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Nemesis upon tbe track, who, with the piti less and the tireless energy of the sleuth hound, would scent the trail of tbe ▼illiao and pursue him to the death. The elder brother of Wary wnd Both—Pulton—had visited tbe ruins of the bank, and possessing unusually keen sagacity, had obtained just a slight cine ns to who tbe real culprit was. This was a bat, which by some fortuitous circum stance, bad escapfd tbe flames. Ht knew that hat i and he concluded that its owner was the one who had set fire to the bank. And now, while he is meditating upon the proper course to pursue, let os see what ethers are doing. At the time wbeo this story opens it was a rare thing for a robbery to be committed. In our day it is almost too common to ex cite remark. Then mrn were punished for their crimes ; now, disagreements of juries send the prisoner out on the pnblie he has outraged ; then, men had minds of their own. and could tell a black or white object as soon as they saw it; now, as soon ns a man gets into the jury box he silences conscience, and permits the defence to stultify what little sense be may base. Then, there was no un necessary delay in the trial of a prisoner; now, years elspse ere he is brought before tbe bar. So important an event as the burning of the State Bank of course interested every body. No wonder, therefore, that so soon as the news was heard in the country, hun dreds of persons visited the city to see for themselves. The people of Arkdale—Rufus and his father were thebe ; Mr. Powers and several of his sous were there, the oldest of whom, as we have stated, was already on the ground. But where was Robert 7 No one could tell. As soon as Fulton Powers discovered his father he went up to him and at once con fided to him the suspicions be entertained. The old gentleman bowed bis head in sorrow “Is it possible!” he mused, “that the man who aspired to tbe hand of my dear child is capable of doing this thing ?’ “I believe he is the mnn," said bis eon. “For what object ?” “Father, you do not know him as I do. I myself have bad more than one occasion to warn him, and ho has time and again sol emnly promised to reform, but he has always poDe back to hjs old habits of extravagance and dissipation. I have told him that if he ever married Ruth it must be as a sober man—he must at once and forever renounce his bad associates and rehabilitate himself in tbe garments of a gentleman. But he has gone from bad to worse untii this is the re sult.” The old man turned slowly away, nor did he ever visit the ruins again. The officials were energetically at woik ; so were the paid detectives, and others, Ful ton Poweis among them. Ortain language of Robert Potter concerning Ruth had come tt> bis ears, and it bad caused- all the latent powers of tbe man to become fully alive He loved Ruth, and he scorned a mean ac tion. He was thoroughly amused. “By the heavens above, I’ll leave no stone Unturned to find out the truth of these sur mises. I will hunt him to the ends of the earth, and I will follow him wherever he may go, and if he be guilty he shall bang by the neck, and tbe vultures of the air shall pick bis bones." The brother was in earnest. “Have you gained any clew, Mr. Pinker ton?” asked tbe President one day of the chief detective. “None winterer, sir. The person who did ibis thing has so effectually covered bis tracks as to baffle oor skill. I have just heard, however, that a countryman by the name of Powers—Fulton Powers, I believe —found a bat on the burnt premires, and I have sent for him to come and see me.” ••Report what be Fays to me,” paid the President. "I will do so, provided it Is of such a nature as to warrant it.” Fulton met the detective, gave him all the information he possessed, and volunteered to aid him to the extent of his ability. The meshes were being slowly drawn arouud the criminal. Surprise, mortifiea tion and degradation, were in the end to be felt by some. Hearts were to be crushed and reason unseated. Who can tell what a day may bring forth ? The guilty was coming to justice. Jus tice was sometimes tardy, but the violator of fbe law rarely went scot