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General SlrieUry*
CIVIL OOVSRNMENT
•
N. L. Hutchins. Judge Sap. Court.
D T Cam, Clerk Sup. Coart,
T LainkiQ. Ordinary.
W. P. Cosby, Sheriff.
W. K. Brown, Treasurer.
D. W. Andrews. Tax Receiver.
N Verner, Tax Oollectorr
R. N. Maffeti, Surveyor.
, H. Wilson, Coroner.
COUNTY COMMISSION MRS.
J. D Spence, Chairman and Clerk,‘N
Bennett, E Cloud, J. U tiopaios, An
drew Garner.
BOARD or EDUCATION.
T. E. Winn. School Commi«ioDer, J
D e,. T- Patillo, .J. Webb
K T K. W ion.
MUNICIPAL.
John C. Smith, Mayor.
COUNCIL.
L Moore, E D Herrin 8 T ia i
W Brown
RRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OP TRAIN
a rrires from Suwannee. 5.50 p. m
Leaves lor Suwannee, 7a 1 m.
arrival and departure or m ails.-
JEPPERSON—Arrives 12 m, da parts
p. m., Monday and Thursday.
Teaulrs Store. —Departs 6 a nir
rives 5 p m, Monday and Thursday.
Lobanville.— Arrives 10 a m, de
parts 1 p ra.—Daily.
Yellow River. —Arrives 12 m., de
parts 6 a m,,Welnesday and Saturday
w. h. habvby, p. m
CHURCHES
Baptist- -Rev L R Barrett, pastor
Bervices every Sunday.
Methodist— Rev M D Turner Pastor
Services on the Ist and 2nd Sundays.
Sunday School, — A T Pattillo, Supt
Everry Sunday at 3 p m
Presbyterian- -Rev F McClelland,
Pastor, Services on 2nd nd4tbSnndays
n each month,
Sunday School. —T R Powell. Supt
Every Sunday at 9.30 a m*
FRATERNAL.
Lawrenceville Masonic Lome. —J
t> Spence W M., S A Hagood, 8 W,
8 J.VVinn, W. Meets on Tuesday
night 011 or befoi e full moou in each
month.
MtJi.rrnon Chapter, No 39, R A
Spence, H P, a T PEttillo
Bee. Meets Friday night before the
3rd snnday in each month.
Gwinnett Superior Court. —N. L.
Hutchins, udge. Convenes on the Ist
Mondav in March and September.
I I im—w—■———r
JPltohr if >» t t *><
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Will practice in this and adjoining
eircuits, aud the Supreme Court of the
State. Business intrusted to his care
will receive prompt attention.
20-lyl-
E. 8. V. BRIAN !',
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Logausville, a.
All business entrusted to bin
eare will receive prompt attention.
Collections a specialty.
Apr.l4-ly
Jfp A,t BOMTi
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NORCROSS, GA.
Will practice iu the Superior Court*
and courts of Ordinary of the coun
ties of Gwinnett and Milton, and in
the ustices’ court of both countie*
Special and prompt attention given
to collecting.
Feb-8-’BS-«mo._
4 BURNHA M
IMPROVED
STAND’D TURBINE
Is the best eon»tri ;ted
and finished, give bet
ter percentage, n or e
power and i* *o I for
less money per horse
power, than ano ether
Turbine in the world
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ATLANTA, A.
, Ear, Throat and Non Disease
v. july7-tf
tVlcw Firm.
Notice is hereby give, that I have
'8 day associated with as partne. * in
. mercantile business in Lawreoceville
«>y sons, W H Robinson and N 8.
Robinsou, and the business will bere
sfter be conducted under uie firm name
es
R N ROBINSON & SONS
We will keep in stock a full line of
general merchandise and have added to
the business Confections and Fancy
•oods, and will do a general barter boa
aess, and we offer oar stock cheap for
cash or bartea Give ns a trial
R N ROBINSON * SONS.
Lawreoceville Ga
notice of Dissolution.
