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ifeumn, Ga., Friday, August 26tn, 1887.
BICOLINl WAS JEALOUS.
'?&• Reason Wherefore Slosson Went
Away from Patti’s Castle.
CMato Herald.
Me. Slosson describes the Patti cas-
ffeas situated upon a picturesque crag,
’.leartbe base of two magnificent moun
tains; in the Swansea valley, in South
Wales. The building was originally
two stories, a sort of castle, with tur
ret*; but since Patti bought it vast ad
ditions have been made. Three con-
seEvatories have been added, and two
elegant billiard rooms erected by way
ofT/s to the original structure. The
two latter communicate by two doors,
between which is an orchestrion which
cost $150,009. It was built in Geneva,
Switzerland, and plays over 100 operas,
ami has facilities for adding 100 more.
This wonderful orchestrion is inlaid
with bronzes, and is not only beautiful
to look upon, but its melody fills the
castle as with the music of an orchestra
of sixty pieces.
Patti’s billiard parlor, in the north
ern wing of the castle, is probably the
most beautiful billiard parlor in the
world. A rich partition divides the
parlor into two apartments. In one is
an English pocket billiard table as big
as the old-fashioned American table,
and in the other is an American table.
Tire latter is a marvel of costly work
manship. It is made of antique oak,
richly inlaid with ivory and silver and
bronze placques. Soft carpets cover
the floor, expensive paintings hang up
on the walls, and near the frescoed
ceiling is a gallery for a string orches
tra. A grand piano stands in one cor
ner of the gallery. The collection of
ones in the billiard parlor is a remarka
ble one. It contains sticks that were
presented to the diva and Nicolini by
many admirers. Among them is one
from President Diaz, of Mexico, others
from Vignaux, Plot, and young Jacob
Schaefer, and Joseph Dion; Patti’s tu
tor. There are, also, four of different
designs that Slosson himseli presented
tq Patti.
Mr. Slosson described the .conserva
tories the billiard rooms, the saloons,
€fte sleeping apartments, the dining
and breakfast rooms, the parlors and
apart ments as the “finest in the world.
One of the observatories is full of lit
tle cascades and singing birds, and the
atmosphere is laden with the mingled
perfumes of many kinds of flowers. In
this conservatory the diva enjoyed
many an evening promenade with her
American guest. The castle looks down
upon one of the prettiest sights the
globe can boast. At the base of the
mountain is a gently declining sward,
through which runs a trout stream,
whose ziz-zag course extends along the
mountain’s base for thirty-one miles.
Beyond this, and upon the diva’s im
mense estate, there is a salmon stream
which in its meanderings measures
thirty-five miles.
All the saloons, billiard rooms and
conservatories of the castle are lighted
By electricity, while the boudoirs and
private apartments are lighted by gas
manufactured on the premises. There
are, says Mr. Slosson, ninety servants
connected with the castle, over whom
;t German‘named Wilhelm Ileak pre
sides as premier of the estate. He has
authority even over Nicolini, the hus
band of the world’s song bird, and
knows no superior at the castle except
Patti herself.
Within and ■without the castle, says
Mr. Slosson, all is a sea of fruits and
flowers and foliage. The area of the
estate is one of magnificent parks,
lit her home Patti is a queen, and her
husband is a dissolute sot. She enter
tains her guests regardless of him, while
he. entertains them, or rather Ms guests,
after the most selfish style. He has
oue sort of wine for himself and an
other* a less costly brand, for them.
He appears to be badly but sullenly
jealous of her all the while. She is a
lady of brains and force of character,
keeping her own accounts, managing
personally her own affairs, and direct
ing- all matters of business on the es
tate. He is a weak sister, with only
enough brains to comprehend the fact
that others so look upon him. Hence
his uncongenial temperament. Patti
maintains sixteen horses at the castle
lives in a round of regal pleasure, in
which Nicolini often fails to partici
pate.
Slosson, during Ins two weeks’ stay,
was a particular favorite of Patti. Of
ail the guests at the castle while he
was there he was, he says, the favorite.
IBs apartments were the choicest in
Che castle, his seat in the conservatory
diming apartment was nearest the
queen's, and most elaborately deco
rated with bouquets and best served
with wines. And when lie finally tore
himself away from the regal hospitali
ty and affectionate regard of the song
bird he did so with the assurance that
after her South American trip next
year she would return to America once
naore, although having already bid it a
third or fourth farewell.
•The fact is,” says Mr. Slosson, “that
JGbolini was so insanely and foolishly
jjfafous of me that I concluded to avoid
finable by cutting short my delightful
visit-”
Rewarding a Humane Judge.
