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,:1B Noel T K. Winn.
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council.
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m«nl.v. A. J- Vaughan.
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every TLlrd Sunday.
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School. —S J Winn, Supt
Sunday at 3 p m
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month,
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Meets Friday night before the
Sunday in each month.
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Judge. Convenes on the Ist
in March and September.
p L. FRANK McDonald,
I. attorney at law.
Liwienceville, Ga.
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Hurt us Oidinary, ana Superior
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■unties.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
■ GAINESVILLE, CIA.
■ Will practice in this and adjoining
Breads, and the Supreme Court of the
Btate. Business intrusted to his care
Bill receive prompt attention.
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■ E. H. V. BRIAN T
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Logansville, Ga.
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Haro will receive prompt attention.
■Jolleetionß a specialty,
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VOL XVI.
GF.NEUAL NEWS.
In England a brewer cannot be
come a peer; but a peer cau become
a brewer.
In Chicago /ast year l, r >o per
sons were killed by being run over
by railroad cars.
The Athletic Club of Nashville,
Tenrv, has determined to erect a
gymnasium to cost $15,000.
Mr. Moody objects to church
fairs where any girl cau be kissed
for 25 cent. Is it the price that
he objects io“?
In is said that about 10X00,000
crowns yearly ore sent honiß lo
the fatherland by (Swedes dwelling
in .America.
The Washington Evening Star
says several of the best pokei
players in the country now occu
py seats m Congress.
Five thousand new physicians
will be graduated from tne 101 in«
corporaied medical colleges in the
United States this year.
An American living in Ko re,
Japan, has engaged thirty very
skillful Japanese ivory-carvers to
introduce the art into this country.
In one year the peoplb of this
country use about 150,000,000 of
steel pens. If placed in line, the
pens would reach from A’ew York
to Liverpool.
The horse that James Fisk be
strode years ago when be rode at
the head of the Ninth regiment in
New York died at an advanced
age a few days ago.
A Hindoo gentleman, who has
just published a book cf Europe
an travel, complains that when
ever he went oui in London the
smoke blackened his face.
A colored woman, Carrie Bragg,
is editor of the Virginia Lancet,
published iu Petersburg, Ya., the
only newspaper in the Union con
ducted by a colored woman.
The maximum of daily school
work in Prussia is seven lions for
children eleven ye.us of age, up to
nine hours for tbose sixteen years
and upward. The standard is
still higher in Denmark.
The State Agricultural Society
of New Jersey has petitieued the
Lewisla/ure against the passage of
bill allowing <h6 shooting of rob
ins in early summer. They say
the robin is die farmer’s friend
and should be protected.
The lowa Senate has passed a
bill limiting the time widen law
yers sUall occupy in addressing
courts and juries. It is calculated
!}o alleviate a great amount of mis
ery, though it is daring invasion of
the jigbt of free speech.
The Buake story season, as Sid
ney Smith said about an English
summer, has set in with its usual
severity. A farmer near Norwich,
N. ¥• claims that, while digging a
well the other day. he opened a
nest of sixtyethree lively black"
snakes in a bunch.
Mayor Harrison, of Chioago, hnv
ing suggested that the heads of
city depai tments ought to be aK
lowed to fix their own salaries, the
News of that city respones that ‘if
iliat privilege were allowed there
would be no money left in the
treasury for the aldermen-’
A Brooklyn man advertises for
“twenty r6d-keaded women—sala
ry $lO a week.’ The advertiser
runs au employment agency. Hf>
informed the auburn-capped appli
cams that he needed them for a
tried who had a museum, and who
thought that a baud of reiLhead.
ed w. men wonld ‘make tne show
go like a house a-fire.
Magdalen Miller, of Greenville,
Pa., is 90 years old, is in vigorous
health, and las chewed tobacco
for seyenty years. The lesson
conveyed by the record of tb<s fine
old lady is marred by the fact that
so many people who haxe chewed
tobacco have not lived to the age
of ninety. There seems to be no
moral to the case at all.
