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Wilcoi superior Court convenes next
M tword Superior Court Is in sessional
K w'tiuion for ft prohibition election in
■ ii-, county is being circulated.
Hrhe Dubbn Tost says a number of dogs
ij,sheep are dying of cholera in Laurens
. D to flvo hundred acres of land
; i, t C Bvron Vm be devoted to melons this
committee soliciting subscriptions to
hmild a new hotel in Home is meeting with
I'biU llowlan, negro, died of epilepsy in
Cobb county jail last week. He was in for
Mealing. ,
I OT ), e & Williams bavo opened ft skating
I rink at Americas and will give daily per-
ItcrmaDces.
Some miscreant lias stolen tlio door of
I the Baptist cburcli at Snellville, in Gwin.
| nett county.
loople was married near Ailairsvtlle t
| (1;l ys since, the groom being twenty and
1 the bride fifty.
Daring the present season the freight
I agent at the Monroe depot has received 10,
y»i sacks of guano.
The artesian well at Americas has at last
t, een abandoned, and tlio tux-payers tire
consequently happy.
Robert L. Johnson, who lives two miles
from Adairsville, killed four large wild
turkey* at two shots.
■ yit" is the nnnie of a new post-otlice
recently established in Wilcox county. 8.
p. Wilson is postmnster.
The measels njo reported from ull sec
tions of the State. It is proving fatal in
some portions of Worth county.
The Sherwood Comedy Company gave a
performance in Hawkinsville Tuesday night
lor the benefit o£ the library of that place.
Since Gainesviile hns gone wet, some
Atlanta barkeepers say that they will re
inovo to Gainesville to carry on their busi-
There is a young gentleman living in
I Cochran who has a wife and two children,
| and he has never ridden on a railroad train
>r a steamboat.
The Marietta Journal says the town girl
lean ride a horse with more grace than her
| cotiutry cousin, hut the latter can stay in
| the saddle longer.
A community near Cavo Spring, in aoh
I vertising for a teacher, says the applicant
I “must he made of steel, and thut he will
| neither lie, bend our break.
In Snndersville, Saturday, while Mike
| Samuel was engaged in cleaning a well, the
I rope broke and a bucket tilled with dirt fell
|cn him, breaking his collar hone.
Josh Humphries, while passing too near
laUi'O in Hightower’s stable in Jouesboro
| last Wednesday, was kicked in the eye,
which may result in the loss of it.
Last year a child of a negro woman living
I on J. B. Stinson’s place in Talbot county
| was burned to death. Last week another
J her children met the same fate.
C. H. Everett, of Hawkinsville, has sold
lout his interest in the grocery business to
■hi' partner, A. J3. Hamilton, who will re
1 move the business to near Vienna.
A pair of gold bracelets were found in
I the cemetery at Xowmiu recently. They
Ivere evidently stolon some time ago, and
|had been secreted under a tombstone.
Tom Reeves, of Sliilen, has the foot of
I 'cry large wildcat, which ho killed lost Sat
I unlay night in his field. He says it was the
I largest ho ever saw. and weighed at least 3T
| pounds.
The other day, near Mnystown a little
I child was bitten in the face by n dog. This
I is the second time this saute dog has bitten
I the same child in the face, but ho will bite
| no more.
Mere guano will he used in Stewart eoun
y tins year than over before. It is easy
| fi t it since the railroad is finished and the
I woods sre full of guano agents who ure aux
| ions to sell.
All the prisoners in tho Sylvania jail, cx^
I cept one, seven in number, escaped last
I oniiday night, among them was Hums, who
I was to have been tried for murder at tho
I May trim of court,
. Mr. L. F. Farley, of Pike county, says ho
I supplied his table, to which eight per-
I Jon* {{o regularly, and four labororn, und
I ksiae* Hold 2u pound* of butter from one
I Cv> * during la*t month.
I sJP 1 ® P*pM* nnd friends of Byron High
I school have organized a school library, and
1 ^ addition to a large number of hooka al-
P«itly donated, will purchase about tw
Hundred choice volumes.
hr. W. \V, I.oo, of Gordon, committed
JUt came near proving a noriouH mistake
»n taking a deadly drug through mistake
i ‘dhtr day. It made him violently
nut prompt remedies saved him.
The family of James Holloman, in the
“i-ptr portion of Bibb, are down with
pneumonia and roseola. A dny or ao since
* adiwoman put the clothes too near the
re wnl they were nil comanmed.
I, ^ c 'inoaity in the shatm of a man with
1.1 Ur ,, s ’ J )AhHC d through Millen Wtdncs-
\J He had two legs complete, and just
I . * Qee * were two small legs and
I 1 J projecting out about twelve inches.
