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TH£ ebb and blow.
The tide slips up the silver sand,
Dark night and rosy day;
It brings sea-treasures to the land,
Then bears them all away.
On mighty shores from East to West
It wails and gropes, and cannot rest.
O. Tide, that still doth ebb and flow
Through night to golden day:
tVit, loarning, beauty, como and go,
Tbon giv’st, thon tak’st away.
But some time on some gracious shore,
Thon shalt lie still and ebb no more.
—[Ellen M. Hutchinson.
GEORGIA PRESS.
The Hawkinsville Wetcs says “the lot
of three hundred and forty-six bales of
cotton belonging to the estate of Leroy
M. Napier were bought last week by
Messrs. J. O. Jelks & Bro. The sale
amounted to about eighteen thousand
dollars, and we understand that tho estate
realized a profit of only two dollars and
twenty-five cents on the entire lot.” The
same firm bought, In two days, last week,
$35,000 worth of cotton.
Municipal elections have just been
held in Augusta and Rome. In the first
named place the result for aldermen was
as follows: First ward—J. H. Alexander,
TV. A. Garrett and J. M. Weiclel Second
ward—Ed. O’Donnell, John Doscher and
J. K. Evans. Third ward—Jos. Myers,
C. A. Platt and Wm. Bennett. Fourth
ward—W. B. Young, W. E. Keener and
M. E. Hill. In Romo Mr. Jas. G. Dartey
was elected mayor, and Messrs. Pressley,
Prlntup, Woodruff, Denny, Wyatt and
West aldermen.
Jack Bill, who died In Macon county
one day last week, at tho age of one hun
dred and six years, never, says the Amer
icas Republican, “took a dose of
medicine, but would enjoy a good drink
and get drunk whenever the fancy seized
him.”
Mr. Geoboe W. Huckaby, an old
and valued citizen of Sumter county,
died last Monday. Ho was a member
of the Primitive Baptist Church, and
greatly esteemed.
The Snmter Republican “learns that
our clever friend, Captain J. N. Bass,
agent of the Central railroad at Mont
gomery, Alabama, has been promoted to
superintendent of the Port Royal railroad,
with headquarters at Augusta, to take
effect on the first of January, 1882. Mr.
W. G. Raoul is president of the Port
Royal. Captain Bars is a courteous and
energetic gentleman, and deserves his
promotion.”
The same paper says “Mr. Charles
Barnes, of Leesburg, Ga., was feund dead
between the railroad and town, near the
oldTison place, on Monday night, with a
pistol bole in his forehead and a revolver
by bis side. It is not known whether he
committed suicide or whether he was
murdered. The general supposition is
that he was shot and the pistol thrown
beside him to induce the belief that he
had killed himself. He was a young man
about twenty-one or twenty-two years
old.”
Northeasters railway stock sold at
Athens last Tuesday at $10 per share, and
Southwestern railway stock at $117 per
We And the following m the Rome Tri
bune:
A Max KrT.r.itn and a Passenger
Train in Imminent Danger.—W«
learned from a passenger on the down
train on the Selma, Rome and Dalton
railroad yesterday that ss both trains—
the one on the State road and one on the
Selma, Rome and Dalton [railroad—were
leaving Dalton that a man was struck by
one of the engines, thrown into the air
and killed. The latter stopped a short
distance from Dalton to ascertain the in
juries to the unfortunate man, and sent
back a flagman to signal a train that was
following, but from some cause the en
gineer of the hindmost train did not see
the flag, and pulled on towards Rome
with a heavy engine and freight train un
der full headway. While the latter under
a full pressure of steam was rounding a
curve the engineer discovered the passen
ger train standing still on the track, but
not m time to stop the heavy train under
his charge,and a wreck seemed inevitable.
The fireman of the passenger train, how
ever, saw the trelght train coming and
started the passenger engine, and Urns
pulled the train out of danger until the
freight train could be stopped. Thus
what might have been a serious accident
was prevented. The name of the unfor
tunate man who was killed was L. J.
Hagey, of Bristol, Tenn. The fireman
above meutioned deserves praise for his
timely efforts in thus sa ring his train from
Injury.
Game is getting very plentiful in
Thomas county according to the Thomas-
vllle Enterprise, which says:
“Mr. W. J. Hall went down the river
last week with a party of deer huntera
and killed a couple of fine ones. Three
deer ran by him, out as he had only a
double-barrel, he could aboot but twice
and had to let the third deer escape. This
game Is said to be getting more plentiful,
under the game law, ana a shot can now
be bad almost any time a short distance
down the Ocklockonee.”
The last term of Fulaski Superior
Court cost exactly eighteen hundred dol
lar!. *
Referring to Mr. Speer’s voting with
the Democrats in the organization of the
House, the Athens Banner says:
Mr. Speer’s votiDg with the Democrats
was what every one expected, who knows
anything about his motives and bia par-
poses. He has never bad any other idea,
and, since be so stated in the Banner last
aummer, no one has ever doubted what
bis course would be, except certain cranky
newspaper correspondents who believed
in their own notions rather than his pub
lic assertion. We regret, however, that
Mr. Speer did not go into the Democratic
caucus. While we do not profess to be
entirely familiar with the methods and
practices of Congressional caucuses, we
take it for granted that they make no un
reasonable demands on tbeir members;
and they seem to us, at this distance, to
be necessary.
The Atlanta Post-Appeal says "a well
connected medical man from South Car
olina made his sppearsnee at the State
house about five o’clock this morning,
minus hat, coat and shoes, and inquired
for the exposition. He had $45 in his
pocket, the remnant, he said, of $750 with
which he reached the city Monday. He
could give no intelligent account of him-
selfor where be had been since the even
ing before, and the supposition is that he
was drugged and robbed.”
“Talk about not making potatoes,”
says tbe Quitman Free Press, “why Cap
tain Lea has Just brought us some which
average in weight a little over, four
pounds each. They are of a fine variety,
known aa the ‘poplar root Spanish,’and
the Captain has raised over five hundred
bushels per acre this season.
The Atlanta Constitution turned up
missing yesterday in this office.