When the bill to pay a bounty
lor the capture of foxes came be*
fore the Pirginia House of Dele
gates, a few days ago, Mr. Terry;
of Che-lot to, moved to amend /he
bill by including the scalp of the
tobacco fly, Mr, Starke, of Rich
mond, asked that a cent premium
be paid for the scalp of an English
sparrow; Mr. Mayo wantkd three
cents for the crow, and Mr. Eiller,
wound up the amendment, by ask
ing tdat some notice be taken of
tbe’ta r bug.
AItKANSAW PINE WOODS.
‘Hello! Jliis is Mr. Johnson, I
suppose? Jones is my name.’
‘Waal, no, this ain’t Mister
Johnson. My name is ’Lige John
son.’
‘You live here, Mr. Johnson?’
‘Wall, I can’t say’s I live, but I
stays hyar.’
‘What will bo thochance to stay
all night with you?’
‘Purty bad, sur party bad- We
air mighty pore folks, an’got pore
ways, but es yon kin put up with
our fixiu’s, yon kin stay en wel
come, Jest git down en take out
yer bosses- Tarn ’em in that lot
thar, you 11 find sunt fodder on
you kin feed Hum to suit yerself.’
After feeding my taunt, I turn
ed toward the house. As I enter
ed, I was greeted by /he smell of
fried bacon, the yelp l ng of a man
gy hound, and the squalling of
two ar three children- The ‘iady
of /he house,’ a tall, angular,
hatchet-faced woman, made a low
courtesy, and pointing to a
broken-back chair, invited me to
•take a cheer by the fire-’ She
soon announced supper by saying
in a stage whisper: “ Lige, yer
supper’s reddyy.’
•Come, stranger, drtw up yer
cheer en take a seat at the table
en eat a snack. We han’t much,
but yet welcome. Ez the sayin’
is, ‘spose folks is got more ways,
en lich people is got mean uns.’
//ev tliiß cup? No, don’t pass it,
jest keep it.’
‘Chet’s the only chinie cup
we’ve got. ‘Lige he drinks his
coffee oaten a goard, he sez it
gives people Ihedespopsy tod’iuk
coffee oaten a clunio cup. But I
/ells him it’s bekase lie’s too mor
tal slingy .to buy more. Help
yerselt to sum uv that Hour-bread,
struu B or «n fiev sum uv it.-. 'f-j--’
Lige’d se/ thar eu let yer starve
before he’d ax yer, Lige, pass
them ‘lap-over pies,’ they air
mighty good es I do say it myself.
Hev more stranger, you haiu't
’miff to keep a sparrar alive. If
you won’t hev enny more, jest
push back yer cheer, en go to the
fire. Stranger, what mout be yer
name’/’
‘Jones.’
•Now yer not akin to them
Joneses over )>, Dog Holler, air
yer?’
‘No, I don’t think I am. lam
from Tennessee.’
‘h'rom Tennysee? Thet’s a
mighty fine country, hain’t it?’
‘Yes, it’s a fine country.’
‘We hev a mighty pore couuiry
hyar, stranger. I bTeve the good
Lorld hev sonl a cuss on this
country sense the war. The fan’
don’t nigh perduce like it us.er.
The peach trees hardly ever hev
eauy peaches on ’em. En the bees
don’t half full up ther stab’s wi.h
honey. Everything hez gone ter
rack en ruin, l tell ye. En yer
say yer from Tennysee? Did yer
ever hearn tell uv a feller by the
name uv Jake Hawkins up tliar?’
‘No, I thiuk not.’
‘Sake he moved up in tliet neck
uv woods, en 1 ’lowed tnebby you
lied seed b'm. Jake he ester court
me when I wuz a gurrel. I mind
the day when me en ‘Lige wus
merried. 1 hed prommust Jake
ter hev hint- Gentlemen, whew!
Jake cum thet evenin' en found I
hed took ‘Lige, wus mad ez a wet
hen. I never did sec jest sich a
matt man in all my born days. He
rs'red en he charged, en ’lowed he
would tek ‘old Betsy, thet wuz
his rifle gun, en shoct sumbudy’s
eyes oulen ther heads. When I
heard thet, I jest got riled up an 1
went out thar whar the men folks
wuz livin’ to git i/ake ter hush, en
I jest walked up ter him en shuck
my list in his face en told him *.er
git, en thet party quick, er I
would ketch him by the b’ar on
jirk him bald-headed. You aught
co hev‘ seed him hustle.
