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Waynesboro, Ga., February 2,1883.
No. 39.
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CONFEDERATE OOLD.
It will be remembered that at the
elose of the late war a number of wag
ons, loaded with gold and silver, belong
ing to the Confederate government, and
the Richmond banks, were robbed by
straggling soldiers in Wilkes county,
near Washington. There are men now
near Athens, who common report
ys got a finger in the pie, and from
way they bloomed out, paying in
ie for land and stock, gave good
ound for suspicion. As the money
ould doubtless have fallen into the
ands of the Federals, no one blames
the boys for taking this means for get
ting their hard-earned pay. Men who
were present at the saoking of the wag-
A SAD RECOGNITION.
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 23.—A sen
sational and sad reunion between father
and son took place yesterday afternoon
at the State Prison South, in Jefferson
ville. Several years ago, Patrick
Gleason, who lived in Wayne county,
Ind., left home, and never returned-
His absence was not thought strange,
however, as he had some family troubles
which annoyed him considerably, and
he had several times threatened to
leave. He had one son, uamsd Thom
as Gleason, who was then about eigh
teen years of age. Years passed away,
and not a word was heard from the
missing father by the mother or son,
and he was considered as dead. The
DADE COAL COMPANY.
us say the soldiers, after loading up > young man as he grew older, developed
idden
aversacks, pockets and every other
onceivable receptacle at hand with the
recious metal, hid quantities ot it in
be woods near by, while a wagon load
: the bullion was dumped into a creek
hich ran near the scene of the rob -
ery. One soldier, who was greedier
than the rest, took off his pants, tied up
thoir legs, and that made a pair of
saddle bags by which he was enabled
to carry off a vast quantity of gold —
The writer was living in Fiber'on at
e time of the robbery, aud remembers
at the day after its commission, two
Idiers stopped at bis father’s house
r the night, after first seeing that he
\s a Mason, and giving into his keep-
more gold than a negro man oould
The next morning they left for
o county, and we heard of them
’^licough Danielsville. The day
V robbery, parties who visited
etoo, say that both gold and silver
ere soattered along the road like
ares, and a large amount of it was
ioked np. Since that time there has
n almost a constant search for this
treasure. A negro barber in
ashington slated that he knew where
box of the bullion was hidden, and
or a time he was petted and feasted on
1 bands, even detectives from the
ichmood banks coming out to work
the case. But it was soon discover-
ihat his story was all a hoax. Pco-
bave come fiorn a long dis-
oe to searoh for this gold, and the
oods around the scene has been every
uare foot scoured time and again. ~
couple of jpears ago, a man named
ohen, who And bought the land
re the robbery was committed, con*
the idea of turning the bed of
e creek before mentioned, with the
dent hope of uncovering the un-
Id wealth hidden beneath its waters,
was a stupendous undertaking, and
quired months of hard labor ; and he
ived not a niokel for his pains. The
d of the stream was carefully search-
but neither gold or silver were
und. This seemed to throvfa dam-
upon the tearohers, as we have
of no late attempts to find the
idden wealth, although there will
oubtlesB be fools enough in many geu-
ratioas to come to keep up the cxcite-
ent In all probability there was
Id buried here, as the soldiers could
t have carried it all off, but they ei
r afterwards returned for it thern-
Ives, or secreted it so securely that
will never be found. Mr. II. L.
,’ranford, of AthenB, was a guard with
these wagons for
few days before the robbery wol com
mitted.—Athens Banner.
a very wild disposition, and was fre
quently in trouble, but managed to es
cape justice until a few months ago,
when he was arrested for grand larce
ny He was tried in the Circuit Court
of Wayne county and sentenced to the
penitentiary. He arrived at the prison
yesterday, and was at once arrayed in
his striped suit and had his hair and
beard shaved closely. He was then
conducted through the workshops, and
in passing a line of convicts, to his sur
prise and shame, he discovered, his
missing father among the group. The
recognition was a mutual one, aud the
meeting affected those present almost
to tears. The father was serving out a
sentence for the same orime that bad
brought his sou within the walls.
A LOCOMOTIVE WHOSE AGE WILL BE
MILLIONS OF YEARS.
Chattanooga, Jan. 25.—At the
April term, 1882, of the United
States Circuit Court, N. B. Spears,
administrator of Jerry McRevnold,
Jr., deceased, obtained a judgment
for $4,200 against the Dade Coni
Company for damages resulting from
injuries received while in the com-1
pany’s employ. The company oh-]
rained a restraining order from I
Judp'e Baxter, September, 1882, and
at the last October term an injunc
tion was refused. The plaintiffsued
out a new execution, which was ex
ecuted bv garnishment on the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad Oomnnnv,
and Deputy Marshal, S. M. R' ser,
went to Shellmound yesterday and
levied upon the entire output of
cal as it was mined by the Dade
Coal Company, as raoidly as it was
shipped from Coal City to Shell-
mound. This operated to so com
pletely paralyze the business of
shipping coel at this point, for the
reason that the Marshall, without
unloading the cars, the cars not hav
ing been levied upon, left them on
the sidetrack an “Y” at Shellmound
entirely blockading the coal business
at that point,. The Dade Coal Com
pany, yesterday, by its attorney,
Tomlinson Fort, and the plaintiff,
by liis attorney, T. Richmond, be
fore Judge D. M. Key, acting as
Circuit Judge, in the abscence of
Judge Baxter, who is at Columbus,
Ohio, argued a motion made by the
Dade Coal Company for a new in
junction against said execution.—
Judge Key granted a fiat for an in
junction on bond of $6,000, which
was given last night, and the injunc
tion issued. The property will be
released, and the blockade removed.
