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Unfcitr Or lumry.
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■.. 4un dist —J, VV. Andrews
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■Lib's, 31 << dist—W. D. Simms
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Hay before Ist Saturday.
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■ 4th Saturday.
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Sunday
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- nl and 2nd Sundays.
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at 3 p m
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2nd 11.1 4th Sundays
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at 9.30 a nr
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Woie lull moon in each
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MM’ Friday tiigh* before the
each month.
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March and September.
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AT I.AW,
■ Loganbville, Ga.
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VOL XV.
CA UGH T IN HIS o]\W
TOILS-
The rr.ging sound that came
from the Blackened smithy told
that the smith was smitherning
steel The smith who swung the
ponderous hammer was a man of
no common muscle.
He was young and remarkably
handsome, but there was an evil
lurkiug in his cold, black eyes
which would have repulsed the
close observer.
The light of his foige rendered
ghostly tke objects in the remote
corner of the shop, but it fell
brightly upon the slraugn looking
piece of steel thet he was ham
mering.
It resemoled the jaw of some
immense trap, strong enough to
hold a bear, and the wonder wa s
that the strength of man could pro.
pare it for its prey.
If any man in Middletown could
control such a trap it was the man
whose uanlls were fashioring it.
For a long time David Thrall
hah been working of nighs wnh
his shop barred to visiters, and
the tdang, clang, clang of his ham
mer had sounded ilie in the l'urtli
erest corner of the growing vil
lage.
He was ainancf sfrongpassions
the first to resent an insult to a
friend- and the last to give up an
argument when ho found logic
against him.
No pet son had boihered him
while he swung the hammer over
the terrible steel trap he was mak
ing.
It is true a few boys looked in
at the inaugerarior of his work>
hut his maddening tin eats kept
the prying urchins away.
“1 told her she would never
laugh at my love and live 10 boast
of it 1o another mon !” David!
Thrall said aloud one night, as he !
paused to wipe great drops of!
perspiration fro'n his brow.
“She laughed then and told me
not to let angtr get 'he best of me,
and thought I would forget it.
Forget? Never!” cnp the ham *
mer then came down vengefu'ly
upon the glowing steel.
“I am making this trap because
you rejected my [ore Agnes Tern
pie. But it shall not tear your
pteUy skiu. No, no i I would
not harm one of your golden hairs
out / am going to teach you that
there is one in Middleton whose
heart cannot be trifled with.”
“Thus he talked to himself,
while he stood over his anvil and
swung his hammer, wnose every
blow told on his hoirible median
ism and hurried ii toward comple
tion. That night ne put the fin
isning touches up m it
He did Dot come to"a halt uuti l
he reached the iron tank that ran
rat over the roau which he was
traversing.
Middletown had not been hon
ored with Ibe steam cars, which
as if to taunf the place left it a
mile to the west.
David Thra'l threw down his
burden, with a sigh of relief es
caped him. Then be struck a
match and looked at uis watch.
I He passes about 9, be matter
ed. “Ttie passenger goes by at
ten o’clock, then the lightneniug
express.”
lie spoke vyith a fiiendishnes B
almost foreign to the human heari
and sot to work fastening the
steong chain attached to his infei
nal trap to the iron rails.
jje had evidently studied this
part of his work for he performed
it in darkness and then rested.
But the end was not yet.
He held it to the light of his
coal fire and pronounced it perfect
and smiled upon it with pride,
showed that he had strerght
enough to master its jaws
“Now, my boys we’ll try it.”
David Thrall put his trap in a
sa?k, smothered the fire and left
the smithy. He waked rapidly
waid the outskirts of the village,
seen by no one, for ibe night was
dark and the wind high.
It was in the antum of the year,
and the yellow leaves of the trees
fell arouud him in golden showeis
but tie did not notice them any
more than to brush an occasional
one from his long beard, liegrim
med like hi* face with the soot of
his shop.
Throwing himself upon the
spring, he set the trap and the
terrible jaws were ready to close
upon their victims.
The wind threw leaves over the
trap as if intent on aiding the
jealurs blacksmith, and, as the
clouds scurried 'westward, he saw
he saw the star gleams fall upon
the leaves that covered it.
