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PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY,. JANUARY, 15 1SS0
VOLUME X.
NUMBER 2
No. 24 Melton street, Mayfair?
And how is it that the very look of a
letter, like a look of a face, will tell you
before yon read, if the heart of things
is changed?
“Deab Bbother-in-Law:—Yours to
hand. I am heartily glad you have
prospered so well. Of course there is
no objection now to your presence, or
even t) your residence in Dublin; I
am no longer, there, which accounts for
all delays in receipt of your letter. I
-regret to have to inform you that yoiir
sister Catherine has enjoyed for five
yea re the delignts of another an A better
world, which makes' it impossible for
her to
er minute I stood before the jeweller
with every pocket I’d got turned inside
out, and hanging like bags all over me.
But nothing fell out, and there wasn’t a
ghost of a hole.
I had never looked for such a thing as
that, anyhow. It’s enough to bother a
man to miss a-diamond that’s not worth
a penny less than eight hundred pounds:
and what made it the worse I had given
it ti Kate, so if wan’t mine to lose. B it
lost it was; for I never liad it out of
my breast-pocket, so if it wasn’t there
it couldn’t be anywhere. T began to
wonder if my diamonds hadn’t been but
fairy ones after all, lik-e fairy gold, that,
as socn as you think that you’ve got it
safe, tarns to claps and to straws.
“I expect you’ve been robbed Mr.
Conuor,” said the jeweller, “London’s
a bad place for a man with stones like
that, if he doesn’t know the ways.”
“As if,” I said “a man that’s been in
San Francisco and New Orleans, and
the diamond fields, ay, ami Dublin too,
wants putting Up to the ways of L>j)-
don, or of anywhere!” And it isn’t
likely he would either. “As for being
robbed,'it is not posa ble. I’ve aljviiya
kept if iu this breast-pocket, u ider my
right arm; and a tougher right arm
you’ll not find in a.month or two; ’ and
that was true too. “I’d like to se.e the
Loudon thief that would try to rob
me.”.
The man had a trick of smiling, and
he smiled then. “Of course you’ll go
to the police?” said he. “They some
times find that a man has been robbed
even when it is impossible. Who knew
of your having this diamond. Mr. Con
nor?”
“Not a soul. We learn to hold our
tongues where I’ve been. You are the
first man I’ve spoken to of it
left Cape Town.”
I don’t know why, but 1
again. I suppose it was a mi
had with him
said, “I should go straight to Scotland
Yard—the head police station, .you
know.”
“Not a bit of it,” said I. “I know
the ways of the peelers anyhow, and the
lawyers. I’m looking foi a letter every
post that’ll call m.‘ to Dublin by return
mail; and they’d be keeping me kicking
my heels here-while they were uu the
traces, as they call it, of some poor dev
il that had no more to do with the stone
than you. Why, do you think I d be
robbed of a diamond like that under mv
very nose? I’d have to be made drunk
or knocked down; and yon may try
yourself both ways, and see if that’s
easy. No, L’m sorry the stone’s gone,
but it is tio more sti.len than you are;
and what’s gone is gone, and it’s only
fools that bother.”
And it’s true I was vexed more for
Nate’s sake than my own; Ajr it is sure
enough that worrying over gone tlii gs
is a waste of time.
But the jeweler would not rest so easi
ly. I believe he thought me a simple
struugsr who wauted looking after, iu-
& THBILLING STORT OF THE DAT—HOW
TOM COBWEB WON A FOBTONE, WIFE AND
BABE.
