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Newspaper Page TextGLORIOUSLY FALSE. [From the Courier-Journal ] BX WALKER KENNEDY. CHAPTER IV. School'beiog dismissed, Pemberton wen t borne rather sorely, and as he wished to read something bright ana fresh, he picked up the last .of Bret Hsrte’s stories. He made a glorious cosy fire and raised the blinds of the parlor windows (for he generally read in the. parlor), to let in a view of the crisp and frosty meadows, ^ltkout the air was keen and biting, but he was impervious to it in his warm room,— How he raced and exulted in the pages! He was interrupted by a knock at the door, which knock he answered by shouting “Come in,” supposing it to be thoservant who attended to the room. The door was opened, and some one en tered, lint paused silently. As Pem berton’s back was turned towards the door it was some time before he could overcome his laziness sufficiently to turn around. When he did so, he be held an angel. There she stood, tall and trim, her face flushed by the dalli ance of the wind and with unwonted *h:ime. Distress was written on her pretty face. The angel was a cby, star- ved culprit. Voice had failed her, and ahe seemed desirous of retrWtting. He wiw that she was struggling for some flung— heir composure. On regaining itaho was but a bright spark Of defi ance.' SO he sat down to fight • it out. v ,i that line, if it took all evening. A tnciuturiug «f contending wits was clear ly inevitable. She had been cruelly tuiried in some way, and be knew her well enough to divine that she would not in the slightest degree compromise herself, and would do everything to pre serve the semblance of propriety. •‘You in Sciiudultowu!” were his first words. “How in the name of all that’s marvelous do yon happen to be here? “Prsy becalm. Don’t become mys tified over trifles. There are other won ders greater than this awaiting your at tention/' Loot 1 at’uatfirg Sti'd Eeli&ion; atHio WsTeHes of hbiendej at the prob lem* of art," she said, melodramatical ly, waving her hatifl, '' ■ "It occurs to me,” he said, “that af- tw eueh au effort yon must be exhaust ed. Pt ay, hike that large, easy chair. How, Uiat you are comfortable, I will take up your gauntlet. I see that yon would be fastidious. To a .certain de gree I am doing what you wish; I am uuraveliug character. You wiil admit, I supple, that, nothing can be nobler than the sfudV of human nature. Per haps tlfe key to your individuality lies iu iny kuowing why you are in Soau- daltuwn. You are a part of human na ture. Therefore, in understanding you, 1 understand one of human nature’s brightest and most readable chapters.’ “You compliment me,” she said, “as if I were to be judged, aud my charac ter cut aud dried, by my answer to a single question. Yon have made a sad ausbiket ■ YomdisliueuiSh me in but a single noth, whereas of a truth I am a wild tangle of jarring tones.” Here she paused and lobbed critically at Charlie’s ryes, which, as the reader knows, would not bear criticism. Her face put on a frightened 16ok, which gave way to ii slyly humorous one. •/What makes your eyes look so sat undue?” she said. ‘ Why saturnine?’’ “All! there’s a ring around each one of them,' yon know.” “I should like to refresh myself with a five minutes taint over that' ‘pun, but iny desire to know why you aie iu scan- daltown causes me to refrain.” Bqt she was not to be diverted from her counter attack; and she kept up Such * lively questioning that he had to give her a full account of yesterdays un pleasantness. After he had told everything and saw bow iudignaut she was at the eneouuter lie would not unwillingly have told it again, if he could have drawn from her a like amount of;syuipatky. Heilir.ger- «d fondly over some of the most gory details, and then said. “But this 'does not pertain to the question why you are here.”, “For all you know;” she said, “E mav be taking a pleasure hip in order to view the scenery , and work up a poem cn winter.” • T ns suggested to him a deep, wily plot, in which to .entrap the unwitting girl, nndhe-safdi. ' “I suppose yon liked the scenery very much?" - ■ - • •• watch-tower on top, from which yoa can see tin country for miles? It is just beyond the last bend of the river.’’ “No; I don’t remember to liavo seen it.” “Ha! ha! ha!” Pemberton had found out that on her trip she was very inat tentive to the scenery, and that some thing was in consequence on her mind. “Whence this unseemly laughter?”