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he True Citizen, A JLIth Weekly Paper on Live Issues Published Every Friday Morning, at Way nesboro, <ia., bv the StTRLIVAN BROTHERS. THE TRUE CIS 1Z t i i i\i : * >. t < < *. -:0:- advert- RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: y One Copy One Tear “ ‘ Six months, “ " Three months $2.00 1.00 60 All subscriptions must be accompanied by the CASH. Yol. 1. Waynesboro, Ga., February 2,1883. No. 39. .!! ■ tone.mt,oata u“ ur <;Jm> feed ,i -r tvi a ■>*. rrr\. AimiiiM u ft, , to s(.i.».,aJ places yih be c’uurgoo £> per aut. above regular ituis. Notices in local and business column 6 tr> , per line; in local 10 cts per line each insertion [ For terms upply at this office. u"so:>s i h 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 5. Augusta, < » a Southern Hdadqiiurt 4 rs ed ived eard ft i Fine D:v G< oils. We keep on hand at all times the finest and lust assorted stock, and we have the most elegant store for showing it in all the. South. Velvet-. Plushes, Silks, Satins, Novelties, and everything desirable in Dress Good*-. Fine Hosiery, Ladies, Misses and Gents’, Gloves, Laces and Notions gene rally. Underwear in great variety. Cashmeres, Kuiscys, Jeans, Home-puns. Linen and White Goods. Cloaks, Dolman 0 , Jackets, <fcc. Blankets and Flannels. Everything in the Dry Goods line is in our stock. We offer no trash, but on good goods we GUARANTEE PRICES against every market in the United States. A strictly first-class Dressmaking Department 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. ****- Finest Stock aud Lowest Prices. Half. B ’ Victories, Extension Tons Canopy Tops, Rockawaya and Buggies, all styles and grades. The patent American Road-Cart. The easiest riding and most perfiet. two wheel vehicle yet produced. Leads all others. Supersedes all others, Three quarter Trotting Wagons. Ladies’ Pheetons, elegant styles. Coach Material. Pine Paints and Varnishes, Saddlery and Fine Harness. Lent ti er findings. Best quality Seamless Gum Belting, pure article. Leather Belting. Lacing. Fine Trunks and Valises. Agents for Wilson, Childs & Co’s Philadelphia Wagons, the lightest and best. oct.6,’82.cm. All Men Agree That the best is cheapest, and especially is this true in FURNITURE. Just see some of our nrice's: Parlor Sets in Hair Cloth, Walnut Frame from $35 to $90. The best Raw Silk Set for $66 ever offered. Nice Walnut Chamber Sets, Marble Top, $55. The beft Walnut Marble Top Set iu the market for $65. WE DEFY COMPETITION FROM ANY AND EVERY QUARTER WE ACKNOWLEDGE NO SUPERIOR, AND FEW EQUALS, IN THE SOUTH, 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. Who ever heard of Can«*. Sene Chairs for seventy-five cents. Extension Tables one dollar per foot. Wo guarantee satisfaction in every case. Onr s’oek of Mattresses and Spring Beds is complete. Steam Dressed Feathers alwajs on hand Alt good* packed and shipped free of charge. Upholstering c n<- in nli it* branches. Our uow Catalogue will he ready ttb >ui October 1st. jr. I BOWLEN 717 and oo..