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sAD COURT SCENES,
qAEY CARRIED SOME LESSONS WITH
THEM.
young white Men Plead Guilty to
four;.i:-ferunt Crimes. Given Sound
: ‘counsel by JndgeGriggs.| ;
. A Young Wifein
Court.
Judge Griggs recently held court at
Jackson, Butts county.. Of him and
some of his work there a writer in the
Christian Advocate says: .
The spring term of the] superior court
f Butts county is now in session in
Jackson, Judge Griggs, of another cir
uit, presiding. Some sad and touching
Loenes oceurred this morning, which
poved many hearts, and carried s>me
J2ssol€ which should be well learned.
An cighteen—year-old white boy had
peen indicted for stealing; and when
arraigned, arose and plead guilty to lar
ceny from the house, throwing himself
gpon the mercy of the court. The judge
frst questioned him, and developed th
fact that the boy had stoleu a bottle o
shiskey. Then as he stood there in the
presence of a crowded court hous: a
glf-confessed criminal, his father pres
bat, the judge gave the -boy a plain
]ecmre, telling him he hoped he would
change bis life, but he would never get
over the stain on his character, no mat
ter how long he lived. He was sentenced
to six months in jail, or fifty dollars fine.
All for stealing a bottle of whiskey.
~ Again the wheel of justice moyed, and
two young white men—one with a good
face, without father or mother, and the
other with a mother and step-father—
stood before the judge charged with
purglary. {They had belonged to ashow,
it had become stranded, and they
began to tramp the country. The
nilroad depot at Flovilla had been rob
bed by them. Both of them, with a
third companion, who was’too sick to be
tried, had once been Sunday scbool
scholars. Both were from the far north,
now in a strange land, with no friends.
They plew guilty to larceny from the
house and asked for a light sentence. It
was a scene not to be forgotten, as these
young strangers stood up in a temple of
justice to be sentenced to prison. The
younger one, nnder the questioning of
the judge, said he was drunk when the
offense was committed. They were giv
ensome sound counsel by Judge Griggs,
who gave them twelve months in the
chaingang, Oue of them was not twen
ty years of age—an orphan. The older
one said his mother knew nothing of his
situation.
Ihey took their seats; another case
was called. This time a young white
man stood up, of excellent family, (with
Lis young wife by his side, crying as if
ber poor heart would break) under in
dictment for stealing. He also plead
guilty to larceny from the house, and
bis attorney asked for leniency and that
afine be imposed. But the judge could
Lotsee it that way. A good lecture
folowed, and he was given twelve
@onths in the chaingang. The judge
said he must be just to the state as well
s mercifull to the prisoner. That if he
sentenced two strangers for larceny from
the house to prison, he could not be
Jartial even to a Georgian, pleadiny
guilty to a like offense. |And so the poor
Lan was given twelve months in the
¢haingang.
So here are the lives of four young
men blighted by one act of violating
civil law, ;
It would have been a blessmé it 8
thousand of boys and young men could
liave been present and heard the wise
Words of the judge, and witnessed the
%ad scene. There were valuable lessons
obe learned from the oceasion. Nor
¥as it a pleasant duty for a judge to
Perform,
_The two young strangers promised mel
afterwards to be good men. I gave the
Young wife my hand and my sympathies
:‘Oftg'r court adjourned. I was helpless
"o more. Poor stricken girl—for she
Was not more than a girl!
b The Judge’s Warning.
“18 reported thata judge of a Georgia
ourt up the country warned the crowds
i regard to coming Into court intoxicat
ed, anq used these words: ‘I wish to put
“verybody on notice that if they come
100 this court room while I am sitting
o 0 this bench drunk, they had better
look Ol]t.”
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TALKED IN TOWN.
Aud now Dawson is talking of a paid
fire department, Why not branch out
and annex Albany, Americus and Cuth
bert?—Macon News.
City Maishal Savage has some proper
ty advertised today for city taxes, He
has also jbegun the collection of street
tax, which is $3.00, for 1895,
The physicians are wear'ng long faces.
The town was never so “distressingly
healthy,” and unless the seductive mel
on and soul-harrowing cucumber get in
their work later on their occupation
will be gone.
Dawson merchants are handling large
quantities of home raised hams and ba
con this year, for which they pay the
highest marke* prices. There is no bet
ter evidence of returning prosperity than
to see farmers raising their own sup
plies.
Spring has fairly set in, and with con
tinued fine weather the farmers will all
soon have their crops planted. Nearly,
if not all of them have finished planting
corn, and in some instances cotton hus
been planted.
A VISIT FROM THE DEVIL.
How His Satanic Majesty Once Made His-
Appearance In Bungay.
A rare pamphlet in the library of the
editor of a department of The Repub
lic hears the following quaint title: ‘‘A
Strange and Terrible Wunder Rought
Verie Lately In the Parish Church of
Bungay—namely, on the fourth of thys
Angust in the Yeere of our Lorde 1577.”’
The story, stripped of the quaint lan
guage in which it is couched, and brief
ly told, is as follows: A storm of ex
traordinary fury raged during divine
services in the church alluded to; rain
fell in torrents, and the lightning flash
ed “blue, red, green and in a mixture
of indescribable colors,”” while the
thunder peals ‘‘not only disquieted men
and dumb creatures, but senseless things
devoid of all life and feeling trembled
and shook with terror.”’
