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CIVIL (JOVKRNMKNT-
N. L. Hutchins, Judge Sop. Court.
D T Cain. Clerk Sup. Court,
J T Jjumkin. Ordinary.
W. P, Cosby, Sheri ft.
W. K. Brown, Treasurer.
D. W. Andrews, Tax Receiver.
J N Varner, Tax Collectorr
R. N. Muffeti, Surveyor.
J, H, Wilson, Coroner.
COUNTY COMMISSIONSKS.
J. 1) Spence, Chairman and Clerk, N
Beunett, j K Cloud, J. R Hop sins, An
drew (Jarner.
BOARD Of KDUCATION.
. K. Vmi . Sehool Comin issioDer. J.
D. Spanoe, AT- Puuiio, .A J. Weub
J R Noel T K. Winn.
MUNICIPAL-
John o.Smith, Mayor.
COUNCIL.
A L Moore K D Herrin S A Townley
W J Brown
ARRIVAL AND DRPARTDRS OP TRAIN
Arrives from .Suwannee, 5.50 m
Leaves lor dnwaunee, 7 &• m
ARRIVAL AND DRPARTURK 01 Allß.-
Jbppbrson—Arrives 12 m, departs
p. m., Monday and Tbursda
Traolrs Stork. Depart 6 a mar
ires 6 pm, Monday and T :rsday.
Looanvillr. Arrives 10 a m. de
parts 1 p m.—Daily.
Yillow RiVKR.--Arrives 12 m., de
parts 6a m„ Weinesday and Saturday
W. U. lIARVKY, P. m
CHURCHES
OAt Baptist- -Rev L R Barrett, pastor
vicetLL' * ceß eTet y .Sunday
—Rev E K. Aiken Pastor
Services eu Uie Ist and 2nd Sundays
Sunday School.— A T Pattillo, Supt
Kverry Sunday at J p in
PRKBBTTKRiAN--Rev F McClelland,
Pastor, Services ou 2nd, v tid 4tji Sundays
in each month,
Sunday School, —T It Powell. Supt
Every Sunday at 9.30 a in-
PRATKRNAL.
Lawrkncrvillr Masonic Lodo*. — J
D Spence W M., S A Hagood, S W,
w Winn J \V. Meets on first Tuesday
night ou or be to, e full moon in each
month.
Mt Vrrnon Chapter, No 39, R A
M—J D Spence. HP, A I J’attillo
Sec. Meets Ftiday night belore the
9rd Sunday in each month.
UWINNKTT SUPERIOa COURT — N. L.
Hutchins, Judge. Convenes ou the Ist
Monday iu March and .heptimber.
L. FRANK MCDONALD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Luuenceville, Ga.
Will practice In the Justice Coirte
Court of O diuary, and Superior
Couit of Uwinnet and surrounding
oouuties.
Collections a specialty. Office
i n the Ewing building, down stairs on
Grogan street.
Jfltchr M. Johnson
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Will praeties in this and adjoining
circuits, and the Supreme Court of the
tjtate. Casinese intrusted to his care
will receive prompt attention.
20-1 yl-
E. H. V. BRIANT
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Lcgansville, Ga.
Ail business eutrusted to bis
care will receive prompt attention.
Collections a specialty.
Apr.l4-ly
J, A, HOKT,
ATORNEY AT LAW.
NORCROSN. <iA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts
and courts of Ordinary of the coun
ties of Gwinnett aud Milton, and in
the ustices' court of both counties
Special and prompt attention given
to collecting.
Feb-9-'BB-6mo.
NO MORE EYE GL ASS*
Mithell’s
Eye Salve
ev taiu 3 ito. e ffcctive remedy so
SoreWeakE&lamedEys
Producing Long Sightedness, and B
stcring the sight of the old
Cares Tear Drops. Granula'ion,
Stye Tumors, tied Eves, Mat
ted Eye Lashes, «ud
producing qaick
relief and per
manenf
. cure
m equally efficacious when us d
in ether maladies, such as Ulcers, ha
vers, Sores, Tumors, Bures, Rheum
atism, Piles or wherever inflammation
exists, Mitchell’s Salve nay be used
to advantage.
