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tlUVILlB PUBLISHING CO.
genuine
Ml, k,
THANKSGIVING!
Why We Should be Thankful:
THANKFUL That we live in a live
anti growing city.
That we have pleasant
homes and good church
and school privileges.
THANKFUL a s we pestilence, have been cyclones spared
and earthquakes.
That while we have not
grown suddenly rich, we
have the means of put-
ting a turkey on the table
THANKFUL That there are still some
square dealing merchants
in Amerieus like
JOHil B. SHAT J
Who has made us further thankful by
selling us tho best class of goods nt
the lowest prices
THANKFUL
That his liberal dealiu g has not bank¬
rupted him, and that he is still
offering a magnificent line of
Cress
Velvets of all Styles,
DRESS TRIMMINGS
-anp-
BUTTONS TO MATCH,
:o :•
At prices lower than ever, for he says he
Is determined to cut down his stock.
That at his store we can find a
Stock of
CLOTHING
Cents’ Furnishing Goods,
From which we can select just what w<
med, at prices to suit the state of our
finances, so that none need go
miked. Nor need we go with
uncovered heads so long
as he is offering
Hats of all Styles i
STIFF AND FELT
At Trices that Cannot be Duplicated in
Georgia I
SHOES
Knough to fill a first-class Shoe store. A
Large Lot of Ladies’ Fine Shoes just
vi reived from Stribley & Co.
We do not need nor care to inquire
how he can sell cheaper than other deal*
er*. It i- enough for us to be
*WB| Thankful | r I
•fiat he does it and that we get the bene-
•d of it. 8o let us all, in remembering
rmr numerous, blessings not forget to be
Thankful
TO-
JOHN R. SHAW,
Tbs Li?e end Leading Merchant,
Forsyth St., . AMERICOB,
ELLAVJLBE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1887.
BELMONT DISTILLING CO ■J
A - Hirsch, - Manager,
AMERICTJS, QA.
If you wish to purchase any Liquors and
Wines, Pure and (3Id, at Lowest Figures, write
t0 me for P rices Samples sent Free on appli¬
cation.
Sept-8 3m.
M. B. COUNCIL. ft McGARRAH.
I
11 Ilf
-Having formed a copartnership in the
COTTON WAREHOUSE,
—AND—
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
Respectfully announce to the citizens of Marion and Schley that they can be
found at the old stand of 8. McGarrab,
COTTON AVE. t AMIR1CUS, GA.
Where they will have full arrangements lor keeping posted in all fluctuation
nnd changes in the cotton market, nbd where they have every convenience for
handling, storing, sampling and showing cot on to advantage.
They respectfully solicit consignments, and from long experience in the business
feel sure of obtaining the
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE.
Guaranteeing fair dealing and prompt re¬
mittances.
sept 8-3m COUNCIL & McGARRAH.
W. T. TOOL •v-ili J
WAREHOUSE J
AND-
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
LAMAR ST., AMERIOU8, GA.„
Respectfully solicits from his friends and the
public r generally, a share of their patronage. ^
Satisfaction guaranteed. Sep.~8-2m
MURRAY 8s WILLIAMS,
EI.LAVILLE, GA,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE 1
Bagging, Ties, Salt Meat, Flour, Laid, Tobacco ,
Chairs, Saws, Hammers, Chisels, Planes,
Squares and Notions.
-A FINE LOT OF-
HATS AND SHOES.
LOW AS 1 LiU LOWEST.
We solicit the pxtronage of all and guaran¬
tee satisfaction.
- ... ■
P. H. Williams J
- DEALER IN-
Fancy and Staple Groceries,
rmr I MllftlK ___ VAnp TQS/ AAA CO AND iyn CIOAnS* PIPUDC
F,NE u,JUUKi ’ ,L3t ' u,,u
His specialties are t c very best of goods, bc\ an . I" M “ ' .mwiicr nor run
profit i.” Don’t believe all you hear ot > > ■ r 'e to me fu
if he sells at cost and this cry ;* ■■ bait t.i < e ch you. om on "
his “ business '
b i
i
Flour, MsaL Hut Sugar, toffee, Lari Shoes, mi
And other unadulterated article you want, nnd
any
WITH ME I
‘smile eld Stand.
hard time«, for TU leave you a little moMy. Marne
AX
Cotton Avenue, - - - Amerieus, Ga,
DEAL GENTLY.
