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Nov. 25, 1887.
TEE MAI.’S T "ES OP MEXICO.
Dark Shooting Ainang the Floating Gai^
(leim of the Aztecs.
Vast marshes stretch out in every di
rection, dotted with immense ponds—tha
duck preserves of Mexico. This region,
in olden days, was the bosom of tha
broadest of the Aztec lakes. After the
construction of the great Spanish drain,
only water enough was left to breed ma
laria and attract water fowl.
These {Kinds are rented to the Indians
:U fabulous prices, who mainly subsist
itjmn the harvest of ducks which they 1
gather with all the regularity of a wheat f
crop. It is estimated that . r >00,000 an- \
nually load the market of Mexico. The |
Indians are actuated by no love of s{iort, !
but from stern necessity; and while the !
slaughter involves little skill, it is unique !
and one of the Features of the country, i
They erect a sort of infernal machine |
with three tiers of gun barrels—one level i
with the water, one slightly elevated, and ;
the third at a still greater angle. They j
employ from fifty to :J00 musket barrels,
which they hide irt the logs, floating
them among the marsh grass near the
water’s edge. These are exploded, some
times by fuse and sometimes by elec
tricity. The lower tier is discharged at
the birds while they are sitting, and the
second and third tiers are fired in quick
succession as they rise. During duck
season this wholesale havoc takes {dace
several times a week, and nets these
thrifty Indians from 400 to GOO birds per
shot.
The marshes and causeways were cov
ered with a picturesque throng, on foot
and horseback, the entire tritie, men,
women and habit's. They seemed to
have no regular method of distributing
the plunder: but so soon as the smoke
cleared all plunged forward and secured
as many as they could pick up. For an
hour the causeway leading to Mexico was
lined‘with a duck laden procession. Tied
to rancheros’ saddles, hung on poles,
dangling with the little mahogany babies
upon the backs of Indian mothers. Like
all the good things in life, the distribu
tion was an uneven one, and some could
go to market with their gains while
others would still go hungry. One littlo
fellow, clad in a scant shirt and broad
smile, trotted along with only a duck’s
head as his portion. Never mind! he
will grow into the capacity of a whole
bird bv and by. We naturally questioned
why these silly coveys return to the same
death trap from year to year, and learn
that there are myriads of savory eggs,
called agayacatl, deposited here by an
insect, which some declare a musquito,
others designate as a fly. The ducks are
not alone in th«;ir appreciation of this
dainty, for the Indians gather them also,
and make them into a tortilla, which
they declare delicious. The taste re
sembles fish roc. and “musquito pate” is
a bonne bouehe often found upon fash
ionable tables in the capital.
Father Page, in his ‘ Travels,” says
that * ‘at one season of the year the In
dians had nets of mail, with the which
lliey raked off a certain dust that
is bred upon the lake of Mexico. They
gathered much of this and
heaps and made thereof cakes
brickbats. And they did not only sell
this ware in the market, but also sent it
abroad to other fail's and markets afar
off: and they did eat this meal with as
good a stomach as we eat cheese—yea,
and they hold the opinion that this scum
of fatness of .the water is the cause that
such great number of fowl cometh to
the lake, which in the winter season is
infinite,”
This was written early in the Seven
teenth century, and “infinite” is still the
oroper word to designate the number of
•vikl fowl that here abound.—Emily
Pierce in Outing.
LULLABIES.
The afternoon is fair and still.
Unveerinp stand the village rt ips.
The sunshine sleep*, on roof and Sill
And glances from my neighbor's panes;
A languid sense of slumber cheer
Brtxxls over all things, calm and mild.
And low from p’er the way I hear
A mother singing to her child.
A mother's love in measures thrills
The silence of mid-afternoon;
The baby's pouting mouth it stills
That will not ope to cry or croon;
Soft folded to that tender breast
The little head lies reconciled.
The songs drift o’er its dreams of rest—
The mother sings unto her child.
No other sounds are in the air.
And softly fall those drowsy turn*
Upon my heart like peace and prayer—
A lullaby of childisn runes;
And slumber strains more low and sweet
Have never yet to sleep beguiled:
“Rest, little bead and hands and feet;"
A mother singing to her child.
