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PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUJNE 3, I860.
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Notice to debtors and
Creditors.
Notice to ali Persons hold
ing cliiims against the 'estate of Jno. N,
Evans are requested to present them to
me, and all persons indebted will make
payment to the undersigned.
D. H. Culler, Adm’r.
Gwks. Be Bonis Aon.
GF.OKGIA—Houston Countv:
Mrs. Sophia Ann Killen has applied for admin-
intration on tne nutate of Samuel D. Killen, late of
faid . ouuty, deceased.
This is therefore to cite all persons concerned
to appear at the June term 188U of the Court
of Ordinary of said county, and show cause, if any
tin y have, why said application should not be
granted.
Witness my otlieial signature thin April 20, 2880.
4w. A. S. GILKir. Ordinary.
GEOKGI A—Houston Countv.-
O. L* Greene, administrator do bonis non of
Miles L. Greene, of said county, has applied for
dismission from his trust:
This Is therefore to cite all persons concerned to
appear at the August term 188n,ol the Court of Ordi
nary and show cause if any they have, why said aj;-
plicatiou slio lid not be granted.
Witness my official signature this April 29,1880.
A. S. GILES ./
3m. Ordinary.
GEORGIA —Houston County.
W. 11. Brown, Guardiun of the minor children
of Wm. K. Killen. deceased, lias «pi»lied for dis-
uiisHion from his trust:
This is therefore to cit? all persons concerned to
Apjiear at the June term 1880 of the Court of
ordinary of said county and show cause if any they
have, why said application should not be granted.
Witness my otlieial signature this April 29
188 . A. S. GILES,
4’,v. Ordinary,
K. i>. Drown, r.dmiuisiratoi of Mrs. Luroctia
Drown, deceased, has applied lor dismission from
his t.ust;
On a fine evening- in the spring of
^ 1730, a stranger mounted on a noble
looking horse, passed slowly over the
snow white limestone road leading
through the BlacK Forest.
Just as the sun was going to rest for
the day, when the gloomy shadows
were beginning to stalk, he drew rein,
and said:
“This mnst be near the spot, snrely;
I’ll stop here anyhow, for awhile, and
see wliat lean learn.’’
He tberenpen dismounted and enter
ed the parlor of the inn, where he sat
down beside a small table.
“How can T serve you meinheer?”
asked the landlord.
“See to my horse outside,” replied
the gue3t carelessly, but at the same
time eyeing the landlord from head to
foot; “and let me have some wine—
Rhine will do.”
The landlord was turning to with
draw from the stranger’s presence, when
he stopped and said:
“Which way, meinheer, do you trav
el?”
•‘To Nanstadt,” replied the guest.
“You will re3t here to-night, I sup
pose?” continued the landlod.
“I will stay for two or three hours,
but I must be off so as to reach my
destination there in the morning to
purchase lumber ior the market. ’
“And you have considerable mobey
with you, no doujm?” asked the. land
lord. innocenily!
“Yes, considerable,” said the guest,
sipping his wine disinterestedly.
“i'heu, if you’ll take my advice,’
said the landloift, ‘ ‘You’ll stay here un
til merniug.”
"Why?” replied the stranger, lookin
np curiously.
“Because;” whispered the landlord,
looking around as if he was disclosing
a great secret and was afraid of beiu
heard by somebody else, “every man
that has passed over the road between
this and Nnnstiidt at midnight for the
last ten years, has been robbed or mur
dered under very similar circumstan
ces.”
“What were the circumstances?”
ib-'ked the stranger, putting down his
glass empty, and preparing to fid it
again.
‘•Why. you see,” the landlord went
This is therefore to cite all persons < a corn oil to , , .. . , . , . , ,
appear at the Jr.uo tenu 188.'. of the Com! of j Oil, wh llo lie approached Ills gurst S ta-
Ordinary of said comity and show cause i any
flu*y have, why said applicatit n slit ukl not be
granted.
A'i ticks my otlieial signature this Feb, lfiSO.
3m A # s. GILE -, Ordinary.
A pplication for dismission.