C« v ingt° a is very much in need of a good
lairhi !°* w, * tt ‘ r *workH as a protection
I at 1 '* * * k** 1 had property enough
I droved by Are j n the past three or four
I Cm ^ lw° or three good sys-
— HE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, MARCH 23,1S8G.-TWELVE PAGES.
one dollar^"’ f ° r ‘ he •««-
Two Hat ears, heavily loaded with iron
rails for this end of the Dublin ami Wrights-
vUla railroad, while being polled thrmi.h
Mr. Jonlan Woods field in Lwrena co^
ty Saturday afternoon, gavo way to tho
burden and were totally demolished. A
^in r °f the axle, waa the cause of
Mr. It. E. Nichols, of Pulaski countv, had
young man ploughing a good horse Inst
eek and he drove the horse, not noticing,
tv. U V ,ln P ? tu . m P bole, and the horse
got both hind feet and legs i u t 0 the fire
and before the suffering animal could ex
tricate himself, all the hair and skin was
destroyed and his hoofs will probably shed
or grow off. He will not be lit for uso for
many months.
Atja recent meeting of the officers of the
Americus lire Department it was deter
mined to have tho annmd tournament and
parade. Invitations will be issued in a few
days to the various companies in the State
to participate. The prizes aggregate $110,
which will make the contest spirited and
lively The boys are going to work at orce,
and will make a gallant fight for the first
day appointed is May
Tho Lumpkin bound train on tho Ameri-
ens, Preston and Lumpkin road was ob
structed by brush, plank, etc., in a cow gap
near Randall's crossing, with n view to
ditching the train Monday afternoon. Tho
obstructions were seen in time to prevent
an accident, and the road was cleared.
Tuesday morning the cow gap was filled up
again with crossties, plank and brush, but
the engineer was on tho lookout and found
the obstructions before accident.
The following prices are offered by tho
Americus firemen: First test, first prize,
$200; first test, second prize, $75; second
test, first prize, $75 second test, second
prize, $35; best time to engino, $25. The
tests are the Bamo as were had last year,
and will be published in a day or two. The
first prize of $200 is the largo t prize over
offered in tho State, nnd will bring all tho
crack complies here to compete for it.
The date was fixed for Thursday, May 13th
Last Saturday Miss Aunio Thurmond, of
Monroo county, daughter of Air. W. H.
Thurmond, by mistake, took a dose of
laudanum, instead of paregoric. She was
troubled with severe headache, and after
taking the laudanum took a walk. Dark
came on and she Hot returning, tho family
went to look for her and found her a short
distance away in a comatose state. She
was taken homo and the family physician
obtained in time to counteract the influence
ot the laudannm and save her life.
Mr. Dan Smith, of Lanrens county nar
rowly escaped a terrible death ono night
last week. Ho had lighted tho lamp and
placed it on the floor near tho head of bed
neglecting to replace the chimney and fell
asleep. Ho was awakened by the heat on
his back and found his clothes, tho pillow
und some of the covering in u blaze. lie
instantly toro the burning garments from
off his 'person, and threw them with the
other burning articles into tho fire place,
his prompt action thereby no doubt saving
his life and perhaps Iris house.
LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.
Matters of Interest Gathered From Inst
Night's Exchanges.
The fishermen on the North Carolina
coast appear to be doing well. One caught
8U<> white slnd at a haul in Albemarle
sound, and another caught 15'J porpoises at
a haul at Uatteras.
Joseph Uengl.la'German baker of JJirm-
riled on
,'V.dm sday, Mr. Joe Warwick, who lives
|i . ttve wiles from Americus, was work-
Ikiw 1 a 'l' 0 ™ of timber with o' draw
I in t ■' * , 't slipped and cut a severe gash
I, , right arm, making a very painful but
f°t strums wound.
Mtthanics No. 2, of Americus, in view of
I r » tournament, havo ordered a
Li. ““‘form. It will consist of white tlan-
I „ w *th blue, with a monogram
I cn i “ *>*•<* caps. It will be a jaunty
I ‘M pretty uniform.
I l,/‘!l en ? T0 reparations are being made
Iciirni. jiteweu of ilawkinsville for the
Ion ewe*** tournament in that place
Liu. li>. ?*• Twenty aelect companies of
have been invited. The prizes
I amount,,, *250 m gold,
mfu. Uon works finely in Lumpkin.
| t <t., | ,otue of the regular drinkers send off
|iitiot“nn“'v{" io ? al i, n K ofbl, 8 T 0 *"- ,‘ h . cre
|tu- ‘ ,; ar the ilrunkenness and rowdyism
I kw , heRfoex us there was when wbis
llomlctit “ *“re. So writes our corrcs-
lcoJfe,j* » fa "rily in Glasscock conntv
I'lrtn ot a nian > W* wife and three chil-
Itro xSy.WWj** weight is less than
F‘XihM pounds. There is another
|tkoa£„r at altogether weigh jnat two
‘ mor ® tban tbe ® r,t family
V' n two young men,
°? foot thro^h tic cot
It l8°t»licenae to carry oi
A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY.