-A. W. Bellaw in Yankee Blade.
MR. BENONI’S STORY.
kept it in
i like unto
The Cup Which Ch
But not many days ago I found a new
anil better way of making tea, and that
the tea question should ever be stirred up
and need settling once again surprised
me. Mother’s way of making it had
seemed unquestionable at first: One tea-
spoonful of tea. one cupful of boiling
water; steeped, not boiled, live minutes.
But night after night there floated on
my husband’s cup one. two or a dozen
liny particles of stem and leaf, until a
strainer there must be, but "A pretty
silver one,” I said, “and 1 will wait till
•Christ! uas.” Then came my best of hus
bands to the rescue with a mild sugges
tion: for he b long suffering, and neither
demands improvement nor finds fault
with present methods in my housekeep
ing. lie proposed teaching me his
mother's way of making tea. It was to
use the same proportion as before, but
not to pour th" whole amount of h.-iling
water on the leaves fntii they have first
been steeped in jnsfc enough to cover
them, three minutes. Then add the
amount of water required, and serve. If
the water really boils there will be no
• ‘floaters.
* By the new rule, found in our daily
paper, tea is made with cold water, and
is intended to be used iced in tumblers.
But. accidentally, we have discovered
that it makes superior hot tea also. Four
or five horn's before using, pour out cup
ful of cold water over a teas}toonful of
tea leaves. At tea time strain and serve
as iced tea, or heated in the teapot. The
straining before heating gives unusual
delicacy to the flavor.—Good Housekeep
ing.
i !>:■ Ouiucey, the Opium Eater.
Crabb Robinson met him in 1B1*2. and
said that "iiis port; a is Small. hi> com
plexion fair, and his air and manner are
those off a sickly and enfeebled man.”
Mr. James Payn met him in Edinburgh
at a dinner party, and de.-cribes hi: , :.s a
“verv diminutive man. carelessly -very
carelessly —dressed; a face lined, care
worn. and so expo -ion!;-- that it re
minded one of ‘that chili, changeless
brow wlit-re cold i h -tmotionV apathy
appalls the gazing mourner's heart' a
face like death in life. The instant he
1 >egau to speak, howiuvi, if fit up as
though by electric light; this came from
his marvelous eye, brighter ana more
intelligent (though by fif'd than 1 have
ever soon in any otiiei moital. i,u}
seem to me to glow with eloquence.”—
All the Year Round.
Inhale warm salt water through your
nose if you wish to cure your cold, says
an eastern doctor.
“This is Mr. Benoni, ” said my friend
: Dr. Banks, :is a sudden turn in the gravel
I walk brought us almost face to face with
| a man seated on a rustic bench. “Mr.
i Heiioni is a friend of mine, and is here on
a visit.” This last was said by way of
introduction in Mr. Benoni's hearing, ho
having risen and advanced towards us.
He was tall, proportionately broad, and
his steel gray hair framed an intellectual
face. “Mr. Benoni,” continued Dr.
Banks, when we had sauntered up to the
tiench and seated ourselves, “loves na
ture. 1 venture to say that two hours
before we were stirring he was wander
ing through the garden listening to the
voices of the morning. ”
“Yes,” said Mr. Benoni, “I was out
early this charming morning; and where
could one enjoy it more fully than in this
beautiful garden? Your friend”—ad
dressing me— “made a fortunate choice
when he selected this site for a country
place. One can roam for hours without
tiring through the spacious grounds. Dr.
I tanks understands me. He knows that
I love to commune with nature, and he
often leaves me undisturbed in the soli
tude of some shady retreat. There is
but one objection to the place, and that
objection arises through the doctor’s
own fault. I speak frankly and with
out reference to yourself—he has
too many friends. The house is often
full of them, lie is constantly asking
people to visit him. and those who come
usually stay a long time. They interfere
with my enjoyment of nature. When I
have found a solitary nook where I can
remain undisturbed, one of the doctor's
friends appears in view—more than
likely Mj\ Arundel, who is seated yonder
reading, and who seems to have a habit
of getting in my way. When I first vis
ited the doctor here, lie did not have so
many friends. But I suppose his con
stantly growing practice has brought him
into contact evitli many people. I will
not lie so selfish as to wish that he had
been less successful. But I am growing
old now, inclined to be querulous, and
have been here so long that I regard the
place somewhat as my own. Hence my
frankness. I love the doctor—he is the
only man I love-r-for only he, the birds
anil the dowers understand me.”
