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KM&XIRX <?(*. Germany lias a population of 45,- 1 94,172. Central California hail a baby earth quake April 10th. Dana, of New York, lias sold a three year old colt for st,ooo. Missouri legislators get one dollar per day and the honor. France wants Tunis, but Italy does not want to see the wish gratified. Eighteen States have rail road com missioners. Alabama lias followed suit. The readjustee in convention at Harrisburg, Va. endorsed Mahone’s course. General Carey, a distinguished Con federate, died at his home Edgefield S. C. April 9th. Brigauils near Snlonica have captured an Englishman and demand s7oooo for his release. At Wnverly Tenn a negro mur derer was baptized and hung on the same day. Minnesota's snow blanket, taking the whole depth of it since OctJ ber, has been thirteen feet. Mahone as President of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Hailroad Com pany, received $25,000 per annum. Tn Macon County Tenn., a revenue of ficer was taken out of a house, where he had stopped for the night by five men and shot to death. The memorial column to commem orate the battle of Cowpens Jan. 19th, 1781 will be unveiled at Spartanburg South Carolina, May 11th. The Philadelphia Bulletin thinks that the stone boby that was found recently at Eureka Springs must have been rccKed to death. Gen. Gordon, who owns 270,000 acresot coal land in Alabama, is mov ing in the matter of building a road from Atlanta to that section. That the Atlanta cotton exposi tion will be formidable the 8104.000 casli subscription shows. New Yoik gives 829,300. Mrs. Chatles Ballou, the big | Michiganderist, and who weighed about as much as four one hundred and fifty pound men, is dead. The fasting girl of lowa, is dead, i The bodv weighed forty-five lbs., and wheD the post mortem exami- j nation was made, was bloodless. The German immigrants to South Carolina are delighted and wan* others ot tbeir countrymen j to come and share their delight. Birmingham, Ala., knows what j an advance in real estate means. Lots that three years ago changed hands at 8400, now bring 86,400. The situation in Washington is j unchanged. It has been a warm j. spring in the senate chamber, and the country in nene the better for it. Twenty-seven states hold their elections November. Georgia, with three others, votes in October. She ought to fall in with the November line. Capt. Henry, of Ohio, a friend of; the President, will be appointed marshal of the District of Colum- ; bia in place of Fred Douglas, I colored. The Nihilist prisoners have been sen- j tenccd to death by hanging. They staked life on their game, and lost. One of them, Sophie Picfosky is of noble birth. Her party have notified the Czar that if she dies he dies also. Tiie interest of the game is not over. Judge Underwood, before whom the BanK of Rome cate was tried, decided that the State was a pre ferred creditor. This will call for that private property that the President offered to sacrifice on the altar of debt. Generally in a civilized commu nity when you gotosleep with four others in the room you expect to , wake up unharmed. Near Cape Girardeau a farmer under those cir cumstances had his throat cut. A boy was sleeping with him. But neither he nor the other occupants of the room could throw any light on the mystery. Rev. A. G. Ilaygood reached Ma con with 850,000 in cash for the Wesleyan Female College and sls -for Oxford. All the gift of Mr. Seney, of Brooklyn. At Wash ington, as lie entered the sleeping car, three men attempted to rob him j hut he showed that he belonged to the church militant, and saved the big prize. They got off with his : pocket book, worth 8125. The Georgia R. R. has been leas ed for 99 years to New York capi talests. who are interested in the i Louisvile and Nashville and Cen- R. R. They pay 8600,000 a year which is ten per cent on the stock and indebtedness. This will put the stock at a premium of 60 per cent. John H. James of Atlanta | who oivued a good deal of stock is in a very good humor. Walker County Messenger, VOL. IV. tiw Erring. Think gently ot the erring! Ye know not of the power With which the dark temptation came In some 'ingiiarded hour. Ye may not know lion earnestly Tliev struggled, or how well, Until the hour of weakness came, And sadly thus they fell. Deal gently with the erring! Oh, do not thou forget, However darkly stained by sin. He is thy brother yet. Heir of the self-same heritage, Child of the self-same God; He hath but stumbled in the path, Thou hast in weakness trod. Speak