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GEORGIA TEL APH BUILDING
ESTABLISHED 1826.
MACON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1881.
VOLUME LV-NO. 44
OX AX 01,0 THEME.
Partly a lurk that greets with song the
piornlflgf _
Partly a swan that sails at eve the more,
Half like a rose tho garden ways adorning,
Half like a lily, blanohed as if in fear,
Sbo I adore combines in her sweet pres-
Tho grace and tuno of birds, the flowers*
hue and essence.
But, like tho rose, one petal is not flawless,
And, like tho lily, one leaf shows a stain;
Now, like tho lark, the flight at timos is
lawless, . , .
Or, ns tho swan, the voico, porchanse,
gives pnin;
yet still my worship knows no least cessa
tion,
Gaining each dny frosh force and conse
cration.
That which is hers being so, must^kcep for-
Somcthing for me which made my heart
first best;
While from her very sins I cannot sever
Tho charm that clothes her merits most
complete.
That is nlone trno love whichholds its treas-
ore
Far beyond scope of earthly rule or meas
ure.
Wondering chiefly, in profound abase
ment, , . ,
How it has «on a crown so choice and
And dreaming vaguely some malign dis
placement, ...
Which would oonvert its wonder to do-
For thus n Love’s worship holds, like priest's
religion, . . .
The fear of pain and loss, and darkness
Stygian. _[John Moran.
HO ir THE V HEM VESTS VIEW
The Pausing Away of General Oar-
add** l*r edc eesaor* and Ceremonioa
at Their Interment.
From If* Y. IVorW.
Tho death of General Garfleld amid
such tragic and pathetic circumstances
may render interesting some brief and de
tached notes upon the subject of the pass
ing from life of his predecessors in the
Residential chair and tho scenes attend
ing their inhumation.
Washington took cold during a five-
hours’ ride over his plantation on the 12tb
of December, HOD, during the last two
hours of which he was exposed to a sharp
storm cfsuow, liail and rain. The cold
declared itself next evening, when ho was
very hoarse, but he made light of it. “I
never take anything for a cold,” lie said;
“let i. go as It came.” At 2 next morn
ing he awakened his wife, but would not
let ber rise to send for a doctor lest she
should take cold. When tho secretary
was called at daybreak he found Wash
ington breathing with dilllculty and hard
ly able to utter a word intelligibly. Doc
tors were sent for, and meanwhile lie was
bled and a gargle was prepared, but on
attempting to use It he was convulsed and
nearly suilocated. Tho doctors’ remedies
were not of more avail, and at 4:30 p. m.
lie sent Ids wile for his two wills, and
had her destroy one and intrusted the
other to her keeping, giving her instruc
tions as to his letters, papers and accounts.
To his secretary and servaut he was as
courteous and considerate asever, bidding
the latter, who had been in the room
standing by the toed nearly all day, sit
down. Between 5 and C, when assisted
to sit up. “I feel I am going,” he said to
the doctors; “I thank yon for your atten
tion, but I pray you take no more trouble
about me; let me go off quietly—I cannot
last long.” Further remedies wero tried
without avail in the evening. “About
10,” writes Iiis secretary, “he made several
attempts to speak to roe before he could
effect it. At length he said: *1 am just
going; have roe decently buried, and do
not let my body be put into tho vault in
less than three days after I am dead.’ I
bowed assent, for I could not speak. He
then looked at me and said: ‘Do you un
derstand roe?’ I replied: ‘Yes.’ “Tis
well,’ said he. About ten minutes before
he expired (which was between 10 and
11 o’clock>bis breathing became easier.
He lay quietly; lie withdrew bis hand
from mine and felt his own pulse. I saw
liis countenance change, and spoke to Dr.
Clark, who came to the bedside. Tho
General’s hand fell from his wrist; I took
it in mine and pressed it to my bosom.
Dr. Clark put liis hands over his eyes,
ami ho expired without a struggle or a
sigh.” The body was buried on the IStb,
a schooner being stationed off Alexandria
to fire minute-guns while the procession
moved from the house to the vault. Tho
troops, horse and foot, led the way; then
came four of the clergy; then Washing
ton’s horse with bis saddle, holsters and
pistols, led by two grooms in black; then
the body was deposited In the vault.
Such was the death aud burial of tho first
and greatest of the Presidents.
The second and tblid Presidents died
on the semi-centennial of America’s inde
pendence. John Adams and Thomas Jeffer
son, the latter the writer aud the former
the orator of tlio Congress of 1770; the
one the author of the Declaration of In
dependence, and the other “pillar of Its
support and its ablest advocate and de
fender.” Adams at ninety-one preserved
a remarkable activity or mind, though
liis sight was impared so that be could
neither read nor write. By April, 1820,
it was evident that ho was failing, though
his neighbors hoped fondly that ho would
be able to attend the local celebration of
Independence Day. When, however, it
became apparent that they would not have
him in person, they deputed the selected
orator to visit him and communicate their
wishes for some last word or message of
cheer. On Friday, the 30th of June, tho
deligate called on Mr. Adams at 9 a. in.,
and “jpent a fow minutes with him in
conversation, aud took from him a toast
to bo presented on the Fourth of July as
coming from him. I should have liked a
longer one, but, as it is, this will be ac
ceptablo. ‘I will give you,’ said he, ‘Iu-
dependance forever!’ He was asked if he
would not add anything to It, aud replied:
‘Not a word.* ” Tho visitor was not too
early, as symptoms of debility became
more and more alarming. There was
no suffering, bat respiration became more
aud more difficult, till on the morning of
the 4th Dr. Holbrook predicted that his
patient would not last beyond sunset.
“Unceasing shouts” greeted tho toast offer
ed at tho Quincy banquet, but as the
guests left the hall news came of the
death of its author. He had passed away
calmly and without suffering fit tho san
est of that memorable day. “Thomas
Jefferson still survives!” were tho last
words he uttered, so far as could be gath
ered from hts failing articulation.
Thomas Jefferson bad died a few hours
before him On the 24tl> of June he
wrote:. “All eyes are opened or opentrg
to the rights of man. The general spread
of the light of science has already laid
open to every view the palpable truth,
that the mass of mankind have not been
born with saddles on tbeir backs, nor a
few booted and sparred, ready to ride
them legitimately l>y tbe grace of God.”
He grew steadily weaker until ho lay upon .
his bed, serene, painless, cbeerlui, in full j
possession of bis reason, but helpless and i
dying. Daring tbe 3d of July lie dozed |
hoar after hour, under the influence of j
opiates, rousing occasionally and uttering |
a tew words, conscious that his end was .
near, but fervently desiring to live until j
the day he had assisted to consecrate fifty ,
years before. At 11 at night be whisper
ed to Mr. N. P. Twist, bis grandchild’s
husband, who sat by the bed: “This is the
Fourth?” Mr. Twist remained silent, be
ing unwilling to say “Not yet!” “This Is
the Fourth?” again whispered Jeflcrson,
and when the watcher nodded, “Ah!” he
sighed and sank into sleep with an ex
pression of satisfaction upon his conuten-
ance. They thought him dying bnt ho
lingered until 12:40 in the afternoon, oc
casionally indicating a desire by words
or looks. “I resign my soul to God, ami
my daughter to my country,” is apopular
version of his latest utterance.