— she asked doubtfnlly. “Will yon tell me,” said he in an fewer, “what you were doing while you were not looking at the scenery?” “I was reading part of the time. Is your impertinence satisfied?” “No; and if it does not compromise you, may I ask what was so entrancing as to take your attention away from the scenery you had come expressly to see?’’ “When you tell me,” she answered, “the cause of your laughter, I may be | induced to tell you what I was reading.” “The fact of it is, Miss Ethel, that you are inconsistant, not to say fibbing. WbeD I asked you if yon had seen an object which existed only in my imagin ation, and which yon did not think ro mantic. your answer was ‘yes.’ And when T spoke of the watch-tower cliff, a famous reality, you had seen nothing of it. All of which indicates conclusive ly that you were thinkiug of something else than tlie picturepque - ” “Perhaps so good a mind : reader can go furthtr. and tell mo what I was think ing aboti*.” “ What you were thinning about I can not tell - About whom you were thinking about, I - have an ideal” ’ •- -•“An idea! Ntiw dont be startler!, it may not prove fatal. An idfea is a com plaint against which I dare say you have not provided, I have my salts with me and they are at your disposal.” “To me,” said he, heeding not the banter, “there is someihing very deep and dark about all this, something al most inexplicable:” “I am glad I have bewildered you.— You have not completely read me yet.— There’s enough of the unsolved riddle about me to furbish for year iugennity the rdfet of yonr life. By the way, whose is that, pretty cottage just this side of towu?” This question was intended as a catch to lead him from the main issue, bnt be saw the intent, and said: “That’s a side issue, and of course inadmissable. By Jove, I won’t be tivarted in my qnestion.” “Why don’t yoii throw off this slight vail to your self-conceit aud ask me point blank if I "did not come to get a glimpse of a certain gentleman who shall be nameless?” she asked. “Well, I shall. It may seem, even be, conceited to say so, but I believe it.” said he with energy. “Say no lm.re,” she said, “for such language is calculated to make an angel weep. ” “Why don’t you Weep, then, and prove it?” said he gallantly. She was rather pleased at the com ment-, but, avoiding an answer, said: “You could never find out why I am here, so I shall reveal it to you. I have here a copy of the New York Herald, in which there is a .paragraph which will explain to you why I have broken through the net-work of society. I have marked the passage, and' it was this that took my attention from the beauties around me. I have read it, mores the pity for me, a hundred times perhaps, I shall give you the paper on condition that yon do not look at it nn- til I nave gone hence half an hour. If you do not promise, you shall not have it. I shall now go, m c r l. r to catch the four o’clock boat. My fa.her thinks I have gone to D town to visit my aunt. Just to think I had to tell such a story, and all to no purpose! He ex pects me back, this evening. Yon need not go with me to the river; it would occasion gossip. I will now put on my wings and fly away. What? A kiss? Nonsense, a possibility aud a frozen vanity isn’t kissable The sprite flung the paper at him and ran quickly out of th e door. He watched her lithe form till she disap. peared; then he fcan el to the slow old clock, which seemed to go backward- just then Kiugston came in vqilh; an expression of melancholy solicitude on his honest faee delightful to see. An nnd< r aker could not have got up more ingenuous length of countenance than he had. Of course Charlie bad to make up a realistic yarn about his cousin’s visit- He was too simple to disbelieve it, and went ont thoroughly satisfied. It seems that the half hour would nev er end. It did end, however, aud Pem berton eagerly scanned tho paper for the paragraph in question. He soon found - . .. § « ?” ■ iVand as he did so he almost hurra- **Yo8;I-gnve itquite a searching ex- h/d. Eefihmeaiyseized Ins hat and tataaation^' “Did yon. aee the old mill that ex tends far ont into the water? Its dam is much ruined and it, is in a picturesque there was any need of by the want of good nursing, so fearful are people of the dread disease. At present slight hopes are entertained of his recovery,” etc., etc. That was why