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t Wtt itrald and ^dcertiseij. Si 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. FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE - 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 day. THOMPSON BROS., NEWNAN, GA. FURNITURE! 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. A. G. RHODES, 85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. HUNNICUTT & BELLINGRATH, 36 AND 38 PEACHTREE STREET, ATLANTA, GA. IN- If, “a numerous household is the safety of the Republic,” it might as well be proclaimed at once that the remedy upon which such household should be reared is Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup. A good cathartic is worth its weight gold, yet Laxador, the infallible reg- DEALERS Stoves, Heating Stoves, Hall Stoves, Parlor Stoves, Office Stoves, Cooking Stoves for everybody, Ranges, Furnaces, Marbelized Iron and Slate Mantels, Mahogony, Walnut, Cherry, Oak and Ash Mantels, Tile Hearth. Tile Facings and Vestibule Tile, Plain Grates, Enameled, Nickel and Brass Trim- ,, ,, , ... • med Grates. Just received, a beautiful line of Brass Fenders, Andirons, Fire Sets, Coal Vases, Coal Hods and Tin Toilet Sets, that in ‘ quantity, quality and designs cannot be sur- , „ , . . passed in the city, Gas Fixtures, Chandeliers and Pendants, Plumbers, and Steam Fitters, Supplies, Water Closets, Bath Tubs, Pumps, Rubber Hose, Brass Goods, Steam Cocks and Gauges, Tin Plate. Block-and Galvanized Sheet Iron, Wrought Iron Pipe for steam, gas and water. Practical Plumbers, Steam i w i 1T - Hectors and Gas Fitters, Architectural Galvanized Iron Workers and Tin Roofers. Agts. for Khom'Ips’ Steam Pumps, Dunning’s Boilers, Morris & Tasker’s Wrought Iron Pipe for ,gas and water, Climax Gas J^=Plans and specifications furnished on apt.]"cation Call and examine our stock or write for price list and ci ator of the human system,‘is so.dfor Ceive prompt att0ntion and bottom P ric ^ circular. Machines. You will x«- ul only 25 cent* a package. HUNNICUTT & BELLINGRATH. ,1 DO YOU WANT A DOG ? '(. If to, tend for DOG BUYERS’ GUIDE, containing colored plate*, IOO engravings of different breeds, prices they are worth, and where to buy them. Directions for Training I suit. _ _ It was a troublesome question, and when I heard the clatter of hoofs and Ihe committee, at Captain Aldridge’s knew that he had returned. He had »request, made no report on the matter * » No one in anger is fit to estimate an offense or redress a wrong, and he M ho attempts it is sure to have cause for re gret, if not for bitter repentance. A husband telegraphed to his wife: “What have you for breakfast, and Iiom’ is the baby?” The answer came: “Buck-M’heat cakes and measles.” Knowledge from Experience Is M'liat we understand when Dr. Spald ing, an eminent Baptist divine of Gal veston,Texas, writes, “Send me two bot tles of Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein. It is a prep aration I know from experience to be good:” - DO YOU KEEP CAGE BIRDS?- * U m, yoanmd tbs BOOK OP CAGE BIRDS. 120 page*. 150 UW Orations. Beautiful colored plate. Treatment and breeding of all kinds Cage Mate pleasure andprojfL "" aadtbfltr oor\ How to boiid a M ndUrtm Howto~baild and stock aa Aviary. AQ about Parrot* _ __ Price* at I etc. Hailed tel BookadOCta. ■MSOCIATKD FANCIERS, ■ WO Soath Hgfcth Street, Philadelphia, fjjj MICKELBERRY & McCLENDON, WHOLESALE GROCERS, PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA. Hay, Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed, Onions, Feathers, Cabbage, Irish Potatoes Live Poultry, Meat, Flour, Lard, N. 6. Syrup, Dried Beef, Cheese, j FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY PRODUCE. Consignments solicited. Quick sales and prompt rpniiitanepp , . . . . Excellent facilities for the care of perishable go^ds Good « drjr ' >»t-proof stor- Judge Tolleson Kirby, Traveling Salesman. **n«Sly. 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