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S MADNESS. U i A , FOB DEB CBIL- heb Lire. London, Dec. 88—Information baa juat been received here from who coaid do it wae probably dabbed “you'll do," which ia as much aa we will attempt on this occasion. The Origin of Ckrialmai 01 0*. Cbrlstmaa gifts had their origin Hanover confirming the report that; the Roman Paganalia, which was Col. Henry’ IUlhbone, or Alhany,, instituted by Serviut Tullius B. 0. N. Y.. who with hi* wife and coil- 5fto. On these festivals, celebrated drcn were sojourning in that city, *“ **** to kill fclt$ty|fi The tragedy took place Monday moVnlog. Col. Rath, bone, who was laboring under a fit of melancholia, entered the bed chamber of bis wife and shot her dead, the bdl entering her boart. He then stabbed himself. He is still living, but =0 hopes are enter tained that he will survive his wounds. London, Dec. 29, 1 a. m—Col. Kathbone is the man who was in the box with President Lincoln at the beginning of the year, an altar was erected in every village, and to the box placed upon it every man, woman and child was expect ed to contribute a coin. Aubrey s|>eake of a pot in which. Roman coins were found, and supposed to be one of these Paganalia vessels. The Christmas box naturally arose from this Pagan New Year’s box. There is an impressive propriety and tender beauty, however, in thus commemorating the event which gave a Divine Redeemer to man- kind. It is, moreover, an equally when be was killed oy Booth, appropriate custom which makes Kathbone endeavored to stop Booth - and received wounds from Booth’s dagger. Col. Kathbone has shown signs' of melancholia for the past two months. On the night of the tragedy he went to the room where bis three ohtldren and their nurse were sleeping, and asked to see bis children. His wife appeared im mediately afterward, and ordering the mala to lock the door led her husband back to their bedroom. Directly afterwards shots were beard, followed by cries for help. Mrs. liathbone’s sister and a ser vant rushed to the bedroom door, and, finding it locked, broke it in. They traf Mrs. Rathbone lying on the .bM Weltering in blood, CoL Rathbone lying on the floor bleed ing front five different wounds. A six shooter with three empty cham bers end a dagger covered with blood were found near by. Doc tors were summoned Immediately, but Mrs. Kathbone died without being able to give any Account of the deed. Col. Rathbone was able to reach the bed, and Immediately became insensible. When he after ward became oonsoious he appear ed not to cohneot himself with the crime. He seemed to believe that a stranger bad committed it. Neighbors say that CoL Batbltone lived on affectionate terms with bis family. London, Dec. 29,2 a. m.—A Ber lin correspondent says that Mrs. Rathbone was buried Friday, the funeral being attended by many Amerioan and English friends of the family. The same eorresuond- ent says that Ool. Rathbone may recover. Hanging Up the Stocking. What a world of little stockings will bo hung up. If they were strung out in a line we reckon they would reach Across the continent, with a little heart palpitating to- ward each one of them. “Ctcsar nnd his fortunes’’ are as nought when compared with tho freight of joy whiob these little yarn pinnaces wl>l waft Christmas night irom the children's fairy land, the domain of Santa Claus. It is a somewhat sad era in child' life when the illusion or,Santa Claus is dlspeftedl'jmltof course {insthe at some|lti|." [When the child di$ covert fof the first time that the bluff old fellow in frosty whiskers, whom they believed skipped over the roof-tops witli his sledge and reindeers, and came down tbu chimney to fill their stockings, has no actual existence, be learns to doubt, and is prone to ask, os we remember hearing a little fellow once ask under similar circnm stances, “Mother, Is anything t.