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IThc ‘SBiffiSrinr JJranrp, A TVEEKLT PAPER, Published Wednesday, Watkinsville. Cconee Co., Georgia. W. Gr. SULLIVAN, EDITOR |\D PROPRIETOR ilSRMS: One year, in a Ivance. .SI 00 Six months............... 60 WAIFS AND WHIMS. The battle is not to the strong alone; sometimes the wife gets" the best of the fight. The next move of the Nihilists will be to get the Czar to fool around a threshing machine. “ I’m a moderate drinker ” asserted an old toper: “I only take one drink at a time.” * The Boston Post says the way to re¬ tain your footing when a goat charges is to sit down. “Bare and for bare,” as the bald headed, man said,. when he bought a front seat for the Black Crook. Fabf.r has mad» great deal of money f rom lead pencils ; which is the difference between Faber and reporters. Ex-Marshal Bazaine is breeding American hogs in Europe. A great have many American breeding. hogs that go to Europe no A banjo-playing craze has attacked Boston, and everybody is learning to play. This is probably the reaction from too much Greek. The injjn who built him a house out his poker winnings pays that his resi¬ dence was built on a “ bluff.” It is saiifthaf there are One hundred different ways of cooking onions, but, unfortunately, there is only one way of smelling them. An intelligent compositor says: “A horse that is divided against itself can¬ not stand.” We should say so—unless the horse is a mule. Ip is a noticeable faGt that salt cod¬ fish and herring always are a prominent feature in a bar-tfender’s spread of a free lunch. The teacher of a Sunday-school class inquired into if any one could tell who went the ark -with the animals. A little fellow said. “ P. T. Barnum,” The man who will wait two hours for his turn ill the barber’s chair, will get mad and thrash and • scold if a shirt button isn’t sewed on in just ten sec¬ onds. , A LECTURER on optics remarked, “ Let any and man he will gaze closely himself into his wife’s eye ceedingly small see looking so ex¬ laughter.] that”-[Shouts of Mabathon young man nas com ‘ me mgfed exercises in drawing. He sits do Wn by his. girl and draw# her head over on his shoulder. De Lessei'3 estimates that the Brook¬ lyn bridge will last for six centuries. We shall watch that bridge with some curiosity —Boston to Transcript. see just how near he hits it. Jones— “ Two lemons a day! Mon¬ strous! These doctors always overijp it! A small piece of lemon, soaked in hot water and sugar, and anything else you like, is all you want.” Now that diamonds ,ry>n be made by the proceesaa of chemistry, it will be harder than ever to distinguish the common people frpm editors. A Sunday-school scholar was re¬ quested to learn “Matthew xv., 13 and 14,” when he astonished the teacher by jumping “Can’t up, do::e; with the exclamation: be ’taint in the blocks!” liquor PitoFEsSiSR—“ that is Wih-fbu lighter mention some than water?” J unior—“ Alcohol.” Professor — “Can you mention any other with which ypu are familiar?” Juniar immediately searches for a club. HeaeseS at Portland, Me., are cut bias and trimmed with white satin and gold lace .-—York The (hnirfrercial Ad¬ vertiser. fashion is not peculiar to Portland. Hearses are cut by us every¬ where, as long as possible. But they are never sat in. It is curious to note how a flaming m j w silk handkerchief will stiuggle up from the deepest breast-pocket into the light of day and ltoger there, while the soiled cotton one skulks at the bottom, making into only now and then a hastv sally the air. Annette wishes to know how an earthquake feels. Let her start a paper and write up several prominent, muscu¬ lar citizens, in free lance style, and she will have ve as as thorough moroug a demonstration as can be given of th e matter. Mrs. Partington— “Well, I declare! Here’s an ingenuous youDg man who has invented an arrangement by which the deaf can see and' the blind talk. Such talons as his should be reorganized by a statue.” A -y *ullow fellow stopped stopped at at a a hotel notenn in jLeaa- Lead ville and the landlord charged charged him him $7 $7 a day mistake?” for five “ days. No,” “ Didn’t"you make a said the landlord. “Yes, you did ; you thought you got all the money I had, but you are mistaken. I have a whole purse full in another pocket.” ,,...... tjneen „ ,, Soiled , at Last. . [Vorrittown iiiraid.] Mr. Piute went home from the the “ Lodge fifteen ” the other night, and tackied “ ” puzzle. He wrestled with the thirty blocks—at least he thought there were thirty of them, he being’to splendid condition to “see double” and to about an hour’and a half had the Then thing solved to his own satisfaction, be got pen, paper, and ink, and attempted to write out the solution as follows:' Shove 4 down, push 1 over, carom on the 14, swing the right bower, drag keno out tlie 6, keep black, the 10 in the king row, on deal again, run the 5 from first ba«e, move 3 to the Southwest of 15 white to play and mate in twelve moves, P to K B4, QR to K, move 13-14- 15 a little Northeasterly, R other to Kt5ch, then set ’em up on the alley, throw double fi’s, roquet the 9, take the 7 on fhe fly, lead king, then R to R7, rake in the pot, and mov—mov—move —” His wife, becoming alarmed at his long absence, eame down stairs Jat 2 a. m., and found him under the table, But he had “ done it.” The late.