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About The Pickens County herald. (Jasper, Ga.) 1887-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1891)
I f/ m n L V\ VT P 5) f # ^ is® J n VOL. IV. Directory* ■TV Sui'cuion Cot'UT. Fourth Monday in April and Septem¬ ber. Geo. F. Gober, Judge; George R. Drown, Solicitor-General. U. 8. Commissioner—John M. Allred. County Officers. Ordinary—C. J. Cornelison. Court first Monday in each mouth. Clark and Treasurer—J. F. Simmons. Sheriff—James Pin van. Tax Receiver—J. W. Eaton. Tax Collector—0. W. Hamrick. Corouer—J. A. Newberry. Surveyor—W. H. Reece. O Professional Cards ■o II. M. nOLBEBT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. JASPER, - - GEORGIA. Prompt attention given to all business Intrusted to him. ‘ Office in tlie Courthouse with the Ordi n»ry. 4 15 F. C. TATE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Jasper, Georgia. Prompt attention to all business. IS W. C. Glenn. C. D. Maddox. GLENN & MADDOX, Attorneys at Law, Atlanta, Ga. Officf.: No. 66 Gate City National Bank Building, Alabama St cet. gy Special attention given to cases in the United States Courts. UMoney to 1. t an On improved farms, in sums ef $300 and up. Payable iu small annual installments through a period of 5 years. Rat# of interest low—Terms easy. Apply to HENLEY, J. W. Jaspkk. Ga. Harness, Saddles, e.tc We keep on hand at all times a full line of Saddles and Harness of all styles and prices; »also Bri¬ dles, Collars, and everything else in leather, all our own make. » All work done neat and strong and at rcasonable'prices. —Patronize home industries.— Come and sec our work and Jearn prices. Cagli-: & Sox, 3:20-1 y. Jasper, Ga. :o: Kirby Institute •J asper*, Ga. The fall term of this school will begin Jan. 5th, 1891. —•5ATK8 OF TUITION— First Grake—S pelling, Penmanship, First and Second Readers,[Primary Aritfi- ■retie, per month, - - - - - $1.00 8kcokdGrade— Spelling, Penmanship, and Primary English Grammar, $1.25 per uiontli,........- Grape—F ifth Reader and Sixth Thirb Common Reader, HtotoS English knSuS Grammar, CoSSLifiS; e e M^ month,........$1.50 per JTotiKTK Grade— Higher Arithmetic, American and British Classics, Physical S^/’PWl^nhy Aceh'S, month, Geome- $2.00 toy, Latin and Greek, per K*—Patrons . will ... receive the ., , benefit ... of . MieSohool Fund. L. B. MLLL1CAN, Principal. 13 W-eks $1. Tire “Folic* Gazette” will be mailed securely wrapped, to any address in the United States for three months on re¬ ceipt of One Dollar. . [postmas¬ Liberal discount allowed to ters, agents end clubs. Address orders to Richard K. Fox, franklin New York. JASl’KR, GEORGIA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19 THE BARRIER. The stood wide, and wide the door. Ah ou u thousand uixliU before Anti in their wonted t brush old tryst The lamplight on 1 the moonlight kissed. The room its welcoming graces wore. As on a thousand nights before; The soul of all that mansion bright Bent out a voice into the night, As on a thousand nights before. What's this* Across tho open door Some Viewless threads, so silicon line. Do chuilcntfe t very pass of mine; So silken line, so airy light, Yet stanch with cruel magic might! There is wo Arab ci meter Can part such clews of gossamer, Nor any storm can rend adrift. Nor fire devour with tongues most swift Such silken courses stronger are Than bolt on bolt or forged bar, More fell than lance of hedging guard, Than dragon or tho couchant pard; For these at length a conqueror know, Or opiate draught or steely blow; Love can by might put these away, But love no cunning weapon hath To cleave tho gossamer's viewless path. Wide open stands the gate—the door, As on a thousand nights before; Yet I there through may pass no more, As ou a thousand nights before! —Edith M Thomas in Independent. A FALSE CONFESSION. I haven’t a bit of patience with that class of men who are always shaking daring that many mi hones^man has been sent to state prison on ciremn- stantial evidence. Such instances have been known of course but tlicv are very rare, and it is then the fault of the accused I am a* about to narrate the particulars of case which excited widespread interest in 1863 arid I -i.sk the reader to follow the situations close Iv and to see what curious combina- tions can arise through circumstance. James / Stowe was a merchant in the villaKC of G __ nl< . He had been there fifteen years. He was a church number, had no vices, and while ae- re''be^strictly h'omJt^A vcaXTore the luvstcrv occurred lie had taken a boy named V-pin-r Robert Lisle into his homo tile lid ori-h-n, 1 i-cl i.K ' nephew. Bob, as we all called him. was 13 years old when he came. He went iiuo the store as a clerk, and a bedroom was made t ,r him up stairs. I was a boy of Bob's age, aiid we came to lx- cliuins. It thus came about that I learned the cause of certain welts and bruises on his legs and body, His uncle, while pretending to feel a great interest in liijTwelfare, and while s;leak.ing to him in the kindest manner before others, was beating him on the slightest excuse and seeking to make the place so warm for liim that lie would run away. Some boys would have gone, but Hob hadn't the courage to get up and face tho world without a shilling in his pocket. • On the afternoon of the 23d day of June, 1863. as was sworn to in court, I was in the alley back of the store, and I hoard Stowe whipping Hob in the storeroom. I heard him cliarge Hob witli stealing some money, but the boy vigorously denied it. After the ping Stowe told three different cus- toiuers that he had caught tho boy stealing, but suppressed * the fact he had whipped him. 1 saw Bob about an Lour after the affair, and he made his denial in such a manner that I felt sure of his innocence. 