Madison left bis mountain residence of
Montpelier but once after bis retirement
in 1817—to attend the Constitutional Con
vention of 1829. He died Jane 28, 1830,
the last survivor of .the signers of the
Constiinlion. During his last Illness,
when the family and the doctor were at
dinner, bis voice was heard feebly from
tbe adjoining chamber: “Doctor, you must
push about tbe bottles? Do your duty
doctor, or I must cashier you.” Monroe
was tho third President to die on Inde
pendence Day; he passed away in this
city in 1S31 at tbe residence of his son-in-
law, Samuel L. Gouvcroeur. Ill-health
had compelled him to resign the Presidency
of the Yerginia Constitutional Conven
tion. His remains were deposited with
public honors in the Marble Ceme
tery on Second street, where they reposed
until 1S58, when they were removed un
der the escort of the Seventh Regiment,
then commanded by Col. Abram Duryee,
to Hollywood Cemetery at Richmond,
Va., the occasion being memorable for
the enthusiastic warmth with which New
York’s citizen soldiers were received by
tbeir Southern brethren. John Quincy
Adams, “tbe old man eloquent,” was
found by death wkerejhe would Lave wish
ed its approach, in the halls of Congress.
On Monday, February 11,1848, be ascend
ed tlic steps of the Capitol with his accus
tomed alacrity and took liis place in the
House. While petitions were being pre
sented, suddenly there was a cry of “Mr.
Adams!” and a rush of members toward
his seat, lie was rising with a number
of petitions in his lmnd when be was
struck with apoplexy and sank down,
catching at his desk and falling into tbe
arms ot the member who sprang across
the isle to bis assistance. He was carried
into tlio rotunda, then into the Speaker’s
room. He attempted to speak, but bis
voice was a mere murmcr, low and indis
tinct, though Mr. Ashman, wlio was plac
ing him on the sofa, thought lie said: “Last
of earth—content,” intending to say:
“This is the last of earth—I am content.”
He became insensible at once, and linger
ed faintly breathing, till 10 o’clock on the
momingof the23d, when heexpired in the
presence of the officers of the house. Mr.
Adams’ body was removed on tho car
drawn by six white horses that had serv
ed for Harrison’s funeral, and after lying
in state in Faneuil Hall, was buried at
Quincy.
Jackson died ou Sunday, June S, 1845,
at the Hermitage. For mouths ho had
been suffering from disease of the lungs,
dropsy and diarrhoea, enduring the pains
of his martyrdom with sublime patience.
Almost to the last he was pestered by
office-seekers and hero-worshipers. His
last writing was a statement to help his
old friend and fellow-soldier, Robert Arm
strong, to|a pension. On the 30tb, of May
lie gave Mr. Healy the last sitting for the
portrait designed for Louis Philippe and
witli his elaborate courtesy congratulated
tbe artist. Nightly lie kissed and blessed
each member of bis family, bidding each
farewell as it for the last time; and then
offered earnest prayer for them and for
Ids country. His Bible was always near
him. On Friday ho gave directions
concerning his funeral, ami dictated a
letter, his last to tlio President, bidding
him act promptly and resolutely in the
affairs of Texas and Oregan. On the
morning of his death, a brilliant, hot day,
he bade an affectionate farewell to his
family, friends aud servants, whom he ad
dressed with calmness, strength and oven
animation, on the subjectof religion, con
eluding, “I hope and trust to meet you
all in heaven, both white and black—both
white and black,” words be repeated again
in tbe afternoon as the end was coming
ou. Hearing his servants on tbe piazza
weeping, be spoke again; “what is the
matter with my dear children? have I
alarmed you? Ob, do not ciy! Be good
children, and we will meo; in heaven.”
At 0 o’clock he died without a struggle or
a pang. Ho was buried on Tuesday, be
side tbe wife ho had loved so fondly.
Three thousand people were present at
the services conducted upon tho portico
by Dr. Edgar. After a prayer, Jackson’s
favorite psalm was suns, “Why should
we start and fear to die?” a sermon was
preached from the text, “These are they
which came out of great tribulation,” aud
tlie servico was concluded with a hymn.
Martin Van Bureu died at Kiuderliook,
N. Y., at 2 a. m., July 1882, of asthma
that developed Into a painful catarrhal
affection of the throat and lungs. For a
year bis health liad been failing, and dur
ing the last week of his life his mind was
wandering, though in his lucid intervals
he manifested deep interest in public
affairs, expressing bis good wishes for
Lincoln and Ids confidence in McClellan.
One of bis last distinct utterances was
to his clergyman, “There is but ono re
liance.” He was buried on Monday, the
2Stb, a solitary flag flying at half-ciast,
aud the hotel and two other buildings be
ing festooned with black. Only one or
ganization was at tbe funeral— the Kinder-
hook Fire Company. Twelve old resi
dents acted as pall-bearers. Harrison
died April 4,1841. He rode on horseback
to his inauguration aud stood bareheaded
and without an overcoat to deliver his in
augural, contracting pneumonia aggrava
ted by subsequent imprudences in expos
ing himself to the weather of tbe bleak
spring. His last words, heard by Dr.
Washington, were: “Sir, I wish you to
understand the true principles of tho
Government. I wish them carried out.
I ask nothing more!’’ A procession two
miles in length accompanied the body,
drawn on a funeral-car by six white
horses, to its temporary* resting-place in
tbe Congressional burying-ground, where
the Episcopal service was conducted by
Dr. Hawley. Tyler was taken ill on
Sunday, January 12, 1802, while at break
fast at llie Ballard House, Richmond, and
died at midnight of tbe 17th. “Let me
give you some stimulant,” said tbe doctor.
“I will not have it,” replied tho dying
mau, and closing his eyes ho passed away
quietly. His body lay in state at the
Capitol. He was a member of tlie Con
federate Congress, and was interred with'
much pomp at Hollywood on tho 21st by
Bishop Johns. Polk died Jane 15, 1849,
three months after his retirement from
tlie Presidency. He had suffered from
diarrhea on the journey, and a recurring
attack proved fatal. On his death-bed lie
received the rite of baptism at the bands
of a Methodist clergyman, an old neighbor
and a fUend. Taylor attended tbe Fourth
of July ceremonial in 1850, when tbe
dust irom Kosciusko's tomb was deposited
in tbe Washington Monument, and- en
dured for several hours the heat of a day
he declared worse tbaa any he had ex
perienced in Mexico or Florida. Going
home he insisted on eating freely of un
ripe cherries and drinking cold water and
iced milk, desolte tbe remonstrances of
his servaut, bringing on an attact of
cholera morbus and typhoid, of which he
died on the ninth. Au imposing proces
sion accompanied his remains to the Con
gressional Cemetery, the Episcopal ser
vice having previously been read in the
East Room by Dr. Butler and Dr. Pyne.