DY 8. MOOR*.
Doftl geutl.v with tho erring ones,
Tho helpless, fallen race,
Strengthen Be tho v oak ; so shall your life
one of joy and praise.
Yorn’mlsaioja is not to condemn
Tho erring ones who stray,
Bnt to reclaim and win them back
To virtue’s pleasant way.
Beo tliutpoor, thirsty, thoughtless man,
Tho slave of alcohol,
oho, like a bhip, left rudderless,
lias lost all self-control.
He's got among tho breakers now,
And nears the gaping grave,
Ah! who would not some effort make
Tlmt wretched wreck to save!
That youth, impatient of restraint,
Hrb thrown away his shield,
Defensoloas now, tho tempest comes,
And l:o is sure to yieid.
ho speak to him in tenderness,
Aud with your tears implore
Him And to follow give‘up vice hi* foolishness
no more.
Boo that poor, friendless, errring one,
Absorbed in deepest grief,
Hor lonely heart is sorrowful,
Ami longs for some relief.
A kindly Iook, a friendly smile,
A timely spoken word,
Might calm tho sorrows of her soul.
And touch some tender chord.
Toss not your head with cold disdain,
Nor Haunt that seltish air,
At seeing some poor, tempted one
Entrapped in Satan’s snare.
Peihaj You might s had you been tempted so,
have proved as weak
As that poor suffering, erring one,
Of whom you harshly speak.
A brother falls into the mud.
Will you let him expire,
Because that it might soii your hand*
To drag him from the mire?
Oh! do not coldly strut along
And turn your head away,
Exclaiming: For having "Bet him take his fate,
gone astray.* 4
If vice he loathing to your soul,
It only should the more
Prompt Tho failon you to greater energy
to restore.
Let pity linger in your thoughts
When BinnerB you reprove,
Thus while you hate the sinner’s vice,
You may the sinner love
vtHNEENA'S FORTUNE!
— OH,-
Tbs Stolen Heiress.
A TALE OF NEW YORK IN 1835
BY PROF. WM. HENRY PECK,
ACTHOn OF
“ 77<. QuffH's .‘Secret” “ 77,<• T, tier of f!old,”
“ The Half-Breed," "/Toroid's Hate,"
“ The Bride of Barcelona,” Etc.
CHAPTER XVII Continue!}.
The eyes of tho dame flashed rage, but
she restrained a spoken expression of hei
wrath. Edward Bhiilod scornfully and con*
bun d:
Mr. Bratton states fnuikly to my father,
dame, , that he has lost temporarily all he
borrowed from you.
“Tho scoundrel! The unholy villain!’
muttered the damo.
"And a’so,” added Edward, “that he has
good cause to believe that if he should fail
to pay you the borrowed money, and every
dollar he unfortunately owes you, you will
not hesilate to have him arrested upon 8
false but plausible charge of fraud, and dc
all you cun lounonson and disgrace him."
“Yah! So I’ will! Lost mv fifty
thousand dollars has be! The unmitigated
wretch! He shall pay me every cent this
very ‘ The day__”
gate is open, Dame GriDpard!” ex-
claimed l’ettis at this moment—Jansen
having had more difficulty with the locks
checking ill heraelf in what she had intended
to s.iv lPtrard to her tenant “Gome here
Bettis, and give me your aid to get into my
chariot. I sprained mv ankle just now
when I forgot for the moment that I arc
now full of merely a poor, old, decrepit infirmities.” woman,
aches, weaknesses and
ifan eThausled tone ’
“Oh mv dear' I am so weak vears^fd- Soweak
I feel asif I were ahundrml
and 1 am sure I look it this minute. Now
drive into the vard. mv dear, and halt the
chariot near the office door. I’ll get out
there. Shouldn't wonder a bit if I have tc
order the door to bo battered down. I have
not the least doubt that Bratton has run
away, ” she added to herself.
Vernccna began to drive into the vard
von'the 1 ‘iie sum yo,i nam °nst now?" V ‘
“More!” exclaimed the dame in her heart
“More than a hundred thousand dollars
He must lie the son of u very rich man.