I<i thji I T all diuggists at 25 cents
Firm.
Notice is htrebj that I have
associated with as partne s in
the mercantile business in Lawrencerille
my ions, W H Robinson and N 8.
Robinson, and the business wII here
after be conducted under the firm name
of
R N ROBINSON & SONS
We will keep in slock a full line o!
general merchandise and have added to
t be business Confections and Fancy
Hoods, aud will do a general barter bus
aem, and we offer our stock cbeap for
a ash or bartea. (jive us a trial
K N ROBINSON & SONS,
bawr-nceviilejlis
CO^ISUMPTiONt
T lavs » positive reined j for *»t« above dISMM; hr It*
%ee tboaeande of ease* of tba w'rrt ktnd and of lor.a
ftaodta* have b**a con i 1 mleed -c atcon* 1 g xnv faitS
«Iranlcur. that I wl l ##nd r wo BOTT4RS *BiB,
Bwwrbai’ with a TAl.rA:‘bl TBEATISfi 08 thia 4IMN
i#*~m
+ 44 THE 4 *
(tttttnndl Mm, gtoll.
•TYLER M. PEEPLES, Proprietor.
VOL XV.
WISE AND NEWSY
“Wedding guests'' are furnished
to order at an agency in Paris.
No less than $1,500,000 is nee 1-
ed finish the capitol at ,A bany.
The United States Government
issues 4,000 different books a year
At present M. Pasteur is the
sole manufacturer of th.,virus of
rabies-
A Belgian gun drummer says
that all the guns stnt out from
Liege are made by women.
Begonia is a new color for the
coming season. It resembles the
color of pale amethyst more than
anything alse.
To bore a well 1,5b0 feet in
depth cost Sont Toledo, O , $3.-
000, Gas whs met with at a little
more than 1,300 feet.
A Chicago church set an exam
ple of plain speaking when it re
recent censuied one of its mem
bers by j “general cantankerous
ness.'
There is a rare postage stamp
said to be worth S6OO to SBOO to
collectors. It is 'lie one issued by
the postmaster of Brattleboro, V*.,
in 1847, which was suppressed
after a few weeks.
Thomas Kay urges that boitSes
containing citraD of silver bo
slowed away in lifeboats. Seven
ounces of the citiate will turn
enough sea water into drinking
water to supi ly a man for a week.
Society in the grnnoan Islands
is growing distrt ssicgly conven
tional. A 1 w has been establish
ed lately forbi Iditig Sc a tors io
appear naked at any session utib
der penalty of SIOO tor each ap
pearance.
fTbile the morning son wis
moving up the blue arch the other
day some St. Louis people saw a
meteor as big and as blight as
the planet Jupiter pass north
ward, like a flaming cnnnoutball,
across the western sky.
Frank James, the former bans
dit, was in St. Lonis -Sunday, and
left flat evening, with hie wife,
for J/ilan, Tennessee. Mr. James
says that his case of consumption
is not bothering him very much.
Z/e says that he takes three drinks
oi whisky every day, and thinks
that he is in no danger of dying
very soon.
The Philadelphia Horticultural
Society has had a wonderful and
ittle known flower on exhibition
in its rooms. It is called the
moon-flower, and bloows in the
evening when, ftom a small bud,
comes a beautiful flower four
inches in diameter. The develop
ment requires less than an hour,
and the buds can be seen open
ing
Europe is covered with snow
from the Hebrides to the Arno-
On the continent the winier has
been the snowitst known for a
lung period. If is fourteen yeats
since London saw so much snow,
and there is great suffering ir con
scquence. It has stopped the
business of the cab drivers aud
the shoeblacks, and many other
industries.