-ue?” A friend speaking of this matter once remarked, “I was a firm be- Ifever in Santa Claus, as all boys are for a timo, and I don’t believe I was ever more thoroughly dis gusted Jn my life then 1 was on stealthily leaviug my bed one Christmas night to ascertain if Santa OlAus bad been at the stock ings banging in the old-fashioned chimney corner in the kitchen, to find my venerated dad, in an ab breviated garment, filling the stock ings by the light of the smoulder ing embers I The Jig was up as far as I was concerned. The nuta and candles have parted with tbelr mystic associations, lost half their relish, and I found myself expelled, ns it were, from fairy land never to re-enter again.” It fa a guiltless deception though, and bssmsde hosts of children hap py whilo it lasted. The stern reali ties of life come soon enough; then let the infant mind revel in the fairy world while it may. In reading of the sports and fes tivities with which our forefathers were wont to cel brate Christmas we find that \he children figured to a great extent, while for the time being grown people endeavored to appear as much like children as possible, uniting heartily with them in all their sports. The Christmas tree for children originated in Ger many, centuries ago, and is now a prominent feature wherever the Christmas festival is celebrated. The “yule log,” however, huroe-i long after the children bad been put to bed, to light and warm the sturdy wassailers of the olden time, as they drained huge flagons oi generous punch. It required a strong hesd, as well as stomach, to stay by that yulo log, and the ma: the season one, not only of com posing and forgetting old quarrels, and renewing and confirming friendships, but for a universal manifestation of generosity and charity from the rich to the poor —in olden times this beneficence extended even to the lower ani main, a practice to which Burns alludes in “The Auld Farmer’s Address to his Maro.” A Noble Charily. While partaking of the Christmas dinner let us seek to relieve the misery of earth’s unfortunate ones. No better lorm to do this can be found than to support the world- famed Charity Hospital at New Orleans, La., and invest $5 or$l in the IG4th Grand Monthly Distribu tion* of The Louiaianna State Lot tery, on the 15th of January, 1884, under the sole care and supervision of Gen'ls G. T. Beauregard, oi La., and Jubal A. Early, of Va., when over $265,000 will be scattered broadcast in sums of $75,000 down to $25. The full details of which can be bad from M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La. Captain J. Cross Burrell, of the British army, asserts that the re cent telegrams picturing Manitoba as dissatisfied with Britain’s rule are misleading, if not absolutely untruo. To a Missouri Republican reporter he said: “The mercury has been 50 degress below zero at times when I have been under can vas. Tho winter in that climate continues seven months, and the summers, though fine, are not veiy hot. In the winter milk is delivered in blocks of ice, the same ns water in blocks of ice in the summer sea son. In November all meats arc bought in frozen joints. They are thrown into the woodshed and ie- main fresh all winter.” The Night After Christmas. Twits llie night after Cbrislnnu; the hoys were nwuko. After Mulling with tnrk»y, and pudding, nnd cake, And duiiKlinut*, and oyMcru, nml plums, nnd mince pies. There wrre meanings and groaning* and pitennx cilea: "O tny stomach !" “O Most a !*' -O help!” “1 shall die !" "Row I wish that I hadn't had half as much pief “0 mother!" "Come, .hurry!" "O what shall ] do r" ‘-tiring something to rure We!” -'lioo- liou" und “Bito-hoo!" And mother, nlatmed by the racket und noise, Han in to see what she conld do for the boys. Panttv Davis's 1’ain Kn.i.t:usbe brought fur relief. And soon made an end of their noi.c and their grief; And then there was qaiet and joy in the bonse, And each of the lads was as, still u> a ■noose. An inquirer asketi what he aliouM 1I0 with a horse that was troubled with periodical dizziness, and the editor answered in these words: “Our advise, based on a perusal of the valuable book, ‘1Cvery Man His Own Horse Doctor,’ would be to take the horse some day when be is not dizzy, and sell him to a stranger.” Iowa’s new capitol, which is built of Missouri yellow and grav stone on a granite ioundatlon, is 363 feet in length by 246 feet in width and 92 feet in height to the top of tbe cornice; to tbe top of tbe ltall over tbe main dome, 295 feet. Tbe edi fice cost $1,362,531. A twelve-year-old boy in Savan nah joined himself unto two tramps, with a view of going to Texas, to join the Buffalo Bill combination.. The police restored the hard case to his widowed mother, and tbe tramps were arrested. [Cor. Boston Herald.] One might almost nut fay and noties ^nothing unusual. Bnt on looking closer the rocks are found to be tbe trunks of fallen trees toned to stone. They lie about you here, there and every where. some preserving their shape and outlines, others broken or cracked. Tbe scene is a strange one. It smacks of enchantment. Perhaps some potent magician blew upon this forest in the vigor of its prime, and before his chill ing breath the stout trees bowed them selves and feU, and froze into flint and agate. Still yon hardly ace why you came, but after tbs coffee bad beat boiled and breakfast eaten your Mexi cans slowly enlighten you. They bring ont hammers and drill*, and selecting a likely spot in a stone trank endeavot to form a way into it. The stone is like adamsnt. Again and again the drill bounds awsy, but finally pieces are shivered off the cracks made, so that you am what the petrified forest lias ludden within it Emeralds, sap phires, and diamonds arc convenient names, bnt alas, our discoveries would hardly be counted as snob by Tiffany. Yet they are singularly beautiful. Yon find blocks of stone, there aides bristling with great hexagonal . crystals, some green, others purple, sud others a pure white. You out through geodes whose hollows are lined with prismatic crys tals sparkling with all the colors of the rainbow. Much of tbe stone is beauti fully marked flint. Often yon find pieces with a brown corrugatedcoating, which. I fancy, it the petrified bark. A11 the stone abounds in the most deli cate shadings of gray and white, with dark lines, bnt tbe crystals, lining fis sures or gathered in tbe nests of geodes, are the especial delight of seekers. Here, too, there are moss agates, sud exceptionally large and clear garnets, which masquerade nndcr tbe name of rabies. And of tho ordinary forms of petrified wood there is no end. Beating Brass. [Philadelphia Ledger.] -Do you beat brass?” is tbe initial catechism of tbe latest fashionable handicraft in Philadelphia. It isspar- ticular pot with feminine fingers, and requires thorough and practical knowl edge of hammers and tracing tools, brass and blook. A class of ladies, un der the patronage of the Scandinavian Thor, have produced some beautiful and lasting work. The instructor teaches them the way of using and bolding their tools, and tbe proper kind of stroke to make upon tbe steel die*. The method is simple. On a block of wood a brass plate of sheet is fast ened. The design is than drawn upon it; the outline hammered by a die, which bass row of dots. Other dies give the groundwork a frosted or mottled appearance. Everything depends on the skill of tbe workwoman. Keslly valuable articles in repousse brass can bo made from a piece of brass costing but a small sum. Card-receivers, ps- por-weights and plaques can be made. The brass beating eduoatee the hands and develops the muscles. It is worthy of note how much interest in tho me chanical arts is publicly shown. Home- times the hammering of brass is com bined with tlio nse of tbe paint brash. A brass tray lately seen Las a loose spray of pnrple pansies, apparently flung down carelessly upon it. Vaele Remus ea the Art *t Court ship. [Joel Chandler Harris in Atlanta Constitu tion.) “I ktmw’d a nigger one time," said t’nelo lfemns, after pondering a mo ment, “w'at tuck a notion dot ho wantu bait er ’simmons, cn do 1110’ w'at de me tion tuck'm do mo* w'at he want mu. cn bhnrhy. hit look lak ho dee natnlly crhlcudz ter have tun. Ho want do 'aim- 1 nous, en dnr dry is in tie tree. He moni water, cn dnr hung do simmons. Now. don w’at do dat nigger do? Wen you cn mo en dish ver chile yer wants ’sim mons, wo goes out on shakos do treo, on ef deyor good oil ripo. down duy conics, cn cf deyor good an green, dsr dev stays. Bnt die yer ynthor nigger, ho too smart fer dat. ' Hu des tnck’n tnck lie stan’ und’ do tree, en he open de tuonf, be did, wait for do simmons fer tor drap in dar. Dry aiu’t none drap in