free. CHAPTER V. Where was Robert all this time? No one con Id tell. ICj father and Rufus became anxious concerning him. He bad suddenly gone out from amone his associates, no one was able to tell whither. Ruth became alarmed. Her lover’s ab sence could not be explained. Where was be ? Mary was in a quandary. The family at Arkdale as well as those at Rock Hill be gan to take measures regarding the matter, and we shall soon see with what result. Meanwhile gone of the detectives were idle. Plans were being matured that would ■be productive of great results, it was thought; tfcey were on the trail. There was a place on the outskirts of the eity known as' "Gallows Hill." It was mostly inhabited by women of the baser sort, and never by any one making the least pretensions to respectability. Young men of dissolute babite congregated there after nightfall, and many were the un«uspecting victims who had been enticed into those dens of ruin. Nor was this all. Many had been the plans for robbery, and murder even, that had been concocted there. Ordinarily, every thing was carried on in an orderly manner, bat a baaty word or contemptuous look was often tbe signal.for tbc shedding of blood. Fnltoo Powers he had never been inside Hs walls. Accord ingly, taking advantage of the fact that it was court week—a period when there were always a great many strangers in the city— he disguised himself and proceeded on his dangerous mission. Fortunately, he was a man of nerve as well as muscle, and consid» ered himself the equal of any one man in a hand to hand conflict. Re went alone. If Robert Powers was there his arrest would follow. If he was not, he might obtain a elew as to where he might be found. At all events he would go. Dressed in the plain carb of a Western drover he entered the house and went at once ta where a painted and chattering wo man was retailing second class “tangle-foot.” “Say. Mister,” spoke up one young man, “come to court ?” ‘Wal, yes; brought down some butter’n tobadcCr. Want to buy ?” “No, sir ee.” And the convention continued for some time, until a proposition for a dance was made. Tbe set was formed, and it was just here that Fulton made a discovery that was startling, indeed Hit partner in the dance was Robert Potte~, arrayed in the dress of a female! But he was master of the art of self-possession, and did not betray bis aston ishment. That Potter was armed he felt well assured ; but what puzzled him was, tbe reason tor this sudden change of spparel when suspicion as to his being implicated in plundering the bank was not directed to him at all. This was explained in an unexpected way, and revelations made that curdled his very blood. “Say, Bailie, did they git her out ?” asked a blear-eyed bully of the bay girl. “Git who out ?" “The gal in tbe pond ” “Reckon they did. They was workiu’ all day. Good leokin, she was.” “What ailed the' gal ?” inquired Powers, who had assumed the name of Morebead “O, nothin’ much. Fell iD love with Bob Potter—went to grass—made so much noise that Bob had to do sumthin’ or she would squeal on him, so he doused her into the pond ; that’s all.” “O, that’s all, is it,” said Powers, and then went ob with the dance. At last tbe dance was over, and according to custom each man was expected to treat bis partner. “Come, partner,” said Powers, “what’ll ye take ?” “I’ve got sich a headache I’ll not drink now, thank ye,” answered his partner. Just us he was leaving the bar his eyes fell upon the face of a man who had just come in, and this determined him to act at once. And while Potter in his disguise was playing the part of the enuttesao in conversation with a youngster—“Potter,you are my prisoner!” was spoken in his face. Quick as lightning he drew a murderous looking bowie from his bosom, but ere he could use it two pairs of hands held him firmly. Then arose a din that is never heard outside of a brothel, amid which some little attempt at a rescue was made. But the firm command of “Stand back 1” cowed the drun ken loafers, and one by one they skulked away. Potter, after the first moment of suspense, was htmsetf again, and demanded to know what all this meant, declaring that he was nnocent