Ethel McHenry had come to Seandletown. Charlie’s per- plexitj was no more, and he does hom age to scandal for helping to unravel it. His favorite quotation on the sub ject is the on8 that heads this story,, and which I can do no better than translate. “Whom can lying scandal injure but the vicious and the faulty?” DRUNKENNESS. “Certainly I did,” said she. “Yon examiuedht very miutely?” state of dilapidation. There is now a musical swash of the) waters through some of its ruins. Everybody has something romantic to say about the old mil!. So if you hare thought oj anything, trot it out. You need’nt be afraid; no one will hear you. Of coarse you saw it?” “Yes, I niugt Lave seen it. I have-an indistinct recollection of an* old mill,” •ho said, “but it did’nt strike me as be- r romantic.” “Did you see that dizzy ■ cFffl with the Dr. D. Onger’s cinchona rubra treat ment for drunkenness is ridiculed by Dr. Earle, the physician of the Chicago Home for Inebriates, who thinks that the method of that institution is the best in use. The patient suffering from alcoholism is first bathed and then put to bed. Liquid nourishment only is given him. If he is excessively ner vous, or is suffering from cerebral af fection, he is given nerve sedatives, like the bromides or the extract of valerian. If he has been for a long tiino without sleep except when drunk, it is deemed essential that he should have a long sleep on his first night in the Home, aud iu a majority of cases this is brought about by doses of hydrate of chloral.— Ou the second day, if the nervousness is followed by depression, quinine and ammonia are given, but no alcoholic stimulant. Usually he is able to leave the,hpspital department the third day. Thereafter during his stay he lives on an ordinary diet. Dr. Earle ciphers out the proportionate causes of drunk enness as follows: “Associations with drinking companions, 40 per cent; so ciability, 10 per cent; trouble of various kind, either iu family or business, 10 percent; the custom of drinkiug in families. 2 per cent; and the other eaus- .es which go to make up the remainder aie different kinds of business which bring a person iu contact with alcohol, such as liquor traffic, hotel business, etc., mental depression apd active brain work, army and navy associations, and other reasons.” Potato Valley, in eastern Utah, con tains only twenty families, and these are almost isolated from the rest of the world. John Boyton and Washington Phipps were partners m a ranch un tii Boyton murdered Phipps. The high est court, official in the Valley was a Justice of Peace, but he did not hesi- itale to preside over a trial of Boyton. There were only six jurors, owing to a scarcity of men iu the neighborhood. Their small number, aud the fact that. several of them had witnessed the t-radegv, helped them to agree quickly to a verdict of guilty. The Justice sentenced tiie prisoner to be hanged, and sent him away with a constable, to whom the execution of the sentence was intrust ed. Bat the constable took Boynton to. the county seat, where he is to have a more regular trial. overcoat and van for the river. The boat was just shoving off as he sighted it. On the deck he saw a red-feathered hat which he knew covered the dearest need in the world. He took off his old felt and waved it wildly, and in answer received the flutter of a handkerchief and a smile. He then went home dream-bonud. But perhaps, the read er may wish to know what the news paper item contained. Well, it ran thus: Balked in their efforts to propagate their theories by the instrumentality of clubs and newspapers, the German Socialists have lately endeavored to con vey their doctrines by means of songs; butiu this they have been thwarted, the Hamburg police have just forbidden the circulated a of a series of ditties, one of which begins “Eine feste Burg ist na- ser Band,” others being entitled ‘.True till death,” “A Song of Freedom,’.’ “Forward is the thing for ns,” &c. Prohibitions of clubs and publications are also reported from Breslau, Posen, Wiesbaden, Dnsseldorf, and Zwickau. Ttu Emperor is following the Socialist m wement with great at tention, and re- c fives in an audience almost every morning H>-rr Vou Uidai, the head of the Berlin police. Considerable favor is giveu to the laws already adopted iu several States, and recently proposed in Ohio, giving the unclaimed bodies of those who die in public institutions to medical socie ties, and, at the sain * time, making the traffic in bodies a misdemeanor punish able by fine and imprisonment. The Washington Star is of the opinion that in those States where subjects lor dis section may be obtained without the robbery of graves, aud where such robbery is most severely punished," body-snatching” wiil least prevail, and that States which are without laws ma king such provisions will need to fall into line in self-defense. — Lida Smith chewed gum in Louisville until her jaws kept moving in spite of her efforts to stop them. She took the gnm out of her rueaib, bat her jaws continued to open and shut, with . a violence that contorted the whole of her face. A physiciau applied bandages, bnt it was only by making her insensible with ehloroforni that she was quieted. It was a ease of spasmodic action of the facial muscles from over-exertion. The Virginia farmers are beginning | to use the large Clydesdale aud Per- “The friends of Mr. Charles Pem- cheron draft horses on their farms, and berton will be paioed to hear that, while teaching in Scandal town, be was sddnenly taken ill of the small-pox find them very valuable. A Clydesdale horse weighing 1600 pounds will pull a ton, and walk four miles, an hour with His condition is rendered worse thau a load. “I THE BOOK OF. MORMON. “The B iok of Mormon,” or Mormon. Bible, which Joseph Smith, the found er of Mormonism, claimed to have re ceived direct fro m an angel of the Lord was, as he said, a record written upon goid plates nearly eight inches long by seven wide, a little thinner than ordina ry tin, and bound together with three rings running through the whole. As this record was engraved in a language known as the reformed Egyptian,it was not translated to the lllitterate Joseph, and so two transparent stones, anciently called the TJrim and Thumirn, set in silver bows after the manner of spectacles were handed down at the same time. These made tho golden plates intelligible, and sitting behind a a blanket hung across his room to keep the sacred records from profane eyes, Joseph Smith read off the “Book of Mormon,” or Golden Bible, while a disciple, Oliver Cowdery, wrote it down. It was printed in 1830, in a volume of several hundred pages, and the signa tures of Crowdery and two others ap pended as testimony of its genuineness. Later, Smith aud the three witnesses quarrelled; the latter renounced Mor monism and avowed the falsity of their testimony, Another intimate of Smith’s testified that the Mormon founder had acknowledged to him the records aDd books were all a hoax. The Smiths were known amoBg their neighbors in Palmyra and Wayne counties, N. Y., where Joseph grew to manhood, as per sons yrhq avoided honest pursuits, and and engaged chiefly in digging hidden treasures, stealing sheep and robbing their neighbor’s hen roosts, and were accounted false, immoral and fraudu lent characters, of which Josoph was said to be the worst. Nevertheless, ?J oi’inonism grew aud flourished, though it was proven that the real au thor of Mormon nook was Solomon Spalding, a quondom preacher and er ratic literary genius who lived in Oonneaut, O., in 1800, and wrote a ro mantic account of the peopling of America by the American Indians to the lost tribes of Israel. He entitled his work. “Manuscript Found,” and further increased its interest.by a ficti tious account of its discovery iu a cave iu Ohio. He placed the manuscript in the printing office at Pittsburg with which Sidney Rigdon.an accomplice of Smith’s was connected. Rigdon copied it, often mentioning the fact himself; and when the ‘ ‘Book of Mormon” made his appearance, a comparison of the two revealed their almost exact likeness, with the exception of the pious expres sions added to the latter. The Mormon Bible traced the origin of the American IndiaD to Lehi, a Jew, who lived in Je rusalem 600 B. C. In obedience to di vine instruction, he found in America a new Jerusalem, and, dying soon after his arrival, the dissensions among his sons resulted in the supremacy of the younger, Nephi, and the oth ers, for their rebelliousness, were con demned to have dark skins and “be come an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety, seeking in the wilder ness for beasts of prey.” Nephi be came the father of the race of primi tive kings, who kept their records upon golden plates, and finally one of their descendants, Mormon by name,gave his uameto therehgion which Joseph Smith iiis sheep-stealing and fr -asu: e-digging to preach, to the world.