Notice is hereby given that the part
nership heretofore existing between
R. A, Almand, A. Almand andJ.
H. Almand, under the partnership
nameof Aliuaud and .'-0., is this day
dissolved by mutual consent. The
senior partner, John H . Almahd, hav
ing purchased the entire interoat of
his co-part uers iu the stock on hand,
and the notes and accounts of the late
firm, lie will continue the business
at the old stand and will be pleased
to meet all of the old customer* and
generally. .
tHlii II Almand is authorised to
settle up the entire businesa of ihe aid
Arm.
R. A. Almand,
G.A.Alnand.
JobnH Aim an 4.
-JflG-OV 188&-lm
Kjteorgia—Gwinnett County*
Edwin D. Little, having in due form
(applied to me for the guardeanship
Kl tbo property of Caroline Scales
« n rt william Scales, minor childien of
■William T. Seales, late of said county
1 deceas. d. Notice is hereby given that
■this application will heard at my
(office on the first Monday in jauua
iry uext. JAMES T. LAM KIN.
m I Ordinary.
(rpy a Nov. 3rd 1886.
Okiiinctt fig Herald.
TYLER M. PEEPLES, Proprietor.
VOL XV.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES,
Christmas trees have been nu
merous tba past week.
Dr. M. E. Yason's gin house,
it Dougherty county, was burned
last week.
Garaa of all kinds is very abun
dant in Dodge county and sports
men are having lots of fun.
A petition for an election in be
half of prohibition is being oircu
latied in Richmond county.
The taxcolleetors haue all male
their “last round” for 1885 and
now look out for »ax fi fas.
John Belote, ths first white
child born in Lowndes county ?
died in that county x fe>v days
ago.
A petition for a prohibition elec
in Pulaski county has been pre
sented to the ordinary of that
county.
A gold mine being worked four
miles from Canton is siad to be
one of the richest ever found in
the State.
Willie McClelland, a ten year
old boy, cf Milieu, weighs 100
pounds and is little more than
three teet high.
Geoigia seems to be a haru
state for circusses. Two have al->
ready beer attached aud disband
ed in the state this winter.
Ben Jackson was convicted of
burglary, in Muscogee Superior
Court, on Tuesday, and sentenced
to 20 years in the tenipentiary.
Recent highly sensational oc
currences have stattled Carolton
society, but the Times, very wise
ly, refrrins from publishing de
tails.
The citizesa of Mscou are com
ing forward right liberally with
contributions for rebuilding the
First Baptisi chnrch in that city.
What use is there for a twenty
page daily on Sunday? Nobody
leads one fourth of such a paper.
Ba/ ‘it’sEnglish you know.’
A convict nsmed Thompson,
from Burke coanty, escaped from
the brick yard of Bondurant Jo
phin & Co., in Augusta last Wed
nesday,
»
A local amateur company has
been playing “Ten Nights In a
Bar Room,*' in Eastman. The
same company played one night
also in Cochran.
More arrests for illicit distilling
and handling of liquors have been
made in Cherokee coanty in the
past six months than were ever
made befoi e.
Mr. W. J. Harper's little five
year old daughter, in leaning out
of a window of his residence yes
terday, fell out ana broke one of
her arms.—Amerieus Recorder.
Ike Chambers has a curiosity in
the shape of a walking stick
wnich he cut from a tree on the
grove es a semiuole chief, “Tiger-
Tail," in Florida —Fort Gaines
Advertiser.
Ed Johnson, the notorious rev
enue in formef. was convicted in
Cobb Superior court last week for
stealing hogs and was sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary
Judge Pope, of Zebnlon, has
killed five pigs,jof the Essex breed*
this winter, theii average agee be
ing 13 mohth-, which netted him
1,696 pounds of pork and 40 gal
lons of lard.
An Atlanta amateur dramatic
troup are rendering “A Social
Glass,’ st aifferent poin.s, The
social-glass is likely to bo render
ed too frequently during the com
ing week.
