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• Hfpjvrs+A LW.« t w \xrw% The True Citizen, A I.ire Weekly 1’aper on T.ive Issues Published I Every Friday Morning, al \\ ay- nesboro, Ga., bv the £ TJL L I V AM BBO T H E S S. RATES OR SUBSCRIPTION: One Copy One Year,.. $2.00 “ “ Six months, 1.00 “ “ Three months 60 tSP All subscriptions must be accompanied by the CASH. lie-. True Citizen ——:0:- YoL 1. Waynesboro, Ga., April 6, 1883. No. 48. Advertising ratCB liberal. Transient advertisments payable in ad' vance. All contract advertisements payable quar terly All communications for personal benefit will be charged for as advertisements. Advertisements to occupy special places wil be charged 85 per cent, above regular rates. Notioes In local and business column 5 cts. per line; in local 10 cts per line each insertion. For terms apply at this office. 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.” * -1 II Men Agree HORRIBLE TRAFFIC IN HUMAN BODIES IN MASSACHUSETTS. That the best is cheapest, and especially is this true in FURNITURE. * Just see some of our prices: Parlor Sets in Hair Cloth, Walnut Frame from $35 to $90. The best Raw Silk Set for $65 ever offered. Nice Walnut Chamber Sets, Marble Top, $55. The best Walnut Marble Top Set in the market for $65. WE DEFY COMPETITION FROM ANY AND EVERY QUARTER. WE ACKNOWLEDGE NO SUPERIOR,. AND FEW EQUALS, IN THE SOUTH. Who ever heard of Cane Seat Chairs for seventy-five cents. Extension Tables one dollar per foot. We guarantee satisfaction in every case,. Our stock of Mattresses and Spring Beds is complete. Steam Dressed Feathers always on hand. All goods packed and shipped free of charge. Upholstering done in all its branches. Our new Catalogue will be ready about October 1st. J. L. BOWLES & CO„ 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./ W. I. DELPH V 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. Cooking Moves, Heating Stoves GRATES, HARDWARE, and TINWaRE. 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.” In Stock a Very Full Line of the Celebrated {EXCELSIOR COOK STOVES.} The best in the market. Sixteen different Sizes and kinds. Six sizes with enameled reservoirs Adopted to ail requirements, and priced to suit all purses. Leading Features:—Double wood doors, patent wood grate, adjustable damper, interchangeable automatic shelf, broiling door, Swinging hearth-plate, Swinging flue-stop, reversible pas-burning long cross piece, double short centrrs, heavy ring covers, Illuminated fire doors, nickel knobs, nickel panels, etc. Unequalled in Material, in finish, and operation. marSS’Sol y. W. I. DELPH, 831 Bread Street, Augusta, Ga. 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' ever constructed, has been started to- J 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. Sheehan‘s Excelsior Bottling Works. 1025 GREENE STREET,. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Pure Soda Water, Sarsaparilla and Ginger Ale manufactured from Fresh and First-class material. Lager Beer in kegs and bottles always on hand. Orders solicited and promptly filled. N T) ICE of Good Quality and Just Weight shipped to ray cus- . iJ.i ~ — .tomerx at Market Price. feb9’83om 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: i opywrestling Hrith a S: PHOTOGRAPHERS. Waynenboro, Go, Pictures taken in cloudy as well as fair weather. Photographs enlarged, size 8x10 inches, without frame, $2 each. A large assortment of frames to select from. Photographs and Ferrotyj as cheap as you get them and in the best styli D. L. FULLERTON, AUGUSTA, GA THE oldest STOVE DEALER in Hundreds of families in Burke, IMohraond counties i them during the last Every housokeope ness, economy, an ‘ Call at FULL1 E