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THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER.
VOL. XXII.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1887.
NO. 34.
LARGEST STORE IN THE SOUTH,
OYER THE STATE.
CHAMBERLIN, JOHNSON & CO.,
IMPORTERS
AND HEADQUARTERS FOR
Some >ime in April J. M. Landers
and wife disappeared from their home
. in Douglas very mysteriously. When
it was discovered they were gone it
was supposed they hod been gone two
days and nights. The table was fixed
jnst as if they had eaten their sapper
and got up and left. His horse was
DRY GOODS, CARPETS, MILLINERY, SHOES AND DRESS MAKING.
SILKS I SWlnnll th« New Wearer, Color* and Shade*, including the finest line of Black Silk In llic South.
VELVETS! IT' .lyonii French Drei* Velvets, u specialty In black and colors. Fall stock on hand.
TRIMMINGS ! French novelties. We carry the largest and most elegant lines in the 8outh.
WOOLENS) Or-Kveryibin* New, Htyllnti and Pretty. Oar stock represent* all first-claes mill* m America and Europe.
WHITE* GOODS I rench Weave* a specialty. We have certainly the largest stock In the country.
EMBROIDERIES! EJ^^Imported from Ht. Gaul, Switzerland, all widths for full suits. See them.
TABLE LINENS 1 £|^^From Germany, France and Ireland, with Napkins, D’Oylea and Tray Cloths.
WASH GOODS! fW* All kind*, all styles, all prices and all colors, in Immense quantities.
CASSIMERES I £^“French and EogUsh suitings, with a lull and complete line of Boy Cassimeres.
HOSIERY! BB* And Glove* in all the new style* and color*. See this elegant variety
flllLLINERY! BB*Bonnet* and Hat* made only to order—We sell no pntent goods.
DRESS MAKING * BB Equal to Pari* In Fits, Ptylo and Design. None superior. Few equal.
Item* of Interest Called From Oar Ex
changes.
Bibb county will show an increase
this year of $500,000 in taxable proper*
i ty.
A preacher in North Georgia, worth
! $12,000, permits his mother to live in tound in the stable nearly perished for | polygamy an enterprising single man,
1 the county poor house. water. Nc trace has ever been found • whose passion is inspired bj an ardent
It is said that Ty-Tj was once called i of them. • love of beauty, might easily secure at
“Tight-eye,” and that it was one of . j eS se Robson, the Tax Collector of least twn P artners foT life ! the re- j
the hardest towns in South Georgia, j Washington countv, against whom PU,t8 are to ° awful to contemplate; On
Women on the Increase.
From Life.)
In Massachusetts there are 65,000
more women than men. As a natural
consequence the chances ot men en
tering the connubial state areas five to
four compared with those of the oppo
site sex. Were tbfcre no restraints to
True Though Remarkable.
Dakota Ee!\]
“Yes, I'm from Dakoto,” he said
ADVERTISING RATES.
One squaro 1 month, - - - - - $200
Ono square .5 months, ----- 350
One square 6 nienths, ----- t» 0*>
One square 12 months, ----- 10 00
Quarter colunm 1 month, - - - 6 0*
Quarter column 3 months, - - - 12 00
Quarter column 12 months. - - - 20 00
Half column 1 month, ----- 7 50
naif column 3 months, - - - - 30 00
Half column 12 months, - - - - 00 00
One column 1 month, ----- 10 00
One column 3 months, -. - - - 25 00
One column 12 months, - - - - 100 00
Advice to a Young Man.
Bob Burdette.;
My boy, when you meet a good-heart*
CARPETS! CARPETS! CARPETS!
In Carpet* we lead the van. We import direct from the mill*, and uho cash in dhtcounting every bill—saving to the trade from 20
t»23per cant, beside* giving new.clean and *tyll*h good*. We has ,JJ ' ..
her* at our cuitioni house, and h* we are the only Importers in our I _
than any other rtouthern Arm* who deal o.\clunlvely with second and third hand*. In fact, we have virtually uo competition in the South, and
further we guarantee price* equal to New York or any other Northern or J£a*tcrn city.