A negro woman tried to buy an
ounce of laudanum in EastmaL
last week—supposed to be wanted
for the purpose of suicide. The
druggist refused to sell it to ber.
Jackets for yournz girl a, of du l
red, green or terracotta cloth, are
trimmed rolls of beaver or other
fur, forming collars, epaulettes,
cuffs and simulated Figaro jacket
aDd vest
Cape 3 of Persian lamb’s wool,
with sling sleeves, which only
reach to ihe waist line, are worn
as opera mantles by young girls.
OTHE STUMP IN ENGLAND, j
It was not iu Sun Francisco |
years ago- It was yesterday in
London, in one of the oestrums
rered boroughs, the borough of
Mary lebon, which boasts of a High
street, and High street has a
musical hall. It is just to observe
that the premises ate shrunken,
uucora tori able, and ugly.
It was in the afternoon. Per
sons were h .stoning toward the
hall in a pouring rain. When I
entered the house it was ciammed.
The curtain was up, and the puny
stage was ready. It was almost
like a reception room. The lands
scapes were hanging ou an unde
cisive panel, and a few rickety
chairs surrounded a table deoked
with glasses of water. The audi
once came from ihe small shops
and large workshops in the neighs
borhood. borne looked excitable,
some good humored; some were
pic.ares of strength, some might
have been away in a strong
breeze; some were clean, some
were fool, and a fair number were
marked with small pox. There
were a few women
Three o’clock having struck, the
majority called for (he performers.
They soon uppeared, coming
straight from the streets, aud de
filing through the ht>useamida
storm of applause, hisses, aud
groans,and ascended the platform,
rlmong them were a real alder
man, the venerable Sir Walter
Garden, a real lord, the dashiDg
sailor Charles /tereafoH, a real
lady (his pretty wife), and a dozen
gentleman and local tradespeople.
Their appearance was aotuated by
an electoral purpose. Lord Char
les Beresford was to make the sis
nal address to the Parliamentary
electors of East Marylebene.
Lord Charles is a conservative*
Sir W. Carden opened the prow
ceedings hy taking a glass of wa
ter and the chair. He is much
past 80, and hss a nice face, lost
in a jungle ol argentine hair and
beard. “Gentleman,” he began.
“What’s the crony’s name ?” said
an artisan.
“Sir Walter Carden,” answered
a few voices.
The aldeiman continued: “I
shall not keep you long •*’
“Three cheers fir crony,” sug
gested, as a mark of gratitude,
somebely, creating a solvo of
laughter.
“You all know Lord Charles
Beresford,’’ Sir Walter continued,
‘*and have admired his pluck, his
resolution, his readiness ”
"And his mother,'* put in the
same person, creating fresh l».ugh
ter.
“He is liked by all folks,’ Sir
Walter said, "church folks, labor
ing folks, military folks ’’
‘Fuhny folks,” prompted the
joker.
“I wish,” begged the alderman
from the assembly, “.hat you
could keep the mar still.”
“Turn him out,” thundered the
supporters of the chair, bat the
rest simply laughed.
Then Lord Charles Beresford
stood up, aod, a mid cheers and
counter cheers, addressed the
people.
“Genelemen,’ he said, “the cam
paign is nearly over, and this will
be my last speech.”
“Thank God 1” exclaimed a oew
interrupter.
“Shame! Order!” roared the
Conservatives.
“My friend,’ intetposed his lord
ship, who is nimble wilted, “dates
to say what I daie not. That’s the
only disagreement between us.”
Here all joined in laughing
“Gentlemen,’ pursued the speak
er, “it is impossible te be blind to
all the mistakes and faults of the
j last government.”
“Three cheers for Joe,” shouted
! a Radical.
Joe Is the popular name of Ml.
Chamberlain. Some answer was
made te the appeal. The majori
ty protested Fists were shaken;
a abort man look off his coat
“ Order I” Order 1” screamed fi i
ty voices.