-t puzcle is this: Hard........ - - Eggs Boiled....... _____ - - Man The trick is to get the eggs inside the man without Press. breaking the trait Free Mbs. Swoons’ husband started to write bis name Mr. Hddons-Scott, but •he wouldn't have ft, The Watkinsville Advance. VOLUME I. The Salvation Army. The London correspondent of the Baltimore Sun thus describes the per sonnet and objects of this now famous band: “About these days, wind and weather permitting, your shores will be blessed, even in disguise, by the landing of the Commander in Chief, his staff, his esftort, and his daughters of the regiment of “ the Salvation Army.” What was born and cradled in England will grow in America, and in future days we shall be branded with the par¬ entage of a new ‘ ism.’ I have before now shown that the English ‘isms ’ people transplanted denounced in America aft by Engtish as. “horrid. Yaukee- enough lsms.” Goodness knows we have of native eccentricities without any foreign ones, be they of the “ Salvation Army,” or the “ Hoiy Land Navy.” We may adopt and fondle our own native organizations, but we should give to Csesar the things of Cse?ar. Have yttu white any corporal remote ” idea does? of what a “dashing figure Can you to yourself a blushing celestial viv lowlier at the canteen of the encampment of this army? The white dorporal may call his company roll, the blooming maiden stout pedals of citoiimscribed fill skirts and of bliss— -but may up your To clip is that Salvation? some it may be. Oh felitove Tuesday when pancakes were the evidences of an ab¬ dominal ^Christianity and muscular piety, wber#domes I took a sjroll'in the East End, mark the jumping off part of London. There I had the grateful opportunity of being brought vis-a Army. vis with a virgin of the Salvation She was clad in a meek and evangeli¬ cally humble india-rubber overcoat with an ample hood; and looked for all the' world just like pious pictures I have seen in Russia. I learned that her sions.” adopted name was “ Margery of Mis¬ I rather iil^e tlieTheaMiteration and surely Margery is intensely pretty. dued “ Y'ougo to America?” I ask in a sub¬ and seductive tone. “ In course I do,” says Margery. “ May I ask to what part?” “Well, it don’t make much difference so long as it is New York,” said the geograpically informed Mar¬ gery of Missions. “To save souls?” quoth I, in a sort of impediment ’em!” Heaps shy¬ ness. “ Oh, Think yes; heaps of of ’em! of that, O Gothamite godly people! “Heaps had of ’em!” a'most “What is patent-*—I your process?”—1 also timidly asked. “ Well, said; you see, Salvationists as we are, believe in pointing out, proving practically the the sinfulness of sin, the wickedness of wicked; we exemplify this, show it up, and then in a moment ask the sinner and the wicked one -where he is or how she is!” “ You catch them in the act fla¬ grante deliclu f &o to speak, and then res¬ cue them from the enemy red-hot?” “ Well, I do catch not know them exactly sinners, what and you mean ; we as at once recruit them into our ranks, and* they become better—and that’s why we call ourselves the salvation army!” In self-defence I piously whispered in her ear, “.Young woman, go West!” Site has gone where it is good for her to go. And when the rising, or for that mat¬ ter the sinking generation, shall be found in sin, phalanx let Margery be there, and the en¬ tire of “ The Salvation Army 1” The home of the brave and the land of the lree has not yet instituted a prohibi tory tax on saints. Free trade in piety is a boon that the Constitution or the Custom House dare not tamper with, Ians Deo. Minister [Virginia (Xev.j chronicle;! An interesting little story floated up from Reno on this morning’s train, Last evening, shortly after 8 o’clock, a stylishly-dressed hanging young his man, with called a young woman on arm, at the residence of one of the ministers of the place, and said he wanted the services of a clergyman to unite him in marriage to the youDg lady. He did not volunteer any information as to where himself or companion came from, He produced bis license perform and the requested the clergyman to ceremony as simply and as quickly as possible, Both were evidently of legal age, and the parson at once tied the knot, calling in the members When of his pair own family made as witnesses. the were husband and wife, the groom drew a $50 'greenback and from directed a the flat-looking minister pocket-book, take $10 from that.” His to “ reverence with many thanks, took the biil, and after diligent search, hunted up $40 in coto, which he gave to the bride groom, who politely wished the minister and his family good evening, and blushing