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Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, October 2d, 1885.
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tor In Wiulesboro, N. C., throe
hundred people vere seen drunk
one day last night. The editor of
the Tnte.Uigencer, who is town mar
shal, arrested the editor of the Timex
for being drunk and carrying con
cealed weapons.
t*r The Americus Republican
of last Friday publishes the follow
ing strange freak of nature: “Yester
day a mare mule in this city gave
birth to a colt. There may have
been instances of the propagation
of the mule species before, but we
never heard of it. Now that the
Georgia mule has begun to fulfill a
duty which has long been neglect
ed, she becomes a more valuable
institution than ever.”
A dispatch from Brazil, da
ted the 2fith of September, says
the senate and chamber of dele
gates have passed the bill for the
gradual abolition of slavery in Bra
zil. The abrogation of African
slavery seems to be on the eve ol
accomplishment on every part of
the globe; now could some power
be employed which would achieve
the abolition of white slavery which
exists in such terrible form in the
North and West of the United
States the world might be consider
ed as growing better.
For the True Citizen.
“IN THE UliOAMINO.”
BY MRS. M. B. I.
From the North and West
x the news of cold weather.—
A 'X)nt had a three inch snow
(abo-L as large as we ever have in
this climate) last week, and a dis
patch, dated the 2(>th of September,
from Evansville, Ind., says: News
from Booneville, Ind., reports a verj
heavy frost in Warrick and Spencer
counties last night, doing great dam
age to the tobacco crop. Farmers,
frightened by the early frost, have
commenced to cut their tobacco
while it is yet green, and it is
thought that the damage from this
source will add greatly to that re
sulting from the frost. Advices
from counties in southern Virginia
also report great damage to tobacco,
where the loss will be much worse
than in Indiana, tobacco being the
principal product.
iw Both parties have made
their nominations in New Y'ork,
and the canvass will now begin in
earnest. The Republicans held
their convention on the 23d of Sep
tember, and nominated General
Carr as their candidate for govern
or. The Democrats held their con
vention last week, and nominated
■Governor Hill almost by acclama
tion. The canvass will be an ex
citing one, and the election yecy
close. The Republicans are despe
rate, and will leave nothing undone
to retrieve their lost fortunes of the
presidential race of last year. The
Democrats, however, have the ad
vantage. General Carr was an “of
fensive Blaine partisan,” and is
personally unpopular, and it is not to
be ignored that the patronage of
the government is a great power,
and will be worked for all it is
worth. The election will be close,
but the nomination of Governor
Hill is said to have healed all dis
sonsions in the Democratic ranks,
and with the party presenting a
solid front, and the aid which it
will receive from the Independent
Republicans, the conclusion is reas
onable that the Democrats will win
the victory. The canvass will be
short and sharp.
The election in Ohio is close at
hand, and it is impossible to foresee
the result. Ohio, however, is a Re
publican state, while the conduct of
the canvass has been such ns to
arouse extreme sectional prejudi
ces, and besides these two advanta
ges for the Republicans, Senator
John Sherman, of that state is light
ing a personal as well as a party
battle, as he very well knows that
the defeat of the Republican party
at the coming election means his
retirement from office—perhaps for
ever. Helms, therefore, put forth
Ids utmost strength and employed
every means in his power to secure
a Republican victory. The vote
will be closer than usual, and al
though there will undoubtedly be
largo Democratic gains, we aro in
clined to give the state up to the
Republicans. The Ohio Democrats
have made a gallant fight during
the long, heated canvass the ond of
which Is near, and are yet sanguino
of success.
The Virginia canvass is boiling,
soothing hot, and the prospects of
the Democratic party are brighten
ing every day. There can belittle
doubt that the Democrats of “the
Old Dominion” will win such a tri
umph as will consign Billy Mahone,
the .renegade, to an eternal and ig
nominious retirement. Hu and his
ragmutfin party has employed all
tho dark ways that their ingenuity
could suggest to retain their follow
ers, and It is more than dishearten
ing to thorn to see their camps daily
deserted by hundreds. Wo have
no fears for tho result in “Old Vir
ginia.”
“From the west the red Is dying,
Softly fades the crimson gold,
And ttie shadows long are lying
’Cross the hearthstone grey and cold.”
