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market. The last named is still in high favor
and the indiscretions of the pair have furnished
many a morsel of gossip. The husband raised a
row about a year ago, but his near-sightedness
since has been the subject of much comment.
The affair has now reached a point, however, at
which the storm is likely to burst at any
moment.
This reminds me of another case of a some
what similar character, in which a certain gen
tleman, formerly holding an official position, was
notified by a couple of his friends that his wife
was conducting herself indiscreetly and occa
sioning gossip. I am told that the hubby got
ind gnant and threatened to kick his kind
friends down stairs. This occurred about two
weeks ago, and as may be imagined created con
siderable merriment.
The local representative of a big northern
concern is getting in frightfully bad odor on
account of his looseness with his personal bills.
He owes everybody, and I was told recently
that $6,000 would not begin to cover his petty
unpaid accounts. These include the bills of
grocers, shoemakers, hatters, dry goods merch
ants, tailors, doctors and everybody, in short,
who could be induced to give him credit. There
are at least a score of judgments outstanding
against him, and he has been blacklisted by
every business house in town. Yet he continues
to hold his job with one of the biggest concerns
in Gotham.
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From Our Regular Correspondent.
CARTERSVILLE. —This is distinctly sub
rosa, but I have it on good authority that one of
our most popular young fellows, who by the
way, is a widower, is shortly to wed the belle of
a neighboring town. Os course no open con
firmation can be obtained, but experts in matri
mony inform me that the symptoms justify such
conclusion.
The city fathers are preparing to vigorously
enforce the law prohibiting the sale of cigar
ettes to minors, and a local druggist and gro
ceryman will plead to that charge before the
city court next week. They have retained
counsel to represent them and are going to fight
it out.
The Sunday School presided over by the gen
ial J. W. Harris, Jr., is at present suffering from
a dearth of male members. There are several
hundred girls in regular attendance and possi
bly a baker’s dozen of the other sex. Col. Harris
is a married man and realizes that the world
would be blank but for women, and, as yet, he
has not threatened to resign.
The recent escape of three convicts from the
county camps was directly attributable to gross
carelessness. The regular guard went away
leaving a green man on duty, whose only weapon
was a revolver of ineffective calibre. Three
of the convicts tumbled to the situation and
coolly walked out of camp, knowing that the
guard would not pursue them for fear of the
escape of the remaining prisoners. A pretty
kettle of fish, this!
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From Our Regular Correspondent.
INDIAN SPRINGS.— The holiness meeting
which has been in progress here for the past
week closed Friday. One of the many sensa
tional incidents of the meeting was in connection
with the disastrous wreck on the Western Sys
tem of the Southern last week. It will be re
membered that the derailed train was bound for
Indian Springs, loaded with members of the
Knights of Pythias, who were to have a day’s
outing at the resort and the festivities were to
close with a big ball. The holiness people pro
tested against the proposed dance as a device of
the devil, and prayed for its prevention. On the
day following the wreck the faithful claimed
that the accident was a divine answer to their
progress. As a matter of fact, the exact words
of the preacher were these: “You all heard the
prayers of the brothers last night for divine in
tervention as to the dance to night over there
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The Looking Glass man seeing a
crowd in Eiseman & Weil’s, dropped in.
He found they were old customers buying
fall hats. One said to The Looking
Glass man, “you see we save one to two
dollars a hat because we don’t pay for a
name.”
Genuine English hats, $3.00.
Eiseman & Wiel’s Reliable, $2.00
Gentlemen needing hats had best call
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(pointing towards the wigwam). God moves in a
mysterious way his wonders to perform. The
dance was prevented. A few broken limbs are
nothing to the many souls which would have
been lost had the dance taken place.”
This point of view ha'k been the subject of
much bionical comment. At last Sunday’s
meeting fully five thousand people were in
attendance, and the vast audience was drawn
from thirty counties.
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From uur Regular Correspondent.
ROME.— The olive branch of reconciliation
has been extended to Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Mar
shal, nee Miss Julia Hill, who eloped recently
and were married at Summerville. The objec
tion to the union was on account of the tender
years of “the bride, but once the deed was
done parental forgiveness was promptly extend
ed and as promptly accepted.
The society event of the week has been the ex
hibit of colonial relics which opened Monday,
in the Armstrong building. The object was to
raise funds to defray the expenses of the county
exhibit in the woman’s building, and it was
strictly a society affair. The attendance was
fair and a neat sum was netted.
The serious illness of Dr. Robert Battey, the
famous gynecologist, has cast a gloom about the
town for Dr. Battey’s fame and name are insep
arably linked together. Years of close study and
overwork have told on his nervous and his phy
sical system is wrecked. Should he recover
it is exceedingly doubtful that he will ever
again resume his place at the head of his pro
fession. As the originator of the Battey opera
tion, the jiame of the doctor will live in medi
cal circles forever.
I was told on the quiet recently that one of
our young professional men, while on a visit
to Atlanta, encountered a poker sharp and be
came acquainted with him to the extent of
about SSOJ. which he dropped into the gamb er’s
hand. According to the tale he subsequently
discovered who his partner was and made a
desperate effort to regain his roll. He found
the sport but the bluff didn’t work, and even a
threat of criminal prosecution did no good.
The affair is not generally known, indeed I
doubt if any one here knows it except your cor
respondent’s informant and the man himself.
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From Our Regular correspondent.
ATHENS.— I dislike to give them away for
they are jolly good fellows, but the strange ad
ventures of two young Athenians during a re
cent visit to Atlanta would make a capital story.