“Well, now,” said Lord Charles,
“let us speak of the trade, and at
the same time of the navy, for
both are inseparably united, as
the former would'persh if it could
not rely open the later,”
Our Oum Section— Wo Labor For Its Advancement.
LAWRENCEVILLE GA January 5 1886
“Rubbish, my boy !" shouted an
| other.
“Chuck him out,” vociferated
'he mass.
“Send for its nurse,” suggested
another.
‘‘lt wants a bottle, eh ?” put in
another.
“Gentlemen,” roared the lord,
“I could shoot, I thin k, against
twe or three, but not against a
dozen.”
“Hundred you mean, my lord,”
sarcastically remarked a Radical.
“J would have thought you
would have let a fellow apeak,”
pursued his lordship, ever smiling
and accommodating. “Are we
not all Englishman here f”
'.'Yes, all but you, perhaps,” re
torted a new opponent, “You
are a bloody Irishman.”
“So was Wellington,” yelled a
partisan of the canvassed.
“Spurt on, Oharley,” another
sheuted. “It ’ll be a walkover for
ye.”
“Three cheers for England’s new
Neljon,” cried a third,
“Three cheers for Glad-tone,”
interposed the Radical.
And fer two or three minutes it
looked as though tba wretched
music hall would topple and bury
us all under its wreckage. Lord
Charles, as imprasive as if he were
still repairing Lis boiler w’th his
engineer under the fire of the
Soudanese, proceeded.
“You must look after the thor
ough efficiency of yonr navy,/ he
said.
‘Enough of (hat.” screamed a
known voice. ‘'Tell us something
else.”
“He couldn’t if he tried,” assert
ed another.
Both the dissenters were in the
ga'lery.
“Pitch them over, can't ye?’
said one of my lord’s friends.
“What about your friend, my
lord,” politely queried a new ins
dividual—“that creature beyond
oontempt—Ashmead Burdett
Coutts ?”
“Yes, the Yankee adventurer.”
“Shut up!” -Order J’ ‘Chair 1’
clamored many, and there was an
interval of ailenoe*
“Listen to me, Charley, ” came
from a Radical throat “What’s
the name of the German flunky
her Majesty has been kissing sines
Brown’s departure ?”
A string of similar questions
were hurled from all parts of the
house. L'm
"Will you vote lor another
grant in favor of soma loyal beg
gars ?”
‘‘No further grant may possibly
be asked,” replied Lord Beres*
ford.
Not a few thought that his lord
ship could hare said more. They
howled their deasent in a way that
sounded like (he Zoological Gar
den in an uproar,
"What about the disenoown*
ment of the Church t” demanded
the same sifter.
‘•Well,’ replied his lordshipi
“the money waa given to ths
Church.”
“For the poor, Charley," re
torted my neighbor, who looked
daggers*
“Shut up ?” commanded ths aaa
jority.
A member of Lord Charles Ber
esford’s committee, a long man in
s| ectacles, holding s gray toper
with a mourning band in his hand,
arose on * .form and triad
to smooth may a.
“Order for Ally Sloper,’ demand
ed a Radical, and a hilarious peal
rang through the hall.
The committee man rubbed his
spectacles and tried to look ma
jestic.
“Ye want a ehap te clean yer
windows, Ally ?’, a lad cried, and
the peal chimed higher.
Then a little business was
done. Lord Charles is net s bad
speaker, and be utters common
sense and fair views. Three
cheers and one more were asked
for him as he sat down, and they
were given, despito a sharp pro
test They were echoing in the
bouse whet, a dissenter moved
that the same honors should be
rendered to the Liberal candidate
This proved, too much for some
aud became the signal for a few
rattling mills.