In a rich, melodious voice these
expressive lines are softly repeated
by Kathleen Wimberly, as she turns
with a graceful movement from her
companion, and points with her
shapely arm to the distant horizon.
“Yes,” he replies, “and see—
“ ‘From the welkin stars are keeping
Sleeping sentries of the skies;
From tho east the black is creeping
On to where tho crimson dies.’ "
It is an evening long to bo re
membered, the scene is indellibly
impressed upon their memory. They
are driving through a wooded vale
in tho country; the road is very
lonely, winding “in and out with
many a curve.” On the right is the
beautiful river, going “on and on
forever.” The long, dark shadows
of the trees reflected upon its blue
waters, and the stars twinkling
brightly o’erlvead; just above the
trees the moon with majestic beauty
slowly appearing, casting a soft,
mellow glow on riyer and vale.
On the left the trees are gorgeous
in their autumn beauty of crimson,
green and gold, while the dead
leaves falling form a carpet brown
at their feet. All vie in their rich
color to excel the other. Close to
the river may be seen the graceful,
lonely, “weeping willows.” The
road is of red clay, only sufficiently
wide for the buggy to drive through,
touching, as it frequently does, the
branches of the overhanging Doughs.
The air is cool, but very still for an
autumn evening, and only the chirp
ing and twittering of the little birds
break the silence. The cows are
going home, and faintly tho tinkle
of their bells is wafted back.
It is beautiful, but oh, so sad and
lonely to the man and woman driv
ing slowly by. They find tho scene
in unison with their own hearts.
They are strangely quiet. This is
their last drive. To-night they
must say good-bye, to meet perhaps
never again this side of eternity—
never again save in the unknown
future; and yet, as he looks with
his soul in his eyes into the darkly
beautiful, dreamy eyes of his com
panion, and holds her little hand in
his, he knows and feels that he loves
her purely, truly and passionately,
with the entire strength of his be
ing, and that when he leaves his
life will be a blank without little
Kathleen, and yet fate has decreed
that It must be. To-morrow he
leaves for the west to make his for
tune. Shall he tell her that lie loves
her and ask her to wait for him,
when he has nothing to offer save
his handsome face, good name and
young, healthy manhood, and a love
that will endure forever? She is so
young and bright, and deserves a
cloudless future, a fine house, jewels,
with no thorns of poverty to mar
her pathway, anil if he fails to grasp
a fortune, what then ? Could she
bear it? or would her “love grow
cold and fly away in search Of better
entertainment?”
“Kathleen, in the gloaming will
you sometimes think of Milner?”
She is very sweet as she sadly
whispers:
“Yes, always, in the gloaming.”
Shall he tell his love? Tho tempta
tion is almost more than he can re
sist, when she places her hand upon
his arm, and, looking towards tho
river, murmurs:
“Listen!”
They can hear the splash of oars,
and in tho distance a voice singing
“In tho Gloaming.” It is only a
fisherman’s daughter “paddling her
own canoe” and chanting in a wild,
weird, pathetic voice:
"For my hoivrt was Hik'd with longing,
Wlmt had boon could never be;
It was best that we should part thus—
Best for you and best for mo.”
The words touch a sympathetic
chord in their hearts, and so, with
an expressive look, he turns tho
horse and they drive slowly back to
the hotel among the hills, thinking
only of what had been.
And what were her thoughts?
Only that sho knew he loved her
and would go away without telling
her; and yet she had sufficient faith
and confidence in him to believe
that ho knew best.
They had met for tho first time
four weeks ago, “in tho gloaming.”
Hho was wearing a pretty bluo
“Mother Hubbard,” and standing by
tho gate of tho summer hotel, when
ho was introduced. Sho was trying
her fortune with a field daisy, and,
as she caught his admiring glance
fixed upon her, thought then he was
her beau ideal of manly beauty.
They had met constantly since then,
walking, driving, dancing, and
wluling the hours away as young
peoplo are wont to do—am mg tho
idlls. Sho is very pretty, clear
complexion, beautiful, dreamy, dark
eyes, lovely mouth and teeth, and a
superb figure. She had always been
a belle, admired by both sexes, but
never before had she really cared
for any one as she did for the man
who was, in the unselfishness of his
love,going to leave hor; and to her
self she wondered why. Must it
evermore be thus? Would they
never meet again? Was this the
end ? Was it to be only a flirtation
after all ?