Dr. Banks had been listening with a
good natures 1 look to Mr. Benoni’s strict
ures on his liberality. “Benoni,” he
said, "I am sure my friend is another
man who will understand you, if you will
tell him vour story. He has traveled
much, seen much and read much, but I
am quite sure lie has never had or heard
of a stranger experience than yours. He
is my best friend—in strong sympathy
with at! mi' thoughts and opinions; and
I am convinced that as I understand you,
so will he.”
Mr. Benoni looked at me earnestly, and
then bowed his head meditatively. Look
ing suddenly up again and pointing to a
l.iy which rose majestically yet gracefully
above a bed of filnvers, he said: “That
lily brings vividly before me a form of
grace anil a face of beauty—the form ami
face of my dead wife, 1 hold the doctor
d.ai above all other men. because he
knew her and remembers her beauty. 1
love nature, because in all that is beauti
ful in nature I can siv her. Hence I Jove
solitude, because in solitude 1 can lies!
c >mmune with what is most beautiful in
nature.
“No one who never knew my wife can
appreciate the shadow which her death
lias cast over my life, or form an idea,
of tli- grief an ! despair which since then
h:v> entered my heart. We h:u! known
each other since childhood, for we had ,
• away to the
£iown up together. Our parents houses 1 *. .... ,
w av a -joining. We ro:n;v>:! together
with i-he i i.:! .ren of the mighto'hood,
in : ,ose ehiliiismil games 1 assumed a
kind' of 'protectorate over her. and
in those disputes i.i which chil
dren's i-ports not inf; ■ ai'-nllv end 1
i;u care that she was never
wronged. 1 remember e.-;\liaMy one
occasion when I was her champion. As
a child, already Alice had a profusion of
black hair. In the days when we played
those romping games i. was bound by a
single i b x-ii, from wh.it h it fell over her
shoulders and back. When she ran. i*v
motions were grace itself. Her cheeks
glowed with excitement, and her hair
Streamed in the breeze. One day a boy.
who was running after her in «ne of our
games, in his eagerness to catch her. in
stead of waiting till he gained on her suf
ficiently to grasp her arm. caught her
streaming hair. The check was so sud
den and so n*de t int she fell with a sharp
cry of lain. What followed I cannot
tell or my own knowledge. Lookers on
toll me that I threw myselS upon the
hoy. and that a short, hut severe light en
sued —short because my blood was up—
and 1 soon it Tost him. That incident !
ilrev Alice and myself closer to one an-
other, anil our friendship soon became ;
proverbial among our com;;arions. And
so our childhood passed, and she entered
upon lovely maidenhood and 1 upon
Yo rk. The ps : o' ]. r beauty as n
eh.'.! was more ih.m fulfilled: iceloveh-
Ts*— i f her far harmonized with the
m ild- illy grate of In r form. In her :
j eiiikllu id i had b-.v-r. fas' protector, bn!
nor a seemed a- though 1 relied more
upon h r than sli,e uis>n me: f.<r i h.i i ail
i mi h.«; -. s and ambifiotts co her.
song In guidance of her.- Sin* would
listen to me with tend; r interest, and
a ivise me gently yet firmly,
j “Soon another bond of sympathy >
sprang u;» between ire. X- - li:al i ;
iaoii a love /or l>eaati?ul music. Th-
pwegl of both vt us w«ro musical, and :
as children already we had received les
sons on the piano. But in those days wf
were more interested in our childish
games. As we grew older, however, and
more serious, and our emotions deeper,
music gained a strong hold ujion us. Not
only did we hear the compositions of the
great masters performed at concerts, but
we played arrangements of them as duets
on the piano. Thus we grew more and
more familiar with them, until we knew
them note by note. When we could
play them technically correctly we tried
to penetrate into their deeper meaning.
It was then I began to discover the poetry
of Alice's nature. Beauties which would
have remained hidden from me she dis
covered, and for the interpretation of
every composition she had numerous
jKK'tic suggestions. And so we often
reveled in a wealth of beautiful sound.