Millard Fillmore died at Buflalo at 11
p. m., on Sunday, March 8, 1874, and was
buried on tbe 12tb, after the body had
lain in state in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Franklin Pierce passed away at 4:40 a.
m., on Friday, October 8, ISG9, at tbe
residence of Mr. Willard Williams, Con
cord N.;ll., of dropsy and inflammation of
the stomach. For the last three days of
bis life he was nearly unconscious, and
he died without pain. His body lay in
state at Doric Hail, and was buried in tho
Minot Cemetery, on Main street, on the
lltb. James Buchanan died at Lancaster,
Pa., at 8:30 on tno morning of Monday,
June 1, 1SGS, after an illness of one
mouth, though he had been sinking near
ly a year. His last hours were peaceful
and nearly painless. On the night before
bis death he gave detailed directions for
the ordering of liis funeral and the erec
tion of his monument, dictating the in
scription, a blank to be left for the date
of liis death, “which cannot be far dis
tant,” he said. In the morning he asked
for a drink of water from the spring, say
ing to tno medical attendant, “Doctor, a
disembodied spirits ever come back, I be
lieve that mine will be found about thit
spring.” His last anthcntlc words as be
sank into tlie sleep in which he died were:
“Oh, Lord God Almighty, as thou will!”
His funeral took place on the 4th, the ex
ercises being conducted by Dr. Nevin,
President of Franklin and Marshall Col
lege, an immense c >ncourse being in at
tendance. The circumstances of the death
of Abraham Lincoln and ot bis “funeral
1,500 miles long,” wero fully described in
The Would at the lima of the shooting
of President Garfleld. Andrew Johnson
died suddenly at Greeneville, Team, on
Saturday, Jaily 31,1S75, and was buried
with Masonic ceremonies on the 3d of
August.
All tho Way Irom Pike.
Babxesvillk, November 2.—Yesterday
wns n big sale day in Bnrnesvlil e. Tbe
lnnded estate of Mrs. Barnes, d ecnased,
was offered for sale to the public b y the ad
ministrator. Not more than half w as sold,
though about seventy-fivo lots wer o pur
chased. It will take nil of another day to
dispose of ali the propery. Mrs. Barnes
owned a great deal of land in the town, and
much of it is valuable land. The lots
brought from $25 to §100 per acre. The
deceased died intestate and the hoirs nro
distant relations, living, some of them, in
distant parts of the country.
Building is still on the rush in our thriv
ing town. No carpenter need be idle, and
there is wo r k for more at good wages. Let
mechanics out of a job come to ilarnes-
ville and they shall have work and plenty
to eat and wear.
Tbe mortality among onr colored citi
zens seems to be on the increase at pres
ent. Three or fonr have died within the
last three or fonr days, and others are very
sick. Fever is the prevailing disease.
W. R. Murphey and fami y and children
nnd grandchildren, thirty-two in number,
varying in age from three months to sixty-
three years old, visited the family burying
ground at their old homestoad on tho VJd
of lost month. The occasion was one of
tear-shedding and heart-melting. The
graves of beloved ones asleep in death
were decorated with beautiful flowers of
abiding love and crowned with green
wreaths of sweet remembrance.
Farmers are now very busy sowing oats
after the late rains. Sowing of small grain
is general and abundant. It Is well and
wife that it is so.
The appointment of Trammell in place
of Barnett on the Railroad Com
mission wis, we think, unpatriotic
in Governor Colquitt. Col. Trammell
is a lobbyist and a wire- pnlling politician,
a time-server, while Colonel Bam Barnett
is an independent, capable and honest
thinker, notably conscientious in every act
of his life, public or private. Bnt Governor
Colquitt is « politician, and Barnett wns
too candid both for him and the Governor’s
master, Joe Brown. Ex-Governor Joseph
pnt Barnett ent, and we are not surprised.
Wo still are of tho opinion that Hon. A.
O. Bacon would make a good governor.
Ho would suit the people in those parts ad
mirably. Continue his boom, Messrs. Edi
tors, for tlio billow is rising that will event
ually sweep Colonel Bacon into tho guber
natorial chair. Let him wave. Kibke.
THICKS VI’UX JEWELLERS.
BRICK
A New llurmtus: System.
Macon leads all other cities in tho man-
factureof brick, but a now system of burn'
ing is coming into use, by which tho old is
being distanced. A writer in the Richmond
State gives the following account of this
important discovery:
Of late years there ha3 been a great im
provement in oeramics, now materials
have been discovered, and new modes for
burning them been invented. Vases and
other vessels of torra cotta, rivaling in
beauty of form tho famod Etruscan vases,
are to bo met with in overy direction.
Brick manufacture alone, if wo may bo al
lowed to clnss it with the ceramic arts, has
withstood all innovation—that is, the orna
mentation or embellishment of bricks, and
the mode of burning them. This absence
of ornamentation in bricks, and tlio ban-
iebmentof everything artistic in their make
and shape, has been due to tho heretofore
uncertain and- difficult mode of burning
them, whicii militated very greatly against
any artistio development m this imponant
industry, and it hns been left m that 6tato
of erudoness in which the children of Israel
left it when they fled from Egypt, when
straw was mixed with the clny, just as it is
o-day in somo parts of our country, ns,
for example, in Lower California nnd
New Mexico, os seen in their adobo
houses.
But wo now chronicle a new invention in
tho mode of burning bricks, of which great
things are expected. We refer to tho “As-
bury brick burning improvement” which
our townsman, Mr. George Ellis Bedford,
in connection with Mr. E. B. Dunford has
been assiduously developing for more than
twelve months past. This now invention
has been duly patented, and arrangements
have been made to introduce it in nil the
principal cities of tbe United States. This
improvement, so important not only to
those identified with tho mannfacture of
brioks, but to every ono who designs build
ing n house, is, like many other great in
ventions, an exceedingly simplo affair, re
quiring no additional ontlny of money for
either machinery or the remodoling of tho
old bty.'e of kiln clamps. It consists sim
ply in “setting” tho first three courses
of unburnt bricks on tlie floor of the
kiln in snch a manner ns to
form a series of air and fire-fluos, thus, as
it wero, making n vast furnace of tlie kiln.
