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Absolutely Pure.
* f 'lliis powder never varies. A marvel oi‘
if suwTv, strength ami wliolesoiuoness. More
Vconomieal than the owlinar; kinds, and
( annot be sold in competition with tlie mul
titude of low test, short weight alum or
phosphate powders. Sold only in cans.
Royal Baking Poxvdf.u Co., 1 OH \V;UI street,
New York. novl3-l v
n:oi r:ssio\\i l r tin >s.
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DENT IST.
McDonough, Ha
Ain- one desiring (Milk coin- - in "•
(■■iiniiiodsited either liy culling mi nus in per
■ H!I nr wlilri'ssilig mo throngli the mails.
lYmis cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise mail; .
Hko W. llkv n j W.T. Dickon.
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ATTORNKVS AT LAW.
Mel InsOtoll, ill.
Will practice in the comities- composing
,ho Flint Jmlicial Oin nit,the 'npi-cnie Court
or t* corgi a and the United states District
Court. apr'27-lv
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attorney at law
MoDosoi (;»i, La.
Will practice in the counties eouu> ‘sing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court oi
Uenrgin, and the United States District
Court. marlli-lv
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ATTORNKV AT LAW.
WeDoNouiiii, Ha.
Will practice in all the Courts of (margin
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
Sefiaei’i r- a ■in use > ■ -i! -1 ;
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I •* ATTORNEY AT !<A\Y,
McTtyNoi on, (1a .
Will praeliei ill the counties composing I he
FUnt -I miicial Cirm t. .ml tin Siqn;me and
District Courts at Hi orgia I’m,apt attention
given to collect inns. onto- /.*
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* ATTORN KY AT LA \Y,
Mr Do -a ; oil . Hi.
Will practice in a ! the enmities compos
ing the Flint Circuit. -L Supreme Court of
Hcorgia and tin- h 1 States District
Court janl-ly
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ATTORNEY A T LAW
H.A.MIToX, t . \.
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit. ; . Supreme Court
of Ceorgia and the D - ; t Court ot the
United States. Stieci.il and prompt atten
tion given to Collection , Oel S, ISSs
Jxo. I). SnavAKT. j I!. ! . Diniki;.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Uuifsix. (la.
J , S£. IS. .1. AHVU .I*.
Hampton. Ha.
1 here, v tender iny pi rfessional service to
the pecple of Hampton and siirromiding
countrv. Will attend a;! cal’s niglil and
day.
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1 have opened a law office in Atlanta, tint
will continue mv practice in Henry county,
attending all Courts regular'v. as lie . top,re.
Correspondence solicit e,:. Will m in Mc-
Donough on all puldic days.
Office —Room 2ti. (Lite City itaiik ILiiiil
inc, Alatiama street, Atlanta, Ha.
JOHN L. TYK.
January Ist. I^H.r.
McElree’s Wine of Cardul
and THEDFORD’S BLACK-DRAUGHT are
for sale by the following merchants in
llenry County:
1). Knott & Co. McDonough.
Hill A? Darker, Lovejov.
A V. MeVicker, Isabb.
P-erry <k Brunt an. F.ippen.
Dr. W. 11. It. Deck. Locust Grove.
J. C. Host wick, Peekgville.
,1. W. Hale, Sandy Ridge.
\V. 11. Gilbert «V Co. Stockbridge.
15. ¥. Harlow. Tunis
GRIFFIN FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
M r e lanniH" loth' Ptsb'.i. that »e are
\\ prepared to m..io'.‘ . t.o engine Hoii
ers ; will take orders for a'l kinds of boil
ers. We ari ; and to ilo all kinds of
repaid eg o-i Ei H-.es, I’oikrs oil Maehin
erv, -.enere.’li Me km p in stock brass
fittings «f »H kind, also Inspirators, In
jectors. p'afetv \ lives, steam linages.
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Wras3
Castings of even- Description.