The Atlanta Constitution says “Gen
Alfred Austell, president of the Atlanta
National Bank, died at hit home in this
city last night at 6 o’clock, from paraly
sis. General Austell baa been in bad
health*for several months, hut bis death
was not expected; and yesterday gave
promise of a safe return to health He
talked to his attorney, Judge Cunning
ham, yesterday morning lit a very pleas
ant manner, and seemed to have no
[ht of death. At six o’clock last
»«« on. and, feeling an attack^
bed where he expired in a few moments,
He suffered very little pain, if any, and
was perfectly conscious up to the moment
of his death. Tbe death ot General Aus
tell closes a most eventful life, and one
which may well be studied by tho young
men of Georgia. Ho commenced life in
humble circumstances, and at the time
ot his death held a high position in com
mercial circles, and was perhaps the rich
est man in Atlanta, with the single ex
ception perhaps, or Governor Brown. He
was boru in Jefferson county, East *l6n-
uessee, and would have been CS years old
on the 14th of January next had he lived
until that time. He moved from Tennes
see to Spartanburg, South Carolina, from
which place he moved to Campbellton, in
this State, where he made considerable
money. He came to Atlanta at the close
of the war aud became president of the
Atlanta National Bank, a position which
he held up to the lime ol his death.
Messrs. Healey, Mitchell, Ryan, Ad
amson, Howell and Reynolds were elect
ed councilmen in Atlanta last Tuesday.
Cartehsville voted for whisky re
striction by 250 majority on Thursday.
Mb. Sam Walker was re-elected
mayor of MUledgeville for tho second time
last Wednesday. O. Arnold was elected
marshal, Owens deputy and G. W. Cara-
ker clerk.
Central ox a Boom.—Says the Sa
vannah JV'ctcs: There was considerable
activity in Central railroad stock yester
day, owing to the presence of several buy
ers In tbe market, and heavy sales were
made. The market opened at 124J hid,
125 asked, aud advanced three _ points
during the day, closing at 127 bid, 128
asked. It was rumored that the Louis
ville and Nashville were in the market
again, and some orders were also received
from Augusta. About 700 shares were
sold before the close ol the market.
The Albany News says Mr. Jacob Ven-
tueiett on Wednesday consummated the
purchase of the Hill place from Col. Lee
Jordan. The price paid was $10,000
cash.
Mil J. H. Rucker has been elected
nuyor of Athens.
The Savannah News remarks, per in
telligent compositor, that cotton “for
tunes” declined nine points yesterday.
Burke County Land Sales.—The
Augusta Chronicle learns from a corres
pondent that about 5,000 acres of land
chauged hands m Burke couuty last Tues
day, at prices ranging from $1.38 to $3.30
per acre.
The Atlanta Constitution says Presi
dent Morehead, in his address before the
Cotton Planters’ Association, took bold
ground in favor of the old plantation sys
tem, as opposed to the small farm policy.
The Kentucky Legislature telegraph to
Atlanta that they will attend tbe exposi
tion on the 18tb instant.
The Marietta Fire.—We find the
following details of this fire, which oc
curred last Monday morning, in the
Journal:
On last Monday morning about 1 o’clock
our citizens were aroused from their
peaceful slumbers by tbe startling alarm
of fire. Tbe flames which shot up in the
sky showed that tbe fine block of build
ings on tbe north side of the square were
tbe materials upon which the fire was
feed'mg. Tbe fire was first discovered in
L. B. Owen’s photograph and jewelry es
tablishment, over W. L. Barnes’ store.
Soon J. P. Dobbs & Son's store was en
veloped, and tbe dry ahingle roofs only
aided the fire in leaping from building to
building. The fire engine was steamed
up, but to tbe consternation oi all, tbe
pump of the engine failed to work, owing
probably to sand having been sucked in
at a fire two weeks previous. Every
effort to throw water proved una
vailing for some time, but still the fire
lapped up buildings and goods. The old
baud engine was put to work and did
good service in checking the fire and pre
venting it from catching Mrs.Schenlhall’s
store. The steam engine was moved to
aBetber cistern, when it worked all right.
By this time six two story buildings were
in ruins. Some goods were saved from
each store burned except Mr. Owen’s
store. Mr. Hirsch’s family resided over
bis store aud bavely escaped in tbeirnigbt
clothing. Most of tbeir wearing apparel
was burned as well as tbeir household
goods. Mr. Jim Dobbs and Mr. Bud Warren
wbo were 'sleeping over Mr. Wade White’s
store were awakened Ly tbe roaring
fire, and when they entered the hall lead
ing to the stairway, tbe flames were lick
ing their “forked tongues” around about
them. Mr. Jim Dobbs lost his trunk aud
clothing,but managed to save a new stove
be bad recently purchased. The follow
ing estimates were ^given as approximat
ing the amount of slock each merchant
bad on hand and alio amounts of insur
ance: J. P. Dobbs A Sons, slock of hard
ware and tin shop, $6,000; insured for
$1,550. The building owned byH. B.
Wallis, insured for $1,500. W.
L. Barnes, stock of dry goods, $7,500;
Insured for $4,000. L. B. Owen, photo
grapher and Jeweler, stock $4,000; Insured
for $1,800. Mrs. T. H. Matthews, stock
of millinery, $500; no Insurance, and bnt
little saved. Tbe building, owned by
Misses Hannah and Sarah smith, insured
for $2,600. Wade White, stock of gro-
eeries, $4,500; stock insured for $2,500;
building $1,000. Dr. J. W. Bozeman,
Jeweler, most of stock saved, loss $1,000.
The building, owned by Bozeman A Ben
nett, insured for $2,000. W. J. Metcalf,
tailor, stock $400; insured for $225. Tbe
Knights of Honor, and Legion of Honor,
whose hall was in this buildimr, lost
everything. R. Hirsch, stock of dry-goods,
$20,000; insurance on stock $12,000, on
building $4,500. William Root, druggist,
stock $1,000; insurance! on same $6,000;
on building $2,000. Total loss, nearly
sixty thousand dollars. Property insur
ances at the agency of Wm. and F. King,
$27,500; at the agency of Wm. F. Groves,
$15,000.
The Journal also informsus that Judge
George N. Lester and family will remove
from Marietta to Atlanta this month.
The Kewnan Herald says: “Mr.
Thomas Argo, wbo lived near Rocky
Mount, was killed near his home Monday
night or last week by some unknown per
son. He was returning home from Rocky
Mount when the deed was done. He was
found with a ballet hole In the left breast
and one thumb shot off. Tbe foot prints
cf a man were found close to tho road di
rectly oppesite tbe fatal spot, and were
traced to tbe house of his brother-in-law,
Slay. Some differences had been known
to exist between them, and this led to
Slay’s arrest.”
A Monstrosity.—We find the follow'
lowing in the Walton county Vldetler.