They are nearing their destina
tion now, and he bends to see her
face as he questions:
“Little one, if I never return what
will you do ?”
He starts as she gaily answers:
“Marry some one else and invite
you to the wedding.”
“No, no,” ho exclaims, “anything
but that. I would rather see you
dead than the wife of another.”
She knows by the suppressed pas
sion in his tone that he means what
he says.
“Darling, I will return in a year;
will you wait for me “in the gloam
ing ?”
They are at the hotel now, and
she whispers, as he lifts her from
the buggy:
“Yes, Milner, I will wait.”
“In the gloaming thoughts grow sweeter,
Nourished by (he dying light;
Vanished memories aro completer,
Nourished by the gentlo night.”
Twelve months have rolled away,
again it is autumn, and Kathleen
Wimberly and Milner Cleveland
are happy, as they seal their be
trothal with a kiss, “in the gloam
ing.”
4 ugusta, Ga., Sept.. 80th.
(icorgls’s lloniln.
N ew York, September 28.—Attor
ney-General O’Brien has rendered
a decision in answer to the commu
nication of the banking department
asking whether New York savings
banks could lawfully invest their
deposits in Georgia State bonds.
He holds that they cannot, and in
support of his ruling quotes from
section 200, chapter 400 of the laws
of 1882, which prohibits savings
banks from investing moneys in
stocks or bonds of any state which
has “within ten years previous to
making such investment by such
corporation defaulted in the pay
ment of any part of eithor the prin
cipal or interest of any debt author
ized by any legislature of such state
to bo contracted.” He then cites
tho financial legislation of Georgia
and gives in detail the history of
tho issue of the various series of
bonds issued by the state. It is a
guarantee of $1,500,000 of bonds of
the Brunswick and Albany railroad
company, which it repudiated In
1872, upon which the attorney-gen
eral bases his conclusions, and the
default on these bonds he holds
brings the case within the statute
of New York regulating invest
ments of trustees of sayings banks.
Bechets ok Beauty.—Breatbas there a
man who does not love a beautiful woman?
Breathes there a woman who does not love to
be admired by man? No art can paint, no
sculptor can chisel, the dimpled rosy cheek,
the lustre of the eye, the bewitching smile,
nor the long luxuriant tresses—as nature pre
sents in a beautiful woman. All femalos can
retain their health and personal charms by
the use of Simmons’ Liver Medicine and the
Mexican Female Remedy. They remove
and euro all the troublesome diseases which
rob woman of her natural Inverness.
A Mint of Money.
Atlanta Constitution.
A few days ago Mrs. Clint Taylor,
widow of the well known livery
stable proprietor, who died five
years ago, and mother of Mr. Zach
Taylor, who continued his father’s
•Jailed for Murder.
LaGrange, Ga., September 20.—
William Hines was jailed last night,
charged with connection with the
mysterious death of an illegitimate
child five years old, near Mounts-
ville. It was buried last Friday, but
business, left for Dayton, Ohio. She SUrt picious circumstances connected
Sold A Great Deal.—Have sold a great
deal of Chlllarlne and M. A. Simmons’ Liver
Medicine. They give perfect satisfaction.
John II. Farris, Brocken ridge, Texas, Decem
ber go, iss;i.
Uohlaal liy Circus Men.
The following should be awarniug
to the public to avoid circuses, as
they are made up of thieves, cut
throats and roughs:
Louisville, Ky., September 2G.