and walked off with his timid bride. This morning the parson was making a tour of the hotels and using somewhat worldly language. He could find the happy pair marriage nowhere, and is convinced that the was a mere trick to pass a $50 greenback on him. The bill was and bogus, bride have and as both the know bridegroom whither, does look gone if none discovered this as some genius had method of “ shoving the queer.” The awful sinfulness of the device does not forbid the reflection that an enterprising young man and woman couid soon grow hundred rich by miles traveling and marrying every or so. -» •— - - The Strongest Man in the World. Reno, Nev.,_ T claims . to possess the strongest man in the world, in the per *°® °* Angelo Caidela, an Italian of thirty-five to be years. double, His atad spinal his bones column and seems joints are all very large. He has re peatedly his right lifted hand with the weighing third from finger of men one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds, hollow by placing his finger under the of one of their feet and thus carrying them around a room. He can strike with his fist a blow with a power of five hundred pounds, as measured on a register, and when a couple of big Irishmen attacked him the other day, he seized one in each hand and knocked them together until they were insensible and half dead. “ You can get a barrel of oil off any carpet by applying buctwbeab” Aha, that’s good! No more kerosene bills to pay.— Danbury New*. WATK’tNSVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 21, 1880. A \von» V.S STORY. BY KULA LEE. “ ’Tis only a tenant house yonder, The poorest of its kind. ” I was likening there at the window, While John threw hack the blind. Hark! ’tis a fireman’s trumpet’. The engines rattle and lly, While over the crisp and shining snow The peopje come hurrying by. Tbo le.-ijied from sill to sill, Wtylc Ko$r Kissing the roof in glee, far above the surging crowd An' open window I see. " Ob, God! ’tis a child, leaning far out With its face unturned to the sky. fiee! it has folded its tiny hands; For the love uf inerdy,' liy 1” As I turned to gaze, far up the side Of that blazing, tottering wall Was a form I knew; it must be John Far up beyond recall! Up, still upward; the flames seemed wild And laughed iu their maddest way, As That if they dared ihockc<l take the their breve, strong' hands to prey. Hushed and.spollboUnd the wondeiing throng; ? Seembd held by a mighty hand, * $ As if turned to stone the motley group, The By some euchanter’s wand. Were stars above, and the flames below, While the gleaming angel of athwart death the sky: Wus with sable wing hovering strangiy nigh. Wttn bated breath and eyes aflame, And my heart just standing still, Ami'leavelhe sniokitig sill!*’ chM Then all was i>ittuk.,the wild, weird sceue The crowd in asteSdy stream. You know the rest, how John camo back With only a blistered hand, And I to-day am the happiest wife In all this blessed land. The child? ah, yes! ’tis a beauty! Ah A ! poor how widow’s little only know son $ we what love Is worth Till death comes near to S-Itetroil one. i u "l Free, JVcw. . A LEAP-YEAR PROPOSAL, Fray, gentle being, give me heed, As kneeling humbly by thy side, With lacerated heart I plead That I may be thy blushing bride. I long—I wildly long to press Thee to my heart—I know ’tisrash! I pine to print a fond caress Upon tliy neck and mild mustache. Why, Why toll turn me away why, so thineeyelfd^rop; pettishly; ** Say, Thy why with tierce, tumultuous flop, bosom heaves coqnettishly ? I know that thou art young and fajr But As thou tiny buds in early spring— shall be my constant cares— Thou frail and fragile little thing! I’ll sew thy shirts and darn thy hose, I’ll TJiy victuals cook, thy fires will light— Each grease thy graceful Grecian nose So surely snowy, thou’lt croupy, tell wintry night, not me nay And bid me, dying, quit thy side — Brace uK pull down your vest and say That I may be thy blushing bride. , . —Deudgood Pioneer. T1VO VIEWS. BY LEE O. HARRIS. ’Twixt springtime beauty and autumn dews A burning summer must, intervene. Tbe morning flies and the night pursues, But there’s always a day of toil between. * ’Twixt childhood’s laughter and ago’s tears Lies manhood’s summer of sweat and pain. *The dawn of youth and the night of yeaw Are cleft by the struggles of heart and brain. ii. ’Twixt s pringtime flower and autumn fruit A ripening summer must intervene. The moon may fly hut the night’s pursuit Shall sweeten the day that lies between. ’Twixt childhood's promise and age, full blest, There lies the leneth of u golden chain. The Are dawn linked of toil by the and pleasures the bight of rest of heart and brain. —Kokortxo Tribune. A SISTER’S VENGEANCE. My Experience don a« nn Accomplice In I*on With a Murdered Woman. '“f cupant of the smoking-room of a “ Lit erarv and Artistic Club” which faces the Thames. I flung fresh coal on the gloomy embers, blaze and stirred them till they sent up a of light that drove