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‘V ■ . XJf/O^VT >1 !Z..» he ALB.1XV NEW: he ALBANY ADVEI s, eeuhiubed UU, SRTISKK, eetablUbed 1 I Consolidated Sept. *, 1M, br> r., i Mclnoan kBrlmi. ( A Family and Political Journal Devoted to the Interests of Southwest Georgia. FRDAY, JANUARY 22, ISSfr. (po $2 a Year. I Volume 1. gvofcssional (Cards. James Callaway. Attorney at Law Camilla, ga. (eb2£- Jas. H. Spence, Attorney at Law, CAMILLA, OA Will practice in all the counties of Al bany Circuit, and in the U. S. Circuit and District Courts for the Southern District of Ga. sromce Up -stairs, orcr Twitty A Cul- pepper’s. feb23 LAND AND COLLECTION AGENCY. H. C. SHEFFIELD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ARLINGTON, GA. Wild Lands looked after and Col lections made in the counties of Early, Miller, Calhoun an 1 I laker. feb28-ly Trowbriilgc & Hollinshed DENTISTS, WAYCROSS, - - - - GEORGIA. Teeth extracted without pain. All work warranted. Terms moderate. Will go any where on H. A A. and A F. A W. Railroads. aplH-ISm JOSEPH A. CRONK, ATTORNEY at LAW 111 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA. Practice* in ail the State Courts, liefer* to lion. T. M. Norwood. apSlirm A’. T. JONES, JES8K W. WALTERS. JONES & WALTERS, Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, GA. OJice offer Oi.tiV Rail mail Hank. • anl’r-ly DbIoss A Osbiru, &MMTISTS* Albany, - - - • Georgia. / \FFICE—OVER I'.iai OFFICE. WASHING V • TON STREET. janHwljrdl l..J. WRIGHT. % l> It. P‘)I*E WRIGHT & POPE. Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, GA. OVFICIi—Orer S. Majrer A Glauber’s *ilore, cor- u» r llroad and Washiugion Sts. Dec. 28, 1880-dlwwly WM. E. SMI1H, Attorney at Law, ALBANY, GA. /"COMMUNICATIONS on bnainesa directed to V./ me at Washington City, during tho next six ty days will receive prompt attention. Jan. I. 1881. D.A. VASON. A. H. ALFltlEXD VaSON AJjFRLEND Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, GA. Active nnd prompt attention giverf to col lection* and all general business. Practice in all the courts. «Mlico over Southe n Express office, onpo- site Court llous«c JnnG-dtf vV, A. STROTHER, M.D. ALBANY, GEORGIA. Glee over Gilbert’s Dreg Store All orders left at the Drug Store will receive prompt ttontion.Jan 7-ly Dr. R W. ALFRIEI^D, . aESPHCTFULLY tenders his services, in the li various tiranchea ot his profession, to the clttsens \lbauy andsurroundlngrountry. Of fice opposite >>urt House, on.l’inestreet. HOTELS. THE JOHNSON HOUSE, SMITH VIL.LK, GA, Is the place to stop mid geta GOOD SQUARE MEAL. THE ALBANY HOUSE I Merrick Barnett, Proprietor Albany, Georgia. TIThis House is well furnished nnd in cv- 1 ery way prepared for the nccommo- dation of tho traveling public. Entire sat isfaction KnniunUvd. 'Hie table” is sup plied with the l>est the country affords, and the *crvuuts are unsur]Mssed in po liteness uud attention to the aunts of guests. Omnibuses convoy passengers to nnd from the different rail roads prompt ly, free of charge. Charges to suit the times. sep29 tf I. J. BRINSON, GontractorA Builder AND UE.VI.Klt IN ALBANY. GA. Lumber, Brick, Shingles Lathes, Lime and Cement Constantly ou hand, and onlers promptly Altai. ttff* Estimate* famished for buildings and contracts taken at lowest living rates. Albany and southwest Georgia need an en terprise of this k‘nd, and 1 am determined to simply the demand. Patronage solicited and satisfaction guar anteed tyOFFICE: At S. Sterne’* Store on Washington Street. Albany. Ga. Sept.». 1890. tf Thousands or Dollar. Are spent annually by our people for medicines made North, they are adrer- tised as being adapted to Southern com plaints, bet II. H. P. ia a medicine that has done more good than auy of them, as it is especially adapted In our’cli- mate.—Netrt (Augusta, Ga,). It ia King Vanderbilt no more— Gon’d is the -boas” now. Tbs Democratic caucus of the Flori da Legislature has re-nominated Hon. A. W. Jones, for the U. S. Senate, which is eqairclant to a te-oleciion of that gentleman. Florida has done well. If Senator Brown don’t get all the government appropriations Georgia wants, it will not be because he ia anyways backward about asking for them. He puts in for a lew hundred thrusand every fortnight Dubiso the present year there will be four months with five Sundays— via: January. May, July and October. Spring begins. March 20, 5:57, A. M. Summer begins June 20,2:12, A. M. Autumn begins September 22,4:34, P, M. Wihter begins December 21, 10:24 A._M. The fire record of 1880 shows a great decrease in the losses by fires oveT