WE ARE THE SOLE AGENTS FOR
The celebrated Crowley factory of Hartford, England, and have a full and complete stock of Velvets, Wittons and Brussels received for the
aprlng trade, all with rug*, poitlcre good* etc., to match.
FOR SHOES, SLIPPERS AND BOOTS
Don't for*et that w« hnve every pair mode to order In all length* ami width* for Ladle*, Gentlemen, Boys, Girls and Children.
Row don'tforget our plurc and remember that the prices ns well a* the quality are guaranteed on everything we sell. Samples of Dress
(text* dent on application.
Agent for Butlerlck's Patterns. CHAMBERLIN, JOHNSON it CO., Importers,
fit; and fit) Whitehall, and 1, 3, 5, 7, II, 11, 13, nnd 15 Hunter Sts., Atlanta, Ga.
Congressman Grimes has nomina- j the Comptroller General has issued a tke other hand we may be sure the
ted Bedell Barker, of Harris, to a va- ; fl. fa. for some $2,800, the amount due con( *' t '” n3 are not favorable to ceii-
cancy in the Naval Academy at An- the State, went before the Governor bacy ' So great, indeed, is the prepon-
napolis. last week and asked that the execution
The great Home revival has com* against him be suspended for thirty
to a close, and the result of it will be j days- After fully considering the
subject, the Governor decided that he
had no authority to take any such ac
tion.
On Mr. N. M. Weaver's plantation,
middleman to divide with7but p'ay our duties oiTim ported'good* ■ as amounting to $200,233.80 per year * n tbe ^inth district of Randolph
i, wo.know that we can give fresher goods with later si>*ies and design*
meekly, as he got into a conversation j ed, genial fellow, open-handed and
with a man on an Eastern train.
“Ah, is that so? Iam thinking of
going out there myself to iuvest in
some farming land."
“We have some very fine land."
“So I understand—but are not some
of the stories they tell of its fertility
exaggerated?”
“Why, my friend, I am sorry to
an early election on the prohibition
question.
The Gazette figures up the official
salary list of the Augusta city officials
derance of women, that the only
means of escape for a misogynist is a
broomstick flight to one of the plan
ets.
No less unfortunate is the plight of
one who is deliberating upon the
choice of a wife. A true lover is not
unlikely to find himself in the position
of Bnridan’s ass. The cynic who de
fer 301 persons. j °f ^arPataula creek, the ' c , ared that when gilty J beautlfuI ^
In Clinch county there is a house of 8 m of Iast * < ^ ek scorched the cot- j men are jn the room the sentiment of
worship called the “Possum Trot ° n 80 eighteen-acre field, burn- beautJ , i3 i 0St _ m eaniDg that a sensi-
church,” and not far from it is a sect ' e the eaves l ° a crl ? p a “ d filling if. j Uve sou , ifted w|th a cute pere eption
called the "Coonites.” The cottOD m the entlre field - exce P l '
— . —, . , . , , ,°n a narrow strip next to a piece of
^.5^.““!!' i woodland, was scorched so that the
| leaves were as completely crisped
I and dry as if a ball of fire had rolled
i over it.
! Grapes are looking line at Pomona,
D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.,
ATLANTA, GA.
Please stand in the shower for a few minutes and allow
us to hold your hat and umbrella, and let us state that there
must be some misunderstanding about the thing, for we did
not capture a line of ocean steamers, nor we have not scooped
in what few auction houses there arc in New York; neither did
wc have all of Broadway, New York, wrapped up and shipped
out to us as a sample lot, for we don’t do things by halves.
But here is the trouble for this week:
An immense stock of choice new WHITE GOODS.
45-inch wide Lacc Flouncing and all over and narrow to
match.
New Nottingham for yokes.
Mull and Swiss—the largest and handsomest line we have
ever shown.
D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.
LEAD IN LOW PRICES.
CLOCKS!
Buy a Clock from me
With a guarantee
That insures your Clock
Against a stop.
I live in your town,
Where I may he found
'Most every day,
Doing what I say.
This is not spring poetry.
by lightning on his farm, several
miles south of LaGrange, Wednesday.
Two negroes were stunned.
Capt. Toliver, of Calhoun county,
has commenced work on his slate
quarry near Plainsville, and is get
ting out some very fine specimens of
slate.