•Tust look yonder!” exclaimed Judge
Httrybone, addressing his wife. The f -
.Judge was standing upon his porch, j You are growing old, Primus,-and. bc-
tsya the New York Telegram, and hacl j ginning to have silver threads among
caught sight of a party of boys throw
ing stones at a young steer. “Just look
at them, plague take their merciless
skins. Elvina, I can’t stand it: I de
clare I can’t. They shan’t treat the
poor animal that way. I don’t know
who it belongs to, but if it belonged to
my worst enemy they shouldn’t do it.”
The kind hearted Judge ran out,
drove the boys away, and turned the
panting steer into^his own lot.
“Every day I am impressed more and
more with i» your kindness of heart,”
said the Judge’s wife, who came out
smiling.
“I just couldn’t stand it, Elvina. I
can stand it to see a man suffer, for he
can express himself, but I cannot look
inactively upon the torture of an an
imal.
“What are *yo u S oin S t0 do with
him ?”
“Keep him here until his owner is
apprised of his whereabouts
“Do you suppose that there Is any
danger of his breaking through the
palings and tramping down the flow
ers?” the Judge’s wife asked.
“I think not. I tell you what’s a fact,
Elvina. I believe that animals have
gratitude. Lgok at that steer—how
gratefully he looks at me. Get me a
panful of meal and I’ll take it out to
him.
The steej backed up into a corner of
the fence. He was eVidently very
hungry, for, as Macaulay said of old
Sam Johnson, “the sight of food greatly
affected him.” The Judge put down
the pan and said : “Now, young fellow,
we’ll have something to eat. Come on.
Why, I wouldn’t hurt you for the
world. Poor thing, he has been abused
until he is unable to distinguish a friend
from a foe; he regards the whole of
mankind as his enemy.”
The Judge, with one hand persua
sively outstretched, slowly advanced
towardJhe animal.
Woh’t he hurt you?” Mrs. Berry-
bone shouted.
Of course not. He's been so shame
fully treated that lie dbesn’t under
stand me.”
The steer uttered a frightful “bar-r,”
and made a lunge at the Judge, who
leaped aside and took to his heels. The
steer wheeled about and started after
him, and, what is worse, caught up with
him. He knocked the Judge down just
before he reached the gate, and was
butting him with his hornless, but
bony, head, when Mrs. Berrybone,
with woman’s instant conception of
rescue, hurriedly filled a large tin cup
full of boiling water, ran to the gate
and threw the water At the steer. Un
fortunately the animal changed his po
sition just at that moment, and a loud
roar, which came from the ground,
announced that the tfudge had caught
the water. In a moment more the hu
mane gentleman had scrambled to his
feet and darted into the house. When
he came out, which he quickly did, he
was accompanied with a gun. He fired
passionately, and, missing the steer,
killed a blooded colt in an adjoining
lot. The steer broke through the pal
ings, trod upon the flowers, and made
his escape.
Primus the First.
Jacksonville, Fla., Times-Union.
The Hon. Primus W. Jones, of Baker
county, Georgia, has told the Atlanta
Constitution the secret of the way in
which he manages to get the first bale-
of cotton into market every year. It
turns out that there is not much of a
secret about it after all, if he has made
a clean breast of the business, and that
any moderately large planter in the
southerly portion of the cotton belt
can compete hopefully for the first bale
honors if he has any ambition in that
direction.
The modus operandi is simply this, to
quote the famous planter’s own words:
“In the first place, I guess I am the
hardest worked white man in Georgia.
For the past six months I have had less
sleep, probably, than any man simi
larly situated. I get up at 3 or
half-past 3 every morning and from
that time until night my men and I are
hard at work. I use the intensive sys
tem of farming and believe in it thor
oughly. In the first place, I plant very
early, taking considerable risk in doing
so. I manure my land heavily and
work it rapidly. I always save the seed
of my first picking and that helps. I
have 300 acres of that early cotton.
Everything that can be done to force
the cotton—that is, everything in the
way of manuring and working—is done.
Then as the bolls begin to open, I pick
the first and in that way make up my
hale. Of course, I have to go over a
large area in order to get the cotton so
early, taking a boll here and a bolt
there, as I find them matured. That’s
all there is in it,”
Taking the, statement as the literal
truth, no reasonable cotton planter
ought to begrudge the Hon. Primus W.
Jones his well-earned honors. He has
sent in the first bale from his section
of the moral cotton field every year
but one since the war, and it looks as if
he proposes to monopolize the first
bale honor the balance of his life and
transmit it to his heirs—no, “to his ex
ecutors, administrators and assigns,” for
we believe lie-is still abachelor. The only
trouble in the way is the danger that
the stock of fresh markets where uryipe
cotton will pass muster may give out.