The air-flues run through the pillars that
support tho mass of unbumt bricks com
posing tho kiln, and, ns before said, are
formed on tho floor of the kiln in tho three
bnso courses of tho pillars. These air-
flues are 9 inches in height by 2% inches
wide where they intersect the kiln casing;
tho casing is pierced with openings of the
size of ths air-flues. These nir-flucs have
radiating from them on both sides, at
distances of nine inches apart, what aro
termed fiie-flues. These are 4% inchos
high by 2>£ inches wide. Under this new
system of burning bricks there cannot pos
sibly be any waste of heat, as the inflow of
cold air cm be regulated to a nicety and
controlled as completely as is the draft of
air in n stove by its damper. In burning a
kiln, after the drying off process is com
pleted, it is burned with closed doors, save
when fuol is being thrown into it, after
which they are quickly closed, the fire with
in receiving the required amount of cold
air through the air-flues at the bottom of
tho kiln. Tho advantages of this new meth
od are a saving of-time and labor in burn
ing and of at least one-third the quantity
of wood formerly consumed, besides in
suring n kiln of bricks burned of a uniform
hardness aud color.
Go out In the damp air, or ait unpro
tected in a draught, and your throat will
feel sore aud your head uncomfortable.
You have taken a cold, which you can re
move as promptly as you received it by
Some or tlio Ingenious Practices of
Rogue* Who Steal Valuables.
“Of ali the tricks, devices, subterfuges,
sharp dodges, or deceptions I ever saw,”
said Jeweller J. H. Johnston to a Nun re
porter, “was one by which a sharp fellow
stole from mo three pairs of diamond ear
rings. He evidently knew when I was
not in tbe store. He came in one day
anil said to ono of my clerks:
“Is Mr. Johnston In?”
“No,” was the reply.
“‘I am sorry for that,’ he said, *£ wish
to buy a pair of diamond earrings for my
wife.’
“This was repeated four or fire sue;
cessive days. The last time lie said he
would not wait to see me, but would look
at some earrings. The clerk showed him
an assortment, and he finally selected
three pairs, valued at $450, and said: ‘I
guess I will let my wife select from these.
She will be at my store in au hour, and I
want yon to tell Mr. Johnston to bring
these around himself, as he is acquainted
with my wife.’
‘“All right, sir; I will,’ replied the
elerk. j
“ ‘By the way,” sabl the fellow, ‘if you
will permit me, 1 will write a note to
Mr. Johnston.’
“ ‘Certainly,’ said tho clerk, who show
ed him to a desk and pointed out where
he could get paper and envelopes. He
sat down, wrote a short note, folded it
and put it in an envelope directed to me.
Then he went back to tlie counter and
said to the clerk: 'I think you had better
put tbe three pair of canines in here,
aud I will seal them up.so that Mr. John
ston will be certain to bring the right
ones.’
“‘Very well,’paid the clerk, wlio hand
ed out the three pair ot earrings, and the
fellow dropped them into the envelope
before the clerk’s eyes, and was appar
ently about to seal tlio envelope, when he
said suddenly:
“•Oh, I guess you may put hi that other
pair,’ pointing to a pair which tho clerk
had laid on tlio shelf behind him. The
clerk turned and got tlio other pair and
handed them to the fellow, who dropped
them apparently into tlie same envelope,
sealed them up, handed them over, and
said: ‘Let Mr. Johnson bring the four
pairs to my store as soon as lie comes
back,’ he said, giving tlm address of a
well known store in tlie vicinity. Then
he left and the clerk laid llie envelope to
one side until I returned. Of courso wo
found but one pair of diamond ear rings
in the envelope, which was tho last pair
dropped in. Tho other three pairs were
paste, about tho same size. The fellow
had taken two of ray envelopes and into
one had placed tlie thieo bogus pairs.
When the cleik turned to get the fourth
pair tho fellow had put the genuine in
liis pocket and substituted the others.
We never saw him afterwards, but heard
that he had practiced the same game in
other places.
“Of course the imperative rule is to not
let goods go out of your sight until you
get the money. Tho trick of having
goods sent to hotels and boarding houses
with bills for collection is so stale that tlie
undeviating rule is to keep your goods In
sight. Bnt a shrewd fellow once managed
to get three watches from me by a clever
dodge. A bright, sharp-looking customer
carno in ono day and said: ‘I am from
Ohio, and have a commission to buy some
goods for my sister, wlio is about to bo
married there.’ He picked out a bill of
$500 worth of various articles, and said:
‘Just send them around to my store in
Broadway at twelve o’clock,’ naming a
well known carpet store iu Broadway.
Tho goods were sent by a clerk, who
found the customer apparently engaged
in showing carpets, and perfectly at home
He recognized the clerk aud said:
“ ‘All! just step tliis way, and I will
give you a check.’ lie went witii
the clerk to a desk, drew a check, and
took tho goods. He appeared to he so per
fectly at homo that the clerk had not the
slightest suspicion. Of courso the check
was worthless, and wc found that he had
secured the desk privilege at the carpet
store by pretending that ho was buying a
large stock of carpets among other pur
chases in tbe city. He fooled five jewellers
in New York, and others in other cities
“One day a swarthy, foreigu-lookiug,
wcll-dresseil young man called on a broth
er jeweller and handed him his card—
‘Alexander Dumas, l’russiau Legation
Washington.’ He said he was with his
wife as the St. Nicholas Hotel, and
wanted to buy some watches and jewelry
for which he would pay cash. He sail
liis wife was too sick to leave tho hotel
and wanted the goods scut with the bill
The jeweller thought he would make a
sure thing of it and take tlio goods him
self. He went to the St. Nicholas, was
told that Mr. Dumas was stopping there,
aud was shown to his room. Mr. Dum&3
was busily writing, but welcomed tho
jeweller cordially.
“ ‘Ali,’ lie said, ‘I am glad you have
come. I am sorry that my wife is con
fined to her bed. I will just step into the
next room and let' her make her selec
tions.’”
“The jeweller, In a moment of weak
ness, consented. After waiting five min
utes he began to get nervous. He did not
like to disturb a sick lady, but wcuttothe
office to maka some inquiries. There he
found that Mr. Dumas had just stepped
out, and had no wife or child in the
house. He was finally caught, after he
had played the same game on a number
of jewellers, and lodged in Sing Sing.
When he was captared he tried to concil
iate his last victim by tlie presentation of
a beautiful overcoat. But the overcoat
proved to have been stolen.
“In showing jewelry it is tho custom to
show only six watches at once, or some
uniform number. If the customer wants
to sco another,onc of those already on ex
hibition will be taken away. The same
rule is observed with rings. The tray is
always full, or with a known number of
holes empty, so that if a ring was taken
the loss would be instantly detected.
Sometimes swindlers will watch an op
portunity and slip in a worthless ring and
take away a good one. One jewellor of
tny acquaintance found five plated
rings thus substituted for plain gold rings
in one day. The trick was played upon
a number of jewellers about the same
time, aud then tlie roguo was captured.
“A common trick in buying goods on
the installment plau is to give a wrong
name, mentioning the name of some sol
vent person. Tho references will, of
comse, give a good report, and it will not
bo discovered until too lato that the good
character does not belong to the one who
purchased the goods.”