gently to the erring! For is it not enough That innocence and peace have gone. Without thy censure rough? It sure must lie a weary lot That sin crushed heart to bear, And they who share a happier fate Their eludings well may spare. Speak kindly to the erring! Thou yet raays’t win them back, With holy words aud tones of love, From misery’s thorny track. Forget not thou hast often sinned, And sinful ye! must be — Deal gcutly with the erring one, As God has dealt with, thee! A DOUBLE CRIME. The wholesale produce and com mission store of Mr. Purvis, on Del a ware avenue, near Vine strtet, was robbed or. the night of October 17, 1865, The safe had been oppned appa rently by false keys, and upwards of nine thousand dollars in green backs were abstracted. A package of bonds to the amount of 83,000 more remained untouched. Two clerks, both young men, us ually slept in the store. August Yerkes bad been in the employ of Mr. Harrison Purvis about four years, and enjoyed the confidence of his employer. Pembroke Sharon, the other ckrk, had only recently been taken, but the manner in which he took hold of the business impressed Mr. Purvis so much in his favor that he predicted a suc cessful future for the young man as a very able salesman and ulti mately prominent merchant. Under this impression he placed implicit trust in Sharon, and selected him as a companion of Yerkes in the store at night. Both of these young men were in the store on the night the rob bery occurred; but when the place was opened in the morning Sharon was missing and Yerkes lay on the floor near the safe with a severe gash oh the side of the head, which had been bleeding profusely, judg ing by the amount of blood on the floor. The unfortunate young man had evidently endeavored to staunch the blood for both his hands were stained, as also were his clothes. By the disorder in the office and the numerous blood stains both on the floor and on the walls it was evident that a desperate struggle must have taken place. It was conjectured from this that Sharon, having provided himself with false keys, had opened the safe and been surprised by his fel low clerk in the midst of his work, who in turn dealt him the blow near the temple, and then, after a severe struggle between them, Yer kes fainted from loss of blood and the robber fled with his booty. Varnoe, the detective, and a phy sician were at once sent for, and while Dr. Edson attended to his patient the detective examined the premises with his usual carefulness, particularly the second floor, and returning to the lower floor found that Yerkes had recovered and sat in an arm-chair with a bandage ariund his head. ‘Well, Mr. Varnoe, what have you discovered ?’ asked Mr. Purvis. ‘I find that the robber has been to the second floor,’ replied the de tective; ‘possioly he has taken some valuables from there as Well.’ The merchant hastmed upstairs, hut presently returned, saying nothing had been disturbed or re moved as far as he could see. 'Whatever his object may have been, lam positive he visited the second floor after the bloody strug gle had taken place.’ Then Yerkes gave the following account: LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL *2l, 1881. 110 awoke suddenly and found i that Sharon had left the bed, and fearing that some mishap had over taken him he lit a parafine candle by the small gas jet in the room and began to search for him. Not finding him on the second floor he descended to the first floor, ! and discovered him before the open safe. They saw each other at the same moment, and Sharon was spell bound at being ciught in his criminal act. Then began thestrug | gle, the evidence of which, was so plain. Sharon being the Btronger of the two soon overpowered his op ponent, and threw him so violently on the floor that he became in sensible. Varnoe listened with wrapt at tention to the end, then made a few notes in his book, after which he walked out of the store witli his eyes bent on the floor before him until lie reached the street; then af ter casting hi* eyes searchingly around oh the ground, he walked over to the dock and gazed for a few moments into tne water in a thoughtful manner. When lie re turned to the stole anil rejoined the others in the office, it was with a grave countenance. ‘Mr. Purvis, the robber has evi dently escaped byway of the river, as the blood tracks reach to the dock.’ All eyes were now directed to wards the wounded man, who had suddenly grown very pale. He opened his mouth is if to say some thing, hut fell back in hia seat with a groan and fainted away. While the doctor was applying restoratives to his charge the de tective drew Mr. Purvis away to the rear ot the store and remained there for ahalf hour in conversation with him, and judging by his fre quent jesticulations he must have been greatly astonished by what the detective told him. Re-entering the office they found Yerkes still unconscious, and at the suggestion of Varnoe he was con veyed in that condition to the hos pital. ‘Now, Mr. Purvis,’ said Varnoe, ‘you will please point out to me which are the clothes usually worn by Mr. Sharon while on duty at the store.’ 'Certainly, sir,’ replied the gen tleman; ‘that is readily done,’ and he went to a closet where the clerks kept their outer garments ard open ed it. He took piece after piece from the hooks, an exclamation as if of surprise escaping him as lie did so. ‘What is it?' asked Varnoe, when Mr Purvis laid the garments on the bed. 'Why, as I live, Sharon has not only left his coat and vest behind, hut also his pants!’ said Mr. Pur vis, with a look of bewilderment. ‘That is singulai,’ remarked the detective, excharging significant glances witli the doctor; ‘the more so when you bear in mind that Mr. Yerkes when found had on his coat vest, pants and boots, while the robber even left his boots behind him,’ pointing to a pair beneath the bed. ‘You will now please see whether Mr. Sharon lias left anything of value in his pockets.’ Every pocket was instantly di vested of its contents. There was found a valuable gold watch and chain, a wallet containing a trifle over 85, a penknife, pencil and memorandum book, etc. •Retain the articles Mr. Purvis, and restore the clothes to the closet,’ said Varnoe. ‘I have another sur prise in store for you, I think.’ When this was done, Varnoe took off all the bed clothes and threw them on the floor, leaving the mat tress bare. An exclamation of sur prise burst from Mr. Purvij as he pointed to the mattress where a number of bloody finger-marks stained it along a seam about ten inclies in length. ‘Now I see what you are driving at,’ cried Mr. Purvis, scanning the seam. Then inserting his hand into the | opening, he presently drew forth the package of greenbacks. They were intact, so Mr. Purvis annouc cd after examining the fastnings and seals. ‘What am I to think of this?’ ask ed the gentleman in a helpless tone. ‘I declare that my head aches try ing to divine the motive of this most extraordinary rubbery.’ ‘Think as I do.’ ‘What is that?’ ‘Why, that Pembroke Sharon, in stead of being the rubber, is the victim of the rotiber, which ac counts for his leaving nil his outer gnrincuts behind. He evidently surpised the robber ut his work, ami in the encounter that took place he murdered poor Sharon, dragged him across the street, as the trail showed to me, aud tossed j him into the river.’ ‘Then you really suspect August Yerkes as the robber?’ asked the j merchant greatly agitated. ‘1 am sure lie is not only the rot- j her, but possibly also a murderer,’ i was the reply. ‘Oh, the wretch !’ cried the mer- . chant; “and in mv heart I ad- j mired his bravery, while I pit ' ied him for what he had endured j for endeavoring to protect my prop erty,’ ‘I am convinced tlmt you have j hit on the right man,’ said Mr. Pur j vis. ‘lf he knew oi this he might give us the slip. The next thing j to be done is to use every means in j our power to recover the body of; poor Sharon. ‘Poor, indeed, since all the clothes lie has on are not his own,’ spoke a voice behind them. All looke 1 it the speaker, who wore an old seaman’s suit, and look ed as if had he just recovered from a severe spell of sickness. Something in the tone of the j voice struck a chord in the brea-t i of the merchant. He approached j the man and asked eagerly ; ‘Who a e you?’ *My name is Pembroke Sharon.’ j In a moment he was surrounded j by the trio, who congratulated him on his escape from death. He re quested permission to assume his proper dress, after which he would tell exactly what hud occurred dur ing the past night. His story wis very similar to the one told by Yerkes, with this difference the positions were | changed. It was Sharon who sur- j prised the other before the open | safe just in the nctof stowing in his J pocket the package of greenbacks ; alluded to. It was Sharon who de j nounced the act, and Yerkes, both angry and frightened to be'hu* de tected, picked up a paper weight and hurled it at his fellow clerk, striKing Sharon on the head in flicting a ghastly wound, from which he I'iinted, and Knew no until he awoxe on board a vessel near the navy yard. He was told they piciced him up in the river. The captain and two of his men had been to the theater and were returning in a boat to thg vess' 1 1 when a white object floating in the J water attracted their attention and j they made for it, and drew the ap parently dead man in the boat and \ tooK him on board the vessel, j where his wants were at once at tended to. When YerKes version of the affair was related to him he laughed de risively, and was on the point of; remarKing when familiar footsteps were heard ascending the stairs. ‘By Heaven ! I believe it is Au gust !’ whispered Sharon, as he j hastily entered the closet and puil- 1 ed the door to. He was none too \ soon, for the next moment Yerkes j came up to where the three gen-1 tleinen were standing. The:r faces j told him that something was amiss j apd not to hia advantage. ‘You are probably surprised to | see me here again ?’ remarked he,: for want of anything else to say. ‘We are indeed,’ said Mr. Purvis, regarding him with an omnious frown. ‘You all appear to be anything hut pleased to see roe?’ next re marked the robber and would-be assassin. ‘On the contrary, we are very glad to see you,’ here spoke Varnoe with an ambiguous smile. Glancing at the detective with a j skeptical air, Yerkes walked to the closet and opened the door, and the next moment he started back with j his hair standing on end, and his j face the color of ashes. He had seen (as bis guilty con- j science had told him) the ghost of; his victim, for Sharon remained standing in the closet perfect)’ im movable. hia eyes fixed reproachful ly on Iho guilty wretch. The horrid vision was too much for his bruin to endure. Yerkes became a raving maniac and so vi olent that Varnoe wtie obliged to manacle him hand and foot and again return him to the hospital, fioin whence lie was shortly after conveyed to the insane department of the almshouse. Pembroke Sharon was generously recompensed by his employer for his heroic attempt to prevent the robbery, nr.d promoted to a respon sible position in the store, which he filled with credit to himsell and I his grateful employer. Ytr/.es lived a year or so after his confinement, and died a raving maniac, a terrible retribution for h s ittempt to fasten a crime on an innocent person, and thus rob him i both of his reputation and life at one fell blow. William Arp's Discoveries, j There’s nothing settled. Spring j and winter keepskirmsliingaround, j The dead-lock at Washington eon | tinues. Railroad stocks are jump- I ing up and down. Money kings j and corporation magnates butt heads awhile and then retire on a still-hunt while we. the people, look on and wonder and exclaim what is all this devilment going to do to 't? Farming has begun about in spots. The fruit is kill-d in some orchards and left alive in others The flood has passed away, but the j wreck of it still lingers in the land. I The bridges have not been rebuilt. I ard the Boil on niary farms has | bppn taken off and left holes and j pits which cannot be filled up. j Fenci s have not been replaced, and j there’s enough rails in the Gulf of Mexico to build a corduroy bridge across it. It would be a good time now to vote on a stock-law —“fence or no fence.” We have worked hard for ten days hauiing rock and pens and filling Yin. It’s double, double toil and trouble, hut still we are not unhappy. We don’t set on the bank and cuss at my house. It don’t pay. Corn is going to be corn and wheat wheat this year, and it becomes every farmet to be up and doing. If we don’t make a surplus these railroads will suffer and be impoverished fm want of dividends. The merchants will have no customers who can pay for what they buy. Then the hankers will have no borrowers they can trust, days Ito Mr. Dean, at Gadsden, who is a solid mer chant and a close observer: “Sup pose this turns out to be a very poor crop year, what then?'’ ‘‘‘Why. sir,” said he, “the whole country will be broke. The corn and meat and hay and guano that steamboats and railroads are pouring into this country on a credit will not he pai.' for. Everything depends on a good crop year—more so than I have ever known.” I went round to Dalton to get to Rome —eighty miles to make twm-! ty —for the Rome and Kington railroad had not been repaired. It’s all right now, waiting for the next freshet. Dalton is a lively place, arid says site wouldn’t have a river if she could. That's all right, I reckon, for I like to see folks con tented and happy, though I told Mr. Lewis I couldn’t help thinking about the feller wtio wouldent have the corn because it wasent shelled. But he needn't care about rivers or anything else as long as he can keep that tub mill agoing. Six train loads of passengers a day to fead, and he sets a . g od table, and everybody knows it. lie is an old line whig—John Quincy Adams Lewis —the only man I know of it. the south named for that presi dent. There's thousands of G. Ws and T. Je and T. Ms and A. Js and H. Cs and J. Cs, hut the old Adan s family wusent very popular with our people. When I got to Rome I found a fresh sensation, for a hank had busted and every man who lost by it thought his own case the hardest, and ail of em were mad with the state for bagging the assets. The stete is rich and they want to know what right si e has to a preference. You can argue with tire men about it, but Mr. Speer had better keep clear of the women if he knows what’s good NO. 38. ! for him. Our good ln.lv luid <1(150 ! in there nod when she heard tlml j the hank wan a little slinky, she I told tier husband to take it out, hut ! he put on generous airs about it | and said it would he wrong—it would show a lack of confidence | —that it was confidence that sus i tnined hanks and kept eni from j busting. A few days afterwards j the bank broke and be went home | a sadder man and got demoralised ; and Went to bed sick an went on j iimalin, nnd woulden’t eat and j couldn't sleep and pr .aned and i tumbled about on the bed nnd j called for motphine nnd finally lib | wife told him to sit up a minute, and then she showed him a pack age of money marred BGOO, and in formed him that she took the mom y out herself before the suspension, and he got well immediately, and danced all around the room, and , kissed her forty limes without ! slopping, and on Irokirg at the | package again, ‘ Why,” says he, I “this is only BGOO, and we had | SGoO.” “That’s so,” said his wife. I “I took out BOfXI for us and left SoO ; in there for confidence.” But you musent joke with eni | much ns yet. They are not in a joking humor. The pulpit text now in that town is “Lay up your treasures in Heaven,” and one of the ministers added: “Where there are no preferred creditors.” Well, its had. very bad, especially on poor people, bat there are a heap ol good people who dident have any to put in a bank, nnd I reckon we wil’ have to be sorry for them, too. I beard of a poor sickly woman who bad scratched up fifty dollars and put H in there to pay liei burial expenses, and when sin heard it was gone she got up out ol bed and she said sho couldn’t afford j to die innv, nod is sowing awa-y b J make some more. *An olri acquaintance saluted in> so gaily I said, “You don’t look lik* you lost anything by the bank.’ Loss the mischief, no, sir, I’m as *eUs; I owe eni and I’m enjoined from paying over. Ain’t it splen did?’ Having some business at Gads den I journeyed to that little mari time city and was astonished at in in ogress since I was there two yean ago. The population has nearli doubled. They haven’t built any more falls, but they have built more saw mills, nnd lots of new stores nnd dwelling houses and i steamboat, and it hotel that would do credit to Rome or any otliei such town. It’s a lively, prosper mia city with fine prospects. Rot K.’le used to own the concern pretty much, hut he don’t now. lli nus worked hard and done much to build it up and ought to be proud of l.is success. It’s astonishing bow much one emrgetic man can do for a place. The ladies are re joicing over the speedy banishment of whisky from the county. Tin law has been passed on the vote, and before long bar-rooms will he closed, and a man will have to go i out of the county to get it, for tin sale is prohibited, both at whole sale and retail. What they want now is for public opinion to sus tain the law and give it a fair test | It’s a woman's movement to pro | lecl their husbands and sous, and I wish the women all over the land hud the right to vote on that ques tion, if no other, for they are more j interested in it than anybody else, i Gadsden is wide awake about j making railroad connections with j Georgia. They are hopeful of the i Geor,it Western and the Opelika ' road, and then with the Coosa opened up to Mobile in a few wears it would be a considerable city. The coal that was burned in my I grate cost only ten cpnts a bushel, i and thr.t is about 82.50 a ton, and it come horn a mine near the sub urbs. Gadsden is proud of Gads d«.n. and when you ask about the population by the last census they don’t know exactly what it is, hut will tell you that hundreds have moved in since the census was taken. I remember asking Coußin John Thrasher about the popula tion of Toccoa City, and he said ] the census give ’em 700 but it was , cot half taken and two families and a nigger had moved in since. I do like to see folks stand up to their town—don’t you? Bill Anr. An-tee &Bro., • The boy mnrch the counter. 