Rich,•r than Baptain Balbuta, by a long
shot lia tins fellow and h.s father are
^ th^ mid tlra of wffri'Z worid Z
tends to admire so much bah! -and would
hoot ul any proposition inheritance that of mine belongs to share this
with me the to
minx at my side and which she can never
get ft dollar of without my ftitf. No, Cap-
tain Baibat i is my man for the game I am
playing every time. Yah. I nee that I have
sL,, lutm.l ,,., 1 !. lo' E,l»atd, .. Ibe
chaise rolled slowly across the spacious
^“Mv n
<ieftr mnd - Mr HawkBworthv 1
mean hide a litt'e closer if vou please,
So W hat I s iv i- only for vocir and Y'er-
neenn’s uus, Mr. Hawkswortby. Couldn’t
you, before we gee Mr. Bratton, give me,
say fifty-five thousand dollars of the money
which yon have in hand for his use? He
is to pay that to me in a few rninuteB, you
know, and from the money you have with
you. I will at once give you his note-I
long askenniy pioLnt dear Ycmeena. It will bo
a very surprise to Mr. Bratton to
fift v to him, as sooaas we see him: ‘Here
is the note you feared. Mr. Bratton. All
paid up and squared oft”—eh. Mr. Hawks-
worthy? And then from the rest of the
momvwluh your father so nobly lends to
...... lVd<i „ , v „ the rent be owes me
“Aud. ” d qnicklv. Wend “this is only «
Lrneeoa ran of II e dower I to give to out
on her wedding day, Mr. Hawks-
worthy. I moan to give her all I am worth
when I ih am) it will be a handsome handsome pile,
I nssnrc q>'ii. rou. Oh, res, a very thousands,
, .! n' the hundreds of
,'ri; hn* don’t whisper a word of this
t, ai.. «m- esc in tho wide world. I don’t
» sin eoi.V ia genori to know how rich I
, , r \'c,nce»M on her mar-
u. c -I v Hole i- Mr ! niton's note, Mr.
l. i *. \ , ilt. Of t'cirs ■ vou have no ob
tn, c 1 . mast* .<C-, right now
The above was whispered by Uio danio
with wonderful llueuev, in tor m at in-
gradating style of manner and tone, her
eyes flaming with desire to have In her pos.
session thelargo sum eoneorning which she
was so extremely anxious.
“The whipper-snapper money,’ she said to herself, “if
this is not lying nud
sometimes I suspect ho is has beeu very
slow in getting near Old Anchors. Bratton
has received no reply, it seems, to his ap-
peal for aid. In sheor despair, if for no
other reason, Bratton may have fled during
last night—with money which should be in
my hands. 1 do not at all like the looks
of things about the premises. I am suio
that Bratton has been playing the rascal
Oh, if this youflg fool won 1 d ouly pay that
money to mo now- here on the spot.’’
“Bamo Grippard," replied Edward, curtly
to her request, “by my father's up. cial or-
der I am to pay the money into Mr. Brat-
own hand, and not until he ami I
shall have had some conversation in refer-
enee to its use hereafter " •
This reply tilled the soul of the dame
with furious chagrin, but tho chaise was
now too near the office door, and the pres-
ence of others around it, to permit her to
give vent to her wrath. Besides, Bettis ad-
vanced at this moment aud said
“I have knocked and hammered on the
shall be done now? 1 am wholly nt your
service.”
“Of course you are that, you simpleton,*
mapped tho name, as she arose from her
jeat with assumed decrepitude. “ At whose
service should you be, if not at mine, you
fool? Here, give me your aid to get out of
With the help of Pettis, sho was soon on
the ground, and no sooner was she there
than Hhe cried nugrily io him:
“Force the door, man. Make < juick en-
trnnee in some way. By door or window.
' b °‘ itV ° lila "° U baS ^
Haste!"
CHAPTER XVIII
SUSPICIONS OF POUT. PI.AV.
Quick to obey Dame Grip,,aid's com-
maud, l’ettis search instantly flashed his eves
round in of something to use
against the door.
But she suddenly remembered that the
Sa„;1a^d b f * v g eufance,
rnd exclntmed 6
“No no' No smashinc broken of locks aud
doorframes, Bettis. A shutter and
v shattered pane of glass are less cosily,
Jansen, force open a shutter, break a pane,
unlock a sash and raise a window. Quick!
