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Newspaper Page TextVolume XXXIX.—No. 33. A] ill ANY. GA.. SATUIw a « *• EDITORIAL NOTES. Th* fellow that Is left will be In the majority. ? km out. soon be ripe. “Home teams” and “home runs” are unmitigated nuisances. Thebe have been thousands of nests peral ..officials during ur y£|«*C'' A skvex-inch snow fell alo.ig the Hudson river on Sunday*. It was good not to be there. ptfdFfo>Mtx!aTEB Lowell would prob- ably like to represent the Court of St. jitrfes afHvashlngton. The Vatican Is more famous for squabbles with the various Govern- O ilta of the earth than for anything -4-i 4 U-ii. There Is a fine of twenty dollars in Nevada for “treating” in saloons. The bibulous dead-beats will all emi- 3 v ■ -j . fT Is said that Phil Thompson is not mad. Then there is no reason why there should not be smooth sailing from now On. Sometimes, In my life’s early morning. Sweet dreams of the future there came; Dreams of a future immortal. Of a life full of glory.*nd fame; Bat the sweet dreams of childhood are over *- * *** n1 — sublime when t —_ — —_— care and voc, I wander akme hy the streamlet. And list to its musical flow; taught me the bitter truth that you, at this very hour, harbor In your breast deadly hatred and jealosy of Couauchet, smouldering fires you but illy suppress, that only wait time and occasion to break into a fierce flame to blast his happiness, your own, and mine; but this must not, shall not be. Little indeed do they know of a woman’s will who do not know that in ^Jufcrt «f beans^op aertKe a of a loved one , from mortal sight* Borne away in the arms of the angels, ~ Away to the mansion* df light; Up the golden stair, unfettemL His world-weary feet may climb; X, too. shall meant it, beside him. In the distant, yet near,'sometime. Written for the News and ADvcarisea. WANDA, OR |Tie Last Appeal. SflOP-LIFTEBS' and death dirge' peculiar to his dusky I race, he continued to advance nearer _ , . _ __ ■* ’ The Device, of Those M ho Tlake 1 to tne fatal verge. a x.| T | n ^ by Plundering the ■ Suddenly he dashed his blazing i stores. brand far into the darkness and with one prolonged cry df anguish that rang j Chicago See*, in hollow echoes from cavern to cavern j ^ here ”° j^ rn he leaped sheer from the crag to the ; / . er? * or in . e ' unknown deep below. A distant splash ; * te, * tr: '' ,tatl0n TRK KL a WHOOPING EVANGELIST. Gems From Brother Sai the Georgia Preacher Now Stir ring' up Tenneiaee. j St. Louis Globe-Democrat* i We see God all around us. The nal ghoi>- j mountains are God’s thoughts up- iKj — lJ V n *ear. „! heaved. The rivers ate God’s thougiits : - n * *> *“9.; in motion. The oceans are God’s tve. Most of j thoughts imbedded. The dewdrops Macon will. erect a monument to Sidney Lrinier. Every man who does nothing worse than write poetry is entitled to a monument. The man with the big petition wetns Invariably to get left in the race for. of fice. May be the fact will tend to abate the petition nuisance. vere put to a vote. It would be nd that Hazen isn’t the only man with a want of respect for obby Lincoln—the son of his father. The rivafof Kl Mahdi is called El HakkL British gold is probably the soil?!? of his inspiration. Two Els are many for one country. ' Gen. Grant’s case, following Pres ident Garfield’s, suggests the thought that too many doctors may be no bet ter, In a given case, than too many cooks. The weather has about learned to take care of itself, during the enforced absence of Old Probs from his guar dianship duties over it. There is nothing like being thrown on one’s own resources. Cholera has made a descent on Spain, and fearful ravages have begun, A bark with cholera on board has been at the wharf in Boston. It w ill be remarkable deliverance if this country should escape the scourge. Atlanta wants to get the. President to visist her. She would be willing to get out her base ball club and have it “annihilated,” in order to insure him a good time. He will not fail to go il he can’t help it.. ^ The feeling of hostility towards Barrios and Guatemala is very strong in Mexico. Public sentiment will force the Government to interfere in the interest of San Salvador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The offices are being filled in a man ner creditable to thenppointing power. There is a deal of disappointments among the patriots, but this is una voidable when the applicants outnum ber the offices, ten to one. The Riel insurrection is spreading. The Fenians, Dynamiters, Socialists and other brimstone elements now have an opportunity to prove the sin cerity of their hatred to Great Britain, in the blood of the Dominion soldiers. It is claimed by the English that Osman Digna has sued for peace. Pos sibly he has; but It will nor be advisa ble for General Graham to sleep with his door unlocked and Ids front gate open. Osman is as tricky as a Repub lican postmaster. . . Tut* Savannah -V-'cx has made- its appearance in the*modem octavo form, and the first Issue is at hand. It isn’t so well, printed as the paper usually is; but when the new press gets “broke- in” we shall expect to see something extra ill the w ay of printing. Senator Cameron’s notion of divid ing out the surplus in the treasury among the present and prospective owners of steamship lines hasn’t awak ened and enthusiastic endorsement in Democratic circles. Of course the P. I. Kelleyites will like the Idea, but they are Only galvanized Democrats. It is said that the English politicians are rejoicing over the downfall of tie French Ministry. It would lx* mors creditable in them to be working to ac complish the overthrow of their own. France will retrieve the reverse of Xe- grler, but England cannot restore blot out the humilia- great unanimity with which Repub lican postmasters exhibit their fondues* for Democratic rations shows that it would takeout very little solicitation to in duce them tc turn their coats. But there is no need of that. There are plenty of coats with the right side al ready out. ; The Pig Iron Kelley Democrats ought to explaiu to the country why the Pennsylvania Republican Legisla ture so gerrymandered the Districts in that State as to insure Sam Randall’s return to Congress, while the Demo cratic Districts were shamelessly cut down. Why do the Pennsylvania Re publicans love Sam Randall ? “It is understood that Minister Pen dleton has brushed up his French and can now ask for a brandy cocktail with only a slight American accent upon the brandy end of the concoction,” re marks