Ac'ialttal of Air, Ilute Kitchens for Killing
a Negro Seven Years Ago.
By the acquittal of Air. Ditto Kitchens last
Saturday in tbo Butts County Superior
Court, of tho killing of a negro named Joe
Mays, at Worthvilte daring tho Christmas
holidays or 1S7'J, the memory of quite on
exciting event is recalled. As some of our
renders are unacquainted with the facts in
the case, ft brief aummary of tho matter is
given:
One day during the period mentioned
above, trie colored population of Worthvilte
were celebrating the holidays. A number
of the bucks tilled up on bad branch
bisky, and from singing, dancing and
laughing, they liy and by drifted toward
that epoch in drunkenness known as drunk
and disorderly. As the dry woro on, tho
blacks hail several quarrels with the whites,
and being in flammed with liquor soon be
came L 1 isy und dangerous. They made
many ugly threats'of massacreing ail tho
whites—men, women and childteu.
Air. John AlcCallum, then a resident of
Wortlivillc, was sent for, as a gentleman
haring some intluence witli the negroes, in
tho hope that he could pacify them and get
them to go homo or becomo less turbulent.
He repaired to a large crowdof colored men
who were exceedingly demonstrative and
mouthing dire threats. Ho spoke to ihcui
kiudiy telling them that they ought not to act
so unruly, and advised them to disperse
and go home, or at least bo more quiet.
They listened to him attentively, and when
he had concluded speaking, Wylie Aluys, a
big, strapping darkey, threw up his arms
and shouted: “I'd listen to you ns quick a9
any white man, Mr. McCallum, but we will
listen to no d—n white men.” Mr. Ale-
Cullum seeing that he was only wasting
time talking to the mob of drnnken blacks,
withdrew.
Then Air. Dnte Kitchens attempted to say
something soothing, os ho also was quite
popular with the negroes. While he was
apeuking Joe Alays rushed upon him, nud
grasping him by the collar Legnn forcibly
pushing Alr. Kitchcns backward. For fully
a hundred yards was tho gontlemnn thus
roughly jostled onward. At lost breaking
loose, Air. Kitchlns entered his store anu
secured ft double-barreled shotgun. It had
two loads in it, bat had failed to explode,
even after caps luul keen tried upon the
nippies of tho weapon. Finally the gtm
was fired off, and Mr. Kitchens loaded it
with buckshot. By this time tho negroes
were infuriated and hunting for him.
Hu proceeded to the woods not far from
Ilia store and concealed hiiuself behind a
log. It was now night, but tho moon was
up and objects wire plainly visible. In a
very short time Kitchens discovered Joe
Mays coming down a slight hill in his di
rection, and carrying a gun slang across his
shoulder. When a short distance from
Kitchens the negro paused, and raising his
( ;im took aim. It was then that Duto ent
oosc with his shotgun. His aim was trne,
and Joe Aluys fell dead to tho ground,
pierced with several buckBhot.
In view of the fact that Joe Alays hail sev-
oral influential white friends, Air. Kitchens
thought it best to leave tho country, qml
accordingly did so. Since 187!) ho has been
in this Stato and Alabama. But at last bo
grew tired of being from friends and home,
and last week walked into the conrt bouse
and gave himself np. Time, the healer of
feelings of revenge, ns well as of blasted
hopes and broken pledges, hud blunted the
feeling against Air. Kitchens—
if there had ever been any
and his acquittal was prompt und most
pleasing to tho people *“ a
at conrt. So joyous
man, that thaja.tr-'
him for clapping hi
_ iv last by si
ing himself through tho head. Ilia life
was instiled for $5,000, and he leaves a
wife and several children.
A young woman living near Greenville,
Tenn., recently emigrated to Utah to join
the Alormons. She was tho daughter of a
minister, and all his parental influence
failed to change her deteiminntion.
A Jacksonville (Fla,) paper states os a
fact that before the recent cold snap sever
al of the orange growers of Columbia conn,
ty buried thousands of oranges in the sand
and kept them there for a mouth, and that
when they were dug up they were found to
be in a perfect state of preservation.
The large poplar tree near Captain Alex
ander's, in A\ ushington, haH quite a history.