1 l,s ' ‘Well, my little •it 4th, 1881. merchinit, coin fleet jui>t riiten Jrtim suciv’l”- <u good dim fer—‘what wii 1° to day?’ 9 ("■ ‘Oh, pleitop, air, may 1 } ~* omc Work foi you?* It miglit liate tieen the " blue eyes that did it, for the mart was not accustomed to parley With such small gentlemen, and Tommy wasn l seven yet, and small of his sge at that. There were a fetV wisps of hair on the merchant,s temples and looking down on the appealing face, the imth pulled at them, he gave the find of his efaVrtt a brush, and then his hand travel ed down to his vest pocket. ‘Do some work for me, eh! Well now, about what sort of work might vour small manshift calculate to be able to perform? Why, you Han’t look over the counter.” ‘Oh, yes, l can, ni d I’m growing, pleare, growing very fast— there, see if I can’t look over the coun ter.’ ‘Yes, bv standing on yonr toes; are they onnnertti?’ ‘What sir?’ ‘Why, your toes. Your mother couldn’t keep you in shoes if they weren’t.’ ‘She can’t keep me in shoes any* how, sir.’ and the voice h 'sitated. The man took pAins to look over the counter, it was too much for him; he couldn’t see the little toes. Then he went all the way round. ‘I thought I should need a mi croscope,’ he said Very gravely,’but I reckon if l get close enough 1 ; can see what you look like.’ ‘l’m older than I‘m big sir,’ was t t’>e neat rejoinder. ‘Folks say I’m very Finall for my age,’ ‘And what might be your »ge, | sir?’ responded the man with great emphasis, ‘l’m almost seven,’ said Tommy with a look calculated to impress ; even six feet nine. ‘‘You see my mother hasn’t anybody but me, [ and this morning I saw her crying because she couldn’t find five cents in her pocket-book, nr.d she thinks | the boy that took the n«hes stole it 1 —and—l—haven’t had any— 1 1 breakfast, sir.’ The voice ngain hesitated, ar.d tears entire to the blue eves. ‘I recKon I can help you to breakfast, my little fellow,’ said J the man, feeling in his pockets, j There, will that quarter do?’ 1 The boy shook his head. ‘Mother wouldn’t let me beg, sir,’ was his j simple reply, I ‘Humph! where’s your father?’ j ‘We never heard of him, sir, after Ibe went away. lie was lost, sir, in ‘ the steamer City of Boston,’ ‘Ah! you don’t say . That’s had —but you are a pi jck/ little fel ■ow, anyhow. Let tne see; and lie I lomlered, puckering up his mouth ! nid lot icing straight down into the ; oy‘« eyes, which tvero looking truight into his. ‘Saunders.’ he Me a-Ked, addressing a clerk who 1 .vi’s rolling up and writing on par -1 c Is. ‘ s < a-h N<, 4 still sirk?’ ‘Den i sir; died last night,’ was the low reply. ‘Ah, I’m sorry to hear that. Well litre’s a youngster that can take his place.’ Mr. I a inders looked up slowly—• then he put his pen behind his left ear—then his glance traveled curi ously from Tommy to Mr. Towers. ‘Oh I understand,’ said the latter •yes he is very small indeed, but I like his pluck. What did No 4 gel?’ Three dollars, sir,’ said the still astonished cleri. ‘l’ut this boy down four. There, youngster, give him your name, arid run home and tell your mother you’ve got a place at four dollars a week. Come bad - on Monday, and I’ll tell you what to do. Here’s a dollar in advance; I’ll late it out of your first wet is pay. Can you remembei?’ ‘Wori, sir— wori all the time!’ Tommy shot out of the door. If cvei broien stairs, that had a twist through the win le flight, crucicd under the weight of a small boy, or perhaps as might be better stated, laughed and churiled on account ; of a small hoys good luti, those in that tenement house enjoyed them selves thoroughly that inornii g. ‘l’ve got it mother! Fin tooi! I’m cash bo\ I Don’t you inow when they tuie the parcels, the cleri calls‘cash?’ Well, I’m that! Four dollars a week, and the man said I had real pluci—courage you inow. And here is a dollar for breaifast; and don’t you ever cry again, for I’m the man of the house now.’ The house was only a ten by j fifteen room, hut how those blue eves did magnify it. At first the mother looied— well, it passed njy power to tell how she did looi, as she caught the hoy in her arms and hugged him end iissed him, the tears streaming down her cheeis. But they were tears of tharifulnese, now.