1 am anxious i to learn why Bratton
mmniit k h ffi JmL h K!aeU 80 lon "' h,s
ThA<<L/«iA s fe •’ n '
te/of on! wifdowt tf ^the i j .
of the siff be nir
notmorethan breast high to him as he
stood on the ground; but as he was about
to shatter a pane of glass he noticed that
the sash bolt used to lock the lower sash
downwasnotin place, l ie at once ex-
cWmed in a tone of surprise:
HeUo! IIiib sash is unlocked, lhat is
® trtt . “K 0 - However, had not Mr. Lint ton
discharged me from his service before sun-
lh !? W1 " W 7r U,J 'T
^v^ni^dutv ?oTee m l.oltVof .
" D uiy duty to see to to the the sash sash oils of the le :
wmuuws
' ell -. woll! B ” a PP ed the dame impa-
hently .. “are you going to a k about your- |
self and yonr iate duties all day ? Openth
w'udow and then ttio doors.
Jansen opened the window and epfituy
Anchors, over its sill scarcely into the had couuting-room lits feet struck or > :e dj
f had^augWhfs ^ ° P |
mai ha 7 uau cau 0 ur ms 00 uoucc. 6 and anu slipped suppeu it I
udo one ot h.s pockets This act was nn-
oh ^ d b Jj'". v one ; IIe lh, n blocked,
unbolted and opened „ he door. .
By this tune Edward had dismounted and
bed his horse to a post near the door. He
whispered to \emoena, who was si ill seat*
k t , v
ions to see Mr. Bratton, and to prove to
him that had my father received his petition
» w>uer tbis wretched old Connor mt would
bnvl ' l hftd . no cause to be croaking at hu
^°<?f re P ^ ^ ie beautiful » . r i girl, •• in the n
same guarded manner, I jam very happy
and'are hero
from her clutches. I know well how mer-
ciless she delights to be toward any de.in-
q««t dehter.- •
BU, ‘ J Edward with some hitter-
ness, as L he glanced at the dame; “it u easy
to see fiendishnesslof intent in her flaming
eyes m my aud hope fierce that looks. all will I too hereafter am w-ry go happy wed
with Mr. Bratton, for my father has a high
opinion of Lis integrity-having had many
b, ‘ sln<,8S trausact.ous with bin. years ago,
SSTSUt
he'ifdded/’that The'mo2ev° whn-h'l 1 “have
1 bad to ha?ten to Washington upon oflic.al
business. The Secretary of the Navy de-
tamed me In that city' longer tha t I de-
fo New^oJk^lv nt a l.Pc bom special las’tnight”
WWmy^father when a mes-
Iheletter p aced in mv hand
of which you have ; U st heard me
speak to Dame Grippard. As soon as,1 had
read my father’s letter I hired a boy to
own to you the brief note which r sent test
al §*?
Come, mv dear , child, ex burned 4 Tlntn I ame .
Gnpp.rd at thismomeut. the door is open.
»ilb .hick Mr lb«ci„n -11 r»»,l
L! <k!me on,''Vd«tr^ “
Having mid this \ery cooiugly, the dame
entered the office, and was immediately
followed by Edward, Verneenu and uthcie.
The counting-room of Old Anchors van
quite spacious, and much greater in length
than in width. In it weie many articles
pertaining to the ship-chandlery business, found
besides such birniture as is usually
11 busmess offices. I he greater portion ot
'h;« fmniturckhowever, was now covered
many windows. Some of the doors gave
entrance into rear wareiooms. and one was
open at the foot of a stair a ay that gave ao-
cess to the upper part of the edifice, and
the dwelling place of the Brat-on . imil.y.