of any crime. "Never mind, young man, you will repose in jail to-night, and pass your time iD guess ing the cause, and perhaps in the morning you will know.” said Powers’ friend. “Pinkerton, by the eternal!” said tbe bar girl, in a suppressed voice. Robert Potter was a prisoner in jail!' The news of his arrest spread like wildfire. As 60on as possible word was sent to bis pa rents, who lost no time iufcoing to see their wretched son. When they entered the cell it was with a belief in his innocence. When they left it, th« belief had vanished,and their misery was over. Reason had in that brief time been dethroned, and ere another moon wexed and waned father and mother slept peacefully in their narrow homes in a little grove of blackjacks at Arkdale. Rulus was overwhelmed with grief. He could not believe his brother guilty of so grave a crime as robbing tbe bank, and of the deliberate drowning of Miss Banks (the young woman referred to above,) he knew nothing until the trial. But Ruth—the confiding Ruth, whose whole heart was Robert’s—who would tell her of her lover’s crimes ? It was a terrible tbing—who could make the revelation 1 Not Mury, because she could not endure what she felt was sure to follow, viz : an awful scene. Net her brother, because his feelings would lead him into the nse of language un suited to Ruth’s delicate sensitiveness. Not her own dear mother, for she was the coun terpart of Fulton ; so the task fell upon the father. And he told her all 1 Brain lever! Poor girl 1 Many hearts bled while bearing her appeals, during tbe long weeks that followed, to Robert to love her as she loved him ; and eyes unused to weep were tearful when, in her fancy, she would bold his band aud call him her "be loved, her king.” CHAPTER VI. Tbe evidence had been given in ; the Judge bad charged the jury, and they had retired. A stir in the court-room betokened the fact that a verdict bad been agreed upon. Slowly the twelve men advanced to their .-eats. "Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?’’asked tbe clerk. “We have,” answered the foreman. "Prisoner, stand up. Jury, look upon the prisoner ; prisoner, look upon the jury ; what pay you, geutlemen, is the prisoner guilty or uot guilty of tbe crime whereof he stands charged in the indictment ? What say you ?” “Guilty !” Robert sunk into bis seat, a condemned murderer. He was at once sentenced to be "publicly hanged by tbe neck from the gal lows, until be was dead, dead.” Tbe sentence was regarded as a righteous one The entire history of the crime of which be was convicted was stated in tbe remarks at 'be dance-house. Tbe doomed man beard his sentence with a good deal of firmness But justice was destined to be cheated, for on tbe morning of the day fixed for the execution all that was mortal of the condemned man was found banging from tbe grating of his cell window. Tbe remaining incidents of tbia-atory can be told iu a few words. Rufus moved to Georgia shortly after tbe trial. Mary, the geulle and true-hearted, rnar ried a well-to-do young farmer, and live® hsppily in her cosy home near Rock Hill to day. Ruth visited Mary’s home quite often ; bat the splendid casket was deprived of its bril liant jewel—Reason—snd like poor Carlotta, the crownless queen of Mexico, she was ever talking of her handsome lover. Sometimes she would go to her favorite seat in the little bower near tbe spring, and there, where she aod her sister bad parsed so many boors, would while away the time in ppeaking with him. There it was too, I heard her sudden ly break out one day with that plaiotive wail— “They told me not to marry him ; They said that lie weald prove Unworthy of so pore a gem A 8 woman’s purest love.” Loving hands and willing minis tered to her wants, and until she wa« laid gently nway beneath her favorite apple tree in the Rock Hill orchard, her every wish was gratified Mr. Powell and his good wife have long since gone over the river, but their places are occupied by those who are worthy to fill them. My story is ended, and nil I ask for ft is a charitable criticism, and further, that some ungracious reader will not go to Hampton and murder tbe editor for publishing “such