It is about 27 feet in circumference, 3 feet
in diameter. Und r tho shade of this ro
mantic tree the first synod ever held in
Georgia convened in 171)0, und Dr. Springe!
the first Presbyterian minister ordained i
the Slate, was set apart to his work of
preaching tho gospel,
In Florida, with ('0.798 children between
tho ages of (j and 21 years, wfiich is the
school ago in thut State, there are 02,327,
or more that 93 per cent of the whole num
ber, enrolled in the public schools, while in
Alaine, ont ot 212,390 children between 4
and 21 years of years of age, only 145,438,
or but 68 per cent., are enrolled.
The Clinton (N. O.) Caucasian says: Den
nis Alathis, colored, whilo out hunting last
Saturday evening, accompanied by his son
about ten years old, after having discharged
his gun reloaded it and took the gun up
and placed it nnder his nrm, with the
muzzle in tho rear. His son wus standing
eight or ten feet behind him. The gnn
went off and killed the hoy instantly.
A Birmingham special says: There is a
iioom in the city real estate snob as was
never before. Air. II. F. DeBardeleben,
coal millionaire, is an especially eager
buyer. He bought to-day over $25,000
worth of the highest-priced vacant ground
in the city, paying nearly $250 a front foot
for part of it. One lot, for which he paid
$0,250, could have been bought for $5,500
a month ago.
The hunters of Florida who supply with
feathers the millinery firms of the North
report that tho birds which usually pass
the winter in that peninsular have crossed
the golf for a warmer climate, owing to the
unusually cold weather. Hunters in the
everglades havo procured few specimens.
The golden plovers have temporarily for
saken the Gulf States and are wintering in
tbs West Indies. *
Thomas Houston, a highly esteemed gen
tleman living near Washington, the county
seat of lthea county, Tenn., committed
suicide in a singular manner Alonduy night.
For several days it was stated that his mind
seemed unbalanced and ft close watch was
kept on him, but he managed to elude his
guards Monday. Tho scorchers found that
lie bad endeavored to jump into an aban
doned well but found tho water
too shallow to drown biro. Ho then at
tempted to kill himself by beating his
brains ont. The hair nnd blood were found
on the side of a bonso where ho made this
terrible attempt. Failing in this, ho pro
cured n jmir of buggy reins, made a tight
nooHii about his neck, tied the reins to a
high limb nnd jumped from thn treo. His
neck was broken by tho fall, nnd when he
was discovered- life wus extinct. He was
45 years of age and leaves a family.
cno of the officials looked up quietly and
said:
“Take a seat, air, and we’ll attend to you
in a moment."
I made no move, but looked around the
room in a stupid sort of way. I was looking
out of the window oil to a roof when the
same official said:
“You may come forward and take this
chair."
I stood like a stone, and he rose up, came
over to me, and led me to a chair at the ta
ble. Wbeu I was seated one of the others
remarked:
“Write your name, age and lost place of
residence on a slip of papei." That was
paste, pencil and paper. Jones County Sheriff s Sale.
•I'lSAi. ecuvick rums.
A sun of red IS weather warm,
A sun ot blue la geuerxl storm,
A orescent red Is weather cold,
A crescent bine Is fair foretold,
A star of rod no change Implies,
A blue alar local titormy akles,
A square ot black on (lag of white,
A enld wave coming in all its might.
trick number three, and It failed, ns the
others had done. By aud by the marshal
wrote on a slip of paper:
“Who are you and where from?"
I wrote in reply:
“I am Charles Jones, of Richmond.”
“But you are a Union man," suggested
one officer atond.
I saw his lips move, but ho got no sign
from me. Tho examination continued in
this manner for a full hour, the men using
every artifice to trap me, but they failed to
Bcoro a single point. I knew they would
reserve the sharpest trick for tho lost and
was therefore nerved up for it. At longtli
tho mnrshnl pushed back in his chair,
pointed his finger at my breast anil angrily
exclaimed:
“Where did tint Confederate button
come from?"
It was another failure. Then he turned
to his companions and said:
"Gentlemen, it's no use. Tho man is
certainly deaf and dumb, and a d—d fool
besiilea.”
“Wo bavo wasted our time,” replied n
second. “Ho is not only that he claims to
be, bat may be of grout service to us. I'd
have the officer take him over to tho Secre
tary of War."
“I guess I will," said the officer, and ha
rang a bell and I heard the door opon. Then
lie turned to ine, careless os you please, and
said:
“Go with the officer.”
It was their last shot. I never moved a
muscle until tho officer approached aud
placed his hand on me. I was taken back
to the guard-house, kept a prisoner for an
other week, nnd then the disgusted marshal
turned me loose in the streets.
THE AVIT OF WOA1EN.
A REBEL SPY’S SCHEME.
Bright Hayings That Kell from Pretty Fem
inine Lips.
Collected by Kate Sanborn.