Stranger, you wan’t old enough
ter be in tbe war, wuz y el Well,
you escaped a power uv trouble, I
tell ye. One day endurin' the
war, I wuz settin* right byar'stag
in' ter the baby, when I heered a
man hollar out thar at the gate.
En when I went to the doie,
hope I may die, es tnar [ warn’t i
Jak Hawkins a settin’ astraddle j
u« the porest boss i ever seed. I
Yer yallar dorg sez 1, ‘what do
Our Oirn Section —We Labor For Its Advancement.
LAWRENCEVILLE GA March 16 1886
you want'? Miss Johnson,'sez he,
‘I m powerful hongry—l’m nearly
starved, on I want to gi/ a moath
ful uv vittles es you ken spar 1 it,’
Well, Jake,’ sez I, when I rico
member bow you cut up Jack
when 1 merried, hit makes mo feel
as if I oughten ter give you no
vittles. Hut then I got to think
in’ mebky he did uster love me, en
I give him a pone uv bread and a
piece uv middlin’ meat. ‘Thankee,
Miss Johnson,’ he sed ez he rid
off, ‘en es I kin help you at enny
time, you kin count on Jake Haw
kins ez doin’ his share,’
‘Well, sur, times got mighty
hard; en my vittles wuz gittin’
powerful low. ‘Lige wuz off in
the war a fightin,’ ea it wuz nip
en luck with me ter make tonguo
e« buckle meet, ez the sayin’ is
To make matters worse, Mandy—
we allers cal/ed her ‘Sis’—taken
sick, en 1 thronght she wuz goin’
ter die out. Tbet’s her A-settin’
thar in the eornder. Stranget, I
never ’spected to see thot gal live
ter hev bows. Boys is got to
cornin’ ter see her right rog’lar
now, uv Sundays. Well, sur, one
day I bed scraped up the last dus
tin’ uv meal outeu the meal chist,
en parched the last grain uv rye
ter make coffee; en says / tor my
self, es the good Loril don’t send
us some! him ter eat, me en my
youug mis is goners.’ Well, sur
I went to the door ter see es the
ash hopper wuz a ruunin,’ en I
hope 1 may never see the back o’
my he’d ag’in es I didn’t see Jake
Hawkins cum racin’ up the road>
astraddle uv the/ same ole pore
boss, en when I seed him, l sed
ter myself, ‘ef you air a cornin’ ar
ter somethin’ ter eat ag’in you’ll
miss it ‘his time, Mister Haw
kins.’
‘Well, suiy Jake rid up, he did,
ori bo sed, ‘Aiiuo i.-'iniann hvar is
a \ iece uv moat fur ye,’—l wuz to
takiu’ on surprise I couldn’ say
nu.hiu’ I thought ez mebby you
might be a needin’ sumthin’ ter
eat while Lige was gone, en I
hope you’ll take it fur the sake uv
the good times me en you hed
together when we wuz youngsters
a growin' up together. When
Jake sed that he turned en rid oft’,
he did, en I never hev set my two
eyes or him sense. But I hev
never furgot him. I hearn people
say he moved up into Tennysee.
Now, mis es you should ever see
Jake, en in yore travels tell him
you seed me, en I sed howdy; en
you kin tell him, es he’s got erry
boy ter send him down this way
a courtin.’ Tell him he kin hev
Mandy—that’s sis—fur the axin .
En tell him she’s the puniest gir
in Pike county, Alabama, es her
mor does say it her self. En tell
him—.’
Tlease excuse me, madam, for
interrupting you, but I am very
fired and if you will be kind
enough to show me .where I will
sleep, I believe 1 will go to bed.’
‘You'll lie right over thar. ffist
lake yer cheer erlong with you to
hang yer clothes on.’
1 1 was fortunate that I carried
my ‘cheer,’ for the bed was one of
the old*fashioned high water kind,
aud 1 had to get on the chair to
get into it. Aud while the garru
lous old woman sang to her baby,
I tell asleep, trusting that Jako
Hawkins or somebody elso would
bring something palpable for
breakfast.—Cuarles G. Williams
in Aakansaw Traveler,
———————
THE NORTHERN NEGRO.