But cui bono ? What is the use sit
ting up nights and running one’s self to
death eveu for the distinction of being
the early bird that catches the.'cotton
worm, or buyer, as the case may be?
the raven. It’s time to quit all this
vanity and overwork, and to settle
down and think of posterity. Why
heap up honors ana cash for posterity
without taking time to provide the
posterity to enjoy them ? “Fling away
ambition” and single cussedness, paint
the “front fence,” whitewash the
gin-house, go courting, get married and
settle down “in life.” This first bale
business is ]|ardly worth what it costs.
He Didn’t Enjoy Sea Bathing.
New York Evening Sun.
An old man with very thin legs, thin
hair and long beard emerged from an
Asbury Park bath house at Fourth
avenue last evening and looked sorrow
fully toward Europe. The bathing suit
did not fit him by many degrees, and.
besides it was tom in the back. The
old man hesitated for a moment as he
observed that the beach loungers were
taking him in. He appeared to be' en
tirely alone. From a general survey of
his physique one would select him for
a deacon in the Baptist church or treas
urer of some Sunday-school who had
escaped with the funds.
After looking sadly at the sea, which
rolled a healthy swell against the sands,
he went toward the water’s edge at a
funeral pace. He folded his arms and
looked some more at the sea, guaging
with Iris gray eye the distance reached
by the swell as it came in.
It was quite clear to those who
watched him that he had never been in
the ocean before.
“Go on,” shouted one of the dudes,
who lay in .the sand reading a seaside
novel. “Go on; the water won’t hurt
you.”
The old man took courage and step
ped down to the life line. He grabbed
it.with both hands; iu came a swell and
tickled his bare feet. He jumped to
avoid getting his feet wet, but the salt
water had caught him. He danced
around a moment on the wet sand, as
the waves reduced, and took another
step toward Europe. He still had hold of
the line with one hand. He was about
to take another step eastward, when a
good round swell came in and knocked
both feet from under him. When he
came dowq he dug a hole in the sand,
and slid along seaward as the waves
went out.
Thinking he was gone, he gave one
whoop,* flopped over on his stomach,
and made for shore on all fours like a
crab. He did not stop running on his
hands and knees until he had reached
the dry sand. Then he got on his feet
and dug sand for his bath house. He
didn’t stop for anything. He hurriedly
threw on his clothes, and walked brisk
ly away, saying not a word to any
body. He will go home and discour
age sea bathing.
A TERRIBLE
SURGICAL OPERATION!
A FATAL MISTAKE.
The Cleveland (Ohio) Press,
of February 23d, 1883, pub
lished an account of a fatal
surgical operation which caused
a great commotion among med
ical men throughout the whole
country, Dr. Thayer, the most
eminent surgeon in Cleveland,
pronouncing it scandalous. It
appears that a Mrs. King had
been suffering for many years
from some disease of the stom
ach, which had resisted the
treatment of all the physicians
in attendance. The disease
commenced with a slight de-
;nt of the digestion,
with a poor appetite, followed
by a peculiar, indescribable dis
tress in the stomach, a feeling
that has been described as a
faint “all gone” sensation, a
sticky slime collecting about
the teeth, causing a disagree
able taste. This sensation was
not removed by food, but, on
the contrary, it was increased.
After a while the hands and
feet became cold and sticky—
a cold perspiration. There
was a constant tired and lan-
elirm. Then followed
O
dreadful nervousness, with
gloomy forebodings. Finally
the patient was unable to re
tain any food whatever, and
there was constant pain in the
abdomen. All prescribed rem
edies failing to give relief, a
consultation was held, when it
was decided that the patient
had a cancer in the stomach,
and in order to save the pa
tient’s life an operation was jus
tifiable. Accordingly, on the
22d of February, 18^3, the op
eration was performed by Dr.
Vance in the presence of Dr.
Tuckerman, Dr. Perrier, Dr.
Arms, Dr. Gordon, Dr.' Capner
and Dr. H alii well of the Police
Board. The operation- consis
ted in laying open the cavity
guid
this had been done an examin
ation of the organs was made,
but to the horror and dismay
of the doctors there was no
cancer to be found. The pa
tient did not have a cancer.
When too late the medical men
discovered that they had made
a terrible mistake; but they
sewed, the parts together and
dressed the wound that they
had made, but the poor woman
sank from exhaustion and died
in a few hours. How sad it
must be for the husband of this
poor woman to know that his
wife died from the effects of a
surgical operation that ought
never to have been performed.
