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jijratd and ^dm}rfe<jr. 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. ILL ATI ANTA GA TEX. s* mms. : cv ~ 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. McNAMARA & BR0.. -DEALERS IN- MARBLE AND GRANITE, MONUMENTS, TOMBS AND HEADSTONES, TABLETS, CURBING, ETC. £STSPECIAL DESIGNS, AND ESTIMATES FOR ANY DESIRED WORK, FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. 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 ■ AYC0CK MANUFACTURING COMPANY! GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN DREStsED AND "MATCHED FLOORING, CEILING AND ROUGH LUMBER, LATHS, SHINGLES, ALL KINDS OF MOULDINGS, f - SAWED AND TURNED BALUSTERS, BRACKETS, SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS, ETC., ir breaks loose. Cor- Write lot prices and: 4-sa sk for “Simril’s tin” My Blinds are wired with patent clincherwire machine, which never ?y ; ece -is guarun- solicited and special prices given on bills for buildings. % jiliscounts ousasli, Duots, Lands, Ac, *’