the Macon Telegraph. When It. gets the time. It ought to tell the public. how it found out that brandy cocktails, in Berlin, are ordered in the French language. The Telegraphy itself, should do a little brushiug-up. Having defeated the Ferry iliuistry. the French will now turn their atten tion to the Chinese. They can end the war in*a hurry by sending an army to Tonquin. It is nonsense to expect a few battalions of troops to hold Tonquin in, subjection, and at the same time beat back invasion at the hands of the soldiers of the most popu lous empire on the globe. This, is a plain case. The payments on account of pen sions, last month, amounted to nine million dollars. Such enormous poor- honse benefactions are enough to bankrupt t he.country. And there is s of any relief during the next ensioners will steadily ‘ ~ 'rears—there Proud cities, palatial homes with all the evidences of advanced civilization and progress now mark a land,, where, In days gone by, were seen giant for ests, bright waters and sun-lit valleys. A land held by* a people swayed by no laws save those agreed upon around their own rude council fires. A fear less people, who gave but vague aller giance even to the Great Spirit, whose presence they inay have sometimes felt in the solemn night shallows around them or have been struck dumb with superstitious wonder and fear during the awful twilight of a total solar eclipse. If they heard the voice of the Master it was only in the thunder of the tempest or the everlasting anthem of the onward sweeping cascade. The story’ of the wrongs, the loves, the hates and, now, virtual extinction of these once happy children of uature, will, for all time, lend inspiration to the poet’s pen, add lustre to the historic page an 1 gather the subliinest subjects for the peueil of exalted art. Indian summer had come, radiant, beautiful autumn with its skies of azure thinly veiled in mists of floating gossamer, while the sun as he decliued each day threw back his loving glances, changing to alternate crimson or molten gold some rugged cliff or bringing iuto bolder relief the thousand varied tint-* of the fading, dying foliage. At such an hour two bright beings in the hues of y’outh, might have been seen stand ing, side by' side, upon a geutle emi nence as if entranced with the match less glory and splendor of the scene. One of the tw ain, Winona, as she was known and loved among the tribe, was the only child of the chief or sachem, while the young warrior, standing at her side and who had almost become her shadow', was not the only one who had knelt in the ardor of devotion at the feet of the dark-eyed beauty. It was known to the tribi that Conanchet and Wanda, two young Indian braved, were not only bitter, foes Jmt, at the flame time, rivals for the approving smile* of the gentle maiden. On the evening above alluded to, the young warrior Wauda had interceded with Winona to grant him one last in terview, in which he might learn from her own lips the decision she would nuke between himself and his hated rival, Conanchet. Tell me, Winona,at onceand truly, if you can consent to become ray idol, my life and my bride, to go with me forever from these scenes, amid which, with all their wildneW and beauty, l never more can be content, or happy*.without you. Can you for get that from childhood's sunny hours we have wandered hand in hand through many a flowery vale and far along the sparkling river's brim, or how, with our flaring torches hel l aloft, we have sometimes in childish fear ami W'onder, dared to tempt the hidden mysteries of those pillared col- onades and overhanging arches, the vast halls and whispering galleries of that giant cavern that, in long after years, shall echo and*re-echo with the trampling feet of the stranger and the redman’s mortal foe? Can you forget yohr girlish pledge to- me when once, with the risk of the loss of my own iife, I boldly plunged into the raging torrent and bore your almost lifeless form to the rocky ledge where you re clined in safety? For one bright glance of your approval l have, for hours, bra veil the fury of the hated Conanchet iu doubtful, deadly combat. For you I have gathered the snowy’ blossoms of the early* spring, heedless of the danger as they clung to the rug ged face of the beetling cliff where no mortal footsteps had pressed * save my own. Must these bright dreams of love, of hope and happiness be forever lispelled by a rude awakening that never more on earth for me, shall know the bliss of tranquil slumber? Speak to me, my own, ray loved "Win ona, bright sharer of my* youthful sports and joys. May I hope at last to gain that precious boon, that one and ouly reward for all the years of true and tried devotion ?” A passing shadow for "a moment gathered upon the brow of the maiden as, with down-cast eye upou the green sward at her feet, she thus looked, rather than spoke or cast the dim hor oscope of her despondent lover. “Wanda, you have through the days of my' childhood and of my womau- hood, been my friend, my faithful guide and protector. Your recall of the fleeting, happy* days gone by has fallen upon my ear like the low and pleasant ripple of laughing waters. To ni^Hlie memories of those vanished hours are sweeter than the perfumes that laden -the cups of the wild flowers y.ou so often have gathered and scat tered at my feet or woven into dainty garlands for my brow. Aye! sweeter to me have been your friendship, your noble devotion than the night winds lingering amid the strings and waking at last the pleasing yet mournful mel odies of some pendant but long silent harpischord. Fain would 1 have you still lire and be happy, live to think kindly of Winona, long alter this, our last sad parting shall have been for gotten iu all memories save oar own. For a moment longer heed what my fate cries out and urges me not to con ceal. My aged father, the sachem, likes the young brave’ Conanchet bat has only scorn and hate for you. If you truly love me Wanda, would yon haveme invoke or brave the fury of my *Sre? Would that I coaid, for your sake, forego the dread struggle between fear of his wrath aud the na tural promptings of a woman’s taring heart. You would not be so happy with nie in the future as you now so fondly deem. Instinct has long since voiceless yet otter scorn for the man of an inately jeatau* nature. Let this grim phantasy, if phantasy it be, but once gain footing in the doubt of a thoughtful woman, and, despite the re straint of holy wetllock, farewell for ever the happy fireside, the mutual joys^ connubial bliss.” The mournful interview between Wamls and Winona had ended. “Detain me no longer,*’ exclaimed the half Bartferi maiden* “I go to ful fill a mission that only the interposi tion of the Great Spirit can contravene. I’ll hear no more, relinquish your hold upon me, Wanda, at ouce,” she gently interposed, a* the young warrior, still clung to her hand in the passionate frenzy and agony of'an appeal which he felt too well no future hotir would afford repetition. At one angry glance from the flashing eye of the resolute maiden the unhappy lover slowly and sadly shrank back with that instinct ive respect aud courtesy that may sometime find lodgment even iu the rude breast of the forest, born. ’ In stantly the light form of Winotia van ished and was >oon lost to view amid lieve that Jonah swallowed the whale is because the Bible don’t say so. You don’t believe what you don’t * ..I...... * mn A Hithhiantf \servingtime ! |Ufe Gtad’s thoughts in pearls. a resounding plunge anri bubbling ^ ^ BrR|ewell r _> Ritentiarv or 1 believe that the whale shriek of agony came bark m faintly within thrW i Jonah > ar >d the only reason I don’t be- dying manners, and darkness and h * Te left , Iast 1 & , * , \ two vears vte have settled such famous silence, grim monareas of the realm, i _ • . . ir IT . — % , _ * ’ hatitD at the business as Mary Harn once again usurped their sable sceptre 1 and throne. That never forgotten crag is still pointed out to the curictifl. trav eler and tourist by the faithful and in- tellfgent guide of the world renowned cavern, and is known to our day as the “Indian lover’s leap.” Tbe Biel Rebellion. Savannah Xev<., odm has o little .rebellion, to. look, after which may prevent her from as sisting England in putting down the rebellion in the Soudan. The half- breed. Louis Riel, lias succeeded in collecting a very considerable force of half-breeds and Indians to sustain him in defying the legally constituted au thorities in Northwest Canada. If the distance were not so great, and if the difficulties to be overcome at this season of the year in order to reach the scene of the disturbance were less, it would not require much time for the Canadian Government to put an eud to to Kiel’s pretensions. Of course Kiel knows that he has t not much chance of gaining even a the gathering shadows ot the coining \ temporary success, and it is therefore night. 1 j diftteuit to understand what he hopes Gaining the camp fires of her com- | lo aceompiish. It is probable that he rades, she betrayed no emotion or sign ; hus not n ve ry .dear idea of what his of the recent sad meeting with Wanda, j purposes are. He is one of those rest- but, near the recumbent form of her j ofi persons who are guided bv loving sire and the Indian braves who j impulse rather than judgment. 4«aMkLiMi.. Without doubt there Is a~ goewi deal Minnie WeaVfer.^^Sophia Brown, • understand. Dovou understand why Mrs. Settle Kleinsi-hmidt and Caroline I “"l* have lmrns and some are muley ? SmWh. The latter lived in Milwaukee j \'on don’t i*lieve what you don’t and made periodical visits to snjair U*. Dltl f oll eTer m TO nr bick- cities, such as Elgin. Rock island, and j bone* ' ‘ Davenport, lo. -When she . was first The hardest thing for me to believe discovered in Chwagosbc was working | are U^ Ten Commandments and the with a Mrs. Itolkey. , smnpn on die mount, came fa from Anrors, .where one After-1 Custom I* the faw of fools, and Is noon they secured $400 worth ofiilk ! r u nn lni» this eountrv. dress patterns. In Jhelr bonsai in. | Ood gity the man who can’t run his Mtlvflflfco oitwMtfaxlnlltOOQ.Bfflli of hnm» abhn^it ^ deck of cards. He fine goods were<recovered. A Daven- : ought to have been in hell long' port raerenaut identified nearly $1,000 * worth as having been stolen from him. each would have gladly periled his life In her defence, she soon sank to that deep and dreamless slumber that only the happy aud secure ever know. Not so the wretched Wanda. Slrtwlv of dissatisfaction in Northwest Canada, both among the half-breeds and the .Indians. The half-breeds think that the lands which the Canadian Govern- returniug to the camp at a late hour .; ment is disposing of belong to them. he sat for a long time wrapt in moody, gloomy reverie. Overcome at last, however, by the unbroken silence of the slumbering host around him and the smouldering fires that were now fast involving ev ery object in deepest darkness, he too soon yielded to the soothing balm of sleep, that gentle but potent medicine for the w ounded hear£ It would engross the trenchant pen or ]>encil of a magician in romance or art to fitly portray the scenes of com motion and wild uproar that seized upon thatredman’scamp when, roused from their troubled dreams on the com ing morrow, they made the unpleasant discovery which the indulgent reader has perchance already anticipated. The brightest jewel in the temple of this torest home had been rudely pur loined, and no one of these rude deni zens of the wildwood was so dull of perception a* not to realize, at once and instinctively, that the dashing young brave. Conanchet, had at that moment in his jx)sscssion the pet of all the tribe, the loving child of the .Sachem, the beautiful Winona. The fleetest of foot in the camp at once abandoned hope of pursuit, for, :is the gloomy day wore on, stragglers past the camp gave the information that the fugitives had already reached the bright goal of a long cherished hope, the sheltering arms and protec tion of a powerful but hostile tribe. But what of our hero, the dispairing Wanda r For days and far into the night h»* wandered silently and gloom ily apart. The exciting chase for game had, for him, no further charm; he disdained even the magic circle of the council fires, and was so rarely present at the rude feasts for the sustenance of a life that was fast becoming a burden too grevious to be borne. A night of storm and darkness had • come. The heavens were overcast, 'while the lightning’s fitful blaze and phosphorescent glow w’ould, at rapid intervals,flash upou the scene, illumin ing with startling distinctness every tangible object, aud as instantly all would be swallowed up in impenetrable gloom. The thunder crashes rolled or heavily reverberated over hill or vale as if the angry titans of earth and heaven had closed at last in very mad ness and final conflict for mutual dis- traction and dissolution. “ ’Twa* Mich a night, a cbeil might,un<lrn*tand The de'il had btuiue*8 on hi* hand.” An hour in musical accord or rather