yit," continued Undo Itcmns, gently knocking tho cold ashes out of his pipe, “cn w’st's mo’, doy ain't none gwine ter drap in dar. Dat den zackly do way wid Brer Jock yor’bout marry in'; he stan dar he do, en he hoi’ Imfe ban’s wide open, en he speck do gal gwine ter drap right spang in 'uni. Man want gal, he des got ter grab ’er—dot's w'at. Dey may squall on day may flutter, but flattor'n an' squaUin' ain't done no dam ago yit as I knows an’ cn ’taint gwine ter. Young chaps kin make groat ’mira tion 'bout gals, hut w'en dey gits ole oz I is dey 'all know dat folks is folks, cn w’en it conio ter bain’ folks de wimmeii ain't got none de 'vantage or der men. Now dat’s des do plain up en down tale I’m a tailin’ an yon.” MONEY !!tHH LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST ! We have just completed arrangements with the Corbin Banking Company, of New York, for the negotiation of Loans on improved farm ing lands in the Counties of Sumter, Webster and Lee. The short crops have made it nec essary that some should borrow money to set tle their past due papers. To those we would say, make no arrangements until you have seen us, as wc are now prepared to serve you at low rates and expeditiously. B. T. BTRD & CO. DO YOU WISH TO BDUO? IF 80, CONSULT ARCHITECTS ATLANTA, Wo H'*M Win Hie of Cntic. Horn or Leva Ft* res JS*r.i* mhI fw* iwMijr per cent.. nod nwke Ike bolter Arm . l*nw«l*>ni win mre or prevent filmort m«r |)i*»a»k to which flow* nml 1 ilrtojirc milHert. Parrst PownrM wn.i. nivit hATieractio*. Hold everywhere. ©Arm r. -«i*rc, Proprietor. We ere eUo Artel* fer tbe fbUewlnc Standard Insurance Companies!! HOME, OF NEW YORK, INSURANCE CO. OF NORTH AMERICA, PHILADELPHIA, ~ GEBMAN AMERICAN, VIRGINIA HOME, OF RICHMOND, LIVERPOOL, LONDON AND GLOBE, ROYAL, OF LIVERPOOL, bi-h ne can pre yui Mf. .ad nlliM. Inaunnr. Is any moist WE AUK ALSO AOKNTS FOB TUB NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 1 One of the most n ibble Ia the United Hf»|p«, whose TOSTIWB PLAIT I« a moetyui luablaj fratuie Cell and aee w« lu rcjxrd to it. It will pay >ou 10 nsaminathli icaturaaf life ln*ur*ncc. Anierlcu*. Ut, Nor. tl« IMS, tf For Ojrotrr Katrn. (Detroit Frte Preaa.) 1884. THE 1884. “CONSTITUTION.” TV. Tril, C-in-lltotlon he. cnm.'o !■*•»» •Iiy la i-nry lutcllljent nan la lb. luftd Its eir»«tailo«i. For lb* oral year II will •» briWrlbaamr. N8.Hr f 100.880 n • ow brio* lavmraby Ua»*•* l.rlrtorm la a m i.uildios, pram Md osISL la wirf-fc sod WMH which a ntn be ran-fed I. BMft Ik* demand, or ita jiwwln* toarillo.ncy. Tk. I tally and fianday Ccaoltatln. «8» ISM win tmbettornad taltarlbaa rut,aad la ayary nan lb# hM pep* lathe nacb at lb# peeple of Ik* Suthnal. On* r*ar $ to. « 1T.nI*. M, 3 Month* S SHI Cl, 1 Month 314 The Weekly Constitution ■tan. Ih. arw y,ar with 13,000 aubwrlhns who prnnoonor It Cl* larfset, kHdangSpaper wllhla Ikrir roar*. U cooriri. of M0 or U r»m (»• tb. -l-mand .f lie lo.loraa or ibo new. my direct) filled with miliar at Ibo sraritri lnt.if.Uo IIm fanner. At Uaa than 3 Casta a Week Ih't grrat bwdfi-t of naws and pwalp will ka MSI in yoMMlj.ildr io entertain en IT mrmt.r cf J.nr Oa. Year. II M SU Month. 1 ** la flint. •[ Tro. etch I SI In Clab. •< Twn.iy, rarit IS* . With aa sales ;aper la tht priter ip .rCtab. THE YEAR’OF 1084 will he on* of the moat Imr-ariant In ear history. A Pwldente Omgmm* n« ftenatere, Coventor, ldTtUlatnrr—are *U to he electNl. Very Important teeneo are to b* triad In the National and Ht*tr efertkm*. The CoaMUnlkn In lu duly or weekly edition will *«rry f and fattbeet new* In heal shop* U lb* will »tand aa an earnrat ehamplun ~~ principle*. irry the fallen the nubile, and of Democratic and twgln with thonewyear. THIS CONdTITUTlOB. Atlanta, Ua. Agent* Wonted for llio New Book, Deedsof Daring —BT BLUE AND GRAY. Tho areale«»l)?ctkm of the wu»t tbrilllnjrperson al adventure* in. Doth ride* during l»*• GreatCw I W«r. InU’Wdy Inteerellnt *erount of exploit* (•fwx’Ute and *plr*. lorforn bute#, heroic bravery, UniirUoninent* aad hairbreadth t*cap»*. nanantir .ncid-nta, band to harri Mraggte*. hMujoiwa* arid tragic event*, perilous Joninet*. 