the preceding year. The result is due In a great measue, it is said, to the many im provements made, not only in tho ma chinery for extinguishing fires; but in the facilities fur getting the machinery out at the sound of an alarm It is proposed in England to reduce the rate for telegraphic messages from 25 cents to 12 cents for Iwen ty words, including address. Experience has demonstrated that prudent reduction of rates has so increased the business of the wires as to more than make up for any apprehended loss of revenue. Will the grand consolidation please try the plan on in this country ? Tiie latest news Irom Washington in regard to the Gcoigia Marsliatship is to the effect that the delay in sending to the Senate the nomination of II. I. Kim ball for Marshal is occasioned hr ti e Attorney- General's office, which wants Fitzsimmons removed instead of being allowed to resign. It is understood that such influences arc being brought to bear on the President that tho resig nation will not bo accepted, and that the removal will bo made with all the emphasis that it may convey. Foil the I'fe of us, we cannot see what those of our Democratic Repre sentatives at Washington who arc in teresting themselves against Marshal Fitzsimmons, can expect to gain by having said gentleman removed and Mr. II. I. Kimball appointed in his stead. It looks to us very, much like an effort upon tho part of certain offi cials to displace a genuine Democrat for tho purpnso of rewarding a man of questionable political faith, to say the least of it, for past favors. It comes to us by way of the “Geor gia News” column of the Savannah News that a marriage took place at LaGrange last Wednesday, which is de scribed as sensational, romantic and re markable. Mr. P. Prophitt, who is fifty years of ago and has been so para lyzed for a number of years as to be perfectly helpless, was united to Miss Annie B. Swain, a young, good-looking, intelligent and accomplished lady. The cause of this reinarkalilo marriage is believed to bo tliat botli parties are spiritualists, and had received, as they supposed, a communication from the spirit world desiring their union. Mb. Henry S. Euwaudh, the accom plished city editor of tho Macon Tele graph ami Messenger, was married on Thursday evening hut to Miss Roxie Lane, daughter of Hon. A. J. Lane, of Macon. Although personally unac quainted with Mr. Edwards, we have had daily communication with him as a contemporary so long that we feel like wc know him, and that we can ex tend the congratulations and good wishes of a friend upon the important step ho lias taken. He is one of the most talented writers on the Georgia press, and wc know, by the way he writes, that he lias a heart and mind worthy of any woman's love. A Dakota man describes a “bliz zard” as “a gale of win 1 filled with snow and icy particles ts fine as rice powder, with a temperature ten to twenty degrees below zero. A gen uine blizzard is so fierce that you can neither face it nor distinguish objects ten feet away from you. In Dakota and Minnesota during the prevalence of a blizzard, farmers only venture out of their houses with guiding ropes around their persons to enable them to find their way back.” And still there are people who recommend Dakota as a good country to emigrate to, and swell into eloquence when they declaim on its agricultural future. LeDuc, hv the way, ought to have an appropriation to promote some device for counteracting the blizsard. In the line ol stupidity, nothing ap* prosches the performance of the new editor of tho new paper, or the new ed itor of the old paper, as tho case may be, who writes a column of salutatory, principally devoted to apology for his enterprise, or for engaging in journal ism. The new editor usually makes a splendid exhibition of modesty; be dis parages himself, and pathetically ap peals to his reader* for forbearance. He feels that he can afford to do this, being confident within himself that the public is already penetrating his modest habiliment.--, and discovering in him a min of prodigious intellect and extra ordinary capacity for business. But frequently tho people take him at his word, sal that is why there are so many wrecks on tbe stormy ooa-t of journalism. ALBANY, GA., SATU1 in i Number 20. OMIfltTbeutf, vkn UM mu Wee •. Um atrona of ihuiU^uiirur, To coM codYur laf,MM byeae. Tbo ripfJua of tout ajgbty river. MdoUMCBtkotMk VMNtUd A SorlUo g rt, with uofeMU hxir And eyes that mi*)* tbo world bated* A wi:d, bright, wicked, diamond pair. Sbe stooped end irrato upon tbo and, Just m tbe loving tta wee going. With auch a Bolt, mool), ablniog band. You would bavo sworn twos silver flowing; Bit worJs wire threw, sod not one more; W hAt could Diana’s motto oo? Tbo siren wrote upon tbe shot*. ••Death l not inconstancy!’