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12 THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1886. John IffVRTYVNF’Q TM?VI?VnF? I him to pursue the even tenor of his waj. jTlUlt lvli d * lJiilJ Vj* g raye stranger nortr failed to receive (All Rights Reserved.] The father stood motionless before the Itody of bis hoy. The crimson flow hod ceased. Alwmt the pale brow, oneo the lsygronnd for mother finders, the damp cold locks clang rigidly. No smile shone oat of the smooth face; no eager light danced in the open eyes. They were set helplessly, blankly upon a far infinity. The hands that knew his so well, that had learned the bat and the rod, the strong firm hands of youth, lay wan and idle, pitiful in their powerless repose, upon the t)i •road still breast. The finely moulded form, youth's promise nearly fulfilled in manhood, lay stretched in a stately dignity, odd and ill-fitting. The nhsolnte helplessness, the unutter able stillness of that thiug, the antithesis of life, filled the room with an appeal that touched the deep ear of humanity, stiiring resentment, chilling levity. “Murdered in cold blood," “shot down like a dog." “A father’s cpiarrel avenged upon a son —" whispered the bvRtanders among themselves. Their blanched faces were fixed npon the two as they withdrew and left them alone, the father and the son, the living and the dead; fixed in pity too deep for words, too earnest to long survive. Before the corpse of his boy! It was his only one. The single pride and purpose of his own existence was gone -gone as a rain drop in the ocean, the shadow of a bird’s wing on the pane, the lines of a dream l'rovidence, destiny,accident, ax yon please; at that moment, the result wah the same. The man's heart was breaking, and yet there. lie ’had, like the it was not to break. Grief, which is deep made sorrow his ride, enough for all the agony hearts may know, •urged and swelled and beat within him, as his eyes clung to the magnificent wreck at bis feet until its violence swayed him as the reed is swayed before the storm. It bent bis head. It wrung wordless cries from his lips. It dashed tho flood gates aside and poured the pent up torrents upon his cheeks. It tossed his arms and bent his limbs, until be became a living appeal hardly less fright ful than that which spoke from the help- .cesm-HH. tho silence, tlio stillness at his feet. But the appeal of the living was full of Imprecations, while the mute appeal was rigutoons in the unspeakable justice which surrounded it. All men know the second stage of grief. Night follows day, tho tide runs out when the tide 1ms run in. Kleep swallows up waking, the calm rises beyond the storm. Reaction is the law of nature; frenzy has its cure. But tho still, rigid form moved not when calm despair took the place of frenzy. Moved not? Ah’ no. Bend down the ear, touch wrist and brow, the rising-falling a kind and respectful greeting, whenever chance or business gave him a meeting with any. To his laborers he was kind ana just, and under these circumstances he pros pered; wealth began to accumulate. System pays. IIL The years went by. . The stranger who had cost his lot among the huinblo Georgia folks was called nch. Bat he had never in creased his farm of five hundred acres. He had gone on rotating his crops,planting suc cessively corn, cotton and oats in each of three fields and giving the fourth rest, as whs the custom. He bad spent little, food being merely u duty with him, a pipe his only solace. His long hair had whitened much. His face was even graver. His voice was a trifle gentler; but ho had never resumed the trail. Year after year ho hod promised himself that he would again re new tlie search; year after year ho had post poned it, saying, “a few thousands more. This time it must be to the death." Distrust of self grows with neglect of duty. Ten years had passed what years they were! It must not be supposed that so strong a mind as John Morton possessed could rest and rot daring a decade. Fiction, history, the classics, science, all engaged him for a time, but he could not lose him self in either. Reluctantly, moodily, ho turned to the Scriptures. His old sorrow held him there, for his sorrow, while not as keen, was weighty rh ever. The flowers of friendship, the touch of sympathy, the in fluence of surrounding minds under a mer ciful Providence, unloads the human heart of its misery, but he had denied himself prophet of old, Ho carried the same heavy wearing weight of grief. He clasped ft to his bosom and guarded it from tho world, lotting it feed upon his life with a grim and inorid satisfaction. But the power to throw off the farmer’s life, die hermit's mood, seemed lost. He could not dissolve his new life in the action of a wanderer. Ho felt a chill at tb< thought “Not yet" he would whiter. Time enough, “the next move must b * t« the death.’ But ho changed again. From a Scriptuiohenrchf-r he became h tbcologuu. Every hour of bin so*™ time, by lamp or sunlight, found him over his books. He had at last found a boundless field. He even went down into the village and heard the earnest Hard-shell Baptist preach. He listened atLentivtly, reverently, and when he passed oat clasped the good man’s hand. But he went no more. He was deeper than his teacher. Constant seclusion aud an un broken train of thought upon one subject told upon John Morton. From a theolo gian he become a religionist, if tho distinc tion will stand. But one thiug had long stared him in the bei breast is a trick of tho eye, aud lias cheated face. He had begun at first to put it nside, the world since death began. but it would return. His mind from con- Tlicro is nothing so frightful as the un- stunt pressure hod lost its eliiHticity. Throw checked emotion of a strong man, unless it I it off as lie would, his oath returned with a lie the calm into which he sinks, when they I persistency that was almost maddening, •re exhausted. Hie calmness of this man’s I Cast it far out upon the waters ns he might, despair was marked by deliberate action. I the fact ever came floating back unto the He reddened his hands in the thick blood at sands. His oath of vengcnce was a fact, his feet and raised them on high, as with I and it conflicted with every creed he could the precision of one who repeats a creed, he I analyze. A man differently constituted swore vengeance upon the destroyer of I would have let it beat upon the cushion of hit idol. an easy philosophy, or would have classed There was nothing of the claptrap of the 1 it with his other sins and turned his back stage in the act. Ileal tragedy is not always I upon them all. But John Morton was noisy. As one might bend to touch Jhe I alone. He could neither loosen nor shake coffin rose with bloodless lips, or lay them I off tho burden; the tide came in always. Ho on marble brow, so knelt this man, and I side by side he held the two, his faith in the words of liis pledge seemed to have 1 God, aud the other, praying os he walked, taken the place of life about him. When I and as he read. Aye, slid as he slept, and he rose, a living purpose held the breaking I one day when the sunlight was streaming heart together; a duty he callod it, sacred in through the morning glory vines and the and eternal. And with ono look upon the song of tho mocking bird in the leandtr immobile, unchanging face, a look that hedge floating in upon him, he lifted his threatened to yield itself again to the storm I arms and cried aloud, “Godin heaven, I within him,— with a sob that burst through I yield at lost, my will is broken," and tbore the bars of his manhood, the father tamed in that warm July evening, with the light and groped like • blinded miner for the I of heaven soft upon him and the many light and air of the world; light and air colored blooms in his far stretching fields, which already through the open door was 1 John Morton sat, conquered, flooding his form with the .evening’s splen- IV. dor, the room with tho breath of flowers. I Were thin • fancy sketch, here ought it to U. I end. Contrition in the final stage of the Despair and morol wnkgm people the warfare of oouncience. Hat mm cam. asylums. Dteie.ii end purposeless live* not when this struggl" wne ended, to John ■trow tho river tank with the .elf-destroyed. Morton k great surprise, for he hud long Despair, taking refuge in action, make, contemplated tho very etui, into which ho moie history than we realize. In John hadeoteml. ... ..... . Morton, moral force and mental power "What!" cried he, pacing the little porch, were happily blended. In both he had "I. It not enough? then’ ho .aid reverently been unteeted. The murder of hi. boy was “into thy hand. 1 yield my vengeance. Hi. deatined to bring both into play. The pur- *‘> c f tnnied to the blue aky above him, Bo« to which he bail devoted himself he- ®nd tear, tnckled upon hi. furrowed cheek., came'clear and imperative when the nod I ’’Wash these bloouy hand.! If that boy a waa pressed down over the hut form to «PpeM must pa., uuaniwered, let it be so! which hi. affection, had gone out. 