— Post-Appeal.
MASONIC
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is a feature of our business. Orders filled promptly and carefully.
oct20’82.am. DALY it ARMSTRONG.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
retells the story of the locomotive which
ran through a broken bridge on the
Kansas Pacific railway across Kiowa
creek, several years ago, sinking into
the mud at the bottom, and has never
since been heard from, though repeated
efforts have been made by digging and
boring, to recover so valuable a piece
of property. The bottom is a quick
sand, and even quicksands have limits,
and it seems very singular that the long
est boring rod has failed to find any
trace of the sunken engine. By and by,
the Bulletin suggests, the silent mys
terious operations will drain the quick
sand and harden it into roek, and then
long after the Kansas Pacific road has
been forgotten, and the Kiowa creek
has vanished from the map, some future
scientist will discover a curious piece of
mechanism, undoubtedly the work of
human hands, lying under so many hun
dred feet of undisturbed sandstone, and
will use the fact as a basis for calcula
ting how many million years old the
human race must be. Thus history will
repeat itself, as it has often done and
will continue to do.
Demorest: Dg. Thomas W. Evans,
formerly dentist to Louis Napoleon, ar
rested a confidential employee for em
bezzlement. Before the court Dr,
Evans declared that over a million
francs had been abstracted from his
banking account without his personal
knowledge. The robbing might have
gone on for years, according to his con
fession, without auy one knowing any*
thing about it so large is his income.—
This recalls the case of Jay Gould, who
on a witness stand in New York, con-
time, but left them a fessod he oould not reoall whether a cer
tain check he had drawn was for $5,-
000,000 or 17,000,000. It is doubt
less true that many people go through
life with a very dim idea of their annu
al expenses, or how muoh they are re
ally worth. It is said that neither
Gould or Vandeibilt can toll within
$15,000,000 of what their property
would bring if conver ted into cash,
Bkjsmkam, Tex., Jan. 26.—An old
negro, named Bob Williams, was bru
tally murdered while asleep in bis own
house, by his own son, about sixteen
ears of age, on bis farm, several
iles from Chappell HUl, in this eoun-
, last night. The boy confessed his
, btating that his step-mother had
and abetted him, thoir object bc-
to get possesion of the property of
The boy and woman
both committed to jaiL
guilt,
old
Maria Sanders nmriied John Do-
about, aged 84, at Ashland, Ohio, and
received a present of $1 ,OoO in real es
tate. She says, however, it is a love
match.
The Earlville, 111., Leader says, that
a year ago last spring, a swarm of bees
made their home in tbs ceiling of H. T.
Alexander’s house, near that village.—
On taking up a part of the chamber
floor a few days since to investigate, it
was found that they had taken posse-
of two spaces between the joists, each
sixteen inches wide by six inches high,
and tor a distance of seven feet in one
and three feet in the other, had filled
those spaces with fine honey. After
remoying 200 pounds of the honey,
about 100 pounds was left for the sup
port of the buzy workers
David Arrowsmith, of Ellswertb, was
the othe^day called on to take the hon
ey from a colony of bees, which had
made their hive in the side of a dwelling
house of Joshua Calvert, of Delana,
McLean county. The bees wenl in
between the siding and plastering,
through a knot hole in the boards, and
worked up and down in three spaces
sixteen inches wide and four inches
deep. The length of the comb was
from three to five feet, and comained
eighteen gallons of beautiful limpid
hon^r,
The Carriage Emporium of
DAY & T A N N A H I LL,
Augusta.
Georgia.
The Charlotte, N. C., Observer says :
An enterprising citizen of this place is
making arrangements to establish a
collecting bureau in Charlotte, and is
firmly of the opinion that he has a
good thing. He proposes to employ a
corps of honest, reliable boys, and
bills sent to his office for collection will
be placed in the hands ot the boys,
who will be instructed to dun, aud wea
ry not in dunning. The boys w ill be
uniformed in blue and yellow, and wil)
wear led caps. If a man does not re
spond to the bill after thoir second
call, they will sit in front of bis place
on stools with which they are provided,
and stay there until the bill is paid, or
the man’s oredit is ruined. This sys
tem of collecting debts is praotioed in
New Orleans and several other cities,
and is said to work capitally. The in
troducer of this enterprise in this oity
says he will have his bureau open for
business by the 10th of February, and
is anticipating big success.
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Columbus, O., January. 26.- -Tsaao
Knapp, a life man in the penitentiary,
from Sandusky ooun'.y, pardoned on
the 19, was arrested at Fremont yes
terday, ind is on his way baok to pris
on. It has been ascertained that he
ate soap in prison, eausing an abscess,
which led to a pardon on the ground
that he would die.
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