Georgia, IIouktc n County:
James W. be Ivin, executor of Jesse T. Brewer, of
said county, deceased, has applied lot dismission
from his trust:
Tliir is therefore to cite all persons concerned to
Appeal at tlie June term 1880, of the Court of
Ordinary of sanl county, and show cause, if any
th« v have, why said application should not be
granted.
Witness my official signature tiiisFcto. 5ili. 1S80.
a »»- A S. GILEiS, Ordinary
Central and Southwestern
Railroads.
Savannah, Ga.. May 1G, 1880
U N and after Sunday, May 16th, 188 >, passenger
troiuu on the Central and Southwestern Rail
roads and branches-will run as follows:
TRAIN NO. 1.—GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leave Savauuah 9:20 am
Leave Augusta G;30 a m
Arrive at Vugusta 4:45 pm
Arrive ut Silicon 6:45 p m
Leaves Macon for Atlanta 8: 5pm
Arrive at Atlanta 3:50 a m
Loaves Macon for Columbus and Mout-
gomory daily 7:20 a. in.
Arrives at Columbus daily 2:21 a. in.
Arrives at Montgomery daily 9:35 a’ ju"
Making close connection at Atlanta with West
ern and AUantic and Atlanta aud Charlotte Air
Lino fop all points North and West.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 11 ;40 p. m
Arrives at Macon 6-00 a. u
Leaves Montgomery for Macon daily 5:15 p.m!
Leaves Coumbos daily 12:16 a. m
Arrives at Macou daily
Leaves Macon
Arrives at Milledgeville
Arrives at EUonton....
Arrives at Augusta
Am- es at Savannah
Leaves Augusta...... ^
Making eonnection at Angnsta for the North and
Last and at Savannah with the Atlantic and Gull
Railroad for all points in Florida. ,
TRAIN NO. 2.—GOING NORTH AND WEST.
Leaves Savannah. 7 : 3o p ^
Arrives at Angnsta '. f 40 a m
Leavss Angnsta 1>3Apm
Arrives at MilledgeviUe 9 -44 a m
AVrive 8 “ ;on 11:301m
oJTives at Macou 8-0.-a v
Lea res Macon for Atlanta / g-io a m
Arrives at Atlanta .dmpm
Leaves Macon for Albany and Eufaula 8:30 a-m
Arrives, at Eufcula 4-0i4m
Leaves Macon for Columbus 9-20v m
Arrives at Columbus ”
,mo? Un8 S. ntlli88cI:8:iulefor Macon, Atlanta, Cor-
.. 6:55 a. m.
7:00 a. ni
9:44 a. m
11:30 a. in
4:45 p.m
4:(W p. m
9.3 • a m.-
W*, with Western
Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line. At
'*’*!? Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad- at^Col*
ambus with Western and Mobile and Girard iSill
Eufaula train connects at Fort Valley for Perry
daily except Sunday, and at Guthbeit for Fw
Games dally except Sunday.
*5. Extension leaves Albany
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. *
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta
Arrives at Macon from Atlanta >".5? p M
Leaves Albany...
LeavS u #x, guide saw tlie movement and stopped
..11:10 am
Arrives nt inimete ' ***’** v *':3opIt
Arrives at Augusta .Y.W.V
Leaves Augusta.
:35 pm
. 5:40a m
Arrives at &vannah^,V.'.'.'.V.'. ’ ” 1 7:15 a m
and Eatonton will
Wd Sawmnahand'AtMntaT 31 ^’ Al * B8 ‘ a “ a
J. a Shaw,
Oen-nbA,
llrf * . „ ■■■• G - KAOUL.
Agt Snpt, S. W. BVd, Macon.
first national bank.
macokt, g-a.
•-■■V’- -v- v /Sfefojk/;”.
Bank of Deposit, Pisconnt and Exclian,
bit* and look a sent. “I have spoken
with ft vend who have been robbed; all
tbiifi I could learn of them is that they
remembered meeting in tlie lonesome
part of the wood, something that look
ed white and ghastly, and frightened
their horses so that they either ran
away or threw their riders, they felt a
choking -sensation and a sort of smoth
ering, anc fiually died, as they thought,
but awoke in an hour or so to find them
selves robbed of everything.