Dr. J. I. Robinson passed through this
place on Tuesday last en route for Atlan
ta. to place on exhibition there before tbe
faculty of tbe Southern Medical College,
tbe dead body ora white male child, born
on that day, in this county, which we
were permitted to see and examine, aud
which for remarkableness surpassed any
thing any of the medical fraternity ever
saw or read of, and which will produce a
sensation and great wonder among tbe
medical men wherever it is seen. The
head, from the eyes up, was a huge soft
sack, without bones, filled with brain
matter. Attached to one aide of this sack
was an ear mnch like that of an ele
phant. Below this on the aide of the
bead, in it* proper place, was a fully de
veloped human ear. One eye was
almost as large as an ox’a - eye and
bad no lids. The mouth was hair-lipped
and had no upper lip. The heart, luma,
liver, stomach, bowels, and other intes
tines bad all grown and were attached to
the outside or tbe body, to the right atde
in front, and were fully developed. Tbe
fingers were webbed like a duck’s foot,
and were strongly tied together near tbeir
ends by a strong cord about the size of a
fine silk-tbread. The toes on both feet
were similarly tled,and the large toe ou one
Toot was cut entirely offend bad adhered
off the next two toe*. There was noth
ing on the inside of the body, (the entrili,
as above stated, being attached to tbe out
side,) and no opening for tbe heart, lungs,
stomach, etc., to have ever gotten to their
present position, had they ever been on
the inside of the body.
The Athens Watchman says votes sold
as high as $5 each in that place, at the
municipal election last week.
We find the following In the Watch
man:
The Athens Post office.—LastSun-
day Mat. Davis, collector ol customs at
Atlanta, was In the city, and was ap-
proa died by ft Watchman reporter with a
conundrum about the Athens post-office.
Mat unfolded himself with such willing
readiness that a sardonic grin of doubt
overspread the visage of ye ink-slinger.
Mat saidt rom official and authentic in
formation received by him from a leading
Republican at Washington, he feels au
thorized to state that Mr. Speer would
not be able to control the appointment,
as President Arthur’s would be strictly a
party administration, and that a colored
Republican would undoubtedly be se
lected; aud he bad good reason to say that
Eugene Brydle is tbe man.
Hawk Story—Desperate Combat
Between Two Children and a Bird
of Prey in Banks County.—Mr. J. G.
HcElroy, of Banks county, relates the
following occurrence which happened on
bis plantation near Harmony Grove, a
few days ago; While his three little boys
were standing in the yard a large hawk
swooped down and flew away with a
chicken in his talons. The boys, thinking
that his majesty might drop the chicken,
followed him some distance, when to their
delight they saw him drop his prey. As
soon as this banpened tbe hawk com
menced circling around where tbe boys
and chicken were congregated and finally
lighted on tbe eldest boy, wbo was ter.
years old, and fastened one talon in tbe
boy’s chin. The second son went to the
rescue, when tbe hawk caught him ou
the arm with the other talon, thus hold
ing both the hoys at his mercy. Tbe
third and youngest seeing tbe perilous
situation of his brothers, drew his knife,
went to work and succeeded iu cutting
the hawk from his brothers, and killing
him. Tbe talons were shown to this re
porter by tbe fatlierof the boys, and shows
the gashes inflicted by the youngest son.
Both legs were cut to the bone, just below
tbe claw, before the boys were released
from their dangerous position. After bis
lordship was dispatched he was found to
be a large bird aud measured twenty-four
inches from stem to stern.
Senator Hill, as we learn from the
Washington correspondent of tbe Atlanta
Post-Appeal, is of the opinion that Con
gress will be in sessiou until July.
The Macon and Rome Road.—-Mg}.
Sample, tbe chief engineer of tbe Macon
and Rome extension tells the Atlanta
Constitution that “by the 10th of Janua
ry we will have sixty or seventy miles be
tween Macon and Atlanta completed and
ready for the rails. The raits are being
accumulated in Macon and at Brunswick
already, and track-laying will begin in
earnest on the 2d of January. It will
then be pushed ahead with the utmost
rapidity until Atlanta and Macon are
joined together by an additional band of
steel.” “What about the Borne exten
sion?” “All of that is under contract to
Hill and McCochney, and they are work
ing as fast as possible. Over two hundred
men are at work on the Macon division,
ana a Urge force is at work on the Borne
end. The track-laying has been com
menced on the Roms end by the Rich
mond and Danville people under con
tract with us, and when they complete
the first seventeen miles we will take it
up and finish it.” “Will the work be
done by the first of June?” “Yes, sir;
aud considerably before that time. ' By
’’ie first of June trains will run from
P >me to Macon, through Atlanta, direct,
iuere is considerable heavy work on tbe
Rome end, among others a tunnel of 90
feet. We am at work on this, however,
and will have everything finished before
tbe first of June.”
Randolph county has voted “no li
cense” by a majority of 39 votes. The
total vote was 1,05?
Allen Weeus, of Henry county, is
another man who knows how to farm.
He made, this year, with one male, four
teen bales of dolton, and twenty-six one-
horse wagon loads of corn. In the same
county last week one hundred and sixty
acres of land sold for $1,800.
It will cost $515,250 to ran the city
government of Savannah the next fiscal
year.
We quote as follows from the Consti
tution:
Going Home.—Yesterday a gentle
man reached Atlanta from California by
the Western and Atlantic railroad. He
was a tall, well-built man, with snow-
white hair and beard and was en route to
southern Alabama. When the Mexican
war began he was a young boy, living in
Alabama, but with hundreds of others
went to the front after the fighting began.
After that he went to California, where
he engaged in min’ng, and where he baa
since lived, and where he has grown
wealthy. This is his first visit to his old
home where his father still resides. Al
though nearly sixty-nine years of age,
Mr. Mark Thornton, as he represents him
self, says he will yet live to make an
other visit to Alabama.
Watering the Georgia Central.—
Augusta, December 8.—It Is woll known
that tbe vessels of tbe Ocean steamship
company really belong to the Central rail
road, and [hat this property lias never been
taken Into accouu*. in the capital stock of
the Utter. A movement U now on foot,
however, to issue stock to tho amount of
the value of this property aud declare it
in a 50 per cent, stock dividend to the
stockholders of the Central. This move
ment will have its culmination, it is said,
at the meeting of the stockholders of tbe
Central Railroad on the 2d of January.
It is also said that there have been Urge
orders on tbe market for the purchase of
Central stock by those wbo have inaugu
rated the movement. It is reported also
that tbe parties prominently in favor of
this movement are the controlling officials
of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
A Horrible Accident.—From Mr.