* And then her two largo, languid eyas So tamad oo mi no, the devil take me! Ieettbe stream on fire with sighs. And was the fool she chose to mokt me. Saint FimMis would have been decei By sedan eye and suck a hand; Bat one work more and 1 brikvod os tbe sand! JSZKL vJs-AP Waynesboro, January 14.—Quite a serious accident occurred near this place on the afternoon of the 13th instant. Dr. K. I*. McXorrill and Mr. Mixon, while returning from town to heir homes on horse back about dark, ran into each oth er at full speed. In the collision Dr. McNorrill;? neck was broken end bis horse severely injured. Mr. Mixon was q-iite seriously injured and his horse killed. It appears that tills singular and tragic affair oceni red iu this maiiuer: About three miles on their way home Mr. Mixon, stopped to talk to Mr. Mathis, living about that distance from town. I>r. McNorrill, keep ing on his way, and finding that Mixon lingered behind rather longer Ilian lie expected, the doctor turned his horse in a full run to see what detained hi-: companion, wliu had, about the same lluie, started to overtake the doctor, riding also at full speed. Nr. Mixon says that when they npproaened near each other he attempted to guide his horse to the right mid supjioses the doctor gave his horse the same di rection, that the eollfsioti was so sudden anil severe that lie was hurl ed senseless to (he ground by com ing in contact with tho doctor’s, head, striking him ill the stomach. When lie eamu to he found the doc tor’s liorso lying on him, with u broken shoulder and bleeding at the month ami nose. The doctors neck was broken and- his face and head badly bruised. His own hor-e was found a short distance off. A negro iiinn coining up !-c was asked to bring the horse to him and just as he led trim up tiie ani mal fell dead. Dr. McNorrill lie- longed to a good family and leaves a wife and six young children. He made » good soldier, .imving -creed through tiie entire war ill the Fifth Georgia Cavalry._ It rough! to Account for Quarreling About the Apoctlec, “Am Brudder Artlchoko Hurri cane in do hall?” softly Inquired the president of t ic Lime-kiln C'lub ns the trianglo ceased its cclioos. Mr. Ilurricuno was there. lie rose from Iris scat and walked slow ly forward to tho president’s desk. “Brudder Hurricane,” continued tiie president, “yon war down on de Central M trkel do odder day. In stead of b'uyln’ a ploco" of smrgeou an’ a head of cabbage an’ gwine home about your bizness, you stop ped aud got into an trgynu-nt Wid Diijnn Smith about the uige of Judas when he betrayed de Saviour. Am I k’r.ct about dis?” “Yes sab.” “Ariel- do argyment had contin ued for some little time, an’ when it bccuin sirtin dat you couldn’t agree, you called Smith a'liar, an’ lie called yon n human hyena. Your loud voices brought a crowd, an’ a ptirlieeman finally ordered you offde m trket under penalty of arrest. Am I k’rcct, Brudder Hur ricane?” “Yes, sab.” “Well, den, lei me ask you what difference it makes to you whedcr Judas was twenty-lire or seventy- five years of age when lie sold out ?” “I don’t ’spect it makes any differ- “ucc, sah.” “ir Judas had nebter lived at all, wouldn’t you liavo jist as much work an’ jist as good wages as now “I ’sposc so.” “If tint same Judas had been 500 y’ars old when he took dat money would you have to pay any more house rent dan now ?” “No. sail.” “Den it seems to me dat you made a plumb up an’ down Iqle of yersclr. How does it seem with von ?” “Jist dat wa«’. sah?” ‘•Very good; you kill resoome yotir scat. When a man am satis fied in his own mind dat he has tuade’a fool of Iiisself dar linin’! much left to argr about. Be a lcetle keerfiil in dc'fuchcr. Let dc Opostlcs strictly alone, it won’t make any difference wid you whed- cr dar war twelo or twenty-four of ’em. Let do ole prophets alone. No matter how many iley number ed or what dey prophesied, de price of cow-hide boots will not be less dan free dollars while you ami your cbill’cn exist. Arter dis go ycrown way an’ mind ycrown biz ness. regardless of Judas Iscariot, Daniel in de lien’s den. or anybody else who has been buried over a hundred v’ars. We will take up dc rig'lar odor o’ bizness. “Get Up, Sonar.” Mr Stephens tells somo amusing incidents ot Iris own experience. He was a delegate to a famous po litical convention at Charleston, be fore the war, and put up at