We shall be perfectly virtuous when there
is no longer any flesh on our bones.—Alar-
gurite de Valois.
No! I ain't one to see the cat walking
into tho duiry anil wonder what she's come
after.—George Elliot.
If steamers are named the Asia, the Rus
sia nud tue Scotia, why not call ono the
Nausea?—Lonsia Alcott.
It the Venus de Alodiei could bo animated
into life, women would only remark that
her waist is large.—Oulda.
Her neck and arms were as naked as if
she had never eaten of tho tree of knowledge
of good and evil.—Jane Carlyle.
When yon wish to affirm anything, you
always call God to witness because he never
contradicts you.— Queen of Rouwuuia.
A lady onco told mo she could alwnys
know when she had taken too much wine
at dinner—her husband’s jokes began to
seem funny.
"Have seen Airs. lately?"—a lady
who did all the talking. “No, I had to give
up her acquaintance. I tried for two years
to tell her something in particular."
Alarryin' a man ain't like settin’ olon;
side of him nights and hearing him tall
pretty; that's the fust prayer. There’s lots
■in' lots 'o mootin’ after that—Rose Terry
Coolie.
Judge no one by his relations, whatever
criticisms you pass upon his companions.
~ ■ ”• fe '
Db. Ouvkr Wexdku. Holmes declares
that- New Yirk invented the idea that Bos
ton streets were made by building houses
along tho oow paths.
Washington abounds in fine carriages
and horses, yet two-thirds of the llnuHC cf
Representatives, half the Senate, and nearly
ull the Supreme Court, patronize the street
cars.
TmiiTv expert Japanese ivory carvers are
to be brought over to introduce the art in
this country. The experiment is made by
an American who nos lived a long time in
Japan.
Eewabo S. Jemison, nil anarchist, has
sued the Chicago board of trade for $75,000
(or ignoring his design for its new building
nnd failing to employ him to supervise its
construction.
A iiohsktiiikf was hanged by lynchers
tho other day in Arizona, and the local
editor, in describing tho event, remarked
"Jim departed this life with his accns
tomed lively snap."
One plank nine feet wide and twenty feet
long, without knot or blemish ot any kind,
and another twelve feet wide are among the
contributions of British Oolumbin to that
Liverpool exhibition.
Chalcedony coats and incloses the coys-
tnlized cinnalinr of the lledington and
other mines of California; and those crusts,
if cut with tbo cinnabnr, form very pretty
and interesting gem stones.
Among tho latest inventions is that of a
match which may be used over again an in.
detinite number of times, the wood being,
it is claimed, soaked with a peculiar chemi
cal solution which makes Isuch reuse prac
ticable.
“Wk go to press at 2 instead of 4 to-day,"
said a Tennessee paper, “in order to attend
to some business of importance in the
country." At precisely live minutes of 4
two high-toned-looking men with ahot-guns
called, end wanted to know where the
editor was.
AmiLLERV is monarchic, cavalry aristo
cratic, and infantry democratic. Armor
and horse brought tbo rnlo of tho few ovor
many; cannon helped make ono man ralcr
over all, while the musket is tho agent of
tho popular will and the pioneer of univer
sal suffrage.
A mTT-KtoBT pounder twenty-five years
ago was the most powerful piece of nrltllery
known, nnd It threw a projectile 1,570 feet
per Becodd. Now the weight of guns lias
ncrcnsed from 5 to 100 tons, tho velocities
from 1,600 to ii,000 feet, and tho energies
from 1,100 foot-tons to 52,000 foot-tons.
Arrr.n n diet of six weeks upon hot water
aud beefsteak, a corpulent gentleman an
nounces a remarkable change in mental and
bodily condition. Ho is six inches less in
girth, indigestion hns vanished; ho wenrs
gloves aud shoes a size smaller; lio lias lost
the tondenoy to tako cold, and his muscles
are daily hardening.
AIaohalen Mii.leu, of Greenville, Pa., is
90 years old, is in vigorous health, and hns
chewed tobacco for seventy yenrs. The
lesson conveyed by tbo record ot this fine
old lady is marred by the fact that so many
peoplo who have cliowcd tobacco have not
lived to the age of DO. 1'hero seems to be
no moral to the case at nil.
Will 6e until before the court bonso door, la the
town of Clinton, GeoreU, on the first Tuesday in
April lira, during the legal bourn 'of sale, the fol
lowing property, to-wtt: One thousand acrea of
land In Jones county, lu Hawkins and Roberta
district, adjoining lands nf James Newsome, Jack-
son Roberts and Win. Joliusou, and the Macon and
Clinton road. Levied on as the property of K, H.