Nat West, of tbe Atlanta police force, wbo
yesterday returned from a business trip
to Fayette county, a Constitution report
er learned ol a horrible accident which
occurred Thursday near Fairburn. About
noou that day several meu were engaged
removing a steam engine from Mr. West’s
place. The enginb was a very Urge,
heavy one, and was being drawn by six
mules and a pair of oxen. Ou the tear
axle Mr. William McGhee, a young roan,
was standing, when one of the wheels fell
into a deep rut aud upset tbe engine. As
the ponderous machine went over Mr.
McGhee, by some means, fell directly un
der it and was crushed to death, although
he lingered for a while after the accident
happened. His body and legs were hor
rible mashed and mutilated. As soon as
possible he was extricated from the posi
tion and taken to an adjacent house, where
death ended his intense suffering. He
was a young man of good standing and
bis death U deplored by a large circle of
friends.
A copper mine that will “surely pay”
is reported in Oconee county, bui we
don’t propose to take any stock in it.
Two bouses were burned in Atlanta
Thursday, causing a loss of $2,600—both
on Foundry street.
From the Columbus Enquirer:
Burglary nr Reynolds.—Burglary
In Reynolds is not very profitable, as a
negro man named Richard Lockett learn
ed to his cost. On Tuesday night he en
tered the warehouse at that place and at
tempted to rob the safe. He had with
him a cold chisel, hammer, crowbar and
a full supply of burglar’s tools. The
noise be made attracted the attention of a
gentleman, who investigated the matter
to find the cause. Seeing tbe burglar at
* lected * number of the citi
J zens, who surrounded the bouse for the
purpose of capturing him. As soon as
Lockett found that lits exploits were dis
covered he attempted to escape. Ashe
ran out of the house he was snot by Mr.
Matthews, tbe ball taking effect In his
arm. This was only a flesh wound and
did not succeed in stopping him, and, if
anything, made him ran the faster. See
ing that be was about to make his escape,
a young man named Waters fired at him
with better success. The ball struck him
in the abdomen and he fell iu his tracks,
bleeding profusely. Onr informant states
that the wounded, man was having inter
nal hemorrhages andthst no hope was en
tertained for his recovery. In fact he was
thought to be dying when the train left
that place.
Steamer Sunk, but no Lives Lost.
—Yesterday afternoon our citizens were
startled by the report that tbe steamer T.
H. Moore, of tbe People’s Line, had sunk.
The news was brought by Mr. William
Struppa, clerk of tbe boat, wbo staled
that yesterday morning at 7 o’clock, while
on her trip, the steamer struck a rock at
Botton’a Rock, about twenty-five miles
below tbe city, and went down in about
twenty feet of water. From tbe shock
sustained the cabin was broken off and
thrown to one side. A large number of
passengers were on board, but every one
escaped without harm. The cargo con
sisted of 365 bales of cotton, and a large
quantity of syrup, oranges and oysters.
Most or the cotton had been caught aud
tied up wheu Mr. Struppa left the scene
of tbe disaster, but the steamer, together
with the latter freight, which was in her
bold, Is almost a total loss. Capt. C. A.
Kllnk left with the Caddo Belie
yesterday evening at 6 o’clock, for
the purpose of rendering whatever assist
ance may be necessary. Tbe steam
er Moore bad a capacity of about 700
bales of cotton, and was considered one
of tbe best boats on onr river. She was
built in this city by Captain J. C. Blaine,
in 1878, and made her first trip on the
2Stb of November, In that year. Her
original cost was about $12,000, and she
bad just been thoroughly repaired during
the past summer at a cost of $3,000. The
steamer belonged to tbo People’s Line,
and tbe loss Is particularly heavy, coming
so soon after the wrecking of the G. Gnn-
by Jordan, which went down in tbe Flint
river a few weeks ago. The boat was
commanded by Cspt. W. R. Moore at the
time of tbe unfortunate accident, aud we
learn that no blame attaches to any one
for the unfortunate disaster. Alter strik
ing the rock she drifted to the Georgia
side and sank in twenty foot water. She
had on hoard 365 bales of cotton, 63 bar
rels oysters, 20 barrels fisb, 48 boxes or
anges, 30 barrels syrup, and a small mis
cellaneous freight, and a number oi pas
sengers, besides her full crew.
The Rome Courier says It is uow a set
tled fact that there will be another large
cotton factory bullion tbe Chattooga riv
er, twenty-five miles above that place.
The Sparta Times and- Planter says
Mr. Baxter, who has been traveling over
Hancock county purchasing cattle to sup
ply food for tbe asylum at Midway was
klekedinthe stomach by a borse last
Tuesday evening at tbe bouse of Mr. Jas
per Boyers in Bald win county, and instant
ly kjlled.
Says the Augusta Chronicle:
Early Friday morning, Mr. John Phin-
izy started in his buggy for his planta
tion, near the city, accompanied by Roger
Latimer (colored), who was driving. Lati
mer bad been in Mr. Phlnlzj’s employ, as
driver, for abont two months. Upon
reaching a gate across tbe road, Latimer
got down to open it, but pretending to
fiud some difficulty in doing so, Mr. Phiu-
izy descended from the buggy to help
him. He had uo sooner touched tho
ground than Latimer jumped upon him,
caught him by the throat, aud pushed him
back in some bushes. Mr. Phinizy order
ed the uegro to release him and demand
ed what ho meant. “I want you to
pay me what you owe me,” was tbe
reply. “What do I owe you?” said
Mr.’ Phinizy. “Three dollars.” Mr.
Phinizy had employed him by tbe month
and did not owe him anything, as he had
only been with him two weeks. He told
him, however, that he would pay him tbe
three dollars. Latimer then released him,
but had previously taken his pocket-book
from his pocket . Tills Mr. Phlnzy de
manded. “Get back iu your buggy and 1
will give it to yon,” said Latimer. Mr.
Phinizy did so, anil Latimer handed him
the pocket-book. Upon opening it Mr.
Phinizy aaw that forty-five dollars had been
abstracted, and he ordered Latimer to
give it to him. Instead of complying the
negro dashed Into the woods and disap
peared. Mr. Phinizy, who is eighty-nine
years of age, says he it satisfied he could
have gotten tbe better or Latimer if he
bad net taken him so much by surpiise.