one of the best hotels, kept by an excellent woman. ARer dinner Mr. Stephens went in tbepirlor and lay dowu on tiie sofa. There were quite a num ber of gentlemen in tbe parlor, and the bustling landlady, looking after the comfort of her guests, came in and seeing bis small figure reclin ing at fkill length, said to him, with a shake by the shoulder; “Get up; tcnny,and let some of these grown up men sit down on the sofa/’ Mr. Stephens said be got tip without a word, but the way tiie story is told bv the others the day afterwards' when ho repliod to some of tne irost famous meu of the Caroliuas and overthrew them in debate, tiie confusion of the good laudlady was something wonderful. law the Sn Certain nerrous people are said to be alarmed over a statement pur porting to be from tbe English as tronomer, Mt. Proctor, who is now in Australia, to the effoct that a cer tain comol, recently visible in that part of the world, is the brilliant comet of 1S43, and identical with one which frightened Europe in Newton’s time, 220 years ago—and -that, owing to the suu's attractive power, the period of this particular comet is rapidly diminishing; and wi I bring the erratic wanderer again to the snn in 1887, when it will inevitably plunge head-first into the solar fire. This, Mr. J ’roc- tor thinks would produce such au immediati ^ntrease of heat as would - “destvoy.fgl tie higher formsofani- U& ” The Hartford Times does not share Mr. Proctor’s alleged appre hension. It says: Comets are largely gaseous un substantial objects, whose sadden plunge into the sun, even if it coaid occur, would uot be likely to pro duce such tremendous effects as Mr. Proctor wildly imagines. But there seems to be uo likelihood that such a plunge can occur. Comets are of ten drawn, as the bright one of 1843 was, very lie ir tiie sun; but they do not appear to plunge into it. On tiie contrary, when they get near the sun, that mysterious central source of light and life deveiopes a power exactly oppositr to his great power of attraction. It is the force of repulsion; cud it overcomes‘the power of attraction, in every in stance so far ns we hnvc been able to learn, in the case of comets— sending them off, with a mighty im petus in the opposite direction; and uot,like the wayward sheep ot Lit tle Bo-Peep, with “their tails be hind them,” but with ibosc gaseous appendages actually streaming out ahead of them, as they go off, once more, uu llicir. far journey. Not only is Ml. Pr->ctor uiisar- pnrtcd in Iris uiaiu idea that comets, like meteoric messes invisible to earth, are likely to plunge into the sun, but lie fails to substantiate Iris other postulate that tho comets of lfiCO, 1SJ3 and 1880 -ire identical, and that tiie same one will ixapprar seventeen years lienee, to the ruin of all that is vital ami fair in this part of the solar system. The bodies that fall into the sun and have been fail into it for mill ions of years, were made to go there. Those that were created revolve around the suu will contin ue to revolve till millions of yeais after Mr. Proctor and all the scary chaps who are prognosticating dire evils on account of the “stars” and “comets” have plunged head first into au eternity where they will leant that all they kucw when upon earth did not amount to inuejb. How a Bat Was Won. Here is a good old story in a new dress: An English officer exchan«ed into another regiment, bringing with him Ihc reputation of being marvelously successful at a bet. “Ah,” said his now Colonel, “he wont get any success out of me. I’ll warrant,” and lie wroto to the fel low’s former Colonel, an old friend: “Wo like him very much.” “Glad you do, old boy; keep him; we found him too expensive a luxury,” was tiie reply. One day at mess the Colonel good huinoredly said: -1 bear that you always profess to win a bet?” “Well,sir, l'in pretty suc cessful in that way.” “I don’t tbink that you can be successful with me.” “May I try?” asked Ihc subaltern. “By all means.” “Well, then, I bet you, sir, that the old wound iu ycur back has broken out afresh.” “What in tiie world do von mean ? Old wooud in my bark? D’you think I ever turned niv back on tiie enemy, tlieu?” aud the -gallant Colime! grew warm. “I never h id a wona.i in my batfc in my lile. J-.nes,” to a coronet, “lock tiie door. Hi prove to your own eyes.” The other pro tested that the Colonel’* simple word was more limn enough. But no the latter was ex--it <1. and stripped. “I’ve lost, sir,” nn.l Br wn handed over the ten.pouud note. A few days later came a note from the Colonel of the other regiment: Brown has again won a pot of money out of us fellows. He bet heavily before he’d been with you a month he'd make you take vour shirt off in the mess room after din ner, and now writes that he has suc ceeded.” That Col mcl “cussed.” A Texas Balznnt Returns to His 014 Home. r.