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Newnan, Ga., Friday, Jan. 20, 1888.
A SCOUT’S ADVENTURE.
What the Mysterious Letters Cut in an
Old Beech Tree Marked.
Detroit Free Tress.
When Johnston was falling back be
fore Sherman’s advance through North
Georgia, and before the conflicts at
Lost and Pine Mountain, I was contin
ually on the front with a band of
scouts. We penetrated the Yankee
lines tirye after time, but always to re
turn to headquarters with the same
report. Sherman had one of the
grandest armies in the. world, and he
was in such strength that he could fight
Johnston in front and pass his flanks at
the same time.
One day whe» scouting between Ma
rietta and the Etowah river, the Fed
eral cavalry passed and cut off my re
treat by the highways, and for six or
Seven hours I was obliged to secrete my
self in a thicket. It was in leaving
this hiding-place that I came across a
dog which was doubtless owned in the
near vicinity, but had been frightened
into the woods by the skirmishing. He
took to me kindly, and had dogged my
heels for half an hour when he sudden
ly leaped aside and began pawing the
ground at the foot of a large beech. I
halted a moment and saw that the
earth was fresh, as if a grave had been
dug. It was but natural to conclude
that some one had been shot near by,
and that his comrades had given him
burial.
Upon closely examining the tree, I
found the fresh cut initials “I). S. G.”
They were not where any one would
have looked for them, hut within three
feet of the ground. I had no doubt in
the world but that a dead man rested
there and 1 picked up a club and drove
the dog away under the impression that
tie was hungry and determined to get
at the body. I succeeded after a cou
ple of days in getting back into the
Confederate lines, and the incident did
not recur to me for long years.
One sunftner’s day in 1870, while I
was going from Cartersville, I formed
the acquaintance of a stranger who
gave his name as Charles Gaines, and
who claimed to he a Virginian. Ue
said he was looking for improved land,
and had been advised to locate near
Marietta. This story was straight
enough, except that I did not believe
he was a Virginian. He hadn’t the
dialect, and when 1 began to quizz him
about certain locations around Rich
mond he soon became confused.
I was then a detective in the employ
of several railroad lines, and it was
only natural for me to ask myself why
this man had lied to me. I took pains
to let him know that I' was willing to
answer all his questions, and directly he
began asking about the section of coun
try between Marietta and Etowah,
lie wanted,to know the value of land;
if much forest had been cleared since
the war; if there had been finds of
treasure arouud Marietta, and various
other things. II e worked the answers
out of me without seeming more than
ordinarily interested, and while I was
somewhat suspicious of him, I could
not exactly determine on what to place
my finger.
Why? I kept asking myself this
question, but could not answer it.
I had a ticket to Cartersville, but
before we reached that place I had de
termined to go on with him to Mari
etta. What decided me was this: He
sat on the outside of the seat, and a
passenger going to the water-cooler
knocked his hat off. It rested a mo
ment in the aisle, and I finally read the
name “Boston” inside, in gilt letters
The name of the maker was above it
but I could not catch it. No hat bought
in Richmond w T ould bear the name Bos
ton. Where did he get it? By and by
I made a careful examination of his
boots. He never bought them south of
the Ohio. I decided the same in regard
to Ms clothing. He was trying to de
ceive me. What object could he have
in view r ?
When we reached Marietta both of us
went to the same hotel. I thought he
began to fight shy of me and I took
pains to keep out of his way. During
the evening he asked several towns
people in regard to the country north
©f Marietta, and engaged of a livery
man a saddle horse for next day. I did
a good deal of thinking that night over
the strange case, but when morning
came I was none the wiser for it. His
horse was brought around after break
fast and he rode off. I was tempted to
get another and follow r him, but by
what right? What had he done, or
what was he going to do ? I went up
to my room on an errand, not yet de
cided whether to go or stay, but in the
hall my foot struck a memorandum
book. I carried it to my room, and the
first tiling my eye caught was the name
inside the cover, “George Paige.” It
was a well-worn book and nearly full
of entries. Most of them seemed to
relate to trips between Boston and
Providence, but near the back end I
found, one reading:
trick. I pocketed the book, got down
stairs without being seen, went to the
nearest justice of the peace and de
manded a warrant for the arrest of
George Paige for robbery. Before he
had ceased looking for his memoran-j
dum book a constable bad made him !
until further evidence could be brought
to bear;
G’hief Connelly leaves in a few days
to secure, if possible, the old gentle
man’s affidavit, and in the meantime
Captain Aldridge will be hard at work
in his own behalf.
