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ted by Her H ushand, Who on Friday
"'§:~t,l(lxk.»a§x.-(x Suicide in Chattanooga.
the Atlanta Herald.
me Bruce, of Atlanta, whe was trav
-I'] f:.r , Cincinnati house, died very
“;&eu!. 4 Chattanooga Friday.
At a coroner’s inquest the verdict of
h‘muit‘ alcoholism was returned. Sub
gent developments, howevef, .tend to
pow that Bruce committed smcu.ie.
[Je had been drinking very heavily and
st before his death was at a well-.known
esort about (‘hattanoo'ga. He dictated
Jetter to one of the mmatefx'i and had
or direct it to Miss Mary Taliaferro, of
iddle Tennessee. In the letter he spoke
§ disappuixmuent in love and told the
oung lady that her only chance of see
o him rested in the hereafter. Bruce
i:ned the name of the proprietor of the
;d House, where he had been stopping,
o the letter.
Bruce paid the woman $1.25 for hav
no written the letter, and then left the
1{;159. Shortly afterwards he was found
ead.
HE HAD DESERTED HIS WIFE.
Two years ago, in J uly, Bruce kissed
is wife an affectionate good-bye and left
er and his three chiidren at the family
ome on Crew street. Since that time
is wife has never seen him er received a |
ine from him. |
For two years the plucky little woman
has lived at her home, 77 Crew street,
ni worked hard to support her three
children. Not one word did she say of
ter husband’s desertion, and the outside
world knew nothing of her trials.
Her first information of his death was
Saturday morning, when she received a
telegram from her husband’s brother
sking about the interment of the body.
“SEND HIS BOBY HOME."
The telegram teiling of his death was
the first news Mrs, Bruce had received
f her husband in two years. Immedi
ately she telegraphed back to send his
body to her.
All day Sunday theffaithful wife waited
for an answer to her telegram but up to
this morning she had not heard from her
brother-in-law. This morning Mrs. Bauce
onned a neat-fitting dress of black and
was just leaving her home to go to Chat
tanooga and find out about her husband’s
tbody when a Herald reporter reached
the humble home.
“60D KNOWS MY TRIALS,"”
“Yes, he was my husband,” answered
13. Bruce in reply to a question.
After a few moment’s hesitation Mrs.
Bruce acknowledged that her husband
lad deserted her.
“God knows my trials,”” said Mrs.
Bruce. “I have lived in my present
home two years and I have worked hard
tosupport my children. I tried not to
let anybody know that he has gone, but
20w it is out,
“lam going to Chattanooga this morn
ing to see about his body.”
Mrs. Bruce was shown a special from
Chattanooga stating that her husband’s
body had been carried to Nashville by
Lis brother and there interred, and she
tecided then not to make the trip.
“Idon’t know whether he committed
Suicide or not,” continued Mrs. Bruce,
“‘but he was a heavy drinker. He drank
before I married him. I never said any
thing about his pot writing to me, be
“use I thought he might come back.” %
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A Hen’s Queer Freak.
JIOI' Whitney, of Monroe, Ga., tells a
ie‘:::g”:l( Ty of animal life. A cat se
lle‘r kitttw 'fudder'lo.ft as the home for
. DS A sitting hen was her near
gflghbmn and had the misfortune to be
f"l'?fl;el?clrll})‘ . lShe at once ousted the cat
bitions *;;( and appl'opl'lfa,ted her three
E “'il;‘.g \ h.cu Hop went into the loft,
i "‘.i't‘]“pllsed to' see the mammy cat
é;tte?n ptu;utut her klttens?, and when he
B e fumo take the kxtte.ns from the
: 1d he had a considerable row
o his hap g,
Cal\l-l(..h:; '“:’”?mrf last Sunday Re-v. E. Pin
b, ;1(.(.;..'}?1“,1119’ warned society girls
bt liml:‘.({'(-mg presents from .young men
R m;‘n }lm:(‘)me. “In relation to the
90t infngi ot o ST
For i t‘ ?u.rvxce in thls' connection.
Gndy, g, .) ‘}Ccept expensive boxes of
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kuoy ¢, bvr';cufnary f:n'cumstancexf they
wd wy ), ;n I)nnted, 18 & crime in itself,
0 Whig .it )lu.(cuse for the temptations
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A SONG FOR THE CHILDREN. 1
01, if T couid
Sing the song I would,
Do you knew what that song would be?
"Twould be one to ring
And joy to bring
From the east to the western sea.
The children all
Its clarion eall
Should echo with hearts grown glad,
And everywhere
Its cheery air
Make sorrowing souls less sad.
It weuld hold the note
Of the linnet’s throat
And the meadow-lark’s trill of glee
And the katydid’s dear
Little chirp, and queer,
Quaint chime of the chick-a-dee.
The cricket’s chir
And the velvet whir
Of butterflies’ wings; and the hum
Of busy bees
And the talk of the trees,
When the wild winds wandering come.
The sound of the sea
In its thymthm would be,
And the drip of the brier-bound nll,
And the broken dream
Of the old mill-stream,
Fettered, but foam free still.