-rrtro County Hem. On Wednesday last Mr. M. D. Knight, who lias resided in Texas for several years, returned to this county, where lie was bora and raised. Mr. Knight, like many oth ers, returned from the war to find every branch of industry In a pros trate condition, and ruin and chaos reigning supreme. In this distract ed state of*afihir8 home bad almost lost its charms and a foreign coun try, of which little was known, ap parently held out to him the great est inducement. Mr. Kuight, after spending several years in Texas, has finally come to the conclusion that his lia’ivc home is tiie best of all. He speaks well of portio isofTexas, but say* tlitsc places most desirable and attractive arc beyond the reach of poor men to buy. The poor class, ho says, have to labor to great disadvantage, as we know to be the case in all .countries. Those who have gone there with means to set themselves up for living, are doing well. While in some respect Texas will excel Geor gia, yet there are many disadvan tages to contend with, and upon the whole he prefers his native State to •the Western wilds. Franck is a great hair producing country, aud her principal custo mer is America. Normandy’s peasant women, bare the most lux urious heads or hair, -the Brittany crop is plentiful, but coarser, and Limoges produces exceptional}- long and black hair. Hair is of dull hues in the north of France. Deal ers attribute this to the influence of sea air. In inland and inountaia- tbc hair is of more color either way, and (MUSCLE. A Pair or Atlanta Lawyers Ttilr tor Earn Olbrr’» Core, bat Oil Be lux Poured on tbe Troubled Wa ters They an- Asaln Happy. 4U.su Fwt-AKesL The Superior Court was on yes- te«day afternoon thrown into a tu mult'by the proximity of a conflict between Ben. Hill, Jr., and Gen. Gartrell. Mr. Hill was arguing for she State in the case of Donovan, charged with larceny from the per son, and comment in” on the absence of a witness, expressed a ueiief that he had been kept out of reach by the defense. Gen. Gartrell, who was for the defense, asked if the So licitor meant to say that he (the General) had induced the witness to keep out of the way. The reply came in a twinkling “Yes, sir,” and the General sung out—‘-Then yon liar.” Ill slung a dipper, water and all, at the General, who “went for” Hill in short nielre. Deputy Sheriff Thomas interposed bis body between the bciigerants, and when the General grabbled for Hill re ceived the clenched list on bis nose. Hill let a chair fall on Thomas’ head, aud the friends of the two gentlemen got them in tow aud hos tilities were suspended. The scene was boisterous, and somewhat mixed for a few minutes. When a proper equilibrium was re stored Judge Hillycr iuvi'ed the parties to appear tills morniug and show cause why they should not be fined tor contempt, appointing W. T. Xewnan to appear against them. But J. T. Glenn came forward and represented that having conferred with the parties tic found that the difficulty was caused by a misun derstanding. They botli rose and expressed themselves desirous of (he immediate disposition of tiie case. They both apologized to tie court and the matter was dropped. SarcfM or a Flacky Boy. TotVi Cotrianlon. The boy marched straight up to the i-uiuitcr. “Well, my little man,” said the mercli mt complacently—he had just risen from such a glorious dinner— “what will you have to-day?” “Oh, please sir, mayn’t I do some work for yon ?” It might liavo been tho pleasant bine eyes that did it, for the man was not accustomed to parley with siicii -mall gentlemen, aud Tommy wasn’t seven yot, and small for his age r.t that. There were a few wisps ■ • liair ««i -he edges of the mer- .‘ r :• epic, ami down on the face. Tiie man pulled at on ho had done tweak ing them, he gave the ends of his crat'al a brush, and then his hands traveled down to his vest pocket. “Do some work for me, eh! Well, now, about what sort of work might your small mntiship calculate to be able to porform ? Wby, you caiC look ovor tbo couuiflr,” . il OhTyos, I can! unarm grow- ilense, growing very fast— look ovor tho Tbcy Live la lfarth Thraw Nanteraaa J Unpontlble fur ThU .Watder f RALEiait, N. U, Janaary 15.