And the curious old bill is still with
out na owner..
prisoner. Meanwhile I bad engaged a j
horse and wagon, borrowed an empty j $2,000 Ate Up By a Horse,
tea-chest and a spade, and, as Paige j Taylor ((in.) Special,
went to jail, I drove out of town. I ! A considerable loss, in which a horse
wanted to unearth that skeleton my- plays a most peculiar part, is reported.
self.
It was six years since I left it, but I
had hut little difficulty in finding the
grave, although the beech-tree had
been cut down. Indeed, I walked al
most straight to it, and, though the in
itials were indistinct, they were there
as witnesses. In half an hour, 1 had
unearthed the “corpse.” He, or it,
consisted of a rotten coffee-sack wrap
ped around a mouldy blue blouse, and
inside the blouse were three gold
watches,four hundred and twenty dol
lars in gold, one thousand two hundred
and three dollars in greenbacks, half-a-
dozen gold rings, a fine diamond pin,
two gold bracelets, a gold-lined cup. a
full set of cameo jewelry, a solid silver
back-comb, and about four pounds of
silver spoons and forks, the whole find
being worth to me nearly $8,000.
The stuff had been deposited there
by two or three foragers, and much of
it had been stolen from the dead on the
battle-field.
"When the treasure had been secured,
I drove on to Cartersville and from
thence sent the horse back and tele
graphed to Paige my regrets at his
situation. He rode out to the spot,
found the treasure gone, and left the
town without a word as to what his real
errand had been.
"About ten miles north of Marietta. Ga.,
turn to right where highway bends to the
left; go into the woods about ten rods; look
for twin beech-tree, with initials “I). 8. G.,”
cut low down.”
My heart gave a jump. That was the
spot where the Yankee cavalry run me
into hiding, and those were the initials
I had seen on the tree 1 Had this
stranger come down to unearth a skel
eton ? I was studying the matter over
An Old Bond.
Atlanta Constitution, 14th inst.
An interesting case was brought be
fore the police committee of the gener
al council which met yesterday after
noon in Justice Tanner’s ollice.
About seven years ago an old gentle
man named Blandenburg, living in
Meriwether county, was robbed of
about $20,000 in cash and bonds. The
robbery was skillfully contrived and
completely successful.
A barn near the old gentleman’s
dwelling was set on fire, and while Mr.
Blandenburg’s family were all engaged
in trying to put this out, the iron bound
chest in the corner of his bedroom in
the residence was broken open and
deliberately robbed of everything val
uable.
Rumor says that the old gentleman
was rather miserly in his disposition
and the loss of his hard earned riches
was a terrible blow.
He offered to give half of whatever
was recovered as a reward, and most of
the property was recovered.
Now comes the foundation for the
case before the committee. The fol
lowing is Captain Aldridge’s story:
About three years ago, a negro boy
was arrested by Captain Aldridge in
Atlanta on suspicion, and when he was
searched at the station-house, a $500
bill, bearing interest, was found on his
person. The boy acknowledged that
the money was not his own, saying first
'hat he had found the bill, and after
ward saying that it was given him by a
negro in jail for murder, with instruc
tions to send him $50 to pay his lawyer,
and keep the other $450.
The murderer in jail, as proven by
the testimony of two men Mho had
been convicted of robbing Mr. Bland
enburg, was a party to that robbery.'
So the bill is traced back to a negro
who robbed old man Blandenburg.
Captain Aldridge M'as satisfied as to
the ownership of the bill, and hearing
of the reward offered by the loser, M'ent
to Mr. Blandenburg’s home to have
him identify the bill. Though the in-
terest-beariug bill is a veritable curiosi
ty, not more than three or four being in
circulation, the old man refused to
swear that it was his, though he aflirmed
positively that it M’as. It is stated in
this connection that the old gentleman
never took an oath in his life, and can
not be persuaded to do so under any
circumstances. He illustrated his posi
tion by saying:
I have paid for that house there,
and I know it is my home, but I will
not swear to it.”
Of course there M as no other person
except Mr. Blandenburg himself who
could identify the bill, and the bill
was turned over to the city clerk, in
"whose hands it has been ever since.
Captain Aldridge laid that story be
fore the police committee, and asked
that the committee recommend to the
council that the bill be turned over to
him, as no owner has been found after
continued advertising, and a strong
chain of evidence tended to show that
Mr. Blandenburg was the real OM-ner.