—It is reported here to-night that
there is much excitement at Frank
fort and at Bagdad, Ky., a village
near Frankfort, and there will
probably be a lynching before
morning, of several of the attaches
of Davis’ circus, who were arrested
here and taken to Frankfort,
charged with highway robbery.—
J. B. Weber, A. Scofield, A. Miles
and J. B. Turner, of Bagdad,
Ky., boarded the circus train to go
to Frankfort to see the show. They
paid their fare, and soon afterwards,
at the point of several pistols
which were leveled at them, were
made to turn over all their valua
bles, watches, rings, etc., and a
small amount of money. The rob
bers then made them jump from
the train, which was running at a
rapid rate of speed, and were injur
ed by the jump. Weber and Sco
field both had their legs broken,
and the former will not be able to
walk again. Turner escaped with
painful bruises. The men arrested
are Richard White, William Carroll,
Paul McWade, George Miller,
John Boyd and John Martin. It
is reported here on the street at 8
o’clock that all six of the men have
been hanged, but the rumor has not
yet been confimed. The prisoners
were confined in jail at Frankfort.
ConfcKuion or n Murderer.
Saltsburg, Pa., September 27.—
No little excitement has been occa
sioned in Washington township, In
diana county, by the confession of
John Allison, brother of James G.
Allison, who was hanged for the
murder of his father, Robert Alli
son, a year ago, that ho (John Alli
son) killed the old man. Ho says
that the crime was committed with
the object of securing some money
that his father was supposed to have
hidden in an old chest in the house
where the murder was perpetrated.
After the bloody transaction the
self-confessed murderer asserts that
the chest was broken open, but the
treasure was not found. Allison
had been acting very queerly lately,
and it is believed his ghastly secret
has made him insane. lie has al
lowed his hair and whiskers to grow
very long and shaggy, and as he
wears no clothes except an old pair
of overalls, he presents an extreme
ly strange and wild appearance.
Allison will be confined and his
mental condition inquired into.
James G. Allison, who was exe
cuted for the murder, was convicted
on circumstantial evidence, which
was exceedingly direct and strong,
but there were many people, at the
time ot the trial, who thought he
was innocent. In the event of an
examination establishing the sanity
of John Allison, it is possible the
case may be tried over again.
Lahok Hai.es.—I have made larno sales of
M. A. Simmons’ Liver Medicine with perfoot
satisfaction to my customers, and where
used have never had a call for Zcllin’s prepa
ration from that party. N. It. Farmer, drug
gist, Marquez, Texas, December 20, 18811.
C. C. C.—The Hot Springs Itemed?.
Painless, Odokless. Unequaled.—Mil
lions of peoplo from all parts of tho wo,-Id
daily attest the llfe-givina virtues of tlie
K r celebrated waters of Hot Springs, Ark.,
y using this remedy they may secure all
the benefits of tho waters at their homes.
A lllsrk Jonah.
The lteeesslon of Niagara.
Sir Charles Lyell, in 1841 and 1843,
estimated the gradual recession of
Niagara Falls by the undermining
of the brink at tho rate of about 1
foot per annum. Recent investiga
tions of tho subject by a commis
sion for the establishment of a state
reservation at the falls have, how
ever, shown that this and other es
timates aro more or less erroneous.
A map, based on surveys of the
falls made in 1883, by Mr. Thomas
Evorshed for tho New York state
surveyor, has shown that in the 41
years, ending 1883, the annual rate
of maximum recession has been
fll-(ifeet. For tho 8 years ending
1883, this rate is given at 1(14. feet,
so that the rato of recession hns
been higher of late. These results
were obtained from tho Canadian
Fall, while the American Fall was
found to have receded at tho rate of
10 inches per annum during tho 41
yeurs ending 1883. It has been
shown by the surveys that these
two falls were onco united; and
that, supposing tho rate of recession
to continue, tho Niagara gorge will
bo cut through in some 10,000 years.
Lyell’s estimate was 35,000 years.
Of uourse these attempts to calcu
late the cutting of tho entire gorge,
which terminates at the heights
near Lake Ontario, assume that the
hardness of the shale and lime
rocks, volume of water and height
ot the fall continue much the same
as they are now.
Simmons' Iron Cordial vl villas and gives
color to blood and Insures dear complexion.