. “Indeed!” ejacnlated tlie stranger,
looking abstracted at the rafters in
the? ceiling,, as though he were more in
tent npen counting them than he was
interested in the landlord’s story.
The innkeeper looked si bins with as
tonishment. Snch perfect-coolness he
had not witnessed in a long time.
“You will remain then?” suggested
the landlord, after waitiDg for his guest
to speak.,
“T?” cried the stranger, starting from
his fit of abstraction, as though he was
not sure that he was the person ad
dressed.*
“Oh, most certainly not; I’m going
straightahead, gbossfc or.no ghost, to
night.”
Half an hour later, the stranger and
a guide, called Wilhelm, were one on
the road, going at a round pace toward
Nanstadt.
During a flash of lightning, the stran
ger observed that his guide looked very
uneasy about something, and was slack
cuing his horse’s pacejas though he in
tended to drop behind.
“Lead on, w cried the stranger, “don’t
be afraid.”
“I’m afraid I cannot,” replied the
person addressed, continuing to hold
his horse in until he was now at'least a
length behind his companion. “My
horse is cowardly and unmanageable in
a thunder storm. If yon will go on
though, I think I can make him follow
dose enough to point out the road.”
Tne stranger pulled np instantly. A
strange light gleamed in his eyes,
while his hand sought his breast pock
et from which he drew something. The
also.
L'l'.
'<w WRIGLEY,
“Guides should lead and not follow,”
said the stranger, quietly, bnt with a
firmness wnich seemed exceedingly un
pleasant to the person addressed.
“But,” faltered the guide, “my horse
won't go.” v
“Won’t he?’’ queried tbo stranger
with a mock simplicty iu tone.
The guide heard a sbsfia click, sud
saw something gleam ru b^eomjvmib?’*
right hand. He seemed ta understand
perfectly, for he immediately dtove fvis
spars into his horse’s flanks, aud shot
ahead of hi? companion without a
word.
He no sooner reached his old posf-
.
i tion, however, than the stranger saw
- i him give a sharp turn to the right and
X cjlant, ? then disappear through the foliage
President. * gf the tress that skirted the roafl."
•y.
He heard the.clatter ofhishorseas he
galloped ofiL Without waiting another
instant, he touched his horse lightly
with his reins, gave him a prick with
th 3 rowels, and off the noble animal
started like wind in the wake of the fly
ing guide.
The stranger’s horse being much su
perior to the other’s, the race was a
short one, and terminated by the guide
being thrown nearly from his saddle by
a heavy hand which was laid upon his
bridle stopping him.
He turned in his seat,beheld thews'ran
ger’s face, dark and frowning,‘and trem
bled violently as he felt the smooth,
cold barrels of a pistol pressed against
bis cheek.
“This cursed beast almost run away
with me,” cried the guide, composing
himself as well as he could under the
circumstances.
“Yes, I know,” said his companion,
dryly, but mark my words, young
man, if your horse plays such tricks
again he will be the means of seriously
injuring his master’s health.”
They both turned and cantered back
to tee road. When they reached it
again, and turned the beads of their
animals in the right direction, the stran
ger slid to his guide, in a tone which
mnst have convinced his nearer as to
his earnestness:
‘‘Now, friend Wilhelm, I hope we un
derstand each other for- the rest of the
journey. You are to continue ahead of
me in the right road, without swerving
to the right or left. If I see you do
anything suspicious, I will drive a brace
of bullets through you without a word
of notice. Now push on.”
The guide had started • as directed,
but it was evident from his muttering
that he was alarmed at something beside
the action of his follower.
In the meantime the thunder had in
creased ,iu its violence, and tlie Hashes
of lightning became more frequent and
more bliudiug.
For awhile the two horsemen rode on
in riience, the guide keepine up his di
rections to the letter, while bis follower
watched his every movement, as a cat
would watch :i mouse.
Suddenly the guide stopped aud look
ed behind him. Again he heard the
click of the st/anger’s pistol and saw hi*
uplifted arm.
• “Have mercy,meinheer,” he groaned,
“I dare not go.”