and the ghosts then picked out of (he shadowy corners, the table, up dawdle a paper haphazard it till from to over the waiter being wandered lighted the in gas, or some human It American to keep me Some company, was the an paper. visi tor to club had left it behind him accidentally. I turned the pages list lessly, until arrested suddenly by my atten tion was a paragraph headed “Extraordinary Crime.” ft was the lady story from of its the robbery The of a whole body of a grave. affair was shrouded in mystery. On the 14th of the month there died in an Englishman American city traveling the beautiful wife of an the which foy contained pleasure. In same paper this paragraph I found the heading of “ Cradle, Altar, Tomb.” the following: “ On the 14th tost., in this city, Dru silla, the beloved wife of Blissett Emer ton, four.” of London, England, aged twenty In due course the poor lady was buried, and during the night the the church-yard was No entered and coffin carried away. motive is suggested in this American paper for the crime, The husband is interviewed at his hotel. He is inconsolable for the loss of his beautiful young wife—mad with, min gled of her rage remains. and horror He at toils the his desecration story to the reporter. He had only been mar ried a few months. Thev were traveling for pleasure in America’. His poor wife caught a cold a fortnight since, returu ing from the theater. He had medical advice, but the cold increased and in flammation of the lungs set in, and soon all was over. He buries his bead in his hands and weeps, and the reporter leaves him alone with his sacred sorrow, The by the account firelight in the concludes paper I thus: was reading “IJp the to present no clue to this mysterious affair has been obtained.” I glanced at the date of the paper, and flung it down jn disgust. It was two years oid. I had grown interested in the affair, and here it was two years old already, and probably forgotten. ended? Where The should shadows I find out how it had grown darker ana darker; the fitful flare of the fire had died down into a j j dull red being glow, lighted. and the I riverside flung myself lamps ! were back into the casy-chair, and thrust my : hands into my pockets, half closer! m y eye*. Suddenly I was aware that I was n ot alone in the room. From the darkest It corner glided there slowly was a long black ; figure. had placed toward me. f j I the paper where I had found it, on the table, by my side. The figure 1 1 seemed to he looking for something. It passed its hands over the tables and ently peered it down among table the papers. elbow. Pres¬ came to the at my In the gloom, as 1 sat in the deep arm¬ chair, 1 believe I was almost invisible. and, The figure came right hand, up passed to me, reaching out his it over my table. Presently it Seized some-, thing, and gilded away the* with it to the window, on which lamps without flung a flicker of light. The n I saw that it was a man, and that in his hand he held the American paper in which 1 had just read the account of a mys¬ terious crime. He glanced sounded at it, and muttered something that like, “ How careless of me!” then folded the paper, thrust it into his breast pocket, and walked out of the room, Hardly had the door closed behind him when the attendant came in with lights. “ Who is that gentleman who has just gone out?’' I said. * “Don’t know his naihe, sir. Ain’t seen him here often.” I remembered that at this club every member had to sign his name in a daily book kept down in the hall for that purpose. I ran stairs, and looked 'at the open leaf to see if that would aflord me any clue. The first name that caught my eye was that of Blissett Emerton. No wonder the figure i had seen in the darkness had been so uuxioua to had happened. pap 7- rr He T„A had been 0nce - in W L the at room He had reading, laid the fancying downs himself alone. paper thought¬ lessly and dropp a oft to sleep. I had not noticed him in the gloom, and he was quite thing unaware I of did my before presence. I One more left. I turned over the members’ address book, and looked under the E’s. There I found the ,name of “ BJissett, Emer¬ ton,” and against it “No. 7 Blank Court, Temple.” bn . W Soon afterwards I found time to dine at the club, and there I met an old friend of for mine, a barrister, whom I had not seen a year, who, after dinner, in¬ vited me to come to his chambers for an hour, “Still in your old diggings then,” I said. “ Oh no,” he answered. “I’ve moved since I saw you last into another set. I’ve got capital chambers at No. 7 Blank court.” I askedbtm at once if he knew Mr. Emerton. > v $ >•<, , .... , “ Only by sight,” he answered. “ He has chambers on the same floor, and we pass on the landing. We Hever speak.’" I stayed longer than 1 meant tm and it was striking ton as we came out on the Emerton’s lauding. chambet The outer ajar. door of As Mr. was we passed, rushed the Inner vritR door scared opened, white and a man out a face, j It “Help!” was Blissett he