One ot tho shrewdest and boldes
tricks ever played on a jeweller was done
by a woman of nerve in Cincinnati not
loDg ago. One day a middle-aged wo
man, of fine personal appearance, well
dressed, aud of most attractive manners,
called at a private lunatic asylum and
asKod to see the superintendent. That
official met her in the parlor.
“I wish to make arrangements for the
confinement of a patient here,” tile said.
“»VJiat are your terms aud the conditions
on which youjreeeive your inmates?”
“Onr terms are $15 per week, and you
must have the certificate of two physi
cians.”
“Very well,” satd tho lady; “I will pay
you for two weeks in advance. The pa
tient is my son, who is insane on the sub
ject of diamouds. He has a mania for
the certificate of the physicians, but can
easily do so. I will bring my son here in
the afternoon, and If you will keep him
an hour I will bring the physicians with
the authority.”
Then the lady entered her carriage and
drove to a jewelry store.* There she se
lected $40,000 worth of jewelry, which
ahe said she intended for the trousseau of
her daughter, about to be married. She
gave the name of a wealthy family re
cently arrived in Cincinnati, and said to
the proprietor, “If you will let one of
your clerks step into tbe carriage with me
I will go to my husbaud’s store and give
him the money for tlie goods.”
The proprietor consented, and the clerk,
with the goods in a box, entered the car
riage with the lady, who said ahe wished
to slop on tho way and show her pur
chases to a friend. They drove to the asy
lum and were shown to the parlor. The
superintendent entered, and the lady said
quite calmly to the clerk: “Just open the
box and show tbe things to this gentle
man.”
The clerk unsuspectingly complied.
Carelessly drawing near, the lady sud
denly seized the box, and was walking
out of tbe room with It when the aston
ished clerk cried:
“Hold on, madam, I must not let those
gooffs go out of ray sight uutil I get tbe
money.”
The lady did not deign to notice tbe
clerk, but, turning to the superintendent
of the asylum, said:
“This is tho young man I spoke to you
about. He is getting a little violent. You
had better secure him.”
It was in vam that the clerk protested
that a robbery was being committed.
The superintendent was inexorable. He
called liis assistants and secured tlie clerk,
while the lady walked to her carriage
with the $40,000 worth of jewelry.—If. Y.
Sun
BOGUS BHMLLIAXTS.
People Who Wear Imitation Dia
mond*—A Congressman’* Blsilsg
“Sparkler* ”
“How do your diamonds compare with
the genuine?”
“l’ut them side by side and you can’t
tell them apart. Let me show you somo
samples,” and tho dealer turned to his
iron safe and got out a box of unset “dia-
men is” of about three carats each.
Handing the scribe a dainty pair of
tweezers he requested him to examine
tlie stones before the light. The reporter
picked up one of thb gems as carefully
as though it were a $20,000 stone, aud
hold it before his optics. It sparkled
brilliantly, was cut perfectly, and any
body but an expert would suppose it to be
a genuine diamond. The reporter was
tempted to slip tbe stone up his sleeve,
until he asked the price of it, when, get
ting the reply, “One dollar,” he dropped
it as though it was poisonous. “Here are
some thirty beautiful specimens,” remark
ed the merchant, as he unfolded another
paper and laid before tbe scribe a half
dozen stones about tbo size of a door
knob. “These are worn principally by
gamblers on account of their extraordi
nary size.” *
“They come a great deal higher than
tho3o others I have shown you. I sell
these at $2.50 apitce, or a pair of them for
a serio-comic singer’s earrings at $4.25.
They are exceedingly brilliant, you see,
and at night shine like a locomotive head
light. Hero are a lot of little diamonds
that sell from 25 to 75 cents each.” “Are
those made of paste or fish scales ?” “Oh,
no; I never deal in paste goods. These
stones came from tlie Sierra Nevada
mountains, and are cut and polished in
New York, and some aro even sent to
Paris to be cal and are then returned
to this country. They are the best Imita
tion of tlie diamond made, and retain
their brilliancy forever. Not being as
hard as the diamond, care has to be
taken in not getting them scratched.”
“You remarked before that the trade was
simply immense. I suppose that the sec
ond or middle class of society are the
greatest purchasers of these imitations?”
“That’s where you’re wrong. The prim
cipal buyers and wearers of ‘snide’ dia
monds aro those wlio move in the highest
society, and I’ll tell you the reason why,
Let a' lady who counts her wealth by
the hundreds of thousands appear in
public with a pair of six or eight carat
‘diamond’ earrings, and people never
suspect that they are ‘snide.’ They
Imagine that because the wearer Is
wealthy she would never degrade herself
by wearing $2 diamonds, but such is the
case. Hundreds of times have I match
ed genuine dimonds for high-toned ladies,
and it was actually Impossible to tefl
them apart. You see. whoa a person
of wealth wear3 ‘snide’ diamonds, you
can hardly make people believe that they
are anything else tlian.genuine, while, cn
the other hand, let a person in more re
duced circumstances wear genuine dia
monds, and everybody they meet will
turn up their noses and remark that they
are ‘snide.’ So that is the reason the
people of wealth can throw on so much
stj le with very little expense.”
“And Cincinnati people are great on
■snide’ diamonds.” “Weil, I should remark
that they are. They beat any other city in
tho Uuion. Yon bet that they take the
‘diamonds.’ Let me tell you something.
Now, this is between you and I, and I
don’t want it to go into print. There is a
member of Congress from this district
whom I presented with a blazing six-carat
diamond. Its cost price was $2.47. That
Congressman fastened that pin securely to
his immaculate shirt front, and went to
Washington, where la less than
a week he created such a sensation with
his massive diamond that the Wash
iugton correspondents even wrote about
tho valuable solitaire worn by General—I
came very near giving bis name away—
tho member of Cougress from the
district of Ohio. This Congressmen never
wears bis ‘diamond’ while in Cincinnati,
bnt it Is never missing from bis shirt
bosom wbile in Washington. Mrs. ex-
Senator —, of Kentucky, Appeared In
Washington with a magnificent pair of
solitaire earriDgs and set society there wild
about tbe beautiful jewels. Everybody was
talking about tbem, and a great many
placed the value of tbe earriugs at no less
than $10,000. Many an Oldman’s pocket-
book was pinched iti satisfying his dar
ling’s desire to compete with Mrs. ex-
Senator In the way of diamonds.
The funny part of it is that the dia
monds worn by the distinguished lady
came from my show case, and only cost
her $20. The setting was fonrteen-carat
gold, and tbe diamonds were worth about
$3.50 Oh, I tell you the deception in
diamonds is groat. All the prominent
actresses ot to-day wear cheap diamonds,
tbe entire collection not being worth
over $35; but still they have a couple of
detectives to travel with them for the pur
pose of protecting their jewel-cases. Of
course this is done simply to make tbe
public believe that tbe jewel casket Is ex
tremely valuable. You might not believe
it when I tell you nine-tenths of the dia
monds now are imitation, and that often
persons pay big prices for imitation dia
monds that are guaranteed by tbe dealers
to bo genuine.—Cincinnati Timu-Star.