The Griffin News says two cars ptssed
down tbe road tbe other day bouni for
Savannah containing 10,000 chickens, 1,-
000 turkeys and 3,000 dozen eggs. They
were from Knoxville. Two car-loads go
down every week, and average the ship
pers about fifty cents a pair for chickens,
and from a dollar aLd a bait to two dol
lars a pair for turkeys. Eggs net about
twenty cents.
RAILROAD MATTERS.
MODERN PILGRIM TO XIIS
GRAVE.
Handsome Oempllmeata to tho OOI-
oora of tho Central Railroad.
We Lake the following from the Rail
way Gazette, of December 1st: Mr. Wm.
M. Wadley, the well known president of
tbe Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany, of Georgia, is a remarkable illustra
tion of the self-made man. Wheu a very
young man he worked at the anvil in a
Northern State as a blacksmith, and there
made some of tbe muscle which has since
served him a good purpose. Subsequent
ly he went to Georgia, and when Gordon
was president of the Central railroad he
was making brick out on the line,
and later, when Cuyler was president,
ho was serving faithfully one of the
compauy’8 supervisors. He was one of
the company’s first book-keepers, serving
both In this capacity and as superintend
ent at the same time, carrying his ac
counts in his hat when out on tbe line,
and referring to tbat.uovel receptacle
when giving Information about the busi
ness of the road. Mr. Wadley became
president in I860 or 1867, and has served
as such ever since. He is physically and
mentally a giant, is an indomitable
worker, a shrewd, clear-headed, safe bus
iness roan, aud possesses au amount of
pluck which, added to these other char
acteristics, cannot fail to bring success.
In fact, success has already resulted In an
eminent degree, both to himself and to
the great corporation 07er which he pre
sides.
Mr. W. G. Raoul, vice-president aud
general manager, began service with that
road in 1870 as a contractor,was made as
sistant road ouster in 1873, afterwards
roadmastcr, and in 1876 superintendent
of the Southwestern division. He was
elected to his present position in 1880.
Mr. William Rogers, the general super
intendent of the road, began as the com
pany’s book-keepor in 1866, and was
made general superintendent in 1867. He
has never been connected with any other
road.
Mr. George A. Whitehead, the general
freight and passenger agent, was appoint
ed to this position July, 1880, at which
time it was created by General Manager
Raoul. He has been in the company’s
service several years as traveling agent at
terminal points, etc.
Mr. Edward Mclntlre, who is really
the secretary and treasurer cf the com
pany, although his title is that of book
keeper. began as au office boy, and has
worked his way up through the various
grades to liis present position.
Tbe policy of this road has been to pro
mote deserving employes rather than to
call in outsiders, and the result is a most
commendable degree of loyalty on tbe
part of every one toward the company and
its Interests.
The Governor of North Carolina iald
to the Governor of South Carolina: “Sir,
the best remedy in the world is Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup,” and the latter seconded
the assertion.
trates the utter lack of sympathy between
these “stern Puritan grand-sires” and him
self, and bandies maDy compliments (?)
with them across the gulf of time.
It seems to mo that in his eager desire to
condemn the cruelties and barbarities prac
tised by the old. Puritans. Hawthorne
scarcely does them justice. Certainly they
were only on a level with the age in which
they lived in regard to religious persecu
tion, but in many respects they were in ad
vance of the time. See their laws regard
ing common schools, or education for the
Mrs. B. W. H. Write* ot Old Colonial
Times in New England, and Valla
Inton Reverie in n SSItlord Grave-
yard—Han't home's Puritan Ances
tors
Special Cot, Telegraph and Messenger.
We all know it has been for years the
fashion for Southerners to moke “the
grand tour” through the Northern States;
visit New York, Boston and other great
centres ot trade and wealth, spend weeks
or even months at the various fashionable
summer resorts by seaside or on mountain
top; sail np the Hndson, drink the waters
at Saratoga, purchase bead bags and pin
cushions at Niagara, bathe at Long Branch
or Newport, and spend the intervals of
time at a Broadway hotel. Bnt bow few
gain a correct knowledga of tho “great
North,” or tho inhabitants thereof, iu.this
rapid transit over the great thoroughfares
of travel l A scientist would hardly seek
evidences of tho mineral wealth of a coun
try, or investigate its flora and fauna along
its dusty, much-trodden highways. In by
paths and secluded nooks he would prose
cute his studies; and eo thoso of U3 who
sincerely seek correct knowledgo of the re
gion we visit and ot its people, their his-
torj, habits and peculiarities, must wander
away from the din, dust and confusion cf
its beaten roads, and seek for representa
tive, indigenous specimens where, uncon-
tu initiated by foreign contact, soil and cli
mate are most favorable for their perfect
production.
To thoroughly appreciate and under
standing^ read Hathorne’s exquisite sto
ries, or Longfellow’s or Whittier’s delin
eations of New England life and character,
one must spend some time m one of tko-o
quaint old New England towns so strik
ingly portrayed not only by them by a host
of other writers, whose reputation is not
Northern, but national. Many of theso
antiquated villages lie far away from the
great line of travel, and are reached by
wandering, unfrequented routes; but iu
many large, flourishing towns, of easy ac
cess from New York city, stand houses so
venerable and picturesque that one can
have the vivid, realizing sense of viewing
with his own eyes the old “Moss Covered
Manse," or “The Honse with Seven Ga
bies.” Take the New Havefi railroad oat
from New York leading into Connecticut,
pass by the multitude of manufacturing
towns and ambitious cities that line tne
way—for they possess no interest for the
antiquarian—but stop at, for instance, the
old village of Milford, not many miles
from New Haven. We are so young in
Georgia—our State lost settled ot the orig
inal thirteen, with no history to speak cf
behind us—that we forget, perhaps, how
venerable and hoary with tbe lapse of sev
eral centuries are some of our American
pre-revolutionary towns iu other States.
Many houses in the country round about
Milford and New Haven date back to the
sixteenth century, and so impressive is
tbeir dignified old age that we cannot re
sist the impulse to make obeisanco to
them as we pass by. But it » of the old
Milford graveyard, where I have dreamed
many hours away, that I would speak, and
in order to oleariy show its antiquity a bit
of history must be narrated.