cried, Emerton! tearing his col¬ at lar as though it ehoked him. “Help! help!” Then there was a strange gurgl¬ ing noise in his throat, and he toll for¬ ward in a fit. I dragged him into his chambers, which were in total dark ties*, and laid him on the floor, bidding my friend run for a doctor at once. • The man babbled in his frenzy. “ The face,” he cried, “ the face—it was her face— there in the court below! Look between the trees!” I looked out into the court. The moon was up, and among the trees near the fountain I could see the figure of a woman. She was in deep black, and as presently she stood where white the trunk of the tree threw her face into relief, I could see that she was looking towards the window. Probably she mistook my figure blotted against strange menacing Then she glided gesture to and pointed at me. among the trges and was lost to sight. The doctor examined Emerton, and pre fright,” s|rib(;d for he him. said, “but “He's he’ll had be a all violent right an ’’ Ry- It’s more hysterical than anything els#. Where are his friends?’ H I warned to learn something of tjjp ^9,h man’s for better strange than story, a night wbat alone could with I hi|jj. The ’ left doctor gave me certain direc ‘■to* 18 an< ' had carried Emerton to his bed-, room and put him on the bed. Seeing 1ft was still, the I went into the front room, whisky, U P fire, put on the kettle, found 8 9 n f e lit my pipe, and prepared for the night. I had just turned the burner down when I became aware of a s Some 9” i Seating sound softly at the outer door, door with one was key. The opening the outer a gas was low down, Hurriedly I picked up my overcoat and other traces of my presence and flung l h cm under the large couch at the end df the room. It was an old-fashioned sola with a hanging valance which reached to the ground. I then crept underneath, rise the and waited for the curtain to on drama. I had hardly got ioto_a safe oositiori when the outer door yielded, that ana intervened. I heard a Then step in the pass the outer door ,was gently closed, expected to see the inner door open in its turn and #ome one enter. The minutes Rent by, ahd IW> one eame. Whoever it might be was in th<J passage. I could hear a slight movement every now and then, and the rustle of a woman’s dress. It must have been quite top minutes since X dbtieed l heard the outer door opened when that th * irtner one was swinging noiselessly hack on its hinges, and something was gifting moved into the floor room. Slowly it across the till it stood right in the dim light oi the turned down gas. I shall never forget the terrible sight that met my eyes. I would have screamed, but my tongue remained glued dead to my mouth. I was looking at a woman risen from the grave. Her face had been beautiful in life; nowit was ashen gray. The eyes were sunken and in their colorless. sockets, The and figure her lips were pale Ion,- white shroud. »nd wasdrapied 1 fancied in a the the room was heavy with awful oder of an moved open grave. Slowly the phantom toward the next room, and glided in. Fora moment all was still. Then came a faint cry. The man was awake, and alone with the apparitidh. “Dru silla!” he shrieked. “Mercy! Mercy! Have mercy!” I heard a hollow voice answer him, "Rise and follow me.” “ What would you nave with me?” “Confess,” shall “ What I confess?” answered the wretched man, his voice trembling in an agony of fear. “ Confess the foul wrong you did me. Confess where my poor body lies, that it may be buried in holy ground.” Again the man’s trembling voice wailed out, “1 will confess all.” “Follow me.” The apparition glided from the in¬ ner room, and the man followed her. “Write!” The dead woman pointed to the table where the pen and ink were, and the man “Write obeyed all.” her gesture mechanically. I could see from a rent in the valance the whole scene. Whe man, white with terror, the beads of cold perspiration on bis brow, sat an wrote. The apparition glided behind him and looked over his shoulder. Once he paused in his task. “ Write all,” said the white figure. And again the man wrote. The figure then grasped the paper with its waxen fingers. “ Gol” it said, pointing With to the inner room. his eyes fixed upon its livid face, the man backed slowly for some paces. With a violent effort and a lit¬ tle scream, he seized the door, swung it to, and bolted it on the inside. Then, for the first time, the dead woman trembled. She seemed Btrangely nervous and agitated closelv, then now. She clasped in her the paper put it bosom and glided I had from the room. got over the sudden terror in¬ spired made by such a strange light, and had up my mind that I had detected some terrible imposture. There was a of slight pause in bein& the lobby, drawn and the noise a garment oft; then the outer door opened and the visitant passed followed out on to the staircase. I as quietly as 1 could. The staircase was lighted with gas. As I trod on the second landing the ghost heard the noise and looked up. She was dressed