BARIS CHIME.
taking Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Iw 1 selling my jewelry. Ibavonot yet gotten
—And now oomea a wail of complaint
from tbe denizens of 8outh Macon. They
declare that tbe whistle of the East Maoon
factory is nothing In the way of a nuisance
compared with the noise produced by the
one on this side. Really Mr. H»«nnn nil]
have his hands full of fun if these things
ontinue
Some Interesting Umm TSat Have
lately bolted tbo Freoeh Copilot.
Farit Correspondence JV'no Orleans Fieatune.
Assassinations were never as numerous
as they now are, and as for attempts to
rob with violence, they are perpetrated
in omnibuses. The Palais Royal has be
come almost the great Rialto of vice it
was before 1S30. Girls or twelve or thir
teen years are there in numbers plying
an infamous trade to enrich -monsters
who drive them on tho street. The inso
lence of the lower classes is intolerable,
especially to priests and nuns. All this
is going to bring on a reaction, winch-will
confide power to the sword. The gen
eral eleclious will produce great excite
ment, A shopkeeper said to me tbe other
day: “As soon a* the canvass begins 1
will sell nothing; no work will be done;
people will do nothing but diiuk; no
money will be made.” Ice dealers, how
ever, cannot complain that the sea
son has been stagnant for
them, the sales of ice this month
having exceeded in Paris alone 45,000
tons; Cafe Auglaiso, Cafe Riche, Cafe
Foy, Maison Doree,Vacbette, bought each
a ton of ice daily, and there was scarooiy
a single cafe or restaurant which did not
bay 300 to 400 pounds overy day. More
ice wonld probably have been sold had
not the revelations ot tbe police chemists
checked the sale of beer. The chemists
declared that every sample of beer ana
lyzed by them was unwholesome from
adulterations of all sorts, so few people
were bold enough to pour such poison
down their throats. The drouth has
made itself felt in other ways than in tbe
sale of ice. Our vegetables have been
scarce and of poor quality, and so small
that they seemed dwarfs; they have been
aud are very dear. Tbe other night
TWO YOUNO CLERKS
were playing billiards in a cafe of the
boulevard St. Germain, and talked freely
of their concerns, without heeding a mau
who seemed asleep at the adjoining ta
ble. One of them said to the other: “I
have just inherited $400.” “Ob, then,
we are going to have a jolly time of it.’
“No, no! I will nut touch one cent of
that money. It is safely hidden in a
chest of drawers under my shirts. To
morrow I am going to carry it to a stock
broker and buy threes.” A few minutes
after, tbe sleeping man woke, rose, took
his hat and went out. An hour after
wards the clerks paid for what they had
taken and took their hats—one of them,
he who had inherited $400, found
that his hat had been taken,
probably by tbe sleeper, and another
left in its place. As it was just as good as
the bat taken, and tbe former fitted him
quite as well, be bore tbe exchange philo
sophically and jogged home. He had no
sooner entered his lodgings than he saw
they had been entered with false keys, bis
chest of drawers broken open and his $400
stolen. Ho did not sleep that night. Tbe
hat left him did not altogether suit him,
so he went to bis batter to change it. His
batter told him that the evening before a
man had come into the shop and had said
he had Inadvertently taken a gentleman’s
bat, and seeing the baiter’s name inside,
be bad called, thinking tbe batter might
be able to givo him the owner’s
name and address that be might restore
the hat accidentally taken. The hatter
gave tbe name and address, Tbe bur
glar secured $400 by the information
given. Tbe burglar’s hstwas left with
the hatter and a new hat selected. After
the clerk left, the hatter took out the lin
ing of tbe burglar’s bat, and to his sur
prise found undent a letter bearing an
address. He read it and found it was
from a burglar promising aid in a contem
plated burglary which bad been planned
by tbe person to whom the letter was ad
dressed. The latter took tbe letter to tbe
police and told what bad occurred. Be
fore sunset both burglars were arrested.
A fow days since
TUB CASUIBB OF A BTRA8BUKQ BANS
was surprised to find, on opening a regis
tered letter from Scblestaunt, which he
was advised contained $1,000, held only
waste paper. He at once summoned the
police, found it came from a Paris news
paper. Continuing tbeir Investigations
they found that the person who had sent
tlie registered letter was a subscriber to
the Paris newspaper. A newspaper of
tbe same date as that from which the cut
tings bad been taken was procured. It
was found that tbe collection of tbe sub
scriber (who filed tbe paper) lacked tlio
newspaper of that date. Evidently the thief
was in tbe sender’s bouse. All persons
in it were watched, and inquiries as to
tbeir character made. It was found that
an apprentice had asked his muter tbe
day after tbe theft bad been committed
leave of absence to assist bis psrents, who
lived in a village some distance off, and
that be bad not gone there, but bad taken
a different direction. Tbe telegraph was
used to order his arrest just as he was
crossing the frontier; the $1,000 wu lound
on him, and he confessed his crime.
Countess Branicka and Countess Czark
took a few evenings since a coach of the
Northern railway for their exclusive use.
When they reached Charleroff they found
that their two satchels had disappeared.
When? where? how? They could not
answer. All they could say wu that
their satchels contained a seven row pearl
necklace, six gold bracelets set with ru
bies, sapphires and emeralds, $8,000 in
gold and bank notes, a prayer book and
two passports, tho whole worth between
$80,000 and $120,000. The police are ail
out trying to discover tbe thieves who
made off with such rich booty.
Tbe band Court.
X. Y. Herald.
Dublin, October 29.—Tho farmers are
flocking into tbe Land Court In increas
ing numbers every day. Sixteen hundred
applied yesterday, thirty-six hundred to
day. The staff of clerks is working night
and day, yet all are completely swamped.
Ills in contemplation to appoint more
sub-commissions, as the foir now shout
to sit are inadequate to the labor. It
would take two years for the present staff
to work ofl tbe cues which will probably
apply duriug tbe coming month.
FAYING THEIR BENT.
At tbe rent-receiving offices in Atblone,
Moate, Muljingar, Roscommon and other
towns in tbe west of Ireland large num
bers of tenants have paid their rents in
accordance with the abatements, despite
tbe Land League advice not to do so.
Many thousands of tenants in tbe coun
ties of Westmeath and Roscommon have
decided to take advantage of the Land
Commission. Meetings announced to be
held outside of tbe churches in those
counties on Sunday have been donounced
by tbe clergy and will not take place.
Since the Land League has been pro
claimed trade in tbe west of Ireland lias
commenced to revive. Many farmers
on properties in tbe neighborhood of You-
how the earth is kept up, as it travels
spinning round tbe sun?”
“1 thought you would be ukingme
that some day. I fear you will have to
wait till yon are much older before you
can bope to understand it. Do you see
yon bright star rising over tbe windmill ?
That, also, like the earth, is a roamer
round tbe sun. 1 on star setting is an
other planet, and there are many others,
some greater, some less, which wheel day
and mgbt without ceasing, round tbe sun
spinning as they speed along.”