It was a pioturesqe p/acs which
David Thrall liad seltcted for the
deed upon which lie had set his
ueart.
The road was narrow—-indeed
not more thau a path—than let! to
Middletown, and she home of
Agnes Temple.
He knew the man he hated
would traverse it before dawn, and
he knew too, that iiis trap would
hold him to the iron track.
It was a revenge almost too ter~
rible to recorded.
“There j'* exclaimed the stuiih
as he stepped away a pace and
triumphtly surveyed the result of
his nights toil in the so ty shop.
“Now let the prey come ! The
trap is ready. 1 wish you a pleas •
ant time of it Julian Wingford
To iie plain. I should like to know
how a man would feel between
two such jaws.’’
Then he picked up the sack and
started back to Middletown. Hut
he ha 1 not gone ten yards before
he halted.
The trap might have been set a
litde easier,” lie said to himself.
“It has not been worked irncu
and tbe easier it is set the surer I
shall be of my prey.’’
Intent upon readjusting the
devilish invention, the blacksmith
retraced his steps, and for the sec
ond in thaf lonely and beautiful
spot he be bent over tbe cross-ties.
He placed his kneee upon the
spring to keep the treacherous
frpm closing upon their maker
while he tampered with the trig*.
8«r.
tie was in the midst of tiis work
when from some unaccountable
cause his knee slipped from the
spring and oh, horror the might
jaws closed upon his wris's.
With a cry, iridescribeably full,
of horror, tne entrapped man tri->
ed to spring to his fee 1 , but the
trap fastened as it was to the rails
held him securely down.
Fhe sharp teeth seemed to cut
into she marrow of his bones, and
lie was experiencing the horror of
a human caugdt in a t rap.
He tried to crush the spring,
but it would not yield to the pow*
er which it had lately owned, aud
then he tried to tear himself louse
But /he pain occasioned by his
effoits was so giea/ that he was
forced to desist lest he should
faint, and in that condition he
caught the train.
“If it had caught my leg,” he
cried ‘T could tear it loose' but oh?
these precious arms of mine!”
It was a terrible moment for
the entrapped man.
All a/ one, in that hour of ter
ror he thought of the man whom
he had preparer the j iws cf un
yielding steel for.
He would doubtless reach the
crossing before the train was
due and release him, for Julian
Wingfold was not a vengelul riva
All thoughts of revenge aga;ns
the beautiful Agnes Temple bnd
left his mind, he looked up at the
stars, and they seemed to mock
his misery , he cried for help from
the terror stricken depdts of his
heart. But no oots/eps sounded
upon his ears.
Heaven and men seemed to
have left the hater to his fate.
Suddenly David Thrall started
an l a cry of despair welled fro m
his throat.
The shrill shriek of the engine
/old him that the one dread hour
of his captivity had passed away
and the end of all was near at
hand.
“Heaven have mercy!” he cried
“Do not unto me as I have done
un'on another !’
But no deliverance came, and
the sound of tbe whistle died away
wit' a mocking echo.
Within five minutes the iron
monster would be upon him, and
tne most terrible drama ever en
acted in that lovely country would
have reached its tragic finale. He
heard the roar of the train, which
seemed to approach on the wings
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LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. JUNE 23 1885.
of the wind.
He raved, he cursed, aud tried
to wveicli his wrists irom the jaws
of steel, and tried to brerk them
oft and bear life and Weeding
stumps away, but in vain. With
the tenacity of death itself tb e
trap held him down.
The engine shrieded again, and
David Thrall paused aud looked
over his shoulder.
He saw the head-light now; it
dazed his eyes, and ho could not
shale the precious orbs with his
hands. Then he shrieked at tbe
top of his voice; but the cars came
on.
“No deliverance! Oh, Heav
en !” he exclaimed, sinking in the
few seconds he had yet to live.
“I have merited this* What a
terrible thiug retribution is! -He
will be happy, ind she will smile
upon him witn all her dazzling
beauty. But I —l—oh, Heavem
pity me! Chained to the track—
caught in the trap made by my
own hands for a fellow-being. It
is just. Heaven forgive me, and
comfort my poor ’’
• ****»
Tue rumbling of the train had
scarcely died away in the distance
when Julian Wiugfold, returning
from the home of Agnes Temple
crossed the track.