Attorney General Anderson has
been instructed by Gov. Gordon to
l-assist in prosecuting certain cases
I growing out of the Moore lynching
j at Macon.
The Rome Bulletin says that an old
darkey, Hying at the Rush place,
eleven miles from Rome, has his third
! wife and fifty children. He is about
: 08 years old.
Spalding eouLty, not a decayed berry
has been seen, and unless something
unusual happens to cut off the crop
there will be upwards oi 100,000
pounds shipped from there, and as
much more from Vineyard, two and
a half miles south of there, and prob
ably half as much more from Sunny
Side. It will take 20,000 to 25,000 bas
kets to pack the crop. These will sell
at from 50c. to $7 per basket in the
Northern markets.
The Georgia Midland will not reach
Griffin until June 25 at the earliest.
New White and Cream Mits.
An immense variety of white fans.
A whole car-load of Table Linens, and we lead the pro
cession on low prices.
It will pay you to consider well before you go elsewhere
to buy Dress Goods. We know positively that no house can
touch us on low prices.
A petition, signed by 1,100 voters, j Trains will probably not be running
.was presented to the Ordinary of Floyd , until July 1 instead of June 10 or 12,
i county last Tuesday, asking for an i as was expected. The delay is caused
j election on the prohibition question : by the fact that a gang of convicts be
at an eariy day. I tween Griffin and McDonough has
The will of Ned Woodliff, the Ma- been transferred to the Atlanta and
say some of them are downright urn
truths.”
“That’s what I thought. Now,
what is the most remarkable instance
of the fertility of Dakota soil which
ever came under your observation ?”
“Well, I believe the case of my
pump might go at the head of the
list.”
“What was it?”
“1 dug a wetl about forty feet deep
the first season I was there and put
down a wooden pump. It happened
that the pipe was made out of a small
colton wood log which was a little green,
and the soil at the bottom of that well
forty feet from the surface, was so fer-
it
also grew up and branched out, and
now while my children play in
swipg attached to one of the branches
I pump water through the hole which
still remains in the trunk,”
"Do you tell that for the truth
“Why, certainly, sir; I never tell
anything but the truth.”
“Are you engaged in farming or the
real estate business?”
“Why, I’m engaged in neither, my
friend, neither. I’m a preacher,
weut out there as a missionary seven
years ago, and though my work has
been humble I trust it has had a bene
ficial influence on our people.”
And selling the best and
cheapest Watches, Clocks,
Jewelry, Spectacles. Silver
ware, etc., to be found in this
section. Call and see me for
anything in my line.
Respectfullv,
W. E. AVERY
D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.
LEAD IN LOW PRICES.
Our lace and Swiss Embroideries are superb. We are
lower than ever, owing to “CUT RATES.' 1
A big job in Ladies’ White Dressing Sacks, beautiful styles,
formerly sold at $2 to $5. and we arc'closing them at $1 for
choice.
We beat the State on handsome Ruchings.
Elegant lines of novelties in Handkerchiefs.
SHOES.
We have had to add two more men to our Shoe De
partment. which shows for itself how our trade runs. We out
sell and undersell everybody on Shoes, and arc prepared to
prove what wc sav. Shoes for everybody and lower than any
body. •
D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.,
ATLANTA, GA.
NOW LOOK OUT!
OR YOU WILL
MISS A BARGAIN.
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all the diseases peculiar to •
women, such as painful or I
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Falling of the Womb.Leu- !
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FEMALE
CHANGE OF LIFE.
If taken during this crit-
* leal period, trreat suffering
! and danger can be entire-
• ly avoided.
REGULATOR!
Send for onr book containing valuable In
formation fpr women. It will be mailed free
to applicants.
BKADF7KLD Kegulatob Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Commercial College LEXINGTON. KY.
Cheapest & Best Business College w the World.
' — ndGoMMeul' ~ "
tlo*. 8000 eradiate. U
10 Teachers employed. Cost efTaQ BulaM
Ceinck laclndlnc Tatties. Stationery and Board, about 090.
Tor circular*, address Enkrala W. Smith. Principal, or
Wilbur B. Smith. President, LexlactM, K?