“I give you three seconds to go,” re
plied the stranger •sternly’ “Ou t !”
“In heaven’s name, spare!” implored
the guide, almost overpowered with
fear; "look before me iu the road and
yon will not blam;9.”
The stranger looked. Jt first he saw
something wh tc standing motionless in
the ceutre of tlie road, but presently a
flash of lightning lit, up the scene, and
he saw that the white figure was ghast
ly and frightful enough looking to chill
the blood in the veins of even the brav
est man. If his blood chilled for a mo
ment, therefore, it was notthrongh any
fear that he felt' for his ghostly iuter-
cepter, for the next instant he set his
*eeth hard, while he whispered between
them just loud enough to be heard by
his terror-stricken guide:
Beitmauor deyil!—ride it down!
I’ll follow. Two!”
With a cry of dispair upon his Kps
the guide urged nis horse forward at
the top cf his speed, quickly followed
by the stranger, who. held his pistol
ready in his hand.
In another mstaut the guide would
have swept past the dreadful spot, but
1 at that instant a report of a pistol rang
through the dark forest, and the stran
ger heard a horse gallop off through the
woods riderless.
Finding himself alone, the straDger
raised his pistol, took deliberate aim a t
the ghostly murderer, and pressed his
finger on the trigger.
The apparition approached quickly,
1 but in no hostile attitude. The stran
ger stayed his baud. At length the
ghost addressed him in a voice that was
anything but sepulchral
“Here, Wilhelm, ye move out of voar
perch this minute and give me a'help
ing hand. I’ve hit the game while on
the wing, haven’t I?”
The stranger wan nonplussed for a
moment, but, recovering himself he
grumbled sometlrng unintelligible and
leaped to the ground* One word to his
horse and the brave animal stood still.
By the snow white trappings of the
wonJd-be ghost he was next enabled to
grope his way through the darkness to
ward that individual, wbum he found
bending over a black mass, about the
size of a man on the road.
As the tiger pounces npon his prey,
the stranger leaped upon the stooping
fignre before him, and bore it to the
ground.
“I arrest yon in the Mug’s name/.’
cried the strange;, grasping the prison
er by the throat and holding him tight
“Stir hand or foot until I have you
perfectly secured, and I will send yotu
into eternity,”
This was snob an ncekpeeied'tnm of i
avoirs that the would-be ghost conid
hardly believe bis own ' senses, and was
haadenffed and stripped of dagger and
pistol before he conid speak.
“Are' yorpnot pay son Wilhelm?” he
. “No,.landlord,” replied the individu
al addressed, “I am not, but I am an
officer of the king at yoor “service, on
special duty, to do what I have to-hight
accomplished. Yonr precious son,
Wilhelm, who yon thought was! leading
on an innocent sheep to the slaughter,
lies in the road, killed by his father’s
hard.
Two weeks later, at Bracksale prison,
in Baden, the landlord of the Sign of
the Deer, and the Ghost Bobber of the.
Black Forest; who was the same identi
cal person, having been proven guilty
of numerous fiendish murders and .art
fully contrived robberies, committed at
different times in the > Black Forest,
paid the penalty of Bis crimes by letting
fall his head from the executioner’s axe,
since when travelling through Schwartz-
wald has not been so perilous to : life
and purse, horhas there been seen any
Ghostly Knights of the Road in that
section of the world.
THE GHIXiEIiESS WITNESS-
New Haven Register.
“Do you know t ie prisoner well?”
asked the attorney.
“Never h iew him sick,” replied the
witness'
f ‘No levity,” said, the lawyer sternly.
“Now, sir, did'you over see the prison
er at the bar?” *
“Took many a drink with him at the
bar.”
“Answer my question, nil,” yelled
the lawyer. “How long have you known
the prisoner?”
“From two feet np to five feet ten
inches.”
“Will the court make the ”
GEN* GOSDdNS RESIGNATION-
“I have, Judge;”siid the witless, an
il Jipating the lawyer, “I have answered
the question, I knew the prisoner
when he was a boy two feet long and a
man five feet ten ”
“Yonr honor——”
‘‘It’s a fact, Jedge; I’m under my
oath,” persisted thj witness.