He stepped where the instrn
rnent of death had been placed 1
and passed on without niticing its
handiwork. If he had bm glanced
down he might have seen the two
battered steel jaws, losed now
upon the lifeless hands only of his
rival, the olacks nidi.
The remains were discovered on
the following day, and tbe pres->
enco of the trap told the awful
story.
David Thrall’s widowed mother
soon followed him to the grave.
Tlie little smithy sii'l stands in
Middletown, and die superstitious
say that at night David Thrall ca i
be heard heating steel before his
forgo.
Julian Wing'old is a happy bus
band and father now. but he never
thinks of that one night's walk
without a feeling of thankfulness
as well as of horror.
PAID ON SIGHT.
“Y#u s c e, Captain my son vlias
in Milvankee. He goes oafer dere
last vUeek to see his uncle.”
“Yes Mr. under.”
“He take- feefty dollar mit him,
but maype he blays bool und goes
mit der opera uud has extra ex
penses. Before he goes vhay he
says he draws on me if he vhants
money.”
“I see ’
“Vhell two days ago a chap
comes inth inj blace und says he
has has a sight draff, for s2s' My
poy Shake vhas dead proke und
can’t come home, *hiw vhas it
about sight drafts?”
“Why you pay, em on sight.”
“Who to?”
“At the bank V
“Dot’s vLat I dells der olilt vho
mans, but she says I must pay to
der man imd so I didt. Dis
morning Shake vhat home he says
he don’t draw on me for coddins.’
“Well, you’ve been beaten
ugain,”
“/ belief so, —j pelief so, Gap
tain.”
“Well.”
“I know how I get eafen on
dot.”
“How ?”
•‘Der oldt vhoman has S2OO in
der >ank and Shade lias S9O. I
draws some sight diafts on them
uud pays myself oick. If you
hears some rows in blace to-day
you knows how it vhas I vhas iloa
ing a banking peeseness ?”
<|«>
A yontig lady from the country
and an Englishman were engang
ed in conversation when the lal<*
ter leading and boasting more or
less of bit distinguished ancestry.
“You see he went on, the better
cfases among the Eilglish people
are proud of their blood, you know,
The blood of six generations of
Guernseys flows through my veins
“Indeed, said the young [ady
said, “Father has bought Gneur
seys at different times at different
times, put he said recently that he
thought hereafter he would slick
to Jerseys or Alderney’s as the
latter fiive the richer milk and do
not cost so much to feed.”
A Eili.
To be entitled an Acl to provide
for preventing the e vils of in
temperance by locel option in
any district, incorporated town,
city or country in this State by
submitting the question of pro*
liilining the sale of intoxicating
liquors to the qualified voters
of such place, to provide penal
ties for its violation, and for
oilier purposes.
Sec'ikm 1. The General Assems
blv of the State of Georgia do en
act,
That upon application by petition
signed by oue-lenth of the voters
who are qualified to vote for mems
bors of the General Assembly in
any county; or one-third of such
voters of any miliiia district; or
w thin a radius of three miles or
less from nny church, school house
or villiage, or one-fifth of such
votes of any incorporated city or
tjwn in this State, ihe Ordinary
shall order an election to bo held
at the placed of holding elections
for members of iLe Greneral Assem
biy, or in such other place as shall
be designated in s ich petition, to
take placa within forty days after
tbe reception of such petition, to
determine whether or not such
spirituous liquors as are mentioned
in the sixth section of tnis Act,
-hall be sold within the limits of
such designated places; “Provid“
ed,” that no election hold under
this Aci shall beheld in any month
in whic.lt general elections are
held; so that such elecliors as are
held under this Act shall be separ
ate and distinct from any o'her
election whatever; “Provided,’’
further, that the Ordinary shall
determine upon the sufficiency of
the petition presented by the tax
books of the year before.