The Philadelphia Times has
been reviewing the modern wrongs
of the negro, and we are pleased
to note that it exonerate the South
and brings home to its own sec
tion the truth relative to this race
over which so many crocodie tears
have been she it.
It is a remarkable fact, says the
times, that with nearly 20,000 cols
ored voters in Pennsylvania, gen
erally voting in solid plialanx for
the Republican party, there has
hot been a single representative
of tbe colored race appointed
elected or even nominated for a
respot sible or lucrative office in
theStat3. Even in this Republi
can Gibraltar of Philadelphia,
where election campaigners from
General Beaver up and down
pour out burning eloquence iu de
sense of the rights of the colored
brother, it required ateform Dem
ocrat mayor to elevate the colored
ci/izeu to the dignity of polices
man. While Philadelphia has a
number of colored men of con
spicuous intelligence, culture and
character, not one lias been so
much as /bought of for any office
of honor or profit, A few glib
tongued mercenaries are hired
from year to year to run tho ma
chine among the colored voters,
but who has ever proposed a Pur
vis or a Still for the Legislature
or for any other position that a
pale-faced politican wanted?
What a retort this would have
been if fired off just after the
speeches of Blaine, Sherman, Lo
gan <fc Cj.!
But not alone in Philadelphia is
the negro a fallen idol. Recently
in Pennsylvania, one of ihe race
was lined for shouting in church
—the negroe's invariable method
of expressing bis religious fervor
—and another was allowed to
starve and freeze within call of
comfortable and opulent homes.
/a Ohio recently a negro has bean
forced to go into the courts to es
tablish his common rights, and re.
ceutly also a negro who had pur
chased his ticket at full price was
kicked out of a Connecticut skat
ing rink because he was a negro.
To /his may be added the uncere
monious hustling that a negro re
ceived who applied to a Boston
hotel for lodging.
We have steadily opposed the
efforts to elevate the negro beyond
his natural level iD the South, bin
with the Republican North it is
different. The party should be
made to live up to its promises
and professions. It has promised
tho negro office, and declared an
inordinate love for him. If, as
the Timas states, the negro really
nuiuo «... •—< „, vmfT iri
every State in the North from
Cunnec/icut to the Mississippi,
then Ire should press his claims-
The campaign of 1888 is to be
fought out on /he alleged suppress
sion of the negto vote in the Sou in
Let the negro see to it that the
Republican North enters the fight
consistently. If the standard
adopted by Mr. Blaine is goo J,
then there should be a fair sprink
ling of negroes in Congress from
the Northern States, and upon
the bench. Let the Northern ne
gro look tc his interests more
carefully.—Mocon Telegraph.
A BABY’S DIARY.
2a. m.—Born a few minutes
ago. Yelled.
2:ls —Am washed. The fool
doctor told ’em I was a boy, just
as if that was something new.
Was whacked ever the lap ol a
dizzy old Christmas card of a
nurse, who pioceeded to tog me
out in some bandages and a quar*
ter of a mile of skirts, Kicked.
3:oo—Have slept somewhat*
The gorgeous old vulentino made
for me when I stirred, and turned
me into nineteen different posit
tions. Must be training me for
a contortionist. Yelled.
4:oo—Have worked the sound
wave for a straight hour. The
old man isn’t looking as happy as
he did. lam a high soprano, t
know, fori have just heard some
one in the fourth story swearing.
Old man has remarked that I’ll
depreciate property for four
blocks.
li 10.—Everybody is sitting r
round. The old man has gotten
even with the docter by giving
him one of his cigars. Thß doctor
will have to charge himself with a
pet scrip tion pretty soon.
4;11. — Told you so! The docter
has just asked the old man if he
ever matched one of his cigars a*
gainst a glue-factory. Yelled in
sympathy.
4; 15—The amiable old A’aster
memorial is working a bottle. She
saw me watching her, and said I
was a tootsy-wootsy. I wish I
were a shoesy.bootsay, Td tix her
for getting a corner on the family
supplies and stowing them away
in her stomach.