The lawyer arose, placed both hands
Washington correspondence Atlanta Constitution.
TFas7ting'o»t, May 25.—The resigna
tion of-Senator Gordon seems to ha
created snch a stir in Georgia, and so
many stories are afloat as to the reason
that prompted it, I concluded an inter
view with him on the subject would be
read by the people with interest j and to
that end I called on Senator Gordon
this morning. I found him in his com
mittee-room absorbed in attending to
his correspondence, and putting his
business in shape to leave the seat in
the senate that he has so ably and ac
ceptably filled. He expressed a perfect
willingness to answer any question con
nected with his resignation and his fu
ture plans.
Without ceremony I said: “General,
yonr resignation seems not only to have
caused universal regret among all par
ties, .all over the union, but universal
surprise also.”
“You are mistaken,’’ said he, “about
the surprise being universal. Many of
my intimate inends have known of my
disinclination for public life and of my
purpose to resign, for along time.”
“I see the Graphic and some other
papers, while expressing high regard
for you, seem to be under the impres
sion that you loved politics as a profes
siun.”
General Gordon replied: “A similar
mistake was made about me during the
war, as to my love of a soldier’s life,
have an ardent temperament and an in
tense love lor the south, and when in
her service, whether in war or in peace,
I have consecrated to her all the talents
which God has bastewed upon me, and
that, too, without one lurking thought
of self. But I am more devoted to do
mestic life and take more pleasure in
the love and happiness of ay wife and
children than in all the honors thaircau
be gathered in a political life. Yes,sir
there are hundreds in Georgia a.^d else
where who know that retirement to pri
vate life has been a cherished purpose
with me, and who will recognize iu my
chi the table before him, spread his legs
apart, leaned his body over the table | resignation the consummation of that
aud said: I impose. My life as senator has been
“Will you tell the court what you one of great libor and anxiety. Twice
replied the
know about this case?”
“That ain’t his name,
wit..ess.
“What- ain’t his name?”
“Case.”
“Who said it was.”
“You did. Y-ra wanted to know
W #t I kmw abciu: :his Case—his name
is Smith.”
"Your honor,” howled the attorney,
plucking his beard out by tbe roots;
“will you make this man answer?”
“Witness,” said the Judge, “yon
mnst nn3\ver the question put to you.”
“Land o’ Goshen, Jedge, ain’t I
bin doin’ it? Let- this cuss fire away
I’m ready.”
“Then,” said the lawyer don’t beat-
aronnd the hush any more. .Yon and
this prisoner.have been friends?”
“Never,’’promptly responded the wit
ness.
“What
Weren't
as a friend?”
you snmoned here
“No. I was snmmoned here as a
Presbyterian. Narry one of us was ev
Friends—he’s an old line Baptist with
out a drop of Quaker in him.
‘‘Stand down!” yelled the lawyer in
disgust.
.‘Hay?”
“Stand down.”
Can’t do it. I’ll sit down or Stand
np ”
“Sheriff, remove that man from the
box”'
Witness retired mntteiing: “Well, if
lie ain’t the thick-beadest cuss I ever
laid eyes on.”
A few weeks ago, as a young lady of
Salisbury, kid., was getting into a car
riage a sewing needle was by some
means forced into her thigh, but being
considered a trifling matter, little or
uo attention wys paid to it at the time.
Several days after this occurrence,
however, her ankle pained her very
much, on . examination it was found
that the needle was the cause of it. In
her efforts to get it out it broke and she
only succeeded in getting one part (the
eye half) of it oat. The point part re
mained, and two days after she felt
that jest below the knee, but was still
usable to get it ont: Two weeks then
escaped and she felt something in her
throat, bnt the obstruction was suppos
ed to he a fish bone.. After several efi
forts to remove it she at last succeed,
and it proved tube the point of the
needle,—Exchange^,
The Coloradians are very anMot$ to
get possession of the Indian lands of
that state, which are believed to- be
very rich in silver and gold. To aid
in this enterprise they have organized,
it is said, a regular Indian outrage bu
reau at'Denver, whose business is, to
work up and manufacture outrages so
as to give the Coloradians excuse for in--
vadingthe lauds belonging to the In-,
dians. it is th ought'thut such ajareju-.