Sec 2. Be it further enacted,
That notice of such electio nto be
held as are by this Act provided
shall be published once a week for
four v. eeks in the otficirl organ or
organs es the Ordinery or Sheriff
of the county where such eleciions
are to be held, and such other
notice may be giyeu as the Ordinc
ry may think propel to give gener
ai publicity to the election. Sue i
ele lions shall be held under the
same regulations as are now pre
scribed by law for holding elec
tiens for members of the General
Assembly- except as otherwise pro
viJed by this Act. All persons
qualified to vote for members ol
the General Assembly are qualified
to vote under the piovisins of this
Act; “Provided,” that they have
actually resided within the territo
rial limits to he affected thereby
at least six months next preceding
the election : “Provided,” further
/hat ull voters at elections held
under this ct, shall be required
to cast their ballots in their own
militia districts,
Sec. 3. Be i further enacted,
That all persons voting a t elections
held under the provisions of this
.4ct, who are against the sale of
the articles mentioned in the sixth
s6c,ion of this Act, shall have writ
ten or printed on their ballots,
“Against Bar looms,’’ and all who
favor the sale of the articles men
tioued in said sixth sec.ion snail
have written or printed on their
ballots, “For Bar rooms.’’
Sec. Be i/ further enacted
That the managers of elections
held as by this Act provided shall
keep, or cause to be kept, duplicate
lists of voters ard tally sheets, and
it shall be duty of the mana
gets to deliver one list of the
voters and tally sheets to the
Clerk of the Superior Court, to be
tiled in his oflice, and one list of
the voters ballots and tally sheets
to the Ordinary, who shall careful
ly consolodate the returns anil de
cide all contests arising from *iec
tions held under this Act. If the
result of any election shall be
“against Bar rooms,’’ the Ordinary
shall publish the same once a week
in the paper in which he gave no,
tics of Ihe election. This Act
shall take effect as soon as the re
b ult- is ascertained, except as lo
vested rigli'B.
Sej o. Be it further enacted
That if the result of any election
held provisions of this Act shall
tie “For Bar rooms,” then no oth
er election shall be held in the
same prescribed limits* in less
than two years thereafter, wuich
must be done upon a new petition
as aforesaid, and by otherwise
confujformin g to this Act; Pro
vided, that a failure to carry an
election in ihe entire county agaius
Bat Booms,” shall no t prevent
any corporate town or city, oi
within the radius as iresaid.por
mlitiaj diistrict in cuch county
from holding an election under
the previsions of this within
a less time than two years ; not
shall the failure of any radius as
aforesaid, district, town or city to
carry the election “Agains/ Bar
rooms" pi event an election from
being he’d in the entire county in
less than two years.
Sec. 6 Be it further enacted
J
That If a majority of the votes
css i at any elec ion held as by this
-4ct provided, shall be “Against
Bar rooms,” it ahull not be lawful
for any person within the limits o*
sue i town, ci y, county, radius
aforesaid or militia district, to sell
or barter for valuable considera
tion. either directly or indirectly
or give away to induce trade as
his place of business or furnish
at other public places, any alcoholic
spirituous or malt liquors, or in
loxieating biiteis or otbtr drinks
which il drank to excess will pros
duce intoxication under the penal
ties bereingafter prescribed.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted,
That section 4570 of the Code of
<882; in regard to prohibiting the
sale or furnishing spirituous liquor
on election days shall apply to al;
elections held under the provisions
of this Act.
Sec. 8, Be it further enacted
That nothing in ibis Act shall be
so construed as to prevent the
manufacture sa e, and use of do'
mesfic wines, or cider, or the sale
of wines for sacramental purposes
“Provided” such wines or cider
shall not be sold in bar rooms by
retail: nor shah anything heieir.
contained prevent liscensed drug-,
gists from furnishing or sailing
pure alcohol for inedcinal purposes
Sec, 9, Be it fmther enacted,
That no election shall be held un
der the provisions of of this Ac
for any county; town, or clt t.r
other place iu this N't ate, where by
law the sale of spirituous liquors
is already prahibited either by high
license or local option or other
legislation, so long as these laws
remain of force.
tjicc, 10; Be it further enacted,
Tnut no comity or municipal an
throity invested with the power
shall issue license to sell the ar
ticles mentioned in the sixth sec
tion of this Act,, after the petition
has been filed with the Ordinary
as aforesaid, and pending Uie no
tice for submitting the question |
to the people for the locality
named unless the election fce car
ied for bar tooms
Sec, 11 Be it farther enacted,
that any per ion voting illegally at
any election held under the pro.
virions of this Act, or otherwise
violating any provisions of the
same, shall on convicrioD thereof
be punished as prescribed ir. sec
lion 4310 of the Coi/e of lgß2.