discord with the dispair of the hopeless and broken-hearted. What form is that now seen in this night of desolation and horror rushing onward as if pursued by some avengr ingdemon? Can it be the phantom shape of the lost Winona? Ah! no, he who bears on high that flaming brand, is none other than the now maddened Wanda. Onward he flies, and, well nigh overcome, reaches the object of his wild search. Intercept ing liis path through the wood, and straight before him yawned dismally and wide a mighty cavern, over whose midnight brow hung in funeral fes toons the deadly night-shade and hem lock, making asail aud fitting sepulchre for the giant dead of the long ago. The dread hour, together with the scene of gloom, would have appalled the stoutest heart. The maddened lov er heeded not the dreary surroundings. Bracing himself for a final effort, he boldly entered the mouth of the hid eous cavern, and dowu, down, over masses of fallen, shattered stone be de scended. By the ruddy flare of lus torch that subteranean realm of mys tery and silence revealed Itself to his vision. He saw not now nor heeded the grandeur and beauty of scenes that, in other and happier hours, with the loved Winona by his side, would have filled his ferved soul with wonder, adoration and awe. He tarried not now In his wild flight through lofty halls and springing talsand mimic tapestry, wrought by the deft fingers of the Divine Artist in his divinest mood. In the last be stood upon the brink of one lone crag, that jutted far out and above a hideous chasm of blackness, rayless, hopeless and profound. High upon this self same dizzy verge, he ofttimes had stood, baud in hand with the loved one, now lost to him and forever. Together they listened with sj less wopder and fear, to the wild dash and plunge of that far -away but hid den cataract, whose inaccesible waters, guarded by the dread genii of the cavern, no mortal eye has, or ever will be, permitted to behold. The last hour of the doomed Wanda had come. With that wild incantation and that they ought to have absolute control of them. The Indians com plain! that they are robbed by the Gov ernment agents, and that they get only a small percentage of the supplies in tended for them. Riel and his half- breeds hate the Canadians, and insist that they have no right to exercise control over the territory which is the scene of trouble. They want the coun try for themselves, although they would hardly know what to do with it if they had it. It is in some respects quite attractive, and is being settled by a very good class of. immigrants. There is no reasou for thinkiug that the rebellion will amount to much. The best information 16 that Riel has about 1,500 men under his command, but it is not likely that he will receive any considerable accession to his forces. There may be some lighting, but the battles that may occur will hardly be more than mere skirmishes. The present occasion is not the first time that Riel has attracted attention in the sectlou of country in which he is now operating. Fifteen years' ago lie was a leader in a similar revolt. At that time he, and those who were asso- ; dated with him, set up a provisional government at Fort Garry, and seized hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property. The slight resist ance which the few English settlers were able to offer was quickly over come. "Lord Wolseley, who was then a Lieutenant Colonel stationed in Cana da, was directed “to smash Riel.” and he had a much more rapid success than he appears to be having in his attempt “to sma-h the Malidi.” On the ap proach of Lord Wolseley to Fort Garry with his militia Riel and his followers beat a hasty retreat. Kiel was born in Manitoba. His pa rents were French, with a little Indian blood in their veins. He is well edu cated and is bold aud daring. In 187.3 he was elected to Parliament as a dele gate from Manitoba, and went to Ot tawa to take his seat.. The feeling against him was so bitter, however, that he thought it wise to leave the city. He was soon expelled from Par liament, and never afterwards made his appearance at Ottawa. The scene of the present disturbance is Prince Albert. The town has a population of about 800 and the settle ment alKuit 4,000. The French, Scotch and Indian half-breeds outnumber the settlers from other parts of Canada. Riel and his followers are not the kind of men to be allowed to control affairs anywhere. They W’otild not know how to use power judiciously If they had it. The present rebellion will come to al? inglorious an end probably as did that of 1870. Only Two Left. Savannah News. The death of Hon*. Jacob Thomp son at Memphis, Tuesday, leaves only two of President Buchanan’s Cabinet living. That was the last Democratic Cabinet before the Republican party entered upon its long lease of power. One of the living members of it is Philip Frank Thomas, who was Secre tary of the Treasury.for a few weeks in 1860. He is at present a resident of Easton, a small town on the eastern shore of Maryland. The other mem ber is Horatio King,’ who was Post master General a short time. Neither Thomas nor King made -much of an impression as a Cabinet officer, aud there are comparatively few people, perhaps, who know anything about them, or remember that they occupied at one time prominent positions in the government. It is a remarkable fact that after leaving the group of states men who were prominent in the veiy early history of the /republic, only a small number of our public men suc ceeded in making such an impression upon their generation as to stand out promiucntly in the country's history. Mr. - Thompson was a man of much more than average ability. At the time of his death he was 75 years of age. He was one of the most influen tial members of Mr. Buchanan’s Cabi net, and had as much, if not more than any other member, to do with moulding Mr. Buchanan’s opinions on the great" questions which then agi tated the country. Mr. Thompson re mained in the Cabinet* until the Star of the West sailed and then he re igned. He went to Canada In 1864, and the part he played there in connec tion with the civil war in this country attracted much attention. and the Smith woman w as tried and convicted there. She wore a large silk circular cloak when on a thieving excursion, aud* had pockets large enough to slip an entire bolt of silk or even an umbrella into, aud thus have her hands at liberty. Mary Jordan was a very bold and successful worker in her day. but she got to l>e so well known by* the police that whenever any especially* clever piece of work was clone in the shop-lifting line she used to tie brought in. Nine times out of ten she was found to have been the thief. After serving numerous sen tences, at. the Bridewell and a term.at Joliet shfe quit the business, and is now working honestly for her living as a dressmaker. Molly Weaver and her husband Mike were slick ones, and played havoc in some of the large dry goods stores when they started out. Tie is uow* in the peuitentiary and she is cluing a year in the Bridewell. A curious case of shop-lifting in clothing stores came to light when Bob Davis, a colored man, was arrested a few months ago for stealing a pair of trous ers. He had them ou cinder his old ones. His scheme was to select and try on pants for an hour or more and pretend not to !