I want to plead with mothers in be- ! —
half of their sensitive and timorous 1 T would invite yotn
children. They are strong, healthy boys j flowing popular Scl
, I by yonr County Boar,
who have nolfear of the dark, who are! the Public Schools ol
continually free from physical cowar- viz;
dice, and who receive ranch praisefor ^ ew Uradod Benders
, • « - ary Leaders. Jiobir
their bravery. There are others in whom tics, Algebras, et
the nervous sensibility so predominates Spellers. Histot
that they endure,.night after night, tor- ograpbies, S]
tures qnite beyoud their powers to ex- ^ ster"sDk
press. Oh, the horror to those poor ul | e ;
little'urea'.utcs of the dark! Its mystery Bryant .and Strattons’
eompasses them about. They lie shiv- ^f^ssrs- Ivisou, Blak
e'ring in bod white mammahas givenfhe * ' *- ^kjjsh
CHAP. IL
[ Continued]
It was the height of the season when
Ihe South Western Railway brought me
from Southampton to Loudon. It was
with a sore han't that I made my first
visit to the English instead of the Irish
c»pital; bnt it couldn’t be helped see
ing that I had not yet three hundred a
year of my own; and Connor rhymes
with honor, os a 11 the world knows.
But I had what was wo’*th it, if people
Were half us fond of diamonds as they
are said to be. For that matter, I had,
in the rough Siateriat, three hundred a
year without Counting the big sto ne,
my first and finest find, which I had
Christened Kate Cregan, and meant to
give to my sister in return for;the uine-
and-four-penco that she didn’t give mi,
poor girl! And it would be a delicate
Way of repaying Miles; for of course
one couldn’t pay back a kindness in
Common dirty coin. I’d had it cut and
set at Capetown; and I kept it about
iuo till I could put it on K ite with my
own hands.
But though I couldu’t see her in
Dublin ju.-t .yet, I wrote to her—Maybe
Miles wool l let her run over to Lou
don. to have a bit of fun with a broth
er who hadn’t turned up quite so much
like a bad penny as was expected of
him. I hadn’t written home since I’d
l Can away, because, for one thing, I’m
a bad correspond .'fit, mid, foi’ another,
I never knew from day to day where
I’d tell her to send an answer. And I
didn't write much of a .letter, even now,
Only a lino or two just to say how glad
I was to got back, an l that I’d be free
to no ini) back to Dublin in a week or
two, and that I had turned up trumps
in diamonds, atul was her loving broth
er Tom. I didn’t; mention African
K it-*; that was to be asurpr.se. Then
went to work, and settled my affairs as
Grell as I could for the hurry I was in to
bn b ink in Dfilflin again; and, for all
fn.V liimy, I did pretty well. Mean
while I’d beeu to a real tailor, and got
him to make me look a li.tie less like a
milieu ttuiii I’m rtfraid I did when I
lamb d at Southampton, not forgetting
a suit of dress-clothes; for though I
didn’t know a soul iu Lon Ion in those
flays, an adventurer soon finds out the.
need of being ready for anything that
may turn up at any time.
I was beginning to wonder as the
days went by, tl-at T didn’t get a
line from Kate; but 1 thought nothing
give you in person the welcome
which you appear to liave.earnei. For
myself, I always believed you would
eventually become a credit to yonr
friends, Ihotigh at the time I was disbe
lieved; bat you have doubtless not for
gotten the practiculjn'oof I gave of my
confidence,!!) yen. I gather from yonr
letter that the news lias not yet reached
you of my marriage, by means of which,
and of Providence. I have transferred
my office and practice from Dublin to
London, where I have always had many
clients, chiefly Syoung military men of
excellent i'amiiy. As I am naturally
anxious to be of service to my^first
wife’s only brother, I may be able to
invest your capital to belter advantage
than a young man without experience
and tiff ctiopate aid would be likely to
do in this den of thieves where I prac
tice at present. It would also give me
much pleasure to make you such ad
vances as you may need upon merely
formal and nominal security. I am oc
cupied by business during 1 lie day, lut
it wiil give Mrs. Diegan as well as my
self the greatest pleasure if you will
cone and see us ut-xc Wednesday even
ing. A fc.v friends may drop in du
ring the evening, including some milita
ry in--a of excellent family; bill we are
veiy quiet people, and I wish you to
lock upon this informal invitation as of
a purely domestic 4 character.
Relieve me to be. my dear Thomas, -
A. C. RILEY
Attorney at Law,
FOET VALLEY, GEOBGIA.