1. P. BRADLEY
HA the goods and they must be sold, for he wonts the money. A splendid line oi
Dry Goods, Notions, Boots. Shoes, Hats and Heavy Groceries.
Cash or credit, oh which the very lowest figures are marked. Too many goods foi
the season. They must be sold at some prioe.
A BIG LOT OF FRESH
SPRING WHITE AND STRAW GOODS IN (&EAT VARIETY.
A SPECIAL LINE OF
CLOTHING,
Guaranteeing Fit and Quality, on which I can Save You Money. Come a
aes me and you wUl be sure to buy.
Mr. 1*. P: Woodroof is with me and will welcome his friends.
I. P. BRADLEY.
$25,000.00
IN GOLD!
WILL BE PAID FOB
ARBDCKLES 5 COFFEE WRAPPERS.
con colored barber, who died last
week, was probated in solemn form
before the Ordinary Tuesday. His
property is valued at $10,000.
The County CommissionersofHeard
county passed a resolution at their
last meeting asking the Governor not
to interfere further with the senteDce
of the court in the case of Joliu W.
Smith.
The Thomasville Times reports that
the hitherto vigorous LeG'onte pear is
shedding its leaves. Some alarm is
felt lest the tree may prove not to be
exempt from disease, an has hitherto
been thought.
The granite business at Lithonia has
grown to be a very important in
dustry. Over 400 hands are now em
ployed at fhe various quarries at that
place, and they can scarcely keep up
with their orders.
Bob Hartsfleld rode from Crawford
into Athens, a distance of 13 miles,
Monday morning on a bicycle. He
reports a plasant and uneventful trip.
The bicycle is getting to be quite a
popular mode of locomotion.
The first annual tournament of the
Classic City wheelmen is set for Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, July 7, 8
and 9, at Athens. A very elaborate
programme has been prepared and
some valuable prizes will be offered.
Woodbury, on the Georgia Midland
railroad, is on quite a boom. R. P.
Tallman is now building there a large
hotel, a warehouse,a livery stable and
a store. Mr. Tallman says that he al
so contemplates establishing a news
paper there.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad
Company paid into the Comptroller-
General’s office Tuesday $25,000, the
amount due the State for rent for the
month of May. In the sixteen years
that this road has bten under the con
trol of the present company it has
never failed to pey the rental upon
the last buiineBs day of each month.
A malignant type of dysentery is
prevalent in some portions of Quit-
man county. Mr. John L. Cumbie
has lost three children, and his fourth
child is lyiDg critically ill with the
same disease. Several families in the
neighborhood are suffering with ft,
and with fatal results. It seems to
baffle the skill of the best physicians.
The peach crop is nearly an entire
failure iu North and Middle Georgia.
Tn Southern and Southwest Georgia
there is a prospect of about half a crop.
The prospect of an apple crop is re
ported about two-thirds of an average;
that of the pear about one*tbird. The
prospect for the grape crop is reported
95, or nearly a full crop.
'i Premium, •
2 Premiums,
6 Premiums,
25 Premiums,
100 Premiums,
200 Premiums,
1,000 Premiums,
91,000.00
S500.00 each
9250.00 “
9100.00 “
■ 950.00 "
920.00 "
■ 910.00 "
Hawkinsville railroad, instead of be
ing put to track laying between Con
cord and Griffin. Track iayiDg has
reached Concord and is stopped until
that portion of the road between
Woodbury and Concord is ballasted.
Track laying will not commence
again until June ti, when ft will be
continued to Griffin, and it will’ take
about eighteen days to reach that
point.
The tax returns of insurance com
panies doing business iu Georgia,
sh'.w that the past year has been a
good one. Under the tax act these
companies are compelled to pay into
the State Treasury 1 per cent, of the
amounts received in premiums. Two
Georgia companies make extraordina
ry good showings. The Southern
Mutual returns premiums to the
amount of $237,193.28, while losses to
the amount of $65,3S9.68 have been
paid during the year. The Atlanta
Home returns premiums amounting
to $66,238.58, and losses amounting to
$21,18S 89. An increased business has
been done by almost all the compan
ies.®
Covington Star: “By actual count
on Tuesday last there were eighty-
eight cases of measles in Hayes dis
trict, and they were still spreading.