It is related that during the
cruise of the sloop of war Cum
berland, in 1843, Commodore
Foote, then first lientensnt, con*
verted all the crew o temperance,
so that every man volnnlarily gave
up takiug his grog ration except
one hardened old toper, for whom
alone grog was piped, the grog
tub brought up and the rnm serv
ed twice a day.
A story is related ol a Connects
cut infantry company in the war
of the rebellion which is believed
to be without a parallel. Tie
company was recruited in the
town of Greenwich, bad no less
than twelve pairs of brothers ui
the ranks a here were, iu addi
tion, three instances, in whn:h
iatner and son stood side by and
three brother in-law.
The official organ of the city of
Palis contains the decree adopt
ing the three children ot Oihvier
Pam. The motive of that meas
ure, as set forth in the preamble,
is hat it is the duty of the city to
take under its protection the chil
dren of a man who resided for
many years in Paris, and who was
by hit acts aud wnttingß an ardent
servant es the Xtaaocraey.
A WESTERN GHOST STORY.
The following strangb story
comes from the city of Burling
ton, lowa, and is vouched tor by
responsible parties. There lives a
few miles out from Burlit gton, in
one of tne suburban towns, a
merchant called Jones, who, every
few mombs, goes ituo the city to
replenish his stock of goods.
Last May he wet to Burlington
for that purpose, and arriving late
iu the afternoon, went direct to
the hotel he was in the habit of
stopping at and registered He
told the c'erk he wanted his old
room, No, 34. and to have it all
ready, as he would not be in until
late, for he expected to visit (he
different stores, select his goods,
and then finish up so as to take
the morning train for home The
clerk told him he could have the
room, but wonld have for a bed
fellow a Methodist preacher, who
had already been assigned to that
room He replied that it made no
difference so he would leave he
door unlocked. He was out mak
ing his purchases and came in
very late—a few minuies after 12
o'clock, mid-night. TEe light
was turned down pretty low, and
he proceeded to undress and get
ready for bed. Hi- noticed that
bn bedfellow had nothing but a
sheet over him, and, although it
was Dot warm, it was not very
cold, and ha conc'uded that, if a
Methodist minister could stand it
with a sheet as his covering, he
could aud so he got in. He was
almost asleep when he heard his
door open, and, on looking up,
saw a young man aud ludy enter
and take seats on 'Lie opposite
side of the room. They had hard
ly entered when the young man
commenced to make loveto the
latest approved fashion—kissing
her, and telling her he would die
fur her, swim riveis and kill men.
Jones says it got so amusing
that be poked his bedfellow in the
ribs to awaken him that he might
enjoy the fun, thinking it would
be as amusiug to a preacher as to
any other mortal The preacher
showed no signs of awakening,
and the love-making went on
sfronger than ever. He punched
again aud again, bat failed to
awaken his friend, At last the
pair goi so far along that Jones
could stand it no longer, and, af
ter giving the preacher a kick in
the side, raised np and pulled the
sheet down off of bis face, so he
could see. As he pulled the sheet
down his hair stood on end and
his face bl nched with honor, for
there beside him lay the corpse of
a beautiful woman with dark Lair,
and wrapped in a shroud, aud a
silver dollar on each of Ler eyes.
When he recovered from the
first shock he sprang from bed,
and as he landed on the floor his
face was as white he the dead body
in the bed, and bis hair on end.
The young man went out of the
window, taking 'he sasn with him;
the woman, with a shriek, tell
fainting to the floor, /ones grabs
bed the ahair on which were his
clothes and started out. As he
opeued 'he door he suw bis mis
take, as the number was 24 in
stead of 34. A few steps, taken
in quick time, brought him to 34,
and, entering, he made sure that
his bedfellow this time was alive..
Ha didn't sleep, and rose earlv
and went down to breaktast.
Here, in the dining-room, (he
a hole conversation was a L out the
mysterious action of the corp-e.