While the tempest was at its height,
a fiend from the lower regions appeared
in the midst of the terror stricken con
gregation. The account says: ‘‘lt was
in form, as well as could be discerned,
of an enormous dog, of black color, the
sight whereof, together with the fearful
flashes of fire which then were seen,
moved many minds to the belief that
the end of time had come, and that
doomsday was upon us. The evil one,
for he it was in such strange likeness,
ran with extraordinary speed into that
pontion of the church where the major
ity of the congregation was seated. In
doipg so it passed between two persons
who were upon their knees in the atti
tude of prayer, grasped and wrung the
necks of both in an instant, so that they
died presently as they knelt. As he pass
ed by another he gave him such a grip
on the back that he was drawn together
and instantly shrunken up like a piece
of leather scorched in a hot fire.”’
Leaving the church at Bungay, the
devil is said to have ‘‘flown with a
greate mnoise and rustling’’ to the
church at Blibery, seven miles away.
He was seen to alight upon the roof and
to instantly pass through it, dropping
from the vaulted ceiling upon the heads
of three persons (two men and a boy,) |
who were all instantly killed, ‘‘beying
seratched bye the horyd thing and burn- ‘
ed to nearlie a cracklyng.”’ |
The ‘‘Book of Wonderous Visita
tions,’’ published in 1687, 110 years
after the events mentioned above, says
that the prints of the devil’s claws
where he ran down the aisle of the Bun
gav church were then still plainly to be
seen.—St. Lonis Republic.
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SAD DOWNFALL OF A WOMAN,
Once All That Was Promising, She Fell to
the Lowest Level,
Judge Reed, a prominent citizen of
Cedartown, who has lately come into
possession of some farming property in
Dougherty county, was in Albany last
week, and while taking an inventory of
the farm which he had purchased, ex
perienced a shock of surprise occasioned
by a discovery which brings out one of
‘the saddest cases of moral deprayity and
unhappy ending of a woman's life ever
recoraed. While Judge Reed was walk
ing about the plantation, one of the
negro tenants called his attention to the
fact thatin one of the shanties near
which they were walking lay the remains
of a dead white wowman. Judge Reed
found tke corpse laid out upon an apol
ogy for a bed, while a dirty sheet ‘over
spread it, Pulling back the filthy
covering, the corpse lay before the
venerable gentleman, open-eyed and
ghastly, and it took him only a moment
to make the sad and shocking discovery
that the dead woman who lay in the
midst of such surroundings was dn
acquaintange, who.n he had not seen for
twenty-three years. She was a young
girl then, beautiful, intelligent, and a
member of one of the best families of the
state, but in an unguarded moment the
sernent entered her Eden, and, yielding
to his blandishments, she fell, drifted
away from her happy home, and degrce
by degree descended to the lowest level
of human debasement. 7The woman
went by the name ot Morris, and for sev
eral years had been living on the farm,
and had no other associates except the
pegroes on the place. Judge Reed had
her body giyen decent burial, but it will
be a long time before he can forget the
shock the sad adventure brought him,
No One to Spank Greyer Now.
From the Albany Herald.
Mrs. Mary Westfall, who died a few
nights ago at her daughter’s ranch near,
North Ontario, at the age of 93, is made
the subject of a dispatch to the San
Francisco Chronicle. Awmong other
things related in connection with the
remarkabie experiences of Mrs. Westfall,
it is stated that she knew President
Cleveland’s parents intimately, when the
President’s father was a Presbyterian
preacher at the httle’village of Clinton,
near Utica, and she recollected until her
dying day several occasions when she
herself visited personal chastisement
upon the fuiure President, because of
some boyish naughtiness in the neigh
porhood where Mrs, Westfall lived about
1845. .
Mrs. Westfall lived to ripe old age, but
~ve are nevertheless constrained to ex
claim she died to soon. Oh, ‘that she
could have lived to have spanked Grover
just one more time! When he was a
naughty boy only a few were annoyed
by his meanness, but uow millions of
people are the victims of his reign of
stubbornness and pure cussedness.
The Weight of the Human Body.
A physician points out that several
fallacies are common with regard to the
weight of the human body. The mau
who congratulates himself on his gain of
several pounds in weight over a given
period may have no cause for rejoicing,
for he may be under a delusion. Very |
few persons, says this investigator, have
any correct idea of their own weight. As
a matter of fact the weight of the hody is
continuously changing owing to innumer
able influences. On a warm day after
breakfast a man will lose more than a
third of a pound per hour. Seventy per
cent, of the body consists of Jwater, and
its weight varies constantly. The infer
ence to be drawn from the loss or gain
of a pound or two may be mistrusted.
Fluctuations of a few ounces are a sign
that che body is ina healthy state.
A Rich Parrot Joke.
\' From the Augusta Herald.
~ Speaking of parrots, a young lady on
' the Hill, who owns one of those tantal
izing specimens of the talkative tribe of
birds, tells this joke, which she avows
to be true: ‘““We bought tle parrot from
a sailor, and as a natural consequence he
said naughty words. To break bimfi;pf
this we always threw water on him when
he cursed. One day the servant came
in with some chickens. It was rainy
outside, and the chickens were wet, The
parrott cocked his head on one side and
yelled at the top of his cropnet lungs:
‘Ha, ha, ha, the damn little chickens
| been cussin’ too.’ ”’
EN RAPPORT.
Clasped in thy arms. with my head on thy
breast;
All is forgotten of sorrow and woe.
Nothing I feel but peace, infinite rest. ‘
Hold me, beloved, thus, tenderly—so. 1
Aglow with the love that forever 1s thine,
1 lift my cheek to thy willing caress.
Few hearts may drink of the juy that 1s mine,
Few tongues such rapture can truly confess.
Clasped in thy arms, with my head on thy
breast,
I fcel thy heartbeats have quickened for me;
With gladdest joy now my soul is possessed. -
Life would be empty without love and thee.
Some say, beloved, that life isa dream;
That at death’s coming we will but awake,
But if the waking a parting doth seem
Let me dream ever for sweetest love’s sake.
~Jane Mauldin in New Orleans Picayune.
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