The disease is getting to be quite seri-
rious in that district, and will cause
much damage to the growing crops,
as the labor is badly broken up in
nearly every neighborhood in conse
quence. The measles have spread all
over the county, but whether there
are as many cases in the other dis
tricts as there are in Hayes we do not
know. They all originated from the
meeting of the Newton County Sun
day School Association, as the germ
of the disease was sown broadcast
over the connty from that meeting,
some one being there with the mea
sles upon them.”
Last Sunday morning a male child
was born to a negro girl, who lives in
Jonesboro, a small suburban village
near Greensboro, composed of negro
shanties. The mother, not relishing
the advent of an heir, attempted to
make way with it. A negro woman
living on an adjoining lot to the one
where the mother live* was attracted
by the faint cries of an infant. Upon in
vestigation she found a child only a
few hours old lying, in a briar patch at
the rear of a small out-house, its body
horribly torn and bruised, and its face
and bands scratched in various places.
of the beautiful is so dazzled and con
fused when multitudinous types are | tile that that pump took root, and
present that the face of bis fiancee is
as devoid of charm as the wriukled
visage of an apple-woman—was a vir
ulent woman hater who had never
spent a day in Boston in his life. In
deed, the contrary is quite true, and
the more numerous and varied the
types of beauty that environ the soul
the more entangled it becomes in the
magic web of their potency and
charm. But this is not all. In 1987
the number of women in excess of
men in the staid old Commonwealth
of Massachusetts cannot possibly fall
short of 500,000 at the lowest estimate,
unless a foreign army invades the
land and bears them away to scenes
of domestic servitude beyond the seas.
As this is not probable posterity must
submit to the alternative with as good 1
a grace as possible.
We need not vex the mind, bowev- j
er, with vague coujectures as to their
probable destiny. T t is not likely that j
many of us will survive to pay their j
milliners’bills, or be harried by hordes ;
jf importunate book agents whose in
creasing numbers will spread dismay
throughout the land. We are safe
from these annoyances, at all events.
But let us indulge the hope that new
fields will be open to their industries;
and now that the bean has become a
symbol of culture, whose meaning is
altogether too vague and deep to be ex
pressed in mere words, they might do
worse than employ their leisure hours
in cultivating the succulent vegetable,
for,'after all, there is no nobler aim
than culture, and matrimony is not
the chief end of life.
Five Millions in New Bonds.
X. Y. Commercial Bulletin. May 20.]
The recenl issue of S5,000,000 of 5 per
cent, fifty-year collateral trust bonds
of the Georgia Central railroad bonds
was placed with a syndicate in this
city atOTj-j. President Alexander said
the other day that the principal object
Id issuing the bonds is to secure money
to complete the Goodwater extension,
to equip the road and to pay for the
plant and terminal facilities at Bir
mingham. Somewhere about $3,000,-
000 is needed for this purpose. There
is a floating debt of $1,050,000, which
was incurred in building the South
Carolina roads, upon which there
is a yearly interest of 6 per cent. One
million dollars will be used to pay off
this debt and the remaining $1,000,000
will be used for banking purpose:
The company expects to save 1 per
cent. on $1,650,000 in paying off tbe
floating debt, which bears 6 per cent,
interest, with a 5 per cent loan. The
$1,000,000 to be used as banking capi
tal will afford the company ample fa
cilities, which it very much needs, to
carry on a banking business. The
amount required to complete the
Goodwater extension is considerably
greater than was anticipated by the
former, management under which it
was begun.
The plan contemplated by Presidert
Raoul was to issue a first aDd second
mortgage on the road, but this it was
found would not furnish money
enough to complete the extension to
Birmingham and secure terminal
facilities there. The country through
which the road runs is rocky and
moimtainous, and even yet it is im
possible to more than roughly esti
mate the cost of construction. In or
der to secure the money which the
eompany needed for this and other
Jay Gould's Outlawry.
>". Y. Letter to Philadelphia Record.
It begins to be noised about that Jay
Gould will astonish New York next
winter by some magnificent receptions
with which he hopes to take the social
world by storm. Be has found society
unwilling to recognize him in ordina
ry channels. Several prominent clcbs
have declined to admit him to-mem
bership, and even the stock exchange
declines the honor of bis company.