—Exchange. A. T. Stewabt Dody,—The New York Sun says: “It is stated upon au thority so trustworthy as to leave lit tle if any doubt of the entire correct ness of the report, that Mrs. A. T. S'ewart- has eaid to at least two per sons, a lady and a gentleman, within ike last six days, that the body of her husband has been recovered, that it has been delivered to Judge Hilton, and that it has been placed hy him ii vault, well guarded, there to remain un til the completion of the crypt in the' stewart Memorial Cathedra], in Garden City.” The Sun further says tho nego tiations for the return of the body were made, through a weil known legal firm, | and that fifty thousand dollars cash was paid, one hundred thousand dol lars being it first demanded. Repor ters have endeavored to see Judge Hil ton in reference to the reported recov ery ot ilie body. Mr. Hilton, howev er, declined to be seen. In response to a uote requesting a statement of facts in the case, he sent the following in his own hand-writing: ‘‘Having no infor mation to communicate, I prefer at present not speaking on the subject fur ther.” The detectives express entire ignorance in regard to the matter. -—.: — Nmra from Liberia,—The *hip Azor arrived at Charleston on Friday la st from Liberia’ and was greeted by a large crowd o’ colored- mea.assembled on the wharf. Letters were distributed from immigrants who went to Liberia on the Azor.somo time since. One of them read: “Dear brother, I advise yon and all the colored folks to come out, the land is rich. The water is good. Bring ail kinds of seeds. You will have the fever, bat wiil get Grer it, and then it will be ten times better here. Coons a r e plenty. Tell Hardy Mont gomery abont the coon huntin’, and be sure to come.” The Azor will sail soon v 11 another load of immigrants. ATTACKED BY GRIZZLIES. Several weeks ago, in the neighbor hood of Hstteushaw, in this county, a remarkable bear hunt occurred. It ap pears that Dr, Stanley, while on a visit to Hettenshaw, expressed an earnest desire to go bear hunting, and accor dingly one moraiug he started, in com pany with Green French, Burgess and Jo Lightfoot. Arriving at a thicket the dogs gave notice of their near approach to a bear, and the party decided to sta tion them3elve3 at certain points and let the dogs go in and drire the bear out. This was done; but the doctor becoming impatient, entered the thick et himself. The heavy undergrowth made his progress siow, but he fought his way ahead nntii he came to a fail leu tree lying in a little gulch. Heloiug himself along by the limbs ho arrived at the upper ond just iu time to be con torted by a huge grizzly bear, Retreat was impossible, and it had been with the utmost difficulty that the doctor had advanced so far; there was no tree in convenient distarce, and as the grizzly showed light, there was nothing left for him to do but shoot. Taking deliber ate aim with his Henry rifle, the doctor fired and the bear fell mortally wound ed. Another load was sprung from the magazine iuto the rifle, and the doctor, looking toward bis prey, was surprised to see a second bear in the same spot. This he shot also, and quickly reload ing, was yet more astonished at a tnird in tb.e sgpe place iwhere he. had shot the other two. Again the lever moved, and a fresh charge went into position, and again the doo- tor looked up and discoyered the fourth grizzly coming toward h'm though the same opening Jin the brush. Whang, went the gun again, and down went bear No. 4. By this time the doctor had got warmed up and excited, aud Kg kept moving the lever and firing into the bodies of the bears until the sixteen shots in the magazine were exhausted. Mean time, his com panions, hearing the shooting aud presuming the cause, made tht-ir way where Ilia doctor was, with the inten tion of assisting him, but found him on top of the largest bear, with the others strewn about, swinging bis lmt und shouting lustily. ' One was un immense grizzly, so large that tiie hunters could not handle him, and the other three were good sized grizzlies, probably about two years old. The shooting of four bears by one man, without ever changing his position, is something hitherto untieard of, even in the most, highly-colored annals of tiie Western wilds.