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VOL. IV.
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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.
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JASPER, - - GEORGIA.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Met HU Metok.
That well known, historical pervon-
age, Augustus the Strong, ’subject elector of
Saxony, has furnished the for
many a taio of his wonderful muscular
power. Wo need refer only to one
characteristic story, in which, however,
ho met. his match. On the occasion In
question he entered a blacksmith’ll shop
to have ins horse shod. To show Ids
how strong he was, picking up
several horseshoes, ho broke one after
the other, asking the blacksmith
whether he had no better. Whon it
caino to paying the bill the Elector
Augustus throw a six dollar piece on
tho anvil. 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.
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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. Be-
ing told he L then asked:
“What do you cl large for 150 pounds
of freight ?”
Upon learning the price, a small
amount, he said, “I'll go as freight.*
“All right," replied the captain.
“Put him down in the hold and lay.
some flour barrels on him, so that he
won’t roll about if we liave heavy
weather."—Century.
Mr. Clayton’s measurement demon-
strate that clouds of all kinds float at
about the same height in the United
States as at Lpsala, Sweden, and at
other parts of the world where special
pb» rvations have been carried on.
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