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fill Pioai-cli for Ili«* Pi i/e
I'ighlers.
1 lie governor sal in his easy chair, a
j spyglass at his eye—“ Has any one
I seen a,OOO men and a tiain cf cars go
!bv ? A pitot train with the bad men
|on oin mo e, ami another one s ill ;
! with rattle of wheels and clang of bell,
and shriek of the whistle shrill ? They
travel n- t as the Hying skip, in silence
and in 'ear; they whoop and holler and
yell for all the. world to hear. They
have advertised the place of the tight,
I for six long weeks for more, and 1 eat
! that I c< 11 not. find the place, till the
j brutal light is o’er. Oh, tally* and
squander my men at arms, and look if
ion may see where three railway /rains
and 3,000 met. have hidden a wav trom
me.”
They iallied anti squandere 1, those
men at arms, they sea die 1 the coun
try through; and another governor
came along and joined the searchers,
too. They looked in the clock and un
der the stairs, and under the bed they
peered, and out in the kitchen and
everywhere, but the trains had disap
peared. They felt in their pockets
and looked in their hats, and lowered a
man down the well, hut where all
those sluggers had disappeared to. there
wasn’t nobody could tell. They asked
a boy at Lowry’s store, and the blind
man down by the hall, and the woman
who keeps the candy shop, but they
hadn’t seen nothin’ at all. They (bag
ged the p nd at Sawyer’s mill and
questioned the tollgate man, and all
through the lot at the back of his
house, the governor race t and ran
Rut all iu vain, for wherever he look
ed, went, the people he sought were
gone, and the only place where he
didn’t look, was where the tight was
on. And he never knew there had
been a fight until a week and i day,
then he sent a constable’after the tin n,
41)00 miles away.
Long live the state of Mississippi!
The governor, long live he ! If ever
the moon shou d run away, may he be
there to see ! Should hostile powers
invade his land at same far distant day,
may he find the foe that wastes his
state before it goes away. And great,
good medicine had it been, for the
laud of the sunny south, had thegover
nor closed his smoothore eves and
looked with his long-range month.—
llurdette.
lie llriikc the (pioriini,
“Dresident Lincoln,” said.a western
Senator the other day, “was nothing if
not original, anil some of his political
devices while a member < f the Legisla
ture of Illinois were marked by a quiet
and ingenious readiness of resource
which was sui generis and could put to
shame the most cunning tricks of these
after days in the matter of quorums,
acneuses and deadlock.
“Here is a sample of his genius in
that particular line,” continued the
Senator, “which I have never s'eri in
print. Mr Lincoln was always an en
thusiastic adv' cute of internal improve
ments, and while a member of the Leg
islatnre left no stone unturned to fur
ther the good cause. In 183(! the 11-
iaois anil Michigan Canal was begun,
and patriotic Illinoisans prophesied that
in cheapening transportation and the
co t'• f comm dities delivered aim st at
'he fa ttier.’ doors it w uhl j rove a
veritable K 1 Dorado to the state,. The
following year, however, was o;.e of
deep financial _!oi>m and disaster, from
which the State of lllin is suffered so
greatly that all internal improvements
were suspended 1r a season. During
one session of the Legislature the ina
joritv was very anxious to secure a
vote suspt tiding the prosecution of a'l
qublic work wi:hin tl state. The
question of no quorum was rais'd ; hut
at' actual count rivaled the fact that
phere was exactly a quorum present
with not one ir.a . to spare The
Speaker ordered the .sergeant at-anns
(o lock all ihe doors to prevent ’bolt
ing’ and secure a \igo. The fact that
some of the windows were open, howev
er, had eithet been overloo •ed or else
no one for a moment supposed that any
member would be so risti as to seek an
exit fio.n the building through win
dows which were more than fifieen
feet Lorn the ground. Mr. Lineoil,
hoivevbr, after a quics survey o- the
situation, went to one of the windows,
and, putting his long compass-like legs
over the sill, he let himself down until
he hung bv his finger-t’ps, and then
dropped gently and unhurt to the
ground.