'lUo weight lay heavy upon hie heart. It The effort., little more than perfunctory, I *“tcd not on ounce. John Morton found which the officer, of law lu d made torffeet *»“ )‘*tle relief, lie more then one. pur- the arret ol tho murderer, for John Mor-1 stalled himeelf that light waa breaking in ton waa bnt a plain farm,—, wen. incrooeod I °P°5, , *!!' , .... , binder tlie promiso of reward.. Hi. purpose ,’"“>t he would whi.poraddrc.Hing did not rent with this. 1IU action was con- hmmdf a. ho went about hi. reading, tinuou*. Every town, every neighboring I “*“*• ... .... . city wa. placed in posseesion of tho neecs- Bnt the waiting brought no change, and Miy descriptions ana detectives employes!. I he strode through the fields and the far He made flying tripe to identify suspects, pine barrens, the .{Section never an.were. 1, These grew longer as the caae became in a *®**to hi* Ups. .... . „ , . measure national. He was convinced that , Why? Can it be that I hove failed of my the detective, were hut groping in the duty; that after all l have erred? He .hook dark. Juat where moat men', efforts would his head. Hut the question ro«e again, have ended, John Morton', really begun. Ttene doubt, took a new and more ter- He took tlie field himself, a fierce joy in rible form aa the months rolled by. A fear v.l- bosom as ho felt the elimulua ol inde-1 distant hut admitted, grew alowly within pendent action. The case dropped oat of hi* conscience, “la au oath, anch oa I have poUce circles. sworn, without forgiveness? Must these A year rolled "by. The determined man bloody finger, ever remain raised in the waa still traveling from point to point The sight of Heaven binding me to revenger grief, though full am: deep, waa gentler. "Clod forbid," ho cried aloud, and far i grief, though full an-: deep, waa gentler. "Hod forbid, be cneu aloud, aud far oR Tic purpose waa aa de. i end im|>erative aa through the pine visUs came Imck the cry. at tint The silent man of fixed features “God forbid," woven into tho wind hnrp’s wee seen in many .tales, and among many I monotone. Hut the feer, bushed an in- peoplea, during the Hist year of hia search. "Unt by the repetition of the words w rung Men gazing npon him said, "He has a his- from his soul, returned, tory.” The minere learned him. The John Morton plunged into hi* books ranchmen gave him shelter. The far away again. "Ie auch an oath binding ?" he asked lumbermen divided their tucals with him, I °f one and another. Home .were silent, and in the cotton towna hi. face became I some were evasive, Mime denied it; hut iu familiar. Hut his purpose was unknown. I many the sacrednesa of a vow was clearly it was a still hunt. I set forth. Nay, even the Scriptures seemed But a change came. The little hoard of to lend strength to his fears, aud kept alive the farmer vra. at last almost exhausted. I hi* apprehension. The chase we.a perfcrco interrupted. He The purpose having failed, John Morton nettled down with bis secret, to earn a I entered upon a gloomy era. Would it be living. Though o plain farmer he bad I the asylum or the river? been educated. He knew the languages No map ha. even portrayed the extent to and the science* as the average college man which a mind muy err in protracted soil- know. them. Hi. was well read in current I lude. Ood had other thing* in view than literature. Hi. was a thoroughly auper-1 '“ere development wlicu he made men a ficial education, after the manner of the time.. A farmer he elected again to be. He he. n life over Sotu ' int idee of tbs ultimate aocom and walked nntil the trees seemed to hive lain down in shadows. Ho loaned his arms heavenward and cried, "I thank thee; oh, I thank thee." But a. he climbed the alopea homeward again, hopo trembled. “What," aaid tho old voice, "What if yon do meet? what then ?" He crept into lu. room and lay down to think. V. John Morton never put foot in the village again. "I am in purgatory," he said. "U I meet the man, I mu lost; if I do not, 1 am saved." Henceforth bo looked no man iu the face, whom he could avoid. The eager senrch of fifteen years before had given place to downcast looks. People still said, "The man hod sniferel some gleet sorrow." They pitied and respected him the more, us the year, rolled by. This could not lost. It i. a peculiarity of fear that it must increase and multiply, or E erish. Apprehension in Morton’s’ case, ad he been un active factor in the great outer world, would soon have