All the windows and their shatters were
closed as the ,«rt.v of visitor- entered the
office- that is, ul save th w indow bv which
** be had « ot '^ ‘ oct ’• . To and the %»“'.he
at ouce W“* u open win-
As he was thus occupied he noticed
‘, h «t every window sash was securely bolted
down and that all the shutters were fad n-
ed on the hwlde. I he shutter, were so ar-
ranged that they fastened themselves whoa
closed from within. Jansen, cs Wo hive
L n “ d - had I,,U!ld th ® hbat ”; T ri^i
forced fiom the on.side , lasWned on thein-
Bld ”-. i h.s fasten »* of tho shirt er coal 1
l !“ ' 00 ' b > a P res " ,lri; carted born
the outside.
wbuo perplexed,moved rapidly from window
VOL IK. NO. 14.
lo window, looking sharply at iho fnsUni-
»l»tt (“S" tern. of every sash ere lie threw opm the
Meanwhile Dame Grippard hid dropped
herself into a large arm-chair near the
middle of the office, feigning to he very
feeble and weary, bnt w th swiftly sweep.
lug glances which seemed to devour every-
thing in the place. Suddenly sho raised her
ho .tl arrogantly, tho iloor struck and croikedi the point of her
st iff upon
“ K " 0 w 1 now l ' Ui e P°»’ ,es " ion '
full «ud , entire possession, of these . premises,
fromg.rret o collar from front to roar.
floul lm ‘ r *° I «n the owner,
i0 lo owner, here, and here I intend to do as
1 ideuse this day."
“No much one the disputes that, Dame Grippard. I,"
So worse for everybody, say
exclaimed Jansen, bluffy—for he detested
|be dame, having onee been her debtor, to
1 daM a,.*? 1 ® * 0 S ! l,ire<1 ., angrily at fho Swede ^ , for .
1 moment, but restraining her de>ire to hurl
» curse at him, said sharply to l’ettis:
“Bettis, there is a bell-cord at the back of
Bratton’s desk. He used it when he de-
s 1 i rcd be bell the hangs presence in the of any hall one from his above, bed-
near
room, long it. If he is above- awake or
0P P 118 will be sure to hear it. If he
Fil.ra obeyed loud instantly, nnd the bell tho
sounded and shrill throughout
e’reiit Vllc “nt rooms above and below,
"That ought to rouse him,” said the
dame, nodding her head viciously. "Bit
'* w ''l ll0 “- "Bv not? Because ho is not
up there to 1hear anything We may do down
from tho clerk he discharged lust week
" ,lie last clerk ho hud in his employ—
Towuly. r J hut c!erk told me to look out
for iny money, for he knew that llrutton
" certainly go bankrupt in less than a
Urn'by 1 thi. ui“ teget my mom^^lhff
was a fool not to come here yesterday
morning and have Bratton arrested. Brat-
ton is undoubtedly a thief—a robber of
hel less " i,,ows
8a.y no mom about that Dome Grip- .
bat'd, interrupted Edward indiguanlly. I
jo not believe that Mr. Bratton has run
wi^Z^lSit^c^t ll, m lus debts by flight It is possible that
,!; *
,H,, rnC( , ( i by you."
KllV " ,mt <Jo T ou IU0 ‘ U1 by that, sharply, Mr.
" E'^swo. nd » rllll «l thy? : “' 6 cried the inB ‘“ dame, , ; t > "‘T he !
8, '°« llll K face seemed nearly black I the next
m ° 1,ient
, , „ ,
Mr.'Bratton's' hailed i
life since 1 before
yonder gate and found it closed a d locked/
My father writes in his letter to me the
letter .•outlining money for Mr. Bratton -
11 ,f ” 't
a yed letter that he Mr. Bratton, saw noth-
b etwee n ms future and disgraceful
1 mP nf,on “ le “b under a false but plausible
LvtaiTbit mv'f.ther'rtk”
|n (o Mr BraUon - 8 U1)ri gl,t eharac-
^ f ( , annot believe that James Bratton
be thief, even if he tried to be
one."
1 efofo E(Iwatd cou1,1 "uy more, Dame
firipj ard sprang lo her feet and strnok the
Iloor furious blows with the point of her
taff « n re sign that hor rage and other
emotlou „ were b nd her wer t0 Rrt ieu-
, a(e shfl M | nr( ,d mingled rage, hate, and
terror around her. A foam seemed to be
f inhering upon her thick lips. She quivered
r0 m head to foot, as if her garments cou-
ceR j e( j on ] y a mag , 0 ( coi'ed wire just via-
!f l(l - v H?. r W*" gleamed under fire.
their black . brows like coals of living
A „ K , wonder,ugly at her, but in si-
leu(e
| to be mimSDM continubd. , |
.................
ABOUT THE TOOTHACHE.
it. Jeromes w^j Toothache,
~
fUrom Town Topics.J .