in an ordinary black cos turae now, and her face was a natural color. To my intense surprise she neither screamed nor attempted to run away. She stood still, and beckoned me to her side. “ What are you going to do?” she said. “ To give you into custody.” “ Are you a friend of hist” I answered “ Yes,” mechanically. “ Then let me go fiee if you value his life.’ it ‘ ~ “If I let you go I am your accom¬ plice,” I vile murmured; imposture.” “your accomplice in some “No. If you are my accomplice to¬ night, you are an accomplice to the holi¬ est deed a woiftan ever wrought. Pass me through the gates if home; you doubt me; watch me; follow me give me into custody if you like; I don’t care, I’ve got what I wanted.” I took her arm as though I had been a policeman, and said : “Pass through the gate then, and if you attempt to get away from me I shall call for help.” She nodded to the Tail sition. The man at the gate was asleep. 1 roused him, and from his box pulled the cord and let us pass through the wicket door into the Strand. I then listened to the strangest story that ever mortal lips had uttered, and there was no doubt that every word of it was true. The confession which the trembling wretch had written at her dictation—as he believed at the dictation of his dead wife—I had read. It was a plain state¬ ment of how he had poisoned the poor girl whom he had wedded in a fit of mad jealousy, how and how he had concealed his crime; at the last moment he had overheard a whisper that some one suspected the body foul might play; and how, fearing had, be exhumed, he with the assistance of an accomplice, since dead, stolen the hotly that night and re-buried it in the garden of a house in a lonely part of the American town where this accomplice lived. This woman was his wife’s sister, and she had suspected foul play from the first. Ehe was an actress, and was away on Emerton a provincial wooed tour when Blissett and won Drusiila and took her abroad with him. Emerton had never seen this sister. The marriage had been secret and hurried, and he had seemed strangely anxious to leave the country. months. They were to be back in five the Drusiila—poortrusting fool idolized man knight and obeyed him. To her lie was a without reproach. But soon his conduct to her altered strangely, all and she began to suspect that was not right. He grew cold and cruel, and she was miserable and un¬ happy. Hhe wrote secretly to her sister, told her troubles and how quickly her hus¬ band’s conduct had altered. The sister urged She her to leave him and come home. there was expecting hsr of to do so when came the news her illness and death, and then of the mysterious dis¬ appearance of the body. From tha* moment Drusiila Emerton’s sister made ami up her mind to fathom the mystery bring She refused the guilt home to the murderer. to accept the explanation of her sister’s death. She believed Blissett Emerson to be quite capable of carrying to get rid out of her. a carefully The disappearance matured plan of the body strengthened her suspicions. She concluded at once that he feared the and corpse might afterwards her be exhumed, as it turned out suspicions were correct. When some time afterwards he arrived in England, she commenced to put her plans into exccutiou. She would terrify his secret from him. I have said she was an actress by pro¬ fession. She was also an exact counter¬ part in height and feature of her dead sister. When Emerton went to live in cham¬ bers, she managed, by a clever artifice, to isopen get a night duplicate arid day, set of and keys. The there place as are only one or two men in residence, it is easy to choose a time to step up the stairs unnoticed. Br getting into the inciosure before twelve, one would not even be seen by the gate porter. The plan which occurred to the mur dered woman’s sister had been put into execution for the first time that night. Early in face the evening she had let him see her among the trees. I bad been NUMBER 7. an of her unsuspected witness of the success appearance this as one from the dead. All was told at the trial in America. He waa extradited and 1 went over as a witness. But not even on the scaffold would he tell where reposed the remains ot his victim. The avenging sister is now a member of Mr.