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Since taking Ayer’s Pills, I have been free from these complaints.” “I have derived great benefit from Ayer’s Pills. Five years ago I was taken so ill with rheumatism that I was unable to do any work. I took three boxes of Ayer’s Pills and was entirely cured. Since that time I am never without a box of thesepills.” Peter Christensen, Sherwood, Wis. * Ayer’s Cathartic Pills, PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Dealers in Medicine. NtMU TEXTBDDKS NEW AND— Mil - Hitt » J—l SELL AT— LOWEST PRICES, HAVING THE COMMAND OF J CAPITAL. AND THE RUN JOF THE [MARKETS. COLLEGE STATIONERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 0. W. McGregor. Book Store, ATHENS, GEORGIA i C T A o > V f s -8 U F D °H D F E f R L Jeweler. Silversmith ANOTHER FAMOUS VICTORY. It was an autumn evening; Old Caspar’s work was dote; And be before bis cottage do or Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild, Wilhelmine. And as bo sat and smoked, be saw That little maid draw near, A bolding tn her little palm A severed human ear. While o’er the field appeared tn view Os human segments not a few. Her brother James came likewise with The little cart be owns, Quite filled with legs and arms and dis located collar bones. OH Caspar looked, and then quoth he: “It was a famous victoree.” “Across the field are stains of gore, And whitening bones I see, As evidence undoubted 'twas A famous victoree; And there is proof to back my claim That twas a daisy football game." —America. A DETECTIVE. As I pinned on my new shield, on being installed a member of the detective force of a young western city, my first wish was for an opportunity to show my superiors and the public the metal 1 was made of. An occasion was not long waiting. An adroit forgery came to light, of which one of the city banks had been the victim, and n large reward was offered for the capture of the perpetrators. Facts tended to fasten suspicion on a young merchant who had lately failed under ques tionable circumstances, and whose disappear ance, shortly after the forgery, had first led to coupling his name with the affair. Evidence sufficient to justify his arrest was at length accumulated, and orders were given by our chief for his apprehension on sight Here was the chance I had longed for. The shrewdest of the force had failed to gain any trace of the fugitive. Could 1 but strike the trail and run the game to earth while so many were at fault, I would be a made man, to say nothing of the reward to be pocketed. Opinion was much divided as to whether Nimblenib—that was the forger’s name—was concealed in the city, or whether he had gone into hiding elsewhere. One day I thought it could do no harm to take a jaunt of observation to a neighboring city. Entering the train early, I selected a place which gave a good opportunity to observe the passengers as they arrived, which I made it my business to do while pretending to be busy with the morning paper. A genteel looking man, of middle age seem ingly. shared the seat with me, and by de grees we fell into conversation. “You belong to the detective force, I per ceive,” remarked the stranger, glancing at the badge which a slight derangement of the lapel of my coat had left partly exposed. Blushing at the inadvertence, I hastened to conceal the tell tale token. “By the way,” he continued, “that scamp, Nimblenib, must be a sharp fellow so long to avoid the vigilance of you gentry.” “We’ll have him yet,” I replied with the air of a man who knew a good deal more than he chose to tell “It’s to be hoped so,” returned the stranger dryly. “I suppose you would recognize him If you saw him.” “On the spot,” I said confidently. “You have seen him, then!" “No; but 1 have his description so accu rately that I could pick him out from a thousand.” “Don’t be too sure of that,” my companion answered. “Now I have seen Dick Nimble nib fifty times, and would know him at a glance, but never by the printed descriptions I have seen—but stay—as I live!” The stranger gave a start of astonishment, and, before I could inquire the reason, added in a suppressed tone: “Don’t look, at present, at the person of whom I’m going to speak. He sits on the end next us of the third seat in front, on the opposite side. Wait a- moment and then scan him cautiously.” I did os directed, and saw a young gentle man, whoso face wore a disturbed expression as he kept glancing about anxiously. “Do you know him?” I inquired. “I do,” whispered the stranger. “Who is he?" “Dick Nimblenib.” I half sprang to my feet, my purpose being to arrest the man on tho spot. The stranger’s hand on my arm restrained me. “Not eo fast," said he, “or you may spoil all Though not