But the old man has bis money and
bis family, and he does not mind it
for himself. It is only on account ol
his boys that he desires to break
through the wall of prejudice. He
had set his heart on his don George
marrying into society, and it was a
great disappointment when he took
up with a penniless actress.... But be
forgave him readily, and the two are
inseparable. They go up and down
the town together and walk the street
arm in arm, and it is plain that the
father would make any sacrifice to
gratify the son. Bo, if money will do
it, the boys will get into society, and
in this case money is pretty certain to
accomplish it. Society shut its doors
grimly against the eldest .Vanderbilt
and Astor, but ppened them readily
to the millions ol their sons. It may
not receive Jay Gould—I question if
he cares a ducat about it—but when
the boys shall come knocking for ad
mission with $50,000,000 jingling in
their pockets the golden knocking at
the door will be found to be irresisti
ble. Money alone can keep in the so
cial race. It used not to be so, but it
is undeniably so now.
... , purposes, President Alexander con-
j T he motber of the ch,ld ’ wh0 cooks i ceived the plan of issuing collateral
! for a wh,te famlly 1,1 this P lace - went : trust bonds, putting up altogether about
to her work as usual this morning a
few hours after its birth. She had
just finished cooking breakfast when
the marshal paid her a visit. She re
turned to her infant and acknowledged
The records of the Department of j herself to be its mother. Up to this
Agriculture show up to the present : hour the child bids fair to survive the
time that 166,000 tons of commercial horrible treatment of its inhuman
fertilizers have been inspected and ; mother.
For full particulars and directions see Circu
lar in every pound of Abbtckles' Coffee.
JONES
PAYSthentEICHT
& Toi Wacon Scale*.
Iron Levers, Steel Beari&c*. Brw
Tm Bess sad Bests Box fbr
860
JiaCSSFllaSSANTU,
jt. nTt,
BCiGHiXTOJI.
SALESMEN
^ WANTED A ’
to canvass for the sale of Xnrscry
Stock! iSieady employment guaranteed.
Salary asd expenses paid. Apply at
once, stating age. (Refer to this paper.)
CHASE BROTHERS, Rochester, X. T.
admitted to sale in the State, an in
crease over last year of over 5,000 tons
and the largest amount since the in
auguration of the inspection lawB, ex
cept the seasons of 1884-5, when 170,-
000 tons were inspected.
Tuesday morning during the show-
If the Macon and Birmingham road
isbnilt, passing Woodbury and Green
ville as it will, thus giving a compet
ing broad gauge route to Columbns,
what is to be the fate of the Columbus
and Rome road? Evidently, it will
have to be extended to Newuan from
The Wretched Wren’s Wild Wail.
Audubon Magazine,]
The following charmingstory comes
to us from Warner, III.: “Close to
my office window, as I write this, I
see a wren's nest. Three years ago I
drove some nails in a sheltered cor
ner; a pair of wren’s built tneir nest
there. The old birds often come into
my office and sing. One of them has
repeatedly alighted on my desk as I
have been writing, saying, plainly by
his actions: ‘You won’t hurt me. We
are friends.’ A few years since, in a
knot-hole in a dead tree, near a path
from my office to my house, lived a
family of wrens, with whom I had
formed a very intimate acquaintance.
One day while I was passingin a hur
ry I heard the two old birds tittering
cries of fear and anger, and as I got
past the tree one of the Wrens followed
me, and by its peculiar motions and
cries induced me to turn back.
“I examined the nest and found the
birds all right; looked into the tree’s
branches, but saw no enemies there,
and started .away. Both birds then
followed me with renewed cries; when
I was a few yards away they flew In
front of me, fluttered a moment and
then darted back to the tree. Then
oDe of them came back to me flutter
ing and crying, then darted from me
near to the ground under the tree. I
looked and there lay a rattlesnake,
; coiled ready to strike. I secured a
stick and killed him, the wrens look-
i ing on from the tree, and the moment
i I did so they changed their soDg to a
lively, happy one, seeming to ‘Thank
yon!’ in every note.”