I, however, harried oat with
the idea of having a nearer view
of the most popular English sailor
a’ive. He sallied out Dearly at
the same time. He bowed and
smiled to all, and bowed to me,
too. He is a square buill man,
above the average height, with
elastic limbs, a head erect, a boy's
face with striukingly roßy cheeks
and no beard, an elderly occiput,
with extensive baldness, a large
mouth, and two benevolent and
firm eyes. He had hia two strong
hands ou the shoulders of his little
wife to proteot her, for people
were pressing very hard, but only
to see not to hurt An inspecto r
of the police helped them both in
to a small brougham, which readi
ly disappeared in a last blast of
cheers, soothed down by a few
groans, and in torrents of rain.—
London SpeoiaL
mm e<se
GRADY ON TOOMBS.
The kingliest of Georgians is
dead!
The rich life, riotous in its af
fluence, is spent at last The
deeps through which it swept in
thunderous majesty and the thoals
over which it tumbled noisily, are
drained axd bare.
Bob Toombs is no more 1
Quenched is this imperious life.
Stilled is the might; heart. Gone
tue dauntless spirit. At rest, the
turbulent emotions. Pulseless,
the splendid form.
If God ever made the body of
mortal man to shine with the hope
and inspiration of immortality,
tnrely here it was. In the splen
dor of his beauty—in the mi ght
iness of bis strength—in the vital
ity that sparkled in his eyes and
rushed through his veins—in the
ease with which he conquered ard
the heights to which he soared —
in the scope and freedom and
boundless comprehension of bis
powers, there was little sugges
tion of decay. Dazzled by hia
kindly beauty and majesty one
might have said, surely he will
oonquer death.
But the course of nature is un
changeable. Even the eagle’s
wings grow weary and are folded,
and the strong man totters to the
welcome grave. The glory fades
from the cheek and the light dies
from the eye. The majesty de->
parts from the palid brow, and
the rich blood falters m the vein.
The tongue that summoned forty
million people to war babies un
meaningly in its hollow cavern. —
the fingers that easily slit his con
t’nest in two, best the air piuifol
ly for support and guidance. The
mighty spirit that bent senators
to its will and that forged earth’s
bloodiest revolution, sicklied o’er
at last with uplifting shadows,
sreeps aimlessly within (he walls
of memory, and wesps or laughs
alike with.itself.
Then God, in his wise and iiifi*
nite mercy, comes and ends its all!
His gentle hands clasp the wander
ing fingers. His kiss touches the
meandering lips. There is peace
at last. Georgia’s glorious son
sleeps. The nnforgiven rebel
awaits, in unbroken stillness, the
final judgement of God. And
death, touching the tranquil face
with his unspeakable solemnity,
revives therein something of ihe
majesty and beauty of youth that
his people, gazing (hrough ths
mist of tears, may see him last as
they leved him best, when be stood
among men in his kingly splendor
—Constitution.
FREE LIQUOR.
“I’m out getting opinions on
the liqnor question,” said s sharp
reporter to a saloon keeper. ‘Are
you in favor of free liquor ?’
‘Well, I should smile,’ was the
ready reply. ‘I think this country
U the home of libertj, and I be
lieve every man should have a
right to drink what he pleases, ab
solutely free, and all legislation to
the contrary is sumptuary, and
therefore unconstitutional,’
‘Do jou want to be so record
ed!’
*Y6n bet yon sweet life.’
‘AH right; now I’ll take a glass
of champagne—the beet you’ve
got ta the bouse.’
It was set out to him and he
poured >t down and poured anoth
or in on top of it, and started off.
“Hold on,’ cried Ihe barkeeper,
•you owe me for that win#.’
‘No I don’t either, didn't you
say you believed in tree liquor,
and that anything to the contrary
is sumptuary, and therefore un
constitutional t And be walked
out, wiping bis mouth on bis coat
sleeve and leaving the saloon man
to ponder on theory and practice
law and faot.
HE MADE A SALE.
The efforts a Baxter street
olotbing d.aler will make to effect
a sale, and hi« sliding scale of
prices, may be inferred from the
experiences of a somewhat ehabi
by individual who entered that
ihoioughfara lately on business
intent. Ho was a medium-sized
man, who looked like a mechanic
or a laborer, and he turned into
the street from Franklin about 10
o omok in the morniug. He was
at onoe seized by the puller-in of
the Solomon establishment who
had him at the threshold before he
knew what was happening to him
Here Mr. Solomon seized him by
the coat lapel and assisted him
within, Where h# grasped bins by
the hand and greeted him with
much fervor.