“It is true," seutentiouslv observed
the Senator, "that a man who did not
stand six feet three inches in their
boots vv uhl have ventured upon such
her ic measuie■ ; hut Mr. Lincoln not
only broke that quorum all to sma-h,
hut showed how profitable both pres
cnee of mind ami absence of body may
prove to he at one and the same time.”
—Tt ibutie.
laactli itiglii.
The Monezuma Keco:d has the
pluck to say the following, in which we
agree with thru, : ’I h<- Died : out Kx
po itiou n:n agt i - iaie a!r :,dy civn
meni-ed asking i • c a i\ paper- to
insert half coin .iiis id tree “a
New. I ;-k here, brother • drt» s. ii urn
allow tin- Diidi int L |ion mil
state lair to neat you ot uicir ad
ver ising this year. ' • < n lit to lie
kic ed o • of the inis; • al made to
stav out. e manageis pay the city
daih pap I - and -'iiiiiid he made to
pav the we, kbe-. blow will pay for
ew n iin«- ion see in the Mu' tezun.a
Hi i otd.
Sparta is to have free school*.
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What is so great a gift to restless
man as contentment ? W hat can bet
ter secure for him peace of mind and
vigor of body 1 J What can make him
enjoy life more and realize i's blessing*
with greater elasticity and houyaney o
spiiit ?
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Contentment by the side o! money is
the tine metal compaicd with the alloy.
That money i- a necessity no man will
gainsay. 'That it biings us happiness
in a certain measure no one will deny
That wi'hout it wo could have neither
luxuries nor necessities everyone will
admit. But the contentment that fol
lows a plethoric pocket book is not the
real article. Surfeit brings a sort ot
contentment, but it is not so much con
tentment as it is temporary satisfaction.
Alter a hearty dinner we are at peace
w ith the world and in accord in out own
tia'mc But this animal gratification
mu -t not lie tu taken lor contentment.
Contentment is a moral and psychical
quality It comes neither from a heav\
pocketbook nor a we!! filled stomach.
It is as happv w ith a crust as with a roast
chicken, tender and succulent Its
workings are purely esoteric; that is
they conic outward from within. II
there not this physical attribute within
nothing fratn without eou d gratify us.
True, it might bring temporary grati
Taction, or bet'er yet, a suit of physical
contentment, hut this is really the low
est grade of contentment, and it is not
of that kind that will give us moral
courage or stoicism.
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The real contentment is a lesser
phase of moral courage. It may not
be the same kind of courage that wii!
nerve a man to stand before the mouth
of a cannon and be blown to pieces, but
it serves us well in other situations of
life, lie is a coutageons man and she a
courageous woman who can wear u
smile when the heart is broken ; or
when want almost deprives one of phi
losophy and support, can appear cheer
ful and serene. These are the highest
qualities of human life ; far higher than
shiv t'iumph that brute foicc can ac
complish. Brute force when it
achieves a victory reaches it by a con
centration of effort, or superior strength.
Rut the laurels that follow contentment
are often won by pa Renee, under condi
tions to which the brutal nature of man
W"uld soon succumb Neither concen
tration of effort nor strength will avail
us anything in combating those inti
nitely little incidents which make up
life and which, each in itself, is a bur
den often out of proportion .to the inci
dent. To resist them and make our
selves the masters of them requires no
little amount of strength of mind and
spirit. It is this distinctively lofty
quality, its absence, or its presence,’ in
little or greater measure, that makes
the complaining coward, the half devel
oped moral soldier, or the genuine hero
w o is disturbed by none of life’s trib
ulations ; who accepts them unrepiti
inv|y as a means to an end, and who
fights them as Christian fought Apolly
on until the evil spiiit. is vanquished
and put to rout.