Broach, by virtue of and to satisfy a mortgage ft.
fa. issued from Jones Superior Court lu favor of D-
Flanders A Hon vs. A. II. Broocb, the same being
tbo property pointed ont lu said mortgage ft. fa.
March S, lSHd. H. J. PHILLIPS, Hhcriff.
who
country
in attendance
was one gentle-
a 325 fine on
hands. The lino was
reduced to *15, $10 of which was made up
by friends and a note Uken by the county
for the balance, and ao everybody went
out of the court room happy, Date Kitch
lns, the happiest of all.
Id justice to Joe Slays, it might be well
to state, he was a good enough negro when
sober. He had went throughthe war with
. carry on the 'Air. Sam Maya, of BroohitiUe, Florida* a
»ad ring business. The Post says: It | brother of the “Decs, and wa» greatly
^ “ I “‘* r ‘ lo ? a hUfof the mayor of i civil liked by the former
Uc *““ tor gambling, pre-ed dtwp regret st Jo. s kUlin*.-Jack-
[ M E r *at license for any othir kind ion New*.
Flaying Deaf amt Dumb to Trick Ills
Guards.
Kx-Rchct in Detroit Free Press.
When Gen. Early made his great raid on
Washington, I was scouting between his
advance and tho city, aud was captured
within the city limits twenty-fonr hours
fit fore liis battle-tings appeared in sight. I
was dressed iu citizen's clothes, pretended
to be deaf and dumb, and claimed to have
bceh driven out of Richmond becauso I had
written threatening letters to Jefferson
Davis.
I hail been inside the fortifications for
half a dny, and wus slowly working ont,
when a couple of young men, both of whom
were considerably tho worse for liqaor,
halted me und wanted to fight. I hud a
pencil and a block of paper with me, and I
wrote:
“I urn deaf and dumb."
That mode no difference with them. In
deed, they declared that it would be qnito
a novel idea to Uek a deaf and dumb man,
and one of them gave mo a cuff on the ear.
In those days 1 weighed 160 pounds and
hud tho muscle of a prize fighter. I tried to
get uwuy from them without further
trouble, but when they seemed determined
to have a row, |[j gave them all they want
ed, and wasn't many minutes about it. A
crowd of soldiers and civilians collected,
the provost guard eamo up aud the result
wus os I bad anticipated. I was arrested
and carried off to a guard house.
One of the young men, alio afterward
turned ont to be related to a
member of the cabinet, followed
me to the office of the provost marshal and
charged mo with being a spy. No one
seemed to entertain a doubt that I was
ileaf and dumb, as I claimed, and my ex'
amination was carried on in writing. I
was asked my name, age, where born, nnd
a hundred other questions, anil thin
searched. They found nothing on me of a
criminating nature, and I reasoned that f
would be detained until after the excite
ment had passed and then turned loose.
After being detained three days ah officer
entered my quarters one morning and said
to me:
“Well, dummy, you can pack up aud get
out."
The minute I heard bis step outside I was
on my guard, but he spoke in such a nat
ural tone that I came near giving myself
away. On three different occasions during
tho war I played the part of adeaf and damn
man, and I tell you it takes all the nerve
and presence of mind a man can call op. I
sat facing the door, and, while I heard his
words, I made no movement. He catuo
closer to me and said:
•■Come, pack up your traps; you are to
be turned loose.”
I looked him straight in the eyes without
winking, and alter a bit a look ot chagrin
stole over his face und he motioned for me
to follow him. Ho took me to the provost
marshal's office, and I was ushered into a
a private room, where the marshal and
three or four other officiate were seated. On
the way to the office, as we crossed a wide
street, the officer suddenly exclaimed:
“There’s a runaway hone—look out!"
If I hadn't been expecting some such
thing on bia part I might have betrn\ cd
myself. I gave no sign, continuing on with
my bead down, I heard him growling:
“They think they've got n sneker, but
they'll find out their miatake!"
[entered the office knowing that every
trick would be resorted to to break me
down, and my nerves were braced as if to
a battery of artillery. I waa left
by the door for a moment, when
Also at same time sml place will bo sold one bay
nxre male “Mary," one sorrel borso inulo named ‘
'Hal.*' Levied on ss tbo property of Tbos. J. Wool-
folk to satisfy a mortgage 11. fa., from Jonea Supe
rior Court In favor of W, li. Hparka vs. Tkoe. J.
Woottolk, said property polbted In said mortgage
* ' 8. J. PHILLIPS, Sheriff.
tnestt .
Jones County Sherift’s Sale.
Will bo sold before tho Court House door in Clin
ton. Jones county, between the loRal bourn of aide,
on tbo tint Tuesday in April next, eighty-seven
acrefl of land, as the property of Lovin K. Moore,
Mid property being situated in Jones county, where
on tho Mid Levin E. Moore now roHidee, end ad
joining tbo landfl of Lafayette Bolkcom, W. H. J.