The committee M ere puzzled. No
body doubted that the money belonged
half to Captain Aldridge, and half to
Mr. Blandenburg, but M*as this enough
to M-arrant them in turning the money
over to Captain Aldridge? Judge
Pendleton, the assistant city attorney,
M as sent for. He thought the old gen
tleman must identify the bill before it
could be turned over. Judge Tanner
asked if the interest of Captain Al
dridge would alloM' him to bring suit,
or must Mr. Blandenburg himself bring
the suit. Judge Pendleton thought
that Captain Aldridge could bring the
Mr. J. F. Hartley, of this place, owns
a fine horse, which he prizes very
highly and consequently gives her his
personal attention, so that she is nev
in M’ant of any article of food.
Mr. Hartley does a general merchan
dise business, and last week, embracing
the holidays, he had taken in consider
able change—amounting to nearly six
hundred dollars.
Fearing that some thief might break
into his store-house, he took his money
home that evening. Returning to bu
mess early Monday morning, purse in
hand, he passed by the stables in which
his horse Mas kept.
As is his custom, »lie M'ent in to see if
his horse had been properly attended
to, and finding that she had not been
given any food since the night before
he laid his pocket-book, including cash
and notes amounting to about $2,000,
over in the trough of one of the stables,
M'hich M-as at that time vacant, he M’ent
out to call his hired boy. Not seein
him, he M'ent to his home himself and
got feed for his horse.
After feeding, he M-ent up to his
store, not thinking M’here he had laid
his pocket-book. He bad been at the
store twenty minutes, M'hen it occurred
to him that his money was in the feed
trough. He hurried back to the stable,
but M'as too late to find things as he
had left them. The horse, instead of
going to the stable M'here the feed wa;
placed, M'ent in to breakfast on tens
and twenties. When he got at himself
Mr. Hartley looked through the piles
of papers that were lying here and
there, but found only a ten and a one
dollar bill left from a pile that only
feM' minutes before amounted to nearly
$2,000. Very few of his notes M'ere
damaged. Among his papers M'as
rebate check on H. M. Anthony, the
potash man, which M'as eaten. The
horse seemed to have a preference for
the most valuable.
There M-as fifty dollars in gold that
was recovered unhurt. There is not
the least doubt that the horse devour
ed it, for there were small particles of
paper in the trough, M'hich looked as
if they had been in her mouth.
“EDITOR’S BACK STAIRS.”
It is going to be simply delightful for
a girl to plant her chin on the diamond
stud of the society min in the mazes of
the dance this winter. Alphonse’s chest
has developed since he disported in
the M'ater at Newport last summer. One
of the girls mentioned it to him. He
turned it off by saying that he had betn
roM'ing w'it-h the boys lately, and noth
iiig tlireM’ out a man’s chest like that, ex
eept the landlady of a sailor’s boarding
house. He did not disclose that the
boys who wear dress suits this M’inter
have all bought beautiful little chest
protectors of pale blue silk, stuffed
with cotton and steeped in sachet pow
der. They give a noble frontage to the
rather flat young man of the period.
At all events, it is a custom honored in
the observance now, and it will make
the ball-rooms pleasant if all the young
men wear sachet powder-stuffed pads
M’ith dress suits this winter.
+ It is foolish to be living in this world
without thought of what you will do at
last. A man goes into an inn, and as
soon as he sits doM'n he begins to order
his M'ine, his dinner, his bed; there is
no delicacy in season which he forgets
to bespeak-. He stops at the inn for
some time. By-and-by the bill is forth
coming, and it takes him by surprise.
X never thought of that—I never
thought of that!” “Why,” says the
landlord, “here is a man who is either a
born fool or else a knave. What! never
thought of the reckoning—never
thought of settling with me?” After
this fashion too many live. They eat,
and c^rink, and sin, but they forget the
inevitable hereafter, M'hen for all the
deeds done in the body the Lord will
bring us into judgment.— Spuryeon.
The Interesting; Vi-ws of the Late Dr.
J. G. Holland.
The columns of the newspapers ap
pear to be flooded with proprietary
medicine advertisements. As we cast
our eye over them, it brings to mind an
article that was published by the late
Dr. Holland in Scribner’s Monthly. He
says: “Nevertheless, it is a fact that
many of the best proprietary medicines
of the day are more successful than
many physicians, and most of them, it
should be remembered, M'ere at first
discovered or used iu actual medical
practice. When,’however, any shreu'd
person, knowing their virtue, and fore
seeing their popularity, secures and
advertises them, then, iu the opinion of
the bigoted, all virtue went out of
them.”
Is not this absurd ?
This great man appreciated the real
merits of popular remedies, and the
absurdity of those that derided them
because public attention was called to
the article and the evidence of their
cures. If the most noted physician
should announce that lie had made a
study of any certain organ or disease
of the body, or make his sign larger
than the code size, though he may
have practiced medicine and been a
leader in all medical counsels, notwith
standing all this, if he should presume
to advertise and decline to give his dis
covery to the public, he would be pro
nounced a quack and a humbug, al
though he may have spent his entire
life and all his available funds in per
fecting his investigations.