a professional, I’ll give you a bit of advice for what it’s worth. Keep the man in sight till he leaves the train; then follow him to ids hiding place, where you’ll have a chance not only to find such confirma tory proofs as shall remove all doubt of his guilt, but may succeed in bagging his ac complices.” The advice seemed so wise that I determined to follow it. At the next station the stranger, who told me his name was Pilchard, took his leave, wishing success to my enterprise. The young man forward, from whom I scarce once removed my eyes, grow more fidgety as the time passed. His looks wan dered distrustfully from side to side, and as each now comer entered his startled manner betrayed a feeling akin to fright. Station after station was passed; but, though his agitation increased every moment, the young man never left his seat. Patiently as a cat in ambush I kept watch, longing for the moment to make the fatal spring. It was growing dusk when we stopped at a large town, where fifteen minutes were al lowed for supper. There was a general rush of the passengers, and in the confusion I lost sight of my man. He had certainly passed out with the crowd. I should probably find him in the supper room. I went through it, but he was not there. I searched high and low; he was nowhere to be found. The last thing to do was to keep watch as tho passengers returned to take their places. With the vigilance of a sentinel I paced the platform by the side of the waiting train, but he did not return. I exhausted inquiry and description, but in vain. I could gain no trace of the missing forger. How I blamed my stupidity in allow ing him to slip through my fingers, and all through giving heed to the shallow advice of that officious Pilchard. How could I have been such a donkey 1 Another train would leave in a couple of hours. Possibly Nimblenib might resume his journey on that, thinking to break his trail by the interval There was nothing better than to wait and see. The time passed slowly, but my patience was rewarded at last. A carriage drove up, and who should step out but the person I was seeking, followed by a lady to whom he offered his arm. I advanced and laid my hand upon his shoulder. “I have orders to arrest you,” I said. The man seemed thunderstruck, and the lady uttered a scream. “I have done K thing to make me amenable to tho law,” said the former, recovering him self with an effort. “ You’ll have an opportunity to prove that,” I answered, ‘ but my present duty is to take you into custody. ” Before 1 had time to answer a stout, florid old gentleman came bustling from a train which had just arrived, and, catching sight of my prisoner and his companion, began to berate them soundly “This man is under my protection," I said, addressing the choleric stranger, “and I can not permit him to bo abused." “I don’t see what business it is of yours,” returned the testy gentleman. “He is my prisoner.” I said with dignity.” “Your prisoner,” he exclaimed. “1 know the rascal deserves hanging for running away with my niece— least ways she ran away yesterday and ho followed her today, it seems. I got on their track by accident; but I don’t see what concern it is of yours.” “I have arrested him on a charge of for gery," I explained. “The more fool you!” was the abrupt re tort “Whatever objections I may have to Ned Parsons marrying my niece, he’s an honest fellow, and no more a forger than yourself!” “You’re mistaken in person," I replied. “This is Ricaard Nimblenib.” “You’re an ass!” was the reply I got “Don’t let him harm Ned, dear uncle,” pleaded the lady coaxingly. “If he touches a hair of the dog’s head I’ll have the law of him!" exclaimed the old gentleman. “You see we were married an hour ago,” continued the lady, “and it can’t be helped now; won’t you forgive and bless us, uncle, dear*” A light dawned upon me. Instead of catching a forger, I had only been marring a wedding. At any rate, one good came of it. My interference had so completely turned the uncle’s wrath against myself that he answered his niece’s last request with a grunt that had more of “yes” than “no” in it 1 quietly took the next train for home. After an hour or two of not very pleasant meditation, a slap on the shoulder broke my reverie. It was my friend Sergt. Spottem, who bad come aboard at the last station. “I say, Bill, I’m in luck," he cried. “How so?” “I’ve just nabbed Nimblennib, and have him under guard in the smoking car. Come and take a look at him.” 1 accompanied my friend, and whom do you think I discovered in the person of tho forger? None other than the affable Mr. Pilchard, who had given mo such good ad vice in the morning, and whose perfect dis guise had completely baffled my power of recognition