Some whe entered a few minutes
after declated 'he body had never
moved,Jas the dollars wexes'ill on
here eyes. Others thought tie
pair had fallen asleep and ihe
man had a dream of a ghost, and
rushing through the window, bad
frightened the lady. Jobes never
said a word, and this is the first
time it has ever been told, and no
doubt ihe mystery will now be
cleaied up. *
It appea rs that the body of the
dead lady had been placed in No
-24, and the young man and young
lady were silting up with it. At
12 o'clock, midnight, as is ihe
custon out West, ihe watcher*
went down to the dining-room for
a lunch, which had been spread
for them, and daring their ab~
senee Jones, ui his harry, had «u-
Our Own Section — H e Labor For ltn Advancement.
LAWRENCEVILLE GrA February 9 1886
tered room No. 24 instead of 34,
und lud undressed and got m bed
before their return, VVhethei the
woman, who was one of the watch
ms evei married the man who
had baraly finished his declara
Hon of “being ready to die for
her,” etc., before he left her at the
sight of what he supposed to be
the dead woman rising, is not
known.
AS HAMEL OF HER.
In traveling, chance words and
incidents sometimes open to us
who'e volumes of frapedy For
ex., pit, bi'-e t! i ‘t
ments noted some yean ago by a
passenger ou a railway train in
the Wes', on which afrtal accidr n(
occurred. A little blonde womau
very much over-dressed, was lans
guidly nibbling cake and sipping
champagne ai her lunch in t) e
paiace-car, when her husband en
tered.
‘Daisy,’ he said, - vour mother
is getting on ihu train.’
•Oh, good gracious, where*’ she
exclamed, angrily.
He pointed to a tall, ungainly
woman in shabby cloth-s, going
into a second-class car.
Mlad I not butter bring her into
this car?’ h« said ‘There are
some rough fellows • that o».e.’
‘Does she know we are on the
train?’
‘No/
•Then never mind. I can’t in
troduco mamma to the Schallers,’
glancing at at me of her compan
ions
The train rushed on, and the
womau who had mauied out ol
poverty iiUo a fashionable set»
while she laughed and jested wi.h
her new friends, wore an uneasy
face that -bowed her terror lest
her moihei should disgrace her
Her husband said presently:
‘Your mother will want lunch,
Daisy. Suppose I'
‘Oh, lei nor alone! She always
takes a brown-paper parcel with
ehuncks of bread and Bologna
tau age. She likes that sort oi
thing.'
An hour or two later a jarring
crash resounding through the
cars. Women sbiieked, and men
rushed to the door as the train
stopped. A brakenian met them.
‘Keep your seats, gentlemen.
Broken rail only.’
‘Anpbodj hurt?’
‘Four or five people. One old
lady’s a-dyia’. I heard her callin
for her daughter that's on the
train: ’Maggy! J/aggy!’just now’
Take ketr, ma’am!’ as a little wo
man rushed past him.
The old lady lay oa a ctay-bank
Some men were holding her ten
derly enough. A physician, who
happened to be on the train,
kneeled beside her. Her daugh
ter threw herself dowL and drag
ged her heard upon her breast.
The woman's lips were opened,
and ber eyes started as if Beach
ing for some one. But she did
not call for ‘Maggy’ any more.
‘Do something!' cried her
daughter, wildly. Make her
speak to me! Mother! mother! it
is Maggy! Maggy!’
Madam,' said the doctor, ‘you
are too late!’—Youth’s Compan
ion.
A London paper asserts that
the highest velocity yet imparted
to a cannon ball is 1.626 feet per
second, equ il to a mile in 3:2 sec
onds The velocity of the eart h
a. tbeexuator, due to roti tior ou
its axis, is 1,000 miles per hour, or
a mile in 3:6 seconds; thus, if a
cannon bill were fifed due west,
and could mairtain .its initial ve»
ocity, it would neat the sun in its
apperaut journey around the
earth.
The litigation in w aich Myra
Clark Gaines spent the most of
her life did not end with her death.