— One of tbo saddest cases on record, allowing what desperation the cold charity of the world can drive a young female, occurred in Pender | Counv last (right. Abbey Howard, | a young woman aged eighteen, some j time ago ”nvo birth to an iiiegiti- : mate child. Site was at the time living with her mother and step father, and they soon began to make her home uncomfortable for her. Night before last, despite tiie , intense cold, they drove her aud her infant from tbe house. She wandered over tbe country, | and coming to the boose of Eman- I ucl McNici was allowed to creep uuder a table and sleep for the riTgh- In . the morning, however, when she was questioned, and it was seen that^her child was illegiti mate, she was speedily spurned, from the house, amt again sent wandering along the road, nearly starving, and barely able to stagger along with her infant. The roads were covered with snow, and there was a biting wind; But she walked over tho thinly-settled < ountry iu a vain endeavor to get a place of rest. Last night she staggered into a house where a prayer-meeting was being held, but she did not have her child with her. Her virtuous sister was in the meeting, and im mediately asked her in a loud tone what hail become of her child. The young mother turupd pale, aud re turned ovasivc answers. She loft, ami was afterward followed up by her stepfather who insisted upon knowing what had become of her child. She finally said il died, and that she had buried iu Ho insisted npon knowing where the child had been buried, and finally she guided him and several others’ to the place. There were no signs of the body; but after looking about for a while the remains were found behind a clump of bushes, near Ihe edge of a pou I, where it was lying in the midst of a lot of ice, with Us skull crushed in. Near tlio body was a blomly club. The mother tva3 ar rested this evening slid committed to jail. It is believed that in a tit of desperation after being thrust out she slew tbe infant rather than sec it freeze to death Ing, li there! sec if I can’t counter!” “Yes, by standing on your toes; are they coppered ?’’ “What, sir?” “Why, vmir toe*. Your mother couldn't keep you iu shoes if they were not.” “Site can’t keep mo in shoes any how, sir,” and the voioc hesitated. The inau look pains to look orcr the counter. It was too much for him; he couldn’t see the little toes. Then lie went all the way round. “I thought I should need a micro scope,” lie said, very gravely, “but I rcck»u if I get close enough, I can see what you look like.” “t’ui older than I’m big, air,” was iii? neat rejoinder. “Folks say I’m very small for my agtk” -Aud what might your age be, -ir? ’ responded the man with em phasis. “I’m almost seven,” said Tommy, with a look calculated tofmp.ess even six feet nine. “You aee, my mother hasn’t anybody but me, and this morniug I saw her crying be cause site could not find five cents iu her pocket-book, and she thinks tiie hoy that look the ashesstoleit— and I’—haven’:—had—any—break- i ast, sir.” The roico again hesitated, and tears came to tiie blue eyes. “I reckon I can help you to a breakfast, my little fellow,”said the man, feeling in hi* vest pocket.— “There, will that quarter do?*’ The boy shook bis head. “Moth er wouldn’t let me beg, sir,” was his simple reply. “Humph! Where’s your father?” “Wc never heard of him, sir, after he went away. -Ho was lost, sir, iu the steamship ‘City of Bostou.’” “Ah! you don’t say. That’s bad. But you are a plucky little fellow, anyhow. Let me see; aud he pon dered, puckering up Iris mouih and looking straight down into tbe boy’s eyes, which were looking straight up into his. “Saunders,” he asked, addressiug a clerk, who was rolling up and writing on parcel*, “is Cash No.4 still sick?” “Dead, sir; died last night,” was the low reply. “Ah, I’m sorry to hear that.— Well, here’s a youngster that can take iris place.” Mr. Sannders looked up slowly— then he pat Iris pen behind the left ear—then his glance traveled curi ously from Tommy to Mr. Towers. “Oh, I understand,” said the lat ter; “yes, he is small, indeed, but I like his pluck. What did No 4get?” “Three ’dollars, sir,” said tbe still astonished clerk. “Put this boy down four. There, youngster, give him your name, and run home and tell your mother you have a place at four dollars a week. Come hack on Monday, and I’ll tell you what to do. Here’s a dollar in advance; I’ll take it out of vonr first week. Can you remember?” “Work,sir—work all the time?” In an oration ou “Fools” a cele brate! wit oaee delivered himself as follows: “In one gutter Isaw a pig; in the other a semblance of a man. The pig was sober, the man was drank. The pig had a ring in his nose, the other