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SAVANNA!M, Ga., Nov. 1, 1888,
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And furnish it throughout;
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With lofty walls and stout;
A man can build a temple,
With bigh and spacious dome
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That precious thing called Home
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- Of woman, far and wide,
To turn a cot or palace
Into something clse besido—
‘Where brothers; “sons and s
bands, tired,
With willing footsteps come;
A place of rest, where love abounds,
A perfect kingdom—Towe.
- Rn Unprofitable Client,
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Providence Journal.]
A day or two ago a talented
young lawyer of Putnam, Capu.,
was delighted by finding in his of
fice a richly dressed lady, who an
nounced her desire to employ him
professionally, With a beaming
smile the young Blackstone handed
the fair visitor a cushioned aim
chair, and assured her “that he
- was entirely and devotedly at her
service,” Seatinz herself, the lady
‘ungloved her small, white hand,
that literally glistened with dia—
mondg, and applied a Suez scented
handkerchief to her lips, blushed,
and casting her eyes upon the floor,
said :
~ ‘My Dbusiness is very particular
—it is—pardon me, sir,but you will
not betray me !’
‘Betray you! Not for the world,
mademe, vou can confide in me
with the same reliance asina priest
at the confessional
*The fact is—] wunt—that is, T
have been unfortunate in my marve
ringe relations.”
T eyes of the lawyeriglistened,
and drawing his chuir elose to the
side of his fair elient, remarked :
‘I ree—l sce—you want a di
voree. lam just the man to get it
fur you. I am perfeetly au fiuit in
matters ot this kind. How long
have you been married ?
‘Nine years.
‘Nine years! You must have
been very young when you entered
this bliss—l mean wretched state.s
‘I was a mere child—a foolish,
inexperienced girl. A doting moth
er placed me in the arms of 2 man
old enough to be my father, But
he was rich, and for two or three
vears I did not know the difference.
I was as happy as though my hus
band had been twenty years youn
ger, but association with other wo
men opened my eyes, and I hecame |
wretched. I pined for a heart
that was congenial with my
own.’ .
‘Exactly g 0 !’ exclaimed the law
yer rubbing his hand and twisting
bis incipient mustache, ‘but your
suflering will soon terminate. I
will get you a divorce, and
then—'
‘Oh,.dear me !—and then—but I I
must not be o sanguine. My?ms—
band is very rich, and he will I‘.{‘\'ol‘l
permit me to get a divorce it he
can help it.’
*Madam, you don’t know the law
—majesty—its glorious certainty—
its magnanimi‘y. Consider your
self divorced and rest easy.’
‘Well, sir; how shall T proceed ¥
‘Let me see. In the first place,
give me a statemenet of your griev
ances.’
“That would take a whole week,
You can imagine what a \\'on):m{
like me must suffer with such a
husband.’
“Yes, yes; cruel and barbarous
treatment ; conditin intolerable—
neglect and all that sort of thing, T
will just jot down a few of the
items, Your name js—-=’
‘Mrs-—--. You must know my
husband.’
‘What the manufacturer! He
i 3 as rich as Crowsus/’
“Yes, he's rich ; hut I don’t care
for that. I want a divorce.
| The lawyer wrote down a sketch
of the lady’s matrimonial infelici
l ties, and again assured her that he
wounld bave no difficalty in procur
l ing a divorce, with at least $lO,OOO
DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 18389.
alimony.
‘How much are you gomg to
charge me for making me happy ¥’
asked the lady.
‘Well, I ought to eharge you at
least £l.OOO, but, out of censideras
tion for your sufferings, I will only
tuke a retainer of £lOO, and when
it is accomplished you will increase
it to £5OO.
“That is evidently reasonable. T
Lhave no change about me now.
O, yes! here is a check for $209
my husband gave me to go shop-|
ping. I will only want half of it
to-day ; will you get it cashed sor
me.
‘lt is after bank hours, but the
cheek is all right. T will give $lOO
for your shopping and keep the
check.’
The lawyer had that day receiv~
ed a remittance of $lOO from his
tather. He hauded it over to the
vigion of loveliness, and placing
her check in his pocketbook, bowed
his client to the door. e was ex
cessively happy at his good fortune,
and that night dreamed of angelic
clients, sensational divoree cases,
and a huge pile of $lOO bills. The
next morning he went to the bark
to get his check cashed, and was
thunderstruck when the teller in
formed him that the name of Mr.
—— was forged. Indignant at the
thought that his fair client had
been guilty of so base a crime as
forging her husband’s name, he
hurried to the mill of Mr.——with
the intention of exposing the lady.