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Gentle reader, if you were to he ask
ed at this moment what the best gift is
that a man can possess, what would you
say? Would you say your family?
But your own offspring may cause you
much loss an i many heart pangs. Your
wife ? Well, a goo I wife is a priceless
blessing ; but even a wife may—mind
you, 1 write may. only—be a vanity
and a vexation > 1 the spirit. Is it
fame ? Fame is a will-o’-the-wisp which
which leads us into all spits of hogs
and quagmires and which, if we ever
clutch it, is nothing after all. Fame is
little better than notoriety nowadays.
Notoriety is secured easily and the one
brings quite as much satisfaction as the
other. Wl’iat is lame after one is dead?
Perhaps to one’s children it is
sweet enough. But what does it
bring to the toiler who is gone ?
Nothing. Ileiein lies the dilfeienee
between th<» two. Loud mouthed fame
blows a post mortem tl unipet. But the
Iruits of notoriety come to us while we
live. Is it riches, then ? Think how
fleeting are riches, which to day are j
and to morrow are not ; which take
wings and are gone before we know it.
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Nor wife, nor family, nor fame, nor j
riches is the best boon to mankind. :
"lie that has wife and children,” writes
Lord Bacon in one i f hi* essays, “has
given a hostage to fortune.” That he
was willing to he so handicanped his 1
marriage to the daughter of a Loudon
merchant is ample proof " F ame is emp
ty ; for Oliver Goldsmith hail fame and
oftentimes a hungry stomach. Riches
bring true happiness. Too of
ten they breed the demon of u'-arice in
in, and like the daughters of the horse
leech, the rich man dies crying “Give,
give.”
What then i* the very best gift that
a man er woman can have? Perhaps
some may not agree with me. But I
unhesitatingly reply that a contented
jeiiel in a life’s crown ; that content
ment which accepts evervtht g as the
tie-t and which makes the most out of
everything, rio matter if the experience
is as hitter as the waters of Marah.
Contentment is the best foundation for
real Impp'ness that either you or 1 can
fin lin this world. It is the only true
basis for happiness. Any happiness
that rests upon any other condition of
'the mind is not real. The one bears
the same relation to the other as ihe
ephemera does (o the in ire vigorous
creations in the insect world, Happi
icss is rela ive It ha- its intrinsic
gauge, it is tine. But the better stan
dard is reached by comparing the indi
vidual case wi:b those which are more
perturbed and less easy. As it would
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not. He thought the world outside
had more happiness than he
could find within. *So h’
went to search • of it. But
in the end he found that happiness is
something that is not to he found be
yond contentment. Kvcry one has l»it.
own burdens and sorr.n>B which gnaw
at his vitals. No condition of life its
free Irom them. They exist even iij
childhood, albeit in a shadowy degieqt-
Life at best is a burden, and whether
be the philosopher who thinks that hi»
is superior to the anguish caused iiy
death, only to break down when ltts :
own sou dies, or the prince who seizes
an imaginary delight only to have it
elude, his gra i>, every one at some titnw
sutler- from some circumstances wh “h
he cannot con; rol.
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It is a very easy ma ter f rus d
magnify the little ills of life until the*
appear like enormous hardens. Aief
when we have reached that stage of tu -'
aginary sorrow, the friction. 'dp//
away our vital forces and do us mttmtr
evil, ('ontentineutis the road to peace.
When there is a wearing of the mind
there is a wearing of the body. ’I hv
man who takes the ills and tribulatiotu
of li'e in a calm manner, and who
strives to reduce to a minimum thM
friction, will live the longest, hut will
he trio h ypiest, while he ltvgts.