Hinco Lan-y Jerome has been home he
is at his old t-rioks again. Berry week Wall is
j,j 8 victim. About a ago
j f£ ftlT y entered De Mott & Durants
toothnehe. ^ Ihere 1 nfts no noTn fun m iSim him
that day. knookort^glul-
v toothachewould
nsopher, was the way ho expressed it
“Thero is only one cure lor it, no
moanedt “a hot coal wrapped up in
brovt’d paper.’’ of anthracite coal prompt-
A piece was
ly put on the radiator and the steam
, During ' the long time the
u() , a wl8 h( . fttil , T Un 1)e Mott began
^JSX^ t 2UfS , A*S
fngtuUheeoul Enrally the^T ™
Brown paper, was »d)out to apply it when
he w«s widdonly called out of the room.
Then De Mott aaid: !
‘ l llon,t be,ieve thftt wal iHlln ! y gO0<1 '
Let’s fool him. Let’s wrap up a piece
of tinfoil-here, Bve got it in the desk-
and after he.says it1:.as cured him you
know how stubborn hew—well Have a
joke with the old man.
Berry Wall was so captivated with
th# scheme that he burned Ins lingers
p, Djg eagerness to get the coal out
f wrtt ppj„g a nd the tinfoil was
^1 ,xp!Zml litbuS?'jtoa™“lief it
onee. The on-lookers tried to appear
serious, and Bt*rry wan almoat bursting finally,
with suppressed laughter. When
after twenty minutes of application, and
Larry pro iounoed the pain gone
put its reliever in his pocket, John De
Mottsaid: “Now you see, Larry, it was
on ly tt faith cure after all. That wasn’t
a Lot coal wrapped in that paper, it was
onytpiece <>n j v ft ,,f of tinfoil toifoi. '
„ tl t
wouldn’t have cured me,” retorted
L arrv hotly, taking the package from
his jwoket and slamming it down on the
kj.jj j,et you S50 it’s a pieoe of tin-
fyO «*(X ga id Berry dolpt eatrsrly.
Gil, I l Oon t wont want to to bet ot i any a .y money j
on a sure thing, asket of ”
Well, 11 go you a wine
“Filopene! Im catch, > quoth
your
Lany Aml he opened the paper and die-
dosed the coal while De Mott hummed
^ refraill "fere’s a new dude m
. would not
„ T( , of ^t.OOO look of pain
have brought out tho same basket
Berry’s face but * he ordered a
time^remarking j ^ c f at the
JJS 1 ®, ’* Y philospohicaUy: burned
Hnirers
WINTRY BLASTS
_
TEKRIBLE STORIES ABOUT DEO-
ru: hei so i rozex to death.
I lee, lee,K t ry where—Pnri «fKnn»«« Swept
hr a illiczird-Toxniin HnflVrer-Unle
On the New IdiKliind t oast.
| i In the recently organized county of
—j Perkins, in Nebraska, the death of a man
j Jtre , nUi-inntiuV • . . .■ fhdrnnch/' jq They
| were attempting to to make muKt ttiur ranene,,
twenty miles lrom Ogallala, when the
storm ovcriiowered them. John Grant, ■
who had been on railroad construction
work on the Black Hills extension of the'
Burlington & Missouri ltiver road, was On I
found dead a mile out from camp.
the Arkansas line, no dead has been dis-
cov «rui, , although , tl i suffering - is • reported r „ nf ,-ted as os
very severe,
J* R- liar.Ictine, a banker of Johnson
City, Kansas, on the frontier, reports that
a fanner named L. C. Clark, living near
Golden, Grant county, left his family at
home to go to Hartland, the nearest rail-
roa d mint I foT the nurooseof getting
fuel, ?t s‘rgt lie left Hartland b *» t -s£S,^2?ss with his coal and
next morning was found about six mugs
from home lying by the side of his hows
frozen stiff. ’The animals were also
frozen and all of the bodies partly covered
) )v gnow Clark’s wife and three children
mm i ,, meantime nearly perished
Sv leaving tile shell of a house and tok-
refuge from the blizzard in a cave,
Two deaths are reported from GreelV
f situated on the Colorado line. A
brother and sister named Robert and 8a-
rail Ilolseapiel, who lived on a claim in
unsettled .mrlion of thccountyfound
themselves without fuel. They tore down
11 s 11111 ^ shed to burn tho lumber, ana that
night all but a small amount, which they
themselves burned, was stolen from
them. Early in the morning the young
Mm n wont to the town of Horace, about
seven miles distant, and succeeded in
gettiug two hundred hitravcl’agaiiistthe pounds of coal. Be-
furious
wind then blowing lie did not reach
home till nearly midnight. His limbs
were then numb and he wh w exhausted
^t vim with great difficulty found he giuned
admission to the house. He bis
sister in bed insensible and almost stiff.