>e suited. He nicely left the srere without a new pair, just the same. Mrs. Man* Vjosmeyer, who was fixed some years :cgo. had thefiii- Vsr outfit for shop-Hfiing ever seen in this city. Talk about pockets! She had them iu every conceivable corner of her clothing. They varied in size from that large enough to carry a bolt of cloth to a small elastic pocket under tbe arm-pit, capable of sliding in a portmotuiaie, a bottle of scent oi* small articles of jewelry. Then she had a leather belt around her waist, with hooks fastened to it in the sides and back, so that handkerchiefs, gloves, hose and lace could be hung about her. Over all was a long loose cloak, that covered everything. Most profession al shop-lifters are well and even ele gantly dressed. They make it a part of the business, for the clerks will dis play the finest goods, and have no scruples about leaving the counter when so stylish a customer is being waited on. it is a mistaken idea that shop-lifters are poor-looking and shab bily dressed, picking up only such small knickknacks as usually lie with- iu reach ou the tops of show; cases.and counters. They generally ran in pairs, and w hile one is engaging the attention of the clerk, asking to look at certain goods ami getting prices, the other is on the watch and seizes the* first chance to slip sopnc valuable article out of sigllVU [' * “1*6 tell the truth,” said a'floor manager of a popular dry goods store iu answer to a question about the pil fering* of shoplifters, “we are both ered more with the semi-respectable shoplifter than with the professional thief. Hardly a day passes' but some woman who is 'in here to buy some small article will pick up and attempt to carry away something. Usually it is not of great value. A roll of hair ribbon, a bunch of nr Jiicia! flowers, package of pins, or similar articles. We don't want to arrest them for such a trival affair, and even if we did noth ing would conic of it. or.it w’ould be made disorderly at * the police court, and a line imposed on the guilty per son, which of course would be paid. We don’t make any fusy about such things now. if the* person is known and has an account, it is put on her bill, and yon can restassured it is paid. If it is a casual customer, she Is called to one side and quietly asked to pay for the article or restore it. When the matter is settled she Is told that her trade is not desirable, autl is requested to keep out of the store In future.” “What safeguards have you In oper ation about the store to prevent shop lifters from getting away with goods?” “A number—but it would hardly be proper to descrihe^them in print. You may say, however, that we depend a good deal upon the shrewdness and honesty df our cllrflU They are all on tie lookout for shoplifters, and most of them take a sort of pride in detect ing anything of the sort.” From another source in the same store it w ? ns learned.that the firm had in training a corps of bright boys, ranging from 14 to 16-years old, who. while appearing to the casual observer to be cash boys or parcel clerks, .were really deteetives. They . circulate among the customers, and even about the sacred precincts of the department cashiers and bundle counters. If a customer is* seen to loiter about,, or is suspicious looking, a lad tallows the person closely, and never * ceases Ills survellance until the shadowed part}* takes her departure. GEORGIA NEWS. —Hart county has $.3,500 in her treasury. —The Conyers Solid South spells it “tustling.” —Col.* Pike Hill, of Atlanta, wants a foreign mission. If he isn’t a Joe Brown pike we hope he'll get it. —An unsuccessful incendiary at tempt to born; the Second Baptist Church of Savannah was made on Sat urday night. —Devine and O’Rieliy, of Savan nah, have been indicted tar the killing of Pfluger. Four counts are made against the prisoners. —A large Government distillery is being erected near Covington. The natives will soon be able to get mean liquor with an orthodox stanip on It. ■Eggs mid butter are a hundred percent, dearer in Albany than in „ ire » H«twell. The Sun says ;- “Egg»- and' he hud children born unto him. ’ butter are becoming more plentiful, I used to dance, but when 1 wanted ; ^ in thie market « 10 wnts a wife 1 went to the prayer meeting, . , , ■ • , * and I beat your sort, too. j dozen and lo cents per pound. If any man don’t like what I say let; —An 8-potmd carp has been caught and ni—fm^ve^ld^*” 1 "H' 1 *** 8 °- j do " a iu Lo «™ I es. It is likely that You dance with this world aud \ another carp will be caught somewhere you’ll go to hell with this world. i in Georgia, during the year. It will I have no respect for Mahone’s poli T thus be seen that progress is beiug tics, but I like his answer to the ques-,^,, , h enterprise of supplying tion how much he weighed. He said: I . , . * * ’ - 's “I weigh ninety-five pounds, hut nine- | t “ e markets with carp, ty pounds of that is backbone.” | —Prohablv the first case of death Some men think they have back- j frum L . hfwI ' 11K on( ,. s own t e js bone, but it is nothing hut a cotton 1 . 