-’s dramatic company, and the story, al¬ though well-known iu the States, is now, perhaps, England. known for the first time in The Great Fire in Tokio. [Japan Uasette.l Hum!reds of carpenters \ ire at work and erecting temporary places of shelter, clearing repairing bridges; men engaged at away the ashes on the si'.es where their recent dwellings had stood; women walked about listlessly with children on their backs; groups of half a dozen or more old men, women and children gathered round little wood fires trying to keep warmth in their bodies; streets rendered almost impas¬ sable by immense heaps of ashes, broken tiles, and other debris; ferryboats driv¬ ing a been thriving trade where remains the bridges have burned; the of large pottery the factories—such were somo of rapidly sights did to be seen yesterday. So the flames travel that it was with difficulty the streets were cleared of people before the houses ig¬ nited, and iu so many places was the fire raging that they knew-not which way to run. Anxicus to aave futons and wear¬ ing apparel, the poor creatures sallied forth from their homes with bundles on their shoulders to fty they knew not whither. The streets became blocked with the surging masses. Women and children were trampled under foot, and many who fell in the crowd never rose again; their little children were seen looking for parents, parents looking for their children, while the air was rent wjth cries of rage, anguish and despair. the Still they clung tenaciously to few in worldly bringing possessions they had succeeded from their burning homes, thereby the almost completely blocking up narrow slowly streets threading through which the masses were their way. At length the police interfered ami caused numbers to throw their bundles into the rivers, or anywhere else out of the way, so ns to facilitate the escape of the people from the frightful death which threatened them, and which was gaining on them fast. Sixty-eight streets, burned, containing rendering 11,464 houses, were homeless. It is oyer 40,000 people estimated that thirty people were trampled to death in the streets, and one hundred wounded were the conveyed fire to the hospital. Long before reached the foreign settlement the residents felt anxious and began to pack up. But this appears to have been an almost needless task, for when the fire did reach them there wiiH no one to be found to convey their goods and chattels away; this was particularly the case when the residence of the missionary Everything ladies at No. 11 ignited. had been got ready for flight, but had to be left in the house, as no coolies were to be found willing to undertake the task of removing the boxes of clothing. The American Le¬ gation was in imminent danger for some time, and Mr. Olataud’s hotel ignited seven different times, hut each time the flames were successfully suppressed. The residence of Bishop Will Huns, of the American Episcopal Mission, was burned. The Newspaper as a Text Hook. The Superintendent of the Pittsburg schools highly commend the uho of the daily papers as a textbook. The lively interest the pupils would take in tli3 gUbgraphv and history of affairs COI1 nected with daily events, would serve to impress minds. both studies deeply upon their Ample illustration of the in¬ by terest that possible in such studies is afforded which was aroused in the minds of many readers during the war of the rebellion, the Franco-Prussian war, and to some extent, the Kusso-Turkish war. The curiosity excited in the places at which great events are transpiring, is taken advantage of by business men; for during both the Prussian war and the Turkish war, not only were cheap maps companies designed and sold, but insurance tised and other concern* adver¬ themselves by means of maps of the“seatof war,” which they distrib¬ uted gratis. The human nature which shrewd men of business understand, might well be worth the study of tiiose who engage in the instruction of youth. Washington’s Pronunciation. General Washington pronounced corps e-o-r-p-s. The Boston correspond¬ ent of the Halem Gazette writes: “An original Washington authentic annecdote of Gen. is a rare thing, hut here is one on the authority of Maj. John Saunders, who commanded the Halem Cadets in 1789, when Washington visited Halem. In his compliment to the cadets; ‘You have the honor to command the best disciplined corps 1 have ever seen,’ he pronounced the word articulating corps according the to and the English and spelling, the short; p s, kore, accenting but o not core or c-o-r-p-s. This can be no imputation on the intercourse scholarship of Washington, for his with Lafayette, Count d’Kstaing and other French officers must have familiarized him with the French pronunciation. It rather indi¬ cates his intense Americanism.” traveled An Gil in City Europe, gentleman, said who he recently at was a dinner one day in Paris, and, while tell¬ ing a story, was attacked with a sudden and continued fit of sneezing. When he ceased, a Russian named' gentleman at another table, Plitcheekee, turned about and cemplimented him on his excellent and correct pronuncia¬ tion of the Russian language !—Oil City Derrick. An exchange says: Nod#ubt “ Doves quarrel more than eagles.” of it—but dove’s, then, from what may be seen ot the they have such a nice time when they make up, and that accounts for the quarreling. —— • . ........ - Boren, like sores, are always in the way. ®fte WatMnsmlk Jitace. A WEEKLY PAPER, PUBLLMIED AT Watkinsville, Oconee Co., Georgia. RATES OF ADVERTISING : One square, first tmertlon... ...*.......... •— sssssgssgsssss Each subsequent insertion................. One square, one month. ................ 