Coffee is not a bnsh, as popularly
supposed, but a tree, which, if per-
generous, who spends money freely
when he has it, who “doesn’t know the
value of money,” who only esteems it
for the good it can do, who believes in
the lively shilling, and always does
his best to make it lively, who can’t
hoard up money for the life of him,
who gets it and spends ft, and then
gets more to spend, so that all of us
may get a little of it, who doesn’t put
down every cent he lets a friend have,
as though he was a money lender, who
if he has only $1 in the world will let you
have 90c. of it if you ask for ft; a good,
whole-souled, generous fellow, who
knows no more and cares no more
about money than a pig does about
Greek, and he is a little hard up, and
wants to borrow $10 of you for a few
days—my boy, don’t you lend him a
cent; don’t lend him a cent. Eh? Dtt
I want you to be mean, close-fisted,
stingy, weighing all friendship and
good fellowship on the scales of the
money lender? Oh no, my boy, I
didn’t say anything of the kind. I
said, and repeat it, “don’t lend him a
cent.” I don’t want you to be mean.
I only^want you to be business-like.
Give him $10, if you have ft to sub
scribe and feel like it; give him what
money you can spare, and your heart
and head justify-you iu giving, but
never lend that kind of a man a dol
lar. Only lend money where there
is at least a remote possibility of its
being paid back. That’s all. You
may go, now. By the way, I took
care of that note of Jack Merrihart’s
that you didn’t tell mo anything
about; it’s all right now, only don’t
lend Jack any more than you can af
ford to give him. A man who has no
idea of tbe value of his own money
has just as little comprehension of the
value of yours.
$6,S00,000 in securities, including $2,
000,000 of Ocean Steamship Company
stock and $60,000 of Montgomery and
Eufaula stock, the bonds of the va
rious roads composing the South Car
olina system, and also a part of the
stock of the Eufaula and Clayton,
and Atlanta West Point and Western
Alabama roads. These stocks are de
posited with the trust company as se
curity for the loan. The bonds were
placed with a syndicate, which will
prevent their being put upon the mar
ket. President Alexander considers m itted to grow, will shoot up thirty
the negotiation a very favorable one. j or forty feet. When properly cultiva-
* I ted it is nipped off about six feet from
“My dear, I have been trying to the ground, thus presenting a surface
er eleven men and boys were sitting ’ Greenville, or to Carrollton from, _ ^
on a bench under a shed at Harvey s j Chipley, or its traffic will be so crip- ; think of something lovely to give°you from which the berries are easily pict
place, three miles from Rome. Near ; pled as to force it to suspend opera-j for a birthday present,” saifi a fond
the shed stood a tree, which was ■ tions. Already a faster schedule and ; wife to her devoted husband. “Yon
struck by lightning. The shock cans- , quicker service is giving to the Geer- I know there are so many things that
ed the men under the shed to fall from j gi a Midland some traffic that belongs | it is bard to select, so I have made out
the bench, and for some time they lay geographically to the Columbus and I a little list. Jnst glance over and
stunned. None were seriously iii- Rome, and naturally the completion cross off anything yon don’t want and
jured, however, and they soon recov- of the former road will widen its pres- add on anything nice which has not
ered - ent business belt. A mail route from j occurred to me.” This was the list:
Monday morning a traction engine i Hamilton to Shiloh is spoken of and , “A canary bird, a willow rocker, aKing
arrived in. Athens by the Georgia rail- 1 other towns on tbe two roads will be j Charles spaniel, a carpet-sweeper, a
road Com the tinyser Manufacturing similarly connected. This will tarn subscription of Harper's Bazar, a
Co., Waynesboro, Pa. It was shipped
to J. G. Eberhart, of Oglethorpe county.
He fired it up at the depot and drove
up the hill, thence down across tbe
bridge and out towards his home In
Oglethorpe. Tbe engine will make
35 uulac oo tbe first trip.
travel to Atlanta and points north of
it from the Columbus and Rome road.
It mnst be extended to live, and the
sooner its extension is resolved upon
and »he fact published, the better it
will be for all concerned.—Hamilton
Journal.
plnshed-covered perfume satchel,
box of monogram society stationary
and a Turkish rag for onr bed-room.”