trash.” The Tragedy at Sloan’s. “Do I understand, Mrs. Sloan,” said tbe magistrate, “that you make a charge of at tempted infanticide against your husband ?” “Well, not exactly that," replied Mrs. Sloan. “You see. I—" "One minute—permit me to explain,” ex claimed Mr. Sloan. “Your honor, the situ ation is this i Wo have one baby a year and a half old, and then - we also have twins just two months old. Their mother’s turn up nose, perhaps, but my eyes and my amia ble expression.” “His hair, too, your honor,” said Mrs. Sloan ; “his hair—red !” “Before we were married, may it please the court,” said Mr. Sloan, “she was fond of alluding to it as auburn. But no matter. She went yesterday to a woman suffrage convention. I stayed at home with the children—three of them, your honor! I have only two arms. When two of the liltle folks cried I would set down o silent one and carry those that screumed. Then the one I put down would begin and I’d have to pick him up and lay down another, and then it would begin, and I’d have to pick him up and lay down another, and then it would scream. I tried to carry tbe odd one pig-a back. but it whs no use, he would slip down and bump his nose on the floor. Imagine the situation—it was hard. 1 was nearly wild. Only two nursing bottles, too, and third baby yelling like a Crow IndiaD, while tbe twins were feeding.” “Couldn’t he suck his thumb?” asked tbe magistrate. “Mrs Sloan won’t let him. She closed the gate of joy, so to speak, against her own offspring ! Absolutely prohibited the child trom sucking its own thumb! Nero, in his worst duys, never went that far, I imagine.” “The historians forgot to mention it if be did.” said the Justice. “Precisely. Well, I got along as well as I. could, when in comes a boy with a note from Mrs. Sloan, saying that Mrs. Gibbs, the vice-president of the convention, wanted her buby out ot the way while she was con ferring with the select committee on ways nod means, so in comes the sergeant at arms with Mrs. Gibbs’ baby for me to take care of. That made four. Your honor, if Mrs. Gibbs’ baby grows up and becomes a mis sionary, he can preach to heathen in Africa without leaviog home. He has a voice like a fog-horn. So he turned in and cried, aod the other babies cried (or sympathy.” “It was bard,” said the magistrate. “Hard I Well, I’m un accommodating mnn, so I put one twin in one cradle and rocked it with my right foot, and I pm the other in another cradle and rocked it with my left loot ; then 1 sat Gibbs’ baby on one knee and Johnny on the other, and by a peculiar action of my lega kept all four in motion at once. You understand? Well, sir. just as calmness began to prevail, in comes the seigeant at arms again with the secretary’s baby. Said Mrs. Sloan bud sent it while the secretary wrote rp her minutes, and wouldn't I look after it for awhile?” “Was it asleep ?" “ Well, no. Now I don’t want to exag gerate, your honor. lam under oath, and 1 shall try to state the fact mildly. But lam sadly mistaken if yon couldn’t blow a church organ with the secretary’s baby’s left lung ! It whooped and halloed in such a manner os to alarm me. Then Gibbs’ baby joined in, and tbey gave a duet. Pretty soon our three tuned up for a chorus, and—well, suppose n whole orphan asylnm should sud denly have a spasm of stomachache, and you can form pome idea of tbe racket." "Couldn’t you quiet them by Binging to them t” “No, sir ; you couldn’t have heard a bass drum in that room " “What did you do?” "I gave tbe family Bible to one twin and put Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary on tbe lap of the other, merely to play with. 1 thought I’d go down stairs and get some milk for the whole crowd. I did.. When I came op, as l bad only two nursing bottles, I emptied a bottle of hair renovator which Mrs. Sloan uses—” “I don’t !" exclaimed Mrs. Sloan. “And a castor-oil bottle. I pul the milk in these and in an old paregoric bottle, punched holes through the corks and haoded them around. When I came to tbe twins, they had tbe Bibie and the Dictionary lying right on their bosoms, and they were blue in the face ; too heavy, your honor 1 So I had to pick them up and souse them a couple of i times in the both tub to bring them to; and when I got back into tbe room with them I found Gibb’s baby in spasms from the taste of tbe hair restorer, and Ike secretary's baby bad swallowed tbe cork, and the oiber child looked as if the eastor-oil bottle somehow had not agreed with it. A minute later in come Mrs. Sloan and tbe secretary and Mrs. Gibba, and they hustled me out. I doo’t ; know what happened after that, but I be lieve it was old Gibba put Mrs. Sloau up to charging me with murder.” "The care is dismissed," said tbe justice, and tbe Sloam withdrew. Mrs. Sloan has hired a nurse.