“Then they, too, have days and nights
as we have?"
“Yea; and perhaps seasons, for they
all travel as we do, somewhat aslant.
Two of them are as much larger than our
earth as a large aod a small orange are
than a pea; and have one four aud tbo
other eight moons wheeling round to
light them both at ulght.”
“Aud do .they travel as quickly as we
do?”
“The largest planet (large enough to
make thirteen hundred earth*> spins
more than twiee as as the earth.
Even at the equator tbe earth spins only
at the rat* of seventeen miles in a min
ute”
“Seventeen miles in a minute 1 Why I
wonder we are not all of us, bouses and
everything, hurled off as the water when
one trundles a mop.”
“Look at the bauds of tho clock. You
know that the large hand cots all rouud
once every hour, aud that tbe short hand
takes twelve hours to go once round.
Well, if your eyes are good enough to see
the long hand moving, you certainly can
not see tbe short hand mpve, can you ?”
“No, Indeed 1”
“Now, tbe earth takes twice as long as
that to roll once round.”
“Yes, I remember; it takes twenty-four
hours to roll around. How many miles
is it round the earth ? ” .
“Nearly twenty-five thousand at the
eqnator. Thus every hour the earth has
there to roll more than a thousand miles
an hour. It would take a train five
weeks to go around tbe earth if it went
thirty miles an hour, day and night, with
out stopping.”
“Yoh once told me the sun was as
much larger than the earth as an orange
is than a tiny seed. Is the moon, too, as
large? It looks as big.”
“Ob, dear, nol The moon is far
smaller than the earth, but it is not so
far away as the sun is. More than a mil
lion earths could be made out of the sun.
Fifty moons might he made out of the
earth.” n.
“And how many stars could be made
out of the moon? Iv« board Widow
Jones say the full moons were cut up to
make stars!”
“Why, my dear boy, tbe stars are most
ly great suns, so far away that if a new
star were created, years would pass before
iw light couid travel through space to
reach our eyes aud enable us to see it. If
one of them were destroyed, years would
pass before its light would cease to twjn-
klc. Such a thing lias really happened
oftener than once. A star has blazed up,
burnt out, aud been seen no more 1”
“What an awful thing to think of!”
“Ay, Charlie, you know the psalm,
‘The heavens declare the glory of God.’
There are few things more solemn than
to sail for days together over the great
deep, and to watch the countless stars
rise aud set as one keeps watch on deck
at night. They that go down to tlie sea
in ships see the wonders oftheskyas
wail as of the deep. Alone with God, we
hear His small, still voice speaking to us
in the night-watches.”
“What a grand sight it wonld be to be
set somewhere so that one could sec the
earth rolling rouud the sun 1 How fast
does it travel?”
“Every minute it speeds more than a
thousand miles on its way, every second
more than eighteen miles. But figures
like these are mere words to us. We can
neither see nor feel the earth’s motion.
Y'ou may form some faint idea of a heav
enly body’s motion from a sling. As long
as you keep tbe sling whirling round your
bead the stone is held tight. Let go tbe
string aud off flies tbe stone. Tbe string
is as the ann drawing in the planets,
which else would fly ofl—who knows
where?”
j [bal, County Cork, have applied to the
. .and Commission to have their rents
fixed. There is a growing desire among
tbe tenants of Cork and Waterford coun
ties to apply to the commission. In Wa
terford alone a thousand applications have
been lodged. Tbe Land League branches
in tbe Tuam district of county Galway are
fast breaking up.
How Um fartb 1* Kept Up.*
In an Interesting book entitled “Glimp
ses of the Globe,” written for young read
ers by Mr. J. R. Blakiston, of Trinity
College, Cambridge, we have tbe follow
ing Instructive conversation between a
little boy aud bis uncle
TO PHESIBEXT ARTHUR.
Bill Nye, in tbe Laramie Boomerang,
addresses tbe following letter to tbe Pres
ident in tlie last issue of his spicy paper:
“Deab Sib—Several people will prob
ably come to you now, in tbe midst of
your great anxiety, and offer you sugges
tions as to how this government ought to
be run. Most of these people will be in
dividuals who have been unsuccessful in
paying tbeir debts, but who hope to be
more successful in runniug the affairs of
tbe country. It would be well, perhaps,
to avoid these people, although you may
hurt their feelings temporarily. They
will get over it after awhile. They do not
enjoy good health unless tbeirfeelings are
hurt every tittle while.
TDK FIRST SARD WORK
you do will be,no doubt,tokick these peo
ple over behind tbe wood bouse and set
tbe dog on tbem. Some newspaper men
will, no doubt, write to you and tell you
that if your administration is uot in ac
cordance with their suggestions that they
will make it so iiot for you that you will
wish that you had never been born. Do
not heed these men, however. If your
administration is to be a vast and melan-
cholly fizzle, let it be so as the teiult of
your own shortcomings, and not because
you have been scared to death by
a journalist whose paper isn’t read
anywhere except in his own home circle.
KEEP YOUB EYE TOWARD THE TOP.
Look up and press onward. Let virtue
be your aim. Never put off till to-morrow
what can be done next Christmas. Avoid
tbe flowing howl and raw onions as much
as possible. Keep regular haurs and avoid
suoring. A snoring President would be
pointed at with contumely by other na
tions. Remember that you have a strong
popular foeling to couteud against, aud if
you snore your life won’t be worth two
cents.
PROBABLY THE FIRST BREAK
you make will be to get married. You
will feel, no doubt, as though you wanted
some one to go to in your moments of
weariness and heart-sicaness, and so you
will get a wife who will assist you
in governing tbe country. There is
no rest like the blessed rest that comes to
the weary President who, after a prolong
ed cabiuet session, in which tbe Secretary
of the Interior tells the latest moral anec
dote, and the Secretary of the Navy ad
vances his theory of crossing the saw-buck
with the Jron-clad ram in order to get a
ityle ot war vessel that will stand the
short climate, goes to bis room in the sol
emn bush of midnight and falls over a
glove-fitting corset and steps on a deform
ed hairpin.
YOU NEED THE GENTLE VOICE
of a wife to lead you on toward undying
fame. She will tell you how to govern
tbe country and won’t charge yon a cent
for It. She will readily see where you
have erred In your official capacity, and
will show you bow you can improve upon
it next time. She will giadly tell what
changes to make in your cabinet, and se
lect some one as Secretary of State whose
complexion will match with the furniture
of his office. The chances are, Chester,that
yon will revel in more kind and thought
ful advice, and choice, ripe suggestions
from everybody than you will need. This
little note is not Intended so much for
MOSBY OUTWITTED.
Dsrtss Himself, He Wes ret S® Mask
tor e Bril line* Yankee's Desk.