1 then vised him to run away, but as I no money to give him, and as he had not a penny of his own, he did think it best to go. He wanted me to come and share his bed with him that night, as I had often done before, but a circumstance prevented. Stowe saw us together and ordered me away from the store. At 7 o'clock that evening a man ntuued Chadwick arrived in the village from Chicago to visit a sister. lie had $2,000 in money with liim, and he asked Stowe to keep it in bis safe over night, At 8 o'clock the store was closed, and Stowe went home. At 9 o'clock I left home to go to the store, calculating to call Bob up bv throwing pebbles against his window, a signal often made before. As I passed the alley I saw a • man skulk away. I afterwaijl swore in court that I believed this man to be Stowe. The sight of him frightened me, and I returned home at once, Next morning “the mystery” opened with a grand blast of trumpets. Bob d tr, t*? mid tbe safe had been robbed of Chad- wick’s $2,000. Investigation height- uned th e mystery. There was blood on Bob's pillow. A trail of blood led from his bedside to the back door of the store. The safe had been opened in the regular way, and gtowe c i ;l i me d that $400 of his ™bey had gone with Chadwick’s. The town was at once alive, and the village constable * proved his enthusiasm and worth , , b >' arresting . two strangers. One soon identified himself as an honest man, while the other admitted that he was a deserter from the army and a tramp. On searching him $120 in greenbacks was found in one of his pockets. He declared that lie found this money in the alley in the rear of Stowe’s store that morning about day¬ light, he having passed the night in a store shed further down the alley. If he expected any one to believe such a tltin story as that he was sadly taken aback. It was believed by ail that the right man had been arrested, mid t he constable at once became the hero of the hour. A Chicago detective, who happened in the town that same day, looked the ground over and declared the arrest to bo a slick job. There had not only been a robbery, but murder had been done, and there was no doubt that both deeds had been accomplished by the same hand, Lverybody turned out to look for Dob Lisle's body, and every spot where it could Lave been concealed within a radius of three milhs was carefully e.\- amined. It could not be found, but this fact only strengthened the general belief in the deserter’s guilt, lie had, by the by, given his name as William | Davis, and had vigorously and con- 1 tinually asserted his innocence of any crime whatever. A warrant had been issued, charging him with robbery and murder, and inside of u week lie had been examined and held to the higher court without bail. On the very day that this occurred a Down East Yankee with a patent chum arrived in town, and of course he soon heard all about the mystery, To everybody’s surprise lie declared Davis innocent, and argued as follows: “IIow was the store entered? As the doors and windows were allright.it lnust have been «ntorod by one of the doors with a key. IIow was the safe rubbed? By some one who knew the combination and opened it. The boy was upstairs, the safe downstairs. What need to meddle with the law' at all ?” While the heroic constables and othors were dieting the above the Yankee was turning things over m mind and preparing to add: “What object to kill the hoy. or even to arouse him? And if killed where is the body? Why should the robber havo carried it away at all? If David is the robber there must have been blood spots on his el .thing. What did he do with the balance of the money Whore did lie get Ids key to outer? How did he learn the coin hi nation of til-- safe?” body,'and This line of reasoning ranched unset it no eoont r the ears of Stowe than lie‘U" W ,, ’t>sted the arrest ] of the Yankee as an accessory, It was not done, but the latter heard of it, and replied: j “Investigate Stowe. He knows more about this than the deserter does!” ‘ Ilis suggestion turned public att.en- , tion and suspicion in another direction, and it was not long before some curious i results were forthcoming. I gave out ; the information that I saw him in the alley at about 9 o'clock of the night of the crime. The village blacksmith then came forward and said ho saw.him on the street half an hour later, and that Stowe dodged past him ami did not re- turn his salutation. Tho hired girl at Stowe's house declared that lie went out just before 9 o'clock and did not until 10. It was so unusual for him to go out of an evening alone that die particularly noticed his going. Three or four of us boys t-old Bob had