been disarmed. In liis isolated position, it resolved it into a belief that the man of all others he most dreaded would some day break in upon his solitude. He began to plan a new refuge. But where? New communities he thought would bring new dangers, and he had not the heart for new occupation in the great world. In this dilemma a thought come to him as it has to many a perplexed and disheartened man beforo. Ho would throw himself upon the bosom of the church and seek a hiding place there. This resolution, once formed, was acted upon immediately. Ho sold his laud, and followed by many a “God bless you" he loft the little circle which bud shoiterc.l him so long, and again entered the great busy world. VL John Morton had nbsolntely no creed. That is, no church creed. Just what his belief waa he probably did not know him self. It was warped and twisted about his one life theme until his moral system was entangled almost beyond redomption. But above all his confusion roso a belief in an almighty being, a sense of personal un- worthiness, and a craving for salvation. The decision he arrived at was the result of bis dilemma. He made his way direct to the Catholic Bishop of his State. It seemed to him that behind him lay safety, because there was less publicity. He found a young open-hearted polished gentleman fnll ol: anecdote and reminiscence, to whom the bare purpose of his visit was soon made known. The priestly gentleman surveyed the applicant for admission to the order with something akin to awe. Ho saw a powerfully built man of sixty whose deeply lined face and white buir gave him un air of dignity and a presonce almost irresistible. He himself was a character reader—all sue ccssful men are; and yet bo could ns easily have accused the simple worded gentlemen before him of falsehood, as to believe that in his life he hod been only a former. His first perplexity was further increased when he discovered tho depth and learning of the applicant. Theology and scriptural history were simply at his tongue’s end, aud liis hook education marvelous in' its breadth and extent. Thu cultured churchman re velled iu the conversation which followed, and in tho novelty of which, for the time being, John Morton lost himself. Once he was on the point of laying barn bis soul and secret, but the gloomy thought that he himself had been better prepared to judge of his dang ii that the churchman deterred him. A nine outlined his studies, how ever, and the manner of his life he did give. Thes wne sufficient. The result of John Morion' visit was a deep interest and admiration for him in the mind of the Bishop; an interest that further vi.-ils bnt increased. What followed bad little to do with this narrative other than the final re sult. A special application at llouie, a fow months of systematic preparation, the intervention of powerful churchmen, brought John Morton hia wish. Ho be came a Priest, and so situated a. to almost cut off from the outer world. HU wish waa obtained. Did it bring him pence. Not at first. Hia now refuge did not satisfy him an long ns it was refnge only, hut he felt safer. He bogon believe that he would die without au oi portunity of fulfilling his vow; and his go prayer was to the end that be might be ab solved from the sin of recording it, since" had not sinnod in violuting nor in per forming it. John Morton's first strength came from communion with strong minds. He ceased, under this influence, to live within him self, and gradually this came about; he be gun to gee clearer. HU mind a. the years rolled by regained iU vigor; and one day when in the radiance which streamed in upon him through the Cathedral window, he knelt at prayer, a strong buoyant faith, that, coma what would, a hand would bold him up, camo and retted within him. He arose with the light of Heaven in ’' eyes, and peace in hi. chastened face. Prom Unit iluy.P'nihor Stephen,for »o they called him, went forth to the word. In the oily, his patriarchs) figure and glorified face were seen wherever humanity cried for aid. Little children cleaned his hands. Mothers knelt for hU blessing, end young men who labored in the stores, ali i counting rooms, and amid the pitfulUof life, felt the touch of hU fatherly hand, and wondered at the deep kindliness of bU cheering words. Thus labored he with pri vate purse and with pentoral solicitude, hU feet ever in the home* of the needy, hU eye. and soul lifted Heavenward. VIL One day behind the confessional stood Father Stephen. Before him, half