Yet we were quite unconscious of the
bond of sympathy which united us until
there came a time when we tlfought wc
should be obliged to part—for the first
time since early childhood. Alice’s pa
rents had decided to take her to Europe
for a year or two, in order that foreign
travel might complete her education. I
remember, as if it were but yesterday,
the afternoon when she told me of our
approaching separation. She spoke of it
with mournful tenderness. I could say
nothing. But I had a language better
than speech in which to express the emo
tions which welled up as she spoke.
There is an impromptu by Schubert,
which has been aptly entitled the ‘Elegy.’
It is a mournful melody, floating over a
softly flowing accompaniment, like the
voice of a lonely spirit over the water.
Gently I drew Alice to the piano, and
seating myself at the instrument, intoned
the ‘Elegy.’ Swayed by a feeling which
I could not define, I played with the
deepest expression of which I was capa
ble. As the last notes died away hot
tears fell upon my hands. I looked up
into Alice’s face. Slie was weeping.
Flushed with the heat of sudden passion,
I clasped her to my heart and kissed her.
A moment later a thrill of joy passed
through me as her lips touched my brow.
Releasing her, I knelt before her. She
laid her hands upon my head as though,
in blessing. Not a word had been
spoken, but our stories had been told—
we loved one another.
“Alice did not go to Europe. Our
parents were not opposed to our union.
Indeed, they had expected such an event,
though not so soon. Still, they had so
familiarized themselves with the idea,
that, when our love for one another was
made known to Alice’s parents, the trip
to Europe was abandoned. We were
not, however, to marry until the lapse
of two years, when I would be 22 and
she 20. Fortunately my parents were
weil off. and it was not necessary for me
to earn my own living before I could
marry Alice. All the same. I was ambi
tious enough to work hard at the studies
which were to fit me for the legal pro
fession. a course in which she encouraged
me. Need I tell how happily those two
years passed? Of our loving exchange
of confidence? Of the trust we reposed
in one another? The sweetness and beau
ty of Alice’s character became more and
more apparent to me; and when, two
years after our engagement, we were
united in marriage, it seemed to me as if
the climax of happiness hail keen reached.
As I stood at the altar to receive hei.
and she came up the aisle clad in white,
her face calm yet radiant, I could not
but feel that 1 was receiving an angel
into my life. Nor was I mistaken. But
I had been mistaken when I had thought
that the climax of happiness had been
reached on our wedding day; for every
day of our married life brought new
happiness. Alice’s face often wore that
calm yet radiant expression it had worn
on our wedding day. Her lips often
seemed to me about to part in a smile of
happiness. When her fr.ee wore that
pi'ession of quiet rapture it was loveli-
e.st to behold. I see it ri ling before me
now! 1 ]>ut out my hands to touch it!
It has vanished! Ah! it was but the
vision of a spirit! For, aias! Alice
is no more. Three years of ever in
creasing happiness, and then came a
tragedy all the more terrible for the
bliss which had preceded it. Ah, bitter
memory of the hours of agony I passed
at her bedside! Alas! will time never
assuage the despair, the agony, of that
hour when they o ld mo her eyes had
closed in death? 1 charged them with
lying to me; for, as I looked upon her
face a.- she lay there so still, her lips, as
so often bgfero. seemed to me about to
part in a smile of happiness. Is it- a
wonder tint, when they came to bear her
: mb. I stood like a wild
1 .east at bay before bar coffin and dared
| them to approach? Seized, overpowered
1 by superior numbers, it was only when
! they tiireatenedNto force me to remain
I guarded in that room that I desisted in
order that I -flight be allowed to follow
her remains, to the tomb, and there be
sufi'ered i-> gaze upon her features.
Fools, to think tier dead! I knew better
than they. Would her lips still seem
■ about to part in a smile of happiness if
she were dead and lost to me? I felt that
when, at the moment which others would
think to be the moment of my final part
ing from her in. the tomb, I called her by
name, she woukl awaken from her trance
and clasp me to her bosom and return
with me once more into the air and sun
shine. At last that moment came. Xhe
dreary cortege had; reached the tomb* the
heavy portal had been thrown back, and
they had Ixwne the coffin into the sepul
cher, and placed it upon the catafalque.