1-old darker, ball- Unfit raoiv** and magti ui’m* arUuue *• e*eh ride t'mliae TOehaHerr. PHOri’IKLYILLVIU TRATKO to Ibo w* Koo.brr tobjit all Mb* 1$. Ouirell* every UiIwl. Add a m 80 AM MID* A Co., Philadelphia, Da. aogSlwfcn THE BLATCHLEY PUMP! BU? THE_BEST. BLATCHLEYS TRIPLE ENAMEL PORCELAIN-LINED THE DAVIS PATENT WROUGHT IRON WAGON ed. It la not affected by heat. fro*t. or « *embier the woodga wagon, eaeent that it I* fkr mrie iiniMirome nnd better b*lIt In It* jirojortioris. It l.*e ■trrmrth. bnjtiN> lu iron l» K i lugether in the rttongrrt m. It h** duiNldllty bo eau»c IU mnnlog gear U eon.|-lately conifORrd of |lw double refined wniugbt and malleable iron, with th« estwmion o» thf tongMe aad reach, which are weed, and •4 the beet kind. It need* . only to be eeen lobe admir* — ed, amt only tw be appreciate condition of climate, wet er dry. There Ueo ehrlnkiag, A. J. BUCIfAXAN. Ag*t, Aniericus, Go. In sccorilanco with the eternal fitness cf things, the now Chairman j moutiTof"siaryi of the Republican National Com- j tnittec is a prison contractor. He ; is supposed to know all about bow i to work tbe wires. wrnn. dry eMUiitric*. , m It I* no heavier thin the ordinary wooden wagon ».f *he mb**- rapacity, hut l« euperler in strength, i \'*v York Timm nrnnow tlm duraW ,lty and w*»v draeghr. !* U n»o«r »lm|4c In t«n«»iee*loe; It being Lnilt in aneh a way i - A f- .5 proposes tno . m| ,i' u , h -,h.Mlo.,tlrVT.v-ov ,.n u> time,mril Ml. **n I. organization of “a new party in favor of j m.d. by mc-in. 'l daplir.lt!Th<! wheel. m»d» with -lonhlr or >lpgl« lira; .bnaid spelling 'Orgnat’ with an ‘r,’ nnd tlms j pwlbnliy ih« tin break, ihe enabling American ‘citizens to rat eye \ ,bo mh ” u ’ ters thirty-one dava aariisr in the season j . n I than is now possible.” The Times does j not know, perhapa—but it ia a fact— that The Chicago Tribune has inaugu rated a system of spelling which, if faithfully followed, would give as iast inch a bad spell of August ns The Times wants. There is an easier way, however, to lengthen the ovster season by thirty-ono days. Let tho month of May be called by ita trua name, the It contaiaa illtntmioM, prices, deacrii dirtetam* fer pbrntuig all Vrgrtabla m Seed*. Plant*, etc. Invaluable i D. M. FERRY & CO. 1 THE BEST 111 THE A SI03.000 OreMN. (Cor. Iloetmr Herald, j • 7b* ■lost noticeable feature of a re ef t evening at Saratoga was (lie mag nificence of the costnmcH of the ladies. I’priisiis the most costly of these was worn by Mrs. Moore, the wife of a I’lliI- I’hiladelphia consumes over 3,000 tuba of bogus butter daily. No wonder that city goes Republican adelphia millionaire. Oiin who pro- at every election. Nothing can turn fesaed to Imvo accurate information on tho stomach of the average I’hila- the subject told me that she wore laeez de'nhi-tn ! nnd silks which cost 930,000, anil also ' - ra- . m diamonds that were valned' at $75,000. I If you are auff.riog from a .ease of ei- j This makes $105,000 for one evening truar irrarine**. trr one bottle of Avrr'o ! outfit. Whatever the coat, tbe toilet ( Sarsaparilla. It will cost yon bnt one was certainly superb, and I doubt ii , ■ dollar, sod will do you incalculable coo-t. anything more expeoaive or elaborate-! It will do away with that tired feeling, has over been aeon in this country. • and give you new life aad energy. . . . cH “EXCELSIOR” COOK STOVES LEADING FEATURES: Drnil>!«: Won. 1.Door- ntrat Wood Clr*l* Iflumtastod flrw-Doon, eta XAjrcriCTtUU MX _ A SHEPPAEDftCO.a ft iBImhmdt FrlfCS tc n-t i - r&xu. And fcrssle bvf.w. SHEFFIELD & CO., AsurfccSsGb CO. Rochetter, N.Y.Chicago, IU ri/wetata. E. I. KNOWLTON, Asa Arbee. I U rlfil I UilCOU I utk-is. AUjM* hb r, FOU PHYSICIANS ANE FAUIUES N»wto». Cbc«p«t, Real. **Clettilines« ii next to GodUaess. ’ o.il* ly A RARE CHANCE. I nli-r f.?r **!»• four ni<‘8>hmne*of l*marra**at h; to Nsacvra rlranwl on taab plra*. *alancr la tfOud ll-nltrr. On «-*cH |iUn ;.rr dtri ll ngn O9 frwn X !*• four roo.na, kitchen, ou;-i ulWitmr> Ml 1 tiff well«. find itafh vrrhfinl" ir»m» f tnl acraa. ©»'». lod W and » o<-k a ll lw RirnMn -I no t-ach I'bcr anfKnkrttt to r»in it. I TW daairaide Unnaa Ik trnn Art and a liai-wrix gad a kail fullc* N’-rth nr Anurcua. Pur tcraa and otn* r p.r-Lalara, addr*** deck ml Z. T. BAWDKS, Anurias* «a.