4 ; : 8 to s:lH—Yelled.
5;20 —The antique circus-pos
ter fed me on warm water and
whisky. She said I had the colic.
Will work the colic racket again.
6;00 —Wazzer mazzer wiz ev'-
bodyf Giddy old ebromo with
two heads wackin' me on the
back, Had colic twice.
9:oo—Woke up with the head
ache. The old man ought to
keep bed ei goods. Guess I’ll
yelled.
9:i5 -Am washed. Feel a little
rocky. T«,n minutes for refresh-
meats, then 1 intend to do the col
ic gag over again for a cocktail.
10;00—Old man is writing tel
egrams about me. He looks st
/ittle like a last year’s bird uea
Yelled.
12;0‘) —Have been asleep. Woke
up suddenly and saw /be venerable
night mare they’ve hired to groom
me working her jaws over enough
lunch to feod a shirt of section
hands. The old man oughtn't to
allow it. Wbat‘ll Ido When he
kick! out if this waste continues ?
The thought made mo so m:i<l that
I yelled.
5:00—I was put ou a pillow in a
chair a few miuutes ago, and a fool
girl came in and sat down on me.
Yelled.
5;20 —Colic. Fortunate results
sleepy.
8; 10.—Going to sleep for the
night. The giddy old obelisk is
in the chair .mooring, Room
touuds like a round-house: Migh
ty dull sort of a day. Vood-nighi
HE DANCED WITH MA.
‘Hi yee! Whoop ’em up!
Swing yer pardners! First lady
lead to the right 1 Gent follow
suit! Lady iu the center an’ ZUree
bauds ’round ! Ev’rybody dance !
Ailaman left! Right hand to pat li
ner and grand right left! Whoop
’em up —to ye seats!’
They were having a little “hoe
down" at Jack’s cabin.
‘A kind of a holiday blow-out,’
Jack himself said.
The cabin was in a gulch of one
of the Rockies, and the boys from
Camp Provision aud White Cake
Gulch and Saltillo Park had come
up with Iheir ‘gals’ to ‘jine in the
jubilee.’
One creaky old fiddle aad a one
legged fiddle on a greasy pine
table composed tbe orchestra.
Old Jack kept a hotel, end one
of his guests that night happened
to be a mild-mannered minister of
the Goepel, journeying in amission
ary sert of a way through the
••oouu/aius, honestly trying to
p ut,k
and nere was a whom uu u . .
«'A.
fore his hot; Bed gaze.
He had descended from his gar
ret chamber to warn tbe revolver*-
of their peril.
Jack met him at the stair door
‘Tliat’s right, stranger,’ he roar*
ed- ‘Come right down an’ shaKe
yer leg! Jine in! Be one of us ;
Here tna ! Git a parter ter this
gent!’
‘Sir, I—l— ’
‘Hurry up, raa! They’re rnakin’
up the next set. Drug Mrs. Betts
or Liz Johnson in here and give
’em a knock down to this gent*
He’s dytn’ to crack his heels to
gether in the mazy! Hump your
self, mi!’
i'fhey’re dancin’ three sets out
iu the kitchen an’ all the gals is
spoke fer,’ cried out ‘ma,’ a great,
red-faced, milkoeyed woman in a
yellow dress with green and bine
flounces and pink ribbons.
‘But I’ll taken turn with the
straager myself.’
‘Madam, I—l— ’
‘You don’t know how ? Laud
o’ rest! That don’t make a mi/e
o’ difference- Any fool kin dance
otd Dan ,'Tucker. I’ll slap you
right through easy as failin’ off'u
a log.’
‘No madam: I never yet indulg
ed in the practice of dancing, and
1 never will, and -’
‘What’s that yer givin’ ua?’
Jack asked, his faco aflame, while
‘ma’ stepped back with her fists
clinched. ‘Ye don’t dance eh!
You don'/ and you won’t oh ! No<
even with ma, a lady, be gosh,
from way back ? A lady which is
fit to adorn better serciety ’n what
you ever poked your nose it, by
jacks ! A lady which kin play on
the organ and wri/e po’try, be
gosh ! Aod you won’t dance with
her ?’