If this woman had taken the
proper remedy for Dyspepsia
and Nervous Prostration (for
this was what the disease really
was,) she would have been liv
ing to-day. Shaker Extract
of Roots, or Seigel’s Cura
tive Syrup, a remedy made ex
pressly for Dyspepsia or Indi
gestion, has restored many such
cases to perfect health after all
other kinds of treatment have
failed. The evidence of its ef
ficacy in curkig this class of
cases is too voluminous to be
published here; but those who
read the published evidence in
favor of this dyspeptic remedy
do not question its convincing
nature, and the article has an
extensive sale.
W. E. AVERY
DEALER IN
WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
JEWELRY,
SILVERWARE,
SPECTACLES,
GOLD PENS,
CHINA AND GLASSWARE,
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE,
SINGER SEWING MACHINE,
NEEDLES AND OIL,
VIOLIN STRINGS,
BRIC-A-BRAC,
NOVELTIES
In house decoration, .etc.
WEDDING RINGS,
MEDALS, BADGES, PRESENTA
TION AND SPECIAL PIE
CES OF JEWELRY.
REPAIRING AND ENGRAVING.
Everything guaranteed
all work warranted.
as represented—
W. E. AVERY, the Jeweler,
Xewnan, Ga.
Chicago - 30 UNION SQUARE,N.Y- DALLAS.
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J. R. SEWELL, Newnan, Ga. *
SIMRIL
MANUFACTURING CO.,
NEWNAN, GA.
E. S. BUCHANAN,
DEALER IN DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES
SNEAD’S ODD STAND, WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
NEW GOODS,
Everything Selected with Care and BOUGHT FOR CASH.
Atlanta Prices in anything in the Dry Goods line.
We will Duplicate
NOTIONS AND NOVELTIES
Of all kinds; also a full line of
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS,
And a General Line of
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS.
I also carry a full line of
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
MY GROCERY LINE IS COMPLETE.
PURE GOODS AT LOW PRICES *
“SELL” IS MY MOTTO.
Come and see me and be convinced. If you don’t buy you will be treated politely.
Grace is with the house and will be pleased to see bis old friends.
W. C.
E. S. BUCHANAN.
WHAT SHALL WE DO TO BE SAVED?
HOW CAN WE SAVE MONEY?
The latter I can regulate; the former I can assist you in.
I have on hand a large and well selected stock of SPRING GOODS, and they must be
sold. My stock of
SPRING CLOTHING
Is complete and will please the moet fastidious. Come and see them. Boys’ suits from $3 to
$12.50. Men’s Suits from $7-50 tc $20 All I want is a chance to show them;—the goods will
S6ll t-hpmkp!vpk.
My line of DRY GOODS consists of Ginghams. Lawns, Muslins. Dress Linens, Table Dam
ask, Checks, Bleachines, Sheeting Shirting—in fact, everything and anything in the way ot
staple Dry Goods and Notions.
A big line of Men’s and Boys’ Straw Hats; can’t be beat In town for style or price. Also,
a handsome lot of Men’s soft and stiff Hats.
I sell the best hand-made Shoe in town for the money—both for Gents and Ladies* My
stock was selected with care and comprises all the late novelties and styles. A large lot of
medium grade Shoes always on hand.
GROCERIES.
Mv stock of Groceries consists of Corn, Meat, Flour, Meal, Syrup. Sugar, Coffee, and ev-
eryihing needed to refresh and sustain the inner man. This department is replenished every
week and all goods sold are gna ran teed to be fresh and sound, or money refunded. Will
sell low for Cask, or On Time for approved paper. -
Get my prices before buying elsewhere; I can make it to your advantage to do so.
Greenville Street.
J R. HERRING.
PRICE OF
GULLET’S MAGNOLIA
COTTON GINS
REDUCED TO
$3.00 PER SAW
QUALITY STILL SUPERIOR:
Makes Better Sample Than Any Other Gin in the Worl
Ask agent in your town for prices of Gins, Feeders and Condensers, or write to us.
THOS. M. CLARKE & CO., *k
GENERAL AGENTS, ATLANTA, GA.
NEWNAN MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS.
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MARBLE AND GRANITE,
MONUMENTS, TOMBS AND HEADSTONES,
TABLETS, CURBING, ETC.
£STSPECIAL DESIGNS, AND ESTIMATES FOR ANY DESIRED
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NEWNAN, GEORGIA.
R00FIRG, VALLEY, GUTTERS
and all special.Tinwork and Repairing done
prOmptlv an<Fwarranted. We also manufac
ture a full lineof ScpekioeTiswaRe which
of the abdomen and =
the stomach ahe boivels. \v hen " rJ ■
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MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
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LUMBER, LATHS, SHINGLES, ALL KINDS OF MOULDINGS,
f - SAWED AND TURNED BALUSTERS, BRACKETS,
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ir breaks loose. Cor-
Write lot prices and:
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sk for “Simril’s tin” My Blinds are wired with patent clincherwire machine, which never
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