Tbe wretch read it over and returned
it with the following additions: “A
new bnstie, a pair of diamond ear-rings
and a ladies’ work-basket.”
ed and allowing tbe main stalk to gain
greater strength. The tall shrabs
somewhat resemble the magnolia
with their shining dark greeD leaves
—but the starry, snow white flowers
remind one of orange blossoms in all
but fragrance. Tbe phenomenon is
constantly displayed of bads, blos
soms, green antPripe fruit, all on the
same stem; bat though always flow
ering and developing fruit, the true
harvest season is from April to No
vember. When fully matured tbe
berries are dark red, looking precisely
like a common variety of sea bean.
They torn to a dull brown after hav
ing been picked and becomo almost
black by drying.
Sunday in a Western Town.
St. Paul Pioneer-Press.]
The present terminus of one of the
many railroads now stretching out
from the Pacific coast, from all ac
counts, is a lively place, where ‘ they
worship six days in the week and
raise Cain on Sunday.” A gentleman
from Rockford, Ill., who spent last
Sunday in this place, tells some great
yarns of his experience there. He.
says: “The claim of the Sabbath is
not known there; 4,000 abnormally
healthy residents and the cowboy
community will not permit it. There
are forty-seven saloons In the place.
Last Sunday while I was there some
twenty-five cowboys, armed cap-a-pie
and mounted, rode into town. Plug
bats being scarce as targets, they hit
on a novel method to raise the wind.
They collected by force into one group
all of the soiled doves, rounding them
up just as they would cattle. When a
woman stepped out of the ranks she
was lassoed just as the toys would
handle a cow and brought back. Then
they were driven through the main
streets to the White Bear saloon and
loaded with beer. This diversion
growing wearisome they were paraded
through the streets until they were
ready to drop through exhaustion. The
night wound up with the killing of a
man. It was the most beastly dese
cration of tbe Sabbath I ever met
with. Everybody enjoyed it except
the girls, but their feelings were not
questioned.”
Girls, Be Cautious.
Girls, beware of transient young
men. Never suffer the address of
strangers. Recollect one good, steady
farmer’s boy or industrious mechanic
is worth more than all the floating
trash in the world. The allurements
of a dandy Jack, with a gold chain
about his neck, a walking stick in his
paw, and a brainless though fancy
skull, can never make up the loss of
kind father’s home, a mother’s coun
sel and the society of brothers and
sisters. Their affections last, while
that of such a man is lost at tbe wane
of the honeymoon. Girls, beware!
Take heed lest ye fall Into the “snare
of the fowler.” Too many have been
already taken from a kind father’s
home and a good mother’s connsel,
and made tbe victims of poverty and
crime, brought to shame and disgrace,
and then thrown upon their own re
sources, to spend their few remaining
days in grief and sorrow, while the
brainless fop is making his circuit
around the world, bringing to his ig
noble will all that may be allnred by
bis deceitful snares, and many a fair
one to the shame of his artful viliiany.
A man with a painful expression of
countenance sat on a goods box. “Are
you ill?" some one asked.
“No."
“Have you lost anything?”
‘‘Never had anything to lose.”
“What’s the matter, then?”
“I’m silting on a wasp.”
“Why don’t you get up?"
“Well, that was my first impulse,
but I got to thinkin’ that I was hurtin’
the wasp as badly as he was hurtin’
me, an’ concluded to sit here awhile,
’specially as I am tired. I thought,
too, that I ought to be thankful, for
this is about the easiest seat I have
had lately.”
“What have you been doing that la
so painful!”
“Servin’ on a jury in a prohibition
town.”
Angling is a gentle pastime; but
when two fishermen sit on the same
log, and one gets nothing bnt nibbles,
while the other pulls in the fish aa
fast as he can drop his line, it- is im
possible that there should exist be
tween these two anglers a feeling of
entire and unrestrained cordiality.
A darkey, being brought before the
magistrate, was asked: “Haven’t yon
been in jail for stealing chickens once -
before?” “No,ash; n«indeed,Ihain’t.
Praise de Lawd for his iafernite nine-
ay, nobody bain’t notched me'
seems as ef 1 am perfected h;