hidden, there came an.l knelt a man also, weary and broken; a veritable beggar ho seemed, whose abject wretchedness would have melted a heart of iron. Already hod the good Priest planned assistance of more than a spiritual nature, when the broken words of the man before him caught and claimed hia whole thought. “Help, help, help for the guilty. I have carried the burden until I can carry it no longer. Great God, if there is a forgive ness for such as I, thy mercy is indeed bnun llesK’.'' Father Stephen heard not the pitiful groveUug of the wretch who«e burst ing heart hael amt its burden in despair be fore him. The voice seemed to come to him from the depths of a lost generation wearily over the grave of a acoro of years. He forgot hie priesthood and the occasion. He staggered forth and reached the en trance of the box. He seemed to be fol lowing something that appealed to him from another and forgotten life. He dragged the startled wretch into the light, and upon the wun haggard fuce.turncel with turned a horror-stricken face npon that pressed so close to his it was ashen, snd the eyes had lost their light. Fathor Stephen was dead. With a cry that chilled the heart of every hearer the wretched man cast the body from him and hid hia face in ‘ s hands. • * * * * . Tho hands that lifted up the dead priest were geutie, and the faces that bent over j him full of sorrow. They boro him out to rest forever under the churchyard sod, and j the last sound that followed them was a wild laugh that came from the confessional, where u beggar sat ahiveringin rags. A esney chicken hawk dnrtcd into the yard and, missing hia prize, flew in thedoor of Mrs. Snelson’s room. The windows be ing closed and only one door open, Mrs. Snelson stepped m and closed the door be hind her, then gathered the broom, and at the hawk she went. Knocking him down, she seized a knife that happened to be con venient and cut his head off.—LaGrange Reporter. The Wilcox county correspondent of the Hawkinsville New. gays: Mr. Tom Handley of this county has a pasture fence made of new rails containing 800 panels; each pan el contains seven rails, and each rail has two lightwood knots under it; now, how many lightwood knotnare thole in his fence? During the freshet lost week s&ys the Hawkinsville Dispatch a cow drifted down tho river and lodged against the river bridge. How far she traveled in this way it is not known, but sho must have been in the water good while, os She was unable to walk when rescued. The Americns Republican learns that the cholera is yet playing destruction with tho hogs in Sumter county. Larkin Dupree has lost twenty-five in the last week or so by it; Jessie Salter and many others have lost nearly ull their hogs. Tho Macon Public Library; is to receive a sweet potato that measures .ix feet in length. ” was grown on the plantation of Mrs. Hen- Fraley in Baldwin county, and will be given to the Library by Mr. Warren Ed wards. No. 3 of Macon, the Alerts of Montezuma, and Cochran No. 1 of Cochran, ore tho only companies that have so far signified their STATE NOTES. PROF.CHS.LUDWIG VON SEEGER, of Medicine at the Jtoyal University i the “ ‘ ** * • CAPITAL PRIZE $70,Oo^ TICKETS Only $5. 81:ar«< in Pn, MM . 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LIEBIG CO'S Genuine Syrup of Harau- pnrllln, 1* guaranteed a* the best Sarsaparilla In the market. H. Y. Depot 38 MURRAY STREET - urawn piaro l.ottery Cr,; iniwiMni menage and control the Dnvffii' 1 * »"d that the .ame are conducted ift, ■ty, fairnc-Mi, and in sood faith tm»r.rd , “ •"I id we authorize tho Company toumthL... £^e‘*^l [with fooeioiilie* of our natures attached advertisement*." ^ J IliK IriT.s . && | DM** Commlaitondi, Wo. the nndenlfned Banka and Banker, u.1 .y all Prtzea drawn in Tho Lontilana Kuo ??l £ rice which may be preeented at o lanl9tna-thn-*stkwly intention of participating in the tournament at Hawkinsville on the ‘j8th. Tho new court house at Cutbbert is near- ly completed. It will be ready for tho May J, H. 0.1LKB1IT, President Louisians Rational h.. I J. W. KILBRKTH, I'resident Statn nationaluLk- A. BALDWIN, President N. 0. National Bant I ■ I- Inco-ponied In: Vi. for 3A jean hr the l tore for Edncational and Charitable ntUDow^TI a capital of ll.ooo,ooo-to which a roncmti'JI over IMO.OOO haa since bean added. "“«■ $550,000 haa alnoe been added. By an oterwhelmio, popular rote lu fond. I waa made a part of tha preeent Bute con.uto-21 adopted December Jd, A. D.. 1M». ““-M The only lottery ever voted on and Indnrwdul the people of any Btate. 