One of them figured in a disgraceful street
fight on Decatur street and was arrested and
obliged to put up sls for his appearance next
morning. The matter was mentioned in the
Atlanta papers, but under a different name.
The other, I hear, claims that lie was relieved
of a considerable amount but don’t say how or
where.
One of the brightest young professional men
of Athens was recently taken to a liquor cure
in Illinois and is now undergoing treatment.
It was given out that he went away to rest but
the fact is as stated. At last reports he was
said to be in a bad condition.
It is generally understood that a “marriage of
convenience” which was a society event several
seasons back will soon result in a definite separ
ation. It has been a sorry romance for the
young wife, and if gossip is to be believed her
experience has been sad indeed and well nigh
tragic. Her husband is a worthless cad who
stays in good society through family connec
tions.
A famous lovers’ trysting place on one of the
principal street of the city is acquiring a
painfully nasty reputation, owing to a suc
cession of scandals which have had their origin
on the spot. The last and liveliest came very
near ruining the good name of a popular young
society girl, and her parents are obliged to send
her away to check talk.
W. &. A. and N. C. & St. L. R. R.
The reliability and dispatch of these
lines are well known to the traveling
public. The W. &A. will run four pas
senger trains a day between Chattanooga
and Atlanta, and will probably put on a 11
p. m. train to Rome and Dalton for the
accommodation of people who desire to
stay in town late.
THE EXPOSITION
Is incentive sufficient for people to buy
jewelry and silverware and ornaments.
We desire to say that we have everything
in our line, at lowest prices. Stilson-
Collins Jewelry Company.
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From Our Regular Correspondent.
GRIFFIN , — For some time past rumor has
been ife concerning the ardent attachment of
a handsome married lady to a young gentlemen
much her junior and a prominent figure in local
militia circles. Last week some of these stories
reached the ears of the lady’s husband and he
proceeded,gently but sternly, to trace the rumor
down. He did not succeed in discovering the
author'but was prepared to make things warm
for the right man. Since then there has been
much less talk.
I hear a business man of this city made a most
disgusting exhibition of himself a few even
ings ago at a little gathering of a few of his
neighbors. He was stupidly drunk, and some of
his “bad breaks” can hardly be hinted at.
This is, by the way, a common occurrence with
the distinguished gentleman aforesaid.
I hear that the Griffin Lodge of Red Men are
thinking of introducing the famous 101st de
gree on some of their recent novitiates. The JOlst
is attended by ceremonies of a very exciting
character, and those who have passed through
it exhibit souvenirs in the shape of broken
noses, scarred heads and barked shins. A visit
ing red man put some of the local braves up to
working the degree some weeks ago and they
had a good deal of fun mapped out; indiscreet
talk, however, gave the thing away prema
turely.
It is reported that a visiting belle, a beautiful
demi blonde, who was admired by all the men
and envied by all the ladies, was wooed and won
by a young Griffin merchnat, and that the en
gagement will be announced next week.
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From Our Regular Correspondent.
LAGRANGE. —The depths to which a man
can descend when he deliberately starts in to
take care of the output of a distillery or two
has been aptly illustrated by the downfall of a
resident of LaGr >nge, who was once on the top
of the heap. A few years after his marriage—
and, by the way, the wife is one of t e gentlest,
most lovable women in the world—he started
tippling and subsequently degenerated into a
confirmed drunkard. His cruel treatment of
his faithful wife has excited the indignation of
the people and unless he'turns over a new leaf or
makes foot-prints toward some other burg he
may be taught a salutary lesson.
A gay little butterfly, whose residence is un
known, succeeded recently in ensnaring in the
meshes of her silken net, a wealthy LaGrange
capitalist, whose gray hairs refute the impres
sion of youth which he affects in his clothing,
and ways. It seems that he run afoul of his
charmer on the train from Atlanta to LaGrange
and so complete was his captivation that he
did not know when he reached home, and re
fused to be convinced that LaGrange was his
stopping place. During his tete a tete the
siren “borrowed” a good round sum, the amount
of which has not yet leaked o t. She then bade
him farewell. The subiect has been a very sore
one ever since.
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From Our Regular Correspondent.
MADISON.-I hear it rumored that a popu
lar young Madisonian, who is a conspicuous
figure in all social gaieties and was a active mem
ber of the late German club, is engaged to a faci
nating widow who does not reside in this place,
but who is well known through several visits.
The engagement, which has been thus far kept a
profound secret will thoroughly surprise Madi
son society and furnish a topic for unlimited
tea tattle discussion.
A recent and thorough investigation has put
an entirely new face on a matter that has ex
cited a good deal of discussion in Madison and
was casually mentioned in these columns on the
29th of March, last. I refer to the rumored
shortage, in a small amount, of the treasurer of
a social club. It now turns out that this im
pression was entirely traceable to on error on
the part of one of our local banks, which inadver
tantly charged to the lady’s account, as treas
urer. a check drawn by her husband. This made
an apparent discrepancy which the bank subse
quently discovered and rectified, completely
exhonorating the lady, much to the gratification
of her host of friends.
I am somewhat surprised that a recent arti
cle in one of the New Orleans papers relative
to the somewhat sensational entanglement of a
well known former resident of this place was
totally overlooked by the gossips here. I don’t
care to enter into any details, but the incident
was a good illustration of the fact that one must
go away from home to hear the news.
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2. The finest lake in Georgia at the end of it.
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4. Bathing. New bathhouse, new suits. All
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5. Lawn tennis and croquet.
6. Fine woods and springs for picnic grounds.
7. Music and dancing afternoon and evening,
from 4 to 10.
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