I stepped forward to take what the fools
who hail brought her there thought would
be my last look at her. As I approached
her I saw the dear familiar look of quiet
rapture come over her face, her lips
seemed about to part in a blissful smile,
and I was sure I saw a slight tremor of
the hand nearest me. I could not control
my feelings. '-Alice! Alice!*’ Iex< aimed,
and rushing to the side of the cofiin, I
raised her and clasped luT to my breast.
•••Ire i- nab!' ! heard c.;v of those
behind me exclaim. A moment l.ittr I j
w.is seized by -imng arms. I .•' niggled j
with the ; of dcs It
1 me '.thing. £ v.;; drugged from ;
while. You have been very ill. It ia
two weeks since you were placed uncon
scious upon this bed. ’
“ ‘Where is she?’ I asked.
“ ‘Sue? Who?’
“ ‘Alice! My lovely Alice! Where is
she?’
‘ ‘The physician turned to the bystand
ers, and shrugging his shoulders tapped
his forehead with one of his fingers.
“ ‘Wretches!' I cried, raising myself
in bed, *you know not what you have
done. You have left her alive in the
tomb. I saw her hand move just before
I clasped her to my breast. No power
in the world can hold me back now. I
will open the portal of that tomb or die
in the effort!'
“The bystanders looked at the physi
cian.
■‘ ‘The exertion may be fatal to Sir.
Benoni.’ he said. *On the other hand,
this excitement surely will be. Besides,
you tell me that in the tumult attending
his removal from the coffin the lid waa
not closed. That can be done, and Mr.
Benoni at the same time become satisfied
that his imagination Inis played him
false. It may have a wholesome effect
upon him,’ was added in an undertone.
• ‘To get in readiness to start, to enter
a carriage, drive through the town and
into the cemetery, occupied barely an
hour. Yet, when we drew up in front
of the tomb, it seemed to me as if years
had elapsed. What wild fancies whirled
through my brain during that dreary
drive—my beautiful Alice rising in her
coffin; stretching out her arms into the
ayvful darkness of the tomb and piteously
calling my name; calling it still as she
gropes her way along the damp walls to
the portal; shrieking with despair as she
finds it closed; tearing her flesh from her
fingers in her frantic efforts to loose the j «-] a ss e S for 2 xC. at AVERY’S,
iron lock and free herself; groping her * u
way once more along the damp walls
only to find herself again at the unyield
ing portal: mad with famine, beating her
head against the cruel iron; in the agony
of insanity tearing out handfuls of her
raven hair; in the last desperation of - c ..
madness grasping the lock again and fall- Mind Stone Rings; Gold, ollvCT,
ing with a moan lifeless against the por
tal! Do you wonder that beads of per
jAinqjgiBM «U,
Price, $2.50 at Avery’s.
EYE-GLASSES
Good Spectacles and Eye-
WEDDING RINGS,
Gift Rings, Engagement
Rings, Birthday Rings, Plain
spiration were on my brow when we
reached the tomb? I snatched the largo
key from the hand of one of my relatives
who had accompanied me, turned it in
the lock and pushed back the portal. It
opened slowly for a few inches. Then
something impelled it. Almost frantic, I
called upon those who had come with me
to summon all their strength. With a
great effort we made the portal yield
enough to admit me. I rushed through
the opening. When barely in the tomb
I stumbled and fell. As I fell, I clutched
about me, and felt one hand close upon
an arm. The others had followed me.
They dragged me out, my hand stiLi
clutching that arm. What was it they
drew’ out after me? Alice? Oli, horror!
Let me not call that hideous, distorted
vision of her by that name! ‘Villains,’ I
shrieked, as I gazed upon her lacerated,
bleeding form, ‘you are her murderers—
you who dragged me from her side and
closed the portal of this tomb upon
her!’ ”
Mr. Benoni buried his face in his hands,
and I saw that he was trembling with
excitement. Dr. Banks beckoned to
Arundel. The latter approached, and
without further order took a seat beside
the narrator. As Dr. Banks and I walked
away I asked: “Are you not afraid to
leave him with only Arumlei to look after
him?”
“No, Benoni is not a raving maniac.