Burton, Ala., September 24.—
About ten days ago a small negro
boy, whose mother lives on the Al
abama river, about two miles from
this place, was missing. The child
was in the habit of playing near
the river bank, and it is supposed
fell into the river and was drowned,
and as the mother seemed indiffer
ent about the loss, very little search
was m-ule for the body. This morn
ing at an early hour some negroes
discovered a very largo catfish
playingdn the river near the land
ing at this place, and securing some
small boats and a sein, the monster
fish was soon landed on tho bank,
where it was soon surrounded by a
group of astonished spectators.—
The fish was carried to tiio depot
and weighed, tipping tho beam at
one hundred and eighty-seven
pounds. Ono of our butchers pur
chased it from the captors, intend
ing to ship it to Montgomery or
Selma for sale. On opening the fish
tho butcher was horrified to find a
pair of small shoes, a hat and what
appeared to havo been a pair of
pants and shirt. While an excited
group of citizens were discussing
the remarkable find, some one sug
gested that perhaps the fish had
swallowed tho missing negro boy.
Tho mother was sent for, and im
mediately identified tho shoes and
hat as belonging to hor boy that
was supposed to havo been drowned,
and there is no doubt that tho fish
had swallowed the body, and failed
to digest tho clothing. The mis
sing boy was about live years old,
but of very small stature for that
ago, and no one who has seen It
doubts the fish’s ability to swallow
a body of that size.
went there on business of great im
portance to herself and family, as
it relates to the ownership of seve
ral millions of property to which
Mrs. Taylor is one of the claimants.
She is a grand daughter of General
Mercer, the famous revolutionary
hero who served his country so
faithfully that at the end of the war
of independence he was presented
by the colonial government with
large tracts of land, partly in lieu
of compensation which was due
him for his military services, and
partly by way of reward for his
very distinguished capacity as a
leader of the rebels. The land giv
en him lay in New York, New Jer
sey, Pennsylvania, and what is now
Ohio. Soon after this award was
made to General Mercer, he leased
the land to the govern merit for
ninety-nine years. It now lies in
the very heart of the great city, and
is covered by some of the most val
uable structures. The other por
tions of land owned by General
Mercer is in the cities of Newark,
Philadelphia and Dayton. In each
of theso cities the Mercer lands lie
in tiie most precious portions of the
corporate limits. There is some
question as to how the lands in
Philadelphia, Dayton and New
York passed out of the hands and
possession of the Mercer heirs, but
they maintain that no title was ever
given to them. The ninety-nine
years’lease on the New York city
property expired this year. About
ten years ago a suit was begun by
some of the heirs to settle the right
to this property. It went through
the courts in New York and was
finally appealed to the supreme
court of the United States. Last
spring a decision was rendered in
that court, declaring that on the ex
piration of the lease the property
would revert to the heirs of Gene
ral Mercer.
For part of tho disputed property
in New York, Vanderbilt some
time ago offered fifty million dollars.
The property in the three other
cities is far greater in bulk, and its
aggregate of value will increase
the total of the claim of the Mercer
heirs to about five hundred million
dollars. In Dayton the union pas
senger depot is in the centre of the
lands claimed, and they extend for
six or eight blocks in every direc
tion. It is said that a compromise
has been offered by the present
holders of the property, which will
give the Mercer heirs several mill
ion dollars. It is in relation to this
business that Mrs. Taylor has now
gone to Dayton. She is one of the
five persons by whom this enor
mous fortune is claimed. General
Mercer was her grandfather, and
her maiden name was Sarah Jane
Mercer. She has consulted fine le
gal counsel, and is assured that her
rights to the property is indisputa
ble. If this advice proves to be
correct, Mrs. Taylor will be one of
five persons who will come into
possession of $500,000,000, and with
any sort of possible compromise,
she will be one of the richest wo
men in America. Mrs. Taylor has
only two children, Mr. Z. E. Taylor,
of this city, and Mrs. C. C. Kibbee,
of Hawkinsville
with its death caused the body to
be exhumed, and tho facts devel
oped by the coroner’s inquest led to
Hines’ arrest. Dr. Fitts testified
that the frontal bone was dislocated.
Hines says the child died suddenly
from eating muscadines anil drink
ing branch water.
Attachment of Salaries.