Again we say, “absurd.”
If an ulcer is found upon one’s arm,
and is cured by some dear soul of a
grandmother, outside of the code, it
will be pronounced by the medical pro
fession an ulcer of' little Rnportance.
But if treated under the code, causing
sleepless nights for a month, with the
scientific treatment, viz : plasters,
washes, dosing M’ith morphine, arsenic
and other vile substances, given to pre
vent blood poisoning or deaden pain,
and yet the ulcer becomes malignant,
and amputation becomes necessary at
last, to save life, yet all done according
to the “isms” of the medical code, this
is much more gratifying to the medical
profession, and adds more dignity to
that ’distinguished order, than to be
cured by the dear old grandmother’s
remedy.
This appears like a severe arraign
ment, yet M r e believe that it expresses
the true standing of the medical pro
fession in regard to remedies discovered
outside of their special “isms.” One
of the most perplexing things of the
day is the popularity of certain reme
dies, especially Warner’s safe cure,
which we find for sale everywhere.
The physician of the highest standing
is ready to concede its merits, and sus
tain the theories the proprietors have
made—that is, that it benefits in
most of the ailments of the human
system, because it assists in putting
the kidneys in proper condition there
by aiding in throwing off the im
purities of the blood, while others
with less honesty and experience de
ride, and are Milling to see their pati
ent die scientifically, and according to
the code, rather than have him cured
by this great remedy.
Yet M r e notice that the popularity of
the medicine continues to grow year by
year. The discoverer comes boldly
before the people M’ith its merits, and
proclaims them from door to door in
our opinion much more honorably than
the physician who, perchance, may se
cure a patient by some catastrophe,
and is permitted to set a bone of an arm
or a finger, which he does with great
dignity, yet very soon afterM'ards takes
the liberty’to climb the editor’s stairs at
o’clock in the morning to have it an
nounced that “Dr. So-and-so was in at
tendance,” thus securingfor his benefit
beautiful and free advertisement.
We shall leave it to our readers to
say which is the M'iser and more hon
orable.
An embarrassed young man M'ho had
just been married by a clergyman, not
knowing how to express his- gratitude
in handing over a small fee. said: “I
kope to give you more next time.”
A correspondent asks: “Can you
give me the income of the Duke of
Westminster?” Kind friend: Can’t;
we haven’t got it; and if M'e had M'e’d
probably conclude to keep it.
Do not marry for riches, my son, bu
remember the husband of an heiress is
seldom obliged to get up at five o’clock
in the morning and build the fire.
THOMPSON BROS.
NEWNAN, GA.
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- AT PRICES-
THAT CANNOT 8E BEAT IN THE STATE.
Big stock of Chamber suits in Walnut, Antique Oak, and
Cherry, and Imitation suites.
French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from §22.60 to $125.00.
Plush Parlor Suits, $35.00 and upward.
Bed Lounges, $9.00 and upward.
Silk Plush Parlor Suits, $50.00.
Good Cane-seat Chairs at $4.50 per set.
Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot.
Hat Racks from 25 cents to $25.00.
Brass trimmed Curtain Poles at 50 cents.
Dado Window Shades, on spring fixtures, very low.
Picture Frames on hand and made to order.
SPLENDID PARLOR ORGANS
Low, for cash or on the installment plan.
Metallic and Wooden Coffins ready at all times, night or
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He had an auburn haired girl and
promised to take her out riding. She
met him at the door when he drove up
a buggy and exclaimed: “Hello,
ready?” She misunderstood him and
they don’t speak now.
I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the dealers in
Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments. I
buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell you
cheaper than small dealers. Read some of my prices :
A Nice Plush Parlor Suit, $35.00.
A Strong Plotel Suit, $15.00.
A Good Bed Lounge, $10.00.
A Good Single Lounge, $5.00.
A Good Cotton-Top Mattress, $2.00.
A Good Strong Bedstead, $1.50.
A Nice Rattan Rocker, $2.50.
A Nice Leather Rocker, $5.00.
A Strong Walnut Hat Rack, $7.00.
A Nice Wardrobe, $10.00.
A Fine Glass Door Wardrobe, $30.00.
A Fine Book Case, $20.00.
A Good Office Desk, $10.00.
A Fine Silk Plush Parlor Suit, $50.00.
A Fine Walnut 10-Piece Suit, $50.00.
A Nice French Dresser Suit, $25.00.
I respectfully invite everybody to examine my stock and get
my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest as
well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta. Write for prices.
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