6 string run up their hacks. A Dakota Board ot .Trade. Wall Street Sews. A member of the Cleveland Board of „ , Trade, who was in Dakota last fall arches, glittering with sparkling crys- happened in a town on, the tine of a railroad which ouly had one wheat elevator. In a conversation w ith the owner of the elevator, he inquired: “Who makes the price on wheat here? So yon have a Board of Trade, eh ?” “Well, a good enough one for such a town as this.” “How many members?” "Only two—myself and clerk; I’m -the bear and he’s the bull, and he tween never happens. Being as we are the Board of Trade, and own the only elevator, and being as he is head over heels in debt, and mast have money, the market may be quoted as steady.” .AO A Considerate Employer. Texas Siftings. , £ “ ~ ' Farnum, a Houxttm i man' who drives had been going about with his lower lip hanging down, and exhibiting other sulky symptoms, so he asked Jackson if he had met with any disap pointment in love. - “No; sah, but Use down In de mouf bekhse yon don’t pay me moah wages.” “I give you low wages for your own good. * . “How’s datr’ “If I were to raise your wages, you atryon would grin, and giggle all the way to the graveyard, and emit loud horse-laughs while tbe coffin was low ered into the grave. Then my regular customers would take their trade to some other undertaker, and you would be out of a job.” j——. ^ . ■ — The Widow of John A. Hurrell. Time*-Democrat. The widow of the famous land pirate, John A. Murrell, is.still alive. She is over eighty years of age.' At present she is residing In Chester county, trigS’ After" the death of Mt.rrell she married a man named Bland, who died several years ago. On the subject of her first hus band she has ever remained silent, and every effort to £et>ber to speak of him or his deeds fail. It is believed that she possesses important papers con cerning his life, and may, sometimes, in the near futnre, place them in the bauds of some trusted persons as data for a truthful history. There is more religion in laughing than in crying. If religion consists in crying, I have the best boy in the world. T photographed your owu ugliness, and you sit here and laugh at it. You ought to be ashamed. < am a Methodist, and want to be the best one God ever made. When St. Peter said add to your knowledge temperance, he didn't have reference to you, old red-nosed Metho dist. Any man who pretends to he a Christian and drinks whisky is a great big old humbug—a two-legged hypo crite. Society is a heartless old wretch, and if you don’t get out of it you will go to hell with it. When the doctor says you can’t live hut an hour you’ll want just such a preacher as is talking to you. God bores through the top of a man's head to his heart and on down to his pocket. The lawyer who knows as little about Blackstonc and the supreme court re ports as the average Christian does about the Bible, would never have but one case. The sheriff would be • his next client. If any of you don’t like the way these services are going, there are three doors—you are cordially asked to leave. When your little cup’s full you can just back out. Red liquor and Christianity won’t stay in the same hide. In a Georgia town a number of girls married men to reform them, and now the town is full of little whippoorwill widows. How lovely is a patient woman. God pitv the man who has a forked- tongued wife. The matter of church doctrine is an accident. If my mother and Brother Witherspoon’s mother had swapped babies he might have been a Methodist preacher. Th6 devil i$.tqppiuch of a gentleman to stay where be is not welcome. ! The churches of Nashville furnish whisky to the surrounding countiy. Some of your; wholesale liquor dealers belong to the church. If Brother Barbee would draw the line where the Lord wants him to draw it, there would not be a hundred members left in the church. The back door of the church ought to be opened once a year and give all who have not lived up to its rules an opportunity to pass out. Bob Ingersoll (and I never call his name without feeling the need of a dis infectant) says whisky is God’s worst enemy and the devil’s best friend. He is good authority on that side. Whisky is a good thing iu its place, and that place is in hell. If I get there I will drink all I can get, bnt I won’t do it here. Coffee and the Crab. Advertiser and Appeal. A St. Simons* fourteen-year old darkey came togrief as follows: From a full-rigged fishing tackle he threw a well baited hook full length of the line into the St. Simons river. Wait ing a short while he felt a taint bite at the hook. Cautiously pulling it in he found to his joy a large crab timidly and slowly following. When just be low the surface of the water, fearing he might lose the very much desired crustacean, he^, inadvertently slipped his hand under the hook and crab in order the more certainly to secure the prize. No sooner done than the crab with his largest and strongest claw closed in on Coffee’s forefinger. This was a dilemma and Cuffee forcibly thought himself equal to the emergen cy, and, acting upon the oft-quoted saw, “everything is fair in war,’’ caught the* crab T s claw between liis firm set teeth. '^At this time the crab fastened his other claw into Cuffee’s flat nose. This state of things so para lyzed him that he bellowed loudly for help. Ills wailing.- soon brought to his assistance a kindliearted gentleman passing by, who, with some stones, crashed the crab’s claws, thus releiv- iug him from his predicament and pain. Cuffee declares, “dis nigger gwine crab fishin' nairy. outlier time arterdat.’’ _ Tbe Georgia Aspirants. New York Times Washington special. The nomination, of General Henry R. Jackson for Mexico was the ‘ result of an agreement between the two Georgia Senators, growing out of the recent appointment of Mr. Benjamin H. Hill to the district attorneyship of that State, to be successor to Mr. Em ory Speer, just made judge of one of the federal circuits of Georgia, Sena tors Brown and Colquitt, did not agree as to Mr. Speer, but “pooled their is sues” in the case of Mr. Hill. Mean while General Fierce Young’s friends are fearful that General Jackson’s ap pointment to be minister to Mexico will interfere serionsly with General Young’s chances for the mission to Brazil, for which he has a powerful backing. Colonel Isaac W. Avery, a Georgia journalist, is here, seeking a high diplomatic place. He was -for six years private secretary to Senator Colquitt while the latter was governor of Georgia. His friends are as little comforted by the assignment of Gener al Jackson to the Mexican mission as are General Young’s friends. thus reported 6y the Macon Telegraph; “On the 8th of February last, we made mention of a peculiar ease in Crawford county, near.the Warrior district. Mr. Alford Long, a farmer in that section, was aroused at midnight by pain. He found that during his sleep, he hart j chewed his tongue horribly. Next j morning it had swollen to such au ex tent that he could not sj»eak. After the swelling went down, a cancer was discovered on the tongue. This, grew to.sueh au exteut that the poor man could only be fed with great difficulty. Ou Thursday Mr. Long died. . We are informed tliat lie