He was still more astonished when
Mr.—— informed him that he was
a widower, and had not been
blessed with a wife for more than
ten years,
A Prano to be Given Away,
The Georgia Music [ouse Ma
con, Gu., with its characterictic
progressive spirit, will this vear,
give some lover of musie a hand.
some Upright Plano, Thisis a big
stroke of enterprize, and these who
would like to have an elegant pias
no, free, should write at once and
learn all particelars. It will cost
you but a postage stamp.
Wishing to make a chanee in my
business I am now oflerine induer
ments for trade. W. O, Kendrick.
Stable Tloors.
American Agriculturist.]
A great deal has been written
about clay, stone,conerete and brick
as materials for the floors of stalls
and loose boxes. The theory is
that earth is soft and moist for the
horse’s feet and that next to the
original soil other cool moist mates
rial is desirable. In practice a stall
or box with no other floor than clay
soon becomes an ofensive quagmiie;
a stone fioor is cold and bard, con
erete is soon broken up by the ¢ n«
tinual stamping of the ironeshod
feet, and Dbficks absorb oflensive
fluds to a greater exteut than
wood. A floor of good sound spruce
or pine planks, thoroughly soaked
through with erude petroleum, will
resist dampness and decay for a
long time and keep clean and
wholesome. Ina stall a double
foor is laid, the lower course transs
versely of the stalls, and the upper
one lengthwise and extending back
only as far as the stall itself. There ’
should be a very slight slope to the
rear for drainage. * It isa serious
mistake to make the slope too steop,
as it compels the herse to stand in ‘
an unnatural position with a con«
stant strain upon the rear tendons |
of the legs. 1
S e
Judge Lumpkin holding court at
Washington, dismissed the petti
jury Thursday, but both judge and
grand jury remain in session, the
latter investigating the Broad river
trouble. On ‘Lhursday a county
vailifi, Robert Toombs Smith, was
sent to jail for tweuty days for con
tempt of court. His offense was
that, haviug been ordered to serve
a subopaena on a eolordd woman to
appear as a witness, he took occas
ston to advise her personally to
leave the county,
i
Shoes ot all sorts, sizes and qual-
Jities that must go in the next 25
days, Take advantage of the low.
prices, McLamn Bros.
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The Harverian Society of Great
Britain estumates that fourteen per
cent: of mortality among adults in
the United Kingdom is due to al
oohol:
WOOLFOLK'S NEW TRIAL.
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The Supreme Court’s Decision in
The Case.
¥ ey
. Arraxta, leb. 11.—The Sus
preme Court decided to-day that
Tom Woolfolk must have a new
trial. They find that the errors in
the court below were numerous and
glaring, and after having the opin
jons read, which wonld fill four or
five collums of a paper, one would
be apt to imagine that there was
hardly anytbing but errors in the
trial. , e
While the Court referred at some
length to numerous errors alleged
in the motion for a new trizl, the
verdiet of the eourt below was re.
versed, mainly for the errors in the
following three grounds:
1. The court erred in permitting
a witness to testify that when the
hat was drawn from the well, it was
claimed to belong to a son of Silas
Woolfolk, the objection being that
the testimony was hearsay and il
legal, and that the witness did not
state who it was who claimed that
the hat was the boy’s.
2. The court erred in refusing on
the next day aiter it was given, to
rule out the testimony ot Davis,
that after the killing some one
slapped him and said : ‘Tell every
body that the Woolfolk family are
all killed but one,” and Davis said
immediately, ‘the one that got
away was Tom Woolfolk, and he
is the one who killed all the rest.
The motion to rule out was on the
ground that this testimony was il
legal, as what Davis said to anoth
er was not proper testiwony, it be
ing only his conelution,
3. The court erred in permitting
oward to testify in answer to the
question as to what Mrs. Woolfolk
sauid to him when she was leaving,
going hepie—and afterwards in re
fusing to ruie out the testimony as
follows: ‘She il her visit- wisto
see me, and know whatto do; her
iife was in danger from Tom Wool
folk, The way be treated Ler, she
x; ected to be killed” 'The oljecs
ticn was that the testimony was
heresay, and that even dying dec
larations could not be given in evs
idence, unless it wae first, rroved
that the person was in articulo
mortis, and was conscious of death
at the time of making them.
Woollolk was convicted ot the
murder of his father, step-mother,
and six brothers and sisters, The
scene of the crime was near Macon,
and Woolfolic was branded as the
most noted eriminal of modern
times. Justice Simmons who de
livered the decision, referred to the
demonstration m the court room at
Macon dl’rlng the trial ot the case,
when the crowd eried : ‘Hang him,
hang him.” The Justice also cen
surkd the court below for not tak
ing summary measures for the
punishment of those who raised the
cries,
In reading the decision Justice
Simmons said that Judge Gustin
ghould have stopped the argument
of counsel for the State when the
applause and eries of “hang him”
arose from the crowd and should
have shown o the jury that no mat
ter whatever position the mobmight.
entertain the law would prowect
them in making an impartial tri
al. The decision is a long one
covering thirty pages of typewrit
ing.