“Good morning, my freni, good
morning,” he said, shaking tho
stranger’s hand with his own
right, while with the left be pnlied
down trousers, waists, and coats
from the shelves and spread thorn
before him. “Vas you looking for
a nice bair of bants? Vot you
t’ink of dose bants? Dose oostme
SB. I sell em to you for only four
dollars unda halluf. Here, Isaac!
Wrap dose bants up for dis shen.
tleman.”
“I don’t want to buy no pants,”
said the stranger.
“I sell you a coat,” cried Mr.
Solomon, seizing the man by the
sleeve as he turned toward the
door, “Here! / sell you a coat.
You vant a nice Brinoe Albert,
hey? Yot you tink of dot for a
Brince Albert? Feel dose lining 1
Look at dot buttons! Der light
ening strike my partner if dot vas
not made for Grover Cleveland!
S’help me gracious, I pay four'
teen dollars for dot coat. I let
you bas it foi $9. lam alvays
villing to help a honest yoank man
along. You vant to try it on
first? Isaac, Lelp der shentleman
onmit der coat.”
Before the stranger could pro
test or speak Mr. Solomon and
Isaac had divested him of his own
coat, and were attiring him in the
Prince Albert. Asaac nimbly out
toned up the garment, and Mr.
Solomon wae almost struck dumb
with admiration at the effect.
“Mine Gott,” he sighed approv
ingly. “If dot coat was cut for
you it don’t fit you better. Dot
silk facing is beautiful. Vill you
vear der coat avay or shall I wrap
it upt”
“I’ll give you $2,” said the
stranger
“Two dollars!” shrieked Mr
Solomon. “Do you vant to insult
me? Z/a, ha! I see. Dot vast a
little joke. Ha, ha! But 1 tell
you vot I do. I like your looks.
I sell you dot coat for eight dol'
lars and a halluf.”
“I’ll give you only $2 for it,”
said the stranger, begining to un
button it.
Mr. Solomon buttoned it up
again.
“Are you crazy?" he shrieked,
“You let dot bargain go! Dot fine*
Brinoe Albert coa t for only eight
dollars und a halluf! Sooner dan
I see you let dot chance gel pvay,
I let you has der goat a kwowter
of a dollar off I let dot go to you
for eight dollars and a kwowter.”
‘Two dollars,” said the stranger
stolidly.
“Veeping Rachael!” screamed
Mr. Solomon. “Do you vant to
see my vise in der boorbouse and
my children in der orphan asylum!
1 tell you vot Ido mit you. I sell
you dot coat for only tefen do’lars,
but don't 6a f a vort in der street.
Dose oder glotbing men dey kill
me if dey know it.”
“Two dollars, 1 ’ repeated the
Biranger with nonchalance.
“Gif me six dollars lor der coat,”
implored Mr. Solomon. “Vot has
I efer done to you dot yen try to
JOHN T. WILSON, Jk., Publisher
ruin me like doit
“Two dollars,” the stranger
said, wearily.
“Here,' eatd Mr. Solomou, “t
gif you der coat for live dollars
and a itaiiul, but I wouldn’t eel)
lit to my own tallier tor dot mon
ey. ”
“Two dollais,” repeated Uio
stranger again.
“Gif me nvo dollars,'' Mr. Solo
mon said m tones ul grieved res-,
ignatiou. “I never bad a man go
oui of my ..tore dot, lie didn’t buy
somediugs; so I ;et you nai der
coat lor uve dollars, nut I am
ruiued goinbieteiy. 1 '
“I Wo dollars,' remarked die
stranger, ovldly.
“lake ell dot coat!” screamed
Air. £>olomou in a ireuzy. “You
uuk )ou coiuo m litiio luiti iiui
some lun uut me, enl Veil, you
gif oud of my miaow. 1 dou’i nal
uo dealings mu such a tools like
you ere.”