was reduced almost to a skeleton. He was buried on Friday afternoon. Rev. Sam Burnett, conducting the funeral ceremony, at Dixon’s church.” —Lula Hurst has been “exjrosed” several times. The Greensboro Journal contributes this addition to the list; “During the recent visit and per formance of Miss Lula Hurst, the electric wonder, several gentlemen formed the opinion that every trick she did they could do. So, they began practicing, and on last Friday night, after the exercises of the High School were over, an exhibition was given by Mr. Holcomb Harris. He performed the umbrella and cane tricks, ran men all over the stage, lifted two large men with the palms of his hands, aud did the other wonders performed by Miss Hurst. He explained how he did the tricks and plainly showed to the audience tliat anybody could do them by a little exertion of muscular strength. The audience was fully sat isfied. and Miss Hurst will never re- edre farther p*tri**ge^ta 'a«r «ity. The so-called electricity and wonder rtf her tricks were plainly exposed on last Friday night.*’ —The Quitman jVew South thus speaks of the Blue spring in that sec tion ; “This beautifui spring Is about seven miles from Quitman, near the Savannah, Florida and Western rail road. The spring affords sufficient water to supply the Blue Spring mill two or three hundred jrards below. This water power, while being utilized for grinding purposes, falls far short of its intrinsic worth. A sample of the meal in our office shows it to be one of the best mills iu our country, and has a fine patronage, and is a valuable property as it is, situated however, as it is, near the railroad and Witlilacoo- chee river, makes it eminently suited for a bucket and barrel manufactory. The cypress necessary for tbe work abounds along the river sides, and the staves can be easily shipped on rafts made of pine tags, and these logs read ily sold to steam mill, owned and ruu by Dr. Briggs. Here is the place for an enterprising man to make a fortune. Barrels for syrup are in great demand, and cypress buckets neatly made, will meet a ready sale.” POWDER Absolutely Pure. This Powder never vane*. A marvelbf pur ity, strength and wholesomene**. More won- omical than the ordinary kinds and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders ti'tld only in cans. KOVAL BAKING POWDER CO„ novldftwly New York. TUTT’S PILLS 25 YEARS IN USE. Tie Greateet KcdicaMCrinmcIi of the Age! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Lom of appet Itc. Bowels costive. Paln la the head, with a dull sensation la the hack part. Pain under the shoulder- blade, Fullness after eat Ins. with adis- Incllnation to exertion of body or mind. Irritability of temper* Low spirits, with a feeling of havinc neglected some dnty, Weariness, Dizziness, Flattering at the Heart. Dots before the eyes. Headache over the right eye. Restlessness, with fitful dreams. Highly colored Urine, and CONSTIPATION. TUTT’S PILLS are especially adapted to such cases, one dose effects such a change offeellngaatoastonishtlie sufferer. ■ They Increase the ApimHPi body to Take on Flesh, thus tbe system nourished, and by their Tonic Action c the l»icestiveOrsans,1*c«iiIarStoolflsi TUTT’S EXTRACT SARSAPARILLA Renovate* the body, makes bealthv rtf*, strengthens the weak, repairs the wastes of the system with pure blood and hard muscle; tones the nervous system, invigorates the brain, and imparts the vigor of manhood fil# Sold by druggists. OFFICE 44 KnmySt,, New York er CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000, Tickets only %b. shares in Fro. portion. Louisiana State Lottery Company, “ We do hereby certify that ice xuper- cine the arrangements for alt the Month ly and Semi-Annual Drawing* of Th* Louisiana State Lottery Company, anv in person manage and control the Draw ings themselves, ami that the same are conducted with honesty, fairness and in good faith toward all parties, and we. au thorize the Company to use this certifi cate, with facsimiles of our signature* attached, in its advertisements “Our Board of Trade,” aras the reply. Dr. Hainn Golden specific. Specific, It can be given iu a cup of coffee -or tea without the knowledge of the per son taking it, effecting a speedy and permanent cure, whether the patient U a moderate drinker or an alcholic wreck. Thousands of drunkards have SeT^PfiS^ 0 ^ their knowledge, aud tOrday believe they quit drinking of their own free will. N’o harmful eficts result from Its* Circulars arid testbnmiials sent Address, Goldex Specific Co., d-wly 185 Race St., Cincinnati, O. .. •• • i.st *. Busin. Gath’s Special. The future of business looks a little brighter, and then not so bright. I understand from a number of our mer chants In New York that the goods have been reduced in quantity hv strikes and stagnations, and.that there is a very brisk trade this spring, which, bids fair to be better, unless tre rush our goods too rapidly. Of course, two or three years of retrenchment in the United States will produce public wealth, and the probabilities of com bustion fa Europe are tremendous. But we have no right to bottom our prosperity on tlie ijosstble miseries of our neighbors. Europe may have years of peace, and she Vk'bich Would Fain Remain P. yj. Detroit Free I*w». The Postmaster of a burg about twenty-five miles from Detroit was id the city yesterday in search of influ ence. He had been informed that his olHcial head was in danger—not from the new Administration, but from . his fellow-townsmen, “I tell von,” lie explained, as lie wiped the siveat from his brow, “it’s an awful strain on a feller’s brain. IVe got our Post Office about twenty years, ago. Our first Postmaster was too high-nose(I to play checkers with the boys, and we got up a petition and liounced him.” “For a better onef” “Which was me. Yes, the hoys put me iu, bnt after a year or two they iieganto giowl. I wouldn’t lick the stamps on for ’em any longer, and the first thing I knew oi.l Davy had my place.” “Good man f” “Tol erably, hut the 4rst thing he did he settled his hash with ns. Got bis wife a new silk dress, and had a door-bell put up. It took us two years to bounce him. but we got thar!” “And the next?” “Wall, we gin the place to a woman, arid she held it fur five years and died. Then we gin it to the store keeper, and he held it till be busted. Thou the boys rallied on me agin, and I’ve held it for several years.” “And they want to get yon out?” •They do. I’ve had six circus horses wintering on my farm, and it’s made ’em all jealous. A lightning-rod man