dice can be raised against tfee- ted skins
by stories of scalping, massacres, etc.,
that the Eastern press will be isdneed.
lo declare in favor of removing ail the
Indiana from, the state.^-^Savaoinah
since the ; eople of Georgia so gener
ously placed me in tuis high office have
its labors almost cost me my life. Once
after the terrible ordeal through which
I passed iu Columbia, S. C., in 1876,
sitting often until 3 o’clock in the
morning in order to counsel with friends
ancl prevent a collision, which would
have brought ruin to that people, if not
to the whole south. On my return to
Washington I was completely prostra
ted; but I still labored on, and remain
ed iri Washington more than a month
after adjournment, at the request of
that grand man, Governor Hampton,
and of friends in Louisiana, working
for the release of those states from mili
tary domination. Again, the winter be
fore last I was stricken down the very
day of adjournment. The fact is that
though I look vigorous and strong I am
not so. My wounds received in the
war would have shattered a constution
of iron, and they, with the constant
work and trials I have done and gone
through with here have told npon my
health and spirits. I am no longer a
candidate for office, and cannot be sup
posed to refer to these in any
spirit of pcpnlarity banting. The
whole ease is this: I love my home and
my family, and am forced to neglect
the one and do iujnstice to the other as
long as 1 remain in public life.”
“Do I understand you, general, as
giving these as the reasons of yonr re
tirement?”
“Yes, if you add the pressing and in-
* ’creasing pecuniary demands made npon
nae, and my decreasing ability to meet
them. If I had a fortune, this life, of
course, would be much more agreeable;
but to a man sustaining the relation I
do to the southern people, he must, in
order to remain in the senate, have a
large parse, or a very small heart.”
“I can very well see good reasons for
yonr decision, bnt the thipg that seems
to impress some people as strangers the
suddenness of your determination,”
queried yonr correspondent.
“Yes,” replied General Gordon; “I
know, but in this, you aud all others
who think so are also mistaken, As I
said in my letter of resignation, it is
bnt carrying into execution a long set
tled purpose; and as I said to yon a
while ago, my purpose was well known
to some of my immediate neighbors, to
many of my relations, and to some of
my intimate friends in the senate.”
“But gsneraV” I asked, “why did
you not hold on to the end of the ses
sion, aud draw your salary an senator
nntil the legislature s^et?*
“General Gordon quickly answered:
“Simply beeaus& I could not postpone
the business arrangements that long.
Governor Colquitt begged mo to do so;
bnt Tconid not.”
“Haye you any objection to stating
and to try to be as successful there as I
have been a soldier or a politician.”
At'this point I asked if General Gor
don had seeh the interview with Gener
al Toombs and others, and the anony-*
mons assaults made npon him.”
The genesal said, “No,” and then
took a paper, read through the whole
of them, and then said, as he paced the
floor:
“This is all ungenerous and unjust.
It is the misrepresentation and traduc
tion which my best acts have invariably
met in some quarters while I was in
public life, and which are now eraploy-
ed.to defame mo as I retire from it.
They will produce no permanent im
pression Upon the people of Georgia.—
They know me, and I know the authors
of these attacks too well,”
I see that some of these Critics
seem to think you ought to have re
mained here at any cort.”
‘.‘Yes, it was my doty as long as the
south was in clanger. Now, however
the south is. restored and the great ob
ject I bad in political life is attained.
Besides, I believe I can be of as groat
service to the people in the capacity of
a private citizen as in public office, and
certainly greatly promote the interests
of my family.”
“I infer from yohr last remarks that
it is not your purpose to cease, to take
interest in public affairs?'
‘‘Certainly not. I could not be indif
ferent and shall never be idle when my
pen or voice may seem to be needed to
sustain what I may conceive to be the
right. I am willing for the others to
hold the offices, bnt my purpose is to
do all I * can on all proper occasions to
restore, good, will between the sections
and advance the cause of good-govern
ment in the state and the union.”