Washington, September 28.—
The postmaster-general has just
rendered an interesting decision
touching the right of creditors to
attach the salaries of their debtors
who may be postal employes. Tho
postmaster at New York recently
informed the department that at
tempts have been made to garnishee
the salaries of employes in his office,
and he asked for instructions in the
matter. The postmaster-general
has decided that the salaries of
postal employes cannot be attached
for debt, and will send out instruc
tions to postmasters to disregard
attachments issued by the state
courts, but to appear individually
in court and state that he is possess
ed of no property belonging to the
debtor. Salaries are to bo regarded
as United States funds until they
pass from the hands of the post
master into those of his employes.
Melons for Winter Use.
A lady correspondent writing to
one of our exchanges, says she has
discovered a plan to keep water
melons in their natural form and
flavor for an indefinite length of
time. She has successfully tried it
in past seasons,and as a consequence
has been able to treat her family to
a watermelon supper at Christmas
time. The plan is an inexpensive
and simple one, and consists in giv
ing the melon three or four coats of
varnish to exclude tho air. She
says they not only keep from decay,
but that the flavor and sweetness
are retained, and when eaten at
Christmas or New Year the fruit
seems to be wonderfully improved
in these particulars. Some of our
melon raisers should try the above
recipe.
A Touching lnstaiii'n.
An exchange says a touching in
stance has just been sent us. The
writer says: I found a cockroach
struggling in a bowl of water. I
took half a peanut shell fora boat.
I put him into it and gave him two
wooden toothpicks for oars, and
left him. The next morning 1 vis
Red him, and he had put a piece of
white cotton thread upon one of
tho toothpicks and set the tooth-
nick on an end as a signal of dis
tress. lie had a hair on the other
toothpick, and there that cockroach
sat fishing. The cockroach, ex
hausted, had fallen asleep. Tho
sight melted mo to tears. I had
never to chew leather to get a soul;
I was born with one. I took that
cockroach out, gave him a spoonful
of gruel, and left. That animal
never forgot my kindness, and now
my house is chock full of cock
roaches.
Ned Burns, his wife, uiul three
children, all colored, were poisoned
with arsenic at Atlanta Monday.
Tho wife mistook arsenic for yeast
powder, and used it in making bis
cult. At last accounts it was fear
ed the woman would die.
Tho negroes charged with riot
near Uobbtown, were tried last Hat
unlay and acquitted.
Simmons' Iron ('i)i'il till mi ml Hum Ilia \vakufnl.
iHvIgorati'M tliauni'i'Yiiluil ami sululiios truniu-
loUMUOSH.
War on the Mormons.
Provo, Utah, September 2f>.—
Judge Powers in his charge to tho
grand jury of this district instruct
ed them that a separate indictment
could be rendered for each day in
which a polygamist had lived with
more than one wife since the pas
sage of the Edmonds law. The pen
alty on each indictment is six
months imprisonment, or $300 fine.
A dispatch from Mexico says the
Mexicans have begun a warfare
against polygamy, and well ground
ed rumors are afloat here that a de
mand has been made upon Presi
dent Diaz that the recinil of the
grant of land in Northern Chihua
hua to Mormons. The Catholic
church is at the head of the move
ment, and demands that the law
against polygamy be enforced. Tho
church is supported by a strong
public sentiment, especially in the
northern states of the republic. The
entire press and politicians have
also taken strong grounds against
the colonization of Mormons on
Mexican soil.
Humuti Hlurtrotypi'M.
M. Kergovatz, a chemist of Brest,
has proposed a new method of dis
posing of the human body after
death, which he considers prefera
ble to either burial or cremation.—
His system is an anteseptic one,
much simpler and less expensive
than the old process of embalming,
and is nothing more than a galvan-
oplastie application. The body is
coated with a conducting substance
such as plumbago, or is bathed with
a solution of nitrate of silver, the
after decomposition of which, un
der tho influence of sunlight, loaves
a finely divided deposit of metallc
silver. It is then placed in a bath
of copper sulphate, and connected
for electrolysis with several cells of
a gravity or other battery of con
stant current. The result is that
the body is incased in a skin of cop
per, which prevents further change
or chemical action. If desired, this
may be again plated with gold or
silver according to the taste or
wealth of the friends of the dead.—
M. Kergovatz has employed the
process eleven times on human
subjects, and cm many animals, and
says that in all cases it was perfectly
satisfactory. In spite, however,of his
warm recommendation, the Idea Is
repulsive. It seems a mockery to
give permanence to the temple
when a 14 that once made it valua
ble is gone.