‘But, sir, I—l— ’
‘Not a word out’nyou; ma, grab
’im !’
Ma grabbed.
Jack pulled oat a revolver and
said ;
‘Hey you, fiddler 1 Saw out
Granny, Will Yer D>g Bite!’ the
fastest you ever 2.1 wed it out in
your life ! It’s goin’ to be danced
by a profesiunal. Ma, waltz him
out in the middle 0’ tbe floor, and
tlie first bread he makes to git
away I'll drap ’im!’
Jack raised his revolver.
Ma ‘.waltzed’ her trembling,
white faced partner out: the fiddler
•truck up Uis classical air named
JOHtf T. WILSON, Jr., Publisher
The other dancers stopped to see
the fun.
•Crack away, ma!’
There was a rush, » wild whirl
ing around and around, a mighty
bobbing straight up and down, a
jump, a whoop, a mad whirl, a fly
ing of thiu, black-robed legs in tlis
air, more whirling, bobbing, jump
ing and whoopin'*, and tho final
dropping of a limp, breathless
man into a chair, where he sat
staring wild’y around, gasping for
breath.
‘I teckon that feller won’t soon
forgit the time he danced with ma.’
said .lack, as his guest crawled up
stairs to bed.—Detroit Free Press-
EIGHT DAYS IN a COFFIN.
But a few poople in Louisville
kuow.Williaw Hancock, who has
bean living’on Market, between
Clay and Selby streets, for the
past fifteen years, A reporter yes
terday caught a glimpse of 7/au
cock, who has tad a reinarkabl ex
perience, and bears a mysterious
record iu the neighborhood in
which he lives. A neighbor who
pt of esses to know Hancock’s his
tory, yesterday told the reporter
the following ;
‘Si x toon y ears ag oW m. Han -
cock was a man of some means,
living then iu Kansas City He
was taken ill, aud day by day grew
rapidly worse. His ailment paz*
zled his physicians and finally b.s
life was despaired of, and a few
days afterwards he was pronounc
ed dead. An undertaker was no*
filled, and he prepared the body
tor burial. The funeral took
place, and the bodv was laid in>
the receiving vault, preparatory to
being placed in the ground. Eight
days afterward Ihe undertaker and
his assistants went to the cemeiary
and while in the act of moving the
coffin t.>;tha fresh dug gaove
were started by hearing it noise
inside the coffin. The lid was
i —an.l ilia msu were ranch
mystified on beholding
color of the supposed eorpe. A
physioian was summoned and an
electric battery was put to the
corpse. In a few minutes William
Hancoek was on his feet
after having been supposed to be
dead for eight days.
A remarkable particular of the
resuscitation was that Hancock al
ways preserved the blue color of
his skin. He was a tall, thin man,
with small whiskers, and so blue
was the skin all over his body that
it presented a peculiar and aston-,
ishing appearance. He never stir
red away from home except to vis
it a game at cards with a few
friends. He moved to Louisville
shortly after bis resuscitation,
which made him the subject of
much curiosity in Kansas City,
His story has never before ap
peared in print. “Blue Bill,” as
he is called by the few who know
him. is the father-in-law of John
Hemming, win was formerly a
civil engineer. Hemming was
distinguished more for his rapidi
ty in runaing through with a lorge
fortune than anything else. At
the age of twenty seven his fath
er died, leaving his only son $200,.
000. Two years afterward //em
mmg did not have money enough <
to buy a suit of clothes.
Hancock lives in strict seclusion
and rarely ever goes out now for
card n laying. Hs has but rarely
been seen upon the streets. He
lives with bis children, Mr. aud
Mrs. Hemming, on Market, eas,
of Clay,
During the time he lay in the
coffin he remembers nothing, and
was, so far as any signs given out,
dead He lay ill for some time,
and the only medicine he used was
mineral water of different kind, —
Louisville Commercial.
DIDN’T KNOW.
“Have you ever been drunk?”
•‘I don’t know’
‘Ever drink whisky ?’
‘Yea.’
‘Much at a time?’