"* he flutter of the fleet,
Fine fairy feet,
That dance till the dawn appears;
And the surge of corn
| In the summer morn,
Rustling its golden spears.
The lisp of the wheat,
And the whispers sweet
When the clovers their secrets tell,
The scamper from school
To swim in the pool,
The tinkle of supper-bell.
The rush of the rain |
At the window pane,
When the earth is parched with drought;
The clinking hail
Of pearls in the pail,
Sweet for the baby’s mouth.
The flare of the fire
When the flame leaps higher,
The crackling of nuts in its glow;
The crinkling, aloof,
Crisp creep on the roof,
When the frost steals up like a foe.
The silvery swing
Of skates that ring,
The laughter merry and gay;
And the drowsy prayer,
By mamma’s chair,
At the close of a lovely day; o
—Kate M. Cleary, in N. Y. Ledger.
They Don’t Speak Now.
There is an old farmer out in Jersey,
says the New York Recorder, who has as
great a detestation of flirting as was ever
cherished by the mikado himself and it
was a great shock to him one evening at
church when he caught his 14-year-old
daughter exchanging glances and smiles
with a neighbor’s son a couple of years
older. The old gentleman mused over
the problem all the way home, and final
ly hit upon an expedient wnich he only
awaited the opportunity to put into prac
tice.
This was not long in coming. As he
turned a corner of the road the next day
he caught ajglimpse of the young couple
in the road ahead of him, walking along,
hand in hand, and even as he pauséd,
speechless, he saw them exchange a kiss.
That settled it.
With a few strides he had overtaken
the culprits and was marching them off
to his barn, which stood in a prominent
position close by the high road.
A shout brought out the hired man,
and in a twinklikg the old granger had
slipped an ox-bow over the victim’'s
hyads. Then he seated them on the
doorstep and kept them there for one
mortal hour, calling the attention of all
passers-by to ‘“my two calves I'm break
in’ in.”’
At the end of the time he released the
prisoners, who made all haste to put as
much distance between one anotherjas
possible.
And now they don't even speak when
they pass by.
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Gen. J. B. Weaver, the third party
candidate\, was provost marshal at Pu
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cruelty to the people in that vicinity has
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of his position to tax and otherwise im
pose on the citizens of Pulaski as well as
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county. Weaver was a merciless foe
and exercised his authority in a brutal
and cruel manner,
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IT WiLL 1T -DOWN. ‘
THE QUESTION OF ACCEPTING THE
SOLDIER'S HOME.
The Building Stands Deserted, Only a
Watehinan and His Wife on the Piace.
From the Atlanta Journal.
Three miles from Atlanta, in a north
easterly direction, there stands a large,
drab-colored, frame dwelling.
The grounds about it are . beautifully
shaded, the house is new and attractive
looking but no sign of life are to be seen
about the place.
The blinds are closed and no sounds of
humanity are heard within, for the dis
approval of our last legislature rests
upon the building and greunds.
The moonbeams filter through the
trees and flicker on the roof of the house
as if surprised at seeing no occupants to
this great building with its lovely sur
roundings. /
The breezes are cooler here than at al
most any other spot in Georgia, the
shade is denser, the days are brighter,
and the nights are more quiet, for it
seems as if all nature were trying io
atone to the place for the ungra‘eful
conduct of the last legislature.
© IT WILL RISE AGAIN.
The building with its fifty rooms and
with its nineteen acress of land is known
as the Conrederate home and it will
loom up like a veritable mountain of dif
ficulty in the path of some who want
political honors,
It is quiet and deserted now for no
one occupies it, and only the watchful
eyes of Tom Ozburn, an old soldier who
fought with the Fulton Dragoons in
Cobb’s legion, and those of his wife, are
‘upon it, for they live in a little house
near the home to guard it, but before
the meeting of the next legislature it
will rise as a huge question for the peo
ple of Georgia to deal with.
THE BALL STARTED.
The home will not be allowed to re
main closed much longer for it will
doubtless be acce ted by the next legis
lature,
Some time ago the Fulton couuty vet
erns appointed a committee to prepare an
address to the people of Georgia in re
gard to the home.
Last night at the regular meeting of
the association a resolution was adopted
that General Walker, who was appoint
ed to prepare the address, should do so
at once, appealing in it to the people of
the state asking them to endore the
home and send to the legislature only
such men as would vote for the state to
accept the home.
The address will be prepared in a con
servative manner, putting forward the
claims of the old soldiers, but doing it in
a calm, reasonable manner.
THE PEOPLE DEMAND IT.
President Calhoun, in speaking of the
home to a Journal reporter this morn
ing, said that since the adjournment of
the last legislature he had received
written and verbal communications
from every section of the state and the
sentiment in_favor of accepting the home
was almost unanimous.
““The veterans,” said he, ‘‘are organ
izing all over the state and are endors
ing the home and asking their people to
refriin from sending any but those who
favor its acceptance to the legislature.
: OTHER MATTERS LAST NIGHT,
A resolution was adopted last night
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paper on some incident of the war, and
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