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Happiness is not so far beyond our
reach as we think it is Anyone prop
erly constituted mentally and physical
Iv can gain I appiness if ini sets out to
get it. Nor does it take much to !>■
happy once our mind is set upon teach
ing the goal. But tliete must he, no
wavering. Much one must conclude
that there is no condition in life which
gin claim as its right complete and -e
--rene delight. Happiness exists no
where under the heavens unless there
be content to help it along. Content
and happiness are two sisters, who 'wist
display their chat ins by being in one r.u
other’s company. ~
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( hair. •J-.--.-t- jpA: /the ero*vti, where he is
hie:itlyj?.!ild. lie has a large, suout
hftk’e iosc, a rather sybarite face, with
[ljti fn cheeks anti lips, the upper lip es
fW/lly coarse, I thought, though lie
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his age, and looks more respectable by
training than by inheritance; heap
pears a better man than Ids earthly
features would require. 1 remarked to
Mr. Crawford, who concurred in the
remark, that the Prince of Wales look
ed like a rich German hanker of Jew
ish blood in the midst of his congenial
family. The Semitic 'expression is
pretty distinct. The eyes of the prince
are those of a man accustomed to re
flect upon large financial transactions.
His curiosity is not marked; if he
look'd at any one it was at sme lady.
He was well bred, felt his situation
and was natural and modest. I should
think he would weigh 200 pounds, lie
Has dressed in a dark gray suit and a
s-ping overcoat, with Suede hall-tanned
gloves of gray, and carried the remains
of h cigar, which he lighted as soon as
he sat down, at 11 o’clock, in his
coat lapel was a hit of colored ribbon, or
army mark, like the Loyal Legion's
ribbon in America. During the perl t
inuucc lie ae’-'d the parental and fanii-
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% .a I IE 011 II a linnli.
The tmi*-; wonderful pieiv ot lail
ro.id eiig'nooring th it I have ever had
[ tlio pleasure i«t seeing is on I lie Died
mom Air Line in W estern North Car
nlllia. The rui'way leaves Asheville,
that noteil sanitarium, and procce Is as
best it e.iu‘to get over the Blue Bulge
Mountains. First there is the !>wa
tinuimiina tunnel, wliicb is about a
third of a mile long. Alter that then)
are six other tunnels sontunhut short
er. Then from the top ot the moun
tain the railway tin iertakes to wind its
way down into the valley of the. Cuta
bu River, or Mill Creek. Ti e road
here is probably the erookedest it. all
creation It winds and rewinds and
twist.* and goes over and under itself
in a way that is perfectly bewildering
to the traveler who wishes to know in
which paitieulur |<n.*t of the mountains
he is. From Little St. Bernard, is
above th; Round Ivrob Valley, the
railway can be seen in seventeen dif
ferent places, working up and down
the mountains, amPuo two section* of
tlie track are on the same elevation.
The train runs down this crooked iron
pathway with all steam shut oil and
the brakes turned on. It is a scare)’
experience for a traveler, but the .Mad
bed i- per net and has all 1> en rock
lial'atted and laid with heaviest steel
rails, and oil accident has ever yet ta
ken place on that portion of the line,
so the chances are, that startling a* the
ride is to a traveler accustomed to lev
el railways, that portion of the truck is
safer than many other lines that have
less grades anil crooks upon it. But
anyhow it is width risking something,
if it is any risk, to enjoy the wonderful
lido winding round the mountains and
descending into the valley of the t’ata-
ba. But the most wonderful sight that
1 ever saw—and 1 doubt if there is an
other in the world to equal tl—is that
seen from the piazza of the Round
Knob Hotel af midnight. A party of
us stood there to see the night train
from Asheville comedown around that,
network of curves and heavy guttles.
During the couple of days I staid a’
the Round Knob Hotel I vvsis practi
cally a trespasser, because the, hotel
was not opened and Col. Sprauge, anx
ious as ho may he receive a guest at
uuother time, ha I anything but a cheer-!
fn] lo 'k on his face when two northern '
newspaper men stepped from the train
and announced their intoutioa of stay• i
ing there for a couple of days. How
ever, there is too much cordial hospi
tality in the south for a tired tiavoler
ever to be turned away from anybody’s
door, even if the door is that <>t an tiu
opened hotel where pnq a ratio us are
actively going forward to receive the
guests who come to stay there during
thf; W> -lata thus first
night talking about the wonderful re
gion in which we found ourselven, uuu
getting information for intended excur
sions into the mountain and up the
creeks and to the waterfalls. It was
about 11 o’clock at night vvhe.i Col.