‘Gallon or so,’
'Ever been walking along the
street and found the hill getting
steeper and steeper V
‘Yes.’
‘Ever lie down on the side Of
the hill to rest?’
‘Yes.’
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‘Yes,’
‘Ever been in a room when the
chairs were chasing each other all
around the apartment?’
‘Yes.’
‘Ever put the animated end of •
cigar in your month V
•Yes,’
‘Ever imagine that the whole
earth belonged to you?’
‘Yes.’
‘Ever wake up in a strange
placej without, knowing how yeu
got there?’
‘Yos.’
‘And you don t kuow whether
yen huve ever been drunk ?’
'Not exactly.’
‘Well, if you have never been
drunk, prohibition is a farce.’
ON LOST MOUNTAIN.
From Joel Chandler Harris,’’
stery, ‘Ttouble cn Lost Mountains
in trie January Century, is taken
this characteristic incident a of
mountain life in Noit hern Geor
gia.
On one occasion shortly after
the war Abe had gone to /he little
country town on business and had
been vexed into layiug rough
hands ou one of the prominent
citizens, who was a trifle under
the influence of liquor. A warrant
was issued and Dave McLendiin |
the sheriff of the county, a stumpy
little man, whose boldness and
prudence made him a terror to
criminals, was sent to serve it.
Abe who was on the lookout for
some such visitation, saw him
coming and prepared himself. He
stood in the doorway with his rifle
flung across his left arm.
‘Hold on thar, Dave 1’ he cried
as the latter came up. The sheriff
knowing his mon halted.
‘I hate to fling away my man
nets, Dave.’ he went on; ‘but folks
is gittin’ to be mighty fuuuy these
days, A man’s obleeged to s’arch
hts beat frie"* 1 ” *<« kin find
„„„ their which-awaya. XWo,
wliat sort of a docymect is you
goi ag'in me?'
‘I got a warrant, Abe,' said /he
sheriff, pleasantly.
‘VVsll. Dave, hit won’t fetch me,
said Abe.
‘Oh, yes l’ Baicl the sheriff. ‘Yes
it will, abe. I bin a usin’ these
kind er warrants a mighty long
time, and they fe/ches a feller
every whack.
•Now, I’ll tell yer what, Dave,’
said Abe, patting his rifle. ‘I got
a docyment here /hat’ll fetch you a
blame sight quicker’n your docys
ment’ll fetch me, an’ I tell you
right now, plain and flat, I hain’t
aegwiae to be drug and slapped
in jail.’
The sheriff leaned carelessly
aginst the rail fenoe in the attia
tuds of a man who is willing to
urgue an interesting question.
‘Well, I tell you howl feel about
it, Abe, you can shoot me, dot
you can't shoot the law, Bang
away at me an’ tbar‘s another war
rani after you. This yer one what
I‘m got don‘t ‘mount to shacks,
so «9 better fling on yer cost,
saddle yer horse an’ go right along
with me these ez neighborly ez
you please.’
‘Dave,* said Abk.‘ if you come
in at that gate you’re a goner.*
‘Well. Abe, 1 lowed you‘d kick;
I know what human nator on these
hillß is, an‘ so I thes axed some
er the boys to come along, Th6j
hain’t got no mo idea what I come
fer n the man in the moon; yit
they’d make a mighty peart posse.
To be shore, a great man like you
ain’t afoered to fac6 a little bit of
law.’
Abe Hightower hesitated a mo
ment, and then went into ahe
house. In a few minutes be issued
forth and went out to the gate
where the sheriff was. The faces
of the men were a study, Neither
betrayed any emotion nor alluded
to the warrant. The sheriff asked
after the ‘crap,’ and old Abe told
him it was *middlin’ peart.’ and
asked him to go into the house and
make himself at home until the
horse could be saddled. After
awhile the two rode away. Once
during the ride Abe said :
‘Pm mighty glad it wa.n’t that,
feller what ran ag’in you last fall
Dave.’
‘Why ’’ asked the sheriff.
‘Bekase I'd plugged him, certain
an' shore,' said Abe.
'Well,'said the sheriff, laughing.
‘I was a-wiahin mighty hard thee
about that time that the ‘tether
had get Teeted.'