She bad been without fire all day, and
the* poorly built house affordcrHltr little
protection. Although the young man
was almost frozen himself, he tried to re-
five his sister but to no avail. The other
,leuth rc P orte( ? from «reeiyCO U nty is that
0 f a farmer, sixty years old. He lived
a l 0 ne and was not without fuel, but with-
ou q f 00( j. Being a recent settler in the
aemiaintances A
widow nrmed Reilly, and her two chi 1-
dren, perished in the storm near Dighton,
in Lane county. They were without
fuel and the storm came so suddenly upon
them that they were unable to get it.
The people in Clark county, on the In- ;
d^n ji„. 'TnnHs.nf Tcmtoiy ltn» line are ... suffering. A A fnm fam-,
«?.'° f f ollr " ere traveling over land and
being ten miles from home and eevera
miles from any other house, determined
to reach home that night in spite of the
terrible fitoftn. The horses'were over-
comc am] the family were obliged amt to
abandon the horses ami wagon walk
... to thc nearest house u„,. RP A \ two-vear-old two year oia
child froze to death in its father s aims
before shelter was reached The others
reached the house bfffclly frozen. The
condition of the people in western and
southwestern Kansas is very bad. This
part of the state haa been only recently,
Freezing weather prcrMlcd in GalvM-
ton, Ice. Tex.; the city is covered with a coat.
„f The freezing line extends beyond
, ht . ]ti 0 G rilII ,l e some distance into Mexico,
pjgpatches to the signal officer show that
qqJjJ weather prevails throughout
*he'cattle districts of Texas. The ther-
i"
^ rcgigU)red six degrees above zero at
eleven o’clock aud weather of the same
, cold Fort Davis,
]yo mi)(ig gout £ ea8t of E i p as0 . The
countrv Ucs between these marked points,
Antonio the lowest point
hv •' the thermometer was 2G degrees above
zcl The ^- .tcbQoner C. «. ,, Erenmer p__. t apx.
Walton, wbfeh arrived at rUdadelnhia,
"t'nmk bj'a hu.ricani- fronfnort^north- was
afiX!ari«““- hold; also lost
seven feet of water in her
Iroth anchors. The crew refused to
W ork When off Cape Henry she fell in
with the schooner Catherine W. May (late
(h(! Williams) bound from Philadelphia encountered for
J{iohmond wi ,h coal, which
, hemmc gale, and had sprung a leak.
;X)ie crew were kept at the pumps from
Saturday uutil Sunday, when she foun-
^j almost exhausted. The captain the
im gtuji’ard were drowned. When
_, n . v ; v ,V taken aboard the Cranmer
. enmnelled to throw over liart
* Th« Cranmer «a» taken in to» bj
the revenue cutter Hamilton and towed
to Reedy Island. ocurred the ., Noyv
A terrific gale has on
England coast. Stories of shipwrecKs
und’loss of life and property will prob-
ab’y be very numerous
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* ritlEST UU;KKU DPc
Father Matthew T> Ryan, of .... the town of ,
Hospital, county Limerick, Ireland, one
people to commit illegal arts. I-uher
Byi.nrefusestodivesthimsefofhiscler- and the Catholic
ical attire in prison, refusal.
warden sustains him_in_his
Siirim Mgns Which Which Never Nevor run. Euil
UomHntlc Miss—“If a couple quarrel
Mnre rienc3l what « i4 th « <>»"
Expe Wi Old Party-“A sign that
th quarrel after marriage.” without
“Suppose m » a couple I get « along b
quarreling net ore,
«'*; 4 sign that.they will . quanet , alter f
marriage, my dear. -O maha World.
**
that the . has
Scientists say garage a
more acute sense of smell than civilized
people. When two savages get together