Collections will receivejmmediate at
tention, -and prompt returns made.'
Reference, Samuel Hal? -
Mbs. W. t F. Brows, }
Formerly Brown House)
Thank B. Be-iuxe/
Formerly Lanier House
imtonal mm-.,
MACON, - GEORGIA.
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C?s and 1 Waterjthroughout
ths r House.
Commodious Rooms Fitted
up with New Furni
ture, Etc.
since
wore
ces, extendi fig over
yours.
will assure you that girls
and boys ut
dovyn in theii
at eighteen
iring maturity efien break
studies and are unable to
reap'tbe rewards they covet, because
of an nudue strain or a nerve shock;
widen left its germ of trouble in the
system when' tliey were three or four
years old. We can not too wisely and
too gently look after the little children
nder onr care.—Intelligencer,
General Commission Merchants,'
AND* DEALERS IN
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Staple Groceries,
lir/je, _
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accounting for the dollar over. The
biiuk sending in the package evidently
knew tout it Was 1 worth but a dollar,
.and did not count it as more. The fig-
■ ures used in raising the notes of higher
denominations are generally taken from
tne old.fractiou:il currency, as they are
Identical or very nearly so.
Another way of chauging notes is to
manipulate a teu-dollar and a hundrod-
doilar note by splitting off the body of
the former. Then l y pasting on the
ten and changing aronnd there comes
from the £110 the stun of £210 in pretty
good deceptive shape. This plan of
working things has been but recently
developed.. The first notes received at
the Redemption Bureau that had been
thus doctored came in this week.
- Another kind of work is evidently
done by one man or a firm. The note a
opeiated upon are teus of the issue of
1809. All the notes are treated in the
same way. They come iu from a belt
from St. Louis to Memphis, and are ev
idently systematically worked. The
■Votes' are cut from one corner to the
other ra n diagonal zigzag mauuer.
has been impossible to discover exactly
how anything is made out of tois oper
ation, but it is evident that, from the
manner of cutting, the operator some
how succeeds in getting enough pieces
to make a new note.- Ike men workiug
up this scheme . are evidently doing a
'arge business, as many notes cut diag
onally zigzag are received by Mr. _Da-
vidge’sdividotl.
The alteration ofU.iited pttifces notes ;
is curried oil all over the country, but i
flic West i< the section where it is most
extensively iu practice. The altered !
notes are disp'sed of to'a certain extent j
VERMIFUGE*
MACOK, CA. •
W E AGAIN present onr card to the people of
Houston, Macon and Doolv rnnnliM. nmi_
* ^ Houston, Macon and Dooly counties, and.
return onr thanks for the natronago heretofore ox-
t nded to ns. and ask a continuance of the earned-
and solicit new customers. Guaranteeing to all
S&tulfaefi nn
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
T HE countenance is pale and leaden.
colored, with occasional flushes, or
a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu
pils dilate; an azure semicircle runs
along the lower eye-lid; the nose is ir<
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds ;
a swelling of the upper lip; occasional
headache, with humming or throbbing
of the ears; an unusual secretion of
saliva; slimy or furred tongue; breath
very foul, particularly in the morning;
appetite variable, sometimes voracious,
with a gnawing sensation of the stom
ach, at others, entirely gone; fleeting
pains in the stomach; occasional
nausea and vomiting; violent pains
throughout the abdomen; bowels ir
regular, at times costive; stools slimy ^
not unfrequently tinged with blood;
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid;
respiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; coffgh
'sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy
and disturbed sleep, with.grinding of
the teeth; temper variable, but gener
ally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found, to exist,
DR. C. McLANE’S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MEKCUIff
in any form: it is an innocent prepara
tion, not capable of doing the slightest
injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine Dr. McLANE’S Ver-
iSifuge bears the signatures of C. Mc-
Lane and Feeming Bros, bn the
wrapper. —-:0: .
' BE. CL MeliANS’S
IFARiyr SEE33S.