When the town that surrounds this grave
yard was settled North America was one
vast, unbroken wilderness, inhabited by
wild beuats and Indians, save in a few un
connected spots occupied by small, feeble
bands of European colonies. Quebec had
been settled by the French, St. Augustine
by the Spaniards, Jamestown, Virginia, by
the English, New York and Albany, by tbe
Dutch, a few Danes in New Jersey and tho
“Pilgrim fathers” had landed at Plymouth
only sixteen years before. All of onr
Southern country was vaguely classed as
“lands bordering the South Sen,” and I
suppose “ye ancient Puritan” imagined
the South Pole poked out of tho earth
somewhere in the latitude now known ns
Georgia, though as none ol tho “Georges”
were oorn till nearly a hundred years later,
the locality where we reside was unknown,
unnamed and undiscovered. The sturdy
English yeomen who first followed their
leaders to this wild wilderness of Connecti
cut hed been snbjccts of his Majesty James
I. Scarcely half a century separated
them from tho reign of Queen Elizabeth,
and many a man wbo lies in the old Mil
ford churchyard may hare looked on the
face of Shakespeare, of Lord Bacon, of
rare old Ben Johnson, of Ed
mund Spenser, or even seen
Sir Walter Raleigh on bended knee
lay down his velvet mantle for Queen Eliz
abeth to step upon. Realizing this, one
can not but survey the moss-grown sunken
tombstones witha vivid inter©*.; and bend
ing down tne long grass that grows above
theso old Paritans, and scraping the mould
and moss of generations from their oblit
erated namos and records, I have felt quite
overpowered by a rush of emotions and
the intense realization of a past in whioh I
had previously felt no personal interest.
Slowly, and as it were, reluctantly, the
graves yielded up to me their secrets, each
telling its story in the quaint and solemn
language of “ye olden time," and with un
awful impressiveness and austere seventy
that recalled the sombre quality of the ag~
when these “stern black-browed Puritans”
‘lyved and dyed.” On nearly every grave
stone 1 fonnd carved, more or less rudely,
a hideous death's head, with crossed bones
beneath-a'gbastly memento’ most startling
ly revealed when over two centuries’cover
ing of moss had been removed, kind nature
herself having meroifully hidden with a
verdant veiling the hideous spectacle the
relentless old Puritan meant humanity
perpetually to contemplate! Bat nature
and the Puritan were ever at strife, andnot
strange is it, perhaps, that over his last
resting place she should avenge herself by
defacingnUnameandeffacinghis memory
from a world that is brighter and happier
for his absence. It gives one a strange,
awe-struck feeling to remove, as I have
done several times, the dinging moss from
the old lettering on aneient grave-stones--
older than the time of Cromwell—till clear
and distinot the words stood out liks a sol
emn message from the long buried dead,
or supernatural warning, “Ye mortal pre
pare to die!” And I wbo had been poking
fan at the old Pnritvns as I poked the moss
off tbeir grave-stones with my parasol, felt
half terrified and conscience smitten, as if
I had suddenly nnearthod one of them,
and from his dry, rusty jaw-bonea came
forth this fearful command. Strange are
the names recorded in this old church ■
yard! Quaint scriptnral titles, or those sig
nifying some virtue or quality, being most
frequently found. “Faithful,” “Obedience”
and “Mercy” are a few of the gentler
and sweeter ones that leave a more pleas
ant impression than somt of the jaw-break
ing old Bible cognomens that seem to carry
with them all the “terrors of the law” and
“thunders of Sinai.” What a stern, bard,
theological age was this in whioh these
people lived! No wonder a gentle,sensitive,
poetic nature like Hawthorne’s shud
dered and recoiled as he contemplated life
from the standpoint of his Puritan ances
tors, and he omitted no opportunity to
plAce on record his otter antipathy to a re
ligion whose teudenoy was to strip the
world of all beanty and gladness, and leave
poor humanit) to starve and shiver in a
starless desert. This summer, in turniag
over some carious old records belonging
to a cultivated Quaker family, I found fre
quent mention ot one .“Hawthorne,” who
seemed to have been one of the most re
lentless and merciless of all tbe New Eng*
land persecutors of this “gentle people,”
and 1 cogitated mentally if our gifted
Hawtfiorne was a descendant of this terri-
ble old Puritan. I remembered that Haw
thorne repeatedly narrated, with tenderest
sympathy for the persecuted and bitterest
denunciation of the persecutor, tbe story
of the sufferings of toe Quakers in New
England; but did he do this from some
half, morbid conscientious feeling, that he,
as a representative of his raoe, most atone
for the sins of his ancestors? I half sus
pected it, but did not know till recently
that he biraselt placed it on record as
a fact that he felt himself cursed by
tbe cruel deeds of this old Puritan
progenitor, and strove to avert the
doom inherited from him by confessing
and denouncing his crimes. Hear him what
he says of this “grave, bearded, steeple-
crowned and sable-cloaked ancestor,” who
came, with “Bible and sword,” so early to
tbe new world, who “trode the streets with
so stately a port,” and who was “soldier,
legislator and jadge,” and who “had all the
Pnritanio traits—both good and evil, and
who is handed down in family histories
and legends among the Quakers as one of
the bitterest and most blood-thirsty of all
their persecutors. “I know not if he repented
and sought pardon of Heaven for big cruel- .
ties, or whether he is now groaning under plication of the brank to thy tongue. may
their consequence* in another state of being ■ save trouble to thyself and mortification to
but at all events I, the present writer—his I thy friends, and so will I suggest to
representative—take shame to myself, aud the worshipful magistrates.” “And what,
pray that any curse incurred by him, which pray, may the brank be?” said I,
the dreary aud unprosperous condition of woman’s cariosity getting the better of
my race for many a year back would argue fear. “The brank, young woman, is a bead
to exist, be now and nenoeforth removed.” piece of iron, with bit.of the same metal,
Then, in his own inimitable style, he illos- which we Puritans nse to confine
.TONIC
talking to an old Puritan, who stood ...
where yon stand; he wore a long cloak and
a peaked hat, and he said I ought to have a
‘brank’put on my toDgue,” said I, inco
herently and indignantly. My husband
looked darobfounded; then he solemnly
and slowly exclaimed: “I never heard of a
‘brank,’ but I have of a 'crank,’ and I be
lieve iu my soul that’s what you’ve turned
to, and the next thing I know, you’ll
be shooting at the President. Darn me if
ycu don’t!” And tacking my arm iu his, be
tod me away. Next day, however, after
a profound reverie, {he asked (me: “Did
that old Puritan ‘what’s his name’ men
tion where any of those what you call ’ems
—‘brnnks’—could be found now?" “No,”
said I; “he didn’t.” “I thought,” he eoa-
tinued, pensively and meditatively, “that
I d like to get an agency to sell ’em down
in Georgia. Sure’s you’re bora there’s lots
of married men down there who would be
glad of a chance to well, I know some
fellows that would give a whole cotton
crop to ” Here he lapeed into reverie
again, and all that was audible of his med
itations were these words: “Old Puritans
were a queer lot, but they were ahead of ns
m that brank business, darn me if they
wa’at. MSS.B.YV.H.