By one will, dated,four days before
ber death, she bequeathed the
bulk of ber estate to her son’s
widow and to ber deceased daugb
ters husband—about SIOO,OOO
ercb. Another will was presented
by a Mrs. Evans, dated one day
before her death, giving one-third
of her estate to M r s. Evbds, and
the court admited the first to pro
bate, a decision which has been
confirmed by the Supreme Couit.
IN THE COUNTRY LAWYER’S
OFFICE.
He wanted justice. You could
see that in his eyes afar off. He
didn't want a lit ie bit of justice
weighed out iu gingerly manner
and done up in coarse btown pa
per, bu’ he wanted justice by the
car load and at wholesale rates.
He hitched bis old white horse j
and dilapidated buggy iu front of
the drug store, mountod the stairs
running up ou*side to the second
story, and his eyes brightened as
they rested on the tin sign on the
door: “George Boxom. Attor
ney a'-Law.’’ 2’he lawyer was
in. So weie a two dollar desk,
two fifteeu cent chaire, a huge cus
pidor, and a rusty stove
“Morning'”
“Morning.”
“I’m Jim White, sir. Live out
by Gray’s Corners. Bough; the
Tompkins’ larai, you know-’’
“Ah 1”
“3kinnt r jines farm with me.
His steers get into my oorn. I
wart d images, blithe laughs at
me. I turn my lioga into his ’la
ter pa tch. ”
‘Good ! I like a man of spunk.”
“Aud h( kills one of 'em.”
“What !’’
“He kills a iiog worth two dol
lars.”
“You don’t say! Well, 'hat
man ought to be able to under
stand that he dosen't own this
county What au outrage! Have
you demanded pay?’’
“Oh, yes, and he baid he'd like
to shoot me.’'
“Is4t possible? Why, lib’b a
dangerous man, very dangerous.’’
“I earue to ask you if—if—”
“Why; of course you have the
best kind of a case agiULst him,
and it is your duty to push it.”
“Yes, I want justice, but how—
bow much will—”
“Oh, the cost will be nothing.
Just leave me $5 a a retainer and
we’ll make Skinner sweat I hav
en't heard such an outroge for
years. He probably reasons that
you are ohickenbearted aid afraid
of him.”
“Well, he’ll find that the Whites
have as much grit as the Skin
ners,’
“And as much to law with?”
“You bet!’’
“That’s the talk! We’ll make
him a very sick man. Your case
appeals to me as a citizen as well
as a lawyer, k ow, we ll secure a
warrant as a starter.”
Skinner visits the other lawyer
in the same village, and the con.
versation is about the same. White
gets a warrant for Skinner, and
Skinner gets a warrant for White
Firet year—Two adjournments,
a disagreement, twenty-four days
10-t time, aud a cash expense of
SSB to eacn farmer.
Second y sar—-Three trials, one
disagreement, four adjourn ments,
one ippei, and a cash expense of
$l5O to e tch farmer. Time 'ost,
thirtyxgve days.
Third year—Two trials, 'wo ap
peal v, two decisions, and two
farms pass into lie hands of two
lawyers. N Y. Sun-
SOME SENSE
A five cent heart is often found
i r. a million dollar body.
The world deals good naturedly
with good natured people.
Tm future destiny of the child
is always Ihe work of the mother.
Mach of what passes for the
mi kof human kindness will not
bear skimming.
One’s own good breeding is the
Lest security against other peop'e’s
ill manners.
Good children are the hardest
crop to raise: it takes a kind home
and two steady heads.
To grow old in usefulness an J
honor is noble snd brings the
sweetest reward man can claim
Adversity is the trial of pr.aci
ple; w'thout it a man hardly,
knows whether he is honest or
not.
/n correcting older people than
yourselves, bear in mind that you
yourselves are growing old.
When you preach politeness
aud propriety to your chiidrrn. re
member to practise these virtues
I yourself.
A PLAGUE OP DOGS.