been beaten and misused, and so it came about that while the dosertef was not released, Stowe was arrested. llis story was that he had caught Hob pilfering from the money drawer on several occasions, and that on the day of the murder and robbery he had laid a trap for him and caught him taking He said ho had a feeling when he got home that lie had neglected to close the safe door, and that ho had returned to make certain on this point. After finding that everything was all right he had stopped to put up some goods left on the counter, and bad then returned home. He denied being in the alley at tho time I thought I saw him, or of meeting the blacksmith. A new and more vigorous search was made for the body, but no trace of it coulil be found. During this time a citizen picked up a ten dollar bill iu the rear of tho store, and everybody at once declared that the deserter must have told the truth. When Dio man who robbed tho safe went out by the back door he must have lost his grip on tho money, and the wind had scat¬ tered some of it. The case against Davis was dropped when called before the higher court, and Stowe was put on trial for robbery. Everybody now believed him guilty of tho murder of the boy, but as the body could not be found this charge was not included, Search was made high and low for the money, but it could not be found. The general idea was that he buried the body somewhere in the village and concealed all traces. Just previous to the trial Mrs. Stowe admitted that when her husband came home liis coat was covered with dust, he was pale and nervous, one of his fingers was bleeding from a cut, and that he sat up for an hour after she had retired. It was further discovered that his business affairs had gone wrong, and , that two. creditors were pressing him for payment of debts. All in all a pretty good case was made out against him, but I 10 had a surprise in store for tho public. When called upon to plead he' answered "Not guilty” to the chyge of robbery, but desired to plead guilty to the uccusa- tion of having murdered tho boy. This took everybody aback, of course, and os they had no more proofs In the one case than in the* other, the charge of robbery was dropped and ho was nr- raigned on the other. On the stand he told tins story as follows: “Iliad discovered that Dob was a thief, and had punished him several times for stealing. 1 lmd punished him on this day. When I returned to the store in the evening I went up to bis room to have a talk with him. lie was Impudent, and I struck him a blow and broke his neck. I then carried the body to the river and flung it in, and the reason you didn t find it was because it floated away with the current. 1 am y 'O' sorry. 1 had no malice and no thought of hurting him. I struck the blow on the impulse of the moment.' When ho came to trial a plea of "not guilty” was of course entered, but his lawyer made little or no effort and lie was pronounced guilty and got a sen- tenee ot fifteen years. After it was over, public opinion whipped about, it generally does, and cvety person felt sorry for the man. He went to prison, sitting that it was a just punishment, and it was a year and a half before the real climax came. One morning Dob Lisle walked into town as cool as you please, and when he had satisfied us that lie was no ghost he told his story as follows: On the night of the inunier lie had hardly got to bed when he lmd nose bleed, lie was down stairs t* look for water wlien bis uncle came in and opened the safe and removed the money. lie did not see Hob at all, but hanging around for a spoil, left by backdoor, falling out of it as lie went, In this way lie got tho dust on bis epat and at the earn© tune lot go of some the money. Bob realized that Jt was robbery, and suspecting that it was put up job to get him sent to prison determined to run away, lie took or three dollars left in tho drawer, bundled up something to and when morning came was away. For upward of a year be had been running on a steamboat. day he had heard two passengers talk- ing of the ease, and when he discovered that he was supposed to have been murdered lie at once started Jor to clear his uncle. Stowe was in state prison, as you know. When told that the .boy had returned alive and well he was ab broken up. M lien Hob was . hdreri to the prison his uncle had no.th- sa Y- Well, as a matter of course, steps wero "d it taken was soon to secure granted. Stowers I lien pardon, came a the question of trying him for the rob- bery; but various delays occurred, and bis lawyers adv anced various technical objections, and the case finally petered Me disappeared, going to Ans- tralja. and it. was two or three years * a * el .’ v 'b (, n the final particulars came light. He had been hoarding his easli for three or four years, calculat- ‘ n g to skip out. He had robbed the safe and buried tho money in his cellar, and ho fully intended to accuse Hob of the crime. Ho suspected thaf Bob had run away, and therefore accused him ^ of Mie alleged murder to cover up die other crime. After he had skipped, leaving his family without a dollar, a ? rea t many of his dishonest transuc- dons came to light, and it became plain to everybody that lie was a rascal in disguise. While I do not deny, as I told you at tho outset, that a wan entirely iunu- of ft certain crime may be sent to P r *son as guilty of it, it can scarcely happen if ho is an honest man and above suspicion, l lis conduct must be against him as an innocent man. Cir- cumstances such as being seen near dio place of crime, betraying guilt when accosted, being unable to make satis- factory answers, etc.