“day, youug toiler,” observed
the stranger, coiuiug up very close
to Mr. doiouiou, and overlooking
lUe tact mat Inal lUdlVldual wan a
score of years ms senior, “I don't
want no siack out ol you, or I’li
tear the front oi tuer sliop out. i
don’t allow nobody but John L.
duillvau to call me a loot, an’ i d
just as leave tackle anybody in ye t
shop at once, as I’d ir.ckie you
alone, beef 1 didn’t come in line
shop; I was hauled in. I was
lookin' fur (he place where i
bought a suit las( year.”
“My trout,’ said Mr. doiouiou
in polite reiuoußUtuioe, “u vas
her# dot you bought dees sail last
year, it vas mo you bought dot
suit of.’-
“Naw, it w isn't, ' returned the
strauger. “It was a little short
man with a black mustache sold
me that suit.”
“A little short man mit a black
mustaches!’’ screamed Mr. bolo
inom '‘My Irent, what is your
name?’’
“M y name is Williams, replied
the stranger, in some surprise.
“Vheie do you lift" Mr. Solo
mon shrieked, in great excitement
“ Harlem. What’s the matter
with you?” returned the stranger.
“Oh, my frenl,” sobbed Mr. dol
omon, falling npou Mr. William*»
utek. “Oxouse dose tears! Dot
little short man nut a black mus
tache vas my brother. He died
only two veeks ago, and der las 1
yoits he said vas: ‘lf Mr. Villiams
of Harlem comes in der shop you
gif him a bargain.’ My front, my
brother’s dying w’shes are sacred,
I sell yon dot coat for $3.”
‘•I’ll give you $2,” >aid the uns
moved Mr. Williams,
“Take it,” said Mr. Solomon.
“I lose money on dot coat, but 1
sharge it to my brother's estate.
Gan I sell you some dings more?
Do you vant a pair of suspenders
to go mil der ooat?”
Mr. Williams came back with
the coat fifteen mitutes latter and
wanted his money back.
“Vot’s der matter?" inquired
Mr. Solomon, confident is his pow>
or, now that the tables were turned
“ There’s moths in the lining.
That’s what’s tha matter,” com
plained Mr. Williams.
“Suffering Mozish,” cried Mr.
Solomon. “Vot do you expect in
der linink of» two-dolia* coat*
hamming birds?”
And Mr. W illiams took the coat
home and ponred karosene oil on
it.—N. Y. San.
AN ABSENT MINDED BARBER
“Yes,” said the pioptietor of
an uptown barber shop- “Jim
was a good workman, but I had to
get rid of him. He was too ab
sent-minded and forgetful One
old fellow, with a head like a bill
iard ball, be never failed to ask if
he didn’t want a ebampoo. Anotb
er baldneaded old chap got mad
because Jim insisted upon selling
him a bottle of elixir that was wap
ranted to keep the hair from falL
ingout, He cut one man’s ear
nearly off while watohing s dog
fight ia the street. Jim didn’t
moan nothin’ wrong, bat, as I
said, he was absent minded.
When old Deacon Jones died the
family sent for a barber to ahave
1 him, and I told Jim to go up. It
I was that job that lost him his situ
alien. He did the wnfk *1! right
GWINNETT HEJLiLD
S—.
A WIDE-AWAKE OOtTXTT HVIHMi
JOB PRINTING
A SPECIAL FEATURE
Book work, legal blanks, letfess
t> ads, note heads, bill heads, past
t s, cards, envelops—everythin
i job printing line done ia aea
■tß d tasty style and on short a*>
ce. Prices low and work guar
anteed: Gall on us.
Untered at the I’utl Ofllea at haw
lenueville, as second class maU mat
ter.