“General, have yon anythiirg more to
say in reference to the charge of a trade
between you and governor Brown?”
In an indignant tone that would ear
ly conviction to his bitterest enemy, he
replied: “I hive this to say: the charge
is a base calumny and falsehood in all
its length aud breadth and d -pth. Wiiat
Governor Colquitt and Governor Brown
say of me in relation to tho appoint
ment of the latter is strictly true. How
preposterous to talk about a trade, in
the,face of the fact that Governor Blown
had nothing to give me. The offer came
to me from Mr. Newcomb ami was the
consequence and not the cause of my
resignation. I had already sent my
resignation to the Governor, intending
to accept another proposition made me
by another party, and. which was more
advantageous in a pecuniary point of
view, when Mr. Newcomb learned of my
resignation, and made me the offer to
which I have referred. I shall accept
his because it will not—as the other
would have done—carry me from my
home and state.”
It is useless to add that Senator Gor
don leaves the senate amid a rush of re
grets from every part of the south and
north. Toe interview above must set
attest the busy Georgians who have
cried ont, ‘ bargain and sale. ” General
Gordon upheld the honor of his count] j
in war and in peace, and his word, that
he traded wiib no one -will be believed.
The question recurs whether or not the
people will sustain Governor Colqnitt
in the appointment of Governor Brown,
and that they mnst decide without bring
ing into the controversy General Gor
don s resignation. So few men resign
office these days that voluntarily aban
doning a seat in the United States sen
ate creates a profound sensation. Gen
eral Gordon left it as lie received it—
without a stain upon the honor of Geor
gia or upon his own. He was prompted
from the purest motives, and all right-
thinking men will approve the act.
C. H. W,
UNCLE TIM’S TALENT.
<ews.
alluded to?;”-
“Certainly no;. It is that of general
Counsel for the LpuisviJIe
railroad company.” -
.- ring ir
“I infer* then* (hat you iutend to.re-
turn to the practice of law?” - * * '
“I think I
A few weeks ago President, and Mrs.
Hayes went to Mount Vernon, and pass
ed .the night there, sleeping in the bed
formerly used by George and Martha
Washington. A good deal of fan was
had when the fact got out, but the cus
todian of the property at Mount Vernon
says that it is the usual thing for presi
dents to do. Lincoln, Grant, Johnson,
Buchanan, Pierce, Filmore and Tyler,
he says, have all slept in Washington’s
bed, and he supposes that other presi
dents have-, but that is as far as his
memory runs. Some of the Presidents
named oeeupied the bed soveral nights
daring their term of office,* and Presi
dent - Pierce was in the habit of going to
Mount Vernon to pass the night very
often during, the summer. But Mr.
Hayes may pride himself on the dis
tinction of being the only President sev
er elected by the people who has acca-
pied Washington’s bed.—Sou. News.
Uncle Tim held, np his saw and
squinted along the teeth to see whothef-
it was “loosing its set.” , - He failed ta
decide, in his surprise afjfinding that
he was taking aim at the minister, who
stepped -in range jiist at that .moment
on the street side of the fence, foe
eyes came into gear again as he laid* h»W
Saw on the wood pile and stepped np tp
the fence, saying: “Well, it is queef.
It’s only a minute ago I wa3 thinking
about yon. I was thinkin’ what a goorf
sermon that was yon gave ns last San-,
day morain’, how I would telTyon so the"
first time I saw yon.” ,
Uncle Tim was the wood sawyer and
day’s factotum for the village. Unlearn- -
ed as he was, the minister always miss
ed himr if lie -way absent from ehoreh—
he was such a helpful listener. And to 1
Uncle Tim’s compliment he redlied,-
“Yon told me what yon thought of it at
the time, in the Way yon listened to’it;,
though for that matter, you always seem
to be interested. I don’t suppose you’
know what a comfort such a hearer is to -
a minister. If all the congregation
were like yotf I think it would torn my
poor sermons into good ones.”