ly did not qxjiect, nowevor, such audacity
on my parl as addressing first so august a
personage aa himself, and surveying mo
steadily for a few momenta,ho said sternly:
“Youngwoman,what doest thou herein
these unseemly garments? Metbinks they
would better befit tho play-house than this
assembly of Godly folk.” Greatly disoom-
fitted, I glanced at my pretty, lace-edged
aid berufibd dress. It being “tbe latest
thing out” in style and cut, I had uncon
sciously counted greatly upon its aid in the
pleasant impression I hoped to produce on
this stately, distinguished-looking individ
ual, who stood before me wrapped
in a sable Geneva cloak. “I meant
so harm, most worshipful sir,” said I, in
stinctively falling into the language of tho
dignified sixteenth contnry; “I go not to
jxtremes of fashion as do many maidens
and matrons of the day. Why, bless you,”
I continued, suddenly getting well ac
quainted and lapsing into my natural
Georgia dialect; “bless you, you just ought
to walk down Broadway if you want to see
style! Or step into btewart’s or Lord's
aud—” Here I was startled by a look of
such utter horror that speech was petrified
oa my lips. The old Puritan divine
seemed perfectly aghoBt, ancl surveyed mo
dumbly for some time. At last he re
marked solemnly: “I think the timely ap-
Cbange ofHausgeiaent.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Telegraph and Messenger Publishing Com
pany yesterday, tbe following communica
tion was laid before them by flap tain
Carnes, who has held the office of Busi.
ness Manager for the Company since last
March:
Macon, Ga, December 5tb, 1831.
To THE SlOCKBOLDEDS OF THxTkLEOBAPH
and Mkssenoeb Publishing Comvant—
Gentlemen: When I was elected Business
Manager of this paper it waB agreed that it
should not interfere with my other busi
ness, which would necessarily require a
considerable portion of my time. The ex
perience of tbo past eight months has sat
isfied me that I cannot give the paper as
much of my time as I think it should have,
without uegleoting other iuteresta which
are of more importance to me, and I there
fore wish to be relieved.
My official connection with the stock
holders, editors and employes of the paper
has been entirely satisfactory, and to all I
return my thanks for the confidence and
consideration 1 have received at their
hands.
I ask that my resignation may be accep t
ed, to take effect at as early a date as will
allow time to fill my place. Very respect
fully, W. W. Gamma.
The resignation of Captain Carnes being
acoeptsd, Mr. J. F. Hanson was elected to
the office of Manager.
At Mr. Hanson’s request, Capt. Carnes
will continue in charge of tho office as his
representative until the end of this
month.
Captain Carnes, during his brief man
agement, effected many beneficial changes
in the conduct of the paper, reorganized
its various departments and brought it up
to its present enviable standard. He re
tires for the reasons plainly stated in his
letter.
A Itw Enterprise.
The Collins Manufacturing Company
was organized on yesterday afternoon at
the office of W. W. Collins, on Second
street. Col. R. K. Hines was made chair
man of the meeting, and Mr. O. P. Willing
ham, secretary. Eleven hundred and forty-
seven shares of the stock were represented,
and the following members elected direct
ors : Col. J. E. Jones, W. W. Collins, U. M.
Gunn, A. P. Collins and T. J. Carling. At
a subsequent meeting of the board, Mr. W.
W. Collins was elected president, and Mr.
O. P. Willingham, secretary and treasurer.
The company commences business under
very favorable circumstanoes. Mr. Collins
for the last twelve years has been very
active, and is looks-, upon by
even his competitors aa one of tho
best posted men in tho carriage trade'
Commencing business in 1869 on a very
small capital, by energy and industry,
coupled with a first-class knowledge of the
business, he has worked up a trade second
to no house in tbe South. The number of
vehicles sold by Mr. Collins during the
yoar 1880 amounts to tbe large number of
1,500. The new company will at once
open up a Florida, Alabama and South
Carolina wholesale trade, and we have no
doubt but that the business of 1882 will go
for ahead of any of the preceding ones.
We Ietrn from Mr. Collins that most all
of the stock is already subscribed Or
spoken for, and that the balance will be
taken by the Jaet of this week.
This is without doubt the largeet carriage
manufacturing establishment south of Bal
timore, and as s Southern institution
should receive the patronage of Southern
ers, and doubtleea will, for the prioe and
quality of tbeir work will oompare favora
bly with any Northern made work. This
fact is being appreciated, for they now
have on their order book nearly $5,000
worth of special orders. One oarriage we
noticed in particular, an elegant three-
spring cabriolette. This vehicle is an espe
cial order from one of Maoon’s wealthiest
families. We also noticed a number of
elegant top buggies for their merchant
trade. Such concerns as the Collins Man
ufacturing Company are an honor to any
city, and we wish them every suecess.
The company starts out with 2,000 shares
at $100 per share; fifty oents on tbe dollar
paid in. This gives them a capital of
$100,000.
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the tongue of a woman who' talks too
much, and”—A touch on my arm, my hus
band’s voice iu my ear, caused me to start.