WHEAT,
EYE.
OATS, AND
responding- with her even, aim yet that
h"t death should have .struck me just
like it blow. I’d never thought of ihe
chance of her living; and while slio was
alive, or while I thought liar so, though
I never saw her or heard of her, I had
not felt quite alone iu the world. But
I did when I woke-ttp nexr morning
and lay half thinking, half dreaming
about it all—terribly alot e. I had
made mono-, but I hadirt a kinsman
that eared twopence about me, and we
don’t make friends .iu my sort of a life
—we only make chums, who seem to
come uo-whence and to go no-Vnither.
Panl Andrews laid seemed most like a
friend while, he lasted- Of course I’d
go and see Miles. Hii new offers of
help were just doubling all his old
kindness! and I somehow liked him for
himself a little better now that lie
wasn’t Kate’s husband. I Lad never
liked to think of him in that way. She
seemed to have come back to the Con
nors now she was gone. And, anyhow,
i hung! red so much for the feel of
souieb.idi’s hand that I would have ta
ke!. U> tewayu’s even, if he had asked
me—jud I insist get him to til: me of
the l ist of Kafe.if he. hadu’t quite for
gotten her. lie was the.nearest to one
after all; aud if the new Mrs Civg..u
had gat a child or two pf po <r KateV,
to whom she was perhaps- acting a= a
oocd step-in-uher.'and if they took lo
tug, I might find something to'do with
mV money u ; >w that it - didn't ft*el of-
snv more use.to m3. I did not want to
meet Miles’s officers, but no doubt I
w..n d be able. t > have a talk with him
over a late pipe when the - others were
gone. Si> I j'-i-'t wrote him a word ,th?o
evening to say I would come, and set
off for a t vauty mila-waTk, to get rid ol
the.blue devils,.anUmake. myself - feed
business fir Ireland was - -so importiiut,
he would spare uie the trouble of goiug
to Scotland Yard if 1 pleased.
“That’s' as you like ” I said, as if a
diamond more-or less wasn't much to a
Connor,—rfor it doesn’t do to lower
one’s’ dignity before a tradesman. “And
of course I thank you for being so
Kind.”
“You will havo to offer a reward,”
said ne,
“I will leave that- to yourself,” said
I. “Anything in reason of course I'll
pay to get the stone back again. Aud
I’ll bet ten pounds to one it- has not
been stolen.”
“I don’t bet,” he said with another
smile. •
I thanked lritn' r.gaftt in an oil-hand
way, not to let him see how reaBy vex
ed I was about it all, and wen t home.
But I was vexed, and the more I
thought- about it the more vexed I
grew; for I had just set my hegr'l on
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Amt 1 wan beginning to teer lonesome
too in Loudon, where I didn’t know
the people nor the ways, and the for
eign music didn't seem to como up to
Kate’s old piano before she married
Miles; and the new clothes didu’t feel
tfo fit me somehow. I was wanting the
old pipe and the old can vas jacket, and
the grip of an old chirm’s hand.
With my eyes off the stage, I chanced
to let them fall on the fingers of a lady
tliat 331 beside me. I didu’t think
much of the finger, but I had diamonds
in my head, and' I noticed she wore iu
a ring that wasn’t to be named besides
ffiy own big one, only it was set iu
i way beyond auytlnug truey Were up to
ip Capetown. It niade me feel ashamed
Of the style of mine, or Kate’s mthenso
I took a note of it in my mind, aad
settled to haVe it copied, or bettered
if pcsible, Lg^somh first-rate jeweller.
I'd** ‘-***r?r -it the lady was like this
* oj? tlih' ti me
Yj rSdjg ori' my
^iorng I took a’
A nihn xvhom’ Fd
Indyriff the way
Bank of Pcpo sit, Disco*
trist recoil
prices. '
newsboys-and fct'ol bl: eks i
now rejpibq .ill'an elegant rea:l
>13, which was diiliteite 1 o
list day. It ji-dt liallis. Vas-kc-
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