The Judgment is reversed, and a
new trial ordered.
A B
Of Interestto Everybody.
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this fall, oue ot the best stock -of
goods, ever brought to this city.
Quality and quantity, will he the
metto of this firm. Prices will be
such as te suit everybody. Cloths
ing will be made a speciaity, and
one can have their measure taken
0 as to obtain a complete fit.
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Stratehes of every kind cured in3o
minftes by Waoolford's Sanitary Lo
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~ Don’t say that a man is bowleg
ged even it he has that cecentricity
of gait. Just say that he docsn’t
obstruct the view of the scenery
when he is walking,
Amnesty But a Half Measure.
Senater Colquitt’s recommendas
tion to the Presidlent touchiag the
pardoning of people who ate 1 pri
son for violations of the internal
revenue laws, ends as follows:
‘I do not know of a single ease
whereas general aminesty proclamas
tion would reach a person of notor
iously bad character, or one guilty
of very aggravated violations
whereas it would liber.te many very
poor men who have been guilty of
violating law for the purpose of
earning a living for large and de~
pendent families. [ earnestly res
commend that the President grant
the amnesty,’
Senator Colquitt is ably assited
or rather lead in this movement by
Congressman Candler. 1t goes with
out saying that he bas the sympathy
of the vast majority of Georgia peos
ple who pity the men that have been
dragged away from home and impri
soned for violation of a law that
wasa mere expedient to raise mon
ey. ;
But the question arises if these
men ought tot ‘to be in prison—if
they should be pardoned as Senas
tor Colquitt recommends ought oth
ers to be sent to take their place ?
The same reason that exists for re.
leasing 2 man who has been in pri
son a day for violating a revenue
law will be as good tomorrow for
one who was placed there this morne
ing. Where 1s the sense, the econs
omy, the goad policy thrusting
people behind the bars one day and
appealing for general amnesty the
next?
There is a shorter way thaa gen
eral amnesty toguarantee the mcun
tain people of Gieorgia and Carolina
and Tenuessee their liberties and
their natural rights, and that is to
repeal the statutes that interfere
with them, An appeal for general
ampesty in the ease of violators of
the internal revenue law isan argus
ment for the repeal of the law.
Logiolly,. "i#7l% 18 9 jusk
the peonle who disregard
it hould bepunished, It it is an
unjust law, it should be repealed,
Senater Colguitt, of course, does
not admit this, but he unconsciusly
weakens the eause of the internal
revenue when he states that no pers
son (within his knowledge) of not.
oriously bad charcter is now in
prisen for violation of the law,that
none of the offenses were aggravate
ed,and that many ot the imprisoned
people were very poorand broke the
law te earn a living for large and de~
pendent families.
Is there any American with a
drop of the blood in him that was
jeopardized by a revolutionary sire,
who wiilsay that these people should
be in prison, or others exposed to
imprisonment through an excise re
venue law?
Mr. Jefferson Davis has written
to a friend in Atlanta that the ac
countsfof the recent riots in Mississ
ippi was greatly exagerated. He
also said : .
“Thoigh it may seem singular,
it is true that race conflicts geners
ally oceur where the negroes are
few cormpared to the whites and the
personal association much eloser
than on the plantations, On our
island we have 500 or 600 blacks
and say ten or a dozen whites,—
There has never been a disturbance
among them. We for several years
had a negro magistrate. He has
now gone away, but before his de
parture a wellsbehaved sober young
man defeated the negro in the last
clection contest, which at leflstl
shows that the negroes to a large
extent are willing to trust a wbitc‘
man."” |
Mr. Davis rarely writes a letter,
however brief, without giviugl
the country something to think
about,
e
There are 493 mountain peaks in
the United States more than 10,000
feet in height. The highest mouns
tain cast of the Mississippi is
Mount Balsam Cone, in the Black
mountains of North Carolina,
which is 6,671 feet high,
R D Al
There is only ove way to stop a
small boy fro}u asking questions,
and that way is not ve ¥ «atisfacto
ry it you have any further use for
L tae boy. : )
GEORGIA’S WEARIED GOV«
ERNOR. :
Governor Gordon Broke Down by
Elaction Contests—Changes in
the Law Suggested.
ATLANTA, Feb, 9.—The presenti
r law imposes upon the governor the‘
duty of hearing and determining
lthe contests which follow the bien
’ nial election of county officers.
