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Waynesboro, Ga., April 6, 1883.
No. 48.
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DEATH PREFERRED TO MARRIAGE.
Pottsville, Mareh 30.—The people
of St. Clair are greatly excited over the
announcement that Herman Nueman,
a prominent merchant and leading
citizen of that town had committed
suicide.' Nueman was fifty eight years
of age, a widower, with three daughters,
two of whom are married, and the thiid
keeping house for him, . He contempla
ted marrying in the near future, and it
was this fact that led him lo take his
own life. His daughter Emma testi
fied at the inquest that when she got up
she heard her father walking about the
store room floor, and then go into an
out house. She prepared breakfast for
her father, who could not be found
around the house She became alarm
ed at his absence, and notified her mar
ried sister, who lived near by. To
gether they made an examination of
the outbuildings, and found their father
hanging from a beam in the stable.—
Their screams quickly brought William
Sykes and John Williams to the scene,
who cut Nueman down, but life was
extinct..
The noose was made of an ordinary
clothes-iine, thrown over the beam
several times, fasted to a brace and also
tied to a nail. The other en<^ was
faslened about his neck with a slip
knot. Near the body stood a sleigh,
from the shafts of which the unhappy
man, after adjusting the noose, stepped
into eternity. His affianced, Miss
Nellie Maleomson, who is twenty-six
years of age, rather good looking and
modest in appearance, said to day that
she was known al St. Clair as Nellie
Bailie. “I came,” she said, “from
England about ten years a r o. Imme
diately after the death tf Mr. Nue'
man’s wife, nine years ag<a he com
menced, and up to the present time,
continued .paying attention to me.—
While I was in Philadelphia some time
ago, we corresponded regularly. We
were to have been married on the 16 th
of the present month. All arrange
ments were completed, and while on the
way to Rev. Daniel Savage’s parsonage
, Nueruan spoke about his daughter and
a Pottsville gentleman with whom I had
kept company. The charge was false
ad I denied it, whereupon Nueman
iddenly remarked : “We won’t get
■carried to-night, bade me good night
ad walked off. I informed my mother
nd aunt on reaching home of what had
transpired. On Tuesday last I saw
Nueman, who expressed great sorrow
for what happened, and I promised to
fix it up. Next day I consulted an at
torney on the subject, which enraged
Nueman so much that he called to see
me on Saturday l&Bt and asked what I
. wanted, I iusisted ot?^is keeping his
promise. Last evening was then nam
ed ^ar our marriage, but on account of
two other weddings to take place in the
same church last night he desired a
jostponement until to-night. I agreed,
was not pleased with his conduct.”
next two years, and at the close of the
war Flanigin took the boy home with
him to Hamilton county, 111., adopting
him as his own child and giving him. a
good education.
Meanwhile the father of the child,
unable to account for the loss of his
hoy, had finally come to think he was
dead, and though he grieved sorely, had
at last become resigned to his loss. In
blissful ignorance of his birth, the boy
grew to man’s estate, thinking himself
Flanigin’s son. A short time ago, the
latter informed him that he was not,
and told him the story of his kidnapping
from the South. The young man, now
24 years of age, wrote to Montgomery,
and ascertained that his father was still
living.
About two years ago, under his near
found name, W. A. Sherab, he weut to
Montgomery. The meeting between
son and father was very affecting, as
can be imagined. The old man threw
himself upon the young one’s neck,
and sobbed and laughed by turns over
the restoration. After a visit of a few
days, Mr. Sherah went back to his
Northern home.
For The Citizen.
AN HOUR.
BY J. HOWARD CARPENTER.
Written Saturday night, March 24, ’83 lOo’clook.
Dedicated, as an expression of love and esteem,
to my friend and fellow-student, Rev. J. T.
Dickinson, of Richmond, Va-, 8. B. T. S., Louis,
ville, Ky.
I’ve resting been for one full weighty hour !—
A space or time so great that, Idly spent.
Can never be o’erbridged by future toil
When rightly .growing into years of grand results-
And yet so small it is, that unperceived,
’Tis shuttled thre’ the hoary warp of Time,
And lost it seems to him who wove it in.
But ’tis not thusthe weaver may forget, —
But work web done will pav a thousand fold ;
And some day, when the tempests howl him,
round.
And all seems cold and drear and desolate,
This little thread—this hour long forgot,—
If woven well, will prove a flaxen cord
To draw him from the whirl-pool of despair ;
But if with careless hand 'twill break itself,
And rend, what was perhaps, a better warp.
We all are weaversand our work shall be
Examined by the ever watchful eye
Of Him who notes a sparrow’s fall to earth,
And counts the very hairs upon our heads.
And with the hand tha decks the lily fair,
He will our work unravel, and sure find
Each faulty thread—each hour thrown aWay—
Or dyed perchance, in sin’s dark stagnant pool,
Which will the whole a tinge pernicious give,
And lose to us the labor of long years.