J. Xtien Cooke in the Philadelphia WeeUp
Mosby was seldom defeated and never
outwitted to my knowledge but onee. Tbe
incident has never been in print, I be
lieve, and I am assured that tbe partisan
never related it, it was so vory mortify
ing. ft is a trifle, but may amuse the
reader. Colonel Mosby bad crossed the
mountains with a few raeu into Clarke
county, when he was informed that a
Federal officer with a squad of cavalry
men was in the vicinity. The officer had
stopped at “Clay Hill,” the residence of
Mr. Whiting, and Mosby made up
his mind to capture officer
and men. His action was prompt,
as usual. He went to Ci»r mil r captured
the Federal officer «mle lie was seated at
supper s»d carried him off prisoner to
Ujqierville, east of tbe Blue Ridge. There
bad been nothing at all unpleasant about
tbe whole affair. Mosby and bis prisoner
were on the most frieudly terms. The
partisan had ridden liis favorite gray mare
on the scout, and at Upperville was stand
ing beside her ready to mount, when tbe
Federal officer said:
“That’s a superb animal, Colonel.”
“Yes,” was tbe gratified reply of tbe
partisan as be patted tbe mare’s neck.
The officer sauntered closer.
“A very fine animal!” be repeated.
“I’ll try lier paces 1” And throwing him
self into the saddle he disappeared at full
speed, and Coiouel Mosby never again
saw his favorite gray mare or his prisoner.
MAC OX
Been TR rough a CorrespoudeaV» Byes,
e. W. Peatell, la the Chicago Trlk-
one. . r
Central Park, a beautiful resort, is only
three-quarters ot a mile from the passen
ger depot. Tbe entrance to tbe grounds,
as well as a greater portion of the park
through which a visitor goe3 while on his
way to the buildings, carries one through
a grove of majestic oaks, under which a
half-dozen or more fountains are playing.
Around these, ornamental flower beds are
seen, and other attractive features, such as
statuary and marble ornaments. Under
these grand old oaks, and in close proxim
ity to them beautiful fountains, the late A.
R. Watson, one of Georgia’s most gifted
poets, wrote some of his choicest poems.
Mr. Watson, while making liis reputation
os a poet, was connected with the editorial
department of tho Muoou Teleusapu akd
Meskesgeb, oub of the oldest newspaper
enterprises in the State. His poems were
preserved aud his numerous friends among
tho State press will soon have those pro
ductions published and placed on sale for
the benefit of his widow and quo or two
children, still living in Macon.
Macon is one of the old-style cities of
Georgia. The passenger depot is located
at one end of the city, which is oblong in
shape, while the business houses and prin
cipal private residences are at the other.
Several staunch old firms are among the
business enterprises of the city, and it is
said that the jobbing trade of Macon is
greater than that of Atlanta. Nearly all
of this trade is done through the medium
of traveling men, and this being so, the
merchants of
TUB “CKSCTBAL Cm,”
ae Macon is culled, soil very closely. The
railroad facilities of Macon, so far as the
State is concerned, aro greater than those
of Atlanta. Nearly all of the lines running
to Maoon are nnder the management of the
Central railroad; consequently Wadloy is a
big man in that section. Having plenty
of water from the Oemulgee, whicii stream
is at tier vury door, the manufacturing en
terprises of that city are very extensive,
and in some respects superior those of
many of the cities of the Southern States.
The “society” of Macon is confined to the
fumilies that have resided here for the past
fifty years; and strangers find it up-hill
work so get admission to tbe society of
that city, unless introduced by some mem
ber of tlie upper circle. The young ladies
of Maoon are noted for their pretty faces,
small feet aud small hands. Many of them
are accomplished vocalists; and the profes
sion of tbe stage of the present day is in
debted to them for some of its most attrac
tive ornaments.
The Pippin Murder.
Thokastecxk, Go., November 2.—On the
afternoon of October 31st, one A J. Gil
bert stabbed and killed Franklin L. Pip
pin, both of Thomas county. Both had
been drinking, Gilbert very freely, when
they started home together. Pippin had
insulted Gilbert in a bar-room, but had
apologized before leaving town. When
about two miles from town Gilbert brought
up the matter, and Pippin again said he
meant nothing by what he hud said and
begged his pardon. Gilbert expressed
himself satisfied, and asked Pippin to give
him his hand, when he jerked him out of
his buggy and both fell to- tbe ground.
They were then separated by u third party,
after which Gilbert drew his knife, made
at Pipjfin and cut him in three places,
once iuthe neck, where the jugular vein was
severed. The parties were again separat
ed, and Pippin rode about three hundred
yards in his buggy and fell backward.
Such is tbe result of the coroner’s in
quest. Tbe sheriff went in pursuit of Gil
bert last night, bnt has not yet caught him.
This is the third man Gilbert has killed.
The two times before this ho acted in self
defense. This time he was guilty of mar-
der.
Talbot ton items.
Talbottox, October 3L—The adjourned
term of onr Superior Court set down for
to-day was not held on acoount of the ab
sence of leading lawyers at other courts.
Fine rains throughout the county yester
day—not hard.
No new cases of slow fever in the last
two weeks. Two died last week: little
Emmet, son of T. R. Murphy, Esq., aud
Birdie, daughter of Dr. W.H. Philpot. The .
rest are convalescing.
Mr. B. G. Blanton, whose arm was so
badiy cut in a gin last Monday, died on
Saturday. He was a good man, and is
much lamented.
From nontieeilo.
Moxncktxo, October 3L—Court has
been in session here for tbe past week,
Judge Lawson presiding. Among the law
yers in attendance we notioe Hon. J. H.
Blount and Col. G.L. Bartlett, of your city;
Cols. J. G. Hurt and E. W. Beck, of Griffin;
R. L. Burner Esq., of Forsyth; Cols. B. F.
Adams, F. Jenkins and J. 8. Turner, of
Eatonton; Capers Dickson. Esq., of Cov
ington, aud T. Spearman, Esq., of Social
Circle. The court has been engaged on
civil oases and will probably take np the
criminal docket to-mo r row.
There has been much sickness in onr
town and county, and quite a number of
d aths among both old and young, white
and colored. On last Sunday morning
Mr. and Mr*. \V. R. Pope lost their bright
little daughter Carry. They have the heart
felt sympathies of a large number ot
friend* in their sad bereavement. More
•non. » Jasper.
Fob impure blood, disfiguring erup
tions, and Scrofula, tbe Liebig Co.’s Coca
Beef Tonic is without equal. Beware of
cheap counterfeits.
He Dot It.
Cincinnati Saturday Sight.
“Ain't this a'little high ?” asked a timid
tenderfoot of a Deadwoad tavern keeper
who had charged him $4J50 for his dinner.
, , . , .. . “It may be a little high,” replied iha hoet,
you to cut out and stick up over the wash- fumbling with tbe handle of a revolver in
stand for reference as to kind ot put you the cub-drawer, "bnt I need the money.’*
“Unde, I have often meant to ask you on your guard and make yon self-reliant. He got it.
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