Wood and Frank Boikcoiu. Levied on and will b«
Hold toHntiHfy a ft fa from the County Court of laid
county in favor of X. A. Hardee’* Son* v*. Levin E.
Moore. Property pointed out by defendant and
written notice perved upon him.
March 8,1 sad. 8. J. PHILLIPS,
niart-tuestt Sheriff Jone* County. Georgia.
HOLMES* SURE CURE
Mouth AVusli niul Dentifrice !
Cure* Bleeding Oum*. Ulcer*, Sore Mouth, Bore
Throat, CUeausoa the Teeth and Puriflea the Breath;
need nnd recommended by leading dentint*. Pre-
areil by Dro. J. p. k W. It. Hoiiuo-4. dontlnt*. Macon.
Ga. For *aio by all druguint* and dentint*.
J. G. McCrary - v*. Michael Hinchey. In equity in
Bibb Superior Court.
I T appearing to the court that the defendant,
Michael Hinchey, i*a non-resident and cannot bo
served by the ordinary process of the conrt, it is
ordered by tho court that sorvice be perfected upon
him by publication in accordance with law, and
that he be required to answer said bill by the next
\pril tenu of tbi* conrt.
T. J. SIMMONS, J. 8. O.
A true extract from the minute*. «
JaniHamlm P. H. ADAMB, Deputy Cleric.
THE FAIR!
I havo just returned from
New York, and will open next
week an entirely new line of
goods at bottom prices.
It, F. 8NITII, Proprietor.
do31wtf
Relations, like features, are thrust upon us
companions, like clothes, are more or less
onr own selection.—Kate Field.
A friend said to tho sister of President
Cleveland, ns she was leaving Buffalo for
Washington: “I hope you will hail from
Buffalo." "Oh, you expect mo to huil
from Buffalo and reign iu Washington.”
"Whnt would yon do in tho tiuio of war
if yon hod tho suffrage?" asked Borneo
Greeley of Mrs. Stanton, “Jlist what you
have done, Air. Greeley; stay at home uiul
urge tho others to go unit fight,” replied the
lady.
“Pray," said an army officer, wto had
been on guard duty in Washington seven
teen years, to Aliss Cleveland, “what do la
dies find to think about besides dresses and
parties?" * ‘The heroic dcoda of our mo Jem
army officers," replied Aliss Cleveland.
One loves to talk of ono’s se'fso much
that ono never tires of tete-a-tete with a
lover for years. That is the reason why a
devotee likes to ho with her confessor. It
is for tho pleasure of talking of one’s self
—even though speaking evil.—Mine, de
Sevigne.
Aldile. Alars, a favorite of tho Theatre
Francois, hail offended the Gardes dn Corps
nnd they went to tho theatre to hiss her
down. She came to the edge of the stage,
and, referring to the fact that they never
went to war, said: “What has Alars to do
with the Gardes da Corps:"
BEGINNING EARLY.
HOW TO SPECULATE!
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.'Washington, DC.
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A Young Indiana Man to Kducute and
Marry a Pretty Girl,
A Wahasli, Ind., special says: Two weeks
ago Albert McDonald, tho son of a once
prosperous merchant of Warsaw, Ind.,
whose death occurred a year ago, eainc to
this city and stopped at a hotel. In the
dining room, during the dinner hoar,
AlcDonald was captivated with the
pretty face of Aliss Josio Grey, the
daughter of Mrs. Rose Gray, who, four
years ago, becatno viole ntly insano and
was placed in the State hospital fur the in
sane at Indianapolis. The girl, who i* just
pastil, is petite in figure, has an abundance
of dark hair, lustrous black eyes and a line
complexion. She is quite intelligent, and is
u favorite with the guests of the house. Be
coming acquainted with tho gill, AlcDon
ald, following the example of lovesick
swains in general, wrote her foolish notes
daily, which she as promptly und foolishly
answered. The climax of the affair was
reached when AleDonaM formally proposed
to remove her from the hotel ’ and put
her in charge of his mother at Warsaw. He
also promised to hear the expense of odo-
cating her, and, at the end of the four years,
make her his wife. Ho also stated that, on
his 21st birthday, two mouths btnee, he
would come into possession of property
valned at $10,001), which Lad been left him
by his father. This estate he promised to
bequeath to Josic, making his will as soon
as he is of sge. The yonng lady at oiicede-
termined to accompany .McDonald, despite
the attempt of Air. Newman to dissuade
her, and yesterday the pair went to War
saw, where she was duly installed in the
honse of AlcDonald She will bext full at
tend a fashionable boarding school.