I rubbed my eyes—gone was tbe sable-
cloaked, pyaked-bearued Puritan; gone all
tho stern-faced men in black trunks and
King James raffs and all the sweet-faced
English women in kittles and farthingales,
anu only the light shadows cast by
tbe swaying elm trees wandered
hero and there over ’ tbe lonely,
old graves, cansing the slanting, crooked
head-stones to reel and waver, as if slowly I . _ _
people, the first over passed in the history settling back to their accustomed places. {? » preper»uon of ProtoxidT JUT
oi the world; also the first constitution of “Whom were yoa talking to ?” said my viertihii 'i 1 ™ Hi helm. smScEESf wlm the
the State of Connootiout, showing such husband, eying me suspiciously. " vegetable Arotnujr-
great sagacity, forethought and devotion "* ‘ ^ i
to the public good, as well ns a distinct
avowal and careful piotection of the
"rights of man,” when in every country of
the world at that era thoso rights were im
perfectly understood or emphatically de
nied. One thing at least is certain, thore
Paritans lived with a purpose, which is
more perhaps than wo can say of most
men and women.of our day. He possessed,
too, a stern, unflinching devotion
to what ho believed to be right,
or what his conscience—tho conscience of
tbe sixteenth century, that chopped off ev
erybody’s head thnt disagreed with it—told
him was right. Let any ono examine for
himself the terrible capital laws passed by
this people of Connecticut, and for which
they have been severely censured. Ho will
find they are every ono founded upon
scriptural authority, and indeed tho exact
text of tho Biblo often constituted the law,
and all difficult cases were always settled
by reference to holy writ, this of course
being infallible and beyond question. We
must remember, too, the Bible had not
long been read by common people, for it
was in this very century our translation
was made, and the “old black letter,”
brought by Caxton from Germany, was
superseded by the Roman chcracter
now in use. We can imagino then, the ef
fect upon the superstitious man of
thi4 theological age to read with his own
eyes in bis Bible these plain words: “Thon
shalt not suffer a witch to live.” (Exodus
22,18). Aud, not only this, but many other
like scriptural commards,which he faitbfnl-
ly and with “boiling zeal,” as old Cotton
Mather hath it, tried to execute. I have
called this “the theological ago,” and just
ly so, for the fierce red man, with uplifted
tomahawk, stood almost at the church door
while the doughty, undismayed old Pnri-
tau within preached “ye doctrine of elec
tion” to an attentive and devout audience,
or sulit hairs with Luther,Melancthon, Agri-
cola aud ojher “learned fathers” in regard
to ‘ “Antinomianism,” and the abstract
subjects of juslitication, adoption, sanctifi
cation, infant baptism and church govern
ment. It was simply on account of the
tendency of tho Boston church to hold
Antmoimal views of the relations of the
“law to the gospel” that causod this small
company of Puritans to separate from it
and plunge intothe wild,remote wilderness
of Connecticut and found thore Now Haven,
Milford aud other towns of the sixteenth
century—a wilderness aptly described by
a quaint chroniclerof the time as‘‘nbonnd-
ing in yo cruollo^biood/ sauvage3,yea verily
cauibulla who devour one part of a man
after another before his own oyes, yoa,
while he is yet a living, and who fear not
the white faced man oven when accompa
nied by bis hot-monthed weapon.”
This tbeologic, scholastic, romantic and
picturesque age left no record in our own
Btato, and we are without that “histerio
past” from which tho novelist and poet
draw their inspiration. Another century
must pa.es before some great genius can db
for Georgia what, for instance, Washing
ton Irving has done for New York and
Hawthorne for Massachusetts. In private
and public records, in manuscripts yel
lowed with age, in family legends and tra
ditions,the Nortliurn writer found material
ready tnado, which needed bnt the master
hand to group aud gather together, and the
vivid imagination to ciothe. In onr State
we might search long and vainly for such
records as Hawthorne found in the old cus
tom honse in Salem; and 60tce phlegmatic,
prosaic individual will exclaim: “Glad of
it! Glad we havo no historic past, if that’s
wtiatyou c.tll it, burning witches and hang
ing Quakers ! "■ My friend, que Yonlez
vous ? Would you tako from the poor wri
ter his wholo stock in trade and ieavo him
to perish ?
You, perhaps, can’t realize what it is to
the modern scribbler to possess a lot of
well selected and assorted ancestors—a
pirate or two, an Indian chief, a pilgrim
forefather^ Huguenot or what not—any or
all capable of being made highly effective
and reasonably remnnerati re by the liber
al addition of “wer paint and feathers,”
clanking chains, “sable cloak,” "coats of
mail,” “blueliRhta” aud tho rest of tho par
aphernalia! Sitting on a lone, grassy
grave in tho deserted old Milford grave
yard one evening, I fell into involuntary
musing on these aud kindred subjects,
the air grew chill, the sun sank lower and
lower, nud still 1 pondered on the inmates
of these rows upon rows of sunken, ancient
gravoi. Strong men aud young maidens,
gray haired sires and tender matrons, all
lay near me, and ns I mused upon the brief
record each tombstone gave, mv de-ire
grew more and more interso to know the
story of life that lay between the bare dates
of birth and death. Near me was
a grave almost obliterated, whose head
stone told of one “wyfe who dyed young.”
What bitter grief must hare filled the hus
band's heart os he laid the “young wyfe” in
this then wild and lonely spot!
So wraptinthought,Ididnotnote the pas
sage of time till a light rustle in tbo grass
near me and a whisper attracted my atten
tion. A weird twilight fell on every object,
causing the most familiar sight to become
vague and unreal. I could plainly distin
guish, however, a number of persons who
hid suddenly appeared in this hitherto for
saken, dreary graveyard, and turning my
head where I had heard voices, I saw a fair,
sweet-faced woman, with a baby in
her arms, wbo was talking in a plead
ing, earnest tone to a stern, severe
man wbo stood by her side. I caught the
words, and they were these: “Husband, I
like not this chill, bleak land; my heart
pines for the pleasant country we have left.
Take me back, ob, husband, before I die 1”
But the man’s face was rigid and inflexi
ble, and lie made no reply. By some in
stinct I knew that I was gazing ou tbe face
of the one whose grave was close beside
me, and whose inscription told she had
died over tw > centuries ago. Feeling no
fear, but greatly awed, I listened to her
gentle pleading that her husband would
carry her back to bo buried with her kindred
in sunny England; but well I knew she nev
er crossed the sea, bnt died of home-sick
ness and was buried hero in the wilderness.
All aronud me roso voices, and, following
the direction with my eyes, I discovered
many people standing near; women in
pettiooats and farthingales and men in
costumes of James I, bnt with no bravery
of embroidery or lace upon their sober,
sad-hued garments. With rapt and earnest,
fixed gaze, they paid no heed to me, and I,
listening and iookiugaltentively,discovered
thatlin th-.-ir midst stood a person of most
distinguished appearance who was address
ing the assembly. I instantly recognized the
grave speaker, a Puritan clergyman of
great eloquence and learning lies bnried
here, who was one of the “seven pillars” of
the church. Hath not Cotton Mather writ
his life and bestowed.’apoa him a ponderous
Latin epitaph in his learned
“Magnolia Christ! Americana;” and
looking upon his grave scholarly
face I realized the truth of old Cotton
Mather’A description. Unlike the other
Puritans, he seemed aware of my presence,
and, withdrawing from the crowd that
fixed upon him awe-struck, adoring gaze,
he walked slowly bnt directly to where 1
sat. Feeling rather terrified, but still com
plimented by tbe notice of this learned and
renowned divine, I tried to think of some
thing to say suitable to the oocasion.bat
found myself at my wit’s end. He evident-
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