A Cincinnati, Ohio special says:
People living near Wade and
Denman streets, in the West end,
bavo for a week or iwo been sub
jeoted to singular annoyances On
lhat corner is a lumberyard oc
cupying marly a square, in which
stands an old building, the lower
s ory of which is used as a stable.
For a h'Dg time this spot has
been the home of vagrant dogs.
The news of this resort would
seem to have spread among the
city can’iies, for their liutni ers
nave constantly increased, parlic
ularlv during the cold spell, when
there seemed to be hundreds io
the vicinity The dogs are, of
course, always hungry, and, bav
ing beeu hunted by the bad bovs
of the neighborhood, are making
the place very dangerous for pass
era by In one eving. a day or so
ego, a dozen persons were bitten
one of whom, Mi-s J/cNutt, had
her leg horribly mutilate !. Bhe
was carried home and has been
)y;ng in a critical condition ever
since. The dogs take refuge un
der the barn and lumber piles
when pursued, and sneak out to
bite when unobsetved. Several
policeman visited the place Mon
day, bu: were unable to do any
Lhiug. The neighborhood is
thoroughly aroused and so fir as
women and children are concern
ed, completely terrnized. At
nighi a perfect pandemonium
reigns, and darkness is rna</ e
hedious by ibe growls and fights
of ibis singula' aggregation of an
imated vagrancy and cusseduess.
A movement is on foot to demol
ish die barn and lumber piles and
exterminate the vicious dogs, os
it is feared some of them may
have the rabies. The dogs might
oasily be poisoned, but in that
ea-e more or less would oie un
derneath the lumber, where their
bodiescould not gei at, and an un
bearable stench would be created.
A BOY WHO UNDERSTANDS
’EM.
The other morning u boy about
14 ye.ys of age knocked a' the
door of a bonne on Brush street
and asked the woman if she didn’t
want the snow cleaned off the
walk.
‘How much !’ she cautiously la
qnired.
‘Thirty cents.’
•I won’t pay it It you want to
do the work for ten cents you can
go ahead.'
Ho leaned on the handle of his
snow shovel anrt looked thought
ful, and she finally queried :
•Well, what do you say.’
‘lt’s just as that woman arcurd
the corner told ms,’ he replied. ‘I
shoveled off her enow and she
gave me 50 cents. I told her 1
was coming to ask yon, and she
said ’
T don ( knew her. W r hai bus
iness is it ohsrf’
‘Yes, but —’
‘What d;d she say V
‘She said I’d get left- She said
that any woman who wore a plush
sacque and p iss it off for a S3OO
sealskin would be mean enougli to
go out nights and shovel her own
enow.’
‘Boy !’ whispered t e woman as
she 'urned white clear around tta
nock, I want you to clean off the
snow. Wuen you are 'hrougb I’ll
gi»e you a silver dollar, and 1
want you (o go around and tell
that woman th it any one who
buys and wears dollar store jewel
ry and fourteen shilling nboes
Larin't got sense enough to fall off
a bob tailed car.’
In the old days it was the duty
of English coronets io holl in
quests n< t only on deaths, but on
tires, burglaries and robberies.
Inquests on fires are Bull held in
Northern lerland, and it is now
proposed to reintroduce into Lon
don the ancient ‘crowner’s quest
law in the matter of fires.
The pi pular toy on the boule
vaids of paris has been the Cri du
Blugare, a bit of copper tube, to
one end of which covered with
I parchment, a stri g is attacked^
; and when this is diawn through
tne finger the instrument emits a
I sharp sound, now resembling the
croaking of the raven and now ibe
1 sail of (he partridge.
JOHN T. WILSON, Jk., Publisher
BABY'S ENGLISH.
Many infant* talk at a surpriu
ingly early age. Instances have
been known of bubi. s yet in tbeir
swaddling clothes who would dig
course on all manner of topics. Tn
be snre, the drift of their remarks
had to be interpretted by a loud
mother, but no oue would dure
say that baby didn't talk.