A Good Itlddaueo Though II Cost a Wife.
XorTfitowsi IBrxM.
A woman in Lansinbnrg has eloped with
| M boarded with hr r and
snipectvd that
:retly aided'and abetted the
runaways, in order to gat rid of tbs comet-
player. Some men bars no music in their
•onto, and an opposed to murder—sven
when it to justifiable.
Tun Gaulois, of Paris, informs its read
ers that “Gen. Crook, at tlio bead ot G.UUU
men, nno-fitth of the entire army of the
United States, has been pursuing for the
past two weeks ten Apocbea, who have
lieen giving him n breakneck run through
the immense territory of Arizona."
In Disappointment valley, near the Gila
river, Arizonn, n spring liroku out a couple
uf years ago in a place where there had pre
viously been no signs of water. The spring
continued to grow in size, until it now
forms a stream a font in depth and throe
feet in width, and it to still growing. It to
supposed that tho water comes from a sub
terranean river.
A tblei’Ronb invented in Germnny was
attached to a telegraph wire at Wheeling,
W. Va., tho other day, by electricians of the
Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company.
Others were placed at Baltimore, Chicago,
and Newark, <)., and live persons conversed
with much ease. The diaphragm to a cone
of very fine aluminum wire connected with
n horseshoe iragnet, through which a cur
rent constantly passea from a battery.
A iioskm'd was taken home by William
Bowling, s young man employed ina Jersey
City, N. J. 'planing mill, when he went to
supper on Alonday evening, and, seeing bia
mother sitting in a chair by tho table, her
head resting on her hand, he atepped lightly
up to her and placed the flower in her hair.
Not observing any movement on her part,
he thought alio waa asleep, tint soon found
he hail used tho rosebud to deck his moth
er's corpse. It wus found that she had died
of heart diseaso.
Tub French have n way of making a
tough fowl tender in the roasting which is
worth folloning. It should he seasoned
and tied up securely in two thicknesses of
soft white or pale brown paper and put
into the oven half an hour earlier than tbo
time one would choose to assure its being
done. It will steam slowly in this way,
and, if delicately dredged with flour when
the pnper is taken ot! st the end of the half
hour in a hot oven, it will como out brown
and easily carved.
It requires a snow storm of extraordinary
proportions to depress tho spirits of the
people in a Maine village. The town of
Dixmont awoke the other morning to find
that one of the principal streets was filled
for a distance of 180 feet with a drift fifteen
feet in height, aud packed so solid that
horses could he driven over it. The oppor
tunity, however, to cany ont a novel idea
was too good to he lost. So the young men
of the village sunk a shaft at the middle
point on the huge drift, and, l>y working
two days, tunneled a roadway in either di-
n ction 175 feet long, seven feet high ami
eight feet wide. The completion ot the
task was celebrated in gsls style.
A AIus. Hauitox, living in Victoria, Aus
tralia, and her four drughlere were reduced
to such a state cf mind by reading the l’all
Mall Gazette disclosures that they deter
mined to commit suicide together. In ac
cordance with a divine revelation which
one of the girls claimed to have received
received froar God, the youngest child,
aged 9 years, was held down on a bed while
ber mother nearly severed her head from
her body. The others then inode an at
tempt to ki'l themselves by catting the
veins in their arms. Finally they all t.ii
ed from the loss of blood, and were found
in this condition the next morning. Xono
of them were fatally injured.
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O. M. FERRY A CO., Detroit, Michigan.
a -woman in LAnmnwirK nr
a comet-player, who boarded
her buslie nd. It to atrongly a
the husband secretly aided an
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EickUmfst In Texas.
Great excitement hx* been eaossd in the »trinity
of Fsris, Ttux by the retu*rlabte rwowry uf Mr.
J. £, Corley, who w*s so b*l|4e*a bt could not turn
in bod. or nth* hi* bond; everybody sold bo wo* dy
ing of consumption. A ttUi botfle of Dr. King'*
New Discovery wm sent bia. Finding relief, be
bonghtnlnrge bottle nnd n box of Dr. King's Vow
Life PUl*; by tbo tlose ho bed token two boxes of
pOl* nnd two bottle* of the Discovery, bo wot well
nnd bed coined in ionb thirty-six pound*. Trtnl
bottle* of this Or ent Ptecovorr Urn Consumption
free it Lnutf, Konkin * Lnairs.
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A lilf* rtl’ITU. To introduce them, wo wit
nxvc AWAY 1.00U Keif-operating Washing
Mardinc*. If yon want ono, send « row
tixnie. P. O. and oxproon often ad one*. THK
SATiQXAL CO,, n I>y stmoi. 3f. B.
REWARD t
tion of school vacnaciee i
expense. Bend stamp I
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