She Married the I'oarhiuan,
Society circles in the quiet little
town of Hempstead, L. I., are agi
tated over the marriage of Miss
Catharine K. Jones to A. W. Currier.
The story of the courtship is not
without romantic associations. Tho
groom has for several months been
a servant in Miss Jones’ household,
and came there under peculiar cir
cumstances. Last spring Mr. Cur
rier, who, while he is not handsome,
has an intelligent face, and is some
thing ot an artist in chalk drawings,
went to Hempstead and exhibited
his skill on tho flagging and porti
cos of public places. But little at
tention was paid to him, as he was
considered to be a tramp. He ob
tained permission from John Pettit
to sleep in his barn, but after a few
days the latter became suspicious
and ordered him away. Instead of
leaving the village he made a living
by doing chores, digging graves and
cellars. Ho tried to carry the hod,
but not being of an agile turn I10
was discharged. He visited tho
taverns anil amused the frequenters
by delineating their features and
making alleged humorous sketches.
It was at one of these festive
gatherings that Currier met Mr.
Charles Jones, who, being a gentle
man of leisure, interested himself
in Currier’s behalf, and Into his
benefactor’s ear the artist poured
the history of his life sufferings.
They were too much for the kind-
hearted man, and he took Currier
home, provided him with a room in
the garret and substantial clothing
and engaged him as a coachman for
his sister. In a short time he be
came overseer in general, and es
corted Miss Jones to the door of
fashionable dwellings when visiting
and waited outside to escort her
home again.
The gossips commenced to talk,
as It became evident that there was
a growing Intimacy between the
two, but Mr. Jones, who is several
years his sister’s senior, was not ob
servant, and only realized the situa
tion when a friend informed him
that the two were likely to be mar
ried. He resented the assertion,
but hurried home, and although it
was midnight, he called his sister
from her room and demanded to
know If there was any truth in the
rumor of her matrimonial inten
tions. True to her love, she inform
ed him that there was, and then
followed a dramatic scene. Currier
was summoned from his garret, and
the angry brother asked him:
“Did you not tell me you had a
wife and child in the West?”
“Yes.”
“Then, you scoundrel, what do
you moan by gaining the affections
of this innocent girl and trying to
marry her?”
To this he had nothing to say, and
he was ordered from the house, but
Miss Jones threw her arms about
his neck and between her sobs de
clared that he should not go, and
that she would marry him in spito
of everybody. Then calming her
self she turned to her brother and
declared that she was the owner of
the house and that he could leave,
but Currier should stay there, and
that settled it.
Two or three days later Miss
Jones and Currier visited Brooklyn
and were made man and wife by
Rev. Mr. Canfield. The bride is as
tall and thin as Sarah Bernhardt,
and is past 30 years of age. Currier
is quite small and about 30. Mr.
Jones, who lives with his sister in a
handsome residence on Fulton
streot, Brooklyn, consulted a lawyer
yesterday and declared his Inten
tion to bring a suit to establish his
Interest in the property which his
sister holds under a deoil of trust
executed by his mother. Currier
now denies that he has a wife in.tlie
west. The nowly wedded pair were
out driving yesterday morning, and
the groom was faultlessly attired.
A Neijro Fleml Slain.
Charleston, H. C., September 28.
—Jake Flower, a drunken negro,
attempted to outrago tlireo respect
able white women living about two
miles from Summerville yesterday
morning, and falling in the attempt,
burned down the dwelling in which
they lived. Two of the women,
Mrs. Mitchell and her daughter
Hannah, about 19 years of ago, es
caped through a back door of their
house into tho woods. Mary Bow
ers, tho other woman, was caught
and so terribly maltreated that she
will inovltably die. Flower was
pursued by a constable, and resist
ing arrest was shot. Ho fled for
about half a mile m t)io woods,
when lie fell and expired.
Ono morning last week, W. C.
Mathews’ boys wont fox hunting
near Franklin, and Jumppod a fox.
The dogs were running at a very
rapid rate, when throe of tho pack
fell into an old copper nit about 30
feet deep. They remained in tho
pit about two days before tliyy were
found,