1 myself hour 1 a year-old child
say a great many things the other
day. I was calling on a friend
wbesa son was just a year old.
“Can he talk any yet t”
‘•Talk!’’ exclaimed the fond
mother, witn an injured look. “1
should thiuk so I He can just
say everything, can't you dicksy
daddie t"
“800, boo, bwe. y e y«," screech
ed baby, growing black in the
face wt h the effort
“Hear him 1" cried the proud
mother. “Hu said, ‘I guess 1 can
talk 1"
7*his information surprised me
a little, but I disoreetly held my
peace.
“New tell ihe gentleman your
uaiue.’j said buoy’s mamma, coax>.
inglp.
“B to, boo, da. da, boo 1" “Char
les Edward Jones, jusi as plain as
anybody could say it, you little
sweet !” cried Ihe triumphant
mother.
My surprise increased.
“Now t 11 mamma whom you
like best in all the world *’
“800, boo, bwe, da. da.”
“//ovv cunning 1” I exclaim*
‘Du, da, tneaus ‘papa,’ don't it 1”
“Mercy, no ! Didn’t you hear
the little “blessing *»y iLwt. Lm likaU
the ge.itieman best. //e inuuut
you.
lam flattered, of course, and
amazed at my own stupidity. I
thought i wus familiar with t(ye
“king's Euglish," but the English
of this l'ttle kia r is new to me.
“Now say ‘Slug a song o’ gixi*
pence’for the gentleman.”
“Yee, yee, boo, bae, bo,” sputiers
baby,
“O nc, deary,” says mamma, re
provingly. “That was ‘Little Bo
Peep.’ Now say the other.
‘Zee, zee, zee, boo, bae, bee l”
“That's it, that's itl You bless
ed old boy I 1 knew you could
say itl And to think the gentle'
man asked if you could talk any
yet ! I guess he won’t ask it
aga n.”
I guess not, too. Eithei that
baby or I cannot speak the A'ng*
dsh language in its purity, and f
am adverse to displaying my jros,
sible ignorance.—Philadelphia
Press*
UNDER A SNOW SLIDE.
Another snewslide horror is re
ported from the southwestern
part of California. Leonard bur
ton, who has been at Work on the
Sliver Lake basin in the La P atte
mountains, teacnad Durango lasi
night with u frightful account of
a slide which wrecked a cabin at
tbs Delight mine on Tuesday last,
ffhilehe was sitting iu tne cabin
witn Henry Thomas, his partner
a slide from the mountains sud
denly biruck the cabin and de
molished it. Sutton says he was
carried borne distance, and buried
fifteen feet under the snow. He
managed to dig uiuibelf out ana
set about to find Thomas, wau
was buried about ten teet deep,
but the man s leg was broken, and
he was otherwise so badly injur
ed that he could not sit up.
Home- begged Sutton to ki ] l htui
and thus put him out of his mis
ery. Sutton refused to kill him,
and (hen Thomas begged him m
leave at once, and save himself.
Thinking Thomas could not live
more than a few minutes, he filial
ly consented to leave him to his
fate. Before bis departure,
Thomas requested nim to return
ir> the spr ng and bury his body
and send his money and other
property to his sister, Miss Han
nah Thomas, who resides in New
York.
Last June Jim Richardson, a
| barber in Roma, was bitten on
the hand by a dog supposed to be
mad. On last Friday be died
'from hydrophobia, at least acor
-1 oner s jury said so.
GWINNETT HEItALD.
K WIDE AWAKE COUNTY NKWSPAVEB
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Book work, legal blanks, letter
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in jab printing line done in neat
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Entered at the Post Office at Law.
renueville, os second class mail mat
ter.
NO 50
A. iVestchesier farmer was stand
mg it his gate the other day when
a woary-looking tramp came toil
ing up the road, and hailed and
asked:
‘ls yonr name B;mi one!’