Sec, 12. Be it further enacted
That all laws and parts of laws in
conflict with this Act be und the
same are hereay repealed.
DEATH BY FRIGHT.
Addie Walker, daughter of Su
san Walker, col.; living on Mr J M
Garrard’s place in this city, was a
girl thirteen years old and did s«r
vice as nurse in the family of Mr.
Robert Wind Late Saturday eve
ning, the 23d of May, she was go
ing to her mother’s home wi.h an
other negro girl younger than her
self, They were talking about a
crazy woman supposed to be in
town. Dyllie Trijrpe, a colored
girl about sixteen years old, saw
them coming aud heard them talk
ing about the crazy woman, and it
entered her bead to have a bit of
fun. Secreting herseif she allow
ed the unsuspecting victims to get
opposite, when throwing her dress
over her head, she rushed wildly
at Addie Walker, yelling and boo
homing as if she were a genuine
‘ razy woman. So utterly dismay-
JOHN T. WILSON, Ja., Publisher
ed ami frightened was Addte that
she lost all piaaeuiie of mind and
>n her wild efforts to escape the
mischievous girl she fell headlong
upon a pi'e of rock aud lay there-
When reached it was found that
she had been seriously injured.
She had *o be carried home, who «
Dr. Boyd was called in and found
her severely injured iuterually.
She lingered in pain until Friday
night last when she died, —Talbot
to a Era.
FLOATING FUN.
A wooden wedding—Marrying
a block-head.
The fiery charger—The red
headed hotel clerk.
The mosquito always makes him
self to hum.
The goose and the tailor are
qery clothes friends.
Cranberries will cure dyspepsia.
That s sour opinion.
A great many men get their
tigers burned with baseball match,
se.
What is a button? A small
event that is always coining oft'.
If a small boy is called a lad, it
is proper to cell a big buy a lad
der T
The dentist is a good logician.
He usually geis at the root of tl e
matter.
J 1 S •
In Scotlaud the violin is regard
ed by many persons as the devil’H
nstrument.
A tough steak is nouiethiug like
•in incorrigible boy. Both may lie
improved by pounding.
Changeable silks are as fashion
able as ever in Paris, but they are
not worn here to any exrent.
Revolvers Hr 4 mine i pies should
always be handled with care. Yon
never know how the <himrs are
loaded.
There are 2,473 female surgeons
in this country. Matrimony, it
appears, is not sufficiently deadly
for some women.
The biggest men in the country
are the drum-major of the local
brass band and the pitcher of the
local baseball club.
A Russian punster has been
banished to the mines of Siberia
for syeaking of the light diet cf
his countrymen—candles.
Uncle Esek says : “Eccentrici
ty, at best, i# but a fuiigus, ju-t
as apt to grow out of the of a
philosopher as of a fool.
It is the gay old bird who lies
in hod till his wife has the fire
kindled amt the breakfast on the
breakfast on the faole who catches
'he worm.
'‘Yes,” said Mrs, Npriggins,
when she read the menu of a re
cent fashionable dinner, “the man
who got up that feast must hivu
been an epicac ! ”
One of the hardest thinga for a
boy io do is to convince himself
thS/ the pants made for him by
his mother look - jusi as if thry had
come from a clothier’s.
An exchange remarks: “The
almanac has its uses.” This is
undoubtedly so. A good many
patent medicine meu would never
be heard of if it wasn’t for alman
acs.
A scientifically inclined gentle
man lecently spent three months
computating the tips given to
sieepmg car porters, and then sud
denly stopped. It is believed he
ran out of figures.
It is said that 60 per cert, of
tbe children boru in Russia die be
fore they are five years old, and
iha* the majority of those who a.-
tuiD the ageof manhood wish they
had been similarly fortmi ite.
Memphis hopes to be able to
trade with Savannah instead of
Norfolk as soon as that city gets
its railroad to Birmingham coins
pieted.