Sprague said to us,
“< 'ome out to the veraod i and see
the midnight train. It's about due
now, and to see it. cme down the
mountain is a sight not to he missed.
We all went out oil the broad piazza of
the hotel. The building is situated
right beside the railway track, and the
train that we were to get the first sight
of about a mile above us would have to
pass within a few feet of where we
stood when it had completed the do- i
scent. The night was very dark, and
there, was a rumble of thunder ovet the
pinnacle point of the blue ridge. Jhe
air, however, was luminous with myri
ads of fire-llies that looked like the
phosphorescent track which follows a
ship in the ocean. ’! he roar of the
Little Cataha River over tin rocks was
very soothing and musical. Not a
sound of the coming tram could bo
heaid, because it. was imt through the
tunnel In fact, the liist intimation
we had of its approach was not through
sound hut sight. With a startling sud
denness a great pine tree high on the
mountain top stood in bright relief as
if it had been thrown against the moun
tain side by a tremendous stercopticon.
It looked like a tree of silver and it
was illuminated by the white head |
light ol the locomotive. Then anoth
er tree, and another stood out on the
mountain sale, and finally the tugged,
rocky fide o. the cutting was illumina
ted like a scene from Switzerland
thrown against the dark mountain side
of North Carolina. Then'eaine the train
| with its long gleaming row of glittering
windows, made all the more startlingly'
plain by danse darkness of the
night. 'lnc mountain background ac-
ted as a great sounding board and sent j
the roar of the train across the valley, j
where it was echoed by the mountain
on the other ide of us and thrown ;
hack again in a confused Niagara of
sounds. After a moment tilt: train ;
disappeared as eutiiely as if it was
swallowed up by the earth. It had
none round to the other side of the
mountain and not a sound or a sight of
it did we get for some moments. The
hills still reverberated with its coming,
hut that, too, died away. Aud, al
though every one listened intently,
there was not a rumble to disclose its
I whereabouts. A few moments after a
| section of the pine-covered mountain
j still lower down flushed into the light,
! and this time, as the train turned, the
illuminated disk flew rapidly along the .
mountain side, giving the trees the up
p a ranee of rushing into the light and
then rushing out into the Darkness
airaiu. Then we had a second broad
side view of the rushing train aud the
long procession of lights once more
[crossed the mountain side, but this time
lower down then we hid first seen it.
Again the thunder of its wheels woke
the echoes of mountain and once more
it plunged into oblivion, with that
i uilhi . 11<liIt'iiti<' s which 111:11)1' ii
■c.'innn ii tlm train had had Ivon blot
ted out of existence.
From t!ic further mountain* some
time after \v.»s hoard the faint ram Me
of tin: train echoed hack of us from the
other side of the nearer liilts, and at
ililfoieiit points tlie invisible train made
its whereabouts known by the echoing
murmur of the mountains. vVe went
round to a piazza on the other side of
the house and there caught glimpses of
the train in unuxpeeteit places, and li
nally vie saw it coming around the hill
in exactly the opposite direction we
had seen it, on the time of its lirst and
second appearin'.’. Finally it got down
to the level of the roof of the hotel on
tlie opposite side ef the valley amt
swept around, ei tiling lower and lower
until it, drew up at tlie long platform
on tlie other side of the building. It
1- worth going many hundred miles to
see tlie midnight train come down the
mountain at Uoufid Knob.
Tlie tliiilirieli Vci'sllcl.