animal bad one on his his finger. The pig granted; so did tbe man; and I said aloud, ‘We are known by tbe company we kee V and tbe pig heard me ami walked away, ashamed to be seen In the eompany of a drunk man.” Klaalax and Telling of It. Philadelphia Tinea. When the wrong man kisses the right woman or tiie right inau kiss es tbo wrong woman—and both sometimes happen—it does not al ways follow tliat -.hero i* a disturb ance about it. The world can never know how much unauthorized kissing has been done and forgiven and forgotten. In the naturally wild ami niiilaciuiis careor of the human kind there is a great deal of tliat sort of business, and it id just as well that it is not cruelly dragged beforo tho public on overy occasion. If that were always done it would bo very discouraging to a reasona bly delightful pastime which more or less concerns everybody. Many ofthc cares and trials of this world fiud relief iu a kiss; it is a very lit tle tiling, uncommonly sweet for its size, ana one of the few luxuries of this world which well-organized never get too much of. No- y who understands even tiie ru diments of kissing disdain its prac tice, and those who have been so fortunate as to reach something of the scieuco of the thing arc uot easily restrained iu their pursuit of supreme happiness. A kiss doesn’t cost anything, and it’* a pretty small matter to muko a disturbance about, and most people will endure a great deal of kissing without get ting angry about it and regarding it as a misfortune to mako public complaint. Now and then, howev er, human stature, is put to an awful test in this way, an; human nature break* down. A man may not be so particular about putting his kiss es where they will do the most good; the chief aim of man is to get (lie kiss, aud lie he is frequent ly too hasty and too reckless about it. But a woman is apt to be a lit tle more consiilerato ju her prefer ences. There was an Illinois womau, now, who had the prejudice against being kissed by a tailor (possibly because the other eight parts of the man were not around), al’-hongb tiie tailor was perfectly free to say that he bad no prejudice a gains kissing tiie Indy. He regarded her a* sweet enough to kiss, and frank ly told her so. There^ are some cold, prond women who, in some unaccountable way, have got into this world, who wonld not be af fected by any sack talk, bat tbe number -of these is very few. Whether the Illinois woman was one of this rare kiud or not is still a matter of dispute. Itis also unde cided whether she told the tailor be was a handsome mau; the insists that, being a truthful woman, she could not have done so eonsciien- liously, while be takes the opposite side of tiie question. There is, however, no controversy about the one point that he did kiss her, and after all that is the important thing. It is not certain just what was tbe in-tUer with this kisg=rwbether ft was up to the siandard, or whether there may not be something pecu liar in a tailor’sklw. But itiscertain Unit Ihc lady didn’t lose much time in telliug herhusband about it, nnd tbe husband lost no time in liorsc-wbipping the tailor for doing just whet he had doubtless himself done a thousand times. In Ibis way the matter became tho property of ihc public, for the tailor pro ceeded against the husband for assault. Perhaps when tbe case is brought to trial we shall get some idea about wh)t there ia to a tail or'* kiss which induces a woman to tell her husband about it and create a disturbance in the community. Such a course ’is as strange as it is unusual, and if allowed to go on nn- rebuked mu*t inevitably cut a tailor off from many of the; good things of this-world. aJudge years of :tjr well An Iowa of that Sin age and educated iu ~ ItKWSAND OPINION. Tne tallest tree* in the world are in Australia. A fallen tree in Gipp— land measured 435 feet from the root to the highest point of tiie branches. Another, standing in tiie Dnndenong district in Victoria, is estimated to be 450 feet from the ground to the top. An exchange says: “Mrs.Bruce, the wifeo: the colored Senator from Mississippi, was among the best looking ladies present at the White House on New Year's day. She woro a reception^toilet from Worth’s of violet colored silk and satin, trimmed with white lace and dia mond ornaments.” In oar present House, men scarce ly get to know each other by sight in two vears. “Yon arc a)ncwsp:iptr man, I believe,” was the greeting of one’meinbcr to another afthe second session of the present body. This shows that tbe best known men in Washington are uot menbers of