During the trial of these cases the
governor is divested of his execu
tive character and made to sit as a
judge. ‘1
THE STAIN ON THE GOVERNOR. 1‘
This week Gov. Gordon was
forced to leave his private office for
the supreme court room and for
several days, and far into each
night, sat patiently listening to the
almost interminable record of evi
dence and the scarcely less inter
minable speeches ot lawyers. In
the meantime the public business
was aceumulating in the executive
office, and people desiring to see the
execuative official business had to be
informed thet his excellency was
holding court The governor came
out of these sittings worn out and
exhausted. The law should be so
changed as to relleve the ex~
ecutive of these purcly judicial
duties,
THE LAW I 8 WRONG:
Hon. Edgar Simmons, of Sum
ter, who has been engaged before
the governor for several days in the
contest over the office of sheriff’ of
Lee county, said last night that the
law was wrong, and at the summer
session of the legislature he would
introduee a bill throwing all these
contests in the courts of the coun
ties where they originate,
A Joke on arn Ingenerous Bride.
A pretty old minstrel joke is
this one about ““Sawyer.” There
is a town called “Sawyer” and the
joke requires that there
should be e railway tunnel just
outside the towu, which don't hap
pen to be there, but a minstrel
does not hesitate to construet a
tunuel or a whole railroad system
if necessary. The talk about mar
riage naturally brings up the be~
havior of martied couples on their
wedding tour.
*Oh, I've been there," says the
end man—‘yes; well you know
the town of Sawyer?” Yes, the
interlocutor knew it. “Well,
there was a couple on board the
train T was on, and when we went
mto the tunnel. he kissed her.”
“How did you know that, if the
tunnel was dark?”
““Gh, she gave it away. When
we got out of the tunnel the brake!
man put his head iuto the-car, and
sheuted: |
Sewyer, |
Don't care it you did, she said;
were married.—Detroit Free
Press.
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N. Y. Judge to criminal : And the
sentence of the court is that vou be
shocked with electricity unti} you
are dead, and may—
© Criminal, suterrupting : That's
played rut, Judge: You ean’t work
that on me. .
~ N. Y. Judge: Silenée in court!
- What's the matter?
- Criminal: Electricity won't shock
me Judge. Nothing else, either,
T've read ‘“The Quick or the Dead?”
-sPuck.,
VOL. V.—NO. 40.
It Was the Last Half Pint he Hads
Washingion Critic.] . y
_ Not long ago Senator Blackburn
went out to Western Texason &
pleasure excursion, and en route
took in the Indian Territory. He
was so pleased witl: its green, blue
grassy appearance that he conclud
ed to take a horseback journey
through part of it: One day,when
he was tidifig alone, taking in all
the points of the great pasture land,
he was overfaken by a well-mount«
ed, wellarmed, and well dressed
redskin, who spoke a little Eng
-I{3{l.’ oy Bl T A ? MRy
* «Cowmniafi; eh? was his first ine
quiry. »
¢Oh, 1o ; T'mi just looking at th{q
fine country. I don’t live here; I
live in Kentucky.’ ;
‘Kenttek? Ugh! You got whig
key ? ;
} The Senator had a small flask of
“Old Crow’ in his side pocket and*
immediately produced it. In alit<
ltle time the aboriginal wanted a
second drink, and finally the whole
flask; but after giving him toe small
‘jiggers’ the civilties were brought
to an end.
That evening wher the Seitato¥
-was in the public roont of the hotef
at the little Texas town, he told the
circumstance of baeing met the In«
“dian, and said :
~ “In all my lite T have never seen
any human being on God Almighv
ty's green earth that ever had &
tithe of the appreciation for a bot<
tle of whiskey that this redskin
manifested. Gentlemen, lam tell
ing you not a whit more than the
absolute truth when Isay that In—
dian hegan by offering me his re«
peating Colts ritle and ended by
dismouuting from his Lorse, and
offering me his Arapaho blankety
his Mexican silversmounted saddle,
his gun, pistols, and the horse itself’
tor what remained in my flask, I
really believe he would have given
me his legeins, moceasing,gee string
and all, and gone back naked for
Just that little modjeum of whisv
key.
‘Well, senator,” said one of his
auditors, ‘why didu’t you trade
with him ?
“Trade with him ? exclaimed the
Kentuckian, in utter astonishment
at such a suggestion. ‘My God,
man ! it was the last half pint I
had.’
Brown Versus Janes:
.
“Mr. Brief, T want to sue Miss
Jones for breach of promise”
‘Allright-but what was the proms
ise?”
‘Well, you see, we were oft at &
pienic in August, and Emeline was
mad because her sister had had more
preposals than she, and she asked
me if I wotldent help her out, I
said I wonld if she, would reject mes
but hang it sir, though she promis
ed not to, accepted me the first
chauce she got.”— Bezar,
Mrs. M. W. Anthony
Is receiving a select line of
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