'I Itnevericaleaor postpone*. SURE Biliousness: Sick Headache In Fear hoars. b. i to P oosting $950, will be put in position at once. Mrs. E.B. A. l’carce, living near Bullard's in Twiggs county, ha. a chicken with four legs. It whs hatched March 25th tir.d seem, os pert as any of tho two-legged kind. The condition of Judge A. Hood at Cuth- bert, who ha. been critically ill, is un changed. He ha. been confined to hi. bed for several weak., Mr. Samuel Belt of Elbert county, has invented a cotton chopper, barrow nnd scraper combined, which 1. .aid to do the ork of six men. It is said that Mr. J. W. Hanlon, late of the Albany Medium, will Boon commence the publication of a paper at Alapaha, Ber rien county. The mayor of Cutbbert has issue-l his proclamation to .lqg cuvners, aud he. or dered the police to kill all dog. acting strangely. The farmer, over tho State have been set bock by the recent rain, nnd flood.. Farm ing interests were seriously interfered with. The Andoraon plantation, two mile, west of Hawkinsville, uud consisting of nine hnndrcd acres, whs told Tuesday for $6,990. F. H. Boz-man has been ro electod chief nnd FI. Jones Henry assistant chief of tho Hawkinsville fire department. O. K. is tbe name of ft new post-office just established in Wilcox county with B. B. Johnson as postmaster. There is n prospect that the Elberton Air Line will be made a broad gauge in lee. than twelve months. Hnwkin.viUe has hail a mad dog sensa tion. It was killed by Mr. J. B. J udge be fore biting unybody. Hawkinsville merchant, aro paying 30 to 33 cent, per gallon for country srjnp. prevent Chills «* Fever, Sour Stomach > Bad Breath. Clear tha Skin, Tone tho Nerves, end aive Life «* Vigor to the system. Doso. one BEAN. Try thorn one* end you will never bo without thorn. Prlco, 26 cents per bottle. Sold by Druggist! and Modiclno Dealers generally. Sent cn receipt of price In (tamps, postpaid, to any address, J. F. SMITH & CO., Uonufacturers and Solo Prop 1„ 5T. LOUIS, Ha fnhC5.3taw-awlJ W OMAN! \ v "wii mmr Tji!h famous rvmeily most liappily mrots the de mand of tlm age for women's peculiar and multi form affliction*. It i* a remedy for women only. and f Hpcclal class of her diseases. It is a specific for certain dimTMcd conditions of the womb and proposes to *o control tho menstrual functions to reflate all tho derangement* and irregular! man’s posse** such controlling and regulating powers is simply to discredit the voluntary testimony of thous ands of living witnesses who are to-day exulting in the restoration to sound health aud happiness. Bradfield's Female Regulator strictly a vegetable compound, and is the product Jmedlcal science and practical experience directed towards the benefit of became enviable and bonndlesa because of his won- derful success in the treatment and core of female juiplatntii. Tbe Regulator is the grandest remedy known, and richly deserves it* name— A MOUNTAIN GIANT. plantiui; of cot- .xcfl the cotnpamonriiip of doubt ? ton. The lack of experience, the near »:yh. | . Nor was a principal terror long in nrruy orupamon nnd M>t in motion tbe aecret springs which were to move him iu fumily •ml s'-cial circles. Tho human mind can- not rtht npon iu self. Broad and strong pliahmeut of bit purpose led John Morton I cultivated as was the miud of John to settle in the South. He seemed to think Morton, it trembled when iu purpose that then the fugitive wah hidden. With the I foiled, and became the prey of doubt, remnant of Lis means ho purchased Ian! j Promethoua only condemned to and mules and began the of experience, the new alyl of labor, ' •gainst Hia nttluKDcm made work a necessity him. ’lie absence of friend* and kindred tok^-p it m to Ain, sin In eternal death.** Iu •nd the non-poFM tfeir.n of social ties gave j brief aeuten-‘o he embrac«-tl Lin iu-iu «f time. He labored; nnd labor, I difficulty. He could not rid hiroxtlf of it. n _._ „ Ubor, bring, profit nearly ulwajs. , *>°k» brought him no comfort. The ! | jr , u fa e il his cheek. ..... ith him. Koon indeed the a.ti quiet j of nature were powerleee to afftret atretching np his anna, “mercy—for both, of tbe hia dignified even de- hjm. Omijiiwii «oaU «uu« •»*! Uu, ^ words went oat in • whisper. He or, aori the nprightneasof hisoomlnct { cLci.l, * | *onk il vwn, slowly aa if to pray, Iris anna ’ hope that glimmered in ( falling about the mck of the beggar, who >r, his ignorance of methods, were all I >»R itself at the head of tho heat that t