pitchers Hi tho house
"ewers,” while I denounced every
thing that didn’t suit mo o*
“nasty.” I could not tell bow my
doubtful English was received, lor
Aunt Hannah mado no sign and I
told my friend Julia, In utter de
spair, that I didn’t care.
“I even feel,” I continued des
perately, “that her money could
never pay for the strain of keeping
up n conversation with ber. It la
positively wicked in her not to
carry an car trumpet.”
When Casper came home he du
tifully embraced bis aunt, wbo bad
been perfectly ailent for an hour or
two, and said to me;
“Well, my dear, bow have you
and Aunt Hannah enjoyed your
selves.”
“Notat all,” 1 answered shortly,
shaking for placing me in such a
falso position, but then it occurred
to me that I. was the one ip bo
sbakeu for an actual want of 'prlri-
oiple in speculating upon Ike wealth
of Aunt Hannah li.-forc her very
face. Much good did it do me! Sho
went away tho next day, telling
Casper she was sorry lie. had sual^
a fool for a wife, and we have not
seen or heai d ol her siiicc. I still
contend that he was to blame, as it
was the cockney proclivity that put
an “h” where it had no business to
be, that caused the trouble in tbo
first place.—Detroit Free Press.
AS K.V.'OUXTKH AT*NlV AINSnORO.
A MERCHANT SHOT IN A KKIBMISII
WITH Tint. EDITOR OF THE
“ITEMIZER.”
SsFIRE
jBBSl
IUON, New York
Irs. II. T. Elam
Hah ber New Goode »I1 rendy for inf pec*
lion at ber new Htanri, • ;
WITH MBS. FRED. LUAVIS,
South Side of Public Square,
where nbe will bo pleased ;o receive all
her old cnRtoucr* and aa runny new ones
an choose to favor ber with a call.
HER GOODS ARE
ASaX* STSW!
an nothing wan saved Iroru tbo ffre, have j
in bopnet/anil huts lorlailli«. raiswsiflid 17 Great Monarchies
children. A full line of lace and ou-
broidered cape for children and infant*, j of THE ANCIENT EASTERN WORLD. Hr
The handsomest nec* wear that she b . r«« linaon. Tbr- e large unnvjrieo FINK
»«r bad, beaded Uce. heeded front, lot
dremes, tmckle. for dr<««e*. inching ■ Jjnntae Mxep.ro-.ri,'<* evM»* “> e*' 1
gloves in the new *tyl * aid ehade*, j bib. specimen fagehsihuiee ca .i^ne
Fresh Cincinnati Beer on Draught!
Always uu kaml at 5c ;h r flat*.
Free Limcli from 10:30 A. H. to 2 P. M
I lure a-W.-d t» my place a yeod
Billiard and Pool Table
Frwu now until tbe end of the season I will keep
Full Supply of Ice on baud.
JAKE ISRAELS,
Next door to Rank »f Americas, Cottoa' Avenue.
America#, Oa. marchitr
me, and wbal more natural than j In a voice I did not try to tuoder-
a ad shades { ui
children', ready-made 1lrc.ii s, bibs, pan- HEt
nieiv, fans, hairitu. »te., etc. Comcand | JOHN II- ALDr.N, Publisher,
settbim.
Americas. Oa. April IS:b. 1SS4.
that she would make him her heir,
and leave me a legacy. I woidd
invest it in diamonds—no, I would
buy stocks—or loan it out at a big
p roeougUr , i) 'filial
Tbe clock striking ten roused me.
Casper was gone. Tho maid—I
only kept one—was finishing tbe
morning's work, and I hurried up
stairs and made a careful toilet—a
subdued morning negligeo, neat
aud tasteful—and not too extrava
gant. Then I sat down and began
to dispose over again of my pros
pective fortune.
The sound of the stage coach
stopping at the door recalled me
from my castle in Spain, and I flew
to tbe steps and spread my armB out
in welcome, as a small, dark, spite
ful-looking old lady, with a wrink
led face and a false front, got cau
tiously out and stood on the pave
ment.
“Dearest aunt,” I shrieked in
a high fallsetlo voice, “I am de
lighted to see you. Casper could
not be here, but be left his love sad
welcome for you.”
Tbe driver of the coach looked
at me curiously, as if he thought I
was talking to some one in the
next township. One or two of the
neighbors raised tbeir windows
and lookc 1 out to see what the
disturbance wot, but my new rela-
p ;Sii »!J *** T ’ " v ***v ***• *' x. | it,, ,11,1 not appMi- to hear my
ate, for I was tired and cross. “I
might ns well have talked to some
one in tbe next county. My voice
is ruined and I don’t believe sbe
beard half what I said, as it was.”