—go a Jong ways "here direct proof is lacking, and I diink 1 am safe in saying that the man ' vbo bus been found innocent of the crime for which lie was hanged or sent to prison was guilty of someth mg else of u serious nature w.ncli ie was seeking to hide at the time. New York Sun. i:r/c<:L of Water on Bud Coins. A street car conductor says: Pas¬ sengers often think us discourteous because wo examine coins tendered ns a little critically, but as all bad money \ve turn in is returned to us, and as sonic people take advantage of dark- ness and rush to push any kind of coins on to us, our caution is not to bo won- dered at. In damp or wot weather our troubles are increased. I will defy any man to palm a bad dollar or half dollar off on me when it is dry, but if it is wet, or even damp, the best judge can be fooled. It is possible to counter¬ feit money so far as weight, color and appearance are concerned, but when it comes to feel, no spurious coin can bo m;ide to deceive a man with moderate experience. This test, to bo any good, must be on a dry coin. When wet, good and b.-ul feel just alike, and un¬ less you can “ring” a suspicious coin you must take your ehanecs on it. Men who sell drinks at festivals or in parks, and have their hands always wf -‘t, take in a quantity of bad money, all< l a conductor on a wet night rims a r *sk of losing, in one trip, half lie has earned by his fourteen or fifteen bourn’ work.- St. Louis Globe-Democrat. _ __________ _______ Reverence for oi.i Boot.. To the Celestials no relics are more valuable than the boots that have been worn by a magistrate. If he'resigns and leaves the city we are told a crowd accompanies him from his residence to the gates, where his boots are drawn (> flf with great ceremony, to be pro- served in tlie lmll of justice. This is the more easy to believe when we re- member that John Chinaman is. rather ceremonious on occasion with respect to wearing his own boots.* In his be- lief that there is nothing like old boots tliu Chinese is not peculiar. Relic hunters have discovered that— hidden away for the most part in the family museums of our great houses— there are boots and s’. >es treasured for their ago, or valued for their historical associations. Collecting remarkable boots and antique shoes threatens to become the rage among some ladies of title. Let us hope they will not for- get to include as a curiosity the high heeled boot of modern times.—Cham- bers’ Journal. j Tlie Wise Little City Girl. “What are these funny little things?” asked Flossie of her country cousin, pointing to a number of pea pods. ' "Those are pease,” said Tommy. “You can’t fool me,” retorted Flos- sic. “l’case come in big red cana”— Harper's Bazar. " *----r ~J~ ~ — . . t .f--— j j This is Tho a story Way for of grown tho World. up people. Four boys stood on a street crossing; they ranged in years from C to 15; the first three held hoops in their hands; fourth had none. ! “I wish,” said 6-year-old, rolling his eyes at tlie boy next to him, “that my hoop was >ig as your n.” “And I wish, said 8-year-old. rolling Ins oyes ■ at the next boy, “that my hoop was as J big as yogr’n.” “And I wish.” said 10- year-old, rolling his eyes at the big boy j 1 without a hoop, “that I was as big as you, so I wouldn’t care for such a boy- ish thing as a hoop.” “Well,” said the big boy, with a kind of regretful earnestness, “I'H tell you what I wish. I wisli lumps seemed as awfully jolly fun to mo as tfaev oneo 1 --—- cs . iorc.i_t-- ton, Lotspm m W holsale Staple and Fancy Groceries, TBB 4 CCO, CKiARS, JEtc., Etc •» KNOXVILLE, TENN. Buy your Boots _and Shoes —from— Haynes, Henson & Co., THE LEADING WHOLESALE Boot and Shoe House in'The South, 216 GAY STREET, 3-46. Knoxville, Tenn. 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It was u very thick coin, The blacksmith took it up, broke it La half, saying, “Pardon me, but I have given you a good horseshoe, and I ex- poet a good coin in return." Another six dollar piece was given him, but he broke that, and ilve or six others, when the humiliated elector put an end to the performance by handing the black- smith a louisd’or, pacifying him by saying, “The dollars were probably made of bad metal, but this gold piece I hope is good.”—Chambers' Journal. -— Am Freight. Those were bustling days on the western rivers fifty years ago when etn- grants from the east flocked to the prairies of tho west. Some of the «a- igrauts, being poor, paid in part few their passage by helping to “wood the boat”—that is, by carrying wood down the bank at the wood landings and throwing it on the boat. An irapeeun- lous Irishman who did not wish to pay full fare nor to carry wood board¬ ed a western steamer at the landing and asked the fare to St. Louis. 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