—nobody ever found fault with
Juu a work— but when he had put
on the blushing touches and pull
ed the towel oil tbe poor old nea-t
cou ne turned round aud shouted
iJNezt 1” to that tue people Heard
turn a block away. Bo i told Jim
mat 1 guessed i d have to let hum
go. ’ — l\ . Y. bun.
till WAS RUDELY SMOOJUID,
A modest, quiet, benevolent*
looking old gentiemau was sitting
in the rotunda oi tbe Yremuut
House yesterday, when he heard a
strauger, seated near Uy, make the
remark that he believed he would
iry to see Sol Smith Russell ru ltoo
evening.
“itac use me, sir,’ said the old
gentleman to the strauger, “hut
iuui rs a wise doiuswiuatiou. Mr.
Hussell is one ol tue greatest earn
odruub ol the present time. 1
know ol uo actor who pcsseeees
suuu extraordinary histrionic tal
ents. **
“Oh lb undel etion," replied the
strauger, “I've seen Sol Smith
ita- seu once alere, and Learnt'
he had a new play I sort o* aeiaav
rated I’d dodge m an’ catch on.
.Uigniy peeri curp, that bei.“
■ji.ua he is as clever personally
as he is prolcssro/rahy,” said tha
old gentle nun, warming up. “His
iVevv Jbugluud training aad usSoor
uuous have gone a long way lo
win'd stimulating in ms bosom
muse virtues wmoh, alas 1 are too
iuirequeuiiy met with ic theatrical
ale nowadays. Aad pray, may l
usk Whore you saw him last?*’
“Well, the last time 1 seen Bel
replied the stranga r, “was at Mil
waukee about a year age. He Wa*
soilin’ in the Piuukiutuu boose be
hind three of the biggest jacka
ever showed down.’*
“1 don’t know that I undtrrtand
you.” said the old gentiemau;
what was the play t“
“Ihree oi a kind," said the stran
ger, “anil a mighty good play it
was, too.“
’Comedy?' asked the old gentlei
“Wall, ue—leastwise not fee
the rest of us fellows,’ said ttoe
strauger. “We kjnd o’ reckoned
as how it was tragedy when we
saw him rakin' in the pot-‘
‘Geeawhiliktns, 1 cried the eld
gen He man, as his white hair raised
up and his beuevolen? face stretch
ed out aLout a yard long, ‘yea
dou't mean to tell me the? my
hoy —that my Sol—plays cards?’
‘Your boy—your Soif‘ repeated
the strauger, “Say, look ahere,
stranger, who be you, auywayt*
‘Who am IT’ gasped the old
gentleman. ‘W ho, I’m Mi. Adams,
otherwise know as Oliver Optie,
and I’m Sol Smith Russell's fath
er-ui-law!*
LADIES COLUMN.
Bouoal fabrics of every sort are
exceedingly popular.
Si/k tape Dimming ia mads in
all the leading shades.
Soft light furs are much used
for bonnets and hats.
Necklets of silver, or Indian
workmanship, are curiously
wrought.
Gut crystal panels and orna
ments sparkle and Hash like diaa
mouds,
Dainty sultana vests or jackets
are mad 6of embroidered and
beaded velvet.
Clasps of wood are very richly
carved, while those of silver have
qaaint designs.
White woolen,tulle is* novely
for ball dresses; it is draped over
while or colored silk.
Tulle fronts have vermicelli de
signs run with silver, with tiny
pendaats of spur silver,
Some of the new dark velvets
have tiny brocade figures that
have almost the effect of jewels.
Stylish English walking jackets,
fitting the figure perfectly, are of
sealskin without trimming.
A brown brocaded boacal Z2us
»ian paletot is lined with fancy fur
and is bordeied with undyed
lynx. *
Some plash costumes are trim
med with mink, although this fur
i 6 not as fashionable here as it is
abroad.
High collars of colored satin are
edged with crepe lisse folds, eova
ering a string of Roman pearls ae
large as baas.
Drawn work is a novelty in
dress trimmihg. The threads are
drawn from the woo bn material
in the same manner aa in linen
and the pattern is made by differ*
e.ii stitches.
NO 44