“Ob, yes, I beard you perfectly,”
said tbe old lady, vindictively; “1
thought you said Hint, was your
natural voice,” and sire smiled
grimly.
“Good heavens! can you bear?”
I gasped.
“I could have heard you if I had
been dead,” sbe snapped out.
“Wbatdoes this mean?” asked
Casper, star ng from one to tbe
other.
“Your wife imagined I nasdeaf,”
retorted Aunt Hannah.
“Imagined! you told me sbe bod
lost ber hearing,” I said, faintly.
Casper laugl ed; nay,-more, be
roared;
“It must have been my cockney
pronunciation that got tbo better
of me for a moment. 1 meant ber
bearing, isy dear.”
“Yes, ye»,” I enhl, hysterically,
“that Is what you said."
“Lottie, don't be stupid,” said
my husband: can you spell bearing?
Earring, there! It was a valuable
diamond solitaire, aot easily match
ed, and ebe naturally felt sorry
■boot It.”
Was there over such a blunder!.
(could have given Casper a good
Swaineboro, tbe county scat ot
Emanuel county, was on Monday
night the scene ol an exciting en
counter betwe-n two well known
citizens, who resorted to arras and.
fired from twenty lo twenty.five
shots in tho settlement bf a diffi
culty growing out of a heated , po
litical discussion in which they had
engaged.
The regular term of the Superior
Court being ia session, tho town ■
was filled with people from all parts
of the county. Shortly after tho
adjournment of tbe court on Mon
day night tho reports of pistol shots
fired in rapid succession attracted
an immense crowd to the vfelnity
ol the court bouse. Tbe firing con
tinued and the crowd scattered and
took to cover until it bad ceased.
Tito principals in tho affair were J.
F. Meyers, editor of tbe Swains- ■-
boro Itemizcr, and John C. Cole*
man, a well-to-do merchant. It
appears there was an old grudge .
between the two men, and consid
erable ill feeling had been engender
ed them on the night of tbe encount
er, growing out of a bitter discut s-
ion which they had in front of Cole
man’s store early in the evening,
and which was of a political nature.
In the course ol the discussion
Colcmau called Meyers a-—
.which Meyers demanded he
should retract. Coleman refilled,
ami stepping back a few-paccs draw
his pistol and fired two shots, it
was claimed not at Meyers,but up In
tbe air. Meyers was unarmed, and
went away, but shortly afterwards
reappeared. Coleman saw him.
coming from tbe stoop in front of
bis store, and getting up on a benoli,
concealed tii’rsclt behind a post;
and commenced firing.
Meyers returned tbe fire, and a
regular fusilado followed, wbfoli
lasted several minutes. As soon
as oae pistol was emptied another
was produced, until between twenty
and thirty shots had been fired.
Coleman being concealed behind
the post and high up from the
ground. Meyers was deceived as tb
bis position, but the post was out
and splintered by tbe bullets, as,,
they struck on a dead line, with
the head of the ambushed assailant.
The fusilado finally ended by’ Cole
man’s receiving a bullet in tbe
groin. Meyers’ arrest could not
te lenrned, and it was understood
that io any evont ho would not be
prosecuted by Coleman. Tbe ex*
tent of tho wound was not ascer.
tained.and the bullet, after several
ineffectual attempts lo reach It by
probing, remained whereUlodged.'
Tbe affair oreated intense excite
ment in Emanuel county wbera
both Meyers and Coleman are well
known, the latter being a promi
nent and wealthy citizen. Meyers
was regarded as a peaceable man,
and so far as can bo learned held
tbe respect and esteem of tbe onllro
community.
Once upon a time when it won
very necessary to tbo fruit irons,
portstion upon tbo Stale road that.,
freight trains should go through on
Sundays, ft Is reported that Gov:
Brown bought" a call to go along
with tbe trains, and thus avoid the
law by having “live stock” ‘on
board. That sernb young calf got
to be a regular attache ot the road,-
and for a long time bad a regular,
picnic season of free rides.—Augus
ta News.
Ills Slippery Glass Ere ol
“llw Squire,” mj. ths suitor of “Tho
Hnosier Kchoslmsster,” “woro oae gists
eye sad a »lg. The slsse rye wee-eon-
sternly slipping ont of toons, end the wig ,
mining uound sidewise on bis heed
whenever he eddnttrd the people id the
Flat Creek District." Hud sprcteole.
Porter's HsIrBsIsem preserves end.pro-
rnous ths growth ol the natural hair. IF
-also rihiurrft Ino natural color to bs.r,
which has faded or become grey. Clean,
elegant, beneficial, highly perfumed.
spriU-tm^
'A philosopher s*Jfife ' l1 Wtllidff f
an enigma.” Wo don’t know
about tbo eoig. bn; she Is often *,
mn.—Somervilto Journal,