The verdict in the case of Mrs-
Maybrick, the American woman who
was tried and f"imd guilty in Liver
pool ef niurdeiing her husband by ad
ministering poison to him in his med
icine, diii not meet witli the approval
of tliec art house audience. Accord
ing to our dispatches yesterday, the
people gave unmistakable evidence of
displeasure. They seem to have held
the judge responsible for the verdict,
aiid they showed a disposition to do
him bodily harm. The dispatches sta
ted that his charge was in Mrs. May
brick's favor, lmt this must have been
a mistake. The hostility of the people
to him indicated licit his charge was
against her.
The case was a remarkable one
among eases of its class, and attract! d
wide attention. The trial of it was
followed iii this country almost as close
ly as it was in England.- Thera is no
dmlit that the testimony against Mrs.
Mnybriek was very strong. Arsenic
was found in the stomach of Mr. May
brii k, and it was found in the bottle of
beef tea from which Mrs. Maybrick
had administered irmrishmcut to him.
It wa.snlsofound upon Mrs. Maybrick's
apron and dress.
A motive was shown for Mrs May
brick wishing to get rid of lmr hus
band. She did not live pleasantly with
him, and she had a lover with whom it.
was clearly shown she had sustained
unlawful relations. All the servants
in her house regarded her with suspi
cion, and testified to many things which
strengthened the case against her.
Her defense was a very able one,
and was skillfully conducted. It was
j shown that Mr. Maybrick was a con
f’ri.ied afsemr VJuter, and that for a
dozen years he had been in the habit
of taking the drug. 'lne presence of
arsenic on Mrs. Airs. Maybrick’s dress
was accounted lor by the statement
that she was accustomed to use an ar
senical preparation as a cosmetic, and
that she had purchased fly papers ami
soaked then, in water to get the neces
sary ingredients to make the cosmetic.
The arsenic in the hoof tea was ex
j plained by Mrs. Maybrick in this way:
I She said that on the night of her hus
band’* death she was alone with him
and he begged her to give him one of
the white powders which he had been
accustomed to take, hut the character
of which she did not know. She hesi
tated to comply with his request, but
being urged site got the powder from a
place which ho pointed out. While
she was preparing to he administered
with the hoof tea he went to sleep and
she did not give it to him. She also
stated that the night before his death
she hUI confessed to him the great
wrong she had done him, and had re
ceived his forgiveness.
Her defense was a plausible one, but
it was not sufficient to raise a doubt of
her guilt in the minds of the jurymen.
Had it not l een for a letter to her lov
er which foil into the hands of the pros
ecution, and which was of a very in
criminating character, it is probable
that there would have, been a reasona
ble doubt of her guilt.
When Mrs. .Maybrick was arrested
:it was stated that she was a niece of
.Jefferson Davis. There was no truth
in that statement, fn a letter to a
friend inquiring about the matter, Mr.
Davis said that the woman was uotev
en an acquaintance much less a kins
i woman.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
( iiiinl) liine.
The rain raineth.
Mr. M. Wallace, of Sand Mountain,
Ala., is on an extended visit to his old
homestead at this place.
Thanks to Brother Don Juan and J.
I*. Nash for some tiu“ melons.
The protracted meeting at this place
i losetl last week with one accession and
a general display of the Holy Ghost.
The day after the close of the meet
j ing a line lecture was given to
the Farmers Alliance, in regard to
their duty as a band of brethren by
Kev. W. L. Feudiey, of Atlanta.
From his remarks he seemed to advise
the farmers against the Felton, Olive
and Venable bills, but seemed favor
able to the bills that controlled labor.
Dr. 1) T. Nash is having some im
provements made on his dwelling. Mr.
.J. H. Nash also making some improve
ments on his residence.
August oth. CLirfF.it.
It : s wonderful when you think of it
what a large number oi men have start
ed out into the world without a penny
and have worked their way up so that
they aie now nearly as well olf as wliep
thev tirst started out.
NO- 1(5.