— Max Adtltr in A 7 «c York Wctkly. NEW FIRM! Copartnership Notice. IH A VE this dav sold a half interest in my business to G F. 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Not one case of Scrofula, Syphilis, White Swelling, 0| Ulcerous Sores and Skin Disease, in a thousand, I is treated without the use of Mercury in some form. | Mercury rots the bones, and the diseases it pro- H duces are worse than any other kind of blood or* skin disease can be.* Dr. Pemberton’s Stillin gia or Queen's Delight is the only medicine upon which a hope of recovery from Scrofula, Sy , pnilis and Mercurial diseases in all stages, can be ft reasonably founded, and that will cure Cancer, ft #IO,OOO will be paid by the proprietors if Mercury, Hor any ingredient not purely vegetable and harm less can be found in it. Price by all Druggists fx.oo. Globe Flower Cough Syrup and Merrill's IHepatine for the Liver for sale by all Drug gists in 25 cent and #I.OO bottles. A. F. MEB2ELL & CO., Proprietors, " PHILADELPHIA, PA. Gullett’s Improved Cotton Gin. Plantkhs are respectfully invited to ex amine this Gin before huyinir I will keep sample Gin. with Feeder, Condenser and Gullett’s Double Revolving: Cotton Pips* (dispensing with a lint room.) always on hand for exhibition. We guarantee the most per feet satisfaction to purchasers, in every par ticular. The price will be reduced Dext sea son from $4 to S 3 50 per saw on the Gins, and from SI 25 to SI 00 the Feedeis. I refer all to the accompanying certificates of our cotton buyprs and planters of last year, and to the cerrificates of well known planters who are using Gullett’s Gins, as to the extra prices obtained tor cotton sinned on them. J A. RFjKK.S, Agent. Griffin, Ga., March 10, 1879. Griffin, Ga , March 1,1879. We, the undersigned, are nsing tbeGullett Improved L'ght Draft Cotton Gin The Gin is of superior workmanship For fast ginning, safety in running and light draft, (to do the same work.) we think it has no equal; but the most important featute is the attach ment for opening and improving the sample. The best cotton is improved by it so aa to -bring from to % cent, and stained and dirty cotton from U to 1 cent per lb. more in the Griffin market than on other Gina (Signed) W J Bridges, T W Manley, J T Manley. Griffin, Ga , May 17.1878. To J A Beeh, Agent for the Gullett Gin Man’f’g Co , Griffin, Ga :—At your re quest, we, planters and dealers in cotton, give to the public our opinion of your Gin. We take pleasure in saying to all in need of new Gins that it is dow a well established fact that cotton ginned on these Gins brings a higher price in our market than any other, and the Gins are growing in public favor. Cotton ginned on them sold last season at from to 1 cent per pound above the mar ket price. Mr. Gullett’s attacnment for im proving the sample of cotton, we ate satisfied, is what he claims for it. The Gin appears to have reached perfection in gin machinery. (Signed) A C Sorrel, T J Brooks, R P McWilliams. 8 B McWilliams, D W Pat terson, R H Sims T J Bloodworlh. I am also agent for the celebrated Eclipse Portable Engine, manufactured by Frick & Co, for the counties of Butts, Spalding, Fayette and Clayton. J. A. BEEKS. mai2B;3m 'V OFFICE N? 177 W ST - L C.NTBINGER Manager ftaT’Forsale by G. E. Wise, Hampton, Oa. eepl3-ly. TO MAKE MONEY Pleasantly and last, agents should address Finley, Harvey k §o., Atlanta. Ga. Mnced to $1.50! TUB HENRY enrt \ 1 1 .*■ r 3 COUNTY WEEKLY. rtJBI.MHKD KVntr fkibat XI Hampton, Henry County, Ga. 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