Congress but the press-gang. There are evils attending Chinese immigration, but there are benefit* a* well. The orientals come here rice-loving people. They *o home to extol the edible qualities of American bread, aud alrea4y the United Statei is shipping hundred* of thousands of barrel* of flour to China yearly, with propects of a large increase. There are forty thou*and negroes in Washington, says tbo Courier- Journal, of whom not more than five thousand are steadily at work (luring the year, the remaining thirty-fi7e thousand, according to a Republican exchange, live by >>cg- ging, sponging, stealing and by public charity, They used to get a living by their suffrage in the district. Many of them crowd the warm galleries of Congress and sleep blissfully over the eloquence of the Soions. There is a great scarcity of water in New Jersey, the brooks, rivers ami cana s being frozen solid, and nearly all the wells having gone dry. In many town* water is being supplied to families the same milk, ale or beer, only in larger quanti ties. ' Many regard the superabun dance of tiie apple crop last full as a fartunate circumstance,since ci.ler can be used instcadiof water. Numerous families melt the snow for household pu poses. Tho Philadelphia Record says: The consolidation of the three great telegraph companies of the country is bait uews for the public. It means higher rate-, inferior service, less accommodation to tho br.sines* community, and all the other evil* which result from combination and which are kept in check by compe tition. While (ho peculiar kind of hostilities recently indulged in to ward each oilier by two of these companies are not greatly to be commended or admired, tho lying down of lamb with the lion, wether inside or alongside of him, is in this cascllttlo short of a public calamity. This is of tbo instance where war is better than peace.” The Hebrew of San Francisco says: “Wonders never cease. In barbarous Russia, a journal has come out in fierce opposition to the suti Jewish movemeut of Ger many ; and in Roumania, the land of oppression and persecu tion, a paper, edited exclusively by Christians, has appeared, which is devoted entirely .to cham pioning tho cause of the Jewish people.” Tbe samo paper denies that tiie Jews arc not influenced by the comunities amid which they live. It says: “In Morocco they are so much influenced, even by the superstition of those who surround them, that they paint the faces of their brides aud resort to spells to cast out tbe evil eye and tarns away devils from their designs. It b found that sawdust can be converted iuto a “liquid wood,” and afterward into a *oliil, flexible, and almost indestructible mass, which, when Incoporated with animal mat ter, roiled and dried, can be used for the most delccale impressions, as well as tho formation of solid and durable articles. To accomplish this the method pursued is to im merse tbe dust of auy kind of wood in diluted sulphuric acid, sufficient ly strong to effect the fibres, for some days, the finer parts being passed through a seivc, well stirred, and allowed to settle. The liquid is drained from the sediment and the latter mixed with a proportion ate quantity of animal matter, simi lar to that used for glue; the mass is then rolled, packed in moulds, and allowed to dry. Congressman House pats it thus. “Onr principles are not for sale, and all this talk about Mr. Mahonc or any other mi;n or set of men, converting tbe South to tbe Repub lican party by scattering Federal prtronage here and there among them is sheer nonsense. The Dem ocratic party, although defeated in the last Presidential election by means which I will not mention, still stands tbe Hon in the path of the Republican party in their efforts to centralise the Government and revolutionise the inetitntion of tbe fathers. They may lay the flatter ing unction to their soul* that the Democratic party is dead, but they will find it in their future efforts to destroy the barriers of the Consti tution and the character of this Government an exceeding animated stubborn corpse.” Mb. P. T. BjEscm, in talking the other day of bis feelings during his recent severe illness; said: “I look ed bade and could hardly recall a benefit I had rendered to my fel low-men alt my life. TJie folly, the stupidity of fooling away tile few years given us here in childish strifes, bickerings and differences occurred to me so strongly that I resolved that tbe son would never down ou me cherishing malice my heart against a single fellow- being. 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