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LlTTtiE kindnesses from those around us should be reciprocated and returned in the same kindly spirit. Pursue what you know to be attain¬ able; make truth your object, and your studies will make you a wise man. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circum¬ stances, would have lain dormant. The “ They Say So’s ” are the vipers of Society. Eliminate them from among us, and this earth would have a smack of paradise about it. Whoever is honorable and candid, honest and courteous, is a true gentle¬ man, whether learned or unlearned, rich or poor. Of all the noblest; possessions of this life, fame is the when the body has sunk into the dust, the great name still lifts. There is little pleasure in the world that is true and Hiucere besides the pleas¬ ure of doing other our duty comparable and doing good. 1 am sure no is to this. Y'ouno man, don’t try to cover too much territory. Remember that a little syrup will make one pancake more pala¬ table than it will if Hpread over a dozen. Beautiful lives have grown up from dark places, as pure white lilies full of fragrance have blossomed on slimy stag¬ nant waters. We bear within us the seeds of great¬ ness; but suffer them to spring up, and they overshadow both our sense and our happiness. Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell and not his own judgment and discretion. Energy will do anything that can bo done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, two-legged no opportunities, will make a animal a man with¬ out it. Every man has three suits of attire which he uses in his life: One for at home; one for friends and acquaint¬ ances; the third for strangers. To each he is a different character—the human trinity—three in one. I bleep most sweetly when I have traveled in the cold ; frost and snow are friends to the seed, though they are enemies to the flower. Adversity is in¬ deed contrary toglory, but it befriendeth grace.— Richard Baxter. To an ordinary observer, the mass of Here people and one there, meets perhaps, seem happy and joyous. we see a care worn, sad face, but the multitude pass on as sunny and smiling as if there wa« mo trouble in the world. But could Wo lift the vail and look beneath this hid¬ gay exterior, we would discover many a den grief, so many hearts are there that ache and make no sign, and that is not the bitterest sorrow that the world sees and knows. Those griefs are the sorest and hardest to bear which must be kept concealed and never spoken of. The Starving Little Ones. fCahle Diapatch in New York If* raid.] Your committee have undertaken a task which seems to have grown in im¬ portance with every day’s new experi¬ ence for and have investigations. in Applications relief come from every part of the distressed districts in such over¬ whelming numbers that they have been compelled during to hold the almost last continuous days, sessions seven working until the small hours every night in order to meet the most pressing cases of need. The proper distribution of funds in Donegal is greatly facilitated by four large central eoramitties, through which the contributions reach the fur¬ thest village on tbe sea coast. Another committee of the same kind is in process of formation in Monaghan. In other counties it is necessary not only to ob¬ tain the facts concerning the condition of the people by means of query sheets, but also to corroborate them as far as possible labor attending by personal these investigation, investigations The is by no means slight, hut I am has glad to say that the American fund lieen already the family. means of saving many a starving The attention 9f your committee was some days attracted to the startling fact that children by tens of thousands are passing through little a heart¬ rending compelled experience. remain These in from school ones are to because, in the first place, they have their not even rags with which to cover nakedness, and, second, because they physical cannot get strength food enough which is to required supply the for their long journey to the school-room and is equally requisite in order to keep their intellects bright for the tasks which are set them when there. This is one of the most important factors in the sad problem of the misery of Ire¬ land. I have seen scores of little ones who are kept at home simply because it was of impossible doors with and the indecent few tatters to appear which out only half conceal their persons. When I remonstrated with one woman for keeping her children from school she pointed Indian meal, to her the scanty only supply food she ot had coarse in the house, and not enough of that. She told me. by way had of apology, that when they the children enough to eat were always willing and ready to but days _ had 1 to school, for some they been so listless and weak that she had i not the heart to urge them. No one can quite understand this state of things unless he has seen tho child's spirit gradually sinking under the effects of semi-starvation, a* I have.