Indeed, he is one of the most tractal>le
inmates of mv asylum, and Arundel is a
f filled and plated Rings,
prices, sizes and styles at
era’s.
All
Av
trusty keeper.”
••Has his story no foundation of fact?
Is it all the offspring of his diseased
mind?”
“There is foundation for much of it.
Benoni's wife was a beautiful woman
named Alice Mowbray*. They had known
each other since childhood, and their
union was singularly happy. Three years
after their marriage siie died, during the
typhus epidemic here some twenty-five
years ago. Her death unsettled hi rea
son. lie would not believe that she was
dead. In the tomb lie insisted on being
allowed to see her face again. For fear
of maddening him they complied with
his \vi.-.h and opened the coffin, it was
then his mind gave way. Ii. clasped his
wife's dead form to ids breast, and had
to be removed by force. He has been
hopelessly insane since then. Ids insanity
taking the shape of a fixed idea tliat
some time after his wife's death, as the
story lie toiil you ran. the tomb was
opened, and it was discovered that she j greatest bargains arc in
had been buried alive, i had just opened ® - - - — 1
this private asyfum/and he was placed
mv charge, and has been here ever
since.”
I arm constantly receiving
the newest and latest designs
in all kinds of Jewelry, and in
vite everyybody to examine
them. I have all kinds, from
the ioe. pin up.
I take pride in selling good
watches, and while I have
watches as low as
Professional <£aros.
L. P. BARNES,
Attorney at Law,
* Newnan, Ga.
Office up-sf.airs over B.,S. Askew A Co.’s.
PAYSON S. WHATLEY,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, Ga.
Wilt practice in all the Courts and give
prompt utteurion to all business placed in bis
hands. Examination of titles, writing deeds,
mortgages, contracts, etc., will riceive spe
cial attention. Office over Askew’s store.
L. M. FARMER.
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, Ga.
(Office over First National Bank.)
Will prae ice in all the Courts of Coweta
Circuit. All Justice Courts attended.
£fjr>- Money to loan on real estate at 8 per
cent, per annum. Interest paid at end of the
year.
P. 8. Willcoxon. W. C. Wright.
WILLCOXON A \VRIGHT,
Attorneys at Law,
Newnan, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of the Di«-
frict and circuit. All Justice Courts atten
ded. Office lu Wlllcoxou building, over E.
" Hummer.-*’.
GEO. A. CARTER,
Attorney at Law,
Granfeville, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of the Cir
cuit, and elsewhere by special agreement.
J. C. NEWMAN,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, fieorgia.
Will practice in the Huperior and Justice
Courts of tlio county and circuit, and else
where by special agreement.
W. A. TURNER,
Attorney at Law,
Newnaot, Ga.
Practices in all the State and Federal Court*.
Office No. -I Opera House Building.
W. Y. ATKINSON,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, Ga.
Will practice in all Courts of tins-and
adjoining counties and the Suureme Court.
J.S. POWELL,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan,
Collections made.
Ga
G. W. PEDDY, M. D..
Physician and Surgeon,
Newnan, 3av
(Office over W. E. Avery’s Jewelry Store.)
Offers his services to the people of Newnan
and surrounding country. All calls answered
promptly.
T. B. DAVIS, M. I).,
Physician and Surgeon,
Newnan, Ga
Offer* his professional services to the. citi
zens of Newnan and vicinity.
DR. THOS. COLE,
Dentist,
Newnan,
Depot’ Street.
Ga.
(Sbucational.
188T.
1888.
PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL,
(FOB MALES AND FEMALES,)
PALMETTO, GA.
JO U X E. I ‘EX 1)E HO It A S T, 1‘rht.
FALL TERM WILL OPEN WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 7, 1SH7.
Healthy climate, pare water, good society,
cheap boa-d and tuition,.experienced teach
ers, and special care to pupils.
Tuition, per month - - - - - ?l.ti() to |4.W<
Music, per month ------ 3.00
Board per, month - - - - - 8.00 to 10.00
•Send for Catalogue.
TPJE
>■2.50, my
food.
reliable Timepieces. All who I
favor me with their patronage Monday,
can rely on getting the best
goods for the money.
36th SCHOLASTIC YEAR
COLLEGE TEMPLE.