him. But he was not vanquished. ] assailed him. "Altoath tosin,' he reasoned, diene*, made work a necessity for “« binding; to violate that oith i* to .in ; A Desirable Slile-Shew Attraction Tliat Itwrnuiu Can Met. John Andrew Fergnson of Gordon county, is tho coming mnn to knock John L. Kulii- van out of the pugilistic ring. John An drew is a "whopper." He is of a raw-bone nature but tip. tlie lieani to the tune of two hundred and forty pounds. In height he stands six feet three and a half inches "in bis socks.” Acroo. the palm of a band measure, six inches, and hi. fingers look like sawed-off sewer pipeing. His is a moat powerfnl frame and hi. walk denote, that of a very stout man. He wo. interviewed by the Cournnt and he said that his father was rather a large man bnt bis mother was only of medium size. John Andrew is now in his 36tli year, and lives on Mr. ltsgweil's place, at Erwin poat-office, Gor don county. When asked about tbe extent of hi. atrengtb, he a toted that it was never fnily toKlcil, but, insinuatingly speaking, made ns understand that he hod etondinp inviUUona to attend all hoase-raisingt log-rollings that happened in his neighbor hood. From appearance* he would make I handy person around when it was necessary to more a boose. lie is very active and boasts of hi. great speed, which he says it i(nite astonishing considering his size. Here is a chance for some sporting syndicate to down John L. Sullivan, the Boston .logger brute. With a year or so of good training, we believe John Andrew could knock him ont in the first round. John Andrew game and sav. "he be dinged if he’s afeared of anybody. Cartersville Cuamut. —beranaa It control* a cla*. of function, the r*. rio.n* fl.nuiK'»nonla ol wlilcli rau.e more 111 b-alti) ll-an all tbe oilier rau.ee combine^d, amlthu. rrj. H bor from her tong train of aRliouou. whl. b ■rrlj cmMtfer tier life anil prematurely end ber oxUlencc. Uhl what a muHHmle of living wum-nrea can teiUrir to lla charming .Uncial Woman! tab. to juadence Ibis frighteued energy to his, he gazed, was enough. The beggar gasped; "John Morton! mercy!" The hut word was a hi -,s that cut the air like a lash, lie wav hideously pale, and a sudden sweat beaded hi. trow, lint into the face of F’ather Stephen, e. he lifted it from the pitiful acebu at his feet, there came a look mortals seldom see. An sngei's wing hod "Aye, mercy," he said made'him fiicnda among the hospitable The flint ray of openhenrted people of his adopted land. I John Moiton* gloom came to him os he 1 shivered at the touch. Bnt no prayer ia- To them ha was conn, -ion, gentle, kind: wandered in the t' oux, gentle, kind; I wandered in the pine Ivarrens. In wool* it sued from tha trembling lips, and tha mponaire. never. He entered no man'* | waa “on opportunity _to # fulfill yourobliga-1 bead went down nntil the gra^haire swept gently to free : clasp. He lifted power laws. He A Macon Man Lose. • Bride. Mr. J. 8. Clark of Hudson, and Mias Neva Jay, daughter of Mr. J. L Jay of near Shell- man, were married at the residence of Mr. UusSlnppey on Tuesday the lith init, Dr. Bride " Christmas, and it wss another cwto of "lore at lint sight.” Mins Neva wss to have been married next Sunday to a gentleman living in Macon, to which nnion she had her parents' consent, and for which rearon she told Mr. Clark not to apeak to her parent, in tegard to their marriage, they having each one eipres-nd tiicir feelings oq tho subject before. Mr. Clark went down last Monday anil called on hia iutended bride and arranged for her to meet him nt Mr. Kne Blappey’e, where they met and were made man and wife. - Smithrille Enterprise. Why He Dropped tho Baby. Last week a very clever ex-Alderman met a baby carriage on tbe road, took the little occupant ont of the vehicle, fondled and kissed it a while and then asked whose it was. On bearing the reply that It was one of the colored persuasion, he quickly pul it down, looked around to see if auy white people hod witnessed hi. loring caresses, and slunk away.—Atnericu* Republican. Chautaaqaa John H. Klmlwlb of WdSeU. county. S. T, write* may »i. lues, mat be was aaf- .. htif uj cowatlpattew ib.WKit.Sn day* with- fartssw m bad 1 OR. J. 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Livingston, President of the Stats Agricultural Society, say* it to tbs beat s ■aw. It i, ih* CHEAPEST AM) BEST. _ ‘ IT '* ILL PROHIBIT 1 RANTING CROPS WRONG and wawting yowr 1‘- drop any number yon want, any distanca apart For sals by Gfl 31. J. HATCHER, Macon,