by description. I felt that I was not specially called to bo a detective, and faced the fact with resignation. —Philadelphia Call Poisonous Poultry, “Here you are. Eight cents a pound,” cried fifty or more men in long woolen frocks, as I pressed my way through the crowd which blocked up the sidewalk around Washington market on Saturday afternoon. The stalls along the Washington and Vesey street sides of the market contained tons of poultry, and a-motley crowd of women and men were pusning and pulling each other in the scramble to get what was being sold, at eight cents a pound. Turkeys, chickens, geese and ducks were going off like hot cakes, and almost for a song. The crowd who were buying up this “bargain” in poultry was composed chiefly of women who wore shawls and carried large market baskets on their arms. Beside these were a class of women whose appearance in dicated that they were the landladies of sec ond and third rate boarding houses. The men who formed a part of this rushing, eager throng wore the garb of laborers, and their hands bore the evidence of a hard day’s toil. What kind of poultry were these people buying for their Sunday dinner at eight cents a pound? some will ask who are accus tomed to being charged from twelve to fifteen cents a pound for chickens, and from sixteen to twenty-two cents for turkeys, ducks and geese. They were buying poultry that had been shipped but delayed bn the road, and when it reached the commission merchants was heated, and when exposed to the air turned green. The commission merchant must dis pose of this class of goods at once, so ho noti fies these men who handle this class of poultry on the outside stalls of the large markets and the dealers throughout the city, and they respond promptly to the summons, for it is the only class of poultry they deal in. These dealers purchase In large quantities and doctor up this already unfit to eat poul try, and can afford to sell it for eight cents a pound and make a fair profit at that. How do they do it? They soak it in ice water for twenty-four hours, dry it, hang it up in their stalls, and sell it for fresh poultry to the throng of people I have described. Some of these people buy this poisonous food, believ ing it to be just what the dealer declares it to be, while others buy with a full knowledge of the quality, and visit the markets for the ex press purpose of buying it, as they have done hundreds of times before. This same class of people buy tainted meats, and simply for the reason that they are cheap.—New York Herald. Artists of the Street. Since the Italian exhibition in London gave a foreign tone to all things a new sort of street music has come into fashion. This is the street mandolin. Four or five men and women in gay attire, suggesting a scene out of “Carmen," run loose, go about the streets, and do most weird and wild songs and dances to the jingling music evolved from their dropsical looking mandolins. Very often a bare legged piper, with his plaid and his pipes, startles the air of its tranquillity. To me the pipes are aggravatingly inharmoni ous; but, of course, tastes differ, as they should. Some of the street cries of various wares have a vast melody of scale. These, such as the “Sweet lavender" cry and the “Young toy lambs to sell,” are very grateful to the ear after the shrieks of many itinerant merchants, whose wares one could never guess by the manner in which they are called out. Street playing on musical instruments, as also street singing, is regarded in neither side of London as a regular legitimate calling. The children of parents engaged thus are brought up, as a matter of course, to follow the calling made lucrative and pleasant by their parents. There is one species of ear splitter unlike “anything on the earth or in the waters under the earth.” I refer to the street negro, blacked up to order, whose mission it is to sing old American southern plantation songs. These he gives with a cockney twang of speech. He is never by any chance a genuine darky. Oh, no; he is a creature of burnt cork and shadows. His tastes lead him min strelward. He is mournfully comic, and with his banjo is a feature unique in his way.—Cor. San. Francisco Chronicle. Lake Superior’s Iron. The year 1888 has eclipsed ail records of annual production, shipments, sales and smallness of surplus during the thirty-two years of iron ore producing in the Lake Su perior region. The production exceeded that of 1887, known as the big year, by 5 per cent., the sales nearly 60 per cent., and at tho close of navigation only 167,800 tons remain un sold at lower lake ports. The total ship nients from Superior ports during 1888 aggregated about 5,000,0U0 gross tons. ONLY THREE MORE DAYS LEFT TO GIVE AN OKDER OM A SUIT, In which we guarantee to save you .'