Our lives are looms—our talents form the warp;
The woof is spun from many precious hours:—
O, let us catch each minute as it comes,
And wea\ e it spotless into virtue’s warp,
And then our King shall say. when He returns
To judge the world in truth and righteousness,
“Well done thou faithful servant; this, thy wet,
Perfection is; and hence-fbrth thou shaltwear
A garment royal—not like earthly robes,
Of texture flue, and purple, red and grid ;
But washed to snowy whiteness in my blood I
And on thy head shall rest the victor’s crown,
And thou shalt take a sceptre in thine hand,
And over many things prefer thy rule,
Because in few things tnou wert diligent.”
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HORRIBLE TRAFFIC IN HUMAN BODIES
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That the best is cheapest, and especially is this true in FURNITURE.
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Extension Tables one dollar per foot.
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Boston, March 31.—There was a
very large attendance at the investiga
tion hv the Legislative Committee on
Public Charitable Institutions of the
charges made by Governor Butler of
mismanagement of the Tewksbury Alms
house, selling bodies, etc. E. P. Brown
counsel for the officers, denied the
specific charges. Governor Butler said
this was not a trial, lie was not a
public prosecutor, but was present to
give evidence by witnesses who knew
whereof they spoke, adding : “T have j
neither white wash brush nor blacking"! au *horized. edition of the Tos ament
and certainly not more than half a
REVISED. TO DEATH.
One of the largest dealers in religious
publications in New York, being asked
as to the sale of the revised Testament,
said : “ It is so small that it is scarcely
worth mentioning. The sale stopped as
if by magic when popular curiosity was
satisfied, and does not seem to have
picked up again. It is hard to com«
pare the sale of the revised edition with
that of the authorized edition, because
the former is too small to be consider
ed. During the last month we have
sold perhaps 5< ! 0 or 600 copies of the
eeptl5,’82.b y.
717 and 839 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA./
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831 BROAD STREET, AVGUSTA,
GA,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
A KIDNAPPED BOT.
frequently the province of the
record strange occurrences, and
orne to be reoognized in a trite
t facts are stranger than fab-
of
is afforded an example
what follows:
863 the Fedorals were passing
io streets of Montgomery, Ala.,
the oity. Richard C. Flanigin,
■th Illinois Cavalry, spied as
ast a house a ourly -headed lit
about four years, watching
eyes the merry soldiers as
He recognised the
brush to use as weapons.”
Dr. John Dixwell, a graduate of liar
vard Medical School, testified that stu
dents received a large number of infant
bodies, which they bought from V\ m.
Andrews, junior, at from $3 to $5 each,
Andrews said he obtained all the bodies
from the alms house. Andrews has
since killed himself. Dissection show
ed many cases of infants who had had
no food for twenty-four hours before
death. The witness gave the same
testimony before the Grand Jury some
five years ago.
Governor Butler quoted the law pro
viding the ‘‘giving” of bodies to medi
cal schools requiring ultimate burial of
the remains.
The witness said that the bodies were
dissected on the same table with the
animals, and the remains were swept
into the same receptacle Adult bodies
cost so much that the students “chip in”
to obtain tlftra.
John H. Chase, employed at the alms
house in 1880, an discharged for drunk-
eness, testified to driving a team con
taining a large number of bodies from
the alms-house to Harvard. He heard
Marsh, the Assistant Superintendent^
say he received $10 for all adult bodies
from Harvard and $12 from the Fe
male College. There weiij^otween 300
and 400 deaths a year ; some •bodies
were pickled in pork barrels and sent
to Poston by Marsh. Sometimes fune
ral services were held over coffins filled
with wood.
Butler offered a letter alleging that
Marsh prevaricated about the disposi
tion of the bodies.
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dozen copies of the revised version.—
The sudden failure of the work, so to
speak, has been a severe blow to many of
our leadkfg publishers. Some twenty-
five or thirty ediions have been issued
at expense ot several hundred thous
and dollars. Judging bv the present
sale of the New Testament revision, the
American publishers will be few who
will undertake to spend their money m
the issue of revised editions of the Old
Testament. I have tried to get the
new work introduced into Sunday
schools as a book of reference and a
commentary, and have uniformly failed.
Some influence seems to work against
it in all directions, .and, although my
stock of tho book is now very low, I do
not see the necessity of replenishing it
Scholars and students seem to like the
book, hut the general public ignore it.”
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Washington, April 1.—Informa
tion received here shows that the Nica
ragua Canal Company, tired of waitiug
for action by Congress, and alarmed by
the activity manifested by tho Panama
Company, is taking active steps in the !
direction of beginning the work on its |
proposed canal across Nioaragua.— j
Withih the laut, thirty days a largo !
dredge, the largest and most perfect'
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wards the eastern end of the Panama;
Canal, where it is to be used ou a con- T3 T3 TMHt-fpnW HH
tract already let and awaiting the ar- A UA1L UU UU«
rival of the dredges for active work ;
and still later, a $7,000,(XX) oontr&ot
for work on the western end has beeu
let.
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Post-Appeal:
An exchange say, Atlanta is crowded first i nlerest , ng
Surveyor Pledger’s
item concerning the
with lawyers and doctors, and not more j eus t oni house since Atlanta has become
than halt of them earn their salt. It a p 0r j 0 f 0 s:try, in fact, is the capture
seems that all the ex-judge* of the Su- | of a pao kage of smuggled silk. The
perior and Supreme Courts move there wa8 turnUhed for pu blioat
n h^n bef^ V uuoommon to see onb o:
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