When she West Foint passen
ger train stopped under the car
shed ir. Atlanta on Friday, and the
car greaser began work, he found
a tramp secreted on the brake un
der the sle ppiug car. The fellow
admitted that he had ridden fr nn
Montgomery in thai, position.
GWINNETT HERALD.
A WIDE AWAKE COUNTY NEWSPAPER.
JOB PRINTING
A SPECIAL FEATURE.
Book work, legal blanks, letter
beads, note heads, bill beads, pos“
ters, cards, envelope—evervthing
in job printing line done in neat
and tasty style and on short no-?
tice. Prices low and work guar
anteed: Cad on us.
Entered al the Pest Office at Law
rence vl I If, :i« second class mail mut
ter.
NO 15
1 DITORIAL BREVITIES
Cartersville has a brass baud
composed of young girls from
fourteen to sixteen years old,
A .wacon man claims to have in
vented i uncycle tual may be
propelled as the rate of a mile and
a half a minute.
Mr, George Siins of Oconee
county; lost four children in two
mouths from measles. 7/e is now
mentallT deranged.
Judge Carswell has grauted
Miss Elvira Ivey a new trial Jef
ferson superior court for the murs
Jer of S. A MeCaulley.
There are two afreet car drivers
in Atlunta said to be worth seveu
enty-five thousand dollars each
They get oue doller av 1 a ‘quarter
s day.
A good citizen of Irwin county
fell asleep the other day while
plowiug along in his field. He
held his gate urtil the plow atruck
a stump a id aw ke nim.
A weell meaning brotherpreacu
er advised Sam Jones in our hear
ing to change hiH style of preach
ing. The evangelist .made a
courteous reply, and after the
brother bail turned away added:
“If a fellow is catchiig fish a feiiow
's catching fish he doesn’t feei liko
changing his hoook."
The //awaiian kingdom has just
enncced a pateul law- Its term is
ten years for each patent and the
expense about one half whnf it is
in this country.
Experiments with the Bremen
torpedo at ftarrisou Point sheer
ness, have proved that the weapon
can be successfully steered across
the Harbor a distance of a mile.
Domestic coal costs the deal
ers, laid down in Atluuta, about
$3 t>( r ton. It is stated oil good
authority that an offer was made
to soil to concerns just outside cf
the city at a $2 rate, thus putting
the city at r higher rate than the
suourban factories are required io
P»y-
John irammell aud Frank Wil
liams have been arrested in
Panlaski county, Da., for murder
ing an old, paralyzed man named
William Johnson, who lived alone. •
Tohnson had a tract of lanu tha
Trammell wanted, and Trammell
made oa/ a deed to the land and
got Johnson to sign under the
pretense iha*, it was a road com
mission. Then he doai.ud to get
rid of Johuson and gut Williams
to ussiut him in murdering him.
A Paris judge refused to hear a
case against a w fe who had thrown
her busbaDd out of a window and
bis leg, but advised her to open a
gyu uasiurn it which their wives
could train
The despised milk weed can be
used to advantage. Its seed yields
a finer oil than linseed, its floss
resembles Irish popltn wheu spun
and its gum is equal to India rub
bir.
A man threw a stone into the
cabosse of Wabash railway and
was disci vered the same day ar«
rested tried aud sentencenced to
fotr months in jail all in the space
of nine hours.
The clergy of Florida in the
past ten year-. Lave increased from
sevanteen to forty, and the list of
couiixmnicaiits from less than 700
to 1994. There have been erected
in the same peiiod forty-dwo
churct es and chapels.
Four thousand and seven hull*
d.ed persons have been inoculate
ed as a protection against the
"holera in the province of Valencia
Of th6se orly five have been taken
ill None of them have died.
Even in Wilmington, lid., the
uegroep d&cliueed „o vote tte re
publican ticket and let the grand
old party got badly left.
In a recent issue of the Dahlone
ga Signal, the doing of the grand
jury of Lumpkin county appeared
under the head of ‘‘The Predica
ments of the Orbat Fury.’’ It
should tiave been “Presentments
of the Grand Jury.”
A coriespondent of the Frank
lin News, in speaking of a certain
Colonel's daughter, wrote the
French word “fille.” It appeared
as “filly,’’ snd new the correspon
dent is dodging an irafe Colonel.