‘Yes, sir-’
‘And you wife b. fort marriage,
was a—a —t”
•Oue of he Black gi r ls, sir.’
‘And her first name was Mary /’
‘No, sir. Her name was and is
Elizibeth.’
‘. li! So it is. But fourteen
years is a long time, How is my
sib/c E lizabetu V
‘Are you her long-lost broth*,
er T*
‘I am.’
‘The one who went to Ausira.
flat’
‘The very same Perhaps you
have lieu/d her speak of mt •’
‘Yes, 1 nave, She bus often
spoke of you ’
‘AI, the ueur girl 1 Sue will be
so glad to see And you,
my uubio brother m-iaw, let us
shake nan t is.’
t hey snook*
T—l lrud thought of sioppiug
with you lor —lor the wtuier,'oo
•erved me way-farer, with au anx
ious look.
‘Y-e-s, I presume so,’ replied
the farmer.
‘and .. y dear sister has spoken
of me T'
‘She lias. She wus expecting
you this very day, and she asked
me to siund at the gate and watch
for you.’
‘lt is so kind of you.’
'And i am uow about to give
you the all firdest pouudiug on
old liar of a trumi* »v«r « .t. J b«v’o
what your dear sister recommends.’
‘l—l believe I’m mistaken I’
gasped the trump. ‘lt must be
the next house I’
‘0 no; this is the house, und
he;e goes for you I’
When the tramp finally got
away leaving tn» ground covered
with shoe-pegs, bv Uous, old huts,
crusts of bread and pieces of cold
meat, he palled at a Hsfe distance
and shouted buck:
‘ls my game an oJd one in thi 8
locality f'
‘Well, bom* one tries it ou me
every day.’ * •' ~ ■'.-alt?
“All right. I’il try the n ext
1100““ wi(ti a receipt to make fire
proof paint witn soft soap sad
brick dust. Much obliued for
yonr posting mo, and give my
love to Eibby deur.’
110 W KEENE MADE LI Is MON
EY FLY. ■- ,J
1 see by the papers that James*
Keene, the author ot mare cor
ners in grain than there are an
gels in geometry, has hone broke
at lasi Keene rods the high
horse for a good many years, lav -
ished his substance like a lord and
never looked beyond the tip of hie
nose. For a long time he mam
iaiucd out of his private purse a
ciuh in New York for the eu.er
ittiuintut of fi lends. The steward
of it once told me that iu aii ins
emb experience he uevar saw
{kings fly as tney uni in that
bouse. The guests were admit, ad
Ur card given oy Keene. Nobody
wan adowed to a cent once
be crossed the thresoid.. The
cigars were of ihe finest brand,
ilia wiuea ot lUe choicest ViUUge
and U>u liquors of the oldest label.
Keene w.:., ibafti a good part of
ha time to diapojlse iue Hospitali
ties of his house. Liue hours
nud deep potations were the rule
w lll 'o ihe tieak iasw. Now tuo
reckless spendthrift uas a haM
lime f it scraping togetuer
enough to buy a eaviar sauiwioh
«uJ a carafe of brandy.
The trial jusfioe in a Souk.Caro
Ima county was called on to de
tide fi case between two citizens
of eapual respectability. Theevi- *
deuce was ao uf* equally balanced
After argument by the attorneys
the trial justice said : *T sit hero
both as judge aud jury. As jury
1 fail to agree, as judge i
a new (rial, and itffc so ordered.’
Adam the goodliest man of
uiec since born,' stift could not lie
cu led exactlp enviable, for when
be ii led the ground m the dewy
twilight and caught i sharp totjoh
us rheumatism; he bad uo wfcva
bon Oil for his cure, and ao tw«u
ty five cents to try it.
A contract has been let for (he
construction of three lycmatcries
m ihe Pt> re la Obaise r*metery for
the incineration of th« debris of
1,000 subjects annually dissected
iin the hospitals of Paris. The
I price is $43,000.