—1’rinity Col. Journal. INI'S*. A Hearse can bo furnished to order at any time on short notice- I can be found iu the day time at my store, next to the hotel; at night at my residence adjoining Hr. Havis. Furniture Made to Or de» and repaired at short notice. Unrial Clothes, ready made, for ladies, gentlemeu aud children. BARTIET’S UNRIVALLED SPRING BEDS. GEORGE PA1TL, PERRY, GEORGIA. NEW HARNESS SHOP A GLACIER MEADOW of the] POBHITURE FREIGHT SIERRA. \ »: | entirely sew and elegantstoc Imagine yourself at the Tuolumne j * FimWITUIiS Soda Springs on the bank of the riv- . f as t received and for sale at Fo er, a day’s jonney above Yosemito|prices. gyy AT HOW1F. Valley. You set off northward through | . a forest that stretches away iaJefin- itively before yon, seemingly unbro ken by openings of any kind. As soon as you are fairly into the woeds, the gray mountain-peaks, with their snowy gorges and hollows, are lost to view. The ground is littered wi‘h fallen tranks that lie crossed and recrossed like storm-lodged wheat; and besides this close growth if pines, the rich moraine soil supports a luxuriant growth ot rib, bon-leaveu grasses, chiefly bromus- iriticum and panicles above your waist. Making your way through this fertile wilderness,—finding lively bits of in terest now and then in the squirrels and Clark crows, aud perchance in a deer or bear,—after the lapse of an hour or two, vertical bars of sunshine are seen ahead between the brown shafts of the pines, and then yon sud denly emerge from the forest shadows upon a delightful purple lawn lying smooth and free in the light like a lake. This is a glacier meadow. It is about a mile and a half long by a quar ter of a mile wide. The trees come pressing forward all aronnd in close serried ranks, planting their feet ex actly on its margin, and holding them selves erect, strict and orderly like soldiers oh parade; thus bounding the meadow with exquisite precision, yal with free curving lines such as nat- ture alone can draw. 'With inexpres sible delight yon wade out into the grassy sun lake, feeling yourself con tained in one of nature’s most sacred chambers, withdrawn from the sterner influences of the mountains, secure from all instrnsion, secure from your self, free in the universal beauty. And notwithstanding the scene is so im pressively spiritual, and you seem dis solved in it, yet everything ab >nt you ia beating with warmth, terrestrial, hu man love, delightful substantial and familiar. The rosiny pines are types of health and steadfastness; the robins faeding on the sed belong to the same species you have known since child hood: and surely there are the very friend flowers, of the cld home garden. Bees limn as in harvest noon, butter flies waver above the flowers, and like them you lave iu the vital sunshine, too richly and homogeneously joy-filled to be capable of partial thought. You are all eye, sifted through and through wiih light and beauty.—Midwmter Scribner. J. F. HUMPHREYS, Perry, Georgia.. H AYIXG located in Perry next iloor to th« 4cn of Moore * Bro., I reejucUuUf lollelt a UbaM* •ban of ttw public patron***- I leap on baa4 BADDLKa, BRIDLES, or m&fee then to order. AXD HARXXSS, 3T8."EjE => ^A.X^X3Xr<&. Neatly and promptly done. PRICES JLOW IMR fllim M y NURSERY STOCK ia very Iarga >nl fine this season, and if yon wish to plant acclimated rooa aud such varieties as are best adapted to home . nd market uses, you can procure them st the t >J wing extraordinary low prices: 3PH.XCB LIST: APPLES. Dr. Janes’ Formula Fob Compos ting.—Where the ingredients have been perserved from the weather; Stable Manure 750 !hs. Cotton Seed (green). 700 lbs. Acid Phosphate or Dissolved Bom-500 lb* Making a ton of....- 2,000 lbs. Where the ingredients have been ex posed and have lost any of their prop erties: Lot Manure 600 lbs. Cotton Seed (green) 600 lbs. Acid Phosphate or Disol ved Bone 600 lbs Sulphate of Ammonia. 