“Thank yon,” said Uncle Tim. “I.
don t alwiys git the hang of everything
that s said. But I should git less if I
didn't give attention, An’I always
says to myself: “The minister he works'-
hard to write his sermons, an’ if folks-
don’t listen to ’em its pretty discoorag-
ing.” an’ I says, “You can’t put lnUch-
into the contribution box, Tim. nn'you'
can t talk in prayer meeting, but you.
can try to ’prociate what other folks do.”
“The ta.ent of appreciating is an ex-
cellent one to have,” remarksd the min-
ister.
Well, as I-look at it; it’s one as isn't
deuied to anybody,” said Uncle Tim;—,
“Bnt if it’s the only one I’ve got,• I’lj
try and not wrap i ha napkin. When
Deacon MasoD docs me good by one of-
lifs experienced folks in prayer fffeetin’,
I think it’s tio fflorcn’t right-be should
know it. P’raps he has times of think-
in’ he enu’t say anything worth while,
an’ it stands (o reason that be can talk
better ii he knows he’s doing somebody,
some good. An’ when Widdes fia-Scfr-
is making such a gritty fight to keep her.
children together and give ’em an edn*
>cation, I think maybe it makes it a lit
tle easier for her to stand up to it if a -
juabor drops a few words of ’preciatfonT
once in a while.”
The minister said nothing, bnt.there
was a look of “preciation” on. his face,
and Uncle Tim con tinned: “The other,
day I saw the young school ma’m;was.
looking worn and sober like. I ’magin-
ed them big boys from the Holler was
worryin’ the life out of her. And I.
didn’t 1-now how I conid help that. Blit
at noon I just went down to the school
house to tell her how nice onr gran’son,
was getting along with Lis ’rithmetioL
And she said it was better than a hall
dozen caps of tea for cheering her Up
she did. And when I sge Sanford’sboy
take a little Irish girl’s part that the'
other boys were to mantirg,. and they
jeerin’ him, I went up to. him, and says,
“Uncle Tim’s nothing.bat asfodfowfo -
yer, but he knows, enough to. seerffikfc'
you have got the stuff of a' gentleman ’
in you. Yon see old folks. dpn’knotice
the boys enough, And. there’s Jim Bra-
dy, a drinkin’, card playin’, shooting/
match creetur’, who goe3 arouna"agoo<l'
deal tike a dog without any. owner. ; He :
knows folks, despite him, But Jim’a
right Handy, with tools, and. when I take,
my saw to him to have it filed; fod tell/
him he does that job better’ll 1 any oil
man I know, I think it helps him to’'
have a hi tie more respect for himself, I 1
do. You see it’s dreadful easy to lookf.
at faults— at faultsin children, at faults'
m hired folks, andfan Its in tavern keep
ers, and faults in prayer meeting.. SoE
as I look at it we’d.do a great, deal bet-
ter to think move ahont the good, thinfo ’
At Flatbnsb, a boy who had charge of
a very. stnbborn donkey was one day
beating it numercifelly because it would
not go, when the minister of the parish,
coming up„ censured him for his cmel-
ty. The boy reseated the interference,
the nature of the business arrangements ifihd exclaimed: “Iha sane you. needn’t
care;-it’s none o’ - your congregation.”
The Zulu lady wears her i
To have the talent, of appreciation,
you call it, - said the minister;
‘ ‘I dunno as that’s quite the tiling f
call It,” responded Uncle Tiih. ;
wife, she says to me once in a while
“It’s nigh onto fifty years that you’ve
been telling me that you love me. And'
I know von do. But I don’t want yoq’
to stop saying it, I want you 46 keep'
.ehiLg it as weB as Bring it. And I'
gness it’s net onlya talent of ’premation
that’s needed, but a talent of telling it.’*’
Uncle Tim screwed -up his face foe
another squint along his saw teeth, and’
the minister ~ '
how much brighter and better the world*
would be if all of ns had the talent for.
appreciating the good things in others
and added to this appreciation Uncle?'*
Tim’s “talent for telling it.”
; the"
. A doable purpose is"
A machinist in Nevada has invented
an effective improvement oa a common’
door-key which renders it impossible for"
a burglar to use the : - ~
lock by taking hold i
from the outside. Al.
is that the end of the ]
of the i
— torn it