*5.00 to SIO.OO. Measures taken and FIT GUARANTEED. Our stock of DrcssGoods, C arpets, Shoes, &c, iscomplete ■ M. Myers & Co — Notice! We Have declared War UPON HIGH PRICES AND DEFECTIVE GOODS ! SPECIAL Olf JF’ ER, O This Week on tho Following Goods l Chamber Sets, $2 25 to $25.00; Tea Sets, $3.25 to $20.00; Dinner Sets, $11.95 to S7O 00; Lamps, 15c. to $5. ORDERS by EVERY Mail from North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia. CROCKERY. GLASS and TINWARE at a sacrifice to the TRADE. OUR drays are KEPT BUSY carrying goods to DEPOT. We will deliver the smallest article in our store to any part of the city. Our motto is to LIVE AND LET LIVE. 100 cents will buy you a true DOLLAR’S worth at the ATHENS MNF®. & IMPOBHW 00, 7 and £> Clayto B^t. 9 Athens, O-a. KemeEal>er tine Place. ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR ALDERMAN, FOURTH WARD. At the solicitation of many friends, Mi- Cobb Lampkin has consented to present bis name to the democratic primary, as a candidate for Alderman in the 4>h ward. Many Voters. FOR MAYOR. I am a candidate for Mayor of Athens before the Democratic primary. I pledge myself to support the ticket nominated on that occasion. Get. 11th, 1889. Albert L. Mitchell. At the request of many citizens, I have consented to offer for r« -election as Mayor of Athens, holding myself ready to abide by any decision my people may make. J. A. Hunnicutt For Sale. A new and desirable dwelling, on Jack son street. For particulars, apply to octstf Mrs. E P. Bi-iiop. Death in the Wires. New Bork, Oct. 11.—An electric line man met with a honible death at the cor ner of Centre and Chambers streets, at 1 o’clock this evening from contact with an electric wire. He was employed by the Western Union and presented a terrible sight as he died on the net woik of the wiies in mid-air while the deadly fluid actually made bis body sizzle and the bloou pour out to the sidewalk and over the clothes of the horrified spectators. The accident occurring in the middle oi the day, in one of the busy parts of the city, was witnessed by a large crowd. The man’s body lay limp and motionless over the mass of wires attached to the cross aims of the poles. Firemen brought out a ladder and went up with the shears to cut the Wires. The man was found to be d.ad. In fifteen minutes wire had burned off the half the man’s face, which was turned toward the sidewalk. His left arm was also burning and every few seconds a blue flame spurted out from various parts of his body. Hundreds of people stood shiv ering with horror, as they viewed the awful sight overhead. For a time no one d ued io go near. -»■ <»»■». Itlardered Ilia Wife. Augusta, Oct. 11.—Jane Chamberlain, a negro woman, was murdered in the street just before midnight to-night by Frank Chamberlain, her husband, who dragged her from her house and plunged a knife into her heart. Jealousy is supposed to have caused the crime. He made his escape. i—o ■ + ■ —— Through Sleeper* Commencing Sunday, October 6tb, 1889, the fast train leaving Atlanta at 2:45 p. m., will have a through sleeper for Charles ton via Augusta, and Yemassee train, leaving Charleston via Savannah & Charles ton railroad at 10:30 p. m., has through sleeper to Atlanta. Passengers from Athens on 3:50 p. m. train make connection with through sleeper at Union Point for Charles ton. E. R. Dorsey, G. P. A. Joe W. White, T. P. A. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS- ALL persons having demands against the es tate of John H. Newton, late of Clarke county, deceased, are hereby notified to render m their demands according to law; and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment. This October 9tb, 1889. LAMAR COBB, Executor of John H. Newton, Deceased. <>ctlodlw4w6w. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. 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Certificates uiit i> p plication. 50cts a but le. by L D. Sledge & Co. Copartnership Notice. The undersigned have formed a partner ship, under the firm name of Galloway, Lambert & Co., and propose to do a gro cery business in the store that was occu pied by J. Hoffman, more commonly known as the Racket Store, next do.or to Jester. Will commence business in a few days, and respectfully isolici a share of your patronage. Jas. Galloway, Jno. H. Lambert, octl0«1&w2w. W. E. Eppes. FOR SALE. For Sale.—Hous aud lot on corner of Dougherty and Jackson streets—six or eight rooms, garden and well. ne louse ia>d splendid lot, situated on Cer of Hancock and College Avenues For sale 7 acre farm, with 2 bouses, thi side of the Bobbin Mill, (known as the old Stafford place.) Shack elf. rd &H attaway