60 lbs. Kainit .140 lbs. Making a ton of. 2,000 lbs. Where the compost is to be applied to worn or sandy land: Stable Manure 700 lbs. Cotton Seed (green) 700 lbs. Super-Phosphate 500 lbs. Kainit : 100 lbs. ELECTRIC SPARE PEN. A new invention iu the art of engrav ing probably suggested by the familar electric pen Las been brought out in Paris. A copper plate is prepared for engraving and over this is secured, in some convenient manner, a thin sheet of paper. The plate is than connected with one pole of a Ruhmkorff coil. The pen (presumably a simple insnla- lated metalie rod or pencil with a flue point) is also connected by means of an insulated wire with the eoi 1 . Then,with the point of the pen (which is bare) if touched to the paper, a minute hole is burned into it by the spark that leaps from the point of the pen to the plate. By using the pen as a pened, a draw ing may be made on tho paper iu a se ries of fine holes precisely after the maurter of the electric pen, except that in one ease the holes are mechanically punched oat and Ihe other case are burned out. When Hie drawing is fin ished the paper may be used as a sten cil. A printer’s roller, carryi ng an oily ink is passed over the paper, and the oil pern trating the paper through the holes reproduces the drawing in ink ou the copper plate. The paper may then be removed add the plate submitted to an acid bath wiiea the surface will be cut away, except where the ink resists the acid, and those wilt be in re lief and thus making an engraved plate ready for the printing-press. By the ingenious device, the artist, drawing Q f insanity. But the court sen- upon the paper with the spark-giving L-ibly deemed it insufficient aud sus pen, performs two operations at once, J tained the will, drawing the picture and engraving the plate at the same time. The Cherokee Advocate, the official Midwinter Scribner. organ of the Cherokee Nr.ion, belie e that there are “enongh honest Con gressmen who hold the pledges of their conn try too sacred to be broken, and who will stand by tho Indians and see that the plighted faith of their govern ment is k«pt with them.” We trust that the Advocate does not overesti mate the morality of Congress. If oar Cherokee contemporary is correctly in formed, the establishment of a territo rial government in the Indian countiy would be worth at least fifty millions of dollars to a Railroad Ring. A case showing the danger of ladies suspending their powers of speech is reported by the Oglethorpe Echo. It is that of a yonng lady in that county who at the age of sixteen suddenly be came apparently dumb. She did not speak again for twenty years, when she resumed her speech, dictated lnr well, talked freely for a short time on other subjects, aud soon died. An attempt was mace to break the will, on the ground of insanity, and the lady’s long interval of silence was pleaded as proof The oldest inhabitants in Tex-is and Louisiana do not reeolieet a winter in which such an amount of snow has fall en as during the present. There have been several week* of skating around Dallas; Texas and sleighs have been run for the accommodation of the pub lic at Shreveport, La; wuiie the tele graph wires have been down for a week near Galveston under loads of sleet that coated them. A telegraphic reprieve for t .vo men arrived just one minate too late on Wednesday, iu Pennsylvania. The men were hung while the messenger was thundering at the gate of the en closure. In the confusion, the Sherifi' forgot, or failed to cat them down, or their lives might have been saved, as iheir necks v are not broken by the fall. The fearful words: one minute loo date! ’-J - - • ' Single Trees Tier Hundred PEACHES. -t .is .,. io.q gle Tree*. Per Hundred PEARS. Standard Two years old 30 cents'each. One “ 00 cents eacit,' Dwarf Two Yearn Old 40 cents each, •- One “ .25ccnta each,. Leconut or Cbinese Sand Pear $1.00 each. Pomegranates and Grapes 25 cents pinion. Quinces, Mulberries aud Figs 25 cents fetcawbcrriea—Per Hundred ,$ 1.00 “ •• .rbensand 8,00 Special Rates Given for Large Order Descriptive Catalogue sent free on application.. Address SAMUEL II, RUMPS, Willow Lake Smsery, Marshallville, Ga, OrT. O. SKELLIE, Fort Valley, Ga. D. R H O D E S, DEALER IN All Maos of Fancy and Family Uroceric^ Ifave at all Times on Hand- BACON, LARD, FLOUR, TOBACCO, SUGAR, COFFEE, StEietif Wlm L.iqtiQir Oct 25. D. RHODES, Hawkinsville, Ga. at mm•» WACOM, GA,, MBS. S,L. WKIT2I: L : J’ST, Propiiri re as The eruption of mud at the foot of 3 Mount jEtna continue.;, aud a smokiug i iake oi steadily increasing dimensions i has been formed. Professor Silvestrij pg|. Jj.jy ^ - says there are two kinds of crater;—one I in constant activity, emitting muddy i and oily water, with exhalation* of j carbolic acid; the other intermitten*, * issuing with subterranean noises vnl- j ; nines of thicker mud. ’ TERM St Break, fast, Supper anil Lodg ing. $1.00 Per week, $7 00.