WILE BERIV
August 29th, 1887.
Having record M our most successful year,
in- present tin- claims of able instructors,
high sebolarshi; , moderate rates and health
ful locality. V particulars, address,
M. EKKLLOGU, Pre-id, nt,
Newnan ,<ra.
CLOCKS I
1 am still headquarters for; WALKER HIGH SCHOOL,
Three years after I bad heard Mr
Benoni's story I received, while I was
traveling abroad, a etter from Dr.
Banks, announcing the death cf his pa
tient. “You doubtless remember his
wild tale,” he wrote. T have something
to add. Day before yesterday the tomb
was opened in order that the catafalque
an which his remains were to L-e
beside those of his wife might be
The coffin in which Mrs.
s liody lay when they closed the
some twenty-eight years ago, was
found to l>e open and emptv. On search-
mg the tomb they round ne.d -,ie pottil oil kinds of 1 ableWBPC.) i struction. Staving prepared a great many fotv
yOrtlbns of a skeleton, and, clutching tne _ * fc* . . ’J • tea< ’hing, tbts school offer.- special induae-
Cioeks, and have a full variety,
from the cheap Alarm Clock j
up to a fine French Cathedral i
Bdl.
Mv stock of Silverware (:n-
1837.
Ttie Fall Session Begins August 30tli.
NORMAL FEATURE.
In nddition to other advantages offered hi
the school we mention that of Normal in-
Was Mr. Benoni afflicted with madness
or gifted with second sight?—Gustave
in Frank Leslie’s.
DANIEL WALKER. Principal.
MRS. M J. NIMMOX8, Assistant.
Newnan Ga., Ang. otli-tf
Lk^^uW^riKhadrowth^ is fuller than ever before, and;
by force, skeleton lingers.” ! prices are lo\Ter. ’ “ T-r-n ,
Fine Glassware, China and
Novelties, such as no one else
m 7 ~ . in N ewnan handles. \ o-u can
German Artillery Experiment. . . , , ,
The German artillery lias recently bees Oil It appiCoiatC ihese bargains
carrying <>u a series of successful exuevi- ; py stopping in and Seeing.
Uion'ts in lighting forts bv electricity- wirlu ' Meda ] s ‘ Badges, Buttons,
a view to facilitate a bombardment at
night. On the practi. ing grounds near PlttS, RlslgS, CtC., lTlUi.e tO Ol-
Juterbogk thirty-six guns of ail calibers j ( | cr> f rom your OUT, gold.
Mv father is now associated
and
til..* I* 'I!. •'.
l *OI"i:: 1 ok -
Then l T-m ,
•• Wlk'ii i
mvsolf
i h
ird the
'•i my i
I'.-OCiS.
c-ousc in; a
U'ii t; !
aigor i>i the
L ai wife.
i- ♦ronseioss 1 found
.on my itoii at !>, l'.'.v sur
rounded t-;. ni'.-siUav c( my L.afily. The
family pfiy-irinn w:-« feeling my pttlse.
M> taco r.m-t havo w,-ru ;'.:i i aquiring
look, for ho s:.:,l. mv,finagle:
“ “You nius*. remain here quietly for u
recently fired off -.TOO shrapneLs
other missiles under the o!e»‘ ric L-at.
the distance being from 2,&:U to
meters. The experin.- tits took place
the presence of about eighty •- divers, in
cluding six generals. Though the nrehr
was very dark the effect of every bail
could 1 s' clearly seen. —Frank Leslie's.
in business with me, and
are better prepared than ever: Forced to sell at low prices
to do vour work. 200 sets of Stage, Buggy and
Three workmen busy all the i Vt agon Harness,
time, and must be kept busy; ; Also, a large lot Collars of
so bring us your Watches,; all kinds. j
d“’‘' v iClocks and jewelry to repair.; ioo dozen good Plantation
some kini of a—a fever; but—our class Kvervthing guaranteed. 1 Bridles at 50 cents each,
has only gone as far as convulsions, ii! \\ r . E.' AVERY. f Highest price paid for hides,
Newnan, Ga. . T. C. BURPEE.
The Chari tv Patient.
come in again in a week,
enee News.
-Poou'ar