has also made my place his headquar ters, and that’s another reason they are down on me. .Jist the minit a fel ler begins to climb np In the world they want his scalp. Soon’s I heard they had a petition aronnd to dust me and put in old man Smith my wife went out and washed the front win dows to show ’em that she didn’t con sider herself no Dutchess, and I put on my old dads and sawed two cords of wood, but it didn’t stop ’em. They might have got over the circus bosses and the lightning-rod man, bnt I’ve been appointed State agent far a patent wind-mill painted fa three colors. The galled jade can’t forgive that.” “And what will yon do?” “Die iu the harness! I’ve come down here to bant up a man who says old Smith was sent to State Prison in Indiana, and I’m going to have about fifty Influen tial citizens sign a certificate to the ef fect that if my services arc dispensed with they can’t guaranty the safety of this country more’ll a week from date.” Ti Incorporated in 1*68 for 35 islatum for Kdncational and Charitable pur poses—with a capital of 11,000,000—to which i reserve fund of over 1550,000 has since bom The only Lottery ever voted on r tendon.a by the people of any State. IT SEVER SCALES OK POSTPONES. St* Grand Single Number Draw •“S* take place rionthlr. A SPLE3U1D OFPOUTI .MTY TO WIN .A rilBTl SE. FOURTH OK AND DRAWING, CLASS D. IN THE ACADEMY OFMI-sk, NEW ORLEANS, Tneadai APRIL 1415, 1S8A—ITOth Month Drawing. CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000. 100,000 Tickets at $5.00 Each, Fractions, In Fifths, In Pro portion. list or rnizrs. JCAPITAL PRIZE *75,000 } “ “ 35.000 J 4 44 2 prizes of 3 “ 2,000 10 ~ 1,000 20 •* 500 100 *• ZOO. 300 - 100 500 ** 50. 1000 •• 25. " APPROXIMATION PHI/KS. ’ 9 Approximation Prize* of $750... a is 500 25.C0C 10,000 12.000 10.HA 10,001 10,001 20,OM :».ooi 25,001 25,00* 250 6,750 4,500 2,25*. 1263,50* Applications for rate?* to rial* should b< ane only to the office of the Company in New 1967 Prizes, amounting to.. ma A Orleans. For further information write clearly, id vimt full address. Pmial J^xprei Money Orders, or New York Exchange in or- mnarj letter. L nrrenry by Expre* (all sinm <»f ♦-» and upwards at our expense) arklre$etd ai. a. DAt Pim, Sew Orient**. La. or ai. a. nALPHnv 607 Seventh Street. Wmihington, D. f\ Make P. OJ Money Orders puraMe and ad dr*** Registered Letter- to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK. New Orlrann, L«. O. I. c. STANDS PEERLESS IN THE LIST OF Blood Remedies It ia the origin/d, the oldest and the beat. It it* a vegetable preparation containing no mer cury or other mineral pofron. An excellent tonic and appetizer, eminently adapted to tronblet* peculiar to woman. It 1* an absolute ly infallible cur.- fo~ every known form of Blood Di«ea.<e ai d S.;in Digeaae ariaing from blood taint. The following are fair aampleeof hundred* of testimonials we can produce:— Ecbeconsee, Houston to„ Ga„ Jane IStb, 1884-—I take great pleasure in saving I used half » dozen bottle** of O. I. C. for a severe case of scrofula of eight years* standing, and am fully restored to health. I cheerfully recommend it to sufferers from blood dlie rnee. S. W. Smith. Macon. <»a.—I have known some marvelous cures of Mood disease by O. I. C. Among others I now recall, was a caseof Syphilis of ten years standing, that come within my per- sonal observation. The victim had tried al most every known remedy and made repeated visits to Hot Springs without benefit. O. I. G*. effected a permanent cure. W. H. CKPur. I had in my family a ease of Poison Oak that for ten years defied physicians. O. I. C. made a permanent core. It is without doubt the “Gem of Blood Purifiers.’* 8. D. Roxmkxs. Agent C, R. E m Perry; Ga. O. I. C. IS A TERFXCT BLOOD rt'RIPIXR. It purges the liver and all its tributaries and branches, and is a specific, an Infallible cure for all diseases for which it is recommended by the company. It never fails to make a perfect “*»d permanent cure. Fred A. Toombs. ^ A. B. A. M. and M. D. Price S!^e per bottle. THE O. I. C. CO. Perry, Ca. 301.0 IN ALBANY BY WSX.CEC & AGAEL jmg 29-dly A Clear Skin YOUNG .TIF.NI—DEAD lrfl.S. The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich., offer to send their celebrated j Electro-Voltaic Belt aud other i Electric Appliances on trial for; ic onlv 3. Durr nf* Iiesntv* thirty days,To men (young orold)af-| if a P art Deaut > . flicted with nervous debility, loss of vi- but it is a part. Every lady may luve a great war in twelve tality .and manhood, and all kindred mav have it • at least xvTint months. The Americans have been so ■ troubles. Also for rheumatism, ncu- i , Ye It,. at least, wnat mueh in the hahit of depending on war ralgia, paralysis, and many other dis- j lOOKS like It. Magnolia a? a market tliat they are now watch- eases. Complete re-toration to health, j Balm both freshens and guaranteed, ing the prospects of European war vigor and manhood guaranteed. So , m Docn iresnens ana sent free. with more Interest than they are con- risk is incurred as thirty days trial is i OeaUtjneS. sidering the private economy of their ; allowed. Write them at’once’for illns-; own fifty-five millions of people. trated pamphlet free. 1 • /. — I .let*' t.. ^ ,< ,j AT PRICKS TOSCITTifETMIKS AND THE PRICES to FIT THE »ti< >RT CROP AND LOW PRICE OF COTTON. Dry Goods Dopirtoeot FULL AND COMPLETE embracing everythin*; kept in a FIRST-CLANS DRY GOOD’S STORE SrCH AS Prints, Checks, Sheeting, Osnahurgs, Notions LADIES’DRESSGOODS Fine Silks, Trimmings, Laces of all Kinds SHIRTS, LADIES’ AND MISSES UN DERVESTS, Etc. A FULL 8TOCK OF WHICH WILL BE SOLD LOW DOWN. CLOTHING! Is now complete* and vu purchased wift great care. If you wiuh to bny a Nice Suit for a Small Sum of Money come and see u» and . we will save you money. S We are prepared to meet all competition. All we ask is for you to come to see us and puce our Shoes, and you will be sure to buy- We bought our Boots and Shoes to sell and we are going to sell them. GROCERIES ! Farv' :r» and the public t our Grocery Department almt with everything m the way ot.f FANCY GROCERIES. . , We buy our Groceries 10 c«rlo»(i loteunjl can sure you money m tbe purchuee ot all kinds of goods. FLOUK ! We handle tbe Best Bi to this market, and only tmy FURNITURE! quality and price* and be convinced. I Our UBoroneat otTKCNKS und SATCHELS Mte-utSbUoi .ill fl.jtpfct/uHV' Albany. Ga-, September *5 - fcl fe

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly news and advertiser. (Albany, Ga.) 1880-1???, April 04, 1885, Image 1